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LOST HIS PUCE.
BY T. 8. ARTHUR.
sry
kat we can't take him back." The
superintendent a|K>ko kindly but
Irmly. ‘‘If it were lii» first offense,
we might let it pass; but he has
given us this trouble too often,and
we shall now puta quieter mao in
hie place.”
“But it was the drink, Mr. Grant
—only the drink 1" urged the poor
“There isn't a more peaceable or
ftin^-bearted man la all the shop
than Jimmy, when be lets drink
alone. And you will give him credit
for being a good workman ?”
* “Ho better workman in the estab
lishment, but the drink we can’t
stand any longer. That spoils
everything."
•“You’ll give him another trial ?
Say yes, Mr. Grant I" pleaded the
unhappy wife.
But Mr. Grant said; “No, Mrs.
Allison; I’m very sorry, but this
tiling is settled. Your husband
most get work somewhere else.
W* can’t have him here any longer.”
“Ob,, Mr. Grant," cried the
wretched woman, tier voico rising
to a passionate appeal, “just think
•f his poor old mother I It will
break her heart."
“He should have thought of bis
poor old mother, Mrs. Allison," re-
turned Mr. Grant, with a coldness
in bis mimner that he did not feel.
“We cannot take these things into
icconnti’
It was nil in vain. Mrs. Allison
conld not move the superintendent,
snd she loft his office, weeping bit
teriy.
“it is a bard case," said Grrfnt,
speaking to his book-keeper In a
troubled voico. “But we can’t have
Jimmy 'Allison in the shop any
longer. He will take bis gloss, and
when he sets too much, he grows
quarrelsome. There’s no bettor
workman, and no better man to be
found, if he’d leave off tippling.
But for drink he’d bo our foreman
to>day, instead of a castoff. His
example is bad, and wo must re
move it. He Ipads others astray."
“Hell go to ruin, I’m afraid,"
said the book-keeper.
“Perhaps not. When I pay him
off, I shall talk to him, kindly and
seriously. And I shall do more.”
“Wlmt?”
(‘Give him six months’ proba-
lion.”
“Where and how?”
“I’m thinking it out. Can’t sec
it clear, but it will come to me.
Where there's a will there's a way.
His poor old mother. That touches
me. All, the poor old mothers! If
young men would but think of them
as they should, there would be few
er heartaches at old age.”
Mr. Grant hud a harder trial still.
In her sorrow and despair old Mrs.
Allison came to the oilice to plead
for her son. He was very kind to
her, and tried to mnko her see that
her son’s loss of his place might
really tie the best thing that ever
happened to him. But this was
Impossible. Site saw nothing hut
«v!l In bis going away.
Poor old lady! At seventy, in
stead of comfort in her latest born,
hast beloved and only surviving
child—her boy, she yet called him
Kindly, though lie was eight and
twenty—she had heartaobing
wretchedness.
“Oh Jimmy! My poor boy, Jim
my!" wailed the mother, on corn-
ming back from the office, where
she hod so vainly striven to change
the superintendent's purpose; and,
patting her arms about the stalwart
men, she sobbed aud moaned so
piteously tbst he also was moved
to tears.
But there was no help for them.
The shops were closed to Jimmy
Allison, and a week afterwards he
left home to seek Tor work in a
town fifty miles away, where bo
bad an acquaintance in a rolling
mill. Upon the sorrow and grief
that fell like a shadow on the hearts
ct his wife and mother at the mo
ment of parting streamed in a ray
of hope.
“I’ve taken my last glass, moth-
erl My last glass, Jenny 1 And
it will all come our right. I’ll be
save to get work in S and then
I’D send for you and we’ll lie hap
py again.”
Mr. Grant was standing at the
window of his office looking out.
“There goes Jimmy Allison to
tha station,” be said, turning to the
bookkeeper. “Poor fellow! 1 hope
the lesson will be good for him.
him But I’m afraid.’’
