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POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of mirity, strength and wholsomeness - More economical than the ordinary kind, and cannot be sold in competi tion with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate pow ders. Sold only in cans. Royal Bax ing Powdkb Co., 106 Wall St., N. Y. BLANK BOOKS. With the beginning of a New Year, mer chants start off with a new clean set of Books. My stock embraces everything that can be desired in VARIETY. JQUALITY. BURNING ELOQUENCE. WASHINGTON- TWO angels. TOUCHED THE HEART OF MR. EBEN STRAHAN IN BAL TIMORE. | THE OUTLOOK OF THE FIFTY- FIRST CONGRESS, AND THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. AffccM.s Incident In the C.nrt j During the Naraxna Inland Case, Happening, m Botb Domes. Brother Blaine’s Boon* for Nomination. Other Items of Interest at the Capitol. Baltimore, December 24.—[Special] —-The Navassa Island murder case, in which Henry Jones and Caesar Fisher are charged as principals and sixteen other colored men as accessories to the From our regular correspondent.] murder of Thomas N. Foster, one of the ! Washington, D. C., live white officers killed on the island Dec. 25,1S89. in the riot of September 14tb last ; was Mr. Blaine’s boom for the Presiden given to the jury yesterday morning at tial nomination in 1892 may be consid- lialf-past eleven o’clock, tlm closing I ered as having already started, and from being accompanied by an affecting inci- I information just received by your cor- dent. District Attorney Hayes, who respondent from an eminently trust- had commenced his closing argument worthy source it undoubtedly has the to the jury on Thursday, had spoken { sanction of Mr. Blaine. No one knows for about an hour and a-half, and was better than Mr. Blaine the danger of making a strong appeal for the convie- premature booms, but certain circula tion of the accused, when he noticed stances made it necessary to launch his that one of the jurors, Mr. Eben boom now or not at all. One of these Strahan, was evidently ill. He took circumstances is the fact that ex-Sena- Mr. Strahan by the hand, and inquired tor Tom Platt, of New York, during a Oh! restless heart! abode of storm and passion. Thou art the home of angel sisL-rs two That came from heaven in angelic fashion To dech our lives with peace and joy anew. The elder, Love, a bright-eyed fiery maiden, Unruly as a tempest in her might: The other, Friendship, Is with beauty laden. And peaceful as a balmy summer night. Love Is a rugged, swelling mountain torrent, Rushing, plashing onward to the sea; While Friendship is a brooklet's gentle current; Reflecting heaven's azure canopy. True Love announces her inspiring presence Like lightning's flash—ur^Sunted, bold and proud— But Friendship gleams like ocean's phosphores cence, Or like a moonbeam from behind a cloud. Then blessed, yea, thrice blessed is the bosom That for these angels finds abiding room. Where, like a blushing rose, true Love may blos som. And Friendship, like a snow-white lily, bloom. —Milton Goldsmith. Ra remedies .failed. T r u,, \. JU0 «*» ( marvelous. SavedhUili fe i. Onrold^uMd.imw^P^ticUfa remedies faffi 1 ALIAS THE PARSON. City was an accepted synonym for the unique and superlative in western wretchedness. Its population varied according to the Even in ’50, so long ago as that, when few western towns could boast a street _ _ _ lamp or a postoffice—to say nothing of if he was ill. Mr. Strahan answered he I recent trip to Washington, took special I churches and school houses—Four Hole was, and did not know that he could pains to let Mr. Blaine know that he City was generally classed as a “desprit stand it much longer. Mr. Hayes sug- (Platt) intended to be a candidate, and hard place. gested to Mr. Strahan to retire a few I that he proposed to hold the field I It was the toughest of the tough, minutes, which he did. He came back, against all comers unless Mr. Blaine Though a comparatively young town at ami Mr. Hayes then proceeded, saying: wished to make the run again, in that the date of the inc id en t about to be re- “You have been asked m appropriate case he would give him loyal support, crd-i ita notorious wickedness had ad- terms by my young brother Stirling, This, together with similar intimations 'j?