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THE SONG OF TIIE COFFIN
DRUMMER.
From Illinois. lowa,
Nebraska and Dakota,
To Michigan, Wisconsin, too,
And lovely Minnesota;
From Lake Superior’s coppermlnes,
Through H nosier Indiana,
To Mississippi's cotton fields
And low Louisiana,
I furnish wooden overcoats
Tc many an undertaker:
For bunker, beggar, one and all,
The butcher and the baker —
Baker—
Butcher and the baker.
Wrom gloomy swamps of Arkansaw
To sunny South Carolina,
\v here salty marshes waving yield
Their rice to Pomp and Dinah;
From yellow orange groves I go
To purple Helds of clover —
From Florida to Ohio,
I skin the country over.
And furnish wooden overcoats
To many an undertaker
For banker, beggar, one and all,
Th<‘ butcher and the baker —
Baker—
Butcher and the baker.
I watch the farmer. North aud South,
His wheat and cotton growing;
From many a little stream to mouth
1 view the rivers flowing;
And every year I scan the woods
To ea ch a dogwood b ooming—
First herald of the busiest time
For burying and tombing;
And laugh and joke as round I go,
With many an undertaker,
For lie and i must follow soon
Tt’“ Luteher and the baker —
Baker-
Butcher and t lie baker.
Oh! Life is but a running race—
Tlie hind ones and the head ones.
Where many a live man sets the pace
For running after dead ones,
But he at last shall peter out
And tumbledown a-dying—
Shall need a wooden overcoat.
So wherefore are we crying?
For all the world shall peter out,
The butcher arid the baker,
The banker and the drummer and—
At last the undertaker —
Taker —
Ah, there! Undertaker.
—The Casket
ANNEXATION OF CANADA.
Tl< Disastrous At la* nipt to Accomplish
It I>y Fore© —A Famous Retreat.
The present'agitation concerning the
relations between Canada and the United
States recalls the time when the annexa
tion of that country was proposed to be
brought about by force of arms. The
project was entrusted to the brave Gen.
Montgomery, assisted by the famous
patriots, Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth
Warner. While engaged in this invasion
EUian Allen was taken prisoner by the
British and sent to England, where he
experienced very harsh treatment.
It was Colonel Warner who twice con
ducted his men safely home, though the
march was constantly surrounded by
dangers. Once Montgomery sent them
home because their time was out, and
though they were willing to continue in
service, they were without sufficient
'clothing, and none could be had in that
country.
Colonel Warner had hardly arrived
home before he heard that Montgomery
had been killed, and the cause, as well as
the lives of the men, were put in great
jeopardy. He collected his men again
and at once started for Canada to assist
his countrymen in their extremity. But
his efforts were of no avail, audit
soon found necessary, to take up the line
of retreat.
It was the dead of winter, and only
necessity sanctioned moving the troops.
The terror of pursuit and the rigor of
the season furnished sufficient cause for
alarm and haste. Colonel Warner re
mained with the rear of the army, and
aided them in many "’ays most effectu
ally. as he was a man well posted in
caring for the sick and this knowledge
now came into excellent use.
He must keep the army in motion, not
a day must.be lost, and yet he was with
out any chest of medicines. But he
understood the medicinal use of roots
and herbs, and of proper care at critical
times, and with these allies, he made an
effectual fight against disease among his
men.
When Ticoiuleroga was reached and
the roll called, thanks to Seth Warner
but few vacancies in the ranks appeared.
Col. Warner saved the lives of hun
dreds of men in this way, and he did a
noble work, but it remained for his name
sake, H. 11. Warner, head of Warner's
Safe Cure establishment, to.give the
same kind of remedies then used to the
people of to-day, in ‘‘Warner s Hog
Cabin Remedies.” These remedies have
been adopted after thorough trial and
investigation, and they are remedies of
established reputation. Being wholly
vegetable, they can be used without any
fear as to the results.
Among the new remedies is n Sarsa
parilla for the blood, Hops and Buchu
for the stomach and digestion, Cough
and Consumption Remedy, Seal pine for
the head and lmir, Rose Cream for that
terrible disease, catarrh, a Eog ( abin
Liver Pill, a Log Cabin Plaster and an
Extract for internal and external use.
