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It too MNn to forgrt Uh r.n oft Him tvrriMi*
rtiiHUw, wliirli will no l ot in n in • mart maltj;
nant ami virnlont lortn in the tall monilmof 1879.
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to twn onuron of liilr to l>o rtU'r*il or Mittiinal from
tlic tilmot mrh t4iin It imttNOM the Liver. a
lntijtiM it rximi of hik* rvintH. Hy it* wonderful
m-tion on tin l.ivn ami fttomm'H (lt* HKI'ATIN’K
not only jowi'mlm to h certainty nny kind of Kt-wc
ami IMavk Vomit, Wat \m vmvs Headurlie, Couati*
potion of flat lkowK |w*in md Malarial dln
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nil Drtijmmt* in Vo venrnud #I.OO Wottlon, or will Wo
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Relight.
; * Tke vt'povts of wonderful curonof RliemuutWtH,
St rofula. Salt Utn'tiiu Syphilis, r'mnr. l T li'Ws ami
Sort***, that HrttmfVoffHul |*hUt of thf* roittiffy . imp
not only rniirknlrte’ Wilt mi vnintonlom* iih to be
•lobbied wa* a not for Uio aWumUnco of proof.
REMARKABLE( I RKof SCROFULA, Ac
•CASK Of COt.. J. C. lIUAXSOX.
H tUNltl: Fttr *ixteei Yearn I have been a <rivat nuf-
Ter ■** 4 it ‘m* Nct’ofoln In iiH moat diHtre*tduj£ foifli*. I
havt • brf*| conlim -1 to my mom ami bod for fifteen
venr** with KrroftiloitH ulceration**. Tin* mtmt ap-
Wrrtved VeniedioM for miioli easea had Ih*ou used, ami
*!U' moHt eminent phy wicians cmtcttUod, without any
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iitt., to commence the lise of your CouiiHiutid Ex
trai t Stillinjrhi. Language is as insutth ient to de
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liugia as it is to convey an adaiptate idea of the in
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ctmtinutMl the u**e of your Extract of Stillingia, re,,
til It an say truly, ‘ lam cured of all pain, of all
disease, with nothing to obstruct the active pursuit
of my profession. More than eight months have
elapsed since this remarkable eure, without any re
turn of the diseam*.
For the truth of the above statement, In fer to
any gentleman in llaitow County, (la., and to the
iiieiuoefrH of the bar ofTThrrokeo Circuit, who are
acquainted with me. I shall ever remain, with the
deepest gmt i tilde, lour obedient servant.
J. C. BRANSON, Attyat 1-aw.
A MIRAt ML
\Vkht Point. Oa., Sept. 1(1, lljft.
(iENTH: My daugliter was taken on tin* tiSth llay
of . I line, lstii. with wluit was supposed to be Acute
Rheumatism, ami whs Moated for tlic ismic with no
success. In Marcll following, pieces of hone began
to work out of the rightlirtu, mid eon tin aid to Ap
pear till the bona* from Ilia elbow u* tto shouidei
joint came out. Many of l>nne Janie out ot
the right foot and IJP Tfssess. was then pr*noune
ed one of White Swelling. After having liecii eon
lined about six years to her bed, ami the ease con
sidered hopeless, 1 wmi induced to try Dr. IVnihci
ton s Jf'ouiiiouiul Extfa. t Or St ink*. gi#. and was so
well satisfied tlptli itsfrileifs that I have continued
flic itse of it until theJpresOnt.
My daughter was confined to ner tied about six
vears before she sat up or even turned over w ithout
help. She now sits up all day; and sews most of her
time—lias walked across the room. Her general
health is now good, and I believe she will, as her
liiuhs gain streutli. walk well. L attribute her re
covery, with the blessing of (lod. to the use of your
invaluable medicine. \V. I}. HEAXTOX.
Wkht Point. Sept. Hi, 1870.
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is so : hundreds of the most respected citi/.ens eerti
fy to it. As miKfh refeivm-e can be given as may he
required. Yours truly,
CRAWFORD Ar WALK Elf, Druggists.
DON. 11. D. WILLIAMS.
