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Bt HOLDER ft WILLIAMSON.
VOL. XVIII.
R. E. AIRE i CO
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GAINESVILLE, GA.
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GAINESVILLE, GA.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Stamp Mills, Saw Mills, Cane
Mills. Evaporators and
General Mill Castings.
MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS FOR
Engines, Boilers, and Improved Turbines,
Water Wheels and Steam Pumps. Deal
ers in Wrought Iron Pipe, Fittings
and Supplies.
THE JACKSON HERALD.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
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Koa. 0t and SS—Dell/. Waahlsgton and South
weatara Vestibule Urntted. Through Pullman
Steeping oara Now York at>d New Or
l*a Q a. Tla aahington, Atlanta and Montgom
ary, and also between New Toik end Memphis,
▼law Mhlnjrtoa.Atlanra and Biimlnghani. Ifh-ei
slaaa thoroughfare oo cue* between Washing
ton and Atlanta. Dining oara serve all meat*
en route.
Noe. 38 and S3—United States Faat Mali
runa aolld between Washington and New Or
leana, via Southern Railway, A. A W. P. R. R.,
and L. ft N. R. R., being composed of baggaga
ear and coaches, through without change for
passengers of all clas.naa. Pullman drawing
room Sleeping cars between New York and
New Orleana, via Atlanta and Montgomery.
Leaving Washington each Wednesday and Bat
nrday, a touriat sleeping car will run through
between Washington and baa Fraaoiaoe
without change.
Not. 11, 8' and 11—Pullman sleeping cars be
tween Riohmond and OhHrlo'te, vii Danville
•euthboun 1 Noa. 11 and 37, northbound No 17
Tha Air Line Belle train, Noe. 17 and 19.
tween Atlanta aad Cornelia. Ga., daily u
sept Sunday.
F. 8. GANNON. J. M. CULP,
Third V-P. ft Gen. Mgr„ Traffic M’g’r.,
Washington, D. O. Washington, D. 0.
W. A. TURK, 8. H. HARDWICK,
Gen'l Pass. Ag’t., Aas’t Gen'lPaaa. Ag’t.,
Washington, D, & Atlanta, Gn.
T. J. ALLEN,
The Photo grabber,
Harmony Grove, Ga.
Will take any tize photo from a mini
ature to life f-ize. He will do photo
graph work cheaper than anybody—
not on account of inferior material or
inferior work, but because he is an
old soldier, exempt from taxation.
He also has his gallery at his resi
dence, and has no reDt to pay. He
has one thousand photos od exhibition
Griffith W elet\,
COTTON FACTORS,
We;know that the best prices arid fcfaviett wen Ms will a’waye bring us
plenty of cotton to bardie. We tfcireft re, give cur entire attention to our
customers irtereeto. Liberal advances made.
Land for Sale.
Two hundred acres of good land
for sale tt reasonable price. Landis
three miles frem Mayeville, in good
comm unity, has good orchard, out
building?, etc On - aid place i= seme
eood bottom land w hich doesn’t over
fl >w. For further irifoi mation. applv
in 30 days to B F. Carr <r M E.
Adam3, Mayeville, Ga.
NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspep-
I 111 Hi Vi 3? s ia, Constipation and Indi
gestion. Regulates the Liver. Price, 25 eta.
DEVOTED TO JACKSON COUNTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1898.
THE DREAUED
C0.m.71PT10.1
T. A . Slocnm. M. C , the Great Chemist
and Scientist, Will Send Free, to the
Afflicted. Three Bottles of His
Newly Discovered Remedies
to Cure Com nuiption
and AH Lung Trou
bles.
Nothing can be faiur, more phil
anthropic or carry' more joy to the &f
dieted, than the offer of T. A. Slocum,
M. C., of 183 Pearl street, New Ycak
City.
Confident that he has discovered
an absolute core fer consumption and
all pulmonary complaints, and to make
its great merits known, he will send
free, three bottles of medicine, to an}
reader of Tiie Jackson Herald who
is suffering from chest, bronchial,
throat and lung troubles or consump
tion.
