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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 Retail Druggists of Rome, Ga., says: We have been selling Dr. King’s Xew Discovery, Electric Bitters and Buck- len’s Arnica Salve for four years. Have never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction. There have been some wonderful cures effected by these medicines in this city. Several cases of pronounced Consump tion have been entirely cured by use of a few bottles of Dr. King’s Xew Discov ery, taken in connection with Electric Bitters. We guarantee them always. Sold by A. J. Lyndon. For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville. 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 sign to find iu some particular individ uals the habitual frequency of the heart’s action from sixty to sixty-five or seventy-live to eighty per minute. As a rule the heart’s action is slower and more powerful in fully developed and muscular organizations, and more rapid and feeble in those of slighter form. In animals the range is from twenty-five to forty-five in the cold blooded and fifty upward in the warm blooded animals, except in the case of a horse, which has a very slow heart beat-only forty strokes a minute. The pulsations of men and all animals differ 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 Personal. Mr. X. II. Frolichstein, of Mobile, Ala., writes: I take great, pleasure in recommending Dr. King’s Xew Dis covery for Consumption, having used it for a "severe attack of Bronchitis and Catarrh. It gave me instant relief anil entirely cured me, and I have not been afflicted since. I also beg to state that I hail tried other remedies with no good result. Have also used Electric Bitters and Dr. King’s Xew Life Pills, both of which I can recommend. Dr. King’s Xew Discovery for Con sumption, Coughs anil Colds, is sold on a positive guarantee. Trial bottles free at A. J. Lyndon’s Drug Store. For sale, also, by J. L. Askew, Pal metto; G. W. Clower, Grantville. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury begins on his part the kindness should begin on ours. Bucklin’s Arnica Salve. 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The number qj- otherwise, as purchaser may of beats of the heart in the same long i life would reach the grand total of 2,- 8(59,776,000. desire. Special attention given ro — buijoy, waoon and plantation Musical Talent in Tyrol. 1 repair work. Buggies over- Musical talent is, without compare h j e( j and repa inted. IlorSC- Good, dry, rat-proof stor- Consignments .solicited. (^nick sulcs «ind prompt remittances, age. Excellent facilities for the care of perishable goods. Judge Tolleson Kirby, Traveling Salesman. Gfite City National Bank, and merchants and hankers of Atlanta Bkfkuknce eeneraUy. son, the gift of nature most widely dif , . • fused in Tyrol, and to a stranger, par- j shoe ing a spe 1 tieularly an Englishman, it is amazing All "work done hv skilled to find a finely developed ear and a workmen, under the supervis- 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? It oared like the eight thirl y express cam ion of an experienced superin tendent, and WARRANTED. . Get our prices and give us we iruarantee satis- smiled upon the lovers, and all Althea’s j of an old-fashioned churn. “My actions j accomplishment. 1 or instance, a mi.. D. J. FOLDS, Supt. Insure vour houses against Tornadoes and Cyclones, with H. C. FISHER & CO, Ag’ts, 1 Newnan, Ga. The safest Companies and lowest rates. ubpcrtiscmcnts. HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION Effectually Cured by Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. Sold by Tarrant & Co., N. Y., anil Druggists everywhere. S^'Bring von: Job Work to Mc- Clk.xdon & (Jo, Xbwxan, Ga. iril kinds 01 Legal Blanks fo v s*ile i»v McUbendon & Co, Newnan, GaV J