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urn o! flatdwell in Hurt rouiity, during the legitl
limns of sale, on the first Tuesday ill Xovomlsit next
tile following tract of Istiil Ivins and In ins in said
eonnty.it being tlio tenet of land whereon Judge
Mionjiih Carter, deceased, lived at the liuie ot' liis
dentil. Said land is lioonded on the 'list by the Sa
vaanah Klver. on .the north by M, Johnson and on
the soulii by lands belonging to Catbei ine f’ui ks and
others, and on the west by lands belonsins to A.
Sanders and others said tract of laud contains one
thousand acres, more or less. There is on said Mart
of land one hundred acres of good river lsdt.om land.
Said trai l of land lias on if good ordinary iuUMsive
of sale: twenty-live hundred dollars ranh. the re
maimin' all twelve months’ credit with note and sc
enritv at ten per emit, interest front date of note.
Auv person that wishes good hot*. will do wed to
go and l>sik at said triuSt 'flam! fhr himself. Saul
trai t of land i- sold as the pr|s tty ol Mirajah Car
ter deceased, for the jmrposo of paying the debts id
said estate and for distribution anong Hie heirs.
\„v person wishing to buy can apply to theKxecit
tors nf *aid estate, ns they an- empowered by the
will to sell said hind privately.
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TO MAKE MONEY
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IJMT VF4 IKVET &CO Atlanta. <>*
The Hartwell Sun.
By BENSON & McGILL.
VOL. IV-NO. 5.
THREE lIRAVE MEN.
Pretty llarlmra Ferros would not
'marry. Her mother was in consterna
tion.
“ Why are you so stubborn llarlmrat”
she asked. “ You have plenty of
lovers.”
•• But they do not suit me,” said Bar
bara, coolly tying her curls before the
mirror.
“ Why not .
“ I want, when I marry, a man who
jis brave, equal to :mv emergency. If
I give up my liberty, I want to be tak
en care of.”
“ Silly child ! What is the mutter
with Big Harney, t!w*l>hvofc*niith ?”
“ lie is big, but l never learned that
! he was brave.”
“And you never heard that he was
not. What is the mattpr with Ernst,
the gunsmith ?”
“ lie's as placid as goat's iniUi.”
“ That is no sign that he is a coward.
’There is little Fritz, the tanner; he is
quarrelsome enough for you,
i “lie is no bigger than a bantam
cock. It is little he coiiid do if the
house was set upon by roHhers.”
“ It’s not always strength that wins
a fight, girl. It takes hrains 71s well as
1 brawn. Colne now, Barbara, give those
fellows a fair trial.”
Barbara turned her fiiee before the
' minor, letting down one raven tress,
and looping iqMtnoUtei.
“ I will said at last.
That evening. Ernst, the gunsmith,
knocked at the door.
“ Y’ou sent for me, Barbara ?” he said,
going to the girl, who stood upon the
hearth, coqnefctishly warming one pret
ty foot and then the other.
“ Yes, ’Ernst.” she replied. “ I’ve
been thinking of what you said the
other night, when you were here.”
“ Weil, Barbara ?”
Ernst spoke quietly, blip his dark
blue eyes flashed, as lie looked at her
intently.
I want to test you.”
“ 1 low ?”
“ I want to see if yon dnreMn a very
disagreeable thing.”
“ What is it ?”
‘‘ There is an old coffin up stairs. It
smells of mould. They say Kedmuud,
the murderer, was .buried in it ; but§the
devil came for his body and left the
co.'fin empty, at the end of a week, and
it was finally taken from the tomb, it
is up stairs in the room my grandfather
died in, and they say gramlsire does
not rest easy in his grave for some rea
son, though that I know ndtlnng about.
Hare you make that your bed to night?
Ernst laughed.
“Is that all? 1 will do that, and
sleep soundly, why, pretty one, did
you think 1 had weak nerves ?”
“ Your nerves wiil have good proof
if you undertake it. Remember, no
one sleeps in that wing of tlic house.”
. “ I shall sleep the sounder,'’
“ Good night, then. I will send a
lad to show you the chamber. If you
stav tlmre tiil morning.” said the impe
rious Mias Barbara, with a nod ot' her
pretty head. “ 1 will marrv you.”