Already this “new scientific coum
of medicine” has permanently cured
thousands of apparently hopeless
cases.
The Doctor considers it his relig
ious duty—a duty which he owes to
humanity—to denote Lis infulliable
cure.
Offered freely, i3 enough to com
mend it, and more so is the perfect
confidence of the great chemist mak
ing the proposition.
He has proved the dreaded con
sumption to be a curable disease be
yond any doubt.
There will be no mistake in sendirg
—the mistake will be in ovei looking
the gem roua invitation. He has on
file in his American and European
laboratories testimonials of experience
from those cured, in all parts of the
world.
Don’t deley until it is too late. Ad
dress T. A. Sh cum, M. C 98 Pine
street, New Yoik, aid whtn writing
the doctor, please give express ace
poefcoffice address, and mention read
ing this article in Tbb Jackson Hkr
xlp
Hoscbton High School,
Hoschton, Georgia.
Mrs. M. E. Fields, ) n . . ,
Miss S. S. Candle*, \ Co-pnacipab.
Th 9 Fall Term of this popular in
stitution of learning will begin on
Mondiy Sept. 19, 1898.
Rates of tuition the tame as hereto
fore, viz:
Primary Department, per mo , sl.
Academic Department, per mo.,
$l6O.
High School Department, per mo.,
$2.00.
All pupils within public Echooi age
who have not attend* and any other
school during 1898 will receive the
full benefit of the public school fund.
GEORGIA, JACKSON COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given to all concerned, that
I have fll*"d with the Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, my petition addressed to
said court, returnable to the next term thereof
to be held on the first A* on day In February
next, for the removal of the disabilities Im
posed upon me by my ln'ermarrlage with Octa
vla Ilopson. which application will be heard at
the court house or PBld county at said term.
This 9th day of Sei t., 1898.
GKOKGE UQPSON.
X; OTICB. All persons owing the estate of
jvi Thos L. Douglas, deceased, aie hereby re
quested to come forward and pay the same, and
i hose holding claims against said esute will
present them properly authenticated for pay
ment. ’1 his Nov. 1, 1898 H. W. BELL,
Adm’r. Thos. L. Douglas.
A 1 persons are hereby notified not
to fish, hunt, or otherwise trespass
on the D<-vis place, a few miles above
Jiff rscr, or on Gas Nib’fck’s plsce,
or on Luther Lanier’s pltc\
J P. Kelly,
Gas Niblacb,
Luther Lanier.
Not. 1, 1898.
What Shall
Be Done
FOR THE DELICATE OIRL
You have tried iron and
other tonics. But she keeps
pale and thin. Her sallow
complexion worries you. Per
haps she has a little hacking
ough also. Her head aches;
and she cannot study. Give her
Scott's Emulsion
The oil will feed her wasting
body; the glycerine will soothe
her cough, and the hypophos
p h tes will give new power and
vigor to her nerves and brain.
Never say you “ cannot
take cod-liver oil” until you
have tried Scott's Emulsion.
You will be obliged to change
your opinion at once. Children
especially become very fond
cf it; and infants do not know
when it is added to their food.
50c. and SI.OO ; all druggists.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
NEW STORE
IN ATHENS,
A MONEY SAVER,
KNOWN AS
Alls Variety
Sim,
Giayton St., Two Doors Above Tal
mage Bros.
Just received two car
loads Dry Goods, No
tions, Hardware, Tin
ware, Glassware and
Woodenware.
CHEAPEST CASH
STORE EY GEORGIA.
When you need an ar
ticle, and want it under
price, don’t stop until
you gf-t to the ‘‘ Variety
Store,” Clayton St., Ath
ens, Ga.
Land for Sale.
A tract of land, 1 miles above
Pendt-rgrasp, on the G. J. & S R. R.
This tract if land contains 238 acres,
25 acres good bottom land which does
not ov* rff.w, 100 acres in cultivation,
ihe balance in good f< rest and old field
pine, a good orchard, a good two
st ry dwelling house, two good tenant
houses, and nec<s-ary outbuildings,
j ioing land of Capt Hill and others.
