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^\ Y ADY ENTURE.
Russian Indy, the Countess
jff V ery great lady, exquisitely
|;„ow bow beautiful the
, nW) nt least how beautiful
" ;:l „ s with t'oeir fine noses, deli-
,W .-es rather closo together and
gmvisli bluo, and that cold
"?. rs a little severe. They have
lilnit them at once wicked and
t,i?btv add gentle, tender and
t js v*tv charming to a Prench-
'f r all. it may bo only the dif-
•niv and type which causes me to
theta
„| i; h1 for several years tried
? r *to settle in the south of France,
ltd tliat she was threatened with.
put she ohstinutely refused to
(wewhurg. Finally, last autumn,
r |ife u: stake, tho doctor warned
a who Immediately ordered his
-J for Menton.
lie train, choosing to remain all
jjftbc car, while lier servants oc-
eoinpartuieat. She leaned
jyr, a little s:ul, as sho watched
„.,1 Villages passing by—feeling
isolate l, very iouely in that life
jout children, almost without
ih a husband whose love had
a . 1( ] who was sending her thus
another part of the world, with-
j, #s offering to accompany her—
would send a sick patient to tho
1 station her servant Ivan regularly
, ibo door to find if his mistress
Pjtbing. Ho was an ngod domestic,
aUd to her, and ready to fulfill
j.that sho could possibly give him.
; on and the train was rushing
si' ill speed. She could not sleep
of nervousness. Suddenly the
v j to her to count the money her
d placed In her hand at the last
agnld coin of Franca Shiopened
blag niul emptied the shiuiu . mass
Jinn be: - lap.
roavdiiiTof cold air smote her in
gae lifted her head in surprise,
f of the railroad car had just opened.
Countess Marie dropped her
Sowtho money lying in her lap and
lsecond later a man entered, bare-
Lireunded in his hand, panting vio-
fcjafinttired in evening full dress. He
oilier, sat down, gazed nt his neigh-
i plitterin;: eyes and commenced to
i taiktrciiief about his bleeding
tTctmg woman felt herself ready to
Bb for. That man certainly must
(Blcrcounting the gold and he had
nob and murder her.
|k;t las puts upou her, still out of
Ins face working strangely,
e.v preparing to leap upon her.
Sks'iid, sharply:
tbeafraivl, madamP
«c’ia t speak: there was a sound of
icr cars, and sue could hear her
trtbeat.
tin: “I am not a criminal,
&«s with fear, sho could answer
the sudden movement of her
It!i: sound of his voice, her knees
ftijetlior caused tho gold to trickle
hal “« nt a German sta-
teforo of'rtTJi, h“S S
servant it is just that 1 should replace h?™
Do you-need anything?” w aua -
She replied, cojdly:
tel1 m? . waitin S maid to coma”
He did so and disappeared.
But later on, when she got out to tak«
refresamonte, sho saw him standing at a di<u
sr i>! ta
Tho doctor paused at this sta~o of tb a
«X !!m da ^’ “ I ,' vas ^iviug clients
R flne * , taU man came in, who
‘‘Doctor I come 10 ask yon for news of the
Countess Marie Baranow. I am—although
she does not know me-a friend of her mL
I replied:
“There is no hope for her, I regret to say
She will never return to Russia.” *
And all of a sudden the man burst into a
passion of sobs; then he rose and staggered
from the room like a drunken man.
The same evening I told tho countess that
a strauger had called at my office to inquire
about her health. She seemed to be affected
and then told me the whole story just as i
told it to you.. And she added:
“That man, whom I do'not know, now fol
lows me everywhere, like my own shadow
I meet him every time I go out; he looks at
mo in a strange way, but never speaks.”
She paused thoughtfully a moment and
then exclaimod:
“See! I am willing to wager that he is
tins moment before the window.”
