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Cocal Dews Items.
It you don’t deslce a business.
If you don’t wish to succeed,
It you care not about custom
And for profits have no greed,
Ii you have no great ambition
In the business world to rise.
Ylt will find it very easy
If you do not advertise.
Mr. H. H. Greer from Danes Ferry
in Jackson Tuesday.
Dr Mays went to Atlanta Tuesday
alfftrnoon.
Hon. 8. H. Mays was down from
Ajdanta Tuesday to attend the Far
nfleae Union rally.
The game of ball played Monday
h<)fcween Jackson and the Atlanta
ttffcrn resulted in a score of 2too in
fairer of Atlanta, Tuesday, 4to 2 in
furor of Atlanta, Wednesday, to
in favor of
Misses Ethel and Annie Worsham,
aa#i Mr. J. R. Worsham, Forsyth, and
l\4ws Rose McDonald, snapping Shoals
am the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
jUUeu.
Mr. Mathew McElvaney spent Sun
day with his parents.
Mrs. H. W. Nally and Mrs. J. N.
Weems of Dallas are guests of their
parents Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Pope.
Miss Rosa Newton is in Forsyth
Miss Alice Newton.
Mr. G. G. Byars was over irom
Hjßonton Monday to spend a few
rlaWi and called on The Jacksonian
Mr. VV. H. Nelson and fumily from
HfcAonton are guests at the home of
A#r. and Mrs. O. A. Andrews to at
tar.d Camp Meeting.
Miss Grace Porch, of Barnesville is
tke charming guest of the Misses
Morrison.
Misses Corinne Harkness and Sa-
Milner, of Birmingham are
ggsts of M ss Annie Crawford.
Mrs. A. C. Smith has returned from
McDonough and is spending a few
d*ys with Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo .links spent
Sauday with tho former’s mother.
Miss Bessie Bell has returned to
her home in Pitillo after a most de
ii#h Gul visit to Miss Ada Sams.
Mr. Charlie Ingram is in Josup
vtoiting his brother.
Mrs. F. Z. Curry and children have
returned after a pleasant stay in A
jwericus with her mother.
Mr. Will Gunn of Atlanta is the
guest of his brother Mr. C. B. Gunn.
Mrs. Chestnutt of Tifton is the
guest of her parents Mr, and Mrs.
Joe Carmichaei.
Walter Mead Crawford spent Sun
day iu the city.
Mias Julia Brown’s many friends
will be glad to know _that she is im
proving.
Mr. Oliu Barfield of Atlanta spent
the week-end in the city with friends.
Col. L. L. Ray has been on the
sick list this week.
Capt. W. F. Smith was in our city
Wednesday.
Mr John Duke from Henry Coun
ty was down the first of the week vis
iting relatives at Stark and paid Jack
son a visit Tuesday.
Mr. Lawrence Maddox one of Iron
Spring's representative young farm
ers was in our city Wednesday.
Mr. S. J. Smith one of the promo
ters of tlu* proposed Electric Ivy. was
lu re I'm s-Uay.
M iss 01 iVa Nolen ret urned Saturday
from a visit to friends in Locust
Grove and Atlanta.
Mrs J. \Y. Rapp is down from At
lanta attending Camp.meeting and
v siting her nephew Mr. T. H. Nolen.
Messrs Bailey and Jones are open
ing up anew restaurant at the old
stand, and will .be ready to serve the
public by Saturday.
Prof. \V. P. Thomas left yesterday
for West Point his future home.
LOST-Monday morning Aug. lL'th,
between Jackson and the Camp
Ground a package containing aln
dies black silk skirt waist suit a
black voile shirt wrapped in a chilis
rain coat. Return to Mrs. J. G.
Thompson or Miss Mattie Logue and
receive reward.
THREE SHORT STORIES FOR
LEISURE MOMENTS READING.
A Stroke In Mechan
ical Engineering.
[Original]
Joeeph Hannon and Thomae Elrod
were friends. Elrod was an educated
man who never secured more than a
competence. Hannon was a self made
man, a manufacturer, and got rich.
