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VOL. XXII.
NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1887.
NO. 29.
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JOHN
THE LEADER
OF LOW PRICES.”
JUST BACK FROM NEW YORK!
THE NEW GOODS ALL IN NOW.
JOHN KEELY
OFFERS YOU THIS WKEK
STARTLING ATTRACTIONS IN EVERY
DEPARTMENT.
DRESS GOODS!
GOO pieces brocade Dress Goods, 4c. yard.
All colors in Cheese Cloths, fine quality, Gc.
yard, worth 10c.
r Beautiful gray mixtures 8c., worth 12Jic.
anywhere.
Very fine grade Nun’s Veilings, wool filling,
10c. yard, worth 15c.
1U0 pieces spring shades Cashmeres 12*^c.
yard.
IGOpjcccs "Cubic Twills” spring colors, 12’ ^c.
yard.
Beautiful lot Spring Worsteds, 12}^ and 15c.
yard.
Black and colored Albatros wool dress goods
15c. yard.
Double width Cashmeres and grey mixtures,
15c. yard.
tfhoicc evening Nun’s Veilings, etc., at 20c.
yard.
Lovely double width Cashmere and Nun’s
Veilings, 25c. yard.
Beautiful Cashmeres, Ionian cloths, etc., 0*4,
-35c. yard.
It bids fairly to disrupt the trade of this
season in that particular branch. It will do it
too.
All the benefits arising from “this slaugh
ter” of a most desirable class of goods are laid
before you at JOHN KEEL VS!
180 pieces "Batiste Claire” Linens—20, 25,
and 35c., lovely goods!
Excellent Bargains in Plain Nainsooks!
Superb Values in Victoria Lawns, 6 to 50c.
yard!
Fine Stock BISHOP’S LAWNS, all priees!
White Linen Lawns, at every known price!
Extra fine grades, checked India Linens!
Persian Lawns in every color!
White and Cream Mulls in every quality!
Stupendous Bargains in Dotted and Figured
Swiss!
Llnon Di Daca Lawns 12’*jc. to 50c. yard!
The largest stock of Persian Lawns in Geor
gia!
But the effort to enumerate fully the variety
of White Goods here offered were vain!
THIS NEWSPAPER
Positively does not afford SUFFICIENT
SPACE to enable me to dilute fully upon the
details of the wonderful offerings now being
made in this department.
JolinKeely’s MILLINERY
Department is being made still
more attractive by the daily
additions which are being made
to the stock. Every Novelty
of the season will be found
here in the greatest prolusion.
A truly Superb Stock of
Goods!
Flannel suitings, Albatros Cloths, etc. All
colors, 50c. yard.
Cnmolettes, Serges, Diagonals, Camels Ilair,
Albatros, Gray mixtures, corded Batistes,
Checks, Gray and Brown mixtures, tote., in
fine French goods at.60c , 75c. and $1 a yard.
Lovely goods!
All the
prices.
ruing shades in all grades and
Beautitul spring stock of Worsted Dre
Goods, cmbrnclng all the French novelties of
the senson.
JOHN KEELY’S
LACE MITS
Beat the world for their beauty and cheapness.
Such offerings have never been made in tills
desirable class of goods. The variety is simply
immense!
60 Solid Cases of
FINE WHITE MUSLIN DRESS GOODS!
From Hie Largest Auction Sale of Hie
Season.
PURCHASED
at about one-half their value!
THEY WILL BE SOLD AT ABOUT THAT
RATIO.
You have never seen anything
like them.
15 solid cases ot the FINF.R grades white
India Muslins in short lengths, but in perfect
condition, at s, 10,12* 2 and 15c. a yard. Every
ouc worth double its price.
White checked Muslins at 5. 6. S. 10,12}* aud
15c. a yard.
Goods not to be matched for the
price.
An innumerable variety of
STRIPES, CHECKS
And Fancy Weave Wliite India Linens
at 8,10, 12U] and loc..
Goods never intended lo*=eU*for less than
double their price!
This auction sale was a ruin
ous measure! The low prices
obtained at this sale caused
quite a commotion in Dry
Goods circles.
