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TO el IHJMEirS BADY.
THE STORY OF A FALL AND REF
ORMATION IN REAL LIFE.
Tito I.if ■ of a 2-Y’ear-Old Darling the
Price of a ’1 m's Itedeniiilioii—The Little
Mount! f Earth on Crown Hill—Tlie
Neat Cottage of the OliJ l ime Tom.
Tom Blinker was one of the •‘hoys,’
and tn to are many in this city who
would 1 now him should his right name
be given. He made good wages, spent
his money freely and was a halo fellow
well met with every one.
W lam ae and kry stood hr ore the
a,tar in Me httle c.iurc.i an . linked their
lives together many were the compli
ments they received, for indeed they
were a line coupl •• Their friends con
grntulated them and the future looked
bright. And when the first little prat
tler came the acme of their happiness
seemed to have been reached.
But Tom's old habits clung to him,
and ere many years bad gone he began
to neglect his home. Often he would
come home lute at night under the intlu
enee of liquor. The money lie earned
passed over the bar of the saloon, and llie
roses faded from Mary’s cheeks. The
stars left her eyes: her face became
pinched, and d t p lines of sorrow chased
a-.ay the dimples. Still she did not com
plain, and Tom did not see what great
changes were going on in his home.
From one house to another they moved.
The little* home ou which Tom on his
wedding day had mad • thu first payment
wa ; gone, and at last his. mi might reel
carried him to a mieraL'e 'novel in which
a heart brol: a woman and children ex
isted.
TUB ANGEL'S wind.
Tom had reached the bottom. So low
had he descended that he would scrub
o it .*; ! ns Unit he might get the dregs
of alcoholic stimulants. He was Bum
mot L.inker now with arum colored
n-e i eves blear ,] and bloodshot.
, iUanv times he mhaoiteu . tne . urunk . ,
local a; urn mail mi house, and , waca , he
was , brongiit , , i.i . tho desk sergeant A wou»u ,
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c ; .'■* 1 ‘ good kind
. 1 . m ,ra 1 .) m* a i .et,y
lorn would ,, oniv , mum ,, ole and , drop ,
c.own , into a corner to sleep. , T In po
Fee court lie was a “chronic” and was
lined time and time
One cold and dismal night, when the
snow 7 a on the ground and all
was it '5 cla 1. Tom was in a low barroom
asleep Home cruel jokers had painted
ms sv.'u f,;,\s with lamp black e.rd
v. ere bavin : rare sport with the drunken
man W.icii lie awoke and realized his
condition he liecame angry, and the re
sult was that " 7 lH ' ' ....... 1 ‘'7
thrown out of doors / , nen . Lewaggcreu
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li.Gl v soT'ccd, ..;iw Iliad .a.I ehi.d and re
aimed that he had not lv. a . ,vr to wipe
the death tian.:i .'rom its brow, or help it
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iv i 'k ■ : In ; a;,., pined L r 7a;,ed
arm about I ^ i ncm;. and with I: r wan
. umn odfi 1 of the lamp
black., li;.* ft:: tea < f vile li; ucr. mingled
her tears vii k his. But no promises of
reformation (lit! Tom m:
Kin l neighbors fur ri,;.ie i. !He coffin,
and when Tom, tremV: g i.i every li mb
from <11 :g. m, dr< p -1 Imt. burning
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tears ou Li * ik.l - ll.ee upturned, and
wiih hk;shaking la.: i ca;\ ; ; d the liny
white ha:: .a p ■ eo;';.;;y cross' d ou the
I-I "-<!■! , p.*iijde w..ndnvd “if
- a KMT ■;o;i him.'" The fu
V.\}\\ i V ; .5 Unpve!entio'.;.:. Every clod
E.'.* r. struck a i low on
T(>7n7s 7.7 • t ' ur t - ■, lb' p. * - :/wheel .. ,
; ul on t: ,
he :;w v, - t Mail V A* in las
-.m '.. . 'Hu-r as h.* ,’U ra times
1 wh-'.i he re; m ned Marv
r !.is step. o!i. . 0 !v,
1 1 -ueh.ard i:, thank ! G.xl it
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m as miss.'d from Uiel.-ar room,
; .a- ; kee station from tlie poll e
ourt. He quit drink ig and went to
work. Go to one of the largest factories
in the city. Pass among Lie whirring
wheels and ringing hammers. Bee ilia!
tall, broad shouldered man with acheerv
f.. -, m-g.mied not wRli lamp black, but
IVIJI the result of honest hour!
hi-iii Banker.
