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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
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HiStVAV A DH'SUIV
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
McDosouon, a*.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court
el' Georgia and the United States District
Court . apr‘J7-l v
j s * J. KKIGA.V,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDosocn h, Ga.
Will practice in all tire Courts ol Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
othercollectious. Will attend all the Courts
it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
This Wekkly office.
yy A.IIKiHV.V,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, flic Supreme Court of
Georgia and tlie United States District
Court. juiil-Iv
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11 a. n:s:i*M>,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hami-ton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8,18 SS
Jno. 0. Stkwart. J lt.T. Danibi.
STEWART & IHAll’l.,
ATTORNEYS at law,
Griffin, Ga.
josm r. TI E.
ATTORNEY' AT LAW,
Gate City Nation! Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the Slate and Federal Courts.
P E. WEEMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
H nip ton, Ga.
Will practice in all the State and Feder
al courts. Collections a specialty, and
prompt attention given to all Business en
trusted to me.
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IS THE ONLY
SHORT AND DIRECT LINE
. TO THE
NORTH, SOUTH,
EAST AND V/EST.
PULLMAN'S FINEST VES
TIBULE SLEEPERS
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Memphis and the West
at Knoxville with l*nllm«in
Sleep<T>i for
WASHINGTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
AND NEW YORK.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, |
B. W. WRENN, CHAS. N.KICHT
Gen’l. Pass. As*-, A, G. P. A.
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Georgia HitUanil A Gulf H. It.
SOUTH.
Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m.
Arrive Greenwood
“ Louella 7:"25 “
“ Griffin “
NOUTH.
Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m.
Arrive Louella 4:40 “
“ Greenwood 4:48 “
“ McDonough 5:05 “
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In the long run fame finds deserving mail ;
The lucky wight may prosper for a dav,
But in good time line merit leads the van,
And vain pretense, unnoticed, goes it
iviiv.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate.
Rut fortune smiles on those who work and
wait,
1 n the long run.
In the long run all godly sorrow pays ;
Therein no Ik Iter thing than righteous
pain ;
The sleepless nights, the awful thorn crown
j cd days,
Bring sure reward to tortued soul and
1 train
j Unmeaning joy enervate in the end.
But sorrow yields a glorious dividend
1 u the long run.
In the long run all hidden things are known.
The eve of truth will penetrate the night.
And, good or ill, thy secret shall lie known,
However well ’tis guarded from the lighl.
I
i All the unspoken motives of the breast
Arc fathomed by the years, and stand con
fessed
, In the long run.
In the long run ail love is paid bv love ;
Though undervalued by (lie hearts of
earth,
i The great, Eternal government above
Keeps strict account, and will redeem ils
work.
Give Ih love I'eelv ; do not count the cost ;
So beautiful a thing is never lost
In ilie long run.
Don't Discuiirage the Bay.*.
Have yon stopped to consider the
effect of your complaints and discon
tent upon the boys on the farm. Every
body seems to be out of joint in agri
cultural matters, nobody seems satisfied
on the farm. Day and night are spent
in murmuriugs and comp'aiut at spec
ial afflictions that come to farmers,
while the farmers while the farmers
themselves seem up in arms and ready
to do harm all opposing forces. Is
there not some plan by which wo can
gain our ends and readjust matters
that seem out of joint without so much
complaint and bitterness ? Such con
ditions have most hurtful effect upon
the younger members of the household,
to say nothiug of the very damaging
effect upon our own temper and morals
How can we expect the hoys to cul
tivate any degree of fondness for farm
life wheu they uever hear anything
pleasant in its pursuit ? How can we
censure them as they grow up to man
hood for abandoning the homestead,
when every zephyr that played among
its flowers was turned to a sigh and all
its bright cheer into sadness and tears.
We must hold on to good spirits, at
least in the presence of the hoys, until
we can whip the terrible fight upon
which we have entered.
No man was ever made better by
having the blues nor better fitted for
a conflict because of feeling sure that
he would be whipped in the fight.
Y'oung spirits are much more easily
broken than those that have weathered
the storm for years. Just as young
mules are ruined for life by overtaxing
their strength the first year, so young
boys are made prematurely old by put
ting upou them the burden of cares
beyond their years.
The farmer makes a mistake who
discusses his cares and his troubles in
a complaining spirit in the presence of
his boys, as he puts their youug minds
in search of brighter surroundings and
more pleasant prospects.
Under all the complaints that now
burden the land, what must be the
grevious consequences upon the youug
iu bringing about a demoralization that
will bring failure to our agriculture.