Sho rose from her reclining chair, went to
the window, lifted the curtain aside, and
there, sure euough, was the man who had
como to my office—sitting on a bench of tho
I public promenade, with eyes fixed on the
i windows of the residence. He observed us
rose, and walked away without once turninz
to look. °
Then I became tho witness of a very as
tonishing thing—the mute love of those two
beings, neither of whom know tho other.
lie loved her wi h tho devotion of ares-
qped animal—grateful and devoted to tho
dcatlu He came every day to see me, with
the question, “How is shoT’—comprehondin 0-
that 1 had divined his secret. And he used
to weep fearfully at seeing her passing by
whiter and weaker every day.
She would say to me:
“I only spoke once to that singular man
and it seems to me ns though I bad known
him for twenty years.”
And whenever they met she returned his
salute with a grave and charming smila I
felt that sho was happy, all lonely as sho was,
and knowing herself doomed to die—I knew
that she felt happy just at being loved in
that strange way, with such respect and
such constancy, with such romantic exag
geration, with such supreme devotion. And
for oil that, still obstiuato in her exaltation
sho persistently and dasperatoly refused to
receive him, to learn his name, or to soeak to
him. She would always say: --
“No, no! It would spoil this strange friend
ship. lVo must ulways remain unknown to
each other.”
As for him, be was certainly Quixotic, for
he never tried to bring himself any nearer to
her. lie had resolved to keep to tho very
end tho absurd promise he had made her in
the railroad car.
Very often during her loug hours of weak
ness sho would get up from her reclining
chair and peep through the curtains to see if
< JIM WAS DLAO.
rred him right." the rrhorssed,
. ... ' - him for the life he led.
Aa lit:;, a lying thar at rwst
with Lot a rose ujKrn his Inoast;
Air menny cruel words t:wy jsJd
When Jim was dead
•rw, lilted triweif - 'Too mean to live.”
t ney unlr. tviav’ oue won! ter give
Of comfort as they hovered near
An gazed on Jim a lying there.
T 1 °° use U!r talk," they sed,
lie’s better dead.”
But wddcmiy the room growed still,
w hue God s white sunshine seemed to fill
The dark place with a gleam of life.
7®. ° ^he dead she bent—Jim's wife!
An with her lips close, closo to bis,
As tho' he knew an' felt the kiss,
Sho«*bed-« tiwchln' sight to see—
Ah. Jim was always good ter me l”
I tell you when that cum to light
It kinder set the dead man right;
An’ round the weeptn* woman they
Tb rowed kindly arms of love that day.
And mingled with their own they shed
The ten derest tears when—Jim was a***
, —F. L. Stanton In Atlanta Coostitutioa.
ADVENTURES IN CHINA
There is hardly an American boy 12 years
of age who does not feel himself a match for
any Chinaman he may happen to meet in
this countpr. “John” is generally looked
upon as a duffer, and is held in more or less
contempt on that account Just one thing
makes ti Chinaman seem to be a coward
when lmug among us. He has a positive
J**** tho law , awl he understands so little
°^ b °. Ea S UEh language that he must be hard
pressed to go into court. Public opinion
n ?0Wth ? law makes him an inter-
loper. Hir employment is always menial.
He is an mitcast among men. He has no
backers and few friends. Therefore it is
policj in him to put up with slights, insulta
aud abuse and seem to be a coward.
If, however, you take him on his own na-
y°u W 'H discover that the aver-
spout.
^uaa oteerved with surprise tho falling
t vf geld pieces, and suddenly bent
irk them up.
i wild with fear, she rose to her foot,
; all her fortune on tho floor, and
ird tho entrance to leap out upon
Hut he comprehended what she
; to do, and turning, seized her in
^tweak'd her by force, aud grasping
lb, exclaimed:
ate me, madam. I am not a robber;
> woof is that I am goiug to pick up
naoui y mid give it buck to you. But
‘ Kt man— t am a dead man- -if you
i rue to pass the froutier. i ran tell
lug more. In another horn - wo shall
lx't Russian station; in ono hour
wty minutes we shall cross tho frou-
1/ you do not succor me, I am lost.
fevcruH-Vsx, madam, 1 swear to you
iu>t killed anybody, or stolen
!■ 0! ' daue one dishonorablo act. This
f to you. Rut 1 caunot tell you any*
by ^ 684110
,l “'" ' 1 tiouless on his bench, she would go back and
lio down with a smile on her lips.
