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lie Jerald and ^dcertiseij. Newnan, G' . Friday, Dec. 16, 1887. DANGERS TO TREASURES. Eternal Vigilance Ih (lie I’rice of Posses- Kion of Gems and Jewels. “Possessors of rare or unusually valu able gerus, ’ : said a well known gentle man the other day. “are menaced with all sorts of danger to their treasures. Eternal vigilance seems to he the price of possession. Indeed. I sometimes think it is too high a price to pay for the pleasure of wearing costly jewels. But women, you know, will have jewels if they can get them, and are willing to undergo almost any conceivable amount of trouble or risk to retain or enjoy them. “One of my engagement gifts to my wife was a ring which had been the be trothal ring in my family for generations. It is an opal, probably the finest of its •size in this city, surrounded by diamonds. Originally there were fifteen diamonds of the first water. Some years ago the set ting began to show signs of age, and my wife left the ring at one of the foremost of the Broadway jewelers’ stores in this city. In a few days the ring was re turned, and the assurance was given her that the prongs holding the diamonds m place had all been strengthened, and that the ring would last indefinitely. “Recently she determined to have the ring reset in a more modern fashion. \\ e went away for the summer, leaving the ling at a well known jeweler's. Soon afterward my wife received a very polite note to the effect that only thirteen of the diamonds were available for resetting, as the other two were very clever imita tions. To verify the statement the jew eler forwarded the two bogus diamonds by express to us. They were certainly the best counterfeits that I ever saw. “S*>. it seems, the newest of all dangers to diamonds is the dishonesty of the dia mond setters. Gf course, the great ma jority of diamond setters are unquestion ably honest. It is a class of workmen, like diamond cutters and polishers, fa mous the world over for honesty. Still, black sheep will steal into any flock'. Butlers in private families, especially in England, where they have access to otores of plate and jewels that are often ■of fabulous value, are a conspicuously trustworthy class; yet here in New York only a short time ago a butler who had made the round of some of our best fam ilies was detected in changing the superb diamonds in his mistress’ earrings for trumpery glass. He was by trade a dia mond setter, and who can tell how many gems he exchanged for paste when lie was working at his trade?”—New York Sun. The Clocks of Faris. The flight of time does not seem to he regarded with as much solicitude in Paris as in an American city. The Parisians allow the minutes to take care of them selves. I have never seen, two clocks in Paris, if I found them running, that kept the same time. Once there was a pecu liar industry here which obviated this in convenience. It was that of the clock winder. This person was paid a certain sum each year to keep the clocks in order. He had his regular set of cus tomers, and I believe made quite a good thing out of it. He has vanished with the empire. In every room at every hotel and boarding house in Paris there is a clock. It is always on the mantel; it is always made of brass, with shiny Cupids twining brazen wreaths of cabbages around what looks like a tombstone, in which reposes the ghost of a clock. This work of art, which is purely ornamental, is religiously covered with a glass case, on which is collected the dust of ages. If you should remove this sacred protection and endeavor to shake the clock itself with the idea of making it go, a few mel ancholy ticks will be your only reward. An innovation recently has been the Pneumatic Clock conqmny, which takes charge of a number of clocks, regulating them by air power. The pipes have got out of order on an average twice a week since it began business, and Paris has been left timeless.—Paris Cor. New York W orld. r On a Louisiana Sugar Plantation. Whisky drinking is a common vice among the plantation negroes. Looking over the books of a plantation store in Terrebonne parish, I observed that among the items charged in each entry there was pretty sure to be a quart of whisky. In deed. whisky occurred oftener in the ac counts than bacon or flour. Indian cornmeal is no longer the staple breadstuff on the plantations, us in the days of slavery. The negroes prefer wheat flour, and insist on having a good quality. They consume large quantities of bacon and salt pork. Fresh beef they seldom eat. They v;iry the monotony of hot biscuits and bacon with game and fish. Rabbits abound, wild ducks are plentiful, and rivers, bayous and hays af ford an abundant supply of fish.