This tract of land can be bought for
sl2 per acre. Anyone wishing to
buy, apply soon to D. A. McEntire,
Pendergres®, Ga.
An Uncertain Disease.
There is no disease more uncertain in its
nature than dyspepsia. Physicians say that
the symptoms of no two cases agree. It is
therefore most difficult to muke a correct
diagnosis. No matter how severe, or under
what disguise dyspepsia attacks you Browns’
Iron Bitters will cure it. Invaluable in all
diseases of the stomach, blood and nerves.
Browns’ Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
AAMINIBTRA T OK’S SALK.—By virtue Of ac
order from the Court of Ordinary rf Jack
son Cos., Ga , will be told, on the first Tuesda
in ''ecembe-, 1898. at tlie coir t house door lm
3ald count), between the legal hour* of sale,
the ;oliowlcgdescrlb-d property, to-wlt:
AH that trai t or i arcel of land, situate, lying
and being lnHarrlsturg district., JaeksonCo..
Ga ,on Parks < >eek, fadjolnlnsr lands of S. O.
Potts, W. J. Colquitt, 4 W. PhtTjey, L. B. Flsb
er, the Isbell estate and G. D. Bennett, <on aln-
Ing flfty-slx and om-’iuli (stq;) acres, more or
1e68,b lrg the dower of Mrs M A. Shirley In
the estate of B. T. Shirley, deceased, on said
place Is a six-ro mr. sldence, with all neces
sary out-but dings. Also. two good tenant
houses. About ten acres good bottom lands and
flf een acres up-land In high sta’e of cu Ova
tion, balance In pasture lands, old tie and and for
est convenient to churches and schools In
fact, one of the most desirable places to be
round anywhere. The undersigned has plat of
sim, and can 3how the land to parties wanting
to buy. B<>ld as property belonging to the es
-1 ate or B T Shlriey, de' eased, tor the purpose
of distribution a ong the heirs Terms, one
half cash, balance due In 12 months, evidenced
by note with approved security, draw ng Inter
est at eight p- r cent per annum This Nov. s,
1898 J. W. SHIRLEY, Adm’r.
Administrators sale—Agreeably to an
order of the Court of Ordinary of Jackson
county, Ga., will be sold, at auction, at the
court house door of said county, on the first
Tuesday in December. li-as, within the legal
hours of sale, the following property, to-wlt:
A tract of land, lying and being In said coun
ty. containing two hundred and thirty-six
acres, more or less, being known as the home
place of the Mike Williamson land, on Little
Curry’s Creek There Is about fifty acres of up
land and twenty acres of bottom on said place
In cultivation, balance In swa-p, old pine field
and forest laod Also, three settl -meats, two
of which are good framed roomy houses, with
out bulldogs. In good neighborhood, conven
ient to school and church, so’d as the pro> erty
of Thomas L Douglas, late of said county, de
ceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of
said dec-ased, and ror dtstrlbulon among the
heirs at law. Terms cash. This *ov l, 1898.
H. W. BELL, Adm’r. Thos.L. Doug l as,dec’d.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That i> what It wax made tor.
c u BA N ° 1 L cure *
1 lUlflVl v Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheu
matism and Sores. Price, 25 cento.
What Billy Found iu the Fog.
Truly Billy Hanford was a live,
keen, “chip of the old block,” and
that is saying a good deal when the
the “old block” was Captain Matt
Hanford. He was as good a man as
ever walked a deck—short, thick-set,
with a copper red tint to his well
seasoned face, and a pair of small,
twinkling gray eyes. Billie was a
reduced copy of his father. It was
h ird to tell which of them admired
the other most.
Captain Matt was the sailing mas
ter of the Sea Conch, a stanch sailer
yatch built for racing and owned by
a wealthy New Yorker. Her owner
meant to take her over to the Isle of
Wight and race the Prince of Wales’s
Brittannia, the German Emperor’s
Meteor, or any of the smart English
cutters that wanted to try conclu
sions with a Yankee keel.
