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Administrators Sale.
ST 4TE OF GEORGIA—Dodge County
’ |'yiil be sold before the court house
door in the town oT Eastman, Dodge
Countv, 6a., within the legal hours ol
<ale on the first Tuesday in January •> i
IrtOO, the follow ing property to-wit: ;
one sixth undivided interest in lots ol
1 ind number one hundred (100) and one
hundred and one (101) in the 19th dis
rict of Dodge county Ga., containing
iwo hundred of and land two each and one less. half
, 002k,') acres more or
To be sold as the property'of Mrs. Ma- j
rv A. Chase deceased, for the purpose j
of paying her debts and for distribution
among her heirs. The sale to continue
from dav to dav till all the said proper¬
ty is sold. This 5th dav or December |
1899. Terms cash.
X. J. Nicholson, Administrator. 1
Citation for Letters Dismissory. |
STATE OF GEORGIA—Dodge County
Whereas Harlow- Clark, administra- j
tor of W. K. Bussey, represents to the !
court, in his petition duly filed that he
has fully administered W. K. Bussey’s
estate, this is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned, heirs ami creditors, to
show cause if any they can, why said |
administrator should not he discharged j
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letters of dismission on the first Mon- j
day in March 1900. 1 his Nov. 17,. I
1899. Jno. W.Bohannon,
• Ordinary D. C.
D. R. Calhoun. Applicant’s attor
ney. Nov. 23rd lit.
Citation.
GEORGIA Dodge County. To whom
it) may concern; Charles W. Griffin,
county administrator of said county,
basin due form applied to the under¬
signed for permanent letters of admin¬
istration on the estate of Eliza Yaun,
late o'f said county, deceased, and I will
pass upon said applic: t on on the first
Monday in January 1900. Given un¬
der my hand and official signature.
This 1th day of December 1899.
Jno. \Y. Bohannon, Ordinary, I). C.
physici iYjsry
DR J. 11 ROSE,
Physician and Surgeon,
EASTMAN, GA.
Specialty—DISEASES OE WOMEN.
Office at Rose’s Drug Store.
f. J. BUCHAN ,
Physician and Druggist,
Eastman, Georgia,
Call3 promptly answered, day
or night. 1-31-lyr.
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Physician and Surgeon,
Eastman Ga
Office in drug store, next door to Mer
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j; E. WOOTEN.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Eastman. Georgia.
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Attorney J ad Law,
Eastman, Ga.
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Attorneys at Law,
Eastman, Georgia.
Office in Merchants and Farm? ■> Bank.
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Eastman, Ga ,
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TENNESSEE.
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HE cinch play¬
ers in the back
room of the store
| looked up from
1 their hands as
.A Squire J o r d a n
- in. No oth¬
) s*. came
<; £> 1 er resident of
Tiger Tail could
<5 have distracted
them to that de
gree. Tiger Tail
is Tennessee ter
ritory, yet abuts upon Kentucky. It is
not, of course, down on any maps, not
even the local ones. To bo exact, its
tnetes and bounds are known accurate¬
ly only by outland folk, who, say those
of Tiger Tail, live in such ill condi
tioned regions as Possum hollow.
Wildcat, Texas and the Cooney range,
Still the Tiger Tailers do not quite
deny that Tiger Tail exists. They are
nebulous only as to its whereabouts,
“Howdy, squire? Want to play?
Take my h an d,” Jim Wilson, the store
keeper, said, making as if to rise from
the table. The other three players
laughed uproariously. “He’s a beauty
boy; that’s what Jimmy is,” one of
them said. “He’s just nine under the
table, squire. Of course ho wants to
be polite.”
The squire laughed. “I’ll play and
pay if I lose out, Jimmy,” he .said,
“but ef I beat them rascals over thar
you must do me a little small favor.”
“Anything you say, squire,” Jim
said, handing over the cards, The
squire chuckled, but masked it with a
scowl as he auswered: “Better not
promise too brash, son. What I want
is for you to thrash Tennessee. Think
you can do it?”
