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About The Barnesville gazette. (Barnesville, Ga.) 187?-189? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
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TUTT’S Liver PILLS AN ABSOLUTE CURE, We know of but one community in the world where dyspepsia is practical ly unknown, and that is the Shakers of Mount Lebanan, N. Y. These good people have been studying the subject of digestion for more than a hundred years, and that they under stand it pretty thoroughly is evidenc ed in the foregoing fact. Their Di gestive Cordial is the safest and best remedy in cases of indigestion that we know of. A trial can be had through your druggists for the trifling sum of 10 cents. The Shaker Digestive Cordial sup plies the system with food already di gested, and at the same time aids the digestionjof other foods. It will al most instantly relieve the ordinary symptoms of indigestion, and no suf ferer,need to be told what these are. Laxol is the best medicine for chil dren. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. PRACTICE WALKING. An easy way to practice walking well is to start out right. Just before you leave the house walk up to the wall and see that your toes, chest and nose touch it at once; then in that at titude walk away. Keep your head up and your chest out and your shoul ders and back will take care of them selves. A Southern school teacher used to instruct her girls to walk al ways as if trying to look over the top of an imaginary carriage just in from of them. It was good advice, for it kept the head raised. Don't think these things are of no value. They add to your health and your attrac tiveness, two things to which every body should pay heed. MY LUCKY FIND: o ft Love Storij From tlie German- I was almost in despair. What a lot of. trouble I have brought on myself for niv good nature! Police investigations and reports, an noyance, chagrin perhaps at the out come, ves, it was enough to make a man swear! And the cause of it all was Baby Mouse, hapless Baby Mouse! But be fore you, dear reader, will understand why Baby Mouse should be to blame, you will want to know who he is. It’s a strange story, and yet, sweet and tender withal. And it,ends well, that's its best pa. t. Three months ago I was coming home with the evening shades. It was bitter cold, and I rejoiced in an ticipation of my cosy, warm home, the simple, dainty meal which my old housekeeper, Johanna, knew how to prepare so well. I was lost in just such comfortable bachelor reverie, when I decended from the L road to wend my way towards my little Wash ington Heights home. I walked rap idly and soon reached there. Open ing the iron gate that led into the tiny garden patch in front of the house I saw a small package lying on the fro zen snow. “A present irom somebody,” I said half aloud, stopped and picked up my find. My hands, a bit numb with cold, despite my fleeced-lined gloves, had scarcely grasped the bundle, when it began to kick and squirm. Nor was that all. It raised such lus ty howls that my neighbors’ windows flew up and they stuck out their heads to see what it meant. It would have done me good to see my face just then in a convenient mirror. All the nursery tales of cry-babies and bewitched castaways came to my mind with a rush. I felt like depos iting the lively packet in the place where I had found it, but that would have been cruel. Aye, it would have been worse than murder to leave such a little mite out in the open with the thermometer at 10 above zero. I had no desire to make the acquaintance of the State Attorney. But, better than all great pity swell ed my heart for the unfortunate crea ture whom loveliness had cast away, and as fast as I could run with my burden I ran into the house. Johanna met me in the door. “See, what I have brought 'you!” I said with a laugh. The good woman gazed with horror on the squirming, shaking babe and held out her hands. “Doctor, what does it mean?” she gasped. “It mean's, Johanna, that for the next few days you are going to bathe and feed and fondle this little waif, just as you did me once upon a time.” “And then I told her the story of how I had found Baby Mouse. In the lamplight I examined the little foundling, andjohanna, too, look ed him over with critical eyes. He was a jolly litttle youngster, 8 months old, perhaps, with chubby face, eyes as blue‘as a summer sky, and lips that soon took on cherryhue, as their blue, pinched look died away in the genial warmth of the room and Johanna’s embraces that alternated with mine. Johanna brought out fresh linen, arranged a bed and bathed and wash ed the foundling. Tucking him com foftably away in an improvised crib, she gave him a bottle filled with milk, and when he had appeased his hung er, he fell into a peaceful slumber. I kissed the baby’s brow, and said to Johanna: “I am going to report that case to the police in the morning, and I’ll ask theni to me keep the little one un til his relations are heard from-” Johanna gave me an amazed look. •‘My life is so lonely,” I continued, “he may bring some color into it!” J may have sighed as I walked away. “You haven’t forgotten, Doctor,” answered the good woman, “no matter how hard you've tried !” ■ Next day I went to the Chief of Police. He recorded the case and i had no objection to my keeping the : baby. This is the way