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BeN BurLEeg's braln was four ounces
heavier than Daniel Webster’s.
A MAN'# idea cf practicing economy 1s
to preach it to his wife every day.
WHBN a wife hears a dull thud on the
doorstep she knows that the lodge has ad
journed. o
SoMeBpoDY has invented a cradle which
rocks itself and plays baby tunes at the
same time. This will be a great help to
poor, persecuted, overworked fathers.
Axorner rumor is afloat that Mr.
Cleveland is opposed to the election of
Speaker Crisp, and will throw the weight
of his influence for W. L. Wilson of West
Virginia.
Tugr latest crack on the pension grab
bers is noted in an exchange as foliows:
“A pension has been granted to a man
who fretted himself into nervous pros
tration jbecause he wasn't old enough to
go to the war.”
GERERAL WEAVER isin Arizona en
dewvoring to capture that territory for
the jpopulists in anticipatiop of its be
coming a state. With somebody to foog
the bills General Weaver is having a gay
time traveling in the west. 5
THERE is now on exhibition in Augus
ta a genuine Richmond county rattle
snake melon. It was raised in a hot
Lhouse by J. Rosier. He raised a large
quantity of them. It is really a novelty
to Jeat *watermelon in the depth of win
ter,
It is announced from Atlanta that the
trustees of the proposed soldiers’ home
in that city will endeavor to make the
acceptance of that institution an issue in
the next campaign. Atlanta seems hard
to jconvince that the people don’t want
that burden imposed on them.
NEBRASKA is a regular hot bed of of- i
fice seekers. There are candidates for
the United States senate galore, there '
being forty-three of tnem in all and each 1
cenfident of election. The legislature is
expected to be occupied three weeks
with the election.
SoME members of the press and the ‘
pulpit—two classes who, for widely dif-i
ferent reasons, should be ever unwilling
to sit in judgment on their fellow men—
are getting rather reckless in consigning }
to perdition the sounls of a few men |
brought into promiunence by the fate of;
circumstances, |
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Tue Salvaaion Army makes a new de
parture in passing around the contribu
tion box at a wedding. 1t may be open
to,criticism, but it ist’t asking any more
of the wedding guests than is usually in
volved in a wedding invitation, which
has come to mean that a present would
be very acceptablc tu the happy pair. °
Tue plan of reorganizing the Central
railroad on the basis o: the Issue of $90,-
000,000 in bonds aud stocks is enough to
make the lamented Wadley turn over in
his grave, Way dido’t Mr. Coliins’ com
mittee make it an even $100,000,000, as
the properties could have stood that fig
ure just as well. . In tne meantime the
public seems to be a liitle slow grasping
the magnitude of the plan.
THERE is at least one burro in the
world that is not to be despised. He is
wandering fn the mountains near Duran
go, Mexico, loaded with $5,000 worth of
1 ver, having escaped from a pack train.
Few wmen would hesitate to swap their
trotters for the miserable little quadru
ped provided hisload were included in
the bargain. i
Two babies will in a few days be in
cluded among the celebrities at Lake
wood, for in addition to baby Ruth, the
infant son of J. Hooper Hammersly of
New York isto be there. As this young
man, not yet able to talk, has inherited
$7.000,000 he probably will never have
to dig greens to raise circus money nor
shovel snow to pay for skates or sled.
THEY are having a little racket in At
lanta now over an attempt on the part of
several gentlemen there to induce Robt.
Ingersoll to come down and deliver a
lecture in that city. Dr. Moirison is out
in a long card opposing it. Dr. Morri
son is right. If itis an idle curiosity
the movers in the matter have to satisfy
let them read Ingersoll'slecture, and not
put itin the way of many who might be
influenced by it to adop: the views of
the most notorious infidel of today. ‘
The Country Parson.
