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DANGERS OF BURGLING.
A WESTERN MI l» NT BUT RAIU.
A Frishier---I lIou»e-hrpnker nnd the Sion
ilk- Told when lie Fooled liowkk a Little.
[From the Milwaukee 8uu.]
It is the general impression thought among of the
people who have ever
matter at all, that burglars, those enter¬
prising citizens who enter houses at
night to rob, in the dark, not knowing
but a dozen revolvers may be pointed world. at
them, are the bravest men in the
On the contrary, they are the most cow¬ of
ardly. There is not one burglar out
a hundred but would desert before he
would go into a battle, if lie were a sol¬
dier, and the business of a burglar is
not half as dangerous as braking on a
freight train, working around a printing police
press, or holding a position on a
force. The man who goes to a Sunday
picnic, with an excursion from a city,
takes his life in his hand, and is in more
danger than any burglar is in entering a
house at night. The boy who attends
an elevator in a factory, or the girl who
works a sewing machine in an establish¬
ment where shafting and lielts run over¬
head, is in more danger of being killed
than a burglar is in the practice of his
calling
' Not long since, a citizen, who was
troubled with heart disease, was lying
awake after midnight, when he heard a
burglar effecting an entrance at a win¬
dow of the sleeping room. Being lone¬
some ho kept still and allowed the visitor
to come in, thinking he might entered be good
company. As tlie burglar the
room, tlie citizen raised up in bed,
placed a pillow in front the of intruder, him, pointed and
a long bony linger at
told him to bold up bis hands, The
burglar did so, and in one band was a
revolver. The citizen told the burglar
to throw that revolver out of a window
into the street, which was done at once,
and it could be heard to drop into the
rood. The burglar trembled like a leaf,
and begged the citizen with heart disease
to spare his life, as ho was the solo sup¬
port of an old mother. The citizen toid
him he need hnvo no fear, and ordered
him to turn up the gas, which he did,
and the two men looked at each other.
The burglar was a sharp-faced boy of
twenty, a coward if there ever was one.
The citizen fold him to bring a pack of
cards off a stand, and sit down on the
foot of the bed. The citizen shuffled
the cards and dealt out a couple of
bauds, and told the burglar he would
play him a game of seven up to see
which was the biggest fool, and to allow
the visitor to collect his nerves, which
were badly he could shattered. hardly At play, first hut he finally trem¬
bled so
got interested hi the game' and forgot,
apparently, apologized for where he having was. The clothes citizen
not on
that would be more appropriate, and
otherwise made the burglar feci at home,
and after they had played a collide of
games of seven up, and the third had
licen sawed off on the burglar, the citi
aen liegan to talk to him alsiut his pro¬
fession. Said he:
“Now, I have heard a great deal about
burglars, but I never saw one until yon
dropped iu this evening, and I must
thank you for helping mu to pass an
evening thatodherwisp might haveibeen
lonely. who I liavffUl ways regarded burglars
as men were brave even to rashness,
but you seem to be about the worst cow¬
ard I ever saw. When yon came in,
with your revolver, and 1 pointed my
finger at yon, which I assure you was
not loaded, yon held np your hands as
high us you could, considering thut the
life was scared out of you. I had no
weapons, and you were armed. Why
didn’t you shoot ? What did j r on sur¬
render for, and act the coward ? By this
act you have brought reproach tijion a
class of men that are supposed to be
brave. What have yon got to say for
yourself, and ligtit anyway? it, and toll Take all a cigar there, know
me you
about the burglar business, or I mu; bo
tempted, invalid us 1 am, to hit you villi
a pillow.’ The burglar looked at the "invalid,”
who was big enough to eat. him raw, no¬
ticed that lie had no weapon, seemed
ashamed of himself, then he took a cigar
and lit it, and said:
“Well, boss, this is the rawest deal I
ever got, and I have l«-en in a good
mauy tight and places. don’t Yon seem to be un¬
armed, yon know but I nm
loaded down to the guards with firearms,
and yet you have more gall than any