Elrod’s son Henry, as a boy, had a
mechanical shop In his father’s cellar
and showed considerable aptitude foi
mathematics and mechanics. H hen
his father died, leaving him nothing,
Henry persuaded Mr. Bannon to give
him a subordinate position in his
works. Bannon, who considered both
the toy and his father impracticable,
took Henry into his service under pro
test, remarking that the boy would
never get beyond the bottom round of
the ladder. Henry did well enough
till his employer caught hhw making
love to his daughter, Mary Bannon,
whereupon Mr. Hannon discharged
him.
The morning Henry stepped out of
the office building at the factory to
hunt another job he saw a group of
men, foremost among whom was Bau
non, looking up at the great smoke
stack. Joining them and inquiring
what was the matter, he was infoiniod
that the stack was leaning to one side.
Indeed, an engineer had just deter
mined that at the top it was forty-five
inches out of plumb.
Hero was a serious matter. From
all appearances a scaffolding must be
erected about the stack, the stack must
be taken down and another built in its
place. Indeed, It would be fortunate
K the chimney did not fall on the fac
tory buildings beneath it, destroying
them, with much valuable machinery.
Hannon was very much troubled. His
engineer told him there was no way
by which the stack could be straight
ened, and before leaving tlie spot he
gave orders l'or the erection of the
scaffolding and the subsequent taking
down of the chimney.
Elrod went away, trying to concen
trate li'.s mind upon getting another
position. But the chimney, or, rather,
some method of straightening it, had
got into Ills head, and ho could not
get it out. lie thought all day and
toward evening took pencil and pa
per and began to figure. At midnigkt
he went to bed, but could not sleep, so,
getting up, lie went over his figures
to see that they were correct.
The next morning, after having slept
only a couple of hours, he wont to the
Bannon works. Carpenters were just
beginning to erect the scatfolding
around the stnek. Henry went into Mr.
Bamion’s olHce. Bannon, supposing
that he had come to protect against
his dismissal, frowned.
“Mr. Bannon,” he said, “I don’t think
it necessary to take down the stack. I
have a plan for straightening it.”
Bannon looked at him as a general
would look at a corporal who was
about to inform him how to save his
army.
“If you wish It, you are welcome to
It,” Henry added.
Still there was no word from Ban
non. He was considering whether the
young man had lost Ills senses.
“The base of the stack.” continued
Henry, who gathered confidence the
moment lie entered upon his plan, “be
ing square, simplifies the problem. The
stack loans to the oast forty-five inches.
I would remove ten and a half indies
of brickwork at the base on the other
three sides. I would insert in the
spaces left blocks of wood of equal
size, thus resting tlie three sides of the
structure on the blocks. Between the
blocks I would build brick piers six
indies high, leaving a space four and a
half inches between the tops of the
piers and the bottom of the undermined
brickwork. Now, if I can reduce tho
height of the blocks by four and a half
inches the gap will be reduced by this
amount and the stack will veer to the
wc-t forty-live inches at the are de
scribed at the top where the radius (the
chimney! is 1“2 feet.”
B; .mm’s eyes were tix.d on the
speaker during this statement with
growing interest. He had forgotten the
lesser in the more important matter,
lie continued to stare for a few mo
ments after Henry had finished, then
asked:
“With the enormous weight (nearly
400 tons) on the blocks, you can’t cut
them down and tret out the surplus.”
“1 have thought of that,” Henry re
plied. “1 will burn them out.”
It seemed as if 400 tons had been
taken off Itaunon’s mind.
"Where are your figures?” he asked.
Henry produced them and waited
while Hannon went over them again
and again.
“Come,” said the latter when he was
satisfied; “you shall have charge of the
work.”
After the successful removal of the
bricks and the insertion of the blocks
Henry lilrod marked off the space to
be burned out. sot the blocks on (ire
and kept them burning evenly. If one
burned fuster than the others It was
HOW I CAME TO
be a farmer.
[Original.]