Our readers may rest assured that there
is merit in every article.
A Sail Civie of Poisoning
is that of any man or woman afflicted
with disease or derangement of the liver,
resulting in poisouonus accumulations
in the bh od, scrofulous affections, sick
headaches, diseases of the kidneys, lungs
or heart. These troubles can be cured
only by going to the primary cause, and
putting the liver in a healthy condition.
To accomplish this result speedily and
effectually nothing.has proved itself so
efficacious, as Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medi
cal Discovery,” which has never failed tb
do the work claimed for it. and never will.
The Manhattan Club, of New York, are
endeavoring to purchase the white
marble residence of the late Mrs. A. T.
Stewart, for a club house. The price
wanted is said to be one million dollars.
We can, without hesitation, say that
Dr. Bull’s Cough Svrup has given the
bt st satisfaction. We have sold an im
mense amount of it during the past win
ter. Wallace, Hilton & Cos.,
Druggists, Lock Haven, Pa.
OUlt MINERALS.
Our Unsurpassed Kiclies Make Georgia the
“Empire State of the South.”
The Tribune of Rome, ill commenting
upon the article of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, beaded “Our Precious Metals,”
which was published by us last week,
says:
The facts cited by the article in ques
tion are significant and stirring. It is by
the sheer indifference of Georgia that'
Alabama has captured the profitable
reputation of being the richest state of
the south in its promise and resources.
Alabama is rich, and Georgia rejoices in
her prosperity, but the time has now
come to make it plain that Georgia is
still the “Empire State of the South.’
TUe article of the Constitution is/i great
strong step in the direction of this an
nouncement.
The '“storin centers ofthe iron and
mineral boom,” as Mr. Grady calls them,
gathered around the Alabama towns
simply because the knowledge of the
unsurpassed and unsurpassable riches of
Georgia hills and valleys had not been
discovered or wafted upon the “trade
winds.” Everyday for the last year has
demonstrated the fact that, even in the
variety and richness of her mineral de
posits, Georgia is the greatest of the
southern states, as she is conceded to be
in the variety and scope of her agricul
tural products.
Since its initial issue, the Tribune of
Rome has unceasingly urged the mineral
and agricultural superiority of North
Georgia, and has not forgotten to em
phasize the fact that its triune advanta
ges are caused by a climate which is, out
of all comparison, superior in health
fulness and comfort to that of any por
tion of the earth's surface given to man
for habitation.
If the people of North Georgia who
know these advantages to be real and
actual, will only grow as practically en
thusiastic over the facts as they should
be, and will unite with one another in the
liberal and intelligent advertisement of
these resources, and in substantial en
couragement to all movements that tend
to bring other people into personal ob
servation and contact with their advan
tages, the greatness and giory of North
Georgia will be assured past all question.
But this co-operation must be prompt,
hearty and general.
Health is Wealth,
is our motto, and who doubts its truth?
He who has money and poor health is
wretched indeed, while he who is poor
and has good health can be happy. We
all seek happiness, and if good health
gives it, then to possess it is true wealth.
Chipman’s Liver Bills will purify your
blood, cleanse your system and give you
the good health you have so long desired.
Sold by J. R. Wikle & Go.
The Way to Run a Town.
“Either run it with a vim or sell out
and leave' it. Men who are always trying
to get out of business will never do much
to build up a town. One or two things
must be done—run the thing for all it is
worth, get up steam and keep it, or quit
the whole thing, slide out and let nature
take its course. If you want business to
come to your town, encourage those who
do come. If you want a prosperous
town where people can come who are
disposed to make homes, then do away
with and bury all jealousy and spite;
work not for a few individuals, but all
work together for a common prosperity
and mutual benefit. Wake up, rub your
eyes; roll up your sleeves and go to work.
Don't work with fear and trembling, but
take it for granted that blood will tell.
Leave results to themselves; borrow no
trouble, but unite to make it the biggest
kind of a town. Go to work.”—Ex.
