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The gentleman had rnng the bell §ot'
r] times before the servant let him
in. He was looking surprised and a
trifle apprehensive when Mrs. Blykina
came into the room.
‘*l called.” he explained, “to inquire
abont yotir husband's health. He and I
belong to the anm< organization, and
•everal of the r ' r derired me to
call to see how \ -- tting along. We
were very sorry t > mar of his illness. ”
"It's very kind of yon. ” she answered.
There was a crash which shook the
chandelier.
She paid no attention to it.
“I think it will be only a day or two
before he is able to get out and go down
town.” she added.
The slamming of doors echoed heavi
ly through the house.
“Has he l>een dangerously sick?'
“Not until today. ”
“But I understood you to say that he
was convalescent. ”
“I think I may say that he is so. He
wasn’t well enough to be dangerous till
this morning. But before noon he had
discharged the trained nurse, quarreled
with the cook, smashed a rocking chair
against which he had stubbed his toe
and thrown the canary bird out of the
window Those are always hopeful
symptoms with him. and I feel fairly
justified in saying that he is convales
cent. ” —Washington Star
Hla Manner of llnth.
At a little cosmopolitan gathering in
a home on the North Hide the company
were discussing the unkind thrust at
Chicago for flatting the letter “a. ”
when the girl from Boston remarked as
she peered serenely over her glasses
“We always give it the continental
accent For instance, we say bawth. ”
“Pshawl" said the New York girl,
shrugging her handsome shoulders.
“That isn’t continental That’s New
England Now. wealwuys pronounce it
barth. ”
“You’re away oIT. " retorted Miss
Chicago, going into the subject neck
and elbows. “We are the most correct
people in the world, with all the up to
date knowledge there is, and we give
it the full value —haarth "
“There’s a Londoner among ns.”
suggested one of the company. “Get
him to pronounce the word anu notice
what he doea with the ‘a.’ "
Bo they tackled the bewildered Eng
lishman, without letting him know
their motive, but asking him solemn
questions about his opinion cf the bath
After regarding them with u sphinxlike
stare through his monocled eye the
gentleman from London said
“Quite so. Quite so. I always tub in
the morning. ” —Chicago Times-Herald
Hinck Foolrd Them.
Sir Womyss Reid. in a personal sketch
of his friend the late Mr. Black in
The Speaker, tells how the novelist out
witted The Saturday Review. When
“A Daughter of Ileth” appeared, it
took the town by storm, and ns it ap
peared anonymously Sir Weinyss heard
for the first time from an acquaintance
who the author was
It was with a certain sense of injury
that he asked, “Why. if Black wrote the
book, did he not put his name to it?”
“Oh, don’t you know?” was the in
stant response. “That is the best part
of the joke. The Saturday Review has
been Mown' upon everything he has
written, so he purposely published this
book anonymously in order to take in
The Saturday Reviewers, and they were
the first people to sound the praises of
*A Daughter of Heth. ’ If his name had
been on the title page, they would
have damned it ”
Unlike many bits of gossip about
successful authors, this—as SirWemyss
learned later from Mr Black’s own lips
- —was strictly true.
IMoLcn* Was “Land."
In the memoir of the bite J. H. Fris
well there is a glimpse of Dickens
which will seem familiar to those
Americans who remember the some
what flamboyant dress of the novelist.
“On one occasion. " wrote the author
of the “Gentle Life." “we were walk
ing down Wellington street and just
passing the office of Household Words
when a hansom cab stopped and out
stepped a gayly dressed gentleman. His
bright green waistcoat and vivid scarlet
tie any one would have noticed, but the
size of the nosegay in his buttonhole
riveted my attention. My father intro
ductal me. and I. who had only seen
engravings of the Maclise portrait and
photographs, was astonished to find
myself faco to face with Charles Dick
ens. ”
She Sn opt the Street,
A newly arrived Irish servant wus in
stalled in the home of a family on the
west side last week, and on the first
mi rning of service she was told to go
out and sweep the sidewalk.
After an absence of something like
an hour the housekeeper went out to see
what had become of the new servant.
She was seen way down at the end of
the block hard at work. She had gone
the block’s length, and she said she
didn't know where she was to stop. —
New York Sun
How to Fry Squirrel*.
Squirrel should be cooked the same
way as spring chicken. If the squirrels
chance to be old ones, steam them be- !
tore rolling in egg and bread crumbs
and frying. Two small squirrels should
be enough for the regulation family.