man I ever met. Toil seem candid and
honest, and yet I feel as though if I
made a move you would pall a pair of
navy revolvers from under the l>od
clothes, and that, by touching a spring
on the fool-board of the hod with your
foot, a battery of artillery would roll
out and take position. I don’t know
now hut you have touched an electric
button that connects with the police sta¬ |
tion, and 1 feel as though a platoon of
police might march in the room at any j
moment. So you see, you have me com¬
pletely don’t in your power. in eonti
“I mind telling you,
deuce, though I wouldn’t have you give
it awav, a? it would injure me in my
business, that 1 am the worst coward
that e\ei lvisl. 1 was always that way,
oo much so that my folks could never
induce me to learn a trade in which there
was any danger of getting hurt. Every
trade seemed fan of danger to me, l
took to Micas thieving, and from that
fell to damp burglar work. It the
$afost business in the world, except
thousand being a he-milliner. It is not ouce m a
times that anybody ever hurts
* burg ,r. Ninety-nine out of a nun
“Fed houses have no revolver, and if
there is one it is not loaded, aiul if it is
loaded, the man does not shoot it. A
mail hud rather shout to burglars to go
away than to shoot them. Once in a
while a reckless, blood-thirsty man
shoots one of ns. but such men are
scarce, and ought to ia' arrested. The
most danger we have is iu failing over
■ehsirs, , . or cutting ,,. . onr fingers „ on these
wire screens. If the people would care
fully remove the chairs from a room,
end have the screens arranged to swing
open, we would have an easy '.me. All
they have to do is to toll us to go away.
end we go. I t you had said, n lie* you
heard me at tlie window, ‘Boss, that is
played out. You light out,’ 1 would
have gone right away. MV don’t want
to make any trouble/ All we want is a
fair show. We never shoot unless some
person tries to arrest us. But there is
not a burglar anywhere but ia afraid of
his shadow. ”
The citizen told the Ifftrglar he was
glad to bear it, and was pleased with the
interview, and after presenting the burg¬
lar with his card and a couple of cigars,
asked him to withdraw, us he was be¬
ginning prowler lit to another get sleepy, and and the took night
cigar, an
extra handful of matches to use in find¬
ing his revolver in the street, and went
out the window. The citizen got up to
put out the gas, and looked out the win¬
dow and saw his burglar feeling around
on the ground for the lost citizen revolver, and
swearing because the wouldn’t
come out in his night-shirt and help him
find it.
SLAVES OF ABSINTHE.
rho Deadly Dr up Becoming a Fnrorft*
Drink -ItM Kf!i*rt* on ibe Brain.
[From the Philadelphia PreBH.]
It was six o’clock in the morning. Tho
gray dawn was beginning to break and
from one end of Chestnut street to tho
other there resounded the clack, clack
of opening shutters as a thin man braced
up before the marble-topped bar of a
drinking palace, and in a nervous voice
asked for absinthe.
“Eli ?" queried the concocter of mixed
(leverages. “Absinthe,’’ replied cadaverous
the
individual, as he felt mechanically in
his breeches pockets for the necessary
change. will have it?” asked the
“How you
barkeeper in a honeyed voice.
“Washed, please,” was the answer.
So the barkeeper reached up and
drew down from a slielf behind him a
small delicately-shaped goblet, scarcely
larger than a big acorn, and balanced it.
in an ordinary-sized he tumbler, the absinthe. into the
small tumbler poured
Over the absinthe lie poured some pure
Schuylkill water, allowing it tc. fall ar¬
tistically drop by drop upon the bitter
drug until the larger goblet was half full
of the overrunning beverage. Then he
deftly dumped the contents of the small
goblet into the larger, shook the com
bined contents rapidly with his trained
right hand and remarked obsequiously, “Here
as he passed it to the customer,
you are, sir.” t
Next came the reporter, who asked
tho "barkeeper to fell him about the ab¬
sinthe drinks, and the barkeeper opened
his mouth and Haid:
“Well, people have been drinking ab¬
sinthe for now nigh going on to twenty
years in my recollection. I think,
though, that the consumption lias in¬
creased of late. The calls now-a-dnys
are mostly either for washed or frozen
absinthe, or for absinthe in cocktails.
