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A WIFE’S ROMANCE.
A JSnrSinctoit I,tidy dopes from her Hus¬
band, Expectinc a Jolly Time.
The Davenport, la., Democrat thus
tells of the escapade of a young married
lady of Burlington, la., in that city, and
no doubt, from a perusal of the article,
many will be able to determine her iden¬
tity:
There is one young woman in Iowa
who Las been cured of romancing. It
was recently that the wife theservices of a prom¬
inent physician who engaged quite agreeable of a
young voman was
in appearance, and who was sent to
her from an intelligence girl, office, who for
housework. She gave the ap¬
peared to be about twenty years of age,
general directions as to the work to be
done, and whoa the girl told her that
she could cook, she told her what to get
for supper.
The doctor came home for his tea,
and the wife went into the kitchen to see
how preparations for tfie evening meal
were progressing. There sat the now
girl with .a pan of apples in her lap but
there was no sign that preparations for
supper had been commenced, even. And
the iady was girl. struck 8he by asked the sad the counten¬
ance of the stranger
the cause of the delay in arrangements looked
for supper, and why she so
downcast. The eyes of the girl filled
with tears-
“Oh, madam,” she exclaimed, “lam
in such trouble! Oh, I can’t tell yon
how- wretched I am !”
The lady convinced the girl that she
could confide in her—and out came the
brief story:
“Oh, madam, I have a husband in
Burlington—as good a husband as any
young wife ever had—and I have run
away and left him !
“But why did you do it?”
“I don’t know hardly—we had a little
misunderstanding, and I became punish very
angry, and thought I would him
by leaving him, thinking he would hunt
for me and beg me to return. I took
the cars and came to Davenport, deter¬
mined, to earn my ow r D living; hut I
want to go back so much. I can’t work,
can't do anything, but I want to go
back.”
The wretched young wife sobbed like
a child, and besought her new employer
to assist her in returning to Burlington.
She thought such an adveutnre would
be romantic—and it would be nice to
have her husband hunting for her until
he could find her; but now she said she
believed she was the most foolish and
miserable woman alive.
The sympathy of the physician and
his wife went out for the wretched crea¬
ture, and she remained in the house un¬
til morning, when the doctor placed lur
aboard of the southwestern train for
Burlington, and also wrote a letter to
the husband, in which he stated the
the circumstances in which the wife
•came to his house, and of his belief in
her bitter her repen full fence glee of her folly. She
left home of over her pros¬
pects of a gay lark—and left for her
Lome with broken spirits and iu fear and
trembling.
Why, Ob, Why?
There are some unsolved mvsteries in
O —..1.1--Or ”,
iu
•cause for reflection and anxiety. If I
were rich I believe I would build
me a lonely cell somewhere in Clinton or
some place like that, worth about
$90,000, with a store-room like a whole
sale grocery, where I might have plenty
of help in studying these intricate prob
lems in our daily economy, or extrava
gance, as the case my be. For often
and often I wonder and wonder: .
Why vou always put teaspoons into
the vase upside down? *
Why the pantaloons of a godless ath •
eist, who never said a prayer in his life,
bag at tho knees just as quickly and
decidedly as the breeks of the saint
who spends half his days on his knees ?
Why it is wrong to eat pie with a
v
Whitt Washington said to General Lee
at the Bottle of Monmouth ?
Why so many generals in the army
have been privates ever since the war?
How the directory of a railroad com
pany can get rich, while the stockhoid
ers gradually starve to death?
How a receiver prospers and grows
fat on a business that ruined the mer
chant?
Whv the man who “has none out of
S nolifies” keeir never rrisses a convention £ and
“in the hands and
the oocketsi of bis friends’”
What the State would do for peniten
tiaries if all the rascals should suddenly
step up and confess ?
Why a woman falls like a flash not
two inches from the banana skin she
steps on, while a man falls like a cyclone
half way round the block, howling like
a demon at every plunge, and at last
climaxes with a crash under a peanut
stand on the other side of the street ?
Why “pure bear’s oil” is always
cheaper when pork is away down, and
booms up like a balloon in the cholera
years ?
