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Court Calendar — Bnmiwick Circuit
Clinch—Pint Monday, in March and
October.
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Wayne—Third Mondays in March and
October.
Pierce—Fourth Mondays in March and
October.
Ware—First Mondays in April and
November.
Coffee—Tuesday after second Monday
In April and November.
Charlton—
in April and
Camden—Fourth Mondays in April
and November.
Glynn—Beginning on the first Mon*
days la May and December, and to con
tinue for two weeks, or as long as ths
business may require.
Of tho thirty-seven oleomargarine fac
tories in this country eleven are in Chi
cago, and nono is found cast of that city
by tho internal revenue officers. In Feb
ruary 2,615,770 pounds were made,
taxed, and removed for sale, and only
88,100 pounds were exported. What
would become of thoso factories, asks
the New York Time,a, if an attempt
should bo mado to sell every pound of
this great product to consumers for what
It really is?
Mourning dinners are the latest Paris
ian folly. Twelve young ladies, dressed
Id the deepest mourning and heavily
veiled, compose the party. The dining
room is draped in black; silver wreaths
and tombstones take tho place of pictures.
Tho chairs arc shaped like coffins set on
end and hung with immortelles. Knives
and forks havo bones for handles, end
tho champagne is served in skulls. The
dinner is eaten in silence to slow music.
What at first was a poor joke has become
a fashionable craze, that is hotly de
nounced from the pulpit as Immoral and
wicked.
The rocanest-man competition has be
gun again. So for California takes ths
lead. It is recorded that a merchant in
Los Angeles observed a newsboy peering
down into the grating in the sidewalk in
front of his store one afternoon recently,
and upon inquiry learned that the 11!
chap had dropped a quarter into Uiu
place and was studying upon the best
means of recovering his wealth. The
merchant sent one his clerks down
jnto the cellar, recovered the coin and
very coolly put it into his till. Apolice-
ofliccr investigated the matter, and gave
the boy twenty-five cents to replace the
coin of which he had been plundered.
Somewhere the wind is blowing,
I thought as I tolled along
In the burning heat of the noontide.
And fancy mado me strong.
Yes, somewhere the wind is blowing,
Though here where I gmip and sigh, ’
Not a breath ot air is lining.
Not a dood in the burning Aj.
Somewhere the thing we long for
Exists on earth's wide bound.
Somewhere the son is shining
ars are springing,
Somewhere the corn is brown.
And ready unto the harvest
To feed the hungry town.
Somewhere the twilight gaUu
And weary meu lay by
The burden of the daytime,
And wrappolin slumber lit
Somewhere the day is breaking,
And gloom and darkneas flee;
Though storms our bark are tossing,
the children and Csasie, and I ccnfi_
did feel a little lonely as I watched th<
disappear. Night was shutting: do _
with dark donas. Tim rain
islv against the window-oanes:
the wind whirled in gusts about the
house; and above all the roar of the*river
sounded with a hollowness which I never
remembered having heard before. Alto
gether, though I tried to believe myself
very courageous Indeed, I could not
repress, a feeling of uneasiness, aa, after
drawing the curtains and lighting the
candles, I sat down to my knitting with
my loot on the rocker of the baby’s
cradle. There was no sound of anything
And thus, I thought, tis always,
In this mysterious life,
There’s always gladness somewhere
Li spite of its pain and strife;
And somewhere the sin and sorrow
Of earth are known no more,
Somewhere our weary spirits
Shall find a peaceful shore.
Somewhere the things that try us
Shall all have passed away,
And dkmbt and fear no longer
Impede the perfect day.
O brother, though the darkness
Around thy aool be cast,
The earth is rolling sunward
And Ugfat shall come at last.
—Alfred Capa Skaw.U Good Words.
IN A FLOOD.
MONEY TALKS AT WAYCROSS!
boom
bert’
fearful
The words of Her-
’s prophecy came back to me with
ful distinctness. In fact, I found, as
in daylight.
'But the hours went. by, and ten
o’clock came, and nothing unusual had
began to laugh at my own
fears, and was just covering the fire for
the night, when the baby awoke and cried.
So, Mother Hubbard fashion, I went to
t^p milk-room to get him some milk. I
cannot tell why I wrapped ashawl about
hSr-nnd took him with me. I only know
that I did, and I have always thanked
God for it
‘"The milk-room, which, as we then
kept but one cow, we used more as a
pantry, was toward the river. It was al-
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, Ac.
