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P OS I r r I A r E L Y C A S II.
Volume 8.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, June 1st, 1889.
Number 5.
L. C. Haynk, .1. T. Newbery,
President. Cashier.
Planters Iroan £ {SavingsBank*
821 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
Capital—Ail Paid in Cash, $100,000.
"W ith Stockholders liabllitv which guaran
tees absolute safety to all depositors.
This is the oldest Savings Bank in this city
with an unbroken record of nearly 20 years.
It transacts a general Banking business in
all of its branches, and is authorized to re
ceive and disburse money, securities or prop-
crty in trust, and to art as financial agent for
any person firm or corporation.
£££“■ Interest allowed on deposits in the
Savings Department. apr20,’8Sl-by
gW The farm mortgages of the
great t<late of Illinois places an en
cumbrance of $4 on every acre,
which foots up the neat little sum
of *142,400,300.
gW Rich New Yorkers don’t
mind paying *12 for a dinner
ticket when they can set down at
the table with Ex-President Cleve
land.
gW The cold storage enterprise
gotten up by IT. I. Kimball has
come to an untimely end. Its
freezing process has treezed out its
stockholders.
gW During the yellow fever
scourge in Florida last year the
outside public contributed for the
relief of sufferers $345,440, and of
this large amount the state, of New
York alone gave over $130,000.
gfrW The barracks at Atlanta
is being fill with troops. There will
be nine batteries of artillery. They
will remain at McPherson’s bar
racks until the epidemic season
is over, and then they will go to
points in Florida.
gW Dr. J. G. Armstrong, of
Atlanta, will deliver the memorial
day oration at the national ceme-
tary at Marietta. It is somewhat
of a departure to select a Southern
man as the orator on such an occa
sion. Dr. Armstrong is a brilliant
writer and an eloquent speaker, and
will doubtless acquit himself with
credit, and do full justice to the oc
casion.
gw A writer in the Atlanta
Constitution says that he is ac
quainted with Mrs. Maybrick, who
has been arrested in Liverpool for
poisoning her husband,and that she
is not a niece of Jeff Davis. We
are glad to hear it and hope he is
correct, though the report has been
so widely circulated that the fame
•of it has gone too far for successful
contradiction.
gW A steamer has left New
York for Greytown,Niearaugua,and
on her arrival work will begin on
the canal. Very little is known as
to the financial ability of the com
pany which has undertaken the
work, nor has the public any data
as to what amount of stock has
been subscribed. Its a big under
taking, and its accomplishment calls
for big money.
£W Fannie Davenport closses
Tier theatrical season with a clear
profit of $90,000, and a new husband.
Just at present she doubtleess feels
very bouyant, but who knows but
what she has ‘‘made in the jig
will be lost in the reel.”—
The marriages of celebrated actress
es don’t often realize long contin
ued bliss, and as a general thing
the husbands are insignificant speci
mens of utter worthlessness.
gW The Americans at Paris
have established the reputation for
keeping the Sabbath. At the ex
position the American section is
closed every Sunday. In Europe
Sunday is generally regarded as a
holiday and is devoted to pleasure
and sight seeing, but our represen
tatives at Paris are true to the tra
dition of the fathers.and the customs
of their country, and “remember the
Sabbath to keep it holy.”
gw The Savannah and Wes
tern railroad, (a part of the Cen
tra! system) has mortgaged all its
property to the Central Trust Com
pany of New York, and has bor
rowed $18,000,000. This mon ey
will be used in paying up all in
debtedness and in building the
Columbus and Western road, from
Columbus to Birmingham and also
Eden (No 2 on the Central line) to
Americus. Railroad managers
don’t fear debt, as is shown in this
instance by those who control the
Central.
gW The conservative disposi
tion of the business men of Savan
nah manifests itself by the refusal
to take stock in the building of two
railroads to their city. It only re
quired $125,000 to secure both of
these roads, and this comparatively
small amount of money is not forth
coming. Either the influence of
the Central railroad to keep down
all competition is all powerful, or
the grip on the money bags is so
strongly riveted that eyen public
enterprise cannot loosen the grasp
and let out the shekels.