Make the future of your children
bright and happy by keeping their
youug years as far from care as possi
ble. —W. J. Northern
Some Hen Shouitl Aever Harry.
There is something peculiarly sor
rowful to me iu the way in which the
children of some housholds slip quietly
| out of sight when they hear their
I father’s footsteps outside the door.
The children must “sett'e down”
j then, for father ‘‘can't bear noise,” and
disorder “worries” him. Oh, it does,
does it? It makes him nervous to hear
the baby cry or the children laugh,
\ does it ? He likes to have the house
perfectly still does he? Well, then,
, what under the sun did he ever marry
for? Why didn’t he remain in that
state of single blessedness peculiarly
appropriate to men wh ra children
“worry.” There are so many nice,
quiet, delightful hoarding houses in
which the laugh of a child is never
heard because children are not allowed
there.
Hall’s Hair Henewer renders the
bait lustrous and silken, gives it an
■ even color, and enables women to put
! it up iu a great variety of styles.
McDonough, ga., Friday. September bo, is-12.
3ARRELS OE BRANDY
disc ova nun hidden he-
SEA Tll THE SOIL
UPON WHICH WERE TURNIPS
I lain Were Growing: l.nniri
unity— lilisitleu liv ltailtN
Con illy Distillers.
J u'KSON', Sept. 21.—Six miles
west of here, in this country, the
Washington brothers have been oper
ating a registered brandy distilery dur
ing the summer.
It is located on their picturesque
farm, and farmers from all the country
round about have carried their lus
cious peaches to namesakes of the fa
ther of our country and have had it
made into brandy. At this work the
Washingtons are skilled hands. They
could take a load of luscious, juicy,
sunkissed peaches and distil them into
as fine peach brandy as was ever
made.
The peaches are all gone now and
the distilery is closed for the summer
after a big season’s work. The peach
crop around Jacksons was unusually
line, and the amount made into brandy
was greater than usual
The revenue authorities became sus
pieious that every gallou of liquor
made by the Washingtons had not
been accounted for. They felt sure
that the output was greater than the
amount paid tax on by the Washing
tons. Suspecting that they had con
cealed several barrels of whisky which
they would try to dispose of without
paying the regulation tax, the reve
nue authorities decided to mike an in
vestigation.
Deputy Marshal Corbett was dis
patched to Jackson to do the work,
and he went at once to the farm. The
Washingtons learned of his presence in
their vicinity, and began to make prep
arations to get away before ho made
any discoveries.
The day after his arrival at the
Washington place the shrewd Marshal
Corbett made a visit to the Washing
tons’ home, tie found them gone.
Leading away toward a swamp to the
rear of the house were tracks made by
them as they left. The path followed
by the Washingtons in their exit was
smoothed down as if by some heavy
article being rolled over it. Marshal
Corbett followed this track until it led
into the swamp and there, by the side
of a purling stream, he found a barrel of
genuine home-made Georgia brandy.
Returning to the home of the Wash
ington’s the seaach was renewed. It
promised for a long while to prove
fruitless, llut finally a startling dis
covery was accidentally made.
Near the Washingtons’ residence is
a turnip patch, and in it grows healthy
green topped turnips. Buried under
neath the ground with big turnips
growing over them, four barrels of
brandy were found. It had evidently
been buried for some time, and it was
apparently secure.
It was all taken charge of by Mar
shall Corbett, but the owners had fled.
Now the dandy marshal wants the
Washingtons.
Nothing to Wear.
“Where are my suspenders, maw ?’
shrieked a Jefferson avenue belle to
her mother across the upstairs hall, ac
cording to the Detroit Free Press.
‘Your father borrowed them while I
mended his,’ was the answer.
‘I cau’t find my four iu-hand tie.’
‘Your brother Tom wore it lasl
night. You will find it in his room.’
‘But maw, where’s my silk yachting
shirt ?’
‘Algy wore it to the regatta.’
There was a brief silence. Then
the voice wailed across the hall again :
‘Maw, I can’t find my trou-s-e-rs’
‘Charles has them on,’ was the re
sponse.
Then a tired looking young man,
who had been waiting unannounced in
the hall below, rose up and softly stole
away.
‘She might want my boots, next,’ lie
said, wearily, and no one knows why
the engagment is off.
Young Mr. Fitts—l never shall for
get bow sweet you looked the day I
' proposed to you, dear !
Mrs. Fitts—How was I dressed?
Mr. Fitts —Lemme see. You had
on a dress of some soft, light colored
stuff ; I forget whether it was white or
not. And you had a hat that was
| trimmed iu—that was trimmed like
most of the hats were trimmed that
year.’and shoes—or did you wear slip
pers ? Anyway, I shall never forget
just how you looked if I live to be 100
years old.