Maybe you don’t know it, but it is a
splendid thing to brace up on after
you’ve been out all night. It steadies
the nerves a deal better than whisky or
brandy, and is a strong favorite with old
topers.” “Do think the consumption is in¬
you
creasing !” chiefly the dudes.
“Yes, but among sip little
They call for it, but only a atr.
time. As for the general run of cus¬
tomers they don’t take to it any more
than they used to.”
“When is it most drunk ?”
'•‘Why, in the motnif.g and !ate‘ at
night, of course. A few old soaks wnnt
it always in their cocktails; but tliey n ri¬
exceptions.” supply it without being
“Do you re¬
quested “Generally ?” I sprinkle it in the oook
tnils of the ‘regulars!’ They like the
flavor.
ft TKAIILY DRUO.
A physician was next called upon and
his views requested. asked the reporter, “does
"Doctor,” evil effect
absinthe exert a specially upon
the system ?”
“Yon must know that absinthe is the
distilled essence of wormwood. Its ef¬
fects upon the sensibilities are similar
to those produced by eating opium. iden¬ Tho
real effect upon the brain is almost
tical with that of hasheesh, When
taken in excess it produces softening of
the brain. For a time it strengthens
the nerves, bnt this effect is soon lost,
and the latter, from having Wen subject
to a serif's of false stimulations, lapse
into that unstrung state which is sure to
be speedily followed by tlie strongest
and most fatal attacks of mimia-ii-potu.
The miserable sufferer becomes attacked
with horrible desires. His brain softens
like putty, and he dies in agony.”
Wit flic Combination.
The combinations of persons Waring
the name of somebody who died a eon
tnry ago and who would have Weil very
rich by now if he had lived and retained
all of the property which other jsxiple
have made productive are not entitled to
much respect. They are not formed, it
may be said, for the purpose of com
manding public respect, but forthepur
]iose of obtaining money. Unfortn- anybody
nately, they fail iu that also. If
w 'h toll us "of anybody not a lawyer who
has been pecuniarily benefited by the
claim of the family to the estate of some
remote ancestor, enforced , , by , meetings
of heirs and the other familiar proceed
mgs the relation will W an interesting
>im , of Dews . Commodore William
Bradford Whiting, who has just Union resigned
i lifi share in the Bradfold Asso
t .j Al j ou ^ formed for the purpose of get
tlUR hold of $122,000,000 which Gover
nor William Bradford might have pos
^ssed if he hud lived till this time has
:U . tw l like a r.au of sense and honor,
jj„ n .. s ,g ns from the association-mam
( ] lt , ground that its objects did not seem
to him attainable. Even were the chase
of the wild goose to 1 h> conducted upon
the most sportsmanlike principles, it
cannot be recommended as a produc¬
tive industry.
Green Corn, I’akku.— Remove the
husk and silk from a dozen ears of fresh,
green corn, rub each one with butter
and season it with pepper and salt; lav
(he earN fa „ a r i »ping-pan jn-t large
, h to hoW tWm aHli ,,],«*> the pan
a vt . rv hot mvll until tht> ,,
Urown t j mv ing it occasionally to insure
oven cooking; serve it on a hot dish with
llu , lnlttor from tho , H n,red over it.
g[ le OV en should be very hot to cook this
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A OC:'D wool is an easy obligation, but
not to speak ill requires only our silence,
which exists us nothing.
MACHINERY DEPOT
W. .T. POLLAP.D,
Manufacturer and Manufacturers’ Agent.