••Up In my den," said a New Orleans
bachelor, who lives in a couple of
quaintly furnished roems in a business
block down town, “between the fire
place and the first bookcase on the left
you will find two large Blippers nailed
to the wall, some four feet above the
wainscoting. The heels of the slippers
are quite close together, the toes spread
slightly outward, and being made of
brightly flowered drugget they look not
unlike two enormous particolored bee
ties, clinging to the wall with folded
wings. They are not, however, intend
ed as ornaments, but have a very home
ly and practical purpose.
“When I retreat to my den at night,
take down the book that suits my
mood, get into a comfortable, ragged
old jacket, turn the lamp just right and
light my pipe—when I have performed
these preliminary ceremonies, I place a
chair directly in front of the slippers,
insert my feet in their depths and lean
back with the blissful consciousness
that I can’t possibly tip over and break
my neck. I am anchored, so to speak,
to the wall, and the light is so arranged
as to make the position the best possi
ble one for reading. My friends claim
that the habit is pulling out my legs to
an abnormal length, but I don’t let that
worry me. I’m thinking of having the
scheme copyrighted. ” New Orleans
Tim es-Democra t.
Our Onr Rood Point.
The English woman was arraigning
America and everything American and
to an American. “Yom bed springs aro
uncomfortable," she said, “I never
slept in a comfortable bed the whole
time I was in t) And your
breakfasts—such g.cat, overfed meals
as they are! I don’t see how you live,
breakfasting as you do. As for your
American voices, well, they go without
saying, or rather they won’t go with
saying, but so many more eloquent than
I have so often scored you upon that
point I won’t pretend to compete. Of
all the many dreadful things about
America, though, there’s nothing so
bad as your voices. ‘ ’
“Can’t you think of somethng good
about us?” came in a still, small voice
from the American. “Haven’t we a
single redeeming quality’/”
The English woman thought a bit
“Well yes, you have one, “ she said in
the tone of one who is making a great
concession, “and that is your little
elastic bands. They are so convenient
and they seem to be so plentiful I never
saw so many in all my life as I did in
the .States. I must confess that to my
mind very many of your worst traits
are more than made up for by your lit
tle elastic bands. ” —New York Sun.
Milton mad Dante'a Heaven.
Milton's heaven is earthly and obvi
ons, though with none but celestial in
habitants; where eve and morn succeed
each other and “grateful twilight” has
its appointed hour; where
the trees
Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, aud vines
Yield nectar;
whose angels sleep “fanned with cool
winds” in their celestial tabernacles
and eat not seemingly “nor in mist,”
but “with keen dispatch of real hun
ger” verging on excess, from any in
jurious effects of which, as the pcet
takes pains to tell ns, their spiritual
nature avails to save them. Dante’s
heaven is no less definite and orderly to
its minutest detail, but mystical and
etb real, even while peopled by the sons
and daughters of earth, passing from
glory to glory in ascending brightness,
with divine visions that come and g 6
like stars in a cloudy night and attend
ed by the music of the spheres. These
are the two extremes between which
lesser poets paint and plant their Edens
—Gentleman’s Magazine.
CoiiMUinptloll nnil Canaries.
We do not in this paragraph allude
to the islands to which people fly for
the cure of consumption, but to the lit
tle birds which singsongs to us in their
captivity, and are, according to Dr
Tucker Wise, a cause from which con
sumption comes. This gentleman says
that from his own observation he is of
opinion that in many instances diseased
cage birds, such as canaries, communi
cate tuberculosis to a serious extent
among human beings. As about 400,000
canaries are reputed to be sold every
year in the United Kingdom, and as it
is stated that tuberculosis is cne of the
most common diseases of birds, it does
not seem unlikely that the canary may
have considerable influence in the dis
tribution of tuberculous infection.—
London Hospital.
Now Form ot Ghetto In Russia.
According to a Russian journal, a
new but modified form of gbetto has
been created, this time in Krementschug,
aud the edict defining the Jewish quar
ter has perforce been issued by the rabbi
himself. It appears that on Hebrew
Sabbaths aud festivals so many Jews
take walks in the principal streets that
they do not leave sufficient room for the
Russian officers aud their wives. Hav
ing summoned the rabbi, the commander
in chief of the garrison declared that
such irregularities could not be permit
ted to continue, and the head of the
synagogue consequently recommended
bis people to confine their promenading
to two particular streets. Ho signifi
cantly adds, “The circumstance is far
more important tban appears on the
surface.” —London Globe.
IM Ttkt Utm.
It is good to be a celebrity, and it is
sometimes profitable merely to recog
nice one. While Chauncey M. Depew
was at the Omaha exposition, says the
New York Times, he and President
Callaway of the New York Central
chanced to go into a booth on the Mid
way Plaißance.
