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in them the Mandrake or May
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MEDICINE
they are incomparable. They stimulate
the TORPID IiIVEK, invigorate the
KEHVOUS SYSTEM, ond give tone to
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on the KIDNEYS IJVEK, and
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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
l!Y J- It. IIOYL & CO.
ltust in Cotton.
i A correspondent of the Orangeburg
(S - C ;) democrat says: The subject of
rust in cotton will only be interesting
I to 10Se i Q tbo county living below the
elay belt. We all know clay lands do
not rust cotton, but continue to mature
fruit until frost. Why they do this will
be apparent as we proceed.
What is rust in cotton ? Some will
tell you it is a want of vegetable mat
ter in the soil; others that it is caused
by an excess of moisture; others again
that cool nights produce it; and I have
heard some old farmers say, it always
starts from pokeweed growing near the
cotton.
Now all these different opinions prove
I conclusively that this scourge of our
cotton fields has been having its own
way, not because there i* no remedy for
it, but because the disease, if I am al
lowed the term in this connection, is so
little understood. It can not be for
want of vegetable matter in the soil, for
we frequently see cotton rusting in soils
abundantly supplied with vegetable
I matter. I’ll admit it does correct it to
a limited extent. I have seen cotton
almost entirely destroyed by rust in
bottoms, where there was an abundance
of vegetable humus washed in from
surrounding hills.
Neither can moisture he the prevail
ing cause, or the clay lands would also
suffer by rust in wet seasons; and the
same reason may be assigned why cool
nights do not cause it. The pokeweed
does not grow everywhere, and particu
larly about these rusty cotton patches;
therefore the blame can not be laid at
its door.
Then, if none of these opinions ad
vanced are the cause of rust, what is it
that causes cotton to rust on nearly all
the lands below the cotton or clay belt?
My answer is, the want of sufficient pot
ash in the soil. And now for the proof.
Why does rust start and spread from
a pokeweed growing near cotton ? Not
solely because it takes the disease from
| the poke, but because the poke has ex
hausted all the available potash in the
soil near it, and the cotton near, being
the first to feel the want of potash,
shows symptoms of rust. The analysis
of poke and Irish potato vines shows
that they contain moie potash than any
other vegetable product. We are also
taught that clay soils abound in potash,
beace the absence of rust in cotton on
them, and in consequence their superior
adaptability to cotton.
In 1873 I applied fifty bushels un
leached ashes to an acre of land that
had been rusting cotton badly. The
cotton remained green until frost, and
matured fruit to the top, when the ad
joining cotton failed to mature any top
crop, and some of it dying with rust the
first of September. That strip of land
has not rusted cotton since. The pot
ash in the ashes was what the soil
needed to keep the cotton from rust
ing.
The following year one of my hands
put a sack of Kainit or German potash
salt on one acre, through the middle of
a seven-acre patch of cotton. The
land had been in cultivation four years,
light, sandy, oak land, and rusted cot
ton badly. Iu the fall it was a pleas
ure to show this acre strip to my friends
(I think you, Mr. Editor, saw it), while
the cotton on both sides of it was de
nuded of leaves and all the top bolls
dead bef ire half grown. This acre re
mained green until frost, and matured
its fruit to the top.
This last experiment itself was evi
dence conclusive to my mind that pot
ash was the remedy for rust iu cotton.
I have since noticed the same results
in similar experiments. I believe on
lands thoroughly drained (and no other
kind should be planted in cotton), and
not entirely destitute of vegetable mat
ter, potash in every instance will correct
the tendency to rust in cotton.
Bv rest and rotation the tendency to
rust can be corrected in a great meas
ure, but when lands are planted every
year, and clay is not near the surface,
potash must be supplied either in un
limited amounts of trash aud litter from
the woods, stable manure, ashes, or
some of the commercial preparations of
potash.
A Cat Puzzle.
“John, take this slate, you rascal,
and work out this sum. If a cat falls
in a well, sixty feet deep, and crawls
out six feet each day, falling back
eight every night, Inw much time would
the cat require to get out ot the well ?
John set to ciphering, and covered
both sides of the slate with figures;
then placing the edge of the slate on
his knees, and resting his chin on the
other, he gazed into vacancy.
“Well John how about the cat ?”
