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JOSHUA JONES, PUBLISHER.
YOL. I.
A Contented Fellow.
I care not how the seasons go—
The good Lord runs the weather;
And If the stormy tempests blow—
Rain or sunlight, hail or snow,
Bound and round the world will go
And we’lf reach home together 1
I care not how the seasons go—
The good Lord runs the weather;
And when the roses cease to grow,
I’m thankful we’re in time for snow;
For round and round the world will go,
And we’ll reach homo together!
— F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
GAY DECEIVERS BOTH.
Of course it was very wrong of her,
for we all know that you should not
talk to gentlemen who have not been
introduced to you. But when you
are sweet and twenty, and are staying
at a country house all alone, and are
rather bored, and a handsome young
man comes to your rescuo in a wood,
when your poor little dog has caught
its foot in a cruel trap, how can you
possibly pass him the very next day
as if he were a stranger? And he was
so kind to the dog. He bound up
his poor little bleeding foot in his
handkerchief, and carried it in his
arms to the lodge gate. Then he said:
“Do you often walk in the wood?”
She was fueling too grateful to him
to resent his impertinence as she
should have done. So she only said,
“Spmetimes,” and thanked him again
with all her heart in her pretty eyes.
He looked up to whore, through
the trees, tho big red house showed
its twisted, old-fashioned chimneys,
and said:
“My name is Lavender. You are
Miss Yerinder, I suppose?”
She looked at him quickly.
“I am Miss Verinder’s humble com¬
panion. My name is Snjith. ”
“We are comrades in servitude,”
he said. “I am Lord Halibut’s secre¬
tary. You walk in the woods some¬
times. Then it isn’t good-by. Do
they let you come out ofton?”
“I am my own mistress at present,”
she said. “A lot of people will be
coming down on the 25th for the
heiress’s coming of age. They give a
grand entertainment to the tenants.
Lord Halibut is to be there. What is
he like?”
“Oh,” said the young man indiffer¬
ently, “he’s not a bad sort of fellow.
There’s some talk of their families
wishing him to marry tho heiress.
The estates go very well together.
But he’s never even seen her: he’s
been so much abroad, you know. ”
“I don’t believe the heiress will
have him,” the girl answered sharply,
and turned away with her poor little
dog in her arms.
Now, it is quite clear that she ought
not to have walked in tho wood, at
least not so soon as the next day, or
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if she walked there the next day, she
ought not to have chosen the very hour
when poor Troll had met with his
misfortune. But to the bored much
may be pardoned, and, as for Lord
Halibut’s secretary, he hail a right,
one may suppose, to amuse himself.
And that meeting was not tho last.
How could it have been? And when
you meet a person every day without
chaperones or other tiresome people,
you soon make friends. Before the
week was out Mr. Lavender had heard
how Mis3 Smith was left an orphan
and had to earn her living; and she
had learned that Mr. Lavender’s part
in life must always be that of a sub¬
ordinate.
“Is she kind to you?” he asked one
evening, as they sat on a mossed tree
trunk, and watched the red sun set
across the valley, where the corn
grew,
“Ob, yes, she’s kind enough,” the
girl said ; “at least, I am sure she’s
means to be.”
“She’s revoltingly clever, I hear.
Beat the Senior Wrangler at Cam¬
bridge, or something.'’
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE SUPREME LAW.
FORI' GAINES. GA.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1895.
“She did. But that’s not criminal;
and Lord Halibut is, at least, her
partner in iniquity. Ho took a first
class in Greats, didn’t he? Oh, how
I do hate clever men 1”
“You have my sympathy. I abhor
clever women!”
