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VOLUME XI.
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The Advertiser and Appeal,
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MAGNOLIA LODGE. No. 1105, AMERICAN
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come.
MUSIC.
I am prepared to give musical instruction on all
8TRI.NO AND BRASS INSTRUMENTS. Violin a
specialty. Headquarter* at Glover k Dnnn's atore.
HMf Paor. Fn. 11IEMAN.
Dr. W. B. BURROUHS,
LA.ND. REAL ESTATE,
COLLECTINQ AND INSURANCE AGENT,
Offers for sale 100 of the moat dealrabl* lots In
town, and some valuable farms near the city, where
anything can be grown. Term* reasonably
Reference*:—Merchants' National Bank, Atlanta,
Ga.; First National Bank, Macon, 0*.; Savanna)
Rank and Trust Co., Savannah. Ga. mayQMy
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First quarter on or before 30tb day of April. 1885.
Second quarter on or before tut vay or July, 1885.
TldrA quarter ou or before 3l»t day of Oct., 1885.
Fourth quarter ou or before SUt day ol l>ec., 18S5.
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BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JULY 26, 18& NUMBER G.'
TUB HOBNK-IIO.IT.
How I Asked for Nellie.
1 am a very modest man. Mod
esty is in many people a virtue; in
me it is an absolute fault. I have
spent all my life in New York City.
I have been in society for years. I
have been. a dry goods clerk, an ad
vertising agent and a Custom House
broker, and yet I am, uuder certain
oircumstances,a sufferer from modesty,
or baahfulness, or whatever people
may call it.
Notwithstanding ordinary good
looks, respectable manners, a good
business and plenty of affection, -I
remained unitiarried, snd even unen
gaged, for years after the day I de
termined I bad been a single man
long enough.
Not that I did not fell in lore, for
I loved ardently and often; but be
fore I could muster up courage suffi
cient for a declaration and proposal,
it happened that some other man
would be smitten by the ebarms of
the lady I was adoring, and I could do
nothing but hasten to relieve my
heart of affection for anolber man’s
wife.
I finally began to doubt whether
I should ever get a wife at all. I
lacked but a few years of middle age,
and wbat tender, susceptible girl,
such as I should hope to win, would
marry an old man ?
Frightened by tho thought I sol
emnly resolved that, should I ever
agaiu fall in love, I would promptly
dcclaro my passion and earnesly press
my suit.
My resolution had not time to coob
before I succumbed to the resistless
power of Nellie Mayton’s eyes. Nel
lie did not look purposely bewitching
at me with her deep brown eyos —
girls never do such thingB purposely
—but by some fortunate accident she
gave me a glance which immediately
mndo mo her pdoring slave. As she
was an old acquaintance 1 did not
think a deliberate courtship was nec
essary; on the contrary, I determined
to tell my story at once, corns of it
what uiight.
As I entered the parlor Nellie whs
at the piano.
She turnod quickly upon the stool.
"Nellie 1" I exclaimed, but I could
not remember another word of the
tender declaration I had composed
before leaving home.
I was conscious of Hash ing violent
ly on opening 'my mouth to speak
words which would not come; but
the searching eyes which were fixed
on mine read my story there, nod the
'ripe, tender lips below tbeiu broke
iuto a pleasant smile. As she rose
from the piauo, I, with an imploring
look, threw my arms about her, and
the drooping of her beantiful bend
upon my shoulder, answered nil ray
unspoken questions.
I led my darling to tho sofa, and
■ hero, with unloosed tongne, I whis
pered to her nof unwilling ear a
story which setutd to interest her
greatly. In tbe enthusiasm which
possessed no- after I bad regained
my speech, I went beyond a mere
delaration of love—I asked Nellie to
be nlV wife. She answered in tin-
sweetest whisper 111 Uiu world, trill ill
words the most terrible:
'TVs, if uranium is willing."
In a.i instant I whs shivering vio
lently. A»k Mrs. May ton’s consent!
I had rather have proposed lo hull
the marriageable Indies in New York;
Nut that there was anything fright
ful n bout Mrs. May I on; ou tho con
trary, she was the iiupersonHii>>i. of
! politeness, goodness, fuel, kimlntss
; mol nil other* virtues, us well as being
jlirillinut, willy, and, despite her forty
|years, extremely handsome. Bat when
she listened to nnyone it was with a
look that plainly said: “No nonsense
now." When sbe found ocoAsion to
use sarcasm she was most unmerci
fully sharp and bitter, and her power
of mimicry was such thAt sbe qonld
imitate to perfection almost every
tone of her miserable victim. To
think of facing lier with any possible
risk of her disapproving df my suit
whs simply dreadful.
