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3pp[»j{cn»»s T ;r jr.trilili Wm. PARKER, Proprietor. J. #. FREEMAN, Editor. WAYCROSS, ... GEORGIA The Largest Town Circulation. The Laigwt County Circulation. The largest General Circulation. The Headlight vista more homes and it read by more people than an j other paper published In this section. THE CROSS MARE. The red cross mark "XT’ on the margin of your paj*er denotes A, that we want you to renew your subscription at ones. This paper will be mailed to sub- cnbeis, postage free, at the following One year - - - $1 00 Six months 50 Three months --------25 Invariably in advance. No deviation will be made from the above prices. Court Calendar — Brunswick Circuit Pierce—Fourth Mondays in March and October. Ware—First Mondays in April and .November. Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday Sn April and November. Charlton—Tuesday after third Monday In April and November. Camden-Fourth Mondays in April and November. Glynn—Beginning on the first Mon* days la May and December, and to con- tinuo for two weeks, or as long as the 'business may require. 0 sunshine, have you made the world all golden With wondrous, magic art, Or can it be this light, so new yet olden, That floods my happy heart! 1 cannot tell: I only know today life dances in the eunriiine all the way. O apple blossoms, ell the branches pluming With feathery sprays of White, A precious flower for me alone is blooming: It opens to the light And is it you, with petals falling fleet, Or is it this, that makes the world so sweetl O joyous birds, I think I bear you singing A glad, exultant lay; And yet the song that in my heart k ringing Outdngs your voice today. You cannot learn that song, dear little birds: "He loves me, loves me, loves me,” are the words. —Bessie Chandler, in UppincotL My Resurrection Prank. "Englishmen, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen and Italians do not take kindly to bull-fights,” says the Boston Tranicript. "Spaniards and their de- scendnats delight in them. Englishmen, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen and Italians make good soldiers, and Spaniards and Mexicans do not. PeThapethis is not a coincidence, but it certainly is sug gestive of a rare decadence, when people enjoy a ghastly and cruel spectacle in s bull ring and shrink from a battlefield.” One of the auditors of the Treasury De partment, who had rented a house in a fashionable quarter of Washington, was surprised to discover, when the end o! the month rolled around, that his land lord was none other than one of the mes sengers of his Bureau. Further inquiry developed the fact that the latter had been loaning money through the depart ment to impecunious clerks and others, extorting in return an interest of 10 per cent, a month. The ex-messenger claims to have kept $10,000 in constant circula tion, which, deducting losses, netted him a profit of about $8,000 a year. The Chinese are a mild-mannered race, but they draw the line at banking irregu larities. When the recent failure of the Tung Lung bank at Hong Kong was made public, a crowd of excited depositor* stormed the building, ransacked it from top to bottom, and carried off and de stroyed everything contained in it TM« is a shorter and perhaps a more profitu^i. way of declaring a dividend than the one usually pursued in occidental communi ties. On this occasion it is not stated whether the officers of the bank were among the assets. The probability is that they fled to the Montreal of China, wher ever that may be. The Emperor William will make Queen Victoria a jubilee present of a set of Dresden yellow ware. The service con sists of 888 large, 120 small plates, and seventy-two dishes of all sizes, besides tureens,sauce-boats and fruit dishes. The centre piece for flowers and fruit will be surmounted by a statuette of the Queen, and will be embellished with medallion portraits in relief—white on gold=-of the members of the royal family of England. The plates, also, will each be decorated with five medallions, containing either allegorical pictures recalling memorable incidents in the Victorian era,or portraits of celebrities of the Queen's reign. BT OXO. H. TAYLOR. I Was sitting in my office at the close of a warm summer day in a depressed state of mind, occasioned partly by the oppressive weather and partly by my pro fessional prospects, or rather, want of prospects. Having sown my wild oats and obtained a medical diploma, I had settled down in the little country town of W to work up a practice. It was very hard to leave the activities of the city and the prankish life of a student for the quiet of a rural community and the aedateness requisite for impressing the rural mind with the belief that all medi cal skill was locked up in the particular knowledge box carried on my shoulders. But the little Town of W , or that particular section of it in which I had opened an office, seemed to my friends, and, therefore, to me, the only spot on earth not already pre-empted by a mem ber of the medical profession. So there 1 was, awaiting a verification of the adage that " all things- come to those who wait.” I had come very near having a case that morning. A strange young woman had come to tho leading hotel of the town the day before, had been taken sick during the night, and, as there seemed to be nobody to guarantee the payment of her bill in case she died, my professional competitors appeared willing that