“ You vow it ?”
“4 vow it.”
ARM WITH HAMMER, 15R AXI).
“ Ernst turned straightway, and fol
lowed a lad in waiting, through diir.
rooms and passages, echoing stairs,
along narrow damp ways, where rats
scuttled before them, to a lowchainber.
The boy looked pale and scared, and
evidently wanted to hurry away ; but
Ernst made him wait until he took a
survey of the room by the aid of his
lamp. It was very large and full of
; recesses, with high windows in them,
which were barred across. He remem
bered that old trrandsire Ferros had
been insane several years before his
1 death, so this? precaution had been
necessary for the safety of himself and
others. In the centre of the room
stood a coffin ; beside it was placed a
chair. The room was otherwise per
i I'ectly empty.
Ernst stretched himself in the coffin.
‘‘ lie kind enough to tell Miss Barba
ra that it is a very good fit,” said he.
The boy went out and shut the door,
leaving the gunsmith alone, in the dark.
Meanwhile, Barbara was talking with
the blacksmith in the keeping room.
“ Barney,” said she, pulling her
hands away from his grasp, when he
would have kissed her, “ I have a test
to put you to, before I give you any
answer. There is a corpse lying in the
chamber where my grandsire died, in
the untenanted wing of the house. If
you dare sit with it there, all night, and
let nothing drive you from your post,
you'll not ask me'to marry you in vain.”
“ You give me a light and a bottle of
wine and a book to read ?”
Nothing!”
• Are these all the conditions you
can oirer me, Barbara ?”
“ All. And if .yon get frightened,
you need never look me in the face
again.”
“ I'll take them, then.”
So Barney was conducted to his post
by the lad. who had been instructed in
the secret and whose voluntary stare at
Ernst's placid face as it lay in the
coffin was interpreted by Barney to be
natural awe of a corpse. He took Ims
HARTWELL, <JA„ WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 18751.
seat and the boy loft Idm alone with
the darkness and the rats and thccottln.
Soon after, young Fritz, the tanner,
arrived, flattered and tiopeful from the
fact that Barbara had sent for him.
“ Have you changed your mind. Bar
, bam I-”],, be asked.
“No; and 1 shall not, until know
that Vou can do a really bravo thing."
“ Wlmt shall it be ? I swear to satis
fy you, Barbara.”
“ I have a |roposiil to make to you.
My plan requires skill as well as cour
age.”
“Tell me!”
“ Well, in this house is a man watch
-1 ing a corpse. , He has sworn not to
1 leave Ids post till morning.' If Vdo
can make !nm do it I shall be satisfied
that, you are as smart and as brave as
I require a husband to be.”
*• Why nothing is so easy !” exclaim
ed Fritz. “ I can scare him away.
Furnish me with a sheet, show mo the
room, and go to your rest, Barbara.
\ You will find me at the post in the
morning.” :]■&
Barbara did as he required, and saw
1 the tanner step blithely away to his
! task. It was then nearly twelve o’clock,
; and she sought her own chamber.
Barney was sitting at bis vigil.
The face in the coflin gleamed winter
in the darkness. The rats squeaked ns
if a famine were upon them, an<f they
1 smelled flesh. The thought mad® him
shudder. He got up and walked, but
something made a slight noise, as if
somebfsly was behind him, and he put
his chair with the back against the wall,
and sat down again, lie had been
hard at work all day, and at last, in
spite of everything, lie grew sleepy.
Finally he nodded and shored.
Suddenly it seemed as if somebody
had touched him. He awoke with a
start and saw nobody near, though in
tlic centre of the room stood a white
figure.
“ Curse you, get out of this!” lie
exclaimed, in a fright, using the very
first words that came to his tongue.
The figure held up its right hand and
slowly approached him. He started to
his feet. The spectre came nearer,
pressing him in the corner.
“The d—l take you !" cried Harney,
in his extremity.
Involuntarily he stepped back, still
the figure advanced, Coining nearer and
extending both arms, as if to take him
in a ghastly embrace. The hair stood
up on Barney's head : he grew desper
ate, and. as the gleaming arms would
have touched hint, lie fell upon the
ghost like a whirlwind, tearing off the
sheet, thumping, pounding, beating,
and kicking, more and more outraged
at the resistance he met, which told
him the truth.
