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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TO LSD A V OcfO'BER 9 1883.-TW ELVE PAGES.
I
FAMOUS WOMAN.
cresting Interview With
Aniclie Rives Cbanler.
:
looks like a young bride.
girls ar* like, only they won’t own up WATER IN our CELLAR.
lo ,!l; . , . , T. . • . • . •now m Unhnpny UouMhnlder Went C
liut want of Bitbini b«iog yourse f, ‘, ,
Mr. Chauier, and her story being ““e-! c w j.| - * B >5 ‘ “ 1 '
thingofyonrownl , , When Maude and I moved into thi
•Uh, tnat i. just another part of the i t i„ house which •
latn Story from UerO
‘.we dime to Write Iter Stories anil
What She Think, or the Ctltl
otunfl.
mi, mat u Jim anotuer part oi U« lionse which we now occupy, 1 asked
same .tory, and that was started by the the aRtBt in the clparest I could
coincidence .f there betng in the eaiue command whether the cellar was dry.and -•
number of the magazine a description of thc oId brass.,nemthed liar replied that it I* £? d w ," 1 ' “««“• , „ ,
me in my huntingdre-s and of my dogs. I WM . This reminded him that lie wa- a " 1 hty’re all I oould «nd
,, .J ‘ a ' !fur S0ttenusing them m ’The Quick or little dry himself, and while he withdrew "I/«..m such a hurry abo
Lips of How t the Dead as I did, simply for what seri- ♦,* u:_ »._j ._•*
Matuk poking around in the shoe closet
in the dark, knocking things down and
bvmiping btr head. Af or awhile she
cairn* luck to the stair bringing one rub
ier and an old artic overshoe with a hole
in it.
“Those things will keep me nice and dry
in two feet of water won’t they?” I in-
said Maude.
>ut those crabs.”
A SAD ACCIDENT
Which Causes the Death of a
Beloved Youag Lady.
m the Kcw York World,
liere was a famous little woman at the
evoort house yesterday, and' that sime
Je woman held an iarpromptii reception
in early in the morning until the strict-
of Abigails annonneed that it was time
drtss fer dinner. She was a golden-
ired little woman, with big dark eyes,
„ an oval face, with peachy color, and
11 red lips. A. cream-colored silk tea-
,wn half disguised and half revealed the
the figure that still hesitates between that
maid and very young matron, and on
ie third 'finger of her left hand shone a
ng le plain gold ring, very new and
right, with never a scratch upon it. On
3e table by her side was a fragrant heap
I big pink roses and some bunches of dull
*1 and purple grapes, that were fulfilling
beir mission in life by disguising the taste
hat some very nasty headache medicine
lad left in thi- pretty bride’s month.
Jf any one had said to a stranger before
•ntertug the room: ‘'Prepare to meet the
iuthor of ‘The Quick or the Dead,’ ” and
had then flung’the door open, only to dis
close this pretty feminine little tableau,the
probable answer would have been:
1 “Ihat Amelie Rives? Never! That is
only a slip of a girl."
Amelie Rives it was not, but Amalie
Hives Cbanler it was, and the big, broad-
shouldered, strong-lim’ed young lellow
that stood at the back of her chair was the
ous
them
for
You are fond of riding and hunting, It w „ Rome 1Ut Iettme before"wd'h!
are you not. | revered that our cellar had Imles in it.
“I m fond everything that belongs We were <)mi , )ie<1 wilh tlu . arra „ Kcment
to out-of-door life. Next to writing, 1 l.ke , o( our househol< | h and with lh * ,. b .
drawing and [minting best, and I mean to lem of making a parlor carpet, cut for a
study very hard this winter. A ter these fl oor „i xl( ,„ n b h * leTen { e [;, cover a
three things like to be out £ theopen- _ room fifteen fe,t square, with a bay win-
Do you like candy ? was the very 6eri-1 1 ’ J
qiis question that followed.
“1 despise it. Fruit I like, and I love \
pre.ty gowns and everything that is fem-'
mine and soft and picturesque. The con
ventional refined home life is my delight,.
and as for doing any of the thousand and i
one things that have been attributed to :
me, seriously 1 do not believe I ever did j
an eccentric thing in all my life.”
