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An Oxford county. Me., paper tells of a famous old-time school teacher who i wanted to find which one of the boys | had stolen a ragged urchin's knife. He c-ailed the boys up and for some min- | utes lectured them severely on the wickedness of thieving and then said, flv now breast and with a little liuttering sigh, j in the world were once_ humble knights like a tired child, went to sleep, slept from about forty i Spuyten Duyvil to a point county line road crosses section six. There I woke him up, and gently tak ing his roguish hand out of my pocket, I leaned him over the other way, with his head against the shoulder of an old lady who had rested a big paper bag of moist and mushy pears on my knee for two miles, and got off the car feeling as well pleased in every way as I would had I been on a long, expensive excur sion. Then there is the old man who runs three-quarters of a mile to catch the bobtail car, and just as be has passed his fare finds that the street crossing he wants to get to is the one where he got on the car, and he tries to have his money refunded. On the bobtail car you cannot only ride from one point to another, but you can help lift the car on the track and feel perfectly free, if you are fat, to rest your stomach on the brake while not in use. M hile the brake is not in use, I mean. There is also the woman who is in tent on thinking how she will chisel some great dry goods emporium out of 27 cents worth of samples, and who gets off the car forgetting her baby, which is asleep on the seat. She al ways rides in a bobtail car, and al though she frequently leaves her baby on the seat that way and always wildly attacks the driver about it the next day, and very rarely gets the baby re turned to her, she does not seepi to re frain from riding in the bobtail car, and she never seems to run short -of children. Some day I am going to write a New York society novel called “The Flight of the Bobtail Car.” It will be full of thrilling passages, and will contain He | of the stick and rule. What would you rods below ; think of a man who wanted to mount an engine and attempt to run it, who did not know the difference between a Westinghouse air brake and a Hancock inspirator? You would not care to ride with him very far. Newnan, Ga., Friday, August 19tn, 1887. IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES DEALER suddenly, “There is a big crawling over the nose of the boy that stole the knife.” Quick as thought one of the boys clapped his hand to his nose. He was fairly caught, and after restoring the knife to its rightful own er, had to take his thrashing like a lit tle man. A church sociable and hugging bee at Elk Creek, Neb., broke up in a row recently. A withered remnant of a man, aching for a smack at a sweet sixteen or thereabout, blew in fifteen cents and was blindfolded. The mana gers ran his wife against him and the squeeze he gave her made her back ache. When the bandage, was remov ed and he discovered the swindle he howled like a wild man, smote a man ager on the jaw, and choked the treas urer till he refunded. Takes a Cheap Excursion Without Going Out of Town. How often during the heat of mid summer we madly rush out of the fry ing-pan of mild prostration and discom fort at home, into the fire of long rail road trips, flies, mosquitoes and expen sive clothes. What a strange, restless, unreasonable, evanescent, fly-up-the- rreek man is. No other being that breathes the breath of life can ever hope to equal him in doing things which he afterwards bitterly regrets, admitting always, however, that his wife got him into it. No other anthro poid, plantigrade, pachyderm or mol- iusk can ever hope to compete with high-browed, thinking man in making a large, oval chump of himself and (hen coming right out frankly and ad mitting that his wife is to blame for it. No other male mammal, when it pounds its thumb with a tack hammer, turns and throws the hammer at the fe male of its species. But I started out to speak of the sum- mer excursion more especially, and to say that we often make long and use less journeys for the joys that elude us, while continued calm, a cob pipe and a chance to take off our coats and. show our new suspenders, are a few of the comforts that cluster about our own fireside. Booking back over that paragraph, I am sorry that I used the word fireside at this season of the year, but I will let •it go. Once more, coming back to the ques tion of whereto go for the summer, and having tried a good many of the best places and formed many delightful friendships among those who will, no doubt, look back to this summer as one of the most delightful and brainy sum mers they ever passed, I still say that we are prone to go too far and to for get the joys that await us at our own doors. Why should we buy a ticket over the lied Hot Valley and Skewgee Railroad and pay extra baggage on $731 worth of new clothes, when the Manhatten Elevat ed Scenic Route, with kind-heart ed and scholarly guards, ready at any and all times to gather in a few thumbs from the great moist masses by