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TIIK JASPER NKWS.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
K. Hood, Mr.CUtclinon, Ordinary. (!. N. C.
H K.
H. H. Hmidornm, Hlmrifl'.
U. W. Little, Tax collector.
I, . T. Puckett, l. It.
T. Honeit, Surveyor.
f. II. Horsey, School Coroner. Commissioner.
j. It. Allen,
TOWN COUNT 11..
Oenncihnon—N. Mayor—E. Limning. 0. McLain, I*. Hood, J. R.
Howell, O. Pickett, K. Wofford.
FKATEKNAt. iikcoI tl>.
Pickens Star Lodge, No. * 2*0 F. A. M. f Meets
First Tuesday in each month. W, II. Simmon*,
.V. . M. Stoner, S. W. S. 0. Tate, J. W. 8. L
MoeWy. Treasurer. M. T. c. M Wheeler, colain, Secretary. K. W.
A. Reeves, Tyler. C. H. 1). s.
Henderson, .LI).
HEI.IGJOL* SERVICES.
Baptist Church—Every Itev. second Sunday and Sat¬
urday before. By Win. Stone.
Methodist Church—Every third Sunday and Sat¬
urday before. By Rev. K. <>. Favor.
ri, D. MADDO X.
yj , Attorney at jjHyv, GKOItGl
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Refers by permission to John Bilvey A Co.
J. It. Wylie and Grumbling,Spaulding & Co.
ail of Atlania, Ga. Simpson & Cult Manu¬
facturing Co., Cn einnati, Uliio.
P. l>. DuPftEK,
Attorney at Law,
CANTON. GEORGIA.
Will practice in tho Blue Ridge circuit and
iu Cherokee county. Office, Court House
with Ordinary. Administrates on estates.
Collections a specialty.__
W. tTIJay
Attorney at Law,
JASPER, GEORGIA
Practices iu the Blue Ridge Circuit, and iu
the U. B. Circuit and District Court for the
northern District of Georgia.
T8AAC X GRANT;
Attorney at Law,
JASPER, GEORGIA.
Practices iu all the courts. Legal business
elicited and House. promptly attended to. Office
n Court
M OULTRIE HEBSIoNB, Law,
Attorney at GEORGIA.
fil.l.IJAY,
Will practice in all the courts of the Blue
lidge Circuit. Promptness is hi? motto.
J OHN W. HENLEY,
Attorney at Law.
iahpkr, - - - Georgia.
O—C. TATE
L • Attorney at Law.
iahperi - Georgia.
« all business intrusted to my care.
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Dr. A. C. Matthews, of Elberton,
Ga., lost a pair of gold spectacles a few
days since, and they were picked up by
a negro man in town against whom the
doctor held a note for $50. On learning
that the negro had found them the doc
tor called on him to get them. The
negro claimed a reward for finding
them, and the doctor finally agreec. to
give him the note in satisfaction of his
claim, but the negro would not consent
to take it unless the doctor would give
Mm a chew of tobacco also. ,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A New Kno^eu pr«.ohor that
the Chinese studenta who have returned
to this country after a two years' ab
Bence in China have great difficulty in
remembering the English language,
which they were supposed to have
learned so well.
Thbrb are 20 persons in the United
States whose gifts to colleges aggregate
over $23,000,000. w Three _______________ of these rich
men —Stephen Girard, John Hopkins,
and Asa Packer—gave over $14,000,000.
Henry F. Durant gave to Wellesley
College about $1,000,000.
The inhabitants of St. Petersburg
consider themselves fortunate in having
had an average winter death rate of only
35 per 1,000 of population. In London,
where the rate has been recently 19.5,
this would be thought epidemic. The
usual rate for the Russian oapital is 40
to 45.
The Government of Canada has re¬
ceived all sorts of offers of service. One
oomes from a retired navy officer, who
places his long experience in seaman¬
ship at the disposal of his country at
the present orisis. This a local paper
insists, is very severe on the sloughs of
the prairie roads.
Ween Proofcor Knott made his fanci¬
ful Dnluth speech fifteen years ago, the
humor of the thing tickled the entire
oontihent. No one dreamed that Duluth
would ever amount to anything, and
when Kjiott oalled her “the paragon ol
cities” everybody laughed. Still this
town is third in the list of grain-receiv¬
ing points, beating Milwaukee, Toledo
and St. Louis.