While Mr. Grant was speaking,
be saw Allison stpp and stand ir
resolute tor some moments, and
s sav
in parting; if you bad let beer and
whiskey atone', you might have had
a foreman’s place here long ago.
Nothing has kept you back but
drink. For your own sake, and
especially for your wife's and good
old mother’s sake, let it alone.”
“I’ll do it, sir. You may count
on that. Good-bye, Mr. Grant.”
and the man held out bis hand, his
face working with the struggle of
feelings he could not repress.
“Good-bye, Jimmy,” returned
the superintendent as he took t ie
man’s hand. “Think of mo at a
friend. It goes hard with me as
well as with you. But you left us
no alternative. Good-bye! And
il all goes right let me hear from
you '
Jimmy Allison hod no voice to
reply. Turning away in silence,
be left the office.
“I don’t see how you can have
the heart to do it," said the book
keeper as the man had gone. “He’s
taken the pledge, and it’s my
opinion he’ll keep it. Why not
give him a chance ? 1 can't get the
poor, old, sorrowful face of his
mother out of my thoughts for a
moment; it haunts mo like a ghost.”
Mr. Grant did not reply and tbo
bookkeeper turned to his desk and
resumed his work. A little while
afterward, the whistlo of the com
ing train was beard; a few minutes
later, and Jimmy Allison was borne
away from home,-wife and mother,
on the swiff, wings of steam, a sad
der and wiser man.
The day Imd worn on drearily to
the miserable wife and methe- of
Allison, tho pleasant Juntfsunshino
unfclt until tho sun had reached
tire tops of the western mountains,
far the shadow of great trouble
rested on the little household. Sud
denly the wild scream of the loco
motive cut the air, and went echo
ing among the hills; and soon after
tho. do#n coming train dropped a
tew pas.iengcrs at the station,
and then went thundering on its
impetuous course.
“Mrs. Allison,” said a boy who
rushed into the room where the two
women sat in their helpless, half
despair, “here is a letter from Mr.
Grant, and be says read it right
away."
Tho startled wito opened, with
hands that shook nervously, tho
folded papor and read: “ Wo'vo
telegraphed Jimmy to come back—
look out for him by the down
traiu.”
A wild cry of joy broke from tho
lips of Jenny Allison:. “Oh, mother,
mettier! they've sent tar hipi to
cornu hack, and there he is now!’’
Springing up and bounding
through the door half crazed with
joy, she van through the little gar
den,and flung herself, laughing
crying all at unoe, into the arms of
her husband.
“We’ve lmd a narrow escape,
Jimmy, my son,” said old Mrs.
Allison, after they were all quieted
down. “It hurt me away down here,
my son”—and slio laid her hand
over her breast—“hurt mo more,
may be, than you will ever know.”
“Oh, don’t say that, mother. But
you shall never bo hurt again,”
aswered Jimmy, oatebingdiis breath
with someting like a sob. “Never,
never, ncverl I’ve taken the pledge,
you know, and when Jimmy Allison
puts his name to anything, it’s got
to stand. Tbo Allisons don’t go
hack on their word of honor.”
“I’ll trust you my boy," was the
mother’s confident reply as the sun
shine of gladness fell over her aged
face.
All this happened just one year
ago. And has Jimmy Allison kept
true to his pledge? More than true;
for bosidos holding true to his own
integrity, he has induced a dozen
other workmen to follow his exam
ple, and is now organizing a tem
perance society in the shop, where
he already holds the position of
foreman.
Opening In the Souih.
Qiyefii BuiMHM 6
Elsewhere io our columns we
chronic e we departure of the son
of a leading N$w York stationei
from this city, and his entry into a
large stationery firia at Albany, Ga-
Knowing that this step has been
taken with care and thought, w<
feel every confidence that it is the
right thing to be done—and the
new firm have our best wishes.
Such an incident serves to call at
tention to the opportunities offered
down South lor start ng in basilicas.
