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Thk Courant American is PurUikhed
\\ KEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF BaRTOW
County, Devoted Mainly to Local
News, and Thinks it has a Right to
gxpect an Undivided County Patron
age.
UfllQl Hartehsvill* i’oprast, Established IHS J . „ _
, I nU.ioJ Cakteksvillk Amkhican. “ oif so lid at kd 1387.
Rare Treat in Store for Lovers of Bargains.
J. P. TOIT ES,
The Regulator of Low Prices,
Inaugurates the Fall Season by an offering of New Goods in every Department.
The Cheapest and Prettiest Stock ever Shown in Cartsrsville.
DBESS GOODS.
Special attractions in everything new
All Wool Tricots, Combination Suitings,
Fancy Diagonels, All Wool Cashmeres in
every desirable color, All Wool Henrietta,
Ladies Cloth in all the new shades, Silk
and Velvet Novelties in every color
suitable for trimming.
ATTRACTIONS.
Velvets in all shades, Silk velvets in
(>very desirable colors, Rrocaded Woven
Velvets.
50 Pices Brocaded and Plain Dress
Hoods Double Width Cashmere, all
colors, at 18c.; worth 25c.
J. P. JONES, Cartersville, - - - Georgia.
FIELD SEEDS!
Rye,
Barley,
Orchard Grass,
Red Top,
' Blue Grass,
Timothy,
Clover, &c.
AT BOTTOM PRICES
—A3STD—
Guaranteed Prime Quality
BY”
DAVID W. CURRY,
WHOLESALE DRUCCIST,
Broad St. Cor. Howard, ROME, GA.
PEACOCK & VEAL,
DEALERS insr
-TFiJRNrnjRE' -
(NORTH GEORGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.)
THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST
Parlor and Bed Room Suits in this section.
WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL
BETTER GOODSSHLESS MONEY
Than Anyother House in this Section.
—
As space forbids mentioning everything, we will only enumerate & few. We hav
in stuck and to arrive
finest parlor furniture,
SUBSTANTIAL BEDROOM FURMTURE,
ROCKING CHAIRS, WARDROBES.
BABY CARRIAGES at any Price,
MATTINGS, RUGS,CARPETS Etc.
LADIES. SEE OUR
WALL PAPER,
of which we have the latest and most unique design.
We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully,
PEACOCK VEAL,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
SPEC I A.Li.
10 Pieces All Wool Red Flannel at 18c
yard; worth 25c. All Wool Red Twill
Flannel, 25c. White FJannels at all
prices. Gray Flannel, 20c.; worth 25c.
Cotton Flannel at 7c. yard. Jeans, good
quality, 15c. per yard. All Wool Jeans
at a bargain.
Men’s Undershirts, all wool, from 25c
up. Ladies’ Vests from 35c. to f 1.00.
Extra fine all wool Jerseys from SI.OO
to $2.50.
Breakfase Shawls from 20c. to SI.OO.
Large all wool Shawls from $1.25 to
$3.00.
A beautiful line of Cashmere Shawls iu
the latest colors, from $1.25 to $3.00.
THE COURANT-AMERICAN.
SHOES! SHOES!
If you are in need of Shoes I will only
tell you in a few words, I bought every
pair in my store for SPOT CASH, ena
bling me to get the Lowest Inside Prices.
I am selling Stribley & Co.s’ Shoes—
ENERY PAIR WARRANTED. If they
don’t give satisfaction money will be
refunded. Ladies’ fine Kid Shoes at $3.00
per pair. My Ladies’ Shoes in Kid and
Goat Button at $2.00 are well worth
$2.50. Ladies’ Button Shoes at $1.50
others will ask you $2.00. I sell the beet
$1.50 Shoe in Cartersville. In Men’s
Shoes I can show you the best and cheap
est line. A splendid pair Shoes for SI.OO.
lam satisfied with a small profit. Don’t
buy Children’s Shoes till you learn my
prices. Bargains in Men’s and Boys,
Boots
Cards to the Public.
