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THE IIEIW COUNTY WEEKLY.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This poVder never varies. A marvel of
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot tie sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street,
New York. * novl3-ly
riiOFESSTOXA L CA It 1)S.
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DENTIST,
MoDonocoh, tiA.
Any one desiring work done can lie ac
commodated either hy calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
arc otherwise made.
Geo W. Be. van j W.T. Dickkn. .
UKVn A DICKIE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
MeUoxoroii, (! v.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint .ludieial Circuit, the Supreme Court
oi Georgia and the United States Pistrict
Court. apr27-ly
j ,ts. ii. ’['nnr.H.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, (>a.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court 01
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-ly
p .1. Ri:l«4A
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
’ Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Schaefer’s warehouse. janl-ly
j F. WAM , ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDoNOUIiH, t * A .
Will practice in the comities composingthe
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octo- 7!t
a. meow*.
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ill"' the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court jot
Georgia and the United State's District
Court. janl-ly
j| V. FFHPLES.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
llamcton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Ceorgia and the District Court of tlie
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to -Collections, Oat H, ISHS
Jno. D. Stewakt. | H.T. Danif.l.
STEW AIUI' A lUMUI..
ATTORNEYS AT RAW,
Griffin, Ga.
j | it. is. .i. akaoi.o.
Hampton. Ga.
I here. ,y tender my perfessional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
LA II C ill IK
I have opened a law office in Atlanta, hut
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular’v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will lie in Mc-
Donough on ail public days.
Office—Room IJti. Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alafiama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN R TYE.
January Ist, IKH.i.
McElree’s Wine of Cardut
and THEDFORD'S BUCK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the.followiug merchants in
Henry County:
D. Knott & Co. McDonough.
Hill & Parker, Lovejoy.
A. V. McVicker, Ilabb.
Perry it Bran nan, Flippen.
Dr. W. 11. 11. Peek, Locust Grove.
J. C. Postyvick, 'Peeksville.
.1. AV. Hale, Sandy Ridge.
AA 7 . 11. Gilbert & Co. Stockln idgc.
P. F. Ilarlow. Tunis
liiiim.N Fni xhin
AND
Machine Works.
Wf<‘ announce to the Public that wc arc
i i
ers ; »ill take order., for all kinds of Boil
ers. We arc prepared to do all kinds of
tepairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery , generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kind*: also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safeti Valves, Steam tillages.
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
t’astings of every Description.
ONIHIUA A WAM’OTT.
Kundry Silhouette*.
What is beauty ? Who can define
it i 1 Undoubtedly it is the gratifica
tion of the individual fancy for perfect
proportions and the adaptability and
harmonizing of on • part to the other
in all created things. Hut who shall
fix the standard that shall be an inflexi
ble gauge '! Probably no one. ’ Be
cause as each person carries in his own
mind the meisure of that which is
beautiful according to his own likes, so
there are many standards which are all
correct from the point of view of the
different individuals. This man will
sec in that face a certain beauty which
to hint will he fascinating. Rut in the
eyes ot another the same face will ap
pear commonplace It is impossible to
raise a staudard by which a general
judgement of beauty may be reached.
Yet there aie some caucus of beauty
which are recognize 1 the world over.
They have come down to us from the
age of Pericles, one cf the living testi
monials of the refined taste of the
greatest of ancient nations. There is
a standard by which the beauty of the
mouth, the eye. the nose, the forehead,
the chin, the ear, and each member of
the body as a whole shall be judged.
But within the limits of that stan
dard there is room for a multiplicity of
tastes, each one of which may be cor
rect. But these caucus of beauty can
not be transcended. A yellow skin
can never lay claim to being a pretty
complexion, for these canons of taste
have laid down the law that a pretty
complexion is made of pink and white.
Two eats which project like a pair of
wings are not artistic according to these
same canons. A very high forehead
in a woman may betoken brilliancy of
intellect, but according to the old Greek
standard is not physically beautiful.
