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ANNE Ui.srhaii Ell. 1834 1 t'.oniollda —~ Chr*Bicle"‘Bat. I8TT | Athena Banner, Bat. 1819 ATHENS, QA.. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20.1892. $1.00 A YEAR REINCARNATION. Her lustrous eyes, with their southern beet. Look indifference iuto mine. And my pulses race with n fiercer beat 'Neath her maddening smile divine! An icy chill in her sphinxlike glance Seals forever my hopeless woe. 1 my future staked on a loser’s chance. And her only word was VNo!” In some other world. In an age outgrown— Say a million of years ago— We two must have loved as I now, alone. While I never thru told her so! —Clarence Miles Doutelle in Godey’s. an afternoon call. My mother's illness had kept us home for months, but she was better and be ginning again to take interest in mag- arines and newspapers. In one of the latter she discovered this item: • "Miss Marian Ross arrived Saturday from Sparkling Springs, Va. She leaves next week for Bar Harbor and other gay centers idea of recreation is to go iishing with a lot of inen and dress like an aborigine. So I told him if he could persnado Miss Brown to be my chaperon she and I would cut a swath. Of course she conldn’t leave her sister and the chil dren, bnt I whirled her off before she had time to resign herself to stay at home. "When we left we were absolntely lifeless—she with overwork, I with en nui. We went south to the gulf. We were quite too listless to think. If some one wonld plan out a day, even an hour, for us, we were happy. One of us would say to the other: “ ‘What are you going to do? “ ‘I haven’t decided. What will yon do? “ ‘I haven't made up my mind.' " ‘I balisvo ril walk on the pier and wait for an idea.’ “ ‘Oh, then, so will I.’ “There were men about too. One— perhaps forty years old—took a fancy to me. They teased me about him, and 1 hadn't even ambition to retaliate—jusi let them tease. At first I had a mild in- ( tention of transferring him to Miss Farewell. Of all tho words of grief and woe where mis ery doth dwell The saddest iutonation lies within that one- farewell. It serves to sever souls for aye, for who Is there can tell If hearts will ever meet again when once they say farewell? It carries not n tone unkind; no wrath does it compel: "Tis breathed from ont the bosom’s depth, that deep, that long farewell. The aching heart is rent in twain and lies a shattered shell; Then, with a longing, anguished cry, it says its lost farewell. —Sir Walter Scott. AN INDENTURE. •(Jo over and call,” said my mother; “perhaps she will give you a Whiff of Brown (they would have made a nice the ocean.” / match), but it proved too much trouble. Before I could demur she had rnng ( Ho would do anything forme and noth- foi George to bring around the cart ann ing for her, and we needed some man to ordered mo out of the house. 1 chose a short cut to Ross hill, a country road bordered breast high with blackberry and elder bushes. There was much up hill and down dale work and many a loose stone over which to si uwblo, but the pony was fresh, trees shaded the road, wild grapevines waved their sprays in our faces, and an occa sional breeze wafted us the fragrance of the elder blossoms. Crossing a bridge and looking down through the tre& tops to the creek far below I could see the cattle drinking- velvet skinned Aldemeys, whose grace- ltd limbs showed pedigree in every line. Skirting the baso of Rose hill we turned into the avenue and climbed toward the gates, which formed a cres- .ce;it and swung from huge stone pillars almost hidden by woodbine. The gates barred entrance to the drive way; otherwise the place was not in closed by wall or hedge—the great green hill stretched away in its beaety foT every one to see. A rustic seat was placed hospitably on the boulevard that iven it stranger might tarry and enjoy the view far away over the hill and val ley to that lino of misty blue which marks the end of vision. On my way to tho house I espied a hammock under the willow trees down by the spring. Surely n white dress was fluttering from it. Bidding pGuy stand I ran down the hill, to be received literally with open arms. ' 'My dear Harriet, how did you divine that. I was longing for you? Bnt I did nut IX? to add myself to your burdens. 1 am so •lej'ressing.” “Oh, but my mother is better, and be sides 1 am ahveya glad to see yon.” “I am so tired of myself that I feel ns if every one else must be tired of me too. 1 was even grateful to my horse for seem ing glad to welcome mo home. We are no match for dumb brutes in affection. We chatter away all our best qualities, our affection and earnestness, and—that reminds me, you wero not at church yes terday. 