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JOSHUA JONES, PUBLISHER.
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Greatness.
Give mo the life that animates the oak.
Its calm, its depth of spirit and its power;
These, aud its constancy would I invoke,
Bare things that puss not with the passing
hour,
■Whether it bo in time of leaf and flower,
Or when all life endures tho winter’s stroke,
Nobly it rears its head : a deathless dower
Of gradeur aye invests it like a cloak.
Give me these gifts, and I shall ever fare
Untiring, far up toward the longod-for
height;
No more strong, dauntless, in tho morning
air,
When all the way is clear with lucid light,
Than when with folded pinions I must bear
Along the dreadful gloomed gulf of night.
— Wsi. F. Barnard, in Goodby.
A flay from a Jack-Lantern.
BY IiAURA M. SMITH.
I was only a girl. The Colonel, my
elderly brother, said I couldn’t go, it
was too hard a tramp, too far away,
too exposing for a woman.
“Why, my stars, Sis! you have to
walk about three miles through cedar
Bwamp; it’s the worst trail in the
ountry, and you couldn’t keep awake
all night. You’d be a total wreck on
our bauds. Just you ask Billy.”
That last remark cheered me. Billy
was my brother’s guide, with tho big
heart of the true backwoodsman. We
were staying—well I won’t say where
—but game had more attractions for
me than novels, and I had made up
my mind that I'wouldn’t poke around
in camp another day.
So I waylaid the genial Billy while
the Colonel was at breakfast.
“You bet you can go,” was his
hearty answer. “I’ll lend you a pair
of my rubber boots and a hat, and
that’ll be all right,” he added, with a
meaning look in his
Billy had been the Colonel’s guide
for many seasons, and he had a way of
managing him, so I jumped to tho
conclusion that it was the Colonel
who would he all right.
And it was. ‘ ‘But if yoix don’t get
sick of your bargain, my girlie, I’ll
eat my hat,” was his comment, adding
with a sigh: “If Billy can put up
with it. lean.”
That afternoon, about five o’clock,
we left our boat ten miles up the river,
and prepared for the march through
the forest to the pond where the
Colonel was going to hunt that night.
The guide led the way, bearing an
enormous pack. I followed him, with
the Colonel bringing up the rear.
Over logs and bogs, through mud
and moss, struggling out of alder
thickets and over-hanging boughs, we
went on until we came to a slight
ridge.
“Our pond lies just over this hill.
Game may be in at • any time now.
Keep mum and get into this,” whis¬
pered Billy.
As he spoke he shoved a canoe out
from its hiding place in the bushes,
and after some wobbling we were all
in, and Billy paddled us over the
silent water.
In a few minutes the nose of the
_ canoe shot alongside a log and hit it¬
self in a mass of ferns under a deep
bank.
• “Here’s the camp!” whispered
Billy.
“Where?” I asked.
“There!” said the Colonel, point¬
ing majestically heavenward.
I scrambled up the bank and found
the tiniest, cutest little shelter that I
had ever seen. Slender poles for sup¬
ports, with birch bark walls and roof.
The bark curled up around the eaves
and door in such a bewitching, wel¬
coming manner that I felt at home at
once and went in. It was buijt on the
leanto style, and I had to sit down
most of the time. When the pack
and the guns and the blankets and tho
Colonel were all in with me it was all
I could do to even sit.
The guide built a fire and broiled
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE SUPREME LAW.
FORT GAINES. GA„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 2:5, 1895.
some venison and bacon on the coals.
The Colonel poked around in tho pine
needles and tried to help, but after a
few weak efforts gave it up,
How that venison tasted I aud I had
always loathed bacon before, but this
melted in my mouth. The canned
peaches were like nectar, aud even tho
bread and butter was inexpressible.
“If things always taste like this, I
want to go hunting tho rest of my
life,” I whispered between bites.
I ate so much thut it made mo
sleepy. I toasted my feet by the fire
afterward, and tried to fight off my
drowsiness, for the Colonel had vowed
I couldn’t keep awake. But the
w:-.rmth sent mo into a languor in
which I was conscious only of the
two men in tho dusk muking prepara¬
tions for ’the hunt, the fire-light
shadows in ^the trees and tho lake be¬
low.
A touch on the shoulder aroused
me.
“All’s ready,” said Billy, aud kneel¬
ing, he tied some soft stuff around
my feet. Then rising, he motioned
me toward the canoe. Slowly, cauti¬
ously, without the stirring of a leaf,
we swung ourselves down the bank
and out on to the log. Billy screwed
the jack into the bow of the canoe,
and placed some blankets for the
Colonel to kneel on.
“Now get in there without a sound,”
he said in my ear.
