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THE ATHENS BANNER : TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 25, 1890.
Why Royal Baking Powder is the Best
“The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure,
for I have so found it in many tests made both for
that company and the United States Government.
I will go still further and state that, because of the facilities that company
have for obtaining perfectly pure cream of tartar, and for other reasons dependent
upon the proper proportions of the same, and die method of its preparation,
the Royal Baking Powder
is undoubtedly the Purest .
and most reliable baking
powder offered to the public.
“HENRY A. MOTT, Ph. D."
Late United States Government Chemist.
THE STRATAGEM PEA.
RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
A Variety That Possesses Many BrfvxITcWfi
Qualities.
The stratagem pea Is a deservedly pop*
nlar sort, securing extra prices in many
markets as well as pleasing consumers
at home with its large size and good
quality. The plant bears numerous pods
Da. C. w. LANE. Editor.
GOLD DUST.
FROM OTHER JOURNAL*.
Doubt not: thy God Is over all.
And be who marks the weak bird's fad
Marks thine.
The m> I s po.,r dust
He cherishes and watchful holds
Till the due season w «n its life unfolds.
Warned by tbe breathing, of a better tru-t.
MERIT WINS.
A DESERVEDLY POPULAR PEA.
of large size and usually crowded with
peas.
AliOUT MISTAKEN WIT.
used- “rish” as a synonym for stupid,
dunce, or blundering, and 1 also knew.a
wife and mother to whom nature had.
THE PIPE IN GRANDFATHER’S MOUTH
-HOW GRANDMAMMA DANCED.
Insults the jester is launching at ms
seemingly stolid comprehension. I was
once present at a most painful scene, ...... . -j ~—j
where the rather deaf, exceedingly com- unkind in inducing an enormous j 8 remarkably bushy, not over
It comes mid-season, perhaps
midway between Bliss’ everbearing and
champion of England. It requires only
about one-half the labor in picking de
manded by many other varieties. The
monplaco and decidedly disagreeable hulk and unwieldy figure. Her husband ^ e jgbteen inches high and entirely self
udge not; the workings out or his b ain
A .u oi.hta heart thou ca s’t not s*e;
What looks 1.0 hy .limexe a 'tain,
In Lod’s par ligot may only lie
I x scar, brought irom some well-won field,
Where thou xvouldst only faint and yield
—Adelaide Proctor.
Old age, the evening twilight f«:r bi n
who lias a Saviour, blends so undistin
guished with the sunrise that there is
-oh c ly a night b-tween.—Professor Tiro-
l.i k.
Headquarters for tbe justly Celebrated Vehicles manufactured ^
THE COLUMBUS BUGGY
OLD HICKORY WAGONS.
CO.
1 Car load of the popular and reliable COLLINS WOOD Part
best od the market. All grades of Buggies, hurries and CarrL. ^
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He who waits to d • a great deal of "oo I
-•.me*, will n ver do any hiug.—Doctor
J hubOu.
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Strength i* born in the deep oil* nee of
lonj-Huttering beat t-,not amid,! joy.—Mrs.
Hemnm.
Many an object in life urns' be attaine I
l>y fl. k movements; it is toe z'-ezag n.ad
thin always leads t,» the mouolaiu ti p. —
Macon.
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head of a house suddenly remarked to a J™* a .^ nan ’ daughters i supporting, stem stout and stocky and
Witt You Have Some Claret?—Caricatures
Not Relished by Their Subjects—“Don’t
i.AUgh at Your Own Jests'*—When to Be
I'unny When Not to Be Funny.
| Copyright by American Press Association.]
We sometimes hear persons playfully
warned “not to be so funny or they will
bint themselves.”
But it is quite true that mistaken
i Las of humor often do lesult in mis-
f, >rtnno to the hnmorist, and one gener
ally feels that the misfortune is well
enough deserved.
I knew one yonng man who cut him
self out of his grandfather's will by
sketching a pipe as coming out of the
mouth of that venerable gentleman’s
portrait, and a young lady who lost the
guest: “Madam, I have always thought
it very ill manners to allude, in the pres
ence of visitors, to family matters from
which they are excluded, and I will
therefore mention that when my sons
use- the term ‘rish’ to describe anything
especially slow, tiresome and stupid
they mean ‘fatherish,’ which is with
them the synonym of all these qualities.
Those young men were very witty fel
lows, but I must confess that I have sel
dom seen a confessed fool look more,
foolish than they then did.