Ti ere never was a day when that
part of the country held out more
tempting inducements to young
beginners, to men who feel that
they have nerve and grit, and that
they are made of too good stuff to
remain in poorly paid subordinate
positions all their lives in crowded
centers, where most ol the avenues
to fame and fortune are already oc
cupied.
A glance at the development of
the South in four years reveals a
remarkably encouraging state of
affairs. During that short period,
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, and Texas, there has
been a growth in taxable property
from $1,211),(ICS,128 to $1,710,498,
798, or an increase of nearly hall
a billion dollars. Meanwhile the
rate of taxation has been reduced,
and now nverages only five per
cent. Looking at the extension ol'
the railroad system, wo find simi
lar results. In these eight States
there were 11,704 miles ol road in
1879. Now there arc J 7,891. Be
tween these two years tho value of
tie raw produce, such as crops,
wool, etc., rose from $398,000,000
to $557,000,000; while the mineral
product of Alabama increased $4,-
000,000 to $19,000,000, and the
lumber product af A rknnsas from
$1,790,000 to $8,000,000.
These figures outrun even those
of the last census, which fu st called
attention in an appreciable degree
to the commercial and industrial
awakening of the South. They
show what the united effort of a
whole people moving upward, can
do. They show, too, that the West
is not tbo only part of the land to
which a man who feels want of el
bow room in the Eastern or Mid
dle States need look. It seems to
us that there are nmny fineopenings
to be found in the Southern station
ery, book, and fancy-goods trade,
and wo hear from many manufac-
turersof paper, stationery, etc., that
the steady development of tho
South is one of their best main
stays and strongest hopes.
Climbing the Spiral Stairs.
*Ye$, n Bali ohe, “our chi^r.-D ure married Bud
(one, «nd my bun band and I *U by OuT winter flre
much bi wo did before tbo liiiifont B came to widen
(no circle. tAfv 1b something like a *j irBl *Uir-
CMta; wo are all the time coming nromid over the
.spot waatarted iruut, only one degree further up
italra.’"
‘•That ia a pretty illiiutratlou,*' remarked her
mend, nma.ngly, gazm# into the glow ins;
which radiate a peasant heat from tbo macy-wlii-
d-yv.ed atove. ''You know we cuiiaoi atop tohini;
up the fail], though.’'
•‘Surety wceaiinot, tud for myself I don’t And
fault with that necessity provided the ndra-ice lu
liic is not attended with calamity or snflertng, or
l have * ad my anare of tbit Not b*ng aluce my
be-iitb utterly broke down. My system wu» full
.it nia aiia. My dlgoa ion became thoroughly dis-
otdnH and my i orvoB aero in u wrieicbod state.
1 «a«lauguiJ, ate litt.eaad that without eni»y-
I.".' lr, ami hod no htr fjig.D or Minbition to peiwrnt
11 my light bou ehoTil duties. Medical tfCBt.
nv i‘t pilled to reach the seat «f the trouble. I ho
diMMSe—Which seemed to be weaku»-*a of sill the
v:Ul ofiiHnM— progressed until I had aereial at’
tacks whic.. my pu)'»H»R* p * ‘ 1
A Voice from the Comer.
_ _ r ...jounced o • t'«fute
iinsestion o tho ftotnaeh. ’ Tho iu»t of these was
»(iesperato struggle end t was given up to urn.
A«t.meri*la had partially iui*«cd f my husband
iie&td oflin*- merit* m PAltKBlt’ATflfllic u»
nil invfiinratit Iii Ju-t *a< h case* a* mine. 1 took
it and'*elt it* coot eiteet* at uum. It uppeare • to
p« rvado rny body a* ft.-ugh tbo lU*B*ing ot new
life had e-uni* tome. Taking no other medicine I
jutinued to improve, nnd am n-»w In better health
mu I hove been f«»v|n I ng t »nc.”
1 Kxtr* t from interview with the wife of ltev. I*.
Pci try, IVtor Baptist Church, Cohl brook, Mas*.
nov28ml
For the fast two month.if I have been tearing down and rebuilding. I have bow oar of the largest
bnaineav bounce m the city, neatly aud nicety arranged, and is now filled with »
Choice Selection of lew Goods
Which cm braces every thing In
GENERAL MERCHANDISE!
