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Mr. J. C. Jones, of Fulton, Ark., says of
“About ten years ago I con-
BSSjSSB tracted a severe case of blood
poison. Leading physicians prescribed
medic'ne after medicine, which I took
without any relief. I also tried mercu
rial and potash remedies, with unsuc-
RHEUMATISM
oessful results, but which brought on an
attack of mercurial rheumatism that
made my life one'of agony. After suf
ering four years I gave up all remedies
and commenced using S. S. S. After
taking several bottles, I was entirely
cured and able to resume work.
MKKS is the greatest medicine for
■323 blood poisoning to-day on
the market.”
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
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Ift RTWELL, GEORGIA.
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VOL. XVT.
PECKS BAD BOY.
CHAPTER VIII.
HIS PA AT THE REUNION.
“1 saw poor Pa wearing a red, white
and blue badge, and a round red badge,
and several other badges last week dur
ing the reunion,” said the grocery man to
the bad boy as the youth asked for a
piece of codfish skin to settle coffee with.
“He looked like a hero with his old black
hat with a gold cord around it.”
“Yes, he wore all the badges he could
get the first day, but after he blundered
into a place where there were a lot of
fellows from his own regiment he took
off the badges, and he wasn’t very nu
merous around the boys the rest of the
week. But he was lightning on the
sham battle,” says the boy.
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"Pa's nerves got unstrung.”
' “What was the matter? Didn't the
old soldiers treat liim well? Didn't they
t aeem to yearn for his society?” asked the
grocery man as the boy was making a
lunch on some sweet crackers in ft fin
canister.
“Well, they were not very much
mashed on Pa. You see, Pa never gets
tired telling us.about how he fit in the
army. For several years I didn’t know
what a sutler was, and when Pa would
tell about taking a musket that a 4e,a<l
| soldier had dropped and going into the
thickest of the fight and fairly mowing
down the Confederates in swaths the way
they cut hay I thought he was the great
est man that ever was. Until I was 11
years old I tJmngbt Pa had killed men
enough to fill the Forest Home pemetery.
I thought a sutler was something higher
than a general, and Paused to talk about
•J and Grant,’ and what Sheridan told
! him, and how Sherman marched with
him to the sea, and all that kiiai of rot,
until I wondered why they didn’t have
pictures of Pa on ft white horse, with
epanlets on and a sword. One Jay at
I school I told a boy that my Pa killed
more men than Grant, and the boy said
he didn't doubt it, but he killed them
with commissary whisky.
“The boy said his Pa was in the same
, regiment that my Pa was sutler of, and
his Pa said my Pa pharge<] him for a
canteen of j>eppersauce and alcohol and
called it whisky. Then I began to in
quire into it and found out that a sutler
was a sort of liquid peanut stand, and
that his rank in the army was about
the same, as ft ohvatniit FOftSter on tho
lidewalk here at home, jt made me
sick, and I never had the same resp>e<'t
for Pa after that. But Pa don't care.
He thinks he is a hero and tried to get a
pension on account of losing a piece of
his thumb, but when the officers found
he was wounded by the explosion of a
can of baked beans they couldn’t give
■ it to him. Pa was down town when the
I veterans were here, and I was with him,
’ and I saw a lot of old soldiers looking at
Pa, and I told him they acted as though
they knew him, and he put on his glasses
and said to one of them, ‘How are you.
Bill?' The,soldier looked at Pa and
called the other soldiers, and one said,
‘That's the old duffer that sold me the
bottle of brandy peaches at Chickamauga
for $3, and they eat a hole through ray
atummick.'
“Another said: ‘He’s the cubs that took
flO out of my pay for pickles that were
put up in aqua fortis. Look at the corps
badges he has on.’ Another said: ‘The
old whelp! He charged me 50 cents a
pound for onions when I had the scurvy
at Atlanta.’ Another said: ‘He beat mo
out of my wages playing draw jioker
jvitlj a fold deck and tho aces up hie
gleeye,' Let q's hang him.’ By this time
Pa’s pep yes gos unstrung and began to
hurt him, and he said he wanted to go
home, and when we got around the cor
ner he tore off his badges and threw them
in the sewer and said it was all a man’s
life was worth to be a veteran nowadays.
He didn’t go down town again till next
day, and when he heard a band playing
he wmild go abound the block. But at
the sham baftle, where there were
1 pp veterans lordly, he was all right
i thp militia boys, and I told them
j hf;W Im'flid when he was in the army.
! I thought it would be fun to see Pa
1 run, and so when one of the cavalry
1 fellows lost his cap in the charge and
was looking for it I told the.dragoon
that the pussy old man over by the fence
had stolen his cap. That was Pa. Then
I told Pa that the soldier on the horse
said he was a rebel, and he was going to
kill him. The soldier started after Pa
with his saber drawn, and Pa started to
run, and it was funny, you bet. The sol
dier galloped his horse and yelled, and
Pa put in his best licks and run up the
track to where there was a board off the
fence qnd tried tbget through, but he got
stuck, and the soldier put the point of
his saber on Pa's pan|s ( and pushed, and
Pa got through the fence, and I guess he
ran all the way home.
