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VOL. XVI.
<W TgEPRGE W ’PECrU
Sw )COPYR | <i^ TED
IfitTERKAH PRESS
CHAPTER I.
• THE BOY WITH A LAME BACK.
A young fellow who is pretty smart on
general principles and who is always in
good humor went into a store the other
morning limping and seemed to be broke
up generally. The proprietor asked hinj
if he wouldn’t sit down, and he said he
couldn’t very well, as his back was lame.
He seemed discouraged, and the proprie
tor asked him what was the matter.
“Well,” said he as he put his hand on
his pistol pocket and groaned, “there is
no encouragement for a boy to have any
fun nowaday?. If a boy tries to play an
innocent joke, begets Jricked all over the
liVaflTtcr fMilt&d hi’n
had happened to disturb hw hilarity.
He said he had played a joke on his fa
ther and had been limping ever since.
“You see, I thought the old man was
»little spry. You know he is no spring
Chicken yourself, and though his eyes
are not what they used to be yet he can
see a pretty girl further than I can. The
other day I wrote a note in a fine h.a n< ?
and addressed it to him, asking him th
meet me on the corner of Wisconsin and
Milwaukee streets at 7:30 on Saturday
eveninjfrand signed the name of ’Daisy’
to it Tit supper tin}a Pa he was all
shaved up and had his hair plastered
over the bald spot, and he got on some
clean cuffs and said he was going to the
consistory to initiate some candidates
from lhe country, and he might not be
in till late. He didn't eat much supper
anil hurried off with my umbrella. 1
winked at Ma, but didn’t say anything.
At 7:30 I went down town, and fie was
standing there by the postoffice corner
in a dark place. 1 went by him and said,
'Hello, Pa, what are you doing there?
He said he was waiting for a man. I
went down street, and pretty soon I
went ap on the other corner by Chap
man’s, and he was standing there. You
see, he didn’t know what corner ’Daisy'
was going to be on and had to cover all
fo»r corners.
FX&O7 tW
f |i
“Ife gave me a dollar."
“1 saluted him and aaked him if he
hadn't found his man yet, and lie said
no; the man was a little late. It is a
mean boy that won’t speak to his Pa
when he sees hjm stfbding on a corner.
I went up street, and I saw Pa cross over ,
by the drug store in a sort of a hurry,
and I could see a girl going by with a
waterproof on, but she skited right along,
and Pa looked kind of solemn, the way
he does when 1 ask him for new clothes.
I turned and came back, and he was
standing there in the doorway, and 1
said: ’Pa, you will catch cold jf you stand
around waiting for a man. You go
down to the consistory and let ine lay
for the man.' Pa said, ‘Never you mind:
yotftjo about your business, and I will at
tend to the man>
"Wen, when a boy’s Pa tells him to
never you mind and looks spunky, my
experience is that'u boy wants to go pight
away from there, and I wentdown street.
I thought 1 would cross over and go up
the other side and see how long he would
stay. There was a girl or two going up
ahead of me, and I see a man hurrying
across from the dcug store to Van pelt's
corner It was Pa, and as the girls went
along and never looked around Pa looked
mad and stepped into the doorway. It
was about 8 o’clock then, and Pa was
tired, and I felt sorry for him, and I went
up to him and asked hi mfof half a dollar
to go to the Academy. 1 never knew him
to shell out so freely at. Iso quick. He
gave me a dollar, and 1 told him 1 would
go and get itchanged and bring him back
the half a dollar, but he said I needn't
mind the change. It is awful mean of a
boy that has always been treated well to
play it on his Pa that way. and I felt
ashamed.
"As 1 turned the corner and saw him
standing there shivering, waiting for the
man, my conscience troubled me, and 1
told a policeman to go and tell Pa that
'Daisy' had been suddenly taken with
wonqs and would pot be there that even
ing. I peeked around the corner, and Pa
and the policeman went off to get a
drink. 1 was glad they did, ’cause Pa
needed it after standing around so long.
Well, when 1 went home, the joke was so
good I told Ma about (t, and qhe was (pad.
1 guess she was mad at me for treating
Pa that way. | beard Pa come heme
about JI o’clock, and Ma was real kind
to him. She told him to warm his feet,
’cause they wepe just like chunks of ice
Then she asked him how many they in
itUted in the consistory, and he eei<l six,
and then she asked him if they initiated
Daisy' in the consistory, and prettv soon
I heard Pa snoring. In the morning he
took me into the basement and gave me
the hardeet talking to that I ever had
with a bed slat. Ho said he knew that i
wrote that note all the time, and ho
thought he would pretend that be was
looking for ‘Daisy’ just to fool me.
