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THE IIEIW COUNTY WEEKLY. V OL. XIV. ill g 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. pit. *i. I*. ( VIIPIIRIJ.. 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. * * * 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. * * * 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.” * * * 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. * * * 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.