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ROBERT S. HOWARD,? Editor and Publisher. \ VOLUME 11. o _ "W. DUPRE, C3r^i.xiesizli IS HEADQUARTERS for good reliable goods, and the Leafier in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the . largest I have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought to Gainesville. My CSrCsocls :DepartiXient Is full and replete in every line. The most elegantl.nc of i)RL. v S GOODS. SILKS. S A FIX S, 1 RAIDS, Sll.l FES and BROCADIvS ever olfercd hero. A superb line ot !■ LA.\oLS. \> A i KRFiiOOl’j}, GAsI'iEKES, JLAXS, CLOIIiS, <£c. My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of ev<?ry house in the city together, 'inis line is complete in all grades. Every lady can he suited here. My Glove, Hosiery and Corset Departments \m full of the best goods and lowe-t prices. In MILLINERY. : i ATS. RTBBONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear. I have an elegant line, with MISS MARY 11 LA DUX a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department. ClotJaing' l CZlotSbLixxg? I In my Clothing Department may always be found everything pertaining to a first-class clothing store. This stock is uncqual cd in this section. “ KEEP’S' 1 Shirts, Collars and Gulfs a specialty. No fancy prices. 1 have the largest stock of Boots and Shoes, for Gents, Ladies and Children, ever offered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands in full lines. My stock is complete in every department, and as to prices 1 will guarantee to sell anything in my stock as low as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All I ask is an opportunity to convince you. Come to Gainesville. Come to see me. C. W. DuPRE. P. S.—l buy all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices. 27 Stops, it) Sots Roods, S9O 1 Jonftv*h fIECTITOTEXOrenn contains 10 full rots Oolrien fonpiie Heeds ill (STOPS, Wnlnut or Ebonized Cns,;. sOctn ves,Metal toot Plates,Upright Bellows, steel hprmps, iJvinpStaiMls, l ocket for Music, Handles ami Rollers for movinsr. Beatty’s Patent Stop Action a M.W AND NOVfcL ItitEDHOAUD “mten&n ENORMOUS SUCCESS. gales over 1000a rnomS; demand increasing, Factory woi Icinpr DAY and by 831) Ldison’s Electric Lights at K ItilT to fill orders jT5>f r 'Price, Boxed, Delivered onkor.rrf G> Of ■pY far*here, Stool, Boole, Ac., only If afl.-.-ar yarins! pmt are-not satiirfeJ rrinr-.i Offfnn and I will jmrmitiij refund the money with in’erest , nothin# can l*o fairer < erne iiiKi examine (nc i:int rmnent. Leave N. Y. City. Jla relay or Christopher St. Ferries, G.RD a. in. orlixm. (faro, excursion only *2 85). Leave Washingtonafcl or F3op. m. arming mTT Y.at 3.30 or 9n. m. same dayffor routes from t lncago. Richmond, Phila., Boston, &a, see B>atty sExcuriinu Route Circular,”) jsallowed to nay expenses if you buy; coniennyuay, you aro welcome Dve fonch with j.nille attend unis meet all (mins. Other Orirana £3O, fe 10. SSO ill 1 - Pianofortes 9135 to £I6OO Itrantlful Illustrated Catalogue free. Address or Call upon DANIEL F BEATTY, Washington, New Jersev ' - - ..... ... ... . - PEwtoblUhcd IHfifl.) ForlUx)lß,\Vallß ana (Nmintfß in place of plaster. Sriii vlea and catalogue mailed free. W. H. FAY.Camdcn.N. J 3J I D C C IMPROVED KOT 3ns livEld tsr.scis 33c. package makes 3 gallons of a delicious, wholesome, sparkling temperance beverage. Ask your druggist, or sent by mail for 33c. C. E. HIRES, IS N. Dela. Ave., Philada. p iV.ifiV tails to cure. J'repared by J.P.MILLEIi, M.D., 915 Arch St. Fhila., Pa. JS'on genuine xcithout his signature. Send tor circular. Sold by druggists and country stores. £1 • SDLO KEDAI AWARDED Ai JTN th Author. An-w.-ind irreat, Med- Cfd- ‘o, ical W'ork.warranL-dthobestanci ''3 cheapest, indispensable to every * >4man,entitled “the Science of Life U 7 yvßa or .Self-Preservation bound in fPfTS f stL-V finest French muslin, embossed, U 1 ? A jkv d\ full eilt.aOOpp.containsbeautiful Ny _ eteol entrrtiVir.K.s, 125 prescrip t ions, prico only $1.25 sent by gU v.i'.