A phase of this dangerous form of wit
is that whereby a bright girl or young
inherited this talent as well as a slight
and elegant figure. No donbt they were
fond of the mother, who was on her part
blindly devoted to them, bat one coaid
hardly pass an hour in their society with-
leaves large and healthy.
The branch shown in the accompany
ing cut was sketched on the Popular
Gardening grounds, where, in addition
to the stratagem, the newer introduc
ed hearing some jocose allusion to her tion8 of garJen (wr i n kled) peas, among
peculiarities. Sometimes she was called j them Telephone, Yorkshire Hero and
“Jnmbo,” and asked if she could pick' . »— ™ <— i j —
up needles and bated tailors, and some-
married woman seeks to sparkle in tbe
eyes of certain of her admirers by mak
ing of others a whetstone for her satire
The butt of her ridicule, however liever.
gift of her grandmother’s brocade dress however polished her rapier play may
of unknown value by humorously illus
trating the olif lady’s probable style oi
dancing in her youth.
As for more severe practical jokes, few
persons in these days are so regardless of
decorum as to practice them, and yet
some are. Not a year ago I heard a gen
tleman ask a lady sitting at the same
table with me whether she had ever
tasted an especial bnmd of Burgundy.
She said no, and he rejoined, “Permit
me to pass you the bottle.” She took it
and tipped gently and then more stren
uously, until it became evident that it
was empty, whereupon not only the
donor but his wife began to langh and
look about for appkiuse. The victim of
the joke laughed also, but not pleasant
ly, and rejoined, “You might as well
have given me your own head.”
The joker ceased laughing and angrily
demanded, “Why?"
“Because there’s nothing of value in
it,” replied the lady, and there were two
enemies for life, not to count the man's
wife and as many of the lady’s fam'ly ae
she chose to complain to.
Another practical joke which carnt
under my notice was the contriving that
two very susceptiblo young people should
discuss “spoons” in an arbor where
wag was hidden, who, imitating the
girl’s father, suddenly cried out “Un
hand them, villain! My ducat3 and my
daughter!” and then fled, bnt was pur
sued and caught in the midst of his ac
complices, and so was started a fend that
no time will heal.
But apart from sufeh era v brutalities
as these how many persons sow endless
regrets for themselves and others by
mistaken humor. Most women are sen
sitive us to their age. It may be foolish,
bnt it is almost universal, and there is
no intimacy, no degree of relationship, no
eensibleneas on the part of the recipient,
that can make a jest that turns upon age
>
acceptable to a vvoihan, or for that mat
ter to a man, for the lords of creation
have a great deal more petty vanity than
they wish to take credit for. I once
heard a bachelor of about SO dogmati
cally asserting that Washington's inau
guration day was very hot. The ques
tion was discussed until at last one
young lady flippantly remarked, “Well,
since Mr. So-and-so was there and sat;
it we must believe it.” Poor So-and-so
always has a spiteful word for that girl's
name whenever it is mentioned.
Nor do any cdrcuinstances or relation
ship make a caricature of him or herself
acceptable or funny to its subject. There
are very few of us who might not be
caricatured by a clever draughtsman so
as to make all our friend* - shake with
laughter, bat not one of them nor
would the artist himself find a carica
ture of their or his own peculiarities
one-tenth part so funny; in fact, most of
us would quietly set up an abiding dis
like to the perpetrator of this admirable
jest
Nor is it ever safe to jest upon an
other’s mistakes in social or educational
matters.
“Just fancy what my wife said when
Professor Lnnis asked her if she thor
oughly understood his theory of aster
oids. Sko asked if they weren’t a kind
of punctuation marks! Thought he
meant asterisks!” So said a great, stu
pid, good natured man tho other night
in company, and had no idea his wife
would rather he had surreptitiously
pinched her black and blue.
be, feels each thrust with smarting
anger, and the bystanders, although
they iaugh and applaud, go away whis
pering in each other’s ears: “What a
tongue! I’m glad she’s not my wife!”
And to my mind more girls have failed
to attract the men whose admiration they
wished through their wit than through
their stupidity. A man's ideal woman—
that is, the ideal woman for a wife—is, I
fancy, never very witty, and in fact may
be decidedly stupid, bnt invariably she
must be amiable, smiling, sweet, patient,
and in a word comfortable, and these
qualities seldom exist with wit.
