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Bewitciu.n& lavcees.
Bsautiful Women Who Amuse Vis’tcrs
at the Paris Exposition. .jSI
In this part of the esplanade of t!-.e
exposition, says a Ijaria. letter, there is
an amusing population of Arab?, j eW s,
colored people, Moors—some loafing]
other* making jewelry, pottery or
baskets, others selling buboiurhes, es
sence of roses and all the trumpery of
the oriental bazars. The air is per
fumed with incense and tobacco, and
the vague odors of the east. Here is a
Tunisian concert, where a company of
very ugly Jewesses sing through their
noses—a miserable place not worth vis
iting. Here is an Algerian concert,
which is one of the most fascinating
corners of this world’s fair. Imagine
a bright patio, decorated with arcade
THE BANXEL, ATHENS, GA., JULY 30, 1!
A HALF-BREED DEVIL
COMMITS A FIENDISH OUTRAGE
UPON A TEN YEAR OLD GIRL.
He Flees Before a Mob of Lynchers,
But Will Pay the Crime
With His Life
for
[ l l |S
„1 of
ulLiric* arc.
,1 ^•liool-hou.-cs
burning
in Van
County
, Texas
rrai':
ooiiU'Ht- to e
have com-
tabisli an iron
, JorV in Ottawa. Out.
r; A ,rtl»c Jolm^"
, l V jt)’ver. aire.-u-il in-I.an-
while omlcavoring to wreck
|il train.
, ur tod that .f'-algc
, n »ition a- commissiou-
Trank Line Association,
iv comor-stotic <•!' the Columbia
: V .; 1 !,'1«V1.oum-. Washington, was
. repoi
Childs
sufferers.
Cooler has
tuncy
KuitVeii. of Lake Mahopac,
Y .hotliis wife and himself. Dom-
*i«troiil'k the cause.
•i.lfiit had a call from Third
The i re
Hurley at Dear Park’ and
at work and the af-
t: , |,ji morning *
driving-
T; o Marvlebone cricket eleven beat
hf i'iiiladelphia team in one inning by
4 n:as.
!l u . prosecuting attorney in Chicago
S ith-cided that there is no law in that
tvsjpiiist policy playing.
\ rave in occurred m llayde Park,
.nnton. l’a.. which endangers a mim-
e: of ImiMiafts.
Ti:c three whaling vessels, James A.
Hamilton. Utter and Annie, carrying
Aunt -ixty officers and men, are geiier-
jjjr bolieveil to have ’'cen lost in the
ntic.
Uitringa nuarrel in Pliiladedhia Ilar-
jMerphy was probably fatally stab-
Wly George Hankinson, alias George
iMrly.
lit New York Accjiieduct C’ommis-
oiirr* have aholi-hc the olliee of C’on-
iltiag engineer.
Ibyiil Fleslnuan. a Missouri farmer,
liUel il.emas Shepard, another far-
aerbecause tlie latter was too intimate
*it!iMrs. Fishman.
llis trunk d ies of railroads sire try-
jigtyget.liidgi; Cooley’s services as
wtamivioner, in place of Albert Fink.
Hit salary is $25,000.
hie Louisville Hoard of Trade is tak-
ing a hand in the tight in that city be-
t»eenthe Kentucky & Indiana and the
Lii.viu,. Bridge Company.
f i.icago insurance agent are rej#ieing
’Wera decision which exempts them
h): ' 1 Wing licen
Wporated
on companies m-
elscvvliere than in llliu-
•Vaker Carlisle is in the City of
•ffieo. where he is received with high
filler:,tion.
Liiil otlerings yesterday aggregated
C.t.in, All accepted at 128 for four per
r " aml 1 '’*’ 7i lor four and a halfe.
Hu Xew York World prints a rumor
1 li'" Mary Anderson, the great ac-
^ is in a private insane asylum in
ngliml*
1 a President is slightly insdispo-
^-e IreaMuy Department has ren-
V' 1 111 hnportant decision in garnet-
WlWdOl.
1 * ar y W indom has returned to
1 kiugton :,nd so has Seeetary Tra
it
IV.
