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Vol IX. No. UO.
The Traveler’s Romance.
‘ Talk about your romances,” said a
traveling man in a Broadway hotel to the
clerk, as he complacently rested his elbow,
on the register and passed over a cigar
with one hand and a wedding invitation
with the other, according to the New York
Timre “The man whose name is on this
card runs ont from Chicago with a line of
cutlery and travels the south. Two years
ago we met each other in Louisville, Ky.,
and as both were working to the south
ward. and as our line of goods didn’t con
flict, we agreed to accompany each other
over our district as for as Atlanta, whence
I was to work up through the Carolinas
while he meant to cover Florida and Ala
bama. •
“We both did a big business in Knox
ville and Chattanooga, and proceeded over
the Western and Atlantic road to Dalton,
a little town in Northern Georgia, where
I had to stop over a few hours to collect a
bill for my house from a lumber company.
Dalton is an insignificant little southern
town, but boasting two important railroad
lines. The Southern railroad, but which
at the time I speak of was the_ East Ten
nessee, Vlrginlaand"Georgia road, passes
through here on its Brunswick connec
tion. The Western and Atlantic, one of
the oldest roads in the south, also passes
- town, and for eleven miles be
»yond the tracks of the two roads run side
-by’side.
t “Weil, when we took the Western and
Atlantic express for Atlanta at 8 o’clock
on the June day I’m speaking of, the East
Tennessee train was standing on the oppo
sitetrack, also ready to pull out. It seem
ed that the entire population of the little
town was at the station to see them off. A
handsome girl sat at a window in the
' coach of the other train, which stood
.wiljhin two or three feet of us. She sat in
lifer seat with the air of .patrician elegance
that is bred in every girl south of Mason
and Dixon’s line, who never had to work
or think for a living. Beside her was a
middle-aged woman, with a tired look, ob
viously her chaperone.
“The two trains pulled out together,
amid the excited yells of the natives, and
when they thumped over the last switch
frogs together and began to increase their
speed it became evident to all on board
that there was going to be a race along the
eleven-mile stretch. Great Caesar’s ghost!
but we were going. I looked out of the
left side windows, and saw the trees,
houses and telegraph poles whizzing by
at a terrific rate. I looked on my right,
and there was the same coach of the oppo
site train alongside of us, rocking and
swaying, but seemingly not moving for
ward until one glanced down and saw the
ground between the two coaches sweeping
by in a white ribbon, like water in a mill
chute. There, her cheeks flushed with ex
citement, was the same young lady at my
friend’s elbow.
“Thdconductor came in at the front
door, steadying himself by the car seats as
he took up tickets. When be came to a
red-faced man with a. goatee and white
hat, who sat just in front of us, the latter
got up and slapped him on the back.
“ ‘By Gad, Bill, but you ah givin’ ’em
Hail Columbiah, I’mbettin’ on you-all!
Don’t let old W. & A. get left, by Gad,
aah.’
“The conductor explained to us that
races always occurred when the schedules
of the rival roads rendered them possible,
and that the present match was particu
larly exciting to the train hands, because
‘Button Haskins’ engineer, who had been
fired from the W. & A., was on the East
Tennessee run and had blood in his eye.’
“Well, sir, on we flew, and somebody
said we were getting near to where our
tracks diverged and the race ended. The
coach that had haunted us on the other
trace was still there. The girl's face was
at the window. First her window would
drop back a foot or two, and then forge
ahead, but never far. Excitement blazed
in her face. And here my friend’s gigan
tic, even if questionable, nerve came into
play. He drew his card, scribbled ‘good
bye’ upon it, and passed it into the oppo
site window. The tired looking chaperon
was horrified,butfshe waxed even more so
when her charge impulsively took one of
her own dainty pasteboards and scrib
bling the same words upon it, passed it
into our careening coach. A moment
later that demon in the engine of her train
made a supreme effort, and just as we
reached the divergence of the tracks the
‘East Tennessee,’ with a victorious whis
tle, shot about ten feet ahead of us. The
girl flashed an ekulting look at us, and I
never saw her again.
“Six months after that my friend was in
Ser town—Montgomery, Ala.,—and told
this story. The girl’s father, a wealthy
merchant there, took him around to din
ner with him. That settled it. It wasn’t
good-bye after all. Now they are going
to race through life together. I haven’t
traveled with my friend for a long time
now, for I handle a line of cutlery, also.
But I am going to that wedding, you bet.”
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No Besting Place for Durrant.
