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VOL. I
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 510, 181)2.
NO. 39.
-THE-
North Georgia
Dahlonega, Georgia.
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Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints
and Oils.
THE HAYING TIME.
Click, click, click) goes tho mowing ma
chine,
With it* shields of iron and falchions keen,
As over tho plain it speeds,
i Like a proud triumphal car,
Likon chariot of war.
With foaming, panting steads.
The field with a thrill of fear is stirred,
The startled bobolink has hoard
The warning and goes in quest
Of his mate; together they fly,
Now circling low, now high
Above their rush-hidden nest.
But the iron oppressor’s work is wrought
With a swift career that spareth naught,
And tho tail grass, purple-crowned,
And the flowers in fragrant bloom
Go down in common doom
And lio withered on the ground.
Thus tho sons of toil their tasks fulfill,
Lightened by man’s inventive skill;
But a spirit of sweetness hath flown,
That haunted the groon highways
Of the old time haying days,
Ero the iron-wrought mower was known.
When tho summer days with song were
blithe,
And tho sturdy mowor whet his scythe,
And the best man, never loth,
Led tho haying crew with prido
Through the field’s sweet-scented tide,
Turning the double swath.
Closo followed by boys, bare-foot <
brown,
Joyouslj' sprea tiug the winrows down;
Thus the toilers from early morn
Cheerily filled each hour -
Ever watchful for a sign of shower,
Till 110 sound of tho dinner horn.
Then the bobolink might safely rest;
For a shield of grass to mark its nest
By the mower was kindly sparod,
And ho stays his brawny arm,
Lest somo nestling suHor harm,
For they his friendship shared.
Wo will honor with song our modern \r«iy\
But a dearer, tenderer, strain of praise^
Is echoed in memory’s chime
Of the days so glad and long,
When tho hopes of youth wore
In tho sweet old haying time.
—St. Louis .
Pine Toilet Soaps.
Stationery, Combs and Brushes,
I Groceries, Fine Cigars k Tob;
«erWe propose to build up a trade by selling at
moderate prices.
Sutton & Pitchford,
CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
man, and it was late that afternoon be
fore be went to tho offico to gather in
tho replies frompeoplo who wcio auxious
to buy a sextant.
But tho sextant market was apparent
ly rather dull, for all tho clork could
give him wns ono solitary letter. The
captain tore tho envelope open and tossed
it aside.
“I saw your advertisement in tho
Globo," rend tho captain. "I wish to
buy a good sccond-lmnd mnehiuo of
standard make, and if tho ono you odor
is in perfect repair mid tho prioo is sat
isfactory, perhaps we can trade. But I
cannot give more than §50, and it you
ask moro you need not reply to this.
Send your address, stating where mn
ehiuo can be seen, to II. E. Bourne, 450
Winter street,”
“Well," soliloquized tho captain,
“I’ve got ono auswer, anyhow. But
what does a woman want of n soxlnnt—
for this is cortainly a woman’s writing?
She seems to bo in earnest though.
“And §50! Conscience l 1 never ex
pected to got moro than §25. Well,
sho’ll have to come on board, I suppose,
so I’ll send her my address." And
standing at the public dosk ho wroto:
ini' Miss: Yours in ro-
ont in tho Globo is at
i mo aboard tbo bark
uliou wharf, between 3
H. 81’howl, Captain,
on about 4 o'clock a
piked rnpidly ovor the
nstitution wharf.
.Co to lind a second-
thought Etta Bourne,
[0 captain got tired of
it bucauso tho vessel
tiling lilco that."
ilt ieltors, “Edna
id-hondod man with a
ou on lookod out tho
homo in the middle
oxtondod from tho
ulwarks. Tho man in
ward.
upturn Sprowl," said
We have ou our list Valuable Mineral, Timber and Farming Lands, for Sale or
Exchange.
IF YOU WANT TO BUY, SELL OR EXCHANGE
PROPERTY
Of the above description, communicate wiih us. Title papers examined and
reported upon.
