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ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 11, 1890.
VOL LVIH
RELIGIOUS department.
DB. C. W. LANE, Editor.
KELIGIOL'S CRABS.
You «11 know tliem. They arc the
unfortunate disciples wh» arc trying to
w ilk un to heaven backwards. They
pe) .k to develop Christian character by
a careful system of self-examination
ami review. They seize eagerly upon
every anniversary such as a birthday,
»w Year, Lord’s Supper, etc., as oc
casions for retrospection. The (fleet is
doleful enough. They arc forever
mourning over their slow progress.
And what wonder? The crab is not a
model of speed or grace, and whatcould
be expected of those who arc imitating
1 ' The fact is, men are not constructed
for walking backwards, either physic
ally «»r spiritually. Let any one try to
walk backwards up a long, steep bill,
and sic what progress he will make
If he attempts to burry, he will surely
stumble, ltis not a natural way to
walk. God made us to walk with our
faces to the front.
It is useless to dwell on our past lives,
bec ause we cannot change them. Deeds
are immortal. That which is done can
never be undone. Tendering upon it
cc i l do no good. Judas pondered upon
bis sin till be was driven to despair,
and committed another sin. Tele,
turned away from his sin, and forg .t it
In earnest service, showing the reality
of bis repentance and receiving free
forgiveness.
On tin* other hand, no past experi
ence can hinder our present obedience
and salvation. It matters not how sin
ful or how empty may be the record of
the past life,or how many its falls, to
every soul that desires God’s blessings
today that blessing is freely offered.
But the best of all reasons why wo
should look forward and not backward,
is that there are greater things for us
in the future. No Christian need live
forever in the light of a past experi
ence, however grand it may have been.
Every day may be, and ought to be,
brighter and more useful than any day
that has preeed- d it. It matters not.
how much you may have enjoyed of
God’s love and power in the past. He is
willing and able to give you much rich
er experiences in the future.
LITTLE KEEPSAKES.
Keep thy heart with all diligence, ft r
out of it are the issues of life.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy
lips from speaking guile.
Blessed are they that hear the word
of God and keep it,
take heed to thyself, a.ul keep thy
soul diligently
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy.
My son, keep sound wisdom and dis-
cKtion.
11c thalkcepeth his mouth, keepeth
his lire
Little children, keep yourselves from
idols.
My, son, keep thy fathers command
ments.
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Keep elie far from a false matter.—
Exchange.
La Grippe still seizes upon victims in
tie old world and in tlie new. Soul
grippe is always ahroa-i in the land.
Many have had it for pears, and are
still in the chill stage of the disease.
The Hessian lly has appeared in
Ninth Carolina and to some extent in
iu Georgia, and is doing mischief to the
young oats and wheat. A Hessian lly
in the form of a bed hubitor of a neg-
Irete.l duty or b«*th, is making havoc
with many a man’s character and pros
pects for a better world.
We met a sunny faced little boy the
other day, and when we ottered our
hand, lie held his hnek. His nurse said
it was because he held a pin just picked
up, between his thumb and linger. So
eli i Id re ii of a larger growth hold back
from taking the offered band of Christ,
because they have hold of something
else—some costly pin head.
notwithstanding all your lectures on
humility. Fill your house with gossip,
and your children will tattle. Culture
them as much as you will,but give them
plenty of money to spend, and they
will go to destruction.—Talmadge.
Georgia" mm.
Americus is indignant over the ap
pointment of a negro postmaster.
George Cater, a farmer living four
miles west of Jonesboro, committed su
icide by hanging yesterday.
A Are at McKae destroyed $700 worth
of property.
At Dupont a fire destroyed $8,000
worth of property.
There are only six applicants for the
Hawkinsville postollice.
The Hessian fly is playing havoc with
the cereals of the State.
W. H. Ashburu is trying to organize
a band at Eastman.
There is some talk of erecting a tele
phone line between Sinithonia and At
lanta.
All the machinery for the Griffin elec
tric plant is on the ground.
Ella Facing, alias Ella Cunningham,
the woman who, it is said, incited
Reeves to the killing of Theodore Grom-
wald, has just been arrested near Dari
en. Iteeves, the murderer, has not as
yet been heard of.
Mrs. Candaey Mills, residing near
Hcrshman’s lake, in Scriven county,
war seriously hurt last Monday by fall
ing from the steps of her gin house and
breaking both her arras, one above and
the other below the elbow.
The Atlanta police have captured and
brought to the city from Lithonia a de
serter from the United States army
named John M. Hutchins. Hutchins
skipped out from Fort Barrancas, Fla.,
about three years ago.
Jack Burroughs, the man suspected
of robbing Confederate Veteran Daven
port of his peusion and other valuables,
lias been arrested by the police of At
lanta.