The fate of Theodore Durrant should
make a powerful impression upon the
minds of young men. Durrant was a
young man, hardly more than a
youth, of good education, excellent
advantages and bright prospects. To
some extent at least he was a person
of refined sensibilities. The inside
story of his downfall is not well known,
but it is well understood that he per
mitted his baser nature to get the bet
ter of him His talents, his education,
and his prospects counted for nothing.
He committed murder, with shocking
details. He was found out, and bis
crime was expiated ignominiously on
the gallows.
But'society’s punishment of tho foul
murderer did not end with the taking
of his life on the gallows. He is ab
horred and despised even in death.
Paying the penalty of the law did not
blot out the stigma upon bis name.
His bones have been denied burial in
grounds sanctified by the presence of
ashes of those who lived uprightly.
The cemetery authorities nave denied
to his body the poor boon of a scant
six feet of earth, feeling that it would
be an act of disrespect to the honored
dead to permit him to sleep in the
same graveyard with them. Nor would
the crematory authorities permit the
despised body of the murderer to be
consigned to the fire in their furnaces.
Not even incandescent heat could ef
face the contaminating touch of Dur
rant, dead though be might be and
encaSed in wood or metal. A dead dog
would not be more despised.
Dun ant’s parents are alive. His
mother and father were with him to
the last, and after the execution took
charge of the body. Upon them, and
especially upon the devoted bead of
that poor mother, falls the weight of
disgrace, shame, ignominy brought
about by the act of her son. In life he
dishonored her, and in death be brings
disgrace and keen humiliation upon
her. For his shortcomings and sin she
suffers, and only as a mother can suf
fer. The innocent bears the burden
with the guilty, and even longer.
What terrible punishment for blood
guiltiness!
The lesson to young men is too ob
vious to need to be enlarged upon.
They have but to picture in their
minds the spectacle of their own moth*
era in the place of the mother of Theo
dore Durrant to understand what wild
and terrible risks some of them are
taking iu leading “fast” lives and giv
ing free reign to their passions and
appetites—Savannah News.
Fruit Growing in Georgia.
In the opinion of Mr. James R. Cox,
of Atlanta, fruit raising will become
the principal industry in Georgia. ‘‘The
Georgia peach belt,” says Mr. Cox,“be
gius about 40 miles below Atlanta, at
Griffin. It is 150 miles long and from
10 to 30 miles wide. There are, of
course, extensive orchards outside of
this belt, but it embraces all the mam
moth plantations. There are about
2,500,000 peach trees in the Georgia
belt now bearing fruit, and about 200,-
000,000 young trees are planted every
year. Although millions of dollars
have been invested the industry is yet
in its earliest stages. However, it has
wrought wonderful changes in the
state. It has increased the value of
old and worn out cotton fields from $5
to $25 per acre. It has brought an
immense amount of capital into the
state, for some of the largest and most
successful growers are northern men.
It has developed enterprises of various
kinds, such as canneries, cider mills,
ice plants and crate and basket facto
ries. Il gives employment to thou
sands of men, women and children,
and finally the business of the' frujt
culture has opened a field for industri
al development that must inevitably
grow greater as the years roll by ”
In Olden Times
People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were satis
fied with transient action; but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently overcome habitual constipa
tion, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act fora time, but
finally injure the system.
Everybody Says So.
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derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
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and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of C.C.C. to-day; 10,25,60 cent*. Holdand
guaranteed to cure by all druggist*.
New Garden Seed.
All fresh, from best growers, for sale
by J. N. HARRIS & SON.
&RIFFIN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1898.
Thirty-Three Years After.
That must have been a delightful
incident in thq life of General John B.
Gordon, when, on yesterday, in a Penn
sylvania town not so many miles from
the field of Gettysburg, he delivered
bis lecture to Union veterans and their
children upon “The Firet Days of the
Confederacy.” That must have been
one of the most trying and pathetic
incidents of bis lite when be was sere
naded by the same band that played
at Appomattox, near the scene of Gen
eral Lee’s surrender.