Miy 11 r ’ s ‘ l, ent and Attorney General
j> ar j] r ll:ui :i consultation at Der;
' I ov f*ring Company, whole-
NS er8iuChica8 °- llas mude an
.. a * hrey, the murderer of John
in < ' J eeu sentenced to death
'-ineiunati.
L**» "alsh, of London, Ont.,
i '■» elected aichishop of Toron-
^„!,! t ,° l ; k,nen who hun g Kate Max-
HaU! . anies .Averill admit that they
^l .n the lyneliing.
lireivp^' 1 ®.*'^ 18 y n * cate has bought five
not, ^ in Paterson, X. J., for .^.fJOO
A *
iiUrt . 'V* H Jockey, was senouslE
1 Idea" n steepledhase in
^° n R Chance, the horse, was
f h
i°t0u”n P ° I ^-Bianco is being
n ^ ° r ganiped throughout
1:1.
and panels of tiles and ‘arabesques of
pale green and blue tones, forming a
cozy cafe, with stools and tables with
gay polychrome ceramic tops; to the
left a little kiteheii, where it colored
man makes Turkish coffee over burning
charcoal in the approved fashion;
along one side of the room alow stage,
covered with cushions, on which are
seated Jewish and Arab dancing women,
colored men and womeii and Arab mu
sicians. all clad in the most brilliant
costumes after their own hearts. The
orchestra consists of taraboukehs, or
drums made of earthen pots with a
skin stretched over the orifice, a lute or
eoiul, a tambourine, and a shill haut-
bois, which an Arab plays with cheeks
furiously puffed out, producing notes
of a rhythm whose morbidness hypno
tic-.
The women, gave as idols, their fin
gers stained with kohl of henna, accom
pany the shrill air of the liautbois with
nervous heating of their taraboukehs,
and from time, as ff to break the hypn
otic spell, a negro will shriek for a few
seconds like a steam whistle, causing
his voice to undulate between two
notes. Meanwhile one of the women
dances—not as people dance in society,
or even at the theater, but the dance
that represents the eternal amorous
theme on which each nation has em
broidered its own fancies, and of which
each nation, except ours, has made its
national dance. She is a girl of 12 or 13
with dark, nieleneholly eyes, regular
features, blue-black hair looped in
braids over her cheeks. On her head
he wears a sort of jeweled miter, from
which halig chains of silver meeting
beneath her chin, and joining massive
silver arabesques stubbed with rough
ones and serving as buckles for the
green silver-spangled drapery over her
shoulders; jgcr skirts of pale red and
browodnihgUoosely down to the grouhd
bowing only her bare brown feet. Her
dancing is mere cadeneed movement,
with long undulations of the body, or
little convulsive stampings of the feet,
accompanied by a writhing and waving
of the arms, continued to the finger
tips, by a throwing back of the head, or
by an extinction of the bands forward
in the gesture of entreaty, the whole
expression with much modesty and
quite liberal mimicry’ a tender drama
of passion, of defense againt the invisi
ble lover who speaks to her in the voice
of the liautbois, of refusal that means
consent, of consent that still resests, a
long pantominej during which the sup
ple ami caressing body of the girl moves
incessantly and expresses extreme emo
tions, which end in a terrible charivari
of liautbois and drums only when both
dancer and musicians are exhausted by
fatigue.
At the other end of the Esplanade ties
Invalides, in the Javanese kampoiig,
may be seen a dance of similar exotic
character. This village is inhabited by
some three score Javanese workmen
and their wives, who make hats and
other small articles of commerce. In
one corner of the village is a eoneert
room of bamboo and thatch, ond a Jav
anese orchestra of • drums, lutes and
tympanums, formed, some of bars of
metal and others of brazen pots with
lids composed of two supposed liemi-
pheres. The orchestra occupies the
whole of the back of the stage, the men
squatting cross-legged and discoursing
strange bell-like music, while a man
and a woman perforin a iniinic dance,
with writhing and contortions of th
body and limbs, less graceful than those
of the Arab dance, but still curiously
fascinating in their almost hieratic
gravity.