‘‘But you don’t really mtud those stories .
about yourself, do you? They are bo palpn-,
bly absurd?” •
At first I minded,just a little bit, but'
soon it got so that it seemed as if it were
some one else thev were talking about, and ,
then I did not grieve over it. The only i
thing J have really cared deeply about,
ha. been those unkind things that have
liven.said about my confirmation. I was
very ill, unable even to be fully dressed,
but 1 crept downstairs in a white frock
because ii seemed more respectful than to
do even as the bishop suggested and have
the service in my. own room. _ To me all
this was a very beautiful and sacred event,
and! would have done a great deal rather
than hud it flippantly discussed.”
The b autiful girl wan so earnest as she
stood there, looking out of her big dark
eyes with all her heart alight, thai there
A LOADED CUN'PALLS TO THE FLOOR
1 took oil inf wet stockings, rolled up And Hoth ltnrreU Are Discharged—One
my pantaloons, and put on the mi-fits that
Maude had brought.. Then I fished up
the coal scuttle. There was a box about
half way between the Rtasrs and the coal
heap. It was a I irgc box, and it appeaud
to tie of it iiuMvst.i. h » . bar.:; t. r. ! "• “lo
a jump for it and lit t here, but I didn’t re
main. The box was floating. Its appear
ance of dignity and firmness had been a
hollow sham. When I struck it, the fur
ther side sunk suddenly about a foot, and
I slid right ou over it into the water.
Then I climlnd back upon the box, aud
endeavored to reprove Maude for her
heartless mi ‘ * * * * *‘ *-
Load Entering the Eye and Causing
Almost Instant Death—The
Particulars.
The news came in yesterday morning
from the farm of Mr. James M. Dukes, of
a horrible affair.
Mr. Dukes lives between five and six
miles from Macon, on the road leading to
Jeffersonville, on the east side of the river.
A religious meeting was to be held soon,
rth, but ?couidn’t*qttite "reach ' and *° l ,rc T are f,,r the company that it
her wilh the shovel 1 then turned uiy would bring, Miss Snllio Dukes began the
stun ion to the coal heaps, and discovered
that it, t o, was jozt'out ut range. I called
Maude’s attention to this, and sho re
marked tlmt the problem was how to get it
For Aver’s
into the range. This was so bad that I i broom to assist him. Behind the door of
work yesterday morning of a thorough I
cleaning up of the house. A negro boy j
given the scrubbing while she used a I any other, and Tt gives thorough satisfac
tion.”— L. II. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa.
: at!»ttpur»ila, and he sure you got it,
• m«*u you want the best blood-purifier.
With its forty years
of unexampled n ac
cess in tho cure oi
Blood Diseases, you
can make no min
take in preferring
Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla
to any other. Tho
fore-runner of mod
ern blood medicines,
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
is still the most pop
ular, being in great,
er demand than all
ja others combined.
•‘Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is selling faster
than ever before. I never hesitate to
recommend it.” —Gcorgo W. Whitman,
Druggist, Albany, Ind.
“ I am safe in saying that my sales of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla far excel those of
b „. j 'SETTING COLD IN A WOT CELL Art.
was a sT’ence for a moment upon the little ’dew in it. Maude said it could be done.
PPP „„ lu , „„„ „„„ . group about the table. Then very quietly Shedngged out soma of the higher math-
brave man who has gladiv .run the risk of i and unconsciously the boyish-looking has- * he le!,rn ® d Bt Vassar, brushed the
being known through life as ‘‘Amelie i band stepped behind her to the heap of' otwtoff them, and then tigered it out this
Rivts’s husband.” (roes anil began bre iking off the thorns j wt ^, :
Mr and Mrs. “Archie” Clianler are still that they might be fit for his lady’s hands l l ,u- was one foot longer and
mn the wedding trip, which began last; to oarry. From now on it is safe te pre- ; eleven feet wide—a gam of eleven, square
me. aud will, in all probability, not dun that the path through life of this fwt for the old room; and the new one
eiever little Virginia girl will have many ;'wa* one foot shorter and fifteen feet wide
and many a visible rose to every invisihle ! — 8 loss>of fifteen square feet for tho new
thorn. jroom.