The old soldier can imagine the
scenes that must have come trooping
down the avenues of memory as this
relic of the sad day of Lee’s surrender
was brought face to face with General
Gordon. He must have looked once
more upon the face of bis glorious
commander; be must have beard the
rebel yell once more; he must have
seen the bloody conflict between the
thin line of gray and the lines of blue;
he must have seen bis owu men in
that terrible onslaught upon the Fed
eral ranks with its train of dead, dying
and wounded, almost after the surrend
er bad been arranged. The then harsh
and discordant notes of the band must
have sounded in his ears again to be
changed suddenly into joyous, hap
py, blessed melodies of peace, as the
realization dawned upon him that
thirty-odd yearshad elapsed between
the dark days which memory had for
the moment reproduced, and the glo
rious day of January, 1898, in which
be was actually living, and receiving
the handshake, the welcome, and the
enthusiastic admiration of those who
were once his enemies.—Columbus
Enquirer Sun. -
Laid to Rest-
The remains of the late Mrs T. C*
Stanley reached the city yesterday
morning from San Angelo, Texas, and
were carried at once to the Episcopal
church, where appropriate services
were conducted by Rev. A. Barnwall,
when they were carried to the ceme
tery and laid by the side of her hus
band, Rev. T. C. Stanley, who had
died a short time since.
The deceased was a Miss Fredoria
Blackburn, of Pike county. She mar
ried Mr. Sam Bailey, after whom Grif
fin’s honored institute of learning was
named. After the death of Mr. Bailey
she married Rev. T. C. Stanley and
soon moved to Texas where she has
since resided. She was the mother of
Dr. H. N. Stanley, a prominent physi
cian of Atlanta.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness,and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous fining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets Inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarr’a)
that cannot be cured by Hell’s Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c,
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
WANTED.
- To rent two or three rooms —one
for kitchen use—in house with good
family, on either side of railroad, con
veniently located to Hill and-Solomon
streets. Address, with terms, “X. Y.
Z ,” care Morning Call.
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The firm of Scott & Horne has this day
been dissolved by mutual consent, W. P.
Horne retiring, and J. A. Scott assumes
all debts due by Scott & Horne, and all
debts due to Scott & Horne to be paid to
J. A. Scott. J. A. SCOTT,
W. P. HORNE.
Dec. 31, 1897.
I will continue the former business at
the old stand, where I hope to meet and
serve my friends as heretofore. I shall
endeavor to merit the patronage of the
public by legitimate dealings
* J. A. SCOTT.
A CARD.
To My Friends and Customers:
As you will see the firm of Scott A
Horne has been dissolved, and I have
bought out the stock of goods of Robt. L.
Williams, and will henceforth be found at
theScheurman Store, where I will be
pleased to serve my friends, I trust, as
well m the future as in the past.
Thanking you for past iavow, I am,
Respectfully,
Jan. 1,1898. • W. P. HORNE.
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-7*Owcarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
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Royal UMkee the food pure,
ROYAU BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
The Jack Rabbits of Texas-
“The big rabbits or bares that hang
in front of Washington restaurants are
not the jack rabbits or ‘mule ears’ that
abound on the Texas prairies,” said
Mr. C. O. Kerns of the Lone Star state.
“The sort that we have, and that are
common all through the Southwest,
are of a brown color identical with
their small ‘cotton tail’ brethren that
abound in Virginia and Maryland, and
that are numerous all through the old
'Southern states. These imported hares
with white bellies come from Canada,
where all wild animals turn white io
winter to match the snowclad earth,
and they are not nearly as large as our
Texas jack rabbits, nor do they have
the enormously big ears that distin
guish the Texas family. I should ssy
that ours will get over the ground
twice as fast as their Canadian cousins.
A greyhound is the only animal,, in
fact, that can overtake a mule ear. An
ordinary dog never forgets himself so
far as to chase one for even the dis
tance of a city block. It would be a
rank waste of canine energy to do so.
The jack rabbit is regarded at home
more as an ornament to the landscape
than anything else. Hungry men in
camp who have run out of ordinary
grub will occasionally kill them to
stop the pangs o! hunger, and they are
said to be really fine eating, but they
are not regarded arfit for the menu of
the average Texas family.”—Washing
ton Post.
Still Leading.
A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
highest award from the great Exposition,
superior lens-grinding and excellency
.n the manufacture of spectacles and eye
glasses. This award was justly earned by
Mr. Hawkes as the superiority of his
glasses over all others has made them
.amous all over the country. They are
now being sold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in the U. 8. Prices are
never reduced, same to all.
J. N. Harris & Bon have a still assort
ment of all the latest styles
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ROTTEN IN DENMARK/'
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date furniture for general satisfaction and
all around comfort, and we have the latest
designs and styles in parlor, library, dining
room and bed room furniture on display
for your inspection.
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OWING TO THE LQW PRICE OF OUR CUSTOMERS' PRODUCT—
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