I came into ] possession of a lovely and beautiful; child. Johanna and 1 decided to call: him Robert, but his pet name—Baby i Mouse—was older than that and it j • clung to him. And now you know who Mouse is! Nobody ever came to claim him, and my heart opened to the tender j waif as it had never opened before. Mouse, of course, was treated like ! a king. Now and then Johanna would ! say ; “You are spoiling that Child, Doctor 1” But she was as weak as 1 with regard to Mouse. He grew and prospered like a flow er in the sunshine of our love, and was the lusjpest youngster on the block. But there must be rainy days as well. One day Mouse was taken ill, and before night we knew he had been I attacked with diptheria. With flam j ing cheeks and trembling hands he i lay in his crib, and J bent over * him with breaking heart. Long nights of anxious watching followed. At last care and tender nursing drove death away from the door,, and the doctor told me that the danger was passed, but another blow came, severer even than Mouse's illness. My old faith ful servant caught the infection, and had to take to her bed. There I was a helpless man, with an ill woman and a convalescent babe on my hands! Surely it was a desperate situation! I engaged a trained nurse to wait on the sick, but l could not expect her to look after me, too. The little comforts to which I had been accus tomed drooped away, one by one. “If only my wife was here!” My wife ! Yes, I had been married; in fact, I was still married. And this, too, is a strange story! My wife was an only child spoiled by rich and* indulgent parents. When 1 took her to my modest home I dis covered that she had many little faults. All women have, and I thought I could wean her away from them. The big faults, of course I was willing to condone, for they were part of the bargain. My wife was a bit gay, a bit. frivo lous, a bit stubborn, and a bit too fond of dress. But I loved her with all my heart, and she loved me. And because 1 loved her I endeavored to cure her of these little infections. It was a difficult piece of work. Sharp words were spoken on one side, tears shed on the other, and the up ,'shot of the matter was that one day my wife left me and returned to her parents. They wrote me a long letter, expressing regret that my wife could not live with me and advising that we had better separate. I might have applied for a divorce, but could not bring myself to do it, and the other side took no steps for a legal separation. My life became dreary and sad, and 1 belive I was on the short road to hypochondria. Mouse came just in the nick of time and saved me from that fate. I gave him all my love, and he was all the world to me. • But my present dilemma was due to the coming of the little castaway, “Mouse, Mouse,” I said more than once, “what have you done?” There were days when I dreaded to go*home: Two sick beds, nothing to eat for myself; forsooth, a cheerless lonely home ! When 1 sat down by Johanna’s bed she tried to console me as best she could, but her cheerful words fell up on deaf ears. One evening in March I again wended my way homeward. 1 thought of Mouse, of Johanna, of the trained nurse, and was in the worst possible humor. Opening the door with my latch-key, 1 hung my overcoat on the rack and made more noise than was neccessary in taking off my rubber shoes. I went into the dining-room, and Had Johanna been prowling about in spite of the doctor’s express ordes to remain in bed ? The tea steamed over the alcohol lamp. There was fresh bread and golden butter, ham, cold roas; beef; the, evening papers were nicely stacked on one side, on the other my box of cigars, the ash tray and the matches! Just as Jo hanna was wont to arrange things in | the good old days, before hapless 1 Mouse interfered! I went into the next room, where Mouse was kept. The lamplight was muffled, but in the semidarkness I rec i ognized the form of the trained nurse, bending over the baby’s crib. The trained nurse! Was I dream ing? I knew that head with the daintily moulded cheek, the rich blonde hair, gracefully arranged at the back. 1 had kissed it many times! A step, i and I was near her. “Anna!” I cried. 1 “My wife!” I caught her in my arms. She pressed her head to my breast and whispered; “Richard, forgive me!” It was not a dream, it was sweet reality! Again the lovely woman in my arms whispers : “Can you forgive me, Richard?” 1 can only kiss her again and again, and listen to the story of her corning. Johanna had written her in what a plight I was. She had told her about the coming df Mouse, the child’s ill ness, and her own, and my helpless condition in the face of all this trou ble. Anil then Johanna had lectured her about the great virtue of forbear ance, and other wholesome truths with regard to the married life of two people, who in reality loved epch other. - 'The old woman’s words Vent straight to Anna’s heart. She came, and f held her in my arms, and beg ged her to stay forever. By this time Mouse had been aroused from his peaceful slumber. When he saw me, he stretched out his little arms, and I took him and laid him into those of my wife. “Will you he a mother to him?” J asked. “I will love him as you do!” an swered the sweet woman by my side. And thus peace has once more come into my house! And the cause of it all was—Mouse! Blessed Mouse. Atkinson Talks ot wnat He