Captain Matt had promised Bill)
that if he came out at the head ot
his class at school he would take him
along. Billy came out ahead. He
would have done so in any case, for
he wasn't going to let any boy find
out more things than he did.
It isn’t every boy that has a chance
to go to Europe when he is fourteen
But no boy ever enjoyed atrip there
more than Billy Hanford. The Sea
Conch got beaten in the races; that
was the only drawback to the trip
Billy was convinced that the reasor
of this was that the owner of th
yatch sailed her himself in the race
If his father had handled the boat,
the other yatchs would have beer>
nowhore —so Billy firmly believed.
The young owner of the Sea Conch
told Captain Matt that he could run
up to London for two or three dayt
before he took the yatch back. This
was some consolation to Billy. He
was goiDg to see the biggest town in
the world!
He was bound to admit that il
was much better than New York
Of course, it was bigger. But loot
how much longer it had been grow
ing! The buildings in New Yorl
were a good deal higher than any
thing they could show in London
Hyde Park wasn’t anywhere beside
Central Park.
One day Captain Matt tookhisson
to visit the docks. The boy looked
around on the hundreds of acres of
massive cut-Btone piers with great
lakes of water between them and
said nothing. The Brooklyn Navy
Yard compared to these immense
docks w T as like a duck pond.
‘‘Billy, these docks cost hundreds
of thousands of pounds,” said the
Captain to his son, impressively.
“Two hundred thousand pounds is
pretty nearly a million dollars,” re
marked that young hopeful, as if to
warn his father not to use figures
recklessly.
“Well, Billy,” replied his father,
grimly, “one of them, the London
Docks, cost four million pounds.
Pounds,” he repeated. “Figgerthat
out. And they am’t half as big as
these West India Docks we’re going
to. And the Victory and Albert
Docks are over two miles long, and
all lit up with electricity. And
they’ve got a machine that just
hoists a vessel right up in the air,
while they clean her. What do you
think of that?”
“Oh, they’re big,” answered Billy.
When he couldn’t think of anything
in America which was better than
what he saw in London he kept
pretty quiet. But this was through
no lack of appreciation. He enjoyed
seeing these wonders thoroughly,
only he was an out and out Ameri
can who loved his own great coun
try.
But when they got to the Docks
where Captain Matt hoped to find
the Pearl of India, on which was an
old sea friend of his, they could see
next to nothing. A real London fog
had wrapped everything in its mighty
folds.
Here Billy could say with truth
that they didn’t have anything in
New York which was one-tenth as
bad. There is not a good thing can
be said for a London fog—one of the
real, thick ugly kind. It is impossi
ble to do it justice. You have to ex
perience one before you can realize
how bad it is. It is a mist thick
enough to cut—yellow, or gray, or
black, with a smell like soot. It gets
into the eyes and makes them smart
till the tears come. It rasps your
throat to rawness when you breathe
it in. Objects across the streets can
hardly be seen The lamps in the
streets, in the shops, and on the cabs
are all lit, but they are smothered
and show only little, sickly yellow
spots of light.
This knd of fog, one of the worst
that London had seen for fifteen
years, settled down on the West In
dia Docks and swallowed up Captain
Matt and his son. At last the Cap
tain said:
“Billy, this is worse than a fog in
mid-Atlantic. It is no use trying to
find the Pearl of India in this. We
could hardly find a lighthouse. It
isn’t safe-'to be groping round here,
either. You stay right here for a
few minutes till I walk back to that
policeman and ask him if he knows
whether Simpson’s craft is near here.
If he doesn’t we’ll give it up Don’t
stir from here or I’ll never find yon
again.”
Billy promised not to more. He
watched his father disappear in the
cold, enveloping mist with a sense of
uncomfortableness. If the docks
had seemed a wilderness before,they
were more of one now with him left
like an atom lost like the enshroud
ing fog.
