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" PUYNGENT POINTS, Jsc thie wake iof prohibition. is springing P all over this fair land the little brown jug factory. LovE is a mass of intangible emotions over which predominates gn insane desire to squeeze some thing- AR Tae question is often asked, wWhat are we todo with the mod orate drinkers?’ Improve the quality and reduce the guantity. gy, Lours elaime a man who ‘killed 108 blackbirds at one shot. An ordinary newspaper liar had just 88 well go to chopping wood. Ax Athéns correspondent says ‘there are eight aspirants for con gressional honors in that district, with nineteen months yet to her srom. i Ir men’s bodies were in propor tion to the size of their souls, gome of our first citizens conld button their collars around their boot tops. A GEORGIA colored man has in dulged in but twenty minutes’ sleep per night for the last five years, and the poultry in that neighborhood are in the same fix. EvEry negro office holder in Washington swears that he is a democrat and was never anything else. Cuffee proposes to remain around the meal tub till the end of the season. A NorTH Georgia “electric girl” has learned “to stand on the floor snd defy four strong men to lift her.” Of course the gentlemen are too modest and gallant to lift the young critter in publie, AvtHouGH Mr. Cleveland has been accused of sitting on the white house steps in his shirt sleeves, he is yet to be charged with walking through a damp back yard without his rubbers. A GARDENER near Mobile, Ala., is said to have raised watermelons out of doors from seeds planted in December. Thisisquite a new method of utilizing doors, but as our curiosity is aroused we should like to see a door seed. Farra is that grand confidence which seeks not to know whether the stewed rabbit of the cheap restaurant ever scuttled before a vhite and upturned tail over the mowclad fields or warbled spas modically on a back fence. A GEroralA inventor has invent el a fire-proof cotton bagging, the we of which will very much reduce the insurance rates on cotton. 1t is called “antiphlo gin,” and is said to be cheaper than the jute or gunny-bagging now used. Tae Italians believe that ma ternity robs a woman of her voice. The Italians should come to this country and listen to a rural mother c¢all home her children who are playing in a wood a wmile distant. They'll then know bet ter. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND contin wes his habit of retiring early. He gets up regularly at 7 a. m., and after starting .the fire in the kitchen range and calling the took and the servants, he may be S¢en any morning building chick -0 coops or sawing wood in the back yard. Tar Valdesta News tells a big sotyof a bear seen, in Lowndes tounty which turned out to be a barrel. We guess there are some barrels in Lowndes ‘county the tontents of whieh would make & fellow see suakes. No refloction Pon the parties who saw the bear 18 Intended, but ’the reader can draw his own inferences. ThE habit which ffontier post: asters have of carrying the mail ound in the pockets of their trousers vexes the souls of the “wboys. When one of the latter *pecies has ridden 200 miles after his mail and. is gold by the post ;:’“tef's wife that the post-office "8 gone after a barrel of waier o won't bo back for two days, le‘ COW puneher feels” like com- Plaining to the government. ALxogr g]] the editors who did 16t go on the press excursion to New Orleans excuse themselves i this wige: “Circumstance over ¥hich we had no control prevent ™ our being present.” The truth of the businagg is we had no mon ¥ and that is abous the condition of fi’e bal&noe Of, the imwoug % who staid at home, ; also hany who went and cut 8 splurge v rimenk.— Quitman THE DAWSON JOURNAL, » VOL. 19. - LULU HURST EXPLAINED., ] P § ” —— . The Georgia Wonder once More | Showed Up asa Fraud. New York Analyst. The American Marketman is a weekly paper published in Chica go, in the interest of the canning, packing and grceery trade, and is most ably- edited by Mr. J. W. Lynch. One of the marked feat- 1 ures of the paper is what is best known as “horse sense.” A fair specimen of this is the following practical expose of the Georgia Wonder "humbug, which we con dense: : LULU HURST. _ Ever since the above young la dy gave her first exhibition at Central Music Hall, we have been trying to get time to write her up, or rather down. Why so many have been puzzled at