saw. o * Governor Atkinson was not wholly idle on his pleasure trip. He did not forget the problems that confront the people of Georgia, its executive and its legislature. He studied the institutions of the western states, compared them with Georgia and made mental note of points in which the methods of the west are better than those in Georgia. The resources, the climate and the business methods did not escape him, and he did not forget to inquire whether female suf frage was satisfactory in its results. In a state where a divorced woman runs for the legislature against her husband and beats him, this is a live issue. Speaking of the resources of the | west, the governor said: “The west is a great country, a wonderful country, but after seeing it I am more than ever content with Georgia. I don’t know of any state whose resources are as varied as our own. Our agriculture is, broadly speaking, the agriculture of the conti nent, and our mineral wealth embraces almost the whole series of geological strata. We have nearly all the min erals and nearly all the agricultural products of the United States. With this our manufacturing industries are surprisingly varied. Our greatest strength is in this variety, which in sures more than anything else can the uniform prosperity of our people.” PUISI.IC -SPIRIT OF THF, WEST. Speaking of the public, spirit of the western people the governor said: “Our people are enterprising as in dividuals but collectively they lack the breadth of public spirit which is characteristic of the west. You see this in their expenditure for advertis ing purposes, in their public buildings and in their expenditures for educa tional purposes. This state refused to spend $3,000 for an exhibit at the Tennessee centennial, whereas the city of Los Angeles, to say nothing of the stale of California, will spend at least three times that on an exhib it at Nashville. “Their public buildings are magnifi cent. There is a county in Texas with only 10,000 population which has a better courthouse than the one in Atlanta. There is no better ad vertisement for a state than its churches, its schools and its public buildings. The oily hall in San Fran cisco cost five millions. “In the west they look upon expen ditures for education, not as a make shift or a political lever, but as a basis of future greatness. In Cali fornia, a state with one-third less population than Georgia, they appro priate $240,000 for the state universi ty, which does not include the amounts appropriated for the normal schools. Their common school fund is about $2,000,000. I inquired particularly about the result of that state’s experiment in the publication of school books. . Governor Butts told me that the cost was about half what it was when they bought books. He said they had decided to sell the state’s plant and let the printing out by contract. The state will still buy the manuscripts and have the books edited. He thinks the cost will be still less Dy that method. “In Colorado, with one-fourth the population of Georgia, they appropri ate SIOO,OOO for their state univer sity. PENITENTIARY SYSTEMS. “1 made inquiry about the peniten ; tiary systems and find that those of I the west are very bad., 'The prisoners ; are kept within walls and many of them are idle. This makes the pen itentiaries enormously expensive. In | California the net cost of the peniten j tiary is $300,000. “In the matter of economy in the administration of state government, we are far ahead of the west. In \ California a member of the committee appointed to investigate the clerical expenses of the legislature told me it was $1,600 a day. t With us it is $l2O a day, and the whole legislature does not cost $1,600 a day. In Cali fornia the clerk is authorized to or ganize the house and to employ such help as may be necessary. 'The bill for the first day was $4,000. The clerks were so thick that the mem bers could hardly get around. “Colorado and Utah were the only two states where I saw women in the legislatures. At Denver, 1 was in terviewed for the Rocky Mountain News Dy a young lady. She was from New York, but said she would not go bar k there for anything, and that the east was behind the times, nairow and unprogressive. She was an ar dent advocate of woman’s suffrage. In l tah I heard of a remarkable case. A woman had married and separated from her her husband and he ran for the state senate. She ran against him and beat him. I learned that woman’s suffrage is not regarded as a success. 'The men won't say much publicly, for the women still have votes, but confidentially they say that woman's suffrage has neither purified politics nor elevated woman.” The governor saw a great deal of I the irrigation problem out west. “There are millions of acres of land that are absolutely worthless without irrigation, and bloom like a garden where it is put on. It is too big a prob lem for private enterprise. Some of the irrigation canals ye two or three hundred miles long. The work will have to be done by some kind of co operative eflort. A man said to me, ‘The Mormans are the only poor peo ple who can undertake; it.’ “This refers to the communistic system of the Mormons.” THE WEST DISAPPOINTED. Speaking of the results of the* elec tion, the governor said: “The west is disappointed at the results of the election. 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