-wSP />'/ mail; illustrated sample, cents; .2y .:'/>• send now. Address Peabody Med vunw TIIVQFT V ical InFtitutoor l)r. W. 11 TAK kNU¥V lnl dLLr ,KKR. No. 4 BulSnchst. Boston. I AND PATENT AND PENSION ATTORNEYS. Laml Patents obtained, and special atten tion given to contested Pre-emption, Homestead, Mineral and Timber Culture Entries. Highest price paid for Land War rants and Scrip of all kinds. for Soldiers and Sailors dis abled in line of duty. Pensions increased if rated too low. Roiutty. back pay and new discharges obtained. Send two Sc. stamps for blanks and “ Grcular <>i* St l‘orm;ii ion.'’ Address STODDART & CO., 413 G St., X. \Y„ Washington, I). C. fresh: i CORN MEAL, 1 FLOUR, UVEELAJI? AND —y WE.VVY GAkOCVAYV&* A SPECIALTY. TRICES TO SUIT. Br.o U ' ,Uu Ga. February 3d, 1882. ntf ATTV^i Bentty’s IiEETIIOYFX Orcnn contains SO full sets Golden Tongue Heeds, 2. STOPS. Walnut orEbonized Cc.se, s Octaves,Metal Foot Plates,Upright Bellows, Steel Springs, Lamp Stands, Pocket for music, Handles and Hellers for moving. Beatty’s Patent Stop Action, a AXD AOt EL jRLLIiI.OAJ?I> (patented.) will giro as much niusio as 14 COMMOX DUGANS. No other maker dare build this organ (ic is patented.) l AORHOI 8 SUCCESS. Sales over ICOO a month, demand increasing. CS"'Factory working DAY and by 330 Edison s Lleetnc Lights at NIGHT to fill orders. P'.rk 5 * 2 'Urtee, Boxed, Delivered on board O —’ t arsbere, t-tool, IJooL, A e., only Ifaficr one year's use yen ere ret satisfied return Drgsiii, w ill promptly refund money w ith interest CCZ2 AND E2AUIN3 THE lITSTSUKEITr in person, Five Dollars(C) allowed to pry expenses if ▼on buy; come anyway, you are welcome. J'rtc Om-h with polite irilciulunts meets nil (reins. Other Organs $39, S4O, £6oup. Pianofortes sl£s to £I6OO. B3r“Jleautiful Illustrated Catalogue free. rieaso Address or call upen DANIEL F, BEATTY, \7ashingtcn, New Jersey, THE WORKS Ci ill E CeiHos? Cfesip’y Of St. Louis, Mo~t Which were to'ally Dasi in >3’cd by Fire on May 2" : th and September 21, ISSI, A p pes m i lI i T ? UVL Blh IS A t-'-tJ ILfc- 'itj? B fi It Orders are solicited for Strictlu Puri IVhiti Lead and lied Lead , Col l-Prssar ! and Pure Pur!: Castor (>d. /,’•'<•?.(? tuvl Dou ble Pad. u Liusi'i'd (>il. ffK Teia .rs*nmt rs<*'i*.*- 1 rec.ted by a. new and wonderfully suctressful method, with out the knife or loss of b <>o i. Send for deserhitive pamphlet. " Way to Health.” All forms fn’ -s'Sr"' i e:i --i-H a speciaßv. List of quesGons sent on ap plication. which wlimt an.-w seed :u:d re turned. we will give ivi opinion, prospect of cure, Ac.. 6Vcc e.M.arrro Address DR. E. 11. GRLEXK, 2.T. 1 , Yv'iiiteha!! Street. Atlanta, Ga. : W ■ /f 4 si 4ir *v k Atlanta, Ga. Reiia y KZ %IS?T :ble evidence given and •UsTEeSI. ; reference to cured'pa tients and physicians. Send for my book on The Habit and its Cure. Free. A DVERTISERS by ad iressing Geo. P. Rowell A Cos.. 10 Spruce fet., X. Y.. can learn the exact cost of any proposed line of Advertising in American News papers. £sT*i li&'pii g;e S’amplslel, 33 c. PA MIiJSSK^SS GINGFR TOPIC ftn invigorating ftledlcine that Lever intoxicates. This dvlic’ous compound of Ginger, lluchu and many other of the l veget able methanes known, cures Female Com] 1 tints. Nervousness Wakeful ness, and all disorders of the bowels, stomach, liver, kidneys, nerves and urinary organs. 100 DOL.LARS- Pnid for anything injurious in Ginger Tonic, or for a failure to help or cure. Try it or ask your sick friend to try it To*Da}'. 50c. and $ 1 sizes at druggists. Large saving buying dollar size. Send ft>r circular to liiscox & Cos., 103 William Street, X. Pailkeri'SdH a ir&a I sac© Satisfies the most fastidious as a perfect Hair Re storer and Dressing. Sold by all dealers in drugs at soc. and $l. , . , XRY FLORESTOX COLOGNE exquisitely fragrant perfume with exceptionally lasting projierues. 25 anti 7Sc. A. R. Robertson, DEALER IN mowum e n t s —AND— TOMBSTONES. Large lot of specimens ready for lettering. G-IVJB HVLE CALL. A. It. ROBERTSON, Oct. 21, ISSI. Athens, Georgia. 