Splash! ! on tho opposite shore of
the pond. We held our breaths.
“ By George, we’ve jumped a deer,”
breathed Billy.
With redoubled caution, we got into
the canoe, I in the middle, the Colonel
at the bow, rifle in hand. Not a
sound had we made, wo never even
turned our heads, and only knew
when Billy had knelt in tho stern by
the canoe’s shooting out into the
lake.
That hunt was a wonderful thing to
me. We drifted through tho water so
silently that it seemed us though we
were constantly lying motionless. I
looked abovo me—nothing but stars
and rifted clouds. I looked below
me—down into the clear water, and
saw reflected there the dark heavens
again, star for star, cloud for cloud.
With this was such death-like sileuce
that I seemed to be floating, suspended
between two worlds.
It was beginning to be like a languor¬
ous dream, full of flowers and earthly
odors, and heavy eye-lids, and soft^
black darkness. And then it began to
be like something else—the forest
swam before iny eyes and I fell asleep.
Yes, I did, before I could help it. I
tried to rouse to shake it off. I would
get one eye open just far enough to
see the dim light of the jack, and
then it would olose again and my head
fall forward.
I don’t know how long this went on.
It may have been hours, when sudden¬
ly I awoke all over, every nerve alert.
A noise near the shore, and a slight
snuffing as of some animal with its
nose in the water. Did Billy hear it?
Was he making for it? The canoe
was certainly motionless—everything
seemed dead—but perhaps the two
men were silently biding their time.
I was beginning to get very much
excited when I saw something that
electrified me. The Colonel’s head!
Could it be possible?
I leaned over and gazed, breathless.
Yes, the Colonel was sound asleep, his
head down on his breast, and his noble
form as limp as a linen rag. I felt
better now that he was asleep, but
there was that deer! What was the
matter with Billy? I looked around,
and, triumph upon triumph, there was
the tired Billy fast asleep.
I could have shouted hurrah, hut I
hadn’t time. I poked the Colonel
vigorously with one toe; he came to
slowly with a long sigh.
“Billy’s asleep, I breathed,” and
there’s a deer on the other shore.
Tho Colonel was awake in an instant.
Ho thought a second, then ho rocked
the canoe. There was such a violent
start in the stern that we nearly
laughed aloud.
“Billy, there’s a deer in the marsh,”
and before the words were well out of
my mouth, the nose of the canoe
swung around and tho lantern was
headed straight for tho shore.
Wo listened intently; tho noise was
still there. Billy steadied tho canoe.
“Open tho jack,” ho whispered.
The Colonel touched the lantern, and
instantly a powerful stream of light
flooded out across the dark water—
and there in its path, shining like
coals, were two great burning eyes—
a doer’s eyes—fascinated by the light.
Bang!1 Bang!!
Two shots in quick succession from
tho Colonel, scarcely a kick in tho
shallow wnter, and tho deer lay dead.
They took me to shore, then returned
and got the deer. It was a buck with
magnificent antlers. They dragged it
out under the bank. Tho Colonel
gave me his hand across its neck.
“I take it all back, Siis. ” You’re a
brick! You got that deer, aud I’ll
have the head set up for you. Como
along every time aud keep us awake.
This was magnificent in thoColouol,
and I have always felt rf little menu
that I never owned up to having been
asleep myself. I’ve done it now,
though, and I feel hotter.—Outing!
Linen for Liners.
Tliero are no .laundries on board
ship; 1110 / take up too much room,
So the chief steward lays in thousands
of pillow slips, sheets and towels.
These come on board tied up in bales
of a dozen each, and'are stored in tlio
linen locker, a cubbyhole of a place,
on the main deck ; the ventilator pipes
from the engine room run through it,
it hot.
There is no danger of linen getting
mildewed there. The linen which has
been used is thrown into another room
provided with tho same atmosphere,
and is kept thoroughly dry. Where
there are clean napkins every day, fre¬
quent changes of stateroom linen and
an everlasting replenishing of towel
racks, the demands upon the linen
locker are very extensive.
A liner like the New York jiuts to
sea with about nine thousand sur
viettes, ten thousand towels, six thou¬
sand or seven thousand sheets, eight
thousand pillow slips, and about one
thousand tablecloths. Most of these
find their way to the soiled linen lock¬
er in tho ftnfrao of tho voyage. When
the vessel arrives they aro carted off
to a laundry.—Tid-Bits.
A Remarkable Electrical Scheme.