£W The White Cap element,
especially in the Western and
some of the Northern states, show
a steady increase. They have es
tablished a foothold in the South,
and even in Georgia can they be
heard from. Gov. Gordon is iu
earnest for their summary expul
sion from Georgia, and we hope his
efforts will prove eminently suc
cessful. If the laws are not strong
enough to suppress crime and pro
tect the innocent, the country will
go to the dogs. The existence of
White Caps iujany community does
riot speak well for the people.
A TK1P TO BELL.
The Strani;e Experience or lion. Charles Mitchell,
or Gwinnett.
A Lawrenceville special to At
lanta Constitution dated May 23d
says: Charley Mitchell, of this
county, tells the following expe
rience:
“Several years ago I was bit by
a mad dog, and have suffered from
its effects nearly every year since
then, ana now nave spasms occa
sion ally. I had been down to
Florida, and when I returned to
the hill country my system was
filled with malaria, and I was in
bad health, but as I had to work
for a living, I went to Atlanta and
engaged to drum for a clothing
house on. Whitehall street, know’h
as Menko & Bro. Alter complet
ing my contract I returned home
for a few days rest, and started
back to Atlanta to get a job. I was
trudging along the road, feeling as
well as usual. After I went down
the hill, crossed the branch and
started up on the other side. Sud
denly I saw a great ball of fire, as
big as a hogshead, come rolling
down the hill, and in an instant I
seemed to fall a thousand feet. I
knew everything just as well as
I do now, except that I was entirely
helpless, and found myself lying iu
hell. I tried but could not get up.
I looked around and saw hundreds,
of people; some I knew and some
I did not. Some I recognized from
description of them I had heard
while a boy. I remember seeing
Reet Jones, of South Carolina, and
Will Redmond. The crowd was all
sizes and colors, and were walking
about, and at every step they gave
the sparks would fly up from their
legs like the red scales that fly
from hot iron when struck by a
hammer on an anvil. They had
great fiery clubs and were baltie-
whanging one another worse than
any row you ever saw. The fire
seemed to be knee deep, and it
would roll as they tramped through
it. One of the tellows I knew
walked up to me and kicked me,
and I begged him not to do that
any more. How long I remained
there I have no idea, but I saw
everything just as plain as I see
you sitting there. When I came
to again I was lying in a room at
Mr. Bridewell’s in Decatur.—
Mrs. Bridewell was sitting by a fire,
and the first word I spoke was,
‘Where am I ?’
“ ‘Never mind,Charley,’ she said;
‘you will be taken care of.’
“It was Wednesday evening,
about 2 o’clock, when I was stricken
down on the road, and I afterwards
learned that I was picked up in the
road or ditch by Dr. Mason, ot Deca
tur, the clerk ot the court and or
dinary and two negro men and
carried to Bridewell’s hotel. They
supposed 1 was dead as I had no
pulse. After they got the blood to
circulating I was run mad, but still
in torment. 1 lay in this uncon
scious condition from Wednesday
until next Friday week. And I
was as good as dead, for I knew
nothing of being taken to the bouse
or anything that occurred all this
time, except as I have stated. It
made an impression,that I will
never forget while I live. I can
see them now, those horrid, demon
faces, as they fought with their
clubs of fire, and mingling together,
only to curse, brandish their weap
ons and fight like wild beasts. It
was a horrid vision! Call it what
you may, but it was an awful re
ality to me, and the memory of it
follows like a shadow everywhere
I go.” __
A Marshal Saved—Life and llalr.
Monticello, Fla., Jan. 21st, 1889.
Messrs. Lippman, Bros.—Sa
vannah, Ga., proprietors P. P. P.:—
For the past eight years I have
been in bad health, suffering with
malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia,
dropsy, my digestion was bad and
my hair all came out. In fact I
was nearly a wreck. I had taken
kidney and blood medicines which
did me no good. When I began
taking P. P. P. about three months
ago, I was as weak as a child. I
have only taken four bottles (small
size) and to-day I am a well man
and my hair has “come again.” I
cannot recommend P. P. P. too
highly. W. F. Ware,
Marshal Monticello, Fla.,
Witness: F.C. Owens.
Early Peaches.
Macon Telegraph.
Gordon, May 28.—The fruit
season is at hand. Mr. L. Hardy
and Mr. L. W. Lee were the first
to ship peaches from this place, the
first being shipped on May 27th. A
good many cherries are being ship
ped from this place and are bring
ing good prices.
