Newspaper Page Text
■a
ft KURzsEanj V
Goods directly from
the great trade center
of the United States.
New York City, from
the Biggest Bargain
House on earth. We
have the Bargains for
you. Come and see.
Racket Store
Company, r
Eastman, = Georgia.
PHYSIOI A.JSTES
DR. J . R- ROSE ,
Physician and Surgeon,
EASTMAN, GA.
Specialty—1HSEASES OF WOMEN.
Office at Hose’s Drug Store.
f. J. BUCHAN,
Physician and Druggist,
Eastman, Georgia.
Calls promptly answered, day
or niiiht. 1-81-1 yr.
J. D. HERRMAjY, M I).
PHYSICIAN AN1> SURGEON,
) 8 to 11 a. m.
OFFICE HOlTIiS '> 3 to 5 o. m.
Kesidenee. Chaunc^v Avenue
Dr. J OHM B. CLARK,
Physician ancl .Surgeon,
Eastman Ga
Ottice in drug store, next door to Mer¬
chants and Farmers Bank.
ATTORNEYS
JNO. <F_ DEUCY. JAS. BISHOP, JK.
DeLACY & BISHOP,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
Eastman, Georgia.
Practice in the state and federal courts
J. E. WOOTEN.
ATTORNEY ^ Al LAW
Eastman, Georgia.
ijjfir*Office at McArthur's Land
office.
}\ r M. CLEMENTS,
.
Attorney at Law,
Eastman, Ga.
Practice in State and Federal courts
Offices in Citizens’ Bank Butldin.o-.
~~
h. M. ROBERTS. E. B MILNER,
ROBERTS & MILNER,
Attornsvs at Law,
Fastm an, Georgia.
Office in Merchants and Farmers Bank.
■ VZ Ashhurn. fires. E. J. Peacock
M. If. Edward Vice fires. W. X . I,letch.
Lark Harper, Cashier. JasC. Williams,
Citizen's Banking Co.,
Eastman, Ga ' 5
SOLICITS NOUH ACCOUNT.
Makes Fays interest on time deposits
collection on all available
Points. Gives prompt attention to
collections. Remits for all collec
r: ;iors u8 011 m, ,w „f ot r» m irmdtit ment ^ I oars ans
-
money on lavorabie terms. Give s
Km the very best security, as each
jhember the is personally responsible
* May or debts of the Company. *
15--tf.
WHEN THE GIRLS WORE CALICO.
Tlipre was a tinip, betwixt the days
Of linsey, woolsey, straight am! prim,
And tl:;'-.' v.lu-n mode, with iks)><>i ways,
Lead- woman captive at its nliim.
Vet not a hundred years ago,
\1 hen girls wore simple calico.
Within the barn by lantern light,
Through many a reel, with flying feet,
The boy- and maidens danced at night
To fid lied measures, shrilly sweet.
And merry revels were they, though
Tie girls were gowneu in calico.
Across the flooring rough and gray
The gold of scattered chaff was spread,
And long festoons cf clover hay
That straggled from the loft o'er head,
Swung scented fringes to and fro
O'er pretty girls in calico.
They used to go a-Maying tle n
The blossoms of the spring to sock
In sunny glade and sheltered glen,
Unweighed by fashion's latest freak,
Ai « Robin fell in love. 1 know,
Wi ll Phyllis in her calico.
A tuck, v frill, a bias fold,
A hat curved over gypsy wise.
And beads of coral and of gold,
And nwy cheeks and merry eyes
Made lassies in tha. long ago
Lock charming in their calico.
The mod.rn knight who loves a maid
Of graiio-is air and gentle grace,
And finds her oftentimes arrayed
In shin.ng silk and priceless lace
Would love her just as well, I know.
In gink and lilac calico.
—Halfit Whitney in Munsey’s Magazine.
| slli JQPlftl! it i s i & B
u ' 1
is
<7 All’s Ff.ir Ill War and In Love, s>
Especially In Love. >?
1 have always had a remarkably
large number of friends ot my own
sex. Lest this should lead people to
give me an undue amount of credit
amiability and sweetness of disposition
i may as well state at once that 1
a marriageable brother.
