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wmm VISTS JOHNSTOWI TALMAGK STOPS OVER AT STRICKEN CITY IN HIS WKS1 ERN JOURNEY. L* j— "Wpjos of Hope and Encouragement in the Survivors—Wreck cf a Cnee Beatiful CIty-The Gorged Grave Yard. THE BANNER ATHENS, A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER. Special to The Banner. .Johnston, Pa. July 25.—First when j came here to day I was impressed with the courage and pluck of the sur vivors of the catastrophe. They will hy the help of outsiders, rebuild their oity, and in five years it will be a more prosperous place than it ever was. They are an honest people and can get any amount of commercial credit they ask for. Many of the citizens temporarily absent will return, and comfortable homes, large storehouses and grea factories will stand where now are aw ful rains. The stories circulated about the Johnstown people having lost their faith in God and given up the Chris tian religion because of this calamity I denounce as false and scoundrelly. The pastors tell me that there was not one such case. On the contrary, there is more prayer and Cliistian devotion than ever before. Even infidels pray. One of them, the afternoon of the disaster, in the upper room ef a house which was rapidly filling with water, was over heard to pray: “Oh God! if you can, give me any aid at this time I will be much obliged to you.” All that story published through the land about peo ple of Johnson in disgust burning their Bibles is a hemispheric falsehood. The work that has been done here by their own ministers and phpsicians and good men and women, and without compensation, should be spoken of eve rywhere. In applauding the outside world, I have neglected to appreci ate the Johnstown Howards and Flor ence Nightingales, who may be count ed iby the score, though they saved nothing from the wreck exeept the clothes on their own persons. Let all the people, North South, East and West and on both sides of the sea, understand that in their gifts' to the [flooded dis tricts they did not do too much or give too quickly. Not 5 per cent, of the. anguish has been told. My heart is wrung with what I have •seen to-day. Can it be possible that this is the beautiful and hospitable Johnstwn that I saw in other days ? Where once was a street suggesting Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is a long ridge ofsand strewn with broken’planks and twisted iron. At the moment when a great freshed which had been raging for hours had begun to assuage a wave from twelve to twentjNfeet high rolls oyer tlie already angry w'aters, and on that surmounting wave floated 800 hou ses, twenty-eight locomotives from the round-house and hundreds of people, many dead, many dying, a mass of -helpless and appalled humanity. Two thousand dead discovered and two thousand missing make me believe that the story of how many thousand per ished will never be told until the resur rection trumped shall be sounded. To show how accustomed to scenes of death this district has become, to-day, while a human body was being taken out of the ruins and 1 stood looking aghast at tlie spectacle and the laborers, no crowd gathered and workmen a hun dred feet away did not stop their work. Such an avalanche of wretchedness never slipped upon any American city. Horrors piled upon horrors,woe aug menting woe, bankruptcy, orphanage, widowhood, childlessness, obliterated * homesteads, gorged cemeteries and scenes so excruciating—it is a marvel that any one could look upon them and escape insanity. No fear that sympa thy for Johnstown be overdone! The two and a half million dollars contribu ted is a small amount compared with the thirty millions by this flood demol ished. Was the work Of devastation as great as I supposed ? Far worse. Types can not tell it. Only the eye can make rev elation. But the worst part of it cannot be seen. The heart wreck caused by the Budden departure of so many can be open to only one-eye, and that the All-Seeing. Think of one family of fourteen all dead except one, and that the wife and mother, and she the wit ness of their drowning! I saw tlie grave trench in w hich 360 were buried and the whole graveyard like aXational cem etery, in, which the .unrecognized dead have a particular number placed above them and afe recorded in the undertak er’s rooms with & description of the body and clothes. I can well under stand how many of the survivors who had'buried their kindred before this disaster occurred thanked God that they were gone, saying: “Oh, I am so glad that they escaped this.” Cowed by the Military. Duluth, Miun, July 24.—The sti-i kers at West Superior are quiet, and will remain so,as long as Gen. Griffin and the Ean Claire militia remain, bu the mayor’s authority is laughed at That official ordered the mob to disperse the other day, but it greeted the com mand with derision. However, when Griffen, the state military officer, or dered the mayor to repeat the order for him, the men disappeared like pro fessional printers. uses to suitable — !