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STORM. r man seated in the fwr said fodU% tbe stonn is o'ori Eisssssr mss 5^S * , foolish beartl art throbbing - * ” t wind* have cessed to blow. gpjerh'Jl in Scribner's Magazine. end of t:o< ! of th sat alone to jjjodier (M7 ,pw» ^\ 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 THE ATHENS FOUNDRY & MACHINE WORKS 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 <* 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