The St. Mary’s (Md.) Enter pine re¬
lates that a few days ago a buggy oc¬
cupied by a gentleman and lady caught
fire from a brick that was heated for the
bfneflt of the lady’s comfort, and,
owing to the wind being in their faces,
it was not discovered till the bottom fk i
the vehicle was almost consumed by the
flames. Their wrappings were very
much damaged, but no personal injuries
were sustained.
I know the Isthmus well, says Col.
Heywood, of the Marine Corps, and I
know it will be no easy job to proteot
thirty-five miles of railroad against the
natives, who are very much like Indians
iu their style of fighting, and will be
popping at our men from behind trees
and rocks. Then one cau never be cer¬
tain who the Governor of tho place is.
I saw four of them elooted and put in
in prison in less than a month.
At Queen Victoria’s last drawing¬
room there were some splendid Eastern
costumes, and an Indian huly having
kissed the Q teen's hand, offered her
Majesty an Oriental salaam as she re¬
tired, to tiie groat amusement of the
circle. This lady wore a quaint but
very beoomiug Asiatic dress of white,
with overdress richly embroidered with
gold and a regular Eastern veil round
the head. She blazed with diamonds.
The news from Suakirn is distressingly
meagre, says an exchange. For in
stance, a dispatch states that the enemy
appeared in foroe in the direction of
Handoub, and the men at work on the
railroad ceased operations. Now,''who
were the enemy ? Did the men strike
when they quit ? And did they join the
enemy, or stand to one side to see that
«" lEtterdiduot commence where they
left off? Railroad men quittmg^work in
this oonntry has but one significance.
Down at the Heel.—D an Rice, the
circus clown, is running a ten-cent circus
in the French quarter of New Orleans,
He talks sadly of the good old days
when his Floating Palace was the sensa
tion on the Father of Waters, and thou
sands upon thousands of peop.e swiumied
from far and near to see him. He gave
an entertainment a few nights ago when
not 300 persons were present, and about
one-tliird of those were professional and
other deadheads.
* WIT AHI> WISDOM.
,
! A «*« OTorbardened with win. U
; grftpe * °
k ET °® oe Bee ^ man * •**<* ** k®
* snt ft *ip # t°P mttn l et the °® (je bunt
farther.
Dr bbky man whut kaint stan’ good
luck is de bery man whut grumbles
’ ca8e ft * n fc K ofc nu tbi“ •
Natur tries mighty hard not ter show
__ favors. De frost whut kills de bad
apples also kills the good ones.
An old Surinam sea captain nsed to
remark, “We cannot do too much for
our employers; neither will we.”
No new maple sugar is genuine unless
the year and date of its manufacture is
blown in the oake when it is cast
It’s mighty often de little thing dat
puts er pusson oaten humor. De sting
o’ er bee hu’ts was den de bite o’ er dog.
“Pa, what’s a schnitt of beer ?” “Ifc’6
what a men drinks when he wishes
he didn’t have anything to drink, my
son.”
It is difficult for a show to hire a hall
in any country town now. The rooms
used for amusements are all opera
houses.
The fact that the new Minister to
England is called “professor” does not
necessarily indicate that he is proprietor
of a skating rink.
The following notice is said to be
posted up in a church in Monroe Town¬
ship, Ill.: “please deposet Yore Tobaoer
At the Dore by order of Dekens.”
It is a dangerous thing to compliment
the man who makes the opening speech
at a ward caucus. Nine times out ol
teu he’ll want to go to the Legislature.
“My arms reach out—in vain—they
fold the air,” sings E. 0. Stedman in
the Century. Of course they do. They
always do when you get on roller skates.
Minneapolis girls have red-ribbon
clubs with f the motto, “The lips that
touch wine shall never touch mine. >1 {
Beer is becoming the popular beverage
up there, and so the girls sing: “The
lips that touch beer shall never come
hero.”
“Why do you look so sleepy ?” said a
cross mother to her daughter, as she
came down-stairs in the morning. “Be¬
cause, mamma, the wind blew so hard
it kept me awake nearly all night.”
“Well, see that it doesn’t happen again,
or it’ll be worse for you.”
The teacher asked the small boy the
nature of his father’s occupation. He
hesitated and seemed reluctant to an¬
swer. “Come, Johnny, you must tell
me. It’s the rule.” Very slowly came
the reply: “He’s the bearded lady in
the Dime Museum three times a week.”