Residence lots are selling in Americus
for $25 per front foot.
Mr. John Millege has been commis
sioned lieutenant colonel of the First
Battalion of Georgia Cavalry.
Editor F. L. Stanton, of the Rome
Tribune, will aceept a position in Atlan
ta.
AN INDIAN AT HIGH SHOAL.
Coi cci.tratiun of thought and effort
is a measure of personal power.” The
mini wlio can put himself wholly and
absolutely into the one thing whieb de-
mands bis attention for the lime being,
(ms more power lor that one thing than
if lie were twice or ten times the man
he is, and divided his energies on two
tilings, or ten, accordingly. Indeed,
the man who compasses most in this
world, doing the greatest variety of
tilings. at.d doing thni all well, is in
variably the man wlio attends to but
one thing at a time, and gives himself
■*P to that while he is doing it, as if he
had nothing else but that to live for.
And the man who always seems to be
thinking of something else while he is
assuming to give his attention to a mat
ter immediately in hand, or who bears
himself as if he wanted to get this thing
out of the way in order to get at anoth
er, is sure to fail of being a first-class
man in any sphere of endeavor. The
best way, in fact, of getting ready for
the next thing you have to do, is by at
tending faithfully to the thing now de
manding attention.—S. .8. Times.
V
Among the curses of the Bible, “there
, 8 one which is very solemn, and, per-
htps, little pondered. In this: “Curs
ed be he who doeth the work of the
l ord negligently.” (Jer. 48, 10, mar-
If'ii.) How many temptations we have
to do the work of the Lord n-gligently,
even when we do not neglect it alto
gether! We are weary; the weather is
hot or cold; we have pleasant engage
ments—a thousand things come m the
''ay, and tempt us to do God’s work
hurriedly, yea, negligently. And how
nnich we lose I The letter which we
" rote so hastily might have done so
hut' b «ood if we had been prayerful and
thoughtful over it; that visit,which was
!° unsatisfactory, might have been so
■ruitful of good if we had only been
careful. May G’d help us to be watch-
“E 1st his curse comes upon our heads.
Indian Witness.
i Unless our children are saved In early
{!, ‘''ey probably never will be. They
" ho to over the twentieth year without
Airist’ are apt to go all the way with-
u t him. Grace, like flower seed, needs
o be sown in spring, The first fifteen
yeni-s of life, and often the first six, de
cide the eternal destiny The first thing
t0 1,0 with a lamb is to put it in the
“fins ®f tho great Shepherd. Of course
«kn l ? U8t ol) »©rve natural laws. Give a
cntlil excessive meat diet, and it will
grow up sensual, and catechism thiee
V ,neB ©day, and sixty giains in each
uo«e will not prevent it. Talk ranch in
your childhood’s presence about the
wiijons, Mid It will he fond erf drees,
He Talks About the Missionary Work
Antony Ilis Tribe—Other Items.
High Shoals, Ga., Feb. 8.—[Spe
cial.]—Quite a novel sensation is per
vading the town, occasioned by the ad
vent of an Indian lecturer, who gives
his name as ‘‘Star” of the “Cheyenne”
tribe. He is highly educated; speaks
English fitiently, even eloquently, lie
is discussing before the people the In
dian question, and the advancement of
the missionary work among the tribes.
Also the customs and habits of the In
dians, their mode of worship, and
Christianity as it exists among them.
He gives thrilling accounts of. Indian
wars and the courage with which the
Red man will fight for his honor. He
makes an earnest appeal to the white
people to civilize and Christianize the
tribes instead of trying to exterminate
them. He dwells- with considerable
pathos on the manner in which the race
lias been treated by the government.
Upon the whole he is a very entreating
person, and his peculiar habits render
him a prodigy in our quiet town.
Mr. T. G. Larriens came near being
seriously hurt in an accident with a
two-horse wagon coupled out long, and
was going to his plantation for a load
of lumber, accompanied by his son C.
A. Larriens, and going down the hill
that leads from his house to the bridge
the coupling pole broke, throwing Mr.
L. under the brake, and catching his
’eg under it, was dragged considerable
distance down the hill. Mr. C. A. Lar
riens soon succeeded in reaching the
lines and checked the team. Mr. Lar
riens received several scratches, and
will probably be disabled for several
days.
Messrs. Lumpkin and Bradeen, two
of Athens’ genial drummers waited
upon the merchants of our town yes
terday.
RIOT IN ALABAMA, \
And a Large Humber of Men, are Killed—
Great Excitement.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 7—[Special]
Meager particulars of a bloody riot
near Aldrich, Bibb county, between
white stone cutters and bridge builders
and negroes has just reached here. Yes
terday’ the white stone cutters and
bridge men on the Brierfleld, Blockton
& Birmingham road struck, owing to
some trouble with negro laborers.