She died at last one morning—about 10
o’clock. A3 I was leaving tho bouso I saw
him hastening to me, with agony in his face
—he already knew all.
I wquld like to look at her for ono sec
ond,” he said “in your presenca”
I took his arm and re-entered the bouse.
When he found himself beside tho death
bed lie seized her hand aud kissed it with on
interminable kiss, then ho rushed away like
a mud man.
The doctor paused again, and added:
“That is certainly the strangest railroad
adventure I over know. Aud i must say it
taught me what queer fools men can be.”
Then a woman murmured, in a half audi
ble voice:
“Those two people were not so foolish as
you think—they were—they were”
But sho cried’so that shb could not spoak.
And as they changed tho subject of conver
sation in order to calm her, no ono over
know what sho had been tryiug to say.—
Translated from the French for tho Boston
Truo Flag.
(bRart
RI <!wr>. upon his knees, he picked
iv. itotl-.e very last, seeking tho
the benches, aud grasping
[fese winch had rolled into obscuro
Icci. when the little leather bag
ni-.i, ho hmivled it to his neighbor
:iml retired to a corner of
' "ii.iv he sat down.
, cf made the least movement.
® lae d motionless and dumb, still
*.|a terror, but gradually becoming
is'-T *° l lll:u ’ .k® l:uu io not a gesture,
KTj.k* rt- m:;ined sitting erect aud im-
"iih eyes looking straight before
ett®. 1 ** 1 * ’-'at ho scorned to bo dead.
l*T‘' ti:nj sho cast a quick side
* J mi, which was as quickly turned
■ he WH.s a man cf about 30, very
ce, with all tho outward appearance
tfieaiaa.
,lraa ^hed out through tho darkness,
out iu piercing shrieks to tho night,
■ thickening its paco a moment,
t off ugaiu under full steam. But
bocaino steadily slow; it
kveral times, and stopped short.
S'pearod at tlio door to receive or-
-■iorio gavo a final look at
sc ‘V^clingcompanion, and then
IfPely. to her servant:
n, l “ ou v ' ilt »ow return to the count;
sv “ l!0 more need of thee.”
man opened his eyesenor-
„ ,. -0 Dcgau to stammer out;
_—\ur;:; C !-i
-; “t s’.'.alt not come; I have changed
if prefer thou sliouldst remain in
Uciv, this is the money to pay thy
c , 511 ® tl:y cap and cloak, quickly 1”
id’ tho old servant took off his
°'' >0 -’ ill 2 without a word—ao-
kjf 5 v-as to tho sudden whim3 and
/•-.i - caprice of masteri And he went
,™>ta u-ars ia his eyes.
ie r i a . lraiu started, making for the
fcbor tlie ^ untess ^larie said to
are
con-.
n r Q f0r F 011 - sir * Tou
Ik Bn .„ J t, Ivan. I place but one w«-
rt-lu' Vaati 1 do—namely, that you
i )c ., to nie . that you do not utter ono
^■“Sv^? ankiae U ° r f ° r ^
without speaking.
i . { ^Pped again, ai l uniformed
tfcomi tl10 trairi. Tho countess
® uer pr.pers, and pointing to the
Making a Desert Productive.
Dr. G. V. Poore has told the way in which
tho Landes of Frauds have been reclaimed
aud made habitable by carrying out tho
plans first applied by Breinoutier at about
tho beginning cf this century. By reason of
tho light character of the sands of the region,
and its exposure to tho powerful winds of
tho Buy of Biscay, its drainage presented
special difficulties, which could not be over
come by the ordinary resources of engineer
ing. Recognizing that it was useless to con
tend against tho forces of nature, Brcmon-
tier determined to try to make use of them
for the accomplishment of his purpose.
Knowing the virtues of planting and pro
moting the growth of a net work of roots, he
plantxS a tract of the dunes with pea3, which
would grow in the sand and send their roots
to a considerable depth, and, for more per
manent effect, with the maritime pine.