tmo of the attractions at Walla ik’s la it) Therefore, ns the old room was eleven
night was Amelie Rives Cbanler, who oe- I f ? et bi a* er * l *»" the new and at the same
upon t .. _
June, aud will, in all probability, not
n-all- end before next year, when they
will bave lived a life ot paradise in that
Mecca of honeynioonists, the ever delight
ful Paris. They are just from Newport
new, and are going m their home at
Rikeby-on-t e-Hudson, then to Virginia,
and after that abroad. They weVe domi
ciliated at the Brevoort house.
“Where are you going to finally set up
your lares aud pennies?” Mr. Chanler was
asked yesterday.
“That 1 cannot say,” he answered earn
estly. “possibly in New York and possibly
not. 1 am looking for a good piece of
property now. Bui that poor little girl in
there has been at high tension for a year
and a half now, and I am determined that
,lie shall rest.”
Mrs. Cbanler is as enthusiastic as her
young husband over what they are p]un
dressed in a grey Henrietta cloth dress I the old, the total difference must be tweuty-
trimmed with gold braid, and wore a vel- j si * f n ua fe f«ct, which was more than
vet hat with green flowers. ‘I hree mes- (•enough to cover the bay window. In spite
senger boys filled the box with flowers be.
fore the party arrived and took them away
to the Brevoort house after tke perfor
mance It is a new fad, and the new nov
elist claimt the honor of starting it.
an appaTlInu accident.
A Drop to Death from a Uallonn.
dpcvrnt DLaimSch to St. Lcn!s tllebe-Decaecpst
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 28.—Fully 5,000
Demons assembled on the exhibition
of these veracious figures there was always
a bare spot somewhere, no matter
how Maude arranged her carpet. She
finally buuglit a mat as a temporary ex-
pedient to cover that hole until she could
take it up into quadrat c equations and
lose it. Meanwhile she remarked that if
I knew as much as a cow about tacking
down carpets she wouldn’t have to make
alt those hard’(igiir.it. 'tried to make
the multiplicaiinn table prove me an inno
cent man, but Maude knew better, and she
the wonder and the work have been increas
ing ever tinoe ”
“How was that story given to the world
in fact, Mrs Chanler? There have been so
, - - rel with her hnsbsnd. I never knew a
of *“• * , vou "B ,“•».! woman who was that wav b-foM. She
Thomas Win.lo#, whose father is ao Uanked me for my thoughtfulness, and
employe of the public department, | , lt .j .jown will, her cook book
held on to the rope, runuiog rouud j and looke j
up tho bebt way to prcpaie
many tales told o( it*” the bottotQ of the balloon. For a second j 1
“I know there have, ^ fr!en ‘ J? «*“ d lb o spot thought .,^ tyV gnint , to a ball tll! , evening,”
all is this: I wrote that story in two : h e wa« going up n tewD’et, t»uv *wu »» ..ijviL/...-:
evenings sitting’up in b.d; wrotett because had reached fifty to sixty feet tlie crowd io r/mk 1 reukfasttu-mnmw*”
1 liked to wriic, ami because I had the j shuuted for him to let e, his hold Dumb fYf breakfast to-morrow,
story in my mind. WiIh the writing of lit to all their entreaties, he held on, and wns
that was the end of it, but one day a very i soon hundreds of feet above the excited
nice Boston.boy, of whom we were all very i crowd belo~. It was evident to all that
fond, was visiting at the house anil found j his strength must soon give out, and na ho
that (tors in the library. When I .came | struggled to draw himself up to get his
in he said to me: ‘Do you know 1 have j leg. through tho rope the excitement was
found the jolliest story here? I wonder than pen can picture. Women
who wrote it!’ I told him that I had | fainted, and the scene that followed is bo-
written it.
itd it or compil; J it from something? he j Finally, after a last effort to get a stron-
asked. ‘No; I mean 1 wrote it myself.’ I e r hold his grip gave way and bis descent
And then with that nothing would do but downward tor a distance of 1,000 feet
he mast take it back to Boston when ho | began. Breathless the panic-stricken
went. He has told me since how he took j erown looked on, unwilling witnesses with
it into the office of the Atlantic Monthly, a fixed gate, mesmerized by the terrible
and blinked clear up to his ears when he I
left it with the editor’s assistant for a
friend who wrote it.’ In a little while,
about a week, I fancy, be, had » note from
Mr. Aldrich to como and see him, and not
till then did Mr. Aldrich know that i. was earth,
not a man who « rote the story.”