“Father, I ain’t got auy room on the
slate, but if I had another square inch,
1 would have that cat in hell iu three
I minutes.”
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTBER 16, 1879.
Wanted to see “l)er Aiditor.”
He ontered the Journal office with a
smell of buckwheat cakes on his gar
ments and blood in his eyes. He had
on an army overcoat, a plush cap and a
frowu darker than a thunder cloud fol
ded three thick. He looked at the
foreman who was just sitting down to
give a man credit for 17 cents on sub
scription, and sternly inquired:
“Vhere ish der aiditor ?”
“lle has just stepped out, a moment
ago.”
“Shtepped oud, eh? Vhen vil he
shtep in
“Expect him back very soon. Any
thing I can do for you ?”
“Maype he knows I vas gooming, und
dot’s vy he shtepped oud ?”
“Well, I couldn’t say as to that.”
“Goodn’t eh ? Veil 1 vait a lcedle
und he goomes back eh ?”
“I think he will be in, sir, in a few
moments.”
“I haf a leedle pishness mit him.—
Vat vas lie peen zayiu’ bount me in dot
Shournal?’
“About you ? I don’t know, sir.”
“Veil, py shiminy, he zaya I vosgot
drunk und raised some hale von tay,
und I shoost see ’boud dot.”
“Think you must be mistaken, sir,
I ”
“Dink I vas, eh ? Maype I got some
friends vet tole me’boud dat! I find
oud all ’boud id, py shiminy! I find id
all oud in dwo minids ! He zay I vas
drunk und make some drouples, and veil
he goomes pack I shoost see ’boud dot.
I plack his eyes, py shiminy, und gick
him und gnog his prains oud, maype,
for dot. Shoost let him goorn pack und
I show him all ’boud id.”
“Somebody’s been putting up a job
on you, I fear,’’ observed the foreman.
“I dond got any foolishness mit you.
I vait till he goo.ms pack und I got
some zatisfaction. I gick him right
avay down dose shtairs so gwick der lee
dle guss von’t find out vat vas ailed
him. 1 baid Jon.”
“Hut, my friend, guess you don’t
know him. He is twice as big as you
are; weighs 240 pounds and got lots
of muscle.”
“He yas ferry large ?”
“Well, about the size of Adkins down
here on the street.’’
“Ish dot so ? Adgins vas a stoud
man.”
“Yes, either of ’em can pick up a
barrel of salt and throw it across the
road twice without a grunt.”
“Py shiining, ish dot so ?”
“Yes. There comes the editor now,”
cried the foreman, aiming his finger at
Col. Wilson (a 240 pound man), who
was just coming down the street.
“Dot vas der aiditor ?” Vel, if he
didn’t say nutting ’boud me dot vas
all right.”
“Let’s see, your name is -?”
“Yaw, dot ish my name.”
“Well, come to think, I believe he
did say in the Journal a week or two
ago that you got drunk at —’s saloon,
kicked out three or four window lights,
smashed up a few chairs, and tried to
steal five cents of a small boy to buy
another drink with.”
“Vas dot all he said ?”
“I believe he said that a man who
would conduct himself in such an out
rageous manuer ought to he tarred,
feathered and rode out of town on a
rail.”
“Vat else did he zav ?”
“I think he close! by remarking that
if he’d been the owner of that property,
he’d have smashed you up into Dutch
cheese in less than two minutes.”
“Und dot vas all he zay ’boud me in
dose bapers ?”
“Well, that is about all I remember
now.”
“Veil, py shiminy, I vas a pig fool
ef I got mad ’boud a leedle shokes like
dot. Igo right avay und dond zay
nuttings ’boud id. Dose vellers vas
dryin’ to put shorn sliobs on me. Day
zay he vas hurt mine garaeder, und
I knows it vas von tam lie all the vhile.
Py shiminy, I visli I vas pig as Adgins,
I put some head on dose vellers, you
baid.”
Just then the devil in the press-ro/nn
gave a Commanche war-whoop and the
foreman heaid a man going down stairs
as though his satanic majesty was after
him. —McDuffie Journal.
Mark Twain’s Hotel.