The pine seeds wore sown mixed with seeds
of the common broom, whose shrubs might
serve as nurse plants to tho infant pines, and
the sowings were made in a direction atright
angles to the prevailing wind. A screen of
hurdles made of gorso or of plants deeply
driven into the sand was placed on the wind
ward side of the seed ground, and the seed
ground itself was thatched with pine brandies
and other suitable material In tho course of
timA the brooms reached their full growth,
while the pines continued to grow,overtopped
thA.n.and crowded them out. The maritime
pines have grown well and have proved a
very profitable tree, yielding moderately
good timber and much turpentine, in addi
tion to which a good business is
douo in charcoal Thus the waste moor-
lauds on tho shores of the Bay of Biscay
have become of great commercial valua
The railway journey of four or five hours
from Bordeaux to Bayonne is now made
through a long, monotonous pme for
est. The cultivation of tho pine improves
the soil, which is gradually enriched and al
tered in quality by the dead leaves and other
vegetable debris which fall upon it. In some
places dealings havo been made in tiio for
ests aud vineyards planted.—Popular Science
Monthly.
Tin sultan doesn’t allow tho morning |
papers of Constantinople to be published un
til the afternoon. _ --
age Chinaman is as brave as the average man
of any other nation. He will Resent an in-
sult just as quickly, and he will fight u
all the ferocity of a tiger. Tho Chinan
I \“ ss,au a y e especially alike in some
rr?®*' „V U can t move them in their re
ligion. 1 hey are as abject as slaves to their
superiors. They are abusive and tyrannical
SSlS? *9““^ A Chinese Sspcrado
who 'Dli defy a mob and defend himself to
nndir' 54 ’ 7?* whea taken oat for execution
under sentence of a court or official, follow
tac executioner as quietly as a lamb, and
of ^Sure 6 h “ With0Ut thou ^t
As one of tho agents of an English tea svn-
,OUr years iu the most
populous distances of the Celestial emnire,
Sv m«t eVe 7 °PP° nmiit r study them!
They ma.. make all the treaties they care to
nniperor may issue a new manifesto
mnn\vil? k la f , the 3"®***, but tho true Chiuar
to wiT hinTra ,U ° 40 bate « foreigner, and
tomsh him the worst of luck. All whito
men are barbarous in tbe eyes of a China
man. You may be ever so learned and great
anil you may place them under ever so many
obligations, but you still continue to ho *kf
scum of the earth in their aeo- ■ -—
ten would rcrw* *' — ^ngious duty to
« Knife into your ribs, and tho only
reason they don’t do it is the fear of creating
trouble for gqfermneut officials. Tho masses
know that treaties exist, and that the mur
der of a foreigner would bo made astute
matter, and they'obey the; apposed wishes of
tneir own government rather thou the pro
visions and clauses of treaties.
One thing always struck me ns very curi
ous. No Chinaman ever sets out to despoil a
foreigner without calculating to take his life
also. In cases where tboy couldrebandos-
o«j» With their booty, they refuse to accept
the privilege, but wait to add murder to the
crime. V» bile I say no Chinaman, I mean,
of course, none of the criminal class. I havo
slept iu hundreds of Chiaeso houses, and
given tho fannies every opportunity to plun
der aud kill, but iny safety was not even
plotted against. Several attempts were,
however, made by members of tho criminal
class, and some of them may interest the
reader.
While at Ping-Shan, on the Yangtse-
Kiang river, I made a shooting and fishing
excursion on the river in company with a
fVeuch civil engineer and an English tourist.
We had a boat about thirty feet long; pro
vided with both sail and oars, and a cabin
aft which would hold six or eight people. As
we were to be gone four or five days, we had
bunks rigged up in the cabin, aud we took
along all our firearms and a plentiful supply
of ammunition. Wo chartered tho boat and
its crew of six men, together with our keep,
for sixty cents per day. Wo sailed and
rowed to the cast, and were presently in a
very wild aud unsettled locality. At that
time there was not even a village of 200 in
habitants along tho stream to .the east for 250
miles, the land being sterile and broken; and
tho forests very heavy. Such a thing as
• danger from the natives never entered our
heads. —
Wo had been oul three days, and were
lying at anchor in a bend of the stream, and
the hour was5 o’clock in tho afternoon, when
there was a sudden commotion aboard. I
was fishing over the stem of the boat, while
the Frenchman was forward, and the
Englishman had gone off with ono of the
men in a canoe to inspect some rocks. I
beard shouts aud yells, and turned just as
our crew, one after another, plunged over-
lioard and struck out for the shore. We had
boon boarded by a solitary native, who had
come off in hi6 canoe from the other bank.