ABSTRACTS FURNISHED FREE TO ACTUAL PURCHASERS
We nre centrally located in the richest mimral section in Georgia.
Gold, Iron, Granite, Etc.,
IN' ABUNDANCE.
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE,
Peculiar to the Noted Piedmont Section.
Finest Tobacco Lands in tie
Correspondence Solicited.
F. B. SUTTON, Manager.
Sash, Doors and Blinds!
CLARK, BELL & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in-
Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Mouldings, Brackets.
SITmOIi^S and LUMBER.
Also 6EWER and DRAIN PIPE. Prices as low i s the lowest. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
e CLARK, BELL & CO., Gainesville, Ga,
pool when I wns second i:
A. Smith. And now 1
month’s earnings for a no
possessed mo I don’t kuo-
And so the captain w
Now, Captain Sprowl
might think from tho
headed old man with bushy
No; names nre very mislendin
stend, he was tall and slendor, wf
sandy mustache, and lmd not a gray
hair in his head, lie enmo from Muine,
and although but thirty years old, lie
lind been for six yenrs captain or the
Edna Dunn, now lying at Constitution
wharf, in Boston, discharging her cargo
of sugar.
“Well," puffed the captain, “nothing
to do now hut to get rid of the old sex
tant. I should go ashore next timo if I
had two sextants li navigate by. Must
woik tho old off on some landlubber or
somebody.”
The package wns lying ou an yld news
paper which ho had read through and
through ou his last trip out.
“The very thing!" said he. “I’ll put
a notice in the paper—‘Sextant for sale,
cheap,' and if somebody don’t bite at
it, I miss my guess.”
The next morning the only thing the
captain could see in the paper was this:
Sextant for sale by a shin captain; near-
lyn ow and in perfect order; will bo sold
cheap. Address O.. 41 Globa office.
And now my story’H begun.
Etta Bourne had been at work in n
millinery store ill Boston for nearly two
years. She and her older sister Annie
lind learned the trade with the village
milliner down in Kennebunk.
But Annie, who bad long been the
belle of the village, got married, and
Etta concluded to try her fortune in
Boston.
She was full of ambition.
Bo it fell that in her two years in the
millinery store she studied shorthand
and typewriting, with the intention of
iitting herself to lit n confidential clerk.
On Sunduy she saw this advertise
ment:
For Sale—Jones's Premier Typewriter at
half price; been used less than a month; in
perfect order. Address O., 47 Globe office,
Etta Bourne, being a Maine Ynnkec,
knew a bargain when she saw it. She
wanted to own a typewriter, aud so she
wrote a brief note addressed to “O., 47
Globe Office,” asking where the machine
could be seen, and dropped it into the
letter box as she went to work Monday
morning.
Now, I said at (he beginning that the
advertising clerk was to blame. Per
haps the mistake was partly that of Etta
Bourne. At any rate it will never be
kDOWD.
The clerk was sorting the replies and
putting them in their apropriate boxes.
When he came to Etta Bourne’s letter to
“O. 47," he read it “O. 41” aud put it
in the pigeonhole us such.
That was a very, very little mistake,
of course, but you who have noticed
bow things go in this world of ours have
discovered that the most serious changes
in the course of our lives come about
from just such little happenings.
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale.
And Captain Sprowl was “O 41.”
Now the tall captain was a ver^ busy
line right aboard, mim,
k, mim. Thu c aptaiu
in, mim.”
pped hastily along tho
ut cook, puttiug Ills
hor elbows, lifted hor
lira," and ho led hor
r-coinpnnionway,
own the brass-railed
id cook knocked at the
d how spick und span
'dr
of fact tho captain, in
's visit, had kept the
wood and brnsswork
see
, with half an hour's work
ii-hand, bowed respoct-
Joiirno," bogau Etta. “I
to your advertisomout
ul a—"
” said the captain, “this
Will you take a seat?"
|nnk into an easy chair slio
hor in astonishment. She
that these little low houses
deck was so comfortable as
i a dainty littlo sitting room,
rich, suit carpet, a hanging lamp
of elaborate design, hugo plush easy
chairs and sofa, a pretty rattan rocker
and a table strewu with tho latest
magazines.