™ 10 ™® Jr., to remember this Christmas time from other men, in other sections, made I vertlsed far and wide, and Four Hole in the making of your verdict-, and the it necessaiy for the gentleman from prayer of Him whose nativity we cele- Maine to show his hand. Consequently brate, as He prayed: “Father, forgive the word has gone out to the trusted them, for they know not what they do.” Blaine lieutenants that the “old man” „ I would not have you disregard the con- is again in the field. Mr. Blaine and I distance and direction of the latest gold sideration of my brother’s reqaest, but his family have just returned from a finri it may be proper for you at the same trip to Baltimore and New York, wliith- a clear spring of water had made the t r ' v?nt in a ? alle & ed soc j a Vspot a favorite camping place for miners, mas time there are in the rocks away but the trip was in reality made to see i out in Navassa’s lonely island, three and fix certain Maryland and New York ai ~ , a jL” *, ° , lonely graves, where rest all that is politicians. Mr. Blaine has not yet ful- whisky had established a bar and made mortal of three of the victims of these I lv decided whether he will retire from I s P rln S place a city, prisoners, and beneath the waters ndja- I the cabinet next summer or wait until j R could hardly be said that the growth cent thereto, as they incessantly beat I the spring of ’92. The present pro- I of Four Hole City was phenomenal—that against those cliffs, sounding for them gramme is to keep the thing as quiet as I it was a magic city or anything of that no Christmas carol, but ouly a requiem, possible for the next two years. sort. But it grew, are the remains of two more of their The rest of the _ House committees Trade was lively at the Red Finger j ax. I w ® re announced just previous to the bar, and the cemetery spread like a “Remember, too, there are five homes adjournment for the holiday recess by hav *___ Tn nf t5m< . in this, onr city, where there will be no Shaker Reid, and quite a number of 2LJS! Christmas joys. Homes bereft by the Republican members are very much ^ ier ® w as another barroom and another names of these men whose fate you I disgruntled because they don’t think burying ground. have in your keeping. One a mother’s their talents have been sufficiently re- Then Little Jug Nancy came, the first home. From that home there has been cognized, but as they have more than woman, and forthwith another grave- taken the love and support of an only two weeks in which * to recover their yard was added to the list—three of son by the murderous hand of Cseser good humor they will probably turn up them in seven months. take care of himself, and not too sanctl- . _ - fled to fight. Baby One Sm;* Three days later he came again. T This time they were ready for him. “ nfu1 ’ blot ri>ed, man C | 0M Slippery Sam Digger was the spokesman remedTe^fJ* ^‘? bt ' Wto* * for the crowd. “This yer town," said ' ' Tllfi ‘ l *• -•* 41 Sam, “is Four Hole City. We are the gang as lives yer in Four Hole City. We don’t want no preachin’, and — : we won't have none of itl" _ The parson was thoughtful for a few I seconds, weighing the matter delibe- most incredible rapiditv’Jjfi, 114 •mtti.T ratelj, and then Quietly announced that there would be meeting, and that if Sam ugly, painful, blotched »«bS didn’t like it he’d have to move. warewtifeeiff Then they hitched. It didn't last long, feet was simply marvelon]? H*”* 1 ®**. « Sam was carried off on one of the HUie|Sw“« , !2Il? ,r ® ***»«»° r benches, and the parson took hisposi- I though he h.-»f bcu** £!* lXS tion at the outdoor pulpit as quietly as if SSgM'g ^l u 8 a t b !! 1 re "'euies tt ^i e 3' nothing had happened. well, no repetuiononfhe e 1 ? i 1 * h 5’ “Owin’ter the racket," said the par- S^’atiaw * son, “they won’t be nothin’this evenin’ I AsiUntf, Ohio. a cx *Pro»ecoii ag » but the benediction. Hereafter they BOV CoVGFfid e won’t be no racket, an’ reg’lar services My boy, aged nine l S -iU be held.” aU hl ® with a to/b& ** Then he pronounced the benediction I with* dry white'^ib^ , g | ® niaU upon as orderly and appreciative a con- gregation as ever faced a preacher. pally crowing wowT Then he rode off leisurely, just as he j 535! i-I two physicians. a5 a I did before, without ever once looking I ani h^p/to^yThe%u“aiu^^ m ^i2l behind him. 1 1,81 PS t *'® m “c ording to Srec i™. c 2? ld J After that, as the parson had predict- smootu,Md^rfiminea ed, there was no disturbance at the meet- Gmicuru togs. The parson soon became an estab- They W fijjgf ° r lished and very important institution. I _ No. Ando^r *3 He knew that country like a book, and GutiCUPd. RGSOlVAfltl every mine in it, and His advice was re- The n«w Blood FuiUcraLannrl. -? liable. His influence had oh more than great°sktac^rand^ntli 1 ’ an <5 1 c “«<5 one occasion prevented bloodshed. In J ®itc skin purifier, exten»iiy l **^?!S’ n W1 many ways the parson made himself I H popular and a power for good. Some- r scrofulous and hereditaryhimow *10, pi " how or other they had learned that his I nftin^ hll T‘^^i.i n L yu ? ra , of tor tui-e anrt ^ name was Josh, but even tliis informa- I hood are permanent 1 . 