They both laughed. And tho days
went on;aud July melted into August,
and August grew in grace till the time
came near for the coming of age of
Miss Yerinder; and if, during these
days, there has been a baud pressure
so slight as not to be worth resenting,
or a look so nearly tender as to make
a man’s heart beat high with hope;
if he had treasured the forget-mo nots
she had gathered by tho woodland
pond, and pressed them in tho volume
of Browning from which he had read
to her in the woods, and if sho kept a
certain handkerchief, stained with
poor little Troll’s blood, in a locked,
sandle-wood box, and took it out and
laid it ngninst her face, for all its
bloodstains, when no one else was by
— all that concerned only the com¬
panion and the secretary, and no one
else in all the wide world.
It was bright noontide nnd they
walked through the woods; and pres¬
ently they came to tho wishing-tree,
with its two trunks grooving from one
rotjt.
“If we pass through the wishing
tree,” she said, “and wish as we go,
the fairies will give us the wish of our
hearts.”
So they wont through, hand in
hand, because the way was rough. As
she passed out of it, a bramble caught
her dress and he stooped to disen¬
tangle it, but the folds of her gown
were electric, and his hands trem¬
bled.
“How tiresome it is!” she said: “I
believe that bramble will never let me
go."
“Can you blame it?” he asked look¬
ing up at her, and she turned her face
away. They walked on. “A whole
month, ” ho said, ‘and seeing you
everyday! When did such good
fortune ever before come to a poor
secretary?”
“Or to a humble companion? No,
I don’t mean that. But it has been
pleasant.”
They walked in silence to the little
gate that divided the woods from the
grounds. Here they stopped, and she
said, looking at him a moment, half
shyly, half proudly, “Come in; I
should like to show you tho garden.
All the smart people are coming to
morrow, to keep the heiress’s birth¬
day.
He hesitated, and she laughed. “Oh,
we needn’t go in sight of tho house.
The grounds are big enough.”
He flushed, and stammered,in word¬
less denial of the thought she had
read in him that his being seen with
the companion might compromise her,
and together they walked under the
arching trees to the old lawn where
the sun dial stands.
“This is where the tenants dance, I
believe,” she said; “and all the grand
people dance with the cottager folks,
which seems to me rather silly, for I
am sure each set would rather dance
with themselves. Lord Halibut is com¬
ing. Will you be here?”
“I shall certainly come if Lord
Halibut does. May I dauce with
you?”
She laughed, “I don’t think you
know what dancing on the turf is
like. Besides, probably, our steps
don’t suit.”
» < Let us try now,” he said.
He laid his arm on her waist. The
next moment her hand wus on his
arm and they were whirling down the
lawn toward the sundial.
“What foolish people we are,” she
said breathlessly, and hUlf moved to
pause. But his arm held her closer,
and they waltzed to the end of the
lawn, past the sundial, and into the
sliado of the great copper beech ; and,
there, before sho had time to move her
hand from his arm, both his arms
were around her, and ho was raining
kisses on her soft,Hushed chook. Sho
shrank a little, and thou laid her faeo
softly against his, and put her hand
up to his neck.
“Ah !” he said, “tho wish is granted.
I have my heart’s desire.” You do
love mo don’t you?”
She clasped her hands behind liis
neck, and hung back looking him at
arm’s length, with half-ashamed, half
laughing eyes.
“Oh, yes, I lovo you, Lord Hali¬
but,” she said.
Ho put his arms up and laid them
on hers. “Then you know?”
Sho laughed again. “Your hand¬
kerchief, at least, was not ashamed of
your name.”
Not one thought that was traitor to
his love for her stirred in him at her
confession. Lord Halibut Know true
love when he saw it.
“Why did you deceive me?” sho
asked.
“Oh! the landscape painter idea, I
suppose,” he said. “Tho Lord of
Burleigh, and that sort of thing!”
Sho laughed once more, ( i Tho
worst of it is,” sho said, “that I lmvo
a vow in heaven never to marry Lord
Halibut.”
“Surely Lord Halibut can absolve
you from that if anyone can!”
