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STOCK
SHOW.
AMD POULTRY
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Cr* jrd l0 n Baff8«a».
, - t i. c Director* of the Stock
Tf,tf u!v *l,oxv met and decided to
to anr couple who will
united in the holy bonds
Kilnvontbe Fair -rounds in
P ,rl . .] ie presence ot'the visitors,
roast be dressed in cotton
the ceremony mufc take
*£S in -’ 4 ||i a m'e day, Thursday, Nov.,
if on *
rare opportunity for a pair
Stn ' u h'sppv. and at the same time
k 8 ' 1 ijtrle sum toward begin-
l** i ! y " kervimt- It will be a great
" in ;i the newly married
"uii made of the same material,
If the weather is cold put on another
uitunder it-
Directors of our fair are making
irlt flf ort
tile Ill'
,,1 otlirr distinguished Alliancenien
il be present.
j] ie lairial of the roll of jute bagging
jBbe another interesting feature, and
tanersl service will be delivered bv
^ r i,,;;iiicn! Aliianeenian.
r 8UC:<.0;.AU'GHf tea cures Constipation. |
,ir T Jill doubtless be loaded down
th r presents from the specta-
^ 1 ‘,. 1S chance for a young farmer
^ibisfeabyii* the light against
^'iliu-rolien, our popular dry
fcmercl'snti «*.»• if ,lHi prospective
^ ill call on him that he will tell
* make a real stylish and
“..iress of cotton bagging; that
"'till not he a prettier suit on the
1 t, ’j iiu groom can also have a
THE SECRETARY.
One of the Queerest Charac
ters in New York.
manner, as though the continual solvency of '
tins bank depended on it.
Leaving all the chairs bottom up bo almost
runs Into the president's room, turns up the
gas again and moves the heavy table the dis
tance of its width to one side. Dropping on
his kners, ho examinos every inch of the
carpet where the table had stood and then
moves the table back again. When this task
has been accomplished be runs to the front
door and tries tlio lock. Then he gets a long
pole and puts up one of the windows. He
I puts up only one of the four open windows
City n-is Man. nr . 1 carr * es Hie pole clear to the other side of
‘ y Warped Intel- ■ the room, whore he leaves it, and then rushes
HIS SINGULAR PANTOMIME.
A Great
lecta—Not Crazy, but Only Oueer-He
Is Only the Janitor, bnt In Dumb Mo
tion He Plays All the Hanker's Parts.
/7)0 man can name an
odd phase of char
acter that has not
yet been discover
ed and perpetuated
in
found niauen away
behind ihe scenes
somewhere in New
York city. On
oven so popular a
tboroug h f a r e as
Fourteenth street, !
into the president's room with a tape measure
in his haud, kneels on the carpet before an
iron safe and measures the distance across the
bottom of its massive door. There is a mur
mur in the audience like that which is heard
in a theatre when the climax of a familiar
and exciting melodrama is near at hand.
“Don’t miss a motion,” says a doorstep
speclutor who has witnessed the pantomime
I LOVE YOU DEARLY.
tlovo you dearly, O my sweetl
Although you pass me lightly by.
Although you weave my life awry,
And tread my heart beneath your feet.
I tremble at your touch; 1 sigh
To see you passing down the street;
I love you dearly, O my sweet!
Although you pass me lightly by.
You say in scorn that love's a cheat;
Passion a blunder, youth a lie
1 know not; only, wbeu we meet;
I long to kiss your hand and cry,
“I love 3*ou dearly, O my sweet!
tltbough you pass me lightly by."
—Justin II. McCarthy.
TALE OF A DEAD MAN.
By what means the subjoined reached
me is a matter of no consequence. It re
lates to commonplace experiences which
I « j «*. . * I w—tAWCI ICIIDC3 WlllUU
type but it is JJ“Y t ™ ca a,1<i found the theory which is : are not often elaborated, and which are
ixlbMda,..., acepM » th. ,r„. ooc -Don’t ImaiM y curious enough to ,v a ™t puE
lication.
miss a motion. The secretary is now play
ing the other side of his double role. He is
computing the wealth of the bauk by calcu
lating the cubic capacity of the president's
safe. Watch him."
