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t\ kkkly in tiik Interest ok Bartow
Coenty, Devoted Mainly to Local
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Cotton Flannel at 7c. yard. Jeans,good
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SHOES I SHOES I
If you are* in need of Shoes I will only
tell you in a few words, l bought every
pair in my store for SPOT CASH, ena
bling me to get the Lowest Inside Prices.
I am selling Stribley A Co.s' Shoes—
EVERY 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 best
$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
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AMERICAN GIRLS ABROAD.
Quick-Witted Maidens Wlio Are a Match
For Impudent Men—Clever Means
Used to Rid Themselves An
noying Attentions—An
Amusing; Experience.
London Letter in New York Sun.]
Unprotected American girls are not
called upon as much in England as they
are on the Continent to protect them
selves against the gallant but annoying
attentions of fools, more often old than
young, of the opposite sex. But occa
sionally it does occur that a young wo
man must shield herself from an English
man as strenuously as from the most
persistent of Paris poseurs.
An occasion of this kind presented
itself to a young girl of my acquaintance,
whose wit showed itself equal to the
emergency. She lives in Steubenville,
Ohio, is pretty and modest, but is as in
dependent as any young woman reared
west of the Atlantic. She was to visit
Windsor with a party of friends last
week, blit something occurred to prevent
her leaving London with them, and it
was arranged that she should join them
at Windsor. She bad picked her way
alone about London considerably, and
she apprehended no difficulty in her trip
to Windsor.
As luck would have it, however, the
cabby who took her to the station proved
ugly, and disputed the fare she offered
him. She knew he was demanding too
much, and her independent spirit refused
to be imposed upon. He jumped down
from his cab, however, and affairs as
sumed such a threatening aspect that
she repented having questioned his de
mand, and was on the point of yielding,
when an elderly Englishman, who looked
like a gentleman, came to her rescue.
She told him where she had come from
and what she had given to the driver.
The fellow didn't wait for the new comer’s
decision, but skulked back onto his seat
and was driving from the station while
yet the girl was telling her story.
Her protector stayed by her, and,
learning that she was going to Windsor,
told her he was bound for the same
place, and offered to book her and to
secure her a seat. She gratefully ac
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY OCT. 13, 1887.
Clothing I Clothing I
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If you need anything in
DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
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.
cepted his services, and it wasn’t until
he refused her money in payment of Ins
fare that it dawned upon her that she
might be called upon to protect herself
against her protector. She insised upon
his taking her money, and when she
found that lie had chosen an empty car
riage for them to occupy she tried to
make a change, but her row with the
cabman had caused a delay, and she
barely had time to step into the com
partment before the train was in motion.
Her companion’s manner, however, to
her great satisfaction, remained within
the bounds of formal politeness, and to
her intense relief a third passenger at the
next station entered the carriage. But
within a half an hour the other passen
ger alighted, and my friend’s new-found
companion again entered into conversa
tion with her. The remembrance of his
service to her in ridding her of the ob
noxious cabby induced her to treat him
civilly, and she therefore answered his
questions politely and even branched out
into generalities. He made several ef
forts to turn from generalities to person
alities, and she experienced great diffi
culty in keeping him at a distance with
out?actually declaring war. But he was
evidently impregnable to hints, and final
ly he edged up to her and, in an insinuat
ing- voice, said:
“My dear, 1 wish very much we could
renew our acquaintance in London. May
I not call on you to-morrow ?”
She paused a moment, considering how
to answer him; folding her hands in her
lap, she assumed a demure look, then in
clining slightly toward him she advanced
her face toward his ear as if to whisper
an imperative secret, and said in a low
tone, dwelling impressively on each word:
“I guess it will snow to-morrow.”
I don’t know if the Englishman were
up sufficiently in American slang to in
terpret the exact meaning of the young
woman’s words; but she had said enough
to accomplish her object, for he retired
into his corner and made not another
remark uutil the train rolled into the
Windsor station.