“Why do you setsuchja tough chicken
before me?” indignantly exclaimed a
fair damsel in a restaurant the othe?
day. “Age before beauty, always, you
know, ma’am,” replied the polite attend¬
ant, who well knew how to serve his
employer and a tougbi chicken at the
same time.
“Mrs. Jones,” exclaimed Smithers,
snuutering into the breakfast room, “the
war in China has removed one serious
cause for oomplaint against yon.”
“Against me 1” replied the presiding
matron from behind the urn. “Yes, I
see that the market reports quote tea as
being stronger.”
ScENE-IrishLand Court.-Sub-Corn
missicner: “Now. Murphy have you
effected any improvement in this farm ?
Tenant: “I have, yer Honor ! Iver since
I got it I’ve been improvin’it But it’s
that sort o’ land the more ye ’mprove it
the worrse it get!”—[Court reduces the
rent 25 per cent.]— Puneh.
Wisdom dwells in blue skies and
broad sunshine, and the wide hills and
| the Infinite waters; in peaoe of mind
aU( j freeedom, and the worship of the
earth. He is poverty-stricken who is so
absorbed in the one little inciosure of
wh ioh he holds the title deed that he
bis grasp on the bending universe,
Aggressive Advertising
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I* f femlL n ig
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“Say, boss; what’s ther charge fur ter
let out that ere space fur advertising
purposes ?”— Judge.
Origin of au Old Saw.
Down the corridors of time the voice
of tradition whispers the following Sun¬
day school story:
One spring day the father of George
Washington sent him out to superintend
the planting of a patch of peas.
Not long after the old gentleman
found George playiug soldier with a
number of boys on a neighboring plan¬
tation.
“See here, sir,” lie said to little
George, "this “1 thought I set you to planting
peas morning.”
“That is very true, father, I caunot
tell a lie. Rut you know I want to go
and tight Indians when I grow up, and I
want to prepare myself. In time of peas
prepare for war.”
Thus it was that the military spirit <
little George asserted itself. Thus
was that a tough ioke and a pop* i
proverb were born at one full swoo
TfWt ington Hatchet.
Modest Inquiry.
"When Huddle was iu New Yorkil . J
ling about seeing what was to be w
he noticed by the side of a large m
sion bell, on the Fourth words: avenue right under the’|
“Please ring the bell for janitor ”
After reflecting fora few minutes
die walked up and gave the bell such a '
pull that one might have supposed that
he was trying to extricate it by the roots.
Iu a few moments an angry faced man
tore open the door.
“Are you the janitor?” asked Hud¬
dle.
“Yes; what do you want?”
“I saw the notice, ‘please riag the
bell for janitor.’so l rang the bell for
you, and now l want to know why you
can't ring the bell for yourself ?"
Eating With Fear and Trembling.
“Do you eat hash with a fork?”
asked the landlady of her new boarder.
“No, m’m,” he responded, kindly.
“Ah, you eat it with a knife, then?”
with some evidence of disapproval. timid¬
“ No, m'm,” he repeated, more
ly than before.
“Indeed! Pray may I ask you how
you do eat it ?”
“ Yes'm. ”
“How?”
“With fear and trembling, ma’am.”
He left the same day .—Merck mt~Trav~
elcr.
A Word of Warning.
“Henrietta, dear?”
“Yes, ma,” from the daughter at the
door parting from her sweetheart, who
is just kissing her good night.
“Tell George to look out for tho
paint.” George does kiss her again. Hen¬
not
rietta thinks it is real mean of her
mother to give her away, until she re¬
members that the front gate has just
been Chronicle. newly painted .—San Francisco
A Problem For Futnrity.
The nineteenth century kns been pro*
Ji fic » bought and discovery. Otviliza
^^"re.^u
science, art, mechanism, politics, humiliating horse
racing, and so forth, the
fact cannot be dodged that a reliable
test for coming at the age of a spring
Gains'of ^futurity aloncT^can^evoLve C —
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Chicago Ledger.
Th E spirit of liberality is not] merely,
as gome people imagine, a jealousy of
our own particular rights, but a respect
f or the rights of others and an unwil
lingness that anv be* man, whether high or
low, should wronged or trampled
ander foot