_ There is no need of any admonition to be
I have stumbled on j xt ^ unt ^ ve - The novelty of tho performance
strong evidence in j f™ 1 tbe originality of tho single actor in it ulo ** wiuuuseu r oi at i
support of this oa- I tnsures tb e closest attention; and os the plot : t’ lje nhvsical hndv and
sertinn. This isa uufolds - dea(1 *“ th « -™*M «««..*» ♦—» I . P n 7 8Icai 000 ^ and
street on
-everal places , 0 — . . »„ , . .
amusement are 1 Hie professional stage now watch this am a- j lrame ot “esh—blood, nerve, muscle and
located, and it is ; teur ia °l ,en mouthed astonishment aud posi- j tissue—and which differs from the other
“the ItiaJto,"where * Hvely experience sensations. r in liplnvmnm atf<»n.atmi i- flk«. r. j_
As to the existence of astral bodies there
is unquestionably a general unbelief.
Still, there are thousands of men and
women of high culture and intelligence
w ho are firm in the faith that each human
iile is composed of at least two entities,
an astral body,
would lie Hamiets, I ' Vilb the ^l*® m, - a - s ure in his hand “the !
Ophelias, Romeos I 8e ? retar F” steps briskly to the cashier's desk, 1
and Juliets temporarily out of employment j 89izes
as second old men, first, old women, Jeemses
| in being more attenuated in fiber. It is
tn etherealized quality, with human ele
ments and the capability, at times, of
make Alliance day one
and Bridgets, promenade daily and point out :
to each other the mistakes of Booth and the !
errors of Modjes.a; but none of these places j
It interesting of the occasion, j of amusement and none of these barn storm- j
„ tl {ntorrnnt«fl miinH ers lnw ever furnished an entertainment half I
Ijinv.JUn'om.uninterHipted round unjque as that enjoyefI e Monday!
tan. Col.C’.-I- Livingston has con- j eve ning by residents of the neighborhood of j
;e ,| to deliver :i» luiilnss.-' on that day Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue.
It is a pantomime in one act and quite a i
number of scenes. The thickly populated
front steps of a row of boarding houses and
the crowded sidewalk are the amphitheatre, j
Tho stage is back of the large plate glass win- j
dowsof the New York Savings bank across ’
the way. There is but one actor in the panto- i
mime, and lie has imen called “The Seere- •
tary” forso long that no one knows wherefore, i
He is an odder, more inexplicable character!
than any ever presented on a real stage, but
uo one lias ever thought of penetrating the
mystery that surrounds him and his acts.
They think of him only as “The Secretary,”
witness ids performance in astonishment, and
» w^n^ur^Slv^cS^ 08 ^' thS I R °r a ration from the corporeal frame and
forefinger ami thumb, and mak£a I f ^dependent existence At death it
does not lose its individuality, and con
tinues to live either for an indefinite
period or, possibly, forever.
It is in the nature of a vitalized sentient
shadow of the body, and yet with a species
of tangibility that permits it, under cer-
CATO PILLARS
stroylns
Young Cotton
Athens.
ipe tells us that
Below
manv
Ill'll. A. I'M
■ton fields in Oglethorpe are being ; return again in time for the next rising of
nni-c ! br die caterpillars, and the i th ®. c P r P lin : .
, ,';;i. ,i. . .1 ...,i a im,,,. if This is what the audience sees through the ;
duk nJvU I in* uojui oi vuntci. ■ | v | . | . . —. , I
3lK i . i bank s plate glass windows: The curtain rises
ri!irSi‘ iiiMv'- li.uc destroy etl the j at 7 p. m. The bank is still open to accommodate ’
next cat into the young t the laboring men wliparedepositors,and will
g tlieui to wither and fall j remain open another hour. There is a string
of depositors in front of the receiving teller’s
window. Tho cashier, tellers, bookkeepers
0*1' which there ' an< * °‘ al '' is aro al * hi tout on their work. The
measure
his left
note on a sheet of paper. Then he goes back
and measures tho front of the upper end <.f i
tile safe and returns to the cashier's desk to :
set down the result. In this way he taxes the I
dimensions of the president’s safe from top to !
bottom ami on all sides, setting down each i
measurement as he makes it. His next act is j tain favorable conditions, to become per-
to seat himself on a high stool at the cashier s „„ . , ,, ", 1
desk and make endless extensions and tout- • L ^ *‘« ld con ^rse with. some
ings of the figures on h.. sheet of pajier. lie j 11 ‘ e " es . ' 5UC ^ 1 ai e tbe beliefs in re
does his work with great rapidity, and his 1 ''A'" 1 ^ fi°tible of the human being
attitude and manner are in exact imitation! are held by some of the most eminent
of the c*'«hier. thinkers of the day.