Another mistaken form of wit is the
irrepressible, and this is more often
found among men than women. Whc
does not know him, usually middle aged,
often a bachelor, but sometimes the
product of a course of female adulation
administered by wife, mother and sisters':
Conversation with such a person as this
becomes impossible, for be regards what
ever you may say as a mere opening foi
his own brilliancy.
“I have lost my father since 1 saw
you,” induces the reply:
“He’s gone fart tier but not to fare
worse,” or perhaps, “Profit and loss 1
trust it will prove.”
I know a person of this sort to whom
it is impossible to narrate anything; he
is so busy in looking for an opening for
his own jokes that ho cannot follow the
thread of any story or take a rational in-
• crest in any discussion. I once wrote a
note inviting him to lunch to meet a
stranger, bat added, “And please not tc
make any puns and very few jokes, ai
this gentleman is not capable of appre
dating lmmor, and might think hiinseh
insulted.”
Another mistaken humorist is he whi
appreciates his own jests more than any
body else does, and begins by saying:
“I’ll tell you tho funniest thing! You’D
just die of laughing,” and laughs so im
moderately himself that yon can hardly
gather what he says, and feel much
more like yawning than smiling.
The most successful manner of jesting
is the unconscious, and nobody evei
made me laugh so much a3 a long, lean,
sallow, lantern jawed western man, whc
used to cat looking as if he were at liii
mother’s funeral, and in a low, monoto
nous voice without a smile in it tell sto
ries absolutely painfnl in their mirth
compelling qnality.
Two most objectionable forms of hu
mor are the indelicate and the profane,
and I am happy in believing that these
are largely going out of fashion among
decent people, or, at any rate, in the pres
ence of people of another torn of mind.
No matter how funny snch a jest oi
such a story may be, it is emphatically a
mistaken form of wit, and 1 for one al
ways feel that I hav e received an injury
by having on association of ideas forced
upon me which I may never be able to
forget, and by which things that I might
reverence or admire, or matters of which
I have hitherto taken no thought, become
subjects of annoyance and mortification,
for no woman wishes to understand, oi
to appear to understand, a donit% enten
dre, and to force her to do bo is both an
insult and an injury.
Another odious form of humor is what
college boys coll hazing, and consists in
the united attack of n certain number oi
persons upon a solitary victim. There
are persons whose lives are made a weari
ness and a burden to thorn through this
times Barnam’s fat lady and sometimes
“Ilippie,” as short for hippopotamus. If
the family went to drive there was al
ways a jocose discussion as to the safety
of the carriage springs and the cruelty
to the horse.
If she was to go in a boat there was
an outcry that she must be put in tbe
middle, or plenty of ballast taken-in to
counterbalance her weight, or a wonder
if tho sheathing of the boat would stand
such pressure; in fact, the manners and
forms of gibe were manifold, but all
came to the same end, and in 6pite of
great self control and dignity on the
part of the sufferer, I have too often
6een the sudden flush, or the compressed
lips, or the glistening eye, to doubt
whether the family victim felt her posi
tion or not. At last the father died, and
it was observed that the widow did not
mourn as one utterly broken hearted,
and also it was observed that she found
her companies and her occupation as far
as possible from her daughters. Prob
ably the wittiest of strangers would not
consider it appropriate to jest her upon
American Champion, have proved en
tirely reliable, and also of highest
quality. The foregoing has been pre
sented with a view to assisting readers
in a selection of seed for another season.
NOT sLWaI's c/UK WAY
large quantities, and at bed rx-k prices.
r,M R es > u
KOAD CARTS. FROM $10 00 to $33 00
BUGGIES, FROM $35 00 UP
Also. Lap Robes, Whips and Harness of all grades and prices at
CARITHERS & BliTTs,
Harness and Carriage-Emporium
Athens, Ga.
Warerooms, No. 11 Clayton and Washing on Street.
at Montgomery's old stand.
Oct 14—w3m.
a,8 °. BrosdStr,
her figure, and she preferred loneliness
to humiliation.