All interesting electrical powei
transmission plant is in course of erec¬
tion in California to supply the city
with power obtained of Sacramento
by damming up the American River at
Folsom. The dam is of masonry, and
was commenced some thirty years
ago. It is founded on granite, and is
69 feet 6 inches high. A canal con¬
veys the water from a point above tho
dam to the power station. A head of
eighty feet is available, though only
fifty-five feet of this is to be used for j
power purposes. The spent water j
from the turbines will be used for ir- j
rigation purposes. Four pairs of tur
bines are to be erected at the station, j
each of the two larger pairs being
rated at 1,200 indicated horse-power,
The generators, of 1,000 horse
power each, supply a current at a po- j
tential of 800 volts, which is trans
formed to 11,000 volts before being
delivered to the line. The power will
be used for working the tram lines, as
well as for lighting and other power
purpose.—New York Sun.
Bohemia has furnished us with 118,
000 peojile. Poland has furnished ils
with 147,000.
Dining in Palestine.
A very largo circular tray of tinned
copper, placed on a coarse wooden
stool about a foot high, Borved as a
table. In the centre of this stood
another big tray, with a mountain of
pilaff, composed of rice boiled aud
buttered with small pieces of meat
j strewn through and upon it, This
was the chief dish, though there were
other smaller dishes, both meat and
vegetable. Ten persons sat around
the table or rather squatted on tho
carpet, with their knees drawn up
close to their bodies. Each had be
fore him a plate of tinned copper and
a wooden spoon, which sorno used
without tho plate. Most, however,
preferred to use the lingers of the left
hand, several dipping their hands to¬
gether into tho dish, as tho disciples
did at tlio Last Supper.
As soon as any one had finished,
ho roso and wont into another room,
to have water poured over his hands
to wash them, aud the vacant place
at the table was instantly filled by a
newcomer. The bread, I mfiy sav,
was laid on the mat under the tray,
so as to ho easily reached ; aud a jar
of w'ater, tho only beverage used dur¬
ing tho meal, stood within roach. Be¬
sides rice, stews of beans or cracked
wheat, with thick soup or sauco poured
over thorn in the greut central bowl,
are also in fashion. Spoons, though
sometimes provided, are often, want¬
ing—pieces of thin bread, doubled,
serving instead. Knives and furies
are unknown; and as there is no
special dining-room, there is no fur
niluro suited for one. Hence tables
mid chairs are never seen. The meat
being always cut up into small pieces,
there is no need for a knife, and
chickens can easily be torn asunder
with the hands. So far, indeed, are
Orientals from thinking it strange to
dip their fingers into tho common
dish, that it is a act of
ness to gropo in it for tho visitor, and
lay nice morsels beforo him, or even
to insist on putting them into his
mouth.—From IIolv Laud and the
Bible.
Black Roses.
Wo learn, on good authority, that a
certain enterprising gardener has at
last succeeded in producing a black
rose — “us black as soot,” as he proudly
declares. So far, his achievement is
unique, though green roses were oh
tained some time ago by a member of
his fraternity. Science, we suppose,
makes every experiment worth while,
otherwise olio would bo tempted to
question whether the result . ,
were worth
j,, the trouble , i t i taken, i an ft r black j i roso cer
thinly cannot, from a purely Philistine
point of view, ho considered as beau
tsful as a pink or yellow one. More
i over, the good man is a trill 3 behind
the time, since the artificial flower
makers succeeded in making us all
thoroughly tired of black roses quite
a twelvemonth ago. It is to be hoped
that the craze for unnaturally colored
flowers will not sjiread, otherwise wo
shall see black lilies, like those in the
mosaic pavement of Hauta Maria do
Flori, ; in Florence, and what ajnisfor
tuuc hat would be .-The Lady,
A Otieci* Enterprise.
The latest London enterprise upon
the co-operative principle is the
“Wedding Present Association,’’which
is course of formation. The object of
the association is to provide its mom
bers with whatever wedding presents
they may require to give their friends
at greatly reduced prices upon pay
merit of the trifling subscription of
two guineas a year, By arrangement
with the manufacturers the association
will be enabled to supply goods to
members at absolutely wholesale
prices. The profit is solely to be ob¬
tained through the subscriptions.
The present Czar of Russia, like his
father, is a great novel reader.
ONE DOLUS PEB ANHUffl-
Rise autl Fall of a Town.
Hod Mountain, Col., which four years
Ago was a prosperous camp of several
thousand p<f>plt\ and did the largest money
order busim if any camp in the San Juan
couutry, is now without a posiolliee.
The sworn Tortiietitor*
Of thegpani*h Inquisition never infltrtpfl tor*
turr* more dresdlui titan tlm-r mdured l>y
the vh'tini of inflammatory rheumatism. Tho
chronic form of this obstinate malady is
►mflirtViiMy with Ho* i>* T^fu 1. Arre‘t it at tho star
tot tor's Stomach Bitters and avoid
bceominu a Undone and martyr, The Bit ten s will
remove ina'urla kidney romplant«, dy*
pop-ia, ralgia, remedy con-tipation, debility nervottum hastens ** and neu¬
and conva¬
lescence. _v__
Be careful to m«k" friendship the child, and
not the latlnr, of virtue.