Why, when spring chickens are so
small you have to eat them by the dozen
to ' WbV iw' tLnib” tk^cliiekenv
frequently tries to make
himself necessary when he would serve
humanity much better by making him
self scarce?
Why it is so much easier to lose half
" ?
a dozen bets than it is to win one
Why Tom Thumb was always billed as
“twentv-three years old” until the day
he died, when he made a jump * of more
thvn Ins life time 0
Why some people “remember the
Sabbath ay” as though it t inly a
pakior-fcar porter, and give it a quarter
in full for all demands?
Whatever became of the “blue-glass
remedy ?”
And what wvnt with ail the archery
clubs ?
1 uou t beiieve in philosophy , wasting ,.
ite time an trifles. It the wise men want
<>ometIiiiig usefu* and practical to ponder
over, here are their pro oleins.— Bub
DETTE.
“A fait, outside is but a poor substi
tute for inward worth,” savs a writer,
That s what the small boy thicks, when
he can’t find a hole under the fence big
enough to crawl through, and has to
content himself with peeping through
the cracks. 9
TVhen to Begin Keeping Poultry.
There is no doubt that a well-kept
dock of poultry stock.' is the most profitable flock of
ill farm But a little well
kept, like a little farm well tilled, brings
the most profit to the farmer. Just as
many as can be kept without crowding,
vnd with ease and convenience, will be
the most profitable. Poultry will not
bear crow-ding any more than sheep or
pigs or people, and it is well known that
When any of these are too closely kept
disease appears and works mischief,
[t is a necessity of the case, because
cleanliness must be sacrificed to neces ■
sity. than 50 fowls
We would not put more
in one yard, nor confine them in a yard
all the' time. Success with poultry is
totally impossible with close confine¬
ment.' The fowls must have a run
abroad at least half a day, and a grass
ran is the best. There they secure an
abundance of insects, ss grasshoppers,
flies, crickets, beetles, caterpillars, ants,
and worms, all of which are their nat¬
ural food. But ou a farm the number
of fowls must not exceed the limits of
ground provided for them, or, like Mr.
Micawber’s financial condition, it will
produce misery. When this gentleman
kept his expenses within half a cent of
his income his comfort and pleasure
were unbounded, The half-cent, was a
perpetual joy to him. But when he
went half a cent beyond his income life
was a burden. The debt was a source
of misery. The principle applies strictly
to poultry-keeping. One lien too few,
and health, comfort, and wealth abound.
One hen too many, and disease, death
and loss result. The line may be drawn
right there, for it is so narrow and so
straight that it is quite as easily over¬
stepped as that.
But as with other live stock, there are
good and bad, profitable and unprofit¬
able, fowls. And we should get the
best. If a dairyman were to begin
business he would buy cows and not
calves. In the , one case , his . profits would ,
begin at once; in the other his expenses
only would begin, and his profits would
be iu the future. It is the same with
fowls. If one procures a dozen eggs of
some good kind to begin with, he must
spend a year and some money before
income be made. For the price of two
settings of eggs a trio of fowls can be
procured, and while the eggs would be
hatching and the chicks rearing the two^
hens would lay a hundred or two of eggs*
and rear 20 chicks themselves. Thus it
is easy to get into stock quickly and at
less cost by * procuring fowls thau by get¬
ting eggs. And this is the season for
beginning. Early pullets can bo pur¬
chased now quite cheaply, while in the
spring no breeder will sell them, because
they are making him a profit. In Janu¬
ary or February they will begin laying,
and if a few common hens can bo pro¬
cured for brooders, a large number of
chicles can be hatched in March by good
management. That is by having a warm
place specially for the hens, where they
will not be disturbed by anything, in and it
if need he by putting a small stoyo window
to keep it warm. A large sunny desirable.
on the south side is very
Young chicks are excessively susceptible
to cold, and warmth will cover a multi¬
tude of mistakes and dangers. —Henry
Stewart.
Why the Prairies are Treeless.