The twilight had faded into dark
ness. iOf course I hadn't n mutch;
but Neliie insisted upon ?he gas be
ing lighted, and left the room for one.
Out of tbe darkness I conjurud up
dreadful visions of Mrs. Mayton in
every pose and feature ol disdain,
and, nside from any other cause, I
was tbaukfal when the gentle step
and rustling dress of my darling an
nounced her return. To my delight
she did not mention the' gas, but
seated herself on the sofa-beside me.
I stole my arm around her waist and
exclaimed:
“Nellie, I am not a coward, but
how can I ever ask your mother's
consent?"
She mado no reply.
“Sbe is so terribly sarcastic—so cut
ting when sho wishes to bo ?" I con
tinued.
“She certainly is,” said Nellie.
“So you—do you know what sho
thiukg of me ?’’ I asked.
“Well,” drawled Nellie, ruther re
luctantly, “tho truth is, she thinks
you’re a goose—she said so this very
day." ,
“Perhaps she will pit^ mo a little
when she knows how J love yon,"
•■id I. - ■^PE^V'
“I don’t know,” said Nellie dubi
ously. “She says she don’t believe
yon'II ever amonnt to anything, and
she’s sorry for the poor girl who is
taken in by yon.” Cold drops of per
spiration siooJ on my brow.
“You shall be my wife despite any
thing she may think or say?”
“Sb-b-h 1” whispered Nellie, as we
beard footsteps near us—“perhaps
that is mother now."
As'tlm unknown touched the eban-
dulier I attempted to remove my arm
from its resting plaoe, but ( my dar
ling, apparently aeteVmiueil to force
an issue at once, and to uphold me
in my criticul moment, caught, my
wrist tightly with ten soft but very
strong little fingers. There was n
bin of gas, and then a flush, uud as,
with desperate attempt at calmness, I
raised ray head to meet my doom, I
saw under the chnndalier, with a
wonder-struck countenance, Nellie
Mayton herself, while u peal of laugh
ter escaped from her mother, who
wqr tightly locked in ray arms 1 ,
“What are yon two people doing ?"
said Nellie, slowly recovering her
senses.
“Why,” spid Mrs. Mayton, with an
air of self-forgetful resignation, “I
came into tbe parlor a moment ago
ami took a seat on th» sofa, in the
.lark, and this impudent fellow—I’m
old enough to be Ids mother—pnt bis
arm around me and wondered how
be could ever usk my mother’s con
sent. When your father proposed he
whs thoughtful enough to nsk my
consent first, but I suppose the lashiou
of courtship has changed since then.
It mado my blood boil to hear your
saintly grandma called merciless and
SHrcastif- and catting, nod all sorts of
dreadful things, but I’ve borne it
meekly for yimr hake, Nellie, dial .foil
might have- a stepfather young and
milt enough to sympathize with you,
mid—"
“He’s mi own lover,” said Nellie,
with a Imigli wil l a biusli, as she
boxed her mother's cars uud bid her
self in my nrius. Mrs. Mayton gave
ns a look of mock indignation, bnt
only for a moment, for two motherly
tenrs entirely hid the sharpness of her
eyes; then the lips I had dreaded so
muoli gave each of ns a kiss, which
wus likewise it blessing.
, -••••*■
HUNTING FOIC BIDEIt DOWN.
A letter from Reykjavik, Iceland, to
the New York Sun, fells of the eider
harvest ns follows: •
The men who get the down leave
home early in tho morning, and visit
the places to which the eider duck
resorts, and each man hunts for tho
nests. Tbe nests are built in clefts of
the rock, sometimes near the sea, and
slippery from the spray, and some
times very high np, where a false step
would be death to the unfortunate
man falling down on tho jnggod rooks
below.
The down is plucked from the
breasts of the duck by tho bird itself,
and is used to line the nests for the
comfort of the young ones. Tho hun
ter robs tho bird of all the lining it
has provided for the oust, putting it iu
a bag that ho carries along for tho
purpose, und then goes on and re
pents the performance at some other
nest. Everything must be dono qui
etly, for a loud noiso frightens tbe
kirds, nnd if frightened away once
they will not build there ngnin.—
Tbo;e is a law enforced that forbids
tho discharge of fire-arms within
hearing of tho breeding places, and a
stranger would probably be mobbed
if be disobeyed it.
Two crops of down ore gathered.
in innkiLg the lining of her firat nest.
