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VOL. XVI.
fO TGEQRGEW ; PECiy
PRESS I
CHAPTER VL
HE IS TOO HEALTHY.
“There, I knew you would get into
trouble,” said the grocery man to the bad
boy as a policeman came along leading
him by the ear, the boy having an empty
champagne bottle in one hand and a
black eye. “What has he been doing,
Mr. Policeman?” asked tho grocery man
as the policeman halted with the boy in
front of the store.
“Well, I was going by a house up here
when this kid opened the door with a
quart bottle of champagne, and he cut
the wire a'nd fired the cork at another
boy, and the chuinpagne went all over
the sidewalk, and some of it went on
me, and I knew there was something
wrong, ’cause champagne is too expen
sive to waste that way, and he said he
was running the shebang and if I would
bring him here you would say he was all
right If you say so, I will let him go.”
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A policeman came alone) leading him bg
the car.
The grocery man said he had better let
the boy go, as his parents would not like
to have their little pet locked up. So the
policeman let go his ear, and he threw
the empty bottle at a coal wagon, and
after the policeman had brushed the
champagne off his coat and smelled of
his fingers and started off the grocery
man turned to the boy, who was peeling
a cucumber, and said:
“Now, what kind of a circus have you
been having, and what do you mean by
destroj’ing wine that way, and where
are your folks?”
“Well, I’ll tell you. Ma she has got
the hay fever and has gone to Lake Su
perior to see if she can’t stop sneezing,
and Saturday Pa said he and me would
go out so Oconomowoc and stay over
Sunday and try and ' recuperate pur
health. Pa said it would boa good joke
for me not to call him Pa, but to act as
though I was his younger brother, and
we would have a real nice time.
“I knowed what he wanted. He is an
old masher, that’s what’s the matter with
him, and he was going tq play himself
for a bachelor- Oh, thunder, I got pntp
his racket in a minute. He was in
troduced so some of the girls, and Satur
day evening he danced till the cows come
home. At home he is awful ’fraid of
rhenmatiz, and he never sweats or sits in
a draft, but the water just poured off’n
him, and he stood in the door and let u
girl fan him till ’I was afraid he would
freeze, and just as ho was telling a girl ■
from Tennessee, who was joking him
about being a nold bach, that ho was
not sure as he could always hold out a
woman hater if he was to be thrown into
contact With the charming ladies of the
snnny south I pulled his coat and said:
•Pa, how d° you s’pose Ma’s hay fever is
tonight? I’ll bet she is just sneezing the
top of her head off.’ Wall, sir, you just
oughten seen that girl and Pa. Pa looked
at me as ,if I was a total stranger and
told the porter if that freckled faced
bootblack belonged around the house he
had better be fired out of the ballroom,
find the purl said the disgustin thing, and
J'ust before they fired me I told Pa he
tad bet ter look but or he would sweat
through his liver pad.
“I went to bed. and Pa staid up till the
lights went out. He was mad when he
went to bed, but he didn’t lick tu» ’canse
the people in the next room would hear
him, but the next mormng he talked to
me. He said I might goTback home Sun
day night, and he would stay a day'or
f'wo.' He' sat around on the veranda ail
the afternoon talking with the girls, and
when'he would see me coming along he
would look cross. He took a girl oil
boat riding, and when { aske<| him jf"
couldn’t go along he said he was afraid
would get,drowned, and he said if I went
home there was nothing there tod good
for me, and so my chum and me got to
firing bottles of champagne, and hq hit
me in the eye with a cork, and I drove
him out doors and was just going to
shell his 'earthworks when the police
man collared me. Say, what's good for
• black eye?”
The grocery man told him his Pa would
cure it when he got home, “What do
you think your Pa’s object was in pass
ing himself off. for a single inan at’Oco
nomowoc,” asked the grocery man as he
charged up tho encumber to the "boy’s fa
fher. . ‘
” “That’s what beats me. Oh, I suppose
he does it ,for his .health, the way they all ■
do when'they-go to a summer resort, but’
it leaves a boy an orphan, don't it. to
have such Jqtteny. parents." -» ; • f - *
- CHAPTER VH.
ms PA HAS GOT RELIGION.
»Well, that beats the devil," will the
grocery man W ho stood in front of bis
grocery and saw the bad boy coming
along on the way home from Sunday
school with a clean shirt on and a Testa
ment and some dime novels under his
arm. “What lias got into you, and what_
has come over your Pa? I see he has
braced up and looks pale and solemn
You haven’t converted him. have von?’
