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She Itrald and ^deertisq.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, July 13, 1888.
IT WAS ALL FOR LOVE.
The
Gods of Babylon Smiled and Al
thea’s Beauty Returned.
London Daily News.
In all Babylon there was no maiden
so beautiful as Althea, the daughter of
Belesses, yet her lot was far from hap
py. She had fallen in love with Balina,
who had nothing to recommend him
but a face like a woman’s and a voice
like a lark in the morning.
Her father would have her wed the
rich Arbaces, and because she refused
he vowed she should be sold at the
yearly auction of maidens, and per
haps be bought up by some horrid
dwarf.
But Althea was true to her poor
lover, and even the prospect of being
sold at auction did not cause her to
swerve in her allegiance.
Time passed and the day for the
yearly sale of maidens was at hand.
All Babylon was stirred by the news
t£at the beautiful Althea was to be
placed on sale.
The young girls were ranged on a long
stone bench and saying not a word.
Anxious parents whispered to their
children. An old man with a white
heard chuckled to himself over a
bag of gold. A poor man, whose ne
cessities were known to all Babylon,
though he was virtuous and of good
character, looked solemnly at the little
crooked figure of Gissa, who had come
to lie sold of her own accord, and who
doubtless would bring the greatest
sum with her.
The green and white robes, belted
with embossed silver about the taper
waist of Althea; the white hands, the
gorgeous armlets, the long earrings of
rich gold, distinguished Althea from her
companions, though she was closely
veiled.
Those who were buyers were permit
ted to speak to the maidens. Arbaces
approached Althea first.
“If all my fortune must be paid for
thee I will win thee, beautiful Althea,”
he whispered.
She answered him with a bitter laugh.
Then trembling and pale Balina came
near.
“Allhea.best beloved,” he whispered,
“I have sold all I have, but the sum is
a mere trifle. I will lose thee, for thou
art fairer than all the women of Baby-
lona- Arbaces will have thee. Fare
well. When thou art his, I will kill
myself;” but Althea caught him by the
wrist—
“Listen, Balina,” she said, “when
the time comes Arbaces will have none
of me. Then thou mayest also refuse
to take me. It is possible. Remain,
but swear that thou wilt keep silence
until I place my hand thus upon the
other. Then, if still thou wouldst have
me, cry out, ‘Give me Althea.’ 11 not,
go thy way, and I will live a maiden in
ray father’s home forever.”
“What dost thou mean, Althea?” cri
ed Balina; but she made no answer.
And now the crowd was bidden to si
lence and driven back to a certain dis
tance and the crier thus spoke:
“The rulers of Babylon, believing
that women should be wed, for they are
feeble, helpless creatures, unfit to labor
for themselves, unlearned and weak of
will so that they need protectors and
directors, have instituted this auction
of maidens, that no maiden in Babylon
need lack a husband. For the beauti
ful must a greater price be paid than
the others, that they may have some
advantage. To-day our highest price is
asked for Althea, daughter of our good
citizen Belesses and his wife Xasara.
Althea, unveil thyself.”
Althea, at his bidding, arose and ad
vanced. She lifted her white hand
and tore the veil from her head. A
shriek arose as she did so and lookers-
on stood petrified. Instead of the beau
tiful face they expected to see, they
say a torn and bleeding countenance,
and a head destitute of every hair. Two
great' braids, which she cast on the
stones at her feet, alone remained of
her plenteous tresses-
“People of Babylon !” she cried, “this
have I done that I may not wed a man
[ hate. How now, Arbaces, wilt thou
bid for me?”
A roar arose from the crowd and Ar
baces fell forward in a swoon and was
borne away by his friends. Balina
started forward, but was checked by
the soldiers.
Again the crier spoke:
beauty returned—the lovely hair grew
long again, the wounds healed without
a scar, and the constant Balina had a
lovely wife as well as a fortune. And
though old Belesses might vex himself
he could alter nothing, for the woman
who was sold at the yearly auction of
maidens could not be taken from her
husband. And they lived and loved
for many years in the old city of
Babylon. .
