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Newnan, Ga., Friday, Oct. 28, 1887.
THE TURTLE AT HOME.
THE MEXICAN HAMMOCK.
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How the Bahama Negroes Harvest
Crop—Capture of a Prize.
The green turtle of the metropolitan
restaurant, when it does not come from
the remnants of the roast veal and fried
chicken of the day before, comes chiefly
from the Bahamas and from Nassau, the
Only city of the Bahamas. They are
harvested also in Cuba, Hayti and at
many joints on the southern coast, but
in the Bahama Islands they seem to find
the richest feeding grounds. Circuit
Justice L. D. Bowles, of Bahama Island,
whose experience has been ample, telling
how the amiable and luscious beast is
raptured in his neighborhood, says:
“These families who live in the out
islands and do all the turtle fishing that
is not done by the strictly business
schooners and men from Nassau, have
for a home a house whose walls are built
of coral limestone, roughly plastered to
gether and roofed with palmetto thatch.
There are probably twelve or fourteen in
the famity, and they all live in one little
room, pretty nearly bare of furniture.
Nobody but papa and mamma rise to the
dignity of a bed. The rest can sleep any
where. When not asleep, nearly all
their lives are spent out of doors. Behind
the house is some big tree, where mother
cooks and washes and father whacks her
and fhe children by turns, unless, as oc
casionally happens, she is !>oss, and dots
the whacking herself. They have not
much need of money, for they can grow
oranges, bananas and other tropical fruits
in plenty, with corn and sweet potatoes,
and fish is to be had for the catching.
But the out-islander stands sometimes in
need of clothes and groceries, which have
to be paid for. As turtles will either
produce cash or its substitute, he occa
sionally goes off on a turtling expedition,
.^fter days of postponing and putting off,
lie finally pulls himself together, and of!
lie goes, pressing all his family into the
service. There is not much need to close
up the house, for there are no robbers,
and no probablirintruder except the hogs,
which don’t count. Still he probably
shuts it up, for de look of de ting,’ for
the darky is very punctilious about cer
tain matters.
“The turtle beach may be many miles
away, but most likely lie has a boat, in
which lie manages to reach it in the
course of a few hours. All the party
have bare feet, but otherwise are dressed
much the same as civilized people. Ex
ternal decency is one of those matters on
which the Bahamian negro is most scru
pulous.
‘ ‘Arrived at the turtle beach, he puts
one of the hoys in the boat and lets him
row along it, while the rest of the party
walk, keeping a sharp lookout for turtles.
Sometimes the beach is ten miles long,
and perhaps the party draw the whole of
it blank, in which case they beach the
boat and camp out for the night. Per
haps they have the luck to see a monster
green turtle before they have measured
half the distance. If the party is.in luck
and sights a monster female turtle of 500
pounds, laying her eggs in the hot sand
a little ahead, the party divides at once
and the chattering ceases—silence is
a necessary element of success. One-
lialf of the party make for the water
to cut off her retreat; the other half steal
noiselessly up and turn her on her back
—a tough job in the case of a turtle as
big as 500 pounds. Once on her back she
is helpless, and some of the other party
go olf in search of palmetto leaves or
tough grass with which to tie her fins,
while the others stand round and talk to
her, jeering and making game of her for
lorn condition, taking care, however, to
give her mouth a wide berth, for she is
still able to bite with considerable effect.
When the others return they cut slits in
her fins and tie them back tightly to
gether. Thus secured, she is carried on
board the boat and given in charge of the
boy, while the land contingent start on
their road rejoicing, in search of another
victim. Before going on, though, they
will lunch oil the eggs their prisoner has
left behind her. These eggs are a deli
cacy much prized in Nassau, but proba
bly by the time they get there they will
have gone bad, and it is only on rare oc
casions, when turtles are caught in New
Providence or its immediate neighbor
hood, that they are found in the market.
“The eggs disposed of. the party moves
on once more, and ]>erhaps, just at the
close of the day, catches a hawksbill, a
good deal smaller in size, but quite as
valuable, for this time the value is in the
shell, not in the weight. This is a good
day's work; the family row home con
tented, and place their turtles in a cool
place to await the chance of a ship to
carry tligm up to Nassau.”