■•no, Fa nas not got religion enough to
hurt yet, but he has got the syuqHoms
He has joined the church or prowbation
and is trying to be good so he caa get in
the church for keeps. He said if was
i hell living the wav b G did, and lie hos-g-it *
h "Yon'see, Sis said Pa had got to be«a
' trial for Mx months before he could get
The Hartwell Sun.
witnout swearing anti doing anything
bad he was all right, and we must try
him and see if we could cause him to
swear. She said she thought a person
when they was on a prowbation ought
to be a martyr and trj’ and ovqycome all
temptations to do evil, and if Pa could
go through six months of our home life
and not cuss the hinges off the door he
was sure of a glorious immortality be
yond the grave. She said it wouldn’t be
wrong for me to continue to play inno
cent jokes on Pa, and if he took it all
right he was a Chistian, but if he got a
hot box and flew around mad he was
better out of church than in it. There he
comes now,” said the boy as he got be
hind a sign, “and be is pretty hot for a
Christian. He is looking for me. You
had ought to have seen him in church
this morning.
“ You see, 1 commenced thepxerpjsps at
home after breakfast by putting a piece
of ice in each of Pa’s boots, and when he
pulled on the boots he yelled that his feet
were all on fire, and we told him that it
was pothing but symptoms of gqut, so
he left the ice ip his bopfs to niejt, find
he said all the morning that he felt as
though he had sweat his boots full. But
that was nos the worst. You know, Pa
he wears a liver pad. Well, on Saturday
my churn and me was out on the Jake
shore, and we H pest pf ants, these
liftle red ants, and I got a pop buitje
half full of the ants and took them hpme.
I didn’t know what I would do with the
ants, bpt ants are always handy to have
in the house. This morning when Pa
was drying so? church t saw his liver
pad on a chair an<j noticed a holo in jt,
and I thought what a good place it would
be for the ants.
“I don't know what possessed me. but
fl 1
“Pa tt>a» stamping on. ft with his boots.”
took tho liver pad |nto my room and
opened tho bottle and put the hole over
the mouth of the bottle, and I guess the
ants thought there was something to eat
in the liver pad, ’cause they all went
into it, and they crawled around in the
bran and condition powders inside of it,
and I took it pack to Pa, and he put it
on under his shirt and dressed himself,
a*d we went to church. Pa squirmed a
little when the minister was praying,
and I guess some of the ants had come
out to view the landscape o’er. When
we got up to sing the hymn, Pa kept
kicking, as though he was nervous, and
he felt down his neck and looked sort of
wild, the way he did when he had the
jimjams. When we sat down, Pacouldn’t
keep still, and I like to died when I saw
some of the ants come out of his shirt
bosom and go racing around his white
vest. Pa tried to look pious and re
signed, but he couldn’t keep his legs
still, and he sweat more’n a pailful.
“When the minister preached about
•the worm that never dieth,’ Pa reached
into his vest and scratched his ribs, and
he looked as though he would give $lO if
the minister wonld get through. Ma she
looked at Pa as though she would bite
his head off, but Pa he just squirmed and
acted as though his soul was on fire.
Say, does ants bite or just crawl around?
Well, when the minister said amen and
prayed the second round and then said
a brother who was a missionary to the
heathen would like to make a few re
marks about the work of the missionaries
in Bengal and take up a collection, Pa
told Ma they would have to excuse him,
and he lit out for home, slapping himself
on the legs and bn the arms and on the
back, and he acted crazy. Ma and me
went home after the heathen got through
and found Pa in his bedroom with part
of his clothes off, and the liyey pa 4
on the floor, and Pa was stamping on it
with his hoots and talking offul.
“ ‘What is the matter?’ says Ma. ‘Don’t
your religion agree with you?’
“ ‘Religion be dashed,’ says Pa as he
kicked the liver pad. ‘I would give $lO
to know how a pint of red ants got into
my liver pad. Religion is one thing, and
a million ants walking all over a man
playing tag is another. I didn’t know
the liver pad was loaded. How in Ge
henna did they get in there?’ and Pa
scowled at Ma aj though he would kill
her. ~ -. • • '
“‘Don't swear,dear,’ says Ma as shq
.threw down her hymn book and took off
her bonnet. ‘Yon should be patietit. Re
member, Job was patient, and he was af
flicted with sore boils.’ ' ; \
“'I don’t care? ’says Pa as he chased
the ants out of bis drawers; ‘Job never
bpd ants in his liver path If he had, he
’'would have sworathe shingles off a barn.
Here, yon,’ says Pa, speaking to me, ‘yon
head off them ants -running ppdey the
bureau-' W the troth was known, I be
lieve you would be responsible for this
outrage.’ And Pa looked at me kind of
hard.