her wonder less deception is to - us a mystery. True, this is out of our line of business, and ouly- take it up on account of the miserable failure made by the daily press and the scientists. We shall address our talk to those who have seen the marvelous Georgia Wonder, her innocent rural father, and the big end of the show, Mr. +———, who acts as ring master. Suppose we ought to handle the subject in a more scientific way, but it is too absurd. We know that there are thousands who believe, as the ‘Tribune says, that Miss Lulu Hurst succeeded in proving to her audience that the number of things the world cannot under stand is increasing quite as rapid ly as the areaof its scientific knowledge. 'We have had nocon versation with any one who ever tried Miss Lulu’s odic force, but have proved the whole proceed ings by reasoning and experiment, just as we are going to prove if to you. ~ If, as we asked before, you did see Miss Hurst on the above date, please step this way to this part of the room where the green car % pet is drawn tightly, as the foot i hold is not so good for the man from the audience; then he will be somewhat nervous anyhow, as the performance is anovel one to even an old stager. Now let &your assistant hold the chair just ‘as you saw it done; mind, he i 3 to ‘hold the echair and himself still. Have you got on your lubbers so you won't slip on the carpet? Now put your left hand on the seat of the chair and your right ‘hand on the flat middie round of the back. Let the ball of your thumb press hard on top of this round. Don't take any stock in the “laying on lightly business.” Bosh! now push, don’t pull, as you can't pull without grasping,but push with both kands in a strong spasmodic way as Lulu did, and when you get your man started you can defy a giant to hold the chair still. He is wusing his strength on the slippery carpet to hold the chair firm; youn are using yours with'the leverage and sure footing. Hold your arm and hand gtill in any way you can fix it so a chil® cant move it—it is im possible; it is the same princi ple. Now take your billiard cue, grasp it in the middle, fingers up ‘and hands about eight inches apart. Hold your elbows down and press hard against your sides. Stand on one foot, as Lulu did. ‘Let whoever is assisting you take hold of the cue as he likes, but see that he spreads his hands out at least twelve inches from yours. Do you remember what the young ‘man said to the audience? “If you got Miss Hurst's hands above ‘her head she loses her power.” Now if you have the cue just as we have described, let your assistant ‘push with . all his might, and if% you find he is too much for you i let your hands go above your head. But without heisa very ‘strong man it will be impossible to push you off the one legged centre of gravity. You may say ‘that Lulu did not appear to lean forward, but she did, though. ‘Her dress being of heavy stuff it swung as a pendulum rfnd gave the appearance of standing ercct. } Now gt the umbrella, open_it, give it to your assistant, let him grasp.the stick with his loft hand close up to the stay ribs, bring his right hand down to the lowest point of the stick. Now he must hold the umbrella and himself still, nothing more. Lay your right hand lightly, as it were, on the centrs of the stick, just as Lu. did, but be sure you lay your hand on so that the flexor of the first joint of the thumb can be put where it will do the most good when you begin to exert your strength in the least expected di rection. Again, as with the chair, don't attempt to pull, always push sideways. Do you remember the man who was nearly run over the footlights, how he was pushed sideways and backward? Then, if your assistani won't push as you want him to, why, break the stick or let your hand slip up among the ribs and break them— the odic force must escape some where. Now for the heavy act, lifting man and chair clear of the floor excepting his feet. Do you re member the kind of chair that act was done with—a cane bottom with straight legs and back per fectly plain? You must havethat special shaped chair or you will fail in this; let your assistant seat himself, and, as the stage mana ger directed, “set well back and brace yourself to keep from fall ing on your face; now place your ‘hands as Lu. did, but den’t at tempt to raise him bodily, but push the chair from you as tho’ you were trying to throw him on his face; at the same time lift as though you were