Tho firearms were iu the cabin, and as I
turned to see what the uproar meant tho
native cut the Frenchman’s head almost clear
off by a blow from a short, heavy sword.
I did not know why the fellow had come,
nor bis intentions, but as the Frenchman fell
I retreated to the cabin to arm myself. The
native made a rush aud I shut and hooked
the door. He began chopping at it with his
sword, and from a littlo side window I fired
upon him with a revolver and wounded him
in the side. He thereupon retreated out of
range, but took op his station in such a man
ner that he could cut mo down if I attempted
to come out. The uproar had reached the
Englishman, and ho approached in the canoe.
He had gone off without weapons, and now
bo dared not board the boat. There was one
email stem window, and he dropped the
canoe down and called to me and explained
matters. The fellow holding the deck
vras a desperado. He had come off single
handed to rob us, but must also have
our lives. He was entirely alone, and prob
ably would not be joined brothers. While
he was explaining matters I lashed a revol
ver and some ammunition to a board used as
a life preserver and lowered it to the water.
As it floated down, the Englishman secured
it The robber’s canoe was alongside, and I
instructed my companion bow to secure it.
did not propose to let the fellow get away
after his bloody work. I heard him cursing
and growling as be discovered what was go-
in" on, but ho did not leave his station. Ho
•was bant on having my life, and toe wound I
had inflicted had worked him up to a furious
^ The craft was a light one, and the cabin
was little better than a thatch. After the
canoe bail t een takcu away I took up one of
the shotguns loaded with buckshot, dropped
a bullet into the barrel, and *theu crept
around the cabin to discover the villain’?
outside location. Ho kept os still as a mouse
for a few minutes, but by and by 1 beard
him move aud mutter. Tben 1 brought the
gun to bear so as to pepper his legs and
blazed away. He fell down, shrieking and
cursing, and, grasping one of the revolvers,
I dashed out. Tho charge had taken him i:
toe right leg at tbe knee, and it was a fatal
wound, but he pulled himself up and came
at me bopping on one leg, whilo tbe blood
literally flooded the deck behind him. I san
that I most finish him and 1 didn’t hesitate
to do it. When our crew of natives returned
most of them recognized tho man. He was a
robber and had several times been im
prisoned, and they clung to it that his sole
idea in coming aboard was to despoil us. In
his idea murder went with robbery. It was
a necessary adjunct. If he was, as they
claimed, only a second clm-s desperado, one
of the first class would probably have the as
surance to attack a merchant ship single
handed.
_My second adventure was at a town called
Kwei-Liug. I had been there a month, and
my business and social relations had been ex
tremely pleasant. I went one night to sup
with and spend the night at too bouse of the
mayor, who was also our local agent. He
lived out iu the suburbs, with a very fine gar
den about his house, and the room assigned
me was on tbe ground floor, front. It had
two windows, and while not over eight feet
wide, was fully twenty-four feet long. Lying
in my bed, I could see the whole length of
the roqtDj aud as tbe night was very hot and
close, 1 left the lower sash up. I had my re
volver at hand, and being a light sleeper 1
knew that the slightest noise would arousa
me. Wo sat up to a late hour and it was
after midnight when I got to bed. I at once
fell asleep, and at 2 o'clock found myself sit
ting bolt upright iu bed and a man climbing
in at the window. I bad my revolver on him
before he was on his feet in the room and 1
called out to him in Chinese to stand where
be was or 1 would shoot him. My clothes
were on a chair between him and me, and if
ho had been intent on robbery alone he might
have grabbed them and made off. But ho
wanted to rob aud kill, too; and although lie
could havo seen the gleam of my revolver in
in tho moonlit room, he came for the bed on
a ran, brandishing the ugliest looking knife
I ever set my eyes oil I pulled for him over
the footboard when he was only ten feet
away, and he fell. When lights and help
arrived we found that my bullet had glanced
around his skull aud stunned him. There
were six or eight of us at hand, but the fel
low fought like a giaut, and wo could not se
cure him until I had rapped him over the head
with the butt f>f my pistol Ho was all right
again as an officer arrived, and lo! be ac
tually followed tli0 policeman to the station
house! I was a stranger. The other was an
official While he fought to murder me, he
was as humble as a dog in the presence of
official power.