All day long there were quarrels and
fighting among them. Late yesterday
aiternoon while a body of the white men
were going through a strip of woods
they were fired upon by a band of con
cealed negroes with terrible effect.
Dennis Carney and Toney Bracken
were killed outright, and John Belton,
Pat Lambert and William Cunning
ham, all whit •, are badly wounded. Tho
negroes then fled. All the workingmen
have gone in pursuit and much blood
shed is expected tonight. There is much
excitement.
MR. RODGERS IS DEAD
At Camak, and His Murderer Will Bs
Lynched.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 7.—[Special]—
News reached the city this morning
that Mr. A. S. Rogers, who had been
shot by a burglar at Camak, night be
fore last, full particulars of which were
printed in the Banner yesterday after
noon, died early last night.
The negro is in jail at Warrenton.
An attempt will be made tonight, un
less the minds of a great many people
change before then, to lynch him.
The friends of Mr. Rogers are irfu
riated and are intent on punishing the
culprit.
Burned in- Their Cabin.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 8—[Spe
cial I—An unconfirmed story reaches
here that near Stevenson, Ala., George
Rolf, his two little ones and Ins wire,
were burned in their cabin night before
last. '
To be Locked Out.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 8—[Special]
—There is trouble in the Kitchen mines,
in Walker county, this State, over the
adoption of mine rules, and one hundred
men are out of employment. It isnn-
derstood that the men are looked out by
the bosses,
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
GEORGE T. MURRELL. Editor.
WHY FARMING DOES NOT PAY.
NO. 7.
Our farm labor system is very de
fective. In point of fact we have no
system at all. Common sense seasoned
with a little experience has settled that
point long ago.
Politicians are more to blame for this
than any other class. They are afraid
to talk about enacting laws looking to
ward the government of labor, poor
things, while they are on the anxious
bench as candidates before the dear
people. After they become members of
our legislative bodies they are still
afraid to do anything on that line, for
the word “Endorsement” haunts him
like several night-mares.
To better onr labor system we must
first get rid of a certain class of politi
cians. How this is to be done is the
question. Some very wise suggestions
are now in order. In the meantime we
might try a little “rough on rats” ju
diciously put out here and there about
election times.
Good land, good seasons and good
management can accomplish a great
deal in the way of success on the farm,
but with all these good things but. little
headway can be made without good
farm labor to do the work.
The negro is the best farm hand that
has ever made his appearance among us
up to date. If kept within reasonable
bounds all is well with him and with
those about him. When beyond con
trol he becomes almost worthless as a
laborer and like fire and water a con
suming element.
If you understand him and, he
understands you there is no trouble
to get along with him, provided
you can keep him out from under the
pernicious influence of some mean, trif
ling, low down white man
Certain peculiarities of nature and
disposition attach to bis general make
up. Asa rule (there are some excep
tions) he will go two miles into error
under the leadership of a mean igno
rant white man, rather than take one
step in the direction of truth under the
influence of the most intelligent man
in the community. This is unfortunate
for the race and acts as a clog to their
peace, prosperity and happiness. A di
rect appeal to his prejudices will kuock
the props of the soundest logical reason
ing from under him. As a rule he nev
er stops to reason about anything. A
white man of any intelligence and re
spectability may reason with him from
the rising of the sun ’till the going
down of the same and he may admit
the soundness of every argument used,
and yet in two minutes afterward a
word or two, a wink and a nod from
the veriest rapscallion that ever cursed
the earth with his pointing influence,
will undo the work of the day. For
years 1 have been trying to account for
this particular weakness iu this race of
people.
If jou will take the trouble to go
down to the bottom of the cause of riots
and race troubles, you will find that
oine trifling white man is the prime
nstigator nine times out of ten.
1 want to say injustice to the colored
race that there is less malice in his
composition than tbere is in the white
man. You seldom hear of one harbor
ing a grudge against another for a con-,
siderable lengih of time. When kept’
under good and;wholcsome influences he
readily submits to law and authority.
I have heard them say “who dare
satisfaction in my mind
I’s willing to work.
This explains the point I an trying to
make. If his mind is not poisoned by
these green flies that taint everything
they touch he moves along with an
elastic happy step and performs his
work with cheerfulness.
As before intimated, our law-makers
areafradtodo anything that would
seem to interfere with the perfect free
dom of the farm laborers, for ir is of
this particular class of laborers 1 am
talking. There is a great deal of mis
conception of the duty they owe to the
farming class (laborers included) just
along this line. It matters not how
free a man is, he must be subjected to
the rules of law. Freedom uncontrolled
by law becomes a veritable course to
him, and to those with whom he deals.
