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SHORT CROPS! Consequently Money Is Scarce ancl Everybody is Looking out for the Best Bargains. V •!•* North Georgia Ctieap Furniture House to the Rescue! TWO MONTHS AGO EVERYBODY FELT ASSURED THAT THERE . I woujd be an immense cotton crop gathered this Fall, and consequently all the **l merchants Jaiu-'il stocks—-“one of whom we are which.”. Now, to secure as mucn otThe limited afloat, the NORTH GEORGIA CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has markecTdpwn all its. goods to prices that absolutely guarantees their sale. v BARGAINS IN FGRNITGRC. As kind Providence has rained out our bright cotton prospects, so the NORTH GEORGIA CHEAP FURNITURE HOUSE has prepared to rain down Bar v gains in Furniture for the disappointed people. As to the quality of our goods, why our reputation is made in that respect, and the people have long ago deserted the foreign markets and now patronize the North Georgia Cheap Furniture House—having come to the conclusion that it was only a delusive idea that fine goods could not be had at home. UNDERTAKING DEPHRT7VTENT. As usual our Undertaking Department is filled with a fine and well-selected Stock of Caskets, Coffins, Burial Robes, Etc. All orders in this line will be given prompt and careful attention. E. L. PEACOCK, Proprietor North Georgia Cheap Furniture House. THe Hovarb bark 0F ©ARTERSVILLE. Buys and sells Exchange, available in all parts of tho world. Receives Deposits subject to check. Issues OertiflestAs cf Deposit, payable or. demand, or at m Speouiou Lime, on which interest is allowed. This Bank having beer tried in the crucible and having proven its claim upon the confidence of the public, solicits its patronage and promises a faithful dis charge of its duties to its customers. Desirable accounts solicited and all usual accommodations extended. aug22-ly W. H. HOWARD, Sole Owner. J. R. WIKLE, President. J. H. VIVION, Cashier. Directors : J. R. Wikle, J. C. Wofford, J. H. Vivion, E. S. Mumford, W. C. Baker, Hiram Blaisuell, J. A. Stover. • THE • First national bank OF GARTERSVILLE. CARTEP.SVILI.E, G a., May Ist, 1889. This bank is now ready for transacting any legitimate Banking business upon the most liberal terms and principles consistent with absolute safety and protection to the interests of the Bank and its customers. We, therefore tender our services to the public and solicit patronage upon the foregoing sound basis, and will endeavor to make our business relations pleasant and satisfactory to all dealers and our institution a real benefit to this eitv and the surrounding country. Respectfully, D °A 4 - tf J. H. VIVION, Cashier. Emerson Malleable Iron Company, EMERSON, BARTOW CO., GA. The Only Malleable Iron Works in the South. The extensive works of the company have been com ,pleted, and they are now ready for business. Gray and Malleable Castings Made to Order. Machine Work and Jobbing of all kinds done prompt ly, cheaply and as well as any other shop in the country. Estimates given on any kind of work, on application Address, Emerson Malleable Iron Cos., EMERSON, CA. Gerald Griffin. • FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.* Represents Leading Companies. july 19-ly Cartersville Planing Mill, IUALLOWAY A FREEMAN OLD MILE.) Cor. Leaked Skinner Sts., CARTERSVILLE. GA. ■ •' - Lumber, Shingles, Flooring. Ceiling, Siding. FULL STOCK KEPT CONgTAXTLY OX HAND Moulding and Turned Work of all tke Latest Designs. - ma T hine 9 - a nd umple facili the patronage of the public. P ‘ mpt atteßtlon t 0 l his class ol -work, and solicit omefrfljh MILNER & MILNER, Proprietors. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. M. Neel, Attorney-at-Law. Special attention given to litigation in real estate, in the ad ministration of estates of deceased per sons, and in cases in equity. Office : On Public Square, north St. James Hotel. feb24-ly Douglas Wikle. Attorney-at-Law. Practices in all the courts ol tho Cherokeo Circuit. Special attention given to tho collection of 11 lain is and tho abstracting of titles. K 9" Office : In the Court House. novl4.tf J. H. Mayfield, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE east side Public Square. ( aT tersville, Ga. :iug22-tim The Booz Hotel, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA. Hecently enlarged, AMPLE ' accommodations for the traveling public. novli-tf Public Hauling. EGBERT MOODY. Prepared to do all kinds o! Hauling—cafleftulv> safbly and guaranteed satisfaction. Moving piano, heavy saiVs, et£., according to weight \ baggage, Ifhb fknm 15*v, gtiaho, lk*<*. household fwnitiuv, 2fiv. (.’all for Egbert Moodyv junol-1 y * GoAb!