going to throw the chair over your head, but don’t grasp the chair, as the audience ‘would see that and there is no ‘need of it; the flexor of the first joint of the thumb is all you want to use in pushing forward and upward; your assistant’s feet act as the fulerum of a lever. Now let another assistant sit across his legs face to face, and, strange as it may seem, the chair may be lifted with less trouble than when the one man is in it. Do you re member that on the Monday night we are speaking of Lu. made a complete failure in trying to lift Mr. Arthur Catton, because he in sisted in keeping his feet off the floor, and would not brace back in the chair? Miss Hurst can't, as strong as she is, and sheis no kit ten, lift a four year old child in a chair the way she takes hold of it. Should this article meet the eyes of a skeptic in a ecity where Miss Hurst is exhibiting, sit in the chair and keep your feet off the floor, no matter what the stage manager says; if you are one of the two whom she tries to lift at once, be sure you are the bottom man; keep your feet up and see that the top man, if a stranger, does not raise himself off your lap, and, our word for it, she will nev er lift you. Now get your billiard cue again for the “pressing to the floor act.” Do you remember how she held it? Small end up under the arm pit, with the palm of the hand ‘turned out, and close down to the butt end, so close that one gentle man had to ask her to give him robm to take hold, which she did very reluctantly. Now, having the cue under your arm pit, make your assistant spread his hands as far apart as he can, giving him barely room to lay hold of the lower end; then tell him to push it to the ground; the harder he pushes the more cohesion there is to your hand, and by pressing the arm hard to the body it will be found almost impossible to get it to the floor; yet, on this night, one gentleman did so twice, and then Lu. just laughed, te! he! Did you hear the whistle of the cue as it slipped over her open band, showing the h:avy lever age and pressure she was exert ing? Now for forcing the chair to the floor act, and that will close the performance, but we must have more than the one man or two you have been following our test with, as this will have to have a confederate, and the more we get around the chair, and the more confusion, the less chanceof your audience getting away with yon. Was there a citizen of Chicago at the exhibition who knew the young man that Lu. always got away with, the one in whose hand she broke the umbrella stick, and who Dawson, Ga., Thursday, April 9, 1885. sat in a chair on the extreme left of the stage, and whoin this chair act, at one time when the gchair was being forced to the floor, got almost under it? Don't you know that the stage manager called for more men to force the chair down? Do yon suppose that the young fellow who took that running jump and landed on the backs of the gentlemen who were at the chair would have dared to do such a thing had he not been in the troupe? Again, as Miss Hurst's feats are tricks, there were many ways it could have been done. Take any two gentlemen who are known to each other, no more, and see if Miss Lulu can prevent them from forcing the chair down. In conclusion, pay no attention to that little ghost story the old man tells about the Georgia expe rience at home. Why don’t she do so now? [f you buy that crowd for a simple party of plain, unassuming country people, you put your money in a “stone blind pool.” We have not written this in a scientific or metaphysical strain, because science, electricity, metaphysics or an unknown force has nothing to do with it; it is trickery, fraud, practice, and newspaper gush from beginning to end. < Relief from Ma'arial Poison. | i For six months past I have been affected with a very serious case of typhoid malaria, which I con tracted on my orange grove in Northwestern Florida. I tried several remedies, but everything failed me. Two weeks ago I pur chased a bottle of Swift's Specific, which has proved a sure cure for this dreadful malady. I had al most given up hope of ever being well again, for I had tried so many remedies, all of which had failed to do any good. Would to God that all the afflicted people resid ing in the malarious counties of Georgia, Florida and Alabama would read this and try the S. 8. S. instead of dosing themselves with quirine and mineral reme dies. I feel it my duty to suffer