A’he Tthe whistle sounds lie takes off
li . pi ,!. kutloM lli.i s!i :t C ut ;.l)OUl
hi... u-t wan a brisk swinging v,a!u anc
a c.u-iu wjii -ffe shuts lor I so. i oi
J,;. to u n ut iiu lt' cottage and
wa:. b the picture that the light throws
M i r i the curtains at the window. See a
bi'ppy wife in tidy attire turow her arms
around his neck arid kiss away the din
ef the factory. Bee happy children
vaamoring tu kiss papa, hoe them at
their evening meal—aud then if Tom
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
dors go out after supper—Mary and the
children go along. The neat cottage
isn't Tom's yet, but it will be some day,
for lie is the old time Tom, sober, hard
working and honest.
Out in Crown Hill is a little mound of
earth that Tom and Mary visit every
Sundav. On this mound in summer the
flowers ever bloom, and winter's lieree
gale that rends the oak and shakes the
evergreens sinks to a low sweet and ten
der lullaby as it passes over the spot
where rest the remains of Blinkei s ba y.
—Indianapolis Ne'vs.
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Some Bade Prot«•:•!»*.
A contributor to The Freisinnige Zei
{ hQft co n ected f rcm a ll the foremost
nations of tl)9 world heap of “proverbs
of men concerning women.” It appears
from them that the southern people,who
count themselves the most chivalrous
and gallant toward the ladies, are more
coarse and insulting in their proverbs
than the colder northerners. Although
the Germans, the Scandinavians and the
English are not complimentary to wo
men in their proverbs, they are “rarely
brutal.”
The Frenchman says: "A man who
has a wife has a plague.” “A man made
of straw is worth double as much as a
woman made of gold.” The Spaniard
says: “A woman’s advice is never of any
use, but unless you follow it she will rail
at you as a fool.” “Bo on your guard
against a bad woman, but do not put
your trust in a good woman.” “There
is only one bad woman, but every hus
band believes he possesses her.”
Italians say: “If a man loses his wife and
a farthing, he lias omv lost a farthing.”
The chief failings of the sex, according
to a whole host of English and German
proverbs, are changeableness and talka
tiveness, the former of which is equally
™ e<)f „ men and . the .. , alter ,, not disagree*
ule t( ' men m U,e Latl!1 nat,ons ’
The charge that “Women’s minds and
April winds eaten change. andthestate- . ,
‘uent that “A woman s strength lies in
her tongue, ° appear 1 to be accepted ‘ in
•
. readings .. throughout , , northern .
various
Europe, ,, 1 ™ ioe specimen 1 • of » a Yankee ,
proverb , is . characteristic: , , . . ..... Lumen can
keep a secret, but it takes a big crowd of
to doit.” The Chinese say that
.. A womans tongue is her sword,” but
“she never lets it grow ° rusty.”—New J
York Sun.
DiTerenco i:> Ej-^s.
In form and general aspect the differ
enee among birds’ eggs is endless. Some
are elongated, some are spherical, some
are dull on the surface, some are polished,
some are dark and others gray or white.
others very bright. Tlio shape of eggs
offers as much diversity as their size and
weight. They may bo thrown, however,
into six different or typical forms—the
cylindrical, the oval, tne spherical, the
U vicular. oviconieal and the elliptic. The
ovicular (Arm of eggs belongs to the Pas
serai and Galliacas, the ovdd to the m
p acioUH birds and the Palmipedes, tlie
conical to the wading birds and
Palmipedes, the short to some game and
many stilted birds and the spherical to
nocturnal birds of prey and tlie kingfisher
If a farmer has a llock of ICO hens they
r nu!uce in egg shells about 137 pounds of
chalk annuaUy; and yet not a pound of
lhe substances or perhaps not even an
oniw. exists around the farm house
within the circuit of t’.ieir feeding
F 1 oulK ' ls - the materials oi Inoil
b.. u.u ...i iou..d i.i tne food <.. ..loa.ncd
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V " K fi nn died 77 la'amS^ 1 Ann'
danco—Populai . Brut. ,
~Z Tii«i 1804 1U . M Dollar. n „
“There is something curious about the
American silver dollar and half dol
lar of Ib'G,” said a numismatist. “There
wore ; bout £0,000 of the dollars coined,
but not one of them ever got into circu
lation. Two of them aro i.i well known
coin collections L day, however, and
they are the most valuable of all Amer
ican <;; i ns. Why the dollar of F'.Ol was
never seen hi circulation after leavimr
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the . mint is one of , the unsolved , govern
meat mysteries. It is asserted on good
” luhoriL > th;it ''ft™ * ‘. !olhira no ' v
7 ,x 7 t ,u ‘°’ 1,1 ° havhl - b v' n
,TOin llK * die 1 ’ > n
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"»’uck, and ,t is supposed, a med to a
jierson high , 1 .- autnon y. from whom
they suhseijueutly. pmise.l into ll.e collec
t;o:*s referred to. The half dollar of
l>y a tnysterv ociurvllv
profound. 1 here were over LiO.COO of
these coined, but not one of these were
ever known to lie in circulation. On the
other hand, hut 700 quarter dollars wore
c 0inod ... ia t!,a1 VPar - und oi
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these , are in . every collection ami
nuuns
matist s shop."—Philadelphia Press.