Having opened a hashery, I send you
these my rules and regulations:
This House will be strictly intemper
ate. None but the brave deserve the
fare. Persons owing bids for board
will be bored for bills- Boarders who
do not wish to pay in advance will ad
vance and pay. Sheets will be nightly
changed every six months, or more if
necessary. Double boarders can have
two beds with a room in it, or two
rooms with a bed in it, as they choose.
Beds with or without bugs. All mon
ev and valuables must be left with the
proprietor, as he will be responsible for
no other losses. Inside matter will
not ne furnished editors under any cir
cumstances. Single men with their
families will not be boarded. Parlor
for old maids and bachelors, 150 yards
from main dwelling. Hash with or
without bones. Beds witli or without
sheets. One-eyed boarders must eat
in the kitchen, especially in fly time.
Butter with or without hairs. Dreams
will be charged by the dozen. Night
meres will be furnished at reasonable
rates. Stone walls will be furnished to
snoring boarders, and the proprietor
will in no wise be responsible for the
broken tinpan-uius of other ears. Ba-
I hies under 9 years of age are not allow
ed, ,
An Infallible Remedy-—Fight
ing- the l>ev 1 with Fire.
If there is one thing that more than
another annoys a good wife, who Is ner
vously sensitive to all that is gross and
illtimed. it is the habit some hushauds
have of using profane language in their
homes. In many cases this is mere
thoughtlessness on the part of the good
man, who never gives a thought to the
finer sensibilities of his better-half, and
even if she should mildly remonstrate,
he pays no attention to the rebuke.
We have just had a case in point,
which happened iu one of the thriving
Missouri cities on the banks of the Mis
sissippi, which the ladies of George
town should know something about.
A lady whose husband was addicted
to the bad practice we have alluded to,
camo to her family physician, laid her
grievances before him. and said :
“Now, Doctor N , won’t you re
monstrate with him, and try to break
him of this habit ? I know he will lis-
ten to you.”
“Why, madam,” said the doctor, “he
would pay no attention to anything I
could say to him; but, as you have
come to me, although somewhat out of
my line, I will recommend a prescrip
tion, to be administered by you, that
will certainly cure him. It is an infal
lible remedy.”
“Oh, what is it, doctor ?’’
“Well, when John comes home
again and swears, do you swear back
at him. Of course, I don’t want you
to take name of the Lord in vain, but
d—n things a little for his benefit.”
“Doctor, for the sake of the final re
sult, I’ll do it.”
And she did.
The next day John camo home and
inquired whether dinner was ready, and
was told that it was not.
“Well, why the d—l isn’t it ?” said
he.
“Because,” she coolly replied, “the
wood was so d—d wet that the fire
wouldn’t burn.”
“Why, Mary, what is the matter with
you ? Are you crazy, or have you been
drinking ?”
“Neither,” she said, and quietly pro
ceeded to put on the dinner.
The beef didn’t melt like butter be
tween the teeth—it rather resisted all
efforts at mastication, like so much in
diarubberand finally John blurted out :
“What makes the d—d beef so in
fernal tough ?”
Mary looked up archly and replied :
“Well, John, I suppose you went
down to the butcher’s and, without
knowing the difference, picked out a
piece of some d—d old stag that hadn’t
been fed for a month.”
John jumped up, looked at his wife
in dismay, and wanted to know what
such languago from her lips meant 1”
“It means just this, John ; you are
the head of this family, and just as long
as you think it manly to swear in my
presence, I intend to do the same. If
you don’t like to hear it, you know how
to prevent it.”
The cure was radical, and to this
date Mary has never been compelled to
administer another dose of Dr. ’s
prescription. —Colorado Miner.
A Smart Hoy.
A young man called on his intended
the other evening, and while waiting
for her to make her appearance, he
struck up a conversation with his in
tended brother-in-law. After awhile
the boy asked:
‘Does galvanized niggers know much?’
‘I really can’t say,’ replied the much
amused young man.
And then silence reigned for a few
moments, when the boy resumed his
conversation :
‘Kin you play checkers with your
nose V
‘No, I have never acquired that ac
complishment.’
‘Well, you’d better learn—you hear
me V
‘Why V
‘Cause Sis says that you don’t know
as much as a galvanized nigger, but
yer dad’s got lots of stamps and she’ll
marry you anyhow ; and she said when
she got hold of the old man’s sugar she
was a going to all the Fourth of July
percesshuns and ice cream gum sucks,
and let you stay at home to play check
ers with that hollyhock nose of yourn.’