“ ‘Oh, Pa,’ says I, with tears in my
eyes, “do you think your little Sunday
school boy would catch ants in a pep
bottle ou the lake shore and bring them
home and put them in the hole of your
liver pad jnst before you put it on to go
to church? Yon are too bad.’ And 1
shed some tears. 1 can shed tears now
any time I want to, but it didn’t do any
good this time. Pa knew it was me, and
while be was looking for t he shawl strap
I went to. Sunday school, and now 4 guess
he is affer me. and 1 will go aud take a
walk down to Bay View.”
The boy mow.l off as hi. Pa turned a
HARTWELL, HART CO., GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893.
THE SWEEPERS OF INDIA.
interesting I.egends About One of tlie
Many Castes of That Country.
Among the yet unsolved problems
of Indian ethnology, and one that
the census has only dealt with to
make confusion worse confounded, is
the religion of the sweeper caste. It
seems clear enough through all the
confusion that the supreme deity of
the Chubras is Laljura or La I beg, “a
god without form or dwelling place.”
A mound of earth surmounted by
a piece of stick and a bit of cloth for
a flag is this deity's shrine, and to it
poojah is made and a little sacrifice
offered of ghee, or grain. It needs no
consecration, this simple shrine, and
wherever the sweeper may be, if sick
ness comes or a gift is desired, the
little shrine may be set up with its
queer bit of rag and stick, and the
worshiper’s prayer is made. It is
curious to note how this primitive
faith differs from Hindooism, both
ancient gnd as well qs from
Buddhism.
The sweeper will have nothing to
do, for instance, with the transmigra
tion of souls. Once a sweeper, al
ways a sweeper, and oven tho ideal
sweeper, Pir Jliota, with his broom
of gold and a basket of silver, “cleans
now the fourth heaven, the house of
G<xl, and sweeps the apartments of
the highest.” The good sweeper goes
to heaven, however, after death, but
in the heaven of fba there is
nothing to do but bathe and sit at
ease. The bad sweeper, on the other
hand, goes to hell, where he is tor
mented by fire and wounds till the
deity is pleased to vouehsafp relief-
Between these two extremes Is a kind
of purgatory, where tlie sweeper
who is not good enough forqne place
and not bad enough for the other
undergoes a sort of probation which
either Rilla pr cqi’ea |iinq.
Os Balmik, the great leader of one
sect of sweepera, and now himself,
like Pir Jliota, a sweeper in the courts
of hearen, the accounts differ so
widely that it ja difficult to identify
him. It seems clear, however, that
with the profession of sweeper he
combined the recreation of poetry,
and there is some amount of evidence
in tyvor of his having been the au
thor of the Ramayana. He is alter
nately represented as a low caste
hunter of the Kama) Nardak and as
a Bhil highwayman who was con
verted by a saint whom he was about
to rob. There is a legend, too, that
he laid down his life for the sweepers
of Benares and induced the people of
that city to admit sweepers into their
presence, as they had never done be
foro.
As for Lalbcg, the other great
leader, he takes us back at once into
the days of Homeric myth. He was*
bom from the coat of Balmik and
suckled by a hare in proof whereof
Chubras to this day abstain from eat
ing hares. On the other hand, Lal
beg was also born from a pitcher,
through the power of Abdul Kader
Jilani, and when the Prophet Elias
was turned into a sweeper for spit
ting on the saints in heaven jt was
Lalbeg >vhq relieved finn. Ue was
born also to the barren wife of Bhaik
Sarno of Mooltan, so that altogether
there can be no doubt of his exist
enoe. Even a sweeper leader is not
born thrice for nothing. Major Tem
ple, it is true, denies the personality
of the man, deriving his name from
“Lal bbokh.” or bbikba, the Red
Monk—or more proi>erly saffron col
ored monk—an abstract personifica
tion of the priest of the sweepers,
and generic only.—Times of India.
Ono of the Woe. of tho Typo Thumpers.
“Dear I” said the typewriter girl.
“If there is anything I dread, it is a
new situation.”
“I don’t see why," said the girl
that lives at home with “ma.”
"Because I will have to get used to
a lot of new nvords. After one has
written from the dictation of one
man for a long time she gets so ac
customed to his vocabulary that she
could almost find the words and let
ters on the keyboard of the machine
with her eyes shut. I have had three
places so far, and in each one I found
my employer had about 200 words
that he used in the regular course of
business and had a certain way of
framing his sentences. To begin
with a new employer is almost like
learning a new language.”—lndian
apolis Journal.
M Me«S4>nger«.
