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Everybody know* where tt 1*.
tbelaetwork alone he receivedenough
to pay Ms creditor! nearly (80,0001 He
then produced nine considerable works
in rapid succession. Paralysis struck
him down in the midst of these exhaust
ing labors, and after a brief jonrnejr on
the continent be died at Abbotsford,
Sept 31, 1633.
Boon nffrr *Wt^ tbo.profits of
works paid the last dollar of his indebt
edness. The lapse of time has relieved
the family of any anxiety as to injuring
the living, and Mrs. UazweQ-Scott now
gives the journal to the world. It is
written in a style of extreme freedom,
but such wee the custom in those days,
and this journal presents the real man.
.. THE BEST POROUS PIMTIRI IN THR WORLD.
"SSaSSSSS" RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY PAINS, LAME BACKED.
•a .-t!— - »-»- - fiwoausseiftn ^ wean.AM w . aw
itCbeftts. Barbtri
1 ''One largo Brindle Steer, one red
and one dim colored cow. both butt
headed. The owner can have same
by paying for this notiee and ex-
penae of keeping. A. 0. Biu.
OMENTAL BEA1
V. L. DOUGLAS
>3 SHOE QSNTLRMIN
ie cheapest and most varied assortment
of
cooking Stoves,
and
ce Heaters,
IN THE-CITY.
JUST RECEIVED, A LARGE LOT OF
Fiower Pots. and Grates !
Call early and inspect our goods. . »
A large lot of hardware ordered and will
soon be in.
Plumbing and Repair Work Our Specialty
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Artesian Block. - Telephone'No. 12
AMERICUS, GA.
New Firm. News Goods. New Quarters.
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DEALERS IN
STOVES AND TINWARE.
lest Qualities of Paints, Oils and Builders’ Material
[Agents for the Celebrated HARVEST STOVES and GRATES.
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WAGON AND BUGGY MATERIALS-
SADDLERY AND HARNESS- CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE,
IDA SPECIAL LINE OF CUTLERY, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE, ETC.
- Wo specially invite the trading public to call and examine our goods
3 prices. Wo keep the best, as well as the cheapest goods in this
yket, and will give our customers the value of their money.
illis’ old Stand, 433 and 435 Cotton Ave.,
AMERICUS, GA.
AKERY!
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PROPRIETOR.
tattjoa street, 'Under Allen flout
AMERICUS. GA.
LIGHT BREAD A SPECIALTY!
i faCjJp of ill M PrcapUj M! BM4 ud Cab Wa^oa Does nt Dailt
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DFy. GROSVENOR’S
New Yobx, Nov. 18.—Even under the
prevailing iron syxtem .of aecinsion the
bean ties of Islam are ncjt wholly cut off
from the civilized world. Men, indeed,
are abaolntely forbidden to approeeh
them, and ao strict it this prohibition
that it extends itself not merely to for
eigners and unbelievers, bat to those of
thrir own race and seed and' oven to
their nearest relations. Fran the day
of her marriage to the day of her death
a Moslem bride most never see or be
seyn by any man save her husband. Bnt
W<th lady visitors it is quite a different
matter. Seldom, indeed, does the most
and fanatical of Mussulman hns-
object to admit them to the so-
of his wives, and, in fact, snob
vklta are'often looked upon by the hon
est Bluebeard in tbs light of a favor
rather than an affront, inasmuch as it
keeps his own ladies in good hnmorfor
the time being and saves him the trou
ble of doing anything to entertain them.
Let ns snppoee that yon are a Euro
pean or American lady traveling along
the North Aftfean seaboard, and about
to pay a visit to the caged beautiee in
the harem of some great Moorish digni
tary in Monaco. Following the two
tall, red capped, white frocked Moorish
soldiers sent to conduct you. you thread
your way through o cobweb of narrow,
gloomy, filthy lanes almost blocked at
times by heaps of dost and garbage,
among which numbers of gaunt, wolfish
dogs are rooting hungrily. Meanwhile
your two guides dear the way for your
horse or donkey through the eddying
whirl of men, boys, camels, asses, horses
and old women by constant shouts of
“Chelohl fihelohr (look out) and re
morseless punches with the brass shod
bntsof their rifles. ■*
At length you halt in front of a high,
bare, windowless wall, tho only visible
opening in which is a deep shadowy
porch of the key shaped form peculiar
to Saracenic architecture, edged with
curious fretwork, and brilliantly paint
ed with alternate stripes of crimson
and bine. This leads into a marble
paved quadrangle with a tiny fountain
splashing and tinkling in the center-
tile “patio” of tho Spaniards, in fact,
borrowed by them from their Moorish
conquerors. Shady colonnades run
along its four sides, above which ore
cloistered passages protected by screens
of lattice work. And now you discover
why the outside of a Moorish house is al
ways windowlcss, for with a jealous
precaution thoroughly characteristic of
the east all the windows open upon this
inner court!