“It don’t look reasonable that a man
would catch epixootic and rheumatism
just to fool his boy, does it? What did
he give me the dollar for? Ma and Pa
don't seem to call each other pct any
more, and as for me they poth
Ideas though Twas a hard citisen. I ani
going to Missouri to take Jesee James'
place. There is no encouragement fur a
boy here. Well, good morning. If Pa
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concussion of a bed slat on the pistol
pocket. That will make Pa feel sorry.
Oh, he haa got the awfulest eold,
though.”
And the boy limped out to separate a
couple of dogs that were fighting.
CHAPTER 11.
THE BAD BOV AT WORg AGAFrI,
Os course all boys are not full of tricks,
but the best of them are. That is, those
who are the readiest to play innocent
jokes and who are continually looking
for chauces to rnake Rome, howl are the
most apt t&juni ont to be first class busi
ness men.' There is a boy in the Seventh
ward who is so full of fun that some
tjnjes it makes him ache. Ho is the same
boy who not Jcim since wrote a note to
his father and signed thu inimti ’‘D:usy”tq
it and got the old man to stand on &
corner for two hours waiting for the
girl. After that scrape the qld man told
the boy that he bad no objection to inno
cent jokes, such as would not bring re
proach upon him, and as long as the boy
confined himself to jokes that would
simply cause and not
cause the finger of scorn to bo putoteq
at a parent he would be the last one to
kick. So the boy has been for three
weeks trying to think of some innocent
joke to play on his father.
The eld man is getting a little near
sighted, and his teeth are Jipt as good as
they used to be, but the old man will not
admit it. Nothing that anybody can say
can make him own up that his eyesight
is failing or that his teeth are poor, and
he would bet SIOO that he could see as
far a.3 oyer. The bov knew the failing
and made up hi« mind 19 demonstrate to
the old man that lie was iajddly getting
off his base. The old person is very fond,
of macaroni and cats it about three times
a week. The other day the boy was in a
drug store and noticed in a showcase a
lot of small rubber hose about the size
of sticks pf yigf aroni, such as is used on
nursing bottlesand other rubber ptppsjls.
It was white and nice, and the boy's mind
was made up at once. He bought a yard
of |t ai)4 took it homo. When the maca
roni was cookedH H 1 1! read)’ to l - e served,
he hired the table girl to help him play
it on the old man. They took a pair of
'shears and cut the rubber l;oso in pieces
about tho same length as the pieces of
boiled macaroni and put them in a saucer
with u little macaroni over tho rubber
pipes and placed the dish at the old man’s
plate.
Well, we supjHisoif 10,000 people could
have had reserve seats and seen the old
man struggle with the India rubber mac
aroni and have seen the boy's struggle to
keep from laughing they would have had
more fun than they would at a circus.
First the old delegate attempted to cut
the macaroni into small pieces, and fail
ing ho remarkfld that jt was not cooked
enough. The boy said his macaroni was
cooked too tender, and that his father’s
teeth were so poor that he would have to
eat soup entirely pretty soon. The old
man said. “Never you .jnind my teeth,
young man," and decided that he would
not complain of anything again. He took
up a couple of pieces of rubber and one
piece of macaroni on a fork and put them
in his mouth. The macaroni dissolved
easy enough and, went down perfectly
easy, but the flat macaroni was too much
for him.
He chewed on it for a minute or two
and talked about the weather in order
tl)aj none of the family should see that
he was in trouble, and when he found
that the macaroni would not go down
he called their attention to something
out of the window and took the rub-
</
He chewed like a gemtnary utrl chewing
gum.
her slyly from h's mouth and laid it
under the edge of his plate. He was
more than half convinced that his teeth
were played out. but went on eating
something else for awhile, and finally he
thought he would just chance the maca
roni once more for luck, and he mowed
sway another forkful in his
was the same old story. He chewed like
a seminary girl chewing gum, and his
eyes stuck out, and bis fnee became red,
and hts'wife looked at him as though
afraid ho was going to die of apoplexy,
and finally the servant girl burst out
laughing and went out of tho room with
her apron stuffed in her mouth, and the
boy felt as though it was unhealthy to
tarry too long fit Cha table, and he went
fiat.
Left alone with bis wife the old man
took the rubber macaroni from his mouth
and laid it on his plate, and be apd hjs
wife held an jnpuest ever it The wife
tried to spear it with a fork, but couldn’t
piake gny impression on it, and then she
saw it was rubber hose and told the old
man. He was mad and glad at the same
time-glad because he had found that hia
teeth were not to blame and mad be
cause the grocer had sold him boarding
house macaroni. Then the girl came in
and was put on the confessional and told
all, and presently there was a sound of
revelry by night iu the wood shed, and
the still, small voice was saying: “Oh,
Pa, don't You said you didn’t care for
'innocent jokes. Oh!"