“At supper time Pa would not come
to the table, but stood up and ate off the
sideboard, and Ma said Pa’s shirt was all
bloody, and Pa said inore’n 50'of them
Cavalrymen charged on him, and h;:held
lhem as; long as he cs>ul'<l and
&en refired in gooJ brder. This morn
ing a boy tolil him that I set the cavalry
man onto him, and he made me wear
wrp mousetraps qn my ears al] the.
forenoon, all 4 h e he will kill me
Sunset. I aiq'f going |q be there at spn
gyt jon't you remember'ahfmt it-
We]j, gqfidby. | have got to go down tq
the morgue and see them bring in the
man that was found cm the Jake shore,
and gee if the morgue keeper is drunk
tins time,” .
' CHAPTER IX.
THE BAD BQY IX LOVE. >
“Are you a Christian? " asked the bad
boy of the grocery man as that gentfe
l man was placing vegetables out in front
1 of the grocery one morning.
“Well, I hope, so,” answered the gro
cery man. “I try to do what is right
and hope to wear the golden crown when
the time comes to clor WX bocks.”
“Then bow S itlbM yon petouf a boa
of great Ug sweet potatoes, and when we
order some and they come to tire table
The Habtwell Sun,
than a radish! Do you expect to get to
heaven on such small potatoes when you
use big ones for a sign?" asked the boy
as he took out a silk handkerchief and
, brushed a speck of dust off his nicely
blacked shoes
’ The grocery man blushed and said he
, did not mean to take any such advan
t tage of his customers. He said it must
have been a mistake of the boy that de
j livers groceries
“Then you must hire the boy to make
[ mistakes, for it has been so every time
[ we have had sweet potatoes for five
f years,” said the boy. "And about green
corn. You have a few ears stripped
down to show how nice and plump it is,
, and if we order a dozen ears there are
, only two that have got any corn on at
all, and Pa and Ma gets them, and the
rest of us have to chew cob. Do you
hope to wear a crown of glory on that
kind of com?"
“Oh, such things will happen," said
the grocery man. with a laugh. “But
don’t let's talk about heaven. Let's talk
about the other place. How’s things
over to your house? And say what's the
matter with you? You are all dressed
up and have got a clean shirt on and
vour shoes blacked, and I notice your
pants are not raveled out so at the bot
toms of the legs behind. You are not in
love, are you?"
“Well, I should smile,” said the boy
as he looked in a small mirror on the
counter noverej with fly specks. “A girl
got mashed on :ne, and Ma sqysit is goofl
for a boy who hasn’t got iio sister so bo
in love with a girl, and so I kind of turn
bled to myself, and she don't go nowhere
without I go with her. 1 take her to
, dancing school and everywhere, and she
• loves me like a house afire. Say. was you
, ever in love? Makes a fellow feel queer,
j don’t it? Well, sir, the first time I went
i home with her 1 put my arm around her.
and, honest, it scared me, It was just like
i when you take hold pt flip handles of a
( lectric battery, and you can’t let go till
, the man turns the knob. Honest, I was
' just as weak as a cat. I thought she had
1 needles in her belt and was going to take
I my arm away, but it was just like it was
> glued on. I asked IjCf if she felt that
! way, too, and she said she used to, but
' it was nothing when you got used to it.
■ That made me mad. But she. is, older
I than me and knows more about it.
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"/Iff came to let the cat in."
“When I was going to leave her at the
gate, she kissed me, and that was worse
than putting my arm around her. By
gosh, I trembled all over just like I had
chills, but I was as warm as toast. She
wouldn’t let go for much as a minute,
f and I was tired as though I had been
■ carrying coal up stairs. I didn’t want
to go home at all, but she said it would
; be the best way for ine to go home
i and come again til? next flay, apd the
i next morning I went to her house be?
fore any of them were up, and her Pa
came to let the cat in.' and I asked him
what time his girl got up, and he laffed
i and said I had got it bad, and that I had
, better go honu and not be picked till I
got ripe. Say, how much does it cost to
get married?”
“Well, I should say you had got it
bad,” said the grocery man as he set out
a basket of beets. “Your getting in love
will be a great thing for yottr Pa. You
won’t have any time to play any more
jokes on him.”
i % “Oh, I guess we can find time to keep
Pa from being lonesome. Have you seen
him this morning? Yoh ought f° have
; seen him last night. Yon see, my chum's
, Pa has got i setter dog stuffed. It is one
, that died two years ago. and he thought
a great deal of it, and he had it stuffed
for a ornament. Well, my chum and
i me took the dog and put it on our front
steps and took some cotton and fastened
, it to the dog's mouth so it looked just
like froth, and we got behind the door
• and waited for P<| to come home from
I the theater. When Pa started to come
up the steps, I growled, and Pa looked at
i the dog and said, ‘Mad dog, by crimus,’
and he started dotvi! sidewalk, and
, my chum barked just like a dog, and I
‘ki-yi'd’ ami growled like a dog that gets
I licked, and you ought to see Pa run.