30 DAYS’ TRIAL FREE! AVc send free on 30 days’ trial DR. BYE’S ELECTRO-VOLTAIC BELTS And oilier Electric Appliances T’O All:A sulfering from Arnous IFcblli ty, Eost Vitality and Kindred Trou bles. Also for Rheumatism, Elver and Eiltlsicy Eroaihles, and many other diseases. Speedy cures guaran teed. Illustrated Pamphlet free. Ad dress VOLTAIC MEET CO , Alar shall, Iflich. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 7. 1882. lkVvstAVvvvY\v A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. ‘•Such a wedding ! No bt i lesmaids. no music, no breakfast or reception ! I declare I should not feel as if I had been martied!” exclaimed Marion Willoughby, throwing herself down upon a low fauteuil in her own ele gantly appointed drawing room and drawing off the delicately tinted gloves which served as a finish to ti.e exquisite Paiuian toilet. There was only one other m eupant of tiie room, a man tall find handsome, standing with one hand nestling on the back of her chair. She did not glance up as she spoke, or note that Chester Thoilqy’s face had lo t its color. “You aro speaking of Miss Mar vine’s wedding U’ lie said. “There is one essentia! to most marriages you have not enumerated in your list of tilings lacking. Uas love wanting, too ?” “ Oil, no ! I1 el eve she !o\ es him. She certain!v must do so to an almost absurd extent. They :i e to go to hoiHekcoj ihg in a small Hat in an unfashionable locality up town where lie must be away from early moniing until opihe !l o’clock, lie occupies some salaried position—desk in a hank, 1 t elieve —and she a ”b ! who might have married anybody.” •* Honest labor degrades no man, Marion,” came the linn, quick an swer. ” Even a clerkship is not, al ways to he found, an ! I would rather break stones in the street titan live on money acquired dishonestly or doled out of charity, t hough in such a case { would ask no woman to share my lot.” ‘•This looks like breaking stones, docs it not:'” she laughingly answered, letting lie: - own jeweled fingers close over tiie man’s hand where it rested —a hand whose shape betokened its aristocracy, and which was white and soft as a woman's. At her light touch his strong frame quivoted. lie bent and let his lips rest, an instant caressingly on her hair, for the girl beside him was his affianced wife. “ I could break stones, though, dear, and I don’t know but that it would make me a better man. Sup pose I lost my money, Marion ? Sup pose : >t were all swept away IVom me in an hour, and I had a position of fered me—a position which would enable rne to live very humbly, very much as your IV end is going to live— tell me what would you do ?” “You are only talking to try me, Chester, and I hate such questions. In the first, place it- is entirely out of reason ; for even were It so. j a;>a, you | know is very rich, and our home could | always be with him.” ; “ I have said to you, Marion, that I would rather starve limn eat the bread |of chanty. Therefore, putting this j possibility :i-ide, tell me what would | you do.” Her tinners relaxed their gra c p up on his hand. NY as there significance in the action ? lie smiled bittcily as lie saw it. 1 iis lace was very pale now. Except that he still stood be-, hind the chair she must have noticed it. “You are utterly absurd this after noon. Chester," siio said bitterly. “ Have I not just told you that Edith Mar vine’s wedding was more like a funeral than a wedding,- and though I presume 1 shall one day have to at tend my own funeral, it will not, I assure you, be as a voluntary agent. Have you nothing more agreeable you can fiud to say to me The man shook off a certain some thing which seemed to envelope him in an almost visible cloud, and h.e answered with the old, courteous grace which suited him so well, and had made his power with woman al most a proverb. Money always seemed to belong to him by an inherent right. It was so natural that he slum! I be rich. No one could have imagine 1 Chester Thorlcy pour, lie knew so well how to expend his wealth. He gave it so generously, yet without ostentation, that no man envied him. Yvt he 1 viicw half an hour later, when he left his farewell kiss on Ma rion Willoughby's