At this^uoment Katy’s voice whs heard
in the halt asking if Mrs. 1'ielding “wad
lind her ih’ loan av a watcii.ro >f, lor it do
be rainin’cats an’dogs.” Katy is a good
.girl, and she used formerly to send every
cent she earned to her parents in the old
country, but since they moved over here
and began to make their own living, she
lias had a penny or two to spend on style.
Bhe was arrayed in a green silk dress,
decollette with no sleeves. Maude bail
given her an old pair of long yellow gloves.
The bands were too snisll, so she cut them
off and sewed them to the wrists of my
dogskin driving gloves. The combination
was striking.
“Mr. Fieldin’," said she,‘ Oi’ve forgot
ten to bring up the coal for the fire in the
began to spatter Maude with the coal
shovel, but (he threatened to tako the cau
dle up stairs and leave me down there in
tbeda>k,so I desisted. In the course of
the discussion, however, 1 fell off thobox
agiin.
" There; you’re into it now, and you
might as well wade,” said Maude,
1 accepted the suggestion and filled the
scuttle with coal. Then I waded back to
the stairs.
“Did you catch any of them?" aaked
Maude.
"No, I didn't catch anything but a cold,”
said 1.
Msinle looked disappointed “I bi ped
s nne of the crabs might catch hold of
year feet,” said she. “Please walk round
some more, or we sh’n’t have anything for
breakfast."
“Du you think I’m going to fish for
breakfa-t in this infernal cellar with noth
ing but my toes fer bait?” said 1.
‘•There’s o e, right over by ihe box,”
exclaimed Maude. “Oh, Iluwdy, please
run out and catch him.”
Hure enough there was a crab in sight.
1 got on to the box again and readied out
after him • He saw-me coming and walked
away. Then I gut mad and cuased him.
Just as I grabbed nim something grabbed
mo with a grip that nearly took oue of my
feet ntf. i howled.
“Have yon go: him?" oskid Maude.
“Yes, and oue of them lias got me by the
foot; ouch!"
M mde dapped her hands.
“Ob, how nice,” she siid. “Bee if von
can’t get another one with the other foot.”
“Thanks, 1 have plenty,” »»i * I. hob
bling back to the stain. For heaven's
bake take him off.”
Maude looked at my foot, and she aboil
tears. 1 thought it was sympathy, but it
wasn't.
“Oh, Howdy,” she cried, “how horrid
in j.uu .o ulispjiclsi me so. 1 list t
crab; it’s a steoi trap l put down here to
catch lats."
“Uits? Well, you’ve caught me. Now
Hike tin' klaniHil thing off. 1 can’t get at
it standing in this water.”
“I'm afraid you’ll have to wait till Katy
gets back.' 1 s ini Maude. “I don't know
how the trap works. Never mind it now,
Howdy; run out and es cli r-oiinf more
cralis/’
“Wilh ibis tiling on me? 1 gu o not,"
ami 1 climbed up on tile stairs and man
aged with difficulty hi pry the trail’s mouth
Of*
“I see another crab,” suid Maude.
“Any more unjm out there?” I
“I really can't remember whether 1 set
the other one or not, but I think—”
“f don’t lake unv chances. We’ll wait
till you are euro almul it."
“Why don’t you put that long hoard
from the steps here out onto, the box?”
said Maude. “Then you could walk right
ou: »n' g ;t Into the witter."