What can be more disagreeable, more
disgusting, than to sit in a room with
a person who is troubled with catarrh,
and has to keep coughing and clearing
his or her •throat of the mucus which
drops into it? Such persons are always
to be pitied if they try to cure themselves
and fail. But if they get I)r. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy there need be no failure.
“Little boy,” said an old lady, “is your
father a Christian? Does he fear the
Lord?”
“1 guess he does," replied the little
boy. “1 know when he started for church
las’ Sunday he took his gun with him.”—
X. Y. Sun.
AV. L. Douglas In England.
The London Boot and Shoe Trades
Journal contains the following in its
issue of December 24:
“A novelty in advertisiug appears 'in
the pages of the Boston Boot and Shoe
Recorder. A full page is occupied with
the portrait of Mr. W. L. Douglas, of
Brockton, Mass., and the names of the
five specialties that he manufactures.
Mr. Douglas is famoiih in the States, on
account ofthe boycott placed on his
goods, because .he has dared to intro
duce Uie lasting-machine into his factory.
Ilis portrait, gives the idea of a deter
mined. energetic, far-seeing man of about
forty years of age. His career is well
known to readers of the American trade
papers, and it is by no means the least
thing he may be proud of, Hint he has
thoroughly learned everything connected
with bis trade, and has earned his living
at every branch thereof."
The Duty of State Legislatures.
Legislation should be effected in every
State regulating the sale and use ofthe,
many poisons resorted to by women in
their desperation to obtain beautiful
complexions, while there exists in Dr.
Harter's Iron Tonic every requisite
necessary to accomplish the object with
out* injuring the health or endangering
life.
A Commission to Inquire into the
Progress of tlie Negro Race.
A gentleman, who is not a member of
either branch of Congress, has prepared
a bill, which has been introduced into the
U. S. Senate, asking the creation of a
commission whose pnrpos** it shall be
inquire iyto and report upon the mate
rial, industrial, moral and mental prog
ress of the negro race since 1860, and
making an appropriation to cover the
expenses of same.
The reasons for the establishment of
such a commission, and necessity for
such inquiry, and clearly and forcibly
stated by the author of the bill. He
says:
“The whole country is interested about
the negro’s adaptation to the lofty forms'
of eivilzed life as the Republic of the
New World epitomizes them. No Federal
census embodying all phases of society
can meet the purposes of this act. The
negro is a part of the nation, with sepa
rate, distinct, and wholly dissimilar
characteristics. He has but little social
intercourse with his white fellow-country
man. There are no interchanges of
strictly social amenities. There are few
joint copartnerships in any vocation
formed by black and white citizens. In
termarriage is under the ban of both
races. Ecclesiastically there is no com
mingling. The negro has a world of his
own. Into this world the nation does
not often enter, while the nations are
oblivious of its existence. He (the negro)
lives to himself, marrying within race
limitation, moving in his own social,
industrial, and religious sphere—a sphere,
by the way, peculiar by reason of past
environments to the negro, and hardly
realized in all its tremendous magnitude
by the higher phases of American
society.
Purifying the Blooil.
Mr. James Wood, of Danville, Ya.,
used 8. S. S. as a blood purifier and tonic
for Hie system, on the recommendation
of his druggist. He writes: “1 took a
short course of it, and proved a splendid
medicine. I regard it as a splendid
spring medicine.”
Dr. J. N. Cheney, a well-known practic
ing physician of Ellaville, Ga., writes:
“It will, in my judgement, prevent sum
mer dysentery, if any will take a few bot
tles in the spring, thus preparing the
bowels for the strains of summer.”
Mr. T. N. Terry, of Rcidsville, N. C.,
suffered for months from a severe erup
tion on the face—a bad case of “barber’s
itch.” A course of 8. 8. 8. completely
cured him by purifying his blood.
Mr. W. P. Wallace, of Indianapolis,
Ind., “The People,” in a letter dated
November 4, 1887, writes: “Bome two
years ago the writer of this received sev
eral letters from you, in answer to anxiety
occasioned him from taking your Speci
fic for Eczema, which forced the disease
to the surface. But following your
advice, I have ‘Riled’ myself in great
shape, and have been free from the
trouble since.”