*. Why, that is sorter jubous,” Jim
responded. The others let fall their
cards, looking significantly one at the
other. Tom Turner, the squire’s part¬
ner iu the game, whistled and said,
still pursing his lips:
“So I suppose Teunessee’s mind is
set on Milam’s gal.”
The squire nodded. “And mine as set
that he shan’t have her. I reckoned
I’d find that gentleman here and come
just a-purpose to give him the word
with the bark on it.”
“I always said that boy’d give you
trouble ever sence you went and give
him that jography name,” an oldish
man, who had just come in, said
shrilly.
The squire looked at him and
chuckled again. “It had to he jography
—or Tithmetic,” he said, “Blame
your skin, Bill Jordan, you know that
ns well as me. Seben brothers of us,
all in one poor neighborhood, and the
last one of us too lazy to move out,
would put old man Solomon to his
trumps for names. I didn’t start as
soon as the rest of you neither. Time
I begun to raise a family you bad dou
bled and tribbled on all the hanuy
Scripcher names.”
“Don’t you reckon this is sorter a
Judgment on you, squire? Remember
how 7 many runaway couples you’ve
married”— another of the cincli play
ers began. with look.
The squire silenced him a
“Do you think I’m goin to belittle my
office by not doin what I w r as Tected to
do?” he asked severely. “I have mar
ried runaways-oh. yes, twenty-seben
couple—but every last one of em come
from Kentucky. Up thar they have to
have w 7 ritten conseuts from -the pai
cuts before they can git a license. Is
Jt my faQlt - that -j happen to live on
the straight road from Kentucky to
Bellsboro? Of course mines a handy
place to them young folks. All they
got to do is to have the license waitin
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*«i want a eio party Christmas eve.”
for ’em, and they’re married hard anti
fast, as well as a preacher could dtf it
1 do sa >’ 5t m 3' sell > time t ^ ej ’ ,T e bcor
fcaif an hour on Tennessee dirt.
“S'posin your Tennessee should run
cwa y”_ the squire’s brother began.
“Ghere’d he run to?” the squire in
terrupted pointedly. “I hear old max
Milam’s about as shy as I am over tht
match. That’s one thing makes me
so mad. Thinkiu of that old kildee
mighty nigh as mean as a horse thief—
he is darin to object to bis gal’s mar
ryin a Jordan.”
"I always told you tliar was sin it
quarter racin. You and old man Milan;
quarreled over it 20 years back.” Wil
liam Jordan said meditatively.
The squire snorted a hit. “He bet
j me $10 on that skewbald of his, and
j then claimed he’d won because mj
saddle turned,” he said. “That shows
the pizen meanness of the breed.”
“Well, Betty can’t help that. She’s
good lookin and a mighty fine house¬
keeper,” Jim Wilson said soothingly.
“You couldn’t have a better, squire. 1
can’t hardly blame Tennessee. A big
house is mighty lonesome with no wo¬
man lu it. I’ll bet money you won’t
blame him. neither, time she’s been
thar a year.”
“I’ll bet the house and farm she don’t
ever eou-e that, not while my head is
'(hot,” the squire roared.
“I’ll take the bet. She’ll come and
for your askiu,” a voice said from
the door. Tennessee stood there
mg heartily. He was a big fellow 7 .
tall and well muscled as his father
was slight and withered, yet the I> air
were curiously "1-A They had the
same obstinate clmis. the same bright
dark eyes, exactly the same level look,
Tennessee made a dash at his lather,
caught him under the arms and drew
him to his feet, saying as the squire
fumed and writhed in his hold: “Pa.
you ain’t nigh as mad as you think,
Anyway, le’s stop quarrelin till after
Christmas. It’s jest two weeks off.
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“to takk axd keep EAen OTHKK roil iiET
TKU OU WORSE.”
I want a big party Christmas eve.
YTiu’ve always promised me I might
have it when I come 21.”
“So I have, but you don’t deserve it,
you young rascal,” the .quire said.