In fact, to sum the whole thing up,
personal peculiarities are mistaken ob
jects of hgmor, and so is anything that
shall injure the amour propre of the
subject, or anything that shall expose
him to the ridicule of others, or anything
that shall throw an atmosphere of ab
surdity around him and his future ut- j
terances or actions. To monopolize the
conversation, or to intrude our jests upon
other people's serious moods, or to herald
them with one’s own approval, or to
laugh while one tries to make others
laugh, or to make puns where the taste
of the hearer revolts at that form of hu-!
mor, or to insist upon being funny when
your hearers prefer to be serious, or to
be indelicate, or to be irreverent of mat
tore sacred to your hearers, whether it
be the holy cats of the Ganges, the “con
trol” of a Spiritualist, the fetich of a
Theosophist, or those matters once uni
versally regarded as holy, whatever the
thing may be, if it is a thing held sacred
by your auditor, it should be sacred from
your wit.
In fact, it is very easy to tell what if
mistaken wit, but I have not undertake!
to tell, nor do I intend to attempt telling
what is real wit. Suffice it to say that
like the poetic afflatus, it is “nascitui
aon fit"—bom, but not manufactured.
Disinfecting Against Roup.
The damp warm weather is very fa
vorable to roup, and it is difficult to pre
vent it at times, even under the best of
conditions. A box of air slacked lime
should be kept convenient for use, and
the poultry house floors, as \v£ll as the
outside yards, should be well dusted
with it as often as it may be convenient
to do so. The walls of the house should
also be whitewashed occasionally, and a
lump of lime should be kept in the drink
ing water. It is not claimed that this
method wilf always prevent roup, but it
will prove more valuable than if no snch
precautions are taken, and is recommend
ed more for its simplicity and cheapness
than for any other reason. The real best
remedy is warmth and cleanliness, and
as lime will add light to the interior of
tbe honse, and also assist in absorbing
the moisture therein, it will be found of
valuable assistance in promoting clean
liness and the health of the fowls.—
Southern Cultivator.
A FEED COOKER FOR STOCK.
A Simple Device That May Be Made at
a Small Cost.
Although the great majority of farm
ers do not cook or steam the feed grain
to stock there are often times excep
tional cases when this can be made to
pay. The feed cooker shown in the il
lustration is the device of an Illinois
correspondent, who writes about it as
follows in Prairie Fanner:
The Mid Comment s*ys: The world
well knows timi a ciiilii permitted to trove
iro own way becomes wayward—a trig-ufi-
cant word. In Ha ignorance ami s fi»l.-
m-tb lt Wallis W'hal ns wise p-rents well
know it is noi best tor ii to hav.. Bui
how much wij-er i-i our B aveolx Father
t-iun are out enrinly phleme. Au.i bow
much more igin-iuni aie we m i.ui t-siuna e
oi wuai is I lest lor us spir.iUftny in a i our
ciiildnnaie as i«» tlieir temporal w»olt>.
Whin- we look lo our earthly bem file, Giro
best undei8tamis < ur spin>uai wants.
uur ways are doi G-si’s ways becab e as
tbe he<ivens are l.i b<r than the • ailb, so
aie God’s ways iugh:i than our ways. His
path is in me sea. liis irmkless, inscru
table. IJui liis ways are richicous aim for
■ lie best, tiiungh we cannot see how or
why at certain times. God may emu
men the uesires of their hearts and s> i d
lions among tut m to destroy them, mm
H>- may refuse their wishes ai a semi mem
ealvation. A writer in the Chri. tian V\ li
nes* lias sain : God does. Dot alw*ys an
swer our pu.yeis an we ask and us we.d- -
sire, but be never tabs to oo tbe Is si
tilings lor us under the c.rcumslances. H<-
does not alv ays remote the evns, 1 ui He
idwats give-ii-giace l<> oveicoine ibt in.
He did not lake three Hebrews out oi me
furnace ot tin , but H ome down and
walked with them so >bat the fire sin ukl
not harm ib< in evi u to i s smell upon llit-n
gnrmeu'.s. He did noi prtveut Daniel
ing into tbe d> n oi lions, bui H sent
angels to close tb« ir un utb so that tu v
could not hurt hiui. H did not, even iu
answer lo prayer, remove Pam’s thorn in
tin fl-sb, bin II; oid wbat was far belli r,
gavi Him sotlic eni trace to sustain linn.
So, let us r member that our uiosi st-veie
conflicts aim utils may be Goo’s i-mery
wheel, on which He proposes to make us
polished s oues to shine lortVx r in tile
kingdom of His dear So .
Who is Hadaway ?
I go.
HU
He is the man that sells
the best Buggies and Car
riages Orders taken lor
Fine Speeding Road Carts
T. (i. Hadaway.
THE v.E.v Who bl'AV.