Close upon Ihe Heels of
WHITE GOODS
COME
EMBROIDERIES
Thu Stock of EBKOIDKRIES is
MAMMOTH!
This is my
“PET” DEPARTMENT.
No wonder that it “BLOOMS” as it
does In the way of sales, for enough
CAPITAL, LABOR and THOUGHT has
been e,ponded upon it to run a pretty
good sized
DRY GOODS STORE.
$30,000
WORTH OF EMBROIDERIES
In tills Stock lo-day.
The Sales of Embroideries in this
House just now are miming up to Jroin
$800 to $1,000 a Dav!
THIS MEANS SOMETHING h
Hamburg Edgings and Insertions to
match, oe. to $1 3 ard!
Lovel3' Nainsook Embroideries, from
the “Daintiest” little beauties, to the
widest, grandest Elouncings with inser
tions to match.
Mull and Swiss Embroideries in sets
of four and live widths to match.
Sweetest little “Baby Sets” in Mull and
Nainsook.
Superb line of Skirtings trom the low
est to the highest grades made.
100 different styles of Colored Embroid
eries in all the widths to match, with sol
id color Lawns to match all of them.
Hundreds of “Allover” Embroideries,
from 75c. to $5.00 a yard.
The truth is that never before has such
an Immense Stock, such a Surpising Va
riety or such an Array-of Beautiful Em
broideries ever been laid before the
Ladies of any Southern City as that now
offered at
JOHN KEELY’S
FANS.
Challenge the
Fans!
South on
THE STYLES AND QUALITIES
ARE TOO NUMEROUS
TO NAME.
But they beat everyth 1 ng ever offered
in Fansiu this orany other market.
They range in price Irom 5c.
up to $3.50!
YOU
CAN MATCH THEM NO
WHERE ELSE.
They arc Laid Out so you can see them
at a Glance !
THE STOCK IS IMMENSE!
The Variety is Unsurpassed.
They are selling liko
HOT CAKES!”
Price and Quality Will Sell
A ny Quantity of
Anything.
JOHN KEELY’S
Stock of Black Summer Dress
Goods is immense ; 100 differ
ent styles of Black Dress Goods
in stock, in both Jet and Blue
Black, in every grade, style
and effect. No possibility of
you failing to find just what
you need here in Black Dress
Goods!
THE BRIDGE OF YEARS-
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never vanes. A marvel oi pur
ity, strength, and wholesomeness. More eco
nomical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot
be sold in competition with the multitude of
low test, short weight, alum or phosphate
powders. Sold only In cans. Royal Baking
Powder ro.. ior Wail.at... N. Y.
J. AMBROSE DOYLE.
From manhood’s isle of duty
To boyhood’s land of beauty
A vast bridge stretches o’er the river Time.
Yet w« ary, sighing mortals
May enter not its portals.
And cro>s again to youth’s departed prime.
Above the vapory arches
A spirit-army marches.
Events that filled the distant long ago:
Lost chances, hopes and gladness.
Wrapt in a mist of sadness.
In special throngs are moving to and fro.
Tis strewn with many a token
Of lies forever broken;
Still dreams of love and friendship gone for aye
Assume their wonted splendor,
Wnen longing* gw. et and tender.
Across the mystic structure fondly stray.
There, in the far off spaces.
Rise half-forgotten faces,
And peer from the dim aconian past.
Sad voices, too, seem calling.
Their plaintive echoes tailing
Upon the soul, with sorrow’s gloom o’ercast.
Oh! faded joys and pleasures!
Life's early golden treasures
Come back to me from childhood’s sunny
shore.
Return on wings of fleetness.
With all your old-time sweetness,
And glad my spirit as in days of yore.
Alas! in visions only,
’Mid hours of musings lonely.
Youth’s by-goue happiness to us appears.
In vsin the heart’s sad yearning—
Yet Memory’s bt-acon burning
Gleams brightly o’er the mystic Bridge of
LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDER
WEAR.
Ladies Chemise 25,35, 50,60, 75, S5c, $1,
$1.25, $1.50 and up to $2.00 each.
