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THE WAYCROSS HERALD, S/fURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1S95.
J. V. NORTON,
THE BUSY r STORS ON PLANT AVENUE,
Is Offering Special Inducements to Buyers !
In order to Close Out their present Stock of Dry Goods,
Ladies’ Dress Goods and Trimmings,
CLOTHING, NOTIONS, FORNISllNGS, SHOES, TRONKS, ETC.,
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To Make Room Fo^ 0;ir New Stock.
Now is the Timie for Bargains !
KjOU WILL SAVE MONEY BY CALLING AN|> PURCHASING YOUR GOODS OP US.
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WE WANT MONEY A.IV>./^IVOT WINTER GOODS,
It Will Pay Yoi j to Get There Early !
Orders "by Mail Promptly Filled.
J. V. NORTON, PLANT AVE., WAYCROSS.
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Kmms Ihere nre a half a score.
Tiled or polinluMl is each floor:
Everything contrived to plca*e—
fYrfert. aa you for i«ae."
“Ym, but where’* the niiMiws?"
flails 1 here are. and chambers, too.
Elegant and furnished new:
Storeroom with it* ample a
“Here** the servant’s brief brigade—
Irish cook and serving maid.
Housekeeper—1 think that'* all
Hava the clioiv hoy. close on call;
Not a servant on the place
With a sour, unfriendly face.”
“Yes. but where”* the mistress?’
*Tm U»f master; look nn o’er.
And. besides. I've gold galore:
Business with Urn Br^m (tank.
Where my credits areVot blank—
Takes a deal. *twist you and I.
For the house ami our supply.”
••Yea. tnit where’s the mistress?”
“Now see here, my eager friend.
That insistent quiz should end:
What lias not ye( coma about
May before the year is out.
Mill my heart feels no distress.
And I'll live without, unless
t’upnl sends a mistress.”
-Edward Vincent in <»«od 11 onaekeeping
EASILY MADE HAPPY.
now a Rich Man Learned Some Philoso-
pby on a Rainy liny.
A rich gentleman of my acquaintance
?ot caught in the rain the other day
while out for a walk on upper Broad
way. He is not only rich, hut eccentric,
in that he rarely rides and that ho walks
a great deal. The rain that for a long
time fell gently increased in quantity
and was canght np by the rising wind
and shot into faces and doorways, where
people hopefully huddled for the time,
and beat upon the awnings and signs as
if in mad desire to crush them and get
at the hearts of those who had songht
temporary shelter there.
The gentleman, although protected by
a stout umbrella, was finally driven to
one of these awnings, whence he peered
up and down for any stray cab that
might come that way.
By this process he saw a man coming
down the street, dodging from awning
to awning and doorway to doorway.
There were hundreds of people going,
and coming, pushing or pulling umbrel
las. or who. enveloped from head to heels
in waterproofs, went edging along with
one ear‘turned down to windward, as if
to split the storm. But this particular
man commanded his attention because
he had no umbrella and no waterproof
and although the day was cold not’even
an overcoat. He ran awhile, then paused
in some friendly shelter to repeat the run
to the next, finally bringing up under the
The Civilization of Kurope.
1 see that Professor Petrie in his latest
woTk advances the theory that Europe
& not indebted to Egypt for its civiliza
tion. The discovery has been rather late same awning with my friend,
coming on the part of the archaeologist j Like most rich men of the world my
I have long maintained that Egypt bor- \ friend fa suspicious of his kind unless
sowed fully as much or her civilixatioo j they come properly introduced. But he
fYom Enrols* as did Enrope from Egypt | looked at this specimen of humanity and
13 ■ ilizatmn wn* really an in ; suw at a glance that it was a very wet
| specimeu. plainly and lightly clad, but
European
E letit growth. Egypt and .Baby
borrowed fully an much as they
This European civilization ac
qnired acts independently, jnat
did.
More than 1.500 years before the dawn
with a frank, manly. German counte
nance. Not having been addressed by it.
India he felt still more interested.
•Bad day for you,” he said pleasantly.
Yes. for anybody,” replied the man.
