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trade issue daily and weekly banner: December 6, mu.
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FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works,
THOMAS STREET,
Manufacture • and Sell
Engines,
Saw Miils,
Grist Mills,
Cotton Presses,
Plow Stocks,
Cotton Planters,
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MAiW O.VME.
1 have thought of sotting married
■ When I’ve seen thee, Mary Jane,
With thy dainty silks and satins.
With thy jietticoat aud train.'
But a whisper came across me.
Like a sign with omen rife—
“Ah, ’tie very well to marry.
But, oh! canst thou keep a wife?”
'If the last new bonnet snits thee,
Canst thou wear it still the same.
Though a newer pattern tempt thee.
Lately handed down to fame?
Will a dress or two content thee
When stern fashion orders more.
And a solitary headdress do •»
Instead of half a score?
But they tell me I am raving
To expect so strange a thing.
And they l&ngh to scorn my musings
And the hopes to which 1 cling.
So I fear I must resign theJ
And a bachelor remain, '
Yet I never can forget thee.
Oh, too costly Mary Jane!
—London Figaro.
HIS STRAIGHT TIP.
CASTINGS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Work done on short notice
at low prices*
Call before buying and we
will make it to your interest.
THOS. BAILEY & CO.
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The Hon. Tommy Arden had never
known a day’s luck since he married the
sweetest and the best girl in the world.
He had been a sod rake in a quiet fash
ion, and had lived in the best possible
way for as long as any of the youngsters
could remember. Nobody quite knew
how he had done it, and nobody partic
ularly cared. He was "always well
dressed, always well shaved and brushed
up, always rode in the best hansoms,
always dined at the Cafe Royal with
somebody, and went everywhere.
“Everywhere” meant the Empire till
closing time, afterward one smart
danoe, and then a flash club—he made
a point of never going to a respectable
club after dinner. -
In the summer he always took a turn
in the row; was sees in the lobby of the
opera during one dot; was generally to
be met at Sandowh and Kempton, and
occasionally at Ranelagh on Sundays;
strolled about the lawn at Cowes during
the regatta week, and-in the off season
was never seen, but said he was “shoot
ing in the north till 1 rnnovertoOstend
for a flutter.”
Where he lived was known to no one.
On what he lived was known only to in
dividuals separately to whom he said he
had the devil’s own luck. This did not
mean he made a book, or if it did it was
false, bnt the general impression was
that he knew the inside of everything,
and that if he were not so scrupulous
about secrets and would only let his
friends stand in of tener he would make
their fortnnes and his own. His own
explanation whs that he never made a
bet unless he “knew something,” and
that was how he always won. The re
sult was that his advice was always-
asked, and wken he gave it always fol
lowed. The real truth was that the
Hon. Tommy had never made a bet in
his life.
When he married he gave it all up.
He was truly attached to his wife and
abandoned everything for her. He was
no more seen at music balls and flash
clubs, and he dined at home and never
went out alone afterward. Everybody
thought it wonld all come right, as they
called it, in six months; bnt it did not,
and to the surprise of everybody Tom
my got shabbier and shabbier in appear
ance, and was seen on omnibuses and
in the underground railway and other
inexpensive and bourgeois places. The
result was his former friends said he
had married a shrew, and that he wonld
kick over the traces some day.
The truth was Tommy was in love with
his wife, and she was never so happy as
in his company, and nothing was so re-
pellant to him as his old associates and
his old ways. Bnt virtue is its own re
ward, and the reward of virtue which
the Hon. Tommy experienced was a per
petual shower of county court sum
monses, for his commissions for recom
mending stock brokers, advertisements,
wine merchants, tailors, pictures and
other recognized forms of livelihood by
which he had tried to earn what he
called a respectable living had not proved
very remunerative.
Things had arrived at this pass when
the brokers were put in for two quar
ters’ rent. During the five days allowed
by law Tommy had flown about to try
and collect the commissions due to him,
with which to pay the fifty pounds that
were so expedient to the quieting of his
blue eyed and brown haired little wife,
who, though sadly troubled, had taken
his word for it that it wonld be “all
right.” His efforts were almost in vain,
| and he went to s6e the agent “to explain
the situation” and ask for time. He was
lncky in only seeing a sympathetic clerk,
who kindly pointed out to him that he
was entitled by law to an extension of
fifteen days. Ih his joy at learning this
he confided his position to Mrs. Tommy,
who in her own sweet way, believing
absolutely in her own love and the love
of her hnsband, said:
“Bnt why bother, Tommy, darling,
trying to earn the money?’