McIntyre, May 28.—The first
peaches from Wilkinson county
were shipped from McIntyre on
May 28th. They were grown by
W. B. Etheridge and shipped by
N. B. Price to Pancoast & Griffiths,
Philadelphia.
lie Joined the Masons.
Elberton Star.
It is not generally known that
Gen. Robert Toombs joined the
Masonic fraternity in Elberton,
and that the initiation took place
shortly after the surrender, when
this great soldier and statesman
was hiding from the yankees to
escape capture. Bands of Federal
troops were scattered all over El
bert and Wilkes counties, searching
eyery nook and corner for Gen.
Toombs, but he succeeded in escap
ing to Cuba, and afterward to Eng
land. Maj. John H. Jones was at
that time master of the Elberton
lodge, and information reached
him that Gen. Toombs, who was
concealed at Col. Martin’s, was anx
ious to join the order. Maj. Jones
imparted this information to a few
members of the lodge, and one dark
night everything was gotten in
readiness for the initiation. In a
disguise Geu. Toombs came into
Elberton, having succeeded in es
caping the yankee pickets that
guarded every road. He was car
ried by a back way into the lodge
room, where a few members await
ed him, and by the dim light of a
single candle the three degrees that
constituted him a Master Mason
were administered. Those who
were present say that so remark
able was Gen. Toombs’ memory’
that he went through the ordeal
without a single mistake, and in a
short time became one of the
brightest Masons in the United
States. After the initiation Gen.
Toombs was taken in hand by the
Masons, passed from one brother
to another until he w’as finally’
safely gotten out of the country.
Every person in Elbert county was
nis friend, and he had no fear of
betray’al. Occasionally the general
would sleep In a house. The great
er part of the time he lay conceal
ed in the woods and swamps.
Pimples, Son's, Aches and Paines.
When a hundred bottles of saraparilla or
other pretentious specifics fail to eradicate
in-horn scrofula or contagious blood poison,
remember that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
Balm) has gained many thousand victories,
in as many seemly incurable instances.—
Send to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.,
for “Book of Wonders,” and be convinced. It
is the only true blood purifier.
Cl. W. Messrs, Howell’s X Roads, Ga.,
writes: “I was aiHicted nine years with
sores. All the medicine I could take did me
no good. I then tried B. B. B., and S bottles
cured me sound,”
Mrs. S. M. Wilson, Rounu Mountain.Texas,
writes: “A lady friend of mine was troubled
with bumps and pimples on her face and
neck. She took three bottles of B. B. B.. and
her skin got soft and smooth, pimples disap
peared, and her health improved greatly.”
Jas. Tj. Bosworth, Atlanta, Ga., writes:
“Some years age I contracted blood poison.
I had no appetite, my digestion was ruined,
rheumatism drew up my limbs so I could
hardly walk, my throat was cauterized five
times. Hot Springs gave me no benefit, and
my life was one of torture until I gave B. B.
B. a trial, and, surprising as it may seem,
the use of five botties cured me.”
An Ungrateful sun.
Statesboro, Ga., May id— Mr.
J. J. Bowen writes a letter which
explains itself: “I wish to let you
and others know how I have been
treated by my’ son, Jack Bowen.
He was convicted and sentenced
to the penitentiary from this county’
for a term of ten years. On last
August ho escaped the convict
camp and has been back in this
county ever since, with the excep
tion of only a very little time, slip
ping from place to place, which was
all trouble to me. I, at a great ex
pense and trouble, got up a petition
and sent a man to Atlanta twice,
trying to get his pardon. On last
Saturday night, while I was away
from home, there being no one left
but E. M. Bowen, my son, and a
young man by the name of Proctor,
Jack came to my place and stayed
Sunday evening late, when he left,
as I had told him I did not want
him to come around me until he
could get his pardon, if possible. I
tried several times to get him to
go back to the convict camp and
give me a better chance to get him a
pardon,and said I would go with him
and do all I could for him. But when
I came home this morning I found
thatsomeoue had been in my trunk
and had taken about $40, and that
I am satisfied Jake is the party that
has the money, and if, as I believe,
he did take it he needs no pardon
whatever. 1 belive he is gone and
is making his way to Florida or some
place South. It pains me to write
you this, but I feel I want my friends
and foes to know my trouble and
see how a favored son has treated
his aged father.”