—E. V. Smalley in The Century. Twenty Kinds of Kangaroos. There are twenty different sorts of kangaroos, among them the blue, red, Wallaby, black, gray and forester, the latter furnishing the best leather, as it lives mainly in wooded sections. When the shipping ports are reached the hunt ers dispose of the skins by auction to the highest bidders and realize about seventy cents a pound. Kangaroo hunters make fine livelihoods, their gains often amount ing to several thousand dollars per year, while one man is known to have cleared $4,500, free of living expenses.--Cor. Globe- Democrat. Among the Ghilzais. Before a good many of the tent? there stood a rude tripod, consisting of three poles tied together near the top. Sus pended to these were goatskin churns, which were operated by two women jerking them smartly back and forth. The art of making such butter as we are accustomed to seems to be unknown among these people; but they obtain from their goat milk a tasteless substi tute, called mus-cal, which represents the fatty properties of the milk. An other production obtained from it is mast, a thick, tartisli preparation, which, with bread, forms the staple food of the Ghilzais; in taste and consistency this mast somewhat resembles clabbered milk. A very palatable and sustaining article of food for using on the march is prepared by making mast up into dumpling like halls and drying them in the sun. Bush els of these portable articles of food were spread out to dry on the drooping roofs of the tents and on cloths on the groftnd. By another process is ‘made a very wholesome and refreshing drink called doke. In taste and appearance doke is closely allied to buttermilk, but by some peculiar process is endowed with proper ties that keep it fresh and wholesome for an indefinite period of time. A Ghilzais starting for a long journey across the des ert takes on his camel a goat skin full of this doke and a liberal quantity of the sun dried mast balls, Half a bushel of the latter and a skinful of the former provide him with wholesome and appe tizing food and drink for a week’s jour ney.—Thomas Stevens in New York World. Work Among the Indians. Grace Howard, the well known jour nalist’s oldest daughter, writes home from the Crow Creek Mission, Dak., where she has comfortably established herself, that her plans for the betterment of the industrial condition of the Indian women are already under way. She lias not gone west as a teacher, as the papers have rejiorted, hut lier scheme, which is an original one, is to open on a small scale an establishment for the cutting, fitting and manufacture of clothing and other household articles which the Indi ans now beg from the missionaries or buy when, as does not often happen, the agents have any for sale. Her work is for her own sex. “Indian girls,” she said to me just before her departure, “are like white American girls in one re spect at least; they will not go out to ser vice. They do not make good servants, and, aside from housework in the fam ilies of the officers on the frontier posts, there has been absolutely nothing for them to do. No wonder they sometimes drop hack into barbarism. I want to give them a chance industrially. ” Miss Howard is in her early twenties, a fine looking girl, very much in earnest.— Now York Mail and Express. Coptic. Religious Kites. On entering a Coptic place of worship one would hardly imagine himself in other than a Greek church. In the vesti bule there is a large basin for washing the feet, where, ever Jan. 18, to commemor ate the baptism of our Lord, the water receives an especial priestly blessing, and then occurs excessive bathing therein by the men and boys. But they observe the day with more gusto in the river. After the Nile itself has been baptised by pour ing in some consecrated water, the entire Coptic male population may tie seen swimming about. As each dives, another, standing by, says: “Plunge, as thy father and grandfather plunged before thee, and remove El-Islam from thy heart.” To return to the vestibule trough, it is also there where, on the eve of this day, on Holy Thursday, ami at the Feast of the Apostles, the priest washes the feet of the whole congregation! The Coptic clergy must be made of sterner stuff than most. —Egyptian Cor. Cleveland Leader. The Practice of Interviewing. The practice of . interviewing has been carried to a great length, and has been much abused. Cases have arisen where published interviews have been declared genuine wlic-n, as a matter of fact, the article was the offspring of the brain of some clever but unscrupulous reporter. But’ in a great many instances, even the ordinary interviewer is a blessing to the public, giving, as he does, corredt and timely notice of catastrophies and casual ties which hut for him might remain un known for hours or days. In the case of a great accident, say on the railroad, the reporter is the first on the spot ascertain ing the details, placing the blame where it belongs, and enabling the public to judge of the cause. The risk of fraudu lent or incorrect interviews is greatly lessened, indeed removal altogether, if the person interviewed is allowed to re vise what he has said.