“Wait a minute,” says the doorstep spec- j I who write this am the astral body of
tator, “and you will sea him perform the du- ■ a man who lies dead before me. As his
ties of the bookkeeper." Tumble, although I am living, I am, in a
-» 1
does a great deal of figuring there. He has I lie , I shall speak,
the same trick of jabbing his i>eu into the ! , 1110 gradual approach of dissolution,
ink bottle observed in the bookkeeper, and i *‘ ie illness, the physical, mental, moral
he twists his legs around the high stool on i and emotional disturbances which pre-
which he sits exactly after tho manner of the I
bookkeeper. When, after a time, ho straight- j
ens up and looks at liis work with a satisfied |
ernression, the doorstep sjjectator explains: !
“He has from his measurements of tbe j
president’s safe, determined exactly the j
Uf
nurse (hey do not injure the
ton, hut arc playing havoc
tliiiic lute planting
•ill lira!, lion, Jas. M. Smith
irti-u rid of Hu m bit his place by
* iw of 1’aris green.
j-W!Nl OF CARDU1, a Tonic for Women.
feep C'uict,
There i- only one thing more degrad-
tk.:: -.lying :i mean tiling, and that \
anloom-. Don’t say any mean •
igs about Skiff, the jeweler, if •
iHliii jt good cannot be said, keep '
ei, and l»i'y a pair of h;s diamond
e taclcs or an engagement ring.
Ceo-gia Saed Company.
Th:»firm handle wed in large quan-
e.sini by this means can defy eom-
iben from any quarter. ' They
td?only tin' 1»-.«t seed, and to es-
Sdi tiii> f.*, t, th-.-y cite you to the
life of | i:r tirm.
Th thfigia Seed Company gives
iHurr( lover twelve pounds to the
’!"!■ ffi Uwhile other s jed houses
i'l'rMunpi nous as to offer the
»'*ver fur .7-2, and only eight
t<> the bushel.'
lie Kvorgis Seed Com
atiiul oni< r and oel sc
oiny poreon of leisure in the place stands bolt
1 upright, like a statue, back of the cashier's i
j bidosure. He is a clean, fresh looking, gray |
haired old gentleman, dressed iu black clothes
mid linen that is noticeably white and glis
tening. He is evidently u person of conse
quence.
Presently I10 walks with a dignified stride
into tho cashier’s inclosure, appears to speak
to him half condescendingly, tho:i returns to
his former place and ?tatua like attitude. It j
is obvious that ho is an official of the bank, i
who is remaining later than usual to assure j
himself that the bank’s business is properly j
conducted. There he stands, his white shirt j
front glistening i:i the gas light, motionless, 1
for half an hour.
As tho hour of closing approaches the old j
gentleman appeal's to grow restless. Ho ; s no I
longer a statue. . His uinuuor is stili full of j
dignity, but he makes frequent visits to the j
desks of cashier and tellers, and among the j
spectators on the doorsteps opposite runs the j
established formula for calling attention to I
an interesting stage of the performance.
“S-s-st! The secretary!”
amount of cash on hand. Drawing on his
imagination for the sum represented by the
concern’s investments, he has struck u bai
am e and finds that tLSre is no danger of a
collapse. Look at him!”
PttOFOrWD CALCULATIONS.
His conclusions are evidently satisfactory,
for “the secretary” is holding his page of fig-
*1.1*
life.:in tii
Ii.vspepsla.