And then the old man between the
strokes of Iho piece of clapboard would
say: “Feed your father a hose cart next,
won't ye? Be firing‘cai springs and
clothes wringers down me next, ch? Put
some gravy on a rubber overcost proba
bly and serve it to mo for salmi Try a
piece of overshoe with a bono in it for
my beefsteak likely. Give your poor old
father a slice cf rabter bib in place of
HARTWELL, HART CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. JiUGUST 18, 1893.
ty soon if i don't loo" out. T cere: xou
go and split the kindling wood.” ’Twas
ever thus. A boy can't havo imy fun
nowadays.
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A Narrow Escape l or a BaLI Head.
“It has always been a mystery to
me,” said a prominent society young
inan of the west end, “how people
can be so absentminded. I have
heard good stories about absent
minded people, but none better than
an incident which I know to be a
fact. There is in society circles in
our section a young married man
wlJase cranium is not prone to an
overproduction of hair, but it would
lecin that what his head lacks bis
ice makes up for. The young man
aforesaid js pot partial to Write nor
barbers and acts as Ins own tonsorial
artist. The other day he made all
arrangements for a comfortable
shave and had taken his position be
fore (he glass, razor in hand. Now,
in his toilet room there are two large
mirrors placed opposite each other,
and as the young man stood with
his back toward one the reflection of
hig bald head shone as a secondary
image in the min or which he was
facing.
“As absentminded people are ac
customed to look rather into the dis
tance, the young man overlooked his
face and saw only the secondary im
age of bis bale! head. Without
thought finel with a dexterity that
seemed born pt practice the yoppg
artist began lathering tho back of his
head with a good coat. Ho was just
about to proceed to use the razor
when his wife stepped into the room
and by her ejaculation of surprise
arouscq the husband tqgpensg pf thp
ludicrous position be was in, He
tells the story himself with a great
deal of gusto.”—St. Louis Republic.
A Prospective Lamb.
Before me sat two admirable sped
jfrens ot the genus !’hayseed.” They
were garrulous old chaps and talked
and chewed tobacco as a schoolgirl
chews gum.
“I reckon we’ll lose Ben Gross afore
long,” said one, branching off on a
fresh topic.
.'ifihj”
“Yaas— ! twpn’t s<prisq piq a pit cf
Ben goes to New York an specke
jates.”
•“No, yoq don’t pay pen’s a gittin
V rich 'h that I”
“Waal, I guess he's 'bout the best
fixed man in our p’.aco now since W.
F. Simpkins died.”
“Ye don't saj* so? How much d’ye
s’poso Ben's-woth now, biled down?”
“Waal, ye kain’t jest tell. I know
0’ my own sajtin knowledgo im has
over $lO in the bank, an his crop o'
taters ain’t dug ylt. They'l! bring
him in right smart o' cash.”
“Gee whiz!”
“Yaas —an John Summers owes
him $3.75 on that o’d game of poker
yit. He’s slow, but he's good for it,
I guess..”
The other was silent for some time,
evidently ruminating upon such vast
wealth. Then he suddenly inquired:
“W'ata he goin to monkey with in
New York? 2.
“I dunno. Wall street, like as not.”
—New York Herald.
A Surprised Foreigner.
A good joke in connection with the
custom prevalent in Washington so
ciety of having professional caterers
furnish the china and other table
Service 0 big dinners has just leaked
put. It occurred when a distinguished
foreigner who attended several swell
dinner parties remarked to a Wash
ington friend: “You Americans have
many peculiarities, but no one of
them has struck me with more force
pan the remarkable similarity in
taste among your wealthy people. I
have attended three dinner parties
this week, and at each of them the
handsome decorated china was of
jdpntically the same patten}.”
The Washingtonian was strongly
tempted to explain, but upon consid
eration he concluded to let it go at
“similarity in taste,” The reason ho
kept tho joke until now was that he
did not care to have it get out un
til his foreign friend bad returned
home.—Washington Cor. Springfield
Graphic.
Society Islantlj Orange*.
The wild oranges of the Society is
lands, which are now an important
article of export, owe their origin
partly to Captain Cook, who brought
hither slips from Brazil, and partly
to the early missionaries from the
Australian colonies, who introduced
another variety. It is these two
kinds, though left untended —for
.there are no plantations of oranges
in the islands—which have by accli
matization and self propagation
gradually merged into the one vari
ety so favorably known in .the mar
|tet as the Tahi ti orange. The fruit,
which varies from oblong to oval in
shape, is large, thin sinned, very
heavy, sweet a n d full flavored. The
propagation of the Tahiti orange tree
is accomplished by “raiders,’’such as
rata and other animals, who scatter
tfee seed, which, owing to the moist,
warm climate, germinates with cer
tainty and rapioity.