, “He v.-ent around in the alley and was
, going to get in the basement window,
and my chum had a revolver with some
blank cartridges, and we went down in
i the basement, and when Pa was trying
to open the window my chum began to
, fire toward Pa. Pa hollered that it was
. only him and not a burglar, but after
my chum fired four shots Pa run and
i climbed over the fence, and then we took
. the dog home,-and I staid with my
chum all night, and this morning Ma
said Pa didn't get home till 4 o’clock, and
then a policeman came with him, and Pa
, talked about mad dogs and being taken
for a burglar and nearly killed, and she
, said she was afraid Pa had took to drink
ing again, and she asked me if I heard
any- firing of guns, and I said no, and
then she put a wet towel on Pa's head.”'
“You ought to be ashamed,” said the
grocery man. "How does your Pa like
your being in love with the girl? Does
he seem to encourage you in it?”
“Oh, yes, she was up to our hogse. |q
borry some tea, and Pa petted hes oq
the cheek and hugged her qn J said she
was a deay little daisy and wanted hey
txr sit in his lap, bus when I yvanted hiiq
to let me have 50 cents tq bpy hey some
‘ icecream fie that was gl] nonsense.
He said: ’Look ut your Mft. Bating ice
cream when she was a girl was what in
jured her health for life.' I asked Ma
about it. and she said Pa never laid out
10 cents for ice cream or any luxury for
her in all the five years he was sparking
her. She says he took her to a circus
once, but he got free tickets for carrying
. -water for the elephant. .She says Pa
was tighter than the bark to a tree. I
tell you it's going to be different with
me. If there is anything that girl wants,
she is going to have it if I have to sell
Mas copper boiler to get the money.
What is the use of having wealth if you
board it ip and don’t enjoy it? Thia
family will 'be run uu di*«*rent princi-
HARTWELL, HART CO., GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1893.
' pies after tins, you bet. say, now mucn
are those yellow wooden pocket combs
in the showcase? I've a good notion to
buy them for her. How would one of
them round mirrors with a zinc cover do
for a present for a girl? There’s nothing
too good for her."
CHAPTER X.
HIS PA COES HUNTING.
“What has your Pa got his jaw tied
up for, and what makes his right eye sc
black and blue?” asked the grocery man
of the bad boy as the boy came to bring
some butter back that was strong enough
to work on the street. “You haven’t
hurt your poor old Pa, have you?"
“Oh, his jaw is all right now. You
ought fp have seen him when the gun
was engaged in kicking him,” says the
boy as he set the butter plate on the
cjiiecst'box.
“Well, tell ns about it, What had the
gun against your Pa? I guess it was the
son of a gun that kicked him,” said the
grocery man as ho winked at a servant
girl who came in with her apron oyer
her head after 2 cents’ worth of yeast,
“I’ll tell you if you will keep watch
down street for Pa. He says he is
dammed if he will stand this foolishness
any longer.”
“What, does your father swear white
he is on probation?"
“Swear! Well, I should cackle. You
ought to have heard him when he come
to and spit out tho loose teeth, Yoh
see, sinim Pa qnjt ilfinking ]}q }s a ]ittlq
nervous, and tho doctop said ]iq fityght tq
go out somewhere and get biznesa off his
mind, and hunt ducks, and row a boat,
and get strength, and Pa said shooting
ducks was just in his hand, and for me
to go and borrow a gun, and I could go
along and carry game. So I got a gun at
the gun store and some cartridges, and
we went away out west on the cars,
more than 50 miles, and staid two days.
You Plight tp ami Pa He was just like
a boy that was sick and couldn't go to
school. When we got out by the lake, ho
jumped up and cracked his heels together
and yelled. I thought he was crazy, but
he was only cunning.
“First I scared him nearly to death by
firing off the gpn behind him «s we were
going along thp bank and blowing off a
piece of his coattail. I knew it wouldn’t
hurt him, but he turned pale and told
me to lay down that gun, and he picked
it up and carried it the rest of the way,
and I wasofful glad ’cause it was a heavy
gun. Rip coattai] sipelleil like when
you burif a rag ip inake the air In the
room stop smelling sb' all the forenoon.
You know Pa is a little near sighted, but
he don’t believe it, so I got some of the
wooden decoy ducks that the hunters
use and put them in the lake, and you
ought to pee Pa get down on Ina bdlj’
and crawl thfpugh the grass to get up
close to them. He shot 20 times at tho
wooden ducks and wanted me to go in
and fetch them out, but I told him I was
no retriever dog.