6 ' 1 ' r thia:cu «air tion was rerely made use of. and he was simply “the parson. .x-t. » vr rea Four Hole City was slowly but surely undergoing a change. It was becoming civilized. •V VWI «1WI I mSS! AKD C »^ t ^^CoTiml T 10N 1 : B3r“Send for “How to Cure Skin 6* pages, 6> k illustrations aud 100 tc.n >audl00testiinoaL The first step was taken. The parson had led them. One afternoon, a year or so after the parson appeared first in Four Hole City, eighte- l or twenty men, covered with dust and riding jaded horses, rode into town with a prisoner. That prisoner was the parson. “Mistake! Mistake! Mistake!” said the citizens. No, it wasn’t a mistake. That was Red Murphy, murderer and horse thief. “Proof!” demanded the citizens. Ahsolntelyp How My SideAchL Aching sides and back,h!n ki,in«l uterine pains, rheumatic, £'S e 'J ralgic, sharp and shootingS ref Fisher andHenry Jones. A mother’s love smiling when Congress re-assembles: So alluring was the opportnnitv. in < to was one he had stolen. Ktt iknivi Vino Vvonn fnrnnn lnfA o mntli _ I fPk A r.. ^4- ... An ...... a • —. . I 0 * * • * m •. . • •• S 1 as,tr*a i s; ?J franchise made a part of the presentStaf. r Plenty of proof. The horse he waa tied | ln b y *» overwhelming j 1 GRAND heart may be, if possible lessoned, that I all the reports of the last—1880—Census I Tb® market vma_ aU-right, but it’s a the last thoughts of that son were of had not yet been printed. TheSena- P artoftherecord that the rnsco under- her; that as hfe lay on the wporeh of the I tors were also unanimous in declaring I taker was the first man ever buried in a governor’s house, with head bruised, the statistics of the last census to be in- coffin at Four Hole City. Little Jug lung exposed, and bowels protruding, accurate and worthless. Taking the Nancy officiated, that he thought of one far away at Cehsns is a useless expense unless the I But in spite of all that the town grew, home, one in whose tender arms he had statistics gathered are trustworthy and And as it grew there became manifest, been lovingly nestled in infancy, one the reports are more promptly publish- at irregularly long Intervals, a natural to whose sweet lullabies his infant eyes e d. Better things are promised of the tendency towards Lnething like reform, were ofteu closed in sleep. Ana, that one to be taken next year. Af „ when told by Dr. Smith that he had Senator Morgan’s joint resolution for I even rarer intervals this usually only a short time to live apd was asked the recognition of Brazil’s new govern- va S ue manifestation took definite shape for his last request, he said: ‘Get my ment failed in the Senate because of the ana proportions. bank-book, and give it to my mother.’ absence of a quorum. He will call it The first effort of the sort was when “Yes, Casser Fisher and Henry Jones, up again after the holiday recess, and it Shoestring Mike and that gang had an LOWNESS IN PRICES. Inspection Invited. D.I. McGregor, ATHENS BOOK-STORE. -CURE Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles Inc! dent to a bilious state of the system, such as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, &c. While their most remarkable success has becu shown in curing SICK Headache, yet Carter’s Little Lives Pitts are equally valuable ln Constipation, curing and preventing this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders of the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels. Even If they only cured HEAD Ache they would be almost priceless to those who suffer from this distressing complaint: but fortunately their goodness does not end hefe, and those who once try them will find these little pills valuable in so many ways that they will not be willing to do without them. But after oil sick head Mvghe Is the bane of so many lives that here is where we make our great boast Our pill3 cure it while others do not. ChtiTEa’s Little Liver Pills are very small 1 very easy