“I beg your pardon," said the tail
ciptaia, who had been looking curiously
at her; “but arc you not relatod to Miss
Annio Bourne, of ICennobunk?”
Why, yes, indeed; she is my own
sister," answered Etta, with animation.
“I used to go to school with her in
tho old Berwick Academy,yeurs ago; but
I didn't know she had a sister."
‘“Oh, yes, I went to the academy my
self, hut it was after she was graduated.”
“And was old Brown principal when
you were thore?”
From this they went on for tea rain-
ulcs, and each knew so many that tho
other did that they soon becutne old ac
quaintances..
The captain nt once noticed that she
was a remarkably neat and pleasant littlo
woman, and Etta Bourne thought the
captain a line-looking man, tall and
strong.
“Well, Captain Sprowi,” raid she,
Anally, “I musn't forget what I camu
tor. I believe you have a machine that
you wish to sell?"
“Why, yes,” said the captain, won
dering what on earth this attractive
young woman could want of a sextant.
“And how did you come to want to
sell it,” pursued sho, wondering what
use this sea-captain had for a typewriter.
“Weil, the fact is,” said tho captain,
reddening a little. “I bought a new one
the other day when I .really didn’t need
it, and of course, I huven’t. use for two.
And,” continued he, “since turn about
is fair play, I am going to ask you what
you want of one?”
“To earn a living with," said she.
The captain looked puzzted as lie wont
into the stateroom to get tho sextant.
He had beard that women were becoming
the rivals of men in almost every trado
and profession, and bo vaguely wondered
if Miss Bouruo was intending sometime
to become Captain Bourno.
“Well,” said he, coming back und
holding tbo sextant out towards her,-
“bore it is. The ivory on tho scale is a
little yellow, and tho vernier glass has u
little crack across the other edge, but—”
He stopped. Miss Bourne was hold
ing up her hands in amazement.
“Why—why—what is this?" she
stammered.
“Why, it’s a sextant," said tho cap
tain. “I thought ypu knew what that
looked like.”
“But there’s s misunderstand
here. I don't liave'J V use for a sextant.
It wns n typewritn«hat I understood
you had to sell." xj
“A typewriter,” shift the captain aston
ished in turn.' “Why, no. Hero’s the
advertisement,” and he put the paper in
her hands,
Wow, as { have said, Etta Bourne was
a Maine Yankee, and In loss than ton
seconds she had guessed how the mistnkn
occurred.
“Well, now," said tho captain. “I
thought it wns awful funny thnt a woman
should want to buy a sextant. Now you
have disappointed me, 1 don’t see how 1
nm going to sell it, unless I lenvo it nt
tho instrument maker’s and lot him got
what ho enu for it.”
Oddly enough, from this point this
story runs along so naturally that you can
toll it yourself.
Tho tall captain oscortod Miss Bourno
up-town, cnllod on hor two or three times
while ho was in port, corresponded with
her when ho wns away, and in loss than
a yenr this notice appeared:
Sprowl—Bourne—In Keunebuak, Mo.,
May8, at the residence of tho bride’s parents,
(’apt. Edwin It. Sproivl mi l Ilohrietti E.
Bourne.
And now mj story is done.—Boston
Globo.
Tlio Sullen Hamster.
As tho squirrol was said by tho old
Norsemen to bring all tho nows of tho
animals to Thor, because ho was tho
merriest and most sociable of boasts, so
in tho talk of tho Russian peasants tho
hamster is tho synonym for nil that is
sullen, avaricious, solitary and morose.
Even in color ho is unliko any other
animal, being light above and dark bo-
low. This gives tbo hamster somowhat
tho samo incongruous appearance that a
pair of black trousers aud a light coat
lend to a man; in other respects ho is
like a largo, shaggy guinea pig, with
very largo tooth and puffy cheeks, into
which ho can cram a vast quantity ot rye
or boaus for transport.