It turned out that the man coveted mv
gold watch, and that alone, and, though he
had had several previous chances to rob me,
ho let them slip, because ho could i>-“aaina
kill me. The man morning at
day, found as Ted out aud beheuded. He
walked before the executioner, seemingly as
placid as the morning, and when ordered to
kneel down, ho promptly obeyed aud held his
neck in tho best jjosition to havo his head
struck off. A single blow decapitated him.
Near Siang-tiau, u feiv months later, I wa§
captured by two of a mountain band of rob
bers. Their first thought was to slay mo. 1
was alone and on a donkey, and they sprang
upon mo so suddenly out of fcbo bushes that 1
had no tirno to prepare myself. Both slashed
at me with their swords, but I dodged them,
and called out that I was an English official
of great importance, and that if they did me
harm tho heads of twenty mandarins would
bo demanded in payment. This cooled them
off, and, luckily for me, toe leader of the
baud came’ up. Ho was a native of Turkes
tan—a wicked fellow, aud one who delighted
to shed blood, but my reiteration of my im
portance had its effect upon me. He rea
soned with Ms fellow robbers as follows:
“Hero we havo a prisoner. It is plain that
he is an Englishman. He doesn’t want to be
killed. If we kill him, tho mandarin will
send soldiers after us, and we Ehall have
trouble. We shall all bo killed, end his
friouds will want a large sum of money be
sides. That will make so much trouble that
no one else will dare to rob. Wo will not kill
Mm, but as we lravo been to much trouble he
must pay us ransom.”
“But I want to cut his throat 1” protested
ono of my captors.
“That is true, but we will spare his life
and kill four other men to pay for it.”
I was taken up a ravine into toe mountain,
where we found three other members of the
band. But for the leader I should havo been
murdered off hand. They took my watch
money aud trinkets, and then deliated toe
question of ransom. When they had fixed
tbe sum toe leader said:
You must pay us a sum equal to £5 in
English money or wo shall kill you at the
end of the week.
They seemed to think tho sum an extrava-
[ aut one, aud were considerably surprised
when 1 sent a note in to our local agent and
tho money was forthcoming. Tho Chinese
still howled for my life, and as I dej&rted
for the town, cleaned out and on foot, the
leader was protesting:
My children, it is sad that we cannot kill
him, but I am doing for the best. You may
kill the next eight men you meet, and if
some' arc Turks or Russians we will not
jarc.”—New York Bun.
OHRISTSi
'O
Car-Load (00,000) Oranges.
200 Barrels Northern App'es.
200 Bushels Mountain Apples.
1 Car-Load (10,000) Ooacoanuts.
for Christmas
200 Boxes Raisins.
100 Bunches Fancy Bananas.
1,000 pounds Malaga Grapes.
500 pounds Catawba and Concord Grapes.
5)0 pounds Stick Candy.
3,000 Baskets Mixed Candies.
5,000 pounds French Candies.
5,000 pounds Assorted Nuts.
5,000 pounds Pea-nuts
50 Kegs Peach and Apple Cider.
300 Boxes File Crackers. Large Assortment Fire-works.
30,000 Cigars. Large lot of Knife and Prize Package. Large assort
ment 5 and 10 cent Prize Goods, Musical Albums, Etc.
I can luruish the merchants all the above goods against any competi
tion. Come to see me and make the iittle folks glad.
ec3-wlm.