It looked like a good idea. I took tho
long board and placed it as Maude sug
gested. Its middle rested ou the lux. I
walked out on it. The crab was some dis
tance beyond tho box. I told Maude to
stand ou tho board to balance it ahile I
the room she was cleaning is a rack on
which was kept the gun. It was always
loaded and kept as a protection, as in nl[
farmhouses. While standing in the door
way, the negro boy in the room nt the lime,
she pushed the door back with her right
hand so as to get it out of her way. As it
slammed back it struck thc rack with suffi
cient force to knock down the gun. In
falling both hammers struck tho floor and
both barrels were discharged simulta
neously, one load go ng upward into the
ceiling, the other going into the lady’s eye
[i himself, Ilka » ; niomin’, do y*z moind; an’wad yea be
at a straw, he * ' good enough to go git it, 1 iluuno; fori
Iter which he reached the d(in > t wau t t u *oii vue best g >wnil which I
“But where did you get yourold lCnglish
ideas and your idioms?"
“From Shakespeare ind the dictionary
and Bacon’a Essays, so far as I know. I
am aure I would have been glad of cor
rection if I could have had more of it, for
J am not more fond of anachronisms than
any one else, but whatever the faults were
they were alt ray own.” •
“As a little girl, before you really began
to choose, do yon remember what you lilted |
to read?"
sigbt lit fore them. For a time he de
scended feet foremost, and then, as if at
tempting to help himself, like a dying
man grasping at
a somersault, after , , uuu ,
earth. lfc lay in a reclining d „ ^ we » r in’ for the Coolfnairy Artists’
postuon with legs and arms extended. grand 8 „ 0 Vry thi. avenin 1 .”
He fell about 300 yards from where he Katy’s full dre>s was too much for us
started with a sickening thud, br aking 80 . wb ile Maude went to' the water-
h» neck, aims anu Kgs, * hile his bowels j too u t| l0 coal scuttle amt a candle
protruded through his clothes. The ani j descended the stain. At the bottom
leMor. uot aware of what had happened, j h tepp*.d into •di'hteen inches of water
about twenty seconds alter W inslow hail lb i,t wl n cold enough to bkate on. Then I
let go his hold commenced his descent, t down on the stairs and emptied a quart
which he successfully accomp ishdl. The 0 ( water ou efeny slippers,
afiair has cast a terrible gloom over the “Howdy," said Maude at the head of
«•?- the stairs, ‘ what are you awearing about in
A Story of Auxustn’s Flood. , that frightful manner?”
’ From the 'Vsihfegten Oareth
“Oh, I read. I suppose as all It tie girls i" - wVcouid not so nearly realize the ter-'
read who have grandfathers with librari s rU)|e 8imil ,j on 0 f the people in Augusta
lof heavy books. Mv grandfather’s librarv ! a.ii.i w” ter there until wc heard
was full of law-book's and histories and po I Oo^r Fettiis! a negro well-known in this
lineal works and some of the old drama-1 |da( ^ teI i | lilt ex|)e rienoe. He arrived
tuts, and I fancy I browsed tu about as, | lere laHt Wfek with 8 | ia d case of ri.euroa-
irregular a fashion as I well could.” t i, m . jj e says that when thc waters were
‘And your favorite authors now? I up prett high be was driving along Jack-
Arc everylMKly that I can unu who B ^^t, the route pcoiflegeuerailv ir»vei
wnt«B g<K»d books 1 . from the deimt to Broad street, when the
‘ Vud of your own characters and stones mn | e WeIlt J own i n a deep hole and threw
what do you like best?” .... I him out. He made hi* way throhgh the
“This blamed cellar is ull of water.’
“Aver’s Sarsaparilla and Ayer's Tills
arc tho best gelling medicines in my
store. I can recommend them consclen- «
tlously.” — C. BickliaiiH, l’lmrm&cist,
Roseland, Ill.
“ Wo hart sold Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
here for over thirty years and alwavs
recommend it when asked to nnmo tho
best blood*pur!fier. : '— W. T. McLean,
Druggist, Augusta, Oh ih.
“ I have sold your medicines for the
last seventeen years, and always keep
them in stock, as they are staples.