And when Sis got her hair banged
and came in, she found the parlor de
serted by all save her brother, who was
innocently tying the tails of two kittens
together, and singing:
‘Oh, I love the Sabbath School.’
<>.
It was at Nantucket the other day,
ou the way up from the boat one of the
party asked the driver, “Do they play
‘Pinafore’ here ?’’ “Guess not,” replied
the benighted Islander, with a puzzled
look, “but they play billiards.”
Too Much for Him.
The court and jury, as woll as the
spectators, generally enjoy the scene
when a lawyer, in an attempt to badger
or browbeat a witness, comes off second
in the encounter. A correspondent re
calls an amusing instance of this sort
which happened a few years ago in an
Albany court room.
The plaintiff, who was a lady, was
called to testify. She got on very well
and made a favorable impression on the
jury under the guidance of her counsel,
Hon. Lyman Tremaine, until the op
posing counsel, Hon. Henry Smith,
subjected her to a sharp cross-examina
tion. This so confused her that she
became faint, and fell to the floor in a
swoon.
Of course this excited general sym
pathy in the audience, and Mr. Smith
saw that his case looked badly.
An expedient suggested itself, by
which to make the swooning appear like
a piece of stage trickery, and thus de
stroy sympathy for her. The lady in
swooning had turned purple red, and
her face suggested the new line of at
tack. The new witness was a middle
aged lady. The counsel asked :
“Did you see the plaintiff faint a
short time ago ?”
“Yes sir.”
“l’eople turn pale when they faint
don’t they
A great sensation in the court, and
an evident confusion of the witness. But
in a moment she answered, “No, not
always.
“Did you ever hear of fainting where
the party did not turn pale ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Did you ever see such a case ?”
“Yes, sir ’’
“When ?”
“About a year ago.”
“Where was it ?”
“In this eity.”
“Who was it?”
By this time the excitement was so
intense that everybody listened anxi
ously for the reply. It came promptly
with a twinkle in the witness’ eye and
a quiver on her lip, as if from suppress
ed humor.
“ ’Twas a negro, sir.”
Peal after peal of laughter shook the
court room, in which the venerable
judge joined. Mr. Smith lost his case
not to say his temper.
Au Honest Man.
He went to Indianapolis to meet
some big guns of other roads, and after
dinner it was proposed to play poker,
lie was a man of moderate oircuinstan
ces, and not a gambler by any means,
playing only for the smallest stakes lie
agreed, and the chips were called out
‘five and fifteen’ and he said he would
take ten reds and about twenty whites.
They were counted out, and as usual
among friends, was not to be cashed un
til the game was ended. The deal was
made and drew a pair of queens. He
thought that lie would show them that
he played a liberal game, although he
got nothing in the draw, and when his
turn came to het lie shoved up ten reds
and finally put in the twenty whites.
The others drew out, one throwing up
two pairs and the other a flush. He
threw down his two queens and raked
in the pot. The others looked at his
hand in astonishment and one exclaim
ed:
“What! do yoa bet $250 on a pair
of queens
“Dollars, h—11! ’ said the other;
“no ! but cents, yes.”
“Cents!” echoed the first; “why
those chips are $5 and $15.”
“Then take your money,” cried our
friend, jumping up in holy horror. “I
was betting five and fifteen cents. Why,
$2:50 keeps my family three months.
And he quit tho game in a hurry
and refused to take his winnings be
cause he did not think they were hon
estly his own.
The Scotch way of Popping the
Question.
‘l’ve known you for a long time.’
‘Yes, Jamie.’
‘And—l’ve thought Id always like
to be with you, Jennie,’
‘Y-e-s, J-a-m-i-e.’
‘So—that—when— ’
‘Yes—Jamie—Yes.’
‘We’re dead we can Jay our bones
together.’
The fool hail gone and bought a lot
in the gryt-yard, but Jennie was not
discouraged. She knew her man well,
after fourteen years she ought to, and
she said gently :
‘Jamie.’