From the Macon News,
Tue country church pastor, what of
him? He is the most earnest and self
sacrificing of all whe tvil in the Master’s
vineyard. He plods his modest way
along doing good wherever he may find a
sput or person susceptible of being bet
tered. He knows what he is called for
and is doing his work conscieatiously
and cheerfully. He is a preacher and
pot & -‘divine,” and he isn't nervous lest
a com.nittee from a eity church may be
sitting in the congregation, for he knows
every member and can tell them all by
name. He isn't looking for a ‘‘larger
field of usefulness,” meaning a richer
church and more pay, a more aristocrat
ic congregation and a higher social posi
tion, for he is willing to labor wherever
souls are to jbe saved. He believes the
soul that animates the man who wears
homespun is as well worth saving as the
one supposed to repose beneath broad
cloth. He doesn’t preach on the latest
horror or the last great embezzlement or
defelcation. He doesn’t call the trieks of
oratory to his aid or attemptto dazzie
people into a better life by a dispiay of
Jearning and a florid delivery. de
preaches the word in a plain, direct, sin
cere manner. His pay is small and his
expectations reasonable. He is the
friend of everybody, rich and poor, saint
and sinner, for they all belong to his
tlock, black sheep as well as white. Treat
the country church pastor kindly, le
spect and honor him, for his path is
strewn with good deeds and he is work
ing for the Lord, and not for a call to an
aristocratic churcn with a stylish congre
gation that wants ,ornate oratory rather
than plodding piety.
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Sea Island Cotton.
From the Americus Times-Recorder.
Commissioner Nesbitt reporis that he
has received a very fine sample of sea
island or iong staple cotton which was
raised in the interior. ’
The stalks are eight feet ta’l and the
staple is long and fine. :
1t was raised at Pitts, 1n Wilcox coun
ty, Ga., and with it came a sample of
crab grass hay seven feet long.
Colonel Nesbhitt says the raising of sea
island cotton in the interior is getting to
be quite profitable, and he quotes the
instance of Mr. Paulk, of Coffee county,
who has raised half a bale tothe acre
and sold ivat from 20 to 23 cents a pound.
Other farmers in the lower counties of
the state are beginning to take hold of
this crop and are making it a very profit
able one.
Farmers in the inter'or who undertake
to raise this kind of cotton must bear in
mind, however, the fact that they must
get fresh seed every year from the coast,
as the staple from seed raised away from
salt water ruws out after the first plant
ing and soon degenerates into short
staple cotton.
G e e
Good TLooks.
Good louks are more than skin deep,
depending ujon @ bealthy condition of
all the vital organs. If the liver be in
active you have a bilious look, if your
stomach be disordered you have a dys
peptie look and 1f yom kidneys be affect
ed you have a pinched look. Secure good
health and you will have good looks.
Electric Bitters as the great alterative
and tonicsacts dircctly on these vital 01-
gans. Cures pimples, blotches, beils
and gives a good complexion., Sold at
Sale-Davis Drug Co’s drug store, 50c¢. per
Lottle, :
The success of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy in affecting a speedy cure of
colds, croup and whooping cough has
bpought it into great demand. Messrs.
Pontius & Son, of Cameron, Ohio, say
that it has gained a record second to
none in that vicinity. Jas. M. Queen,
of Johnstop, W. Va., rays it is the best
he ever used. B. F. Jones, druggist,
Winona, Miss., says: ‘‘Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy is perfectly relilable. 1
have always warranted it and it bas
never failed to give the most perfect
satisfactior.” 50 cent bottles for sale
Farvar & Farrar.,
Beware of a temper of hatred, scorn
and revenge; for that temper kindles a
living hell in the breast which harbors
it.
No reaper has yet beeninvented which
could be of any assistance (o a man in
harvesting his wild oats.
A mugwump is an animal that can
eat out of both stacks of hay at the same
time.
BPcklen's.A rnica Salve
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rhevm, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
tlonds, Chillblain’s, Corng apnd all
Skin Eurptions, and positively cures
Piles or no pay required. It is guar.
suteed to give pertect satistaction or
money refunded. Prlce 25 cents per‘
YuX.
For sale by T. D. Salé, Druggist.
They Prayed and Repented.
A Phelps, Texas, special tells a queer
story of am eugs. Iv was found in the
yard of Mr. William Early, and had the
following, in raised letters, on the shell:
“The judgment day is now at hand. All
ye take warning.’”” The news soon
spread over the entire community and
created intense excitement, especially
am,ng the children and negroes, Some
were crying, some were singing, some
were praying aad all were repenting.