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Pure 11 ill Wholesome (f.inlllv
Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy, Sytup of Figs. It is
pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on
the kidnsy, liver and lomela to ciean'e the sys¬
tem i ffectually, it promotes tthe health and
comfort of all who ns« it, and with millions it
is tlio best and only remedy.
The personal pronoun “I" should be the
coat-of-arms of some individuals.
Dr. Ki'mer’s S W a m p - Root cure*
ali Pamphlet Kidney aud and Bladder troubles.
Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y.
The most amiable people aro those who lea*t
wound the sell-love of others.
I In the Pollen Court- -i um! Judcneut
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Home lime niro.Judxo Andy E. Calhoun,
judge of the police court of Atlanta, had oc¬
casion to lias* a sentence that wav yratifylnfc
to him, and If people will 1nke h * advice
much Hufferins: will be alleviated. The judge
is subject to nervous sick headaches and dy«
pepslu. Mere is his Sentence:
"1 sin a Kivat sufferer from nervous sick
headache and have found no remedy so e.flec
tlve when as Tyner’s headache [lyspep^in begins Remedy. If taken
tho first it invariably
cures.”
Price 60 cents per bottle. For tale by all
druggists.
The <’i>* ( ollriio
We congratulate the management of the
Southern Female H'ox) College upon the re
moral of the li’-tilutioii from I.uOraiike 'p
the magnificent building*nt Munch ster. Ar
lunt.t'.o mo*t le-Hiritu] Kiibiii b. T)*U grand old
institution is now better equipped in the va¬
rious department*, arid Iih* a larger and
stronger (acuity than ever before, and it t*
with pleasure we learn of the flattering pr
peet.v torn larger attendance tills fall,
A New View of Idle.
It I* mirprl-inz how of en the trouble** of
this life hjii'liiL' from indigestion. And more
surprising "I’m how few p op <• know it. You say,
can’t blue,” or “My tiui/l led* queer." or “1
time- sleep," imljgest or "Everything fr. t* me." Niu
in ten ion i* at the Hot torn of all
your would miseries, and a box of Ripans T-ilmb**
give you an entirely new view of life.
Don't Drag lour Feet.
Many men do because the nerve centre. 0 ,
weakened by the long-contiflued use of to¬
bacco, become so affected that they are weak,
tired, lifeless, listie**, etc. All this can be
easily overcome if the tobacco user wants to
quit uml gain manhood, nervo power, and
Taka enjoy vigorously the good things of life.
No-To-Bac. (iuaninteed to cure or
'Book money refunded by Druggists everywhere.
free. Tho .Sterling Remedy Co., New
York City or Chicago.
*i 0 o iteward. *ioo.
The readers of this paper will be please* to
ihl r t*cien^
$^ s ,«tho onfy poeitl^cSre nowknoimto
re/, u futi
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby ii*>
gtroying til© foundation of the disease*,
giving constitution the patient strength by building up tho its
anti assisting nature much in doing faith in
work. The proprietors have *o Hnli¬
ita curative powers that they offer On©
dred uoilare for any case that it f»ile to core.
liat *ujSo’o.
Sold by'Druggists, *5c.
FITS ‘topped free by Da. Kline's Great
KKRVKRESTORtf.lt. N’o fit*after flr*t day’s iw.
Marve'ou* cure*. Treatise and S2 Phila.. nutria! Fu. bot¬ i
tle free. I)r. Klim*. 231 Arch Kt.,
When You Come in llenlize i
that your corns are gone, nnd no pain, bow
grateful you feel. The work of Ilindereorn*. 16
T’iso’s Cure is the medicine to break tin l
children’* Coughs ami fold**.—Mr-. M. (1
Blunt, Sprague, Wash., March 8. "IA.
Wife used " Mothers’ Friend” before first 4
child—wo*quickly rapid. E. E. re Jieved: Johnston. suffered Eufaula. but little:
recovery Ala.
Mr*. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inftamma*
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 23c- a bottle
/f afflicted with soreeye" n**e Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’* Eve-water.Druggists sell at 2.V per bott le.
rtlakes the
Weak Strong
Hood’s Sarsaparilla tones and Strengthen*
the digestive organs, creates an appetite, and
gives refreshing sleep. Bemem ber
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SarSapariila * • 1 1
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Is the one True Blood Purifier.
Hood’s Pills the after-dinner pill and
family cathartic. 25c.
•2YCTS I
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Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
In time. Sold by druggists
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