Another way of catching turtles is the
pegging of them in shoal water—that is,
striking them with a grain or two
pronged spear. This way is adopted by
vessels engaged in the turtle fisheries, but
it can only be used in the case of green
turtles, as it damages the shell.
Besides the green turtles and hawk-
bills, there is another species called the
lubberhead, which is of no practical use
at all. The flesh of both the latter spe
cies is considered valueless, but the
natives manage to make substantial
meals out of them all the same.
Most of the turtles taken are females,
for it. is the females only that come ashore
for the purpose of laying their eggs, the
. males remaining usually in much deeper
\water. The female is easily distinguished
from the male by her tail, which is so
•'hort as to be absolutely nominal, while
bis usi'^’ averages six or eight inches in
length.—New York Sun.
How It In Made, and Attendant Pcoulia*
Circumstance-.
“Snug pile of hammocks, isn't it?”
asked a down town importer of a re
porter, pointing to a stack of bales on tho
i sidewalk in front of bis place.
“Yes, rather. What are they? Mexi-
i can seagrass?”
“Sea nonsense! Hammocks are not
| made of seagrass any more than floor
| matting is. These are Mexican ha::i-
! mocks, hut they tire made from the liber
I of the lieniquen plant, a species of eae-
j tus that flourishes in the state of ^ r.ca-
I tan. All Mexican hamnn-cks arc made
1 there, and more hammocks are exported
! from there than from any other place in
the world.”
“How are they made?” asked the re
porter.
“They are made entirely by hand and
with primitive implements,” continued
the dealer. “With a couple of straight
i poles, a home made shuttle, a thin slab
of native zapoli wood, and a pile of heni-
quen leaves the Indian of Yucatan is pro
pared to accept contracts for hammocks
by the piece, dozen or hundred. The
poles are placed a certain distance apart,
according to the length of the hammock
to be made. The thin slab of wood is
rapidly fashioned with the aid of u small
macliette into a tonk.'is or stripper. By
the aid of this tonkas the fiber of tho
thick, fleshy heniquen leaf, which is a
species of cactus, is denuded of its cover
ing, and a wisp of liatchkill or rasped
fiber is the result.
“The liatchkill is bleached in the sun
and then becomes soskil. These are then
separated into 6mall heaps, containing
about the same number of fibers. When
the entire supply on hand is thus laid out
the operator takes up the fibers, and with
a dexterous roll between the palm of the
hand and the knee transforms them into
heavy cords or kuns, as the natives call
them.
“Out of this cord the hammocks are
made. The cord is wound around the
two poles which have been planted in the
ground and the work is turned over to
the women. They, with their wide shut
tles, accomplish the balance of the task
in a remarkably rapid and thorough man
ner. When a pile has accumulated the
contractor comes around and gathers
them up.
“The relations between the operator
and contractor are very peculiar.” said
the dealer, “and would exist nowhere
else in the world. In order to get the
hammocks necessary for his trade the
contractor must often pay for them three
months in advance, as it is only when the
natives owe money that they will consent
to work. In order to get a chance to owe
this money the native will promise to
furnish the contractor, whom he knows,
with a number of hammocks at a certain
time if the contractor will advance him a
sum of money. On this money the en
terprising native can live in idleness for
several months. The contractor agrees
to this. If he doesn’t he can get no ham
mocks. But once the native lias bound
himself to supply the goods they will lie
forthcoming at the time stipulated.
Should death intervene, his relatives per
form the contract.
1 ‘But this advance system is a sore drain
on the contractor, who is rarely a person
of ‘large capital. He must of necessity
accommodate the native^, and he needs
outside help to do so. This help he ob
tains in the shape of advances from the
merchants in Merida, to whom he turns
over the hammocks he secures at a con
siderable advance over the amount they
have cost him. These Merida merchants
in turn send the goods to their New York
correspondents.
‘ ‘The hammocks are carefully sorted in
Merida before they are baled for ship
ment to the United States, which absorbs
almost the entire production. Last year
it amounted to nearly $50,000. All the
districts of Yucatan produce a greater or
lesser quantity of hammocks, hut the
Tixcoco district is by far the largest pro
ducer, sending out, it is calculated, every
year as many as the balance of the stato
put together. The finest specimens of
tho hammock maker’s art, however,
come from Chemax. But few of these
ever find their way to the United States.