When I was a young man, having
read a great deal about the failure of
officials to find and briug to justice
illicit distillers in Tennessee, I was
seized with a desire to try my hand at
the business. I’olk county swarmed
with moonshiners, 4ml to Polk county
I went. Reaching the locality that I j
sought. I began operations by pump- .
ing the inhabitants. Passing a farm
house I saw a good looking young wo
man on the porch taking care of a
couple of little children. I dismounted,
went in and asked for a drink of wa
ter. The woman pointed to a gourd
hanging in a well house, and I helped
myself. Then, before asking any ques
tions, I played with the children with
a view to opening a way to the moth
er’s confidence.
“Sorry jour husband isn’t at home,”
I said. “I’m looking ot for timber
lands. Perhaps he might know of
some to sell.”
“I haven’t got a husband,” she re
plied; “I’m a widder.”
She went on to tell me that It was
hard for her to get on since her hus
band’s death. The country was ruined
by the illicit distilling that was going
on. Instead of farming, everybody was
making whisky, and that kept respect
able people away.
“Would you,” I asked, “be willing to
do something to get rid of the moon
shiners?”
“Well, I don't like to git iny neigh
bors down on me.”
“But supposing you could make a
nice thing of it.”
“What d’y’ call a nice thing?-”
I named a sum I was willing to pay
for the information I desired.
“Look a-liere, stranger,” she said.
“You hain’t after lumber; you’re
a-huniin’ stills. Now, if you double that
what yo’ said, it’s a go.”
I complied with- the terms, and* she
gave me minute information as to
where I could find a half dozen secret
whisky manufactories, with llie names
of persons who knew all about them
and could testify to their existence
and ownership iw court.
Having kissed the children—l want
ed to kiss the widow, too; she was
very tempting—l mounted my horse,
confirmed the information given me
by pretending to stumble oil the stills
while bunting timber lands, then rode
to the county seat and swore out war
rants for the persons whose names
had been given me as the owners and
subpoenaed tSse witnesses.
Some time was required to serve the
papers, and it was several weeks be
fore we were ready for trial. Mean
while I culled frequently on the widow,
becoming quite at home in her house,
taking tiie children out to walk with
me while their mother was busy with
her household duties. I feared that
my being so much at her home would
lead those whom I was prosecuting to
suspect that she had given me the
necessary Information, but they didn’t
seem to trouble her. I began to feel
that I would not mind settling in Ten
nessee with a view to ministering to
the widow and the fatherless.
When the case came up for trial it
became apparent that the stills I had
seen were small ones, the main stills
where the bulk of the whisky was
made remaining undiscovered. The
fees paid the witnesses--whose testi
mony was worthless—cost the state a
round penny, and the amount paid
the widow was a dead loss to me. I
was riding away from the courthouse
much discomfited when one of my
witnesses overtook me.
“Stranger,” he said, “what'd you mis
give for some more information?”
“Nothing.”
“Well, I’ll give it to you anyway.
The winder that put y’ on to ’em owned
the hull kit. Her husband owned all
the big stills about hyar, and when he
was shot a year ago by a revenue offi
cer his widder tuk the property and
has been mailin' it ever since. Ilyar’s
a paper she writ you uns.”
I.lti handed m_o a missive from the
immediately checked till th’e others
vaught up with it. Thus tfiey were
kept burning uniformly while the stack
slowly righted. Small fissures opened
on the opposite side near the base, but
steel wedges were driven into them,
which maintained a solid mass. When
evening came the work was finished,
and the stack was as good as when it
was first built.
Henry Elrod when at breakfast the
next morning received a note from his
kit? employer containing a check for
SI,OOO and offering him the position of
superintendent of building and ma
chinery at a handsome salary. An
other note, written in a more delicate
hand, came with the first, congratulat
ing the young eug'neer on his triumph.
Henry's wife now owns the factory,
and Henry is Its manager.
MARTIN C. UNDERWOOD.
A RETURN of
LOVE LETTERS.
[Original.l
The average number of letters pass
ing between Seldon Reyburn and his
fiancee, May Hildreth, was ten a week.
