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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
JORDAN & RAINEY.
A GREAT MISTAKE HEED THE W’AI}N]N G
THE merchants of Dawson are still trying to make the people believe that IG RO;
CERIES are very cheap in this market, but that is only a blind. If you W}l Jl}lsl
call on C. S. ALLEN you will find that Staple Groceries are very l}lgh, bu‘t Ille wi
sell at as small a margin as any one. He is on Lee street, opposite Court House.
Dont fail to call,
BRONWOOD NEWS.
The ¥ risoner Escapes— Fuan
, With a Dog, Ete.
Bpecial Correspondence Jouryar.,
Last Satarday night George
Erans, colored, took on too much
“red-eye” and had to be lccked
up for disorderly conduct. Sun
day morning when Marshal
Childs weat to take him breakfast
the door was open and Gaorge
was gona. This makos the second
time he has escapad from the
guard house, and if he is canght
this time it will probably go hard
with him.
A mnegro boy, for a little fan,
tied old Tom, the town cat, t> a
dog Sat arday night. The cat was
killed anl the negro boy will per
haps receive a sound thrashing.
It is said that the cat was worth
twice as mach to the town as the
negro.
Oar postmaster has rearrangad
the postofice, moved it to tha
front of the store and put up new
boxes which will be rented easily,
as quite a number have already
been taken. Bronwood 1s no one
horsa town.
Moaasles are said to bs in sever
al families here. Mr. A. H. Me-
Pherson has two children quite
sick with them now.
Mr. Powell has secured a dwell
ing and office, and scon we will be
reading the Bronwood News. M.
Powe!l's office will be at the ware
house
Mr. D. J. Ray has returned
from Atlanta, whera he spent a
few days last week, .
Mrs. Dr. Dozier, of Hatcher, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. J.
Hill.
Oar thanks arve dua friend
Childs for a mess of fina mullet
and roe.
Mr. O. N. Geise and family
have returned from Florida.
Mrs. G. A. Whitaker, of Fort
Valley, is in town this week.
Considerable complaint 18 made
because the cannon ball will not
stop here.
How to Injure Your Towi.
Oppose mmprovements. Bis
trust its public inen. Run itdown
tos‘rangers. Go to some other
town to trade. Refuse to adver
tise in your town paper. If he
wants to bay anybody else’s in
terest discourage nim. If a man
wants to buy your property charge
himn two prices. Do not invest a
cent. Lnay your money out some
where else. Be particular to
discredit the motives of public
spirited men. Lengthen your
face when a stranger speaks of lo
cating init. Refuse to see the
merit in any scheme that does not
directly benefit you.
A.Former Slave of Ben Hill
Seaborn Hill, a former slave of
the late Hon. B. H. Hill, has made
his annual visit.to our city. Sea
born is aprofessional trimmer,and
the click of his clippers is
heard in many yards in Dawson
and other cities in South-Western
({eorgia. The improvement he
makes in the appearance of the
shrubbery is wonderful. Besides,
he is a negro of the olden time,
knows (he diiference between
black and white, and is so polite
and pleasant that he has made a
a host of friends among the white
people.—Dawson Cor. Reeorder.
Su;{-t!mg But True.
WiLrs Poinr, Texas, Dec., 1.'85.
After suflering for more than
{hree years with disease of throat
and lungs,l got so low last snring
I was entirely unable ‘s doan -
thing, and my cough wus 80
bad 1 scarcely slept any at night.
My Druggist, Mr. H. F. Good
n'ght, sent me a trial bottle of
Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung
Syrup. 1 found relief, and after
using six 1.00 bottles, T was en
tively cured. J. M. WELDEN.
Sold by W. C. Kendriek.
Dawson, Ga., Thursday, February 24th., 1887.
EUFAULA LETTER.
DEear Jourvan:— Everything
here is on somewhat of a - “crazs”
(“boom” is a milder form of ex
pression) in ragard ty the Ala
bama towns north anl northwsst
of us. Birminghamanl Auniston
“take the cake,” appwrently, so
far. Bu! Eufaula takes no steps
backward, anla catton factory in
the near fatura will raise its heal
hers —then will Eatlow a steambrat
or two “ouar owvn” on tha Chatta
hoochee. The possibilities of
Eafaula are among the best of ail
the towns in Alabama, and a
“pom” has set in right here and
that boom is awakening the minls
of our psople “to strike while the
iron is hot,” anl wo ask bat a lit
tle while for the full devalopmant
of our resouress.