ing humanity to write this certifi cate, for it may be the means of many of my old friends trying this great remedy as I have done. So strong is my faith in it that in every case where the directions are followed I guarantee a sure cure or forfeit one hundred dol lars. Cuas. D. BArger, Publisher, Editorial Room Temperance Advocate, Atlanta, Ga. For many years my blood was in a bad condition, manifésting its character by a scrofulous breaking out on both my ankles, which caused me considerable suf fering as well as great annoyance. Seeing the name of Rev. Jesse H. Campbell, of Columbus, Ga., attachced to a certificate concern ing a cure by Swift's Specifie, I wrote to him about this remedy. His reply was that “it is a won derful remedy.” I tried it and found the action very much as de scribed in the directions. T used about one dozen bottles, observ ing a steady and almost daily im provement from the start. I was entirely cured of this disagreea ble and distressing disease. That has been nearly a year ago, and I find no signs of the disease return ing, and am ready to testify with Rev. Mr. Campbell that Swift's Specific “is a wonderful remedy.” R. M. R. Charleston, 8. C., Feb. 5, 1885. Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease mailed free. Tue Swirr Speciric Co., Draw er 3, Atlanta, Ga. A Great Discovery. Mr. Wm. Thomas, of Newton, la., says: “My wife has been se riously affected with a eough for twenty-five years, and this spring more severely than ever before. She had used many remedies with out relief, and being urged to try Dr. King's New Discovery,did so, with most gratifying results. The first bottle relieved her very fuch, and the second bottle has abso lutely cured her. She has not had so good health for thirty years.” Trial Bottles Free at & Crouch Bro's. Drug Store. Large size $l.OO. “It is a Wonderful Remedy.” * MURRELL’S DEN, ‘A Strange Story from Carroll County, | Tennessee, Correspondence Nashville World. HunriNapoN, TENN., Mch. 15th 'B5. --~On the 11th instant, we left Huntingdon for the southwestern portion of this county for a few days’ bird and squirrel hunt, hav ing for our companion A. M. Lee, the acknowledged prince of post masters; and let us say when Huntingdon loses him she will lose a post-master that has pleas ed every one without a dissenting voice. His duplicate cannot be found. Being securely seated be hind a two-forty(hours) thorough bred, we were soon -on eur -hunt ing ground, it being in the imme- } diate vicinity where we were both born and raised, as a matter of course we were well acquainted with the woods. While following a rocky branch, known as the Gin ] branch, we came to whera it skirt ed the margin of a high hill, ‘our sotter, Charlie, madea dash at a rabbit and both rabbit and Char lie disappeared in the hill The entrance was what we supposed to be a crevice in the rocks, as the margin of the hill was covered with large sand rocks; ina mo ment the bats came pouring out by the hundreds; the weather be ing chilly they fell to the gound ina stupor as soon as the air struck them—their slumbers had been disturbed by the dog. We were enjoying the fun, when, fo our astonishment, several large horn owls came flopping ount, one gave a dismal hoot as though he had not seen daylight in years, or wished to frighten us away. Be coming uneasy for fear our dog could not return, Mr. Lee went to | the entrance of the cave, taking a pole and probing some six foet, he found it made an abrupt angle to to the righé;e the opening was barely sufficient for a common sized man to enter; he groped his ‘way until it became so dark that he returned and revealed the ter rible news that it opened out into “ what he believed to be alarge hall i and that he could hear Charlie running arcund and whining, as though he was lost and could not find bis way out. We sent to a neighboring house and procured a lantern, determined to rescue Charlie at all hazards. With lan tern in hand we both entered,com pelled to ecrawl on hands and knees for some distance before we could walk erect; the entrance turned first to the right then to the left, in a zigzag form; finally we met Charlie and his bark, as it echoed and re-echoed, astonished us to such an extent that we rais ed our lanterns over our heads, which threw abright light around. We stood dumb for a moment; we were shocked and horrified; the surroundings were revealed; we were in a large room, ceiled on sides and overheaded