Thr Poisonous Acids
In the blo« d, shou d be taken up and
removed l y the Liver and Kidneys, but
these orgi ns get out of order—fail to
do their w ork and the result is Rheuma
tism. There are a thousand remedies
for the Liver and Kidneys, but there is
only one cure for Kli»i.inati*m. and that
is Dr. Drummond’s L'gbtmng Remedy.
A large bottle may he had at the drug
gists, or will he sent by express ro any
address on leceipt of $5. That is the
price of a cure, and any one who is hav
ing *1111 argument with the Rheuma
tism, will feel fnlly repaid by the first
dose. Drummond Medicine Co., 45-50
Maiden Lstie, New York. Agents
wanted.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
Nor, if you would keep your friend, i kind of persecution, who never can get
ever point out or narrate or seem to
perceive anything absurd in connection
with him or her. No matter how ridicu
lous he looked running for the train,
with his coat tails flying out behind,
don't make a good story of it, whether
in his presence or absence. No matter
how funny her attitnde and expression
“were when the mouse seemed bound in
seeking refuge under her skirts—if you
tell anybody else half you think about
it yon will win a langh and very proba
bly lose a friend.
“I never since have dared to be as
fanny as I can,” says Holmes, and for
various reasons a good many humorists
wight echo the confession.
Another class of mistaken wit is that
anybody to treat them seriously, who are
in the position of Victor Hugo’s L'Homme
gut Jtit, and never open their mouths on
Hie most solemn or tender subject with
out being greeted with derision and jo
cose replies. -
This form of humorous persecution is
often seen in families where all seem to
have tacitly agreed to make some one
member the butt of all the rest, and 1
have often been present at scenes that
reminded me of a pack of terriers wor
rying ajxxrr puss nnable either to escape
or to defend herself. Of course it is “all
in fun” and not maliciously intended,
an 1 probably if the victim were seriously
ill or in great visible affliction the ter
riers would become sympathetic broth-
He Smibbetl Her, but the Court Snubbed
Him.
Lima, O., Nov. 22.—A peculiar breach
of promise case lias just been decided iu
tbe circuit court here by a verdict for
the plaintiff of $1,000. The case origin
ated at Spaulding two years ago. Just
after the presidential campaign, Miss
Mary Shull
w-as engaged to marry _
E rominent vouug man named Adelbert
ehman, who xvjik an ardent Republican.
He was helping liis paity raise a pole in
the town, which was witnessed by Ml™
Shull, who was a strong Democrat. Dur
ing the pole raising she hurrahed for
Cleveland several times. This so an
gered Lehman that he refused to marry
the girl. She brought suit against him,
and after several trials of the case, it re
sulted as above stated.
by whidh a rather slow and simple per- era and sisters, father and mother, hus-
bou Is made the target for some sharp
shooter’s stinging arrows for the amuse
ment of a listening crowd. In the first
place few people are as obtuse as they
appear, and many a man who has not
the wit to retort quite comprehends the
bidden gihfta imij innnnndnAa nnd almost
band or wife, bnt until thematter comes tc
some sueh issue nobody guesses the pangs
of humiliation, anger, wounded feeling
and even growing hatred that a long
coarse of mistaken wit can induce in its
object.
I have quoted the father whose sons
A friend induced Die to try Salvation
Oil for my rheumatic foot, 1 used it and
the rheumatism is entirely gone. JOHN
H. ANDERSON Baltimore, Md.
Postive and unsolicited testimony
from every section confirms every claim
made for the wonderful effleev of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup. Price 25 cts.
FOUND
. A sum of money in Madison Co.
Owner can obtain it by calling on C. C.
Dudley, Brown’s Ferry and paying for
this advertisement.
ROME MADE FEED COOKER.
An eight inch stovepipe set into the
bottom of a barrel or deep tank, with a
small stove grate or other flat iron sus
pended within three inches of the bottom
by three wires hooking over the upper
end of the pipe, makes a water heater
worth having, if such an article is worth
anything. Any tinman can make the
pipe, put two or three rivets in the seam,
and seal it with the white of egg and
flour. A very narrow flaugo and two
rows of tacks will fasten it in. The one
shown in the cut cost axty cents, and
can cook anything, using cobs, coal, ten
foot rails, or anything burnable for fuel.
Of course it is understood that the fire
chamber is below the bottom of the bar
rel, and that the joint, where it enters
the barrel, is watertight.