Oar recantly bored artesian
well is giving out a fine flow of
the bast minaral watar, anl it ia
in contamplation to bora a num
bar of othar walls.
W cougratalate you upoa the
appointment of tha Rav. F. A
Branch to the pastorats of the
Mostholist ¢hareh in your city, for
many of us hers, anl many jast
acras3 tha river, know tha full
valus of Mr. Branch as a faithfal
and loving minister of tha grspal.
It is complimantary to Dawson
that he has baan seat thara, :
Tha Metholist charzh hers has
for its pastor the Rywv. Dr. Craw
ford, a gontlemis wilaly kasrwa
in tha religious worll £>r his at
tainmants of miud anlhaart. Th»
Baptist chareh hara i 3 uadsr th»
paztorate. care of thy Ryv. Do,
Nanally, whos> repuatatira whan
in Georgia was a mirkal oua in
regard to all thosa qnalitiss whish
g> to mike up a most desiving
ministar. Thess qualities of mind
anl heart are still his own.
Why don’t moea of tha Dawson
paaple eoms down trsas as? Lt
them coma in a drove this spring,
auld we will show tham a 3 pratty
scauery as can be sesn in the
mountain ragions of North G:or
gia—our maguilticant river blauff
for instanca.
A form>r Dawson boy has al
ways a wale>my for his Diwson
frienls whenever ha maats tham,
ant whan to-day h: *@pirtial”
Will Riordan oa tha straats, hs
was maasarably glal,
I am glal to know that ths “old
veteran,” the Diwsox Jouawar,
holds its own amonz tha paople of
youar section, snd now at tho aza
of twanty-tw> yaars, it is still dif
fusing light and life to all wh»
read it and com unlar its baniga
indusners. Sazeass to it
A party will soon leava hara to
survay the voute to Si Andraws
Bay, in Florids, and whaa tho
road from this placs to that point
is complatad, our outlat to tha
galf will maks us inlepanleat of
the world. We are going to baild
that road sure. Tha cry here, is
“on to St. Andrews.”
WK P
What One Cloek fias Done.
A Georgian who forty years and
four months ago bought a clock
that has been steadily running
since, figures that it has been run
ning fourteen thousand seven
hundred days, three hundrad and
fifty-three thousand two hundred
and eighty hours, twenty-one mil
lion one hundred and ninety-six
thousand eight hundred minutes,
one billion two hundred and sev
enty-one million eizht hundred
and eighty thousand seconds. In
winding up the elock his hand has
traveled fifty-six miles. The
clock has struck two million two
hundred and nivety-six thousand
three hundred and twenty times,
and ticked one billion two hun
dred and seventy-one million
eight hundred and eighty thou
saud times.
~-The eounty commissioners of
Sumter have condemned some of
the brick work on the new eourt
houso now being erected, and one
wall will have to ba pulled down,
SUNSET PICTURES.
At eve, when the day is dying
Adown in the clouded west,
I climb to my lonely garret,
Athirsi for its peace and rest.
[look from my western window
Away to the suazet sky,
And watch, with & vagae hart-nehing,
Its pazeanury glow aad die
From ou® of the deapeningshadoirs,
And up through the rifts of gold,
Troop memory-haanting faces,
And forms that were dear of al4
And the dis.nal years swoop backward
Their bugdens of wos and pain,
Their heastaches and tears and parting,
And leave me my past agaia.
01, mamory, treasure-laden!
It oaly your gates would close
To open no more, forever,
On our deep heart-piercing woes -
If only the glad aud joyous
Might break from your magic train,
tdow many would hail you gladly
Who shrink from you now in pain?
One face Oh, the vears of darkucss
That lfe *twixt its bloom and me!
Beams out of the fallinz shadows
Thwt darken the sunsst sea,
And the dear, bright eyes, all smiling,
Avc bright a 3 tha sunset’s gld!
Dzar eyes! and the sweet hands beckon
Away to the lather’s fo.d
Andther faza 37 sweet and gentle,
With a serious, boyish grace,
Shines out of the flaming splendor,
Al, this my lost love's face;
Bat it grects me now, a 3 never,
Save out of some sunsct sheen;
For years of rehetlious grieving
Liz his and my face between.
I watch them with heart-sick loaging!
These two -they war 2 all mv owa!