14)6 experiments of Colonel Smoi
lon of the Russian army with fal
cons as carriers of dispatches have
proved successful, aud the Russian
army .hereafter will employ them in
preference to ordinary "homing”
birds. The colonel has found that
the falcon can carry 1,640 grains
without diminishing its rate of speed,
which is considerably greater than
that of the pigeon. The falcons, he
says, are less flkely to fall prey so
other birds as they arp better fighters
safl’ fbe pigeonA Jt is. on record,
according to the officer, that a falcon
once flew from the Canary islands to
the estates of the Duke of Larma in
Spain.—New York Tribune.
_., s Snee»iu< Averted.
Sneezing is averted by pressing
the upper lip, bpeppsp by doing so
WPljpftlp# thp impression made on
a certain branch of the fifth nerve,
sneezing being a reflex action ex
cited by some slight impression on
that nerve. Sneering does not take
place when the fifth nerve is para
lyzed, even though the sense of
smell is retained. - London Tit-Bits.
The Best Blood Bemedy.
August A. Kliges, 810 St. Charles
street, Baltimore, Md., writes: "From
my youth I suffered from a poisonoo*
taint in my bloed. My face and body
was continually affected with eruptioM
and sores. lam now 42 years of age
and had been treated both in Germany
and America, but no remedy overcame
the trouble until I used BaUnic Blood
Brim. My skin is clear, smooth sod
healthy, and I consider the poison ptr
maently driven from my feloril. 1 t»-
The Wail of the Tennis Player. •
The Central park tennis courts are
so well patronize?! that they cover
the available ground like the squares
of a checker board, and the players
are almost elbow to elbow.
This has resulted in an unwritten
law that every player shall “field” or
throw back to its owner every ball
which strays from its proper court
into his court. The reply for the
courtesy is in variably, “Thank you!”
The next step from this was easy.
Not knowing your neighbor's name
three times out of a hundred you are
unable to call his attention in any
very graceful manner to your ball,
which has rolled into his court un
seen by him.
To shout "Sayl” at him or “Hi!”
is not dignified. To call out “Mister!”
or “Oh, mister!” is stiff. To yell,
“Oh, ma'am I" is dangerous, for she
may lie a miijs or vice versa. So play
ers have fallen into the way in such
cases of shouting, “Thank youI" with
the emphasis on “you. ” at the sftipe
time indicating the person addressed
by pointing with the racket.
The player so pointed at under
stands that be is being thanked in
advance for returning a ball which
he has not yet seen.
But the absurdity comes in when
the person addressed is so engrossed
in his own play that he does not hear
or heed the cal) at once, and then th©
petitioner comes pq| |n imploring
tones with this incongruous jumble
of words “Thank you, please!
Thank you, please!"
And all over the lawn on a crowd
ed day this queer wail sounds from
morn tonight "Thank you, please!
Oh, thank you. please!’’—New York
Herald
Count Tolstoi’* Views of Poetry.
Count Leo Tolstoi has repeived in
Moscow g visjt from an
young Russian poet, who had pre
viously sent a copy of his productions
to the great ronianeist gild philoso
pher At this interview the count
said “I have read your book, or at
least the greater jiart of it. But 1
must tell you at once, and frankly,
that I entertain a general dislike to
all jxietry, and far this reason—that
it prevents one from giving a clear,
intelligent and comprehensive expres
sion to one's thoughts and ideas. Why
ihould we laboriously strain to con
form our expression to the rhyth
mica! and metrical rules of versifica
tion when we can the better and
more clearly convey ouy thoughts in
simple and lucid prose? It is as if, in
stead of |>ermitting me the free use
of my limbs, you tether my legs and
make me hobble around the object of
observation.
“In order to be succinct, concise and
comprehensively expressive I always
strive so to construct my language
that every reader, even he of the
scantiest intelligence, can. without
the slightest trouble or reflection,
at once grasp my meaning. If I
wrote in verse, my primary and dis
tracting labor would be to conform
tp the laws and yules of versification,
ftpd my readeis would lie left to sift
out for themselves the thoughts and
ideas 1 wished to convey. If I may
be perfectly frank with you,” said the
count, with a peculiarly bitter ex
pression on his face, “I would saj’
that verses are generally the produc
tion of literary wantouness, literary
frivolity and literary insolence.
London News.
The Mean Man Heard It.
A young fellow dining in the sub
urbs the other night endeavored to
make himself agreeable by a succes
sion of “good stories” which be had
gathered in the city. One concerned
a man (name unknown) who was so
phenom inally mean that fee gent half
a turkey to paph of his tenants at
Christmas time. Afterward at home
he chanced to speak of the evening
and of this pleasing tale to the orig
inal teller.
“Did your audience seem interest
ed?" he was asked.
“1 don't remember—nos particu
larly, 1 think. Why?”
There was a malicious grin accom
panying the answer, “Because your
host was the mean man. Philadel
phia Press.