Miss Charlotte liandow, a popular
actress connected with the Thalia Thea
ter in New York City, who was annoyed
fora year with pimples and blotches in
the face, and who had consulted promi
nent physicians, and used different kinds
of advertised medicine without benefit,
tried the 8. 8. 8. remedy, was made
happy by having the smoothness of her
skin restored by the use of a few bottles.
Mr. Hugo Hasskerl, connected with the
same theater, suffered for two years from
Ecema. Physicians and remedies failed,
but seven bottles of 8. 8. 8. cured him
thoroughly.
The following certificate speaks for
itself: Office of the Ruby Gold Gravel
Mining Cos. 820 Bansom Bt., Ban Fran
cisco, Cal., Nov. 12th, 1887.
The Swift Specific Cos., Atlanta, Ga.:
Sirs —Having for the past four or five
years been troubled with pimples and
blotches on my face and body, and find
ing no relief in any of the chemically
prepared soaps and medicines prescribed
for me by physicians, I concluded to try
your 8. 8. 8. remedy, and have found
great .relief in the same, four bottles
clearing my skin entirely. 1 cheerfully
recommend your medicine to all who are
in the position that I have been in. You
can use this letter and iny name as a
testimonial to the merits of the 8. 8. 8.
remedy. Very truly yours,
Alfred P. Robinson.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The Swift Specifc Cos.,
Drawer .% Atlanta, Ga.
Statistic of the woman graduates of
twelve American colleges show that two
thirds of those who have passed the age
at which girls generally marry are still
unmarried. Evidently the college is not
conducive to matrimony.
A St anger 111 a Strange Land.
A. Black, Jr, writes from Andalusia,
Alabama, that he was taken with dysen
tery of the bloodiest type. Doctors vveie
called in to no effect . A stranger suggest
ed Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cordial, and
to its use lie owes his life. ■
A man named Murray in New Yory has
been sent to jail because he would not give
security to pay his wife $8 per week. The
jails in this section would have to be en
larged if this precedent should beeomelaw.
Wonderful Words of Life.
“By the river upon the bank thereof—
shall grow all trees —the fruit thereof
shall be for meat and the leaf for medi
cine which shall be for the healing of the
nation." Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein will heal .the
lungs and cure coughs, colds and con
sumption.
He W as. Engaged.
“What do you want?" gruffly asked the
managing editor of a metropolitan
paper of a verdant young man who had
entered his sanctum.
• “If you please, sir, l would like a posi
tion 011 your editorial staff."
“What can you do?"
“Oh, I can write —write anything—
write able editorials on the tariff, if you
would like me to, sir."
“What do you know about the tariff?”
“Not a darn thing.”
He was engaged.
farm and household.
Nothing better can be applied to a
severe cut or bruise than cold turpen
tine; it will give relief almost in
stall tly.
—Sawdust thrown on a circular saw
table will render the hauling of heavy
planks quite easy. The grains act as
small rollers and reduce friction.
—The buttermilk should. be com
pletely worked out of the butter if it is
to be kept any length of time. The
dryer the butter the longer it will
keep.
—Blacking for Stove.—lf the sisters
will use cold coffee instead of water
with a little sugar, they will find it will
polish much easier, and will also last
lon gor. — Honsehold.
—Sauce for Pudding.—One-half cup
of butter, one-half cup of milk. Fla
vor with vanilla. Beat the butter to a
cream, add the sugar then the milk.
Set the bowl in a pan or kettle of boil
ing water and stir until it is light and
creamy. — Exchange.
—Pear Marmalade.—Peel and cut
some pears and macerate them twenty
four hours, with three-quarters of a
pound of white sugar to every pound
of fruit. Boil them an hour at most,
adding the juice and thin yellow peel of
lemons to taste. The lemon peel
should be cut very small and be cut
from fresh lemons.— Boston Budget.
—A writer advises against the plant
ing of fruit trees, especially peaches,
near together, saying that from twen
ty to twenty-two feet is not too far
apart. He claims the wider planting
makes better shaped trees, with better
access of air and sunshine, while the
tree has greater area from which to
draw* root supplies.— St. Louis Repub
lican.