Ladies’ Night Gowns 50, 60, 75 Me., $1
and finer grades.
Ladies’ Walking Skirts 35, 40, 50,75, $1,
$1.25 and finer grades.
Ladies’ Muslin Drawers 25,60c, $1, $1.50,
etc.
ONE WORD!
This lot of Underwear ex
cels for beauty of design, qual
ity and finish anything ever
offered in Atlanta. The unan
imous verdict of the ladies is
iavorable. They are picked up
very rapidly.
LACEMITS!
Something Very Attractive.
I Closed Out a Lot of 1,500
Dozen Black and Colored
Lace Mits.
I OBTAINED THEM FOR A SONG.
If your voice id anywhere near Mediocre
A 011 Can Get What Y ou Want
of Them.
They Embrace the Best Goods Made!
The3* Embrace Nothing Worth less than
$6 per Dozen. They Run up as High in
Value as $1 per Dozen.
M isses’ Black Lace Mits, fine goods, Ice
pair, worth 60c.
Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits,
20c. pair, worth 65c.
Ladies’ Superfine Black and Colored
Lace Mits, 25c. parr, worth 75c.
Ladies’ Laco MKs 35c. pair, worth 85
anywhere.
t
REMEMBER!
THis is no Mere Exaggeration! It is Fact!
Ladies’ Black md Colored Lace Mits,
40 and 50c. pair, worth $1.00.
Ladies’ Light Cplors—Lace Mits, the
best made, 60c. worth $1.25.
WELL!
THis settles Hie Lace Mit quesUon for Hie
Season.
Nothing like them Has ever been shown
here before.
Nothing like them will ever be shown
here again.
To examine them is to purchase them.
John Keely’s SHOE DE
PARTMENT is one of the
marvels of the trade to-day!
1 he run of patronage is im
mense, hut thjj stock is the
largest and the best ever placed
before the Atlanta public! No
Shoddy Goods. No - Trash.
But the best “Custom Made”
Goods, every pair of .which is
warranted!
$5,000 WORTH OF NEW
PARASOLS.
Ladles’ Gingham Parasols and Sun
Umbrellas.
Ladies’ Alpaca Parasols and Sun Um
brellas.
Black Silk Parasols and Sun Umbrel
las at$l, $1.25. »1.3o, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00
each. Natural Sticks.
Pine Black Silk Parasols, Pearl Han
dles, HALF PRICE, at $1, $1.50, $1.75,
and $2.00 each; positively worth double
the price.
Ladies’ Fine Mourning Parasols at
Irom $2 to $5 each,
Black Satin and Black Lace Parasols,
half price.
Colored Fine Satin Parasols, half price.
BARGAINS IN PARASOLS.
Any quantity of novelties in Parasols
viz: in White and Cream Parasols, Fan
cy Fine Black Lace Parasols, Fan
cy Colored Silk Parasols, Colored Bro
cade Parasols, Fancy colored Satin Par
asols ; in fact
An Immense and Beautiful Slock
PARASOLS!
And at prices whicli fairly startle the
purchaser! You will find just any
kind of a Parasol yea need here.
LACE CURTAINS.
A BOOM IN
Lace Curtains and Curtain Laces.
10,00 yards beautiful Scrim, 6'»'e. yard,
worth 12>jc.
500 yards Lace Scrim, 10c. yard, worth
15c.
Lovely lot Scrim goods, 12> j and 15c.
yard, half price.
Beautiful printed Madras Curtain
goods 15c., worth 25.
Superb “Etamine” Lace goods, 20, 25,
and 35c. yard, cheap.
l,0i 0 oairs Lace Curtains 90c., $1, $1.25,
$1.50, $1.75 pair.
Better grade goods away up to fine
grades.
Nottingham Curtain Laces at from 10
to 35c. yard.
SPRING WRAPS!
1,500 Ladles Cashmere Scarfs $1 each;
beauUful things.
1,000 nne Embroidered Scarfs at from
$1.5010 $7 each! All colors, various sty It s,
eic.