beautiful lips that it was farewell to all his hopes and happiness. The blow had already fallen. He was a ruined man, with scarce a dol lar be could cull Ids own—be who had no wish ungratified money might procure in all his thirty years of life. FOR THE PEOPLE, It had fallen, too. through no fault of his own, though there was feeble comfort in that. There was comfort, however, in the knowledge that he owed no man. and that he might start afresh in the world with no buiden on his broad slmulders or his conscience. True there was a deep wt>und in Ins heait. lie had loved Muoon so well that to give her up was bo voluntarily renounce God's sunlight. But ail her life had been spent amid luxury. It was to her a necessity. Deprived of it she would fade and droop ; and better any lot than to watch her struggle, arid know that he ha 1 brought it upon her. -C*- Besides, she had made her choice. To her a wedding meant flowers, music, friends, ths toilet of the bride. 'Flic future, the communion of two hearts, the solemn responsibilities incurred, were iurt secondary consul e' a’ ions. “ Good-bye, my darling!” he said, as they parted, but when she added. •’Until to-morrow,” ho answered neither yea nor way. “ To-morrow.V tiie world knew that Chester Thorlcy’s ship had gone up on the rocks. Many of his business associates would have held out to him a helping hand, but firmly and kindly he refused every offer. lie wrote Marion a few lines, re calling to her mind the conversation of the day before, and releasing her from her vows to him. “ If any good fortune comes to me.” lie concluded, “you shall hear of it. If I am sili.nt, you may know it is because my life is wrapped in silence and shadow. Bless you, darling, for the light you nave east upon it! It will be like looking back to heaven. 1 dare not see you again—I tested my strength to its full yesterday. God grant that some better than i may win you. To love you better is not within his power. Nor must you think I blame you that you shrank from sharing the new life upon which I enter. Flowers cannot live without sunlight. Even as I 'spoke I knew your answer. I only wanted to be sure that I made no mistake in in terpreting the best course for your happiness.” And then, with a few more warm, passionate, lo\i lg words of farewell, the letter closed. Two years passed, and the little world which had known , Chester Thoriey so well knew him no mo e lie had entirely disappeared. It were as though the sea had opened and swal lowed him up. Marion Willoughby was Marion Willoughby still, if she Suffered she made no sigh : but those who had seen the pledge of her engagement to Ches ter Thoriey, noticed that she wore it still, and others, yet more narrow watchers, observed that always, when she entered a crowded room, she would take a hasty glance about although expecting to find someone cut there. She was as yet but twenty-two, a belle and a beauty’’ still. The third winter of his absence she went west to spend several weeks with an aunt. “ I cannot spare you,” her father had said when the invitation came. But she. going close to him, and laying her head a moment on his breast, had said : “ I think, papa, it would be best.” They were simple words, buthe in terpreted them aright. The old wound would not cease its Idee ling. She wanted to go amid new scenes, so lie only kissed her, and bade her remem ber that the old father awaited her re turn. “You have not been through the steel works,” someone said to her one day. “It really is a most interesting sight. Will you join a party if we make up one to visit them, Miss W.l lough by’ r “With pleasure,” she answered J lightly. And her aunt, charmed with success j at her beautiful niece, smiled a Clay Clayton’s numerous devices to en snare Marion's society. lie was the great parti of the place. She had heard something of some ear ly disappointment in-Marion’s life. It would be a splendid triumph thus to obliterate it, and already she fell quite sure that the fiat lay in the girl’s own hands. The morning appointed for the ex pedition dawned beautiful and bright. They