‘Don’t you think ’twould be better
to lay our bones together while we are
yet alive Y
Now comes Johnny in from school
with, “I’ve got to have anew slate and
a pencil, and a' sponge and a second
reader, and teacher wants me to study
Geography, and 111 have to have an
Atlas, and the new boy got a licking
and, say, ma, won’t you sk pa to buy
the books this noon because I’m in a
I burry, and all the rest of the boys have
got their u.
VOL. 16-NO 31.
A Sal Picture.
Of all the wrecks that ever saddened
the human heart that is the most mourn
ful, where a cultivated, talented, worthy
human being, capable of filling any po
sition in church or state with honor,
abandons himself to the vico of intem
perance and its attendant evils. We
have seen vast plantations and palatial
houses in ruins, whole forests dessolated
by cyclones, wealthy families reduced
to penury, whole households melt away
by the “noisome pestilence,” countries
laid waste by “grim visaged war,” but
never have we seen any sight that so
penetratrated us with a sense of
sadness as a rational, immortal soul
forgetting its heavenly birth, auu pluck
ing down upon itself the most wanton,
self-iufiioted destruction for time and
eternity. Over this we may well la-
ment with a more than common lamen
tation. Cities may be rebuilt after the
most dire calamities ; countries may be
restored after the ‘abomination of des
solation’ has swept over them; private
fortunes may be recovered by subse
quent industry, and even wasted health
may be brought back by long and per
sistent prudence; but, alas! what shall
reconstruct a wretched character and a
ruined soul ? Who is able to revive in
that mass of ruins the innocence and
manhood of other days ? We have seen
the sturdy oak of the forest, smitten by
lightning and despoiled of its leaves
and branches, a monument of ruin.—
Spring returned to all the surrounding
forest, but it came not to that tree to
invest it with its vernal dress. So the
poor, helpless, abandoned inebriate
stands among men, withered and bias
ted, ‘a vessel of wrath fitted for de
struction.’ The pit of woe can only
surpass it in those terrors before which
the benevolent heart shrinks in dismay.
Full Plowing.
The better the preparation of the
ground the better the crop. The high
average yield of the English farms is
no doubt largely duo to thorough pre
paration of the ground before seeding.
Our climate is superior to that of Eng
land for wheat growing : yet a yield uf
64 bushels per acre is not at all unfre
quent among good farmers there ; while
here 40 bushels is an unusual yield.—
Two plowings, several harrowiugs, and
in many cases rolling or crushing ; and
the excellent preparation of the soil by
a previous root crop must have a much
better effect upon the soil, than one
plowing, very poorly done because of
the hardness and dryness of our Boil in
midsummer, and very imperfect harrow
ing. It might be well for us to lay out
more labor on our wheat crop, and sj
prepare the ground better, and raise our
average from 12 to at least 20 bushels
per acre. The difference in the amount
of wheat at harvest would pay for a
good deal of extra work in plowing,
etc., and yet leave a profit; besides the
soil would not forget the generous treat
ment in one year nor two.
The Latest Trick.
The following is the latest trick to
gull farmers: “A plow is left with the
farmer with the verbal consent to use it
and if not liked to return it. A print
ed advertisement is also loft containing
a notice in due form, stating that when
trial is made of the plow the agent must
be notified within two days of it. Many
farmers will never see the notice but
will take the advertisement heedlessly,
and then through failure to notify in
two days, will be compelled to keep the
plow, inasmuch as the farmer cannot
deny receiving it.
Sleep with si Rattlesnake.
A Jacksbora, Texas, dispatch to
the St. Louis Globe, says: Miss
Walker aged 14, living with her fa
ther, S. (J. Walker, eight miles from
here, retired to bed and slept all
night with a tremendous rattlesnake,
seven feet long, which crept into the
bed. About daylight Miss Walker
turned upon her pillow, when the
snake struck her in tlieforeheaa with
his fangs, and instantly coiled around
her tl rat She screamed and faint
ed The reptile was finally killed,
but it is believed she cannot live.
The Georgia legislature has passed a
resolution requiring the grand jury of
each county to look into and sift to the
bottom everything connected with the
wild land business in their respective
counties, and to find true bills where
frauds are discovered. Every grand
juror should go to work immediately
to investigate the matter and have ev
erything ready by the time their courts
meet. There will be a wailing and a
howling aud a smathing pf teeth in Ga
ere long, and if justice is done tin
chain gang will receive several acces
sions.—Qttdman Free Press.