to take. One or two piUs make election. Mike set himself up for mayor, and the rest of the boys were council- men. Long Dicky Bass was the marshal. It was all right while it lasted. They buried the mayor and the marshal in one grave and two of the council in another. Another one of the councilmen reformed, and was hung six months later for horse you could and did kill poor Foster, as I will he passed bis mangled body lay on that porch The money that Silcott left in the safe attested, but you could not kill the love of the Sergeant-at-Arms, ‘because he that murdered son bore for that mother couldn’t get at it—about $35,000—has in whose home you have brought sorrow by resolution of the House, been depos this Christmas time.” ited with the Treasurer of the United At tliis point Mr. Strahan, who was States until it is determined what to do evidently deeply afiected, suddenly with it. An indictment with 112 counts raised his hand and said: “Hush! has been found against Silcott by the stop!” Mr. Hayes stopped, when Mr. grand jury, but Silcott hasn’t yet been 1 stealing. The others escaped. Samuel J. Smith, the juror sitting next found. — . J Then the law and order fever struck Mr. Stranan, said: “His (Strahan’s) The enormous quantity of bills intro- Four Hole City. They bung Jimmy mother died last night.” duced in Congress last week—more than Doolan, of the Red Finger bar. Little Mr. Hayes then, without further re- 1,500—has excited comment here, and Jug Nancy followedsuit, same day, same mark, submitted the case to the jury, momentarily called attention to the ^ Three or four of the opposition and they immediately retired. Mr. great waste of money m printing the „ Strahan, it is also understood, was a wild-cat or crank bills, which form a U * hts cuffed out in amazingly rapid personal acquaintance of Foster, the large percentage of those introduced, succession and then the law and order murdered man, and that fact also, per- it would be a good idea for both Houses caved. haps, affected him. _ I to create the position of managing ed- I This was when the’Frisco undertaker The prisoners remained in court all itor, whose duties shall he to pass on I saw his opportunity, day, as did also many »»f the spectators, all bills belore they are introduced aud Then Nigger-Foot Jim tried to run it. and the attorneys for the defense. The I throw out the worthless one*. It would This reform was pre-eminently sdccess- prisoners, as hour after hour went by, save Uncle Sam several hundred thous- fui.it must be acknowledged, so far as appeared more and more lively, and and dollars every year, talked and laughed with each other in | The house is to have a chance of de- apparent unconcern; even Key, who I oiding whether it believes the various stands convicted of murder, and Jones, I ugly charges made at various times whose neck fa so near the hangman’s against the Civil Service Commission noose. At five o’clock, the jury, not should be investigated, as it will have having reached a verdict, the court ad- to vote on Representative Ewart’s.rts- door of the Red Finger bar. It was done journed until ten o’clock to-day, and | olution authorizing ihe-House commit- in the dark, and they never did find out the prisoners were taken back to jail. J tee on Reform in the Civil Service to who did it. The court sent up an additional instruc- investigate these charges. It is almost They made him a grave beside tion during the day regarding the form certain that the resolution will be pass- Nancy, and Four Hole City dropped of verdict to he rendered. The general 1 ed, and it is equally as certain that }ntn a. 0 h r t «,!armed in opinion is that Jones will be fouud some of the charges will be proven. J *** lnt °- ° rot - * m guilty of murder, and perhaps, Fisher Ex-Speaker Carlisle does not believe of manslaughter, and a disagreement as I the Republicans of the House will at- to the other sixteen. | tempt to adopt a rule giving the Speak- WASHINGTON IN GLOOM. I er authorit y to declare .a quorum pres it went. Jim was a dead shot, and as quick as a cat. His government terminated very ab ruptly, however, a few hours after it started, just as Jim stepped out of the other words. Then a United States man came along. Poor fellow—they were looking for Mm. They had his grave dug twenty-four 1 PRIZE OF 50,0001s. 1 PRIZE OF 25,0001s. 2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are 5 PRIZES OF 5,000 are 25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are ,100 PRIZES OF 500 are 200 PRIZES OF 300 are. 500 PRIZES OF 200 are APROXIMATION PRIZES. j ent whenever the requisite number of j hours in advance of his arrival. They An inriflant that rv>i>nrr«A Tiurlmr! members are in the House, whether had his tombstone fixed and the epitaph, S decent VMt There those P resent vote or not > as some Re - and one of those’Frisco coffins marked The Recent Isl * publicans have stated they would. Mr. f or jjg private use. Washington, D. C., December24.