—Martha J. Lamb in The Epoch.. An Oculist's Advice. “It is very wrong.” said an oculist, | for people to buy glasses without ha ving J ie eye examined. They might as well I •der medicines to be put up without a ! lysician's prescription. The eye is a j jry delicate organ, and improper glasses >t only cause headaches and other t rou es, but often permanent injury to the trht. Glasses should lie regularly pre- xibed. and then fitted by some one who iderstands the business thoroughly, his is particularly necessary when spec kles are worn.”—Philadelphia Times. may - but* it cannot make it praise worthy. —Joubert. The easiest way to find out a girl s age 4§ t? atdj some other girl. Seats Should be Lower. Why are the seats in all public places and vehicles graded to the measure of the average* man, so that three-fourths of the women must sit on the edge, or with their feet dangling, or barely reaching the floor with their toes? It seems to lie one of the survivals of the masculine pre tension that never suspected, until lately, but that all things, women included, were made solely for the male creature’s convenience. It is not iiecause seats an inch or two lower would be any less com fortable to his lordship, but simply be cause it never came into his lordship's head to think of anybody eJse’s comfort in the matter. Every row of feminine feet swinging from the bench of a street car suggests the sensation of congested blood vessels and uneasy muscles.—The Argonaut. Rainfall of India. From records covering more than twenty years, it appears that the average annual rainfall of the whole of India, ex cluding Burmali and the Himalaya, is about fortygwo inches. The range—one of the most wonderful in the world—Is from about 500 to 600 inches iu Cherra Punji to from 1 to 5 inches in Sindh. Pare Air at Night. The season of the year is approathing in which doors and windows are usually closed, and the matter of pure air be comes one of serious importance. During the day, the air of living rooms is pretty certain to be changed more or less by the frequent opening of outside doors. During the night, however, not infrequently all outside openings are tightly closed, and the occupants of sleeping rooms might as well place themselves for the eight or ten sleeping hours of night in an air tight box. In the morning, persons who thus de prive themselves of life giving oxygen, the great necessity of life, awake unce- freshed and dispirited, languid, pale and weak, with headache, giddiness, no appetite, and many other symptoms of foul air jxiisoning, to which the system has Iteen subjected. This accounts for a very large part of the colds and physical wretchedness, of which a good many complain and which is ordinarily ascribed to the change of season. The system is filled with impurities as a result of de ficient oxygenation of the blood, and so the body becomes, in a high degree, sus ceptible to all causes of vital disturbance. The reception of a few fever germs is all sufficient to bring on a violent iilness. by setting fire to the fever breeding material with which the tissues are filled, as the result of deficient air cleansing.—Good Health. Inspection at West Point. Suddenly the drum again taps sharply. The gray and white flocks in each com- pany street resolve themselves into two long parallel files, elbow to elbow, that face suddenly outward from the center of the camp at the List tap; the glisten ing rifles spring up to “support arms,’ and each first sergeant calls off his roll as though the last thing he were thinkin,. of was the answering “here;” one after another the white gloved hands snap the pieces down to the “carry” and “order” as each man answers to his name; the sergeant faces his captain with soldierly salute and takes his post; the captain whips out his shining sword; the lieuten ants step to their posts—and then begins the sharp inspection. Man after man is passed under the scrutinizing eye of the young officer. A speck of rust about the rifle, a dingy belt plate, a soiled or rumpled collar, a tear in the glove, a spot on the trousers, dust on the shoes, a single button missing or unfastened— any one of these or similar solecisms, bo it on part of first class man or plebe, tent mate or stranger, friend or foe. will probably be noted on the (company delin quency book that day, and published by the adjutant to the whole battalion the next evening.