Sound Heard a Long pittance.
When we are so situated as. to be
able tp ponhna sound \vaves, as in a
|ubc pv pipe, a very slight disturb
ance can be heard for a longdistance.
In the cast iron water pipe of Paris,
which forms a continuous tube with
only two slight crooks, and these
near its middle, the lowest whisper
at one end can be distinctly heard at
the other, although the pipe is 3,120
feet in length. When some exper
iments in this line were being con
ducted, a pistol fired at one pnd of the
tube actually blew put ft lighted can
die held pj the other end and violent
|y ejected the shavings, feathers,
paper, etc., which had been placed
in one end of the pipe by the exper
imenters. -St. Louis Republic.
Divorce In Varlou. Countries.
A statistician who has been look
ing into the mfttte? of divorce has
found that the proportion of divorces
fp jwpulation is least of all in Ire
land—only one divorce to every 400,
000 inhabitants. In the United
States the proportion of divorces is
ominously large, 88.71 to every 100,
000 of population, the largest known,
in fact, save in Japan, the figures
for that happy empire being 608.45
di voices to every 100,000 of popula
tion.
THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED.
Can Yon Find the Word?
There it t 2-inch display advertise
ment in this paper, this week, which has
w two words alike except one ward.
The same is true of each new one ap
pearing each week, from the Dr. Barter
Metairie C». This house places a
“Crescent” on everything they make and
, publish Look for it, send them the
name *>f the word, and they will return
HELPING OUT A COUPLE OF PALS.
A Wandering Burglar Breaks the Lock
and Is Thanked For It.
Two gentlemen, a journalist and
an artist, were about to leave a small
hotel in one of the avenues leading
from the Arc de Triomphe, where
they had spent the evening. Unfor
tunately the concierge could not find
the key. It was impossible for the
visitors to get out or for the tenants
of the house who were abroad to get
in. It was about 11 o’clock, and there
were but few passersby.
The two men, who knew a tenant
on the ground floor, got out by one
of his windows and promised to find
a locksmith. All the shops were
shut, however, and never a sergent
de ville could be found. Failing to
find an officer they asked where was
the nearest police station. The one
in the Ternes had been shut up for a
couple of hours, the one at Batig
nolles the same, and ftt the third they
were simply sent about their bus
iness. Meanwhile it was 1 o’clock,
and a long line of benighted tenants
was drawn up before the fast closed
door. Their would be deliverers were
beginning to lose courage when a
suspicious looking individual stum
bled against them.
The artist, who had all his wits
about him, stopped the man quietly,
and tailing off his hat said, “I beg
your pardon,sir, but you don’t happen
to have a jimmy and a set of false keys
in your pocket?” The man looked at
them suspiciously for a moment and
then whispered, "I" to crack a
crib?" "Alasl” replied the journal
ist, "we know of no one whom we
can rob at present. Our friends are
all at the seaside.” And then the
artist explained to the night wander
er what was th e service they re
quired of him. "All right, but get
the inquisitive people out of the way.
I don't want to give tree lessons.”
They returned to the house, and
the two friends announced that a
locksmith had been found, and
begged the benighted ones to make
way for him. They let him pass,
and the burglar opened the door in
the twinkling of an eye, amid a per
fect chorus of thanks. The two gen
tlemen wanted to give the burglar a
couple of francs, but drawing him
self up with dignity he exclaimed,
"Sir, among pals 1”—Pall Mall Bud
get
Giving Fld« *>■ Airlug.
A new and rather embarrassing oc
cupation has been found for domes
tic servants. It seems that a young
woman who is engaged as a "maid at
tendant” at a salary of £2 a month
is sometimes called upon to take her
mistress’ dog out for a walk in the
streets at 12:45 in the morning.
Such at least was the story told by
an aggrieved plaintiff at the city of
London court, and it is hardly sur
prising that she declined the duty of
personally conducting the pet at
such an hour. Thereupon she was
discharged, but her mistress said
that the reason of her dismissal was
her "excessive insolence.”
The learned commissioner in the
result held that the servant could
claim a month’s wages, but the deli
cate question of dog law which had
been raised in the course of the case
was unfortunately not decided. It
therefore still remains a moot point
whether it is permissible to ask
Mary Jane to take Fido for a walk
before bedtime, and, if so, whether
what is reasonable at 10 or 11 o’clock
becomes unreasonable a couple of
hours later. Perhaps the best solu
tion would be to let Fido take a walk
by himself and defy fhq dog stealers.
—Londoq T e logl*pn<
Married and Proud of It.