# Call on us for good coal. Full weights reasonable prices. Aubrey & McEwen, AGENTS FOR CLEN MARY AND LEHIGH COAL. novl4-tf Real Estate! ALEX M. W'LLINGHAM. PARTIES HAVIXG REAL ESTATE of any character for sale can do no better than by placing it in my hands. I will pay strict attention to FARMING LANDS, CITY PROPERTY, MINERAL PROPERTY. All property placed in my hands will be ADVERTISED FREE OF COST to Offl r, and every effort made to bring about a sale. ALEX M. WILLINGHAM nov2l-tf md!'-lT SUNSET. Slowly on all attainment or defeat The day dtes out far in the darkettihg West; Leaving the earth, its golden stage complete, To muse on hour Sway, then sink to rest; Dark earth—’ the heavens yet touched with sunset glow; Brightness above, and hushed, submissive calm below. Hushed is the world of toil. In every place A wealth of healing silentness doth lie, Or sounds more still than silence fill the space Beneath that far infinity of sky; And softly shines the evening star on one Whose day lies spent, a chronicle of things undone. Even regret, in this calm air and mild, Bears little of its wonted anguish deep: One long drawn breath of sorrow, as the child Preludes a sad, sweet sinking into siwo. Then peace, JKght registers defeet again; L.utT’uac was I, that I should struggle and attain? —Mary CMornc-Ved, in the Atlantic. All’s Well That Ends Well, feY UKI.ES FORREST CRAVES. “Old folks will fee old folks, ” skid Myra MaQtbh, “and the best plan is to let ’em have their own way.” “Oh, yes, I know,” said Leona, clasp ing her hands. “But that did Leghorn hat, with the crown like a stove-pipe and the front like ft wash-hands basin! Who cOuld. tderate that? And everybodv when she conies into church.” “Let ’em laugh,” shrewdly remarked Myra. “I’d be willing folks should laugh at me if I was worth thirty thousand dollars and owned the Bliven Mills int*> the bargain.” Myra Manton was “hired help” at the Bliven Farm—-a stout New Englander of lifty summers, with hair cut short, no visible waist, and snapping black eyes. Leona was old Mrs. Blivcn’s niece—a slim girl of eighteen, with a balsam-pink complexion, dreamy gray eyes, and teeth white and even as small pearls. In the eyes of James Bliven, the old lady's son, Leona was fairest of all created beings. Even Myra Manton allowed “that she was sorter nice to look at!” As for Mrs. Bliven herself, she expressed no opinion whatever; Mrs. Bliven was not a person who talked much. “She’s come to make me a visit,” said Mrs. Bliven one day to Myra. “I sup pose, if she suits me, I shall ask her to stay for good and all.” “If you don’t, I suppose Jim will,” said Myra, with a shrewd twinkle of her eyes. “As it happens, I’m the mistress of this house,” said Mrs. Bliven. “Well, we’ll see how she suits.” And neither Myra the solid, nor Leona the sylphlike, knew, as they sat on the sunshiny doorstep, slicing great, red hearted peaches to dry for winter use, that Mrs. Bliven, from the garret wincjpw above, where she was looking over her balls of carpet-rags, could distinctly hear every word they uttered, “Myra,” said Leona, as she replenished her pan from the great bushel basket, “I’m going to tell you something.” “Tell ahead!” succinctly retorted Myra, “I’ve got such an ideal” SWhat is it?” “Well, Onh of my schoolmates at Han over Hall had a grandmother. And her grandmother ha 1 just such a Noah’s Ark of a bOnnet as AUnt Bliven;” “itumph!” said Myra, peeliug dili gently away. 1 ‘And she arid her sister took a pair of big shears and snipped it up into little bits and made tlie grandmother believe that the rats did it.” “Must have been a credulous old cree tUr," observed Myra. “Oh, no; but it was really such a neat job. Don’t you think, Myra, we might dispose of the old Leghorn hat in some such way?” “No, I dou t!” said Myra, spearing a peach on the end of her knife and begin ning artistically to remove its pink-velvet jacket. Leona sighed, and went on with her work. Myra Manton paused to call her frolicsome little terrier off from a brood of half-grown turkey poults who were foraging around the barn door. “I do wish,” she said, curtly, “that Cappen John Jackson hadn’t sent me that plaguey beast to take care on till he come back from that voyage to Fayal. If he hurts any of the fowls, I expect Mrs. Bliven’lt murder me.” “Myra, ’ said Leona, “are