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THE JASPER NEWS. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY — HV— L. ^Y. HIIYNE. OFFICE—In the Court House. Official Organ for Picken County Terms of Subscription—Cash in Advance: One year. 75 c Six months, . 40c . 20c Three months, . Advertising Rates extremely low, to suit the times. Legal advertisements inserted and charged for as prescritted by an act of the General Assembly. Advertisements will be run until forbidden unless otherwise marked, and charged ac¬ cordingly. All considered due after first insertion. All communications intended for publica¬ tion must bear the name of writer, not nec¬ essary for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We shall not in any way be x-esponsible for the opinion of contributors. No communication will be admitted into our columns having for its ends a defamation of private character, or in any other way of a scurrilous import of public good. Correspondence solicited on all points of general importance—but let them bo briefly to the point. All communications, letters of business, or money remittances, to receive prompt at¬ tention, muit be addressed to M. C. McCLAIN, Editor, Jasper, Ca. COUNTY Ordinary. OFFICERS. E. K. Hood, McOutCheon, O. S. C. K. R. 8. Henderson, Sheriff. G.W. Padgett, Little, Tax Collector. It. L. ’1'. T. T. Ilonca, Dorsey, Surveyor. Coroner. J. II. J. It. Allen, School Commissioner. TOWN COUNCIL. Mayor—E. CotUlcllmen—N. Leaning. O. McLain, P. Hood, J. R. Ilowclt, C. Pickett, E. Wofford. fraternal record. Pickens Tuesday Star in Lodge, month. No. 2*0 W. F. A. II. M., Simmons, Meets First each W. Tutoj. W. M. M Stoner, 8. S. (J. W, H. Jr. Mosley Treasurer. M. C. MoOlflii, WfoeeVr, Sferetary. I). ... A. Reeves, Tyler. ’X\ P. ft. R. S. Henderson, J. I). ’ A t religious Services. Baptist Church—Every second Sunday and Sat¬ urday before. Jty Rev. Win. Stone. Methodist Church—Every third Sunday and Sat¬ urday before. By ltev. F. O. Favor. , D. MADDUX, \j # Attorney at xj«iw, GEORGIA CANTON, Refers by permission - - to John - Hi Ivey & Co. J. R. Wylie and Grambling, Spaulding &, Co. all of Atlanta, Ga. Simpson & Gait Manu¬ facturing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio_ P. P. DuPREE, Attorney at Law, CANTON, GEORGIA. Will practice in tin* 13km Office, Ridge circuit and in Cherokee county. Court House with Ordinal*v. Administrates on estates. Collections a specialty. w. T. DAY Attorney at Law, JASPER, GEORGIA Practices in the Blue Ridge Circuit, and the in the O. S. Circuit and District Court for Northern District of Georgia. X TSAAO GRANT, Law, Attorney at JASPER, GEORGIA. Practices in all the courts. Legal business .olioited and House. promptly attended to. Office xx Court jVfOULTRlE LYX SESSIONS, Law, SLLIJAY, Attorney at GEORGIA. Will practice in all the courts of the Blue rlidge Circuit. Promptness is his motto. J JOHN W. HENLEY, Attorney at Law. IASPER, GEORGIA. F. C. TATE, Attorney at Law. lASPERt GEORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Court of the Blue Ridge Circuit. Prompt attention given all business intrusted to my care. What He was After. “You came in after me to-night, ” said Mrs. Fussanfeather to young Crimson beak, who was remarking his early ar¬ rival that evening at the musicale. “Oh, no, I didn’t, Mrs. Fussan¬ feather,” replied Turkey-red. the young man, blush¬ ing a handsome Mr. Crimsonbeak, I you.” “But, saw “But, beg pardon, madam, it was your daughter I came after,” answered the innocent boy, casting a Fussanfeather’s side-glance in the direction of Miss bangs.— Statesman. The rartiiiff of Lee and Ills Generali. Tkc final parting was tu f m, mt of Lce'i mvuaiou iu Richmond, two days after Appomattox. Lee’s house is an ordinary square brick, standing alone on Frank¬ lin street, ono square from the capitoL All the other houses on the square are connected. Upon the afternoon of the second day after the surrender people ia tfcat vicinity were surprised to see come riding up the street from the south a company of Confederate horsemen. They were unarmed. Their gray uniforms were worn, soiled, and often tattered, thoir trappings old and patched. They wdre slouched hats, and here and there was a feather remaining of the once smart aud jaunty drooping plume of the Confederate cavalrymen. They were bronzed and browned and bearded. They sat erect and came on with the splendid horsemanship for which they were noted. Upon the collars of some of the gray jackets could still be seen the faded and tarnished gilt stars, the emblems of the wearers’ rank. In front of them rode Lee. His two hands held the loosely swinging head reins and