“I am glad you think so, for you
have a vow—somewhere or other -not
to marry Miss Verinder, and you, too,
will need absolution, Tuko it from
me
i ( Then you are—you are not Miss
Smith?
Her dainty chin went up. “Now do
I look liko it?” she said.
( < But why?”
“The landscapo-painters’spart,”she
answered, “seems to bo universally at¬
tractive!”—The Sketch.
Leather Tires For Bicycles.
Two Frenchmen of Rheims have re¬
cently completed an invention which
they claim will in a measure revolu¬
tionize tho present pneumatic tire.
They build their wheels by substitut¬
ing an outer pneumatic tube made of
leather for tho rubber tubes now in
use. Their invention has been taken
up by the Ministry of War, who are
now perfecting the idea with a view to
supjily all tho military cycles with
tires that will not give out easily.
The resistance of leather is consider¬
ably greater than that of rubber, and
it will better stand the pressure from
within and the exterior agents of de¬
struction, such ns nails, hoops, roots,
or sharp pebbles. It is not absolute¬
ly imperforable, but it is at least as
good as the fine steel band which was
experimentally placed between tho
outer and inner tubes, and which was
pierced by needles and tacks. Leather
offers the greatest impenetrability in
relation to its thickness without irn
paring the necessary elasticity. It is
further improved by a preparation
which renders it impermeable to water, f
The leather tiro is easily repaired in
case of perforation—any cobbler can
sew it up—and this repair is perma¬
nent and not likely to get out of
order.
Other advantages claimed for tho
leather tire are: Greater lightness ; it
will not get out of shape as does rub¬
ber, and it will not slip on asphalt
pavement or wet roads. Tho new ma¬
terial for the tiro seems to meet with
gre-n on con rage in f.ri^ on to par o ,
the military authorities of France. —
La Nature.
Distrust.
Sally—An’ njfter we are married
will you keep on lovin’ me?
Rube—I’ll love you till—till tho
cows come home, as the feller says.
“Yaas, an’ then go down to the
grocery and leave me do all the
raiikiu.”—Indianapelis Journal. ]
Karo ami Costly Foxskins.
Most of you lmvo read quotations of
silver fox skins and black fox skins.
but did you ever see one. The chaueos
are that if you are not in tho fur busi¬
ness you never did. Only 139 wort,
taken in tho whole world last season,
and every year all of these go to Rus¬
sia, where they are tho fur of tho
royalty and tho nobility. The other
day trudging up the Journal stairs
came Hunnewell, , r ,, tho .. South u Danville ...
fur king. Ho is a real Yankee at a
trade, a hustling buyer, who has
agents in the Nova Sootias nnd iu
Cape Breton and nil along tho ric h
fur-boaring countries, and his trans¬
actions amount to §30,000 a year and
upward. Under his nrtn Hunnewell
boro a package, which ho tossed light¬
ly to tho lloor of tho reporters’ room
and disturbed the quiet of tho several
“desks” at work. “There, ”suid he, “is
something you never saw boforo—eight
silver fox skins in ono buuoh. There
they are—four of them beauties, four
of tliom ordinary.” Tho four first
named woro beautiful skins, puro deep
black along tho bases of tho necks,
silver tipped along the backs, while
the tails woro just shimmered with tho
silver white. The far wns soft and
fine, beautiful to tho touch. “That
skin,” said Mr. Hunnewell, tossing
out one, “is worth §135. This one is
worth §150. If that one were as black
as this and was as heavy and soft as it
is now it would be worth §300 easily.
Considering that only 139 were taken
last year, and that I got twenty-four
of them, I think I got my share.
! ! hose came from Capo Breton, and I
never had so many in ono bunch be¬
fore.”—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Saved from Hie Oregon.
Wo woro talking of wrecks at sea. I
have been in several and am still alive
to tell the tale, Tho most remark
able of all was tho loss of the Oregon.
Mystery still hangs around it. Its
sinking wuh like tho sinking of an
island city off tho coast of Spain.