$500 Sot Called For.
It seems strange that it is neces
sary to persuade men that you can
cure their disease by offering a pre
mium to the man who fails to re
ceive benefit. And yet Dr. Sage
undoubtedly cured thousands of
cases of obstinate catarrh with his
“Catarrh Remedy’,” who would
never have applied to him, if it had
not been for the offer of the above
sum for an incurable case. Who is
the next bidder lor cure or cash ?
—Call on Mulherrin, Rice & Co.
Augusta, Ga., for boots, shoes, slip
pers and hats. tf
—Subscriptions are always cash.
Pickett’s Men Given a Flag.
Washington, May 27.—A com
mittee representing the surviving
members of the Philadelphia bri
gade this afternoon presented a
handsome new silk flag ot regula
tion size and containing forty-two
stars to Gen. Pickett’s division of
Virginia. The two commands fre
quently faced each other in battle
during the late war and fought
bravely against each other at Get
tysburg. Two years ago they again
met on the field of Getty sburg, at
the gathering ot surviving mem
bers of the two organizations, but
in a spirit of friendship instead of
hostility 7 . The purpose of the presen
tation to-day was to cement the
cordial relations begun two years
ago. After a brief speech by John
W. Frazier, chairman of the Phil
adelphia brigade’s committee, nar
rating the purpose of their meeting.
Col. Reily made a formal address
presenting the flag to his former
foemen. He referred to their
subsequent friendly gathering at
Gettysburg, and concluded by say
ing: “Let us pledge together our
fidelity to that flag which shall pro
tect us all alike, as but one people,
having but one destiny.”
Col. B. B. Berkely receiyed the
flag on behalf of Pickett camp. He
Interpreted the presentation as
being in sympathy with the great
centennial procession in New York,
where officers who wore blue and
gray in the great struggle, rode
proudly, peacefully, side by side.
The postmaster-general and Cor
poral Tanner were present and
made short speeches. The vete
rans then set down to a fine colla
tion.
$1,000 Reward.
One thousand dollars will be
paid to any chemist who will find
an analysis of S. S. S. (Swift Speci
fic) one particle of mercury, Iodide
of potash, or any poisonous sub
stance.
In 1873 I contracted blood poison,
which soon developed into its
severest secondary form, with
blotches and ugly sores all over my
body, which totally disabled me for
more than a year. The doctors
treated me all the time without
benefit. The disease steadily grow
ing worse and worse, I was unable
to work for more than a year; final
ly was persuaded to take Swift’s
Specific. After taking seven bot
tles I was sound and well, and
have not felt a symptom of the dis
ease since. This was sixteen years
ago.
Joe Vaughn.
Forsyth, Ga., Jan. 23,1889.
I have taken Swift’s Specific for
secondary blood poison, and de
rived great benefit. It acts much
better than potash, or any other
remedy’ that 1 have ever used.
B. F. Wingfield, M.D.,
Richmond, Va.
Treatise on blood and skin dis
eases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
A Pacific >Yar Scare.
Chicago, May 29.—A special dis
patch from Victoria, B. C., to the
Daily JYews says: “This city is in a
state of great excitement conse
quent upon an order received by’
the fleet to be prepared to sail for
Behring sea June 15th. The fleet
consists of the Swiftsure, Ampliion
and Defender. The Amphion is a
twenty’-knot cruiser, is heavily
armored, and is by far the most
powerful ship of war in the Pacific
ocean. Sealing schooners are being
assured that every' protection will
be afforded them. Torpedo boats
are being fitted for the protection
ot the harbor. The Colonist (news
paper) speaking on the subject,
praises the prompt action of the
British government in protecting
her interests and think that a rup
ture between England and the
United States is eminent.
Washington, May 29.—Nobody
at the state and navy departments
expressed alarm at the news com
ing from Victoria, B. C., that the
British North Pacific squadron had
been ordered to Berhring sea.
Commodore Walker, in charge of
the detail office at the navy depart
ment, says that none of our naval
vessels have been ordered to Alaska,
except the Thetis, which was as
signed to that station some time
ago and has been regularly engaged
in patrolling the Alaskan coast for
several summers past. He says he
does not think Great Britain and
the United States will war about
the seal fisheries.