A fine line of ladies’ Cashmeie Shawls#
in every graue of goods at pi ices rang
ing from *1.50 to $10 each, in black, lignt
blue, white, cream, cardinal, pink, etc.
SILKS!
Black Silks at from 50, 60. 75. 83J90, $1,
$1.15, $1.25, $1.35, $1,50, $1.65, $1.75 and up to
finest grades of r-i Ik s made.
Every Black Silk above 90c. 3‘ard is
GUARANTEED!
No such a variety' of Black Silk in
Georgia!
A tine line of Summer Silks, Solid
Color Uros Grain Silts, Black and Gol-
ortd Satins, Rhadames, etc., all colors
and grades of quality.
Thousands of Novelties is Trimming
Silks, Satins and Velvets. All new. All
fresh.
BESIDES
The best Line of Solid Color and Black
Plain Silk Velvets and Velveteens eyer
shown here.
ATLANTA HOME
INSURANCE CO-,
ATLANTA, GA.
CAPITAL, - $200,000.00
Strictly a Home Institution,
Seeking Home Patronage.
Owned and Controlled by Well-known Geor
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Solvency undoubted. Patronize and help
build it up.
CONSERVATIVE
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Business.
If. C. FISHER & CO., Agents,
Newnan, Get. ^
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REGULATOR!
Send for our book containing valuable in
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LUMBER.
I HAVE A LARGE LOT OF
LUMBER FOR SALE. DIFFER
ENT QUALITIES AND PRICES,
BUT PRICES ALL LOW.
W. B. BERRY'-
Newnan, Ga., March 4th, 1887.
CARRIAGE AND WAGON
REPAIR SHOP!
We are prepared to do any kind of work in
the Carriage, Buggy or Wagon line that may
be desired and in the best and most work
manlike manner. We use nothing but the
best seasoned material, and guarantee all
work done. Old Buggies and Wagons over
hauled and made new. New Buggies and
Wagons made to order. Prices reasonable.
Tires shrunk and wheels guaranteed. Give
ns a trial. FOLDS dfc POTTS.
Newnan, February 11. 1887.
AT JOHN KEELY’S,
58,60,62 AND 64 WHITEHALL AND 8 AND 10 HUNTER STREETS,
ATLANTA) GA.
BADGES,
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A Fault Finder.
New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat.J
All husbands find fault with their
cieals. I know this to he true, be
cause Mr. Bowser says so. I think it
uothiug strange wbeu Mr. Bowser sits
down to his diuuer and begins:
“Humph! Same old corued beef!”
“Yes, iny dear; it’s the same corned
beef you ordered as you went down
this morning.’’
“Ob, it is! 11 didn’t know but it was
some I ordered a year ago! What do
you call this?”
“Potatoes, of course.”
“Potatoes, eh? I’ll try and remem
ber that name. And what’s this?"
“Cabbage, my love.”
“Oh! I didn’t knoyv but what it was
wood-pulp, my love! Was this bread
made since ilie yvar?”
“Certainly. It is only two days
old.”
“Humph! Baying some poorcoflee
again, I see! Look at that! That stud
looks as it it wus dipped out of a mud
hole!”
“But you ordered this very coflee
yo. rseif only night before last.”
He growls and eats, and eats and
growls, and I’ve got used to it. It is
only now aud then that he proceeds
to violence. The other day he ex
pressed bis fondness fur pumpkin pie,
and I ordered the cook to make two or
three. We bad oue brought onatsup
per, and as soon as Mr. Bowser saw n
he sternly inquired:
‘What do you call that performance
there? When was it born, aud where
is it going to?”
“Mr. Bowser, you said, you wanted
some pumpkin pie.”
“Yes.”
“Well, here it is, and as good a one
as you ever ate; I made it myself, af
ter mother’s favorite recipe.”
“Mrs. Bowser, do you call that a
pumpkin pie?”
“I do, sir.”
“Theu I want to he branded a fool!
What do you take me for, anyway?
Don’t you suppose I was eatingpuuip-
kin pies before you were born?"
“Why isn’t it a pumpkin pie?”
“Why isn’t a boot-leg a boot?
Where is your other crust?"