PUSHING ON
Tin-1* nl never bjilds a bridge of roi h
except i.ii.itr the feet oi tiro failk filud
traveler. If He built the bridge n rod
ain ad, i. wouldn’t be a bridge of tailti
Thai which is ot sight is not ot faiHi.
There is a eet-pei.ng tab- wi icb i»
sometime* ust <1 iu country rnau-. Ii s ands
last ui d Cm- acrosa tiro rood as a tiuveiei
upprnacnes it. If lie slops beiole he ts
to t, it won’t op»n. But if i e will drive
licht at i>, his wa-on wne«ls press the
springs below ihe roadway, ar d the gate
swines 1>hck to h i lii.c through. He must
posh right on at tbe closed ante or it 'will
continue c os> d. This i lus.raics the way
to | a-sevt ry barrier on toe road of duty.
Whelbet ii is a river, a .ate or a moun
tain, all the child ol God has to do is lo
go for it. If it is a river ii will tiiy up
when you put your f<et to its waieis. if
ii is a gale it will fly op» n—when you are
near em ugb lo it, and are arid pushing on.
It it is a moili tain, u wrii he titled up ami
e»8t inlo tiro sea—when you have come
sq ur<l> up without flincbiug to wheie
you tin u. hi it was. la mere a great hai
rier a-loss your path of duty just now ?
Just for it in Godjind it won't be then!
—B. C. Trumbu 1.
Young mechanics mike a ve:y grevious
m stuk., says the BudU<-r’s Gaz -He, when
they begin to think that they do too much
for lb* ir employers whep they wink u tew
mum nts over nine to c-mplete a small
ia.sk they are p-riormm* just at the time
the whistle blows to qi.it w rk. More
yoiiDg men have oeen k pi 'r m receiving
an advance in their wae-s Horn this than
from anv oilier known cause.
Employers waich the movement of young
mi u very cl isely, and tbe 1 ast little thing
Oiten miles places them in untavoratile
tight before their employers It i-lbe
young man who studies i> e inter- s' .of Ids
employei, and is not ntrui I t > give trim a
few moments, that gets the rapid advance
ment, He is the young ntHiv selecied wh> n
there are any tavnis lo he granted
1 cat! tel! m twenty ivroutes in a- y work
shop the \oung man \»ho is nrosi I k-ly i<>
-ucceed in hi* trade. He is ihe last lo
leave hm woik, and is «lw >V8 prompt in
b gum ng it. Tn<-se fellows tha - drop
tlieir work at ihe iro nroi.t the whistle
blows, aro always tiro ones that tbe em-
p! v> r is r- a iv 'O discharge wtron business
gets m 111 tie Si: ck.
Th- voting man who t».kea the in’eresi
ot ios w ik m tear*, and his employer inio
consideration, i> very rarely Inid off ins.ack
limes.
EXECUTORS’ SALE
of valuable prop
erty.
Xmas Is Nearly Here.
And Huggins’ China Houa,
Broad Street Athens Georgia.
Wants to make this oanmiace.-
men». to the wholesale buyers of
Christmas Goods.
1st. We are receiving the noil
varied assortment we ever hail.
IVe will sell at vuhUcnu cry before the court
house iu .leU'erson, Ga., on t..e
next -within the legal hours ot sale, the follow
ing prop 1-tv:
THE VALUABLE MILL PLANT,
Known as Me I ester’s Mills, located two and n
half miles no: th of eil'erson, Ga., consisting of
anew, well painted THREE STuKY MILL
HOUSE,
Here and There.
There is a big rice crop.
The wheat yield of Minnesota and the
Dakotas is now generally conceded to he
about 90,000,000 bushels.
Crop reports in the south are, gen
erally 8peaking, very encouraging.
The record of the past season is a corn
crop short in yield, but of generally fair
quality.
The most remarkable results of the
year in California have been in the fruit
and wine industries of the coast.
The tobacco crop in Kentucky is re
ported two weeks late and badly worm-
eaten.
The sugar cane crop in Louisiana ex
cels ariy grown iu that state for many
years.
Statistician Dodge says in his last crop
report, “Fall seeded or winter oats only
can be grown in the sonth in any year.”
It^ia an excellent plan to bum over
weedy land as soon as it is frozen. This
will clear the ground and many seeds of
noxious weeds will be destroyed.
The Alabama Senatn.rshlp.