“Then Pa was mad and said all he
brought me along for was to parry imuae.
and I had come m-ui: shooting his hind
leg off, and now I wouldn't curry ducks.
While he was coaxing ine to go in tho
cold water without my pants on I lierrd
some wild geese squawking, and then
Pa heard them, and he was exciti“d. He
said, ‘You lay flown behind the muskrat
house, and I will get a goose,’ I told him
he couldn’t kill a goose with that fine
tel— yJL SMA a>-
"He uent over a log."
shot, and I gave him a large cartridge
the gun store man loaded for me with
a hanflClll °f powder in, and I told Pa it
was a goose cartridge, and Pa put it in
the gun. The geese came along, about a
mile high, squawking, and Pa aimed at
a dark cloud and fired. Well, I was
offul scared. I thought I had killed him.
The gun just rared up and come down
on his jaw, shoulder and everywhere,
and he went over a log and struck on ;
his shoulder. The gup flew out of his
hands, and Pa he laid there on his neck
with his feet over the log, and that was
the first time he didn’t scold me since he 1
got relidgin. I f»lt offul sprry and got
some dirty wate|: jq my bat and poured
it down his neck ;md laid him out, and
■ pretty soon he opened his eyes and asked
if any of the passengers got ashore alive.
“Then his eye swelled out so it looked
like a blue doorknob, and Pa felt of his
jaw and asked if the engineer and fire
man jumped off or if they went down
with the engine. He seemed dazed, and
then he saw the gun, and he said take
the dam th.ng away, it is going to kick
me again. Then he got his senses and
wanted to know if he killed a goose, and
I told him no, but he nearly broke one's
jaw, and then he said the gun kicked
him when it went off. and he laid down,
and the gun kept kicking him more than
20 times when he was trying to sleep.
He went back to the tavern where we
were stopping and wouldn’t, touch the
gun, but made me lug it. He told the
tavern keeper that he fell over a wire
fence, but I think he began to suspect,
after he spit the loose teeth out, that the
gun was loaded for bear. I suppose he
will kill me some day. Don't yon think
he will?”
, “Any coroner's jury would lef ]um
and call it justifiable i|' he shpulfl kifl
you. Yog must ]ms g Junatic. Has your
Pa talked much about it since you got
back?” asked the grocery man.
“Not much. You see he can't talk
much without breaking his jaw- Bkti
he was able tq throw ft PWr at m«,
You see, I thought I would joke him a lit
He, ’pause when anybody feels bad a joke
kind of livens 'em up, so we were trill
ing about P&’s liver, and Ma said he
seemed to lie better since his liver had
become more active, and I said-,-‘Pa,
wiien you was a-rolling over with the
gun chasing you and kicking you every
round your liver was active enough,
’cause it was on top half the time.’ Then
Pa throwed the chair at me. He says lie ,
believes I kuew that cartridge was load
ed.”
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THE SEDAN CHAIR.
History of tho Curious V« hide That I'.ish
io.i I i Tr;, inj* to Revive.
When his holiness the pope is car
ried in his che.ir on po 1 Aipported
on the shoulders of !'.’rvitors from
the Fa!., Regia t<> t'-io Sistine chaiiel
and oceasion.illy into th- loggia
abovb the portico of St. Peter's, he
practically uses u sedau without a
roof, and it was in th. e ehuirs on
poles that the Ilonu.D inagnificoes
sneered at by Juvenal were borne
through the crowdul streets of
Rome. These uncoveml sedans must
not be confounded wkh the ancient
litters, which very much resembled
in shape the palancmn which may
lie seen every day in the streets of
OgfPUttii which were a kind of
lied wheniq the inmate ppclined
either c.i his elbow or at full length.
Wealthy Romans when they trav
eled through the provinces of the
empii-e sat in a covered sedan chair
during the day and lay in a covered
litter throughout the night. It is a
curious fact as regards the oriental
palanquin that in 175 J the court of
directors of the East India company
ordered that their covenanted serv
ants should "lay aside the expense of
either horse, chair or palanquin dur
ing |{ipjr writei-ship” on the ground
that itelulgiug these embryo nabobs
with chfiji-s on ptfleg borne by coolies
contributed not a little to "the neg
leet of business and afforded them
opportunities for rambling."
Little more than half a century
afterward we find the frugal and
self denying Sir Arthur Wellesley
writing to Major Shaw to give or
ders for a palanquin to be inade for
hill] precise in this as In most
other matters, the hero of Assaye di
rected that his palanquin should be
“very light;" that the panels should
be made of “canvas instead of wood
and theixiles fixed as for a dhoolie."
“Your Bengali pfllanquina,” adds the
future wii-tor of Waterloo, “are so
heavy that they cannot be used out
of Calcutta.”