:e bets H a money.
i Halt Luke Tribune
prietorol’ the Mint
y bolder of one-
Wlien the last depositor is gone and the
doors c rr - closed the old gentleman seems to I ul ’es out at .arm’s length and is nodding and
grow impatient at tbe length or time re- ; smiling at them in a way that says ns plainly
mnv of ! quired by the clerks to finish up the business ; as won:s v o, d.l:
nie "or.d • of the day. At length ali but ono have put; “Ah. very good; very good, indeed. Just
” ‘ tluiir books in tho vault and departed. The
remaining clerk has to refer to a number of ;
ledgers, w hich he brings from the vault one
by one. 1
The old gentleman looks at him with a j
vexed expression. He starts toward tho presi
dent’s room in the rear of the general offices,
hesitates, looks back steathily at the oblivious !
•'in- V,,- j
’ -liriiiiiu
h'kct No. 08,607 in t clerk, then tiptoes into the president’s room,
a Is Lottery, which I closes the folding doom behind him aud turns
of $100,- ! on a full blase of gaslight. Then with uer-
i in wing.—Salt Luke votes haste, as though life or death waited on
A ;ig. 10. his movements ba takes the sloping portable
top from the president’s table, turns it bot
tom up, examines its under side intently,
dy Eight browned.
• October 4.—A dispatch to
Exchange to-day, dated
."“i* 1 ' -''Otli,announces that
'tciuner, Kurmore from Balti-
■ "’i-we .Janeiro foundered at sea
- s <'pteiiil)er 5tb. All hands ware
1 * Xl ' , 'i , i seven, who
" i;i - T!u< total los
:n! . v ” ifilit.
were landed at
of life is about
-iliU’ih
ot ion Exchange.
‘-id 1:
1 i lol.er s.—Tone of the Mav-
i.asu-r. Oooil middling,
St 1 let low lni'hiima, 07-18
l>> 11 1-4 to 0 5-its Str'ictmid-'
^Liverpool Market.
; iCr "to eni'U’ry.
P-aji-as, ti 7-ic,; MiGdJing Orleans;
3S
s ca
5 4J
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h:" r ' , «in*ry b#r '
P* : h'i] eW \, Yorlc Market.
' • Middling 10 a*.
5 80
5 00
5 40
5 41
5 43
5 44
5 40
5 G8
as 1 anticipated. Cash on hand, $14,000,000'.
invesrments, $75,250,000; total deposits to
date, f hH,250,</».): bank’s original capital, $1,-
000,000. Very good, indeed. We are to bo
cou.rvatuiatod.”
“No.v,“ says the doorstep spectator, “you
will see him vibrate between the tellers’and
pashier’s desk, aud take up the bank’s busi-
8t:ss where it left off at 8 o’clock.
All this “the secretary” does with an earn
estness and attention to detail that is watched
from without with breathless interest.
At length when it is nearly 10 by tho bank
clock he resumes the performance of his
duties as custodian of the premises. Ho
times with great care, and replaces it exactly
as it was when he entered the room. Turn
ing down the gas he reopens the folding
doors, steps quietly to his place back of the
cashier’s inclosure, and becomes u statue once
more.
At last the belated clerk puts on his coat
and leaves the bank. It is uow that the pan
tomime begins to take a firm hold on the at
tention of the spectators, and again among
them runs the excited whisper:
“S-s-st! The secretary I”
runs his fiugei'3 around the corners several j rattles the handle of the front door. He gets
the long pole and puts up another window,
ni^j then drops it to inspect the bottom of
every chair i:i the office. Ho peers under the
heavy cylinder desks; picks up an old um
brella, opens it and examines every rib;
turns wrong side out the sleoves of au oluce
coat and shakes It thoroughly; does a thou
sand unnecessary aud incomprehensible
things; and at last, having put the office in
the neatest order, washes his face and hands,
resumes his clothing, turns down the gas,
and, leaving the bank by the front door—
which he spends several minutes in locking-
walks half the length of tho building on
Fourteenth street.
“Keep your eyes on him,” whispers tho
tloorstep spectator; “you have seen him in
his legitimate capacity of janitor, or trusted
custodian of the bank, and you have observed
him balance the bank’s accounts aud take up
its business wheu the cashier and clerks left
off at 8 o’clock. Now you will see him as the
lynx eyed private detective of the concern.”
It is even so. Suddenly “the secretary”
stops, crouches dowu and walks with rapid,
stealthy strides beneath the centra! window
of the main office, and peers cautiously
through the glass. Observing nothing of a
suspicious nature going on in the bank, ha
goes back and tries tho door, and then,
straightening up, disappears in a most digni
fied manner around the corner.