Just then he heard the ,‘plunk” of
something falling into the water. He
started and tried to peer through
the wall of fog. Almost immediately
he heard a shrill cry for help. Some
one, a boy, he imagined from the
sound of the voice, has dropped ofl
into the water. It was hard to tell
where he was from the sound, but
there was no doubt it was near at
hind. The cries were repeated
shrilly. Billy went a little nearer
the edge and looked down into the
nilky green water lapping the stone
walls a good distance below him.
“Keep hollerin’,” shouted Billy,
“till I can find you. Swim towards
me, if you can, and don’t lose sight
of the dock.
If it was a boy, of course he could
•iwim, but Billy knew if he once lost
nght of the walls of the docks he
could have no idea where he ought
to head for.
“Here I am. Oh, help me out,”
came back the frightened voice.
It sounded nearer, and in a mo
ment more Billy saw a shiny head
and a small white face with a pair of
scared eyes in it. The boy was pad
dling around like a small puppy.
“Keep right there,” shouted Billy.
There was no use trying to look for
a rope when he couldn’t see more
than a few yards. He did the only
thing he could think of. H stripped
off his outside clothes as fast as he
could. Then he tied his trousers to
bis coat, and his coat to his stock
ings, and let down this rope of clothes
toward the boy.
It didn’t reach him, so he hauled
it up and, pulling off his undershirt,
tied it on, too. Then he lowered it
again, withjthe shirt end down,think
ing the boy might pull himself up to
the stouter part of the life line, if the
shirt proved to weak to hold. He
gave him directions to this effect.
The boy clutched the end of the
rope. Fortunately, he was light.
But it was a good tug for Billy to
pull him up. By the time the
youngsters wet head showed above
the edge his strength was nearly used
up.
“Pull—yourself—up. I’m—played
—out,” he panted, falling on one
knee and bracing himself with the
other leg. He clung desperately to
the line of clothes. If the boy could
not help himself now,Billy was afraid
it was all np with him.
The other boy saw how matters
stood, and squirming and gettinghis
grip a little higher up, he at last
pulled himself over the edge of the
dock. He rolled over to get further
way from the edge, and then the two
sat up breathless, grasping and not
able to say a word. They simply
stared at each other, with their
mouths open.
But now that the strain was over,
Billy began to get his breath. The
cold, raw air was making him shiver.
They both looked blue about the
mouth, and were shaking like Mexi
can hairless dogs.
“You’d better get home. Where
do you live?” asked Billy at last, as
well as he could with his teeth chat
tering.
“Down there,” shivered the other,
pointing off through the fog toward
the end of the dock. “You’ll come
along and get dry. Mother’ll give
us something warm. Come on.”
They had both got to their feet,
Billy was tugging at the knots in his
clothes which the weight of the boy
had tightened. The rescued boy
kindly lent a hand. As fast as he
got a garment loose Billie pnt it on.
Ugh! How cold and wet they felt.
He stamped around to get warm.
He had just got in part of hi*
clothes when his father came back.
His alarm at seeing his son and heir
apparently just after a bath, and one
taken with his clothes on, gave him a
stark
“Billy, you didn’t fall off,did you?”
he inquired, huskily.
“No; but he did,” said Billy tug
ging away at his knotted coat and
trousers.
“He pulled me out with his
clothes,” said the other boy; “and I
tell him to go down to the President
an* get dry.”
“Is it far?” said Captain Hanford.
“No. Jes’ down there.”
“Well, I think we’d better go, Billy,
I’m afraid you’ll catch cold.”
“All right. But I won’t catch
cold,” retorted Billy, who had got
into all of his clothes by this time.
The small boy, looking like a
drowned rat, led the way and Cap
tain Matt followed, gathering the de
tails of the adventure from Billy. He
glowed with pride at his son’s pres
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ence of mind in devising this novel
clothes line and rescuing the boy.
But Billie treated it as if it were the
most commonplace thing in the world.
He was really thinking more of get
ting warmed up than anything else.
They both wondered a little where
the boy could be leading them. They
were still more surprised when he
brought them to the oddest-looking
craft they had ever seen. It was
too old-fashioned a tub for even Cap
tain Matt to have ever seen its like.