you really on gaged to Captain John Jackson?” “Get out! ’ said Myra, with a sheepish smile. “I dunno whether Ibe or not.” The next day Leona came into her aunt’s room with a pretty black-and white straw bonnet, trimmed with a jet dagger and loops innumerable of black ribbon, “Look, Aunt Bliven!” said she. “M hat s that? said the old woman, turning her spectacle glasses full on the girl, “I’ve been trimming a bonnet for you.” “You might have saved yourself the trouble,” sharply spoke the matron. “But don’t you like it?” pleaded Leona, who was beginning to tremble all over. “It’s very nice, I dare say, but I’m very well suited already with what I’ve got.” “But. Aunt Bliven—” 1 ‘ ’Tain't worth while to discuss the matter,” said Mrs. Bliven, drily. “I calculate I’m old enough to choose for myself what I'll wear and what I won’t!” Leona shrank into herself like the leaves of a sensitive plant; she crept back to her bedroom with the rejected triumph of home made millinery, and had a good cry over it. Presently she heard her aunt calling: ■Myra! Myra!” - SJie ran out. “Oh. Aunt. Bliveo. I had forgotten to tell you. Myra had a telegram from her sister up at .Portland, and she had to run to catch the 10 o;ldck train. Her sis ters has. had. an accident, and 1 promised her I’d explain it to you. She’ll be back as soon, fij they possibly can spare hbr, and I’m to do the housework while she is gone.” Old Mrs. Bliven sniffed discontentedly. “Seems to me people are always havin’ accidents,” said she. “However, you may go and pick some Lima beans and sweet com, and we’ll have a dish of good, old fashioned succotash. Myra is a, good cook, but she never could make succo tash. And in the afternoon we’ll have Toby harnessed up and drive over to Widow Sally Smith's to tee. ” The long shadows of afternoon were lying athwart the closely mown grass when old Toby was led to the dttor, and Mrs. Bliven called loudly to Leona to bring down hfer bonnet and shawl. The girl, who had no especial fancy for the society of Widow Sally Smith and her hard voiced daughters, listlessly obeyed. Biit the moment she opened the “best bedroom” door, where the Old l&dy kept her choicest treasures, She uttered a shriek of dismay. There, On the floor, ih a se ries Of jagged strips and indistinguish able debris, lay Mrs. Blivens’s famous Leghorn bonnet! “HOhdness me!” qried a Shrill Voice, 11 whit’s the matter?” And Leona became conscious that old Mrs. Bliven had toiled heavily up the stairs, and stood close beside her, peering over her shoulder. Her face grew black as night. “Oh, Aunt Bliven,” gasped Leona, “how could this have happened?” “I see through it all, plain enough,” said Mrs. Bliven. “You needn’t trouble to tell any lies about it, Leona Parish 1 I heard what you and Myra were talking about yesterday morniug—about the old lady and the bonnet that was snipped to pieces and the blame laid on rats. It’s a very smart, ingenious plan, I don’t doubt; but somehow it don’t suit me to have such very smart, ingenious folks about my premises. So, if you please* I’ll dispense with the rest of your visit. The horse and wagon are at the door, and little Peter will drive you to the de pot as soon as ever you’ve packed your trunk.” * ‘But, Aunt Bliven, I never—” I ‘l told you I’d have no more false hoods,” sternly interrupted the old lady, “I don’t know what sort of Consciences you girls have, in this age of the world. Be silent, I say, and obey me,” And thus, in all the bitterness of un merited disgrace, Leona was turned out of the house, that was beginning to bs unspeakably dear to her. James Bliven, when he came home, was thunderstruck. “Mother, for heaven’s sake,” cried he, * * tvVlAf. ic tTlis2 Thu nr|i*l hoa nn ntono fn go to.” “Let her go back to the boarding school she came from!” said Mrs. Bliven, sternly. “I’ll have no double-dealers in this house!” “I’ll go after her and bring her back.” “You’ll do as you choose,” said the old woman; “but if Leona’s the girl I take her to be, she won’t come with you,” A sudden wave of despair swept over James’s soul as he recognized the truth of these words. “Mother,” he cried, “you’ll forgive her! YOu’ll send for her to return—for niy sake, mother?” But Mrs. llliveu shook her head. “No girl that isn’t frank-hearted and true; can have a home here!” she reiter ated. Yet, in spite of all this, the house seemed strangely desolately without Le ona’s light step and winning smile. Late at night there was a loud knock ing at the door. It was Myra