The Object of University Extension.
The fundamental object erf univer
sity extension is perhaps, after all,
not scholarship, but the arousing of
an interest which may lead persons
to set about the acquisition of scholar
ship, the setting of persons on the
high road toward scholarship, the
guiding of them ip the right dirac
pun. thus enabling them to aid oth
ars who have the desire and ability
io become scholars—in other word*,
ihe strengthening of all the latent end
Open force* and influences which tell
for scholarship —Chicago Tribune.
■Ba 10'Sn*'^ 1>b *
PECK'S BAD BOY’S PA.
GEORGS VA PECK, WHO FROM FUNNY
MAN BECAME GOVERNOR.
How He Stavtod In L:fi? a-» Printer’s Devil.
The Stove That Launch* *1 tlini Into
Prcßtninenco untl Started Him ou I-is Ca
reer -—llls Personality.
It is strange in this great, busy, eccen
tric world of ours what trifling circum
stances will redeem genius from obscuri
ty and set it before an admiring audi
ence inado up of the people of a great
nation. In no case docs this find better
exemplification than in the career of
George W. Peck, the governor of the
state of. Wisconsin. Twenty years ago
he was the publisher of an obscure coun
try paper, with name and fame unable
to penetrate beyond the confines of his
own county.
Depending ppon the meager patronage
of a village proper trying to wear tho
mantle of a city and sparsely settled ru-
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GEORGE W. PECK.
ral snrronndings, the people of which
paid up their subscriptions, if at all, in
the form of pumpkins and potatoes, Edi
tor peufe experienced a sort of band to
mouth existence and sank deeper and
deeper in debt as the years rolled by
Even under these trying circumstances
the genial humor would not yield to the
shadow of adversity.
Mr. Peifl? met hia creditors »t his office
door with a joke, dispelled their frowns
with a quaint story founded ou incidents
in the local field and sent them forth in
a roar of laughter, freighted with the
idea that Peck was the jollicst and best
fellow in the wide, wide world. Thus
for years the city of La Crosse monopo
lized the |in:norlst. Her merchants sold
bim tlu : q goods and for the time being
received their pay iu laughter without
interest. Finally the future governor
joked |dn..-e]f sufficiently into the confi
dence of a h:u‘d ware dealer to secure a
coal stove <>n credit, and ont of that
stove came to him Loth fame and for
tune in a single bound The heater was
duly set r.p in the editorial home and a
scuttle cf coal borrowed from a neighbor
to tert it. "
The result of that experience was given
in the columns of his paper. In the ex
uberance of his delight’the picture of the
subjection of a western Wisconsin win
ter was exaggerated. The house was
heated to a degree even hotter than the
fiery furnace into which the Persian
king’s command consigned Rhadrtich.
Meeliach and Aliednegu.
The sufferings of Peck, ids wife and
tho servant girl were depicted ns they
rushed from their rowm to the parlor iu
which the stove was sending out heat in
solid chunks and light enough to illumi
nate the neighborhood and start an
alarm of fits. They enveloped them
selves in blankets and made desperate
assault on the blazing monster, pulling
out damjiers and pushing in dampers,
all to no purpose. That coal fire blis
tered the paint and warped the furnish
ings of the editopal homo and placed
the editorial family on a diet of liver at
3 cents per pound for an indefinite pe
riod while repairs and replacings were
going on.
Peck’s few hundred subscribers laugh
ed in public and in private over the
matter and discussed it and laughed
Ugain. A city paper copied the account
with proper credit It traveled the coun
try and was forgotten. Winter gave
place to spring and summer, and co.ld
weather came on once more, ;in<l with it
U flaming poster sent out all over the
popntry. Upon dead wall and fence
and bulletin board was displayed
a large picture of the Peck family in
their frantic endeavors to subdue that
stove, while below it in letters an inch
long was printed the story in full, cred
ited to Peck’s Sun.
This circumstance made George W.
Peck governor of Wisconsin. It in
vited the attention of tho people of the
United States to a humorist, obscured by
primeval surroundings, who was worthy
to take a front rank among the mirth
provokers of the world; a wit who had no
occasion to violate the rules of orthogra
phy to’ bring the risibles of his readers
into full play; a man who saw a comical
side to every event and incident in life
where humor was permitted to stray;
a heart full of sympathy, a sdul filled
with mirth that became incarnated in
the productions of his pen and shone like
gems of the first water.