“How else can I get it, my dear girl?”
“Oh, why not bet as yon used to do?
They all say yon are so clever and have
such luck; I am sure yon wonld win it
all in next to no time.”
“Oh, I have given up all that sort of
thing, and hate it more than I can tell
yon. It is not to be thought of in con
nection with you.”
“Oh, nonsense, Tommy! Yon must
not let me ruin you; and I am sure all
the very best people bet. Horse racing
is a noble sport; and, though yon never
confess it to me, you muBt have made a
lot of money at it.”
“My dear child, it can’t be done now.”
“I do not know how, or 1 would go
and win yon a fortune. How do yon
bet?”
“1 don’t bet!”
“Don’t be silly! How used yon to
bet? 1 always wanted to know. Doesn’t
the bookmaker lay against all the
horses ri-
“Yes*”
“And do you back all the horses?”
“Good heavens! No. If yon did that
how could you win?’
“Why? The bookmaker lays against
all the horses, and he always wins,
iQMB’t he?’ PpNff
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Tobasco Sauce.
Curtice Bros. Jams.
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Western Sausage.
Bologna Sausage.
Ocean Gem Codfish.
Deep Sea Mackerel
Salt White Fish.
Northern Irish Potatoes.
Navy Beans.j
Yellow Denver Onions.
A specialty—New Yoik
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Telephone 49.
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“Yo3, the bookmaker always wins.
“Well, then, if yon follow the sanv
rule and back all tbe horses, you ar-
sure to win with one of them?’
“My dear child, uo woman ever con’-,
understand betting, and I am sure, c
ail women in the world, I have no desir
that you shonld.”
“Bnt if yon won’t bet yourself, wh;
not give others the benefit of your expe
rience? You know everybody, aud I am
snre that they wonld be glad to pay yor
a commission if they won—which wouli.
be better than being robbed out of com
missions by wine merchants.”
The Hon. Tommy changed the sub
ject, bnt, oddly enough, he lay awake all
night thinking over the last words ol
his little wife in. connection with he;
strange ideas about how to win money
by backing all the horses. The next
morning he did not refer to the subject,
bnt staid away from business and occu
pied his entire day by making out long
lists of his rich racing acquaintances
and compiling elaborate calculations.
Toward evening he went out and bought
a betting book, into which he carefully
copied the result of his work. This
done, he read it all over and smiled.
He then closed the book, ate his dinnei
comfortably, retired to bed early and
slept like a top.
The next day he was out and about
betimes, bnt instead of once more don
ning his customers for the commissions
which they owed him, he paid a visit to
all the starting price bookmakers, ask
ing the price of one horse at each place,
making an entry in his,book mysterious
ly, and chatting with such of the hab-
itnes as be was acquainted with. He
lunched at the Cafe Royal, where he
met more friends with whom he dis
cussed the day’s fixtures, nodded his
head ominously and smiled knowingly,
and when pressed to express an opinion
said, “I can’t say;” and when one young
sportsman offered to take a horse against
his, said
“My dear boy, the first rule of racing
is that you cannot bet if yon know—and
I know.”
His virtuous disinclination to take on
the youngster did not prevent his friends,
when lie turned up at the Empire, from
saying that Tommy had had a good day
—more especially as to every one who
had lost or won he said, “1 could have
told yon as-mnch, only I was bound not
to say a word to a soul.” Daring all
that week the Hon. Tommy pursued
very much the same tactics, merely re
marking over night, when the results
were known, “If you like to let me
stand in a couple of hundreds I will let
you know a good thing for Kempton on
Saturday, provided you give me your
sacred word of honor never to breathe
my name as your informant whether it
comes off or not, as 1 have grave rea
sons which yon most not ask me to ex
plain.”
Anybody who knows the fashionable
sporting world will readily believe that
so trifling a condition was readily com
plied with.