“Promise me what I ask. and you may
have a party as long as Christmas,
dance and frolic the whole week -yes.
till old Christmas If you want to.”
“You mean about marryin Betty?”
Tennessee asked airily, “I’m just
bound to do that, Marse Squire, but
I’ll promise this—I won’t never do it
unless vou are thar to sec* and willin it
should be done.”
“Ilurrab! You’re givin yourself a
long time to wait, sir,” the squire said
eagerly, then beginning to cut a pigeon
wing in his joy. “Now get about your
party, sir. We’ll make it a rouser. the
biggest thing that ever*come off in Ti
ger Tail."
Notwithstanding Christmas eve fell
rainy and dark as the proverbial stack
of black eats, everybody came to Tcn
nesS ee’s party Tlie Jordan house was
big and square, with tall outside cbim
I ne ys and a makeshift gravel drive
| leading in semicircularly from the two
gates upon the big road a hundred
yards away. For the party both gate;-;
' were set op n. Everybody rode or
) drove, even the nearest neighbors. Peo
j Pie liegan coming a t lark and kept
I coming until , 9 o . clock. , ,
Even bei r, ippor playing began
with great spirit. There was a room
1 given up to it indet -1. since not a few
1 of Tin* company had religious scruples
I against even a reel. By and by. when
the tables were cleared, there would he
! dancing,
I Tennessee was the life of c-very
thing. Ii father eyed him as he went
about smiling, shaking ham*.-. s etting,
every one at lively ease, seeing to ev¬
ervtliing and seeming to make friendly
service a plea sure, with o\er grow in-,
There were no hostesses.
of our kin women
to help nit madding all the rest.”
the squire had said to Tennessee.
Still the supper was miraculous.
Black Peggy rose to the opportunity
of her life. “You g’wan ’way. Marse
Squire. Leabc dis yore ter me and
Tennessee.” she had said.
The result was a table shaped like
the letter Z, draped jn_white_. garlanded
with evergreens, lighted with many
candles and showing all down the mid
die a row Of big iced cakes, brave in
holly and cut paper trimmings. Be¬
sides all that pile of cut cake, at least
a dozen sorts, there were nuts, candles,
fruit in pyramids, big bowls of wine
jelly, other howls of ambrosia, ami
nll merely as supplement to hot oys
tors, roast turkey, roast pig. steaming
coffee and beaten biscuit.
“Say. squire, no wonder you ain't
keen after a housekeeper.” Tom Tur
ner said as lie took his third help ol
roast pig.
Jim Wilson at his elbow nudged bins
sharply, saying In a stage whisper
“Ain’t you got sense enough to know
squire and Tennessee ain’t namln that
subject no more until Now Year’s?”
oughter ’a’ Unowed. 1 never
thought.” Tom said.
The squire had walked away with
out answering. Jim looked after him
and said; “It’s a plumb shame he won’t
be rlcondled to Betty Milam, bul
worse 1 believe for bint and Tenues
se e to git at cross and pile. They’re
so mighty close to one ’uother, them
tW’O. Wharever you see or hear the
one you're mighty apt to see and hear
the other.”
“Bound to !>e that away. Tonnes
Gee’s all the child his pa has got.” Tom
said. "But hark! What's that? Some
fellow must he shootin his Christmas
guns early.”
“Them ain’t Christmas guns. They’re
too close together.’’ the squire said,
walking to a window, open in spite of
the rain. “Besides, they ain’t cumin
right. They sound up towards Ken
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“1 bet it's a runaway couple,” Jim
Wilf , on cr j 0 ,i dashing out upon the
piazza, with the crowd pellmdl at Ids
heels. "1 hear horses and wheels and
f oI u H hollerin!" he shouted back over
his shoulder as he darted down the
steps. Tennessei was dose behind
him, so close that the darkness swnl
lowed them at the same instant, All
the rest could hear now out upon the
big rend a confused and strengthening
medley—-shouts, cries, •urscs, gallop
ing hoofs, whirring wheels, sharply
punctuated now nnd again by a drop
ping shot.
