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Tit* Daaftraai 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. Palmer’s Cream Liniment ls the best Liniment on earth for Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Stings, of Pois onus Insects, Stiff Joints, Toothach, etc. Cures the pains of Burns immediately and gives in stant relief in Headache. 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.