A gTeat mistake perhaps was made when
Dr. Sherman named his great remedy Prick
ly Ash Bitters; but it is presumed at that
time all remedies for the blood, etc., were
called Bitters. Had he called it Prickly
Ash “Regulator,” “Curative” or almost any
thing but bitters, it undoubtedly would have
surperseded all other preparations of similar
character. The name bitters is misleading;
it is purely a medicine, and cannot be used
as a beverage
Booth’s Body Shot From a Mortar.
H. Micherson, a well known
stevedore of Brunswick, relates
the following: He says that the
steamer, City of Brunswick, now
plying between Brunswick and
Fernandina, is none other than the
old government boat Thomas Col
lier that plied on the Potomac dur
ing the war, and that the body’ of
John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s as
sassin, was once on the Collier.
In response to the queries as to
what became of Booth’s body. Mr.
Micherson said: “I am satisfied,
in my own mind, as to what became
of John Wilkes Booth’s body. It
was shot out of a mortar gun, and
the fragments dropped along the
hanks of the placid Potomac river
below Washington City. You see I
was a mariner in the United States
naval service, and in April, 186-5,
was on the monitor Monitac. We
were then on the Potomac, near
Point Lookout, when Colonel
Baker’s cavalry captured Booth
and Harold on the Virginia side.
Booth was killed, you know, by
Bostan Corbett, a private soldier,
just as lie was coming out of a
barn. Well, Harold and Wilkes
Booth’s body was brought on board
the Monitac, and from there was
transferred to the Thomas Collier, a
steamer that was doing mail ser
vice between some point in Vir
ginia and Washington City—a
steamer that was afterward sold
to parties in Brunswick, and was
remodeled and her name changed
to the City of Brunswick.
DO NOT SUFFER ANY LONGER.
Knowing that a cough can be
checked iu a day, and the first
stages of consumption broken in a
week, we hereby guarantee Dr.
Acker’s English Remedy for Con
sumption, and will refund the
money to all who buy, take it as
per directions, and do not find our
statement correct. Sold by White
head & Co., Waynesboro, and E. H.
Pipkin, Midville.
Mad Stones.
Dr. T. S. Page, of Pringle, was in
Sandersville last week and had
with him two little stones of pecu
liar shape and appearance, which
he says are claimed to be genuine
mad stones, but they have never
been tested in the power of extract
ing the poison from the bite of rabid
dogs. The stones are the property
of Mrs. Reuben Frost, of Johnson
county, and were given her long
years ago by her father, the famous
huntsman, Lord Price. Mrs. Frost
says her father killed in his lifetime
upward of five hundred deer, and
found only three mad stones, two of
which he gave her when a girl and
which are those shown the Sanders
ville Progress. She further states
that her father told her that a hun
ter could tell as soon as a deer was
killed whether or not its stomach
contained the magic stone, as in
every’ instance where tne stone is
the hair of the animal slain turned
the reverse from its natural position
when cold in death. Mrs. Frost is
perfectly willing to allow the use of
these stones free of charge if any
person chances to the dread mis
fortune of needing them.
nOW DOCTORS CONQUER DEA TIT.
Doctor Walker K. Hammond
say’s: “After a long experience 1
have come to the conclusion that
two-thirds of all deaths from coughs,
pneumonia and consumption, might
be avoided if Dr. Acker’s English
Remedy for Consumption were on
ly carefully used in time.” This
wonderful Remedy is sold under a
positive guarantee by Whitehead &
Co., Waynesboro, and E. H. Pipkin,
Midville.
Brunswick Kifleman Mntl.
Rrunswick, Ga., May 25.—The
Brunswick riflemen are fighting
mad. They went into camp last
week to drill for the St. Simon’s
encampment, and this afternoon re
ceived orders to break camp and
move. The order came from an
irate and wealthy citizen who
claims that the orders are given so
loud at the 6 o’clock drill as to dis
turb his morning slumbers, and
rather than put up with it he pur
chased the lot whereon the camp
is located, at a cost of $3,500, and
to-day the boys had to move in
short order. They have arranged
for grounds only one square farther
away, and now they swear to raise
a noise sure enough. Some wish
to fire a salute at 6 o’clock every
morning, while they’ have all but
decided to have the drums beat
a long roll and march by the ob
noxious house that found so much
that was obnoxious in them.