rested upon the pommel. His was bent and his eyes were looking straight ahead from under his downcast brow, but they seemed to see nothing. As the troops cantered up to his old home his horse stopped at the gate, and he aroused himself suddenly, as from a dream, and cast his eyes upon the familiar windows and then around over the group of gallant soldiers who had followed his fortunes for four bloody years and gone down in defeat under his banner. The end of it all had come at last. He threw himself from his horse, and all his companions followed his action. They stood hat in hand, with an arm through the bridle rein, while Lee went from man to man, grasping each hand, looking in¬ tently into each face as though he would press it upon his memory forever. Then lie turned and walked through the gate and up the steps to his door. Asa ser¬ vant opened the door he paused witlfchis left foot upon the verancla, his right upon the last step, and looked back for the last time. Not a word had been spoken, not a good-by uttered, There was no sound heard but that of sobs as these unkempt and grizzled heroes of a hundred battles leaned their heads against the shoulders of their horses >ad wept. ' Lee gave one look, and broke down at last. His hands were over his eyes] his frame shook with sobs, as he turned quickly and disappeared into his lonely house. With the closing of the door behind him ended forever tlio dream of the Southern Confederacy.— Cincinnati Cmmc rcla l- Gazette. Near Sighted IVopic. *<8 docs not eccvn to have kno* at ;lns defect was,” says M. Sarcey, speak:ng of near-sightedness* “You know,” he says, “of what enor¬ mous dimensions the Greek Roman thea¬ ters and circusses were. Thirty thousand spectators could sit with ease in them. None of them ever had or felt the want of opera glasses. I imagine that it was with the ancients as it was with the sail¬ ors of the present day. Accustomed, from father to son, to look at ob jects at a distance, never their reading, and letting sleep repose eyes as soon as the sun sets, they acquire that sort of pierc¬ ing sight that Fenimore Cooper likes to endow his savage Indians with.” In the present day, M. Sarcey contin¬ ues, men wear their eye-sight out in the day-time by excessive reading and writ¬ ing, over-heated and in the night-time by gas-light and atmosphere. The pro¬ portion of snort-sighted people, accord¬ ing to the celebrated occulist, M. Perrin, whom M. Sarcey cites, has increased in large government schools from 30 to 50 per cent, in fifteen years. And in Ger¬ many, it appears, matters are still worse, because the Germans read more than we do, and their Gothic type is still more fatiguing for the eyes than are Homan characters. M. Sarcey warns his read¬ ers against believing iu two popular errors in respect to short sight. The first, that such sight remains stronger than the normal as one advances in years; and in the second, that it is wrong to wear glasses for this defect. Both of these assertions he declares to be absolutely false. The British Court Journal tells of a plan to rig a parasol over the heads of soldiers in the Soudan to keep off the hot rays of the sun. The number of mules attached to the hearse denotes the'respectability pin funeral in Kio Janeiro. ACTS FOB THE CURIOUS One million avoirdupois. dollars of gold coin weigh 8,085 pounds Twenty-two daughters at the present moment live with their father, George Riddle, Esq., in Carroll county, Mo. The word measles originally times signified used leprosy, although different in disorder. modern Its deriva¬ for a far tion is from the old French word mes seau, or mesel, a leper. The fifty-eight horse butchers m Paris distributed to the populatidn of that city 9,271 horses, asses and mules during the past year, against 6,805 of these ani¬ mals slaughtered in 1883. The devotion to ladies was the crown ing grace of chivalrj'. The respect for the sex went so far that an act is on record, of James II. of Aragon, that any man, whether soldier or civilian, native or foreign, traveling through the king¬ dom with a high born lady, should be safe from all attacks or pursuits, unless he were a criminal under the charge of murder. In the town of Warwick,Rhode Island, is a boulder so poised on another rock that a person standing on it can rock it from side to side. When it is rocked a dull booming sound is given out, which can be heard for miles over the country on a still night. A legend says that in this manner the Indians were accus¬ tomed to summon their warriors to coun¬ cil at this place. Few animals in times past have been more esteemed than the cat, or been hon¬ ored with a wider folk lore. Indeed, among