How is it that when a farm laborer
conies to a farmer and says to him, “let
me have so much meat and meal, and I
wi 1 come and work it out,” and then
goes to the merchant arid says, “Let me
have so much meat and meal and I will
bring in some cotton and pay for it.”
He then fails to meet either promise.
The farmer has him arrested for getting
his meat and meal ui der a false pre
tense. Some little lawyer pops up and
says: “May it please your honor this
defendant has simply lied, and as lying
is no crime in the defendant, or in the
little lawyer either, for that matter, he
is set free.
The merchant then takes a pull at
him. The lawyer then turnes to the
law printed in plain unmistakable type
and the crimnal pays the penalty of vi
olated law. In both ease money has
not been psomised.
There are other laws worked by the
same pattern, but limited space forbids
the mention of them, it would be
much better for that class of farm la
borers who desire to act justly by their
employers, if there were more safe
guards thrown around the rights of
landowners. Honest, fair-minded la
borers ure sometimes embarrassed in
their business transactions with em
ployers and made to endure unnecessa
ry inconvenience for no other reason
than that the employer must exerelse
considerable precaution on account of a
want of confidence in the protecting
power of the law to sustain him in ea-e
of a mistep on the part of the employer.
There is a growing disposition on the
l>art of farm hands te rent laud and not
to hire fer wages. Some of them claim
that they sell their freedom when they
cannot go when they please and return
at will. The idea that their time dur
ing work hours belongs to another is re
pugnant to the feelings of the average
darkey. In the majority of cases the
much talked of freedom is estimated by
the rule of being at perfect liberty to go
whithersoever their inclinations lead
them. Being compelled to do right
robs liberty of all its sweetness Any
thing that smacks of a command to toe
the mark in the poiformanee of duty
brings about a revulsion of feeling that
takes the place of willing submission to
authority. This spirit in them is en
couraged by the teaching of that class
of white men above referred to. They
will eall a laborer the rich man’s slave
if he exercises a lively interest in his
affairs and tries to be submissive to bis
requests. These things I mention, first
because they are true, and second be
cause they lay the foundation of effec
tive farm labor.
Something must be done quickly to
bring about a revolution in our labor
system, for the interests of the farmers
are tending downward, downward.
GENERAL MEW&
In a church row in Virgftiia, near
Sparta, N. C., two men were killed and
three wounded.
It is believed the deadlock will soon
be broken by a compromise in the Iowa
Legislature.
The Chicago Anarchist case ?is to go
before the United|States Supreme Court
agaiu for review.
New Y'ork’s World’s Fair bill! is in
conference committee of the two houses
of Legisla'ure.
In the Union Pacific wreck at Cas
cade Locks last Sunday nine men were
killed and 18 wounded.
Mr. G. W. Childs denies positively
that a fund is being raised for Mrs,
Samuel J. Randall.
Gov. Gen. Salamanca, ef Cuba, is very
ill, the Vice Governor General assum
ing command.
The Massachusetts G. A R. encamp
ment, Gen. Alger attending, at Boston
is still in session.
The vtrious motions in the case of the
Cronin jury briiiers at Chicago will be
argued Monday.;
At Franklin, La., Wednesday, N.
Alleman killed A. T. Gordy, a despera
do, in self defence.
Canada Knights of Labor will ask for
a national board of arbitration to ad
just labor differences.
The Lenox Hill Bank of New York
has not yet been opened. There are no
new developments.
The examination of G. K. Pell, the
New York Bank wrecker, has been ad
journed to next Thursday.
Two Panhandle passenger trains col
lided at Bowerston, Io, Thursday, fa
tally injuring Engineer Martin.
New York’s legislature still fails to
agree on a world’s fair bill.
A bill is before the Canadian palia-
ment to imprison polygamous mor
mons.
The Rev. W. F. Miehols of Philadel
phia was chosen Episcopal bishop ot
California.
Andiew Carnegie offers $1,000,000 for
a free library in Pitsburg if the city
will maintain it.
At Geneva last evening Willson S.
Bissell and Mis Louise Sturges were
married. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleve
land were present.
Aseman, convicted at Indianapolis of
murdering Bertha Elft“ has been sen
tenced to be hanged May 23.
A St. Louis nurse who kidnaped a
baby declared that she would keep it
until, money, claimed to be due her,
was paid. '
There is a movement on foot looking
to through passenger traffic from Co
lumbus to Indianapolis over the. O., I.
& W. road.
There is a theory that the Tracy fire
was eaused by the explosion of a lamp
that had been turned low and left burn
ing in the parlor.
