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NO. 49.
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U. JAI. C. BIPPARD.
Physician and Surgeon,
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Bperial attention riven *o Gcntin l*riru»-
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physician AND HITROKON.
WAYCIOTSH, : : : : GEORGIA.
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T^B. F. C. POLKS, Physician and Bar-
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Offira l,«.ur* from9 to lo a. *.<*nj»e*»iind
at my residence, corner Pendleton street
and Itrumvk-k svrnue, Jwhen not profes
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Far, Now ami Throat.
WAYCROSS, - GEORGIA.
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Physician and Surgeon,
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PHYSICIAN ASH SURGEON.
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' Dr. J. P. PRESCOTT,
Practicing •Physician
HOBOKEN, GEORGIA.
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S. L. DRAWDY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
HOMERVILLF., : : GEORGIA.
epenor i <»n
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Joe D. Hraltli—School Commissioner.
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The shlv«rtng air
Ate coming home again.
No hand nor rain can check them.
These stem steeds
They were not born i
They arr forever fi
With arched crests proudly waving,
Too strong for human retn.
With rolling emerald chariots
They charge the stalwart strand:
They gallop o*er the ledges
And leap along the land:
With deep chests breathing thunder
Across the quivering plain -
The wild white steeds of.Kept tine
Are coming home again.
Not with the trill of bagk*^.
Bnt roar of muffled drama
And shrouded seaweed banners,
nighty army comes.
For the wild white steeds of Neptune
Are coming home again.
Well may the sailor 'women
Look out to scan the Ice.
And long for absent lovers—
Their lovers on the sea.
Well may the harbored seamen
Neglect the sails and seine.
When the wild white steeds of Neptune
Are coming.home again.
r mournful neighing—
_of sorr
A dirge for dead u
-Larry Chittenden In Galveston News.
BORROWED PLUMES.
“Charlie!” called young Mrs. Barker
through the bathroom door, “here’s a
letter from Tom. Shall 1 open it?”
“What’s that?" returned Mr. Barker,
sitting bolt upright in the tub, with the
cold, fresh water running from his head,
neck and shoulders.
“A letter from Denver. Shall 1 open
it?”
“Certainly, and read it to me, will
yon? I shan't be out for ten minutes.’ r
Then the young woman, standing in
the passage outside, read as follows:
Pop is on to you two. He fouud me leading
your last letter. Ma and he’s coming east to
morrow. 1 guess he's loaded for bear, boy, and
you’d better char out. Pop and ma mean biz,
1 tell you. V. M think so if you'd sceutbe
-spanking 1 got. Vours ever. Tom.
Charlie Barker had consulted Mr.Hau-
son, it is true. Questioned closely as to
his means, he had had to own .that lie
was only a broker in a small way in Pine
street. Being flatly refused the privil
ege of installing Miss Evelyn Hanson in
his bachelor apartments op Twenty-
third street, he had done so without the
old man's permission. He had now to
settle for this breach of privilege with
the old man himself. No wonder he felt
a little nervons.
But all Evelyn’s western blood was up;
all her western independence was flash
ing in her ey ;s.
“If yon’n not quite scared to death,
Charlie,” she said, “perhaps you'll 1*>
good enough to open your friend’s (Mr.
Van Lith’s) tier. 1 see it’s his writing,”
and she ban *d him a neat littlo note on
pink paper bearing the Van Lith crest, a
Dutchman on a dyke, with two demi
johns full of schnapps rampant.
The young broker broke the seal. He
started up in a minute, his face wonder
fully brightened, his eyes aglow with
excitement.
“The luckiest thing that could have
possibly happened,” he cried. “Van
Lith’s going down to Newport; places
his house at onr disposal; sen-ants,
horses, everything. Liberal? Well, 1
should say! But he’s going away for a
month, and Van and 1 were at Yale to
gether, and—upon my word, he’s the
. best fellow in the world."
Bnt Evelvirilidn’t seem to share his
enthusiasm.
“Oh, you don’t see it yet. Look here.
I’ll explain. We move into the house.
Your father arrives. We’ve made a
lucky scoop in Wall street. I didn’t tell
you, because I wanted to test vonr affec
tion and all that sort of thing. The old
man is angry of course, bnt soon for
gives us when he discovers 1 am wealthy.
Then we entertain him royally, and when
he’s really found out what an excellent
fellow I am, then we confess. ‘God
bless you, my children,’ and it’s all right.