* Thero is nothing so good for tho youth
ful blood' as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.”—
K. L. Parker, Fox Lake, Wis.
“ Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives the beht
and tearing away a portion of her skull . •• Aver s earsaparma gives me oese
and scattering the brains^ about the room. J satisfaction of any medicine I have in
A sister was sewing in an adjoining stock. I recommend it, or, os the
room and on hearing the report rushed'in ! Doctors say, 'I prescriho it over tlio
to find Miss Saliid on the llo<* dying. I «”«nter.’ It never fails to meet tho
Sf r ^m W “d t T nt,endi, :^ ,0 tl,< ; dUtie “ ! ^atb^oi’IStl'on, 1 hare
o the farm ai d he was sent for at once. of no n vall.”Lq. F. ttulboun,
Miss Dukes lived only a few minutes. Monmouth, Kansas.
Word was brought into Macon and un- „
dertakers Wood .It Bond sent out a casket. AvPr’<s KflPQ2M9PlIIjt
Miss Dukes was a second cousin ot Mr. | * Cal bdpOl Hid,
W. 1L Jones of East Macon. Her brother
Thomas is a clerk at Mr. Jones’s store.
Bhe was twcuty-aeven years old anil u
young lady highly esteemed and loved by
all. The funeral will occur to-day, the
remains to be interred in the old Fort Hill
cemetery In Esst Macon.
favorite i
like
publish, the V~» «f anything' vet. Xt'O’i n., ,.n the brick and clung l
more idyllic, auil there isn’t any blood and j j * „„ top lrom Monday evening
thuiiJer in it as there is in ‘Herod «nd . Wednesday morning, without any ale
Marismne!’ And then there’s one not yet an yihi L g to cat. Thi re were several other*
finished—‘J^ivedat’—that I think ia going ( lreef Ul ,und him. While in ibis
to be the best of all. It is just based .ittaijsHiH position he saw three dro.ned peo-
way on the custom there is in Virginia of j fl „ at b . He saya it was a most ter-
giving to the daughter the family name Hbie exiwrience.
when there is no son to take it.”
‘Anil what of ‘Barbara?’ ‘Poor, dear,
loving old Barbara?’”
The delightful little blue stocking’, dark
ayes looked as serious se those of a Mater
Dolorosa. “Oh!’’ »he said solemnly,“wasn’t
poor Barbara frightlully misundersto d?
Bhe was so real and so sweet and to unhap-
PT in my mind, and then to think of ttie
wav she was maligned, and of the horrible
indiscreet tilings slue was made to think
and say. There was one comfort to me
though, and that was the way that women
kept writing to me again and again about
her and her story. 1 must nave had C00
letters in all. I am sure; any number of
them were signed Barbara and not more
than (onr ont of the whole 600 were in the
[east critical or were the writer*
by the litnrv.”
“Barbara,” put in Mrs. Chanler’
anight-eriant, “Barbara i* just wh
shocked
Mekel. v>. Souls.
From the Rockmart State.
For the past year preachers of the differ
ent denominations have tri d to ttet the
merchants to Mote their stores during the
morning and erening services and turn out
and try to carry some one to church, but
they have been appealed to in vaiu. Tiny
bad rather make a nickel than save a
dozen peroona from hell.
Their XSn.tneM llonmlng.
probably no nne thing bas caused suc-h a cen
tral revival ot t ede at II. J. Lamar A (ton’s
drug stoic m their sir! g sway to Uu tr custom
ers of so many free trial bottksof Dr. Ring’s
New Dtneovery for Onnsnmidton. Tbetr trade |
l» stmidy enormous In this very valoshle arm->• j i
from the feel that U.lwtt»S(ur,vua l never dja-1 _' ^ _ 7
upiMtinls. » oughs, Coide. AstkDU (Iron influ,
Croup, and all threat and lung dl«-
... Vo., us tost It Ufo» buylr
ain.l bottle free, tgrge (lie 11. Every Uo
ske
I that
CATCIUNli AKD CAUlill t.
“OS, dear, oh, dear!” cried Maude,
“they'll sil he crowned.”
“Who’ll he drowned?”
