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IN A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.
Buying a Lot In the City of the Dead.
Caxte in a Cemetery.
“Yc«r first real estate? Sad. sad! But
we’re all got to come to it. But isn't i:
a satisfaction to liave a few feet in a we!
kept place like this? Why, I grow fonder
and fonder of it every day. Surveyed
and built up most of it myself, you s <.
Theres a monument for you! Ilow i j*
to your liking? Pretty heavy. Ah. but
it s lasting—no stained surfaces, noging< r
bread work to crumble off. Take mv ad
vice, young man, and when vou'buv
your monument don't invest in niarbl- .
Taint worth twopence a ton. except t>
the dealers. Nothing like granite."
The superintendent led the way alo : :
the eastern limits of the cemetery
tlien paused as if to get his bearings, Ii
strange combination of business tact a: 1
harmless gossip made the reijorter f»*<-i
little like a grief stricken purchaser of a
burial spot.
"Now. let me see about what you'd
naturally want,’’ said be, eyeing hi-com
panion critically, as if sizing him up sons
to save himself needless trouble. "You
see everybody lias liis special likings, ami
we have to sort of estimate a customer’s
tastes before showing him a lot. All
sorts of jieople apply to us, and we haw
to use a good deal of tact and judgment
so as not to offend present lot owners or
new customers. We have to discrimin
ate even in the grave! If a negro comes
to me I've got to sell him a lot, but I've
also got to put him in his natural ele
ment. If I didn’t there would l>e Ned u
pay.”
“•But that, I should think, is a difficult
task. Suppose such a person as you rel < r
to wanted a line lot in what you call an
aristocratic neighborhood, how would
you get around the matter?”
"Oh, bk“ss you, that’s easy enough.
Nobody knows what lots are for sale bin
myself; and if a man selects a lot where
I don’t think he belongs, why. the 1< -t
already sold. See? It doesn't look just
light, but it's got to be done. What
would one of your wealthy aristocrats
think if I should sell a little lot next to
liis big one, and the owner of the little
lot should erect it §25 white bronze tomb
stone right under the nose of liis §5.000
granite monument? War in the camp
right off! I tell you there isn't a popu
lar cemetery in Chicago that hasn't its
South Side and its West Side, its Michi
gan avenue and its South Clark street.
You notice in laying out the cemetery
we group a number of big lots in 111>*
most conspicuous places. Caste lines are
inevitable, even in a graveyard.
"Well, show me a lot where a poor
devil of a scribe would naturally belong,’ -
said the reporter.
"Yes, in just a minute. Going to
bury wife or child? Oh, not married!
But 1 suppose you’re going to be. Now.
here’s some nice sightly lots at §00.
But then there's no provision for growth
of family or extensive local im
provements. Being buried here is
a good deal like having standing
room in a theatre; you kind of feel
os though somebody wero going to tramp
on your toes all the while. And if you
should become as rich as Jay Gould you
couldn't put up a monument. The lot':
too small; you'd have to be content with
a headstone. I want to sell you a lot
that you’ll be satisfied with hereafter and
your children be proud of.”
"Let me see something a little better,
then.” interposed tho apparent purchaser.
"I’d advise you to j?o into a new sub
division. where the improvements that
have been made are good, and bide fu
ture developments. It is hero just as it
is down town. New streets and stibdi-
visions outshine the old ones. Now.
here’s a mound”—by this time they bad
arrived pretty nearly at the west side of
the cemetery—"where the lots are large
and open. There’s plenty of room her :
the grade is high and tho drainage good.
But I seldom bring the likes of you here,
because it’s a sort of foreign settlement.
You notice how the ‘sens’ and ‘oskis,’
and alts’ predominate. You’d scarcely
feel at home here if I’d sell you a lot. Be
sides, the locality has one great and per
manent drawback. Yonder are the
single graves in plain eight. You
wouldn't like to live always in sight ot
the poorliouse, ami you'd scarcely want
to be buried in view of potter ’s field. No,
I know vou wouldn’t bo satisfied here.
You'd better put. a little more money in
your ground and get something that v. i:l
rise in value rather than deteriorate. Ah.
I have it, Just come over here.”
The superintendent led the way to the
southeast, near a pretty expanse of wa
ter. Consulting his book, he picked out
a particular lot and pointed it out with
satisfaction.