I have this day sold my stock of goods to Mr. John J.
Skinner, and have retired from business. I sincerely thank my
customers for their favors iu the past, and ask that they be
transferred to Mr. Skinner. My successor is so well known to
our whole people and it goes without saying that he will carry
on a business most satisfactory to those that patronize him.
Respectfully,
Oct. 4th, 1888. CHAS. T. JONES.
From the above it will be seen that I have bought out the
goods of Mr. C. T. Jones. In taking charge I wish to assure
iffe trading public of Cartersville and vicinity, that I will keep
a stock of groceries, fancy and staple, that will give satisfac
tion. I ask a trial, knowing when given that the success of my
new business is only a matter of time. I will keep the best
grades of goods and will sell at the cheajiest margins.
Yours for Groceries,
JOHN J. SKINNER,
At the Red Corner.
DRUGS! DRUGS!
J. H. WIKLE & CO,
(SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.)
Ilnve now in store the b< st selected, most complete and varied socfcoi
Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Patty, Perfumes, Etc.
IN NORTH GEORGIA.
Come to see 11s, examine good* and fret pi ices. Physicians Pre eriptions filled w ith the greatest
care day and night by a license t pharmacist.
AGENT OIL COMPIT’Y
Ch.as. A. Wilde, Manager.
McCanless’ Baling Press
The cut represents the Hand-Power. Can
be operated by three hands. Turns out Bjß
8 TO 10 BILEu PER HOUR. ■
size of bales 18x94 by 86 inches. Weight ill
of bales from 100 to 150 pounds. IH 1
PRICE oxn.7 SSO. '|| 1
McCanless & Cos., A| | \ o
CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ifgjv J j
Tried and recommended by J H. Gib
e uth, J. W. Gray, W. C. Barber and others
CARTERSVILLE, GA:, THURSDAY. OCT. 6, 1887.
Clothing;! Clothing!
A splendid stock or Clothing at very
Low Prices.
If you need anything in
DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
7 •
FLANNELS,
WATERPROOF
and thousands of other articles, don’t for
get to call at my Store. I can’t sell you
goods for less than they are worth, but I
will guarantee to sell you goods at a
living price. Don’t fail to call on me
when you come to Cartersville.
SEVEN PINES.
‘•The Racoon Rough*'* and Their Coon
Skin Cap*—Governor Gordon Talks
of That Bloody Occasion.
The Atlanta correspondent of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat writes: One day
in the spring of'6l, when the clans of
the Confederacy were gathering, there
tramped into Montgomery, then the tem
porary capital, a conqany of gaunt,
wild eyed, jeans clad men. As they
marched along in irregular tiles, with an
“every man for himself air, somebody
on the sidewalk called out:
“What command is that? - ’
“Independent Rifles,’’ was the reply
from the ranks.
“Independent Rifles!” a spectator
echoed with a grin.
“Raccoon Roughs!” came from the free
and easy trampers. “1 reck’n that'll
suit you uns!”
Every man in the company wore a
coon skin cap, and “the Raccoon Roughs”
they were from that time on. The com
mand had been recruited from the miners
and mountaineers of the northwest
corner of Georgia and the northeast
corner of Alabama. They were neighbors
and fellow workmen whose association
lapped overstate lines. Their Cap'ain
was John B. Gordon, at present the
Governor of Georgia, but he didn't,
hold the position long. “The Raccoon
Roughs'' were mobilized with some
other companies, and became the Sixth
Alabama, to the command of which
Captain Gordon was elected.
At Seven Piues the Sixth Alabama re
ceived its baptism of fire. Before that,
there had been some skirmishing, but
this was the first battle, and, as Gov.
Gordon describes the scene, they make
up for the regiment a first battle record
which probably is without parallel on
either side. A shade come over the Gov
ernor’s expressive face, and his voice
drops to lower tones when he talks of
that day.