with rude clapboards. Before us set a large table with a mautilated pack of cards in the centre; heavy wooden chairs around the table; a couple of Jarge rough shop-made knives onone corner. As soon as we could collect our senses and calm our staggered brain we found we were in a secret cave that. had ouce been occupied by a band of outlaws, but who or when,was the question. In surveying the room, which was 18x18, we found, in one corner, a black something; hold ing the light close, our blood was chilled; it was a large, black man, his skin and flesh dry as those who, in ancient days, were given ‘passage over Sharon;’a large and rough made chain was locked Plround his ankle and fastenéd to a staple in the floor. In the op posite corner lay the dried frames of two huge blood hounds, in an old and heavy wooden box was found two old-fashioned horse pistols with flint locks; they had undoubtly done service in the rev- ‘ olution; there were also several pairs of handeuffs. We began to think that we were in the regicns of the damned. When we looked on the rough wall there we saw “the handwriting.” It was “John A. Murrell, 1823.” We were in the great outlaw’s den; wo could then see that theman chained had been stolen by the bold bandit— brought thero and chained wuntil NO. 47. they could run him south and sell him. The presumption is that when the cave was deserted he was alive; the doom was sure but what agony he underwent—chain ed and alone—his face like Mil ton’s devil, “grinned horribly a ghastly smile.” The_blood hounds had been kept for the purpose of re-capturing any slave that might ‘escape. As we were about mak ing our exit our companion, Lee, called our attention, in an excited mapner, to another object. We turned around and he was pale ‘and the lantern trembling in his ‘hand; he pointed under the table, ‘and there lay the dried frame of 'another human being. Examin ing close it proved to be that of a onco beautiful female. She tos ‘was chained. She had died a hor rible death—starved to death. Herlong yellow hair still clung to the dry skin on her head,which hung in golden tresses over her bosom that once heaved with the breath of life, though now ecold; her once ruby lips were parted so as to disclose a set of pearly teoth. How came she in a robber’s den? She could not have been a victim to cupid’s dart, if so why chain her? She undoubtedly was kid napped and held for ransom. But cur heart grows sick as we write; several letters were found of a suspicious character, but as they contain the names of people in middle Tennessee, we decline to give their contents, The discovery of the den has ®aused great excitement in the neighborhood. Numbers have vis ited the place, and a few have ven tured in. Mr. W. C. Blair, on whose land the cave is, refused to have anything disturbed until the people could see it. He permitted A. M. Leé to remove the dragoon pistols, which have John A. Mur rell’s initials stamped on the bar rels. Any person wishing to see them can call on himat the post office in Huntingdon, where he will take pleasure in showing them. | NO APPLE-SASS FOR SAMVEL. Farmer Tilden Loses Two Choice Bar rels While Sleeping Heavily. Mr. Samnuel J. Tilden, the sage speculator of Gramercy Park, says the Now York Journal, was spry ly walking about his farm at Yon kers yesterday morning with a doubled-barrelled shotgun. The night before some people crawled through the window of his smoke house, and stole two barrels of ap ples for sance which Farmer Til den had locked up thére for safe ty. Mr. Tilden was sound asleep at the time, having done a hard day's plonghing, and did not hear the marauders as they were mak ing away with his apples./ Tt is supposed that Farmer ‘Tilfin's dog was chloroformed, as oné ‘of Mzr. Tilden’s speeches, in which it is believed a bottle of chloroform was wrapped up, was found lying under the nose of the animal. There is no clew to the thieves. The foot tracks, however, corres pond to those of a Democratic heeler who used to come to the Yonkers farm last sammer to urge Mr. Tilden to run for the Presidency. Some say that the outrage serves Mr, Tilden right for having apples when his neighbors had none. Mr. Tilden intends to sit up nights with his remaining nine barrels of apples and guard them with his sh otgan. Never Give Up. If you are suffering with a low and depressed spirit, loss of ap petite, general debility, disordered blood, weak constitution, head ache, or