There are also four young dancing
girls belonging to the king who are'
types of Japanese beaty and the great
est coquettes in the exhibition. Their
skins are brown, the feet and legs up to
the knees are dyed saffron yellow, their
bodies are clad with richly embroidered
stuffs, their coiffure is a wonderfulgold
helinet wrought into arabesquee of
flows and animals, and surmounted by
a crescent of black feathers; their arms
are loaded with bracelets, their eyes
lengthed with an upturn tail of blue
paint, and in the center of their brows
are a blue circumflex accent and a gold
spangle. These girls are beautiful with
the regular.beauty of Indian idols, but
they chatter like magpies, make faces
at the public and scoff at the dowdiness
and puritanism of the Parisiennes. One
of these little ladies, interviewed yes
terday through the intermediary of an
amiable Dutchman, who has lived for
years in the Indies, declared that she
found Paris rather slow, and tlie Paris
ians aiistere and averse to luxury, and
the general aspect of things wanting in
gilding and umbrellas.
Spe-i-jL to The Ilnnner.
Madison, Ga., July 25.—A most
fiendish crime was committed on the
farm of Mr. Tobe Perkins in Greene
county yesterday.
While Air. Perkins was off in liis
held at work, and Airs. Perkins was at
the spring, some 'distance from the
house, a little daughter of their’s
brutally outraged bv a* big blaek
gro.
The screams of the little girl attracted
her mother who came * flying to tlie
yard just too late to see the halGht-eed
was
we
lt is announced from San Francisco
tha $1,000,000 has been subscribed to lay
a cable between that city and Honolu
lu, and that the workjwill be complet
ed within a year and a half.This will
be the first link in a transpacific cable
line directly from America to Japan
and China. Such a cable would be of
great advantage in case of foreign com
plications and we would not have to de
pend on other nations for means of
Communication with our neighbors in
the East.
devil who had committed the flend;>h
crime and lied. Tlie girl was terribly
injured, and lay senseless for some time.
She was carried in the house by her
mother, who immediately summoned
her liUshand and told him of the brute’s
accomplishment.
The whole community are excited
and enraged, and are scouring the coun
try for the fiend.
Thev are determined to hang him
when he is found, in spite of sheriff and
hi* posse.
Late this afternoon they had not
found him.
The whole country is wild with in
dignation. .
The latest in the way of English Syn-
dicates'gobbling up American proper
ty is an endeavor to purchase’ “Del-
monico’s the famous restaurants of Xew
Y’ork. The intention is to get. posses
sion of as many restaurants and eating
houses as possible {-and run them like
those of England and Scotland, which
are all owned by one syndicate.
Send your orders, to J. H. Huggins
for Fruit Jars and Jelly Tumblers;
590 dozen Fruit Jars and 599 dozen
Jelly Tumblers for wholesale and retail
at Huggins’.
If thvre ever was a specific for any
one complaint,then Carter's Little Liv
er Pills are specific for sick headache,
ami every woman should know this.
Onlv one Pill a dose. Trv them.
The rains continue and the crops are
fairly gettingl a move on them. The
corn crop is already made and cotton
promises to surpass, itself within the
next month. One or two more rains at
proper seasons will heal everything.
Tanner says he will stick until kiek-
ei^out. It is cheerful to know that he
is sensitive in some part of his anatomy
—Xew Y’ork Telegram.
And the quicker that sensitiveness is
excited the bettev for tlie country.
DAYBREAK.
Sometiaies, when the night of woe
So deep on my spirit lies
That I see no gladdening glow
In the whole broad sweep of skies,
A thought of you will gleam
Across my sight like a ray; •
And the night has been but a dream.
For, Jo: it is dawn—and day.
' * —Clinton Scollard.
A FLOWER OF DEATH.
Taxed |Too Much- J
A Washington Man in Luck.
“There is no incident in all my life.”
said Air. R. C. Palmer, of 7218th St.,
X. AV„ Washington City, 1). O. “that
looks so much like providential assist
ance as the one which will send me to
Dayton. Ohio, to-day. I had arranged
to start in tire furniture business. 1
selected Dayton as the place in which
to establish myself. I was endeavoring
to raise tlie necessary money but was
disappointed. I’ve been in the habit of
investing a dollar a month in The Lou
isiana State Lottery, and the drawing
of the 14th ultj brought me just exact
ly the sum I needed. If this assistance
had not come to me 1 might have re
mained a working mechanic all my
life.”—Washington (D. C.) Star, June
4. • .