An over large mouth may betoken in
telligence, but it is not the perfect
month. The nose must lie shapely,
the chin rounded, the eye clear and ex
pressive, the contour of the figure
rounded, in order to win the admira
tion of that critic. A pointed chin is
not attractive, nor is a dim eye pretty.
There must bo an approximation to the
fulfillment of these canons in order to
win and keep piaise.
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There are tw’o ways of viewing beau
ty. 'There ts the beauty that is con
crete and the beauty that is abstract.
The beauty that is concrete is the
beauty with which we are the most fa
miliar. It is the beauty in the abstract
which is the most difficult to define.
And yet that abstract quality of beautv
is the most perfect type of beauty, be
cause each one, no matter haw diver
gent from accepted standards in the
mutter of concrete beauty his taste may
be, will agree in the matter of abstract
beauty. We may admire in some fin
ished literary work a senteuce because
it is cast in an exquisite mold. Y"et
that seutence, with nil its charm, may
fall far below the beauty of the thought
which it encloses as the casket holds
the precious jewel. The sentence we
judge by the rules of concrete beauty.
But the tin ught is purely abstret. We
admire the delicate color of the rose
and the wonderful design of nature in
its construction. This is conciete
beauty. But the fragrance that comes
from tiie (lower falls within the defini
tion of abstract beauty. We cannot
see the fragrance, but its penetrating
delicacy and sweetness steals over our
every sense. This abstract quality ol
the ro-e is mote potent than the con
crete.
AVheu we iook .->! the landscape the
eye is cltarmed with the vaiions tints
all blending into one harmonious whole;
the pretty undulations, the bluesky, the
dark green of the to]-age, the cumulus
clouds that are Hoa ing lazily across
the firmament, the field of waving
ivlieat, the river winding its serpen
tine way through t' e fields, the pictu
resque house etnboweied in trees, the
smoke curling from the chimney the on
ly life to be seen. Or, perhaps, the
eye rests upon a more rugged sight.
AV e see he)ore u s some grand moun
tain peek, its tip capped with eternal
snow, standing out in sublime relief
against the unfathomable blue of the
sky. A heavy cloud envelops the
peak, a short way fr m the top. AVe
hear the rumbling of thunder and the
noisy rushing of the mount fin brook as
it tumbles headlong in its downward
course over rocks and boulders. AVliat
we see with the eye—in one case the
quiet and romantic beauty of the pasto
ral scene, and in the other the strength
and grandeur of the massive mountain
—is the concrete beauty. The ab
stract beauty in both scenes is some
thing that we cannot define. It arises
from the complete picture. In the
case of the pastoral view the mind feels
a sort of intoxic-iting delight as it
drinks iu the quiet loveliness.- In the
other it is stimulated and lifted up.
And in both we instinctively feel the
power of the invisible being who sug
gests and executes ill that is beautiful,
weird and wonderful iu nature. This
is a part of that quality known as ab
-1 s ract beauty.
* *
Again, take the illustration of a man
with a noble char ~-t< r and a brilliant
mind, and a woman whose disposition
is ma ked i.y loy I ry, trust, and s i«*et
ness. Neither he man nor thew i an
may have a pretty face. Loth may be
plain so far as the canoe, s of i mall tv
can gauge them. Pur when the fire of
the son lis lignt.-' up and shines out
from the eyes then the whole face s il
luminated. I’u el\ concrete or plivsi
cal beauty fades away before die pow
* r and living force, o' this abs ract
beauty l’he plain face under the in
spiration o the emotions takes on an
aspect so spiritual and so purely beau-
McDonough, ga.. Friday, august, 2b, issd.
tifnl that mere flesh and blood can nev
er hope to compete with i;. 'The spirit,
or the soul itself, is abstract quality. It
typifies the highest phase of beauty iit
the abstract.
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Beauty in the concrete is a charming
essence. It is a revivifier and a iein
vigoratnr. N t a misanthrope lives
ihat cannot and does not feel the pow
er of a pret'y fact 1 , provided there is
the intellect and emotional force behind
it. A pretty face without a saul to il
lumitie it is like a lace made of putty.