1 was. 1 sat in tho pew be tween the two doors, where the breeze could fan me and tho groon trees look iu at me (there were very few other specta tors). "Tho yellow windows were framed by the shadow of tho ivy on the outride, and the choir boys sang like birds. The ser mon was so good—all about—oh, 1 for get what if was about, except that he said the word translated ’good’ means earnest—to be good is to be earnest. I was afraid liefore that I never could bo good, but now I am in despair. 1 never realized how frivolous 1 was until Maud married. She was always serious enough fur both of us." Wo wero sitting in the hammock, which vibrated slowly, encouraged by an occasional touch of her white slip- jiered foot on the turf. Before us the spring trickled from the earth and ran away a tiny thread of silver, just water enough to keep the pebbles glistening mid to give drink to the ferns which leaned over it. I congratulated Marian on the luxuriance of the green fronds, knowing that the sisters were fond of them, as they had been gathering them for years on their travels, and each fern had its pleasant reminiscences. “Now,” said Marian, “there is an in stance of how serions Maud is. It would break her heart to know that she had half the associations attached to the wrong ferns, but it only makes me langh when she hangs the California story ou a fern I know we brought from the Vir ginia mountains, or when she tells how she dug that one in an old churchyard in Morristown, N. J., near Washington’s headquarters, when Aunt Letty herself identified it as one she sent us from Illi nois, from the banks of the Sangamon. “Didn’t Lincoln wade or fish or some thing in the Sangamon? Yet I believe Maud is happier than I am; at least. I am sure there is something lacking in me now that she is married. After one has owned a Bister 60 long it iB hard to have some man with no claim at all come and carry her off. Whatever she haa had I have always had, until now she has a husband and I have none—not that I want one, but she might have waited. "Since we were little girls we had planned that if ever there was a wedding iu tho house it should be a double one, but when 1 reminded her she laugheg at the idea, said waiting for me was hope less; that such an indecisive person as 1 wouldn’t know my fate when I saw him. Then I conldn’t help saying that if my fate expected me to recognize him he would certainly havo to be handsomer than her Henry. Of conrse there was a quarrel, and after that I dared not sus pect even in my own mind that Henry was not an Apollo, and if I was exhausted iu preparing for the wedding I was afraid to heave a sigh. “I just fastened a smile on my face snd kept it there till all was over. devise amusement and do the talking for us. He tried to make us promise to return some time, although wo hadn't spoken of going. He persisted in trying to make ns promise, and we were too inert to oppose him. So one day when be was out in a boat wo stepped on board a steamboat and went np to North Car olina. “Beautiful country! Oh, the flowers on the North Carolina hills! I began to appreciate the scenery, and Miss Brown became so sprightly she alarmed me. 1 told her if she couldn't help growing younger so fast I should have to send home for an older chaperon. • Then we drifted about to other places—Sparkling Springs last and longest. We staid at a private hotel—fiuo old southern house in perfect preservation—magnolias and cape jasmine and jiickaniunies. While I think of it let me warn you if you ever go sonth be carefnl. You will think every man you meet is in love with yon —they are all so devoted. “There was ouo man at our hotel. When 1 say a man 1 mean one who takes your breath away. There were plenty of apologies for men and several women worth looking at There was a yonng j Tom Barrett and I had been chums almost-xs long as we had been cousins, which I must confess was nearly twenty- fonr years. Tom was six months younger than I, and I ruled him with a rod of iron. But one day—tho day when 1 became twenty-four years old—the worm turned. He told me that he loved me. “Of course,” I remarked coolly. ‘Tm your relation, I guess. You've got to.” And then he burst but with a lot of stuff about his not loving me os a rela tion, bat as a wife. “Tom Barrett,” 1 said sternly, “do you think 1 would ever marry a man six. months younger than myself? I have brought you up, and you know it. If 1 ever marry anybody it wijl be a mature, ready made man, who will guide and control and make me respect him! Don’t you ever say another word to me about this as long as yon live.” And I went np stairs and cried because my old