The Best.
Athens can feel proud of the clerk
and treasurer of her city. Air. Gillehuul
has held the position for « number of
years, and if there can be anything said
against him we would like to hear it.
Bill Gilleland is a model officer and the
city’s affairs are safe in his hands and
the people know it.
Trapping.
„ A little boy jfromjj;Barber’s creek,
brought in 21 musk rats skins yesterday,
for which lie received a good price. He
says there are large number on Burlier
creek, and that they are destroying
a great deal of corn. There is no one
here that deals in them to any great ex
tent.
There is hardly a day that the]*mer-
ehants Athens are not asked to sub-
scribe to some charitable objector give
something tobtiild a church or a school
house in a neighborhood a longdistance
from the city. A merchant informs us
that if he were, jjto gire’ to everything
that^eomes along it would take twentv-
five per cent of theirj7.-arnings._Onr
people are liberal, but they TloVf’t like
so much of it, and think .that every
neighborhood should take care of itself.
Some Xorthern newepapers are scrib
bling themselves into a liopelesss ease
of lunacy about tlie treasonable display
of a state Hag over the eapitol of Geor
gia.
Is there any one else in Xortheast
Georgia that gives as good a guarantee
on their buggies and wagons as Klein
& Alartin. w-if.
Deab Friend Masson—You have doubtless
beard of my Quther’a death and the terrible
murder of my Brother. My father left a rather
peculiar will, and the sickness and death of his
legal adviser still leaves affairs in cu unsettled
condition. If you Will come to Upington and
see that things are straightened out, as they
should be, I will make it well worth your time.
Yours, as of old, Claudk Mortimer.
This note was received soon after my
graduation from college by me, Frederick
Manson, struggling lawyer, from my old
college chum, Mortimer.
A few months after launching myself upon
a legal career I had picked up a newspaper
one day to see an account of the death of
Enos Mortimer, who had been one of the
prominent man of the state. Not more than
throe weeks after reading of the death of my
old friend’s father, I came across,, in the same
newspaper, an account of a mysterious mur
der. I was startled and horrified when 1
read the name of the murdered man. It was
Victor Mortimer, Claude’s brother. The per
son who committed the deed was unknown.
In response to the note I went.
There were teal's in Claude’s eyes when he
took my hand, and his voice shook as he
said:
“I am glad to see you, Manson, but sorry
that our meeting is at a time so fraught with
sorrow to me.”
He looked twenty years older than when 1
saw him last. Dissipation had left its marks
on his handsome face, and there was a very
perceptible sprinkling of whito in his hair.
Under the hand of affliction, the old jolly
light had died out of his eyes, which to me
seemed to be strangely aversive and restless.
That evening as we sat in Claude’s favorite
room he told me the story of the murder. 1
did not ask him to do so, but of his own free
will he told me of the terrible deed. His
brother Victor had been alone in the man
sion at the time that he fell the victim of an
assassin. Claude had been with him that day,
but had ridden away late in the afternoon,
and had put up for the night at a small vil
lage, twelve miles away. In the morning he
had continued on his journey, to be recalled
by a message stating that his brother had
been murdered.
He came back and found Victor dead, hav
ing been killed in the hall of his own house
by a blow on the head with some heavy in
strument, that had crushed-his skull like an
egg shelL The object of the murder was evi
dently robbery, for the dead man’s pocketsi rung at the door of Mortimer Hall.
One Who Knows
The following testimonial is from a
gentleman who knows our formula and
is thoroughly acquainted with curative
property of our Tonie.The way to know
the merits is to try the article. Any
practicingphysioiana who desires the
formula of Dr. Westmoreland’s Oalsaya
Tonic may obtain it from the West
moreland Calisaya Tonic Company,
Greenville, S. C. This letter is from a
miliaria 1 section..