Before Saturday came round all those
who had consented to pay Tommy £200
in the event of. his tip coming off, and
had pledged flieir solemn oaths never
to divulge his name as their informant,
were dnly placed in possession of a name
with the following sage counsel:
“The way you chaps lose your money
is by going to every race meeting, by
backing a horse in every race, and by
putting your pals on, and thus spoiling
the market when von really do know
anything good. Now look at mel 1
always win money at racing.
‘■I have done so steadily for years, bnt
l never go near a meeting unless I know
something, and 1 never have a sixpence
on more than one race, whether I win or
lose, and 1 keep my own counsel. You
are the only man I have given this tip
to, and, to be quite frank, the only rea
son 1 do so is because 1 cannot get any
more money on without spoiling the
market; and I am pledged to my inform
ant not to personally back the horse foi
more than a certain sum or the book
makers would tumble, and if the stable
were forestalled I shonld never get the
office again. It is by not being discreet
that fellows spoil themselves, and if 1
were to knock the betting about it is as
likely as not that they wonld pay me out
by lnmbering me on to a wrong ’un next
time, and as 1 have never taken the
knock I don’t want to start now.”
This very excellent advice was given
to some thirty-six of the Hon. Tommy
Arden’s best and most “oofy” sporting
friends. There were six races on the
following Saturday at Kempton, for
which some thirty horses started. It
wonld be superfluous for the purposes of
this story to give the names of the horsee,
their ages, weights or the names of their
riders. All that remains to say is that
the Hon. Tommy Arden had £200 to
nothing on every horse that started.
Needless to say, only six horses won.
With thirty of his friends Tommy has
condoled and said something about “the
luck of the devil.” With six of his
friends, who believe in him as a prophet
ever after to be followed blindly, he has
rejoiced—more especially on the Mon
day, when they each handed him a
check for £200, making in all £1,200,
with which he paid out the brokers as
b9 had promised the agent.
It is due to his sagacity to say that the
Hon. Tommy Arden only plays this
game three times in each year. Other
men wonld be more greedy. Tommy
only makes some £4,000; but he is con
tented with this, as he has the love
and respect of his charming wife, who is
one of the prettiest and best dressed
women in town. In each year he also
makes some eighteen fast friends of the
men to whom he has given the straight
tip which has come off. The others.
Tommy consoles himself by saying, have
aB good a chance as any one else, and
they all have their turn sooner or later.
! eSZ&JgZt''&£*. 22£ K *ou Want something Nice
tips, have become slightly colder toward | In a Card Care, Pocket Book, or
him; but Tommy makes no fnss. He Memorandum Book, call and see our
pays them out by quietly leaving them line. We have something nice to
good thing;” for the show yon.
are always
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Currants.
did not bold the office longer than one
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Citrons.
year, being succeeded by Mr. Asbury
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Prunes.
Hall, who held that office until 1866,
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Dates,
when Judge Young L. G. Harris assumed
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Figs.
the duties of president, which he has
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Lemons.
faithfully performed nntil this day.
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^Oranges.
Tbe officers are now as follows:
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Sultannas.
Young L. G. Harris—President and
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Cranberries.
Treasurer.
Country Hams.
William W. Thomas—Secretary and
FOR RENT.
4 Boom cottage on Reese St, $9.00.
4 Boom co.toge on Prince Ave., good well
and auble, on electric line, $18.50.
5 Room cottage on Baxter street, near
Milledge Ave, $12.50.
4 Room cottage new, just completed, on
Bloomfield street, only 8 blocks from Public
school and e ectnc line, only $8.00 per month
8 Room cottage on Washington Street, close
in, $8 00.
7 Room cottage on Barber street, 8 acre tot,
servant's bouse, stable and good water, on
street Railroad, $17.00.
C Room cottage on Pnlaaki street, near
Prince Ave., $25 00.
5 Room cottage on Strong at., near Jackson,
$15.00.
4 Room cottage on Lumpkin street, $9.00.
4 Room boose for colored tenants, near
Lyndon’s mills, only (6.00 per mo^th.
2 Room house in East Athens, large lot, $4
8 Room bouse on Oconee st., tbe best loca
tion in city for Boarders, only $20.00.
8 Room house, just finished, on Boulevard,
$16.66. .