seemed indeed like drones, in truding upon some busy hive of work ers, as they entered the great build ing and looked about them. Depart ment after department they visited, watching with interest the delicate, subtle machinery and its wonderful working. Marion's check flushed with inter est, and Clay Clayton, noting it though' he had never seen her look so beauti ful. To-day he determined he must speak when suddenly lie heard a little cry. and glancing tip. saw her standing quite apart from the group, her eyes ablaze, her lips quivering. At a little distance from her, ad justing some pieces of machinery’, was a man in a workman’s blouse. Her cry also attracted him. and fie looked up. Their eyes met. His face grew deathly pale, but he gave no other sign of recognition. Sluf went straight toward him, oblivious af all, with hand outstretched. “ Chester 1” she said, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper. “At last!” lie bowed low in response, and took no notice of her hand ; but the old, dauntless pride was in the uplifted head and fearless glance. “ Did you know that I was here?” she questioned. “ No.” he replied ; “ I am r.o longer in your world.” “ You will come to see me?” “I cannot.” Here his voice broke a little. “ Mr. Clayton,” she said, “let me present my friend Air. Thoriey." (Spite of the innate breeding of the man, some of the instructive surprise at hearing a steel worker add.esscd by Miss Willoughby as a fiiend. made itself appaicnt in the manner he yet stove to conceal. , Then the party passed on. lie won dered, however, ivliv Marion lingered a moment in the office to address ti e superintendent some question as they came out into the air. lie had ine’anf. too, to ask her, on the way home, the question which all the day and for many days, had been trembling on his bps, but there was anew expres sion in her eyes and about her mouth which instinctively told him that this was not the time to plead the cause. Had that follow inside, who bowed so like a gentleman, been other than a workman, he might have suspected him as in some way responsible. It was quite singular enough as it was that Miss Willoughby should lur e ad dressed him as a fiiend. Doubtless 'miie man who had seen better days, and for whom she felt a womanly sym pathy. “ Can I sec Sir. Thoriey ?” The mistress of the humble little cottage in one of Chicago's suburbs looke 1 up. amazed, at the beautiful young lady who asked the question. “Indeed, 1 suppose yon may. lit has gone up to his room, whore he spends all his evenings, and not a bit. of supper to-night i.us he touched. Shall I cal! him down?” “No; let me go to him.” “ it’s the first room to the right of the stairs, miss. lie’s tiie only lodg er I have, and you’re his first visitor.” But the girl heeded not the words. A strange vision she surely was us she stood an instant outside his door, clad in costly velvet and rich furs ; then she softly turned the handle and entered. lie did not hear her. lie had t! rown himself upon his sofa and buried his head in its cushions. lie was so still, so motionless, she thought he must be sleeping. She swiftly crossed the room, and laying her hand gently upon bis shoul der, called bis name. “My God!” he cried, and would have started to his feet but that she held him b. ek, fa 1 ng on her knees beside him. “Chester,” she pleaded, “you would not come to me. My pride is less than yours—my love greater. I have come to you. Did you think my heart uttered the unworthy words for which you have punished me all t hese years ? I have tried so long to find you—so long and so hopelessly !” And she bowed her beautiful head and sobbed outright. “Hush, dear, hush! Yon should not have come here, Marion. It might compromise you.” “Compromise me with try future husband? See, Chester!” and she held up tl'.e hand on which gleamed the ring, “I have never accepted my freedom.” •• My own brave gi;k” lie said, his voice softening even while he girded himself up to the strength of which he stood in such need. “ But the heaven you open to me cannot be. I am foreman in the