Tom was gone. One of my birthday presents had been a check for twenty-five dollars with which “to take a little trip,” my blessed old uncle said, and I decided jnst to run down to Ann Arbor ou that excuse and stay as long as I wanted to with my old friend, Orplia Reynolds. I might joiu some classes or do some reading and be zontented thero for a long time—until Tom had forgotten. And with a tele- pom to Orplia the next afternoon I was 3ff. Orplia was delighted to see me. “I am so glad you camo just now,” she laid as we eat together in the half dark ifter sapper. “I shall need yon to help me manage Ed.” Ed who?” 1 inquired with some sor ing full college work, and it might be that I would even complete a regular course. So ai the liegiuning of the sec ond semester I entered as a “special. Ed was now allowed, conditionally to j^Uce of the Peace. Mr. Yarborough attend lectures, and so on both sides our - KU time for walking and scientific invest! widow with a pensive air and a'reper- P? 36 ;. wondering if Orplia had been _ . • ... . ■» o t i Mtitin rr o n inronr M w fnaml tAumnd toryof touching allusions to her dear husband, which were very fetching. She had more men about her than any woman in tho house; iu fact, she could command all of them except the one 1 spoke of. “When 1 arrived he was dancing a good natured attendance on a yonng ma tron unhappily married and exceedingly pratty, infantile type, theatrical tend ency to pose. She had wrapped her self about him like a vine and gave him daily bulletins of her tronbles. Just think of it! IIow can a woman? And what did that man do but come and re peat all her confidences to me! “ ‘Do not tell me,’ 1 would beg. ‘I do not care to hear her private affairs.’ “ ‘Neither do I,’ he wonld laugh. ‘1 think you might share the burden of woe which she thrusts upon me.’ “After l came perhaps lie neglected her or broke some of the tendrils she had fastened upon him. It was only natural that he should show me about a little, all the other men being occupied with the widow. Ho was merely trying to keep me from stagnation, I'm sure. It was absurd for her to grow jealous, but she did, and she a roamed woman! Visi bly jealous! Perfectly preposterous, es pecially when there was nothing between ns. Were only amusing each other; only passing away the time—the days woman were so long and delightful.” As she spoke she kept nervously twist ing a ring which 1 had never before no ticed on her baud. “When did you get that?’ I asked. “Ob, he gave it to me,” smiling. “So you are engaged. Please tell me what ho is like?’ “You shall see for yourself. He said he wonld come ou this winter.” “Then there will be another wedding at Rose Hill?” “What do yon mean?” with arching brows and surprised eyes. “I do pot ex pect him—be said 60; that was all.” “You mean that yon do not care for him to come?” To this she would make no reply, only looked at me in a mocking way, and 1 rose to go. We climbed the hill arm in arm, and I jumped into the cart and was abont to touch the pony with the whip when 6he leaned over, placed her hand on the back of the seat and whispered: “All that talk about Father Time is a mistake. They ought to say Mother Time. I always knew Time was a wom an because—time—will—tell.” She picked np her skirts with one hand, threw me a kiss with the other and ran into the house. My eyes and thoughts followed her until a tug at the reins apprised me that pony had started for home on his own accord, delicately intimating that an afternoon call should end before evening.—Chicago News. Intel llglblc Price Marks. Very few stores now adhere to the old plan of cipher marking. Experience has proved that a majority of customers prefpr goods to be marked in plain fig- jnres, no one liking the idea of two sets of figures unless he is sure he is among the favored.ones whq get the benefit cf the lower scale. l( is said to be the practice with the medical fraternity of some towns to grade their charges to patients according to the style of house in which they live, and the same idea prevails so much as to retail stores that ladies have been known to send servants down to stores because they could get a larger discount. Other ladies are carefnl never to dress very well when shopping, and this shows how firmly the impression prevails that a genuine one price store is a novelty. When, I took It off after they were gone j Papa (said I looked like u ghost in my £**£*£!^ ro J?!E£8H5JS22 own: house. He offered to take me •Mnewhere, but I know pleasure resorts an places of martyrdom to him. His adopting an infant. My friend seemed a trifle embarrassed. “Why, Ed Rice,” she answered slowly. “J guess I haven’t tol-l yon about him. have I?’ No, i guessed sho had not. "He i3 a young boy in the law depart ment,” she went on wi'.li a conscious air, “who rooms next door. His eyes have given ont temporarily, so that Dr. Car- row has forbidden all college work, and I have just !*sen trying to amuse him and keep him out of mischief." All this was certainly very nice and philanthropic and quite liko Orpha, but what on earth was she blushing about? I waited for her next words. She spoke very fast and wonld not look at iner- “I wish you would take him off my hands for awhile—you won’t have much elto to do. I hate to be with him much myt elf, he ha3 been acting so for a week or two. I’m afraid he is beginning to think ho cares for me—especially, you know. Ho doesn’t of course—such a kid!” with scornful emphasis and an al together unprecedented lapse into slang. “How old?” I inquired concisely, with paer.tal visions of a big headed, owl eyed infant prodigy bearing i law folio under each arm, “Oh, twenty-two, pr maybe twenty- three," 6he returned nonchalantly. “But that for a man is ltiero infancy. Now a But this valuable philosophical disqui sition was abruptly cut short. A sub dued stamping and shaking was heard outside—it had been snowing all day— and wo sat listening until some one banged tb» street door behind him and started up stairs three steps at a time, whistling under his breath. “That’s Ed," said Orpha and rose to light the lamp, but she had only jnst scratched the match when there was a faiut knock. The sitting room door was slowly pushed open, and a clear, boyish voice exclaimed: “Jnst lighting np? Yon’re late, aren’t your “Yes," said Orpha, turning np the wick. “Just wait till we have some light on the subject and Til introduce yon to an old friend of mine who came this afternoon from Grand Rapids. Miss Barrett, Mr. Rice,” she concluded. He bowed stifily and murmured tho conventional happiness; then, with a sudden, frank impulse, walked over and shook hands heartily, showing as he smiled two unmistakable dimples in a sensitive, extremely attractive face. Ho had be*»n there an hour, though it did not seem half that, when Orpha sent him heme. She had to bohn ont a French grammar lesson for an eight and a quarter the next morning, so I went to bed and left her swearing at Dnpy in a pious sort of a way.' ) Really I did not mean to relieve Orpha of her young mission, hat how conld 1 help it. Under Orpha’e orders he cheer fully pointed ont to mo the professional residences, the frathonses and all the other inevitables; conducted me over the mnsenm, the library, the art gallery and the laboratories; dragged me around the boulevard to* Cascade and School girls’ glen, to Lovers’ retreat, and final ly even to the sable fortune teller’s on the Observatory road. Li retain I im parted to hiiu all my little botanical lore and allowed him to join my dai’y constitutionals, so that every day, wet or dry—generally we* in Ann Arbor, you know — we sallied forth together in search of “specimens” and exercise. I got acquainted with Ed very fast these days, and as I came to know biiu better I grew infinitely disgusted and enraged with Orpha for failing so en tirely to appreciate him, but I dared not say a word for fear of ruining what lit tle chance Ed might still have with her. Before a month bad passed Ann Ar- gation was much curtailed. We still found time, however, for a short daily tramp, and as spring came on for fre quent longer excursions. The beauty of May days was wholly irresistible, so that even our sober minded and church go ing Orpha was induced to spend one per fect Sunday morning with ns in a quiet wood strewn thick with spring beauties and adder tongue. She confessed after ward that at first she thought it was wicked, but when wo got there she knew it wasn’t. Well, with botanizing and tennis and examinations the last days of this blessed year slipped past. The Saturday before commencement Ed and I wont up the river for orchids. We found only a few yellow ones, bat could not feel much disappointed. ' The sky and the river wonld have made up for a much greater loss. We drifted back almost in silence* listening to the soft plash of the water against the boat, the dreary whispering of the trees on the bank and at intervals the faroff cry of a hawk. Presently Ed interrupted it all. “I want to give you something be fore yon go,” lie announced suddenly. “May I?” “Why, yes, if it isn’t too valuable,” I answered priggishly in a desperate at tempt to be proper. “I assure you it is absolutely worth less unless you cax*e for it,” and he dex terously tossed a long, fold-. \ paper into my lap. Another of the legal jokes he was always