See?’
Evelyn nodded. “Go on,” she cried
encouragingly.
“There isn’t anything more to be said,”
answered Mr. Barker. “Action’s what
we want. It’s half past 10 now. The
tyrant of Denver will be here inside of
an hour. We must pack and clear out-
at once.”
“You stop calling popper names or
you’ll do all the packing. You’d be an
gry yourself if you’d lost such a treasure.
Iam."
She made a little tempting move at
him across the breakfast table.
In half an hour the pair were in a cab
on their way to Mr. Van Lith’s house.
Ann remained behind to care for the
flat.
Van Lith’s old colored lmtler stood at
the door to receive them and follow bis
master’s instructions, “Treat them just
as if the house was theirs, Joe.”
A ten dollar bill and a whispered con
ference with Joe soon let him into the
secret on what the young broker joyful
ly informed his wife was a “rock bot
tom basis.”
Old Mr. Hanson’s wrath had had time
to cool considerably on the journey from
Denver. It had flared up again when
he had. traced his runaway daughter
and her husband to the unpretentious
down town flat, but being informed by
Ami, duly primed for the occasion, that
her master had made a large fortune in
Wall street and had taken a very hand
some house in an aristocratic quarter,
his ire had much abated.
“When did you make your pile?” was
both love and money. That’s the way
it should be. Let’s go in to lunch.
What’s the matter, Joe? Isn’t it ready?”
The old darky took l^m on one side
and whispered:
“Mars’ Charles, thar ain’t er scrap er
meat in the house, 'cept what’s been
done got fur the servants’ dinner.”
. Mr. Barker remained gazing at the
old fellow for a full half minute. The
situation dazed him.
“Can’t you—can’t we have that? What
have they got for dinner anyway?”
“A nice nx»R of mutton.”
“The very thing, Joe. Serve it im
mediately, and here, yon folks buy some
thing more foryourselves. We mustn’t
keep the guests waiting.”
He handed the darky a dollar, and
the old fellow slowly pocketed it.
“Serve luncheon at once,” ordered Mr,
Barker, who was becoming impatient,
“What are you waiting for?’
“Look a-here, Mars’ Charles,” said the
old man, slowly and deliberately. “Hev
you any ijee what that mutton cost?”
“1 can’t say I have. A dollar, per
haps.”
“The ign’auce of some people,” con
tinued the darky, “is incomprehensible.
Thet mutton’s worth ten dollars if it’s
worth a red cent, but seein as how yon
don’t want it”
He was turning away when Mr. Bar
ker stopped him. .It began todawn upon
the young man from Twenty-third street
that he was being blackmailed.
“Here’s yonr ten dollars, yon black
rascal.”
He took the money from liis pocket
and handed it to Joe.
“Bring ns up a couple of bottles of
claret,” he said.
‘‘I’ve got to buy ’em, sa h. That’ll cost
you five dollars more. It’s mighty good
wine and cheap, sah.”
“You black rascal”—he began again.
“That expresshun will cost you just
two dollars, Mars’ Barker. Doan you
call a ’specible servant no black rascle.
You’d better put up de cash. Lunch an
wine and dem things is apt to rise
mighty quick in this house under some
circumstances.”
Barker saw he had to alter his tactics.
He put up another five dollars without
a murmur. ^
Mr. Hanson and his wife had departed
upstairs to wash their hands.
“It’s awful,” murmured Erelyn as she
passed -him on her way to the table.
“Mamma ran right onto one of the Van
Lith trunks in the front room.”
He drank his five dollar wine recklessly
to gain courage. Old Hanson sat and
gorged himself on tlio ten dollar lunch,
Mrs. Hausou, he thought, eyed him sus
piciously, and old Joe served them with a
broad grin ou his ebony countenance.
“If this kind of thing keeps up for a
week 1 am ruined,” he said to Evelyn as
the day finally closed, and at last he saw
his wife's parents safely retired for the
night,
“I’ve an idea mother already suspects
sometliiug,” said Evelyn. “I’ve a good
mind to take her into my confidence and
confess all.”
But this proposition alarmed him more
than anything else.
“Don’t do that. I’ve got $400 left yet.
Let’s stick it out. At, say, forty dollars
a day, how long can we hold tjio fort?”
“Just'ten days!”
“And in ten days then it is either
flight, the North river or the morgue.”