“But pumpkin pies don’t have but
one crust.”
“Don’t they? Mrs. Bowser, you can
deceive the cook, for she is a confiding
foreigner, aud you can stuff most any
yarn down our poor little bsby, but
don’t try to bamboozle me. It won’t
work. I’m glad for your sake that
your mother isn’t here to laugh at
you.”
lu two days I had a letter from his
mother, affirming that there was no
upper crust to a pumpkin pie, and I
brought my own mother over in the
flesh as a further witness, but what
did Mr. Bowser do but loudly ex
claim :
“Bosh! You old women have for
gotten half you know! Youarethink-
ing about pudding and milk, you are.
Of course there is no upper crust to
pudding and milk, and I never said
there was.”
He cost me a good girl last week by
one of his whims. I happened to won
der aloud during the evening if she had
put her bread to raise,when be prompt
ly inquired:
“Mrs. Bowser, do you know why
bread rises?”
“Because of the yeast.”
“But why does the yeast expand the
dough?”
“Because it does.”
“Exactly. You also live because
you do, aDd that’s all you know about
it! You ought to be ashamed of your
ignorance of natural philosophy. I’ll
see if the girl knows any better.”
He went out and inquired:
“Jane, have you put the bread to
raise?”
“Yes, sir,”
“Do you expect it to raise?”
“Of course.”
“Why don’t you expect it to fall?”
•‘Are you running this kitchen?”
she sharply demanded.
“Virtually, yes. My object Is to see
how well you are posted on natural
philosophy. Why does the bread
raise instead of fall?”
“Because it’s a fool, and I’m anoth
er for staying In a place where a man
is allowed to ben-buzzy about the
kitchen! I’ll leave in the morning!”
And leave she did, and all the con
solation I got from Mr. Bowser as he
came up to dinner was:
“It’s a good thing she left. She
might have mixed something togeth
er which would have ^caused our
deaths. Come, now, hurry up the din
ner.”
Mr. Bowser has improved some in
the direction of taking care of the ba
by. I can now leave them together as
long as fifteen minutes without fear
that one will kill the other by trying
some experiment. They bad been to
gether about seven minutes the other
day while I was un-stairs, and when
I came down Mr. Bowser seemed agi
tated and whispered to me:
“I’ve suspected it all along!”
“What?”
“That our child was somewhat of a
monstrosity! Look at that!”
And he pointed to a soft spot on the
child’s head where a throb could be
detected.
“Every child has the same,” I re
plied in a reassuring voice.
“Oh! they have, eh! What infants’
asylum have you been matron of?
Perhaps I married the mother instead
of the daughter! I tell you that’s*
freak of nature, that Is, and I shan’t
be surprised to come home any day
and find a horn beginning to sprout.”
bouyancy of healthy business activity,
was far from being equal either in en-
e-gv or extent to the “boom” now
convulsing t be South. For it is con-
vn’-'on, indeed.
It is an industrial earthquake, cou-
vul«:ngalike the face of nature, the
character of society, the hahits and
thoughts of men. From New Orleans
io Louisiana to the Monnugabela riv
er in West Virginia, this convulsion
is going on with a steady, though
bounding pulse that bespeaks not the
weakness of abnormal and conse
quently of morbid growth, but the
rugged strength of healthy develop
ment. Cities are springing up liae
magic. The traveler passes to-day
over a bleak and desolate tract, to
which, on returning in a year, he finds
a large aud flourishing city. Land
increases i » selling price many fold
in a week. -The silence of the wilder-
nes9gives place tothe bustle and noise
of a densely populated community.
Ft rtunes are accumulated In a day.
Worn out old farms wjjerethe “crack
er” and the “clay eaters” have essay
ed with but partial success for years
past to make a scanty living-have be
come truck farms. Men’s wages, from
ten dollars per month and scanty
board, have gone to three aud four and
even five dollars per day. Man is in
deed subduing this Southern earth aud
cultivating it.