The features may he pretty but they
are wholly barren slid dead. If for
the misanthrope the pretty face has a
singular interest, what influence has it
upon the natuie of a man of sentiment ?
Byron refers in his “Childo Harold’s
Pilgramage” to “the fatal gift ot beau
ty.” The experience of the world
proves every day how fatal beauty is.
And so Milton, who writes in his
“Samson Agonistes “Yet beauty,
though injurious, hath strange pi wer.”
And Shakespeare in his “Love's Ta
bor’s Lost:’’
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's love V
Again in the same drama :
From women’s eves this doctrine I derive* :
They sparkle still the right l’ronicthcan
fire ;
They are the books, the arts, the academes
That show, contain and nourish all the
world.
And Dry den :
Beauty a monarch is.
Which kin.glv power magnificently proves
By crowds of slaves, and peopled empire
lores
Beauty, like ice, our footing docs betray ;
Who can tread sure on the smooth, slipp’ry
way ?
Pleased with the passage, we glide swiftly
on,
And set* the dangers which wo cannot shun.
And Keats :
A thing of beauty is a jov forever ;
As loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness,
And Shakespeare again :
“Beauty is a witch,
Agaiust whyse charms faitli melted into
blood.”
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The tributes of the poets to beauty
are many. But the muse is inspired
to the loftiest pitch by the ravishments
of beauty in the concrete. They sing
to the pink and white roses of the
cheeks, the love light in the eye, the
cherries of the lips, the arch of the
brow, the crown of a woman—her hair.
When they sing to these then the poet
is inspired. His Pegasus gallops off
and carries him at a rapid gait. Koine
poets, even the flesh and blood singers,
for awhile forget their rhapsody and in
a moment of of cynicism they analyze
beauty for what it is worth. Shakes
peare has sounded its depths with his
unerring plummet and line. He
writes :
Beauty is a vain and doubtful good,
A sliming gloss that fadeth suddenly ;
A flowc r that dies when first it ’gins to Imd,
A brittle glass that'a broken presently ;
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Rost, laded, broken, dead within an hour.
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*
Those who have had any experience
with human kind, who have stopped to
measure character and to estimate its
effects upon the happiness of individu
als, know the relative value of concrete
and abstract beauty. There is a pecu
liar cWarrn. 1 admit in the contour of a
pretty face. There is a fascination in
the beautiful eye, but, after all, of
what value is this concrete beauty to
the observer ? Life is not a garden of
flowers, and we are none of us butter
flies. Lile is a stern reality. We are
put here to do certain tasks. If we
spend our time in the pursuit of the
phantom, beauty, what can we accorn
(dish of our duties ? Concrete beauty
; s alluring. It is charming. But it is
not the equal of that abstract beauty
which is the reflex of a pure and lofty
character. The one is ephemeral ; the
other is lasting. Age wrinkle* tne
face and dims the eyes ; and before the
ravages of time we see the concrete
beauty slowly fading away. But to
abstract beauty the years bring a fresh
charm, and age makes brighter the
beauty of the soul. Concrete beauty
does not go far beyond the out ward
skin. W lien the skin wrinkles the
beauty leaves. Traces of it may re
main. But these traces are as barren
as the smell of choice viands to a hun
gry man. The soul is not to be im
paired by the ravages of time because
it is co-existent with eternity itself.
Beauty makes a great mistake iu cul
tivating merely its outward aspect.
Cultivate the soul that is within and
the plainest face may be made beauti
ful. Do not neglect your gift if nature
has made you beautiful. Foster that
and develop the higher phase of beau
ty. The two combined are irresistible
But the beauty of the soul alone—the
abstract beauty of the beiug—is far su
i perior to mere physical or concrete
j licauty. The poet Young writes :
What’s true b'-antjr but fair Virtue’s face—
Virtue made visible in outwardgrace 1
* * * * * *
Some forms, though bright, no mortal man
can bear,
Some none resist, th.-ugli not exceeding
fair.
A lie is black even if it is a white
lie.
Kind words never die : but they fre
quently stay a long time away from
home. *
Alan, with all his wisdom, never
knows who is his best friend as well as
a baby.