And my life s2em3 s'ranzely blighted,
And joyless now they are gine,
Bat o7er the sunset borders,
Adown by the jasper sea,
I shall some day finl my children,
Awaiting and watchinz for ma,
THE PRODIGAL WAS REPURYNING.
Rut an Oil Train Overtaok Him and
He was Cut to Pieces
Gorga W. Jenkins, of No. 2125
Nichols street, Philadalphia, Pa.,
while walkiny across thy traci of
ths Pennsylvania Railroa! as
struck by the engins of passonoar
tha wheels of a rapidly passing
oil train. The unfortunate young
man was torn into pieces. No
one here secemed to kuow him,
Ho was elegantly dressed, and
wore a heavy overcoal of fine
cloth. Inone of his ppckets was
found a letter from Miss Sasie
Bartlett, who had written agif ghe
was engagel to ba married to him;
another latter, evidently writtan
by his mother, saying: :
“My ErriNa Boy: I am sorry
you are sick, but trust that you
ara getiing better. I send you
310, mach agiinst my wishes; but
your father says that he will give
you another chanca. Ba a goad
boy and return homs.” The let
ter was sigasd, “wour broken
hearted mother.”
In his pocket-book there were
two dollars and a pawn ticket for
a satchal. It i 3 supposad that the
poor fellow was making ths best
of his way back to his father's
house, and ia stepping out i the
way of the oil train was so . reoe
capied that he failed to hew: the
noise of the approaching pacson
ger train. The remains lave
been properly eared for aud the
friends in Philadelphia notified
of his sad fata.
The Great American Liar.
When Mr. Morton was Amoeri
can minister to France he wo en
tertaining a pnrt)" ab dinner,among
whom were several English sy :lls
and the great Awerican 2acon-ur,
Tom Ochiltree.
One of the Englishmen had de
seribed the Duke of Westminis
ter’s place as being remarkably
large and beautiful, when Tom
broke in with:
“‘Yhy tbat's nothing. A friend
of miue in Texas has got a plucea
thousand miles square,and a house
as big as a hotel. He met me
walking ahout the house oge day
and said: “Hello! Tom whee
did you come from? ‘Why, old
man, I've been staying with you
for two weeks.! It was a fact; wo
hadw’'t happened to meet be®sre.”
Cave For Sick Headache
Tor proof that Dr. Guun's Liver
Pills cures Sick Headache, sk
your Druggist for a fre. tiul
package. Ouly onefora . -
Regular gize boxes, 25 cuula,
Sold by W. C. Kendriek,
A CORPSE DRIVING.
Mr. William Roberts, of Jeffarson,
Found Dead in His Wagon.
Athens Banner.
Last Friday Mr. Wm. Roberts,
an honest and highly-respected
old man, who farms on Mra. Sarah
Turner’s place, on tha outskirts
of Jefforson, started to Athens in
his wagon, driving two horses.
He was in apparent good health
whon he left home. As his wag
on passed Clarkeshory, he was
seen to be hanging over the front
board of the vehicle, with his face
cast down and one hand and one
arm swinging loosely. The people
whou saw Mr. Roberts in this po
sition thought that he was only in
meditation, or probably watching
soma part of the running gear of
his vehicle, and did not speak to
him. He passed others in this
pesition, aud at last reachad Har
rison's, about eight miles from
Athens. Here the attention of
several parties was directed to
the pecaliarly uncomefortabla po
sition of M. Roberts, and also to
the fact that he was very black in
the faca. The team was stonped
and on touching the driver his
head and face were found to be
cold anl his heart stilled in death.
He was taken out and his family
notifie 1 of the sad discovery.
THE BALLOTS STOLEN.
The New Phase of the Dougherty
County Contest.
ALBANY, G, Febraary 16.—Tha
contest for tax eollector of Dough
erty county was set for to-day to
tried before Juastice Roberts.
fi'mmm
their list of tax defaulters ready
at hand, prepared to offset each
others charge of ill-gain, which
lists comprised considerably over
two-thirds of the whole number
of votars, and which included thea
names of many of our prominent
citizens. The ballot box, which
had been sealed and Jdeposited in
the court house vanit immediate
ly after che election, was brought
into court, and plainly showed
sigus of having bean tampered
with. Th~ seals had been 2ut and
the lid to the box was unfastened.