To a traveler of moderate means
the principle expense of the palan
quin was in the nunjber of relays or
b-'appis; required to carry It This
mattered little to the Romans since
the bearers were nearly always
slaves, and the price of labor in Hin
dostan is moderate enough to war
rent the employment of a large num
tier <>f la-;t|i.‘)-s, but in France in the
seventeenth century thei-e was a
Ductless of Nemours who half ruined
herself by her craze for traveling
backward and forward in her sedan
to her principality of Neufchatel,
which was situated at u distance of
130 leagues from Paris. Relays of
bearers amounting in the aggregate
to"s-o men always acconqianied the
duchess on these journeys, one of
which took 10 days to accomplish,
and the cost of paying, lodging and
feeding these retainers was neces
sarily prodigious.
French exjM»i-t» stoutly maintain
that the sedan chair was invented by
La Reine Margot, the first wife of
Henry IV. but it can only be proved
that the sprightly queen in question
availed herself so constantly of the
facilities offered by un uncovered
sedan that it is almost to tel won
dered at that tho vehicle did not
come to be called a "margot" instead
of a "chaise a jxirteurs." In any
case it is certain that the first cov
ered and closed sedans were intro
duced into France at the beginning
of the reign of Louis XIII by the
Marquis de Montbrun and that
shortly afterward a concession for
building them was granted to three
Parisian financiers. —London Tele
graph.
A Good Thiiig to Keep at Hand.
Fihm The Troy (Kansas) Chief.
Some years ago we were very much
subject to severe spells of cholera mor
bus ; and now when we feel any of the
symptoms that usually proceed that ail
ment. such as sickness at the stomach,
diarrhoea, etc, we become scary. We
have found Chamberlains’s Colic. Chol
era and Diarrhoea. Remedy the very
thing to straighten one out in such cases,
and always keep it about. We are not
writing this for a pay testimoniftl, but to
let our readers know vfhftt is a good
thing to kgep hftndy in the house. For
sale by S. r. Smith.
A Peaceable U*e For Guq Barrels,
The demand for wrought iron pipe
began with the invention of ilhimi
nating gas, but the introduction of il
luminating gas at first was very slow
in consequence of prejudice and want
of appreciation of its importance.
About the time of the invention of
illuminating gas, which was in the
latter jiart of the seventeenth cen
tury, the long war between England
ami France was drawing to a close.
It had made a great demand for gun
barrels, which were largely made at
Wednesbury. England, and at its
close it left a large amount of this
stock on the market, which (there
being no other demand for it) was
used for the small gas tubes by
screwing the small end of one tube
into the large end of another. This
supply api»arently covered the de
mand for small tubes for some time,
and the larger ones were made in the
same manner. —lron Age.
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AN AMERICAN BILLIONAIRE.
Possibility That Is Even u I rob.ability 11
the Not Distant Future.
More than 10 years ago John Swin
ton made (he somewhat notable
prophecy. “The nineteenth cental y
will witness an American bil.iou
aire." At that time the richest man
in the nation was credited with be
ing worth $00,000,000 in hard cash.
When young William H. Vanderbilt
died Lc was said to be the prospective
heir t< 11110,000,000.
There have been some'interesting
computations of the prospective
wealth of this great family, allowing
its investments to continue as sub
stantial as they now are, and substi
tute for the enormous revenues now
returned from its groat railway prop
oytjofi at the modest rate of 5 per
pent. Tivo years ago the wealth of
the Vanderbilt family wag thus sum
mariged:
Cornelius Vanderbiltsllo,ooo,ooo
William K. Vanderbilt 85,000,000
Frederick W. Vanderbilt 16,000,000
George W, Vanderbilt 13,000,000
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard 12,000,0G0
Mrs. W. D. Sloane 12.000,000
Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twomblcy.... 12,000,000
Mrs. W. Seward Webb J 2,000,000
Total m ,, n 5274,000,000
’t'hat this wealth has since grown
to be $300,000,000 is stating it very
conservatively. The estimated in
come is $15,000,000, At current rates
pf hitereat thia fortune, if kept in
tact, will in ?S years have grown to
be nearly $1,000,000,000. The enor
mous pile of money comprised in
$1,000,000,000 is hardly to be realized
by most people. What a figure a
billionaire would be may perhaps bo
best understood by saying that such
a man, it his wealth were all concen
trated in Minneapolis, would hold a
clear title to the whole of the Twin
Cities and all their suburbs—meaning
all the lands and buildings as they’
stand, and a considerable portion of
the besides.
it is therefore by no means cer
tain that John Swinton s prophecy
will not materialize before the cen
tury- closes. The interest on the Van
derbilt wealth, at 5 per cent, would
Diake it rtt the end of 5 years, $310,-
000,000; in 10 y’ears, $448,000,000; in
25 years, $941,000,000; in 50 years,
$3,000,000,000.