“Ten days is a good long time,” re
plied Evelyn. “I shan’t worry myself
60 far ahead. Good night. I’m off to
sleep.”
Eight days of the ten had elapsed.
The Bankers, with a courage bom of
desperation, had “stuck it out.” They
had become accustomed to their new po
sition, and, despite their failing means,
Charlie sometimes even fancied himself
rich.
The Hansons were delighted with their
new son-in-law. No words in the Eng
lish language were expressive enough to
sing his praises. They had driven here
and there, been taken to all the theaters
and feted every day on* the fat of the
land. They had been made to feel their
importance. The Hansons, of Denver,
had never enjoyed themselves so much
in their lives.
Barker was nearly crazy. What would
he not have given to be back in Twenty-
third street, and, if he must be shot for
running away with old man Hanson’s
daughter, at least have the satisfaction
of dying like an honest man?
On the morning of the ninth day he
fouud 'a letter on the breakfast table.
Old man Hanson was there with his
famous appetite, eating eggs which had-
cost fifty cents apiece and ham which
had been purchased from the blackmail
ers at a dollar a slice.
The letter was from his father^in Bos
ton and read as follows:
My Dzar CnARLZ*—Your mother has Jost
learned from Mrs. Stewart, who arrived in
Boston from New York yesterday, of yonr re
cent marriage and also of yonr late good for
tune in Wall street. I always knew yon would
i can now afford 1
> hare hitherto called yon
pect ns by an early train t*
anxious to see o
ir daughter. Yonr affec-
“Oh, months ago,” replied Barker
witti horrible effrontery. “Your daugh
ter married me for love. I gaTe hei
It was the last straw. Unable to re
press his feelings, the miserable Barker
ottered a loud groan and rushed from
the room, nor did he stop until he reached
his chamber. Throwing himself into a
chair, he buried his face in his bands and
remained'for some time in a condition
almost approaching stupefaction.
He was aroused by a light touch on his
shoulder, and looked up to find the door
cloned and old Joe standing over him.
“Don’t you be a blamed fool, Mars’
Charles. Don’t you go an give it ynp.
Ton’s doin splendid. I’ze been talkin to
de people down stairs, and dey’s all
agreed yon’s a daisy.”
Barker raised his head and stared at
the man in blank surprise.
“We’ze ain’t goin to pinch yon no mo’,
Mars* Charles. We done it as much to'
defnn dere was in it as fo’ de cash. Now
you gets everything at market price.
Yon’s a daisy.”
The love of human approbation Is the
mainspring of a great deal of human en
deavor.
When Charlie Barker heard himself
called “a daisy” he took new heart.
In five minutes he was a man again.
He went back to the breakfast table anil
told another falsehood—about having a
sudden indisposition. He was now de
termined to see matters through.
Suddenly there was a ring at the bell.
“A telegram,” said Barker aloud. “Per
haps to say that father and mother can’t
come. How provoking!” but inwardly
he rejoiced with an exceeding joy. He
tore open the envelope, and the sight of
that telegram nearly occasioned him a
relapse:
We are cominic home. Mrs. Van Lith qnite
sick. Expect ns tonight. P. Van Lith.
“That settles it,” muttered Barker.
“If ever Van Lith gets into this honse
I'm done for. He’s as straight as a
string. And his wife—well, she wouldn’t
tolerate such a fraud as this for a mo-
ment.”
There was no time to consult Evelyn.
He must act at once.
He went out in the hall. The boy was
still there.
“Have you a telegraph blank with
you?” he asked.
‘•‘Yes, sir.”
Then he wrote:
Don't come. Smallpox in the house. Evelyn,
I and the servants are In quarantine. Am
writing. Chaklss Barkkr.
The boy looked at the telegram, read
it and bonnded to the sidewalk. He
..didn't stop until he reached the corner.
Barker was now desperate. He was
in such a state of mind and had so far
committed himself that he was ready
for anything,
His parents arrived from Boston in
time for lunch. He received them roy
ally. He partook of deep potations.
He laughed with his new father from
Denver; he slapped his old father from
Boston on the back. They all got very
jolly. Dinner was a right merry meal.
The ladies had retired to the drawiug
room. The two old gentlemen had
made terrific inroads on Van Lith’s
wines. They each took a hand of
Barker’s in theirs and swore he was the
jolliest fellow in the world.