The centre of this great activity, if
centre it can be called where unwont
ed energy prevails all around, is the
region embraced in the southern part
of the Appalachian ra- go and its low
er foothills and extendiug a hundred
miles or more on either side of the
range east and west. It i9 the choi
cest part ef the United States for cli
mate. It is the healthiest part. The
soil is, oj an average, equal to any.
It is the choicest deposit of mineral
wealth, from gold aud gems to iron
aud alkaline earths. It is a- virgin
Italy without its paupers, its poverty,
its plagues, its sirocco aud its malaria.
It is Southern Spain witnout its ener
vating heat and its priest-ridden su
perstitions, its crime aud its poverty
It is a laud just near en. ugh to the
sun for men to becomefully ripe with
out excess or deficiency. And it is
the Auglo-Saxou race iu ins highest
development that inhabit and domi
nate that land. Given the finest cli
mate, therichest natural region and the
most energetic meu that the world can
boast of, there is but little iu the out
look which even the _ost cynical can
construe into disappointment or fail
ure. Ou the coulrary, iu the growth
of this boom, in the continuous devel
opment of this favored region, we may
look for the favorable solution of
many of the problems that now
threaten evil to our institutions and to
our onward progress.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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t ine square 6 months, - - - - - 6 06
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Quarter column 1 month, - - - 5 0#
Quarter column 3 months, a . . 12 00
Quarter column 12 months, - - - 30 00
Half column 1 muifth, - •»•--- 7 SO
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benefit to him. They are well worth
pasting in any man's hat and all the
readers of the News are perfectly wel
come to clip this out and preserve it
in any way they may see fit.
500,000 Superfluous Women.
National Review.]
The usual retort, when women com
plain of the want of remunerative em
ployment is that they should not
work, but find men to support them.
As there are 500,000 more women than
men in England, it is obviously im
possible that every woman should
have a husband. This state of things
is as bad iu Germany, also. The pre
ponderance of the women over the
men is greatest in the professional and
upper middle classes. Among the
richer aristocracy of England, aud the
absolutely working people, the sexes
are still equal in number, and woman
can still marry. But the sous of cler
gymen, officers, civil servants, law
yers, doctors, aud some of the country
gentry, find the struggle of existence
too great in this kingdom ; they emi
grate or leave the country by joining
tne military or naval service. Their
sisters all remain at home, unable to
find husbands, aud uneducated for
work, even for domestic work. These
superfluous women most undoubtedly,
as a body, perform the first duty of
their sex—that of beiDg charming—
they are often handsome, aro gener
ally well mannered and well dressed.
They are “chariniDg,” but there is no
one m charm. They know very well
that their chances of marriage are al
most nil: therefore should a solitary
suitor with even a modestcompetency
appear, they feel driven to accept the
first man who asks them, whether
they care for him or not, and most
generally they do not. Their parents
wish to get rid of them, so they marry
without love. An evil arises out of
this, more ghastly than can be de
scribed. The marriage of con venience
is a recognized social institution abroad.
lit England, iu this nineteenth ceutu-
rv, the women of the upper middle
class adopt it without acknowledging
it. However we may affect to deny
it, there is a vast amount- of married
unhappiness in all classes. The fault
is sometimes ascribed to the present
degeneracy of women and sometimes
to the deterioration of men. Tue fault
really lies in our social system, which
gives a woman neither work nor mon
ey, and obliges her to sell herself be
fore she has lost heronly saleable com
modities—youth and beauty. As
there exists four “superfluous wo
men” to one man, the female has no
choice, while the lordly male has the
greater number from which to pick
and choose.
For full particulars and directions see Circu
lar in every j>onn d of Arbcceles* C'orrzz.
What Is a Mortgage?
Palatka (Fla.) News.]
A gentleman now residing in
Palatka, several years ago bail occa
sion, in the ordinary transaction of
business, to call on an eminent lawyer
for the loan of a sum of money for a
gentleman, offering a mortgage on
valuable property as collateral for the
same. The lawyer had a great deal of
this kind of business on band, aud
asked the young man:
“D<> you know what amortgage is?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the gentleman.
“Do you realize its full signifi
cance?”
“Well, I don’t know that I do.”