the Egyptians this favored ani¬ mal was held sacred to Isis and the moon, and worshiped with great cere¬ mony. In the mythology of all the Indo European nations the cat holds a promi¬ nent place; and its connection with witches is well known. Among the old devices used in the old v;ar of independence for obstructing the progress of cavalry was an ugly, sharp four-pronged piece of iron, so arranged that whatever way it might fall upon the ground, one of the sharp prongs would be erect to penetrate the foot pressed upon it. These were scattered over the ground in the direction of the approach of the enemy’s cavalry to at¬ tack. The potion taken by Juliet in Shake¬ speare's* “Romeo and was wine o*i the atropa mandrago, a plant which grows in the isles of Greece. It is a drug equivalent to our atropa, or deadly nightshade, though a little different in its effect. The Greek physician made “death-wine” of it, and employed it as we do chloroform. “Before any per¬ sons were submitted to the cautery or the knife they took a draught of this, and they the operation under was the performed influence of while the were wine, the formula of which remains to this day as Dioscorides and Pliny gave it.” Some years ago, Dr. W. B. Rich¬ ardson says, he had some of the root brought him from Greece, and he was able to make some of the wine and give evidence as to its action, which was strictly in accordance with that experi¬ enced by Juliet from the draught ad¬ ministered to her by Friar Laurence. Canned Goods. Every cap should be examined, and if two holes are found in it, send it at once to the health board, with the contents and the name of the grocer who sold it. Reject all articles of canned food that do not show the line of resin around the edge of the solder on the cap, the same as is seen on the seam at the side of the can. “Standard” or first-class goods have not only the name of the factory, which but also that of the wholesale house sells them, on the label. “Seconds,” or doubtful, or “reprocessed” mythical goods canning- have a “stock-label” of some house, but do not have the name of any wholesale grocer on them. Rfeject all goods that do not have the name of the factory and also the name of some whole¬ sale firm on the label. A “swell” or decomposing can of goods can always be detected by press¬ ing in the bottom of the can. A sound can pressed will give a solid feel. When gas from the decomposition of the food is inside the can the tin will rattle by pressing the bottom, as you displace the gas in the can. Reject every can that shows any rust around the cap on the outside of the head of the can. If housewives are edu¬ cated to these points, then muriate of zinc amalgam will bvv>me a thing of the past, anddea'^A is ‘ **■**«” will have to seek some otner occupation. - -Sani¬ tarian. a Ballad of the Dude. u ' cl vV ft ir. % ; % / v - And Only three dollars a week the roller rink every night; Washer’s bill cut way down And a square meal knocked out of sight. A penny bun at noon, A beer, or a free lunch stew; A roll in the rink at night And lemonade soda for two. Oh, who wouldn’t be a dude And skate with a dizzy daught! About Though threo he come dollars out every week short. —Rink. Medical Adylco by Telephone. Husband—My wife has a severe pain in the back of the neck, and complains of a sort of sourness in the stomach. Physician—She has malarial colic. Husband—What shall I do for her? [The girl at the “central” switches off t<r a machinist talking to a saw-mill man.] Husband—I is Machinist to think she covered with scales inside, about an inch thick. Let her cool down during the night, and before she fires up in the morning, take a hammer and pound hose her thoroughly all over, and then take a and hitch it up to the fire-plug and wash heir out. Husband has no further need of this doctor. Bad Business. First dealer (who don’t advertise)—. “How is business to-day?” Second dealer (same kind)—“Better than it was yesterday.” have had “Ah, indeed. Then you a customer?” “Yes.” “And what did he bny?” Philadelphia Call. “A postage stamp.”— A Baslifnl Boy. “You’re not afraid of the dog, are you, bub?” “No, ma’am.” “Well, then, why don’t you come right in? He won’t hurt you.” what “I’m too timid, ma’am—that’s ails me. I’m always bashful when, there's dogs about.” —Chicago Ledger. Had a Perfectly Clear Mind. J Vs i O S (i b flu )/ ^ * //I < \ b A modern gentleman— u You say there's no hope forme, doctor?” “None at all.” “No possible chance?” “None; and I would advise you to set¬ tle up your business and relieve vour mind.” dector. I “Oh, my mind is all as.much right, I owe about three times as am worth.”— Drake's Magnate..