As the reader knows, he was big and
Fritz was little; and while pummeling
the little tanner unmercifully, and
Fritz was trying to lounge at Barney’s
stouiach to take the wind out of him,
both plunging and kicking like horses,
they were terrified by hearing a voice
cry:
“ Take one of your own size, big
Barney.”
Invoking around, they saw the corpse
sitting up in his coffin. This was too
much. They released each other and
1 sprang for tiie door. They never knew
how they got out"; but they ran home
in hot haste, panting like stags.
So she married Ernst; and though
she sent Fritz and Barney invitations
to the wedding, they did not appear.
If they discovered the trick, they kept
the knowledge to themselves, and never
faced Barbara's laughing eyes again.
A Smart Hoy.
A young man called on his intended
the other evening, and while waiting tor
her to make her appearance, lie struck
up a conversation with his intended little
brother-in-law. After a while the boy
asked:
“ Does galvanized niggers know
much?*’
“ I leally can’t say,” replied the much
amused young man.
And then silence reigned for a few
moments, when the boy resumed the
conversation:
“ Kin you play checkers w ith your
nose?”
“ No. I have never acquired that
accomplishment.”
“ Well, you’d better learn—you hear
me?”
“ Why?”
“'Cause Sis says you don’t know as
much as a galvanized nigger, but your
dad’s got lots of stamps aud she’ll mar
ry you enyhow; and she said when she
got a hold of the old man’s sugar she
was going to all of the Fourth of July
pereeslmns and ice-creum gum-sucks,
aud let you stay at home to play check
ers with that hollyhock nose of yourn.”
And when Sis got her hair banged
and came in, she found the parlor de
serted by all save the brother, who was
innocently tying the tails of two kittens
together, and singing:
‘‘Oh, I Love the Sabbath-School.”
A Keokuk boy has named his dog
Rome, so that by simply twisting the
animal’s tail he can make Rome howl.
Devoted to Hart County.
If facts are stubborn things, then pul
ling fodder in the low grounds is a fact.
There nint a redeeming circumstance
about it. Its working on a continual
strain to pull it, and there's no tun in
tyeiilg it up, and 1 reckon that the tot
ing ig it two or three huntlrH surds to
the \yagon road, ten bundles at a time,
stepping like a blind horse over corn
stalks bent down, and tripping up in
morning glories, and every now and
then losing vmir holt and having to load
up again, anil all the time smothered tip
so that you can't see where you are go
ing, and not a breath of refreshing air
to cool you, is übout the meanest busi
ness I have yet ex|>ericnm]. It is all
i fact— -solem fact—no romance, no poetry,
no joke. But that nint all of it. Its
got to be hauled and then he thrown up
in thy barn 101 l and stacked away, and
if there's any hotter place to work in
I tlnißia barn loft 1 don't know it. and Ive
iH'diYamsideriii’ that tiller its all done
I you can’t sell it for more than a dollar
|a hundred, and right now in my present
framt'of mind if I had any to sell and
some fellow without any soul was to of
fer me !)0 centf I slumld lilt him if it was
the last lick 1 ever struck. They nitty
jew mo on my corn and wheat and cot
ton nfid potatoes lint 1 wont ho jewed
on my (odder hy nobody. It does seem
to me like all this sort of work ought to
he done by machinery or not done at all.
The fact is, I don’t believe in fodder pol
ling, though it is the very best forage for
a horse or a milk cow in the world, and
is always worth more than it brings. I
thiid? the corn ought to be sowed or drill
ed like wheat and cut down in the same
way. and that would get rid of the worst
part tit' old-fashioned fodder-pulling and
give ten times as much forage for the
same amount of manual labor. On® of
my nibors, who is regarded as the best
farmer in shesettlement, is now mowing
down a mixture of rag weeds and crab
grass tiiut followed his wheat crop, and
he says its good ruffness for stock, and
they will clean it all up, for they love a
varygated food just like folks. Well, I
am glad to know it, and I’m going todo
likewise, and let your farming editor
know the result, for if there’s any virtue
in rag weeds, everybody ought to know
it —especially them fanners up about
Kingston who have been feeding on dog
fennel so long their cattle have all turn
ed ynlier and they are selling ’em off us
full blooded Jerseys. I always thought
that rag weeds and crab grass was or
dained to follow small grain and shade
the ground from the summer’s sun, but I
never did kuow where it come from mi
ller certain circumstances. Its all an
unexplored wilderness to me. Fast year
there wasn't a rag weed in my corn and
a mighty little grass, and 1 sowed wheat
upon the land and now the weeds are
about five feet high, all over it, and so
thick you can’t walk through ’em, and I
want to know where they come from.