laboriously perpetrating! Yes—a deed thi3 time, carefully filled put, except a short blank 6pace near the top: This indenture, made ihisSOtli day of June, In the year cf our Lord olio thousand eizlil hundred and eishty-ono, between Edward Mills Rice, yurty of the first part, and , of tho second part, witnesseth that tho eaid party cf tho first lort, for and in consider ation of love and affection to him in hand paid by the said party of tho second part, tho re ceipt whereof is hereby confessed and ac knowledged. docs by theso presents grant, bar gain, sell, remise, release, alii n and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to her heirs and assigns forever all that certain piece or iiurccl of immunity situate and being at present iu the city of Ann Arbor, county of Washtenaw and stalo of Michigan, a fid de scribed os follows, to wit: An ordinary enough piece of goods, reasonably well educated and moderately well fixed; twenty-three years old and quite clone in the world, with no eyes to speak of. and at loast two years of grinding yet ahead, together with all and singular, tho hereditaments aud appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining, to have and to {fold tho said I read no further. “EU, why don’t you give this to Or pha?” “Orpha!” he echoed. “She wouldn’t have it; yon know she wouldn’t. And besides ’ added the audacious youth. “sli6 La8.i t paid uio the ‘consideration’ moi timed therein.” 44 Yell, goodness knows 1 didn’t sup pose I had, either, El. But—wliatshall I do with this?” “You might just write your name in the space I left for it,” he suggested. 1 didn't quite dare to. I leaned my chin uptu my hand, looked into the water and thought. Bnt Ed’s face floated persistently between me and all prudential considerations. “He is a year younger than you. What about the mature ‘ready made man’ whom you as sured Tom yon should marry? What will Tom say? And how supremely ri diculous and inconsistent! Refuse Tom because he wasn’t old enough and marry a man six months younger than he and twice as boyish looking! But, if I choose to bo inconsistent, whose business is it anyhow.” I would net reason. I wonld not “consider.” 1 shot a swift smile up into Ed’s anxious face aud then with my fountain pen traced in round deliberate characters across the space he had left— Kate Marion Barrett. I have the old deed yet Since our marriage it has luin in state, the sole oc cupant of a convenient pigeonhole in my writing desk. Here I often run across it and smile as 1 wonder whether in dear old Ann Arbor, fragrant with the memory of countless student romances, th'e momentous question was ever be fore or since asked and answered in such unpoetic fashion. Bnt Ed and 1 don’t care. We have had onr poetry since.— CITY NOTES. Another Candidate —Mr. Thomas H. Yarborough is out for ibe office of is a deserving man and will make a good officer. On His Plantations.—Mr. R K. Reaves, of this city, is spending this week on his plantations i n business. He will return the latter part of the week. Making Rxpairs.— 1 The hou?e for merly (ccupird by Judge Herrington oa College avenui and now owned by the city, is being repaired aud will be occupied by the city officers shortly after the b ginning cf the New Year. A Chri>tmas Tree.—We learn that Miss Callahan is getting up funds to have a Christmas tree at the Catholic ohurcb. It will be for the little child ren of the city who wi'l no* be the re cipients of much in the way cf Christ mas goods. The chi’dren will beef all denom'nations, and from all parts of the city. Silk Quilt.—Mr. Ab Wilkins, of Oglethorpe ccuaty, had a silk quilt on exhibition at the store of Litimer & Johnson made by Mrs. Ann Meir.tt, of Gainsville. Mrs. Merritt is 85 years of age, aud is the mother of 13 children. The quilt is beautiful and some of tbe si:k in it was raised by the old la-Jy who made the quilt. Mr. Vernon Lodge.—The following officers have been elected by Mt. V rn- on Ledge, F. and A. M., John Crawford Worshipful Master, H. H. Linton, Sen ior Warden, W.J. Garebo'.d, Junior- Warden, E. S. Edge, Tre asurer, J. K. Kenney, Secretary, J. A. Pitner, Sen- ior Steward, W. I. Tuck, Junior Stew ard. John Cain.