From Paris comes the story of another
fair American who succeeded, in a some
what similar way, in ridding herself of a
petty persecutor. She is a daily atten
dant at one of the ateliers off the grand
boulevards. Her lodgings are some dis
tance up the Champs Elysees; but being
abundantly able to protect herself, she
culls upon no one*to escort her to and
from her work, and often prefers to do
the journey on foot rather than to take
one of the omnibuses going in her direc
tion. After a while, however, she be
came conscious that a certain young
man, always at the same spot, overtook
her and dogged her footsteps until she
reached the door of her apartments. She
knew enough of Paris customs not to
blame the young man individually very
much, as she is aware that somehow the
whole race is imbued with the idea that
one of its chief duties, as the superior
half of humanity, is to be polite and
gallant to every unprotected female and
even her small experience has convinced
her of the truly grand way in which every
Frenchman tries to do his duty. But in
this particular case she decided that The
young man’s good intentions must be
discouraged. Especially when after a
few da\s of silent following he attempted
to address her, she made up her mind
that stringent measures must be used.
Her aunt, a big-boned duenna of the
strong New England type, was informed
of the condition of affairs, and was made
acquainted with her niece’s proposed
tactics.
The day after their council of war the
young woman was overtaken as usual by
her admirer. He again whispered soft
words in her ear, and, as slie seamed to
smile somewhat favorably on him, he
kindly and invited her to
breakfast. She expressed diffidence at
accepting hospitality from an utter
stranger, and objected that breakfast
was awaiting her in her own apartment.
She, however, presumed that enough
would be served for two, and if Monsieur
would excuse what defects there might be
she would be very glad of his company
during her solitary meal. The young
man jumped with eagerness at her prop
osition, and walked gayly by her side.
Whatever apprehension the young girl
may have had as to the risk of failure
was not apparent in her manner, and she
succeeded in confining the ta k to pleas
ant generalities until her apartment was
reached. There the young man received
his first check when the door was thrown
open and disclosed the sizable propor
tions of the stern duenna. He had, how
ever, gone too far to turn back, and he
allowed himself to be ushered inside, and
the door to be closed on him.
The aunt and the niece were too well
schooled in the rules of politeness to
carry on their conversation before the
Frenchman in anything but French, so
he was able to understand every word
they said. “My aunt,” explained the
young woman to her duenna, “this poor
fellow is hungry, and I told him I thought
we could find him something to eat.”
“Ob, certainly,” answered the kind
hearted aunt. “I hope we need never re
fuse the demands of the needy. Marie,"
she called out to the trim maid, who im
♦nediately appeared, “take this man to
the kitchen and tell the cook to give him
some bread and meat.”
The unhappy Frenchman, in spite of
his protests and expostulations, was
shown through the doorinto the kitchen,
where lie was able to escape by the ser
vant's stairway. The young American
girl has since seen or heard nothing from
her harmless but annoying persecutor.
I Had a Dreadful Cough,
and raised a considerable amount of
blood and matter; besides, l was very
thin, and so weak I could scarcely go
about the house. This was the case of a
man with consumption arising from liver
complaint. He recovered his health com
pletely by the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden
Medical Discovery.” Thousands of oth
ers bear similar testimony.
TOOK AN APPEAL.
Suicide in Court of n Convicted Ten
nessean.
A horrible tragedy was enacted in the
Circuit Court room in Chattanooga last
Thursday. For two days, Sam Branch,
a gambler, has been on trial on a charge
of grand larceny. He was accused of
having stolen a gold watch belonging to
Pat Maloney, having first drugged his
victim before the ac-t was perpetrated.