Subscriptions to Peck’s Sun rolled in
like a mighty tide. The few hundred
copies of the issue increased by thousands
and by tens of thousands until the lit
tle city could no longer furnish the
means for its publication and circulation
to the confines of the continent It was
no longer a local paper. The people of
Texas and Maine and California were
entitled to more than an experience of
Smith, the Main street grocer, or Jones,
the hardware man. Peck’s Sun was re
moved to Milwaukee, and there the great
humorist reached out ever the whole
world for objects to clothe in the merry
garb of his imagination. The current
events of the day were seized upon, and
the veins of humor underlying them were
brought to the front by his facile pen.
Those rentiers who have seen Nsst, tho
caricaturist, with a single stroke of his
THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED.
Can You Find the Word ?
There is a 2-inch display advertise,
spent in this paper, this week, which has
uo two words alike except one word.
The Mme is true of each new one ap
pearing each week, from the Dr. Harter
Medicine Co. This house places a
“CreMent” on everything they make and
publish. Look for it, send them the
MfflM Wf the word, and they will retarn
Beautiful Lithographs or
! crayon change Aniinadab Sleep into a
1 laughing rake can conceive how this
I Naxt of the pen could with an ruldedsen
tence change an ordinary event of life
into a roaring farce.
Soon after his arrival in Milwaukee
Mr. Peck, observing with keen interest
the miw-hif i looking propensities of his
son, then a boy in short breeches and
roundabout, caught the inspiration fora
scries of sketches the title of which has
become household words the country
over and the text given more pleasure
and cured more attacks of the blues than
anything ever published in the English
language. “Peck's Bad Boy” caught the
public fancy from its inception and add
ed thousands upon thousands of names to
the subscription list of Peck’s Sun. It
was read and roared over in the homes
of fashion and in the camp on the cop
fines of civilization where the hardy
miner toiled for the hidden treasures of
earth.
Tha Baa Boy was a general favorite
with all classes. With his very dev
iltry ho won the admiration of the par
son and tho applause of the layman. He
was talked over and roared over in the
barber shop, toasted in the saloon and
became a source of joy in the home cir
cle. In fact, so solidly did he ingratiate
himself into the affections of the people
that the Milwaukee correspondents of a
number of leading papers received in
structions to capture him as he camo
from the press and eend him on the mag
netic wires to the home office.
Even the papers could not satisfy the
demand for this genius of mischief. He
was brought out between covers of green
and gold and brown and blue and em
balmed in a book. Then ho was turned
over to the playwright and forced to pa
rade his too brief hour behind the foot
lights, while admiring thousands cheered
his every act of mischief for the very
cutencss involved therein. The Bad Boy
placed tho climax on the story
and netted his author a fortune as well
as a fame in the presence of which the
governorship of even so great a state as
Wisconsin pin.st bp subordinated. It was
a great English general who said he
would rather bo the author of Gray’s
“Elegy” than take Quebec. So may it be
said that the author of “Peck’s Bad Boy”
will live on and on after Governor Peck
has been forgotten.
As (ho early life of Mr. Peck was a
straggle such as few tire called upon to
pass through, so also is his prese”t
achievement the more creditable to the
man. Born in Jefferson county, N.
Y., in 1840, he came with his parents,
when 3 years of age, to tho territory of
Wisconsin, thin little more than a
wilderness. T'lje family settled near
Whitewater, and in a little log school
house tho future govertior and humorist
struggled laboriously with those three
terrible antagonists to youthful liberty
and comfort —readin, ’ritin and ’rith
inetic. Glad enough was he to give up
the conflict at the age of 15 and enter
the office of the village paper ns a print
er’s devil, a position for which his every
instinct eminently fitted him.
Hnvyig acquired the trade and reached
his majority, he embarked in business
on his own account ns < !itor and pub
lisher of tho Jefferson County Republic
an.- He was not overwhelmed with
wealth as tho result of thik venture, and
low diet and hard work having reduced
his ambition ho disposed of his office
and returned to the case as a compositor
on The State Journal at Madison.
While thus engaged the war broke out,
and yielding to the demand for soldiers
he entered the army as a private in the
Fourth Wisconsin cavalry. For valiant
service he mounted the ladder of fame
as a trooper sufficient to reach the bars
of a second lieutenant, when his ambi
tion was again nipped in the bud by the
close of the war.
He returned to. the state and estab
lished q paper at Ripon, where he
achieved considerable local fame by pub
lishing a series of humorous sketches un
der tho title of “The Tejrence McGraut
Papers.” There was a political vein run
ning through these sketches that modi
fied and in many cases neutralized the
humor, and while giving promise of the
genius behind them they were as dross
compared to the later achievements of
their author. However, they attracted
the attention of M. M. (Brick) Pomeroy,
then at the zenith of his fortune and
fame, and Mr. Pock was invited to take
a position on Pomeroy’s New York Dem
ocrat Here, as an employee, with his
bubbling humor held in check or called
on to express itself to order and in con
formity with a line of policy totally at
variance with the fountains of inspira
tion, Mr. Peck could not work to advan
tage.