Each hamster lives in a large, roomy
burrow all by himself, in dofenso of
which ho will light like a badger nguinst
any other hamster who may try to enter.
Family life ho wholly avoids, nover
allowing a fomalo insido his burrow, but
keepiug hor at a good distance and mak
ing her find hor own living for herself
and family. Tho last burden is, how
ever, not a serious one, for by the time
tho young ones aro throe wooks old oaoli
discovers that family life is a great mis
take and sets off to make a bachelor bur
row for itself and save up bonns for the
winter. For, in addition to its other
amiable qualities, tho hamstor has that
of avarice in a markod degreo, and heaps
up treasures pf corn, rye and horse beaus
far in excess of his own private wants for
the winter. His favorite plan is to dig
r. number of treasure ehambors, alt com
municating with a central guard room,
in which the owner eats and grows fat
until the hardest frosts begin, wlion he
curls himself up to sleep until tho
spring.
But this life qf leisure does not begin
until the harvest hasSfeu
Whilo the crops aro ^^joning, tho
hamsters work incessantly to increase
their hourds, and as much ns three hun
dred weight of grain and beans hnve
boon takon from a hamster's burrow.
After harvest the peasants often search
with probes for the treasure ehambors
of the robbors, and during tho present
senroity in Central Europe they will no
doubt cxnct a henvy tribute from tho
hamsters’ stores.—Spectator.
GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF.
Items of Interest Gathered at Random
The l'ower of Lightning 1 .
On August 1, 1848, St. George's
Church, Leicester, England, which was
a new building, was entirely destroyed
during a thunder storm. Tho stooplo
having been burst asunder, parts of it
wero blown to a distance of thirty feet
in overy direclion, whilo tho vane rod
and top part of tho spire fell perpen
dicularly down, carrying with them every
floor in tho tower, tho bells and tlio
works of tho clock. The falling mass
was not arrested until it arrived on the
ground, under which was a strong brick
arch, and this also wns broken by tho
blow. Tho gutters and ridge covering
wore torn up, and tho pipes used to con
vey tho wnter from tho roof wero blown
to pieces. Mr. Ilighton calculated tho
power developed in the discharge of tho
lightning whic.h destroyed this church
with somo knowu mechanical force. He
discovered that a hundred tons of stone
wero blown down a distance of thirty
feet in three seconds, and consequently
a 12,220 horse power engine would have
been required to resist the efforts of this
single flash.—Scicntifio American.
—m ,
Apricot l’asto.
Apricot paste, known ns Kumar el
Dine, is, together with driod apricots,
ono of the principal exports from Damas
cus. Tho fruit, when gnthored, is
crushed in a kind of largo iron wire
sieve, and tho thick juice which results
from this operation is collected in earth
en vats, and then spread on planks cov
ered with a layer of oil, where it is
allowed to remain two days exposed to
the air. At tho expiration of this time
the pasto is removed and turned. On
the fourth day the paste is again re
moved, and it then has the appearance
of a band of leather, very thin, nnd of a
reddish-brown color, about a yard and a
half long nnd half a yard wide. This is
the finest quality of paste. Tho samo
operation is repeated ones or twice to
obtain a second and third quality, each
time a little water being ndded to the
residuum of the former operation. The
bands of paste ure theu folded so us to
form bundles of about live pounds weight,
which are sold according to quality.—
Scientific American.
Microscopic Picture ot tlio President.
A microscopic pen picture of President
Harrison by M. Diamond, an artist of
New York, which is a marvel of in-
genuity, has been received nt the Exec
utive Mansion from the artist. The pic
ture is about twenty-four by eighteen
inches, and is an excellent likeness of
the President. The face is surrounded
by the American flag pendant on either
side. The features, even to the oars, the
flags, the body and the buttons on the
cout aro all filled in with extracts from
speeches made by Genoral Harrison dur
ing his long public career. Those
speeches contain 41,000 words, nnd the
artist fittingly characterizes thorn “a life
history oriGoneral ijarmira, 1 ’—Wuihlog-
ingtoa Star.