TERRIBLE.
Two-thirds of all deaths in
New York City are from consump
tion or pneumonia. The same pro
portion holds for most other cities.
Delays are dangerous. Dr. Acker’s
English Remedy for Consumption
will always relieve, and may save
your life. Sold by Whitehead &
Co., Waynesboro, and E. H. Pipkin,
Midville.
A SAD STORY.
The child coughed. The mother
ran. No remedy was near. Before
morning the poor little sufferer
was dead. Moral: Always keep
Dr. Acker’s English Remedy at
hand. Sold by Whitehead, & Co.,
Waynesboro, and E. H. Pipkin,
Midville.
A Flower Thief Gets a Year.
Savannah News, May 2Sth.
In the city court yesterday Judge
Harden read the law to Charles
Henry’ (colored), who pleaded guil
ty to carrying off a pot of flowers
from a grave in Laurel Grove
cemetery. The court took occa
sion to say that a plea of guilty,
under the circumstances, did not
warrant the prisoner in excepting
clemency. No one hut a man with
a bad heart would descend to that
most despicable ot all crimes, to rob
an enclosure where the dead are
buried. He gave Henry a y r ear on
the chain-gang.
Uailwa}' Mall Clerks.
Washington, May 29.—The civil
service commissioner gives notice
that in order to secure ample regis
ters of persons eligible for appoint
ment to the position of railway
mail clerks from the following
named states and territories, spe
cial examinations of applicants for
that position will be held by the
United States civil service commis
sion on Wednesday, June 12th, at
Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta, Savan
nah and Macon, Ga.; New Orleans
and Shreyeport, La.; Vicksburg,
Jackson and Oxford, Miss.; Char
leston and Columbia, S. C.
Information Wanted.
The widow of Wesley Scales, a
Mexican war veteran, Is anxious
to obtain information through
which she can ascertain the name
of the captain or colonel under
whom Mr. Scales served. Mr.
Scales enlisted from Habersham,
or some other North Georgia
county’, about, 1846-47, and after
his return from the war lived in
Fay’ette county, tiiis state, where
he married, about 1S53. He went
into the Confederate army’ from
Fayette county, and died near
Augusta, Ga., in 1864. His widow is
in need of the pension which she
can obtain if she comes in posses
sion of the information sought.
IIIb Bellows Blew Up.
One day last week Mr. W. A.
Newton, who lives one mile south
of Jackson, went to his blacksmith
shop and started a fire in the fur
nace for the purpose of sharpening
some plows. After heating one
plow and standing at the anvil
hammering away on it the bellows
burst with the noise of a large
gun. Ly’ing on the bellows were
several heavy plows and other old
irons and they were dashed against
the roof of the house with such
force as to loose the shingles. The
leather covering was torn into
shreds. It is supposed that the
bellows had become filled with gas
from the stone coal that had been
used in the furnace, which becom
ing ignited, caused the explosion.
Gcii. Longslreet Strikes It Kich.
A very’ rich vein of gold ore W’as
discovered Thursday, upon the
property of Gen. Longstreet and
Tony Merck, within a mile of the
city limits of Gainesville. The
vein is about 4 feet in width where
first discovered, and as far as has
been traced appears to grow wider.
The rock is literallly covered and
filled with rich yellow gold, and
a panning of about to quarts yielded
at least five pennyweights of the
purest gold. It is impossible to cor
rectly estimate the value of a ton
of this ore, but it will certainly
yield many thousands of dollars to
the ton as long as the ore continues
as rich as that first found. The
mine is within two miles of the
Chattahoochee river, and the lot
on which the gold was found con
tains 150 acres.
Snake Charming.
A remarkable case of snake
charming is reported from Gresh-
amvilJe. The mother of little
Belle Hart saw her child standing,
with a stick in hand, steadfastly
gazing at a large coach-whip snake,
both snake and child looking in
tently at each other, and neither
moving an inch. The child was
pulled away by her mother, when
Belle, trembling from head to foot,
began violently to cry. She ex
plained that she had intended kill
ing the snake, but it “caught her
eye.” Try as she would—and hor
ror-stricken as she was she tried
hard—she could not withdraw her
eyes from the snake, and she feels
that if she had not been taken
away from the spot by her mother,
she could not much longer have
resisted an influence which seemed
to urge her to advance to where the
snake lay on the ground.