I should have the job. But the fates were against me, for as I ascended the stairs I was told that the young woman was dead and her body had been turned over to the tender mercies of the town coroner and under- dertaker. Even then* 1 the coterie of "good and true” citizens picked up around the bar-room door had "viewed the body” and retired to meet at some indefinite period and declare that "the said person, to the jury unknown, come to her death by some means to the jury unknown,” the pauper coffin was in the room and the pauper hearse stood at the door. I had been a little dilatory in responding to the unexpected and very early morning call, and I had lost the case. So I turned on the stair way and leisurely made my way back to my office. The business of "working up a prac tice” in medicine will at tunes depress the most sanguine temperament, and I was, as I have said, having one of those depressed moods when Bonaparte Laguee, the town undertaker’s man-of-all-work, dropped in wearing a very gruesome face ana helped himself to a chair confiden tially near me. ter *n keep her, Doctor, aeein’ we’ve had the trouble o’ gettm’ her ud. I won’t charge you nuthin’ fur my share o’ the work,” he continued, betraying an eager desire to get out of farther interest in the business. "You can use the coffin for kindlin’. It’s only stained pine.” And Bony turned up the collar of his coat and made toward the door* as if this trifling mistake in the matter of coffins had uestxoyed every bit of his vengeful •pint. "Stop, Bony,” I said, "you must help me lift the body out if we are going to destroy the evidences of our night’i work,” and I lifted the lid I had been busy unfastening when Bony made his bolt for the door, "I can’t do it. Doctor,” Bony said, in so timorous a voice aa to surprise me. "I can’t look on that gal’s face again, no how. I saw it this morning, an’ I felt queer all day, till the boss riled me about that Myers coffin, t can’t touch her again, nohow; I can’t, F tell you, no how!” And Bonv’s piteous wail of "can’t—nohow,” died away in the dis tance as he closed the door behind him and was gone. There was a sense of sorrowful im petuosity left as the echo of his receding voice, as if drawing himself unwillingly away from some attractive spell that might prove fatal if he stayed. I had lifted the lid and stood looking at the dead face until that faint sense of Bony’s piteous "nohow!” was succeeded by a silence so deep as segued to break my reverie. I turned away, but an irresistible impulse drew me to the face again. There was not a vestige of disease or emaciation, there was not the sunken eye, nor the grim pallor of death, but a. marvelously beautiful countenance, that wore only a pleading expression, as if to.say: "Why nave you disturbed my sleep!” It might be only Bony’s timorous voice still ringing in my ears that made the dead face look so beseeching, but I could not break its spell. Turn from it with what determination I would, some ineffable fascination drew me back again, even from my window where I had gone to catch the first faint glimmerings of the dawn; as if their coming would release me from my strange situation. Involuntarily I had moved the coffin lid and looked upon the delicately chiseled hands and the small and shapely feet. Her clothing was of the commonest sort, and had been worn surely for disguise and not of necessity. Bony’s "queer” feeling I understand now, and every time my eyea, perforce, sought her face. It was the power of beauty to touch human sympathies. As I looked again there was a shade of color in the face. The discovery startled ; the gaze again fascinated me. My hand instinctively sought that of the dead. It was not dead. There was mobility and warmth in it. Or was it a fancy with me, growing out of the warm atmosphere of my consultation room? Was it my own fevered imagination? But the color was still rising in the cheeks. I was down upon my knees chafing the hands. In half dazed con sciousness I rudely tore away the cover ing from the throat, removed the tightly laced shoes and rubbed the soft, deucate feet. When I looked again there was a perceptible tremor of the eyelids, and the MONEY TALKS AT WAYCROSS! ! Hardware, Tinware, Agricultural Implements. Heavy Wagons and Harness. For Mills and Turpentine Distilleries, Buggies and Bugy Harness, Ranges, Stoves, and House-Furnish ing Goods, Guns, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Powder, Shot. &c. Blackshear & Mitchell, Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers’ Agents, jan!0-12m-vogo WAYCROSS, GA. physical vigor, open the conversation. "Naw!” ho answered in a tone of strong disgust; "only sick o’ this buryin’ business, and o’ tliat measly small boss o’ mine. Do yon know what he's gone an 1 large, lustrous eyes lost something oi their fixed stare, they turned a little; my subject was alive! With the knowledge that she lived carao a more intelligent control of my own senses. I set to work and prepared a stimulating draught, and then, raising her in her coffin, I applied it to her lips. There was a gleam of returning con sciousness, a glance at her surroundings, at the coffin in which she sat, and then she swooned again. I laid her back upon the pillow af wood shavings that was part of the fur nishing of a pauper coffin and deliberated as to what I should do next. The morn ing light was now streaming in through the window and soon all the world might know what the night had hidden. The