Being possessed also of a
amount of brains. I was never for
moment deceived as to the nature of
the affection lavished upon me In¬
most of my female friends. But when
my dearest chum, the girl i really
thought loved me for myself alone.
told me she was engaged to be mar
ried to my brother Fred my grief and
auger knew no bounds.
L had gone over to stay all night
with Maud and had laid awake till
a. m. exchanging confidences, and
the time the sneak never said a
about Fred. At hist I dropped off
sleep and was just in the midst of
glorious dream, in which I was
ing the cotillon with a
man with soulful eyes and a hank
count in seven figures, when
suddenly threw her arms about
neck, entirely shutting off piy wind
and scaring me almost into
prostration, and with a burst of
confessed that site had been
a secret from me for two whole
and that we were to be really,
sisters, not just sisters in affection,
heretofore, etc.
I managed to wriggle out from
Maud's anil, anil then I sat up in
and said things, I don't
exactly what they were, but they
have been pretty bad, for Fred
speak to me for a week (of
Maud had to tell him), and Maud
self went around looking like a
ing martyr whenever we chanced to
under the same roof.
I was convinced that 1 was the
miserable girl in the world after
and the worst of it was that
body, including Maud herself,
that I was only mad because she
engaged first, an imputation which 1
need not say was entirely unjust.
I’m sure 1 could not see what
lia ^ j ouo t ; iat xvtis so wonderful
way. Freil is anything but
and I never considered hinu even
looking, while as long as mamma
he hasn't, a penny to liis name
his salary, which is by iio means
princely.
But Maud! You’ll have
she’d lauded a Vanderbilt or a
laureate the way she acted.
I pretended not to notice her
and nun.ed my grief in proud silence,
but 1 lu.d no doubt that I was the
most wronged and unhappy creature
that ever lived until subsequent
taught n -j that our affairs arc arrang¬
ed by an all wise Providence in whom
we may safely trust, no matter how
dark our way may seem at the time.
I shall sever doubt tlie wisdom of
Providence again.
To begin with, I found I was likely
to get a iot of amusement out of this
engagement. Fred was madly jealous
of Maud all the time, thougli any one
could set- with Iiaif an eye that she
was simply mad about him and in
deadly fear of losing him herself,
lie wot.Id come home at least three
times a week, pale, haggard and wild
eyed, a man bereft of hope. The rest
of the time lie was madly joyful and
talked about Maud as if she was sev
oral degn.-es higher than the seraphim.
It was enough to make n St. Bernard
dog laugl. just to see him.
1 also found furl Iter consolation in
the ^-ed fact . hat ids state ot mind inter
s er ; ouslv with Fred’s appetite,
‘
that r „ qt nll the extr a pudding and
u^ngs that had always fallen to his
Share (Fred was always a greedy
thing), and then Perceval Jones came
from abroad.
I’ercevcl was a millionaire’s son,
with a ra e too beautiful for words
and •» taste for Ibsen.
Of course all this made him
hie beyond most other men. but 1 must
say the way the girls of
made different kinds of fools of
selves about him was enough to dis
gust even a woman's rights
with her sex.
1 need hardly say that I was smart
enough to treat Mr. Jones with mark¬
ed coolness. The tirst time 1 met
my behavior seemed to puzzle
pampered voutli. The second time he
appeared distinctly grateful. On the
third he asked permission to call, ami
I went home at peace with all the
world, even l ied.
IYt live consecutive afternoons after
that I sat by the tea table in the hack
drawing room, attired in my best
gown, expecting l’ereeval—in vain.
On the sixth he came.
“VVliat a delightful surprise,” 1 said
gushingly. 1 was a trifle nervous from
waiting so long.
“All, thanks!” he remarked, looking
disappointed.
And then mamma came in and in
spite of my previous warnings linish
ed things by treating Mr. Jones as if
he were Albert Edward or Mark llan
ua or at least a royal duke. Mamma
never could resist a millionaire.
Our visitor took li is leave In less
than half an hour, and 1 knew that
unless I adopted desperate measures
l’ereeval Jones was lost to me forever,
But I’m not one to give up easily.
and after thinking hard thinks all
night I finally Hit on a plan and went
to s lo’I» a* daybreak and slept till
noon as sweetly and as innocently as
a child.