“I started on the charge,” he says,
“with GOO meu in my regiment. When
the fight ended at nightfall 39G of the
GOO lay on the field dead or wounded.
My Lieutenant Folonel was killed. Of
forty-four commissioned officers only
thirteen came out of that day’s fighting
unscathed.”
“I had a brother with me, a boy,” Gov.
Gordon continued. “He was shot
through the right lung, but recovered,
only to die with Stonewall Jackson at
Chancellorsville. lie was 19 years old.
I had several bullet holes in my clothes
when night came, but was not wounded.
One ball raked across my chest, and
would have shattered my right arm if
I hadn't uplifted it to point with my
sword a movement I wanted my com
mand to make.”
“The Sixth Alabama,” the Governor
went on, “was opposite a portion of the
Federal line which that side had uo idea
would be taken. We made the assault
in the forenoon. There was a charge
across an open field, perhaps a distance
of five hundred yards. Then we came
to breastworks behind which the Fed
eral were as thick as they could stand.
As we went over their lines we found the
evidences that they had uo idea of being
driven back. Cooking was going on, and
iu a house a meal had beeu prepared for
au officer’s mess. We followed them
back of the works and into a swamp
where a great many trees had beeu fallen.
It was impossible to go ahead, and
there we stopped, stood in the water up
to our knees and fought till dark. 1 had
to detail meu in there to hold to the
heads of the wounded above water to
beep them from drowning. And some of
the time I could not find enough well
men to take care of the wounded.”
“Governor, do you recollect of any
other command which lost so heavily in
a single charge at any time during the
war?” was asked.
“No,” replied the Governor, after a
little pause, “I don’t recollect anything
which was quite equal to it. Our loss
was within three or four men of being
two thirds of the whole regiment.”
SUCKERS ALWAYS BITE.
The Mohs Covered Counterfeit Money
Racket Worked On Two Ken
tucky Smarties.
An old swindling dodge, long since
familiar to suckers in more advanced
localities, has just penetrated the wilds
of Perry and Leslie counties, Kentucky.
Ten days ago Basil Cornett, of Perry
county, went to Loudon, Ky., registered
at the Lovelace Hotel, and after several
days quietly loitering around town, he,
with the most confidential air, informed
certain persons that he was waiting for
his partner, who had gone to New York
on business, and in the meantime he tele
graphed or wrote to a bank in Stanford,
where he had a deposit, requesting that
they send him S4OO in cash. Last Satur
day his partner, J. N. Baker, of Leslie
county, arrived, and, after the two had
conferred together, they proceeded to the
Adams Express office and received a
package shipped from Albany, N. Y., to
the address of Baker, on which there
were S4OO charges, which amount they
paid the agent.
Shortly after this little business trans
action Cornett took a friend aside and
whispered into his ear that they had
beeu beaten, whereupon he unbosomed
himself of the entire scheme. He told
how they had beeu induced, like the tra
ditional little fish, to gulp into their un
sophisticated mouths a bearded hook on
which was fixed a dainty allurement.
The tale runs thusly: They had received
from Albany, N. Y., a circular, in which
a “party by the name of Smith,” or some
other simple cognomen, had offered that
for S7OO of any good circulating medium
the said party would furnish SIO,OOO of
“stuff” which would pass anywhere; and
as an inducement the said party proposed
that if they should have any doubt or
misgiving on the subject they were in
vited to come East and receive the stuff
in person; and accordingly Mr. Baker
proceeded to Albany, where he found the
proper street and number, and was soon
engaged in negotiations by which he was
to realize $lO ,000 with the small outlay
of only S7OO. He said the party showed
him a trunk full of the prettiest money
he ever saw, and explained to him how
the thing worked, and that the money
was duplicates of regular treasury notes,
printed at the Treasury Department,
and that they would never be detected
until presented at the department for
redemption. A trade for SIO,OOO worth
was soon made, and the amount was
packed into a box and handed to Baker,
who paid S3OO in cash, with the under
standing that S4OO more should be paid
when the box was duly received through
the express office. Baker was to carry
the box to the office in person and ex
press it, as a matter of caution against
detection. As an evideuce of good faith,
the party took a S2O bill from the lot
aud handed it to Baker, and advised him
to purchase his railroad ticket wifh it.