newsboy on his early round at that mo- The Washington Sunday Gautle says that Colonel James H. Mstt, Chief Clerk in the First Assistant Postmaster-General’s ’ office, and Judge James Lawrenson have been continuously in the service of the Postoffice Department for more than fifty- seven years. "The phenomenal length of service of these two men has been for yean appropriately recognized. In Mr. Mart’s case the salary has been fixed by special act of Congress at $500 per year more than any other man would get in the same position, his name being very specifically mentioned in the appropria tion.” Judge Lawrenson "has served under thirty-one different Postmasters- GeneraL He has seen the Department grow from a handful of clerks to its pres ent huge proportions. He was appointed as a Democrat, and is a Democrat still. By virtue of his office as a notary public he has administered the oath of office to all the Poatmasters-General for the past fifty yearn. When Mr. Yilas became the head of that Department he was sworn in by another notary. The old gentle man felt so badly about it that Mr. Vilas, upon being apprised of the fact, eent for Judge Lawrenson, and a second time took the oath, in order that the record might not be broken.” done?” "No.” ‘‘Well, you know the old woman My ers that's been a dyin’ so long of a disease that none o’ you medicine fellows could make out?” "Yes, died last night, I believe?” "Yes, an’ I let that worthless son o’ here have a coffin on tick an’ the boss says he’ll take the price of it out of my wages. Now, it wasn’t nothing better than a cheap pauper coffin, but I ain’t go ing to fttarid the lews if my rich boss can't, » . h ■ s «’•* ~ to have that coffin back if .v dig for it. I’m going over to the cemetery to-night for it, an’I didn’t , _ ^ OJ know but you wanted a good ‘dissect’ perate love tliat thinks it can only go out ment dropped the morning paper from the not distant city on the doorstep, and instinctively I went to get that wonder ful epitome of the last day’s doings and learn if it had got any clue to the history of the strange woman who had died at the hotel. Yes, there it was. The case that the perfunctory Coroner and his ’questors had passed over so indifferently, the news paper corps had traced in all the warp and woof of this complicated human existence. It was a case of strong, passionate love without reciprocation; a despairing, des and would give me a hand. She’d make through death. a stunnin* dissect, ’cause nobody knows what she died of. I’m a little nervous about goin’ over there alone, an’ I thought if you’d help me get the coffin I’d help you get the body.’* Here was a chance to chase away mel ancholy, and I hadn't had a lark since I left college. If I was found out it would destroy all hopes of a' practice in W , to be sure, but that didn’t mean much, considering how slight a fabric those hopes were built on anyway, and it would furnish me with a reasonable excuse to my friends for quitting the apparently barren field they had selected for me. Besides, was there not hope of unearthing a great medical secret that might hand one’s name down to posterity? Added to this there would be great sat isfaction in helping Bony to thrust that cheap coffin under the nose of the craven- spirited Worms, the undertaker, and dur ing him to risk his own reputation by ex posing Bony to the law. Bony’s revenge might be at the expense of his situation, bnt it would be rich; and it might have the contrary effect of compelling Worms to keep the man and treat him decently in order to keep his own meanness out of the public ear. Such arguments as these only needed the natural reaction they created in a de pressed volatile temperament to make them convincing, and midnight saw Bony and me digging away like human ghouls at the newest grave in the potters’field of the town cemetery. That is, midnight might have seen ns if she had carried her lantern with her, but Mrs. Myers had died in "the dark o* the moon,” and we, for greater privacy, lud gone without a light. We raised the coffin and its contents and by devious paths and byways bore it to the back room of my office and there tamed on a little light. "The wrong coffin, by jingo,” was the ejaculation of Bony; and he dropped with a half paralyzed limpness into the nearest chair. Then, recovering from his mortifica tion, he went on: "That’s the coffin what we used for the gal at the hotel.” Here was a pretty go. The coffin was of no use to Bony; and the unknown friends of the girl would in all proba bility be on hand in a few days to claim the body and take itelsewhere for inter ment. "But she’ll make a bootiful dissect, 1 added Bony by way of comfort, when he saw the misgiving expressed on my coun tenance. "I noticed,as how she was a bootiful gal when we was a nailing ’o her up*” he went on. "You couldn't ao bet- Filled now with both interest and pity; pity for the fond and grief-stricken par ents, and interest In the unhappy daugh ter, I returned to the work of restoring the unconscious girl, and soon accom plished it. How judiciously I managed to make known to child and parents the particu lars which had led up to the peculiar situation in which we all found ourselves. In what a kindly light they viewed my midnight prank with Bony; how they forgave their darling child and guarded my reputation may all be imagined when I say that I am now one of the family, and that although I have never worked up much of a practice in W or any where else, the fact has never given m< another moment’s depression of spirits.