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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., r 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. . ) 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. 1 h " tA'gHetOR’t 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. ~ ••