He says the hill was taken by the agent
without a murmur, and he proceeded
home in the proud knowledge that he
had struck it rich.
When he and his companion opened
the box, which he had seen packed and
had in person expressed, it contained a
good hard brick, such as used in build
ing. The two greenies Consulted a law
yer aud a suit was filed, and the S4OO
attached in the hands of the Express
Company.
“I cannot praise Hood's Sarsaparilla
half enough,” says a mother whose son,
almost blind with scrofula, was cured by
this medicine.
HORRIBLE!
A Young Girl Transformed Into
a Decrepit Woman.
The Powerful Effects of au Electric
C’urr. ut.
Cleveland, Oct. 2.—On the Brecksville
road, about six miles from the town of
Lorain, lives a fanner named Max Har
mon, who came from Pennsylvania about
a year ago. Harmon’s family consists of
a wife and three children. The oldest,
named Mary, is a young lady nine
teen years of age, who has passed
through one of the strangest and most
painful experiences which has ever fell to
the lot of a human being. A short time
ago she was a plump, rosy-cheeked girl
in robust health and of a sunny disposi
tion. To-day, through the influence of a
most peculiar accident, she is in all but
years a shrunken, j>eevish old woman.
The story of tins strange metamorphosis
is as follows: Mary was engaged to be
married to a man named Jacob Eberlein,
who worked for Mr. Harmon and made
his home with the family. About six
weeks ago the young couple came to
Cleveland to make some purchases and
aud see the sights. One of the young
man's friends worked in one of the elec
tric light establishments at the time.
Eberlein proposed to take his future bride
through the place aud show her the ma
chinery. It ap|>ears that a broken wire
of her panier or bussel had unperceived
worked its way through her dress. While
passing along the wire came in contact
with one of the powerful electric ma
chines, and her hand resting on an iron
bar at the time, completed the circuit,
and she received a severe shock and fell
to the floor. In a few moments she re
vived sufficiently to be removed from the
place and was taken to her home. Medi
cal aid was summoned, and for four days
the girl lay iu bed in a paralyzed condi
tion. Then she regained the use of her
limbs, but immediately began to lose
flesh rapidly. The hair on the left side of
her head turned gray and began falling
out, After weeks Miss Harmon was able
to be about, but in that time she had
been transformed from a young,
handsome girl into a feeble old woman.
Her form, which had lieen plump and
rounded, was thin and bent, and the skin
on her face and body was dry and wrin
kled. She had been a sweet tempered,
affectionate girl, but is now peevish, irrita
ble and selfish. Her voice is harsh and
cracked, and no one, to look at her,
would imagine that she was less than
sixty years of age. The Harmon family
are horrified and well nigh heart-broken
over the fate of their once handsome
daughter, while young Eberlein is almost
crazy over the change iu his affianced
bride.
The physicians claim that the electric
current communicated directly with the
principal nerves of the spine and left side
of the head, and that the shock almost
completely destroyed their vitality. In
stances in which a person’s hair has
turned whitein a single nightfrom fright,
grief, or some excessive nerve shock, are
not rare, but this is supposed to be the
first case in medical history in which a
person has been known to step from the
bloom of vigorous youth into the de
crepitude of old age within a week.
Bloodiest Battles of Modern Times.
It is not uninteresting to state what
have been the bloodiest battles of the
last hundred years; that is, to compute
the percentage of loss to the numbers en
gaged. Within the allotted time the Na
poleonic battles come first. The battle
of Lodi, Bonaparte’s first brilliant suc
cess, was simply the daring passage of a
bridge, and does not enter into the com
putation. Areola was the most san
quinary struggleof the Italian campaign.