5 Room house near corner Chase and Boole
vard, $15.00
2 Room cottage, near Bloomfield st., $5.00.
8 Room house ou Jacks n street, close in,
after Jan. la.. 1898, only $19 00.
10 Room house ou Church st., near Hill st,
large shady lot, 2 servant's houses, $25.00.
8 Room house on Milledge Ave, and three
servant’s houses, fine orchard, 20 acres of land,
tbe W. N. White place- .For 1898, will rent
very cheap.
5 Room cottage on Jaekaon st., $14 00.
5 Room house and large lot, Streekfuss place,
on South Lumpkin at., only $15.00.
SALE.
Special offer for a few Days.
We will sell yon a lot on Hill street, 100x200
near residence of Mr. Tom Vincent, lor $900.00
Don’t miss this chance to secure a home on
the moat popular rea.dence a.reet in the city,
at a price which is 80 per cent. of£
Griffeth & Charbonnier,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
JOSEPH Cl LLOTTS
STEEL PENS
NOS. 303—404—170—804,
And other styles to suit all hands.
THE MOST PERFECT 07 PENS.
The Misses Bradbtrry
Have, just received their
NEW FALL
Millinery Goods.
Call and See Them
THAT IS THE NAME Of AN INSU
RANCE COMPANY,
THE LIKE OF WHICH
Oeeiaot Exist in tbe South—Aw Athena
Institution Which Does One-fifth
of the Insurance Business In
Georgia.
Athens is justly proud of the Southern
Mutual Insurance Company, for it bas a
history of which any city should be proud.
To say that it is the largest Insurance
Company in the South Is but stating the
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truth, and this is enough to render its
history interesting.
, It is an Athens Insulation and was
founded in 1847, and the first President of
tbe company was John G. Hill. Mr. Hill
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STORE
-IS-
FOR THE NEXT
30 DAYS.
100 dozen Ribbed Fast Black
Hose, worth 35 and 25c, at 10 cents
this month Be sure and come and
get your choice before they are »one.
We have the most complete line of
Dress Goods in the city at 25 pe r
cent less than you can buy them
elsewhere.
100 ten cents articles at the
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out of the next
simple reason that
there
other good men coming on, all of whom ’
he makes it his business to cultivate.
James Budget.
JACKSON & BURKE CO.
General Agent.
Arthur E. Griffith—Special Agent.
Thomas.L. Mitchell— Beek-Keeper.
The Board of Directors consists of
Messrs..Yonng L. G. Harris, John A
Hunnicutt, Leon H. Charbonnier, Edward
S. Lyndon, R. K. Reaves, R. I Hampton,
William W. Thomas, Arthur E. Griffith,
Billups Phinizy and George
Dudley Thomas of Athene;
George T. Barnes, of Augusts;
Daniel G. Puree and Charles H. Dorsatt,
of Savannah; Joseph M. Boardman and
John A. Baxter, of Macon;' Bennett H.
Crawford, of Columbus; William Me-.
Naught and Lemuel P. Grant of Atlants.
The Southern Mutual does business only
iu Georgia, yet so firmly has it establisheo
itself that each year it does about
one-fifth of the entire insurance business
of tbe State of Georgia-
The Company baa agencies established
at tbe following points: Athens, Albany,
Americus, Atlanta, Augusta, Barnesvillc,
Brunswick, Cartersville, Columbus, Cov
ington. Cnthbert, Dalton, Eatonton, For-
jsyth, Gainesville, Grtenesboro, Griffin,
LaGrange, Macon, Madison, Marietta,.
Milledgeville, Kewnan, Quitman, Rome,
Sandereville, Savannah, Sparta, Thomas-
ville, Valdosta, Washington, and West
Point.
In addition to doing this large amount
of business, the Southern Mutual is among
the very safest and most reliable compa
nies in America.
Its surplus is invested in the safest
and Lest bonds on tbe market, which yield
high rates of interest, and add to tbe ever-
increasing strength of tbe company.
The policy of those managing the af
faire of the company is to accept only
such risks as are first-class, and which
carry with them the least elements of dan
ger. By carrying out this policy the com
pany is enabled to carry tbe largest amount
of business with the least corresponding
amount of danger of any company in the
Slate.