Mauton, come l ack. “Things is all right,” Said she. They was frightened more than they was hurt. Absalom Atkins always whs a coward, and I ain’t goin’ to spend any more o’ my time foolin' with ’em; so I’ve comeback. Was you surprised when you seen Waggy was gone? The dog,” in answer to Mrs. Bliven’s puzzled look, “that Cappen Jackson left in my charge. When I seen the mischief he’d done, I jest ketched him up and left him to Cappen’s sister's Mary Ann Jackson, at the cross-roads, and afterward it occurred to me you might miss him and worry for fear he was lost.” “I never once thought of the dog,” said Mrs. Bliven, impatiently. “And the bonnet?” said Myra. “I’m powerfully sorry, but-—” “The bonnet!” said Mrs. Bliven. “What do you mean, Myra? What are you talking about?” “You don’t tell me you never diskiv ered it?” cried Myra, bursting into a laugh. “Well, Ido declare, What did you s’pose done it?” “Done what?” “Why, worried that 'ere Leghorn hat o’ your’n into ribbons! It was Waggv, that’s who it was! Pups is always mis chievous, and I think he’s the worst I ever seen. I meant to told Deacon Ship man’s boy, that helped me to tote my satchel to the daypo, to explain it t’ ye, but we was pretty nigh bein’ left, and flurry and fluster driv it all outen my head.” “Mrs. Bliven stared at Myra. “It was the dog, after all, then,” said she. “La me, who else did ye suspect?” cried Myra. “Where’s Leona? I fetched home some o’ them puce-colored poppy seeds and a slip o’ rose geranium for her, ’caused I knowed—Goodness, what’s the matter with you, eh? What are you looking at me that way for?” By the very earliest morning train James Bliven went after Leona, with a letter from his mother imploring her to return to the farm: “I’m an old woman." wrote Mrs. bliven “but I ain't too old to own when I’ve been in the wrong. Come back, and I'll guarantee you and me won’t have any more quarrels." Leona came back, and when once again she crossed the threshol; she was James’s promised wife. “Mother will be pleased at the engage, ment as I am myself,” said the young man, rapturously. And Myra’s kind eyes shone a cordial welcome, am} Mrs. Bliven herself came ; to meet Leona, wearing the simple straw ! Donnetwith the jet dagger and the black ribbon bow , “It’s dreadful becoming,” said she, with a complacent glance at the looking glass, “and hereafter I mean to get you to trim all my hats for me, Leona.”— Saturday Night. The Seven Bibles. The seven Bibles of the world arc the Koran of the Mahomedans, the Tfi Pit ikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Scrip tures of the Christians, The Koran is the most recent of the five, dating from about the seventh cen tury after Christ. It is a compdilnd of quotations from both the did and Hew Testaments, and from the Talmud. The Tri Pitike3 contain sublime morals and {lure aspirations. Their ailthor lived and died in the sixth fcentury before Christ. The sacred writings of the Chinese are tailed the Five King?, the word “kings” meaning web of clOth. From this it is presumed that they were origin ally written on five rolls'of cloth. They contain wise savings from, the sages on the dptics of life, but they cannot be traced further back than., the eleventh century before our era. The Vedas are the most ancient books in the language of the Hindoos, but they do not, accord ing to late commentators, antedate the twelfth before the Christian era. The Zendavesta of the Persians, nexi to our Bible, is reckoned among schol ars as being the greatest and most learned of the sacred writings. Zoroas ter, whose sayings it contains, lived and worked in the twelfth century before Christ. Moses lived and wrote the Pen tateuch 1500 years before the birth of the meek and lowly Jesus; therefore, that portion of our Bibie is at least 8000 years older than the most ancient of oth er sacred writings. The Eddas, a semi-sacred work of the Scandinavians, Was first given to the world ill the fourteenth Century, A. D. High Observation Towers. The English speculators who have pro posed building an observation tower in London double the height of the Eiffel •tower in Paris, and similar to it in plan, referred the matter to M. Salles, the as sistant of M, Eiffel, for an opinion as to the practicability of the scheme. M. Salles is popularly supposed to have been the active engineer of the Eiffel structure. He has condemned the English idea— very probably being biased by his connec tion with the Paris tower, which would lose its prestige