About a month ago I cut some of the
weeds down and the grass come up just
as rank and thick and I’m mowing it
for hay and I would like to kuow where
the grass conte from. Last year there
wasn’t a morning glory in my clover
field, and now its full of them, and I
want to know how they got there. In
the spring I graded oil' a little rise in
my front yard and dug down two feet
into the clay and slate and left it too
poor and hard to sprout peas, and in less
than a month the hull nettles and pep
per grass and other weeds had sprouted
up all over it, and it bothers me to
kuow where they come from. Gimpsoti
weeds and opedilcock or some other dock
will just spontane anywhere around a
horse lot or cow pen or an old house in
afield, and I don't understand that, for
the birds wont eat the seed nor carry j
them and they are too heavy to blow j
around. There’* young hickory bushes
all over my woods and nary old one in
a quarter of a mile. If you cut down
an oak forrest pines will come up thick
all over it, and if you cut down a pine
forrest oaks will come up, acorns or no
acorns. A few years ago the bed of the j
creek on my farm was changed and now
there’s a young cane brake coming up
in anew place, and canes don’t blossom j
nor bear seed. How did they get there? !
May he all these things spontane accor
ding to the new fanglcd doctrine of evo
lution, and if so then I reckon I’m an
evolutiotier, for I'm obliged to believe
that under certain conditions of soil and
atmosphere plants cun originate them
selves without seed. The other day I
locked tip a piece of cheese where a flv i
couldn’t find it, hut the mites got into it
somehow from the inside and worked
out, so it seems to me if animals cun de
velop without ancestors vegetable life
j can do the same thing.
But I don’t believe that a hair from a
I black mare’s tail will turn into a snake;
jif you put it in the branch. I don’t
| believe that a man ever came from a
monkey, for the) arc both just like.
“WILY IX THE LOW GROUNHS.”
RHlii'llti I uto W lairlt I .Mlilcr-l-i.llliiu
l.iauiM'laiMl Ttr. M lllliiiti Arp—iiaatl
from n lili'h II v ItiitrM Ip
tu I'riili'iil A|tialial Ititr
win's Monkvy 'I 1 he
nry.
Afliinta fS>n*ttlulion.
$1.50 Per Annum.
WHOLE NO. m.
what they were as far back as history
runs, inn! haven't made very much im
provement if any. 1 am not that sort
of an vvolutcr. L don't believe that
the jumpin' kangaroo swum all the wav
from Noah’s ark to the island of Aus
trulia, or that every sort of a mail de- <
ccndvd from Shcin, Hum and Jupetli,
but I do believe that nature furnishes
her own resources and nl! these weeds
that follow the crops come up w'thout
seal just as natural as original sin fid-1
lows the human family. Tito first year
after the war anew kind of clover came ,
up all over the land and covered it like
anew carpet, and nobody ever found out
where it come or how it got here*. Sonic
said the Yankee cavalry brought it in
their oats, and some said it was blown
here in a storm and nn old I rislimiui told
me it came from In in by instinct, for it
never grew anywhere but in conquered
countries. One tiling is certain, it couic
all of n sudden, and emtio every Where
at oneo, and it's a conned mm the agri
cultural bn reap has let alone, ft’s a
grout blessing to this impoverished land,
and its origin is no accident. I think
tlic legislature ought to give the bureau
another term to investigate thooc mys
teries and determine * whether things
spontane or do not spontane- and where
tire army worm comes from, apd wild)
they are coming, and how tit stop 'em
when they do come, for they eatupnll
my (inborn fodder, and about thik time
yesterday evening I wished they lmd cat
up niiuo. Yours, Biu. Am 1 .