What the lawyer said so itnjjress-
ed the young man that he wrote it
down. Here it is, and it is full of
meat:
“I’ll tell you,” eaid the lawyer, “in
the range of sound and profane litera
ture perhaps there is nothing record
ed that has such staying properties.
A mortgage can be depended upon to
stick closer than a brother. Day after
day it is right there; nor does the
slightest tendency to slumber impair
its vigor iu the night. Night and day,
on the Babbath and at holiday times,
without a mdment’s time for rest or
recreation, the biting offspring of Us
existence—interest—goes on. The sea
sons may change, days may run into
weeks, weeks into months, to be swal
lowed up in ihe gray maw of advanc
ing years, but that mortgage stands
np with sleepless vigilance, with the
Interest of a perennial stream, cease
lessly running on. Like a huge
nightmare eating oat the sleep of some
restless slumberer, the unpaid mor'-
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Washington. (D. C.) Sunday Gazette.)
There has been Dothing in the his- gage rears up in its gaunt front in per-
tory of our industrial civilization ; petual torment to the miserable
which equals the present business wight who is held in its pitiless
boom of the Sontb for extent and ener- | clutch. It holds the poor victim in
gy After the close of the Franco-Ger- the relentless grasp of a giant. Not
was a period of remark- one hour of recreation; not one mo-
_ in the latter country re- ! meat’s evasion of its hideous pres-
sulting from the stimulation given : enee—a genial savage of mollifying
business by the payment to the con- i aspect while the interest is paid; a
querer of the war an indemnity of a \ very devil of hopeless destruction
thousand million dollars by 'the van- \ when the payments fail.”
quisbed country. But that, though The gentleman has treasured up the
it was more to be compared to the In- words of tbe great lawyer, for y<
. .—,— —.; it was more to be compared to tbe in- words or toe great lawyer, for years,
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The Tale of a Clock.
Philadelphia Record.J
The handsome Mexican onyx clock
which stands iu the reception room of
the city residence of Mr. Ge -rge W.
Childs, at tbe southeast corner of
Twenty-second and Walnut streets,
has been much admired by the thou
sands of visitors to that hospitable
mansion, few of whom probably know
the history of the expensive time
keeper, wbich is recalled by the
death ot Le Grand Lockwood in New
York. Duriug the Paris exposition of
1867 Mr. Lockwood, who was a visitor,
became especially enamored of Ibia
strikingly beautiful clock, whose base,
four feet in height, supported a superb
silver statuette of liberty, swinging
from oue baud a pendulum. Mr.
Lockwood, who was then very
wealthy, determined to own this
clock, and in the auction of exhibited
articles bought it, thought tbe Czar of
all tbe Rus.-ias, to whom time waa
then of moment, was a competitor in
the bidding. Bafely transported to
Norwalk, Couu., Mr. Lockwood’s
home, the costly time-piece was much
admired by tbe visitors to Mr. Lock
wood’s house, aud by none more than
Mr. aud Mrs. Geo. w. Childs. Several
years later Mr. Lockwood’s bouse and
its tnauy articles of vertu were offered
fur sale, aud at the suggestion of hia
good wife Mr. Cuilds determined to
buy this cluck. Arrived at the sale,
aud tbe clock put up, Mr. Childs’ first
bid w as $3,UU0. A strauger silting im
mediately bebiud him raised him
$500. Mr. Childs saw the raise and
raised back $500, wben the astonished
strauger rea-htng forward remarked:
“Sir, I come from A. T. Stewart
with orders to get that clock, and I
must have it.”
“I don’t care if you come from Gol-
couda,” was the rtply of the Philadel-
phtau, aud he kept raising tho bid of
his opponent, much to the auction
eer’s sa'isfactiou, uutii be had offered
$6,500, at which figure Stewart’s man
weakened. Mr. Cbilds removed the
timekeeper to his city residence,
where it nuw ticks and tells that time
is flying.
Dropped Her Eyebrow.