«f the Christian era civilization tail I folding his arms acrosz his water soaked
made considerable progress in Greece ! bosom,
and Lybia. A century later witnessed “Got far to go?** i
great proficiency in the arts Moreover “Right good bit.” said the specimen,
thia civilization was not confined to a “Yon d better ta*a a street car. Here
corner of Enrope. but stretched from 1 comes one going right down Broadway.**
the Mediterranean to the frozen north | “Not I'm going over on -the other side
Egypt and Babylonia did not civilize 1 and then down the Bowery.”
Grow ^ lt ? X * Ure t CT L* n<t Italydkt “Well, that is i *go6d bit.’ but you can
not civilize the rest of Enrope. They
only ranked for a time as the farthest
advanced in civilization. It was an in-
kdigenous development At last the
f archaeologists are stumbling onto this
fact, long patent to the careful student,
and the knowledge appears to surprise
them wonderfully. —St Louis Globe-
Democrat
“Dead Mu Claim.-
“Dead Man Claim.* - the name given
to a rich mine in LeadvOle. was dis
covered by a broken down miner while
digging a grave. A miner died when
there were severer feet of snow on th»
ground. His comrades laid his body in
a snowbank and hired a man fortwentv
dollars to dig a grave. Forgetting the
corpse and his bargain, he thought only
of the fact that be had •atruck.it rich *
—Chicago Herald.
get a car over there.” remarked my
friend. j
The specimen laughed. **A street Car
is too rich foY my blood today,” said he.
“Oh. I’ve got the money.” he added, see
ing the cynical look that came into the
gentleman's face, “but I want that for
something £lse. That’s the reason I'm
footing itJ Ill get wet. but when I get
down to the place 1 can get dried out for
a glass of beer."
The perfect confidence of the specimen
in his programme elicited the echo:
“For a glass of beer?*
“Oh, yes! You see, 1 don’t stop at ar
expensive hotel. It’s the Palmer House.
down in Chatham square, and ”
•, •’Chatham square? - Why. that'a miles
from berer
“1 know that yrell enough, but Ill get
therein an hour or two,” was the cheer
ful replyi.NVUou-l <lolaumsus gloss ©»
beer, and tbeywill let mo 4*7 out before
the big stove. I can’t get much wetter.
If 1 took a street car, you see, I’d have no
beer and no place to dry.” He laughed
again.
•Yon don’t fjCem to mind it much.”
•Mind it! T sThat - s the use? I’ll be fixed
all right in » day or two. And as for a
little waterA-faugh!” The specimen shook
himself like a young spaniel. “Well, 1
must be running or I’ll get cold,” said
ho, and he started off without more pre
liminary.
Hold on there!” shouted the aston
ished gentleman. “Come back here a mo
ment.” The specimen came slowly back,
but he shivered in spite of his air of in
difference.
“How much money have you got?’
“Fifteen cents if I walk—ten cents if 1
ride,” the specimen replied rather shame
facedly.
“Well, here; you ride.” He put a half
dollar into the specimen’s hand.
The specimen looked at it a moment
like a flash, and catching the giver’s
hand before it could be withdrawn mute
ly pressed it to his Bps. There had been
nothing cringing or sycophantic or, winn
ing. There was nothing of the sort now.
It was a grateful, impulsive exhibition
of genuine gratitude for just one in
stant: then with frank and glistening
eyes ho said:
“Ride? And I’ll eat too—and sleep in a
bed! rm the happiest man in New York f*
And the specimen dashed down the
street through the pelting rain, cut into
Thirty-fifth street and disappeared to
ward the east side. And the rich gentle
man looked up at the cloud riven sky,
•hook the folds out of his silk umbrella
and started buoyantly down Broadway,
saying softly, “The happiest man in
New York!”—New York Herald,
Letter of a Suicide.
An octogenarian general left a letter
lately defending the propriety of his sui
cide. Said he:
When an individual life has run its
cycle and become a waste of nature in
the body, overwhelming its mental and
physical qualities with weakness and
pain to an intolerable degree, it may
with all propriety be removed.