— | Carlisle says such a rulewould be clear- \ tjhjsJ brass buttons—six big ones and — ———tj — -— —- - — « _ - * «u,d uaiv 11 iiiEf it to Do adopted by «... ■ . , , - . of soarow over the sad event were urn-1 House and if defeated he would carry forts at reform, nor by any means the versal. The Star and C&pitalof yester- it to the courts. only failures. Suffice it to say that there day and the Post this morning have Justice Brewer’s and a lot of other had been precisely as many failures as graceful editorial tributes to the eager, I nominations were confirmed by the I there were efforts, and exactly as many brilliant young Georgian. A move- Senate before the recess. There were efforts as failures, when Parson Josh ment is on foot to call a meeting of mj votes against the confirmation of cqjuq in that bright, breezy, beautiful Georgians in Washmgton to give some Brewer. / day in autumn, 1850. sympat?iy C . S ^ rCSS1 ° n ° eir £ ne 811 I Words of Encouragement. The parson didn’t make any bones When Mr. Grady was in Washington Editors Banner:—I enclose $1.00; about it. He called out the boys and about ten days ego on his way to Boston please apply to subscription for The told them what to look for. to deliver his last oration, he entertained I Banner. _ As a former resident of the I “El the Lord don’t hinder,” said the a party of friends at the National hotel Classic City and a personal friend of parson, “i'll preach here twice a week with some new and interesting stories I many of the editors and proprietors of I aQ > ^ sa m0 . Ef you don’t like it, of Jefferson Davis, who had died but a The Banner, and^of .‘ h ® % dmi’t come. This yer’s business, and fey days before. | busimee is boalneee. All invited. Smokin’ only thing to be taken into considera- native-born Georgian, tion when we think of death. I take it Long may The Banner wave over that we are all men of fair habits arid the land of the free, and home of the just in the prime of life so far as age is brave. Yours Truly, concerned, but there is no telling when ^ ■" • Mubrelle, we will be called.” | Athens, Bradford Co., Penn. This is a conrron remark for one to r i * iutL* f***AtA make in the face of death, but it was a IVfCEIrCS S VuinC Ol IvSTOLU presentment in^lie case of Mr. Grady. and jhEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT are want is a square deaL” He had oomo in on horseback, and without taking his feet from the stirrups he pronounced the benediction, nodded pleasantly to the crowd, ■ and galloped off in the direction from which he had come. It was done absolutely before a man in the crowd could realize it. The idea— I will be at the courthouse on Thurs- for sale by the following merchants: in preaching in Four Hole City! Benedic- danger as the horse he was riding. . FAMED FOR TWENTY YF4R<s His legs were unstrapped, and he was j For Integrity of its Drawing taken from the horse. The rope was put j prompt Payment of Prizes. around his neck and thrown overalimbi | . , Attested^Follows: Wan ter pray?” he was asked. arrangemente/w an the Monthly anfsSu’J He looked donbtful for a moment. I tta ^ Drawings ot the Louisiana State Loti “Unbind my hands,” said he. “There Swings u.efnS, andZt thet^l are enough of you to eat me. I conducted with honesty, fairness and in . T rti*ma t-wnTT (TTifk v nvi 99 | fftith towniu ull pHrticsy Jiiiti W8 anthorizi Let me pray with my hands loose, I Company to use this certificate, with fac-cli In consideration of the good he had I of our signatures attached in its adrei done, the request was granted, though | ment8 - there was some objection. His own un concern waa another consideration in granting the request. He” seemed re signed to his fate, they noticed. It couldn’t do any harm. The parson raised his bands, his face turned upward. I have done some good,” he said, I .t au J £9a , n ? . . . , wiuo gwu, no oteiu, I pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana Stttt 1 slowly, “an some bad. I have stole teries which may be presented at our count} some horses, but I never took the last R. M. WALMSLtY. Pres. Louisiana Hat ’un from a po’ man. I have killed some I P'ERRE LAHAUX, Pres. Stale National men, but I done it fa’r. All I want, O j;* J . D ?ALDWIH, Pres. New Orleans Nationali Lord, is a squari deal in this. I kin lick l,AHL AUH "> Onion National Bank tiree - I GRAND MONTHLY DRA\ 16 , ... ... I At the Acadamy of Music, New Orleans,! The parson stopped suddenly, a knife day. January. 