Boston Herald. ]
A Boston fair one, or perhaps, con
sidering me circumstances, I should
say “unfair” oue, whose charms near
ly seventy years have somewhat
blighted, has been sojourning at a
fashionable winter resort for several
weeks for the g -ud of her health and
spirits. Her toilets have rivaled the
late Mrs. Stewart’s in extensiveness
aud expense, aud her make-up has
been all that blooming two-and-twen-
•y might iu safety swear to. Perpetu
al youth reigned on her toilet table
and reflected tlself in the waviest tress
es of ebon hue, peachy cheeks and
coral lips, skillful dentistry and all
those means of grace employed by
women who hate to grow old. Coquet
tish laces ou the bead and about the
throat, aud diamonds everywhere sof
tened tnese painful facts,and the near
sighted world exclaimed, what a well
preserved dowager! Tbe other morn
ing, however, even the blindest vis-a-
vis was forced to admit something wss
wrong in the construction. What bad
bappeued uq one precisely knew until
chance brought a keen-eyed young
sinner to the breakfast table. After
saying grace—or something else—in
her napkin, she leaned forward, and,
with a bland smile, aud holding
something between her thumb and
finger said: “Good morning, Mrs.
Racamore; 1 believe this is your eye
brow!”
Glasgow’s Maternity Hospital.
Kansas City Journal.]
“1 speut a day in Glasgow,” said a
woman physician just returned from
Europe, “tor the express purpose of
gettiugapeep into the Maternity Hos
pital there. They are making experi
ments, y >u know, in raising babies by
steam—balden prematurely born that
would staud no chance of life under
ordinary treatment. I went 250 miles
out of my way for a look into that
steam baby box, and I had it. There
was one child under treatment when
I got there, a tiny thing that seemed
hardly human. It lay in a bed of cot-
tou v ool iu the upper compartment of
an incubator especially arranged for
tbe purpose. There were hot water
bottles in the lower part of Ihe box
and a thermometer hanging at the
side to regulate the heat. There lay
tbe ha by iu au atmosphere of steam.
The physicians iu charge said it was
perceptibly growing and would prob
ably live. That's nineteenth century
civilization for you.”
Tel! me not in mournful numbers,
that the town is full of gloom, for the
mao’s a crank who slumbers in these
bursting days of boom. Life is real,
life is earnest, and tbe grave is not its
goal; every dollar that thou turnest
helps to make the old town roll. But
enjoyment, anti ;t sorrow, is our des
tined end of way ; if you have no mon
ey, borrow—buy a corner lot eaen day!
Lives of great men all remind us we
can win immortal fame; let us leave
tbe chumps behind us, and we'll get
there just the same. Iu tbe world’#
broad field of battle, in the bivonac of
life, let us make tbe dry hones rattle
—buy a corner lot for wife! Let ns,
tifen, be up and doing, with a heart
for any fate; still achieving, still
jursuiug, booming early, booming
ate.”
“My dear,” said a Congressman to
his daughter, at breakfast, “wasn’t
young Brown here last night until
twelve o’clock ?”
“Yes, papa,” she replied with a pret
ty little olush.
Well, my dear, you should not per
mit it. It has been that way for sev
enteen nights, hasn’t it?”
Yes, papa.”
Don’t you know that it is hardly
the proper thing?”
“Yes, papa.”
"Then way do you doit?” he asked,
impatiently.
“Because, papa, I expect to go away
next week, and 1 am rushing tbe busi
ness so that there will not have to be
an extra session.”
A man who believes he doesn’t get
his money’s worth and is doiDg an act
of charity in subscribing for any
newspaper, hasn’t any mind to
think, and his soul is so small
that they won’t take the trouble to
look for it at the day of judgment.
Ninety-nine times in a hundred the
man who “can’t afford” his miDd and
his family three cents worth of men
tal and moral stimulus a week, can
afford to fill his skin full of rot-gut
whisky fifty-two times a year, and
can afford to nse tobacco until his
breath would knock tbe core out of an
ink 'oiler at twenty paces. And gen
erally be is tbe man who talks of
newspapers being dependent on the
public for support.
A man in Middleton told-his wife h#^
‘loved her better than his own goal ;•* -j®
but as be hasn’t been to ebnieb In five
year# hie wife d»ee not know bow (9