Early in the afternoon I telephoned
j\I si nil and asked her to go with me
0llt [ 0 the golf links at 4 o’clock. Then
[ telephoned to Fred to meet us there
and proceeded to make a fetching
toilet with a light heart. When we
reached the links, there was Mr. Jones
(he had mentioned that lie was going
the day before).
lit 1 was looking bored, as usual, hut
cheered up when I treated him with
haughty coldness.
1 eluded liis attempts at conversa¬
tion, however, and threw Maud in
way whenever I could.
I was rewarded by seeing linn seat
himself l>v Maud's side and
a disquisition on Ibsen as Fred
around the hill on his bicycle,
No sooner did Fred s eye light
([ u , couple than lie commenced to
like a mailman, and in spite of my
nocent efforts to keep him away
wound up by being so
rude to Mr. Jones that that
was confounded, and Maud went
in tears.
As for me, I went to bed liapity.
plan was working to a charm.
A day or two later I got mamma
ask Mr. Jones to dinner and
to have him take Maud out. 1 hat
tied it. Fred treated Perceval in such
an Insulting manner that even he
hardly overlook it, and he left early,
mamma's distress and my secret joy.
After that I began to meet
every time I went out of the
No matter whether I walked or
or rode a wheel I was sure to
counter him before long, anil be
escort uie on my way, leaving me
ways on our return at the end of
street leading to our house.
“Since your brother, who is
guardian, dislikes me so, 1 cannot
to your home.” he would say
j y> ail fl j would blush and stammer
a[)0 [ 0 g V . “But I must see you in
0 f Mm,” l’ereeval would arid with
molting glance, and 1 would go
in the seventh heaven.
At last after three weeks of this
reptitious courtship l’ereeval
stand it no longer.
“Be lay wife, Rosamond!” he orb'd
one day. ‘Never mind what they
at home, I must have you. I
knew what love was before.”
Poor hoy. In* had nover known the
bliss of trying for what lie wanted,
Before this it had always dropped
ijj s i ;!I) .
But I couldn’t trust him even then.
“Oh, nor - f said timidly. “I dare not.
p r( ,,i w< I<I kill you if he thought
hucIi a thing.”
“Let him try,” said Perceval valiant
jy “I'n have you in spite of him. See,
here is the minister on Ills porch. Rosa
C'oroe, darling, he will give me
the right to claim you from your
brother.”
And before knew what I was about
I found myself in the minister's par
> or icarneri in a bicycle skirt
and pink cot Urn shirt waist.
Tin minifies later I walked into
Fred's office, leaving Perceval wait
j n n, outside, looking a little pale about
the gills, but with a combative gleam
in his eye.
“Fred,” I remarked coolly as I look
oil my brother square in the fa< “i
want to thank you for what you’ve
dons- for me. I’m Airs. Perceval Jones,
p y your lean-.”
t: n a smile of incredulous relief
spread over liis face,
“Go*:,:” he ejaculated. “To think
that the fellow actually warned you!”
-Chicago rime.- I . raid,
Don’t forget our water melon
outest, in which you have Ow
chances to win.
Capturing a Statue
-
With Paint, Wig and Beard a
Work ci Art P/lay Easily
Be Made Repulsive.
In the course of my long anil event
pp;eer 1 have the honor of plan
liing various schemes which have
taken a conspicuous place in point of
audacity in the records of crime, hut
'perhaps in none of these transactions
was such audacity more prominent
than in the incident of the carrying off
of the Apollo statue from the residence
of Sir Titus Blaydes, Bart., the statin'
in question being the work of the
famous sculptor Apelles and being
valued by experts at $250,1X10.
One evening 1 was sitting in a restau¬
rant finishing an after dinner cigar
when a short, foreign looking man, ex
pensively dressed, came and sat down
beside me.
“Excuse the liberty I take In ari
, dressing you," he began courteously,
speaking with a strong foreign accent,
but in perfect English, “but your
lias indirectly reached my ears, 1
think 1 have the honor of addressing
Mr. Codfrey Vince?”
“That is my name.” I returned, much
amazed. "May 1 ask what you desire
with me?”