Blackshear & Mitchell,
cellar, being several feet lower
i main part of the house, *nd par
tially walled up with stone. The floor
America has its "professors of
ism,” but England is said to be about to
have a school where newspaper work
shall be taught The story is that a cer
tain well-known London journalist is to
open a school in which pupils shall re
ceive instruction "in the writing of para
graphs, reviewing, short-hand, special
correspondence, war correspondence,
leaders, sub-leaders, art and dramatic
criticism, sub-editing, editing, etc." The
New York Commercial adds with some
sarcasm: Upon graduation pupils will
be ready to take any position that may
offer itself in the line of messenger boys,
theatrical supernumeraries, and street
sweepers.
Somebody who has been investigating
the subject, says that the chief effect of
an earthquake on the ocean is the raising
of a great sea wave, sometimes very large,
as, for example, sixty feet high at Lis
bon in 1761, also eighty feet at Callao in
1724, and 200 feet at Lupatka in 1787.
Thcso waves are often more destructiys
on land than the actual shocks—the in
flux usually preceded by an outflow,
whidi, in fact, acts as a warning. One
of the most remarkable effects is the dis
tance to which these waves are propa
gated as "great waves,”
right across the Pacific. Thus,
large earthquakes on the east or west
coast of the Pacific produce waves whidi
arc recorded on the opposite coast about
twenty-four hours after. It is asserted
that, as to prediction of earthquakes,
nothiog certain is yet known, but in
many cases there are noticeable changes
in springs and wells preceding the event.
One useful warning, however, is remarked
as obviously possible—namely, the report
of an actual earthquake on one side of the
could be at once telegraphed to
—r side, thus giving twenty-four
s of the probeble advent of a
BT ADA C. STODDARD.
"I think rainy days should be special
ly interdicted, in March,” said my pretty
sister Eva, closing her hook with a
yawn. "How dolefully poky everything
"Yes,” I responded, gazing from the
window at tho dripping elms, "there’ll
be a general inundation if thig keeps
on.”
"Oh, I wish there would 1” cried Eva,
clapping her hands." What funit would
be to go sailing
‘In a little baric canoe. 1
over the garden, and round the summer
house, and up to see Dolly Maxwell 1
do wish there would 1”
"Don’t say that, Eva.”
We turned, Eva and I together, away
from the window toward the fire, which
the raw March weather rendered very
pleasant We had quite forgotten the
presence of Aunt Lacy, who sat there
goring so thoughtfully into the dancing
blaze. How fond and proud we were of
her—of our gracious, stately grand-aunt
with her soft, white hands, and her dear,
beautiful, wrinkled face 1
We each drew a chair up beside her.
"Now, Aunt Lacy,” said Eva, "I saw
a story in your eyes.”
"Well, yes, my dears,” was tho quiet
rejoinder, "there is a little story which
your chatter brought to my mind. It is
not, perhaps, of the 'thrilling adventure’
description, but it may please you now
that you are tired of your books.”
"As if you ever told a story that didn’t
please us l” cried Eva, with a little, bird-
like caress of Aunt Lacy’s hand. “You’re
a perpetual reserve fund, Auntie, to be
drawn on when nothing else can please
us.”
"Flatterer 1” smiled Aunt Lacy, shak
ing her head. “But I’ll tell you the
"It happened when I was eighteen
years old, and lived in Embden. You
have been at Embden, Marcia?”
"Yes,”I answered; "that pretty vil
lage so shaded by trees that I wonder they
didn't call it Elmjlen. It is at the foot
of a mountain, isn’t it?”
"Yes—Bear Mountain; and a little riv
er runs between it and tho village. We
lived in a large white house almost on the
river bank, and half a mile from the main
portion of the village. I kept house for
father—your great-grandfather—then. It
was in March—the spring following
mother's death in the fall. There were
fo-'T "Mldren at home besides myself,
v. I .. • youngest, was but five days
u»d ivuiii mother died; and you may l>e-
liove that, with only an inexperienced girl
to help about the housework, they kept
me pretty busy.
"I had a lover in those days,
est, straight-forward, but exceedingly
hot-hcadea young man, with whom I, as
high-strung as himself, quarreled when
ever an opportunity offered. Strange,
young people will be so perverse F
Grand-aunt Lacy looked at Eva with u
little meaning smile, which Eva under
stood and answered with a blush.
"We fell into a dispute one day con
cerning the date of some occurrence—a
trifling thing, to be sure, but neither
woula yield to the other, and at length
what had begun Jgood-naturedly enough
ended in the most serious quarrel we had
ever had.
“ *1 don’t care if I never see you again 1’
cried I, angrily.
" ’Very well,’ he rejoined, taking his
‘you need not.’
Jut he came to the house the very
next afternoon.
“I have told you it was March. Father
had been away for a week attending
1 at the shire town, and I was left
with Cassie.our help, and the chil-
was of flagging and there was one win
dow.