The excitement among the negroes pre
vailed all day and might. Some prayed
all night, and one old negro, after wrest
ling with his sims all night, and who
was on his knees supplicating his Mas
ter's mercy upon him, heard a bugle
blown by one of his neighbors and fell
prostrate to the ground from fear of the
idea that it was Gabriel’s trumpet, The
excitement has not altogether subsided
yet.
Polly Saved the Valuables.
We had moved into a newly built
house, which had all the modern im
provements, the electric bell being one
of them.
[t was a cold winter'snight. Mr. and
Mrs. J. were traveling in Europe and
she servants were all gathered about the
kitchen fire, Polly was also near the
fire, but in the dining room, which was
up stairs.
She used to see our mistress ring the
bell for the servants to enter, and, like
a elever bird, studied on this for a long
while.
On this night Polly was all alone,
when suddenly the door opened and
two men entered. The room being
dark they eould not see the bird and
began searching for valuables, far they
were burglars.
Polly now proved her worth. BShe put
out her claw. and pressed the button of
the electric ball.
It brought the servants to the dining
room, where, after a short struggle, they
secured the burglars, who were about to
make way with much of the valuable
gilver in the dining room.
Polly was fed on dainties for some
time as a reward for her valuable as
sistance.—Cor. New York Recorder.
" Aa Old Buocaneer.
“1 recently met a surviver of Pirate
Lafitte's band of freebooters,” said
Thomas Haines, once a lieutenant in the
United States navy. ‘“He was a tough
looking specimen, and must have been
well past eighty years of age, for it is
more than sixty years since Lafitte had
his headquarters on Galveston island
and preyed upon the commerce of the
Gulf. The relic of those half forgotten
times was an _inmate of a Jersey City
charitable institution and was not much
inclined to discuss bygones. He said,
however, that Lafitte was a very hand
some Frenchman more than six feetin
height, well made and possessed of won
derful talents as a commander. He
ruled-the toughest lot of men ever con
gregated on.one island as though they
were a flock of lambs. Occasionally a
lawless spirit would rebel, however, but
his days thenceforth were brief and full
of trouble. Every woman who came in
contact with Lafitte fell in love ‘with
him, and he was as safe among his fe
male friends in New Orleans as on Gal
veston island surrounded by his armed
buccaneers.”—St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat. :
Production of Fortland Cement.
Mr. Giron read before the Engineer’s
club at Philadelphia a paper on the trade
of the world in Portland cement, in the
course of which he said that the preseut
annual production in Europe amounts to
over 20,000,000 barrels and its commer
cial value'to over £7.200.000. The first
factory was established at Northfleet, on
the Thames. The process was so crude
that in 1850 only four factories were in
operation.: In England there is now
over 8,300,000 barrels made each year.
The process is much the same as it was
twenty years ago. The raw materials
are chalk and clay, both pure, and al
thongh inferior processes are employed
they make a satisfactory cemnent.
A few years ago the entire product of
the kilns was put on the mariet, but the
fineness of the Continental cements led
English makers to improve their pro
cesses, although even now English ce
ment is not as a rule as firm as Geneva
or French Portland.—New York Even
ing Sun.
Photographic Paper.
Photographers were obliged until re
cently to import from Germany the pa
per used in their work, our own manu
facturers being unable to assemble the
necessary conditions of material water
and workmanship for the production of
paper suitable for silver printing. 4
A process has now béen perfected in
this country whereby a very ordinary
paper is coated with a thin surface of
sulphate of barytes and answers admi
rably for photographic use, bringing out
in the finished picture a wealth of de
tail formerly unknown in the art, it be
ing lost in the texture of the paper em
ployed.—Engineering Magazine.
A Child En‘iovs
The pleasant flavor, gentle action and
soothing effect of Syrup of Figs, when in
need of a laxative, and if the father or
mother be costive or bilious, the most
gratifying results follow its use; so that
it is the hest “amil= remedy known and
every family should have a bottie. '
A big lot of new sfyle prin's justin
Arthur Crittenden & Whitehead.