means of those cute little iron gates, stands ready to take us to and beyond the Harlem V Why should the young lover go hun dreds of miles from home, far, far from his mother, and where he will therefore have t o black his own boots or have it done V Why should he put himself to all this expense in order to stroll at twilight beneath the worm-decked boughs of the elm while we have the same tiling right here at home? Why should lie go to a high-priced summer resort where the bar-tender and the head waiter divide the gross receipts, when both of these features are found in New Yo^k the whole year round? Does he go aw r ay in order that he may stroll up and down a : crowded prome nade and murmur large, sweet prevari cations into each other’s ears? If so, he can do the same thing on Park Row and wear the elbows of our best people in the pit. of his stomach just the same as he would at a summer resort. No, there is no need that we should spend the good money of our parents, seeking out. the varied catalogue of hot-footed insects and the dry and squirtless fountains that lurk in the hazy distance, for we have them right We will Duplicate Selected witb Care and BOUGHT FOB CAb. Atlanta Prices in anything in the Dry Goods iiue. NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES Of all kinds; also a full line of A lover of his race has a bit of infor mation for sentimental young ladies. He says as soon as the baby’s teething begins, the romance of married life ceases. No woman can feel any senti ment for a man who travels around in his night shirt on a hot summer eve, with a squalling infant dangling over Kis shoulder. It is then she stops call ing him darling, and descends to such connnonplace observations as, “John Camfire, be careful how you hold that baby !” ‘ It was midnight and an impassioned lover in an up-town drawing-room kneeled at the feet of his heart’s choice and exclaimed: “Gerty, I will do any thing in this world to make you hap py.” “Do you mean it, George?” “I do, darling.” “Then for heaven’s sake go home and let me go to bed.” A Vermont man has the following posted in his field: “If any mans or womans cows or oxens gits into these here oats, his or her tail will be cut off as the case may be. I am a Christian man and pays my taxes; but durn a man what lets his critters run loose.” A Tennessee girl, riding on the cars, got up, crossed the aisle, kicked a young man up against the window, and remarked: “I was brung *ip never to allow a yaller-eyed man to wink at me.” Cucumbers, college graduates and other green things are now plentiful. A pig’s tail is no more use to the pig than the letter “p” is to pneumonia. And a General Line of CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE GROCERY LINE IS COMPLETE, PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES SELL” IS MY MOTTO, Come and see me and be convinced. If you don’t buy you will be treated politely. Grace is with the house and will be pleased to see his old friends. WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED? The latter I can regulate; the former I can assist you in. I have on hand a large and well selected stock of SFRING GOODS, and they must be sold. My stock of Is complete and will please the most fastidious. Come and see them. Boys’ suits from $3 to $12.*0. Men’s Suits from $7 50 to $20 All I want is a chance to show them;—the goods will sell themselves. My line of DRY GOODS consists of Ginghams, Lawns, Muslins. Dress Linens, Table Dam ask, Checks, Bicachings, Sheeting Shirting—in fact, everything and anything in the way of staple Dry Goods and Notions. A big line of Men’s and Boys’ Straw Hats; can’t be beat in town for style or price. Also, a handsome lot of Men’s soil and stiff Hats. I sell the best hand-made Shoe in town for the money—both for Gents and Ladies My stock was selected with care and comprises all the late novelties and styles. A large Jot of medium grade Shoes always on hand. W. E. AVERY The Island of Johanna, Comoro Is lands, has some very peculiar customs. The natives are jet black, but neat and clean. Girls after marriage are not al lowed on the streets at all, and can see no one but their husbands. Rich men are allowed four wives, poor men one. When a poor man gets poorer he can sell a half share in his, wife for so much money, formulated bv law. A native belle before her marriage makes a fine display on the fashionable streets of Johanna in this rig: A red calico Moth er Hubbard gown, printed with a pat tern of banana leaves, reaching to her knees; no shoes nor stockings, and for head gear a wide-rimmed, blue china teacup, worn with the handle on one side for convenience in taking off.