— Charles King, United States Army, in Harper’s Magazine. Whooping Cough and Magic. A curious display of superstition was lately witnessed at Maryhiii, where measles and whooping cough were-prev alent. A traveling candy man and rag gatherer’s cart, drawn by an ass, was standing before a row of houses a little off the highway. Two women, each the mother of a child suffering with whoop ing cough, took up a position one on each side of the ass. One woman then took one of the children and passed it under the ass’ belly to the other woman, the child being held with its face toward the ground. The second woman caught the child, and, giving it a gentle somer sault, handed it back to the first woman over the ass, holding its face toward the sky. Each child was so treated three times, after which the ass was allowed to eat something from the child's lap. Sub sequent inquiries showed that the moth ers, whose number had been increased by two others during the ceremony, were thoroughly satisfied that their children were the better for the enchantment.— British and Colonial Druggist. The tsly Heidegger. Heidegger’s ugliness was declared im possible to surpass. One of the courtiers of George n wagered that he would pro duce some one who should be pronounced uglier than Heidegger. He was allowed a few days in which to unearth his cham pion, and it is said that he employed them in personally ransacking the worst slums in London. Somewhere in St. Giles’ he found an old woman whom he thought sufficiently plain to confront with Heidegger. When the two were put face to face the judges said that it was impossible to decide which of them was entitled to bear the proud title of “ugliest being in London.” A courtier, however, suggested that Heidegger should Solitary Confinement at Louvain. The rules of the prison are such that the convicts must replace their hooded masks as soon as the doors of their cells open. They cannot expose their faces even to their wardens. If, perchance, a face is 6een by a doctor, it is paled by the long sunless shadow in which it lives and the want of bracing, blowing air, for even the daily walk of an hour in the prison yards is at best only exercise in cramped passages between two high walls, partly roofed, shut in by iron gates, stretching out like the sticks of a gigantic fan. and where a few stunted plants soon wither and die. The prisoners have that flaccid fleshi ness which comes from absence of move ment and stimulating activity; yet in con tradiction to the opinion prevailing in France that no man could stand solitary confinement for ten years without suc cumbing or getting insane, it has been found not to he the case at Louvain. Two of the inmates have dwelt there since 1864, the date of its foundation, be ing transferred to the Central house after a ten years' imprisonment at Ghent. They had been condemned to death, hut owing to the virtual abolition of the penalty of death in Belgium, the king had commuted their sentence to the per petual entombment of their present abode. When prisoners have deserved an alleviation of their penalty by ten yeara of uninterrupted good conduct, they are sent to Ghent, where the rules of the prison allow of their working in common.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. 1888. HARPER’S MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED. ! Harpek’sMagazixe is an organ of pro- i gressive thought ami movement in every de- ; partment of life. Resides other attractions, it will contain, during the coming year, im- i portant articles, superbly illustrated, on the Great West; articles on American and for- mdustrv; beautifully illustrated papers ! ,,n Scotland'. Norway. Switzerland. Algiers, i it.d tin* West Indies; new novels by \\ IL- I 1,1AM Black and W. I). Howklls; novel- I tt-s, each complete in a single number, by ! hknry James, Lafcauio Hkakn, and AMei.ik Rt vks; short stories by MissWool- son and other popular writers: and illustra ted papers ol special artistic and literary in- teri-si. The Editorial Departments are con ducted h.v George William Curtis. \\ il ia am Dean How els, and Ciiaklks Dud ley Warner. HARPER’S PERIODICALS. Cold Coffee is a Good Thing. The hoys of the national guard, -who have spent their week in camp at Peek- skill. declare that cold coffee is the most sustaining and the safest of drinks. In