They are so eagerly sought after at home
that there is no necessity for sending
them away, especially as good prices are
realized on the ground.
“Hammock making in Yucatan is evi
dently a very old art,” concluded the
dealer. “While on a visit there some
years ago I found hammock hooks and
beams in nearly all the ruins of the grand
prehistoric cities which lie buried in the
forests. Of their history and the history
of the races which peopled the sea cities
all trace has been lost, but the interesting
little flirtations which originate and are
carried on in the cozy retreat of the ham
mock of today I doubt not had their pho
totypes many hundreds, perhaps thous
ands, of years ago in the forests of Yuca
tan, for evidently the Yucatanians of
those days all swung in hammocks.”—
New York Evening Sun.
The Norfolk Dialect.
The natives cf Norfolk speak in a sing
song voice, with a rising inflection, which
reaches its highest pitch on the last word
of the sentence. I am assured by people
learned in the Norfolk dialect that tho
vocabulary contains but little slang, and
that many of the words that I used when
a boy. and which sound so oddly now,
are pure Saxon. Nevertheless, if you
visit Norfolk you must be prepared to
hear a rivulet called a “beck,” a house
flannel a “dwile, ” a pitcher a “gotcii."
a ditch a “lioll,” a small tub a “killer,”
a narrow lane a “loke, ” a small field a
“pightle” and strong beer “nogg.”
You will be addressed on all sides as
“How du you du, bor?” the last
word being a contraction of neighbor.
The braying of a donkey will sound no
more melodious to your ears because it is
called a “dickey.” while a Norfolk gill ia
none the less attractive for being called
“mawther.”
A Norfolk man will “crowd” a barrow,
not wheel it; while his little son will
“jifile” at church, not fidget. Spring
lambs down there are “kedgey,” not
sprightly; while ducks enjoy themselves
in a “swidge” instead of a puddle. The
tart and juicy gooseberry becomes a
“tliape,” and the ringdove a “dow;” the
jackdaw a “cadder,” the seagull a “cob”
and the snail a “dodman.” The Norfolk
people “mardle” instead of gossip; they
are “slake,” but not idle; they build
“stuggy” when they build strongly. They
“shuck” peas, “would “shug” (shake)
a cocktail, if such a thing were known
there, and “skink” (serve) out beer: while
water just frozen is said to be “laid.” The
mist and fog which rise over the fen
country is called “roke;” and if you faded
to understand this very pure Saxon it is
more than likely the honest Norfolkese
would put you down as a little ‘ ‘slianney, ’ ’
or slightly crazy.—Home Journal.
Drinking Instead of Bating.
“Beer wagon drivers eat less and drink
more than any class of people living. ”
The speaker was a big brewer and knew
what he was talking about. “Yes,” he
continued, “the wagon drivers drink beer
so frequently and so continuously that
they are almost constantly in a drowsy
condition. They drink mechanically
whether they want it or not, and I never
knew one to refuse an invitation to have
more. They seem to think it is their
duty to swill all the beer they can put
down. They get into the habft at the
brewery. Every brewery has what is
called a taproom, which is nothing more
nor less than a free bar. Beer is always
on tap there, and the employes have free
access to it, with the privilege of helping
themselves whenever they please. When
ever a breweryman goes to the taproom
for beer he never drinks fewer than two
glasses. These are turned off in the
twinkling of an eye. The men drink so
much that they lose their natural inclina
tion to eat like other people. They seldom
eat a hearty meal, a bite now and again
between drinks being sufficient to appease
the appetite. There are few brewerymen
who drink less than a hundred glasses of
beer a day, and I know of some who
never go to tied without taking in that
number and twenty-five more.”—Pliila-
delphia Bulletin.
Gaining or Losing a Day.
In sailing round the world eastward
the days are each a little less than twenty-
four hours, according to the speed of the
ship, as the sun is met every morning a
little earlier. These little differences
added together will amount in the course
of the circumnavigation to twenty-four
hours, giving the sailors an extra day,
not in imagination, but in sober truth, as
they will have actually eaten an extra
day’s food and consumed an extra day’s
grog. On the other hand, in sailing
westward, the sun is overtaken a little
each day, and so each day is rather longer
than twenty-four hours, and clocks and
watches are found to be too fast. This
also will amount, in sailing round to the
starting point again, to one whole day, by
which the reckoning has fallen in arrear.