The forces engaged numbered about 70,-
000, and the loss was about 25,000, or
about 25 percent. At Rivoli there were 80,-
000 men engaged, and the loss was
40,000, but 20,000 of these consisted of
Austrians who surrendered to Napoleon,
so that the real loss was only 15 per
cent.
After Bonaparte’s return from Egypt he
fought the battle of Marengo. In its re
sults this was one of the most momen
tous engagements in history, but all ac
counts agree that it was the worst
planned and worst fought of all Bona
parte’s victories. There were 60,000 men
engaged,and the loss was 17,000,0 r about
28 per cent. At the battle of Austerlitz,
which by many is considered Napoleon’s
most brilliant victory, the French and
Austro-Russian armies numbered 210,-
000 men, and the loss was 40,000, or
about 18 per cent. At Jewa-Auerstadt
there were 325,000 men engaged, and the
loss was 40,000, or about 12 per cent.
At Borodino there were 170,000 men in
battle, and 80,000 were killed and
wounded, amounting to more than 47
percent. AtLeipsic there were 500,000
men in battle, which lasted three days,
and the loss was 110,000, or 22 per cent.
At Waterloo 140,000 men were engaged,
and the loss was 40,000, or 27 per cent.
In the Crimean war there were 125,000
men at the battle of Inkerinann, and the
casualties amounted to 25,000, or 20
per cent. At Magenta there were 225,000
men; the loss was 11 per cent, or about
25,000. At Solferino there were 250,000,
and the loss was 40,000, or 16 per cent.
At Sadown the hostile forces numbered
425,000, and 70,000, or 16 per cent,
were killed and wounded. At Gravelotte
there were 450,000 men in the encounter,
of whom 35,000, or about 8 per cent
were killed and wounded. At Shiloh the
armies numbered 90,000, and the loss
was 30,000,0 r one-third. At Fredericks
burg there were 180,000, and the loss
was 20,000, or 11 per cent. AtAntle
tam there was 150,000, and the loss was
30,000 or 29 per cent. At Chancellors
ville there were 150,000, and the loss was
30,000 or 29 ]>er cent. At Chancellors
ville there were 150,000, and the loss was
30,000, or 29 percent. At Gettysburg
there were 160,000, and the loss amount
ed to 57,000, or 39 per cent. Thus the
figures show that Bordino was the
bloodiest battle of modern times, •ith
Gettysburg in the second place.
Governor Gordon’s Ambition.
The Washington Post of last Sunday
says:
Georgians have a right to be proud of
their Governor. They were proud of him
long before he was Governor, and will
be long after he shall have ceased to be
governor, John B. Gordon has uttered
manly and patriotic sentiments without
number, but never one better than that
contained in his letter to the managers
of the Evansville re-uuion. “Formyself,”
writes he, “I had rather be an humble
instrument in the hbnds of Providence to
obliterate the dissensions growing out of
our late cival war than to occupy the
highest position in the universe.” He
means all he says. From the time of the
surrender uutil now, he has been steadily
engaged in building up his state. He
put the dead past behind him, except its
memories, and looked steadily towards
the future. The whole country is much
indebted to just such men as he is. A
sullen, discontented, disunited south
would have impresed itself ou the north
and we should have had a miserable
country all around. The peace and har
mony which we now enjoy are due in a
great measure to just such men as Gov.
Gordon, who accepted the situation with
no mental reservations, but with all
their hearts.
A PA LACK ON VVHEKLS.
Tito Train H'nirli is to Convoy the I*rel
tlent ml Wifo Through the
Country.
The special train which is to convey
the president tiud Mi s. Cleveland through
the west and south husstarted from Wash
ington, and isuttracting much attention.
It is a marvel of tasteful elegance, and
seems to lock nothing which money
could purchase or human ingenuity
devise and construct to make traveling
comfortable. Three Pullmau cars—the
“Alfaratta,” “Velasco” and “I*. P. C.”