Hun to Act In a Sick Rooni.
-Y iork Timm.
Nothing requires more care, judg
ment and circum-pcction than the sim
ple act of visiting a sick room. A cap
ital book could bo written on this sub
ject, warning people of the dangers of
being brusque and''stupid. There ought
never (p be more limn one spare chair
in a sick room, says au authority, and a
nutto who knows what she is about
would do well to place an iee-pitrhcr on
that chair so up 01m could sit in it. The
most absurd thing a person can do who
calls on a sick man or woman is to refer
Imck to something which, in their ii'nag
•• - 0 ... “
ltmtiou, w 118 tlo of tlm iHltfs*.
“the cucumbers of last week, or the
the soft crabs of tlic week before.” Re
ligious admonitions, a delicate point,
though they may save the soul Kiine
times, if carelessly administered certain
ly hurt the body. Mr. BrickJev, who
has written a careful book, which he
call* “Notes on the Caro of the Sick,”
says that he “looks with disgust on the
person who speaks to the patient as if
the illness was a distinct puni-hment for
some grievous sin, “and Inflows it up
by sending some Ixiok, with a note con
taining these words: “1 hope yon will
prayerfully study this little book which
I send you.” Doctors themselves often
act in exact contradiction to their the
ories. “I must insist on the most per
fect quiet in the house; have the chil
dren moved to the room below and avoid
all noise,” says Eseulapius. Then the
physician goes down stairs quietly enough
imt in the hall forgets all about the pa
tient, fiir he closes the front door with !i
loud hang, and instead of moving ofl
softly with his horse and wagon, rattles
his equipage all ho can over tin; cobble
stones. Doctors, sometimes, are as
much at fault as visitors in sick rooms.
The Gentleman.
Every man may be a gentleman if he
w ill—not by getting rich, or by gaining
access to that self-appointed guild that
claims the exclusive right to give the
btidge of gentility—hut by the cultiva
tion of those unselfish, kind and noble
impulses that make the gentleman. It
is too rarely we find among those who
vote themselves the gentlemen and.bidies
of the day, anything to warrant their
assumption. There is but litllc of tlie
true metal about them. Personal con
tact reveals arrogance and pride; and
too often a meanness of spirit and a lit
tleness that disgraces human nature.
So fur as our observation goes —and it
covers many years of contact with high
and low, rich and poor —we are con
strained to say that, while among t}y;
poorer classes there is, as a general thing,
a stid lack of external culture-—ol’atten
tion to little personal habits that are not
agreeable to others, aud which ought to
Ik: corrected —there are really, in the
lower and middle ranks of society, so
called, quite as true gentlemen and la
dies as among those who claim the ex
clusive right to these honorable designa
tions.
The apprentice and the errand-boy.
the man who digs a ditch or cat riesu hod,
the. mechanic and the artisan, the shop
girl, the seamstress, the cook and the
waiter, may la; us truly gentlemen and
ladies as the richest aud most cultivated
in the land. The qualities that make a
lady and gentlemen are qualities of the
soul, and there is no monopoly or exclu
sive right to these.
Reader, no matter what your condi
tion in life, resolve to be a gentleman or
a lady. Cultivate notonly theexternal
amenities and grace of true gentility,
but the in ner graces that give these outer
signs of thwir glory aud their -trrngtli.
The Bashful Poet and the Knowing
Young Sows paper .Unit.
WWfw.sOirt tlb’i't/r
Anybody could tell what lie had.
Fverv man in the sanctum knew in ft
minute. The timid knock at the door
gave him clear away at the start. No
man or woman ever knocks at tlicr
sanctum door unless ho come* on that
fata! errand. Then he came Inside and
took oil* his hat and bowed all round
the room, when every man on the stair
roared out in terrible chorus : “ Come
in!” Then he asked for th 6 editor,
and when the underlings, with a lino
mingling of truth and grammar, point
ed to the youngest mid newest man hr
the office and yelled, " That's him!" he
walked up to the young gentleman de
signated, and before lie could unroll
tits manuscript we knew the subject of
it, and a deep grqnn echoed around the
room.