In eighteen months the aggregate
weight of these letters was forty
pounds. The couple were desperately
in love, and the letters were written at
high pressure. Mr. Reyburn avowed in
glowing terms that he had met hun
dreds of girls without being in the
least influenced by them. It was only
when thrown in with one who was the
soul of honor, a model of amiability,
an angel In the flesh, that he had suc
cumbed. Miss Hildreth declared that
she could love no one less than a no
bleman of nature, and her dearest Sol
don was one of nature’s kings. She
felt that her happiness was as safe in
his hands as if he had come down from
heaven to assume its care.
They quarreled. It would be impossi
ble to state the cause, for, since neither
of them remembered it, no one else
could be expected to know it. Confi
dence having been destroyed, the idol
each had set up was at once shattered.
“Suppose,” remarked Mr. Reyburn to
himself, “that she should sue me for
breach of promise and produce my let
ters to be read in court.” “I have no
doubt,” mused Miss Hildreth, “that
such a man would show my letters at
his club.”
‘Mr. Key burn wrote her a cold, cut
ting note, saying that he supposed she
would want her letters returned. This
was with a view to securing his own.
“If you had been a gentleman,” re
plied Miss Hildreth, “you would have
returned them instantly.”
‘T supposed you would have first re
turned mine,” he wrote. “It is the
lady’s privilege to break finally and
forever with a gentleman. Then I
would have returned yours.”
“Send me my letters at once,” she
wrote. “One who has acted as dis
honorably as you would not scruple to
read them to others. I have no doubt
they have already gone the rounds of
your friends.”
There was silence for a time after
this. Itcyburn was thunderstruck that
a woman he had loved would stoop to
make such a charge and was well sat
isfied to have broken with her, but he
felt all the more anxious to get his let
ters. A girl who would make such an
accusation would not herself hesitate
to show letters that hud been written
her, so he reopened the question of ex
change and proposed sending the pack
ages by express. Miss Hildreth at first
assented,but on inquii-ing thecost found
that she could buy considerable candy
with the money required. She wrote
lieyburn that the letters might bo lost.
Then he suggested a mutual friend.
Miss Hildreth feared that tho friend
might read the letters, but if he would
consent that one of her own sex should
be the bearer she would agree to his
plan. “No, thanks,” he wrcM. “My
experience with women would not jus
tify any such procedure.”
“And I have discovered that men are
too dishonorable for anything,” she re
plied.
Then it was arranged that on a ccr
tnln ,iii° , ':,t each should hid?..a package
widow inviting me to take supper with
her that evening. I thanked the man
for liis information and, turning, rode
to the widow’s home.
“Stranger,” she said. “I hain't no
great lover fer still hunters, seein’ my
husband was shot by a ‘revenue,’ but
I bain’t got over your takin’ a shine
to Tommy and Handle. Here’s the
money you uns paid me for puttin’ you
uns on to the stills. I own ’em, and
the witnesses I give y’ air all in my
employ. Reckon it wouldn't be right
to take pay fer that. The state can
afford to pay the witness fees.”
We were soon seated at a table on
which was a delicious supper of ham
and eggs, biscuit, corn bread and cof
fee. The widow did everything she
could to make me forget my failure to
break up inoonshining in Polk county,
and by the time I had finished my sup
per I was in a very contented frame
of mind. While I smoked she put her
children to bed, and daring the time
she was “doing” the dishes I went into
the room where the little tots lay and
played with them till she had finished
When they were asleep the widow sat
clown Itcsido me and said:
“I want to git out o’ this moon
shinin'. I’m a lone woman and, though
I'm no fool at turnin’ off ‘revenues,’ 1
hain’t got the head fer turnin’ my
property into money.”
“You’re a rough diamond.” I said,
drawing her to me. “I'll help you
out on one condition.”
“What Is it?”
“That you marry me.”
She consented, and in a short time
I had turned her stills into cash, with
which I stocked the farm. Meanwhile
we were married, and I make a much
better farmer than detective.
ROGER PERKINS.
f Willed Away tho Laundry.
When a perfectly strange woman
can for the soiled clothes the mis
tress the house came to the conclu
sion •fft her own laundress had sim
ply a new laessengsr ami
madte 60 comment on the eircum
staoMS.
But when two weeks had gone by
and still the old laundress, known as
Susan, no last name having been men
tioned, did not appear the mistress of
the fa**3c felt that she would be lack
ing in her duty if she did not make
eom* riiqu-iry about her.