An earthly treasure—A rich hus
band. whom bis widow lias just bu
ried.
I % l-'roitller ’I rugMly.
The hoy of Henry Bertram passed
through Philadelphia yesterday etiroute
for the family burying grouud in one of
those quaint and quiet Nev England
towns in which witches inuumitable
ate buried. Henty Bertram was known
on the south western frontier as
“Handsome Harry.” He was a gain
bier, and in the vernacular of the frott
tier, accounted “a square man.” In
1 SN2 lie appeared at Muiderville, in
Pecos county, Texas. Unrderville
was the city of a day. It was a barren
alkali mesa, about five miles from tin*
confluence of the Pecos and the Rio-
Grande Rivers. The Southern Pacific
railroad was projected through that
country, and Murderville, from a 1-te.it
saloon, sprang into metropolitan im
portance in a few weeks. The one sa
loon was supplemented by dozens of
others, and in three week- af’er its in
ception the town boasted i lice, of
the peace, a company •.•f.-* *s'3Nortv
two saloons, three daiice-hoi'tios, two
hotels, three barber shops, a laundry,
and lmlf a dozen dining saloons, all the
saloons had gambling adjuncts and po
ki*r, keno, Spanish monte, faro, routjc
tt. uoir, the mustang game and other
schemes of chance flourished in every
drinking place.
.lack Harris, afterward killed at San
Antonio hv Marshal Ren Thompson,
one of the worst men in Texas, ran the
principal dive. His patrons were
found among the 20,000 navvies at
work upon the Sunset extensam of th ■
Northern Pacific railroad. ’They pat
ronized the bur, got drunk and when
half crazed with the wretched liquor
sold and lost all that remained out of
their earnings at faro or monte.
AN .11,1, ROUND (IAMBI,UK.
“Handsome Harry,” and the name
did not belie him, was a monte dealer
at Jack Harris’, and in the language of
the frontier, he was exceedingly
“slick.” He 10-t no money for bis
backer, but steadily added to the “vel
vet” with which he was provided.
“Handsome Harry” differed fr nt
the other gamblers. Hie was not pro
fane, he did not drink, In* did not use
tobacco. He did carry a murderous
six shooter in his belt, however, and
be used it on the slightest provoca
tion. No one knew whet cc became,
and as he did not associate with any of
his fellow gamblers, but little was
known even of his life in Murdeiville.
He had a tent on the outskirts of the
town, and to this he tetired when busi
ness was over, always sober, always the
gentleman that he was.
(>ne night when the stage came in
from Del Rio a woman, young, and
with a face and manner that stamped
her as above the. common liercl* , !™«ht>
ed.
She secured apartmc its tit one of
the hotels, a wretched concern of can
vas, and when night settled down upon
the town and the revelry began she
ventured forth, alone and unprotected,
and after a short conference with a
rough, turned her steps toward Jack
Harris’ dance hall.
•Just as she entered the door an til
tercation oecu'red among the gamblers
about the table where “Handsome
Harry” was dealing. Pistols were
drawn in a twinkling and a half dozen
weapons were leveled at the dealer’s
heart. He pulled his six-shooter, but
just ns he was about to (ire the woman
who had entered the tent unobserved,
sprang forward and threw her arms
about his neck.
THKV FEE I. TOIIK.THKIi.
There was a succession of blinding
flashes, a chorus of loud reports.
Handsome Harry and the girl clinging
ah ait his neck fell together to the rude
floor and their life blood was commin
gled. One of the opposing party
dropped dead aLo, but this did not
atone for the murder of Handsome
Harry and the girl that had sprung
forward to save him.
They were both killed and the gam
gamblers and saloonkeepers and the
rustlers and the wantons congregated
at Alutderville, suspending their busi
ness for a few hours, followed the blan
ket shrouded icmains of the two to
their last resting place in the valley oi
the Pecos close beside that alkali-tain
ted stream, within a few hundred yards
of where it empties into the Rio
Grande.