—Hie so connected as to form one con
tinuous car, traversable from end to end
without openeuiug u door orsufferiug ex
posure to the weather. The private
quarters of the president and Mrs. Cleve
land are in the“P. P. C."—Mr. Pullman's
private car —which contains a parlor,
bedroom, dressiugroom and commodi
ous observatory, the walls of the latter
being almost entirely of plate glass—
will be the rear car after the train
passes Baltimore, affording its occupants
from the observatory and wide safely
railtfl platform behind it an unobstruc
ted view of the country.
The middle car is, in general feature's
patterned after the familiar Pullman
alee] nr model, but embodies in its details
all the later improvements made by Mr.
Pullman. The first car contains a
smoking room, library, barber shop and
bath room. The train is fresh from the
shops, and is newly upholstered through-
out in the richest velvets, pannellings
and the carvings of oak. cherry and
maple are in keeping with the rest. Blic
a-brac, ferns and flowers in vases, and a
parlor organ are among the incidentals
of the train s furniture. Hoorn is found
in the corners, invisible to the passengers,
for an engine and dynamo, which are to
furnish electricity for lighting the train
and ringing its bells, and for the cook
ing range and the entire outfit of a first
class kitchen.
Five Hundred Dollars
is the sum Dr. Pierce offers for the detec
tion of any calomel, or other mineral
poison or injurious drug, in his justly
celebrated “Pleasant Purgative Pellets.”
They are about the size of a mustard
seed, t herefore easily taken, while their
operation is unattended by any griping
pain. Billiousness, siek-headache, bad
taste in the mouth, and jaundice, yield
at once before these “little giants.” Of
your druggist.
ALL FKOM DRINK.
Paupers Craving for Stimulants They
Cannot Get.
The Poor House Superintendent of St.
Louis, says that nearly four fifths of
those who come to the poor house are
brought there by drink. In their younger
days, when they should have been laying
away something for old age, they were
spending their money for drink. Of
course misfortune brought many of them
to want, but drink wrought the poverty
of most of them. When, therefore, they
have been with me for some time, with
out having tasted liquor, they will drink
anything to satisfy their old craving.
We used to have an annex in a rented
house just across the road from the main
building, but were forced to give it up, as
the paupers found it easy to get away
and get tipsy. It was a mystery where
they got the money to buy the liquor,
but they got it. They would pick up
rags, iron, scraps, and borrow each
other’s clothes and sell them for a drink.
We could not always keep our eyes on
them, and they would manage to escape.
Once in awhile they steal a inarch on
us by drinking the mash for the yeast in
the bakery, and I have known an old
fellow to swallow a bottle of medicine for
the pleasure it would give him to burn
his throat. They have drank indigo and
other liquids, and get tipsy, too. It is a
very curious craving, this old love for
dripk that keeps gnawing in men and
women 60 and 75 years of age. The
love of tobacco is equally strong, and
the only interest they show in life is when
we give out the rations of smoking and
plug tobacco.
Is it Really Consumption t
Many a case supposed to be radical
lung disease is really one of liver com
plaint and indigestion* but, unless that
diseased liver can be restored to healthy
action, it will so clog the lungs with cor
rupting matter as to bring on their
speedy decay, and then indeed we have
consumption, which is scrofula of the
lungs, in its worst form. Nothing can be
more happily calculated to nip this dan
ger in the bud than is Dr. Pierce’s “Gold
en Medical Discovery.” By druggists.
A Fair Showing for the South.
The Chattanooga Tradesman in its
quarterly review of Southern industries
makes a most flattering showing. It
says: “The past three moijths, although
the embarrassing midsummer period,
shows no cessation in the wonderful in
dustrial development in all sections of
the South. While speculations have
been restricted, the material growth has
correspondingly increased, and reports
to the Tradesman from commercial and
industrial centres of the South betoken
a most gratifying condition of affairs.
Crops everywhere in the South are about
the average, ai/d the general volume of
business is increased.
Up to a fortnight ago money was easy,
and while collections are somewhat
slower now, the movement of crop will
improve the financial situation.
