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C. H. JOHNSON, SR.
Still represents the ole!
Southern Mutual Insurance (!9.
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of Athens, 6a.. the cheapest In Geor-
gia and as good as in the world;
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gentlemen,
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ETTED boys
have little pa-
w “pa!" or “auntr^ie called
on to turn to and do this disagreeable
work. The second mate once ordered
me to find a certain iron hook, where¬
with to draw the pump boxes, and when,
after a short search, I returned-and
askedTiinf where it might be, I was hor¬
rified hy the expression of astonished in¬
dignation spreading over his face, as he
yelled: “Great Scott, he expects me to
help bim find It!” 1 saw the point and
all it Involved, and never so wounded an
officer’s dignity again. It is a sailor's,
and especially a boy’s, business on ship¬
board to find whatever he is ordered to.
We soon learned on the Wizard how
well we had lived at home. Our sea
fare of hard tack and Salt junk taught
us how to appreciate at their true value
the broiled steaks, hot cakes and but¬
tered toast of home tables. The quart of
very commta molasses sefved out to us
weekly soon became a luxury, and when
the steward occasionally brought us “be-
navlins” (the nautical term for the broken
fragments from tiro cabin table), we re¬
garded it as very luxurious living, though
a month previous we should have deemed
such food fit only for the swill tub.
■ In about two week3 we had settled
down into the routine of life at sea.
Sailors are apt to term theirs a "dog’s
life.” I never did. It was a peculiar
to stand waten until o a. iu„ wowuw
“turnin’* at that hour after breakfast
and sleep till noon. Apart from the
alternate watches the work of day. “jobs” oc¬
cupied about six hours per True,
there was at times some heavy work,
but it was only occasional. Sailor work
is not heavy as compared with the in¬
cessant fagging, wearing, never ending
character of some occupations on sh$re.
Skill, agility and quickness are in greater
demand than mere brute strength.
Lobscoiwe is a preparation of hard
bread, first soaked and tlieti stewed with
shredded salt beef. It looks somewhat
like rations for a delicate bear wben
served out by tho panful. But it is very
good. Salt beef is wonderfully im¬
proved by streaks of fat through it.
These serve the foremast hands in place
of butter. I know of no better relish
than good pilot bread and sliced salt
junk, with plenty of clean white fat
On shore that quart of boiling and called hot liquid, tea,
sweetened with molasses
would have been pitched into the gutter.
At sea, after an afternoon’s work, it was
good. With similar content and resig¬
nation, not to say happiness, we drank
in the morning the hot quart of black
fluid similarly sweetened and called cof¬
fee. It was not real coffee. I don’t
know what it was. I cared not to know.
Of courso wo grumbled at It. But we
drank it. It was “filling,” and was far
better than the cold, brackish water, im¬
pregnated thickly with iron rust, a gab
Cai^L 8—— what he msant to do and
where he meant to go, because they had
shipped for San Francisco and they did
hot intend going anywhere else. The
captain answered that bis pwn safety
and that of the vessel were as dew to
him as their lives were to them, and
that he intended doing the t>est for the
general good This answer was not very
satisfactory to lire cron who went
grumbling back t;> their quurgrs LW
matefy' it form'd out that we were tn
it was judged that the .u.icrlc and
sinews .if theerew ntSiKtge to keep
it down. So «<• put;.;* <1 nil the way
round <!*pr iforn We |>uio; :<d during
■«ur respective walfhcs every O’ohffnpt
In good weather «:s-i ->ii an e'en keel ft
took half mi fowl .»•> “ uek flic pumps
If the t .A-1 ■ 1 %■•» U> larboard .«
in verv
the
th.lt COUld I i rp.« *, '!hiT.dl
ST, «•
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to bulwark with
teg, and the most efficacious means in
the world to quickly develop a furious
temper is to loose one’s dinner whan
hungry, get wet through, then abutted
noon setting things to rights on an
empty stomach, robbed and disappoint¬
ed of its duff. Ibis is no trifle.
Learning the ropes Isn’t all a boy’s first
lessons at sea. He must learn also to
wash and mend his own clothes; At
least he must try to learn and go through
the forms. I never could wash a flannel
shirt, and how the extraneous matter
called dirt, which the washing process Is
intended to disperse, is gotten rid of by
soap and muscle at an equal average
over the entire surface of the garment hi
for me today one of earth’s mysteries. I
could wash a shirt in spots; when I tried
to convince myself that I had finished it,
I could still see where I had washed clean
and where I had not. There is a certain
system in theproper manipulation of a
garment in a washtub which to me is in¬
comprehensible. An old sailor is usually
a good washer. It’s part of his trade.
Those on the Wizard wotaa reprovrtBe
boys for their slipshod work. “Such a
ner, an oiu man-oi-war s man, uung in
the rigging is a disgrace to the ship.”
He alluded to one of mine. The failure
was not from any lack of labor put on it.