There was one accident connected with
the going down of this magnificent
invariably causes mo
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’itie shoe peg was invented in 1818,
by Joseph Walker,of Hopkinton,Muss.
Its use had not been known before
that date, and its introduction gave a
g rea t impulse to tho manufacture of
boots and shoes. Tho price and quan
tity were both much affected bv this :
mu ; r.* - ...I w.»
hand, but machinery was
soon invented for that purpose. Very
few pegged shoes are now made, how
ever, nines tho introduction of tho
method of sewing with brass wire,
although pegs are extensively used
by cobblers for repairing.
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM-
NO. 34.
Weak and Weary
Because of a depleted condition of tho blood.
The remedy ta to bo found in purifed,
enriched and vitalized blood, which will
bo givon by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the (Mt
blood purifier. It will tone tho stomach,
create nn appetite and give renewed
strength. Remember
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
f in 9 11,0 the onl public - v truo eye 1,100,1 today. P urin *1 " r six Prominently for tfi.
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H00Cl’$ PHIS cure tion. habitual Price 25 cento,. constipa¬
Cylindrical Cotton Bales.
A new compress for making cylin¬
drical cotton bales is being built iu
Baltimore and is to be put in opera¬
tion first in Arkansas. The company
owning the patent lias been organized
with chief office in Liverpool and with
Mr. William Johnston, owner of the
Johnston lino of steamers, one of the
leading steamship owners of G-eat
Britain, as president. A number of
prominent railroad officials are inter¬
ested in the company, including one of
tho vice-presidents of the Baltimore
and Ohio, ond senator Camden, of West
Virginia. This combination of steam¬
ship and railroad officers in a compress
to turn out cylindrical bales, instead
of square bales as by compresses now
in use, is regnrded as a very strong
factor in changing compressing sys¬
tems. Two other companies have also
lately been organized to introduce
cylindrical compresses.
Still Shivering.
“People talk a good deal about how
hot it is,” said tho man who was out of
politics.
“Of course they do at this time of
year.”
“Well, maybe they’re right. But I
don’t notice it. After the way I was
snowed under last election, I’m chilly
yet.”— Washinf/ton Star.
Tlic Mo«t Neiislllio Thin* on Knrtli
Is a human nerve. This in a state of health.
Let it become overstrained or weakened, and
llio sensitiveness is Increased tenfold For
weak or overwrought nerves, Hostetler’s
.Stomach Hitters is the best tonic in existence,
since it invigorates and quiets them at the
tame time. It also possesses superlative efti
caejr in dyspepsia, constipation, malarial aud
kidney comp ainte. rheumatism and neu¬
ralgia.
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The head lwu the ino-t iieautiful appear¬
ance and highest station in a human figure.
Ur. Ki'mer’s H w a m :■ - Root cures
aii Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Binghamton, Consultation N. fr<^ Y.
Laboratory
Go 1 governs the world, and we have only to
do our duty wisely arid leave the i-sue to Him.
It is HI ore Time Wonderful
how patiently people suffer with corns. Get
comfort by removing them with Hiudercorae.
After six years’ Mahy suffering, Thomson. 1 was cured by
T'iso’s Cure.— 29 1-2 Ohio
Ave., Allegheny, l'u., March 19, ’£4.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces colic. inflamma¬
tion, allays puln. cures wind 25c. a bottle
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Syrup and refreshing of Figs is taken; the it is and pleasant *
to taste, acts
gently Liver and yet promptly Bowels, cleanses on the Kidneys, the
effectually, dispels colds, head¬ sys¬
tem
aches and fevers and cures habitiud
constipation. remedy of Syrup its kiud of Fig3 is the
ever pro
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action
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
P°P ular remedy known.
reliable & &§£ druggist S& . who
g ; st ,_ Any have hand will •
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cure it promptly for ai#* one who
wishes to try it. Ly not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP C9.
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