But the curtain has not yet fallen on tha
pantomime. Presently a mysterious, crouch
ing figure, collar turned up, hat down over
eyes, creeps back in the shadow of tho budd
ing and conceals himself under the iron stair
way that leads to the bank entrance. The
policeman on his beat has stopped, as he has
many times before, to watch the final scene
of the pantomime. For some eight or ten
minutes “the secretary” remuius hidden under
the iron steps; Presently he dashes out, as
though convinced that a safe blower was to
be taken in the act, and gazes sharply through
the windows. The failure of the safe bio er
to put in an appearance seems to be the signal
for ‘ ‘the secretary’s" final exit.
After rattling the handle of the front door
. ... itomime is ended
MEASURING THE SAFE.
The warning comes none too soon. The
door has barely closed behind the last clerk
when the old gentleman, in the twinkling of
an eye, overthrows all previous theories con
cerning him. He hops about like a jack-in-
the-box. Off comes his coat in a jiffy. Vest,
collar, necktie and suspenders follow it faster
than the words can be written. He rolls his
sleeves up above his elbows, and, seizing one
end of a high standing desk, turns it end for
end. Every other movable 'desk in the bank
ho treats in tho same fashion. Then he turns
all the chairs bottom np and makes a minute
ho think there is no performance half so
examination of every leg and spindle. He entertaining as that furnished^by “the st
does all this in a brisk and most business lika *etary. ’ 51
-ede anil accompany it, are rarely re
lated with exactness. What is often
presented as characteristic of tho mori
bund is a perversion of the facts.
My life, including its course and eat
ing. was not especially remarkable.' I
'■vas of robust youth; was religiously ed
ucated in the straiglitest fashion; had a
fair education in the schools and busi
ness, and pursued an occupation which
without overexertion furnished me with
a moderate competence. I enjoyed, as
a rule, superb health, and also enjoyed
an almost total exemption from injuries.
Life thus passed equably anil unevent-
luily until I hail reached a half century.
It was at this period that slight ripples
began to disturb tire level of tiio hitherto
pacific surface of the sea of life. Sleep,
always undisturbed and refreshing, be
gan to he broken. Always had I fallen
asleep when my head touched the pillow
and the rest would last for hours without
interruption. Now it would be hours
before I would drop into a fitful and
restless slumber, which would be haunt
ed by frightful visionsof demoniac forms,
bottomless chasms and towering heights,
a:Town which 1 was hurled like Lucifer
from the battlements of heaven.
My splendid appetite began to fail; my
disposition for physical and mental ex
ertion lessened; my average good nature
became tainted; my nerves, always
sheathed in impenetrable defenses, be
came bared, as age wears the enamel
from a tooth, leaving its tender fibers
exposed to incessant anrl painful contact.
Irritation took the place of the ordinary
endurance of my nature. Strange and
violent pains at times seized me with
ferocity.
A.11 these changes did not come in a
month, or a year, or in live years. They
were almost imperceptible in their ap
proach. It was a half score of years be
fore all these changes forced themselves
on my attention, and I discovered that 1
had grown thin and was losing my
strength.
Well meaning friends contributed to
the hastening of my awakening from the
unconsciousness of failing health.
“What in the world ails you? Have you
been sick?”
“No, I never felt better in my life,” I
would reply, at the time a chill'shudder-
ing along my nerves as their remarks
forced themselves on me as a deadly por
tent. “What makes you think 1 am not
looking well?”
“Oh, you’re so thin and pale. You
want to see a doctor.”
Another effusive acquaintance: “Why,
old boy, you're getting old. Anything
the matter with you?”
Then I suddenly began to notice the
deaths among jny acquaintances. It
came to me with the suddenness and
pang pf a dagger thrust that So and So,
wI10 were younger than I, were dead. I
glanced about among the peopled knew,
searching for those who were my chums
and companions ten and twenty years
before, and I discovered with a throb of
pain that only here and there one re
mained. -
I Began unconsciously taking an ab
sorbing interest in the death notices.