if a higher rival should be erected. His argument, as reported, is this: That we arc ignorant of the force of the wind at varying high eleva tions, and that there would be difficulty iu transporting material above 1000 feet. “As t j the first point,” says the Engi titering and Mining Journal , “the argu ment is weak. It is mainly a question of leverage, not of absolute wind power, As to the second point, that of transport of material, reference to what is being done every day in deep mining would show that there would be no difficulty. The whole thing is simply a matter of business. If the passenger tolls would pay interest, riinning expenses, and prof its on the enormous original outlay, the tower can be built. Engineering nowa days is ready to face almost any difficul ties when a profit can be shown,” Down Where the Fires Rage, Professor Jones answers (in an English newspaper) the question raised as to whether the tapping and drilling of the earth for oil that is going on in America is dangerous or not—that is to say, likely to let oiit the internal flies of the earth to play havoc with the surface fat and near. He compares the earth to a bal loon floated and kept distended by the gas in the interior, which, if exhausted, will cause the crust to collapse, affect the motion of the earth in its orbit, erase it to lose its place among the heavenly bodies and fall in pieces. An other writer thinks that drilling should be prohibited by stringent laws. The scientist says an immense cavity exists, and that here the gas is stored; that a mile below tlie bottom of tlie cavity is a mass of roaring, seething flame which is gradually eating into the rock floor of the cavern and thinning it. Eventually the flames will reach the gas and a terrific explosion will ensue. The simile of the earth being like a balloon is not very solid. Why not weigh the earth and settle the question of solidity? The scientist can weigh the sun and moon; the figures are long, but the result is worth the trouble.— San Francieco Argonaut. The Forger’s Pen. I was talking with a Treasury official on the subject of forgery. “Did it ever occur to you,” said the official, “that a forger lias half his work done when he can get hold of the identical pen with which the owner of the signature habit ually writes? A great many men, bank Presidents and the like, use the same pen for their names only for a year or two without change. A pen that has been used by a man in writing his name hun dreds of times, and never used for any thing else, will almost write the name of itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of the signature. In the hands of a fairly good forger it will preserve the character istics of the original. The reason for this is that the point of the pen has been ground down in a peculiar way, from being used always by the same hand and for the same combination of letters. It would splutter if held at a wrong angle or forced on lines against its will. It almost guides the sensitive hand of the forger when he attempts to write the name.”— Pall Mall Gazette. The Coldest Spot and Coldest Day. The coldest region in the United States is the stretch of country on the northern border from the Minnesota lakes to the western lipe of Dakota. At Pembina, which lies pear the forty ninth parallel, the lowest temperature recorded in the great storm of the winter of 1573 was fifty-six degrees below zero. This is believed to be the lowest temper ature reached in the United States.—* i Francm) Examiner, CURIOUS FACTS. , Good divers get from $lO to S2O i day. , I A Monticello (Fla.) pear tree is in bloom for the third time this year. A largo copperhead snake found its way through a Columbia(Penn.) hydrant Ten cents was the reward given a Pott*, town (Penn.) man who found a stray S3OOO team and spent an hour in finding the owner. Somebody who believes in old-fash ioned methods Of discipline recently sent a young lady teacher in Maine a bundle of shingles. The Protestant Episcopal Church has in the HfcbraSkh Deanery 1650 Indian communicants, with nihe Dakota Indians in hbly Orders. A dog at Greenwood Lake, da., is twenty-one years old, and has killed in his life Ovfer sixty rattlesnakes. He has been bit.ten by them four times, uud still lives: B. F. Barker, of Laurens County, (Ja., lias a bOy five months old. At four months, and ten days he had two teeth and weighed twenty-seven pounds and could sit alone. An eagle that measured eight feet with its wings spread out was