“Runaways! They’re coniln In! Hear
’em! They’re through the gate! Here.
squire! Get on thi* bottom step, with
your lantern ready! You’ll havc to do
i quick job this time, sure!” Tom Tur
n<*r fried, shouldering the people aside
and setting the little squire In the
forefront of them. He was scarcely
steady upon his feet when a horseman
upon a panting and foam covered beast
dashed Into tin* Hair obscure of tin
lantern light, crying out: i i Feteh the
squire! Quick! Ife knows me- George
Perdue! Here’s the license, squire,
| Fellow know 7 —stole ids gal —old
man’s right behind—got n Winchester
and the sheriff’. Tie ’em quick as you
! cfin Thar ain’t a minute to lose. It’s
-
nil right, 1 tell you! Thar they come
that couple in the buggy ahead!”
7 j'])f squire seemed to swell, to stand
an incii taller. Ile could hear above
the labored panting of the two horses
which drew the buggy the noise of oth
| er horses coming as furiously, cries nnd
curses, too. and the crack of a rifle,
the sharp report heralded by a lurid
glancing glare. Steadying himself on
Tom Turner’s shoulder, he said in his
! loudest, most official voice to the pair
hidden in the buggy « ca\enious re*
cess:
‘‘Do you and each of you solemnly
agree and covenant before Almlght}
God and these witnes u-s to lake and
keep each other for better or for
j worse?”
"We do,” came in smothered tones
from the eloping P-'h
“Then, by virtue of the authority in
me vested, I pronounce <u man
wife!” the squire shouted, smtkmg a
, and .hn l
dart at the buggy - . e a
the robe. “Come n. come in. you
young people.” Ik* said. “Leave me to
talk to the old man.
“You’ll have to, pn. Il’s you lies
mostly mad with," Tennessee said,
springing out and handing down his
bride, a tall, pretty girl, mud splashed,
disheveled and smiling through her
tears.
The* squire, after one long, gasping
stare, was fully himself, “It is my
custom and privilege to- ahem!—kiss
tbe bride, in such cases,” he said, press
ing his lips to her forehead; then to
his son. “Take her inside, young man.
I don’t forget you won the farm In
winniri her.”
“Xo. you don’t take her inside.” sonn ,
cue cried from ten yards down tlm
drive a second after, Old Man Mi him
had flung himself off his horse and
was trying to lay hands upon his
daughter. of the
Squire Jordan stepped in front
angrv man. “I reckon our old grudge
is F ettled for us, Henry,” he said, hold
ing out his hand, “Say, ain’t you
ridin tonight some of that same old
skewbald stock?”
Old Mah Milam nodded, il** could
not trust himself to speak.
“And it was heat in this runaway
race by my same Blackhawk blood.
I oughter ’a’ known that w s Ten
nessee’s span,” the s
judicially: then, witli a
chuckle, “Henry, GO'
we’ve been a coup*!*- °f fools?
“It does look Porter tnai wa v* Old
Ma? Milai l said, and tl >n an 2 . tli ere
the pair shook hands, and a feud ended
FOOT ROT.
ntrersrent View* on tlt«* Theory of
< ontllB'loWHIICSM,
All sorts t>f arguments have been ad
dueed as to the infectiousness of foot
rot, out* authority in his day declaring
that a meadow reproduced it after sev
on years, lu which no sheep had been
pastured there. Such a statement was
likely to 1 m- ridiculed, says The Stock
Breeder's Magazine, but there are clay
lands known to the writer which seem
t 0 hold it almost as tenaciously. Pro¬
fessor Dick was one of the first promi
nent veterinarians to arrive at the
opinion that it was not contagious.
