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—r a,,- -MB- » ■ ... ■ - , . r_- > r - H A I <■. I j /■ a \ | > m I ! w 1 I M IX/1 I Ir% X I ( T ( rA I . I . m j_ JLJ j I▼ 1 V |\ 1 IJLI ivJ v>jwl Jl za •w. 7;'-.-v*- . *, “ . • .2.- ■. ... ■ .. . - ' 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.” CAJSTOZtXA. - fie- /> Hall* *“ t* «■ tt '-fear'/’. ■ Educate Your Bowels With CMeareta. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever, wc, 25c. If c. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. 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. . Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently 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. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. 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. To Cure Constipation Forever. -7*Owcarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If Q C. C. tail to cure* druggists refund money. 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 ©MM -Mn iTiSKp-* 1 / “THERE IS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DENMARK/' Hamlet exclaims. Possibly he had just gone through the seat of some old chair and found it out to his sorrow. There is nothing like handsome, new and up-to 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. CHIL&S & CODDARP. H.P.EADY&CO. IN HILL BUILDING, Buggies, Wagons and Harness. We give good prices for your old Buggy and Harness in exchange for new ones. , All kind of repair work promptly done. H. P. EADY & CO. ONE FOURTH OFF » FOR SPOT CAS o You can bay any OVERCOAT, SUIT or WOOLEN UNDERWEAR in our store for TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT off of market prices. Hard times make it difficult tor people who actually need a suit or overcoat to buy. But at these prices, ONE FOURTH OFF, any body can buy: $ 4.00 SUITS Oft OVERCOATS. FOR $3.00. 5.00 “ « » ’« 3, 75e 8.50 “ 4.88. 7.50 “ “ “ * 5.65. 8.50 “ “ “ « 6:37. 10.00 “ “ “ “ 7.50. 12.50 M “ « 9.38 15.80 “ ' “ “ “ H. 25. 18-00 “ “ “ “ 13,50. .1 THESE PRICES ARE ABSOLUTELY FOR THE CASH. ANY ONE HAVING AN ACCOUNT WITH US CAN HAVE THESE GOODS CHARGED AT REGULAR MARKET PRICES. ' ‘ ' ' ■ ' * ■ ■ ■ ■■ R.F. Co. SAMPLE SHOES. . Our third line for this season has just been received. All styles for men, women and children at wholesale cost. Buy your Shoes now, before the sizes are gone, and save one-third the price you pay elsewhere. fl R. F. STRICKLAND & CO. Edwards & Power’s RACKET STORE ' f fefc WE DiVITIS TBtB PUBLIO TO CALL BEE OUR UNB or Dolls A Milay Toys. Z X/lregUQ; . icy WE A VARIED LINE AT ■ 'eyfy // I PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. ONLY ShtS HSR a few cents will make the Mil LITTLE ONES HAPPY AND NO I CHILD SHOULD BE NEGLECTED. In ZSSf WILL TAKK pleasure in ' SHOWING YOU WHAT WE HAVE. EDWARDS & POWER. zro’i’iosi asroTzcsi OWING TO THE LQW PRICE OF OUR CUSTOMERS' PRODUCT— COTTON-WE HAVE DETERMINED TO LOWER THE PRICE OF GOODS, WHICH MEANS LESS PROFIT, NOW WE WILL SELL CHEAPER THAN EVER, FOR CASH ONLY. WE URGE OUR FRIENDS WHO OWE PAST DUE BILLS TO COME AT ONCE AND SETTLE. I N. B. DREWRY * SON. Ten Cents per Week