He cut his career In the metropolis as
short as possible and hailed with delight
an order from Mr. Pomeroy to return to
Wisconsin and take charge of the La
Crosse Democrat. He continued to edit
this branch of the Pomeroy.outfit until
Pomeroy became badly involved.
Like others who have attained fame as
“funny men,” Mr. Peek has tried the
lecture field. “How Samantha and I
Put Down the Rebellion" was his prin
cipal theme.
As a citizen Mr. Peck is a Democrat
in the broadest sense of. the term in all
his impulses and inspirations. Whether
as George W. Peck, the impecunious pub
lisher of an obscure country weekly, or
Governor Peck, the chief executive of
the state, he is the same appi oachable,
whole souled, jolly gentleman. Political
honors nor fortune nor fame can raise
him above George Peck, the journalist,
nor could failure or poverty or want
cast him down. He joked the fickle
goddess of fortune whether she found
him in rags or in broadcloth. He is the
same man today in hear.t and disposition
as he sits in the governor’s chair with a
modest fortune at his command and the
highest honors tn the gift of *the people
upon him as he was when in La Crosse
as editor and publisher he lived on liver
because it was boneless and cheap and
met his creditors at every street corner
with a joke that turned away wrath and
left him unmolested awaiting the day of
redemption that came in the shape of an
exaggerated sketch of the adventures of
self and family with a coal stove.
The Best Blood Remedy.
August A. Klages, &10 St. Charles
street, Baltimore, Md., writes : “From
my youth I suffered from a poisonous
taint in mr blood. My face and body
was continually affected with eruptions
and sores. lam now 42 years of age
and bad been treated both in Germany
end America, but no remedy overcame
the trouble until I used Botanic Blood
Balm. My skin is clear, smooth and
healthy, and I consider the poison per
manently driven from mv blood. m-
NO. 45.
: - i 'IER RECEIPTS.
. Gto;' 'i’.'.intra to Eat Durins tha
®> Hot Weather.
' Uoir to Jlaka Tempting Salads and Re
trcs’i’n*. Drinks —Ways of Cooking Veg
etables aaj Fruits—Cherry Padding
and Orange Ice—Palatable Dishes.
Tomato Salad.—Peel ripe toma
toes and lay them on the ice for two
hours. Just before serving cut
them in quarters or slice's, lay them
on lettuce leaves, and serve with a
mayonnaise dressing. They are also
very good with a French dressing
and unaccompanied by the lettuce.
—Outlook.
Shrubs. —Mash a gallon of red
ripe currants; pour over a pint of
strong vinegar and a quart of cold
water; let stand five hours, strain,
and add a pound of sugar to a pint
of juice; let boil, and skim; when
cool, bottle and seal. A few spoon
fuls added to a glass of ice-water
form a very cooling draught.—Har
per’s Bazar.
Parsnip Wine. Slice twelve
pounds of parnips and boil in four
gallons of water till soft. Squeeze
dry and strain the liquid through a
fine sieve. Add to each gallon throe
pounds of granulated sugar. Boil
for three-quarters of an hour.
When nearly cold add a tablespoon
ful of yeast to each gallon. Let
stand in tub or jar for ten days,
stirring every day from bottom.
Put in jugs and keep full till fermen
tation ceases, then bottle.—Boston
Budget.
Peach Jelly.—Select freestones
and a juicy peach, peel and cut in
quarters, crack the stones and
blanch the meats, chop fine and add
them to the peaches, put in a cov
ered tin pail or jar, set them In a
kettle of hot water and cook until
tender, pour In a jelly bag and let
drain; allow three-fourths of a pound
of sugar for every pint of juice, boll
together fifteen minutes, then tost
with skimmer, raising it out and in;
when it drips off in two or three
places it is done. —People’s Home
Journal,
Puree of Peas. —Boil one pint of
fresh, tender green peas in one pint
of water for twenty minutes. Add
one quart of white stock, a young
onion, sliced, one slice of carrot, a
bay leaf and a sprig of parsley. Let
the soup simmer for twenty minutes,
or until the peas are very soft. Take
from the fire, press through a sieve,
season with salt and pepper, and re
turn to saucepan; stir until thorough
ly heated, let it just come to a boil,
jidd one cup of cream and serve at
once. —Boston Budget,
Cherry Pudding.—Bring a pint
of milk to a boil, stir in a pint of
bread crumbs, butter the size of an
egg. a pinch of salt, three eggs well
beaten, one tcacupful sugar, a pinch
of ground cinnamon and a quart of
pitted cherries. Stir well together
and pour into greased pudding dish
and bake. —Orange Judd Farmer.