“Younger than 11” was the sinking com
ment when such was the fact, and for a
moment 1 came to the verge of hating
those who had thus set an example of
death at their age. WTien the decease
of the octogenarian and those who climb
ed to the very summits of the century
was announced, I warmed to their mem
ories as those who afforded examples of
the capacity of men for long life.
I grew jveaker in health and demoral
ized in temperament. The slightest ob
stacle ruffled me, I fell into despondent
moods, and lost my taste for society,
am isement, labor and study. The ine
vitable burdens of life became unendur
able and I lost all ambition. The once
populous future changed Into a waste in
which there was nothing save gray arid
ity. and a lowering sky.
Meanwhile, so far as I know, I waa
possessed at that period of no rfhdady,
and yet my fancy supplied scores of dis
eases. I felt the languor and waste of
consumption, knew absolutely that I waa
affected by organic heart difficulty, and
at times felt the premonitory gnawings
of a cancer, the insidious symptoms of
Bright’s deadly disease and the warnings
of paralysis. In this labyrinth of imag
inary evils I wandered constantly and
suffered as poignantly as if they had been
real.
1 consulted medical men, who exam
ined me and found nothing—“a low j
nervous tone; a little tonic, less work and
a rest. No organic trouble; some little
functional disturbance of no oonse- j
quence.” At times, after awhile, clouds, :
as it were, drifted over the sky of my
brain and shrouded everything in a mist
I could not always think with clearness, j
I now and then lost cohesiun in thought;!
my memory occasionally waa impaired, j
and I would forget names, dates arid
faces.’ I apprehended softening of the!
brain.
It was at this period that night became ■
-a gloomy and dreaded inferno with in
finite tortures. Sleep was in brief,
snatches, disturbed by atrocious visions.
I swung over the brows of heaven high
precipices; I was chased through caverns
of hideous night by monsters, and con
stantly awoke shivering and sometimes
screaming with affright and bathed in
perspiration.
The waking period between the mo
ments of sleep were more intolerable,
after a time than the nightmare of slum
ber. They were the arenas of retrospec
tion in which memory and conscience
fought unceasing battles. A blow that
I had given a baby brother; a flying
cripple in the playground whom I had
kicked in a moment of rage; the re
proachful, gentle blue eyes of a dying
dove, that I had wantonly shot in a
grove one glorious June afternoon; mean
nesses that I had been guilty of, even to
the most minute details; neglected oppor
tunities; misdirected action—all these on ’
such occasions gathered about me and
broke the solemn stillness of the night
with clamorous upbraiilings.
After a time the most terrible plian- !
tom, the most pertinacious monster of
them all, made its appearance, aud hov
ered leering at me in the somber night.
It was the suggestion of death. “You
must die!” it said and flew away.
“Well, what of it 1 ? Tens of billions
have died, and everybody living must
also die. There’s young Blank, with all
his youth and wealth, ho is sure to die
some day, and so has the beautiful Miss
Fleurette and the newly married couple,
the Jeunesses—all of them; not one of
them will be spared! Suppose I must?
They’ll all follow along sooner or later.”
And yet these reflections that every
son and daughter of man must undergo
the same fate gave me no consolation. I
was not willing to share the common lot;
I wanted to live—just to live, only to
live! It may be that 1 was not more of
a coward than the majority of human
beings when they first begin to contem
plate the approach of the great butcher.
For months and months I fought his ap
pearance; 1 felt for myself a great com
miseration, an acute sorrow that I was
obliged to die. It was only when I found
him close enough to feel the breath of
his nostrils that I ceased to fear him.
Early, orthodox, religious training
made itself felt potentially, and there
were moments when the child taught
idea of an “angry God frothing with
rage,” and an oeeau of flame rolling on i
forever it3 sulphurous billows, with its
shrieking and damned souls, filled me
with indescribable terror and apprehen
sion. Again, the suggestion of annihila
tion would possess me with its awful
menace. To be obliterated, to be separ
ated forever from friends whom I loved,
was even more terrifying than the an
ticipation of eternal torture.