Tlio salvation or the great new prairie
empire of America depends in great
measure on the feasruihty of cultivating
forests to serve its farmers as windbreaks,
The potency of a grove of leafless trees
in shielding one from the winter wind is
hardly credible. Its influence on the
open prairie reaches houses a mile dis
taut. The laws of all the Northwestern
States favor the planting of forest trees
fl 11 '1 Bie subject employs not a little of
the rattling rhetoric of their numerous
orators. The expediency of these laws
was newr questioned until recently. A
few months since a professor of Harvard
University, after ten years of study, pro
nounced these laws useless and unscien
Ufac. Ihe learned professor announced
tliut trees will grow where they ought to
au, l wl ll nov grow where they
ought not to grow; that the groat inland
praine lacks trees because it lias not a
large enough rainfall to support them,
and that the laws encouraging nrDorieul
ture will be futile. In traveling through
Western Minnesota little pride we explained this
theory with no to our fellow
traveler, a teamster. The teamster
made no reply except to quicken . the
pul-f h \ s PiP e - ft length having
made sure that he had smoked it to the
bottoxn of its socket, lie drew the pipe
from his month and pointed its handle
toward a clump of native trees that
skirted one side of a large mud lake,
“Do you notice,” he asked, “on which
side of the lake those trees stand ? The
southeast? Well, that settles it.”
There are, as ho afterward explained,
hundreds of these lakes dotting the
prairie land of Minnesota. Most of the
lakes on the southeastern shores have
clusters of forest trees. The reason of
this is not far to seek. There are two
winds there prevalent—the northwestern
and southeastern. The southeast
wind is the rain-brinper. The north
west is cold and dry. The prairie fires
sprawl bv the northwest, never by
the southeast wind. When tne praine
bres swept over the praine they burned
the young fives on all sides of Lie lake
except the southeastern, which was
sheltered by the water. There could be
no more conclusive proof of the power
the ,, ...... to destroy the .. growtn
01 •*«*
of forests tliau m soil favoruole to their
production.
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Forgetful.
The Timer, of Whitehall, New York,
tells of a salesman in that village who
tartod at noon for his dinner, and,
fi a few feet of sidewalk to lay
near home Le laid if, and then re
^ lirne( | kis place of business. He
nad forgotten something, he knew not
what. He explored and his pockets length and
taxed bis memory, at con
oioded that it must be nails. He made
a memorandum to stop and buy some
mght, and then felt relieved, At
about four o’clock a rush of memory
came upon Inm-he had forgotten to
eat his dinner.
Asleep on a Telegraph Wire.
People have been known to sleep on
house-tops, in the branches of trees, and
on rare occasions in a sleeping car, but
probably the first case of any one select¬
ing lodging the place top of occurred a telegraph the other Jjje night. as a
Shortly after midnight Jack Donegal’,
one of the linemen employed by the tel¬
ephone company, appeared, fully
equipped in his working Brothers’ uniform, in
_■ hiding climbers, at Wood ice
nouse, at the foot of Holmes street, and
asked the men in charge for the loan of
a short piece of plank. Supposing that
he wanted to use it in making some re¬
pairs of the telephone lines, a large
number of which pass directly in front
of the ice house, they gave him the
plank, but were unprepared for the sur¬
prise which awaited them, for Donegan,
taking the board under his arm, climbed
to the top of a high pole near by, and
mying the plank across the wires, coolly
rolled up his coat for a pillow, and,
stretching himself on the plank, com¬
posed himself for a snooze and was soon
snoring as peacefully as a babe in its
mother’s arm3. The employees of the
ice house expected to see him fall every
moment, but were afraid to make any
attempt to wake him lest it should
frighten him and precipitate his tumble.
About four o’clock in the morning an
officer came along and, being made ac¬
quainted high-minded with the individual situation, roosting yelled at
the at
the top of the pole, and down endeavored his to
persuade perch. him Donegan to come woke from in good
lofty failed to recognize the up officer’s
order, but
vutliority to order him down. Finding
persuasion of no avail, the officer, not to
be outdone, and being something of a
•.limber himself, “shinned” up the pole,
»nd by the application safely of down a little force
brought his man to terra
/irma, and Donegan was taken to the
itation. A few hours afterward lip was
nraigned in the police court and .fined
£5 for drunkenness. He said that sleep
ou q 10 ( 0 p 0 f telegraph poles is is one
.[ Rig favorite pastimes, and he unable
;fl s00 an „ re ason v/hv he should bo dis
’
arbed iu bis repos e . _ Kansas City
' r„urnal.