The eastern ship, then, has gained a day
and the western ship has lost one, leading
to this apparent paradox, that the former
ship has a clear gain of two whole days
over the latter, supposing them to have
started and returned together.—Cham
bers’ Journal.
The Camels of Texas.
3 the United States government
lall herd of camels into Texas
idea of using them and their
oss the so-called Great American
The camels prospered and-mul-
but when the war came they
ttered through the state and in
and manv of became wild,
s have solved the Great Ameri-
,'rt problem, and the camels have
nto innocuous desuetude.—New
Saponification and Scrubbing.
There are bath fanatics who ignorantly
think that life without an epidermis is the
only desirable form of existence, The
raptures of saponification and of scrub
bing are all very well as a luxury, though
the inunctions of the Roman thermae were-
better, because the oil used after the bath
supplied some protection to the abraded
6km. But the fury of tubbing;is only for
the strong, and even the strong, if they"
practice their rites in a malarious coun
try, have been observed to sicken sooner
than those who have contented them
selves with cleansing, and have not gone-
on to excoriation.—Dr. Tins Munson.
Coan in Harper’s.
Found at Pompeii.
The excavations that are being carried
forward at Pompeii are giving most in
teresting results. In the beginning of the
month a wooden case was dug up, con
taining a complete set of surgical instru
ments, many of which are similar to
those used in the present day. A few
days later four beautiful silver urns of
considerable height were found, together
with four smaller cups, eight open vases,
four dishes ornamented with foliage and
the figures of animals, and a beautiful
statue of Jupiter seated on his throne.
Besides these silver objects several gold
ornaments were also found, such as ear
rings and rings. The excavations are be
ing rapidly pushed forward.—Rome Cor.
London News.
•lgian GUis* Workers.
i that the Belgian glass work-
ow preparing to make glass
is shapes and patterns by run-
s of it at just the right temper-
-ork nicely through steel rollers.
, Average New England Man.
What the average New England mart
of birth and breeding is today it is not
altogether pleasant to contemplate. He
is usually neither fish, flesh, nor good red
herring. Thoroughly un-American, and
only hybrid English, French or Italian, as
his European wanderings have happened
! to affect him. he is. physically fragile,
! nervous and refined to the point of fern-
1 ininity. Mentally be is a victim of over-
; culture and has lost all grasp of matter in
I his concern as to manner, earing less foi
I ideas than for correct expression, and,
! while the scion of a young people, jaded,
i blase and satiated.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Kmdiag for Ward Booms.
“Since you are curious to know what
is read in ward rooms,” writes a naval
officer, “I will undertake to give you a
general statement. Old newspapers, par
ticularly local papers and cheap novels,
form the bulk of our literature. There
are a few omnivorous readers among us,
and now and then a critical one. I have
a friend who enjoys the whole of Her
bert Spencer, and in my last ship there-
were three who appreciated Stevenson,
Meredith and Jane Austen. Perhaps
something of this latter result was due to
missionary effort. ’ ’—W. D. Howells in
Harper's Magazine.
The Personal Equation hi War.
The official records are invaluable and
in themselves compose a large part of the
history of the war. But they are far
from justifying the blind faith with
which they are appealed to in some quar
ters. Who, from the unassisted reports,
would be able to reconstruct the charac
ter. the eidolon, of Grant, or McClellan,
or Hooker, or Lee, or Jackson, or Hood?
—and yet. in war, the personal equation
is everything.—The Century.
Nearly 200 kinds of
now made for teeth.
D r old filling ar|
Side saddles are slowing going out of
fashion in England, and the man fashion
way of riding is being adopted by many
of the ladies. Side saddles have been ia
use since 1388.
A Japanenc Execution.
As each man stepped from the path on
to the plateau his eyes were firmly band-
j aged with white paper, the only act ol
mercy I saw vouehsaf.xl that morning.
; Finally they ivere ranged in line, the two
cripples huddled on the ground, their poor
heads as they dropped from shoulder to
; shoulder being roughly buffeted to a
! proper angle by the policemen in charge.