In the Interest of Precision.
“There! Another mosquito has bii
ids!” exclaimed Mrs. Suaggs, as slit
made a rapid slap at the Insect, au.i
on'.y succeeded iu striking the spot
where it had been operating, says the
Pittsburg Chrouicle Telegraph.
“I think you are mistaken,” replied
Mr. Snaggs.
Mistaken? Indeed I’m no:! I know
a tnosquito’s bite when l feel one.
“That is preoisly where you are
mistaken,” Mr. Snaggs went on, “I
know you merely folloti colloqual
usage in saving the mosquito bit you,
but nevertheless, usage is wrong. It
is always well to he aeciA'ale, and in
this case it is not accurate to speak of
the mosquito’s bite." The . mosquito’s
operations in search of food are truly
interesting, especially when he is oper
ating on some other person’s epider
mis. He carries with him a remarka
ble kit of tools, consisting of two saws,
a lance and pump. With the lance a
puncture is made in the skin, but the
perforation is not wide enough for the
insertion of the pump which is to trails
fer a portion of your blood to the in
sect’s stomach. So the saws are intro
duced, and they commence to widen
the puncture. It is the operation of
the saws which causes the irritation to
which you allude as a bite. Y'on see,
my dear, how inacurate it is to talk of
a mosquito’s bite. Don’t you ?”
“Mr. Snaggs !”
“Well!”
“You irritate nte a great deal more
than the mosquitoes do. Now, I want
to ask you one question,” v
“Go ahead.”
“What constitutes a bite
“Well, there can be no bite without
teeth.’’
“Then, Mr. Snaggs,” exclaimed his
wife triumphantly, ‘I am right after
all. The mosquito bites witlWie teeth
ofhissaws. Mr. Snaggs, it H always
well to be accurate. Now—”
But she did not finish A ytfk and
a vicious slap from her husba«Bfindi
cated that one of the rnosquit/SjflLwas
giving him a lesson in the ust£^Es<hc
“Tuck Down WUh Matri/iiony.”
I had stopped lor the uignt at a
house over looking the Cumberland
river near its source in Keutucky, says
a writer in the Detroit Free Press,
and after supper I had taken a seat on
the front porch and was talking to the
owner ol the house, and my host, tern
porarily.
’ls the young lady who waited on
the table your daughter ? I inquired
after a short and desultory colloquy on
the crops.
‘Yes ; purty likely gal, ain’t she ?
he answered, with a fatherly pride.
“Very handsome; much more so
than most of tiie girls I have seen in
this section,’ I admitted frankly.
He pulled his chair over closer to
mine in a confidential way.
‘Do you know much about gals ? he
inquired almost in a whisper.
‘Some little by observation. I’ve
known a good many during a long and
more or less eventful life in that re
spect.’
“Did you notice anything out of the
way about my gal ?”
“Not that 1 cau recall.”
“Didn’t notice that she was kinder
fergitful and awliered ?’
•No.’
‘Ner quiet like without much to
say to nobody ?’
‘I noticed she didn’t talk much.’
‘Ner hasn’t,’ ho corroborated, ‘fer
a week or two. Didn’t strike you
that she had a wanduriu’ in her mind,
did she ?’
‘No.’
‘Ner a hankerin’ after somethin’
that wuzn’t in sight?’
‘No.’
‘That’s odd you didn’t,’ he said with
a puzzle expression ; ‘me and the old
woman has been a noticin’ it fer ten
day 3 er more.’
‘We ain’t right he whispered,
but the symptoms is powerful like she
wuz agoin’ to be tuck down with mat
rimony. There’s the young feller
now,’ and he got up and went out to
meet a strapping young man who was
hitching his horse at the gate.
“Don’t you know better than to put
your arm around a lady’s waist?” she
cried indignantly.
“I know few things better” he said.*
Statistics show that women live lon
ger I ban men. This gives the dear
! creatures the opportunity to have the
last word.
Those people who are always going
to pay their bills ‘•to morrow” general
| ly oversleep themselves.
POTPOURRI.
\ soil APS GATHERED FROM
EXCHANGES
AND ARRANGED FOR READERS
Ol' Tlie Weekly, and (’ohmlmilii"
of New k A ole*.(’online lit*,
II iimoron-, lleiu». Ete.
A revolver has beeu invented that
shoots seven times a second.
Y’oung man, no one may be able to
tell your fortune, hut you can work it
out for yourself.
The cemeteries of London cover
2,000 acres and the land they occupy
represents a capital of $1,000,000.