All the bank of the Pecos at
this point arc quicksands, and every
where the soil is impregnated with al
kali. Handsome Harry and the uh
known girl who died in an effort to
save his life were buried in one com
mon grave in that shifting alk di soil of
the Pecos boitom. A rude gravestone
of wood—a mere plank—was set
above their graves, and upon it,in rude
lettering, was painted the story of their
lives.
Breast to breast they lay for seven
long years. The railroad, completed,
wound about their beads, »nd daily the
whistles of the locomotives as they
crossed the Pecos bridge sounded their
requiem.
Last week a gray- Ifaired man and a
woman in deep mourning alighted at
the railroad siation nearest
the Pecos. As they stepped from the
cars, the eyes of the woman were turned
across the mesa, and she saw glisten
ing in the August suu Murderville’s
monument —an immense pile of broken
bottles, which bad lieen thrown out by
the saloon keepers when the town was
in all the glorv of its crime and de
baucheiy.
TIIEIH BODIES TL KXEW TO STONE.
Some of the railroad laborers—al
moral eyed Chinamen, who felt no emo
tion in common with the strangers—as
sisted to hunt up the lonely grave and
throw out the shifting soil.
Seven years of chemical action had
wrought a wondrous change. The
bodies of Handsome Harry and the un
known girl, still lying breast to breast,
were exhumed, but the action of the al
kali soil had pot rifled them, and, per
feet as in life, they were reproduced,
wrapped in the blankets that on the
frontier suffice f**r shrouds, in indissol
uble stone. When the spades of the
* 'bitumen revealed the bodies the face
of the veiled woman flushed, perhaps
with anger, perhaps with shame.
Anyway, this was htir order, delivered
in clear metallic tones :
“Lift out his body, but leave hers.”
The Chinamen obeyed, and the stiff
felted body of Handsome Harry,,as
lifelike as when he rose, pistol in hand,
to face his last insulter, was lifted out.
His features were perfect, and bending
over him, the veiled woman dropped a
tear.
"Poor Harry !" she murmured, and
then she signed for the Chinatuon to
fill up the grave.
Mechanically they obeyed her order,
and the marbleized bo<Jy of the unknown
woman who had sacrificed her life, in a
vain effort to save that of the hand
some gambler was recommitted to the
petrifying soil liy order of the woman
who shed tears over his resurrected re
mains.
nmi 4'ollon ’l'ii— Ait Mail".
The new rolling mill at Koine is
turning out ten tons of cotton ties ;i
day.
At tliis rate it will make enough to
band one-twelfth of the cotton crop,
and by running night, and day it will
supply one-sixth of the whole demand
This is one of the results of the
Rome bomn two years ago, and the
active work of the business me,: to
bring new industries the re. Mr. Nev
egold, the president of the rolling mill, I
is a Pennsylvanian, who was raised in
the manufacture of hoop iron and knows
all the details of management by which
the business is made profitable.
As we stood looking at the rolls
through winch the billets were pa-sing,
the white hot iron came out of the
next to the last roll a long, thin, incand
scent hoop, which might have been
compared to a fiery serpent.
Instead of pulling it straight out and
sending it back tluough tlio last roll by
the reverse motion the boy who stood
there seized the en l with a pair of
tongs as soon as it appeared and bent
it round him to the last roll, which
seized it and carried it through in a
second. Meantime he was standing
inside the fiery circle that whipped by
his legs so fast that lm seemed to lie in
iminent danger of having his calves
burned off.
“That was the secret of my father’s
success," said Mr. Nevegold ; “when I
was a boy 1 started that method more
from laziness than anything else, and I
became so expert at it that it was reg
ularly adopted. Wo found that wo
could run it through the rolls quicker,
and get better results that way, so we
have usgd that plan ever since.
“It is not necessary for tint hoy to
stand there and bend the hot hoop
about his legs. ! have a guide box
which leads it round to the last roll,
and dispenses witli the bov altogether.
It uill put that on by and by.”
This mill first takes pig iron of the
various grades used to make the tough
composition f,»r cotton ties and puddles
it. Then it is hammered into blooms,
which are reheated and rolled down in
to small billets.