From the beginning of his trial he pro
tested his innocence. He claimed to have
bought the watch from Sam Warrick, who
is now in jail, and suggested that Warrick
I be placed on the witness stand to vindi
cate him. The request was complied with,
but the testimony was very damaging to
the accused. The case was given to the
jury just at 9 o’clock that morning, and
in just an hour thereafter the jury re
turned with a verdict finding the prisoner
guilty as charged in the indictment, and
fixing his punishment at five years in the
penitentiary.
Immediately Branch jumped to his feet
and in a tragic manner exclaimed.
“Before God I am not guilty of this
crime. 1 will appeal my case to a higher
court, even to the bar of God.”
Drawing a small knife from his coat
pooket, lie drew the blade across his
throat twice before Sheriff Conner could
get hold of his arms. He thrust the
blade into his neck the third time and
severed the right jugular vein. Such a
scene of excitement was never witnessed
in the court room. Men jumped over
chairs and benches, women screamed and
paled, and pandemonium reigned. The
blood from the wound spurted over the
jury box, covered the lawyers’ tables and
saturated the carpet moi e than ten feet
square. Branch jumped around over the
court room like a chicken with its head
cut off', three men being unable to hold
him. He was finally laid on the floor, but
he lived only thirty minutes. A surgeon
was by his side in less than ten minutes,
but he could do nothing for the dying
man. The court was so appalled at the
horrible sight that it adjourned imme
diately.
Mrs. Branch was standing just outside
of the court room door when the tragedy
occurred. She was informed of the par
ticulars in the ease, and being taken to
the side of her husband, fainted. The
woman was picked up and tenderly borne
to her home in the Fourth Ward.
The news of the horrible deed spread
over the city like wild tire, and in less
than fifteen minutes the court room was
filled with an excited crowd anxious to
get a glimpse of the dying man.
At the inquest whiclrwas held on the
body in the afternoon, it was shown that
Branch hail declared his intention of kill
ing himself, if he was convicted. He said
he preferred to (lie rather than go to the
penitentiary. He could not bear the dis
grace it would bring on his wife and two
children. He was tried before Wednesday
for the same offense, but the jury disa
greed. The second jury convicted him,
and now that he is dead, several of the
jurors say that they believe he was inno
cent and regret the verdict was returned.
He was convicted solely on circumstan
tial evidence.
Alter the stolen watch came into his
possession he made no attempt to con
ceal it, and was in Pat Malony’s place of
business on several occasions exhibiting
it to his friends. It is generally believed
to-night that Sam Warrick was the real
thief, and Branch bought the watch from
him. Several years ago the deceased was
quite prominent in railway circles in the
South, having held several responsible
positions.
We are willing to bear personal testi
mony to the efficiency and valueof Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which we have been adver
tising some years in our paper, having
used it for blood impurities with great
success. It is a preparation of standard
merit, made of perfectly pure ingredients,
and thoroughly effective in cleansing and
purifying the system. For eruptions,
boils, etc , it can be relied upon every
time. Our own experience with it has
been most gratifying, and we are glad to
give it this endorsement. —Athol, (Mass.)
Transcript. oct 13-1 in
Some Historical Matters.
Tea was brought to Europe by the
Duch in 1610.
The discovery of the value of oak saw
dust in tanning was made in 1765.
Taxes were levied by Solon, the first
Athenian legislator, 540 B. C.
The name “worsted” is derived from a
place in Norfolk, England, where it was
first made about 1300.
Closed carriages began to be used by
persons of the highest quality in the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries.
Chancellor, an English captain, first
sailed into the-White sea in 1553, and
this led to building of Archangel and the
commerce of Russia.
The first warlike king of whom there is
any record was Osymandyas, of Egypt,
who, in 2100 B. C., passed into Asia and
conquered Bactria.
The Bank of England was established
in 1694, and is banker to the govern
ment, receiving all taxes and paying all
dividends and outgoings for public offices.
The circulation of the blood was dis
covered by Michael Sei-vitus, a French
physician, in 1553, re-discovered by
Cisalpinus in 1569, and more completely
by Harvey in 1628.
Wants the Facts Known.