RAVest Point, Aliss
Having shown me the formula for
| making your Tonic while visiting your
-ity the past summer I take great pleas
ure in recommending it. 4 am delight
ed with it, having given it in my pract
ice successfully, and.to members of my
own family suffering from malarial tox-
iemia. Very truly,
B. S. Duncan, AI. D.
For sale by L. I). pledge & Co.
The olive bill is doomed. Its most
sanguine friends and Mr Olive himself
are coming to the full and first "realiza
tion of the fact that its days are few
Oh well they might have known it long
ago.
Wanted*
A situation as teacher in Athens or is
the country. Several years experi
ence. Address Aliss. This office.
. d-3t-w-lt.
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The Down’s Alagie Soap will remove
grease from all manner of cloth without
injury. For sale by Grift’eth, M liite-
iiead & Co. , 7-14d-l w—w 4t.
Sufferers from dyspepsia and liver
complaints feeling weak, nervous and
debilitated,should not use remedies that
physic the bowels. Such treatment
dose more harm than good. They should
U*e B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), a successors, daaro to be ’ncoipoiated as a body
- j A . ...in rli,. .li«U- corporate and politic upon the following tetrns:
remedy that w ill strengthen the ui„es I p, rs t. The name of said corporation to be kt The
tive organs, heal the diseases surfaces I Athens Land Company.”
nf rlu* srnm-ich liver and bowels, purify second. '1 he capital stock of said company to
OI the Stoiiiaen m t r .urn j «= , i j , R1 ^nty.fjve thousand dollars (w ich privilege
and cleanSe the blood, and restore -I’ er , I H f increasing it mi wo hundred and ilfty tliou-
feet health and Strength to every part OI 1 Hand) divided into Shares Often dollars each
S '.
Clarke, to the Superior Comt.of said conn
tv; Tne petition of C. O.Taluiadge, \V. I). U-rif
feth, E. T. Brown, Pope Barrow, F. W. Cheney-
J. A. llunnicutt, E. K. Lumpkin, A. L. Hull, T,
L. Gantt. W. S. Holuian, G. P. Brightwell, John
L. Arnold, H. N. NVillcox, C. D. Klannigan and
T. s. Mell respectfully sho w that thoy and such
others as may be aisociated witli tiieiii.and their
the body.
A Good Platform
Elberton has a club of young gentle
men who have entered into an agree
ment never to allow an oath to pass
their lips.
If this club had also entered into, an
agreement that not a drop of liquor
“• , . .... v* .s!,.!- I laws aim uiueiiumviit* uiereoi a» iiieyma
should ever pass their ups anu necessary for tneir own governmeni/not
't hird. The amount of capital to be employed
by them actually paid in is live thousand dollars
’Fourth. The officers of said corporation to
consist of a president, six ((>) directors and such
other officers as the corporation may deem nec
essary. All the powers of the corporation to be
exercisable by the board of directors except
wheiethe power is expressly reserved to tlie
stockholders in this petition.
Fifth. Tne object of said corimratioh and the
paitleuiar business they propose to carry on is
to buy, sell, lease, rent and improve land in and
around Athens, Ga
Sixth. To do tills they desire to adopt such by
law? and amendments thereof as they may deem
had been rilled. Detectives had been em
ployed, and within a'week’s time some of the
stolen valuables were found upon the body
of an unknown man, who was discovered
floating in a small pond twenty miles from
the scene of the crime.
I listened to Claude’s story in silence, re
fraining from asking any questions that
might cause him greater suffering. He seemed
disappointed by this, and for a long time
dwelt upon the peculiarity of the murder, his
absence from the place at the time of its oc
currence, and the final disoovery of the vor
grant who undoubtedly committed the crime.
He appeared very nervous, as if repressing
an excitement that he did not wish Observed.
After a time 1 succeeded in drawing his
thoughts from the murder, and for an hour
we talked of other things. During all the
time that we had been in the room Claude’s
eyes had every now and then sought a dis
tant corner. Finally I looked in that direc
tion and perceived an immense flower pot full
of earth, from which grew the stock of a
large lily. The lily was in bloom, and at once
attracted my attention.
“What a strange appearing flower l” I ex-
olaimed, as I arose to examine it,
Claude sprang up and rushed past me.