A Prompt Juror.
An Amusing story is told of the way
a Georgia juror went for conviction. A
murder case was being tried and great
difficulty was experienced in getting a
jury. Eleven jurors had been sworn,
and in the next panel that was brought
in was a small, lank, lean, cadaverous
looking fellow, who had one shoe, his
pants were nearly above his knees, his
shirt open both in front and back, and
the aforesaid pants wore held up by a
single suspender. The solicitor pro
ceeded to ask the usual questions as
follows:
“Have you, from having seen the
crime committed or heard any of the
testimony delivered under oath, formed
and expressed any opinion as to the
guilt or iunoccnce of the prisoner at
the bar?”
The “single gallus” fellow, in a clear
and distinct voice, answered:
“Not any.”
“Have you any prejudice or bias
resting on your mind for or against the
prisoner at the bar ?”
“I haint.”
“Is your mind perfectly impartial bo •
tween the State aud the accused ?”
“Hit air.”
“Are you conscientiously opposed to
capital punishment ?”
“I isn’t.”
The State didn’t like the juror much,
but it being late and jurors scarce, he
was put upon the jury in the usual
manner, the solicitor saying: “Juror,
look upon the prisoner.” The juror
looked the prisoner firmly in the face
and then turning to the judge he said
in a firm, solemn voice, “Yes, Judge,
I think he’s guilty.”
Inventive Genius.
[Philadelphia Times.]
Inventive genius is not confined to
the Yankees. A New Orleans man
has invented an alarm clock for lovers.
The object of the attachment which he
has added to the clock movement, is to
cause the young man who is spending
the evening, to execute homeward move
ment at ten o’clock. Punctually on
the strike of ten, a fatherly looking fig
ure, in dressing-gown and night-cap
marches out from a door in the clock,
bearing in the right hand a card in
scribed. “Good Night.” Having ex
hibited this card lie bows and retires.
The inventor says this will make the
young man go home, but he is badly
mistaken. He and his beloved will
just look at the operation of the ma
chinery and laugh at it, and then sit
down on the sofa for two hours more.
The Inventor must be a miserable
bachelor, who was in his early days
driven away from somebody’s daughter
at the early hour of ten, and who never
went back again. lie should have in
vented an apparatus which will go around
with a great noiso and shut all the shut
ters, and then throw boot jacks, pokers,
tongs, lumps of coal and other missiles
at the delaying young man. No young
man who has any respect for himself or
hisgirl will leave at ten o’clock for any
less forcible demonstration than some
thing of this k'lid.
Charcoal.
One of the most simple and excel
lent medicines for any derangement
of the stomach of human beings, is
finely pulverized, fresh burnt char
coal. For this purpose it should be
closely corked up in a bottle as soon
us it has been burnt aud ground. A
teaspoonful in a wineglass of water
once a day will be found beneficial
and worth more than the quack nos
trums of the day. But our object was
to speak of the value of charcoal to
domestic animals, particularly to fat
tening hogs. A half pint’of it finely
pulverized aud mixed in water to
each animal once or twice a week,
will be found extremely beneficial in
aiding digestion and preventing any
derangement of the stomach arising
from overfeeding. Besides serving
as a medicine it is also extremely
fattening. Perhaps a free use of
charcoal would prevent cholera in
I logs.
l>eatli of Prof. M. >l. Mel>oua!d
Died, at Spalding, Ga., on the first
day of Oct iber, Prof. M. M. McDon
ald. l’rof. McDonald, well and widely
known in Southwest Georgia, was cut
off in the vigor of manhood by an at
tack of typhoid fetter. lie was one of
those energetic, pushing men who knew
noobsticles which he Could uot over
come, and possessed in his composition
much of the material out of which is
made successful business men and good
citizens. He was a teacher of known
tact and ability, and a fire instructor
in penmanship. He was for a long time
tie principal of Spaulding High School
and filled the positii n with efficiency.
Our deepest sympathy is with his wile
and children. —Montezuma Weekly.
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“Now will you admit that you are
licked,” yelled the upper mau in a
street fight. “No, sir,” replied the un
der chap “1 ain’t lie. ed, but—hut I’m
satisfied.”
Iu Macon uo child will be allowed at
the public school unless its father lias
paid poll tax.