shaking of the matter with the surgeon of one of the regiments recently, a re porter was told that for the tourist and the sportsman cold coffee was quite as good as for the marching soldier. “You see, ’ ’ said the surgeon, ‘ fin places where food ri scarce or bad, coffee prevents typhus fever by counteracting rapid waste of the tissues. Inere is no more dangerous internal waste than that caused by fatigue, inasmuch as the vital ity is too low to throw it off, and thus all the living stuff in the body is poisoned by what is dead. I have seen persons suf fering from symptoms of violent poison ing before now, simply because they had walked more than their strength would bear. In point of fact they were poi soned, hut merely because they could not get rid of wasted tissues. If tourists, laboring men, soldiers, pedestrians, ex cursionists, and all persons out on holi day trips would fill up their flasks with cold coffee instead of drinking of water, they would never be troubled by a rapid using up of their bodies. ”—New York Mail anti Express. Professional Carbs. Thom«VC. < urleton. Hewlett* A. Hall CARLETON & HALL, ^ ‘ Attorneys at Law, , Newnan, Ga. f i Will practice in all the Courts, both ^tAte l nn .i FY.denil living special attention to wq management ofestat sand litigated causes. , Office No. 2, Cole building. ~ ' ' ~%'L ' L. P. BARNES, Attorney at Law, .. Jsewnan, Ga, Office up-stairs over B. S. Askew & Co.’s. A % PAYSON S. WHATLEY, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga.Y Will practice in all the Courts and give prompt attention to all business placed in hi. Eandf Examination of titles, writingAeeds. mortgages, contracts, etc., . W1 J , , ore P Y cial attention. Office over Askew s store. PER YEAR: HARPER’S MAGAZINE HARPER’S WEEKLY HARPER’S BAZAR HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE I L. M. FARMER, ft oo ! Attorney at Law, 4 oc j Newnan, Ga. i 1 00 | (Office over First National Bank.) « t10 I Will practice in all the Courts of Coweta . “ Circuit. Ail Justice Courts attended. Postage Free to all subscribers in the United | MT Money to lou on real estate it 8 get states, Canada, or Mexico. cent, per annum. Intelest paid at end ol rat The volumes of the Magazine begin with the numbers tot June and December of each vear. When no time is specified, subscrip tions will begin with the Number current at time of receipt of order. Bound Volumes of Harper’s Magazine, lor three years back, in neat cloth binding, will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt oi $3 00 per volume. Clot h Cases, lor binding, ;>0 cents each —by mail, post-paid. 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The semi-cireular chamber, with its stately columns of mottled Potomac mar ble, its half domed roof lighted by sky lights. its substantial, old fashioned fur niture tmd the rich upholstery of the sofas arranged upon the sides for the ac commodation of spectators, recall historic scenes, glorified as they are viewed through the dim mist of rime, and its walls seem ready to echo the voices of the past. The appearance and bearing of the nine elderly gentlemen who sit in a row upon a raised platform behind a long desk, clothed in their black silk robes; the absolute silence enjoined upon ail not having to address the court, and the subdued monotones in which the business is transacted, make one feel that here at least are gravity and attention be fitting the dignity of a great government. —American Magazine. 1888. HARPER’S WEEKLY. ILLUSTRATED. Harper’s Weekly lias a well-estnblislted j place us the leading illustrated newspaper in America. The fairness of its editorial coni- j mentx on current politics has earned tor it i tiie respect and confidence of all impartial readers, and the variety and excellence of its literary contents, which include serial and short stories by tfJe best- and most popular writers, fit it for the perusal of the people of the widest range of tastes and pursuits. Sup plements are frequently provided, and no ex pense is spared to bring the highest order of arti-tic ability to bear upon the illustration ot tli<‘changeful phases of home arid foreign i history. fn all its features Hap.pkk’s ! Weekly is admirably adapted to be a wel come guest in every household. | HARPER’S PERIODICALS. PER YEAR : HARPER’S WEEKLY U 00 HARPER’S MAGAZINE 4 00 HARPER’S BAZAR •* O'? HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE 2 00 The Volumes of the Weakly begin with the first Number for January of each year. When no lime i« mentioned, subscriptions will begin with the Number current at time of receipt of order. 