The New York chamber of commerce
C rotested against "the McKinly tariff
ill unless modified.
The commercial treaty between Ger
many and Turkey lias been signed.}
Alex Leslie of Newburgh, one of the
best known hotel men on the Hudson
River, has made at assignment. His
debts are about $6,000. Recorder C. L.
Waring is the assignee.
Way or Grantof New York has made
his secretary, T. C. T. Crain, a bright
young lawyer, city chamberlain, at
$23,000 salary per annum.
David Dudley Gield. at Williams col
lege alumni dinner in New York, last
night wanted to know why they did
not print their bill of fare iu English,
and they cheered him good.
Mayor Hanes of Newark, N. J., had a
portrait of his face painted to be hung
in the council room. The aldermen
poked fun at the picture and the mayor
in anger threat poked his foot through
it.
The board of control of the Epsworth
league is meeting in Chicago. Bishop
J. M. Fitzgeraid of Minneapolis was
elected president, and the Rev. n. Rees
secretary. The league now has 1,910
chapters and 100,000 members.
The confirmation of the Samoan
treaty by the United State affords gen
eral satisfaction in Germany.
Secretary Tracy continues to im
prove. He is still at the White House.
Parties from South Dakata and Min
nesota are looking for settlements in
Virginia and Maryland.
At Philadelpha John Gallagher was
held charged with feloniously assault
ing Mary Gaten, aged 16 years. The
evidence showed conclusively that Gal
lagher was guilty as charged, and Judge
Reed sentenced him to fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
Mis Elizabeth Cross yesterday presen
ted to the State of Maryland a sword
and other memorials which belonged to
her father. Lieutenant Joseph Cross.
The Colored Men’s Convention, in
session at Washington, yesterday elected
Ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback pres
ident of the national organization.
A dinner was given at the Toulon
Prefecture of Maine to the officers at
tached to the American Squadron of
Evolution. The squadron sails Tues
day for Villefranche.
Twenty-two companies of London
dock-owners have signed an agreement
recently made to fight the labor unions
of men employed in handling freight
and in other dock occupations.
The committee of the London Dock
Laborers’ Union iB making arrange
ments for a general strike on Monday.
Many of the men are averse to striking
again, and the action of the committee
causes much discontent.
The 'Lisbon municipal authorities
have given one hundred contos to the
National Defense Fund. The Arch
bishop convened the clirgy, and direct
ed them to collect funds for ths pur
pose in every parish.
The headless body of a man was found
on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
bnrg Railroad track at a road crossing
in Richland, on Wednesday evening.
It was soon ascertained to be the re
mains of Luke Frost, ag>-d about 60
years, a resident of Richland, who was
worth about $30,000 or $40,000.
The Bank of Bombay has increased its
rate of discount to eleven per cent. ■
Mr. Henry M. Stanley his been eh cttd
a member of the Rtusian Geographical
Society.,
CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT.
A DUTCH LULABY.
Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night,
Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
Sailed on a river in misty light
Into a sea of dew.
“Where are you going and what do you
wish ?”
The old moon asked the three.
“We have come to fish for the herring fish
Tbnt live in this tH-aut'ifid sea:
Nets of silver- and c’od have we,”
Said Wynken,
Blynk*-n,
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sung a song
As they rocked in ihe wo .den shoe.
And the wind tnat sped them a'l night
long,
Ruffled the waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring-fish
That lived in the beautiful sta.
“Now cast your nets wherever you wish,
But never afraid are we,”
So cried the stars to the fishermen three,
Wynken,
Blynkt-n,
And Nod.
All night long their nets th y threw
For the fish in the twinkling foam.
Then down from the say came the wooden
stioe, _
Bringing the fishermen home.
'Twas all so pretty, a .-ail it seemed
As if it could not b<;
And some folks thought 'twas a dream
they dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sen,
But I shall name you the fishermen
thiee:
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the woodeD shoe that Sailed the skits
Is a wee oue’s trundle-be!;
So shut your eyts while mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock od the misty sea
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen
three,
Wynken,
Blynken, n
Ami Nod.
—Eugene Field, in Chicago Heirs.
BE A*MAN7
Not of of the “dude” species.
Not of the kind that stand on the street
Corners.
N«ifc of the kind that prides himself on
being a “masher-”
Not ot the kind that sneer at the idea of
personal puriiy.
Not of the kind that sneers at the
Church.
Not of the kind that thinks Cluisrians a
mild sort of fools.
Nut of the kind that owes the tailor
livi ryinan, and everybody else.
Not of the kind that is a connoisseur of
whisky.
Not of the “yes, yes,” kind.
Not of the kind that Calls mother “old
woman” and father “old man.”
Not of the itinerant infidel blood.