The industrial situation is very active.
Manufacturers are crowded with orders,
and the largest iron works are running
on double time. Railroad building is in
active progress in many of the Southern
States, and rolling mills in Chattanooga
and Birmingham have orders for months
ahead.
Returns from the Southern cotton
mills show an important improvement,
the consumption of cotton having in
creased over 2,000 bales in the past
twelve months, or nearly 5% per cent.
The total number of mills up to Septem
ber 1, 1887, was 249; number ofsindles,
1,213,346; number of looms, 27,983;
cotton consumed per year, 601,452 bales.
New companies are being rapidly formed.
In the [last three months thirty-two
new factories have been organized, divi
ded as follows: Alabama 3, Arkansas
1, Georgia 2, Louisiana 2, North Caro
lina 12, South Carolina 3, Tennnessee 2,
Texas 7.
The Effect of Sleeping in Cars
Is the eoutraeting of cold, which often
results seriously to , the lungs. Never
neglect a cold, but take in time Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum' and
Mullen—nature’s great cough medicine.
One of Gen. Forrest’s Old Men Lucky.
As announced, Mr. W. A. Barnhill, of
this city, held one-tenth of ticket 29,146
that drew $50,000 in the August draw
ing of The Louisiana State Lottery, and
received his mouev—ss,ooo— promptly
through the First National Bank of this
city. He is an old man, 55 years of age,
and proposes to manage his fortune so
as to live easy, and experience as few of
the worries of life as possible. He served
through the late war on Gen. N. B. For
rest’s staff and made good soldier.
Persistent and patient investing of one
dollar each month in The Louisiana
State Lottery, and that the practice he
has kept up so long, he proposes to con
tinue.—Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune and
Sun, Aug. 26.
Al> VKIITIBKM ENTS.
The Courant-Amebican is thk only
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Starving Work-Girls.
From Longmans Magazine.]
“What the eye doesn’t see t lie heart
doesn't grieve for,” and, honestly, I am
afraid that ladies don’t cure how many
working-girls are killed so long as they
don’t know anything about it. They
will even go as far as to say. What is the
use of knowing or caring if it can't lie
heljied? To which the answer is: It can
lie helped if only enough people will begin
to know and care. I niouism by itself
will do a good deal for women, as it has
for men; but there an* special difficulties
in the way of their organization; the first
thing their friends can do for them is to
help to remove these difficulties. Trade
unionism, however, is not, any more
than co-operation, a panacea for all tin
evils mid dangers of our industrial sys
tem; it deals only with two of the three
great factors of the problem; as if the
capitalist and the laborer could decide
their quarrels about the intervention of
that virtual employer of both —the con
sumer. The only real and effective pro
tection that can Ik* extended to the
starving work-girl must come from a
universal conspiracy of consumers not
to buy the produce of stolen or half paid
for labor, spending, of course, the money
so economized in employing at first hand
a corresponding number of women at
trade society wages. No doubt, if we all
were to buy only what we could afford
to pay for honesty, some of us would
get, as the lovers of cheapness say, less
for our money; but a clear conscience
would be thrown in as a compensation,
and the industrial interests of the com
munity would not suffer, since* as large
a pro|H>rtiou of the national income
would still Ik* s|K*nt on the prod Acts of
agriculture and manufacture, though a
larger proportion would be spent and
consumed by the producers themselves.
Tallest People Lazy. •
Why are the tallest people the laziest?
They are longer in bed than ot hers, and
if they neglect their coughs or colds, they
will be there still longer. Cse Taylor's
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullen.
Napoleon on Acting.
London Athenian in.]
Talma used to go out of his way to get
into a passion when )>eoph* talked to him
of the art of declamation, and he claimed,
quite rightly, that he acted and did not
declaim. Why should one not act China,
Biitannicus, Mithridate, leaving
the human and simple character? Why
should one not pour one’s own blood
into the statue-like figures?