11. im. in his hands. I Capital Prizo $,300,000. t In another instant the rope around hia 100,000 Tickets St $20 ‘Each; Halft ' knees was loosed, and then at his feet, . Quarters $5; Tenths $2* Twentieths $1. and he waa fairly in the saddle and a PUIZE of^^oooL^^^’ started before a shot was fired. j x PRIZE OF 100,000 is. The parson was off—pursuit was out of the question. They fired recklessly, and he escaped unhurt. They watched him then until he and his horse were a speck on the horizon. Red Murphy’s luck,” growled-one I the men, as he turned to his horse. I loo Prizes of $500 are “Good fer our parson,” grinned Slip’ry of I200 Sam.—Glen Waters In Atlanta Constitu- I TWO NUMBER TERMINALS tion. ' . f 1999 Prizes of 5100 are . 999 Prizes of 1100 are Origin of Mlaflta. The listener was told the other day 1 1 ’ 1 ^ 1 Pr 12 ® 8 Amounting to about a curious old -custom which a good no ?ratltteltoteniiilSm^.* P many citizens may recall. In the old uiiirrrn days in Boston, It appears, there were j AGENTS WANTED, tailors who made a practice of clothing | ly For Club Rates or any farther customers by the year for a fixed price, SS^S^gyo^r SwenS,^^ taking back the old suits as fast as new I ty, street and number. More rapid re;^™ ones were supplied. That is to say, the fe^Stri n |^„i/.&. tailor agreed for (say) the sum of $3Q a I IMPORTANT- year to furnish the customer with three Address M. A. DAUPH1F, suits of clothes annually. Upon the ar- I ' Ae w onem rival of the second newsnit the customer ur M. a. uAurcwj sent back the first, and upon the receipt wawungnm, u. c, w of the third he sent back the second; ®v o^na^ lriter^ntainlngMo^ Y and in each case the tailor furbished up | Exchange Draft or Postal Notes, the suit and sold it through his back door, so to speak, to some dealer in second hand clothing, or to some one who wanted a cheap suit. Probably the t“ilor made a good deal more money through this arrangement than he would ff hehadsold the goods r BANKS ofNew Orleans, »u -g^ outright, and the customer, with a very signed by the President of an instuu^ w moderate expenditure, not only had the ^ a ^ lmltat!o reputation of being a very well dressed anonymous schemes, man, but enjoyed the luxury of weeing .Jhjgfogy us in any^ his best clothes all the time. Out of this AnytlUngln our ntme offered custom, it is supposed, arose the business dollar la a swindle. —' of the manufacture of misfits, which has since grown to such immense propor tions. Probably these second hand suits of clothes, not badly worn and neatly refurbished, came to be known as misfits and also to be much sought after on ac count of their comparative cheapness. And the next step in the profession was to make the “misfits” outright.—Boston Transcript. AMreaBegl'tsreUft NEW ORLEANS ,S I layment GUARANTEED p «eW>*J BANKS of New Orleans, and the 1 n j Remember that the I GUARANTEED BY , but by their day, January 2,1890, at 8 o’clock a. m.! Clarke County : They are strictly vegetable and do for it e purpose of examining applicants, a *-■•* •— —**— for teachers’ places in'^the public schools ■ in Clarke county. Parties interested will be governed accordingly. H. R. Bernard, CommL-sioner. E. S. Lyndon, Athens. G. W. Rush & Co., Athene J. B. Fo' 'ler, rear Athens. J. W. Hardy, near Athens. R. T. Bi ulajBY & Co., Athens. L. D. Sludge & Co., Athens, ? v : .. tionl- Prayert The strangest part of it all was that the parson bad compelled an unmistak able feeling of respect. He bad left them impressed with the idea that he was a superior somebody, amply able to 'How Ho Satisfied Him. Small Boy—Say, dad, I wish you’d get me a bicycle. Old' Man—Gan’t afford It, my son. Rent too high, coal too dear. Besides I don’t want you to break your neck. “Well, then,'a trioycle.” “Can’t do it. But I’ll tell you what you cai. have. When nun ter comes I’ll try and get you a nice long icicle.” The youngster is pacified.—Toronto Grip. DOUCLJ S3 SHOE «f*S as.00 GENUINEyS^gl-tT; Sip ferig^lfSof ^ «nbottom. W.L.DOU«r^