Such being the case with, the life of
the writer, his apology to the world is by
these terms made through his most be
loved and most intimate friends, who. he
trusts, will appreciate the relief to him
from ceaseless distress, which, in his opin
ion. ought to be brought by the phyidan
who is summoned with his drugs, sorely
for that purpose, but not for cure.—
Boston Globe.
A Saak* la a Baa of Potatoes.
A man purchased a bag of potatoes at
the Cape Town market, and when the
potatoes were turned out at his borne he
discovered that a puff adder was in
cluded in the bargain. That viper must
have been callous indeed to have ex
pended no venom during its transit, and
it is to be hoped that the potatoes were
well examined after being in such com
pany.- The colonists are wonderfully
expert in dealing with such quarry.
LOQUACIOUS SQUATTERS.
Queer Folk* One Meet* While Traveling
Over Stretches of Prairie.
Journeying across the prairie in which
ever way the road runs, we at length
overtake the strangest looking cavalcade
imaginable—a dilapidated wagon with a
dirty, ragged cover, drawn by an ill as
sorted team of a very small horse and an
oversized mule long since fit subjects for
the boneyard. The driver is a dirt be
grimed. tobacco stained, low visaged
man. while his wife and family,- which
last is much too numerous for even a
wealthy man. are if anything more
dirty, more ragged and more disheveled
than himself. On a tall, gaunt mule
rides the eldest son and heir (?), driving
before him a herd of two cows, a calf,
one sheep, a goat and an old. blind, lame
horse, while two mangy, mongrel curs
trot in the rear as if only too fully aware
of their miserable existence. Occasion
ally the jaded team essays to move oat
of a walk, but as quickly relapses into
the pace which for many weary months
has been its accustomed gait
As we rode up the following dialogue
ensued:
“Howdy.’
“Howdy.”
“Traveling?*
“Travelin rite smart.”
“Come far?” *
“Come from the bottom lands of old
Missoury.”
At which point there is a loll in the
conversation, during which each surveys
the other. Suddenly the knight of the
tobacco quid turns interrogator:
“Say. stranger, what might yer name
be?”
At this an insane desire takes posses
sion of ns to reply like the schoolboy.
“It might be Jones, but it ain’t.” but we
tell him onr name, after which the way
isopen for an endless string of inquiries,
the first of which are invariably:
“What might your business be?”
“Where be you goin?"
“Where’d you come from?”
“How’s crops there?”
This sort of thing is bad enough to go
through once, bat when one passes a
dozen such each day in the week, with
each of whom he is expected to go
through the name performance, it be
comes a terror by day and a nightmare
in our dreams. Moreover, one is ex
pected to stop and go through it. and 1
have more than once heard myself char
acterized as “ too high toned to talk to
common folks.” and merely because 1
had do time to stop and talk with them.
The absurdity of this is«t once apparent
to those here in the east, where to mind
one’s own business is the universal cus
tom. As a matter of fact, a live, ener
getic man has no time to talk or fool
with people by the way. It matters not
a picayune whom he meets, what their
business is. where they are going or any
thing else concerning them.
At night we camp at the only water
hole we have seen during the day and
am soon, joined by three bands of mor
on. Presenter as many fires are burning.*
and as the darkness gathers the scene is
\ bv no means nnpictmvsqnH. Children
are playing' aoout, women are cooiuug.
the men are tending the horses and stak
ing them out for the night, while the
flickering of the campfires, the harsh
talk and coarse laughter of the men lend
a certain something hard to describe.
If everything we |K>ssess is not borrowed
by our neighbors we are lucky, even to
provisions, which last of course are
\>orrowed with the mental understand- j for a tea.
ing on both sides that they are not to be : Where
returned: Supper over, the siege begins.
Itringtug Out Receptions.
The fashion of bringingont a girl by
means of an evening reception instead of
an afternoon tea seems to bo gaining
ground. It has the merit of being more
distinctive at all events, as there are not
many houses in New York that con Id
stand the crush of an evening affair if
the invitations were as general as those
given for the purpose of
introducing a debutante to society, it i
Visitors pour in from all sides, mostly •: becoming an un written law that those of
from the male element, and for hours j her friends who have been invited to re-
we are entertained with a complete bis- i ceive with her should remain afterward
tory of each. We cannot ask them lo j either to dinner or (as was done very
go. for are they not “gentlemen” and j successfully in the case of one young
as good as we? So there we sit, until j lady lately) for a sit down sapper, a
finally one by one they drop off and j number of young men being asked to
leave us to ourselves. ! stay after the reception in informal fash-
This is a fair sample of a ride over j ion.