"The noise of the river increased to a
terrific, thunderous roar, as I opened the
door and descended the steps which, by
tho way. were portable, for use in reach
ing the higher shelves. Placing my can
dle upon tne side-table, I turned to lift
down a pan of milk. At that moment
came a rumble like that, I think, which
precedes an earthquake shock; and theu
i fearful sound which I cannot describe—
a crackle, crash and a roar to.
felt the stone floor beneath my
ble. There was a noise of breaking
glass, and in much less time than it has
taken me to tell it, I stood in
knee-deep in a mad swirl of waters.
"For an instant I was numbed by the
shock, and utterly Enable to comprehend
the situation. The baby broke, into a
frightened wail. I felt the water rising
icy cold about me. Something shook
against me in the darkness. I touched
it; the steps were afloat.
Blindly groping I put out my hand;
it came in contact with the heavy deal
table, and with the quickness of thought
I climbed up on it.
"There was I, baby and I, alone with
the night and the tempest and the
The water was still rising; already
over my feet as I stood on the
e-table, Higher and higher it
until I knew it must be above the i
wall of the milk-room and so have flooded
the house. I remember, queerly enough,
thinking it would quench the coals I had
covered so carefully for the morning’s
W. M. WILSON,
WAYOEOSS, - GKBCXE&GH A.
janlO-ltm-vogo
Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers’ Agsnts,
WAYCROSS, GA.
FAUCI SUSS HOODS,
MILLINERY. NOTIONS
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The rain had been falling almost
_.i_ *- T three or four days, and
. w with the melting snows on
the sides of old Bear Mountain and the
adjacent highlands, had swollen our
usually placid little river into a rolling,
turbulent torrent, already more than
bank high, and running over the inter
vale below the house. I did not' feel any
real ahum, however, as I had often seen
the intervale covered when the river was
up, in the spring.
•It was late in the afternoon when
Herbert came. I met him with a cooras-
sumption of dignity, which he did not
appear to notice.
" 'You had better take the children up
to mother's for ths night,’ he said, hur
riedly; ‘the river is high and ria * *
and the ice is breaking up in the
" 'No, thank you,’ I replied, T am sure
there is no danger.’
"‘But if the ice goes out, as it certain
ly will, it will take the mill-dam and pos
sibly the mill,’ was the persistent rejoin
der; 'and if the dam goes, this house
he flooded, and may be carried off.’
‘“May bees don’t fly in March,’ said I,
saucily. ‘Please do not try to scare us.'
"But Cassie, already thoroughly
Lightened, declared her intention of go
ing; and the children begged to go
" ‘Very well,’ said I, at last, 'you may
go, all of you. Baby and I will stay and
keep the house from floating away,
tried, I remember, to say this Tesy
eastically, but it seems to me now that I
only succeeded in appearing foolishly
obstinate.
"They went away at length, Herbert,
cries. I think 1
our lives, until .
waist; I felt so sure that help
come, or that the water would subside,
and even then it seemed to me I could
not die—so young, my life so full’of
bright hopes and promises.”
Aunt Lacy paused a moment, her eyes
fixed on vacancy.
'I cannot describe to you my feelinj
as the water rose steadily about me, stea
ing higher and higher, as a beast of prey,
sure of its victim, yet creeps stealthily
upon it. It reached my shoulder at
length. I could only keep my foot-hold
hard against the wall. I
thought how hard, terribly
hard, it was that we must die there alone
in that awful tumult and darkness. Baby
and I, always baby; and I held him over
my head, and shrieked in mad, wild ter
ror and anguish for help.”
"Oh, Aunty, don’t!”cried Eva.
Aunt Lacy smiled. "Help came, my
dear, but not before the first fierce rush
which had swept away the dam had
passed, and the water had begun to dimin
ish. It was then I caught the gleam of a
lantern and heard voices ;._and for many
days I saw and heard no more. I was
stricken with brain fever, and when I re
covered we left Embden, as father had
long been intending to do.
"Yes, it taughtme a hardly-learned and
wholesome lesson; I never forgot it. And
you see now, Eva, why I dislike to hear
you wish for a flood.”
"Yes,*” said Eva, soberly. “Of course,
it was Herbert who found you, Aunt
Lacy?” What became of him after
ward?”
"What was his name?” asked L
Aunt Lacy smiled again—a little, ten
der, far-away smile.
"His name was George Herbert Lacy,”
said she; "and I married him.”—Good
Cheer. ■-
A Novel Pipe.