Orange Ice. —One and one-half
pints of sugar, three pints of water,
the juice of eighteen medium-sized
oranges and two large lemons. Boil
the sugar and water thirty minutes.
Strain the orange juice and add to
the other mixture after it has be
come lukewarm. When cold freeze
like lee eream.— Inez Redding, in
Housekeeper.
Was Used to It.
The hopelessness of combatting in
dividual stupidity with the most en
lightened sanitary measures . which
the authorities can provide was
evidenced the other day on a Grand
street ferryboat. A woman came
into the cabin carrying a baby of
perhaps nine months, and leading a
little toddler of about two-and-a
half years. Both children, as well
.as the mother, were comfortably
clad, but the children’s faces weye
pasty and unhealthy looking, as if
unwholesome food and ill-ventilated
sleeping quarters were their por
tion. The former undoubtedly was,
for each child was munching a large
slice of not too ripe nor too dean
watermelon, bought from one of the
peddling fruit stands which abound
in that locality. The baby in arms
kept at his piece with his toothless i
gums until he had secured several l
bits which he swallowed with gusto. 1
Alarmed for the effect upon his i
tender, or at least youthful, stom
ach, a passenger, another woman,
approached the mother.
“Aren’t you afraid to let your
baby eat that?” she asked, pointing
to the fruit.
The woman looked up mystified.
“Oh, he likes it,” she said.
“But it may make him sick, be is
such a young baby,” persisted the
othe.
“Oh, no,” answered the mother,
good naturedly, “he’s used to it,
and peaches,” she added with an air
of pride at his digestive prowess.
And the other woman could only
return to her seat vanquished, while
the watermelon pursued its colicky
way. —N. Y. Times.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
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i i /'SHSRL To Young
f Mothers
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' COUNTY OFFICERS.
OrdinaryF c Stephenson
Clerk Superior CourtM M XicbardM*
i Sheriff. J R Lea rd
Tax CollectorJeose C Vickery
| Tax Receiver AL McCurry
Treasurer Thou II Burton
L County School CommisßionerJ. R. Stepbom*
Poor house StewardW. C.Myers
Coroner Wm. E. Cleveland
SUPERIOR COURT CALENNAR.
Judge Hamilton
• Solicitor GeneralW M Howard
, Spring Term—Third Monday in March.
Fall Term—Third Monday iu September.
JUSTICE COURTS CALENDAR.
lll'Jlb District, Harwell—lst Thursday.
) J 11 Skelton. J P., H. J. Gobs, N P
1113th District. Ray’s —lst Saturday.
Ira M Brown, J P.. E OjMjtrown.
, 1114th District, Smith’s—lth
L M Cuuninghatn, N P
I, 1115th District, Reed Creek—2d Saturday.
R II Martin, J P., B J MeLesky, N P
■ 1116th District. Hall’s--2d Wednesday.
John S Roe, J P.. M A Duncan, N P
1117th District. Shoal Cieck—4th Saturday.
J C Walters, J P., J A Adams, N P
1118th District, McCurry’s—3d Saturday.
• B A Teasley, J P., CII N Brown, N P
■ U9tk District, Alford’s—Friday before 3d Sutd’y.
W A Sanders, J P., Lit Richardson, N 1*
CHURCH CALENDAR.
METHODIST—HARTWELL CIRCUIT.
Presiding Elderßev J F Mixon, D. D.
Preacher in charge Rev R BO England
I Hartwell—2d and 4th Sundays, 1 1.39 am; 7.30 p m
railroad time. Prayer meeting Wednesday
night, 7.30. Sunday School Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock. M,L Parker, Superintendent.
Bethesda—lst Sunday and Saturday before. Prayer
meeting every Sunday night. Sunday School
every Sunday morning. B A Teaslay, Snpt.
Cokesbury—3d Sunday and Saturday before Sun
day School every Sunday morning. D O Chap
man, Supi.
HARTWELL MISSION.
J N Wall Pastor
New Bethel—Sunday and Saturday before. Sun
day School every Sunday morning. B L
Adams, Supt.
Liberty Hill—2d Sunday and Saturday before.
Sunday School every Sunday morning. A J
Mullanix, Snpt.
Mt. Zion—4th Sunday and Saturday before. Sun
day School every Sunday naerning. Mina Fan
nie Tyler, Snpt.
Redwine—Rev A H S Bugg, Pastor. 3d Sunday
and Saturday before.
Macedonia—A 11 S Bugg. Pastor. Ist Sunday
aud Saturday before.
Fellowship—A II S Bugg, Pastor. 2d Sunday
afternoon.
BAPTIST.
Hartwell—Rev A E Keese, Pastor. Ist and
Sundays. II a m and 8 p in. Sunday
10.30 a in. I) C Alford, Supt. Prayer
every Friday evening at b o'clock. S M Bobo.