Tl»«* Sjhhthw ami tin* Alligator,
An alligator and an English sparrow
were seen to engage in a battle near
Darien. Fla., the other day. Tho ‘gator
provoked the tight by snapping at 'he
uird, which in turn flew fnri msly at its
ugly antagonist, aiming with precision
at the saurian’s eyes. Tlie’gator finally
gave up the contest and sought safety
from tiie sparrow’s attacks by hiding it
self under water.—Detroit, Free IT'ess.
Mr, 11 . . 11 , £ta»Jey> Early Years.
A correspondent of The Western Mail,
writing from St. Asaph, furnishes some
further interesting particulars of the
early years of Mr. FI. M. Stanley. When
young Rowlands—as Stanley was, of
course, known before he was adopted by
the gentleman who took him to America
—attended the St. Asaph Union school,
{}, e schoolmaster lad so high an opinion
0 f him that lie used to put him in charge
0 f the schoolboys during his absence.
The hoy was quite equal to the task of
maintaining discipline. He would allow
no one to question his authority. Rather
than to suffer any one to lake liberties
with ihim he would give the boys a
thrashing all round, and this he used to
do so effectually that no hoy was found
bold enough to dispute his authority.
The boy was particularly fond of geogra
phy and arithmetic, and seemed never so
happy as "'hen, pointer in hand, lie was
allowed to ramble at his own sweet will
over the face of the map. He seemed to
bis fellow pupils to have the latitude and
longitude of each place at his fingers'
<?nds. He was also a good penman, and
on this account was often selected by the
porter to enter the names of visitors in a
book kept for that purpose, and at times
he was even invited into the clerk’s of
flee to help with the accounts.
“T. L. LAV.” says that having search
ed tlie books at the workhouse in order
to find if there are any traces of Stanley
there, he discovered among the entries
the name of John Rowlands some eight
times. The first entry is that of his ad
mission to the house, which tool, place
on Teh. 2D, 1847. He is entered as be
longing to the parish of Denbigh, and as
having been born in 1841 (this date, by
the way, tallies exactly with Dr. Pierce’s
account). His name next occurs in tlie
lists of inmates for the years 1851-50.
Previous to this no list of names for
each year was made out: only the names
of those who were admitted or discharg
ed during the year were registered. The
last entry is dated May 13, 135G, and is
the time when he finally left the work
house. He is there reported to have
“gone to his uncle at the national school,
Ilolvwell.” Other books, such as the re
porter's report hook and the clerk’s ae
count books, may throw additional light
upon the early days of Stanley.—Pali
Mall Gazette,
Daaser in Celluloid.
Umbrella and cane handies, collars,
cuiis. and scores of other articles of con
venier.ee, utility and even elegance,
manufactured from celluloid, are in daily
use by large numbers of the people.
Tlie question is asked, “Slav they be
safely Used?” Celluloid is made from
gun cotton, the powerful and violent ex
plosive compound. Gun cotton is made
i, y saturating absorbent pa.per with a
mixture of two parts of nitric acid and
five part i of sulnhuric acid. The ceilu
j oseo f the paper, derived from the cel
lular tissue of the cotton in common use,
is changed bv the combination and be
corner guncotton. To make celluloid,
the excess of acid is washed out by the
free use of water, and by pressure care
f u lly applied. After the removal of all
uucombirrdacid.it is reduced to a ho
m0 geneou3 pulpv mass, strained until it
becomes nearly dry, and is then mixed
w itli about one-third of its weight of
camphor.