•This accomplished, amid a silence so
absolute that we could almost hear our
hearts beat, the great man on the camp
stool rose, and unfolding a large docu
ment, read in a loud voice what we sup-
i posed to i>e a description of the crimes
for which the poor fellows were to suffer
and the process of condemnation and sen-
; tence. This was a very long business,
and before it had nearly finished the
native spectators were laughing and
joking upon the appearance of the doomed
| men with that callousness to human suffer-
i ing which so much blackens the otherwise
| amiable and pleasing character of the
| Japanese people.
At last it was finished. As there were
j but' five boles for seven prisoners, two
I would be obliged to remain in blind
j agony while their companions were being
dispatched. Five men were accordingly
j thrust forward with the staves and lists
| of the police; each man was made to
squat on a mound, his clothes—if filthy,
; tattered rags could be called clothes—
stripped from his shoulders, his hands
tied behind his back and liis head pushed
forward over the hole.
Our feelings at this awful moment can
better be imagined than described, but I
think we felt quite as much pity for the
two poor wretches left alone to listen to
what was going on. without that artificial
aid to fortitude which the sight of a crowd
sometimes gives, as for tlieir companions
on their death seats. Undoubtedly exe
cution by the trenchant Japanese sword
is as merciful a death as can be desired;
but the Oriental nature, as if to compen
sate for this erring on the side of mercy,
counterbalances it by an undue prolonga
tion of the preparations for death, which
is worse than a hundred deaths. So in
this case.
1 As the poor fellows knelt over their
holes the executioner slowly and delib
erately took off his coat and bared his
arms. Then he took from its silk casing
the fatal sword, examined it fondly and
lingeringly, from the Yasuri me, or
tiling on the hilt to keep the grasp from
slipping, along the Kimrnon or the groove
in the blade, to the point; held it over a
pail while a coolie trickled water down
it, and with a great deal of settling of his
feet was ready. I felt sick and giddy,
but I kept my eyas on the scene. At e
sign from the official on the camp stool
the executioner raised his sword slightly,
hardly half a dozen inches, and almost
before I could realize it the man’s hand
was hanging over the hole by a single
ligament and the blood was gushing forth
in torrents.
I then saw why*the executioner had
not completely severed the head; and the
wonderful skill of the Japanese swords
men, using, as they do, the most perfect
weapons in the world, can be imagined
in so arranging the force of the blow that
absolute decapitation does not take place.
He tore the head off and held it toward
the four sides of the square; then he gave
it to a coolie, who roughly plastered the
severed portion with clay and stuck it on
a kind of elevated shelf. In the mean
while two coolies were thumping on tho
back of the prostrate body to hasten the
rush of blood, after which one of the
coarse mats was thrown over it and- it
was laid aside.
• I had seen enough, and I turned my
head away as the executioner, after wip
ing his blade with paper, approached the
second poor wretch.—Cor. Gentleman's
Magazine.
NO, THANKS!
Saving the Odds and Ends.
The principle of the indestructibility
of matter impresses manufacturers of all
classes. It is somewhat allegorical to say
so,, but a steer is driven into a stock car
at his native ranch, and shortly after he
is distributed over the country as dressed
beef, canned beef, glue, horn combs, horn,
buttons, neatsfoot oil, oleomargarine,
plasterer’s hair, leather and fertilizing
material. The same way is with a cot
ton plant, which does duty as cotton
cloth,, a good imitation of jute matting,
as cotton seed oil, as oil cake for feeding
cattle when the oil is pressed out, and
even the little cotton fiber which attaches
to the seed is neatly peeled off and used
in the manufacture of the clothing, ma
terial known as shoddy.
In the tobacco manufacturing business,
for many years, the stem* taken from
the leaves were so much waste, except
the small proportion that found its way
into the very coarse grades of smoking
tobacco, for which there is no longer a
market. From the nicotine in the stems
is now extracted, by steaming, what Ls
known as “sheep wash,” a liquid for
kilGhg vermin that: infest sheep. This
alone saves the wool interests of America
m llions of dollars annually, in checking
various diseases. The stems, even after
tliB process, are found to be an invalu
able fertilizer, and the great western to
bacco manufacturers ship to the impov
erished farms of the-eastern states thou
sands of bales annually of tobacco stems.
- -J. J. Butler in Globe-Democrat.
Disadvantage of Being Mate.