A Seal’s Affection for Her Young.
An interesting incident, illustrating
the maternal affection of the animal for
its young, was brought to notice during
the visit of an excursion party to Ana
capa Island. A young seal pup, only a
few months old, was brought Whitehead, away from
tire island by little Ernest
who desired to take it home for
a pet. The little animal was secured by
a rope around one of its fins, and tied
within a small yawl belonging to the
sloop. (Shortly before sailing ft large
seal was noticed swimming around the
sloop anchored off the cove where the
capture was made, uttering loud barks
and at times howling piteously. No
particular attention was paid to the ani¬
mal at the time or to tho little captive,
which at times barked in response to
the old dam’s plaints. The boat sailed
away, making for Ventura shore, When
off'Han Buenaventura a calm in the wind
decreased the speed in tho boat, when a
large seal was noticed near 1
liara at two o’clock the n^xt momingf swimming a
seal was again discovered supposed
about the boat. It was not
that this was the mother of the captive,
or out of pity for its misery the pup
would have been thrown overboard.
To better secure the pup until daylight
tho rope was taken from its fin and it
was lied up.in a jute sack and let loose
on tho deck. Soon after coming to an¬
chor tho seal responded to its mother’s
invitation by casting itself overboard,
all tied up as it was within a sack. It is
asserted by tho man on deck that the
mother seized the sack and with her
sharp teeth tore open the prison of her
offspring. This, however, is a mere
conjecture. If it did, the little pup tied was
saved; otherwise it would drown up
in the sack. The incident was more in¬
teresting from the fact that the old seal
had to follow the sloop at least hopeful eighty
miles over the ocean in a en¬
deavor to rescue her young.— Santa
liar bar a {Cal.) Press.
Couldn’t Help it.
I visiting _--, magistrate in Kerry
was a
county, says an English brought writer, when pris- a
stalwart fellow was in a
oner, charged with nearly killing an old,
bald-headed man, whose head was a
bloody mass. Being asked to swear m
formation against the accused who had
wounded him, the injured man was si
lent, refused. and on being pressed, absolutely did
“What was it this fellow
to you?” asked the magistrate. “Nath
ing,” was the answer. The magistrate
turned to the culprit. “Are liaif yon killed not
ashamed,he said, “to have
this old man, who will not even give in
formation against you ? Had you any
ill-will to him?” “Oh, none at ali, your
IJonor; I never saw him before to-day.”
“Then what made you do it?” “Well,
I’ll tell your Honor God’s truth. Ye
see, I came late into the fair; luck was
agin me, for all the fighting was over;
-so, as I was strutting about, looking for
a boy to cross a stick wnl I saw this
poor man s bald head poked out of a slit
of a tent that he might cool it, and it
looked so inviting that, for the - uvl o’
me, I couldn’t help hitting the blow.”
Harry (tired of frocks, who has seen
that his widowed mamma is evidently |icr
pleased with attentions paid by
a bashful young professional man)—
“Mamma will Mr. Sinythe buy me a
pair of pants soon ?”
STOKELY & MOOB .E.
COTTON FACTORS & CO MISSION MERCHANTS,
1X5 JACKSON STREET,
-A.TT GTTST-A., GA.
We give our personal attention to weighing and sale of Cotton. Cov-i< K.
mentis Solicited. aug3«3m
A RATTLESNAKE STORY.
THE FATAI. ODOR WHICH IS THROWN
OUT BY RATTLESNAKES.
How the Presence of a Rattlesnake nearly
Cost Two Elves.
It has always been said by old hunters
and woodsmen that under certain condi¬
tions a rattlesnako exudes an odor which
is not only unbearably offensive to the
sense of smell, but that if a person
should be subjected to its presence for
any length of time in a close room the
result would bo fatal to him. This has
generally been looked upon as one of
the many superstitions that prevail
among the residents of the backwoods,
but a ease is reported from the Pocono
region, in Pennsylvania, which, if true,
and it seems to be well substantiated,
would indicate that the belief is founded
on fact. The story is “That two men
from New Jersey—B. T. Altemus and
Samuel S. Hoy—while spending a few
days in that vicinity, looking over some
timber laud with a view to purchasing a
tract, concluded, for tho novelty of the
thing, to spend one night in the woods.