It was a tame entertainment, and
there was only a meager attendance
when Mr. Depew and Mr. Callaway
entered. Their stay would have beer
very brief except for the fact that they
had scarcely taken their seats befor*
there began a steady inpouring of peo
ple, which continued until the small
auditorium was crowded.
Taking this extraordinary increase o
spectators as an indication that some
thing of an interesting nature was
about to be disclosed the two New
Yorkers concluded to sit it out. Half
an hour’s waiting failed to reward theii
patient expectancy, however, and Mr.
Callaway suggested that they move on.
Just then ex-Secretary of Agriculture
J. Sterling Morton pushed his way
through the crowd and, extending his
hand to Mr. Depew, exclaimed:
“Well, Dr. Depew, so you are really
here! I thought that ‘barker’ was ly
ing."
“What do you mean?” inquired Mr
Depew
“Why, the ‘barker’ for this show is
standing outside and inviting the crowd
to ‘step up lively’ and pay 10 cents for
the privilege of seeing the ‘great and
only Chauncey M. Depew. ’ ’ ’
Value of a Comma.
A Prussian school inspector appeared
at the office of the burgomaster of a lit
tle town to ask him to accompany him
on a tour of inspection through the
schools.
The burgomaster was out of sorts,
and was heard to mutter to himself:
“What is this donkey here again
for?”
The inspector said nothing, but wait
ed his time, and with the unwilling
burgomaster set out on his tour.
At the first school he announced hie
wish to see how well punctuation was
taught.
“Oh, never mind that,” grumbled
the burgomaster. “We don’t care tor
commas and such trifles. ”
But the inspector sent a boy to the
blackboard and ordered him to write:
“The burgomaster of R. says, the in
spector is a donkey.”
Then he ordered him to transpose the
comma, placing it after R., and to in
sert another one after inspector, and
the boy wrote:
“The burgomaster of R.. says the in
spector. i,s a donkey.”
It is probable that the refractory offi
cial gained anew idea of the value of
“commas and such trifles.”—London
Tit-Bits.
Men's Dreai In London.
In London the female make up has
no significance whatever. All kinds of
men ranking anywhere above “lower
class, ’ ’ however, have their frock coats
and tall hats. A tailor made frock coat
is not a luxury in London.
Take it in the United States, and a
man wishes to attire himself in the ex
treme of what the British call “after
noon wear,” must be willing to spend
money. Compare the prices of a Sun
day outfit:
England. U. S.
Frock coat and waistcoat. ... sls 00 SSO 03
Trousers 4 00 10 0J
Silk hat 4 00 6 Ofl
Gloves 1 00 1 73
Stick 50 1 00
Totals $24 50 SOB 73
You can buy a bunch of violets on a
London street corner for 4 cents. It
costs sixpence to have a silk hat ironed.
When it comes to the mere making of
a personal front on a small income, no
other city can offer such advantages as
London. —Chicago Record.
The “Terrier.”
A document known by the name of a
“terrier” is supposed to be kept at ev
ery old parish church setting forth the
sources of the income of the benefice—
especially glebe lands; hence the deriva
tion from the Latin “terra.” Ignorance
of this purely technical term led a
clergyman into a curious mistake. He
was a sporting parson and had just
been appointed to his first living. Dur
ing the early days of his incumbency
he received a form from the bishop
which he was required to fill up.
Among the questions asked was, “Do
you keep a terrier?”
“No," wrote the cleric in reply,
“but I have two well bred pointers, and
yonr lordship is welcome to one if you
care to have it.”—St. James Gazette.
Farmer Sinclair.
John Sutherland Sinclair is a farmer
in Nortli Dakota. His farm is called
Berriedale farm. In the book of the
peerage Mr. Sinclair is put down as Earl
of Caithness, Lord Berriedale and a
baronet of Nova Scotia. All the castles
and vast estates which his ancestors
owned have shrunk to the North Dakota
farm. The earldom of Caithness once
embraced all the northern part of Scot
land. from sea to sea, and the Sinclairs
were earls of Orkney too.—Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
London has a resident population of
nearly 1.000 professional orchestral in
strumentalists
The eggs of the silkworm are about
the size of mustard seeds.
Gainesville, Jefferson $ Southern Railroad.
SAMUEL 0. DUNLAP, Receiver.
Time table No. 12, taking effect 5. 50 a, m., Jan. 6, 1899,
MAIN LITSTE
NORTHBOUND. Between Social Circle SOUTH BOUND.
Read Downward an( j Gainesville. Read Upward.
First Class. First Class.
