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THE JASPER NEWS.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
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8. K. Mcontcbeon, O. 8. C.
K. H. li«mder»on, Hheriff. Tax Receiver.
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♦ TO.WN COUNpIL.
•. P. Hood, J. R.
Howell, C. Pickett* E* Wofford.
fraternal record.*
No. F. A- M„-Meet*
4r Simmon*;
SAt&fis;’ Reeve# Tyler. A 1. C, Wheeler, (ft. D, y -R R. :w s 8. :
A. D.
•tiderson, J.
RJBLIUIOU* SERVICB8. ‘
Baptist Church—Every second Sunday and Sat
Urd “iethod!st Ohuroh-Bverj third’Sunday and Sat¬
urday before. By Rev. F. O. Favor.
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/N . D. MADDOX,
Vj • Attorney at uaw, UEOHGIA.
CANTON, John Bilvey & Co.
Refers Wylfo by permission Orambling,Spaulding to & Co.
J. R. and acturing Co.,
Ill, and Simpson & Galt Ma
Cincinnati. Ohio.
P. P. DUBRKE, Law,
Attorney at
CANTON, OEORC41A.
Will practice in the Blue Ridas , circuit . 14 and
in Cherokee county. Ofllce, Court House
with Ordinarv. Administrates on estates.
Collections a specialty.___
W. T. DAY Law,
Attorney at
jasper, UKOKGIA.
Practices in the Blue Ridge Circuit, and in
the U. 8. Circuit and District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia.
TSAAC GRANT, Lav*,
X Attorney at
jasper, GKORGIA.
Practices in all the counteis. attended Legal buaim Office
solicited and House. promptly to.
in Court
IvL VkjfOULTRIK 8E88ION8, Law,
Attorney at GEORGIA.
KLL1JAY,
Will practice ia all the courts of ths Blus
Ridge Circuit. Promptness is hit motto.
J OHN W. HENLEY,
Attorney at Law.
JASPER, GEORGIA.
F. C. TATE, Law.
Attorney at
JASPER! GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Court of the
Blue Ridge Circuit. Promptness and at¬
tention to all business intrusted to my care.
A tsbki ble accident befell Jnlia Begley
one of the operatives in a Charleston, S. O.,
factory while in the sot of cleaning a
spinning frame. Her hair caught in a
portion of the machinery. The entire
scalp, including the eyebiows and one
ear. was* torn from her head. She is
atiJl alive, though little hopes are en
tertained of her reoovery.
SUBDUING AX ELEPHANT.
AJAX. AN K1.KPIIANT IN 1*1111, A DM.
PH I A. BKIU.MKK VICIUt’N.
Mwtacli tin la il >li lac hla «•
Kfuta.
The work of conquering the prono
apirit of Ajax began at nine o’clock on
Tneaday morning and ended ahorliy
before noon Satnrday Bearing haa no
effect upon a mad elephant. It only
renders him more stubborn and wicked.
The breaker’, only hope ia to convince
anch an animal that he ia powerless
against mu. That accomplished, the
beast becomes ak docile as elephants
ever are. On Tuesday moruing four
hawsers were passed through immense
pulley, attached to beams under the
roof. Then a aet of harness, shaped
something like a monster shawl strap,
was fastened about Ajax’s defiant body.
The leather straps, which were three-ply
thick, covered small chains. All the
leather plates were copper riveted aud a
foot wide. Ajax looked as though he
were in armor after being encased.
Three hours were spent in getting the
harness on him, and during the job he
slightly injured two of the keepers.
Throngh iron rings, supported by
great chains, were passed the hawsers,
Then a dozen men grasp 2 d two of the
lines of rope that passed through the
pulleys, aud before Ajax knew it his
hind feet were six feet above the ground
and he stood on his front onesun the
most approved performing elepfiant
style. For a moment he was paralyzed
with astonishment, but surprise gave
plaoe to fury when he appreciated the
ridiculous posture he was in. He
surged and trumpeted aud flapped his
eafw, but all to no purpose.