It was one of the recent very cold nights.
The intention of the men was to sleep
in the open air by a camp-fire, but the
cold was so intense that they were
driven to enter an old cabin on the head¬
waters of fine Little Bushkill creek,
which is used by tho hunters in fall and
winter. They started a fire in tho fire¬
place, and, stretching themselves in
front of it, went to sleep. Home time in
the night Roy awoke. There was a feel¬
ing of great oppression on his cbesknnd
ho was breathing with difficulty. There
was a peculiarly sickening smell in the
cabin.
Altemus was breathing heavily and his
breath came at long intervals. Roy
had difficulty in awakening him, but fin¬
ally arose him, and both struggled to
their feet. The fire had censed blazing,
but the room was very hot, a bed of red
hot coal remaining on tho hearth.
When the men arose to their feet, they
were seized with a dizziness and sickness
at the stomach. They succeeded in get¬
ting to the door, which they had much
difficulty in opening, but finally stag¬
gered into the open air and fell to the
ground. After a violent spell of vomit¬
ing and half an hour in the open air tire
strange feeling passed off, but left them
weak and nervous. They remained out¬
doors until broad daylight. Upon en¬
tering the cabin in the morning, what
was their horror to see stretched on the
hearth not ten feet from where they had
been sleeping live large rattlesnakes,
which crawled away at the approach of
the men and disappeared in chinks in
the chimney and cracks and holes in the
floor. The peculiar odor was still ap¬
parent in the cabin, hut the pure air
that had entered at the open door had
• I fc* ■(ft ' »iti ■sK r f jgPJ tV *" -
men associated their strange sickness in
some Way with the snakes, and at first
thought they must have been bitten.
The? did not stay at the cabin to rout
out and kill the snakes, but lost no time
in reaching tho nearest settlement,
where they were enlightened as to the
theory of the woodmen’s' rattlesnake
skin poison. These snakes frequent de
erted cabins in the fall, and it is not an
uncommon thing to see them crawling
from their hiding places even in winter
after a fire has been built in tho cabin
long enough to warm them up.
Sober Second Thoughts.
Literature the is a mere often step to knowl¬
edge, and error lies in our
identifying one with the other. Litera¬
ture may, perhaps, make us humble. vain; true
knowledge must render us
There is no evil we cannot either face
or flv from, but the consciousness of
duty disregarded.
AH pleasure must he bought at the
price of pain. The difference between
false pleasure and true is just this—for
tho true the the price is paid before you en¬
joy it; for false, after you enjoy.
When we know how to appreciate a
merit we have the germ of it within our¬
selves.
No matter what bis rank or position
may be the love of books is the richest
and the happiest lip of the children of men.
’Tis not full the force or and eye joint we beauty call,
but No tii9 the wallet his effect of all.
one sees on own back,
though everyone carries two packs, one
before, stuffed with the faults of his
neighbor; the other behind, filled with
his own.
Old friends are best. King James
used to call for his old shoes; they were
easiest for his feet.
Tb he flattered is grateful, even when
we know that our praises are not be¬
lieved by ihose who pronounce them;
for they prove at least our power, and
Aiow that our favor is valued, since it
is purchased by the meanness of false¬
hood.
See first, that, the design fs wise and just,
That ascertain! <i, pursue it resolutely.
J)o not for resolved one repulse to effect. foregc tne purpose
That you
Desolate. —Tho sheep ranches of
California are usually desolate places.
For the herders it is terrible life, how
terrible is shown bv 11 cv of
insanity among thorn. Home times, ait. r
only a few mouths, a herder goes sud
dculy mad.
W. H. HOWARD, C. H. HOWARD, S. 0. WEI IULR.
W. H. Howard $c Sons,
Cotton Commission Ai ebchantfj,
So. 20 Seventh (McIntosh) Street, ,’lliLSTA. Gl.
Consignments of Cotton and other Produce Solicited. Orders for baggin
and ties filled at lowest market prices. !U1 g 8-3m
j. Vi.