any disease of a bilious nature, by all means procure a bottle of Eleectric Bitters. You will be surprised to see the rapid improvement that will follow; you will be inspired with new life; strength and activity will return; pain and misery will cease, and benceforth you will rejoice in the praise of Electric Bitter. Sold at fitty cents a bottle by Crouch Bros, SO “What is laughter?” asks a sei entist. “It is what you don’t hear when you find yonr wife sitting up for you alter the club,” Wants Him to Decldé” I vlviah helwou}d ‘%échfi , Tmma, o '{ wish he wou e o I've been & bfldeamm times-= When shall I bea bride? . My cousin Anuie, my sister Fan, The nuptial knot have sied; Yet come what will, I'm single still—= I wish he would decide: He takes me to the play, mamma, He brings mie pretty books, He woes me with his eyegimmm‘, ; Buch speechless things he looks! Where’er 1 roam—abroad, at home— He lingers by m sigé; ; Yet come what wigi, m single still—= I wish he would decide. I throw out many hints, mamma, I speak of other beaux, 1 talklabout do;nest(iic life g And sing, ‘‘they don’t > And ah! how vain each pfleom traid His wavering heart to guide! Do what I will I'm single still— I wish he would decide. ' ' AN AMUSING INCIDENT. Dr. Mary Walker Thinks That Misd Cleveland is ‘‘One of Us.” Anamusing incident occurred at the White House reception om ‘Saturday during the progress of the reception, in which the Presi dent was an innocent prineipal. he had gone but for a drive, and upon returning te the White House he found admission cut off by the dense crowd which filledk the porch and all its approaches.’ To add to his perplexity some of the ladies in the portico reeog nized him and insisted upon shak ing bhands with him. This was the signal for a host of congratu latory callers who had not count ed upon seeing the President too, and he was literally surrounded by an enthusiastic audience of la dies who were deaf to his appeals to be let into the White House. Ingress or egress was impossible,. and fully fifteen minutes the Pres ident was forced to remain in his trying position. Dr. Mary Walker created the sensation of the afternoon. She called early, and was dressed in a new suit—Prince Albert coat but< toned up high, dark trousers and stout heavy boots of calfskin. A high standing collar and black tie gave a very masculine expressiom to her thin face. Dr. Mary entered the reeeption room carrying a new silk tile in one hand and a small umbrella with a silver handle in the other. She walked towards Miss Cleve land with a long, sweeping stride. Marshal MeMichael, who was prepared for almost anything, turned pale as Dr. Mary approach ed. “Heavens!” he ejaculated, “what. am I to do?” He didn’t have long to consider, “Please present me to Misa Cleveland,” said the Doetor sharp ly, taking him by the arm. Miss Cleveland knew nothing about the Doctor’s strange pecul ianty of dress, and when Mr. Mc Michael presented “Dr. Walker'™ she said pleasantly: “I am glad to meet you, sir.” “Iwould have you know that I am not a sir,” said she, drawing herself up to her full height. “IL am a woman, but I have advanced ideas about dress.” “So I perceive,” said Misa Cleveland, trying hard not to smile. “I understand that you are one of us, and belong .to the advanced thinkers in our sex.” Miss Cleveland made no direct reply, but simply said that she thought the cause of womanhood was not suffering. “You ounght to be on our side,” continued Dr. Mary, to the great annoyance of the people waiting for her to pass on, “for I elected your brother; but for me he would not be in the White House to-day. “Indeed!"” ~ “Yes; I know that I influence }more than enough votes to have ‘turned the scale against him in New York State.” At this point the pressure in the rear became so strong that she was foreed into the next room, not without assuring Miss Cleveland, however, that she would eall again and often. Despite Dr. Mary's intrusion the reception to-day was a success, The White House was cvowded during the reception hours with beautiful and handsomely dressed ladies. A Clear Voice, Mr. Charles T. Krobs, 737 Mad« ison avenue, Baltimore,Maryland, well known in banking eireles, certifies to the excellence of the Red Star Cough Cure. A few doses speedily cured his niece of severe hoarseness and sore throat, It is pleasant to take. No one can ba poisoned by this remedy, which is freo from opium,mgw . ond other dangerous drugs,