Montgomery, Nov. 22.—The joint cau
cus of Democrats of the general assem
bly to elect a successor to United States
Senator Pugh, took one ballot and then
adjourned till Monday night. The ballot
resulted as follows: Pugh 41, Seay 33,
Kolb 88, Watts 11. ’
Union 1 hanksgt vlng Service.
A Union Thanksgivii ft Service will
be held at First Methodi-t Church on
Thursday. 27th inst., at 11 a. m., led by
Rev. W. D. Anderson astristeu by the i
other unstors of the. city.
Sooth Carolina Phosphate Beds.
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 22.—An Eng
lish syndicate is negotiating for the pur
chase of all the phosphate beds in this
state.
THE ROPE HAS A HOLD OF ME.
A few yt-ais ago, ni,e of our nr at ocean
steamers was ciosrini! the Atlantic, when
it was overtaken hy a gn at sioim. At
midnight, when all were bravely hauling
with tiro tii nnnts, there came a sudd u
ciy of “a man overboard !” The hurricane
wss too fie.ee to permit of tin- v< s8el being
brought in a standstill, but as soon ns the
cry wae luaid the capl .in ami u sailor
aisled to the tern of ihe ve.*s I, tne la;lei
hasul> coiled up a rope and noosing ii at
the end as Iro ran, threw ii with ihe teiveni
hope lloti n nii.hl find ihe drowning man.
Ti.t-y anxiously watched the rope, and lo
tbeiijoi it lightened. Although tirox were
alniosi certain that tbe man in d got hold
of tbe rope, tb« j* feared to draw it in, test
I hey were miemk n. - Tiron ihe Captain
shouted with all Ins might, “hav-- you got
hold of the rope?” Amt iu a lull troiwteo
tiro blasts of wind, there came these words,
in a faint voice, ‘No, but the rope has hold
of me.’ Tne crowning man had caujht
ihe iopt, and slipping the no >se over hi
ll. ad, t.i.d drawn it tightly under bis arms,
and he was safe, for held there by tue
trong cable he was pulled ou bo.ird.
When he had the rope holding him, he
was la? safer ihsn if t e had held the tope
in his f- bb- grasp. And if >n much the
same with ihe saved s.oner. He must first
of all i' k- hold of Curist, and wtron that is
done it is not so much iris hi Id upon
Christ, and when tb t i* done it ih m l so
Christ, as Christ’s Almighty, encircling,
embracing giasp upon unit.”
IMPROVED ROLLER FLOURING
MILL and CORN MILL, COT
TON GIN and SAW MILL
PLANTS.
Two car loads of engines received by
Lyndon M’f’g Co.
Two 2 room tenant houses, one 8 room dwell
ing nicely painteu. one a room dwelling nicely
pain ted. stable!., outhouses, etc., 1S5 acres good
land, about 100 acres of w.ih-h in original forest
and pine fields. . Iso one tract of land adjoin
ing the above, containing liw uc.es, about 8
acres of which ip nottoiii land u .cleared, the
ren.ait-der in original forest, pine fields a d
cleared lands.
r l he above is the finest, mill property in North
east Georgia, and lies only two and a half miles
trom the town ot Jefferson, where is lecated the
lamous Maitiu in-tit-te
TKltMS.—One-half cash—Balance in 12 mo.,
with <>te bearing a per cent interest Mill to
be kept insuied for 0 0. We wlU also sell at
Me tester s mills on Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, 18S0,
within the legal hours of sale, the folioxx ing
personal property .
One Double Wool Carding Machine
and Burring Machine, Flour
Corn, Bran, Tools, Scales,
Com-Shellers, Etc., Etc,
All sold as the property of J. O. McLester de
ceased, for beneut oi heirs and creditors Terms
cash. J. M. and \\. C. Orb, Exra
G EORGIA. Cl HKr. County, Ordinary's
OUlce, Octox.cr2. th, l£9 . Notice is t ereby
given to all concor. cd that Carvev M. Randolph,
col d, late of said county, died intestate, and
that no person haB app.ied tor administration
ou the eri'ite oi said deceased, and that a main
duration will be vested In the county adminis
trator, or borne other fit and proper perron on
the first Mouday in December next unless valid
objec ion is made thereto.