Mr. Editor: I and my neighbors have
been led so many times into buying dif
ferent things for the liver, kidneys and
blood, that have done us more harm
than good, I feel it due your readers to
advise them when an honest and good
medicine like Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic can
be had. Yours truly,
An Old Subscriber.
KILLED HER BETRAYER.
A Virginia Farmer’s Ilaugliter’s Third
Trial for Murder—A Mock Marriage
and Subsequent Separation—
Fatal Meeting in a Fine
Thicket.
Uoiauey, Va., Special in New York Sun.]
The third trial of Ann E. Offner, a
young unmarried woman, for the killing
of her paramour, Benjamin Brooks, ter
mited here last night, anti the ease was
given to the jury.
The jury disagreed ami were discharged.
It said ten were for acquittal and two for
conviction of manslaughter. The fail
prisoner will probably have anew trial at
the February term of court.
Miss Offner is the daughter of a well-to
do farmer. She is twenty-nine years of
age and of fine personal appearance.
About a year prior to the killing she met
Brooks, who was about thirty-five years
of age and good looking. He came hen*
from Staunton, Yn., where, it was after
wards said, he had a wife and several
children. He made his living by working
as a farm hand, a good part of the time
for Mr. Offner. Though considered as a
hard character, he made a great impres
sion on his employer's daughter. The re
lations between the pair soon began to
cause talk. To satisfy public opinion,
Brooks took the girl to Cumberland,
where a mock marriage was performed.
Returning home they lived together as
man-and wife, but the truth coming out,
they were compelled to leave Offner's
house. They afterward lived on Little
Cacapon creek. Brooks finally left the
woman and went home. Brooks after
ward came to see her again. Then fol
lowed an indictment against the woman
for illicit cohabitation, but even this did
not prevent her seeing her paramour
when he came to the house, and at the
time of the murder she was in a delicate
condition.
On the morning of Sunday, August 1,
Miss Offner left the house on a spirited
horse to bring the cows to be milked.
The residence of the Offners stands some
distance from the main pike, and about a
mile in front of the house is a secluded
thicket of pines, which occupies about
one acre of land. She went directly into
the thicket, and after she had been there
for some time the cows were seen to come
home by themselves. Soon afterward the
report of a pistol was heard from the di
rection of the thicket. No one saw the
shot fired, but almost immediately after
ward Miss Offner dashed through the
pines on her horse. She at once informed
her parents that she had lulled Brooks,
but that it was in self-defence.
Three times has the trial been begun.
Twice something happened to a juror,
causing a postponement. This time it
began on Tuesday last and ended yester
day. The girl testified that on the Friday
previous Brooks insisted that she should
return to live with him, and threatened
her with a knife. Shevent with him at
the time, but returned home at the first
opportunity. On the morning when she
entered the thicket she did not know there
was a soul near, until Brooks jumped up,
and, catching hold of her bridle, said he
had her where he wanted her, and intend
ed to kill her. To use her own language:
“He tried to pull me off the horse. He
reached around as if he was going to get
his revolver. 1 had my revolver sticking
in between the buttons of my dress. 1
pulled it and shot him.”
All the witnesses for the defense testified
that Brooks had been hanging around
the house for several days, and he had
said on various occasions that the girl
should live with him or she should not
live with anybody.
Mr. Reuben Offner, father of the girl, is
an old, gray-headed man, way up in the
eighties, and has always been considered
one of the most honorable and respected
men in this region. His distress and
anxiety were painful to witness as he sat
in the court room day after day, entirely
absorbed in listening to the testimony
adduced for and against his daughter.
When told to state what he knew about
the case he said:
“I recollect the day Benjamin Brooks
was found dead. I went to where he was
lying, with Ann and my wife. I merely
looked at the body and came back to the
house. Ann took me to the place. The pis
tol with which she killed Brooks had been
at my house for some time. I had it
loaded and put in the sideboard.”