The billets are cut into short pieces
and heated again. Passing through a
number of rolls they come out at last
one thirty-second of an inch thick and
forty six feet long. They arc then run
through a smoothing machine and
trimmed at the ends to a length of for
ty-four feet. This is cut into four pie
ces and the tics made. All that re
mains is to put them up in bundles of
thirty, with thirty buckles strung on
ono of the ties. The thirty ties aie
placed in a long flat box just wide en
ough for two layers of fifteen to lie
side by side. The buckles are put on
one of the inside ties, and the whole
pile is doubled over and hound with
short pieces of hoop ii ron. The pro
cess of bundling usually takes two min
utes, and an expert can put up a bun
dle in one minute. It takes -100 bun
dles to make the day’s out-put of ten
tons, and one band can about keep up;
with the ties as they come out of the !
cutting machine.
The puddling is done at night to
avoid the heat. A singular fact in this
connection is that the puddlers don’t
suffer from heat as much here as they
do in Pennsylvania.
“I don’t know why it is,” said Mr.
Nevegold, “but they do not seem to get
overheated so easily. It is not such
an overpowering heat here as in north
—not so suffocating.”
Possibly this is due to a gieater hu
midity in Pennsylvania. Whatever it
is, the men feel the diffeience very
greatly and are better able to stand up
to their work in hot weather.
The financial affairs of the mill are
under the management of C. H. Co'li
ra n, a young business man who grew
up and got his tiaining at Rome. He
says the product of the mill is largely
sold ahead, and they are now working
fifty hands witli a weekly pay of SSOO. |
lie Was Too IMoiin.
“I didn't like my Sunday school
teacher,” said the small boy at the din
ner table.
“Why not inquiired the head of the
household.
“Because he is so all fired pious !”
Nothing indefinite about that criti
cisrn ; and, if it should get around to
the teacher’s ears, it might do him no
harm. Of course he would not stop
being pious, but it is just possible he
could make his piety a little more win
some in the eyes of the disaffected pu
pil.
in ii hi.r, iu:itoi<«n.
An lim irient of the I'loori in tlio
t I:il>:iiiiii River Itui-ing the
M|»ri ug uf l'* | stt.
Negroes frequently exhibit a won
derftil degree of heroism in times of
danget. An instance of this I witness
ed in the spring of I sSfi, when a fresh
et in the Alabama River caused tlie
country on each side to be overflowed
bv water lot many miles.
The Negroes on the river plantation
were the greatest sufferers. Their
cabins tvou'd be under water almost be
fore they knew that danger threatened
tin tn, and hundreds of them wore
somwtinies found huddled together up
on some knoll sutlic eutlv elevated to
be above the wafer. There they often
remained two or throe days and nights
without food, and exposed to a soaking
rain. Fortunately, the weather was not
eol I.
Many relief expeditions were sent
out from the Neighboring towns to res
cue them. These consisted to one or
more taints, manned by export oars
men and swimmers, anti tilled with
cooked provisions, blankets, etc. One
day tin* news came that the negroes on
a certain plantation had sought refuge
upon a corn crib, around which the wit
ter was rapidly rising, and so render
ing their condition exceedingly precari
ous. Two boats started out at once to
their assistance. In one of these 1
went, accompanied by another white
man and a negro.
An amusing occurrence to ik place
not long after our starting. In the
middle of a submerged field, about 100
yards to our right, we saw a little wool
ly black head, with a frightened black
face la neiil.lt it, projecting from the
water. We rowed hastily towards it
and drew of tlm muddy water a negro
boy about S ycais old, perfectly naked,
and held him up among uh.
“Here, Moses,” cried one, holding a
tin Cup with whisky in it to his month,
“here, take a drink.”
“'l’ake a bite <>f this broad, Moses,”
cried another, try ing to crowd the bread j
into his mouth.
“No ; let Moses have some of thi*
fried bacon. It'll do him the most
good,” said the negro oarsman.