TLo The trouble fwmhla lay lav in In that that. T I didn’t tHiin’f. lrrtnttr know
where to put the labor on.
It was particularly disagreeable at mid¬
night as we assembled at the bell ropes
to give her the last “shake up," and,
more asleep than awake, pulled wearily,
with monotonous clank. Sometimes at
that hour, when our labors were half
through, the valves would get out of
order. It was then necessary to call the
SH 2 S 3 SS
was obliged to “suck its own pumps."
Such delays made the men very angry.
They stopped singing at their work—al¬
ways a bad sign—anri became silent, mo¬
rose and sullen. For the first six weeks
all the “shanti-songs” known on the sea
had been sung. Regularly at each pump¬
ing exercise we bad “Santy Anna,”
“Bully in the Alley," “Miranda Lee,"
“Storm Along, John,” and other operatic
maritime gems, some of which might
have » place in our modern operas of
“The Pinafore” school.
There’s a good deal of rough melody
when these airs are rolled out by twenty
or thirty strong lungs to the accompani-
meat anf of r\f a a. windlass’ winiilW olanlr dank and n.Tul the the wild. wild,
'shrill sweep of the winds to the rigging
above. But the men would no longer
sing. The fact was reported to the cap¬
tain. He put on his spectacles, walked
out on the quarter deck and gazed at
them mournfully and reprovingly. renewed The
mates tried to Incite them to
melody. But the shipping articles did
not compel them to sing unless they felt
like it. The pumps clankett gloomily
without any enlivening chorus The
captain went sadly hock to his cabin and
renewed his novel.
PREKTIOR MUI.F0RD.
Nearly all colds are *Kght, at first, bet their
tendency is to so lower the system that the
sufferer become* a ready victim to any prev,
a lent disease. The use at Ayer’s Cherry Pec
toral, in the beginning of a cold, would guard
against this danger.
la A tonic i
perbeure
!AJ3w3°f! 'SSSSSBSE;
It they cannot cure, if
witively know that
Church Statistic* and the Census.
A communication from Robert P. Por¬
ter, superintendent of census, states that,
having determined to include church
statistics in the social inquiries to be
made for the eleventh ceqsus, the infor¬
mation sought will be arranged under
the following heads: l. Organisations;
8, Church edifices; 8, Seating capacity;
4, Value of church property; 8, Com¬
municants, In order that this informa¬
tion may be as accurate as possible, Dr.
H. KrCarroll, of The Independent, ha*
been nppmntedj to coiiiluct th e in qmry
on the co-operation ->f those in each de¬
nomination who are in position to fur¬
nish the information desired. Dr. Car-
roll is now engaged in preparing plans
for such a division of the territory of
each denomination as will make it com¬ Ills
paratively easy for those to whom
inquiries shall be addressed to give a
prompt and correct response. We ars
sure that the statistical secretaries of our
conferences, and others who may re¬
ceive communications from him, will
give the matter the diligent attention
which its importance demands.—Chris¬
tian Advocate. V '
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The Verdict Unanimous.
cine I have ewer handled in ray Thousands 80 yeare’ ex oi
perieuce, is Electric Bitters.’
others have added their testimony, so that
Blood. Only a ball dollar a bottle at L. JL
Anthony’s Drugstore.
Theological School In’ I Huy.
The Theoiogloal School of the Meth¬
odist Episcopal church at Florence,
Italy, began its second year's history
Oct 1, The applications for the admittance
have been far more than present ac¬
commodations permit. Four students
have been carefully selected to form the
new class, making a total of eight in the
school. No more pan lie accommodated.
These are earnest Christian men. and
promise well for the future. One of
them has succeeded, during the summer
vacation and amid persecution, to form-
evangelical denomination has yet On-
sor Baui^aad the^Hev. K 0.
tending^o ihold*extra meetings at vari-
Christian Advocate.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
oBirrm, a bosom.
Thos. n. iiui;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Feder*
ovw G<K,rge 4 H *?“au
*” "sTEWABT
* DANIEL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George ft Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and ^Federal
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CLEVELAND & GARLAND,
S DENTISTS,
GBIFFIN. • : : : GEORGIA.
HOTEL CURTIS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Under New Management.
A. G. DANIEL, Prap’r.
, 1 ter* n eetoil trains.
farm tor Sale.
One of the finest fauns in Middle
tire from the fatigue of business.
through centre of pasture. On this
branch is a splendid place for a mill
mt state of cultivation of any form
in the state, having of had thousands and
of dollars worth cotton seed
stable manure and composts of all
kinds put oo it in the last few years.
Itis also one of the best terraced
and ditched places in Georgia.
Ditches All scientifically run so as
to prevent any washing of the fields,
ditching of the place improvement cost #500. The of
owner has made the
the place a specialty ever since
alt necrecary out b««diu«s.
ggMamdytobeaecutoh
G. W. CLA:
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W»: WANT CRtiKEB.
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ter Call at OIL MILL.
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