He came very close and, sinking
voice, said in a whisper, "1 want you
to carry off for me the Apollo
from the house of Sir Titus
nt Lungworth Court."
One glance at the card told me all.
It bore tin* name of Count
Delaroeca, the famous millionaire col
lector of the antique, whose gallery at
Milan contained priceless glories
ancient masters.
"1 recognize your name, count,
shall lie glad to be of service to
But may i ask what const rained
to fix upon me as the instrument
your designs?"
"1 chanced to be present tit your
over tin 1 Wigmore ease, when, as
will remember, you - escaped with
light sentence, though Hie
showed you to he an artist in crime.
kept my eye upon you, resolving
offer you 11 1 is delicate mission
the government no longer
your services.
“1 shall he delighted to do nil in
power for you count, but. lirst of
you must tell me in detail what you
quire done.’
“Most certainly,” lie made answer,
he offered me a cigar and relit .... his
“During the past four years 1
mude countless olieis to , n
Blaydes for his Apollo, the oilers
made through secret agents of
for naturally the baronet won «1
part with the statue to a rival
su. it as myself. My last offer was
less than .ygoOJIOO, but this also
unhesitatingly t el used.
He paused and blew a great
from his cigar. Then lie resumed;
am a man of iron will, and what I
my heart upon 1 always obtain.
Titus lias proved unamenable to
means. 1 will now assail him with
only alternative stratagem. Yes,
ly stratagem, not robbery, for on
day that you hand over to tin* the
!o statue 1 sliall forwtyd him
inously the sum of $250,000. And
uiy friend, would receive
Conic, is the bait sufficiently
iug?”
Before we parted be gave in* Ids
dress in Milan, for which place he
leaving on the morrow, and it was
this address that I was to convey
statue if my efforts proved
I may arid that he left with me
sum of $2,500 its a guarantee of
faith.
On the following Monday 1
ed down to Longwortli court,
mingling with the crowd, entered
spacious mansion, 1 soon gained
mittance to the gallery.*
The more I contemplated the
ness the further and further away
tlic count's reward seem, and by
time I reached London I was in a
spairing mood. I retired to bed.
ed to think no more of the
though on the following morning
visited two of my oldest chums,
Grimes and Tom Harris, and [Hit
ease to them, They sneered at the
fair, declaring it was i npo aide.
It therefore came about that
matter passed out ot my mind
the end of Novetni er, when it
brought back to me in a curious
nor.
1 Happened to enter a theater
night where a plfiy was being
in which a distracted hairiin-sser.
ing pursued by a statue which
been miraculou-ly endowed with
suddenly conceived ihe idea ot
ing her face and dressing her in
ern ■attire, so as to render her
ance more conventional when sin;
tracking Ids Steps.
An id(>a flashed through my
when 1 witnessed this incident, I did
not wait for the end of the [day. but
leaping into a hansom, drove to our den,
where, by a lucky chance, 1 fo-md
Grimes and Harris enscone- d in arm¬
chairs and smoking peaeofuily.
They both looked up quickly, but did
not speak.
“AI v plan is this.” I went on. ‘ peak¬
ing very slowly, so that their rather
sluggish brains might follow me. “I
propose that we three disguise our¬
selves as police officers, you two as
constables and 1 as inspector. We
arouse Sir Titus Blaydes one night and
inform him that we have reason to be¬
lieve that burglars are in the house.
“While he is waiting and I am there
to keep hint company, you two fellows
make track for the gallery, and when
you get there you proceed to make up
the statue in the guise of a modern
burglar by menus of eoat, trousers,
muffler, overcoat, cap, shoes, beard,
whiskers and grease [taint, till of which
yon can conceal about your persons.
“Directly the disguise business >s
completed you tire a revolver. Hear¬
ing the report. I rush tip to the gallery
with a long fact' to tell Sir Titus that
the burglar, a desperate rutlian. lias
been accidentally shot. You two men
will then carry down the supposed
burglar, whose face will he covered
with a handkerchief.”
Grimes drew a long breath. “Well,
I'm bio wed!" he exclaimed hoarsely,
as he knocked the ashes front his day.