A short time after the first is gather
ed the banters go over the same
ground again nnd rob tho nest of tbe
second lining, which consists of all
the down the poor bird coaid rob her
self of for hor young, This proceed
ing seems to call ont the last energies
of tbe birds, for they then make a
now nest, and tbe drake lines it with
bis breast feathers. In this nest the
yoang are hatched. Tbe hunters sel
dom disturb it, for tho probabilities
are that tbe pair would go nwuy and
never return.
After the down has been gathered,
it is taken into a large room in the
farmer’s house, aud each Dsst, for tbe
liuiug retains the shape of a nest, is
placed on top of a primitive arrange
ment that looks like a harp laid fiat,
with strings of leather laid across it.
The nest is then rubbed nurosH the
strings, and the lichen, moss, sticks,
chips aud nther porta of tbe frame
work of the nest that are mixed with
the down fall through to the floor,
while the down remains io the opera
tor’s hands. The down is then packed
mid brought to market, and from
there shipped to all parts of the
world- Tljo color of tbe down is a
surprise to many, for instead of its
being white, us some people imagine,
it is a blue slate color, glossy, and
very pretty. An immense amount of
it can be crushed iuto a handful, but
it will resume its natural form when
released.
The down taken from dead lar is is
not as good as that from the nests.—
It is not so light or sp much like floss
silk to tbe touch. Iceland furnishes
about 7,000 pounds of the down every
your that is of a superior ’quality.
A Chicago girl fell out of a third
story window and killed a dog which 1
her brother had fired at four times
with a rifle and failed to bit. If a
Chicago gril falls from any height
her fqot will kill anything it happens
to strike, Bays an exebauge.
Now York Marino Journal.
The farmer who shows men how to
take np a piece of old, worn out nnd
neglected land, nnd raise good nnd
valuable crops thereon, deserves a
fair nnd impartial hearing.
And upon tbe same principle the
writer desires to call attention to an
old-fashioned style of craft, and show
whera and why it is worthy of atten
tion now, for in tbesn days, when men
try to devise all kinds of giiucracks,
ns canoes, catamarans, and such like,
we should not forget the good old
horse-bout. In the inland waters of
this country, and especially iu the ba
yous nnd slow-running rivers of ibe
Southern States, that are open all the
year round, the horse-boat may he
mado ns convenient, reliable und safe
as the carriage or saddle on laud; the 1
same horses may propel both, with
tbe advantage as regards speed, ca
pacity and comfort in favor of the
boat.
Thus, two horses can draw two tons
on a good road ul a rate of nbout
three miles an hour; and the same two
horses can propel a boat of teu tons
displacement at the rate of four and
a half miles an hoar, a gain of fifty
per cent iu speed, and at the same
time carrying n load of six tons of
freight. This is allowing fuur-teuths
of her displacement for weight of
bout, which, in a land of cednr, cy
press and live oak, would be ample
for a strong, shapely and swift boat.
Or, four horses may take a boat of
fifteen tons displacement seven miles
an hour in water of proper breadth
nnd depth; in vr^ry nurrow, shoal
places the speed would drop to one-
third of these' figures. And, these
four horses could carry at the same
time four farm wagons,’ with a pair of
horses and a ton of produce to each
one.
Thus, the farmer may load bis wag
on; drive on board snob n boat, hitch
bis horses to the boat und propel her
a dozer, miles or so, again hitch up
tbe wagon und drive to tbe railway
station or market without unloading
his produce or needing other help
than bis boy, nnd tiring his horses
far less than a muddy road of ball the
distance.
Without danger of tire or expense
ef engineer, such boat would be n'a
useful as a steamer, us handy ns a
row-boat. For an inluud hunting or
pleasure excursion, a party having
such a boat with two good horses,
and carrying a carriage' for land ser
vice, would find themselves independ
ent oi hotels and railroads, yet cover
more ground than any other one
method of private conveyance known.
This boat need not cost more than a
first-class carriage and harness, bat
should be c.ilenluled for the depth of
water and purpo—- i' i- (.•' i>r> iis-»d for;
aud should last, witii occasional paint
ing uml some oil, for half a genera
tion or more.
Delights of Counter Lire.
“Now, then, farmer," said the deni
zen of the city, after he bad made ar
rangements for tbe board of himself
and family for a fortnight, ami paid
tlie bill iu iidvunce, “1 suppose we’ll
live iu clover while we are here—plen
ty of good country Inn ter, nnd all
that, eb ?”
“Ob, yes, sir."
“No danger of Stirling, eb?”
“Oh, no, sir; the peddlers from tbe
city come tbia way twice a week With
vegetables, fruits, and such; the milk
train stupa and leave*, a call every
day, nnd the butler, cheese and egg
man comes tonnd ev-ry Satuidayas
regular as clockwork. You needn’t
have n fear but you’ll have plenty tu
eat"