shot the other day at Rutledge, Ga. The bird was sit ting on a pine tree looking at a eix raonth’s-old baby. While out walking with his mother at Canton, Mass., a little son of Charles Summer was attacked by a large gray squirrel, which ran up his clothes and severely bit and scratched his face. A census of farm animals has recently been taken, by the Italian Government, and it appears that there is a very ' \rge increase in all kinds excepting pigs, Which have diminished considerably in numbers. When Washington became President, in 1789, the country contained less than four millions of people. The single State of New York has a larger popula tion to-day than the whole country in Washington's time. The vein of ore in the Treadwell mine, Alaska, is 464 feet wide, and extends along the mountain three-quarters of a mile. The mine produces SIOO,OOO in gold bullion monthly, about forty per cent, of which is profit. Farmers in the vicinity of Anderson, Ind., are excited over the appearance of a gang of young wolves in their wood lots. A number of sheep and chickens have been killed. A big hunting party has been organized to kill off the growl #rs. Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, of Lewiston, Me., recently, remarked that he was treating a member of a family in that city which he has professionally attended for five generations—great-great-grand father, great-grandfather, grandfather, father and children. AV. E. Miller, of Mt. Pleasant, Penn., has iu possession a copy of the Boston Gillette, dated Monday, March 12, 1770, published by Eddes and Gill, containing an account of the first four coffins manu factured in the United States by persons who made this a business. In the steeple of the Congregational Church at Bingham, Me., there hangs an ancient bell that has been swing in various belfries 100 years or more. On its outer surface is stamped “Revere, Boston,” Boston,” and it is supposed to have been made by Paul Revere, who, after the peace of 1783, eastablished a foundry in Boston, where he cast the first cannon and bells manufactured in Massachusetts. The old bell has a good tone, and seems likely to last another century. For a month past the people iu the eastern part of McLean County, 111., have been terrorized by a strange wild animal, which they thought to be a panther. The animal killed a large num ber of calves, pigs and sheep, and would attack large animals. It was of a fero cious nature, and the fanners were great ly alarmed at its presence. They or ganized hunting parties, and after several chases succeeded in killing it. Its skin was presented to the Wesleyau Universi ty Museum, and the animal proves o have been a Canadian lynx. It was of a dark brown color and weighed about one hundred pounds. Egyptian Corn. Iu raising Egyptian corn, A. J. Allen, of Warnek, Dak., on the Milwaukee Road, claims to have had success this season. He said: “I saw a statement in a newspaper last season about corn hav ing been brought from Egypt by a cer tain explorer, and wrote to him for some. He responded, sending me seven kernels, which, he informed me, he had taken from an underground tomb near the bank of the Nile, and they were, like Mark Twain’s mummy, 3000 years old. He made no charge for them, and thinking, as I do yet, that he found them as he said. I cultivated them with care and in terest. Each kernel produced three stalks, and on each stalk grew an ear about eight inches long and two or three inches in diameter. The ears are well filled with kernels about the size .of popcorn. The stalks attained the size of our Indian corn, and were soft and nice for foddei, even when the grain ripened. I think a great deal of the seed, and shall sow it next year on a good-sized patch. ’— Chi cago Herald. Utilizing Worthless Materials. Not the least hopeful of the signs oi the times is the tendency to use mate rials once thrown aside as worthless. Cot tonseed oil was once without value. Blag, formerly mere rubbish, is made into beautiful oinameuts for the table an mantelpiece, and some varieties have been utilized as a manure or in road making Anthracite coal was long in proving it-' claim to be a serviceable fuel. Coal dust js tordav used in “filling in places wher? mining "has been carried on with succ vigor at to endanger l)OUs.s and streets The probabilities are that each year wil press into service something that ha: hitheito beeD overlooked. It is not likely that man knows the full worth of every thing in nature’s storehouse,