It was a big, bulky frigate, whose
sides bulged out like a gourd and
then narrowed in. The top was en
tirely covered in with a glass roof.
It looked like some old hot-house
tied up a‘ the dock. Her figure-head
of grimy white was a man in a frock
coat. The name President was let
tered on the side.
Captain Matt and his son ex
changed glances over this dismantled
clumsy apology for a ship as the boy
hurried up the gang-plank. The
deck had an immense sweep and was
tidy and ship shape, with some old
cannon and gun carriages on it, all
under the glass roof.
The boy dived downstairs and then
to the left, and the Captain and his
son were surprised at finding them
selves suddenly in what seemed the
cosiest of little homes. There were
regular square windows as large as
those in a room, and a gas chandelier,
with two or three jets lit, threw a
pleasant light on the carpeted floor
and a table littered with a woman’s
sewing. There were flower-pots in
the window. Through the door of
an adjoining room they saw a stove
and shelves. A small, wiry man was
sitting comfortably, reading a paper,
and a bright-faced, motherly woman
was sewing. The advent of the drip
ping boy and the two strangers in
stantly threw the place into excite
ment.
“I fell into the water and he pulled
me out, father; and I brought him
here to get his clothes dry,” explain
ed the rescued urchin, wet and shak
ing with the cold.
“Mother, you make some tea for
’em, quick. Jemmie, take the lad in
there and get him into some of your
clothes and we’ll dry his before the
stove,” said the little man in one
breath.
“I will. But you are a nice boy to
save my James.” Here the good wo
man gave Billy a hearty hug and two
resounded kisses, much to his discom
fiture. He hated to be kissed and
there was nothing to make a fuss
about. Why do women act that way?
W hile the boys were getting into
dry clothes and the woman was mak
ing toast and tea, Captain Hanford
and the other got acquainted. He
learned that the old frigate was the
exact copy of an American boat which
was regarded as a model of naval ar
chitecture in her time. The first
President had been copied from the
American model of the same name in
1798, nearly one hundred years ago.
This one was built exactly like the
first, and was launched at Ports
mouth in 1829. After thirty-two
years of service,she had been brought
to this dock, where she had lain for
thirty-five years without being once
taken out of the water.
“There was talk of taking her over
to your World’s Fair, but, bless yer!
the old thing would go to pieces be
fore she got to the Nore lightship,”
said Gunner Seabury, for that was
the name of the little man. “But
she’s a big boat, one hundred and
sixty feet long and forty feet extreme
beam, has a crew of twenty-eight
able seamen, and carries one gun on
the upper deck and four on the main
deck.”
“Do they do anything with her?”
said Captain Hanford.
“No, except that the Naval Re
serves drill here every day from nine
in the morning until four in the af
ternoon. The long sweep of deck
with so little on it makes a fine place
to drill ’em. And we live here and
keep a little shop for ’em,” added
Seabury.
“And a beautiful home you've
made it, ma’am,” said Captain Han
ford, thinking of his own neat, white
cottage at Eath Beach, with a pang
of home sickness.
The boys came out now as fresh
and dry as ever, and none the worse
for their adventure. It looked as if
they were more likely to come to
grief by eating toast and strawberry
jam, which grateful Mrs. Seabury
gave to them without any restriction.
The Hanfords left with the blessings
of the family on them.
“To think, William, of my bring
ing you away over to London to Bave
a boy from drowning who lived on a
craft modeled on an American fri
gate,” exclaimed Capta : n Matt, eye
ing Billy with twinkling eyes as they
walked up the dock.
It was the first time in his life he
had ever called his son William.
Nothing could have emphasized his
appreciation of the boy as a hero and
life-saver more than this.
Billy, who honestly didn’t feel as
if he had done anything great, was
pleased at his father’s pleasure. All
he said, however,was: “If they think
that old hulk is an American ship,
they onglit to see the White Squad
ron!”—New York Ledger.
NO. 43.