When you buy from me you purchase GOOD# FRESH FROM MARKET. In buying la quftu . '«
tlen'l am ab!e to buy ami tell at
BOTTOM PRICES.
tmiembt r tnc when yod want good end cheap good*,
orne around and look ut my Now and Handsome Building, and then step ica'de and try aomotf
GOOD LIQUORS!!
(“ISMS”
THE WORST “ ISM " TO-DAY IS:
Rheumatism
RHEUMATISM IN THE BACK
Cured by
PERRY DAVIS'S PAIN KILLER,
RHEUMATISM IN THE KNEES
Cured by
PERRY DAVIS'S PAIN KILLER.
RHEUMATISM IN THE MUSCLES
Cured by
PERRY DAVIS'S PAIN KILLER.
RHEUMATISM OF LONG STANDING
Cured by
PERRY DAVIS'S PAIN KILLER.
RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS, buy m :
any Druggist
Perry Davis's Pain Killer
n trying io bn I Id up c
AYER’S
Sarsaparilla
So Step Around and See Me!
H.. D, WATTS,
NEW BUILDING NORTH-EAST COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, Att&RiGU* GA,
ecpSlmb
V
STILL orvr THE COB NER
-(O)-
HARRIS & JAMES
HAVE NOT REMOVED, BUT CAN STILL BE FOUND AT THE OLD STAND
Corner Cotton Avenue and Lamar Street,
Where they will be found ready to nerve their old customers ana everybody cla-j with a .fall Hue «
Groceries and Provisions!
BOOTS, SHOES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Fred Douglass 1ms an article in
the Iasi issue of Harper’s Weekly
on the “Condition of the Freed
man,” which shows them to be in
the highest stale of prosperity in
the very states where the Kcpubli-
can politicians liare charged that
they were not allowed to buy larrns
and build up their fortsnes. This
is enough to drive the bloody shift
ers to desperation.
A fashion paper says: “kittens’
beads are to take the place of birds’
heads on tho coming bonnet.” The
first thing we know some women
will be carried to the hospital with
a fr..clured skull. Some absent-
minded husband will sling a boot*
tuiiv iui buiuc ann ...i. (.u, nnn ) i, A , ,\
then turn and walk quickly toward Jaclc at thc Uttcns lic '' <i -
the office. ' j ~ '
“Wc are to have a parting word i ” inter, with its snow and ice,
—a curse or a blessing,” added Mr. i will soon be here, and from thou-
Grant, in a changed voice. And sands of home will go up the night-
Ure office door opened, and Jimmy !| vcry . .. Say) takc yourcold fccl
DrJamesV/Jones
cures Itheunmf lam, Neuralgia, Itlicumu-
Ift* flout, General Debility, Cntuvrli, ami
ull disorder* caused by a tUln uudf impover
ished, or corrupted, condition of tiie blood;
expelling the blood-poisons from tbo system,
enriching and renewing the blood, and re
storing its vitalizing power.
During a long |*erlod of unparalleled use
fulness, AYifit’n Sauh.y[*ahiM,a has proven
its perfect adaptation to the cure of all dis
eases originating in poor blood and weakened
vitality. It Is tt highly concent ruled ex
tract of Sarsiiparllln und other blood-
purifying; roots, combined with Iodide
of rudusMluin and Iron, and h the safest,
most reliable, ami most economical Mood-
puriller and blood-food that cun bo tiffed.
They don’t claim that they have the largest stock, and fell cheaper I han any other houw io Americas,
but they do claim that thoy keep a lull assortment in their lino and proposo to treat their customers so
airly that tbny will coin# again.
They would call especial attention to their stock of
Boots and Slioes
t low prices. Call and see them, It will do y»a
HARRIS & JAMES.
September M, 1SMJ.
Inflammatory ItheuinatlNin Cured.