“And you like me all the better be
cause I’m well fixed?’ laughed Barker
hysterically.
“Rich or poor," said Mr. Hanson, of
Denver, “it wouldn't make any differ
ence to me. Only give me an honest
man and one who speaks the truth, for
I despise a liar.”
Then Mr. Barker, feeling that the
time had come, arose somewhat un
steadily on his legs and faced the gen
tleman from Denver, who was mellow
and smiling with wine.
“You have a right to despise me, then,
Air. Hanson, for 1 am a hypocrite and
the biggest liar on the face of the earth.”
The old man started as if he had been
shot. Something in tho expression of
his son-in-law’s face told him that this
was no joke, lmt that he was speaking
the truth.
“You ain’t bin tellin us wrong about
your torching, have ye?” he asked slow
ly, relapsing into the vernacular of his
early mining days, and with his face
gradually growiug purple with anger.
Charlie Barker, tor answer, put Ms
hand in his pocket, and drawiug out .*
solitary twenty dollar bill he laid it on
the table.
“That’s every cent 1 own in the
world,” he replied.
“But this house, all this fine furni-
tur’,” almost pleaded the old man.
“That’s youm, ain’t it?”
“Not a stick of it. It's the house of a
friend of mine, and I haven’t a penny
worth of interest in it.”
Mr. Hanson, of Denver, staggered
back from the table.
“You scoundrel,” he was beginning,
“to go and steal my dorter;” but some
thing in the young fellow’s face stopped
him; something- in the attitude of the
told gentleman from Bostou, who had
crept close to his son’s side and passed
his arm lovingly about him. The wordc
of abuse died away «u Mr. Hanson’s lips.
“You must ha’ bin dreadfully afraid
of me to hev done this,” he said instead.
“I was.” And as if it was a relief to
him to speak the truth again, the yonng
fellow repeated the words. “I was—
bnt I am no longer.” ^
Mr. Hanson looked foraminnte stead
ily at his son-in-law. Despite the fact
that he was cruelly disappointed, he
could not-but admire the andacityof
the New Yorker.
“Gosh all hemlock!” he exclaimed.
“If I give yon a chance yon will conle
out to Denver and make a man of your
self.”
“Yon bet I will.”
“I must do my share of this,” spoke
up the man from Boston, his arm still
around his son’s waist. ‘Til tell yon
what F1I do, Mr. Hanson. If you’ll
give Charlie an interest in yonr busi-
ness I’ll put capital enough hack of him
to make it an object.”
“It’s a go!” cried the man from Den
ver, and he put out his hand to the other
across the table.
The man from Boston seized it and
shook it heartily.
“Then we forgive him, don’t we, both
of ns?”
“Won’t some one forgive me, too?”
asked a musical voice from the door
way. “I’m half forgiven already. I’ve
just confessed to motherln the drawing
room.” y
“ Yee, well include yon,” answered old
man Hanson, “and your mother as well,
for not being sharp enough to detect you
two frauds from the very first I de
spise a liar, bnt I’m blessed if yonr hus
band ain’t a dandy. Say, Barker, how
do you intend to square this with yonr
friend Van TAthY*
friend Van Lith?
“I shall write him tonight a full ac
count of the whole matter, tor I’m far
too happy to go to bed, and I shall en
title my story, “In Borrowed Ploroe*.’”
—Austin Granville in Philadelphia
Times.
“Speaking of George Washington,’,
: remarked the bachelor, “1 wonder if his
| sister-in-law ever asked him his real
| opinion of her new baby?*—Wnshingri-n
GUNBOAT JUSTICE.
Taaehlns South Sea Satire* That It !•
Costly to K1U and Eat Whit* Mrn. „
The Solomon islanders, who inhabit a
beautiful archipelago stretching tor 500
miles parallel with the northeast coast of
New Guinea, have earned the reputation
bf being among the wildest and most
untamable of savages. It is only within
a few years that the missionaries have
attempted to work among them. Before
the natives grew accustomed to the
sight of trading vessels it was as much
as a man’s life was worth to venture on
shore, and the islanders were left pretty
much to themselves until six or seven
years ago, wheu England and Germany
divided the islands between them, and
then looked around to see if they were
really worth dividing. Since then a
number of traders and missionaries
have built stations on the islands and
persistently wooed the natives to barter
and prayer. The coy and suspicions
creatures, however, liave distrusted the
good intentions of the strangers, and ns
they are confirmed head hunters they
have lost no opportunity to lop off tho
head of & white man whenever they
caught him aloue.