“I like you,” said Napoleon to Talma,
“because you are always the personage
you represent. Pompey”Ca*sar, Augustus,
that sly politician, can never ha ve resem
bled actors who are always on the stage,
and absorbed in getting themselves ap
plauded. They used to speak, and not
declaim; and even at the tribune or at
the head of the armies they were orators,
and not actors. Look at you, Talma,”
added the Emperor; “you often come to
see me in the morning. You meet a num
ber of people. There are princesses who
have been robbed of their lovers, princes
who have lost their dominions, kings of
yesterday, whom war has brought to 1 li*
top, victorious generals, who are hoping
lor or asking for crowns. There are
around me deluded ambitions, ardent
rivalries, catastrophes, sorrows concealed
at the bottom of the heart, afflictions
which force their way into notice. Cer
tainly there is plenty of tragedy; my
palace is full of it, and I myself am as
suredly the most tragic of the figures of
the time. Well, do you see us raise our
arms in the air, study our gestures, as
sume attitudes, affect airs of greatness?
Do you hear us utter cries? Doubtless
no. We speak naturally, as each one
speaks when lie is inspired by an interest
or passion. So did the people who, be
fore us, occupied the world’s stage and
also played tragedy on the throne. These
are the examples to follow.”
A Rich Legacy.
The General attorney of the Pullman
sleeping car company. Ex-chief Justice O.
A Lochrane, states that old I)r. Riggers
could leave no better a legacy than his
Huckleberry Cordial for all bowel affec
tions.
Human Machines.
Atlanta Constitution.]
A few days ago a man dropped dead of
heart disease at his post of duty in New
York. For years he had stood at an ele
vated railroad station calling out all day
long: “This way to the street! That
way to the terry!’’
Doubtless many of those who saw him
day after day, and heard his monotonous
cry, thought he had an easy task. But such
a use of a man is a dismal spectacle, lie
had been converted into a human ma
chine and was used only because a ma
chine of metal has not been invented to
do his simple work. This man was a vic
tim of niechanical civilization. Almost
everything is now done by machinery.
Machinery of metal is cheaper and more
reliable for most work, but occasionally
it will not serve the purpose, and then a
man is used. A man is a pitiable sort of
a machine, andean be adjusted to almost
any sort of work. Our elevated station
man was put into place years ago, told
to stand there and utter ten certain
words during twelve hours of each day;
only this and nothing more. He did liis
narrow duty faithfully unto the end;
until something broke and the machine
had to lie thrown aside to lie replaced by
anew one. What combination of springs,
and wheels, and steam-chest could have
done lietter? Few such contrivances
would have lasted so long, or gotten out
of repair so rarely as this human ma
chine.
The incident has its pathetic side, but
it has its hopeful one, too. It shows that
there is still a demand for men, and that
they are preferable to machines of metal
even for the simplest tasks.
Addition Making Shorter.
What word is that to which if you add
a syllable it will make it shorter? Short.
—Taylor s Cherokee Bemedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullen will shorten your cold
and cure your cough.
Booty, Not Patriotism.
There was a meeting of Union soldiers
in New York Sunday whose main object
seems to have been the passing of resolu
tions to loot the Federal treasury. They
are not satisfied that every old soldier is
entitled to 160 acres of government
land; they now want the government 1 o
“advance passage money and means for
working the land.”
A Woman’3 Dress.
Is an important matter as regards their
health. They are much more subjected
to cold than men, and should be careful
to protect themselves, but if they con
tract a cough or cold they should take
Taylor’s Cherokee remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullen.
Hate no one. It is not worth while.
Your life is not long enough to makeitpay
to cherrish ill will or hard thought to
ward any one. What if this man has
cheated you or that woman has played
false? What if this friend has forsaken
you in the time of need, or t hat one hav
ing won your utmost confident*, your
warmest love, has concluded that he' pre
fers to reconsider and treat you as a
stranger! Let it pass. What difference
will it make to you in a few years when
you go to the undiscovered country 0
Bam Jones,