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Wood powder has recently been intro duced as an explosive in the Belgian army in place of dynamite. The powder is obtained by treating ordinary sawdust with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, which is afterward formed into cartridges by means of powerful presses. To protect these cartridges from moisture they are afterward covered with paraf fined paper. The instantaneous produc tion of the gases arising upon the explo- air in contact with the sion causes the _ put on the old woman’s bonnet. Thisi i^ace surface of the cartridge to act to he did, and the additional ugliness it ^ct/vsvio o v- tf/n F «c n faimninPL Hllil tllf* gave him was such that he was unani mously declared the winner.—Chambers’ Journal. Genuine Antique Oak. In boring a well on a farm some five miles south of Colusa, Cal., Mr. Frazier, who has the farm rented, struck a piece of wood at a depth of 170 feet. The wood brought up by the augur was in an excellent state of preservation, and was pronounced “all oak.” This place is only fifty feet above the sea level, so that the wood is 120 feet below the ocean’s surface. If it was sunk there when this valley was a lake or an arm of the bay, it was in pretty deep water. How long since this piece of wood was in a growing tree? The valley of course has grown, but without some convulsion of nature the growth has been slow, not, perhaps, over one foot per century. Then has it been 17,000 years since this oak tree grew?—Colusa Sun. Mushrooms Indigestible. Dr. J. Uffelmann asserts, in The Archiv fur Hygiene, that the proportion of nutri tive materials in the edible mushrooms has been over estimated, and that those plants are comparatively difficult of di gestion.—Frank Leslie’s. The eggs of a single sturgeon, counted by Frank Buckland, numbered 921,600 and weighed forty-five pounds, Actors are Serrons. I have to give much different advice to an actor < >r an actress, if I am called to vLit them professionally, than I would members of any other profession. All successful actors and actresses have ex cessively nervous temperaments. They are nearly always morbidly sensitive. Medicines act with different degrees of effect upon them, and at the same tune you have to prescribe for much different regimen. Then one has to exercise great care and have special knowledge in order to diagnose correctly in the case of an actor. The actor may appear to be at death’s door one moment, so far as his physical condition can testify, and in an incredibly short space of time you will find him at normal again.—London Physician. The excessive use of perfumes, so long considered vulgar, has once more become fashionable. some extent as a light tamping, and the power of the explosion is directed to the other face. In comparative experiments made with wood powder and dynamite it was ascertained that, for equal weights, charges of the first substance were at least as powerful as those of the ’second, and the results were more regular.—Bos ton Budget. • W. A. TURNER, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga. if Practices iu all the State anil Federal Courts.; Office No. 4 Opera House Building. W. Y. ATKINSON, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga. Will practice in all Courts of this and adjoining counties and the Supreme Court. J. S. POWELL, Attorney at Law, Newnan, Ga. Collections made. I j, G. W. PEDDY\ M. D.. Physician and Surgeon, Newnan, 3a. (Office over \V. E. Avery’s Jewelry Store.; Offers ills services to tiie people of Newnan and surrounding country. All calls answered promptly. T. B. DAVIS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Newnan, Ga. Offers his professional services to the citi zens of Newnan and vicinity. DR. THOS. COLE, Dentist, Newnan, Ga. Depot Street. 1888. HARPER’S BAZAR.j ILLUSTRATED. Harper’s Bazar is a home journal. It ; combines choice literature and fine art Ulus-! t rat ions with tiie latest intelligence regarding j i he fashions. Each number has clever serial and short stories, practical and timely es- | says, bright poems, humorous sketches, no. ; Its pattern-sheet and fashion-plate supple- j inents will alone help ladies to save many i times the cost of tiie subscription, and papers on social etiquette, decorative art, house- j keeping in ail its brandies, cookery - etc,, i make it useful in cv. ry household, and a true promoter of economy. Its editorials are marked by good sense, and not a line is ad mitted to its columns that could offend' the most fastidious taste. HARPER’S PERIODICALS. PER YEAR: HARPER’S BAZAR $4 00 HARPER’S MAGAZINE 4 00 HARPER’S WEEKLY 4 00 HARPER’S YOUNG PEOPLE. 