«*• Major Patrick, the Dominoin land surveyor has struck rich oil deposits in the Rocky Mountains. The Rome Tribune is now nearly sur rendered to the speeches and conj- ■ munications incident to the spirited prohibition campaign. J. A. Blalock of Bartlesville,the own er of Little Cumberland island, has sold it to the Standard Oil Companp for $5,-. 000. Upward of half a million dollars have been subscribed in Syracnse. X. Y% to- the North tion. ! “ Harve Ka*, hews Behind the’ Bars of the County Jail. * The telephone bell at the station bouse rang Friday night,. and on being an swered by Policeman Moon.it was asked if Harve Mathews was wanted there. Policeman Moon said that he was wanted and badly wanted. He was then asked to give a tlescriptiqn of Mathews, which he did, and in ten min utes .after the marshall of Lula had him arrested. The operator at Lula telegraphed to Athens, and the agent at Athens tele phoned Mr. Moon at the station house. Sheiffff Wier was notified and yester day he went up to Lula and brought hiin-to Athens where be was lodged in .jail to a whit the sheritt’ of Madison coun- American Sale Associa- Berry Nail and Mr. Lippe, a Belgian, both agents for the same house, had a row' because of a remark made by hy the latter reflecting on Nail’s busihess. Supt. S. S. Harmon of the Roff Home at Macon, has resigned. It will bc’re- membered that his administration has been severely criticised lately. All the alliances in that section will have a union barbecue at Barnesville Aug. 2,and preparations are being made to accommodate 5,000 to 10.000 people. It is said that the administrators on A. J. White’s estate at Milner, found around among his papers on Monday morning a package containing $65,000 in cash. Dr. Hamilton, head of the Marine Hospital Service, has ordered a sharp lookout kept for the appearance of yel low feveV. He does not fear its visita tion, however. Lewis Bros., one of the largest dry goods and commission houses in the country, has made an assignment* Liabilities are estimated at $4,350' 000. Thomas A. 'Ammons attended the meeting of the confederate veterans at Vienna last Saturday,and had with him the knife, Bible and hymn book that he carried through the war. After a recent rain in Ttiseumbia, Ala., young catfish, from foui* to seven inches in length, were picked up all over the city. They are supposed to have rained down. In the Paris circus a trained lion is at present being exhibtted who rides on horseback, jumps through hoops and over bars, fires oft' pistols and performs a number of similar tricks. The Parisian theatres have been ob liged to lower their prices in order to compete with the novel attractions of the.exhibition. The prices now range from 1 franc for the gallery sto 5 francs $1 to the stalls: balcony and first tiers of boxes. Rev. Mr. Primose—“Your mother doesn’t seem as fond of yon as she might be.” Little Jolmny—“No, sir. She sayS if it hadn’t been for me she’d—have bad sister married years ago.”—Harpers Bazar. Proeeedings|Jwere commenced by United States District Attorney, Read against the firm of Geore W/ Patton & Co., wool dealers, of Philadelphia for recovery of $9,677.70. a balance due the government for duties on wool, Father Delles, a Catholic, and a mem ber of the Protester party, has been el ected a member of the German Reich stag for Metz, to take the place of Herr Antoine, who relinquished his seat and returned to France. The sad news comes from the Lick observatory that the comet discovered by Prof. Barnard last September lias lost its tail. Bobtail comets, like bob- tail horse-cars, can never hope to obtain the confidence of the public.—New York World. Mr. Sissy—“Awthau, what do you suppose Mister Fwesh meant?” Arthur —“What did he say?” Mr. Sissy- Why, I told him that I was about to be maww’ied and he awsked me what I was going to wear for my twosseau. -Philadelphia Press. Merriman (pointing at organ grinder and monkey)—“Talk about the evolu tion of man from the ape! Look at that!” Graves—“Well; what of it?’ Merriinan-“ Well ; doesn't that disprove the theory, if anything can? _See; the man does all tlie work and the monkey takes all the money !’t—New York Sun. The melon business in Clay county this year has resulted profitably for tlie growers. Never,before were the returns so satisfactory. The Fort Gai ues branch of the Southwestern railroad expects to ship 500 carloads before the season closes. There is much enthusiasm among the planters, and a much large acreage may be expected next year. ^ Shipments of watermelons from the thirty-acre farm of Messrs.Rose & Veal in Pike county, will commence next week, Wnd it is believed that the culture of,melons in this section will be shown to be practicable and profitable. It is claimed that they reach northern mark ets-after the products of Southern Geor gia farms are exhausted, aud, _ there fore, will find a good market. How can 1 tell her? Ey l.er cellar: Cleanly shelves and whitened wail. 1 can guess U-ir By her dresser; By the back staircase and halt And with pleasure Take her measure By the way she keeps her brooms. Or the peeping ' - At the Ueepicg Of her back and unseen rooms. By iiet- kitchen's air of neatness. And its general completeness. Where in cleanliness and sweetness The rose of order blooms —Jewish Messenger A FALSE ALIBI. tv. ; . There i> at least a half dozen* different warrants for Mathews in several, difter- ent comities. lie is wanted before the city’ council here and in Elbert county for-different offense*. Mr. Mathews is a young man of good appear**nees He will have a hard time pulling through his troubles. Jefferson Jottings. Special t > the Banner. Jkkfkksox, Ga., July 27.