In order to show the manner In which
tbe affairs of thecompany are so success
fully managed, it is bnt necessary to state
that the dividends declared by the com
pany range all the way from fifty to eighty
.two per cent. This year on account of hea
vier losses IIban. usual the dividend was
only fifty-eight per cent, while last year it
was seventy-four.
Its officers are ail well known through
out Georgia. * Judge Harris is regarded
as one of the safest and best financiers in
the State, and his long service ss Presi
dent of the Southern Mutual Insurance
Company attests the confidence reposed in
his judgment
Jjleaare. W. W. Thomas.and A. E. Grif
feth are business men, possessed of safe
and conservative financial judgment, and
are especially qualified for the positions
they hold.
Mr. T. L. Mitchell is a book-keeper of
rare ability.
The Southern Mutual is linked insera*
rablyjwith;the history e Classic City,
and its great success is a high tribute to
the ability of the men who in the past
and present have managed the affairs.
For Over Fifty Years.
Mbs Wlira now’s soothih® Byuup has been
used tor children teething. It sooths the child
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
colic and is the beet remedy for Diarrheas,
■wanty-fiv* orate a do«i.. Bold bv all dree*
(taaUiMUhomtthawaetd.
That would cost yon 25c. elsewhere.
The Shoe Stock is complete and
cannot be undersold. Uongola Rut-,
ton Shoes at $100, worth $1 75.
Examine our Shoe Stock before you
purchase.
The most beantiful line of Ladic»
and Gents Underwear in the city at
the
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At prices unheard. 175 pairs Kid
ftloves worth $1 50, at 90 cents at
the Ten Gents Store. Every article
n the
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Mast be sold Regardless of Cost
within the next 3d days. Be sure
when yon come to the city to call at
the Ten Cents Store before you buy.
A. COLIMAN, Agent.
UMBACH’S
PATENT HARROW,
Only $1.25 Each.
iTTTnrrTT
It fits on any common iron-foot Plow
Stock. Run it over your cotton before
chopping. It will pay for itself in one
day’s work. It is well made ot wrought
iron frame and steel teeth. Rave sold 8
thousand to date, aud they give perfect
satisfaction.
Send for circulars and cirtificates if you
ire doubtful and see whit the Hon R. T.
Niebet, Commissioner of Agriculture, and
others, says about them.
Get your merchants to write me about
them. I will give the m good profits, or
send to me direct.
Address me,
F.C.UMBACH,
Athens, Ga.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
OY the authority of the will of J. C. Branch,
D and of a tpecial order of the Court of or
dinary of Clarke county, vriU be sold in w»*-
kinsviUe, Ga., in Oconee county, during the
legal hours of sale on the first 'i uesday in oe*
comber, 1892, for cash, the ft flowing property,
to-wit: ,
A tract of land located In the county of oc®-
nee on both sides of the Macon & Northern
RaHrood, between the towns of Farmington
and Bishop, extending within a quarter oi »
mile of the latter ton n, situated on the water*
of Freeman’s Greek, known as the J. C. Branch
place, and containing 1100 acres. The land wiu
no sold in six different lots. ..
Lot No, i contains 26917-100 acres; has 76 or
tOO sores in cultivation, remainder in old new,
is situated on it large two-story dwelling,
barns, stables and other out-bufldinfs neces
sary lor the place. ,
Lot No. 2 contains 2to 41-100 acres, of wlucn
50 or 6o are in cultivation, the remainder in oi
field and original forest. On this Is situated one
tenant house. .
Lot Ko. 3 contains 251 61-100 acres, of w men
100 acres are in cultivation, and of this 40
acres are bottoms, the remainder in old neo
and forest. On this are situated two tenan*
h LotNo. 4contains87 38-100acres,28of which
are in cultivation, the remainder In old ne
and forest ^ . „ hlc h
Lot NO. S contalnSl37 44-100 acres, of wwen
20 aeresare in cultivation, the remainder in
field and forest. . . ., . . nres
Lot No. 6 contalrs Hi 1-1 V^ wh ?H h fldd and
in cultivation, the remainder in old field an
*£& of the lots arc well watered,
convenient to churches, schools ■ffd- lots.
The pub’lo road runs through each ol f M
tion according to the will of the saiou.w
Bia hi Cl Octob;r 29th, 1892. g g. BRANCH,
Administrator with