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BRRBY T. MOSELY, Editor. BD. r. MCGOWAN, But Mnu’gr. VOL XIII. Lead - Others Follow. I The HUGGINS CHINA HOUSE ■! BROAD ST., ATHENS, G A.—SAME OLD STAND. Qeautiful Decorated Qhina and Qrockey j ■.’'w.iE T’E, ALL GRDEB AND TRICES. SOLD IN SETS OR SINGLE HECKS Lamps in gient variety and of all grades. * Glassware in ftQ.pattern Our stock was never so large, so pretty and so complete,* Knives and Forks, Spoftns, Castors, Tinware and Granite Ironware in almost endless profusion and at all prices. Housekeepers can find everything they need at our place. Prices were never so low and goods.so pretty. J. H. HUGGINS & SON. BROAD STREET - . - , ~ . ATHENS, GA WHtN YOU WANT BARGAINS GIVE D. E. GEIFFETH, AT DANIEI.SVILLE, GA. A chance at your trade. lie carries a full ari l comM line of DRY GOODS NOTONS, ETC Which were bought before the rie, and he is giving his customers the benefit of his lucky purchase. In GROOERIBS , STAPLE GOODS ANPJX)UNTIiY . PRODUCE He does not propose to be undersold. He alse carries U ' '•* i: - ' 'y, ... - v .. woodenware, etc. His prices aie as low as tbe lowest, and all lie nsks'is that you give him a call see his goodsjmd hour* his prices. Remember the place J. 8. GRIFFITH DANIELSVJLLE, GA.’ | ere |rel 111 our New and commodious brick store, and are better prepared than ever to serve our customers, and will GIVE 9IORE G OODS FOR The Honey Than any House iD North-east Georgia. -We now carry a full and complete line of Double Width Henriettas, Cashmeres Chameleon Fancies, Velvets, Tiiinmings, Lace, etc. In fact anything kept in a First-class Dry Goods store on which we cun save you from 10 to 20 per cent, on Athens or Atlanta prices. Come and see stock. We have a sufficiency of clerks to wait on you prompt y. Our stock of Clotting’, Shoes and Mats Is complete and prices are away down ; We are Headquarters for the Celebi ated Ganielsvlle Shoe, We havo added a complete line of stoves and tinware. Wd* Deal the record and d#fy competition a Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars. Give us a trial, is all we as*. BROOKS cSc. FOWB 3E& €l)c panktamife JMomfor. FOR A3Z-A.X>lSo3S3^^p^TTlfl"T'S‘. CAMCLmILLI-. GA-.. “I GUESS l CAN.’ 1 E'nc washed the dishes and made the bed And patiently got on tier knees to scrub, lu winter -she miikcd the cows in the shed, In i.uiuuier bent o’er the steaming tub. She made ti e garden and swept and baked And cocked l'ar boarders and raked the hay And neve r complained tliut her poor headaolied Or John v.-aa almost always away. NVh. j, they asked her it she would like to Vote fche sstd with a sigh and a look remote, ‘•I liy V done more work than my old man. It‘ I have the time, why, I guess I can." She rocked the cradle tho while sho churned; She kept tho children so clean apd neat, And most cf the living her poor hands earned, Whllo John talked ixilitits in tho street; When any were sick, (lie watch sho kept. Sho gathered the little ones Sabbath day And walked two iv.ilrs to the church ahvay. She mendtkl and Hewed while her huiliand s'.'pt; j w She taught tha children inch dp>'A spall. Wlemat le y asked if siie favuiveT Lho sulfrago . 'plan, She tiihiiUy glancod at her linsbaad, ‘'Will, U John is willing, I can," And so she drudged. and she. boked mut brewed, , A'ld toiled from dawn to tho miuuifht hour. John drank and gtoacipt-d tuij split nncl chawed And talked and gnimblcd of “woman's sphere." And her children grew into stalwart niem, lira vo and liclpl'v.l and by her side. Sl.e knew she made tlioro, and once upain When they asked the question she said with prlqf: . “There’a a hundred doilr.v woman sonietimoa Yoked to ft fsnSil ten do.lor l.usu. I’m suro it Isn’t cno < f the eritata To veto ogaSissrt 1,1-u. I guts . I can." —-Krs. Emma r. hvali'.ry ia-Woman's Journal. Tlio Cock of tlio Walk. Ho has all tiio faulty and few of tho •virtues of 0 jealous husband, and if bo objects forcibly to sea any ono dangling about his own wives he is absolutely unscrupulous in Wie mat ter of poaching on other people’s pre serves. In short, in Lis matrimoni al relations bis rnotto may bo said to ho, “What’s tbino is mine, and what’s mine is my own.” When be is in good temper lie in modumto'- ly polite to tho fair sox and may at times bo seen, standing with bis eyes half closed while a chosen cir cle of lady friends perform for bint much tlio same kindly office us Bot tom exacted of liis attendant elves. When, again, ho Ims earon and drunk as much as 110 can conven iently carry, ho will bo generous enough to summon liis fuvqrite sul tana for the time being and allow her to piok up any surplus food. But oven then it is a Danmqlean re past,for ifAier lord and master, who is v like the,,school boy— generally hungry rikTalways greedy—sndden is cro^ea-ii ly'awarq that her presence—or shall ' we ftnjgltGg assistance?