"Avkii’k Sahhai’AIMI.i.a honoured me or
tbo InlUimnatory Khoutiiatiffin, with which
1 have ffutfered for many years.
W. II. MOOIIK."
Durham, la., March 2, 1882,
•• Klght years ago 1 imd nn "itndc
A powerful remedy which can be taken inter
nally m well •• applied extcnndly by the tender-
cst Inflint. It le pleasant and |>owt rml, acting dU
that 1
-r it and powerful, acting di
rectly upon tho nervouff »y«tem, producing instant
relief. l)r. ranklitt discovered Klectrltlty and
Hhminmtlitm .
move from tho lied, or dress, without help.
I tried several reuiedloa without much if
any relief, until I took Avwt’a Sajinai’A-
brougbt it down from thc cl»udo; l’rof. M*«rsc
harm-ftsed it and aent It around tho world in CU
oecoune sa % common messenger, and Dr, dunes
bottled U aa a remedy to enra all pain.
i of two bottles of which I
ftly cured. 1 have not liecn
h the lllit-u mat ism since,
largo t) mutt it Iv
Good for Man and Good for Boast
troubled wi
Have sohl
Saumai’AUILLA, uml it still retains if*
wonderful fiopularitv. Thc many notable
cures It has effected in tills vicinity con
vince mo that it is the bust blood medicine
over ottered to tbo publb
Price one Dollar•
ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY FKLLtCD
fSr Full lUrrctions »e:on»pany **ch bottle
•'foist March I was so weak from gcncr-
nl debility that I conld not walk withm
help. Following tho advice or a friend,
commenced taking Ay Kit's S.vnsAfAUtU.A,
and before I bad used three Isittles 1 felt
ever did in my life. I hav<
To the Farmers
.-rlil.
Counties of Sumter and Schley.
1 represent capitalists who
desire to loan money on Real
Estate at low rates of interest
for a term of years. Come and
see me and get my figures.
Borrow the money and quit
the suicidal policy of rushing
your crops to market and sell
ing them for less than the cost
of production.
D. C. N. BURKHALTER,
si-l«Jl-w:lm AMEBICUS, GA.
FOR A BUSINESS EDUCATION
Daivson Connnrcial College,
A DKFAHTMl'.NT OF TIIK
South Geoiuia Male anil Female Colte
Allison came* In. He did not epvak j (
M.A. McSUl.TY, : : . : Prevalent.
B. C- ADAMS, Principal of Dcpaitmeul.
The noil p roc; I col, thorough and CompDti
trainii'g nehooi In the South. Also, the
Oil K A1M5ST H AT IN. Dook-k- cpir.g
to every brnuch of lnt»iuci
pocket, which bo opened ami hand
ed to the su|>erlntetidcnt. Jt > s easy to pick out flaws in
“Oh! a pledge!”said Mr. Grant other people’s work but far more
of surprise. profitable to do letter work vour-
. “Yes, sir; amt what is more, I m : sc )f
going to keep ft,” replied Allison, '
iB *8tl™ to tha'‘mV'maJTknd all • SHR | S ' ER ''S KDlkS VEBMIFUGE IS
wi^bc C wcll,”"ui ti'ere^rtaun" | *
libmvt medicine in tin
.Iamkh Mavxabii.”
fSO West 42d St., New York,-duly l!», J#o*2.
AVKIt’B 8AKBAl»AItlf.l.A etuv* KcroHlU
itiul all Hcrofuloua Complnlntii, Kr>Nlj»-
i’Ihh, Kczeiim, Itingworni, Itlotchaa,
Sore*, lloiln, Tuninni, und Eruptloiu of
the .Skin. It clonra the blood of all impuri
ties, aid* digefftioii, atimuiiitcs the action of
the liowclu, aud thus restore* vitality aud
Miviigtheu* the whole ayntdii.
I'IIF.I*AUI’.I> IIV
WHEATLEY’S CORNER.
Ho ! Everyone in need of Clothing,
Come ye to Wheatley’s Corner and buy.