Mrs. Offner, the girl’s aged mother, also
testified, corroborating her husband.
As it has been the general opinion here
that the prisoner would be cleared, she
lias not been closely guarded at the jail,
being allowed considerable liberty, and
someimes appearing on the streets. When
she appeared in court yesterday morning
her manner betokened the deejK’st (lis-,
tress. She was agitated and very uncer
tain as to her probable fate. State's At
torney Dailey conducted the prosecution
alone. The counsel for the defense are the
Hon. F. M. Reynolds, of Keyser; Senator
Flournoy and Col. Axexander Monroe, of
this place, all eminent lawyers. The
court room has been crowded during the
trial. Judge James 1). Armstrong pre
sided.
The Gallant General Young*.
Augusta, Ga., Chronicle.]
“P.M. B. Young, Bartow County, Ga.,”
was inscribed on the register at the
Planters last night in a small, nervous
hand, and seated, in company with sev
eral gentlemen in the office, was the
handsome presence of General Young,
late United States minister to Russia,
the writer modest authorgraph.
General Young came down from Atlan
ta to see Senator Butler, of South Caro
lina, who arrived on the Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta train last night on
private business, and also to call on his
friend, Maj. Reiley, of the U. S. arsenal,
and thank him for courtesies in the way
of guns for the Piedmont reception of
the President and make arrangements for
their transportion. General Young said,
in conversation, that a stationery battery
in the sham battle would be assigned a
corps from the Washington Artillery of
this city should they choose to go and
not take their pieces with them.
Two of the companies that composed
General Young’s brigade were from this
city—Richmond Hussars, companies A
and B, commanded by Captains Thomas
B. Archer and W. B. Young, respectively—
and many an old soldier who followed his
gallant lead in the desperate fighting
around Richmond, will try and shake
hands with him during his stay in the
city. He is one of the most popular
fighting officers that Georgia gave
to the “lost cause,” and his diplomatic
service since the late unpleasantness has
in no way detracted from his good record
as a soldier. He was wounded three
times during the war, and the last time,
while commanding a North Carolina
regiment, whim had petitioned General
Lee for the leadership of General Young,
in preference to their own commander;
was desperately wounded in the “fences”
of Richmond. At Buckettsville he was
wounded and complimented for gallantry.
Williamsport, Brandy Station and Up
persville are synomyous with the heroic
leadership of Young's cavalry. At Cul
pepper Court House, on the first of Au
gust, 1863, he received his second wound.
General Young was hospitably cared
for last evening by a party of friends and
admirers, headed by Captain Edge Eve,
who commanded a company under him.
Heated Houses
Have been the cause of much bronchial
troubles. Coining out into the open air
a slight cold, followed by a severe cough
is contracted. Take in time Taylor’s
Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mul
lein.
Marriage of Cousins.
Chicajro Herald ]
The legislators of America are slow to
in* erfere with those relations of the peo
ple which involve dollars and tents. 11
some Sisyphus he fairly roasting his fe!-
!) vs with a cleverly devised scheme the
I ?ople may cry out. “Help! from Sisy
phus!" end cry in vain. Ilut the legislu
tors stem, on theother hand, to be prone
tt deal with questions of which they can
know the least —questions which deal
with the emotions rather than the pock
ets of mankind. The recent marriage law
of Pennsylvania is an instance, whereby
the preach* rs of New Jersey ha ve become
enriched. The statute of Illinois con
demning future marriages of cousins
brings this increasing affair of legislation
plainly before the people for discussion.
The popular objection to the marriage of
cousins is an ancient one. It is embodied
in the Mosaic law. Collateral consan
gninty in the past has been considered a
bar not only to marriage, but to many
other relations of life, principally having
a legal or canonical aspect. The deceased
wife's sister has also figured as a disturb
ing element in the entire fabric of the
British Empire, the largest social organ
ism in the world.