—is no longer required. Bho becomes the recipient of a hearty peck and is sent about her business,- an innocent, viotfin, nko Vasbti, of a despot’s caprice. At the morning and evening meal, when all fowls have a right to fool hungry and there is a general rush for the food, ,we note a painful lack of dignity about the royal move ments, for then cooky thinks noth ing of upsetting the Indies of the court in all directions and pecking right and left with a hearty good will which spares neither ago nor sex.—Blackwood’s Magazine. i With In the Gaining ltoomi Up(exican gambling saloon jßgd ; -Jfero a little slack, and tho habitues of tho tool W^ tUSCaaSiag topics of l> ttJßHPjloll 1 <-|; in their If , mof for no other pur i 1 a ;; c hair u little re be ;-jbit> jj a mau who hat MLlwfo’tnlnuci. .11 W n t ' , V.'-l Me it 1. as he ’ pvof W&ife JbteSS an TMte "rPflbzi h g at tho roulette while the little hall tl° croupier rakes "in 1 j#€pfe and bauds out.the win ird|HLucbiiiCliko deftness and ftcCnafrT'lNt) one ever suspeeta tho out of teii of those wb(&jf|si;<l Win have no idea q| to them. But they takrf 4’bat tho croupier gives them - - ;f.-r of course, Ho has no in ducttßllfi'O cheat, for tho hank is nqf anyway tho bank must win ij|i belong run, oomowliat may. 4 A Dhinaman may saunter in to givoffcme Animation to the tnhlo. Go ttis for no chips, but wagers hnrd!ifcold silver. Where the'Mexi can $1 lie will lay s>i>, and often er twfjn ,pot he wins, With the ah soiuNfef'f hurry niul oci "ei i!f;t- peculiar to tho oriental he doesfnof fake jn his in cos a cigarette, rolls and then lays holds of h&mkaML You will bo sure to see* at nS' a npld lunatic with pa jrrr |h'(V before him noting it jind slnv.Jy laying form its,*‘new and infallible sys i- m,” Ajj i tln-ra w-ei’H any way of :i law of r.ainro! Nay amfltben a young gambler w’ilMntcr, bringing wit'll him into ibojHJftyy laden atmosphere a gust otJSftlv air from tho street, He w|fe3t and havo a run of luclc that I to him tlieattention of all luster eyes that surround is going to placo his money and ask Hm to fdlloty his,load. Whero hut round tlio gambling table do you scf, so many and such striking examv.lei'sM, statuesefue iih mohility? You 'jjiot by min utes, hut by hounCfno time that gray haired votary orchanoo has sat with his eyes fixed on vacancy. And how much longer will ho stay in that posture? Perhaps until tho lamps are turned oil in tho gray morning or until ho summons up energy enough to stagger oif to the pawnshop to raiso a pittance. And thnt-nian who has sat, so long with his bead buried in his hands—wlmt is lie thinking of? Perhaps of home as it was once and as it might have been stiil. Asp: inkling of Anglo-Saxons is generally tbero to give heightened piquancy to the scene. A “sporty” railroad conductor just in from his run perhaps goes there to try his luck, and you eeo tho tattered, demoralized specimen of his race who in sheer pity has been given a trial and turned oif by all tho Amer ican enterprises in Mexico. How does ho get a living now?—Moxiean | Bornld. War ah tivtllzer. Merchants undoubtedly in early times pen el rated foreign tribes and nations and brought homo in addi tion to their wares stories of what they had seen and learned abroad. 