—Deep plowing is authorized when
ever the soil contains an abundance of
plant food as far dow r n as the land is
turned. In plowing for wheat always
pulverize and compact the land each
day as it is plowed. A fine, solid seed
bed is best for wheat always, and this
can not be made in a dry season on a
field left as it is plowed until seeding
time.
—Scaly leg is caused by a minute in
sect which burrows under the scales
on the shanks of fowls, causing them
to enlarge. This may be cured by
dipping the shanks of those affected
into crude petroleum, or a mixture of
lard and kerosene may be thoroughly
rubbed into the scales. Repeat the
treatment in ten days and the cure
will be completed.— lndianapolis Jour
nal.
MUSHROOM CULTURE.
T lie Kind Raided by Market Hardeners in
the Eastern States.
“Half a million dollars’ nvorth of
mushrooms come to this country every
year from France,” said a florist.
“This country doesn’t raise enough
mushrooms to supply the demand.”
“Why are not more raised here.’
“Until this year there w ere very few
who knew how to raise them, and they
had not the means to grow them on a
large scale. A few r of our wealthiest
people have a man who understands
the subject, and they raise enough for
their own tables, but many persons
with extensive greenhouses and high
priced gardeners have not been able to
produce a single mushroom.”
“Why don’t the florists raise them?”
“They have been raising small quan
tities as an experiment for several
years, using out-of-the-way corners of
their greenhouses or making-beds un
der the benches that hold plants. But
this year a great many have gone into
mushroom culture as a business, and
this table delicacy will be more abun
drnt than ever before. Caves, old clay
pits or cellars will do for raising mush
rooms. For winter growing, however,
artificial heat is required, as a temper
ature of fifty-five to sixty degrees is
necessary. Mushroom houses are
roughly built, contain very little glass,
and are heated with hot-water pipes.
Beds are made on the floors and on
shelves, one above the other, clear up
to the ceiling.
The mushroom has neither seeds,
plants nor roots to start with, but a
white, moldy substance called
“spawn.” This is purchased of seeds
men in the first place, but afterward
any of the earth of the old bed is sat
urated with spawn, so that it will do
for planting. The bed is prepared by
putting in a layer of rich compost and
packing it down. The bulb of a ther
mometer is inserted in this, and at
first the temperature runs above one
hundred degrees on account of fer
mentation, but in a day or two it comes
down to nhiety degrees, and the bed is
then ready for the spaw’n. Holes are
punched in the bed at distances of
twelve inches apart and. a piece of
spawn the size of an egg inserted in
each one and covered up "with the
compost. In ten days’ time the spawn
will run through the whole bed. Then
two inches of loam are spread over the
bed and the whole covered with a layer
of straw. The crop is ready for use in
about four months after planting.”
“Does mushroom-raising pay?”
“It does indeed. The supply is
never half enough and the sellers fix
prices about as they please. Mush
rooms are highly esteemed by the peo
ple of Germany, Italy, France and
Russia, but owing to their scarcity
here only epicures and high-livers use
them. They do not resemble any form
of vegetable food, and in nutritive
value are second to meat alone. The
imported mushrooms come in cans, and
are the small round variety used at
restaurants for ‘beefsteak with mush
rooms.’ The kind-we raise-are much
larger and the chefs make them into a
dozen different dishes. The season is
from November until April.”— pf. Y.
Mail and Express.
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Rye,
Barley,
Orchard Grass,
Red Top,
Blue Grass,
Timothy,
Clover, See.
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—TBY —'
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WHOLESALE DRUGGIST,
Broad St. Cor. Howard, ROME, GA.
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WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL
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TRY the CUREHAY-FEVER
CATARRH
is a disease of the mueuous membrane, generally
originating in the nasal passages ana maintain
ing its stronghold In the head. From this point
it'sends forth a poisonous virus into the stomach
and through the digestive organs, corrupting the
blood and producing other troublesome and
dangerous symptoms.
A particle is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at druggists; by mail,
registered, CO cents. ELY BROTHERS. 235
GreenvvichSt., New York.
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