In time the inspection of these various
horrors dulled their hideous intensity,
as the victim on the wheel is said to be
come insensible to pain after the first
few blows. A species of numbness, a
j lethargy permeated me. The subject
grew wearisome. I said:
“I am but an indescribably minute
speck in tiie universal collection of hu
man atoms. I arn of no possible conse
quence compared with the stupendous
mass. If there be a future in which
there is a judgment of human actions it
is no more than just that I pay the pen
alty of my offenses. All the trillions of
specks that have lived and died, and who
will live and die, will have to meet the
same fate. Why should 1 distress myself
in regard to a future life any more than
one of the animalcule* which inhabit a
drop of water in the mid-Pacific? I am of
no more consequence in the mighty ag
gregate of the illimitable universe than
this tiny aud invisible creation. I will
worry no longer.”
In time all these phantasms, visions,
doubts and apprehensions disappeared.
Then a profound peace took possession
of my soul. It was not the pacific re
pose of hope, but the relief which came
from the disappearance of the black
broods that incessantly threatened dire
results. It was a subsidence of the thun
dering waves and the castigating winds.
The turbulent sea melted into gentle
swells which bore me on with a sooth
ing, cradle like motion. The ingoing
tide drifted me along a shore from which
a delicious perfume, balsamic anil lethal,
filled the atmosphere. Twilight came,
as, tranquillized by the heavy odors, I
floated languidly and painlessly on and
on, till the twilight deepened into eternal
darkness.—Poliuto in Chicago Herald.
To Assist Nature
“ • : re •
In restoring diseased or wasted tissue is
all that any medicine can do. In pul
monary affections, such as Golds, Bron- -
cliitis, and Consumption, tho mucous :
membrane first becomes inflamed, then
accumulations,^form in the air-cells oC
the lungs, followed by tubercles, and,
finally, destruction of the tissue. It is
plain, therefore, that, until the hacking
cough is 'relieved, the brouchial tubes
can have no opportunity. to heaL
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral !
Soothes and Heals
the inflamed membrane, arrests tho
wasting process, anil leaves no injurious
results. This is why It is more highly
estemeed than any other pulmonary
specific. 0
L. D. Bixby, of Bartonsville, Vt.,
writes: “ Four years ago I took a se
vere cold, which was followed by »
terrible cough. I was very sick, and
confined to my bed about four months.
My physician finally said I was in con
sumption, and that he could not help
me. One of my neighbors advised me
to try Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. I did so,
and before I had talren half a bottle was
able tc go out. By tlio time I had
finished the bottle I was well, and have
remained so ever since.”
Alonzo P. Daggett, of Smyrna Mills,
Me., writes: “ Six years ago, I was a trav
eling salesman, and at that time was
suffering with
Lung Trouble.
For months I w.« unable to rest nights.
I could seldom lie down, had frequent
choking spells, and was often com
pelled to seek the open air for relief.
1. was induced to try Ayer’s Cherry
Pectoral, which helped :ue. Its con
tinued use has entirely cured me, aud, I
believe, saved my life.”
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
FREFAKUn BT
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Bold by all Druggist*. Price $1; six bottles, $5.
EEiaaZASLJ CASS. ^
Forlwovcara I had
rheumatism sc bad that
It disabled mo for work
and confined me to my
bed for a wholo year;
during which time 1
could not even raise my
hands to my head, and
for 3 months could not
move myself 1 n bed,was
reduced In flesh from
|192to6dlhs. Was treat
ed by best physicians,
only to grow worse,
'innlly I took Swift’s Specific, and soon began to
.nprove. After a while was at my work, and for the
•ret five months have been as well as I ever was—alb
'rein the effects of Swift’s Specific.
John Rat,
Jan. 8, 1889. Ft. Wayne, Ind.
: ’.ooks oa Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
Swift Specific Co. Atlanta, Ga
Round tlie Earth In Four Hours.
The engines of the Northwestern Rail
way company ran a mile and three-
quarters every second, or 104 miles every
minute, and in effect they put a girdle
round the earth once in every four hours
throughout the year; yet such is the per
fection of mechanism attained in the
present day that the engines were able
to run a distance equal to twice round
the world for every single case which
occurred of a hot axle, the loss of a split
pin or cotter, or anything tending to
throw an engine out of gear.—The Work-
ing’and Management of an English Rail
way—George Findlay. 1
p BORGIA, Clarkf. CocntY—To the Superior
U Court of said runty:
1st. Toe petition of James M. Smith, Benja
min B. Williams, lieorge Dudley Thomas,' John
VT. Hinton, John R. Waite n.l Rufus if. Reaves
respectfully show that they together with such
other persons as they may associate with them,
desire to be incorporated lor twenty year*, with
the privilege of renewal at the end of that
that period, under the name an l siyle of
‘•Georgia Foundry and Machine Works.”