Not of tilt- coward kiml
Not of the iceberg variety.
Not of tho “I can’t tribe.”
Not of the evading, scuffling, shuilltng-
throueli-life kind, “ having no hope, and
without God in Ute world.9
GUT OF MY WINDOW.
“ Rat91”
*’ Chestnuts J”
1 put on my glasses and look < ul of the
window. Take them off, rub them and
h ole again. No, there is no sir et loafer
in sight; not even a rough looking little
boy to be seen. There are two pretty giiL
going by with school bags iu their hands,
and blight, rosy faces peeping out from
under broad-brimmed hats. Bui it surely
cau’t be—wby yes, it is !—those sweet
locking girls who are talking so loud
ly I The gentleman, over t|ie way,puts
down liis paper; the lady, who has just
stepped from her carriage, card case in
hand, looks up, is surprised.
“A perfect crank isn’t she?”
“Perfect; why, she goes around the
otlierway, because there are so many
people on this street.”
“Yes, and she will blush herself to
death for nothing, Oh, such girls make
me tired!”
The voices die away in the distance.
I take off my glrsses and lean back in
my chair. There is in my heart as deep
a feeling of pity, as though I had seen
two, {otherwise fair young faces, scarr
ed with disfiguring disease.
Girls, don’t talk slang; it is neither
wttty nor refined. Don’t be sensation
al; if everything that you pronounce
“perfectly dreadful.” “awful,” “hor
rible,” etc., were really so, this world
would be a miserable place to live in.
And girls, don’t please don’t be loud.
The attention excited by a noisy grou p
of girls in the crowded street car, or
store, or parlor is not admiration. Re
member all the world is not interested
in your lesson, your dresses, and your
friends. Modify your tones. Cultivate
that voiee.
“Gentle and low; an exeeilent thing
in woman,” which Shakespere com
mends.
Anotrier form of loudness, almost, if
not equally objectionable,is in dressing.
I once came across a paragraph in a
novel, which stayed in my memory, af
ter I had forgotten even the title of the
book; it was this: “A perfectly dress
ed woman is one whose dress never at
tracts notice.” In short, dear girls,cul
tivate the sweet old-fashioned modesty,
that is in the young girl, what the fra
grance is in the violet.
One of the early painters, Appelles, I
believe, wished to paint a picture of
Heilen of Troy, which should suppass
all others. To procure models, he sent
to Greece Tor six of the most beautiful
maidens; which eould be found within
its limits. On the arrival of the maid
ens, one of them refused to unveil her
face at the request of the distinguished
stranger, and returned to Greeee. Ap
pelles painted his picture from the oth
er five, taking the eyes of one, the ex
quisite coloring of another, the form of
a third and so on. The picture was fin
ished and its fame spread far and wide:
crowds came to examine it, but on ex
pressing their aduiiratison to the artist,
he would shake his head, and say, “It
is imperfect; oh, for the blush of the
sixth maideu.”
TRACED IN BLOOD;
A WELI«-KNOWN LAWYER DEAD.
Col. J, B. Siltnan Drops Dead While At
tending Court.
Jxffkbson, Ga., Feb. 8—[Special]—
Col. J. B. Siltnan dropped dead this af
ternoon in the court-house, while he
was there attending court Col. Siltnan
was #tell-known and. highly esteemed
in this section, and a fine lawyer.
OH.
The Little Old Man of the Batignolles
EMILS OABOBVIU.
-- r chapter viii. 7
What I then lacked—Pro had occasion
to call myself to account for it a hundred
times since—was experience, familiarity
with the profession, and especially a
thorough knowledge of the modes of the
action of the police.
I dimly felt that th’ Elimination had
been badly, or rather ^aperflcially con
ducted, but I should have been troubled
to tell why, and especially to say what
ought to have been done.
I was none the less deeply interested In
Monistrol.
It seemed as if his cause was my own.
And this was very natural—my youthfnl
▼anity was aroused. Wasit not a remark
of mine that had raised the first doubts
In regard to the unfortunate man’s guilt?
“I must prove his innocence,” I said to
myself.
Unfortunately, the arguments carried
on during the evening had disturbed my
mind so much that I no longer knew on
what fact to erect my structure. As al
ways happens when we fix our minds too
long on the solution of a problem, my
ideas became as confused as a skein in the
hands of a child. I no longer saw clearly,
everything was chaos.
Leaning back in my arm-chair, I was
still racking my brains, when M. Mechi-
net, faithful to the promise made the
evening before, came for me.
“Come, come,” he said, shaking me
rudely, for I had not heard him enter,
“let’s be off.”
“I’m ready,” I said, rising.
We hastily went downstairs, and I then
noticed that my worthy neighbor was
dressed with more care than usual.