An investigation was male, and
it was found that three handred
and twenty-five ballots were miss
ing. The tally sheet and list of
votars, which had been placed in
the box with the ballots, had al: e
been surreptitiously taken ont.
Those facts, rather mysterions and
startling in their nature when re
vealed, put a temporary stop to
the proceedings. Captain Hes
ter, realizing that t> urge the con
tast wonld necessitate an endless
research and inquiry, which
would prove smbarrassing to ail
concerned, grac>fully withdraw
his claims. T. M. Clayton is
thereby left master of the fiell,
and will apply for his comm’ssion
at once. Speculation is rife con
cerning the theft of the ballots,
and an investigation will doubt- 1‘
less ba instituted at onece. |
An Enterprising,Reliable House
Crouch Bros. can always be re
lied upon, not only to carry in
stock the best of everything, bat
to secure the Agancy for such ar
ticles as have well-known merit,
and are popular with the people,
thereby sustaining the reputation
of being always enterprising, and
ever reliable. Having secared
the Agenoy for the celebratcd Dr.
King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, will sell it on a positive
guaran'co. It will surely enre
any and every affection of Throat,
Lungs and Chest, and to show
our eonfidence, we invite you to
call and get a Trial Bottle Free.
Certelicates Cannotbe Pablished
Of The Mother's Friend, for, as
remarked a distiaguished lawyer
in Atlanta when purchusing a bot
tle, “its morit can only ba made
known by word of mouth.” Ad.
dress Bradfi:ld Ragulater Co., At
lanta, Ga,
VYOL. 22.—N0 41).
HER HEELS ABOUL HER NECK.
The Astonishing Expliot of an fmita=~
tive House maid in Missouri.
The following occured near Pe.
dro and Laberal, in Barton coun
ty, one day last week. Oa Thurs
dayJmorning, at a well-known far
met’s home not far that town, the
hired man and two of the farmer’s
sons wera compating arduously
on the bara floor to ascertain who
could put one of his heels around
his neck. One of the boys said
he bad sean a man in a circus pat
both heels around Lis neck at
once, and it would be strange in
deed if they could not get one
around. The boys heaved and
strained and the LbLired man
did likewise, to accomplish
the feat. Bat little did they know
that the hiral girl was watching
the performance with breathless
interast throazh a knot-hole in
the barn, and in a few hours more
the girl was missing anl a search
was instituted for her. After call
ing to her a number of times with
no responss, she was found in the
milk-house lying prostrate on the
floor with both heels abont her
neck and utterly unable to get
them loose, She was so upset
that she is said to have declarel
that ske would have died before
calling for help. Aftar being help.
elout of her predicament and
taken into the house, it was found
that her right hip was dislocated.
A physician from Pedro was sent
for who set the dislocated limb,
but the ciicus-performer will be
laid up for several weeks.
Woman frequently display re
markable courage and nerve when
required to endare suffering,
Last Thursday in a factory of the
Brosto (Conn.) Manufacturing
Company, Emma Numaun was
the vietim of a terrible accident,
and the eoolnass amd perfect seli
possession which she displayed
under the most trying circumstan
ces excited the wonder of Lier com
penions and of the surgecns who
were summoned to her relief. As
she was standing on her table her
hair caught in the shafting, and
in an instant the whole top of her
head, ineluding her left ear, her
left eyelid, skin of the forehead,
and as far as her hair went down
her neck, was town off and drop
pelon the floor beside her. Oth
er girls ran and fainted. Shel
coolly stepped down and seated
herself while a foreman came and 1
replaced the scalp. The docter
stitched it on with seventy stiteh
a; and hoped for her recovery.
Not once did she wince. On Fri.
day, however, it was found that de
composition had begun, and it be
came mnecessary {o remove the
8 alp,Todofo m zanza and oiled silk i
have been placed over tha bare
skullj ‘l'he operation was a"diffi
cult one,but tl e girl bore it brave
ly. At last accounts she was suf
fering from a high fever, bat the
doctors had hopes that her strong
constitution will bring her
tirough, ‘
Wonderiul Cures. ‘
W. D. Hoyt & Co, Wholesale
and Retail Druggists of Rome,
Ga., says: We have been selling
Dr. King’s New Discovery, Elec
tric Bitters and Backlen’s Arnisa
Salve for two years. Have never
handled remedies that sell as
well, or give such universal satis
faction. There have been some
wonderfual cures effected by these
medicines in this city. Several
cases of pronounced Consummtion
have Leen entirely cur-d by use
of a few bottles of Dr. King’s
New Discovery, taken in connec
tion with ILlectric Ditters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by
Crouch Bros.