Philadelphia is said to be agitated
over a new drink called cucumber ice
cream soda water. We imagine ii
would agitate any one who experiment
ted with it.
A Florida editor says it’s too had to
be threatened with the cholera and the
third party at the same time. He says
if he has to maka choice of either, give
him the cholera.
No man is born into this world whose
work is not horn with him : there is
always work, and tools to work withal,
for those who will; and blessed are the
heavy hands of toil.
'The people will observe, in the re
turns from Arkansas and the decreas
ing Republican majorities in Maine and
Vermont, that the old organized De
mocracy is stiff in the ring
Women may be more curious than
men, but we have never heard of a wo
man who soiled either her hands or
gloves trying to find whether it was
dry or not seeing the sign of “Paint,”
Fifty years ago a house of one room
was suffeient to raise ten children in ;
now it some times requires a house of
ten rooms in which to raise one boy,
and often he is uot very well raised
theu!
The Supreme court of Georgia has
rendered a decision sustaining the law
prohibiting the sale of spirituous
liquors withiu threo miles of any church
or school house, outside of an incorpor
ated town.
The local newspaper is the backbone
of the community, and generous as is
the public appreciation of its offices, it
merits much more sympathy and sup
port than it generally receives, re
marks an exchange.
There is a case on record where a
young couple got seventeen clocks
among the wedding presents, and yet
three months afterwards the husband
didn’t know what time it was when he
came home in the morning.
It is said that tho independent vote
of ludianna that supported and carred
the State for Harrson in 1888 will give
Cleveland such support iu the coming
election as to insure the electoral vote
for the Democratic party.
The Detroit Free Press maintains
that, “one trouble with the American
farmer is that when the wether is dry
he does not need better roads, and
when the mud is hub deep there is no
chance to build better ones.”
“Why is it that you are bringing up
your daughter to work for her living
when you have enough to keep her in
comfort at home ?” “I want her to
be able to support her husband proper
ly if she ever gets married.”
The Eastman Times-Journal says :
“We learn that some of the ladies of
our county who have daughters are ob
jecting to young men who are in the
least inclined toward the third party
visiting them. It is said that an old
lady, who does not live a thousand
miles from Eastman, made one hustle
a few evening' ago. Our women, as
well as our men, are true Democrats.”
Talmage says if the people of tbit
nation, or any ottier nation, could only
understand what anarchy is they would
crush out its life instantaneously.
Anarchy is abolition of property. It
makes your store and your house and
your family mine and yours. It is
wholesale robbery- It is every man’s
hand against every other man. It is ar
son and murder and loss and death
triumphant. It means no law, no
church, no defense, no rights, no hap
piuess, no God. !t means hell let loose
on earth, and society a combination
of devils incarnate. It means extermi
nation of everything good and the
• creation of everything infamous.
Highest of all in Leavening Tower— U. S. Cov’t Report, Aug. 17, ISS9.
D q Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Whistled Speech.
Whin the Marquis do LaFayette
and several general officers quitted the
French army, then in insurrection, af
ter the famous 10th of August, they
were seized by tho King of Frusia,
says the Youth’s Companion. Then
they were transferred to the custody of
Austria, and for a long time were con
fined in tho castle of Olmutz. They
were kept in solitary confinement, but
were within hearing of each other
when standing at tho windows of their
chambers.
To improve this advantage they
thought of tho following plan : There
are, or were at that time, in Paris,
certain tunes called airs of tho “Point
Neuf”—popular ballads that were
sung on street corners and in other
public places. The words belonging
to these airs were so well known that
to strike up a few of the notes was to
recall to memory tho words that accom
panied them.
The captives at Olmutz gradually
composed for themselves a vocal vocab
ulary by whistling these notes at their
windows ; and this vocabulary, after a
short time became so complete that two
or three notes from each tune formed
an alphabet, and gave the meu a means
of intercourse.
In this way they communicated to
one another news concerning their
families the progress of the war, and
many other things; and when, by
rare good fortune, one of them had
procured a gazette, he whistled its en
tire contents to his partners in suffering
and confinement.
The commander of the fortress was
constantly informed of these unaccount
able concerts. lie listened ; ho sot
spies ; but as the whole was a language
of convention, the most practiced musi
cian would have failed to detect the
meaning of the notes.
Whistling was prohibited, but in
vain, and at length tho Austrian, tired
of conjecture, interposed no further to
prevent what 110 could not compre
hend.
Presently.