But Moses shook his head and turn- j
ed aside from all the offered food.
“Use erblecged to yer, /narsters,”
lie sai l, while his white teeth shone
and his eyes rolled wildly. “I’se cr
bleeged to yer, lint I hain’t sot down
in two days, er try in’ to keep my head
out’n do vvatah, an’ all I wants, of yer
please, is to set down.”
Ho was promptly wrapped in abalu
ket and set down, where for an hour
lie sat without moving, cuiimug tliu
perfect rest of his new position, At
the end of that time he began to eat.
I draw a veil over his performance in
this line. We feared we had rescued
him from a watery grave to kill him
with corn bread and bacon, although
the negro oarsman insisted that ho had
never heard of a “niggali liein’ hurt
by too much to cat.” Meeting a re
turning boat soon after, we put Moses
in it and sent him to town. I never
heard of him again, but presume he
survived both liis unusual hath ami
banquet.
We resumed our journey, and just
before dark righted the corn crib, upon
which a mass of black humanity clus
tered like a swarm of bees. A heavy
rain was now falling, and daylight be
ginning to fade away, their condition
become most distressing, as they sat in
perfect silence watching our approach.
But we did not appreciate their ex
treme peril until as the boat struck
against" the .frail log house, which was
in the water to frail edges
of the roof, it visibly shook and totter
ed. 'I he poor creatures began to clam
ber hurriedl v down to the boat.
“Stop !” I cried. “The women and j
children first.”
The men obediently resumed their
seats. We took in first the children
and then the women, getting them all
in safely, and were about to push .off,
telling the men we would hurry hack
for them as quickly as possible or send
the first boat we met, when a very old
woman (I noticed was the last to get
in the boat and had done so reluctant
ly) seized the corner of the house, and
looking anxiously into ray face, said :
“Marster ain’t you gwine take my
ole man ?”
“No, auntie,” 1 answered, “the boat
is too full now. lie must wait till we
come back.”
The words were hardly out of my
mouih when with a sudden spring she
was up oil the roof again. It shook as
she scrambled on .>ll fours upon it and
took her seat by a little, withered old
black man, whose hand she seized and
held as if she was afraid we would
tear her away from him.
“Come, auntie,” J cried, “this won’t
do. We can’t leave you here, and we
can’t wail any longer on you.”
“(Jo on, marster,” she answered. “1
thanks yer, en 1 pray de good Lawd
to fetch you all safe home ; but I gwine
stay byali wid my ole man. Kf Simon
got to git drownded, Lyddy gwine git
drownded, too. VVe dun bin togedder
too long to part now.”
And we had to leave her, after throw
ing them some blankets and a lot of
provisions.
As we rode off in the rain and night
a high falsetto voice, tremulous with
age, came across the waters from the
crib, where we left the almost certainly
doomed group isi the blackness of
darkness. They dared not have a light,
for lear of setting file to their frail sup
port. We stopped our oars to listen
to the song. It came, clear and dis
tinct. First Lyddy’s trembling voice,
and then a chorus of a dozen or more
of the deep bass voice of the men.
‘•Wi-Vc a vlinyin’ to dc ark.
Take us in, take us in.
Fur clc watah’a deep on dark,
Take us in, take us in.
Do’ du tlesh is po* en weak,
Take us in,lake us in.
"Pis du Lawd we gwinter seek,
Take us in, lake us in.
Pen Lawd, hole out dy linn ,
Take us iu, take us in.
Draw tie sinnahfl to de lan',
Take us in, take ns in.
We could wait and listen to ihc
weird sounds no longer, but struck our
oars into tlm water and hurried away.
Most fortunately we came across a
boat, bent upon the same errand as
ourselves, which went immediately to
the crib Hud saved all'of its living
freight. The crib had apparently been
hehl down by their weight, for as the
last one left it it turned over and float -
i d away to the gulf.
Their rescuers told us afterwards
that as they neared the crib the first
sound they heard was an old woman’s
voice singing:
' lie Lawd is liyiihM our ciy,
Answered by the men :
Take ns in. take us in.