—The above named gen tleman wiil appear before the next council and ask them to put him in charge of the street hands for the next year. John Cain is known by every boy* girl, little “nigger” and “big nig ger” man and woman in the city, and if Athens has a clever man ard one that will have your street put in good con dition, it iB John Cain. On His Way I'o Hie CraounL—Rev W. R. Stillwell, accompaniti-tby—his itfcy Carew in Detroit News. in-plain figures, so that the customer may see that one price prevails tor alL— bor bail laid her spell upon me. ^ I deter- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. mined to stay out the year anyhow, do- Spiders’ Webs for Telescopes. The astronomers of the naval observa tory have looked all over the world for spiders’ webs. Such gossamer filaments spun by industrious arachnids are util ized in telescopes for cross lines extended at right angles with each other across the field of view, so as to divide the lat ter into mathematical spaces. Threads of cobweb are employed for the purpose because they are wonderfully strong for their exceeding fineness, and also for the reason that tbey are not affected by moisture or temperature, neither ex panding nor contracting under any con ditions. Specimens were obtained from China because it was imagined that the large spiders of that country would perhaps produce a particularly excellent quality of web. However, it was found that the best web is spun by spiders of the United States, such as are plentiful in the neigh borhood of Washington. Accordingly expeditions ore made early in June each year to get from the fences and barns hereabouts tho cocoons of the big “tur tle back” spiders. Each cocoons is com posed of a single silken filament wound round and round, though there are apt to be some breaks in it where Mistress Spider loft off work for a time. Attempts have been made to nsethe cocoons of spiders like those of silk- I worms, and exquisite fabrics have been ! manufactured from them. Unfortn- j .lately it was found impossible to make the industry a commercial success, ow- j ing to the combative inclination of these • creatures. When kept together they ! will always gobble each other up in a ■ shoit time, the final result being a sin gle very large and fat spider and one cocowl—Washington Cor. Boston Tran script. family, pissed through the city yester day, on their way to their new home at Lula. Mr. Stillwell has served the Gwinnett oircuit for the past two years, and at the recent session cf the North Georgia Conference at Madison, was assigned to tbe Belton oircuit. He preached at Lula and Belton last Sun day, and the C! jt-ferenoe year opens auspiciously, and we predict for him a prosperous year’s work in the cause < f religion. Mr. Sti'lwell is an able min ister, and wins friends whetever he goes. DO NOT DISPA1R. If you are sufferii g uith some chron ic di-eass that has OsflV-d the skill of physicians, change of c a mate and scene ia fact everything, and still are not cured, it wi.'l pay you to investigate the merits of tho Electropoise before dispaiiirg. Our information will cost youi] nctiiirg and may save you years of suffering and be tbe means of finally restoring you to health. We send a filty-ptge book free to any ad dress, and you c«n verify the truth of the statement made, by referring to some of the parties who give their testi monials, a majority of whom are citizens of Georgia and adj doing S ates: The Electropoise has. achieved its fame by caring oases pronounced hopeless and and which physicians had abandoned as such; the most remarkable cures be ing made in cises that commenced the treatment in a hopekss, unbelieving way as a last resort. Hon. W. G Sibley, President of tbe Sibley Cotton Mills of Augusta, Ga., savs: I have been a great sufferer from soiatica for five years, for two years had never been free from pain; sometimes the pains were so severe I would jump out of bed in my sleep and awake to find myself in the most acute agony stand ing on the floor. I spent much time and money North under special medics! treatment, was cauterized sixty-seven iime3 with a white hot iron, but all to no purpose. Finally hearing of the Elect: epoiee I determinail to try it, and a short use of it benefited me, and now after a years use I am completely cured AH forms of ch- onic diseases are cured with a certainty and permanency un known to medication. Our book tells all about it. Write for one. Atlantic Elxcthopoise Co. Washington, D. C. The Hanging Lamps and Ffcncy Par lor Lamps are tbe prettiest and cheap est in the city. “Hoggin’s China House.” CHRISTMAS GOODS. FLYING SITU. The Governor of Rio Grande Dn Sol on the Rnn. HIS RESIGNATION WANTED. Two Military Officers .Are to Be Shot and There Is Much Talk of War Between Brazil aud Uruguay. . Great Excitement Exists. New York, Dec. 17.