Now the Legislature ot Illinois has
passed a law in haste on the theory that
ir may be repented at leisure. It is a de
cidedly interesting social problem. It
presents endless points of view. Many
persons will hold the statute to be God
given. There will be young men whose
pretty cousins have just come from the
East' Those pretty cousins have made
the speediest conquests where the fame of
the fair ones has gone before. Such young
men, now nearing the happy day which
is to join them to their idols, will learn
with peculiar emotions of the alleged
wisdom of their law-givers, and, rising in
their anger, those young men will shake
the dust of Illinois from their sandals
and know it no more.
In many such cases the law will simply
act as an edict of exile, and it is well that
opportunity exists either to remain and
obey or depart and escape its provisions.
It is certainly a momentous prescription
which hinders the marriage of two sound
people, who, although cousins, may be
all the better fitted for the burdens of
family life. It is a decided loss to Illinois
when such a pair—man and woman
leave its borders to secure the happiness
which can come only with marriage.
From the side of Illinois it is probably to
be argued by the friends of the statute
that the joining of cousins in wedlock lias
precipitated untold exjiense on the State
through its charitable institutions. But
the children of cousins, if below the aver
age in mental and physical capacity, in
variably attract the attention of gossips
and stirpiculturists. The hospitals and
infirmaries are searched for imbeciles and
epilectics, and, if the parents prove to
have been cousins, then the imbecility
and epilepsy are entered on the debtor
side of the consanguineous account.
Probably the Illinois statute was pass
ed in the hope of reducing the number of
charges on the State. Its obvious influ
ence will be rather to unsettle and discom
fort the cousins already married and to
deport a certain number of inhabitants.
The sources of our pauperism and chronic
disease might better tie sought in Europe
than in Illinois. In the common sense of
the people may be found the safest bar
rier against bad social arrangements.
Where cousins are consumptive their
children will surely die. That ends both
strains of the phthisis. The people know
all that. Where healthy cousins are mar
ried the strain, as in the costliest live
stock, is that much purer and better. It
is as advantageous to increase physical
advantages as it is disastrous to join
bad diatheses.
Nature lias her statutes. There is no
commutation of punishment if her laws
be traversed. No one can move out of a
state of nature. Under a rule so equal,
with penalties so exemplary, with admon
ishments so constant, the people, it
would seem, might safely be intrusted
with their own love-making, while the
legislators might concenter their great
minds on the syndicate, trusts, issues,
charters, influences and other un
sentimental evils which affect the body
politic and economic.
The Speed of Heat and Cold.
It has been asked which travels faster,
heat or cold; and answered heat. Be
cause any one can catch a gold. It there
fore follows that every one should keep
Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and Mullein, which will cure coughs, colds
and consumption.
The Great Pneumatic Gun.
The New York Herald gives the follow
ing interesting account of the pneumatic
gun, lately invited to fire dynamite car
tridges, and with which, it is thought,
the strongest vessels that float may be
destroyed. If this terrible machine meets
the expectations of its inventor and
those who have seen it operate, it will
revolutionize naval warfare and become
an instrument of coast defence which
will afford ample protection to all ex
posed cities. Should it be a success, our
coasts and ports can soon be guarded by
vessels carrying these guns at compara
tively small expense, and they will super
cede the necessity of expending millions
fora large number of war nessels. Here is
what the Herald says about the last ex
periment:
Further experiments in target practice
with the pneumatic gun yesterday are de
scribed in other columns of to-day's Her
ald. They were undertaken to settle the
question whether rapidity of fire could
be combined with accuracy.
The result showed that ten shells, each
carrying fifty-five pounds of explosive
gelatine, could be discharged in ten min
utes and thirty seconds, and that while
four of the projectiles failed in the mat
ter of range, going ov u r or falling short,
the remaining six would havestruck with
in a space of six yards on the side of the
ship.