Kii lie'll save ns by en liy,
Take us in,take us in.”
To this simple hearted old creature
divorce courts and separations were un
known. With her it was “until death
do us part.”
M. E. S.
<'oflon Itiiiiiiina.
Coi l'Mill's, Aug. 10.—It Would
seem from a m» ssage received in this
city to-day by Non. T. 11. Kimbrough,
master of the Georgia State Grange,
that the Liverpool cotton Exchange
has finally and decidedly pronounced
against the use of cotton bagging, and
there is a stioug probability that the
French and (Airman exchanges will
follow suit, notwithstanding tho fact
that it hag been publicly stated that
the cotton exchanges of England.
France and Germany had decided to fa
vor the use of cotton bagging.
kimhikhcii's woitii ton cotton 1 1» ag
oing.
Mr. Kimbrough has been at work
i arncstly for a year in endeavoring to
have the tare on cotton covered with
jute bagging readjusted so as to give
the cotton producers of the South some
thing like justice, and to have the taro
fixed for cotton covered with cotton
bagging so that it would bo just to the
farmer and at the same time put cotton
bagging into the markets of tho world
on its merits. He lias labored inces
santly to bring these ends about and he
has written a great many letters to
prominent men and cotton exchanges
on the subject, lie has also published
numerous articles in. newspapers about
these important matteis.
IN OOBUKSI-ONOKNCI. wmi Tills J.IVfcK
POOL KXOIIANGE.
On .June 8 last, he wrote to Mr.
.John Roxbiirg, president of the Liver
pool Cotton Association, an organiza
tion corresponding to the Cotton Fix
change of Now Vork, in which he
made the following points :
That the present loss of fi per cent,
is unjust, and is robbing the American
cotton producers of $9,000,000 annu
ally.
Ties, bagging or canvas, as it is call
ed in England, weighs only twenty
pounds to the bale, while the custom
ary tate is thirty pounds.
Cotton bagging or canvas and tics
will weigh only about fourteen pounds
to the bale.
Ml. Roxburg was urged to consider
the cotton bagging on its merits, and
to reduce tare to correspond with the
weight of cotton hugging and tics.
I.IVKRPOOt, FINALLY CONDBMNS COT
TON BAGGING.
A reply was received on June 24 to
the effect that the association would
consider the matter and report.
Mr. Kimbrough waited until yester
day. Aug. 15, for a reply and then wir
ed the association as follows:
“John Itoxburg. President Liverpool
Cotton Association, England: Any
piobability of a reduction of taro on
cotton ? Answer.
[Signed.] “J. 11. Kimbrough,
“Master Georgia State Grange.”
The following reply was received
this morning:
8:20 A. m., Aug. 16, 1889—T. 11.
Kimbrough, master of Georgia State
Grange, Cataula, Ga. : Association con
demnsthe use of cotton bagging and
cannot see its way to legislate on the
subject.
John Roxuurg, President.
There can be no question but that
the stand the Liverpool men have tak
en on the cotton baggiflg question will
cause u sensation throughout the South
under present circumstances. Mr.
Kimbrough was in the city this after
noon, and lie and several prominent
gentlemen so expiessed themselves to
your correspondent.
DCNUEK BAOGISG ORUKRF.I).
Several days ago a cargo of Dundee
bagging, two pounds to the yard, was
ordered from Scotland by the Georgia
State Grange. The bagging will be
delivered at Columbus at 10 cents per
yard, of which 2 3-1 cents a yard is
tariff tax.
This shows that this bagging could
he delivered and purchased in this city
for seven cents per yard, hut for the
tariff.
Mother (suspiciously)—lf you hav
en’t been in swimming, how did your
hair get so wet ?
Little I)iek—That’s perspiration—
runnin’ away from bad hoys w’ot wan
ted me to disobey you an’ go in swiin
min’.
Miss Ingenue—l suppose gou think
that it is impossible for a woman to
keep her tongue still a minute.
Mr. Sh.irpleigli —Not at all. She is
as dumb as an oyster when you give
her your seat in a street car.
NO. 17.