"Now. here you are.” said lie. "1
couldn’t show you anything better in
the whole cemetery. Price i .oderate.
neighbors of a high class, near public
drive, where you know things will
alwavs be kept in order. This lot will
be worth twice its present value a year
from now. One hundred and twenty-
five dollars and room enough for a dozen
interments besides a monument. ^ ou
can’t do any better. Just let ine put
vour name down for it now and jou can
arrange the details at the down town
office. Look at the monuments going
up all around you here. I an t have bet
ter data bv which to judge of the local
ity Right across the driveway yonder
is' one of the largest lots in the cemetery.
We've put a fancey price on it just --o as
to induce some capitalist to buy it and
put up an expensive monument. That 1
lend additional tone to the neighborhood
and all the lots around will feel the in
fluence. It would pay to buy this lot
purely as a business investment. Chi
cago Tribune.
An Aquatic Spider’s Diving Beil.
Y bile their nearly constant abode is
the water, they are, like most other
spiders, air breathers; consequently they
need some special provision fur providing
themselves with air while living under
the water, and fur this purpose they pos
sess the art of constructing a kind of
diving bell. It is an interesting sight to
witness one of them making his air cell.
Clinging to the lower side of a few
leaves, and securing them in position by
spinning a few threads, the spider ri-es
to the level of the water, with its belly
uppermost, and, doubling up its hind
legs, retains a stratum of air among the
hairs with which its body is covered.
Then it plunges into the water and aje
pears a- in the first stage of the making
of its silvery robe. Going immediately
to the spot it had chosen, it brushes its
body with its paws, when the air de
taches itself and forms a bubble under
the leaf. The spider surrounds this
bubble with the impermeable silky mat
ter furnished by its spinnaret.
Returning to the surface, it takes in
another layer of air, which it carries
down and adds to the first one, also ex
ten : ’g the envelope over it. Tho process
is k ; >t up till the "diving bell” lias
reached the proper size ami is finished.
The ideal form of the construction is that
of a thimble, but it often assumes an ir
regular shajie. like an inverted sack.
When the spider lias taken possession of
its redoubt it remains quiet in it, head
down, watching for the appearance of
an insect. Perceiving one, it seizes it
and returns to its lodge, which it has se
cured against intruders by spinning
threads across it, to devour its prey at its
leisure.—M. Entile Blanchard in Popular
Science Monthlv.
COLE’S
SEED COTTON ELEVATOR
DRUGS!
DR. J. T. REESE.
Professional <£arbs.
! r ^WA/VWWUVVW'.
j W. H. BINGHAM,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, G*.
(Office over Newnan National Bank.)
Prompt attention to all business en-
t rusted toh/seure. Special attention tocoi-
Will add to the popularity of your Gin because it cleans
the cotton and thus IMPRO\ ES 1 HE SAMPLE, save;-
labor, lessens the danger from FIRE, and makes the
COST OF GINNING LESS.
Our Elevator is sold for less than half the cost of am
other svstern of handling cotton.
A Trick of the Bakery.
"Do you see that cake? and the lady
rouglit out a large cake, temptingly
red. “ 4 What do you think that icing is
lade of ?
"Usually it is made of sugar ana eggs,
lit tiiis isn't. I took a teaspoonfm oi
elatine—the stuff they make the coating
} r quinine pills out of—dissolved it in a
alf cup of warm water and stirred it
ard in a cup and a half of sugar, then I
dded a little vinegar to whiten it.
• The gelatine does just as wed a- :V
-bite of eggs and is much elk a; er ar.-.t
lore eoMvenienfc. It s a chancy if
no cities in the bakeries area t iced
,- av . We boarding house beepers have
) keep up with the times, don't you
now?”—New York Telegram.
Train the T^eft Iland.
It is very strange that so strong and
unkind a prejudice against the left hand
has lived and increased for centuries
when there is no natural or physiological
reason for it. I mean to say that if you
examine the skeleton of a person who
was strong, healthy and well formed in
life, you will find that the bones of the
left hand and arm are just as many
and just as large and perfect as
those of the right. The study of
physiology will rIkiw you too that the
muscles and ligaments and cartilages
that fastened that person’s arms to his
body and gave them the power of mo
tion were made to do their work just
as well on one side of the body as on the
other. If the left side were the weaker
of the two, it was because of failure to
exercise it as freely as the other. Monkeys
and cats and other animals, to whom
paws are in a certain sense bauds, would
smile derisively, I imagine, if you should
suggest to them that paws were rights or
lefts, or that the paw on the one side
could do more than its mate. When,
therefore, a boy or girl says that he or
she can throw a ball, handle a racket or
do anything else, only with the light
hand, it is a direct admission that a
monkey or cat is physically better
equipped than (hat boy or girl. And
yet i’ is the general belief that human
beings are the most perfectly formed of
creatures.