'But the merchants were too few’, too {ignorant and prejudiced and too lit gio given to observation to sprepd ibruch useful information in this r way, mid their peoples woro too self satisfied to pi vo up any customs and beliefs of their own for those thus brought them. How, then, could any effective re sult from national contact ho pro duced? In primitive limes the only effective agency must havo been that of war. Destructive as this is in its results, it has tho 0110 useful effect of thoroughly commingling diverse peoples, bringing them into tho closest contact with each othor and forcing upon the attention of each the advantages possessed by the other. Tho caldron of human society must bo sot boiling before its contents can fully rninglo and com bine. War is tho furnace in which this ebullition takes place and through whose activity human ideas are forced to circulate through and through tho minds of men.—Charles Morris in Popular Bcionoo Monthly, — — < i nrUfif'/: 1. - **••. - AttUboM ‘.sanhi- 1 >. - v-w. ■ fan&dfrcr Ortrr'-'Q ;;vjj iv . . * < # J; JHrottr>; J v-.-Jo' yiftfmdit.Wik - *■. • ■ rtr.-tl THE CRANBERRY. How It In I’lftfcteil ual and Wham It Flmublus* Tho cranberry is native to cold, mossy bogs; snoh r.a Iki on the sandy slopes cf tho Atlantic state;!. and shoot tl;o upper great lakes. YVhcra ct.ltl. wains flow tl-.wly t: i va;>H sands bcvm arise. By the. j>j , - .h t ages n jjot.tl fills v ftl> v; gt {: io:i ; v..d becomes ;V pegf, bo{?, too lower vOgfr tntion deeayisg under v.ator, Cann ing peat., From tho -tjbcle of laurel, fern and sphagnum of tho surface the elmn go i ipmlual thro tfHr fie uso, masses of .'wy atoms of the true peat lvinnc Stioyjij faet below, In J * iiiu nu,7, a pvem. tpSmntip * l * moss called sphagnum growing up ward from its decaying bog,a. .JEMa vegetation holds slow moving waters ; like a sponge;' and oil Its u; tioris flic eran.horry, wbiOT'n sort of lientl'i r.'llor.i'islii'* In nmnedjjtof with/beep laurel, feims,- rnvhJramnd saplings. The first, stop in-,cranberry tillage is to shavo oil from ty:.g lo four feet of tlii#!;urfaoo. ''This prog, as?, called tni'Hfig —it is striolfy unturfing—is followed by drainage. Ditches nro-dug at intoryals of about i live rods. A surface uf snnd is next spiTad over the top. win to life less sand of the MnshaeTinsoits 'boast seems bust suited, and in tills warm bed tho cut tings are jtfitck', some times at regular in torvHb),sometimes sown broadcast and bAfi'btved under. Tho. first two is a struggle with tvoode. lly tbo third tho cran* berry gets nbcftff and keeps so, Aft. or-the* ti.ird year it conies to lioar -B'ng. Tlio plant is one,of tho heauti tii allies of tbs heathers—a wiry, slender shrub, per emit id mid_ trail- but piiscnlled it vino. It, Cft&in-' ues to bom, from 15 tn fin years and dan bo mowed for pruning. *" Culti vation consists chiefly in protection from tho frosts fend in dry seasons in moistening tho lower part c/f tho This includes of irri gating.ponda, dikes, gates, efy., of no small extent. In winter tile hogs nro laid under two foot of water to protcotj the’ vines from being wig ter killod, and thaybecomg frozen lakes. In sprij|ML tljpy are drained oif, hut IQjry-uo-* .tho btHsspp aoi! bB 1 flooded soon enough m fie protected -against sudden frost, hut this is not practicable on the large'‘systems, Which depend on water several miles distant.— Springfield (Mass. ) Union. no Picked Vp the Pin. A man who lioiieves in the old nay ilig, “Hoe u jjin, pick it up, and nil the day you’ll linvo good luck,” saw u pin in front of the postoffloo t* other day, and when stooping to capture it his hat foil off and rolled into the middle of tho street, his braces gavo way, his collar split open, and his false teotbi which cost him £3 when now, fell out and broke on the pavement. He pioked up the pin, however. —London Tit- Bits. borrowing If you have borrowed from healtli to satisfy the demands of business, if your blood is not getting that constant supply of fat from food it should have, you must pay back—from somewhere, and the some where will be from the fat stored up in the body. The sign of this borrow ing is fliinness, the result nerve-waste. You need fat to keep the blood in health, unless you want to live with no reserve force— live from hand to mouth. Scott’s Emulsion of cod liver oil, with hypophos phites, is more than a medi cine. 89 cent! and ff.oo SCOTT & BOWNE Chemists - - New York Ivllftii* “There 1a ncffLing in the wrrld that I would. iiot do fur yon, "dar ling,” ho protested rapturously. * “Oh, ready, Kc and!” responded the delighted girl. "4 hen yc/.i will go witli nut tomorrow down to Spot <% Cashom’s bnrcain sale?” But before she had finished speak ing tbo sweet girl’s face turned paie. Tbo young man lmd already fled.