Visitors being frequently received in
the court itself, it is Strewn with mats
or carpets, and shaded from tho weather
by a colored awning, which subdues the
burning African snnshine into • rich
summer gioqm of purple twilight, such
as that which fills tho aisles of somo
vast cathedral. Beyond this lies a spa-
cions saloon, With a richly carpeted
floor and a paneled ceiling for which
any Venetian noble of the Fourteenth
century would gladly have given half
his yearly revenue. No chairs aro to bo
seen, bnt the soft cushions scattered
nbont tho floor and the velvet or damask
bolsters placed along tho sides of tho
room show where tho inmates are wont
to squat or to recline. Tho upper part of
the wall is frescoed with appropriate
texts from tho Koran in quaint, arrowy,
eastern characters, while along the lower
part damask hangings of white, scarlet
or bine mask the doorways of several bed
rooms, from which threo or fonr steps of
polished white marblo lead down into
tho saloon itself.
Suddenly tho hangings of a curtained
archway at tho far end of tho room are
thrust aside, and tho master of tho
houso in person comes forward to
greot you —a stately old eastern gen
tleman in flowing Moorish robes,
whoso lqng silky beard is as white
os the nfoy folded turban that over
shadows it He puts his hand to his
forehead in' graceful oriental saluta
tion and begs you (in broken Fnfflch or
Spanish if you donot understand Arabic)
to consider his houso and oil that it con
tains A your own, after which you aro
requested to “honor with the touch of
your foot tho threshold of bis harem.'
Following tho old gentleman’s guid
ance, you are lad through a maw of
dark paaaagn* and low doorways, till
you feel aa if playing a never ending
game of hide and seek. At length you
halt before a flight of Wood marblo
steps, leading up to a Ugh archway,
through the curtains of which come the
ripple of female voice* and the (Over
ihme of girlish laughter. Beside the
etepe stand, like bronxe statues, two
glgantio black slaves, gorgeous in white
and crimson, with drawn swords gleam
ing in their huge bony hands. But at
the sight of tho “master” and the “Far-
ingU khanoom” (foreign lady) tho sabers
are lowered in salute, the curtains fall
back and you are ushered into the midst
of. a scene which appears to have come
bodily out of the “Arabian Nights.”
Britos yon He* a large and lofty zoom,
the shadowy interior of which looks de
lightfully cool and shaded after the blis
tering glare outside. The rich Persian
carpets leave enough of the floor uncov
ered to let you admire to the full one of
three miracles of ornamental moeaio
which are still the wonder of all who
visit the Taj Mahal or ft* Alhambra.
From the vaulted roof hang splendid
rilver lamps of the kind familiar to toon
who have 1 ton the moaraes of Tunis and
Grim, T vases filled with gorgeous
flowers vuiged along either side of
theeol ^ehEW*toerilkw frmg-
At the far end of the apartment it a
tonally high roofed eloore, raised i
whet shove the ratef the room,
which it Is separated by aroovahleeBver
balustrade somewhat like a large turn
stile. This rcceai is lighted by a swing
ing lamp of embowed gold, filled with
perfumed oil, the eoftflfht of which is
flashed back in a thousand sparkle* from
the oountleee tiny mirrors that cover like
■cries the whole surface of the wall.
In the alcove sit or redine upon soft
cushions nbont a dozen women (some of
them not yet pest girlhood), represent
ing all type*, from the sleek, tiger like
beauty of the Circassian to the beai
expressionless, voluptuous features of 1
West African Jaloot. At first sight they
look like an airy dood of white drapery,
and only by degree* do you take in the
details of the long white veil swathed
round the forehead and floating down
the back, the loose, wide sleeved, em
broidered jacket over a thin white bod
ice, the broad jeweled girdle, the tron-
aers of flesh colored silk, and the dainty
little pointed slippers, stiff with gold
lace and richly embroidered with seed
pearls.