“if that ain't the rununest an the cut¬
est dodge as ever 1 eaute nerost. Yor
’and, gov’nor, yer 'and. It's a pleasure
to commit a fellerney with a bloke like
yer to boss it.”
The evening of Dee. 1 was a typical
foggy night. By the time St. Biles’
church struck 12. a cult containing
Crimes, Harris and myself was on the
way to Longwortli Court.
The dressing of the statue had al¬
ready been rehearsed a dozen times on
a plaster Apollo which 1 had bought in
Must on road, and then! was therefore
little to fear in the way of a break
. down unless Sir Titus insisted on ac¬
companying the supposed constables ia
I search of the imaginary burglars.
However, lu all probability he would
do nothing of the sort; at worst, If ho
did so, we would simply abandon the
business and go home.
Longwortli Court was some 15 miles
from London. and it therefore took us
tin- best part of three hours to reach
our destination.
We alighted at the end of the lane
leading to the mansion, and hade Flow¬
ers, 'one of my oldest and smartest
I chums, to wait till he heard our whis
| tie before driving up to tin* door. This
precaution was taken in ease any local
police chanced to he hanging about the
house while we were engaged inside.
We then marched boldly up the drive
I and rang the hell. After an interval of
| five minutes there was the sound of
heavy bolts being drawn, and the door
' swung open, disclosing a white haired
| old man whom 1 took to he the butler.
| He gave a cry when the light from
his lantern fell on our faces and uni
.
, . Valm yom , S( lfi my Roml 111IU1 ,» ,
.
ga j ( j ( assuming an official voice. "You
hnvc . not)ll „„ to foai , lnforuin .
t|m) reooIv( , (li wo believe t!iat i >u ,^ ]ars
are in t , a . ( , ;lst wlll}? of „,, K illl( j
we lmv „ , , , () ( , l)( . ll tll( , ni . Arouse
lr llllin( . (llatH .V.”
sir Titns p.iaydes, a thin, pinched up
little man, appeared quickly. He was
(>vi(I ,, nt i y ‘ (|llit( , ns r.-,l as Ids butler,
am j , vl|( >n Wl . hJla om . mission lie
wnm; , ||j H hands,
“Be quick, officers,” he screamed, Ills
face blanching with terror, “and I will
wait here in the Hull till you return.
Stay, inspector. You might stop with
tne ill ease the blackguards should
conic this way.”
During their absence Sir Titus, with
chattering teeth, conversed ’ with me,
telling me how he hail always dreaded
such an attack, and now It had come
to pass. Ills'* reflections were Inter¬
rupted by ti loud report, which rang
out. sharp and clear through the 'still
house.
I darted from the hull and an instant
later returned, with a gloomy mien.
“I regret to say. Sir Titus,” I cried,
"that tlic man has been shot dead.
There was only one of them, but lie
made terrible resistance, and in the
struggle liis own weapon went, off, the
bullet entering his brain. We will take
him away at once.”
I thought my heart would stand still
when, after the supposed corpse had
been brought toward the door. Sir
Titus came forward and exclaimed in
a quick, hurried tone; “Stop! Set it
down. Strangely enough, in all my TS
years, i have never seen a dead man.
Let me seeffhe face of tills one.”
There was nothing to b<* done but to
let the morbid baronet have his way
and trust to luck and to the deception
of wig, paint and beard.
The baronet kneit l>esld<* the statue
and raised the handkerchief from the
Mood stained face. Then a look of dis¬
gust crossed his patrician features, and
he rose, having carefully repla (•(*( the
handkerchief.
“Take it away, officers.” he said, “A
more repulsive and ruffianly looking
countenance I never saw. Crime is
stamped on every feature.”
And that was how the millionaire
collector of the antique characterized a
stat ■ for which h • had ref use! t $'£>(),
(Hr >. Loudon Tit-Bit*.
Achieving HI* Ambition.
“And by the way,” asked the old
schoolmate. “what has become f
Mosely, wli used to talk so much
about devoting his life to uplifting
mankind? Did he go into the minis¬
try?"
“No,” answered tiu> other seboo
mate, “he is in tlie elevator busk van. :
—Minneapolis Journal.