Texas roads, and the same may be re- . The dress of those who “assist” should
peated every day in the year. In fact it j not be too elaborate, as it is the debu-
was during my stay until 1 hated the j tanto that should be the cynosure of all
sight of a wagon on the same road.— 1 eyes. It is in letter taste, therefore, for
Washington Post.
A Cozy Nook.
Apropos of upright pianos a scheme
for utilizing their bocks in the forma
tion of a cozy corner was recently seen.
The piano was placed between the mantel
and the window, the back toward the
fireplace and quite out in the room.
The straight back was covered with old
gold silk, laid on in straight, lengthwise
folds. A bench or settle, with end arms.
her friends to consider this and to wear
less conspicuous gowns themselves.—
Now York Letter.
The Bergamot Tree.
There is bat one spot in the world
where the bergamot tree can bo culti
vated with profit—a fact of some im
portance. aince its essence is indispensa
ble in the manufacture of numerous per
fumes and medical preparations. The
. spot referred to is. Reggio, in Calabria,
but no back, was drawn across it and j that extremity of the Italian peninsula
provided with a flat, seat cushion of old which is familiarly known as “the toe of
gold corduroy and two pillows covered
with the same material. Between piano
and fireplace, in a position to throw its
rays on the music rack, stood a piano
lamp with a shade of old gold chiffon,
and at the other end a palm was grow
ing in a jar of dull Japanese effect.
When this cozy nook, which was still
further protected at the opposite side by
a “crane pole” portiere swinging out at
an oblique angle with a door space, was
lately intruded upon there lounged in it
a husband with a pipe, and at the piano
the boot.’ Mr. Kerricb suggests that
there is a good chance here for enter
prising capitalists of getting a highly
profitable monopoly of the bergamot
tree by buying up from the producers
all that they extract. At present .the
Reggio bergamot suffers both in quality
and reputation through the frauds of
small traders, who. it Is said, mix ft
with ten parts of adulterating matter.—
Chicago Tribune.
_ . _ Advocating greater simplicity of life
his wife struck scattering chords and j among the wealthier classes of society,
gossiped with him between whiles.— 1 Dean Lefroy remarked recently that
Her Point of View in New York Times, j £127.000 a year is spent in England upon
. . “ 7 . „ «... i perfumed spirits from abroad.
Progress in Artificial Rubber. _L
The discovery made by Dr; H. A. Til- A chain was made at Troy. N. Y.. in
din that isoprene. which can be prepared j 1883 for the United States government
from turpentine, under certain condi- j which was a little over six miles in
tions changes into what appears to be i length. It was made of iron bars ?4
genuine rubber, has been followed up by j inches in diameter.
experiments, the result of which points 1
to an early utilization of the new process. I Switzerland has 101 telephone ex
it is now announced that Bouchhardat : changes. 12.595 stations. 3.235 miles of
has produced the same change by heat, j line and limits each subscriber to 800
and the prndncj is a material resembling I conversations in the course of the yean
pure Para rnblieriu every way and ame
nable to vulcanization.—New York Tele
gram
' Ileal Sacrlfie*.
• “That was a sacrifice!**
“What?**
‘’Barton wouidnVgo bathing at Scar
borough because he didn’t want people
to know he had a oprk leg. but when a
girl who snubbed him was thought to be
drowning Barton took the leg off and
tknw it out to her. It saved her Hfe.”
During the reign of William Rufus
shoes were made two feet long and stuffed
with tow till they curled like ar ram's
born.
A Speaker’s Right.
A gentleman while making a speech
inadvertently stepping forward fell off
the platform. In response to the peat*
of laughter that greeted hi* unlucky fall
be claimed that any speaker had “a right
to come down to the level «# Us amb
euce.”—Exchange. ~ ••