Taw Constitution announces the
arrival of forty blowers in Atlan.
ta. They difter from the 40,000
other blowars in Atlanta in that
they will blow glass instead of the
city. e
l’ © BUGS BY TUE MILEION. #
‘A SCENTED €CARGO THAT ARRIVED
YESTERDAY FROM SOUTH AMERICAR,
Philadelphia Press.. , £ i 5
The Italian bark Tommasino,
Captain Trapani, arrived im PQ‘ 3
yesterday from Buenos Ayres,
after a passage of seventy-five'
days, with a cargo of bones. The
bones were in a much decayed
stute and the steneh in the cabins,
of the vessel, together with thes
millions of reptiles that erawled,
through all the oracks in the.
cabin, was more than the ordinary.
landlubber could stand. The
bones had been on bhoard the ves«
sel since the middle of November
and were nearly alive with all
sorts of bugs. Even the maccare.
ni upon which tho men were fed
when hroken up were found to
harbor the pests. Bat this did
not stop the appetitss of any of
the old sailors. K
The pilot who brought the ve{- |
sel to port says that while stand
ing at vhe whesl the bugs vofilfi
crawl up his legs and down into
his boots. One of the crew was
asked whether they wera always
troubled by the creatures when
earrying bones, but all he could
say in broken English was that
they had disappeared when the
vessel got into the cold weather.
It must have been Somothing
awful down in the warm latitudes,
for the decks and cabins were.
alive with them, Longshoremen
sy the reason they were so no
ticeable yesterday was on account
of the warm and damp atmos
phers. The smell on hoard the
vessel is unbearable and cannot
be realized by one that has never
experienced it. How the sailora
stand it is a mystory, but it don’t
seem to cost them a thought, as
they walk up and down the decks
smoking long clap pipes.
A Weman’s Letters.
Detroit Free Press.
There are ouly two oclasses—
business letters and letters whiok
are strictly confilential.
Shae seldom writes a business
lettar,but when she does i$ is very
short. occupying about five lines
on the page of folio note paper.
It is usnally very stilted, and
the reader fosls as though she
had, in writing, stood ten feet dis
tant and used a fishing pole as a
pen staff, A
She confines herself strictly to
the rales of rhetorie, and commas,
semieolons and periodsare adjust
ed with paintul nicety.
She naver forgets to name post.
office, county and state—whersin
she is ahead of a good many busi
ness mon-—and subseribas her
nama with a precision that makes
a man feel as though some c¢na
were filing a saw.
In all other eorrespondence the
characteristics of the business lete
ters are conspicuounsly absent.
She doesn’t tronble hersolf to
think when she is writing a eonfl
dential letter--tha action seoms
almost involcntary.
She begins at the apper left
hand corner of tha fiest page, and
the name of the parson addressed
is usually prezedad by about four
adjectives.
Line after lino is writton wuntil
the third page of tha last sheet ia
covered, when the lettar is closed
and signed, “Your owa Luln,” op
“Your true friend Nellie.”
Then sha boegins to think!
There is somethinz sho has
been dying to tell —what isit?
O, yes! And she adds a post~
seript.
‘ Why I Am a Poor Maxn.
“Wool Hat,” in Planter’'s Advoe
cate, tells the following plain stoe
ry why he is poor:
“l am poor becanse Ibuy more
than Isell. In the first place, I
buy a part of my meat from the
Northwest; my fish come from
Portland, for the taking of which
the Mainelander receives a bounty
from the government, My onin
ion sets and all my garden seads
I buy from Michigan, I sold the
wool {rom eightcen sheep at 37}
cents per pouad to an agent of the
manufacturing company at Read.
ing, Pa; four months thereafter
bought a hat from the same eom.
pany, paying at the rate of gix
dollars per pound for tha woal,
The hide of a buck I sald at five
oents per pound. It went ta El
mira, N. Y., was tanued,sent hagk,
and I bought 1t at 35:cents per
pound, and it weighed more than
it did when I sold it, My ax
handles eyme from Connectiout,
my wa'‘ches from Delaware,
my pen, ink and paper . from
Now Yorl. Am 1 the ealy fool ig.
Lieurél;n '3"_ ‘