W. A. JESTER.
MUSIC HOUSE
57 CLAYTON STREET, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Can be found Pianos, Organs, Guitars, Violins,
Banjos, Sheet Music, and all kinds of
Musical Instiument:,
at the LOWEST PRICES. Picture Framing a
specialty. A large lot < f frames
now on hand at
astonishingly
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ATHENS, GEOP^
Manufactnies Iron and Bras
Castings, Mill and Gin Gearing
and Machinery, Shafting, Pulleys,
Hangers, &c., Circular Saw Mills,
Hand and Power Presses, Cane
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Millsand Evaporators.
We sell Disston’s Saws, Rubber
Belting, Packing of all kinds, In?<
sptrators. Injectors, Valves, Piping, Fittings, Steam and Water Guages, &c.
We are uow making Portable Steam Engines, which we sell with an
absolute guarantee as to quality and workmanship, and at prices that defy
toinpetilion. We also sell Atlas and Ames Engines, Turbine Water
Wheels, Mill Stones, Bolting Cloth, and everything needed about a mill
in.
Call and see us or write to ns before buying.
TALMAGE & BRIGHTWELL
AGENTS FOR—
Great Find of Early Paintings.
Seeking in Lower Egypt, during too pres
ent year, for remains of the wonderful laby
rinth of 3,000 chambers described by Herod
otus, Mr. Flinders Petrie seems to have
found what he sought, with the pyramidal
tomb of its builder, and also came upon a
great cemetery whoso existence had Mtherto
been unknown. TMs cemetery covers about
one hundred acres, and dates from tho
Brooks’ Cotton Planters, Clark’s Harrow’s, Wood
Mowing Machines, Josh Berry Grain Cradle
THEO. MARKWALTERS’
STEAM
Marble and Gran its "Works
MANUFACTURER OF
M0MUMTS, HEADSTONES AND STATUARY
Graeco-Roman period, one or two centuries popdence solicited. Prices to Suit the Tuues.
after Christ. From it Mr.* Petrie has taken
Enclosures* Capings and Likenesses Guaranteed of Statues and Busts, IMPORTER DIRECT in
NATION OR FOREIGN GR UNITE OR M s RULE.
Contractor foe Building Stone of all kinds Floor and Hearth Tile and Wainscoting
Original designs furnished. Corres-
hundreds of mummies, with a vast collection
of objects buried with them. These articles
include funerary vases,, amulets, toys, a tin
ned copper mirror, a burning lens, a set of
leather workers? needles, a flint knife, and—
by far the most interesting of all—a splendid
series of portraits, painted upon the cases of
elaborately bandaged mummies, and repre
senting the living persons whose remains
were placed in these coffins seventeen cen
turies ago. These pictures will add an im-
irtant chapter to the history of art—Ar-
,w Traveler.
A Very Old Tobacco Pipe.
A citizen of Eatonton, Ga., smokes about
twelve pounds of tobacco yearly In a pipe
tt.rt he declares is over 200 years old. This
leads a mathematical person to calculate
that if that were the average amount used in
fhe pipe since its first day, 2,400 pounds of
the weed hare been burned in its bowl; and,
if too first $12 had been put out at compound
interest at the rate of 10 per cent, it would
now have grown to the sum of $1,755,443,200.
'Just how this would have benefited the first
owner of toe pipe doesjnot appear.—CMcago
Herald.
Contractor fou Building Stone of all kinds FI
Agent for the Be=t FENCE COMPANY in the World.
The most complete selection of designs in the South.
529 and 531, BROAD STREET,
AUGUSTA, GA.
HARDWOOD MANTLES.
Ash, Oak, Cnerrv, Birdseye Maple, Walnut and Mahogony. Marbelized Iron Mantles. Plain and
Enamel Grates, Brass and Nickel Grates, Brass Fenders, Fire Sets (Anderson’s,! Piano Lamps,
Onvx Tables. Artistic Gas Fixtures in Brass, Armulo, Silver and Wrought Iron. Imported cut
Glass Chandaliers, the dantiest, prettiest, finest and cheapest ever brought South Tile Hearths,
Tile Facings and TUe for Vestibules a Specialty. The largest assortment in the State, a id at
prices that cannot be equalled. Hotel and Family Ranges a Specialty.
Atlanta,
Sanitary Plumbers axd_Steam Heaters,
Georgial