I P stands for Pierce, the wonderful doctor.
Providing safe remedies, of which he is con-
eoctor,
Pleasant to taste, and easy to take.
Purgative Pellets now “bear off the cake.”
The mosquito is a hum-bug.
Knows the ropes—The sailor-
Historians are generally very see
date people.
Everything is of dust. Even
razors are ground.
It is the fellow running for stakes
that tries hard not to have a big
time.
What part of a steamer is the
best to study astronomy ? The star
board.
“I may he a slave, but there’s
nothing of the surf about me,” said
the mill stream.
When a cat giv r es an entertain
ment from the top of a wall, it isn’t
the cat we object to, it’s the waul.
Smith—“Is your friond Jones con
tracting any bad habits?” Brown
—“No, he is still expanding them.”
A good many of the people who
are settling in Canada are those
who have neglected to settle here.
Fogg declares that he no longer
spends the evenings with Miss
Spilkius because her father is a
freebooter.
Norah—An’ has your mistress
good taste ? Bridget—Good taste,
is it? Faith her dresses look better
on me than do me own.
There is a man in Fulton county
who has evidently been having the
hay’ fever. He is reported to be en
gaged to fiye grass widows.
Teacher (to class)—Why is pro
crastination the thief of time? Boy
at the foot ot the class)—Because it
takes a person so long to say it.
A Texas editor being asked why
he discontinued publishing replied
—“Everybody else stopped my’ pa
per, so I concluded that I would.”
Irate father (to young Binks)—
‘See here, young man! didn’t I tell
you never to enter my gate again ?”
Young Binks—“Yes, sir; I didn’t.
I clum over the fence.”
The nuisance of the hotel was in
the parlor warbling, “Oh, would I
were a bird.” “Well, here is a be
ginning for you,” said the landlord
and he handed him his bill.
Prison Alissionary’—What are you
in for In end ? Convict (bitterly—
Just for missing a train. P. M.—
Nonsense. C.—No nonsense sir. I
missed the train for Montreal.
“Well, doctor, how did you enjoy
your African journey? Plow did
you like the sayages?” “O, they
are kind-hearted people; they want
ed to keep me there for dinner.”
A farmer writes to an agricul
tural paper asking: “How to make
fence posts last?” and tiie editor
wisely restrains an impulse to tell
him to make the fence rails first.
Hicks (to Briggs, who has had a
day out at target practice)—“Did
you hit the bullseye, old man?”
Briggs—“No; it was a cow, I be
lieve. At any rate it cost me $100
to fix it up with the fellow who
owned the critter.”
First club idler— I noticed that a
great many.’ people were mourning
at old Boozier’s funeral the other
day. I didn’t know he had a rela
tive in the world. Second club
idler—O, they were not his relatives
—they were his creditors.
“What is an orphan ?” asked the
teacher. None of the children
knew. “Well, I’m an orphan,” said
the teacher, as not too plain a clew.
A hand popped up and the owner
exclaimed: “An orphan is a woman
that wants to get married and
can’t.”
“Yes, Clara,” continued Mr. Bree-
zie to eldest daughter, “to succeed
in this life one should husband his
opportunities.” “Yes, pa,” replied
Clara, with a far-away look in her
eyes, “especially when one’s oppor
tunities are a tamily of grown-up
daughters.”
“I see,” remarked Mr. Fangle,
glancing up from a morning paper,
“that a Spanish geographer has
proved the world to be flat.” “I sup
pose that means a change ot geog
raphies in school,’’replied Mrs. Fan
gle, “and just alter I had bought
Jimmie a new one, too.”
Stern parent—Young man, I am
astonished at your impudence. You
ask to marry my daughter, know
ing her to be wealthy in her own
right, while you haven’t a cent.
Self-possessed youth — That’s all
right. What’s the need of my hav
ing money when she has plenty.
Mrs. DeBillets—I really most
travel this summer for my health.
It is such a worry, though to
make up one’s mine what route to
take. Aunt Hannah —Why, Lord,
child, if you’re feelin’ bad at this
time o’ year, the best root you can
get is yaller dock, to roy notion.