It was on a train going through
Indian a. Among the passenger’s were
a newly married couple, who made
themselves known to such an extent
that the occupants of the car com
menced passing sarcastic remarks
about therm The bride and groom
Stood the remarks for some time, but
finally the latter, who was a man of
tremendous size, broke out in the
following language at his torment
ors: “Yes, we’re married—just mar
ried. We are going 160 miles far
ther pn this train, and I am going to
‘spoon’ all the way. If you don't
like jt, you can get out and walk.
She’s my violet, and I'm her shelter
ing oak." During the remainder of
their journey they were left in
peace.—Philadelphia Ledger.
One on Himself.
When Herbert Ward, the African
explorer, was last in New York, he
told a good story, the point of which
was rather against himself. He had
been chaffing some of the natives,
declaring that they were direct de
scendants from monkeys, alleging
their dark color as one of the evi
dences. “One old fellow went quiet
ly over to a captive ape,” said he,
“and turned back his fur. Then he
looked quizzically at me. The ape’s
skin was white.” —New York Sun.
%'tae Mother’s Position.
"Doesn’t your mother like me?”
asked young Mr. Gilley in an effort
to ascertain why Miss Keedick had
refused him.
“Oh, yes, she likes you," was the
reply of the maiden, “but she is al
ready married to papa.”—Harper’s
Bazar.
No Philanthropist.
Jinks—Why don’t you give Waite
a piece of your mind ?
Filkins—l’m not around capitaliz
ing idiots.—Life.
Ask Your Friends
Who have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla
what they think of it, and the replies
will be positive in its favor. One has
been eured of indigestion and dyspepsia,
another finds it indispensable for sick
headache, others report remarkable cures
of scrofula, salt rheum and other blood
diseases, still others will tell you that
it overcomes "that tired feeling,” and so
on. Truly, the best advertising which
Hood’s Sarsaparilla receives is the hearty
andtHmroffll* of the army of friends it
TWO HYPOCRITES.
She sat in her cozy chamber,
With the curtains all drawn tight,
Curled up in a great, big rocker.
Fair and sweet in the soft lamplight.
A bonbon box on the table
With ti e choicest of sweets was filled.
Which she daintily nibbled while writing
The words that her lover thrilled:
“Oh, I long for you now, my darling!
Without you my life seems drear.
There is never a bit of comfort
For me unless you are nearl”
And her lover read the letter
As he sat in his bachelor’s den
With his feet cocked up on the mantel
In the usual way of men.
With his box of cigars at his elbow
And a pipe a'nd a glass near by.
And the smoke clouds wreathed above him
As he eehoed her lonely cry:
“Oli, I long for you now, my darling!
Without you my life seems drear.
is not a bit of comfort
For me unless you are near!”
—Somerville Journal.
interesting Scenes In Tangier.
Tangier’s beauty lies in so many
different things—in ’the monklike
garb of the men and in the white
muffled figures of the women; in the
brilliancy of its sky and of the sea
dashing upon the rocks and tossing
the feluccas with their three cor
nered sails from side to side, and in
the green towers of the mosques and
the listless leaves of the royal palms
rising from the center of a mass of
wfiite roofs, and above all in the col
or and movement in the bazaars and
streets. The streets represent ab
solute equality. They are at the
widest but 3 yards across, and <*very
one pushes, and apparently every
one has something to sell, or at least
something to say, for they all talk
and shout at once and cry at their
donkeys or abuse whoever touches
them. A water carrier, with his
goatskin bag on bis back and his fin
ger on the tube through which the
water comes, jostles you on one side,
and a slave as black and shiny as a
patent leather boot shoves you on
the other as he makes way for his
master on a fine white Arabian horse
with brilliant trappings and a huge
contempt for the donkeys in his
way.—Richard H. Davis in Harper’s
Weekly.
People Who Read Dickens.
A year or two ago a lady—an
American—was walking along a Lon
don street and looking curiously at
the barrows and carts drawn up
against the curb. Some were filled
with old keys and tools, others with
fruit and vegetables, some with,
cheap jewelry and here and there
one with books. *
By the side of one of the bookbar j
rows a young girl was seated on a’
pail turned upside down and set out
in the street. She was bent near ly
double over the volume that she
was reading, and in which she was
so absorbed that she did not see or
hear the lady approach, pass behind
her and look over her shoulder.
The book was tho “Old Curiosity
Shop." It was a queer coincidence
that some months before that lady
had asked a class in a fashionable
New York school to name their fa
vorite book, and it, too, had been
the “Old Curiosity Shop.” With
such testimony from such widely
different classes of society there can
be no doubt as to the writer who
should head the list of selections in
fiction for our children.—New York
Times.
Looking Forward.