2 00 <£6ucationaI. THE 36th SCHOLASTIC YEAR —OF— COLLEGER TEMPLE WILL BEGIN Monday, August 29th, 1887. Having recorded our most, successful year, we present the claims of able instructors, high scholarship, moderate rates and health ful locality. For particulars, address, M. P. KELLOGG, President, Newnan ,Ga. 188B. PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL, PALMETTO, GA. SPRING TERM WILL BEGIN THE FIRST WEDNESDAY IN JANUARY, 1888. ‘ How the Chinese Plant Pearls. Owners of grounds at the Pearl Islands, in this bay, and which islands have been unproductive since the pearl yielding ovsters died off. might take a hint from the Chinese, who practice oyster culture to a considerable extent, and whose bam boo oyster field-; are prepared far more carefully than a field for the growth of the sugar cane. Holes are bored in old ovster shells, and these are stuck on pieces of split bamboo about two feet in length, which are then planted quite close to gether on mud flats, between high and low water mark, bat subject to strong and tidal currents. These are supposed to bring the oyster spat, which adheres to the old shell and shortly develops into tiny oysters. Then the bamboos are trans planted and set some inches apart, until within six months of the first planting they are found to be covered with well grown oysters, winch are then collected for the market.—Panama Star and Herald. Postage Free to all subscribers in the Uni ted States, Canada, or Mexico. The Volumes of the Bazar begin with the first Number for January of each year. When no time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with the Number current at tiineoi receipt of order. Bound Volumes of Harper’s Bazar, for three years back, in neat cloth binding, will be sent by mail, postf ge paid, or by expre-s, t'.-ee ol expense (provided the freight does not exceed one dollar per volume-,- for $7.00 per volume. Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for binding, will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of $1.00 each. Remittances should be made by I’ost-Offiee Money < frder or Draft, toavaa chance of loss ■ Newspapers are not to copy this advertise ment without the express order of Harper * Brothers. Address HARPER & BROS., New York. Intelligent people, healthy location, ex peri— , j enced and conscientious teachers. Due atteu- j tion paid to the primary grades. t TUITION. | Primary grades, per month $1‘jf | Intermediate g-aries, per month 2 (Its I High school and collegiate grades, per ino 3 OPt j Board, per month. $8 00 to $10 OF ; For particulars, address or consult THOH. H. MEACHAM. Principal, Palmetto, Ga. !WALKER HIGH SCHOOL,- 1888. i THe Spring Session Opens on the Second Tuesday in January. ‘‘The Stern Duties of Life.” The young woman who read the essay at graduation upon "The stern duties of life upon which we are about entering" was last seen in the hammock reading a Seaside novel, while her mother was washing the dinner dishes in the hot kitchen.—Boston Transcript. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS! It will pay you to write for copy of our ; “Farmers Guido” before you purchase Fertil izers this season. We make specially forfot- ton. Corn, Tobacco, Wheat, Oats. Vegetables, Melons, Oranges. Grasses, ete. Address : NATIONAL FERTILIZER Co. | Mention this paper.) Nashville, Tenn. ’ W. G. SADLER, Sec'y and Gen’l Supt. POMONA NURSERIESi POMONA, GA. West Virginia is the latest claimant for honors as a gold field. A deposit in which the rock is said to show ten ounces to the ton is said to have been discovered mile# from Wkecliuc.... * All kinds of Nursery stor k tor sale, eueap. [ Apple, Peach and Plum trees, $ic per hun- ! dred. Grapevines,*! 00 per hundred, standard i varieties; special varieties cheap iu propor- ; tiou on large orders. Prices furnished on ap plication. Address PHILLIP SMITH, s oeU4-:>m- Pomona, Ga. ; SaT^BKiNG your Job Work to Mc- j Clekdon & Co., Newnan, Ga. THE COURSE OF STUDY is such as to prepare for the higher classes in Colli-ge, or for practical life; and its comple tion enables the student to take charge of the advanced schools ot the country. Girls are hoarded by the Principal. Thev study at night under his supervision, and thus not infrequently are doubly benefited. REGISTER FOR 1887. • '.a First session. UO pupils. Second session* } 122 pupils. For the year, 1C2 pupils. As public schools will go into operation nex! year, ournumi. r must necessarily be limited The entire school will be taught by the Prin cipal. . RATES OF TUITION. i L r ° m f'U’ 0 to t 10 ? Pe r “onth. Board and tuition, $13 per scholastic month. No room for loaders. DANIEL WALKER, Principal. g U SI N E Spy N I V E R S i T Y SCUD FOR C/RCULAR3.