“Yes, it is strange," he replied, with ill
concealed excitement. “Don't touch itl I
believe the thing is poison!”
“What makes you think so?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” he answered, a little wildly.
‘A week ago it was almost snowy white;
since then it has changed till it has become
what you now see. At first I thought it was
dying; now I do not know what to think.”
1 could not banish all thought of the
strange flower from my mind at once, and
that night 1 fell asleep thinking of it. All
night long I was tortured by horrible dreams
of murder and bloodshed, and in all my vis
ions the lily figured prominently. I was
very glad when morning came.
Enos Mortimer had left a will which cut
off his son Claude with a dollar. All his
property had been bequeathed to Victor, but
be had stated in the will that at Victor’s
death-the property should go to the next of
kin. As Victor had died unmarried, “the
next of kin" must be his only brother, Claude.
I could see bat little trouble in settling the
affair quickly and easily, and could hardly
comprehend why Claude had sent so far for
me when legal service could have been ob
tained much nearer home.
Meantime I had moved my practice to Cp-
ingtpn. I had discovered that there was a
better field there, and at once availed myself
of what seemed to be a good opening' Strange
to say, Claude did not seem to approve of the
that I was soon compelled to seek a chair,
feeling faint and dizzy.
“I sbpuld think you would die, shut la
here with that thing,” I cried. “The odor is
terrible I"
“Not so very bad after you get accus
tomed taiit," he replied, hesitatingly. “In-
deedTif you are not directly above it you will
not notice the odor at all after a time.”
“It is the strangest thing I ever saw or
heard of,” I declared. “It actually fills me
with horror. Why, I should dump the thing
ouFfloors.-” ,
He shook his head, a look of alarm on his-
face. ‘
“No, no,” he cried. “I would not part
with it for anything.”
That day when'I parted with Claude Mor
timer I "did so fully convinced that there was
a terpible secret-locked fast in ,the man’s-
breast, and that in some way the black lily
was connected with the secret.’ Hpw this
could be I could not Imagine; yet something
seemed to tell me that it was so.
From that day I shunneeb’ Claude Morti
mer, for 1 felt that there was a dreadful stain
upon his hands. Of this I had no proof; yet
in an unexplained manner 1 was convinced
that it was true.
Two months passed, and one night a terri
ble thunder storm passed over Upington.
The morning came, bright and beautiful, and
at an early hour Claude Mortimer’s negro
servant brought a sealed envelope to my door
and delivered it into my hands He said that
bis master had aroused him in the night and
given him the envelope, with the request
that he bring it to me the first thing in the
morning.
With shaking-hands and a strange presenti
ment that some terrible event had happened,
1 tore open the envelope. This is what I read:
"I am a murderer! I have resolved to
make this confession to the world, and to
morrow I will be found dead in the room
where .1 am now writing, while the thunder
bellows In the heavens and the jagged light
ning rends tbe darkness asunder. The brand
of Cain is on my brow, for I slew my own
brother. I will make the confession as brief
as possible, and then comes—death! Ontho
day preceding the fatal night when Victor
Mortimer was murdered he and 1 quarreled
concerning our father’s will. In a raga I
left tbe bouse and departed, mounted on tho
horse which was given me by my father
some years ago. Twelve miles away I
stopped for the night, putting up at a sleepy
little hotel.
“When I retired to my room that night I
sat at my window until all was still about
the housa Then a terrible impulse seized
me. Beneath my window was a low, sloping
shed. With but little trouble I climbed out
upon, it and reached tbe ground. I had seer*
a horse feeding in a neighboring pasture, and
by the aid of an occasional gleam of moon
light which stole through the clouds I suc
ceeded in finding and capturing that horsa
As I led him out of the pasture I noticed a
long iron pin by which the gate was fastened.
This I took with me. Within the hour I
Thera
were no servants in the house at the time, and
Victor came to the door. He asked who was
there and I answered
“Unsuspecting, he opened the door and I
stepped in. He was holding a light in hia
hand. As he turned to close the door I struck
him with the iron pin fairly on the back of
the head, putting all the force I could into
the blow. He fell dead at my feet! Then,
in order to make it appear that the crime
was committed by a robber, I took his jeweliy
and money. I hid the iron pin in a safe
place, and on the horse’s back fled away
through the night like tbe crime stained thing
that I was.