An extra steamship will bo put on the
line between Brunsw ok and Now York
soon to insist in currying tlio largo
amount of cotton th it will go through
this port during cotton season.
+ * *
The Headmaster!.’ National Association
will incut at tins inn on Lookout, moun
tain October 18th. After the morning
session tho association will adjourn to
meet at tho lCimhnll house, Atlanta, (or
two days following.
I)r. Young J. Allen, from Shanghai,
C'linn, is on a visit, to his family, who nre
lit Nuwnnu, Ga. lie 1ms two daughters
at school nt Wesleyan college, Macon.
The Methodists of Georgia and tho south
will lie glad to wulcomo tho doctor buck
among them.
+ * *
A t n called meeting of tho city council
at Brunswick a few days ago a resolution
was passed instruct! g pilots to notify
nil incoming vessels of the existing qtinr
antlue regulations, ntul to stop them iu
St. Simon’s sound for daylight iuspco
lion. Tlio puichnsiug committee were
instructed to Imy two tons of disinfect
ants for the city use.
There aro 4,000 registered voters in
Washington county up to date. The tax
collector nnd ordinary lmve been very
busy for tho past few days receiving taxes
nnd registering voters. Democrats and
third partyites are scouring tho county
for tux defaulters, and their work shows
tho enormous number of 1,800 that rcgis-
toied for llie purpose of voting at the
election this full.
* * *
The murder of Are. William Callaway
in Athens is still tlio talk of the town.
If anything the excitement is greater to
day than il. was the diy after the trag
edy. Theory after theory is advanced
ns to the cause of tho terrible deed nnd
ns to the probable identity of the mur
derer, hut the moro it is discussed tho
darker and moroimponotrable the clouds
of mystery envelop lire whole affair.
The Augusta Chronicle says: By an
arrangement which tho Go ogia void has
just made, cotton can now bo held over
in Augusta, i xaminod, compressed nnd
then re shipped on thesamo bill of lading.
This nmiogement will be met with dif
ferent feelings by the shipper nnd factor.
.Iu one senso it is an ndmirnblo ntnngo-
igm | mi nt. Colton will come to Augusta
gathol^ii^ , * svhich olherwiso would hr.vo gono number
wny, sinco it can be brought nnywhero
on tho Georgia roa l or any of its branches
nnd after being graded and compressed
may bo continued to its destined port on
the through hill, thus securing a very low
rate.
Boh Long, a thirteen-year-old boy,
serving a five years’ sentence in tho peni
tentiary, was pardoned last Wednesday
by Governor Northern Long’s home is
in Floyd county. Early last yenr he shot
and killed n man who was quarreling
with the boy’s mother. Long taid that
the man whs heating his mother because
their cow had trespassed on a neighbor
ing field. The Imv ran in the house, got.
a pistol and, returning, killed ills neigh
bor. Long was convicted of voluntary
manslaughter. The petition for his par
don wns signed by many prominont citi
zens. Tho solicitor general who prose
cuted him said that the jury might havo
acquitted him undo the evidence, which
was contradictory.
To Nnviiiuin.il River.
Bids were opened at Savannah a dny
or two ago by Captain O. M. Carter,
United Stuti s engineer, for deepening the
Savannah liver, from Petersburg, Ga., n
point ubout thirty miles above Augusta,
to the canal locks near Augusta, from
ono nod tlireo-tcnlhs feet to two, aud
widening of the sluiceway from twelve
to twenty-five feet. Tho lowest bid wus
that of William H. Walsh, of Fernan-
dinn, F.n., who will do tho work for
§9,050. Other bids were as follows:
Marion Applegate, Haysville, Pa., $10,-
750; A. T. Twiggs, Augusta, §11,875.