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for Infants and @hlldren.
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«COnateria is 0o wol adagted to ohildren ihat mmflnlo.w
I recommaend i as saporier te any proscvipiion | Sour Stemach, Disrrhosa. Bruciation,
knewm te mo.”” H. A. Anermm, M, 8., Eilis Warres, gives secp, and premates o
111 80. Oxterd B¢, Breakiyn, K. Y. | wWillous thlestows medioation,
" of ‘' Castoria'is iveroal aad * Yor eral .
spne Sl an mors vk | eSO R
?:Jé:’;::mmi??u who do not keep Castaria | resalts,” beacficial
within easy reach.” E»wiy F. Parnen, M. D,
o HA)?::!'Y&?éfity._. “The Winthrap," 1256 h Street and Tth t;ve.
Late Pastor Bloomingdalo Beformed Churai New York City
: Tuw Cawravr Company, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YoRE,
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HORSLEY, BALDWIRN & C
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Plumbers,Casand Steam Fitt
umbers,Gasand Steam Fitters
WROUGHT IRON PIPE, WROUGHT IRON PIPE FITTINGS
Garden Hose, bath Tubs, Wash Stands
And a omplete Stock of Plumbars Goods.
THIRD AVENUE,~ - - DaAwscN, Ga,
THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED.
Can You Find the Word ?
Thereis a 3-inch djsplay advertisment
in this paper this week, which has no
two words alike except one word. The
same is true of each new one appearing
each week, from the Dr. Harter Medi
cine Co. This house places a “‘Crescent”
on everything they make and publish,
Look for it, send the name of the word,
and they will return you a book,beautiful
lithographs or samples free.
Swiss Nobility.
A few years ago the question was
asked, *‘Does nobility still exist in
Switzerland ?” And no one was abld to
answer it. Of all the thousand of Eng
lish folk who haunt the Swiss hotels in
summer not one, it would seem, had
inquired whether that Rudolph von
Erlach, whose equestrian statue they
must have seen, has any living descen
dants; not one had ever heard of the
Barnese nobility—a noblesse which holds
itself so high that it thinks but slightly
of the British legation. Yet from the
Jura to the Lugano there is hardly a
canton—there is perhaps no canton—
in which noble families are not to be
found.
Some of these, such, as the Plantay
and the Buols of the Grabunden, have
turned their energy into modern chan
nels and make their fortunes, like the
Hausers or the Seilers, out of the Eng
lish and the American teurists. Others,
like the Von Allmen, have sunk into a
humbler rank. But the greater part re
main in statu quo, still enjoying in the
towns or in the country a social pres
tige that varies with their wealth and
their intelligence.—Temple Bar.
Early Methods of Curing Skins.
The original process of curing skins
was probably the simple one of cleaning
and drying them. Removal of the hair
by maceration in water seems to have
been common among the very early
tribes, and one writer has suggested
that the idea was obtained from the
natural process of depilation. They
must certainly have been familiar with
it in the case of drowned animals, where
maceration can be plainly observed.
Following this, smoke, sour milk, oil.
and the brains of the animals themselves
were found efficacious. Many of these
primitive methods are employed at the
present time, thus bringing into novel
conjunction the days of the roving Mas
sagete and those of the thrifty Ameri
can.—George A. Rich in Popular Science
Monthly.
¥ Duel of Two Girls.
At Charkoff, Russia, two girls who
were friends fell in love with the same
young man. He was slow to make his
selection between them. They agreed
that either could win himif delivered of
the baneful competition of the other.
They decided upon a duel by drawing
lots. On the day following one of the
young ladies was found dead in her
room. She had poisoned herself with
‘phosphorus. But her friend is broken
down with sorrow and remorse. It ii
more than likely that she will not live
to enjoy the fruits of her victory.—Paris
Letter. ;
Merely a Hypothesis.
One remarkable thing in Japan is the
number of small children and babies
which are strapped to the backs of other
children. Heaven only knows where
they come from., In Germany there is a
legend to the effect that storks bring
babies. Perhaps the great number of
storks in Japan are engaged in the smne
pursuit.—Dßaltimore American.
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