Com Factor l* J
Wart-house and Salesroom, 101 McIntosh Street, Cor. Reynolds,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
Will continue the business in its various branches* Advances of Bagging
and Ties and Family Supplies fit lowest market prices. Liberal cash advan¬
ces made on Cotton and other Produce in store. Future transactions iu Cot¬
ton, Stocks and Bonds done through my New York Correspondents when
desired. Consignments of all Field and Farm Produce solicited. Personal
attention given to selling, weighing, sampling and storing all consignments.
aug24-’88
JOHN W. WALLACES,
COTTON FACTOR,
At the Old Stand of Warren, Wallace & Co., 729 and 731 Reynolds Street
Augusta, Georgia.
Strict Ties, Personal Supplies Attention furnished given te Weighing*and Lowest Selling Cotton. Bagging
and and at Prices. Also agent for the cele¬
brated .
HALL GIN.
Prices and Terms Satisfactory.
aug 38-88
McCord * Foster,
Cotton Fairs M Cimissi Mints
Office and Warehouse, Campukll Street,
Between broad and Reynolds, I AUGUSTA GA.
Near the store of X. McCord & Son
Consignments solicited. Personal attention given to business. The instruc¬
(augo-oin) tions of ('onsigtmrs promptly obeyed.
FOR SALE!
Several second-hand engines, 4 and (1 horse power, in good order, prices
extremely low. Collett, and Barrett cotton gins, new and in perfect order, at
§2.50 per Winkle saw, a reduction gins, §2.00 of one dollar per saw to close out stock. Two* 50
saw Van per saw. < >ne 50 saw Sawyer gin, $1.50 per saw.
Gilbert S140. Irons Steel for Brush power gins, press, $1.50 $110. per saw,.also Grist mills, a splendid 30 inch, power $150 press, 36 price"
proportion. Agency Ames or inch
$190, other sizes in for engines. Address,
aug3-3m 0. M. STONE, Agsnt, Augusta, Ga.
J. M. BTJRDELL. CD AH. F. BAKER
T . M. WJUPRLL&CO
Cotton Factors and Conran Mauls
—Continue Business as Heretofore at the—
I(ki^e I^irc-1 Voof WaLcfiou^e.
No. 19 McIntosh Stiuet Augusta, Ga.
Strict Attention to all Consignments and Prompt Remittances.
aug8-3m
8. 1). NILES. FRANK TRYON.
RILES & flYOI,
Successors to B. 11 . IVI{OOM J HEAD & CO
— WHOI,ESAEK AND KETAII. DEALERS IN—
Dons. Sask Blinds, Mm Jliiel Paints
3(1 DECATUR HI REFT, ATLANTA, GA.
The CHEAPEST House in Georgia. We keep always on hand a full line of
Buil lers’Material of all kinds. We are headquarters for everything in our
line and sell at Rock Bottom Prices. We solicit the trade of Taliaferro coun¬
ty and Middle Georgia. If you need anything in the building line write to
us for prices. NILES & TRYON,
w>p28hm ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
W. N. MERCIER.
COTTON FACTOR
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CO\]\l I 00. I ()j\ \1 HlJGl I ANT.
No. 3 Warren lUock,
aug c;sta. GKOIiGIA.
Ib-r.-o; al attention given <«» business. Lit eral cash advan ces made on
Consignments. Close attention t> Weights. Prompt Sun s and ; einittance .
A FUMITlIltE BOOM!
JOHN NEAL & CO.
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IS —
F1UIRINIIITIU R ; rwn ii-afSi
Atlanta, Georgia.
Cons'antlv have in stock and are receiving daily, < very tin tig in their him. Bed
stead-, Bureaus of all kinds, Parlor Hct-, li d-room and Chamber - ets,
Wa nut, Mahoganv and Imitation Woods. Mattra-sses, opring
Beds, Chairs, Tables, .Sideboard-, Looking Glasses, and
other things too numerous to mention.
When vou want any artele of FURNITURE, and want it good and cheap, call
on us. We keep the best goud.s and hu 1 at close ni&ripiw.
JOHN NEAL & CO.
ipULou road Street, Atlanta, Ga.