First attempts to use the left hand are
always awkward and discouraging, but
in ordinary cases persistency will grad
ually strengthen the least used member
and teach it to act as ably and sturdily
as the right, till finally there will be two
perfect hands instead of one to answer
promptly the call of the master of all
our powers—the will.—J. F. Herrick in
Harper’s Young People.
A Winter in Iceland.
Although the climate of South Iceland
is cold, the winter is scarcely what one
would be led to expect from the northern
situation. There is not much snow. A
few inches usually lay upon the ground,
crisp and hard, but not the piled up drifts
of a New England winter. Accordingly
it was possible to make horseback excur
sions to the farms round about, and to
see the winter life of the people in the
country. This season for the Icelander
is a time of comparative rest. As nothing
can be done abroad lie stays of necessity
at home, but bis life W no mere hiberna
tion. He sleeps n great deal, for liis
house is insufficiently lighted and the
nights are long, but by daylight he has
occupations enough. He has boats to
build and oars to shape, saddles and har
ness to make and to mend, or he sorts
the wool which the women spin into
yarn and then knit into stockings or
weave into coarse homespun or flannel,
like wadmal. A busy sound of whirring
wheels often greets the ear when you
enter the farm house, and you find the
women all at work at the end of the long
room.
Another duty devolves on the heads of
the household at isolated farms. There
are good elementary schools in many
place- throughout the island, but in re
mote districts the children must be taught
at home. In summer the time is occu
pied with out-of-door work, but in the
comparatively idle days of winter the
father, or not infrequently the mother,
teaches the children of either sex the
common branches. IcAtnd is perhaps
the l*est educated community on the face
of the earth; throughout the length and
breadth of the land there is nobody who
cannot read and write, and the general
knowledge of some of these obscure fish
erman farmers is sometimes well nigh
appalling.—William H. Carpenter in The
j Atlantic.
The Sons of Malta.
These Maltese are a curious mixture of
Moor, Italian. Greek and Arab, and I
know not what else. They speak a pecu
liar language, which has no grammar,
but since the British occupation every
' shopkeeper speaks English, and he lies in
wait for the innocent tourist as the
spider did for the fly. He does not hesi
tate to implore you "just to enter and
look at his goods;” but beware of his al
lurements if you would escaj>e with a
full purse, for he has a truly tempting
display.—Malta Cor. San Francisco
, Chronicle.
Tlie Loft Foot Is Lar^or.
We have just received a car-load of
PIPING,
I
1 From the Pittsburg Mills, and can sell at prices that woulr
| surprise vou. You can not afford to be without
i
PROTECTION FROM FIRE
when pipe is so cheap.
HAS A FULL STOCK OF DRUGS anti 1
M EDT Cl N ES,
CHEMICALS.
PAINTS. OILS,
BR17SHES. PUTTY.
WINDOW GLASS,
PERFUMERY AND
TOILET ARTICLES!
Jfl'SK AL IXSTUVMEXTS.
XOTIOXS. UA1WEX SEEDS.
vwlixx uriTAi: sthixus,
CIGARS, TOBACCO AND SNUFF.
LAMPS cY CHIMNEYS,
H2FT Kerosene by the barrel,
shipped either from Newnan
or Atlanta.
SPECTACLES. IN GREAT VARIETY!
SODA WATER
FROM THE BEST MATERIALS.
Save your boilers by having our
JET” PUMP
-Prescriptions put up with great care,
ana from the best ami purest drugs. We
handle the host goods and sell at reasonable
; prices. Call to see us and be convinced.
1 GREENVILLE STREET Newnan, Ga.
~ ARNOLD,
BURDETT & CO.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
— IN
CAR HOAD LOTS
to raise water from well. It is cheap and the best mean?
on earth for raising water.
L. P. BARNES,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga
Office up-stairs over FT S. Askew 6c C’o. r s.
PAYSOX 8. WHATLEY,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga
Will practice in all the Courts and give
prompt attention to all bus m ss placed in his
hands. Examination of titles, writing deed*,
mortgages, contracts, etc., will receive spe
cial ai; ution. Ottlcc over Askew’s store.
L. M. FARMER,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, G».
(Office over First National Bank.)
Will prne'ice in al' the Courts of Cowets
Circuit. All .1 ust ice Courts at tended.
J. NEWMAN,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Georgia.
Will practice in the Superior and Justice
Court- of the county ami circuit, and else
where by special uervcinvut.