These materials are mixed aa uniform
ly as possible by careful manipulation
wiui v.ooden instruments, and then by
P by n 7 n «: spread pulp.winch out mid is turned reduced out
gnat.mg la to
7“"' )ot ' Vin ' n vanous stoa m h ‘T‘ ‘‘nexmt.ses l roi }*™' and mvX rolled thcl
L^-ient^iy , eiastic^ . m sirips . of ]
meuium ouckness. In tins form it is
Ui V mtl ! 7^ Rrticles
'vlnch are offered lorsale and use. AF
tkouga gnu crt.on is easily ruanufact
nred. its inanulactuve for experiment oi
Z* mnot recommended, and.
aldiou;;,i celluloid articles may be safely
used vvuh ordmnry care, a bonfire of
such “ r “ C 7 8 '7' a!UUseluc f iiJ no “ m -‘
ocimenucd. No injuries from such use
have been reported. A word to the wire,
however, suffices.—American Analyst.
The Sin of Eying.
r,, ihe emperor cf Russia, p . when .
upon a
tom oi mspection u Lie provinces,
STn^" L " id 18 ^ F, '|.....i F
pleased, as ,i tne head of ■ the churcn, , . to
see the old man take up his Bible and
read' a chapter. “Do you read often,
!a y *»skod. “Yes, your majes
f T* <‘'W day." “How much of tlie
B^lo have you read, my son?” “Dur
lag the pest year the Old Testament and
part of MmFmw. your majesty.”
Thinking to reward him, .he czar
placed 500 rubles between the leaves of
the Bookof Marx on the following morn
ing, unknown to the toil keeper, \ whom
U-V r,r,,v, li. K,v, ra
passed away and the emperor returned,
upon a second touiy to the toll taker’s
hut. 1. ‘*mg too Lmle in hn lianos lie
was BUI p: tsed to find thermo rubles in
tact. Again interrogating the toll keep
or ns to his diligence in reading lie re
ceived an affirmative answer and tlie
;.!atemenl that he had finished the chap
ters of Luke.
“Lying, my son. is a great r.iu,” re
plied his majesty; “give me the Bible
ill 1 sw,” Opening tlie hook lie pointed
ioLie money, which tlie man had not
seen. “Mum hast not sought the king
dom of God. my son. As punishment,
liiou shall a Go lose thy earthly re Wat d.”
And be placed 1 lit* rubles in bis pocket,
h> distribute afterward among the neigh
boring poor. — London Standard.
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AS 1,01V AS THE LOWEST. HIGHEST CASH PRICES ALLOWED FOIt COUNTRY
PRODUCE. WE SOLICIT YO UR PATRONAGE
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- AWE KEEP ON HAND ALMOST EVERY THING TO SUIT THE TRADE. BESIDES A
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES, WILL BE FOUND, HATS, SHOES, CLOTHING, COFFINS, CAS
KETS, FURNTTURE. ETC., AND WILL SELL GOODS AS CHEAP AS ANY MERCHANT IN
SI>UTH WEST GEORGIA . SOLTCITlNG TRADE, IT IS OUR OBJECT TO PLEASE ALL, AND
GIVE VALUE RECEIVED FOR YOUR MONEY.
MURRAY – WILLIAMS,
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*2?”Also, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, School Books, and .
II Vrolight ’Lizy from tlie but
Its Offspring Was a Failure.
Over at the West End there lives a col
ored family which is noted for possess
nig a breed of cats which it seems to
have a monopoly of—remarkably inteili
gent animals they are, if not always
sleek and handsome. Not long ago a
lady on Beacon Hill who was in need of
a servant, and to whom a daughter of
this colored household had been recoin
mended, called one evening at tlie little
house up an alley where the people lived.
A stout black woman came to the door.
“Does Eliza Oraugebiossom live here?”
the lady asked.
“Yes, she do, ma'am; but she ain't in
jes’ dis minute, ’ sail tlie stout colored
woman, “But ef you'll step in I’ll sen’
out arter her.”
She led the* way in and seated the lady
in the living room oi the house. There
were several eats present, one of which,
a scrawny but alert looking Maltese with
green-eyes, rubbed up amiably and in
‘fl»nngly against the visitor's dress.
“dim come 'way from dur, you
Malty!” exclaimed the colored woman
to th( '^ Now you
go ober f de clm’ch and git’Lizy, and
bring her home. You go fetch ’Lizy!”
she repeated, holding the door open.
The eat, after sidling and wavering on
the threshold a moment, as cats always
do in order not to appear too obedient,
disappeared through thornier.