* ‘When his struggles subsided somo of
the men ran off with the front ropes and
in a jiffy Ajax’s body was suspended in
air. .He ‘made frautio efforts to
the belting-off with his trunk, but
ohalns\between hiaifore legs and
his shoulders prevented it. There the
monster brute hung, as helpless as an
infant. He was free to kick and plunge
and butt the air as muoh as he pleased.'
From time to time he was lowered, so
that he could rest his legs, but none of
the men were allowed to approach or
worry him. In the evening he was low¬
ered and fed, and allowed to spend the
night on the ground, thinkiug over the
indignities that had been put upon him.
"After his breakfast on the following
morning he was trussed up as before.
He resisted, but his efforts were un¬
availing. He was a stout-spirited brute,
howqver, and the second day’s punish¬
ment only seemed to increase his rage.
When he came down to supper he was
the maddest elephant that ever trum¬
peted in winter quarters. At the sight
of the harness on Wednesday he became
greatly excited. He was “ooming to his
senses.” This, however, did not pre
vent him from being hewted up again.
He surged about less in his oomfortabie
awing on Thursday, but otherwise he
was as stubborn and dangerous as ever.
An VoZ anchor was sunk five feet in the
and covered withe^th in an.
other part of the quarters. Only a
ring was exposed. Ajax’f forelegs were
hitched to the ring on Friday merging,
Ropes were attached to his hind legs,
which were then drawn out, leaving him
“spread-eagled” on his stomach on
•traw.
The elephant was let up and thrown
down several times during the dsy.
After three or four hours’ experience of
this kind Ajax became? meeker, and he
was quite dejected when, in the even
ing, he was unchained and ordered to
stand up. He was hobbled and thrown
down on Saturday morning, and
he tonched the ground he cried out, and
tears triokled down his trunk. He was
conquered. The chains were removed
at onoe, and be got op quietly. At the
wood of oommand he walked into the
_... room he had . broken . out of - on „ Monday ,
night, and vs i as meek as a sheep.
If IT AMI WISDOM.
What's in a name ? About the hottest
•ountry on the globe is Chili.
Young men now have an opportunity
to go West and snow up with the ooun*
do, but «hen in New York yon
, moat do aa the Engtiah do.
j A rER30!i in WaBh ingten haa written
, containing 0,000 verses, and
he could do even wone if he tried.
* a “ i *°°* . every,
I , bo * ^. “ t,Ce8 * When a tad man goes
"«•>“>« expects to be paid for it nght
away.
Roller skating rinks are excellent
tbiu 8 8 for promoting a feeling of Bocia
I bUit J- Everybody aeems to be thrown
| together there,
An ordinary woman’s waist i£ thirty
! inches around. An ordinary man’s arm
is about thirty inches long. How ad
mirable are thy works, oh nature !
“Suppose,” says an exchange, “all
the world went to bed every evening at
sunset.” Oh, well; the world’s gas bill
would be just as large at the end of the
quarter.
Music is the sound which one’s chil
dren make as they romp through the
house. Noise is the sound which other
people’s ohildreu make under the same
circumstances,
A Michigan man claims to have been
miraoulously oured of rheumatism which
had made him helpless for many months.
His hired man was carrying a hive of
bees through his room and dropped it.
At a recent Texas marriage the bride¬
groom came to the altar armed with a
rifle and the bride with a revolver. It
is unnecessary to say that the ceremonies
were allowed to prooeed with the utmost
decorum by the spectators.
"What did I understand you to say
this is, ma’am?” the new boarder asked
the landlady. “Spring chicken, sir,”
relied the lady; “pray what do
y° u think?” “That's, what I thought it
'was, ma’am, with all the springs left in.”
“What country is this?” “This?
Why, this is Amerioa.” “Ah, yes;
America, the asylum for the poor and
oppressed of all nations.” “No, not of
all nations. ” ‘ ‘What nation is excepted,
I’d like to know ?” “Why, America.”
“We had quite a disoussiou at the
olub last evening,” said Fenderson; “I
made the dosing speech, and I think I
made myself dear.” “Ah I” returned
Fogg; “then I have been misinformed.
I was told that you made the others
clear.”