—Your cor respondent hopes that his article in the Baxxkk of the 25th inst., in which he made mention that Mr. Elbert Askew’s name was suggested for mayor, will net be considered as a want of endorsement of the present administration. The presept mayor, Hon. F. M. Bailey, has filled the office to the satisfaction of all, and if he wishes endorsement of his ad ministration, we all will take pleasure in endorsing it. Miss Hornaday, of Atlanta, is visiting the family of Judge Howard. Judge Howard and his partner, Mr. Welborn Webb, have just returned from Eglethorpe. Jaekson county steps to the front and reports the fiest crops ever known in our eduuty. Judge H. W. Bell, lieutenant of Com pany C. 18th Georgia regiment, just back from the reunion at Conyers, speaks in high terms of the reunion,and says that Jettevson must do about in *90 if she excels Conyers. Englishmen After Our Coal. Special to The Banner. Sckaxtox, Pa., July 26.—It is re ported that agents of an English syndi cate are making efforts to buy all the coal leases held by individual operators in this region. Shut Down Until 31 o ml ay. Special to Tlie Banner. Atlanta, July 26.—-The Fulton Cot ton Spinning mills in the eastern part of the city are not naming to-day, and the operatives are having a short holi day. The mills closed down this morning early in order to have a large cylinder put in the engine house, which necessi tated stopping the engine. For a while it was reported that the mills had shut dowii for three weeks. The rumor, however, was groundless, and the factory will be running again 3Ionday. ' Supposed to be Lost. Special to The Banner. Tautox, Mass., July 26.—Dr. Horace M. Dean, of New Britian, Conn., while on a canoeing expedition, disappeared. It is'feared that he was lost while cross ing Vineyard Sound/in his canoe. A Tug Boat Sunk. Special to the Banner. ' New Yokk, July 26.—-The ferry boat, Brooklyn, of the Hamilton ferry, on her trip from Brooklyn to this city this morning, ran into aud sunk the tugboat Burgess. No one was injured. Death of 3(rs. Doles. Mrs.’Gen. Doles died in Atlanta yes terday. She, was the widow of Gen. George Doles of Confederate fame. 'Gone at Last. This morning about 1 o’clock as the Baxxkk was closing its “forms” a noise was heard in tlie campus, sounding as if all the buildings had fallen down. A Bannkk reporter hurried to the spot, expecting to find the old Richardson house a mass of ruins, but imagine liis disappointment in finding instead that tlie old Toombs oak had fallen and was a complete wreck. The Athens Drummer. The A then’s drummer is on the jump all the time, and can be found in every nook and corner in Northeast and Mid dle Georgia. They do not care for the sun or rain, but will go through it all if- they hear of a merchant wanting a bill of goods. Athens furnishes some good men on the road, who are talking up our city at all times. Needed in Athens. If the White Caps will come to Ath ens they will have some good work • to do. There are negro loafers und white loafers in our city who do not work nor do they propose, to work. There aye quite a number of young white boys who would not work if they could, but are perfectly satisfied if they have a place to sleep and some one to furnish grub. .If the White Caps or any other kind ofx*aps will come they will be wel come. There was a long debate in the House ofCommons[on the royal grants.. Mr. Smith and Mr. Gladstone spoke in favor and Mr. Labouchere in opposition. The man who sits down to deliberately plan a crime works every point and detail to one common center—an alibi. The law has com mon sense enough in this one particular to presume that a man who is in Boston, for in stance, when a murder is committed in Cin cinnati could not have fired the shot or struck the blow. Therefore, let one accused of crime prove to the jury that he was at some other point at a certain critical hour, and he must be declared innocent. This knowledge makes the alibi a favorite defense. If net clearly proved it always raises doubts and affords opportunity for argument. On the other hand, however, when an alibi is fairly beaten by the prosecution, then circumstantial evi dence becomes the death trap of the accused, and he has no show. One of the best laid alibis I ever ran np against in my career as a detective, and one of the easiest to work out after 1 got the end of