He had succeeded in giving himself
that easy, well-to-do air, which is so
particularly attractive to the Parisian
shopkeeper.
His good spirits were those of a man
snre of himself, who is advancing to cer
tain victory.
Wo were soon in the street, and while
we were on onr way,—
“Well,” he asked, “what do yon think
of my wife?. I pass for a sharp fellow at
the prefecture; and yet I consult her.
Moliere consulted his servant—and I’ve
often profited by her advice. She has one
weakness: to her there are no clumsy
crimes, and her imagination lends all
villains the power of diabolical combina
tions. But us I have precisely the oppo
site failing, and am perhaps a little too
positive, it’s rare that the truth does not
appear during onr consultations.”
“What!” I cried, “you think yon have
penetrated the mystery of the Monistrol
affair?”
Ho stopped short, drew his snuff-box
out of his pocket, took three or four of
his imaginary pinches and replied:
“At least I have the means of penetrat
ing it.”
Meantime we had reached the top of
the Rue Vivienne, not far from Monis-
trol’s shop.
“Pay attention,” said M. Meohinet;
“follow me, and whatever happens, let
nothing surprise yon.”
He did well to warn me, or I should
have been greatly astonished to see him
abruptly enter an umbrella shop.
Stiff and grave as an Englishman, he
turned over the whole stock, found noth
ing to suit him, and at last asked whether
an umbrella could be made for him like a
pattern which ho would-furnish.
He was told that it would be the easiest
thing in the world, and went out saying
he would come back the next morning.
The half-hour spent in the shop had
certainly not been lost. While examin
ing the umbrellas placed before him, he
had had sufficient art to draw from the
shopkeepers all that they knew of M. and
Mme. Monistrol.
It was an easy matter, after all, for the
affair of the “little old man of the Batig-
nolles,” and the arrest of the dealer in
Imitation jewelry, had caused great ex
citement throughout the neighborhood
and was the universal subject of conver
sation.
“There,” said he, when we were out
side, “that's the way to obtain exact in
formation. When people know with
whom they are dealing they strike atti
tudes, make stilted speeches, and then
good-bye to the truth.”
M. Mechinet repeated this farce in
seven or eight shops in the neighbor
hood, and even spent twenty francs in
one, whose owner was quiet and not dis
posed to talk.
Bat after two hours of this strange oc
cupation, which greatly amused me, we
were thoroughly posted in regard to pub
lic opinion. We knew precisely what was
thought of M. and Mme. Monistrol in the
neighborhood where they had lived since
their marriage—that is, fonr years.
There was but one opinion about the
husband.
He wossaidtohethebest and kindest
of men, obliging, honest,' Intelligent and
industrious. If he had not succeeded in
his business, it was because fortune does
not always favor those who are most de
serving. He had made the mistake of
hiring a shop devoted to bankruptcy-
four merchants had been ruined in it
within fifteen years.
He worshiped his wife, everybody knew
and said, but this great love had never
passed proper limits, never exposed him
to ridicule. * ,
No one could believe in his guilt.
His arrest, it was said, must be a mis
take on the part of the police.
Opinions were divided in regard to
Mme. Monistrol. -
Some thought her too fine for her po-
sition, others said that a fashionable cos
tume was one of the necessities of her
business.
It was generally believed that she sin
cerely loved her husband, and she was
universally praised for her prudence, a
prudence the more meritorious because
she was remarkably beautiful and be
sieged by numerous admirers. But she
had never given occasion for gossip, not
the slightest breath of suspicion
sullied her immaculate character.
This, I perceived, greatly perplexed M.
Mechinet.
“Strange,” said he, “not a tale, not a
slander, not a calumny. This isn’t what
Caroline supposed. According to her
idea, we ought to find one of those shop
keepers who are always behind the coun
ter, display their beauty more than their
wares, and consign the husband—a blind
fool, or careless toad-eater—to the back-
shop. And she is nothing of the sort!”
I made no reply, being no less puzzled
than my neighbor.
We were a long way from the testimony
of the concierge in the Rue Lecluse. so
greatly does the point of sight vary ac
cording to the neighbo itootl. What is
considered horrible coq etry in the Ba-
tiguollcs, is only a business necessity in
the Biie Vivienne.
_ But we had already spent too much
time in oUr inquiries to stop to ex-
change impressions and' discuss our
conjectures.
“Now,’’said M. Mechinet, “before
entering the place, let us study the ap
proaches to it.”
And trained to carry o:i the prudent
|investigations amid the hustle of Paris,
he made me a sign to follow him into a
doorway, directly opposite ■Mouistroi’s
shop.
It was an unpretending, almost shab
by shop, compared with those that sur
rounded it. The front needed painting.