Just at first they aro rather shy of
yon, but this soon wears off, and, when
freed from the overawing presence of
their portly lord and master, they crowd
round you and chatter to yea like chil
dren, exhibiting with childish pleasure
the Jewels, chains and bracelets which
hang on their smooth necks and round
arms as thickly as tinsel on a Christmas
dolL The first thing to be done is to
give you some green tea, which replaces
coIfoo in Morocco. The sprig of mint
that floats in it is almost as great an ad-
SSSiSSSi'StSSA delay in freights, I am
almond paste mixed with sugar and
—’ ~ flowers bruised into honey are
novelties in their way, and the
Util* handleless cups, set like
to rilver stands, would make
month water.
(tho regulation number In Morooco)
ladies offer you a long pipe of eastern
tobacco flavored with rose water, and
express great surprise at your refusal.
Then they begin to criticise yonr drees
—which they examine with marked in
terest end undisguised
while asking you all sorts of questions,
the first of which is always, “How many
other wire* baa your huaband got?”
Other queries follow, most of whiefi aro
extremely comical, and some not a little
embarrassing; and when the time comes
for you to depart you hardly know which
to wonder at most—the extreme igno
rance of yonr now friends or their in
satiable curiosity. David Ker.
" Walter scotts diary.
A Most Interesting Record of tbe Great
1 . Novell*!’. Last Dayi.
* [Special Correspondence.)
New Yobs, Nov. 13.—Walter Scott’s
jonrnsl, just given tq the public, bids
fair to rank os the literary event of tho
year, and will interest Americans qnite
os much ns tho author’s own country
men. Scott's pcprinality is of interest to
us for many reasons, but chiefly for
three:
He worked himself to death to pay his
debts.. None of the heroes he song did a
more heroic thing than that. He gath
ered up tho floating traditions and rude
minstrelsy of his native land anil
wrought them into living forma of beau
ty which have mado the localities classic
ground. But more than all ho did a
patriotic work which no other man has
been ablo to do so fully for any country
long distracted by civil war and feuds
of raco and religion.
Why is it, tho political inquirer often
asks, that tho civil wars in Scotland were
followed so soon by such perfect am
nesty and concord? Ono answer is self
ovident: nil tho heroic achievements of
both sides liavo been thrown into a com
mon stock and constitato tho common
glory <J. the country. The honor of giv
ing poetic completeness to this work be
longs to Waiter Scott In bis inspiring
lines Kelt and Saxon, Scott and English
man, Catholic, Protestant and Erastian
shine, each according to his merits. This
great work has not yet been demo for
Ireland.
The journal covers but seven years,
from 1833 to 1833, and appears to have
boon written mure to relievo tho writer’s
mind under Us load of trouble than to
give information. The depression which
followed the Napoleonic wars ended
about 1830, and as usual in such cases
the reaction mode business men rockli
The era of speculation culminated in
1833 and ended suddenly in tbe worst
financial revulsion Great Britain ever
Buffered. Soott was completely crushed.
Hi* publisher* failed. AH for whom, he
had assumed any responsibility tailed,
and he wa* aaddled with the enormous
debt of (830,0001—eo estimated by his
beet informed friends.
(fltoB toe inborn nobleness ri the mail
shone out At tho ago of S3, when he
hefl-relind from author ihip, be reso
lutely eet to work to pay Us debts by
the, pen. He surrendered all his prop
erty except Abbotsford, and there Bred
In the moet economical way. The next
year he pablished “Woodatock,-” toe
next, “Chronicles of the Canongste” and
RUGS.
Owing to toe great
compelled to retire
from the Carpet busi
ness. I offer tor sale
in my store on Cotton
Avenue, consisting of
They are suitable for
Iiugs only and will be
sold at
Low Prices I
Call
them,
number
and examine
There are a
of beautiful
pieces.
No trouble to show
them,
S1C0P,
MANAGER.
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MORE DURABLE
T1UN MOOT
Sterling Silver
AND NOT
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without the knowledge of petlent II
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nent end speedy core, whether the petlent I* *
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certainty that the patient undergo** no Incon
venience, and toon hie complete reformation M
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Amerlous, Ga.
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OF
GardenSeeds
That ere Just beginning to arrive.
Listen for Competitive rates.
The straggle for Pearl Onion
Seta baa eemmeneed—first comes,
first served. All know that HALL
keeps the beet of everything—don’t
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