It Was a Lively Article.
New York Tribune.
Robert J. Burdette, whom every
body knows whether they ever saw him
or not, used to run a little daily paper
in Peoria, Ill. I believe it was Peoria
—anyhow, it was the paper he enjoyed
running so much, because there was
never any uncertainty about it. lie
knew positively every Monday morn-
enough
would have made ahorse laugh, eh?
Howled around till I made the world’s
back ache, did I ?” and all the time he
was dancing around the office with Bur
dette at arm’s length. “Oh, you’re
going to be the great Ameridfcn humor
ist ! Xo doubt of it at all!' You’ll make
the universe double up and roll on the
grass some day! You’re funny, oh,
so very funny ! Just give you a little
more practice on me and you can start
out lecturing !” and its hard to tell
what would have become of poor Bur
dette if a big pressman hadn’t come in
just then, with his sleeves rolled up
and ink on the side of his nose, and re
lieved him. The pressman fought the
man ten minutes before he managed to
tear his coat off and shut up both his
eyes and fire him down the stairs and
half way across the sidewalk. lie ac
complished it at last, however, and
went back to work and Burdette gath-
ing that there wouldn’t be
money to pay the compositors Satur- j ered himself together and wrote up a
! solemn account of the death of the
day night.
lie hadn’t written so much good hu
mor then as lie has since, but it used to \ away,
crop out once in a while—he couldn’t
help it. One day a prominent citizen of
Peoria got into trouble with a haekman
about the amount of his charge or
something, and took off his coat and
fought him around the block. He
made it a red day for hackmen, too,
and got badly excited before he finish
ed. The next morning Burdette had
pretty nearly a column about it. There
had been so much space to fill and he
turned his fancy loose and filled it.
He had laughed about it quietly to
himself all the way home that night
after he wrote it, and in the morning
read it over to see if the boys had got
it set up all right, and smiled sort of in
wardly to himself again.
About the middle of the afternoon
the man who had the trouble came in.
Burdette trembled a little at first, be
cause he didn’t know how he might
have taken it, but the man wore a
broad grin on his face and seemed to
be very much tickled over it.
“That was a good one on me in ‘The
Hmcler’ this morning,” said the man.
“Er—yes—do you think so?” said
Burdette.
“Oh, capital—took it off first-class.
Did you write it ?”
“Oh, yes, I scratched it off in a hurry
last night. We have to have something
to fill up.”
“Of course. But it was really good.
I didn’t know' you could do as well as
that,” w'ent on the man enthusiastical
ly-
“Oh, I didn’t think much of it,” re
turned Burdette modestly. “If I had
had only a little more time perhaps I
might have made something out of it.”
“Oh, you had time enough—plenty of
time, I assure you. It w r as fine. Of
course, I didn’t really do all you said I
did.”
“Oh, of course not. Certainly not.
Got to have something lively in a news
paper, you know.”
“1 see—especially in a live. local pa
per.”
“You understand it?”
“I think so. Of course I didn’t yell
like a man w'ith his foot in a lawn mow
er all the time I w r as having the contro
versy.” ,,
“Ob, no—we have to exaggerate a
little.”
“I see. And then I didn’t raise the
haekman up and pound the face of the
earth with him till the police stopped
me for wearing out the paving.”
“Xo, not at all—had to make it live
ly, you know.”
“Of course. Then I didn’t chase him
into the country half a mile, did I
now ?”
“I never heard that you did. I just
slipped that in. You know a local pa
per—”
“I understand. Then of course I
didn’t roar so coming back that people
thought there was a hail storm com
ing.”
“Oh, you didn’t roar at all. I made
that part up to make it lively.”