“Will—will the cat bring your daugh
ter?” the lady asked in astonishment.
“Laws bless ye, ma'am, you wait an’
see,” said the colored woman.
Some minutes went by, and the lady
to think . . , thattheimssum , ,
’egan wasquito .
a failure, when the door opened and a
strapping colored girl came in with the
; iai '1'y K ot * n -vhon T s!io TT troiioout: Tl,e e i,lhad
“Mammy, did you send dat ’ar Malty "
to fetch me?”
Co’se I did ”
Wal’ now. Fm tired o’ havin’ dat cat
follerin’ me up wherew r I go. Seems
like L can't go nowhere but yon send her
after me! Mrelwusi.nl, meet
in’siltin' quiet in <e* new listenin’ to
Matihly Johnson n-latm’her Tperiences
wid grace, an' all h oneein walks dat cat
right up de aisle, and begins mewin’ and
yowllin’ at <m new doo! Oh dev wmi all
ter do, o’co’se. hut ter went right out. 1
hope ye 11‘scu*-e me. ma’am, iiut l reckon
you wouldn t like ter be fotclied home
way f’otu do pra’r mectin’ by a little,
screechin' Maltese eat, neither!”
The visitor could not help inwardly
reckoning that she wouldn’t. But her
admiration for the cat was so great that
sl.e made a point alterward to get one of
her kiIrens, i he unimal, h.owever, was
a great disappointment. Not that he
seemed to be lucking particularly in in
tellig nice—lie was intelligent enough, on
tho contrary, to get, himself lodged and
fed :vid potted without rendering any
return whatsoever. lie sits in the win
•low pretty nearly the entire day, watch
ing the panorama on the street with evi*
dent interest,,, and never appearing to
dream for a moment that he has any
social duties.—Listener in Boston Tran
script.
Esseourases Prevaricat !«n.
Something new in the telephone line
has developed in France. A man called
up President Carnot's ministers by tele
phone and denounced them in a most
vigorous and treasonable way. lie was
arrested, but the French courts held tl»t
insults offered over a telephone wire are
1K >t penal offenses. This shows tha»
criminal laws do not keep p ace wiF.
new- inventions. It is so the world over.
Men lie over the telephone every day.
They telephone home that business will
keep them down town and Unit they
eannnot be homo to dinner, and maybe
detained late at night. There is no re
dress for wives in such cases except to
dress for dinner and dine without bus
hands. Business transactions .art* carried
0 n by telephone. A man has made a
bad bargain and dot's not wish to stand
by it. l'Ie savs lrn did not telephone and
you cannot swear to the voice that came
in the buzz. No witness heard what lie
said. The law has provided against oh*
scene matter sent bv mail. Telegraph
companies rule out cuss words. But a
man talking to vou bv telephone may
abuse you as if von were a pickpocket.
You cannot sma^h his jaw ami vou must
stand it.-New Orleans Picavune.
Mistook r !i» Read in";.
GMliffowcr isn't much of a scholar, and
the other night when he was reading ta
lus old fashioned wife out of a newspa
per. h * came across an item about Rome
woman having charge last of twenty-five
kindergartens. The n being a little
blurred he read it, “twenty-five kind er
«*arters ’’
"'d.„b- S aU«r oxclaimod the oW lady,
as flic »natcl,e,l oil liar apectncles in A
tonishment ; ni i r ; "twentviiv* ; tJ ‘ bin kuul 1 ' ,. P -nr
ters. . No wonder , here . busted
1 s so many ,
-^7 7'w^ use'a stria" 1 nit
7tlfi*m or ^Lo and i v<777e ive want 7
sim -/7f rffht tT, ‘ r 7
selvi.l peir/.f troiwerJ <• Jdo wUl J 7to ■7dm! t
a vbodv^m ut
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Then witli she lier^mitUug.^TcxiiaSfftilv's^ replaced her specs -md went
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AYantuI to Kmiiv About Crops.
Genuine sympathy is a balm that heals
many wounds, but it is a question if a
certain, man who met it friend on tho
street a day or two ago had his grief as
suaged by the expression of sympathy lie
received. Both parties were from a
rural district and it was evident bad not
seen each other for a long time. Meet
ing on Clark street, one of them cried
out: “Why, hello. Joe: lam awful glad
to seo you. How arc you, anyhow?”
“Oh. I'm all right, personally, but 1 ain’t
feeling very chipper: 1 lost my wife last
week." “No, ilid you? Say, Joe, how’s.
< Tops?" —Chicago Herald,