The British Government decided to
keep a war vessel in the neighborhood
and teacli the uatives better than to eat
missionaries and to adorn tabn houses
with the skulls of traders. So her ma
jesty’s ship Rapid has done a lively busi
ness inflicting gunboat justice upon vil
lages indulging in cannibal feasts, with
white men as the most tempting delicacy
on the bill of fare.
When the captain of the Rapid mado
his last report ho lmd just executed a
native tor the murder of Mr. Duval, a
white trader. The crime occurred in
Mott bay, among the southern islands
of the group. One day, soon after the
murder, the Rapid anchored in the bay
and sent word to the chief that unless
the murderer of Air. Duval was deliv
ered within two hours the village would
be shelled. The Solomon islanders have
had considerable experience of this sort,
and the chief knew just what to expect.
The chief and one of his men promptly
set off in a canoe for the warship, having
in charge a native, whom they delivered
np as the murderer of Air. Dnval.
The accused man made a full confes
sion of his crime. The captain of the
Rapid made a careful investigation, con
vinced himself that the prisoner was the
culprit he was after, and sentenced him
to be shot at 8 o’clock next morning at
the village where the murder had oc
curred.
At daybreak next morning a solemn
procession of boats went ashore carry
ing the prisoner. It was thought that
the treacherous natives might be ill man
nered enough to attempt to interfere
with the programme. A line of seamen
was therefore extended around the part
of the village facing the woods to guard
against surprise. The prisoner was led
asliure and tied to a tree. He wae very
calm, observed all the preparations with
out a tremor and did not utter u word
even when he was blindfolded. Several
hundred natives grouped themselves
around the place of execution, looking
on in awed silence.
A firing party of ten marines-was told
off, marched up in front of the con
demned savage and loaded their rifles.
The color sergeant gave the command,
“Present!” and then, after a moment’s
silence, came the word, “Fire!" and then
the ten rifles blazed Away. The murder
of tho >vhite man hail been avenged.
The doctor pronounced the victim dead,
and the ten marines inarched back to
their boat, leaving the body for the na
tives to bury. Such lessons as this will
impress the natives,, if anything will,
that it is better all aronnd to let white
men live than to kill and eat them.—
New York Son.
A l'.otarjr Steam Cloth Pre**.
Important advantages are claimed tor
a rotary steam cloth press invented by
a veteran machine builder, the improve
ment consisting of a novel arrangement
of the prefers which insures a largely
increased amount of pressing surface.
The apparatus utilizes nearly the entire
surface of the greatly enlarged main
cylinder as a pressing surface by means
of a series of small pressers, some ten in
all, these being ranged about the periph
ery of the cylinder, and are capable
of operation at any degree of pressure
that may be required. Thus a very pow
erful pressure may be applied when nec
essary, much greater, it is claimed, than
can be obtained by the ordinary device
with the cb nble presser. By meaus Of
such a mechanism the wear and tear
upon the cloth is largely diminished.—
New York Sun.
The bridge connecting New York and
Brooklyn over the East river from Park
row, New York, to Sands and Washing
ton streets, Brooklyn, was begun Jan.
2, 1870, and opened to traffic May 24,
1883. The cost of the bridge was over
$15,000,000. The following are the
statistics of the structure: Width of
bridge, 85 feet; length of river span,
1,595 feet 0 inches; length of each land
span, 930 feet; length of Brooklyn ap
proach, 971 feet; length of New York
approach, 1,563 feet 6 inches; total length
of carriageway, 5,969 feet; total length
of the bridge, with extensions, 6.5^1
feet. The whole number of car passen
gers during the year ending Dec. 1,1891,
was 39,766,013; whole number *of foot
and car psseengers, 41,268,370.
The father of Pythagoras was a cele
brated engraver of gems, and accord
ing to classical history both Helen and
Ulysses wore engraved rings. Engrav
ing on semiprecious stones was an art at
» very remote age. The British museum
proudly boasts the possession of a small
square of yellow jasper bearing the fig
ure of a horse and the name and titles
of Amenophis II, believed to date back
to about the year 1450 B. a The very
finest specimen of engraved gem now in
existence is a head of Nero, carved on a
first water diamond by the brothers Cas-
♦»Tiri in the year 1790 A. D.—St. Louis
Republic.