But 5 per cent is only a conven
tional trifle in the face of the figures
of profit ou the great Vanderbilt
i>auls. And as the Vanderbilts, along
with the Astors, have adopted a poli
cy in bequeathing property, which
amounts in practice to English
primogeniture, it is by po means im
probable thqt they may bring forth
0 billionaire before the dawn of the
twentieth century.
These are facts which may well set
all classes of men interested in the
general welfare to tbipkiilg. The fa
bled wpglth of tho Civsarswas paltry
bpside the prospective mountains
whoso broadening shadows hang over
millions of honest toilers struggling
for a decent competence.—Minneapo
lis Tribune.
Thia la a Sagacious Dog.
There is a prominent business man
in Washington who is something of
a dog fancier and takes pride in a
pair of English setters that have held
g m<G|nteent place in several bench
shows in the country. Some months
ago one of them developed an in
cipient case pf ophthalmia and was
fakep |qan oculist for treatment, just
us naturally as would have been any
other member of the family. The
treatment, which consisted of drops
to lie putin the patient's eye, proved
quite successful and relieved the
trouble for a tiiqe A hut after awhile
it camp pn (tgaiu, and a second ex
neditiop was planned to the doctor's.
Flim Flam seemed to know where
he was going, for on entering the
square where the oculist had his of
fice he raced ahead of his master and
got up the steps where he had been
but once before, and on the door be
pig opened bolted straight for the
treatment room, instead of waiting
his turn down stairs as two legged
patients learn tQ do to their sorrow
pnd impatience. This time the treat
was a zinc solution that was
very severe and brought the water
pi streams from the patient’s eyes,
Vut he took it with his nose in tho
air ppvey wipcteg, aud the only sign
feeling he made was to hold out
one paw pathetically for his master's
hand.—Washington Post.
Nervous Ailments.
An opinion is gaining ground that
nervous ailments are by no means
exclusively the product of a fin do
sieele age or even of a highly devel
oped civilization. Dr. Rosse of tho
Georgia Medical college propounds a
theory that any sudden change in the
social habits and conditions of a race
at any stage of advancement is suffi
cient te induce epilepsy in large quan
tities, and instances are given of its
prevalence among many savage peo
ple, notably the Hurons and the Iro
quois at the time of the Jesuit mis
sion, and more particularly still the
Sibiritic tribes, who may be thrown
pto convulsions by suddenly tapping
pp their huts.—London Public Opin
teh-
The French Tricolor
Red and blue, the old colors of
Paris, linked by Lafayette with Hen
ry IV's royal white, made the tri
color. A man’s dress showed his
party. The patriots wore light coats
with black waistcoat and trousers.
The royalists dressed all in black
with a white stock, or else in the liv
ery of Artoi's green coat with rose
colored collar.—Washington Star.
The Bert Blood Remedy.
August A. Klsges, 810 St. Charles
street, Baltimore, Md., writes : “From
my youth I suffered from a poisonous
taint in my blood. My face and body
was continually affected with eruptions
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 Botanic Blood
Balm. My skin is clear, smooth and
healthy, and I consider the poison per
manently driven from my blood. I in
dorse it as the best blood remedy.”
ITALIAN MACARONI IN ITAL/.
How It Is Served There, For It May Be
Made In Your One Kitchen.
Inoiteof the largest American cities
there is an Italian re»;aurant with
real Italian service that has a n ng
its chief patrons many who have lived
half a dozen years in Italy, more or
less, and are judges of purely Italian
viands. In this particular restau
rant they find their favorite dishes
cooked and served in the genuine
Italian manner.
There is macaroni, for instance.
Now, macaroni here in Italy and
macaroni in America are two very
different articles. It was only re
cently that I heaitl a pretty New
Yorh girl say: “It is so strange that
at home I can’t bear macaroni, and
here I can hardly get enough of it.
Do you know the reason?”
I did, and I told her, and I will tell
you, so that with your perfect dish
of macaroni you may put palms or
great clusters of small pink roses or
yellow orchids on your table, bottles
here and there and pretty side dishes
with pats of unsalted, creamy
butter stamped with flights of doves
and clusters of flowers, or even the
legendary wolf, and quite imagine
you are again iff Italy. Such macaroni
is not made at a tremendous factory,
nor with coarse flour and water, but
in one’s own kitchen and thus:
Heap a little more than half a kilo
—about 2 pounds—of best flour on
your marble pastry slab or your
hard woo<l molding board, make a
hele in the center of the flour some
what like the crater of a volcano,
and into this break 7or 8 eggs. Stir
these eggs (whites and yolks to
gether) slowly and steadily with the
flour until a perfectly smooth but
very hard mass is made. Then di
vide it into perhaps six pieces, pro
ceeding with one after the other as
follows:
First roll the dough as thin as it
possibly can be rolled, then fold it
qyer and over in folds about 3
inches wide until the piece is entire
ly folded. Then cut it through cross
wise in pieces about one-half or one
third of an inch wide, or they may
be cut in fancy shapes. Shake the
least little dust of flour over it and
then lift the little piles of strips, let
ting them fall so they will separate
but not break. Put them on a sieve
or almost anywhere not too near the
stove nor in the sun, to dry thor
oughly, and when they are dried
your macaroni is done. It is very
simple, isn’t it?