93 9* 85 83 81 STATIONS. 82 84 86 92 94
Sun- Snn- Daily Daily Daily dailv di' r daily Sun- Sun
day day ex ex ex C x or !ex day day
only only Sun Sun Sun Sun sun J Sun only only
O am a m pin Lv. Ar. n m p ui a m i t
§' 1100 11 00 450 HOCJAL CIRCLE 9153 SO &20 S'
9 11 15 1120 505 GREBHAM 655 3 10 9 05' o
~ 1130 1140 525 MONROE, 835 2 50 8 50 g.
I 1145 CAMPTON 815 2 30 8 35 £
& 1158 n BETHLEHEM oO 215 822 g,
12 15 5 WINDER 745 200 £ 807 _l_
g 1456 3o 740 130 £ 94
rT1230 | 167 648 MULBERRY 720 1 12 | JSS 88
12 45 5' 3*77 03 HOt-CHTuN 7i0.9 55 £ i
d “ 9y 108 g 2457 23 HICKORY TREE. 645 i3O f ‘ l9 daily
—— P* Sun
640 1 15 255 730 BELLMONT 640 10 25 1 J 4P 7“
645 120 JW 785 KLONDIKE 635 10 20 I n? 725
650 125 005 740 CANDLER 630 10 15 I?? 720
7io 1 45 330 boo GAINESVILLE. 6109 65 6 J° IJX
ain P m pm pm Ar. Lv. imam a m
87T 91T85 *3 Si 1 j 82T84186T02T88
No. 82 will run to Social Circle regardless of No, 83.
No, 84 will run to Social Circle regardless of No. 81,
No. 83 will run to Winder regardless of No. 84.
N o. 84 will run to Winder regardless of No. 83.
No. 92 will run to Social Circle regardles of No. 91.
JEFFERSON BRANCH.
Time Table No. 12, taking effect 5.50 am., Jan. 6, 1899.
NORTH BOUND Between Jefferson and SOUTH BOUND
Read Downward Bellmont. Read Upward.
First Class. First Class.
89 87 STATIONS. gg gQ
D&ily Daily j Daily
except except except ex ept
Sun S Un un
' M. A. M. Lv. Ar. P. M. A. M.
D35 550 JEFFERSON • 810 11 10
12 00 615 PENDERGRASS 748 10 43
12 25 640 BELLMONT 730 10 25
P M. A M. Ar. Lv. P. M. A. M.
9 I 87 I | 88 | 90 [
No. 90 will run to Jefferson regardless of No. 89.
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ls the best Liniment on earth for
Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Stings, of Pois
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For Sprains. Swelling ot the Joints, Saddle or Collar Galls on Horses, Pal
mer’s Cream Liniment can not be equaled. It is put up in 4 ounce bottles’, (the
nS al 50c size) and retails for 25c. Prepared only by -
H. R. PALHER & SONS,
(Successors to Palmer & Kinnebrew.)
DRUGGIST’S AND SEEDSMEN, 105 CLAYTON ST., ATHENS, GA.
Tbi- splendid three piece su;t mahogany finish frames, upholstered in fine
si.k figured damask fer sl2 50. W-r carry the largest stock of Furniture, Car
pets, Rugs, Mattings, aco Draperies in Atlai-taanri guarantee lowest prices.
P. S. CRUTCHER FURNITURE CO .
53 and 55 Peachtree St.. Atlanta Ga.
A Feminine View.
Kate—So Carrie is to be married. I
suppose she is very happy V
Ruth—Happy? I should say so. Mr.
Fixton, her fiance, iloesn t amount to
much, but her trousseau is just elegant
—Boston Transcript.
They Seldom Do.
Isn tit awfully difficult," asked
the gushing maiden, “to find new ideas
for your plays?"
“I don t know, replied the success
ful playwright. “I have never tried
it-”—Brooklyn Life.
General Otis Returns Thanks.
Washington*, Feb. B. —Secretary Al
ger today received the following cable
gram from General Otis in reply to his
message of congratulation: “Sincere
thanks for congratulations. Ail credit
due to hearty response of troops to or !
tiers of officers.”
The mustard pilaster is a harmless
looking wafer, but it must be handled
with as much circumspection as a
woman. There was a newly married
man once whose wife told him to pul
on a mustard plaster to cure a cold. H*
had faith in her. and put it on. Thet
he went to sleep, being gifted with tht
power of sleeping under torments whict
is not given to one man in a thousand
The plaster seemed to him somewbal
unreasonably hot, but he argued tbai
the hotter it was the better. Besides,
he had confidence in his wife. Next da?
he found a well developed blister on his
chest, and his wife only laughed
said she had supposed any one would
have sense enough to take off a plastei
when it hurt him. Though that was H
months ago. the mark of the plaster * !
still upon the man like a brand, and b'
now regards his wife’s remedies wi”
suspicion.—New York Commercial Ad’
vertiser.