“My c ah*. I put tli m down th< ri to „
keep c sit. Uo right iostnd get them before j h
it’s to • late.” j e
“Go crabbing in this dirty ice water? 1 ; he replied thet he ho
guess out,” Mil I. t didn’t want to aso.cia
“HowJy, you most,” szi-l Msnde “hleods^KUsmsflM
would in inhuman to let the poor things I ;em statement which
drosu.” # ' metliaiely after this r,
“Dro.vn? Do crabs live in the water or • ihe words, and told tii
an tMrnoMrrt' iieaiikb.
out on the further end. Bhe
I war jne* stooping down to
crab when I heard her exclaim:
lear, this one’s ruin.ip/ away!”
he got oil' the board and chased
him. That end flew up, luy end went
down, ami I stood on ray head on the
crab's back, w ith both legs raised appeal
ingly to tlie unho-ding heavens.
•esse.
Next day I met our agent on the street.
“Look here,” said I, in a voice that waa
husky with influenia, “l thought yon
earn that cellar was dry."
‘ My dear sir,” said he, “you wi 1 find
that it tak. - about two weeks for Ihe water
to get ont of that cellar. You will q)iO 00
the the Ju-tlo- to remember that at ti e
time I a—ure.l you tint the cellar was dry
it hail not rained tor more Ibao three
weeks, so that I had every reason to be
lieve that at that particular moment the
- perfectly dry."
■gent wh tiler he supposed
I10 ulil the truth in such
•legged shape as that would
different (rum an ordinary
the finvl judgmeui; ami
in a brown stone front,
home? l’ui stuck on y>
tin
si tii-lo
•I-Ii -1 ■ i '•• VT..ii t•>.-1 e and i ll get you •
n - ( f •»’.’•• -! ,,„..••. „d Maude; - • 1 do
v'.airi slid hugged my cold fee
not I who bit hi
mistake tip- for -pir*
giv. ness. No, iud.-.d;
tbe worst way but he b
agent (o long that he .
trulb even when he wj
1 - Hi
d so te
with a man like
In his ante-mor
a taken aim .»t im-
i.rk, he rwiraotad
00softer that it w:o
a club. 1 did out
rilKPAUKD nv
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price gl; six bottles, $5. '“..rth $.» a bottle.
r’sraSM- rS3k
" k m tSB*
■ $0
This is thc T op of the Genuine-.
Pearl Top Lamp Chimney.
AUotherSjSimilararc imitation.
V'Cn2?>/Lhis exact Label
ison each Pearl
1^1 TopChimney.
A dealer may say
and think he haa
others as good,
BUT HE BAS KOV.
Insist upon and Ton.
Fort Sale EYf.uYw:ttr.L. MA.,t gwly r,Y
^ A. MARBETH & GO., Pillscur^’, fa.
<MSH PRICKS— PAT WHICH C0TO0.1 IX-OLU.
6RAND OFFER. 1.000 Pianos and Organs
byiojd InA’ifuwt, H*pe«oibar »nd f >otob«r. U
ho<:k hotto.x cash chm em. w«bi«
. qftos Ml*us eam. ORMNIhIi llltaik.
iMbnUBOeUM. 1, without inUr—t ur »dTMio«ou Iqw.
•rt oiflh prio*. Boj now and pur whan Cotton it «<»Id.
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gw. lHANfUiwlt udweMUUI. Hrdsred
relees, ir Writ* tar MUt-twsww Ilk Clrx.lv.
LIJDflKlV A BATK8, KtIDTHKH.N NVHft' IIODSK
mwiim.ia. neifMtr.ai.fcMunteieiik.
■d ie
MAitlllED TUIltTF-rilltEE TIWKg.
James Itrown Q.ilcwly Convicted on tlie
Evidence ot Five Victims.
Say if a speial to tlie Philadelphia Press
frotn Detroit, Bept. 25: When James
Brown,' the champion benedict of tbe
□ortht^it, tottered into tbe recorder's
court-room this afternoon he looked as if
tlie fact that be was the husband of thirty
three women had been sufficient punish
ment for him. A good deal of sympathy
was temporarily worked up over Brown,
ami even those of hi; dupes who were
present had their hearts touched by his ap
pearance. He came m palsied anti de
crepit. His face was oshen-hued and his
hair nnd beard awry and matted. lie
looked neither to the front nor to tlie rear,
and shunning the eyes of tlie squadron of
women who once called him husband, lie
kept bis eye on the tloor.