— Boston Journal. WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, CHINA AND GLASSWARE, MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, SINGER SEWING MACHINE, NEEDLES AND OIL, VIOLIN STRINGS, BRIC-A-BRAC, NOVELTIES My stock of Groceries consists of Corn, Meat, Flour, Meal, Syrup. Sugar, Coffee, and ev ery iiii'ngneeded to refresh and sustain the inner mail. This department is replenished every week and all goods sold are guaranteed to be fresh and sound, or money refunded. Will sell tow for Cash, or ' >x Timk for approved paper. Gel my prices before buying elsewhere; I can make it to your advantage to do so. Greenville Street misery m tins world than tnere now is. To be sure, they might not have so many opportunities to marry as before, but they would be more satisfactory. As a girl grows older, if she thinks at all, she certainly becomes more capable of judging wliat would make her happy than when younger. How many girls of twenty would think of marrying the- man she would gladly have married at sixteen ? At thirty a woman is some what independent and not over-anxious to marry, is much harder to please and more careful in her choice than one at twenty. There is good reason for this. Her mind has unproved with her years, and she now looks beyond mere appear ance in judging men. She is apt to ask if this man who is so very polite in com pany is really kind-hearted. Do his polite actions spring from a happy, gen ial nature, or is his attractive demeanor put on for the occasion and laid off at home, as he lays off his coat ? A very many girls take it for granted that men are always as they are seen in society— polite, friendly and on their good be havior. If she marries early the man who happens to please her fancy, she learns to her sorrow that in nine cases out of ten a man in society and a man at home are widely different beings. Five years at that period of life produce ar great change in opinion and feeling. We frequently come to detest at twen ty-five what we admired at sixteen. In house decoration, .etc. Next to the rose, the clematis is doubtless the most popular flower plant of the day. It blooms hardily during the entire season and embraces a great variety of beautiful colors. The clem atis is a rapid climber, and, if carefully trained, attains to a height of from live to fifteen feet in a season. Planted so as to cover the pillars of verandahs, or trained on a trellis or stump or other object, it has no equal. It may also be planted in rocking or winding flower beds, but it will require pegging down. The large purple flowers of this variety are produced in the greatest profusion and remain on the plant a long time. This is a very satisfactory plant to cul tivate, as it increases in size and beauty each year. The talk of war between.Germany and France is being boomed again. Some of those who claim to know all about the relations between the two countries insist that war between them •will be declared before October. They insist that the Germans believe in war and intend to force it on. The state ment is attributed to Von Moltke that Europe is on the eve of a general war sucli as prevailed in 1S15. He is report ed as saying that the situation now is similar to what it was then, when every country was burdened with an enor mous army and when all were able to get back to a peace footing only by means of a general war. MIRK GoTit>TTiPTi—Tt is due yon to pay that T think I am entirely well of eczema after having taken Swift's Specific. I have been troubled with it very little in my face since last At the beginning of cold weather last fall it made a slight appearance, but went away and na= never returned S. S. S. no doubt broke it up: at least it put my system in good condition and I got. well. It also benefited my wife greatly in case of sick headache, and made a perfect cure of a breaking out CE my little three year old daughter last summer. Watk:nsvillc,~Ga., Feb. 13, J8S6. Rsv. JAMBS V. M. MORRIS. Treatise oa lilooa and Skin Diseases mailed free. Tei: Swift Simcirrc Co.. Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. MEDALS, BADGES, PRESENTS TION AND SPECIAL PIE CES OF JEWELRY. MY SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK IS COMPLETE. SUITS FOR MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN REPAIRING AND ENGRAVING Everything guaranteed as represented- all work warranted. W. E. AVERY, the Jeweler, Xewn.an, Ga. PRICES GUARANTEED LOW AS THE LOWEST, AYCOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Don’t rub it while it’s fresh. If it is a sore—if it is a splotch of mud on a coat or dress—if it is a tale told about you by a neighbor, false though it may be—if it is a trouble with a brother in the church of the association, or the family, in or without the home circle, oh, don’t rub it while it’s fresh; let it dry. Time will bring its cleansing and its healing, as it flies, and bring you nearer to the end. Let it dry. Be not first to stir a trouble; to tell a tale of bitter bearing fruit. Let it dry' and time will blow it, away t-» the oblivion X* *>.rtn*+fn!nocs, and all will be serene MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN AND MATCHED FLOORING, CEILING AND ROUGH DRESSED LUMBER, LATHS, SHINGLES, ALL KINDS OF MOULDINGS, SAWED AND TURNED BALUSTERS. BRACKETS, SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, ETC., My Blinds arewired with patentelfncherwire machine, which never breaks loose Cor respondence solicited and special prices given on bills for buildings. Write for prices and .ff»vhiTtis oTtSash. Poors, Blinds, dec. 4-52