works where you saw me to-day, Marion. My knowledge and love of machinery stood rne in good stead. I heard of this npeniiw “ l CZ> am! secure*! it. To dav I was a.jlist ing some and alien It piece •:' wo: k l dared not trust to an\ workm.n. i am in receipt of a liberal sa'ary. which lain laying aside, dear, living as poorly as i can, hoping one day to buy an inter est in the business. One or two im provements I have made are rapidly attaining me this goal ; but it is still far on. I cannot ask you to wait, nor to forget the years of labor which have helped me to reach it.” “ i have waited already too long, Chester,” she whispered. lam ready now to become your wife.” Ilis face grew deadly white. Do not tempi me.” he said hoarse iy “ Ob, Chester,” she said. When I have so much money, why are you so cruel and so pioud ?” “ I cannot g<< hack to a 1 fe of - am and dependence,” lie answered —‘.even with you, dear love, to brighten it. Bless you for coming to me, Marion ! Bless you for showing me all that a noble woman can be ! The memory of this hour will lighten all future years.” “ Chester, do you not understand me.” she persisted. “ I ask you to return to no life of dependence. I will forget that l have a single dollar in the world except what you give me. I will share whatever home you offer me—oven this. For better, for worse, darbng. we pledge ourselves as sa *redi\ :* though a.t\ aly wc ic.d ‘ood before God's altar. In God's sight i am vour wife. I claim my right to share your dark days as well as those on which the sun of prosperity may shine!” lie strove to answer her, but his voice broke. She had conquered ; but, womanlike, she gave him the glory of her victor)' as she sobbed out her hap piness upon his heart. A month later there was a quiet wedding at which wete neither flowers, nor bridesmaids, nor music ; but Ma rion Willoughby missed nothing. It was only after the ceremony had been performed that Chester showed her the document which had been his wed ding gift from the firm he had served so fa t ifuFy, and which admitted liin a j a junior paitner from that date. But she smiled sadly as she looked at ■ t tl r nigh a mist o 'tea’s. “ ou said once, dear.” she whisper ed, “that flowers to live nerd sunlight. My darling, I ha! not then made the wonderful discovery that love makes •uulight everywhere ! With your heart ny home, be outward adornments what they v\ ill, I envy no king Ids pal ace, no queen her throne !” Bill Arp. [The Atlanta Constitution.! Nipped in the bud. It looks like there is no security from anything. Ours was no second-hand orchard ; we planted it and the blooms have for three years looken so sweet and promis ing, and now this is the third year the fruit has been killed. I suppose we could have built iillle fires all about, but wl o knows when to build 'em. Ii is poor comfort to build 'em when there 0 no danger, and it is hard to tell when there is danger. Reckon we will just have to keep the orchard forlhejfiowe s. like we do a crab apple Bee. for they are m ighty pretty. One of my nabors lives right under the western slope of a mountain and his fruit is never killed, lie had plenty last year but the sun don't rise at his house till its about two hours high and that wouldn't suit my folks at all. Well, it might suit tlse folks but it wouldn’t suit mv husi ness. It would be dinner time before breakfast. The peach crop is very uncertain among these Cherokee hills, blit most everybody can have a few trees around the house where they are protected. We can’t expect to have all the good things in our place. My Irish potatoes were killed down the other morning and that hurt my feel ings for I was a little proud that I was ahead of my nabors. But they will come out again and so there is some comfort left and a good deal of hope. Hope says the peaches tire not all killed for a man can’t examine all the blooms and maybe there will be enough for the chi! Iren. That is the main thing after all; enough for Ike children is what the world is working for; enough pleasure and happiness. How we do love ’em and worry