The theory of contagion did not seem
to him necessary to account for foot
ro t. ns he and others pointed out that
the s i 1( »ep Is by nature an inhabitant of
d ry , ’ hilly countries and Its removal to
moi s t fat. meadow lands deprived the
t
0 j tl»:it pressure and wear and
tPur %v hich is necessary to form the
luin ] lloo f of the mountain sheep, the
KOftt aml (lll , , mnVi an< j without wear
m . j„. olu . r pressure the feet would nc
cumulate and retain moist soli, cal¬
culated to produce decomposition of
Imperfectly formed born, The least
active—1, e., the heaviest—breeds, too,
a re the most subject, notably the
shropsliires and Oxfords.
For want of wear, overgrowth
the outer parts, or crust, takes place,
nn d an unnatural strain Is put. on the
joints and tendons above. Like causes
produce like results, it was argued by
the professor and those who thought
w ]th him. The bringing of foot rot
into a thick by drafts from an Infected
was accounted for by supposing
that similar conditions prevailed where
the diseased animals came from, and
if the Introduction of a ram led to the
ewes getting foot rot it was said to bo
duo to the higher feeding and lesser
traveling and wear to which their
f,.,.t were subject. Such special plead
| n jj does not carry conviction to the
writer, though there are not wanting
high authorities who still persist In
the noncontagiousness of foot rot. The.
F.ttrlck Shepherd (llngg) said In* had
known a farm to lie infected by merc
| y driving an infectcd flock over It,
nn( j W cs an observer whose name
will liv*- as long as sheep are kept and
written about.
S i it it 11 I ’look*.
Any one may keep a small (lock with
satisfactory success. Failures In the
keeping of sheep happen mostly, if
not invariably, in having too large a
Hock to begin with, says The Sheep
Breeder. In the keeping of sheep it is
most necessary to begin In a small
way. As the infant crawls at first be
fore it walks and walks before It runs,
so with the keeper of sheep, which of
all the domestic animals are the most
difficult to keep successfully. Arlth
metlc, too, does not count in the Imsi
ness of the shepherd, for if one is able
to keep successfully a dozen sheep,
which any person of common judg¬
ment with a little kuow’-dge or good
common sense may do, It ooes not fol
low 7 that he can keep with the same
success a hundred or a thousand, for
in all the arts appertaining to ngrieul
ture and the keeping of farm stock
there is no brunch of them so dlflieult
to become proficient in as In the sbep
herd’s art.
The ram is now 7 In the ascendant In
the constellations, and of course the
ewe and the lambs go with the father
of the thick. It is apt to he thought
that the sheep is too high.In the scale
of popular favor to make It safe for a
beginner to start in the business. This
Is one of the common mistakes made
by those who wish to lie as the saying
goes in the swim. Really this is the
very best time for one to get a flock,
a small one to begin with. And every
prospect promises that the present con
dition of this Industry will he lasting
and permanent. Copulation has ad¬
vanced beyond the ability of its pur¬
veyors to keep up to Its demands for
every ncee;- -ary of life. Values of ev¬
erything have jumped up beyond the
most sanguine expectations and hopes
of all .concerned in supplying the pub¬
lic with the necessaries of life. Of this
Improvement the shepherd is enjoying
the greater part, for the fleece is in
unusual demand at satisfactory prices,
while every year the public is clamor¬
ing for more mutton, and those who
never ate the flesh of the sheep before,
on co having tasted its succulence and
fine flavor and discovered its high nu
tritive value, are becoming steady
consumers of It. And not only is this
the case, but whore once this best of
flesh meat is introduced it stays, and
the demand for It increases. In fact,
there are not half enough sheep in
hand, and the steady demand for more
of them will insure a satisfactory prof¬
it to those who go in for a flock and
make a beginning now and before
there is a yet more considerable ad
vaneo in value. The prospect for this
is like a sunrise, which foretells the
still brighter glow of the noonday.
I.nriirxt Steer.
Advices from Fort Collins claim that
on a ranch in that vicinity is to be seen
the world’s biggest steer, It is stated
that “this animal stands more than
7 foot high, is 18 feet from tip to tip
and 5 feet from the brisket to the top
of the withers. It weighs between
4,500 and oJxtO pounds, It wiil be put
in good Qesli and. It Is said, will be
used for exhibition purposes, having
been purchased by show people.”