There is a very necessary point in
preparing macaroni dishes—that is,
that the macaroni must be boiled
just long enough, as it is as easily
spoiled by too much or too little boil
ing as green com or eggs.
Another thing to be remembered
is that there must be plenty of water
in the kettle in which it boils and
that the water must be all the time
boiling thoroughly, but not too vio
lently. A little salt is to be added
to the water too. Capolina— that
very fine macaroni, scarcely the size
of a small Steel knitting needle,
made especially fox soups—should
never be put in longer than 20 min
qtes before it is served on the table.
—Horne Cui', Boston Globe.
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Influence of Free Libraries.
As a matter of fact, since the estab
lishment of free libraries there has
been a manifest improvement in the
class of books react Librarians tell
US that history is more in demand,
and that the best books are gradu
ally superseding in the estimation of
the people those which might be con
sidered of a less favcaable tendency.
This is good news, but there is still
much room for improvement, and
only in proportion as we realize our
individual responsibility in this mat
ter and act up to it shall we be able
to help to raise the tone of the public
taste, for it is certain that degrading
and vicious literature is supplied in
answer to a demand, although it is
probably just as sadly certain that
writers and purveyors, finding that
such a demand exists, do not hesitate
to lead the way where formerly they
cautiously felt it. —Chambers’ Jour
nal.
THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED.
Can You Find the Word ?
There is a 2-inch display advertise
ment in this paper, this week, which has
no two words alike except one word.
The same is true of each new one ap
pearing each week, from the Dr. Harter
Medicine Co. This house places a
“Crescent” on everything they make and
publish. Look for it, send them the
name of the word, and they will return
you Book, Beautiful Lithographs or
Samples Free.
There has been considerable discus
sion as to who invented spectacles
and who had the pleasure of wearing
the first pair. The honor is general
ly awarded to an Italian named Sal
vino Armati, who died in 1317.
For acidity of the stomach, which
gives bad breath, use a solution of
a teaspoonful of baking soda and
half as much salt in a glass of water.
Drink a little of this and rinse the
mouth also.
A patient in Paris, having lost a
portion of her skull through an oper
ation for tumor, has had a piece of a
dog’s skull successfully grafted on to
her own and is now quite well.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
IWKS?
ABSOU/TEUf PURE
young Wives
Who are for the first time to
undergo woman’s severest trial
we offer
“Mothers Friend”
A remedy which, if used as directed a few
weeks before confinement, robs it of its
PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFE
of both mother and child, as thousands who
Have used it testify,
"I used two bottles of Mothers Friend with
marvelous results, and wish every woman
who has to pass through the ordeal of child-birth to
know if they will use mothers Friend for a few
weeks it will rob confinement of fain and suffering,
and insure safety to life of mother and child."
Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Montgomery City,Mo-
Sent by express, charges prenaid, on receipt of
price, 1 1.50 per bottle Soldby all druggists. Book
To Mothers mailed free.
Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Rictoifl & Dmille R. B.
Samuel Spencer. F. W. Ilnidekoper A-
Keiibe■■ Foster. Receivers.
ATLANTA & CHARLOTTE DIVISION.
Condensed Schedule of Passenirer
Trains in Effect August 1», 1893.