“Where is Susan?” she asked the
tall and bony structure who came for
the clothes.
“She has gone to Pennsylvania to
live, ywssum,” returned this person,
with composure. “She went to Penn
sylvania some time ago, an’ she lef
goodhy fer yuh, but s’ long es yuh
didn’t seem tuh notis I didn’t saft
nufflu-’.”
“But why didn’t she come and tell
me and allow me to make some ar
rangements about my laundry?” asked
Susaif's ex-mistress.
“Well, she lef’ yo’ clothes tuh meh.
She made a will an’ lef’ dem clothes
tuh meh. Wese alius been good frlen’s,
and • w’en she lef’ she say I may
was* 70’ clothes long ez I wush tub.
an’ dere wuz no use worryin’ yuh
’bout it, new was dere?”
To Which moderate and sensible ques
tion -Ift'e mistress of the house could
enlyr wtnain speechless. Baltimore
New*,
Satisfied Her Curiosity.
A certain south side lady has come
to the conclusion that curiosity can no
kinqpp be indulged in with any degree
of safety. One night she entertained
a gtkmp ©f friends and at the moment
of departure, when conversation al
ways lags a trifle, her eye fell idly on
a package carried by one of the men.
“What is it you have there?” she
with hardly a thought of- what
she raw saying.
“Well,” said another guest, springing
forward, with mock indignation, “if
he’s ging to be searched, I feel that
aH 4t us should he subjected to the
same, Indignity.”
“On, I,” commenced the hostess, her
face flushing—“l give you my word
that*—
“I mm prove the ownership of this
watch,” cried one man.
“This was my mother’s ring,” ex
plafetML* another. And so it went dow*
the line until the laugh came just
in time to save the life of the hostess.
Hereafter one of her guests can
walla with the grand piano and be
free from remark.—Kansas City In
dependent.
ifi a’fc&row’ fi’ee .fust outside the wall
surrounding her home, and each was
to tain# the package the other had left.
Both stood off and watched for the
othe? to make the first deposit, and the
scheme fell through.
“I knew I couldn’t trust you,” she
wrote.
“A pretty scheme to get all and give
uotßtag,” he replied.
Br this time Iteyburn felt sure the
girl was keeping his letters for a pur
pose. Every time he thought of their
extravagant phrases being perused by
others or printed iu the newspapers
he became panic stricken. He resolved
to secure them at any cost. Then it
occurred to him to take her letters to
her himself and receive his own from
her hands. He wrote asking if such
a plan would meet her approbation.
She replied that she supposed there
was no other way.
It was a murky afternoon when he
called, and large flakes of snow had
begun to fall. He carried the letters
done up in brown paper, to which was
fastened a wood and wire handle. They
made a package the size of a large
bureau drawer. He was not used to
being seen on the street lugging mer
chandise aud was much mortified at
meeting a number of his acquaintances.
It was the enormous bulk that dis
tressed him. He was ushered into the
little parlor where he had sat with
Miss Hildreth so often. A bright fire
blazed on the hearth, contrasting pleas
antly with the cheerless scene without.
Miss Hildreth was standing before the
fireplace, her face lighted by the flame.
She heard Mr. Reyburn enter, but did
not turn her head. She was dressed
becomingly and looked very pretty—
not at all like an adventuress who
would sue him for breach of promise,
lie could not assume a proper dignity
carry toff some twenty pounds of let
ters. He was embarrassed.
lie cleared his throat to announce
his presence, and she turned her beauti
ful eyes upon him. Something told
him that he—they—had been making
fools of themselves. He resolved upon
an explanation, but could not remem
ber the cause of their quarrel. Drop
ping the bulky package, he stepped
forward, seized her hand and said in
a low voice:
“Mae, forgive me!”
Forgiveness was easy, but what to
do with forty pounds of letters was a
different matter. They finally con
cluded to s ! t before the fire and feed
them to the flames. For two hours
they tossed in package after package
till all were consumed.
And now they have begun to accumu
late another batch.
MORRIS WYNNE.