over ’em by night and by day. If we had no children I think 1 would just quit work and toil right suddenly and—go x fishing. But there is not much time to frolic on a farm at this season of the year, for my almanac says, “About this time plant corn,” and we are doing it all around these parts. I can sit on my pazzer and. look into five farms and see the darkeys and the rnules and hear era, too, and its gee and haw, and git along Fete, and wltar von gwin.e Nell, come round dar, I tell you ; and theres no end to this kind of affectionate, one-sided discourse until the horn blows for dinner, and then the most knowing mules give a biay all round. Its astonishing how much they do know and can ho made to un derstand. I had a big mule who would never give but one pull at a root unless the dardey who plowed him hollered out, “ Rotten root, I tell you!” ami then he would break that root or some thing else, for he had confidence in the nigger. It. always did seem like there was a kind of confidential relation between niggers and mules, a sort of a treaty of peace and equality, for there is no other animal can stand the darkey and there’s no other human can get along in peace with a mule. When they are alone together in a big field with long rows the darkey talks !.o him all along the line and the mule listens in respectful silence but if two darkies are plow ing together they talk to one another and the mules are snubbed. There is a | ower of corn being planted this spring and not much more than half a crop of cotton so far as my observation goes. I hope we will make enough food for the country for we can do with less clothing better than be stinted in vittels. There is a power of folks dependent upon the farmers and a great responsibility upon in. Politics raises a mighty rumpus and takes up a sight of room in the newspapers, but when you com- pare it with farming it all seems sorter like a monkey show that is going on for amusement, and the farmers feel like doing like Judge Stewart’s Texan Ranger, who went to see an amateur musical performance in Rome one night during the war. lie was a rough specimen about six feetand two inches, and a hat like an umbrella and boots like stove pipes, and spurs that jingled like trace chain**, an<J a couple of navy pistols to set orf his beard, and be paid his half a dollar and took a stand be hind an empty bench in the rear and looked on w ith a lofty contempt and whenever the performers closed apiece and the cheering began the ranger rattled the old bench most alarmingly and exclaimed, “ souy, Sony, sou)’,” like he was driving hogs—and he kept it up until he monopolized the show and had it all to himself. These premat lire candidates for governor and so forth remined me of Judge Lochranc’s story of the Irishman who thought he had a fast horse and so he put him in the races and bet on him. He run pretty well, but seemed to run better behind than before and the Irishman clapped his hands with delight and exclaimed, “faith aud St. < TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. t SI.OO for Siz Months. Patrick, just look how ho drives ’em.” i>ut its a!! right. I'm glad to see the waking up. Its all for he good of the people and will keep lie old democracy on its good behavior, L'hee’s nothing idee having sentinels >:i tiie watch towers. Sometimes the >atty goes too fast, and, these indepen* 1 cuts act like a balance wheel, a regulator, a brake—sorter like Tinny Rucker’s ycarlin, for they say when Pinny was a hoy he tried tor an hour o drive a yearlin out of the pasture uid finally he got him by the tail and hey. run and run and bellowed and run until somebody hollowed to him and said: “Tinny, you can’t hold hat yearlin ; are you trying to do?” “I know I can’t hold him,” sa'd Tinny, “ but I can make him uo slow.” Jesso. That is all these indepen dents are after. They don’t expect otlice. but they have more abounding patriotism than anybody, and are holding on to the tail of the concern just to make it go slow. Some of’em I reckon are a little disappointed lie cause the train went off and left ’em, an 1 it don't do any good to laugh at ’em no matter whether they dident run fast enough or started too late. Let’s he tender with ’em, for maybe their turn will come after while and they will be tender with us. Thebe are a power of ups and downs in this world, and in politics they are mostly downs —especially down south. Dill Arp. Grateful Women. None receive so much benefit, and none arc so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommend ing Hop Bitters as women. It is the only remedy peculiarly adapted to the many ills the sex is almost universally subject to. Chills and fever, indiges tion or deranged liver, constant or ■periodical .sick headaches, weakness in the back or kidneys, pain in the shoulders and different parts of the body, a feeling of lassitude and de spondency, are all readily removed by’ these Bitters.— Courunt. Elastic Herr Haag. DOCTORS TUGGING AND WONDERING AT Ills INDIA RUBBER CUTICLE The “India Rubber Man,” who has been a source of astonishment to med ical men in Germany and England, arrived here on Tuesday, and was yes terday afternoon the subject of an ex amination by physicians and surgeons at the Ashland House, where he is stopping. Mr. G. A. Far ini, to whose care the “Gummi-Menscli” was con signed, acted as his introducer and interpreter, for Herr Heinrich Haag, the curiosity in question, who is a na tive of Nuremberg, is a simple minded upholsterer, innocent of any other language than German. Herr Haag is a lightly built Ger man with reddish brown hair, sandy moustache and whiskers, and blue eyes, and weighs only 130 lbs. The most critical observer, seeing him in a state of repose, would fail to find anything queer about him. But all the medical men gasped when, seizing the skin of his throat, he hauled it up so far as to completely mask his face up to the eyebrows. Then he drew the skin over each eye so as to lap over on the cheek, pulled the skin at the point of his nose down to his chin, clutched the skin of his breast and hauled it out a good seven inches* from his body, reactied over his shoulders and dragged up flaps of skin that looked from the front as if lie was pulling an India rubber blanket over .his back and seizing tße skin of his knee, drew it out so far that lie twist ed it up in a knot as one might a wet towel. Whenever the skin was let go it glided back smoothly into place without a wrinkle, and looked like a ybody else’s skin. The doctors crowded around the India-rubber-skinned man.lugging his cuticle in all directions, held lights behind the broad, loose flaps of it, and slightly scorched it in their eagerness to sec tiie circulation of the blood in the delicate blood vessels of the skin., Mr. Ilaag showed a large scar on iis right atm. where Prof. Leube, of Erlangen cut out a piece of skin to get at the bottom facts about it. The scar has not grown fast to the flesh underneath, but pulls six inches awav, as if it was merely a patched or darn ed spot in a loose garment. Prof. Leube found that there was no sub cutaneous fat, that there was a strange lack of tissue between the skin and. the flesh, and that the porous process es fixing the skin to the deep fascia are loose and long. Mr. Ilaag is to be made the subject of a lecture to the students in tlie University Medical College on Tues day next at 1 P. M., when a calcium or electric light will be employed to show the circulation of the blood in his skin. The doctors agreed that his is a surprising case of dermatolysis, or “slippery skin.” Gumming Clarion: “ There is a ne gro in this county who makes imitation . persimmons out of wood, which he be smears with persimmon beer, having other ingredients which he will nut tell what they are. He takes twenty of these, fastens a string to one side of them and a bearded hook to the other and hangs to bushes along fence rows just before a big frost aud on tiie wane of the moon’s first quarter. The morning after the first full moon lie visits the bushes and finds that lie has twenty opossumsou each bush, lie has been known to catch four hundred i in one night.” NUMBER 7.