A teacher in one of our deaf and dumb
institutes has presented some statistics
relative to the sign language which are
®f interest as showing the great disad
vantage a mute labors under as compared
with one who can articulate. He has
counted the average nnmber of words a
pupil uses per day and finds them to be
1,118. It is estimated that a mother
articulates 27,000 words to her child
each day. Even allowing for the parts
of sentences made to do duty for the
whole, and the many signs used by the
mutes to express whole ideas, we can
understand in some degree the disadvan
tages of even the most favorable condi
tions.—Chicago Tribune.
I don’t want the earth! I
shall be satisfied with a reasona
ble fragment of it! Some men
would probably gobble the entire
globe if they had a chance; but
I arh no hog! All that I .want
is a fair share of the public pat
ronage ; and if, after comparing
my goods and prices with those
of other enterprising* merchants,
the average wayfarer does not
yield me the palm for selectness,
quality, cheapness and general superiority, why then I will call
in my friends, divide out my goods and chattels and retire from
the field. In these piping times it is useless to try to do bus
iness unless you have money, experience and gall sufficient to
sustain you in competition with the Ishmaelites of the mer
cantile profession. Recognizing the importance of these val
uable aids to success, I Hatter myself that I am fairly well
equipped for the fray, and bid defiance to all competitors. .
Now, do not be misled by these desultory remarks. I would
not have you believe that I am one of the Vanderbilt heirs, or
that I have a resident buyer in New York, or that I have been
in business since before the war, or that I expect to run an
auction house. Neither assumption would be just to me, nor
to the veracious medium through which this announcement
will find its way to the public. I simply mean that I have a
large and well-assorted stock of CLOTHING, DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, etc., and am selling them at prices that will
bring tears to the eyes of my esteemed competitors when they
find it out. But I can’t help their embarrassment. If they
oversleep themselves and allow me to get the drop on ’em in
the matter of mercantile bargains, it is not my lookout. I
sometimes find it necessary to sit up at night in. order to do
this, but it is one of the hardships of the trade that must be
occasionally endured. Indeed, I frequently toss upon my
sleepless pillow for hours at a time, devising schemes whereby
I can best serve my customers with the choicest there is in the
land, and at prices that they will be forced to esteem as bless
ings in disguise.
My stock of Clothing, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Shoes,
Hats, Dry Goods, etc., is fastidiously select, and will bear close
comparison with any similar lines kept here or elsewhere.
My stock of Groceries comprises everything needed in the
way of eatables, and is always large enough to supply the de
mand—whether for cash or on time.
YOUNG MAN, IF I CAN
Catch your eye, I would like to
call your attention to my large
and varied assortment of Gents’
Furnishing Goods, Shirts, Col
lars, Cuffs, Hosiery, Underwear,
Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, etc.
I keep the latest, nobbiest styles
and make a specialty of all goods
in this department.
The celebrated “Pearl Shirt"
is one of my most popular lead
ers. Made to order, if desired.
I keep also a complete line of samples, including the finest
Cassimeres, Cloths, etc. Will take your measure and insure
as good a fit aud in as late and fashionable style as can be se
cured from any tailor in the country, and at half the cost.
I. P. BRADLEY.
Next door to Newnan National Bank, Newnan, Ga.
FURNITURE I
I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in
Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I
buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you
cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my prices:
A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00.
A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00.
A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00.
A Good Single Lounge, $5.00.
A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00.
A Good Strong Bedstead, $1.50.
A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50.
A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00.
A Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00.
A Nice Wardrobe, $10.06.
A Fine.Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00.
A Fine Book Case, $20.00.
A Good Office Desk, $10.00.
A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00.
A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00.
A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00.
I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and get
my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest as
well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices.
A. G. RHODES,
85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
Education In the South.
Recent investigations have shown that
nearly a .million pupils are in the public j
schools of the southern states; that the j
amount of money expended annually for !
schools is $11,545,000, and that since 1880
the number of public schools has been in
creased from 45,000 to 61,583. In face
of these figures the talk concerning illiter
acy in the south is without foundation in
fact. There is illiteracy, of course, hut
nothing like what has been stated.—
Mobile Register. . .
JOHN W. HUGHES.
FRED B. LAW.
HUGHES & LAW,-
HATTERS
AND
GENTS’ FURNISHERS!.
VALISES, UMBRELLAS, ETC.
PEACHTREE STREET, - - - ATLANTA, GA.
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