THORNTON WHEATLEY
HAS NOW ON EXHIBITION AND FOB SALE
35,000
Worth of Fine Custom Made Clothing for the Fall Trade!
THESE SUm ABE ALL
MADE FOR NOBBY WEAR AND RECOMMEND THEMSELYE8
4Kt
BEAUTY OK EJNIHIL DURABILITY OF TEXTUBE, AND ELEGANCE OP
- - STYLEl
In every instance we Guarantee a Perfect Pit and Entire Satisfac
tion or Ho Sale I! !
We Lav. also made a NEW DEPABTUBE in
SHOES AND HATS !
and have now on hand onr entire stock of Clothing, Hat.,'and Shoes for Fall and
ill, and Latest Moots io Flexible
Winter trade, embracing nil the Nobby Styieg of Pel
Stilt Hats. Wo have u fall line of
SHIRTS, CUFFS, COLLARS, 1IOS1EKY, NECK AND UNDERWEAR l
and everything in tbc way of GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS.
C.ill early and inapect these beantifnl goods.
Dr. J.C. Ayer ACo.,Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggist*; price 31,*ix bottle*.
WHEATLEY’S CORNER.
Americua, Ga., Angast 17, 1883. If
X» O -CVS’
it
JAMAICA GINGER!^.
CORDIAL !
H. Williams,
IS A SPLEXDID TOXIC! :\
Carea Dyapepain, Indigestion. Cramp !
Colic, Pain in the Stomach and Bowels, J
Colds, Chills and Fever, Diarrlima and j
Dysentery, and all Malarial Diseases by ,
stimnlating tho stomach and bowels into |
a healthy activily. Try one bottle. |
Sold by Dr. John E. Hai.l, Americus, :
Ga. april'20 ly |
-DEALER IN-
2. J. SAWES1.BIT.
GROCERIES, PURE LIQUORS,
FRESH MACKEREL, TEAS,
TOBACCO, CIGARS, Etc.
COTTON AVENUE, AMERULS, GA.
1 OFFER EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS IN SHOES FOR MEN, BOYS
LADIES AND MISSES.
C MFBCnONERT AND RESTAURANT.
I* now open unJfkfpt In (ir*t
ITS!
Comtrcrclal Arithmetic, Cotnmft^al Cotrc.-pouA-
vticr, Boffin.’** Feaniaafthiji, Political Kootinmy,
Ortlicffrophy, Kkcution, I*iinc(plc*and Free Ici-of
Kuffiiicaa. ;
only p’a -v 8*mth whrrt* voting ladle* FRUITS, candies, cakes,
arc given a iborotigh bu»lm-a« education.
I’vftUtifbl piplc uiaa awardi'd io cixduat
For further icfomatkti ni>.l dialogue ml.'.
KKKF COXSTAXTI.Y OX IIAXI) ALL TfiE.BKST BRANDS OF
WHISKIES, BRANDIES, WINES, BEERS,
TOBACCO. OICi'AI-S,
-i-Sif
K. C. ADAMS. Dawffon, (ju.
$65
hUadMpbla, IV
A MONTH and Board fur S llv 4
r nJi“», In each county
W. Z.IhOLfcK A Cf .
FISK AND OYSTERS !
GOOD COFFEE, SUGAR, BACON, FLOUR, SNUFF, CANNED GOODS
ALWAVa ON HAM).
Cop ace tH with thi.* hott*c i* » »!»• . ia«* Reutan-
ranl where mdda nr- nerved at all 1. mr*. Special
altantlftk paid to ladU% nytihuS
CRACKERS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE USUALLY FOUND
IN A FIRST-CLASS GROCERY HOUSE.
IJmvili* nn iiL-p^ctioti ef oiy goods sad renyc-tfally nolkit yourfi nironnoo, 1 do nut irofote to «l
.over Uinft any o:te else, )»el »liaM a-k a *m.. 1 on mV caottn.
ill'll P. n. WILLIAMS
•r tiauAiaffi