Over the door, in letters once gilt, but
now smokened and blackened, was the
name of Monistrol. On the panes were
inscribed Gold and Imitation Jewelry.
Alas! it was principally imitation
jewelry that glittered in the windows.
From the rods hunga quantity of plat
ed chains, jet ornaments, diamond of
brilliants, necklaces of imitation coral,
and pins, rings and sleeve-buttons set
with imitation gems of all colors.
A poor display,! precei ved at a glance,
and one that would, not teuipt shop-
breakers.
“LetVgo in,” said I to M. Mechinet.
He was less impatient than I, or un
derstood how to eontro, his impatience
better, l'or he grasped me by the arm,
saying:
“One moment—I should like to catch
a glimpse of Mme. Monistrol.”
But it was in vain that we remained at
our post of observation twenty min
utes longer, the shop was still empty,
Mine. Monistrol did not appear.
“We have waited long enough,” my
worthy neighbor at last exolaimed.
! Uonie, Monsieur Godeuil, w’ll risk
it.”
To!be Continued.
OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTIES
MOllGAH COUHTT.
Mr. Henry Furlow, who for the past
tew months has been engaged in busi
ness in Atlanta, has returned to Madi
son.
Sheriff Ililsman is visiting Alabama
this week on professional business.
A teacher is wanted for tho Brown-
wood school.
JACKSOH COUHTT.
Miss Fannie Turner is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Pharr, in Danielsville.
Mrs. W. V. Lindsey, of this place,
who has been suffering for about four
weeks with dropsy, died last Wednes
day morning at ten o’clock. She was
<0 years old at the time of her death.
Measles are still raging at Dry Pond.
Cicero Lancaster, aged about 18, was
buried at Hopewell last Thursday.
Miss Ada Niblack, of Virgil, spent
several days this week with Miss Har
dy, of Pineville.
James Jones, of Mmish’s district,
J a 10 £ ** months old which weigh
ed 510 pounds. °
We are in reeeipt of a nice box of rab-
mt paws presented by our friend, J. II.
A. Simmons, of Pendergrass.
Professor Caldwell’s school will have
a spelling bee at Academy church Fri
day night. All invited.
V
HALL C OUHTT.
The number of marriage license is
sued in tin county this year was 179.
A number of hoys who were charged
with attempting to rob the State bank
ing company were tried last week, and
resulted in an acquital. No overt or
direct net on their part to commit a
robbery was proven; hence the verdict
of “not guilty.”
The “Young Ladies Club” gave a
church benefit entertainment at tho fe
male college last week.
Cans. B. Walker, a prominent rail
road man was in the county last week.
OGLETHOBPE OUHTY.
. Miss Berta Daniel, of Crawford.is vis
iting fri. nds in Lexington.
Prof. G. Marco Faust, of Reed’s
Spring aceadcmy had to suspend school
Because of an epidemic of measles
among his scholars.
There is a great demand for brick m
Elberton.
There lias been an unusual number
grip cases in the countv this week.
Lexington has been honored with a
number of visiting young ladies re
cently.
The Confederate Survivers Associa
tion of Oglethorpe met in Lexington
last Sunday.
MADISON COUNTY.
P r : p* Sorrells, ot Athens, visited
relatives m the county this week.
The Winlerville Cornet Band gave
an entertainment at the court-house
this week.
Ihe new Board of Commissioners will
do some good work for the county.
Gapt. W. S. Seott is quite sick this
week.
Danielsville te on a boom.
Cr°Psare very good in the county.
1 ho Kuld property was sold to Mr. A.
F. Brown, of Hartwell, for $1,300.
HABEBSHAM COUNTY.
A mad-dog passed through Leather-
wood recently and bit a number of cat-
tie, whieb had to be killed.
Capt. W. S. Mosely, while trimming
trees in his front yard recently, fell
and broke his leg.
Messrs. «T. B. Simmons and E. P.
Simpson will start a furniture factory
in loeeoa.
The new Council of Toccoaheld their
first meeting hist Tuesday night.
Little Maud Atderson, daughter of
Mr. Jesse_ Anderson, of Turnerville,
while playing with a small pen-knife in
its hands, fell, piereing her little heart.
She liv« d only ten minutes.
THE JUDGE ACQUITTED.
Efforts of Bepublicons to Prove Fraud in
Arkansas Elections. .
Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 8.—{Spe
cial]—In the Federal Court the case of
J, II. Merri-t, was nolle pressed.
Judge Merritt was indicted for ap-
]>ointing all Democratic judges of elec
tion for the November election of 1888.
He had one triil, which resulted iua
hung jury.
This is one of the cases made by Re
publican officials to prove fraud in the
Second District.