—A special to The Herald from Valparaiso says: News from Rio Janeiro is that the federalists are entering the city of Rio Grande Du Sol and Governor Coule, of Rio Grande Du Sol, is flying south. He will resign. Castilhisas has signed the petition asking the federal government of Brazil to declare war against Uruguay. Captain Gazia and Lieutenant Baha- manda have been decided guilty of sub orning tho revolt, anil will be shot. - The radicals and Cordova are entering a protest against the appointment of Julio Astrada as governor, and threaten a revolution. — Ex-Presiilent Pelogrohi has assumed the chieftainship of the Argentine Na tional party. To Control Sail Domingo. New Yor':, Dec. 17.—A syndicate of American capitalists has acquired vir tual control of the island of San Do mingo by the purchase of the right to collect the custom revenues of the country, which are principally derived from the tobacco monopoly. It is un derstood that $3,500,000 is agreed upon as the price. He declares it to be “(he best remedy for cough and croup,” Mr. D. T. Goo), Columbia, Tern., writes: “I keep Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in the house all the time.' It is the best remedy for cough andcroup I ever used’” Our Dolls must go at any price. Jackson and Burke Co. CROSSWHITE'S MURDERER CAUGHT. Tlia Probabilities Point to More Blood shed In Tennessee. Bristol, Dec. 17.—Special Officers Charles Robertson, “Bart” Moore, F. M. Davidson and J, D, Carter, of Scott eouiriy, Ya., arrived here over the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad, having in charge the notorious Irvin Roberts, who shot oli- man Landon Croswhite from ambush Dec. 1, as the latter was return ing from Mountain City to his home in Shady Valley. The officers captured Roberts in the mountains of Hancock county. Tenn. They havo been on his trail since last week. He first went to Wallace, where he scouted for two days in the woods and in a cave, where his brother carried food to him. He went from thereto Duffield. Va., and then struck the main road for Sneedville. The officers have gone with the pris oner for Mountain City, which is a day’s drive from here. When the son of Mr. Cros white was here last week in search of Roberts, he intimated that the murderer would not be hard to manage when he had done with him, and it is now feared that Roberts will, never reach Mountain City alive, as he must go near the Croswliite residence. The feud that has existed between the two families for years is now at fewr beat and there is no telling what will happen. SPECIFIC TAX. Oar art store is crowded with the very latest styles and the handsomest line oi Christmas Goods ever seen in Athens. Do rot bay liefore seeing them. We are to close out these goods at prices that will astonish you. Remember the great clojOtng out sale will begin Monday morning, and con tinue from day to day until tbey are sold. M. Myero & Co. SKIFF BLOWING HIS HORN. It is not luek but pluck which weaves the web of life, it is not luck but pluck which turns the wheel of fortune. Skiff, the Jeweler, is full of pluck, and by it he has succeeded in exhibiting one of the neatest assortments of useful articles for Christmas that may be found anywhere. While we do not pre lend to keep the aristocratic sort of high priced articles, we do pretend to keep that class of goods that people neid, and at prioes everybody can buy. A large assortment of jewelry, a pretty display of Silver Souvenir Spoons, Gold Peas with Pearl Handles. The best assortment of Finger Rings. A new lot of Silverware in Plush Cases. Use ful articles in Art, Pottery, Gold- Headed Canes etc., etc. Without fur ther enumeration, we cordially invite all to give us a call and examine onr di-play of goods and prices. Remem ber, we keep good serviceable goeds at moderate prices. A new line of Christ mas oards, something new and very pretty. Skiff, The Jeweler. A car load c-f Oranges just received by W. A. Jester. THE NEWS SERVICE. The Sonth Hu Bettor Facilities Then . Ever for Gathering the Latest. New York, Dec. 17.—The directors of the Southern Associated Press have been in session here for three days. All arrangements for the Sonthem Associ ated Press service have been completed. A contract has been made with the Western Union Telegraph company. Several additional southern Newspapers have been given the privilege of enter ing the southern report, and now there is virtually no newspaper in the south, receiving telegraph news, that does not receive it from the Southern Associated Press—wfijch is now the sue issor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina. Florida Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi. Lopisiana and East Tennessee, of the United. New York and Western Associated Press. Mr. O. C. Hatlon, who has for many years so satisfactorily made np the re port for southern newspapers, while being served by the New York Associ ated Press, has been elected and accept ed the Washington agency of the South