Little Emily had been very naughty
because her mamma would not let
her go out with a party of friends
with whom they were staying, and
she screamed so that every one in
the house was distressed and worried.
Her mamma had to lock her up in a
room and tell her she could not come
out till she said she would be good
and promised not to cry any more.
Every now and then her mamma
would go and ask her to promise, but
she only screamed the louder.
At last a silence fell upon the
house, and when poor mamma opened
the door, there, stretched upon the
floor, lay the pretty weary little
form, and when the dear mother
drew her to her and asked the oft
repeated question, “Will you be good
and promise not to cry any more?”
the pretty eyes looked up, still full
of tears, and the little girl said, “Yes,
mamma, I'll be good and promise
not to never, never cry any more till
some of my dear relations die.”—
Harper’s Young People.
Street Car Rules.
Never tell the conductor you wish
to get off. He is supposed to know.
If you have three or four bundles,
lay them on the seat beside you, es
pecially if the car is crowded. You
will not be so crowded yourself.
Always try to stop the car on the
near side of the crossing. You will
have to walk to the other side, and
this makes a good excuse for jawing
the conductor.
Make a practice of whistling in the
cars. Your traveling companions
will be obliged to hear it, and they
may possibly delight in listening.
Crews you legs so that they will oc
cupy the full width of the isle. This
will afford additional exercise to the
conductor, who is badly in need of
it—Texas Siftings.
Better a Toucan.
Mrs. Botone —Why do you call my
milliner a snipe?
Botone —On account of the length
of her bill. —Truth.
The Beal Reason.
“Then why did you become en
gaged to him?
“If I didn’t, somebody else would."
—Detroit Tribune.
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Hart Connly Directory. '
COUNTY OFFICERS.
OrdinaryFC StepbenMfc ■'*
Clerk Superior CoartM M Rickardaoa a
SheriffJ R Loard
Tax Collector Jesse C Vickery
Tax Receiver A L McCurry \ ’
TreasurerThoe H BartM :
County School CommissionerJ. R. Stepheao
Poor house StewardW. C.MyMK
Coroner Wm. E. ClevefakQ
SUPERIOR COURT CALENDAR.
Judge Hamilton MaWbortee
Solicitor GeneralW M Howard
Spring Term—Thin! Monday in March.
Fall Term—Third Monday iu September.
JUSTICE COURTS CALENDAR.
1112th District. Harwell—lst Thursday.
J H Skelton, J P„ H. J. Goes, N F
1113th District, Ray's —lst Saturday.
Ira M Brown, J P.. E G Brown, "
1114th District, Smith's—lth Friday
L MCanningham, NF
1115th District, Reed Creek—2d Saturday.
R II Martin, J P., B J McLesky, N F
1119th District. HaU’s--2d Wednesday.
John S Bee. J P., M A 'Duicau, N P
1117th District, Shoal Cieek—4th Saturday.
J C Walters, JP., J A Adams, N P
1118th District, McCurry's—3d Saturday.
B A Teasley, J P., C HNfirowu, N P
U9tb District, Alford’s—Friday before 3d Satd’y.
W A Sanders, J P., Lit Kiebardson, N P
CHURCH CALENDAR.
METHODIST—HARTWELL CIRCUIT.
Presiding Elder Ker J F Mixon, D. D.
Preacher in charge Rev R B O England
Hart well—2d anti 4th Sundays, 11.30 a in; 7.30 p tn
railroad time. Prayer meeting Wednesday
night, 7.30. Sunday School Sunday morning
at 10 o’clock. M.L Parker, Sujierin ten dent.
Bethesda—lst Sunday and Saturday before. Prayer
meeting every Sunday night. Sunday School
every Sunday morning. B A Teasley, Supt.
Cokesbury—3d Sunday and Saturday before Sun
day School every Sunday meining. 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
A Jams, Supt.
Liberty Hill—2d Sanday aid Saturday before.
Sunday School every Sanday morning. A J
Mullaaix, Snpk
Mt. Zion—4tb Sunday and Saturday before. Sun
day Seheel every Sunday morning. Miss Fan*
nio Tyler, Supt.
Redwine—Rev A H S Bugg, Pastor. 3d Sunday
and Saturday before.
Macedonia—A H S Bugg. Paster, lot Sunday
and Saturday before.
Fellow ship- A II S Bugg, Pastor. 2d
afternoon.
BAPTIST.
Hartwell—Rev A E Ke«.a« ( Paator. Ist and 2<l
Sundays, 11 am and H pm. Sunday Scuool
10.30 am. D C Alford. Supt. Prayer meeting
every Friday evening at H o’clock. S M Bobo
Leader.
Cedar Creek—Rev. T J Rucker, Pastor. 4th San*
day and Saturday before. Sunday School t>a«
m. H F Hailey,'Supt. .