— Bcinerville Journal SUBSCRIPT ION : One Dollar Per Year. POWER OF SPEECH OF THE CAT. A**cuint*rtt-7u Fpvcr I tTui Itß'tiry Tlia.t Jfclisie* Cjuj (’^VerHC. Thoories of art iculate Im-gongo in tbo ftnitciii kingdom me ndv.inrt l every dry. Same of- firm orn soi i o;i3, like iVofe.-.x'r (,'sou’s notion of ;.:i i : .•"jg.-nt Mni i>.' .-ili-’ihln s, itifU ■ i : 1 -i .c ■: - <’s:ir,g ;.re . hi;, at’ tmi matie.i- in a-.p.-iih , ••us wajp which loos not tax the credulity to<? i. ; r. ; - .1 t ■ ’-j ls ", Jo '" I * ♦ ' ■ ~ , * '.a As in tlio Uhinese, tea, wards in tlio out’s langumttj iliavo vftrious mi an ißga, noboi-.Hng to tho- jaflebtidna of the voie<.V Tj opiuuiber of uoiihi is very groat, h-.U (lie uuilioj' LAsnimlo up ho eoit.nleiv, lexicon of then! tm ; vet, Thu following IT, cays a writ er in the Buffalo Commercial, nrj tlio most impbvtaht and frequent in tlm eonversali ,11 which eat-; struggle t carry 0:1 with fiu-inhors of tho bousohold: Audio moans food; lao, milk; puvriero, ojieu; allloo, water; hi, u;3at; [)tlec-hl, mouse mout; hjeemovbe, oonkotl meat; pad, foot; l.'ii, head; pro, ui.il or claw; tut, liniiig. paptio, body; oolio, fur; mi-onw, bo ware; bun’hnvHftti .faeliim or ooff tout; yiuou, oxtennitmtion; aii j’ouw, hero. • Of primitive wonjn it’is liellievikl there are nut more tlilm C9(Mn the eat tongue, and many of those are obscure, fur tho oat relies greatly upon signs for mukihg its meaning dear tq those who have neglected ft study of its artjoulnto speech. Thus tho last word in the foregoing list.is used by a matronly oat in calling her family together, and sho will continue to use ft while caressing them. ‘ ■. ' fy'fm “But tho lUeanlijg.of tho, word-i* ‘never so we]] tuidu-.sitond byjjittens as when uttferod in a sharp tcfno ami repeated a number at turn*??, more as au explosive than ntliuryyjjw, for H ißwwt!’ ™ Thenthere fs thoword “nil yonw," ’ which is varied toj.‘twow.teiouw yow-tiow, vvb\v-you;t s-sj'ov, ” end. jfhg in an explosion. Tbo author bo iiovos that <li® won] thaw uttered . signifies both 4“^ nnco 'And tt ours* 'biiul cbmefl so -near to bold, bad swearing” that bo refrains from giving the H'* 4for it. There jLtr. , pfioal persons who will-ridlculo tliia theory, butw® sign 1 \f iy that it was just as rea. Kf.i.;>J,e ns Professor Garner's, while ::.(] 'npuago of tho cot sounds fat jf.-vo articulate and significant of de sign than tho squeaky vocabulary which lie brought homo from goril la land. Ono thing is oortain—the means for carrying on investigation fn tho interesting field of foliue lan guage are available in almost every household, and to obtain the desired conversations from which a volumi nous treatise upon it can ho written it is not necessary to go to Afrioa ur.d remain for six months shut up in a cage in liio heart of the forest. The Only RcqolilM. What is known in tho United States and in England ns “ovening dress” for men plays quite a differ ent part on the European continent, wltero the ‘‘swallowtail” font and white cravat are regarded ns reqnf sites for ‘‘full dross” on any core. moninuH occasion, whether during the day or in tho evening. When thheojehrated pianist, Hans von BulowJ’atent to England for th<* first time on u concert tour, lie v,.ia much surprVcd to find llmr the cus tom of tho country m:i<gp his uress suit jiittpptT']iia(o atr afternoon con certs, whero bn ves expected to ftp pear in a fioci coat with light trou sers. Soon after liisrcturn from his tour a young pianist called on him to get liis advice and opinion in regard to a comprehensive pianoforte method which bo had just published under the title of “ L’lndispensable duPia niste.” “Ah, my dear young friend, "cried the great musician with a whimsical smile, *you are far behind the time*. You ought to‘travel and onlnrga your mind. Then you will find out that the pianist’s only ‘indispensa ble’ is a pair rf )>f lit trousers."— Youth’s 1.'..m; ..’.ir.’J, Wirt a vi*'i i dcr.l •“■ lijnc nrd care that me.i; .- who u not 1 :on':iV.l with tho i . .r of ns pcriio jntouriir j osity abou. oilrers.—Anon. nt r