“I thought so. Then I didn't stand
on the corner and howl till I was tired
and say I could lick any haekman who
ever looked through a collar, and go
around the streets cracking my heels
together and saying I w'as from Bitter
Creek w'here it wa’n’t more than a foot
wide.”
“Of course not—nothing of the kind
at all. I just put that in—got to in a
small town with a daily paper, you
of my acquaintance was one afternoon
playing and singing a Viennese air. The
windows were open, and two country
lasses passing along the road stopped
and listened for a little time. Present
ly, when at my request my friend re
peated the song, the two girls fell in,
one with the second and the other with
the third voice.
Being a stranger in the country, my
friend would not believe that the girls
were common peasant lasses, unac
quainted with the piece of music which
she played; and so, in order to con
vince her, I sent down for them and
made them accompany her in a num
ber of songs which she sang to try
them. Their intonation and express
ive voices excited her admiration no
less than the piano did that of the
buxom lasses.
A Remarkable Showing- B. B. B.
Against Other Remedies
PutnAM Co., April 29, 1887.
I have been suffering for most thirty
years with an itching and burning
a11
oldest Free Mason, who had just passed j over lily face and body. I took eigh
teen bottles of one blood medicine anil
it did me no good. I commenced last
The Key of Death.
American Notes and Queries.
i About 1(500 a stranger named Tebaldo
established himself as a merchant in
Venice. He became enamored of the
daughter of an ancient house, and,
asking her hand, was rejected,
young lady being already affianced.
Enraged, he set himself to plan a re
venge, and, being a skillful mechan
ic, he invented a formidable weapon.
This was a large key, the handle of
which could be turned easily. Being
turned, it discovered a spring, which,
when pressed sent out from the other
end of the key a poisoned needle of
such fineness that it entered the flesh
and buried itself there, leaving no ex
ternal trace.
With this weapon Tebaldo waited at
the church door till the maiden he
loved passed in to her carriage. Tlier,
unperceived, he sent the slender needle
into the breast of the bridegroom, who,
seized with a sharp pain from an un
known cause, fainted, was carried
home and soon died, his strange illness
baffling the skill of the physicians.
Again Tebaldo demanded the maiden’s
hand, and was again refused. In a
few days both her parents died in a
like mysterious manner. • Suspicion was
excited, and on examination of the
bodies the small steel instrument was
found in the flesh. There was universal
terror; no one felt that his own life
was secure.
The young lady went into a convent
during her mourning, and, after a few
months, Tebaldo begged to see and
speak with her, hoping now to bend her
to his will. She, with an instinctive
horror of the man, who had from the
first been displeasing to her, returned
a decisive negative; whereupon Te
baldo contrived to wound her through
the grate. On returning to her room
she felt a pain in her breast and dis
covered a single drop of blood. Sur
geons were hastily summoned. Taught
bv the past, they cut into the wounded
part, extracted the needle, and saved
her life. Tebaldo was suspected, his
house was searched, the key discovered,
and he perished on the gallows.
January to use B. B. B., and after us
ing five bottles I felt better and stout
er than I have in thirty years; my
health is better and 1 weigh more than
1 ever did. The itching is nearly ceas
ed, anil I am confident that a few more
, bottles of B. B. B. will cure me entire-
[ly. I am sixty-two years old and can
t“® | now do a good day’s work in my field.
I consider it the best medicine I have
ever seen, for it certainly ilid me more
good than all the medicine I have ever
taken. I had, in all, nearly a hundred
risings on my face, neck and body.
James Pinkerton.
True silence is the rest of the mind,
anil is to the body nourishment anil re
freshment. It is a great virtue: it cov
ers follies, keeps secrets, avoids dis
putes, and prevents sin:
Wonderful Cures.
W. D. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and
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We have been selling Dr. King’s Xew
Discovery, Electric Bitters and Buck-
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There have been some wonderful cures
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Several cases of pronounced Consump
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Sold by A. J. Lyndon.