W. A. TURN ER,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, G*
Practices in al> theStateand Federal Coiuta
Office No. I Opera House Building.
W. Y. ATKINSON,
Attorney at Law,
Newnan, Ga
JCfe. Will practice in nil Courts of this and
adjoining count ies and t in- Supreme Court.
glTvTpeddy, M D-.
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, 3a
(Office over W. E. Avery’s Jewelry Store.
Oilers Ids services to tlu-people of Newnat
ami surrounding count ry. A if calls answered
promptly.
T. B. DAVIS, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Newnan, Ga
Offers bis professional services to the cltl
/.••ns of Newnan and vicinity.
DR. THOS. COLE,
Dentist,
Newnan, Ga.
Depot Street.
Inquire about our anti-Wind Mill Water System.
R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO,
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
ALLIANCE WAREHOUSE.
F00S’ FEED AND COTTON
SEED MILLS
All sizes. The same that we
have sold in such quantities,
and which have given unit er-
sal satisfaction.
WINSHIP’S
Gins, Feeders and London-!
sers, and Cotton Presses.
„ Dr.HENUEY^S ^
Extract^®* of* 5
A Most Effective Combination.
VAN WINKLE’S
W. S. ASKEW,
General Manager.
J. H. RUSSELL,
General Superintendent.
The Farmers' Alliance will, on the ist day of
September, open for business in the city of
- Newnan, a warehouse. The undersigned have
been elected as managers, with full power to conduct and con
trol the same. They are responsible for any losses that may
be sustained through the neglect or mismanagement of the
employeess. We have rented the house known as the Rus
sell Warehouse, which is one of the best in the city, being
large and well suited for the business. We have employed
Mr. J. H. Russell to superintend the business. Mr. Russell
has for several years conducted business at this stand. His
moral character and business qualifications are too well known
to require comment here. We will keep at the scales a com
petent and trustworthy weigher. Our charges will he reason
able. We have also arranged to make liberal advances, at
reasonable rates, to those who wish to store and hold their
cotton for spring prices. We solicit the patronage of all far
mers in this and adjoining counties, and ask a liberal share of
the buyers and merchants of the city. We extend to and ask
of the managers of other warehouses the usual business cour
tesies. We shall make no radical changes in the usual meth
ods, hut conduct it on sound business principles. To the Al
liance brethren of the adjoining counties we extend a cordial
invitation to bring your cotton to this city and weigh with us.
To the members of the Farmers’ Alliance in this county we
desire to say, this is a business enterprise of your own crea
tion, (through your delegates,) managed by men of your own
selection. Brethren, let"there he perfect unity among us and
business success will crown our efforts.
Warehouse Committee—W. S. Askew, E. B. Wilkinson.
E. S. Daniel, H. A. Martin, P. M. Waltom, J. D. Arnold. D.
Houston, W. M. Redwine, A. B. Brown. L. P. Reedwine. A.
H. Benton, W. S. Copeland, J. P. Jones. S. G. Allen.
Cheapest insurance rates of any warehouse in the city.
MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST. ATLANTA. OA
Hav, Oats, Corn. Meal, Bran, Stock Feed.
Onions. Feathers, Cabbage. Irish Potatoes
■•TUe ES a shoe Dressed andJjLive Poultry, Meat. Flour.
Lard, N.-O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese
This wpII known Tonic nnd Nervine Is Raining
great reputation as ticure for J>cbiilty, Dyspep
sia, and NKItVOfTS disorders. It relieves all
languid and debilitated conditions of tbo sys
tem ; strengthens the intellect, and bodily frmctlomr;
builds up worn out Nerves : aids digestion ; re-
j „ . i / ** i (il . stores impatrod or lost Vitality, and brings bock
VJl US, 1 CLCitrS <111 Cl V^OITCIC 11 _ i youthful strength and vigor. It is pleasant to the
\ - | v i taste, and used regularly braces the System againfll
SCTS, and Oottoil I 1‘CSSCS. the depressing influence of Malaria.
Price—$1.00 per Pottle of 24 ounces.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
SMITH’S SONS & CO.’:
GIN'S.
Pratt’s cclehr.it
Improvement on
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes flood. Use
in time. Sold l>y druggists.
Gins.)
BROWN’S
' .Gins, Feeders and Conden
sers.
I believe Piso’s Cure
for Consum ption saved
my life.—A. H. Dowell,
Editor Enquirer. Eden-
ton, N. C., April 23, 1887.
SKINNER
Engines. From 4 to 250
Horse-Power.