Leader.
Cedar Creek—Rev. T J Rucker, Pastor. 4th Sun*
day and Saturday before. Sunday School 9a.
iu. 11 F Hailey, Snpt.
Bowersville— Rev J H McMillian, Pastor. Ist
Sunday 11 am. Suuday School 10 a iu.
Sardis—Rev. .11: Earle. 2d Sunday and Saturday
before. Sunday School 10 a iu. M M Richard
son, Supt.
1 Hendry*-Rev J G Christian, Pastor 2d Sunday
and Saturday before. Sunday School lu a in
' Shoal Creek—Rev - Purcell. 4th Suuday and
Saturday before 11 a m. Sunday School 10 a m.
i Cannons—F M Cole, Paster. 21 Sunday aud Sat
urday before. Sunday School 10 am. w
Cross Roads—Rev F M Estes, Pastor. 4tb Sunday
and Satin day before. Sunday Schodl 10 am.
Rock Springs*—Rev F M Estes, Pastor. 3d Sunday
and Saturday before. Sunday School IS am.
' Mt. Olivet—Rev A J Cleveland, Pastor, let fkin
day.
I New Prospect—Rev J J Beck, Pastor. Ist Suuday
■ and Saturday before. Suuday School.
‘ Mt. Hebron—Rev T R Wright, Pastor, td Sun
day aud Saturday before. Sunday School 16
a in. R A Vickery, Supt.
Milltowu, Rev T A Tboruton, Pastor. 3<l Sun
day and Saturday before. Sunday School 10
am. W A Sanders, Sunt.
Bethany—Rev B J MeLesky, Pastor. 3d Suuday
and Saturday b»fore. Suuday School 10 a m
Reed Creek—Rev B J MeLesky, Pastor. ttb Sun
day and Satai day before. Sunday School 1(>
a m.
Bio—Rev. G. J. Christian, Pastor. 3d Sunday
aud Saturday before. Sunday School 10 o'clock
every Suuday meruing. H. A. Teasley, Supt.
Flat Shoal—Rav. E. R. Gobs, Pastor. 2d Sunday
Oak Bower—Rev. E. R. Goss, Pastor? 4tb Sun
day.
Mt. Hermon—Rev. T. A. Thornton. Pastor. Ist
Sunday aud Saturday before.
Holly Springs- -Rev. W. J. Vickery. 4th Sunday
PRESBYTERIAN.
Hartwell—Rev R E 3d Simday
morningaud night. Tuesday
night. ?
Pleasant Hill—Rev R E Telford, Pastor. 4ti»
Suuday, 11am. Sunday School 9.36 am.
Roystom{Fi ypklin Co ]--Rev R E ,Telford, Pas
tor. Ist Sunday murniug aud night.
HARTWELHMRECTORY.
MUNICIPAL OFFICEKS
D A Penitt, Major.
J K Merwlitb, Secretary 4 Treasurer.
T P ilaiTia,
O C Bros a.
V E Satterßeld.
Marshal—F M Carter.
THE HARTWELL BANK.
Capital, *4O 000.00.
E B Benson Pica. J AV AViUams. Vie. Pre.
S AV Peek, Cashier.
Directors: J AV Williams, J D Matheson, J H
MeMullau. D C Alfonl, E B Benson.
Bank hours, Iroin 10 a in to 4 p m.
HARTWELL INSTITUTE.
FACULTY :
Prof. M L Parker, AM, Principal.
Prof. S M Bubo.
Mrs M L Parker.
Mrs R E Telford, Music.
Tklftees : E B Benson, J M Thornton. D W
Johnson. M M Richardson, J H Magill.
MASONIC.
* Hartwell Lodge No. 189 FA. M.. tnt
JL Thursday night in each month.
Officers: J R Meiedith, W M; A N
W X Alford, SW ; J D Matheson. J AV ;
/ NF \ J M Thornton, Treas ; AV K Stephen
son, Seet’v : JT W Varnon, Chap.; J R Stephens,
SD ;R F Bradler. JD; J P Roberta, 88; I) f
A Perritt, J 8; J k Scott, Tyler.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR. * •’
First Tuesday and Third Saturday nights.
Officers : M L Parker, Fiotater ; W V Holland,
Viee-Dietater : John R Stephans. Reporter ; M M
Richardson, F B: J B Thornton, Trees ; J M
Thornton, Representative Grand Lodge. ■
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Second and Fourth Tuesday nights.
Officers : S W Peek. Regent ; J W WOtajee,
Vice Regent; A G McCurry, Orator ; W R Sto
phenaon. Secretary : Fred AYiehens, Collector ; J
W Morris, Secretary.