boring the trial, which lasted only
three hours, it wns developed that Brown r s
•vretched appearance and condition were
due to eating soap, which lie had stolen I
from the jail waslisland and which he hud I
eaten purposely to deceive thc court and
jury anil excite sympathy. There was. a
very large attendance. Then; noro old
and young women, blondes and brunettes,
homely and comely women, richly nnd
poorly dressed women and women of sev
eral nationalities. They formed a small
contingent of thc dupes who once
thought that they were lawful wives
of Brown. Thc complaint ou which
he was tried was sworn to by only one
of them, Mary Benjamin, a young woman
who married the pr.sonvr in this city on
August 27, last year. Four others of his
victims were called to give their testimony.
Thev' were Helen Brownlee, Annie Win
ters, Annie M. Hazel and Nancy Robert
son. A dozen more might have been called
to give their testimony, but it was unneces
sary. Five ministers swore to marrying
Brown to as many different women It is
asserted by the police that Brown has mar
ried not fewer than thirty-three times since
1553. Iiis usnai method was tu advertise
for a housekeepe', marry such of the ap
plicants as lie selected for tho place, repre
senting himself as a widower and desert
his victim after a few days.
He lived with Miss Benjamin just six
days, with Misa Robertson five days, with
Mi s Winters three days, with another two
weeks, and the longest time he lived with
any one of them was a month. After the
fire wives named above and as many min
isters had proved those marriages, the
prosecution’s case was submitted, . and
Brown took the stand ss his own and only I Sj9
witness. He claimed to bo 50years old, I I? r.S Sift
then ailmilted he was 15. and finally said wh.iTiL/7 > r.. i S,
he wsa not positive what hia age was. It ihcn u™ to...
was pimidv his intention to play the insane wrw’huiSifSs'i!
dodge, aud he did it fairly well,; flg!*y..'
cheerfully and constantly c«n-, i in. h«5si»i%«. ive >
tradictiug himself, professing not u.'^.TiL'oiTJr.iJr.lsia
to be able to remember, anil asserting that
he wss'once confined in an asylum at New
Orleans. He admitted to having served
in the Michigan state penitentiary for
adultery, denied that be had been in tlie
New York penitentiary, and with comical
indignation said thc prosecutor was “no
gentleman" to ask the question. During
the examination Nancy Bobertson could
not restrain her indignation and branded
Brown as a deeply-dyed scoundrel. Thc
jury thought so, too, and convicted h‘m in
just tour miaul«. P-cr.Urxc ’.rcu d-ferred.
Flrklng Cotton Under Wnter,
From the dflvanU Telephone.
Thc storv Is told by t. resident near
Rocky fora that, while the recent (Lod was
at the highest point In the Ogeechoc, he
was navigating around in a bateau look
ing after tome hogs he had in the swamps,
his attention was attracted to the {peculiar
actions of a man who was seen to climb up
on a fence, tbe top of which wns jus; peep
ing out of tbe water, and then dive oil
again repeating this time and again. On
approaching nearer he discovered that it
was one of bis neighbors, that worthy old
gentleman Mr. Henry -Bri-don. He
would dive off the fence'and for twent*
yards tbe bubbles would rise to the top of
the water as though a hngh alligator was
making his way along ibe iioitonj, and
then lie would rise and swim back ard de
ceit something in a sack fastened to the
On inquiry he found that old
friend B. waa picking cotton, having a
field of it there completely bid by the
•'• "*d. It struck the observer as a novel
way to pick cotton.
DjANOS
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Iclopedia of useful infor-
) niation for all who pur
chase tho luxuries or tho
necessities of life. Wo
can clothe you and turnish you with
all tho uecossury and unnecessary
appliances to ride, walk, dance* sleep,
eat, fish, hunt, work, go to ohurch,
or stay at hotno, and in various size»,
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what is required to do all theao things
COM?0RT/13LY. and you can inskoafair
ostimatc of tho vali*> of the BUYBB8*
GUIDE, which will bo sont upon
receipt of 10 cents to phy postage,
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MONEY LOANED
ON FARMS and TOWN PBOPEBTY
In Buns and Adjoining Counties.
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