—MANUFACTURER OF—
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GENERAL AGENT FOP.
Gram Threshers and Separators and Agricu’tural Implements
Fairbanks & Co’* Standard Scales, Etc.,
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,, Saw Mills, Grist Mills Etc.
E & G. Cooper, & Go’s Traction Engines, Portable and Agricultural Engines
\V atertown Agricultural P ortable & Stationery
S2MAM JSZGIJYJSS, M WMIZZS, Me.
GOODAL & WATER’S WOOD WORKING MACHINERY.
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Everything that can be used about Machinery.
Acme Pulverizing Harrow and Clod Crusher
TOOLS OP ALL KINDS.
Hancock Inspirators, Etc.,
T ioaly I desire to make the Machine Business a complete success and we have
to guarantee to furnish everything wanted in that
line on as Reasonable terms as any
house in the country.
MY STOCK IS THE LARGEST AND MOST VARIED
Of any house in the South.
My connection with some of the largest Manufactories in the Uuited Slates
gwesme superior advantages for furnishing the BEST AND MOST RELIABLE
FOUND AN WHERE.
W. J. Pollard.
731, 734 and 736 Reynolds Street,
Augusta. Ga¬
il. V, ANDREWS, Agt., Crawfordville. Ga,
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W&S. *». *WYLX»WWS f Proprietress.
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18 now prepared to receive and entertain the public in the best and most eom
fertable manner, The house is convenient, to the Post-office and business portion
of tiie town, the rooms are large and well furnished, the table is supplied with
tne best the market affords, and my waiters are polite and attentive. Commer¬
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CHARGES MODERATE
fa connection with the Hotel is a first class Livery Stable, where vehicles
and ifd. tor»cs can be had at any tinif’
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Brown’s Clobe Hotel.
Agusta, Georgia.
RATES $2.00 and $2 50 PER DAY
LOCATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE BUSINESS PORTION OF THE CTTT
B. F. BROWN, Manage
S. H. MYERS,
(SUCCESSOR TO MYERS & MARCUS)
-JOBBER IIST
©Tv G^ood^, J\fotioi)$ and So^iefy,
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Clothing,
rpilE undersigned would respectfully inform the merchants of Taliaferro and
JL adjoining (ounties, that his FALL Stock is now being received, and in prices
and assoriment is unrqualed by any ttiat has ever been brought to this market.
A special feature of my business is the establishment of a
’- WHOLE8ALE—
BOOT SHOE AND HAT HOUSE
Entirely distinct from my Dry Goods, Notions and oth-r Departments In my
store will be found the largest and best selecsed stock of SHOES.and HATS, I
ever brought to Augusta, and we feel satisfied that it will bo to the interest ol pur
chasers to exarniu) our stock before purchasing elsewhere.
Mar-30 S. ’82-1 H. MYERS, 2S6 and 288 Broad St., Augusta, Gs.
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E. LIEBSCHER’S
BOTTLING WORKS
Cirn a r Jackson and Ellis Streets, AUGUSTA, GA.
T TAKE THE LIBERTY of informing the people ot Taliaferro jc
Ltouuties that I Have cjnsideiab'.y eularged my businesi facilities HS am now
prepared to furnish my titon* with the following articles at wholesale and retai
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CINCINNATI LAGER BEER IN 1-4 AND I-8 KEGS.
FRESH AND SALT WATER FISH. OYSTERS IN CANS SHELL* BULK
| HAVE also added a BOTTLING ESTABLISHMENT to my already ex ten
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Bdt ed Brer. It is the best in the market and
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DVILLE,
A colored farmer in Marion county
whipped a ligntning-rod and man, cleaned
out a book agent, se t to grass*
patent churn man, ail within a single
week. We entirely favor the proposed
reform of spelling “Negro” with a capital
•N.”
In England riders on the bicycle and
tiycicle are called “bikes" and “trikes.*