the thread in hand, was put forward in a case in Iowa about twenty years ago. The situation was this: In a small village in the western part of the state lived a Miss Clarin- da Moore, a spinster about 45 years of dge. She was worth $50,000, and she had adopted a boy named Byron Fergus. At the date of which I am writing this boy was uo longer a boy, but a young man of 23. He was em ployed as a clerk in a dry goods house, and hoarded and lodged at home. He was adopt ed at the age of 12, and on the day be reached his majority Miss Moore made a will leaving him everything. This fact was known to all in the village. Fergus was a model young man. No one could point out a single bad habit. He was trusted and respected by all, and had ho been accused of the slightest dis honesty no one would have . believed the charge. In a smaller village six miles away Fergus had au aunt who was a widow aiul lived nlone, with the exception of having the com pany of a servant girt. He was in the habit of gding over there about once in two months and remaining over Sunday. On these trips he drove a horse and buggy belonging to the village cooper. The horse had a peculiar habit, which will be described later on. Ono Saturday evening of a July day Fergus drove away on ono of these trips. There were two or three women at the gate in company with Miss Moore when he drove'away. The only thing out of the usual run was the remark that Byron looked rather pole and seemed a bit nervous, but probably this would never have been thought of but for what came to pass; At 11 o'clock that night there was a thun der storm, and au insurance agent who was on the road between the two villages, with horse aud buggy, drovo into a fence corner and sheltered himself os well as possible with the waterproofs. In tho midst of the storm a horse . and buggy came along. The driver was so enveloped by waterproofs that thoageut could not tell whether ho was old or young, large or small, white or black. At that spot the road had been lately graded up, and was very soft. The stranger was urging t he horse to trot, but the beast found the mud too deep and could only proceed at n walk. As the strange horse come opposite thero was a long, vivid flash of lightning, and the agent saw that the animal had his head turned tc the right and his tongue out. This was the peculiar habit of the cooper’s horse when on a walk. When trotting he held up his head and kept this tongue back. The agent identi fied the horse to his perfect satisfaction, and called out to the driver, asking who bo was. Instead of halting or replying the man struck the horse sharply with the whip and was out of sight In a moment. “That's old Sheppard (the cooper) and he’s afraid l am a highwayman!” laughed the agent, and, the rain now beginning to cease, lie made ready to resume bus journey. Miss Moore was an early riser, and; more over, never missed church services. As the day was fine and she was not seen at church, two or three of her friends called at the house on their way to ascertain her excuse. They found the curtains down and the doors locked. As they knew of young Fergus go ing to his aunt’s the evening previous, they reasoned it out that ho must have returned during the night for Miss Moore, she perhaps being wanted for an emergency. This theory satisfied them until aboQt 4 o’clock in the af ternoon, when one of -them returned to gather a bouquet of flowers. She then noticed bloody finger marks on tho back door, and, trying the door, found .it unlocked, dared not enter the house, but two or three men were summoned to make an investiga tion, and in a few minutes it was discovered that a murder had been committed. The dead body of Miss Moore was found in the sitting room, at the door of her bedroom. She had been struck three terrible blows with a-club or other blunt weapon, each ono break ing the skulL I was visiting the sheriff at this time, and we were driving through the village when the first alarm was sounded. 1 was, there fore, at the house among the first, lying placed in chaf&e by the sheriff, I kept the people oat until I could make an investiga tion. The murderer had not obtained forci ble entry to the house. Not a single article of value had been removed, nor had any ran sacking been dona The woman had been struck down where the body lay, but her hands were clenched as if she had grasped the weapon of death and it had been pulled away from her. The palm of one l>»mi was torn and bleeding. I did not know either the dead woman or Fergus, but I wanted au thority to arrest the latter. When this fact became known I was regarded as an idiot or a lunatic. A general cry went up thatFergus could no more be suspected than au angel in heaven, but while the sheriff was left to se cure the necessary papers, I drovo out to in terview the young man and break the news to him. If Fergus was guilty, his defense would be an alibi, and he had carefully ar ranged the details. He would be expecting the news, and he would be braced up to play apart. I found him making ready to hitch up to drive back. Ho had never seen me before, and ho did not know my profession. As entered the bam he looked startled and turned pale, but recovered himself after minute, and asked the nature of my business. "You know, of course, that Miss Moore dead?’ I carelessly replied. “How—how should I know itl” he exclaim ed, turning very white. “Well, she is dead, poor thing.” “And do they charge mo with it!” 4WC “With what?” "Her murder P k . “I Jbadxrt said she was murdered. I told watermelon. you simply that she was dead. How did you know she cad been murdered?’ *5#® ’’’ tie saw tho trap he had fallen into, and he gasped and stammered and did his best to j ereil.the be. smooth it over. I pretended not to lay it up 1 ! as a point against him, and speedily arranged j that ho should return in my vehicle andleav# i the cooper’s rig where it was. After the first shock he braced up wonderfully, and his de meanor on the way home was entirely that I of an innocent man. He expressed great 1 willingness to give us all posuiva mforaia- J tion, but at the same time snvgficed and I clung to the theory that no one bflt a tramp I could have been truiltv of the crime. Coon reaemng borne he displayed considerable grief and emotion. In fact, he rather over did it. It was more like acting out a part. The people were indignant that he should be suspected, and he was not put under re straint. Indeed, np warrant had been issued Cor him. Early the next morning, satisfied in my own mind that Fergus was the murderer, 1 drove out to his aunt’s. I found that he ar rived there at 7 o’clock Saturday night. Half au hour later he complained of headache and' went to bed, saying he would be down t^aiu by 9 o'clock. As he did not keep his promise the hired girl knocked on his door at that hour, but, receiving no reply, was told not to disturb him. He was not seen by the inmates of the house until 7 o’clock Sunday morning. The girl was up at 5, and as she crossed the yard she saw that his window was up, and some of his clothing was hanging in the sun. At the barn I found the cooper’s buggy, washed clean. Fergus bad done this Sunday forenoon. He had not made a godd job on the horse, however, and 1 found plenty of mud on his fetlocks. As it was dusty Satur day night when he was driven over, this mud must have been picked up after the storm. I found the harness stiff and damp from being wet, and the cloth cushion of the buggy was stiff damp. Hunting further, I found the fresh tracks of horse and bpggy turning into the barnyard after the rain. The window of the room occupied by Fergus opened on the roof of- the sired. At the lower edge of the roof stood a leach. On tho edges of this leach and on the roof I found mud. On tho carpet ir. Fergus’ room I found more of it. He had scraped and cleaned his boots and flung the dirt into a stove, whenco I got half a pound. All this l got without the aunt suspecting that I was after proofs. I then returned to the scene of the murder, and after an hour’s search discovered the place where a horse had been bitched for some time. It was in the rear of tho bouse, on an open space und under tree, and the horse had pawed up the ground and gnawed the bark of the tree. The footprints of a man -could be faintly traced across the g&rdca, and I had no doubt that Fergus came and went this way. On the fourth day after tho funeral I learned from tho insurance man what be had seen during the storm, aud then a warrant was issued and Fergus was token into custody. By this time tho townspeople had begun to think it a queer case. Fergus had gone over the house and declared that nothing had been taken. No suspicious characters bad been noticed in the neighborhood. Jewelry and money had been left lying on tho bureau, shqwing that the object could not have been plunder. Did the woman have an enemy! S'o, not one, as far as we could learn. Who could profit by her death! No cne but Fer gus, aud yet this was one of the strong points ho brought forward. It was known to a score of people that she had made her will in his favor. Would not everything be his at bar death.' , To clinch our case and make circumstantial evidence good we must show a motive. This seemed hopeless, but 1 went at the task, hoping evidence might aid me if Fergus was guilty. I examined hlB personal effects over aud over again in search of a hint, but for two weeks after he had been sent to. jail 1 discovered nothing. Then I got the clew where I ought to have secured it before. In a drawer in his desk I found several adver tisements plainly in the interest of swindlers. One of them-read: “A steady young man with $10,000 cash capital can double it in one year in a legitimate enter prise. For particulars address box 801.” etc. Another read: It you have nerve and $5,000 in cash we win maim you a millionaire in on-year. Vo permit tho fullest investigation before investment. Write for particulars. A third just bit his case: Are you u young end ambitious man, feeling that you could get ahead if properly