“What followed is well known. I was re
called to the scene of my terrible crime. 1
played my part well, and no one suspected me.
“Tbe iron pin with which I committed tha
murder troubled me the most. I feared that
it would be found, and finally buried it in tha
very bottbm of a largo pot in which stood a
lily in full bloom. Then I had tho lily placed
in my room, so that I might always stand
guard over it. Two days later I noticed a
’change in the appearance of the flower. 1
thought it was dying, but it was not. Slowly
it turned black, and the small tongue in tho
center became blood red 1 watched -tha
change with a feeling of horror that cannot
be described It seemed to me that the thing
was trying to tell of my terrible crime. Hun
dreds of times I have been tempted to destroy
it, but somethin g^al ways kept me from doing
so. I hoped that it would die, but week after
week, month after month, it stood there ac
cusingly before my eyes.
“The odor which comes from tho Uly when
inhaled from a distance is pleasant, bat
makes one deathly sick when breathed from
just above it, I believe that enough Of this
will cause death* and to-night I shall test my
•belief. If this fails, I have a little vial ot
poison which will do the work. I am tired
of life. I murdered my brother thatT might
obtain this grand estate, which I fancied had
been unjustly given to him, and since then
the curse of God has been upon me. My wilt
will be found leaving the property to chari
table institutions, and with a final petition
to God to have mercy on my guilty soul, I
write my name for the last time on earth.
“Clauds Mortimer."
He was found quite dead on the floor bo-
side the black lily, an untasted vial of poison
grasped in bis hand. The strange flower
that had always stood erect drooped until it
almost touched his white cheek, and from
tha crimson tongue a few scarlet drops,
which looked like blood, bad fallen upon his
face. The iron pin was found in the pot,
and the roots of the lily were tightly twined
around it.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
_ _ . , , , . _ V _ I I I|V> 11141 iu UR ill UH11
is a habit, and those who curse do not business,oml to fix their salaries.
mean it or think of it. This club could
do better by swearing their members to
keep away from whisky and not get in
the habit of cursing.
Unwelcomed Guests.
During the firemens tournament ear-
To sue and lie sue,I, ami have a common seal
anil alter the same at pleasure.
To lend or borrow money and give such secu
rity therefor liy mortgage, deed of trust or oth
erwise ui»on their real or other property, as to j
the directors may seem be~t.
To is-ue VkhkIs of such denominations, and
upon sueli terms, and for such length of time,
•and to secure the same by mortgage, deeds ot
trust, or otnei wise upon ‘ any of said associa
tion’s property, a. to the board of directors may
seem proper. Toiultscribe to, pnre tase, own or |
Iv in the summer, when the good Cltl- I hold !>uuk stock, or other stock or shares in any
J ; . , I corporation, domestic or toreign, as well as
zens of Athens opened wide their homes | ,. r recurities o all kinds.
and hearts in cordial welcome to tl) e
visiting guests, a swarm of bees with
the ingenuity common to their tribe,
entered Mr. Mendell Alorris’ house on
Broad stieet and hived themselves
snugly in his garrett. They were un
observed in their intrusion and were
only found by him a few days since.
To rent, lease or buy real oc.other property,
improved or unimproved, in and aroumlAihens,
Ga.; and to alter, change or improve the same
any manner*at-will ;£ndto rent, lease, sell or
dispose of the same, unproved or unimproved,
for cash or on instalments at will.
To receive land or other property in payment
of subscription for stock at such valuation as
may be agreed upon by the subscribers and the
board of directors.
To leace, purchase er otherwise become the
owner or controller of any line of street railroad
already constructed or which mav hereafter lie
. . - . constructed in Athens, Ga., and all its appurte-, . —
Tliev had started upon their work OI I nances, and to extend, improve, iniiirg.-, oper- I flower that I had seen before,
laying ju their winter’s supply and at S’ 0 ^: t t^ A peculiar feeling of fascination and hor-
...iiiontlv'feii much at home in Air. I w.uks or electric plants for any purpose what- ror seized me, and 1 advanced toward the
e> idently t . I ever, in or near Athens, Ga.,and to operate,rent, lily. Claude Mortimer was there before me.