3. M. HKBBINQTPN,
fit. Ordinary,
CLARKE MORTGAGE SALE.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in Decem
ber next, at the court borne in said county
w thin tbe legal hours of sale, the followirg
property to wit: one house and lot, situated
and lyingin the city ut Athene, and bounded ss
folio>xa: on the north by Hancock avenue, on
the weetby William Bain, u»w, by urs. Wiliam
Lain, on tue routh by rs. Martha Clark, now by-
Mrs. Carter, and on the east by property occu
pied by U. R. Sau'tcr, now occupied by lk«
limidock, containing one h ill acre more or less.
Said lot levied on as the property of -. s. a.
McAllister uud H. M. Pruitt, sole ueirs at law
of oils M. A. J. Allman, to saitsty a mortgage
Ufa issued from the superior Court o. Clatke
county, in tsvoi of Jsiuea W bite, executor oi
Jx.hn Wuito deceased,against said C. S. A. .Mc
Allister and h M. Pruitt. Notice given tenants
in po.-aession in terms of the laxv Property
Pointed out in said fits. This Nov. 1st, l-ei.
•I. W. W1LU, sheriff.
The Weekly Banner—the
Clarke Sheriff’s Sale,
Will be sold berore the conit house door on
the first Tuesd y In January 1891, In the city
of Athens, Cluifco county. e>a., dui.ing tee legal
hours of sale, the follow In roperty, to writ:
All that tract of land, and the Improvements
thereon, coutaint g twenty-five acie.*, nto e or
less, and bounced u fol ows; y»if the north by
lands of W. S. Holman and Lumpkin and
Brown, esst by Clmse street routh ox arc-hen
Upson, end West by W. *. Hoi • an. Saldland
lying tn ssi: '-ity of Athens. Clarke court ,G ..
and toiled on and tubs - ot, as the propei y
of the Nortncaat xorg.a Pair Associa
tion, under and by virtue < f a fits from t larke
2nd We will make you spdil
low prices.
3rd Here are soin • of our leaders.
Toy Wagoo», Velocipedes, Fancy
Vases, Toy Tea Sets, China Cups
and Saucers, Tremeud >us Stock of
Dolls, Music Boxe*-, Musical T»ys,
Big block Buys Tool Guests, 5Iigic
Ltnterus aad hundreds of oilters
Toys and Novelties.
4 h. If you want a nice assortment
oon’t pul off buying until X naS'Wy
b it come while ihesio -k is uu.r'k*
en and get your Xmas Novelties.
5ih. Ail bills payable Jan., 1 '91,
ulI.-ss parties wants discount same.
We are making preparations for
the largest Xmas trade we ever had.
both wholesale and retail, aod t»
that end are receiving aud have or
dered out the mo9t dazz ing display
of novelties and fancy goods ettT
before shown in A-hene.
Asidi from these special sUrac*
lions, we always have a Ltutiful line
of fancy Lamps. Dinner Set*, l eS
Seis.Tin Sets,and hundreds ot otter
useful as well as ornamental g 00 ^ 4
just such things as would maKC a
pretty and useful presents.
|3T“ We want to call especial at
tention to the largest and uio9ibeau
tiful line of Chamber Seta ever
in Georgia. Prices run $3 00, to -
00. If you fail to call
through our store when you
Athens, you II miss a treat,
yours, to please.
HUGGINS’ CHINA PALACE,
BROAD STREET ATHENS GEORGIA*
look
visit
If You Are Going West
AND WANT LOW RATES
To Ai-kanM*.
Texas, Mis-ouri, Colorado, Oregon ^ _
lorn is, or any point WEST or NOKTHWr-»
IT WILL PAY YOU
To write to me.
FREU. I). BPSH,
p.r.A.,t.&
3S Walt it., Atlanta, Ga.
G eorgia, Ch«« countt. ^0-
|niiv Artneara' Atldl'CW _• ...m
To tllwb?®
may concern: Andrew J. ^A^to'rm
isirstor of Mary Ann Cobb, has in ] au tis
applied to me for leave to sell J* ^ pr j_
belonging to tbe estate ot s* 1 ^ d«ce
vate sale, and said apphcstion w This
on the first Monday m December ne
27th day of October 18»a ^ a ...n«rrox.
tlrdinitrv.
Office,
It’s worth more than a dollaT Georgia Fair a
but you get it for that. / wit,
G eorgia, CtARKKCousTT.Ordin^r*^ pU r-
Nuvembei-Sth, 1M»0.—bHUmt 'or until
~Bl<la win i>e received at tb|® l ot De
ism
ana all
Rj^ trestrveu to receive
I wit,