A trial shot with a heavier shell—one
corresponding to a charge of one hun
dred pounds of explosive gelatine—was
fired for range, and the projectile was
sent to a distance of two and a half
miles with an initial pressure of less than
one thousand pounds.
The fact that this gun is an American
invention haseoabled our government to
take the earliest steps for securing a
cruiser especially fitted for carrying it;
but there is nothing to prevent other
powers from buying or building it also.
We cannot maintain a monopoly of it.
Its importance to the United States lies
in the rapidity with which it can be man
ufactured, thereby giving us an almost
certain coast defence without delay.
Pimples, boils and other humors are
liable to appear when the blood gets
heated. To cure them, take Hood’s Sar
saparilla.
Chronic Coughs and Colds,
And all diseases ofthe Throat and Lungs,
can be cured by the use of Scott’s Emul
sion, as it containes the healing virtues
of Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites in
their fullest form. Is a beautiful, creamy
Emulsion, palatabte as milk, easily di
gested, and can be taken' by most
delicate. Pleaseread: “I consider Scott s
Emulsion the remedy par excellent in
Tuberculous and Strumous Affections, to
say nothing of ordinary colds and throat
troubles.” —W. K. S. Connell, M. I).,
Manchester, 0. “1 am using your Emul
sion Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites
for an affection of my throat, and the
improvements are beyond my expecta
tion ” i). Tavlok, M. I)., Coosawatte,
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Told by a Pa wnbroker.
Chicago Journal.3
“You would be surprised if I were to
give you the names of a few of my regu
lar customers." said a Clark street pawn
broker to the Stroller. “Lots of men
who live over on the Michigan and Dear
born avenues are sporting jewelry I pur
chased for them. I handle some pretty
fine clothes and house furnishings, too,
once in a while. You would hardly be
lieve it. but not long since a man not
noted for his generosity came to me and
said the widow of his former friend, who
had die*! in straitened circumstances, had
lieen to him the day Before wanting to
get an advance on their furniture- ‘Now,
she will expect too much of me,' he said,
‘so 1 want you to go and make her an
offer and I will take the furniture off your
hands.l The next day 1 called at her
house and made her an offer, and after
complaining that it was a pitifully small
sum she accepted it. Of course, she had
no way to redeem her pledge, and after
thirty days 1 took the furniture, and her
husband’s friend now owns it. Of course,
I made a dollar or two by the transac
tion, but 1 wish 1 hud refuses! to let him
have the goods, as they were very fine in
quality. Often when rich men die the Di
lutions send for me and l buy his clothes.
They don't know what else to do with
them. They won't cut them up and make
suits for the boys in the family, and they
don’t want them stored awry, on account
of the sad recollections clustered about
the garments. I often get hold of some
fine clothes that way and sell them at a
good profit to men who have no qualms
of conscience about wearing the habili
ments of a dead i*erson. me sell you
this fine Astrakhan coat at one-halt the
price the up-town merchants ask —but
the St roller was out of hearing.
I suffered from a verry severe cold in
my head for months and used every
thing recommended but could get no re
lief. Was advised to use Ely's ( ream
Balm. I am free from my cold after
using the Balm one week and 1 believe it
is the best remedy known. Feelinggrate
ful for what it has done for me 1 send this
testimonial. —Samuel J. Harris, \\ hole
sale Grocer, 119 Front St., New York.
Two bottles of Ely’s (Team Balm
cured the wife of a well known! . S. A.
General and also two army officers in
Arazoua of catarrh.
SJlie Was a Bright Girl.
Minneapolis Tribune.]
A young lady and her escort, both
well known in social circles, boarded n
Hennepin avenue street car yesterday,
which was well filled with passengers.
Soon the conductor came along, and the
young gentleman thrust his hand in one
pocket and then in another. He fum
bled in his vest pockets and then drove
again in the depths of his trousers,
while his purturbed features gave evi
dence to the interested spectators that
he realized the embarrassment of the
situation. He was about to make an
explanation, when the lady, with the
utmost nonchalance, was heard to say:
“How stupid of me, I declare! When you
passed me your purse in the post-office,
while you stamped your letter, l forgot
to return it.”