Bi what ocoult intuition is it that the
small boy knows when the proper time
has come for whipping tops and playing
marbles ? He is as regular as the
ground hog or as those first flowers that
persist in blooming although the weather
be the opposite of spring-like.
A 4 «®ktlkm.vn, apologizing , . . for lan-
8ay wbat 1 ' 8ai J* but : * 1 be ^ fa f t not mean t°
you ^ see 1 lmv0 tbe “. misfortune M
»
t0 loee BOme °* front w*d
^ of «*-■»* every now
then without my knowing it”
They had had a little party of guests
at the house, and he remarked to his
wife, as he was getting ready for bed,
“that he flattered himself he had
acted the part of host in rather a bril
liant manner.” “I can recall only one
brilliant action of yours,” said his wife,
“Well, what was that ?” “Lighting the
gas.”
“Speaking of De Lesseps, they Bay
his Panama scheme will inflict great ia
jury on the United States.” “Butweoau
collect damages from him in the courts,”
**id the daughter of a Washington
statesman, confidently, “In what
w »j r’ asked President Cleveland.
“Suez canal, you know,” was the belle’s
response.
There is laid to be ooly one book to every
10,000 inhabitant; in Russia.
Not /or Him.
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Tramp (indignantly)—Water? Do
you take me for a traveling temperance
lociety?
Life.
There be but little in life to live for.
The world is a hollow mockery full «f
troubles, trials and bad piano players. of
We go forth in the morning full
hope and come home at night full of bad
whisky. and bet all
We dabble in poli»ics and the other our
wealth on the leading man, and left
fellow r getteth elected we are to
mourn.
We run for office and our friends man¬
age for us and spend our money, and be¬
hold we cometh out badly scooped and
crushed financ ally.
We marry for wealth, and our girl’s
old man assigns. things in
We deny ourselves cash many in the bank,
order to lay up some
aud the cashier fleeth unto Canada.
And in an evil hour when we dream
not of it, the merchant presenteth and the a
bill for our wife’s new bonnet,
farm and the stock goeth under mortgage
to pay it.
Woe unto man! Of how little conse¬
quence is his joy.
In infancy he is full of colic and cat¬
nip. and in youth he goeth about with a
thorn in his heel.
, Ii) the evening of life he lietli dow n
full of rheumatism, aches and ante-Liliouii
pills. '
v
The places that once knew him know
him now only by the promisory nfttes
and accounts he has left unpaid.* And
this* is the end of man. S ’
In youth he dances into the ring eager
to knock somebody out, but the v $rst
thing he knoweth he is ornamented with
a black eye.
He cometh forth in fine raiment and &.
standing collar, and at noon time he
goeth about with one suspender and
with his pants patched torch in with the ap procession, old sock.
He carrieiU a
and whoopeth it up for his party, and
behold the man who staid at home i*
appointed Such to office. of
is the career man.
Lo! in an hour when he dreameth not
of it, a mule kipketh him and he dieth.—
St. Louis Magazine.
A Turkey Merchant
Home Tooke, whose father was poul¬
terer to the royal family, while at West¬
minster and Eton schoc’s was of course
accustomed to associate occasionally
with the sons of people of distinction,
ami, being aware of the ridicule to<*
generally attached to a humble origin,
he found meins to spare himself from
all mortification of this kind by calling
in either his wit or invention to his aid.
Once, while a few idle boys, who had
formed themselves into a circle, were
interrogating each other about the rank
and. condition of their respective parents,
one said he was the son of Sir Robert
A.; the next that his father was the earl
of B., and the third that his grand¬
mother was the duchess of C. When it
came to young Home’s turn he observed
that he could not boast of any titles ia
his family, and, on being more closely
pressed, added, with a well-affected re¬
luctance, that his father was an eminent
Turkey merchant. This reply was both
conclusive and satisfactory, for at the
period alluded to England enjoyed a
large share of the Levant trade, and a
Turkey merchant was another name for
opuleuce.— Cornhill.
MabthA Brian, of Annapolis. Md.,
died from au over could indulgence resist in It laugif
ter, which she not was
stated that the spasmodic hilarity of the
woman lasted fifteen minutes, at the end
of which time she dromwl dead.