backed and encouraged? Have you any money? Can you get from one thousand to throe’ thousand? If so we will positively guarantee you $100 in return for every dollar, and inside of a year. I felt sure he bad written some of these parties, but as I could not find any letters from them I set out to hunt them up in per son. They were bold faced swindlers, and they bothered me some, but in the end I got five letters written by Fergus. In one of them -ho stated that he would soon have money to invest,- and expressed his satisfac tion at the particulars of tlie speculation as far as given him. The greed of gain, then, was his incentive. The woman, who had been mother and sister to him, came of a long lived race, and was in good health, and a month before her death was told by a doctor in the hearing of Fergus that she was likely, to live to ba’lk) or 100 years old. Until her death the young man could hope for little or nothing, os she was obliged to make the in terest of her capital support her. . ! Murderer or not, the boy was the legal heir, and he employed the best legal talent in tho west to defend him. The lawyers might take every dollar if they conld but clear him. It was a veritable light for life with all the money and most of the talent on one side, but that web of circumstantial evi dence kept drawing closer and closer, and it’ could neither be broken nor explained away. 1 Had Fergus been Innocent a frank reply to each question would liavp explained it. Being guilty, his evasions oniy made matters worse. The jury were out' fourteen hours before finding a verdict of guilty, but within an hour he bed made a fuff confession. He told me that he had been planning for two months, and that he believed he had ar ranged details until his case could withstand the most minute investigation of the highest detective talent.—New York Sun. '-Hu* MadL 0n in * equal if not ami Go club of nme want thani toT" they wifi Riveth em the banks of the Hi of the Rio.it prosp^^S county, ha. per,^ markable-families ° f, £2 raised a family of , Sta K none of whom ever °" n ’' n ***** to- any | any form, n or pirit There must not be his neighborhood. Special to the Banner Columbus, (, a . j ulv W* Brooks,ordinary 0 f ty, is dead. * . lhe -Athens ft r eme n * mined to bring back 1 that they badbeeen to nearly all of them earn* * ^ It is No Jok e . Some seem to think that it i about the prize fight, but weV ably informed that unit* - ! break up tlie mill, it W H| come off. The particulars are v, perfect secret and only one or - , besides the Iprineisals an( j know anything about it. 1 ~~Tmr To All Owners of VekU)^ 1 There are a great many Clarke, Oglethorpe, Oconee V and Jackson and other counties having in past years „ of the old Hodgson make of u v ,„l buggies, that will aytta .S'a rather pay $25 more for a \v buggy than they have to pay { „ t . cheap wagons and buggies flat** now days, if they were certain -T they would get one as good M ^ j Hodgson make. We wish to say to all who have \ the old Hodgson, work aiu^to the, lie that we can furnish you wag, jM s buggies, that we will garuntee total good as the old Hodgson work, an cheap us you can buy Eastern or ern or any other kind of work. We carry a good assortment o( I gies and wagons on hand, vUAl propose to sell as cheap as you cm b| of anyone else in the State. Respectfully, Klein & Maeth, d-lt-w-tf. Athens, ik | Thd testimony before tlie l 1 Commission is ail in. the court icm journed. Messrs. 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They have no equal tor-- . ^ ue , s ness, amount in packages, « r v ,| on ot<T or, or non-fadinx quantity. " :#B ^ o or smut. For sale by g. v LTSros, nS&SrJSeg: “Catching It on tho Fly.” We have never seen it in print, and it may be a mossy Joe Miller in modern dress. It has keeping qualities; Theodore Thomas’ orchestra was playing a symphony or something in which the music, at one part, was softened almost to a bird’s whisper, when, like the crack of a rifled can non, came one startling blast from the oboe. The enraged conductor turned savagely upon the player: “What in the devil do you mean!” Just then a plump blue bottle fly took wing from the oboeist’s score. “Gott in himmell l delink he vas vou node, und I bkty him!”— Saturday Globe. Bank of the —depository of t"; STATE OF GE0KG 1 - • Capital, $125,000_ erve l J. A. Huxxicutt, A Planters &PSI02, I employ i *»»“£** ° f 9 r them were “ - « countseU wbe» 1 —, fi T Kats Stole the Pigs. J. D. Smith, of Sunnyside, a few -reeks ago had one of the finest lots of Poland China pigs in the community, but every night or! two one of tho porkers would disappear. Mr.j Smith decided to watch for the thief and dis covered a large rat come up through the; floor aud quickly grab oue of the little pigs and carry it away. Mr. Smith procured a 1 rifle and succeeded in killing seventeen of tho^ tineves.—Remington Democrat.’ The result was became strong Itvei had u« furtliur * 1 ^ fe*r ^jar*' pills, I "“S&rrAl* Sold EveffJ; sore Office, 44 MO” 1 ” ^ IK«99