— Detroit Free Freest. Beer Among the Ancients. A. German'professor has succeeded ii_ tracing the ongin of beer to the land of the pyramids. An ancient papyrus has revealed the wrath of an Egyptian father who had convicted his son of the deplor able habit of lounging about the Nile taverns and guzzling beer. From Egypt the art of manufacturing "liquid bread,” as the professor affectionately describes his favorite bee rage, was introduced into Ethiopia and the heart of Africa, where perpetual summer made it seasonable all the year round. The Roman Empire de clined because amoug other things, it despised beer and was beguiled by stronger but less wholesome fluids. The Northern races overran Italy, accordi to the same authority, because they h learned to live on bread and beer. F thusiasm certainly carried the learned professor a long way; and perhaps he has not reached tne end of his archaic re searches. Is he certain that the Israelites did not have beer with their manna; or that there was not a fresh brew served betimes in Eden?—Neus York Tribune. Misapplied Ingenuity. Late in the evening one day last week a colored woman by the came of Nancy Armstead came to'the store of C. J. Hig gins, in New Kent County, and bought goods from him to the amount of $3.25 and handed him a five dollar note. He, not noticing the note particularly, put it into his purse and g?re her the change. Some time after she had left, however, he took out his purse again, and on look ing at the note discovered that it was Confederate. The woman had dyed it a deep green color. Nancy was arrested and jailed.—Petersburg (VS.) Index-Ap- r oL W. M. WILSO WAYCROSB, - GHORGIA FAHCY DBMSS GOODS, MILLINERY. NOTIONS GENERAL MERCHANDISE. C. C. VARNEDOE, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, Is headquarters for Millinery and Dress Goods in this section of Georgia. H has In store and it constantly receiving aU the latest designs and novelties in that line. Ho is headquarters for OTJSTO^ - IMIA-XOIE SHOES. He Is also headquarters for General Merchandise, and all other articles found in an elaborate establishment dealing in specialties and first-class goods. Orders by tas& promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. sep9-12-m E. H. CRAWLEY DEALER IN- BOOTS, SHOES AND HOSIERY, at figure. .0 low that I defy competition. I aleo cariy a full supply of A full lino of Fancy and Family Groceries always on hand. novl-86-6m GENERAL MERCHANDISE, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. Jly Stock ia complete, and embrace* everything usually kept In a finWslas •tore. I make a specialty of — ALL KINDS OF— JOB WORK. Bill Heads, tetter Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Envelopes . Cards, Pamphlets, Circulars, &c„ - ijxediited iq lftj$t-dlh^ $tyle! I have an extra fine Press, large and well-selected line of Type and fixtures, and will not be Underbid’ den on any Class of work. Give me a Call I FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES. SPECIALTIES « Hagnolln Hama. High Glade Sugars, Coffees, Rice, Butter, Lard, Baooa, Dried Fruit, IrishPotatoes, Began, Pipes, Tobaccos, Oannod Goods, Etc. far-Priccs on all goods warranted to be aa low as t the quality of goods can bo purchased anywhere. Connected with the store ia a BILLIARD & POOL ROOM A11 Goods Delivered Free. [norl-lSm HOT WEATHER SUITS. Country Merchants who cater to a trade that they are anxious to hold, can have no better medium than our Fashionable Clothing. Having all our Suits made under Personal Supervision, and con sulting always the prevailing requirements as to Fabrics and Cut. we are able to offer superior in ducements to the trade in the way of Job Lots and Extra Drives, always the latest Metropolitan Fashions! ^“Special Sizes in Suita to fit Fat, Thin, Short or Tall men._£J Our C. O. D. System Has our most careful attention; rules for self-measurement sent free on request. Suits sent to responsible parties with privilege of examination before pay ing. Money refunded in every case where satisfaction is not given. OUR SPRING AND SOMMER SUITS, HATS -Soft, Stiff and Straw, UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAR, FURNISHINGS, ETC., Excel any Similar Stock .South. Prices always tho Lowest. Consult us before buying. 161 Congress St., - - SAVANNAH, GA, B. H. LEVY Sc BRO. REDDING & WALKER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists and Apothecaries. PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES, Perfumery, Soaps and Brushes Wholesale A gents for P, P t P 4 Oar Prescription Department is under the care of one skilled in the theory and practice of pharmacy, and customers may rely on the careful preparation of pro scriptiona. [novlO -QUICK SALES! SMALL PROFITS!-- This ia the motto I hare adopted, and I find that it pays, because I tall more goods, and customers are willing to pay the cash when the marklore so low, and this ia the reaaon why my goods are always so freah and new. I hare now, and am receiving by every arriving train -FALL AND WINTER GOODS.-- For Ladles* Misses, Boys and Cents, besides a heavy (lock Of Family Groceries, Crockeryware, Stoves, Hardware, Cutlery, ’ And everything else in the Dry Goods and Grocery busineaa. A. R. BENNETT, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA. epril-lj Orders for Fancy and Plain Job Printing receive prompt at* tention at thin offioe.