When this work is completed large flat-
bottom boats will ho able to liuviguto as
high us Petersburg and bring down large
quantities of cotton and other products.
A Correction.
Commissioner Brad well corrects the
idea that 1ms gone abroad that no teacher
by luw cun be paid for teaching a history
selected by private individuals. He quotes
tho section bearing upon this line and ex
plains that history is not a prescribed
Btudv. The school boards havo no right,
he Bays, to dictate what histories shall lie
taught in schools. In circular 18 which
ho has lately sent out, the following is tho
pnrngrnpli bearing upon this lino:
8. No teacher sha 1 receive pay for any pupil
who is allow, d to use any other than tlio pre
scribed text-book*. Tills apples to the indi
vidual pupil anil not to the whole school. Tlio
teacher is entitl 'd to his pay for Ihosc pupils
who do lisi tlio p oscribod bo tits. In the pay
ment of atoich r’s account, tho county school
contmi sinner in auditing the account should de
duct therefrom the proper proportion for oaoli
pupil using other books, whetii- r the contract
is for salary or pro rata.
Ryan Blast Hlny in .lull.
The report of Auditor Peeples after a
long and careful examination of tho assets
of Steven A. Ilyin has nt hist been filed
in the clerk’s office in Atlantn. I' is
quite a lmg by document und contains
as many as twenty puges of closely writ
ten legul cap paper. Never before in the
history of Fulton county has an auditor
undertaknn such n mammoth piece of
work, Tho result.of tho whole matter is
summed up in seven digit", viz:
§73,520,82. That is tho amount
which Auditor Peeples cl»ims
is uow in possession of Mr. Ryan
iu d which, he also adds, under the
evidence, he is fully ablo to pay. The
finding of Judge Golier last year was
$120,400.79. Henna it will bo seen that
the difference between the findings is
neorly fifty thousand dollars in favor of
Ryan. In addition to tho auditor's re.
port, wbioh was flltc] in the clerk's office,
a stack of paper* peiply twij fco{
moulding tho evidence thnt was intro
duced before him and other documents,
was also delivered to tbo clerk nrnl was
brought by tho auditor himself. Thore
is yet another branch of the ease that the
1 udltor has not compioted. Tho above
report was merely tho result of tho con
tempt investigation.
* * *
Rewards for Alnrilornrn.
Twenty years ago, M. K. Palmer wns
ambushed and killed in Towns county.
He was a residont of White county nnd
wns on his way homo from Hinwnsoo in
Towns county to Cluvotund in White. His
assailants escaped, and from that day to
this lias never been arrested. At the
time there was great indignation in
tho community, but in the lapse of yenrs
the crime was almost forgotten. Recently
however, there have been developments
which have diroctod suspicion to
a certain party. When Governor^
Northon was in Clarksville on
Tuesday, ho was asked to offer a
reward for the arrest of the murderer.
Governor Northen accordingly author
ized the secretary of tho state to offer
§200 reward for tho arrest of tho mur
derer of M. K, Palmer iu 1872, The
governor also offered a reward of §850
lor the nrrest of Harper T. Gilmore, who
killed tho two brothers, B. A. and D. A.
Pittpiun nt Sandcrsvilio Inst Friday. A
letter to the govornor says that the peo
ple of Washington are incensed at tho
doubio murder nnd will augment the re
ward by popular subscriptions. Are-
ward of §200 wns offered for tho mur
derer of William Onllnway of Clarke
county.
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Pointer for Former..
The farmers, during the present cam
pnign, will have plenty of talk from the
congressional candidates about tho great
national issuis embodied in tho party
platforms. But there aro other matters
of considerable importance, nnd we
should not lose sight of them. Now is
the proper time to find out how our con
gressional nominees stnnd iu regard to
froo mall delivery in the villages nnd
farming districts. With a littlo urging’
tho last one of them will plodgo himself
to go to work for this important reform.
Then, it would bo a good idea
lo talk to them about an increase
in tho permissible weight of eer-’
tain classes of mail matter that circulate
chiefly in'fnrming communities. It will
do no harm lo keep these reforms in view.