For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
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Wouldst thou taste to the full the
sweetness of life? Then keep thyself
low at humility’s feet. The sweetness
of the cane is the part that grows near
est the earth.
“I notice you have to. It was a fun
ny piece, take it all together.”
“Y-e-s, I thought perhaps it was a
little funny,” admitted Burdette a lit-
ghe w ho was the loveliest has now , tie uneasily.
become the most hideous! A oil th\- \
self, Althea.”
Then another name was called. The j
sale proceeded. Vast sums were bid
for two beauties; moderate prices for
others. Even (iissa, with her pointed :
face and pretty eyes and hair was not
ugly in the eyes of the man who re
ceived a fortune at her hands. Only
Althea remained unsought, too hideous
lor any one to desire. And now she
lifted her hand and at the signal Balina
strode forward.
“Give me Althea,” lie said. "Althea,
who has done this for me-Altliea, j
beautiful forever to my heart. Give |
her me and keep your base gold. I'll |
none of it.” , . ,
But Althea, giving bun her hand and
remaining veiled, spoke quick!.\ .
“I claim mv portion.” she said. "Mich
is the law of the Babylonish sale ot;
maidens.” And site gathered the gold j
into her veil as her lover led her away, j
And, so sayeth tradition, the gods
“You say in it that the haekman was
a small man?”
“Why, yes, rather small, I under
stood.”
“Probably not as small as you are?”
“Oh, n-no, I presume not. I’m not
very big, you see. Pleasant weather
we’re having, Major.”
“Y-e-e-s, very pleasant—a little cold
for hackmen and some editors I know
of. Probably, then, if I licked the
haekman there wouldn’t be any doubt
but that I could lick you?”
“Oh. n-no; no, sir; not a particle of
doubt. Going to the caucus to-niglit,
Colonel ?”
“1 expect to be there, but you won’t
—you’ll be in the hospital—you little,
insignificant, one-horse country edit
or,” and he reached out and got Bur-
The Human Heart.
Medical Record.
In the human subject the average
rapidity of the cardiac pulsation of an
adult male is about seventy beats per
minute. These beats are more fre
quent, as a rule, in young children and
women, and there are variations within
certain limits in particular persons, ow
ing to peculiarities or organization. It
would not necessarily be ail abnormal
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As a rule the heart’s action is slower
and more powerful in fully developed
and muscular organizations, and more
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twenty-five to forty-five in the cold
blooded and fifty upward in the warm
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a horse, which has a very slow heart
beat-only forty strokes a minute. The
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with the sea level also. The work of a
healthy human heart has been shown
to equal the feat of raising five tons
four hundred weight one foot per hour,
or 125 tons in twenty-four hours. The
excess of this work under alcohol in
varying quantities is often very great.
A curious calculation has been made by
Dr. Richardson, giving the work of the
heart in mileage. Presuming that the
blood was thrown out of the heart at
each pulsation in the proportion of
sixty-nine strokes per minute, and at
the assumed foree of nine feet, the
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both of which I can recommend.
Dr. King’s Xew Discovery for Con
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For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal
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the kindness should begin on ours.
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Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot.
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Picture Frames on hand and made to order.
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Metallic and Wooden Coffins ready at all times, night or
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NEWNAN, GA.
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A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00.
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NEWNAN WAGON
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Musical Talent in Tyrol. 1 repair work. Buggies over-
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Bkfkuknce
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All "work done hv skilled
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eapital voice in the commonest country
lour, who scarcely 'knows his -V B L,
and to whom Bismarck is an unheard
of beiqg.
To be able to join with a second or ^ qj-Jer ;
ing back, did I ?” and bo began jabbing : third voice in a song which the\ nai •• faction.
Burdette up and down like the dasher never before heard is a wy common
dette by the collar, "l based t he man
out beyond tbe fair grounds, did l?
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ion of an experienced superin
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. Get our prices and give us
we iruarantee satis-
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