•• l’oetry, young mrni ?" asked the
editor.
“ Yes, sir," said tbe poet, “a couple
of triolets and a sonnet on the mar
riage of my sister with an old college
friend.”
“Old college llicmT,male or female',
young man ?” asked the editor severely.
“Male, sir," said the young ruan.
He said “ sir ” every time, and every
time lie said it, all the young gentle
men of the statf, save the young gen
tleman who personated the governor,
snickered, lie looked severe.
“ Anything more, young man ?' he
asked.
“ Yes, sir,” replied the infant Tenny
son ; “ a kind of au idyl, an ode in
scribed 1 To My Lost Love.’ ”
“ Love been lost very long, young
man ?’’ asked the journalist, very criti
cally.
i “ Well, it’s immaterial, that is,”
i stammered the young man; “it’s iu
dcl’mito—it's
“ Fver advertised for it ?” asked the
reporter, who was writing a putr for
Slab's tombstones, but be was instant
ly frowned down.
“ Anything more T* asked the prin
cipal interlocutor, “anything more,
young man ?”
“ Yes, sir,” was the hopeful response,
“ a threnody in memory of my depart
ed brother.”
“ Brother dead, young man, or only
gone to ft age town ?”
“ Dead, sir."
“ Your own brother ?”
“ No, sir, I never had a real broth
er; it’s only imaginary.”
“Can’t take this, then, young man,”
was the chilling reply. “ Poetry, to
find acceptance with the Hnwkeye,
must be true. Have to reject this
threnody, not because it is not very
beautiful, but because it is not true.
Now. how mivh do yon want for t hese
others?” And he fingered them over
like a man buying mink skins.
The poet really didn’t know, lie
had never published liefore; lie lmd
barely dared hope to have his verses
published at till. A few copies of the
tMper containing tlic in, he was sure—
“ Oil, no,” the editor broke in, “oh,
no, sir, can’t do that; we don’t do busi
ness that way ; if tv poem or sketch is
worth publishing, it was worth paying
lor. Would Mb pay for these ?”
The poet blushed to the floor with
gratitude, and the young Journalist
grandly wrote out an order and handed
to the poet.
“Take that to the courthouse,” lie
said, “ and the auditor's clerk will give
you the money.”
The poet bowed and withdrew, and
with great merriment the journalists
burned Ids poems aud resumed their
work.
That wasn’t the funny part of it,
however. The next day the simple
minded poet presented his order to the
clerk designated. Arid it was so that
the clerk owed the paper eighteen dol
lars for subscription and advertising,
and he promptly cashed the order aud
turned it In when his bill was present
ed, and the manager just charged it to
the salary account of the smart young
journalist who signed the order, and the
happiest man and the mildest man in
America are living in Bnrlingtor. One
of t hem is a happy, green, unsophisti
cated young machine poet, ami the
other is n wide-awake, up-to-snuff,
know-the-world, get-up-and-dust young
journalist, who is already a rival of
Horace (Ireely in some of the verbal
departments of journalism.
Evening News: Rumors are afloat
ill Atlanta that investigations and ar
raignments are not to stop with the
present State House officials. It is as
serted that investigations into the
books of former regimes in some of the
departments reveal matters capable of
extensive investigation. Fix-Comp
troller .Madison Bell’s books will bear
straightening out, while I)r. Angler,
Bullock’s Treasurer, is as liable to pun
ishment as was Goldsmith. Altogether,
the Legislature has got its tail curled,
and is disposed to probe matters to the
very bottom. In this determination
they will be sustained by every honest
man in Georgia, no matter if the ses
sion lasts twelve months.
Washington Star: The following is
a copy ot a letter received at the l'ost
Office Department: “There is in my
office two things that it Seems Some
ladies wear for breast. They were
badly put up. and addressed to Macon.
Fayette county, Tennessee. I wrote
immediately to the name, but received
no answer. Thev are fine soo<ls and
sorter like the real tiling. Now I don’t
know how to get ’them to the dead let
ter office without spoiling them. They
came here loosely wrapped in paper,
f v, :ild vmir instructions if yon please.”