If this is to bo un educational campaign,
the people should throw all the light
they can upon the Bituafitan, bo that their
future congressman will bo familiar with
the wants nnd necessities of their con
stituents. Wc have no doubt thatthe
democratic congressmen . in tho next ■
bouse will bo in favor of free rural mail -
delivery, but it is well to put them on
notice now that the pooplu aro on that
lino, apd demand postal fpcilitiaa that
will nccomroodato tbo farmers as welt ub
the dwellers in cities. —Atlanta Consti
tution.
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Georgia's School Fiiml.
State School Commissioner Bradwell
has just finished tbo work of estimating
tho apportionment of the school fund of
Georgia, and is now notifying tho tax
collectors of each county how much
money goes to tho schools of each coun
ty. These apportionments are based
upon the school population of county
and city. The school population moans
children not younger thun six and not
older than eigh cen years. It is interes
ting to know that the schools of Georgia
have all been well attended this year aud
aro prosperous. The commissioner’s cir
cular to the tax collectors is an instruc
tive dooument to all thoso interested
in tho school fund of Georgia. It reads
thus:
To tho Tax Collector of Haiit County—I «m
require byd law to giio you noties of the ap
portionment of ihs sice school fund. I Hereby
give you not go that tho pro rats of your coun
ty is tbu amount ahovo written. Iu duo lime
you will ho pro.-tihto(l with my order for that
amount to he paid ovor to tlio county school
commissioners. I desire to call your attention
specially to the law which makes it your duty
to retain in your haudB of the taxes first collect
ed a ' sufficient sum to meet I ins order nnd to
pay tlio same to the county school commission
er as soon as the order is pr sooted. Aliy dolay
on your part is dangerous to your own interests
ns wall as to tlio tencheis of the public schools
who are compelled to wait so long for their pay.
My order, willi iho rooolpt properly filled out
and signed, will bo rocoivod by tho treasurer us
cash in the settlement of your accounts with
tlie state.
Tlio poll lax— the net smouut collected by
you—is lobe paid over to the county Bcliool
commission' r, and that officer is directed to
givo you a spoc tic aud separate receipt therefor.
The above is applicable to all t. o countiea in
Iho slab)except the cities aud counties which
under local laws,
bt is unnecessary to mention these in detail,
as ooch tax collector and county school commis
sioner knows if there is a local system iu the
county, amt tho order that I will issue will give
directions to whom tlio morn y is to bo paid.
May I not a-k that you set with promptness
in this matter, in order that the teachers may
lie paid promptly?
I send a duplicate of this notice to the coun
ty school commissioners for their information
and guidance.
County school commissioners nro reminded
of the requirement that two reports must be
mado to ttiis department before tho order can
be sent, viz: one that Iho schools have been put
in operation for five months of the present year,
and tlio other that the schools are within three
weeks of closing.
County school commissioners nre requested to
send in their rent rti of couuly institutes as
soon ns practicable, in urder that they may bo
embodied in mv report to the general assembly.
8. D. BEAD WELL,
State School Commissioner.
TIIE MATTER OK BAIT.
Tho pastor was calling ut the house of
Brother Billings, anil the small boy was
entertaining him uutil the parents came
down.
“Do you ever go flshin’?” inquired the
youngster, who had inherited his father’s
fondness for the sport.
“I am a fisher of men,” he responded.
“Do you carry your bait in a jug, like
papa does,” wus the next question, and
just at that momeut Brother Billings ap
peared with a seraphic emile of innocence
lighting up his genial countenance.—
[Detroit Free Press.-
BEASBOJlAIiOE.
Timid Lady going up iu Washington
Monument olevator)—-Conductor, what if
the rope breaks that holds us?
Conductor—Ob, there'are a number
more attached as safety rones.
Timid Lady—But if they all break
where shall we go?
Conductor—Ob, well, mum, that all
depends on what kind of life you have
bass Uvfuo tisfor*,'