2d. The particular business they propose to
carry on is th.:t of n foundry and machine:
works, casting and manufacturing and mould
ing much neiy and other articles of iron anil
bra.-s end other merais, and of wood, and gene
rally to cairy on and perform all kinds of work
end" business appropriate for a foundry and ma
chine work;. Tlie place where they proposeto.
carrv on said business is Athens,Clarke County,
Georgia,
:'d. The capital stock of said incorporation is
to he at present twenty-five thousand dollars,
with the privilege of ’increasing said capital
stock at will to one hundred thousand dollars.
Ten per cent, of said twenty-live.thousand dol
lars tia? been duly paid in. ‘
Wherefore petiVoncrs pray tire court to pa4
an order granting th.s application, and incorpo
rating them tinder the n one,: n 1 for the pur
pose and fi.r tire time herein specified.
Alex. S Erwin,
Petitioners’ Attirr.ey.
/ i EORGTA. t larke county—1, C. D. Vincent,
clerk Superior €0 rt, do certify that the
above .- nd foregoingpetiti-n is a true extract
from the minutes of < larke Superior court
and that -ame have been duly filed and record-
ed-
T .is Sept. 20,1889. C. P. Vxncent, Clark S. C.
Seed Rye and Oats
FORSALE.
We have for sale the genuine
Yellow Rust-Proof Oats,
Raised by Col. James M. Smith, and that gentle
man gt e\v or er 100 bu-liels per acre, and they
weigh over 40 rounds to the bushel. These are
the only oats of this variety in Georgia, and are
.-old for only ?5 cents per Lu.-hei—half their val
ue. Also the pure
Blue Ridge Se8d Rye.
The best adapted for this section.
HODGSON BROS.,
ATHEN8,GA.
Receiver’s Sale.
GEORGIA Habersham County.
By virtue of an order, or decree from the
Superior C ut t of said county, theje will be
to.’d on the fir.-t Tuesday in December 1889,
within the legal hours of sale, before the Court
house door 111 the town of Cia:ke»vi31e, {said
State and County, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following property towit:
A certain tract or p cel of land in said tonnty
on the Potiue liver Known as apart of let or
land Xo.?8 in the 10th district of said county,
containing one hundred and seventy-six (176).
ac: es, and mot e f ullv rte cribed in a deed from
W. S. Erwin to G. J. Frre ere et. al., dated
January 22d 1?83, and recorded in the Cleik’a
ollice of the Superior‘Court of said county in
book “D. D.” folio 276. Al-o a {tract or parcel
of land adjoining the foregoing, being a part of
lot No. 2 ;n the ICth district of said county,
containing fort v acres, and more f idly described
in a deed from’Olive Love to the Soijue Woolen
Mills, dated December the 30; h, 1885, and recor
ded in the Clerk's office aforesaid in book' F. F.”
folio 4it. Also er acua of land
adjoining the above described lands, purchased
by Soque Woolen Mills of Mrs. Sis Gables. All
the above described lands comprising what is
known as the Soque Woolen Mills tract of land,
being the land upon which said Mills are situ
ated, together with all the houses, out-houses,
appurtenances, and machinery of every charac
ter belonging to, and comprising the machinery
operated by the said Soqne Woolen Mills in the
'manufacture of woolen goods. Also a set of
Custom Cai-ds, Grist mill. Blacksmith shop tools
tank, pipes, hose, and all other machinery or
fixtures belonging to and connected with the
said machinery 01 the Stwue Woolen Mills. All
the above described property being the plant,
water power, real estate, ami machinery belong
ing to the Soque Woolen Mills, a corporation
chartered under the laws of tills state for the
purpose of manufacturing woolen goods and
Jeans, and the same will be sold as the property
of said corporation, under and bv virtue of the
onler or decree of the Superior Court as afore
said. Terms of sale Cash. H. S. WEST,
Receiver Soque Woolen Mills.
Pria'.ari’ fej J