NORTHBOUND. No. 12 No. 36 NO. 38
Eastern Time. Daily Daily Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E. T.) 950 am 645 pm 100 pm
Chamblee 10 28 am
Norcross 10 39 am 723 pm
Duluth 10 50 am
Suwanee 11 01 am
Buford 1113 am
Flowy Branch 1126 am
Gainesville 1146 am 8 *2O pm 222 pm
Lula 12 I*2 pm 840 pm
Bellton 12 14 pm
Coruelia 12 39 pm
Mt. Airy *1 o*2 pm 905 pm
Toccoa 138 pm 927 pm
Westminister 2 21pm
Seneca 237 pm 10 15 pm
Central 305 pm 10 4*2 pm 438 pm
Easley 332 pm 11 07 pm
Greenville 405 pm 1128 am 523 pm
Greers 4 31 pm
Wellford 4 47 pm
Spartanburg 506 pm 12 *22 am 6 I*2 pm
Clifton 5 2*2 pm
Cowpens 5 26 pm
Gaffneys 550 pm 12 50 am
Blacksburg 607 pm 113 am 700 pm
Grover 6 18 pm
King’s Mount. 6 35 pm
Gastonia 700 pm 153 am
Lowell 7 12 pm
Bellemont 7 22 pm
Ar Charlottee *7 45pm 230 am 814 pm
No. 11 ’ No. 35 “ No. 37
Southbound. Daily Daily Daily
Lv. Charlotte 12 00 n’n 11 *25 pm 935 am
Bellemont 12 25 pm
Lowell 12 37 pin
Gastonia 12 50 pm 12 02 am
King's Mount. 1 19 pm
Grover 1 37 pm
Blacksburg 147 pm I*2 44 am 10 48 am
Gaffneys 207 pin 12 59 am
Cowpens 2 37 pm
Clifton 2 38 pm
Spartanburg 300 pm 135 am 11 37 am
Wellford 3 20 pm
G leers 3 36 pm
Greenville 405 pm 228 am 12 28 pm
Easleys 4 3*2 pm 248 am
Central 506 pm 312 am 110 pm
Seneca 545 pm 340 am
Westminster 6 03 pm
Toccoa 636 pm 426 am
Mt. Airy 7 00 pm
Cornelia 7 *25 pm
Belltan 7 50 pm
Lula 752 pm 513 am
Gainesville 820 pm 534 am 333 pm
Flow’y Branch 840 pm
B u tbrd 8 45 pin
Suwanee 9 07 pm
Duluth 9 20 pm
Norcross 9 30 pin
Chamblee 9 4*2 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 1015 pm 710 am 455 pm
* Meals.
BETWEEN TOCCOA AND ELBERTON.
Southbound. No. 63. No. 9
Lv Toccoa 700 am 140 pm
I«avonia 8 15 am 245 pm
Bowersville 900 am 300 pm
Royston 9 40 am 322 pn*
Ar Elberton 10 55 am 420 pm
Nokthboi nd NO. I*2 No. G 2
Lv Elberton 730 am 115 pm
Roj Stoll 827 am 240 pm
Bowersville 905 am 330 pm
Lavonia 9 *2O am 400 pm
Ar Toccoalo *25 ami 530 pm
All trains daily except Sunday.
Note especially that trains Nos. 15, 16, 17 am!
18 will run between Cornelia ami Atlanta instead
of Lula ami Atlanta. Agents will give all pub
licity possible ami have newspapers make loe-al
mention in accordance with onr existing advertis
ing arrangements.
W A TURK, S II HARDWICK.
Gen Pass Agent. Ass'tG P Agent,
Washington, D C Atlanta. Ga
J A DODSON, Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga
W H GREEN, SUL HAAS.
Gen 1 Mg r, Traffic Mg r,
Washington. D C Washington, DC
Georgia Southern 4 Florina
RAILROAD.
“ Sat.
only.
SOUTH BOUND. 1 3 *
A.M. P. M. |>. M .
Lv. Atlanta SOO 655 )30
Macon Junction.... 11 IS 10 28 5 <x>
Macao 11 05 10 10 450
P. M. A.M
Cordele 15012 49 730
Tifton 316 215 999
Valdosta 448 345
Jasper 551 444
Ar. Lake Citv 64 5 535 s*
Jacksonville J 8 30 7 40 J S
Lv. Hampton 545 7-24 g-2
Ar. Palatka 10 00 8 45 3. *
P.M. A.M. ?
NORTH BOUND. 2 4 I 6
A. M. P. M ’
Lv. Palatka 600 529
Hampton 7 24 642
Jacksonville 7 00 6 30
Lake City 9 10 8 40
Jasper 10 02 935
Valdosta 11 05 10 45
P. M. A.M. A. M.
Tifton 12 50 12 23 605
Cordele 215 152 742
Ar. Macon Junction 4 35 4 10 10 10
Macon... 450 4 30 10 20
Atlanta 805 7 4<; 145
P. M. A.M. P. M.
"short LINE TO WORLD’S FAIR.
Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars.
Jacksonville to Nashville, via Atlanta,
connecting in Union Depot at Nastville
with Vestibuled Limited for Chicago.
With Velvet Train, via W. 4 A. R. R.,
from Atlanta to Chicago, making only
one change from Palatka and Jackson
ville to the World's Fair.
For Summer tourists’ points in the
Carolina and Virginia, connections made
with Fast Mail Train and Vestibuled
Limited, via R. 4 D.. in Union Depot al
Atlanta. Close connections yia G. P.
R. R. for Birmingham and Kansas City.
Sleeping Car on Night Trains
from Macon and Palatka. Passengers
leaving Palatka can remain in Sleeper
at Macon until 7a. tn., where breakfast
can be had and connections made with
7:4# train for Atlanta, and trains for
Augusta, Athens, Milledgeville, Mont
gomery and Savannah, and all points
East, North and South.
IL Burns, A. C. Knapp,
Trav. Pass’g Agt., Traffic Mgr.,
Macon Ga. Macon, Ga.
NO. 48.