HT'^Full line of best make
BUGGIES .and HARNESS,
in ware-rooms.
Trv us before you purchase.
Sales made for CASH or on
TIME.
The bust Cough Medi
cine is Piso’s Cure for
Consumption. Children
take it without objection.
Ii^' all druggists. 25c.
1he WITTIEST.PRETTIEST JUVEHH.ES
QUEER PEOPLE PaimVr tor
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use j
in time. Sold by druggists.
MdgMIlBldilMa
iTHAT FIGHT
The Original Wins.
C. F. Simmons. St. Louis, Prop*r
M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, Est’d
JS40, ir. the U. S. Court defeats J.
H.Zeilir.. Prop’r A. Q.Simmons Liv
er Itugulatf r, list’d by Zeilin 1S68.
M. A. S. L. it. has for 47 yean
red Indigestion, Biliousness,
JIvsit f- : a,Sick Headache.Lost
Ai petit! . Sour Stomach, Etc.
Rev. T B. Reams, Pastor M. E.
Church. Adams, Tcnn., writes: “1
think 1 should have been dead but
tor your Genuine M. A. Sim
la v.< J-iver Medicine. I have
sometimes had to substitute
I I “Zeihn’s stuff” for your Mcdi
/-Ci.ft7'j / cine, but it don’t answer the
1 Purpos-'."
jfCFLtl P--- J- R- Graves. Editor The
Memphis, Tenn. says:
rece.-.ed_ package of vourLiver
Medic. ..c, and have used half of it-
II works like- a charm. I want no
hett; r Liver Regulator and cer
tainty no more of Zeilin’s mixture.
dealer, about to fit a customer to a pair .
of f'acts. • You see,” explained the
deal- r. "the left foot is larger than the
IA , r> oJy to whom 1 make that
sua is surprised. Observation has
• v; t-1 me, however. tJtat while the
!■: hand is larger than the left, the
i- i.n is larger than the right.”—Home
1 .: :n.-l.
• Elnpmient of the Vrorj and the .
Full of theoddewt pranks, charming n--
laugh-provoking illustration* by tn* Prince ' -
Juvenile arti-t- Selling iuiinoiinely. t ntu-
, nT of it: --/' n<‘i 'f/'/r rthi ./.I,.//
Hon. Clinton B. Fisk "lEX X" 1 7. ":. r / '
'!C* the . hlUrex hed •’—It. H Conwell. ! 1. Ik lee ■
teirihl'J neat 't-d eleo* 1 "* ”—ROD. > 3. CM.
<v ;..d r,.e'e HomH.. aldCro-
AGF.NTS WANTFIK nr It BA ltl» BROS.
723 fliertnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa.
Insure vour houses against
Tornadoes and Cv i.oni-:s,
with
Noiice of Local Legislation.
H. G. E ISH ER (N. GO.. A o tS.. N ■ > ■■■hi.-, .uv.-n that implication ■Wifi
: . 11 i > : . • !•?>;<-• h AsseniHiy o; Georgia,
v.’h <•»» rnttviitu..
Newnan, Ga.
The safest Companies and
lowest rates.
FRUITS AND ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
Consignments solicited. Quick sales and prompt p Riittam-'?. G<*>E E ; . ::ti-p*
• ftp, E>. '.Ant *Y>s 'or tn** of p ir ‘* 1 zc
Judge Tolleson Kirby. Traveling Salesman.
References: Gate City National Bank, and u. r - :mt> i at.ker- «>f A:
1 generally.
DR. THOMAS J. JONES
N-w-:: • ,ud
• ;-i. --
e -
be tii"
v. b cii rotiveix- November, ISSc, lor tbv
»««*«.•«ge o: tiie ;•>; owing bills:
A i! eiv.u t- -An Act to repeal an
;••• otmt-o-. . >11. Js>.. entitled An
t* ■. ■ ■ - t? ■ < i*y Court of Newnan, tic
d'-rin- !tsj..-’s -etton and powers, to provWi
lorth- -ip’pi- .JuiL- an*’, oilier of
ficer*- ?* •■•'■.' :<■ <le:::iv their ; <iwcr< and du-
'ii-sai!' o-rer i-;;rt>->»•-..* "
• 1- • "• -• ' ;• Ac* to ineor-
• * dor • . ..-i. .,1 the county
j ->\»ers and privl-
s -. - • is-- , » i«* c - r.’ »trrp*>--es.’’
tv. Y. ATKINSON.
(£7~ a . -f Legtil Blanks for sale b'
AIcClkm-i n & Uvo., Newnaa, Ga