ern Associated Press. The news re ports are to much be improved and every a facility to make it the best report ever sen* south, has been acquired. Xmas goods will be sold to the cash tr-de regardless of Cost from now on at “Huggins’s i hina House.” Tn« Other Side of the Question from One Who Is Not a Manufacturer. Mb. Editor I am in favor of spe cific tax on manufacturers. If the citizens of Athens who have spoken of the subject through your paper understood the laws of the state and the experience of every city and town m Georgia in regard to the tax ing of manufacturers, they would be Ie3s ready to complain. There comes a time in the life of every city when it is obliged to levy a specific tax to meet its expenses, if they are striving to make any progress in the improvement of the city’s departm suts and institutions. There is not a town or city in Geor gia that has not adopted the specific tax. Atlanta, for instance, has it, and it has been one of the greatest helps to the improvement and building up of the city. Some one refers to the - towns that offer twenty years exemption to all manufacturers who will come and work with them. But ask those people what protection or ' advantages do those towns aisure them? Do they protect their property by safe and well regula ted fire departments? Do they receive the advantages of well governed courts, and is their law and order maintained by a trust-worthy an I reliable police depirtment? Do their children re ceive the benefits of the free schools governed by good systems and well trained teachers? Have they a system of waterworks to be depended on, and are their streets kept properly clean aud improved? It is all idiotic, rattle-1 ruined, incon sistent, inexcusable iguorauoe and rant to say that any city government can conduct its institutions and make the community a desirable place to live in without taxing the people who are re ceiving its greatest benefits and making fortunes by the advantages it is offer ing them. The manufacturers of-Athens have no reason to complain. The specific tax that is asked of them is compara tively small. They are receiving ail i he advantages of good government and the city’s institutions. The im provements and expenses made by the council this year haye been made for their benefit as well as others, and they reoeive as much, or perhaps more safety from it than any other class. Two new policemen were added to the fores this year. Extra horses have been suppl'E for the pclics and fire departm~>\tL. Who receives the benefit of these things? do not the manufacturers as well as others ? If the manufacturers of Athens are not making money then no one is, and why should they cry out to be relieved from a small tax that they can easily afford to pay, and throw the burden of » upon those who cannot afford to pay it half as well as the manufacturers can. There never was a time when people wonld not complain of being taxed, aud there probably never v ill be. It is no now thing to hear this from our manufacturi: g brethren, and I suppose they will keep it up as long as they think they ciu get any on a else to hear the burden that they can only too wel. afford to cirry. Our city council have sense enough to know what expenses the city can af ford to carry. They are in the position to see who pays the taxes, and they ought to know Who oin afford to pay them best. Not A Manufacturer. : rjtsj •i JIO iiX THE CHRISTMAS TRADE. You can get great Bargains for the Holidays at the Cloth ing Store of J. J. C. McMahan. All the goods are marked down to almost cost. Buy something handsome and use ful for a present. In buying Fire Works compare tfce goods as well as prices, and you wilt be convinced that ours are t> e best in the city. Jackson si d Burke Co. HENRY.W. HILLIARD. Death of This Honored Statesman, Diplomat and Author. Atlanta, Dec. 17.—Henry W. Hil liard, LL. D. iB dead. This eminent American passed away at 7 s.m. at his residence in this city. His last illness was of several weeks’ duration, and although he was over four score years of age, his massive frame and remarkably well preserved health gave his friends hope that he might weather the attack ar d hsfila the disease that threatened his life. But the hopes weire groundless, and gradually his vitality gave way until the end came. - When you want to buy Toys, C. Bode’s is the place, 114 Clayton street. Selling them now below New York cost. Married in Winterville.—Mr. Har rison Jay, of Forsyth county, was mar ried Wednesday night to Miss L'zzie Winter, of Winterville. The young people were the recipients of many hearty congratulations Go to Jester for cheap Oranges, Wholesale and Retail. ’AXi