Never say you will do presently
what your reason or your conscience
tells you should bo done now. No
man ever shaped his own destiny
or the destines of others wisely
and well who dealt much in
preseutließ. Look at nature. She
never pospones. When tho time ar
rives for the buds to open, for tho
leaves to fall, they fall. Look up
ward. The shining worlds never put
off their settings. Tho comets even,
erratic as they are, keep their appoint
ments; and eclispses are always
puntual to the minute. Thero are no
delays in any of the movements of the
universe which have predetermined by
the absolute fiat of the Creator. Pro
crastination among the stais might in
volve the destruction of innumerable
systems ; procrastination in the opera
tions of nature on this earth might re
sult in famine, pestilence and the blot
ting out of the human race. Man,
however, being a free agent, can post
pone the performance of bis duty ; and
he does so too frequently, to his own
destruction.
The drafts drawn by Indolence up
on the Future are pretty sure to be
dishonored. Do not say you will eoon
omize presently, for presently you may
be bankrupt, Begin at once. N vis
the time. I.k'i p 1 sent <■ file
makes future *u. easier. i sel
fi .. rain’s a a .i.'.'s , h.s aeliiA t.e .s,
eai.liot h -■ ’•;• l im ii lie djos
; :-«t fi ;'ilt it at once. D-J not think
I tiat you will repent and make atone-
I raent piescutly, for presently you may
be judged. Hoar in mind the very im
portant fact, taught alike by the histo
ry of every nation, all rulers and pri
! vate individuals, that, in at least three
I cases out of five, presently is too late.
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| mind or body so long as the blood is
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from all impurities by the use of
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THREE KISSES.
Tho purest kiss
In the. sorld is this—
The kiss that a mother lays
On her childs fresh lips
As he blithely trips
To meet the world and its ways.
The sweetest kiss
In the world is this—
The first kiss of love,
When time is not,
And the earth’s forgot,
And Eden drops from above.
The saintliest kiss
In the world is this—
The kiss on unaoswering clay ;
When dead lips tell
We must soh farewell
Till tho dawn of the judgement day.
Why Advertise ?
Ever and anon, wo may say, some
whipper-snapper rises to inquire “why
should I advertise ?” We might, in
answer, cite the example of one John
Jones who died loved and respected by
all who knew him, but his acquaintan
ces few—bocauso he didn’t advertise.'
Hut there are other reasons for ad
vertising. It will pay yon, for the
reading public—and everybody reads
these days—will have more confidence
in the stability of your establishment
and in the quality of your wares, if
they see your shingle swinging in the
breezes of the homo paper, year in and
year out. They finanly come to re
gard it as one of the essential parts
of that business, and it is ; and, more
over, they will know exactly where to
go if they should need any particular
article. They will go to the store of
tho man who advertises every time.
Why advertise ? Why my dear sir,
do you know that one Benjamin
Franklin said that communication at
one time was hy word of mouth alone,
but through the press we can speak to
the millions of the nations. Do you
know that printers ink iias made more
millionaires of country merchants than
McKinley tariff has ever done? Do
you know that the great business men
of tho world spend billions yearly for
the advertising they are obliged to
have ? Do you know that the most
unpretentious country weekly derives
the greater part of its income from a for*
eigti source ? If a man in New York
or Chicago is willing to risk your coun
ty paper, can’t you do it too ?
Why advertise ? The flowers that
bloom in the spring and slied their
fragrances in the moruiug air advertise
for insect customers in tho shape of
honey bees and humming birds. The
corn that rustics in tho fields ami
waves its many green arms up to the
summer sun is advertising for rain.
The forest trees that burn in purple
and ersmion and gold, toward tho
shank of summer, are advertising that
a change of clothing is in order. The
swallows that fly southward advertise
that the farmer’s hens anil early spring
poets are beginning to lay.
Yes, old brother “befo’-de war,”
there are advertisers and advertisers.
Everything in nature does it. Why
not you ?—Ex.
W ill Make Ills Mark.
“I want to know that boy,” said a
well known gentleman yesterday to
the reporter who was walking along
the street in company with him.
The reporter had noticed that the
boy; who was not more than 8 years
old, had removed his hat when he
spoke to the gentleman in passing.
“Yes,” continued the gentleman,
who by the. way is a prominent profes
sor. “it is such a rare thing to see a boy
lift his hat to ati elderly person, or even
his own pastor, that when one does, it
is the occasion for comment,”
Tbs reporter agreed with the pro-
I fessor and could not help wondering
why it was that the children of well
bred parents were never taught to treat
I with deference and respect old age, or
any one who by rank 01 otherwise
should be entitled to such treatment.
It is indeed a degenerate age when
I the common politeness that every child
should be taught is such a rare thing as
to be the subject for comment. —Macon
j Telegraph.
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I Settle for your paper.