She drew out her purse with a bewitch
ing smile. Her escort took it, paid the
conductor and put it in his pocket, much
relieved at the narrow escape. No one
but a woman would have had the tact
of avoiding an embarrassing jiredica
ment in this neat manuer.
Indispensable to the Toilet.
Darbys Prophylatic Fluid cures chafing,
eruptions and infinmatiou of all kinds;
cures inflamed or sore eyes; relievs pains
from bites or stings of insects and sore
feet; destroys all taint of persperation or
offensive smell from the feet or any part
of the body; clenses and whitens tne skin.
Used as a dentifrice it purifies the breath;
preserves the teeth and cures toothache;
sore gums and caiikei^
It pays to be a successful explorer. An
offer of 150,000 has been made to Stanly
to write a book, when he comes home,
describing his latest travels. Probably
no English platform speaker can make
more money than Stanly in American
lecture field. H. H. Johnston, ex
plorer of Kilimanjaro and the* upper
Congo, has just been appointed, at
twenty -eight years of age, British Con
sul at Zanzibar, where he gets a big
salary. Joseph Thomson has made a
competency out of his books, and has
been handsomely paidWiesides to hunt
for coal fields in the Sultan of Zanzibar’s
dominions and to study the prospects of
trade for the Royal Niger company. Bur
ton, the discoverer of Lake Tanganyika,
has made a comfortable fortune by the
sale of his books. Among Prejevalsky s
brilliant honors is his promotion to a
generalship in the Russian army, and
(freely has been adyanced from lieuten
ant to brigadier general and manages
the signal service bureau.
An Important Element
Of the success of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is
the fact that every purchaser receives a
fair equivalent for his money. The famil
iar head-line “100 Doses One Dollar,”
stolen by imitators, is original with and
true only of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This
can easily be proven by any one who
desires to test the matter. For real
economy, buy only Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Sold by all druggists.
The violin player, Abel, complained
that everybody in England insisted upon
calling him “Ebel.” So he had anew
set of cards printed, on which he put
himself down as “Ebel.” He then dis
covered to his surprise that the English
called him “Ibel.” In order to bring his
sirname as printed and spoken into uni
formity witli what he thought to be the
law of the English language he next
called himself “Ibel.” “What do you
suppose,” he wrote to a friend, “I have
now become? In this part of the world
everybody calls me ‘Mr. Eibel.’ I have
already been during my tour through
England Abel, Ebel, Ibel, Eibel."
From the Tar Heel Country.
Knott, Henesee & Cos., Brindleton, N.
C., writes that Hucklebrrry Cordial sells
better with every satisfaction for bowel
troubels and children teething, and com
mend it to every mother, the physician of
the home.
A number of women in Baltimore havo
organized a temporary substitute for a
public whipping post. One of their
neighbors was in the habit of receiving a
periodical beating from her husband.
They kept a watch on him, and the other
evening when he began one of his attacks
on her they suddenly appeared and
thrashed him with considerable enthusi
asm and stout rawhides. He promised
to let his wife alone in the future.
***** Delicate Disease's, affecting
male or female, however uiduc. and, speedily
and permanently cured, Illustraed book
for 10 cents in stamps. World’s Dispen
sary Medical Association, 6G3 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ex-President Hayes is a happy grand
father owing to the fact that his son, B.
A. Hayes, of Toledo, was blessed with a
son and heir last Sunday. This is the
first grand-child of the ex-President.
A Bowdoin freshman named Cilley
climbed by a lightning rod to the top of
a spire on King’s chapel, at Brunswick,
Me., the other night and fastened there a
white flag bearing his class numerals in
token of a victory gained over the fresh
meu. The spire is of stone 120 feet high.