‘Talking about ingenuity,” said a
drummer to the Chicago Herald reporter,
"I want to tell you what I saw last
winter out West.” And he reeled off the
following:
“I was on a train that was snowed in
for three days. The company sent us
food, but they, didn’t send us any cigars,
and the train boy’s stock was exhausted
the first day. In the express car we
found and confiscated a box of smoking
tobacco, but there wasn’t a pipe on the
train. Among the passengers was a
Connecticut Yankee who was Just dying
for a smoke. He got out in the snow
and looked around for a weed or some-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
C. C. VARNEDOE,
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA,
M headquarters for Millinery and Dress Goods in this section of Georgia,
has in store and is oonstentty receiving ell the latest designs and novelties in that
line. He is headquarters for
OTTSTOM - IMI-A-XDIE SHOES.
Ho is headquarters for General Merchandise, and all other articles found in
tf imhH«hmgnt dealing in specialties and first-class goods. Orders by
aaM promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. sej.O-19-m
FANCY AND FAMILY
GROCERIES.
SPECIALTIES t
Buon, DrM
, Etc.
quality of good, caa
sag
np-Pzieaa on ail gaoda warranted Vo bo aa low aa ithe quality
bo purabaaad anywban. Connected with tha atoro la a
BILLIARD & POOL ROOM
All Goods Delivered Free.
(MTl-Ua
E. H. CRAWLEY
DEALER IN
DEI BO0DS AID U0THHT8,
BOOTS, SHOES AND H0S1EHY,
at figurea ao low that I dafy competition. 1 also carry a full aupply of
M
A full Una ol Fancy and Family Groceriea always on hand. nori-M-fim
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA.
My Stock is complete, and embraces everything usually kept in a first-das
■tore. I make a speoalty of
thing of that sort, which he might
making a pipe, but couldn’t find a
ping to have a pipe,
So he took a lead pe
>w!°hc
opened
the two strips together again, woum
them tightly with the tin-foil which
came out of the package of smoking to
bacco, making them air-tight. Then he
took an apple, hollowed a bowl out of it,
stuck his lead-pencil stem into it and had
one of the nicest pipes you ever saw. If
you don’t believe it make one for your
self some time and try it.”
Are Wooden Bridges Safest,
wooden- bridge has been built in
place of the iron death-trap which re
cently went down in the suburbs of Bos
ton. Who is there to prove that after all
wooden railroad bridges are not better
than those built of iron! No one ever
heard of a wooden structure going down
because of its sudden contraction by cold
or expansion by heat. Wood goes to de
comotive driver which will crack and
possibly destroy a bridge constructed of
iron will not in any way cripple a good
bridge made up of wood ana bolts. Iro n
bridges have not been used long enough
to be anything more than an experiment.
The experiment has not yet proved. en
tirely satisfactory.—CwrwMti Times-
Star.
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Cards, Pamphlets, Circulars, k,
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and well-eeleoted line of Type and
fixtures, and will not he Underbid'
den on any Class of work.
Give mo a Call J
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' no better medium than our
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< Having all our 8ulto made under Personal Supervision, and con-
~ suiting always the prevailing requirements as to Fabrics
and Got, we are able to offer superior in
ducements to tho trade in the way of
Job Lots and Extra Drives, always
the latest Metropolitan Fashions!
0-8pedal Size, in Soita to fit F.t, Thin, Short or Tall
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Has our most careful attention; rules for self-measurement sent free en request.
8ulte sent to responsible parties with privilege of examination before pay
ing. Money refunded in every case where satisfaction is not given.
OUR SPRING AND SUMMER SUITS, HATS-Solt, Stiff and Straw,
UNDERWEAR, NECKWEAR, FURNISHINGS, ETC.,
Exeel any Similar Stock South.
Prices always the Lowest. Consult us before buying.
161 Congress St., - - SAVANNAH, GA.
B. H. LEVY A BRO.
REDDING & WALKER,
PhysSeiaai and Surgeons,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Druggists and Apothecaries.
PAINTS, OILS AND
VARNISHES,
Perftimery, Soaps and Brushes
Wholesale Agents for P.P, P,
Our 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
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-QUICK SUES! SMALL PROFITS I-
This is the motto I have adopted, and I find that it pays, because I sell more goods,
sad customers are willing to pay the cash when the marks are so low,
and this is the reason why my goods are always so fresh
and new. I have now, and am receiving
by every arriving train
-FALL AND WINTER GOODS.-
For Ladies' Misses, Boys and Gents, besides a heavy stock
Of Family Groceries, Crockeryware,
Stoves, Hardware, Cutlery,
Aad mrytkbig alia in tha Dry OooAa .ad Grocery buaineiz. *
A. R. BENNETT,
' WAYCROSS, GEORGIA.
Orders for Fancy and Plain
Job Printing receive prompt at
tention at this offloe.
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