Bowersville—Rev J H MeMullau, Pastor, fol
Sunday 11 am. Sunday School 10 a ni.
Sardis—Rev. J R Earle. 2d Sunday and SattlHUf
before. Sunday School 10 am. M M Bic hard,
son, Supt.
Hendrys -Rev J G Christian, Pastor. 2d Sundgp .
and Saturday before. Sunday School 10 a m
Shoal Creek—Rev Purcell. 4th Sunday anil
Saturday before 11am. Sunday School 10 a n>-
Cannons —F M Cole, Pastor. 2<l Sunday and Sat
urday before. Sunday School 10am.
Cross Roads—Rev F M Estes, Pastor. 4th Sunday
and Satin day before. Sunday School Ham. j
Reck Springs—Rev F M Estes, Pastor. 3<l Sunday
and Saturday before. Sunday School 10 am.
Mt’ Olivet—Rev A J Cleveland, Pastor. Ist San
day.
New Prospect—Rev J.l Berk. Pastor. Ist Sunday
and Saturday before. Sunday School.
Mt. Hebron-Rev TR Wright. Pastor. »l Sujh
day and Sat unlay before. Sunday Scboel
am. KA Vickery, Supt.
Milltewn, Rev’T A Thornton, Pastor. 3d Sun
day an<l Saturday before. Sunday School It
am. W A Sandora, S»DI.
Bethany—Rev B J McLesky. Pastor. 3d Sunday
aed Saturday before. Sunday School Ham
Reed Creek-Rev B J McLeeky, Pastor. 4th Buih
day and Satin day before. Sunday School rt
a m.
Bio—Ker. G. J. Cbi Atian, Pastor. 3d Sunita.
aud Saturday before. Sunday School 10 • clock
every Sunday morning. H. A. Teasley, Supt.
Flat Shoal—Rov. E. R. Goes, Pastor. 2d Sunday ~
Oak Bower—Rev. E. R. Goss, Pastor. 4th Sun- .I
day.
Mt. Hermon-Rev. T. A. Thornton. Pastor, la*
Sunday and Saturday betoro.
Holly Springs- -Rev. W. J. Vickery. 4th Su»*w ;
PRESBYTERIA?.
Hartwell-Rev R E Telford. Pastor. 3d Suwtajr
morning and night. Prayer meeting Tuesday
night.
Pleasant Hill—Rev R E Telford, Pastor. 4tb
Sunday, 11 am. Sunday School 9.3 t am.
Royston [Franklin Co ]--Rev R E Telford, Pns
tor. Ist Sunday morning and night.
HARTWEHDIRECTORY.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS
D A Psrritt, Mayor.
J It Meredith, Secretary A Treasures.
T P Harris,
O C Brown.
V E SatterMeld.
Marshal—F M Carter.
THE HARTWELL BANK.
Capital, HO 000.40. efS
K B Beuson Pi vs. J W Wiliams, Tire Free
S W Peek, Cashier.
Directors . J W Williams. J D Matheson, J H
MeMullau, D C Alford, E B Benson.
Bauk hours, from 10 a m to 4 p m.
HARTWELL INSTITUTE.
FACULTY :
Prof. M L Parker, A M, Principal.
Prof. S M Bobo.
Mrs M L Parker.
Mrs R E Telford, Music.
Trustees : E B Benson, J M Thornton, D W -sS
Johnson. M M Kiebardson, J H Magill.
MASONIC.
a Hartwell Lodge No. 180 F. A. M_ flrs*
JL Thnrsdar night in each month.
w/Vr-Offieers; J K Meredith, W M; A M
JK JT Alford, SW ; J D Matheson, J W ; Si
\ J M Thornton, Trees ; W R Stenhew- ' j
sou, Sect’y : J T w Vernon, Chap.; I R Stepheam , |
SD ; R P Brail lev. JD; J P Roberts, 8 S;B ‘ |
A Penitt, J S ; J E Scott, Tyler. |
KNIGHTS OF HONOR. I
First Taeaday and Third Satorday atohte. gl i
Officers : M L Parker, Fiemtor ; W Y MoILmhL
T lee Dictator ; John R Stopheas. Reporter I M M
kiebardson, F K ; J B TVerwton. Troon■; J M
Thornton, Representative Grand Lodge. i
ROYAL ARCANUM. j
Seoond sad Fourth Tuesday nights.< I
Officers: 8 W Peek. Regent; J W WHJee»*u
Vice Regent ; A G McCorry Orator : W R Btfr
phenson, Secretary ; Fred Wiebena, Collector ,> - |
W Morria. Secretary. I
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