Morris’ hospitable house. Blit tney j lease or dispose of the same at will. I He stood between the flower and mi
To liecome tlie owners of controllers of any
friends.
Claude was utterly changed from bis former
jovial self. He bad lost all bis old jolly ways
and seemed like a man haunted by a fearful
memory. He was nervous and unsociable,
and bis former twinkling eyes seemed filled
with a shifting, unsteady light. The lines
upon bis face grew deeper, and the white that
tinged his hair grew more perceptible.
Strangely enough, after ray removal to Up
ington my old friend did not ask me to call
upon him; but 1 did not wait for an invita
tion. One day I called. I found him in his
favorite room, and instinctively looked for
the lily. A cry burst from my lips as I did so.
There in the corner stood, the grewsome
flower, looking stranger and more unnatural
than when 1 first saw it. From a mixed
black and white the cup of the flower had
turned to a dull, dead black, and the tongue,
which had been a doll red, was crimson, as if
colored by pure life blood. Months had pass
ed since I saw it last, still this was the same
Morris’ hospitable
have worn out tlicir welcome, and Mr.
Alorris has turned them out to look for
winter quarters elsewhere.
Great Things.
Opportunities for doing great things
don’t often occur in a person’s lifetime.
Skiff, the Jeweler did a great and good
thing in securing the entire sale of the
Diamond Spectacles.
gas works, ice works, water works or electric
plant or plants olroaily constructod or which
nay be hereafter constructed in or near Athens,
Ga., and to extend, enlarge, improve, operate,
rent, ’ease or dispose of tho same at will.
Seventh. Said corporation to be authorized to
begin business when ten (10) per eent.of the cap
ital is paid in.
Eighth. The stockholders of said corporation
™*lv to the amount of their unpaid subscrip
tions.
A uith. They desire to be incorporated for
twenty years with the privilege of renewal at
the expiration of said tune. E. T. BROWN,
retit’oner’s Attorney
IJe stood between tbe flower and me, his whole
frame a-tremble.
“Don’t touch it!" he gasped hoarsely. “It
is accursed!”
“Let me look at it, Claude,”! said, endeav
oring to choke down the feeling of horror in
my breast “It is strange!”
With reluctance he stepped aside and allow
ed me to again inspect the flower, but all the
while he cautioned me not to. touch ft or tb
inhalo too much odor from the flower. The
same sweet yet sickening odor came from the
flower, but now it was many times stronger
«than t sfore. Indeed, this edorjyas so strong
Too Awful for Contemplation. *
In all the annals of warfare and destruc
tion there is no record of death so appalling,
in proportion to the number of combatants
engaged, os tho death lists of the famous
“Six Hundred" that charged at Balakiava.
Two hundred and forty-seven men fell on the
field; about TOO have died at different times
and places since; of the?survivors about
one a week dies in the United States; every
day or two a new tramp confesses to being
one of them, and if something isn’t done
to stop it the death list of that gallant band
will soon reach into the thousands. Nothing
saves the organization from utter destruction
but the wonderful recuperative powers of the
survivors, who are increasing in numbers
while retaining unimpaired the same age.—
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Chinese Clocks.
In manufacturing clocks for the world we
run against peculiarities of national custom
and language. The most marked is the clock
wo make for China. Tbe dial is marked with
characters in lieu of figures, and, I suppose,
mean something to them. They don’t to me.
There are three circles of characters, tha
inner one having eight divisions, the next ona
twelve, and the outermost twenty-four. Thera
are two hands, the shortest one making a revo
lution every two hours, while the loflg takes
twenty-four houks to get around. But how
they compute time by these is a Chinese puzr
zle.—Seth E. Thomas.
Dumley (who has just told a funny story)—
Ha! baJ ha! not bad, eh?
Featberly—$ib, Dumley, not very bad; and
you tell it so much better than you used to.—*
Harper's Magazine."