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THE LUMPKIN INDEP1NDEN { By BENJAMIN W. KEY. YOL. XII. Published every Saturday Morning HY BENJAMIN W. KEY. T B It M S : ONE YEAH........ *1,50. -IX MONTHS... .. ’ync. Kates ol‘ Advertising. One Inch one ineortion... 100 Each subsequent insertion 50 One inch, one month.... bs One inch, three months.., cn One inch, six months----- <1 One inch, twelve months. 10 00 One quarter column, one month..... 6 00 Oua quarter column twelv* months 36 Oy One half column, one month 10 0 -' One half celaum twelve months..... GO 00 One column one month... 15 00 Une column t elve months 100 to All bills for advertising are due at any time upon presentation after first appearance of advertisement. Address ail letters to The Lumpkin Inde rUNDENT, O. W. a. KEY, ‘Vi Proprietor. (JH Alt LION E. BATTLE, Attorney At Law, Office witbPEABODY & BRANNON COLUMBUS, GA. Will practice in Stewart Superior Court. Columbus, Ga, August 4th. tf E. G. SIMMONS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AMER1CU3, GA. Will practice in all the counties of Tbi* Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme Court ef the State of Georgia, and in the District Court of the United States, snd in ail other courts by special .contract july23-8l. WELLBORN F. CLAltKE, Attorney at Law, Lumpkin, Georgia. Will practice in Stewart Courty. Special attention given to collections. LumpLin, Ga., May 5, 1883. LEONiDLS McLESTEB, At torn e / at Law, Cusseta, Georgia Will practice in tho Courts of the Chattahoochee Circuit and in Stew¬ art Superior Court. Special atten¬ tion given to collections. Cusseta, Ga., May 6, 18' 3. MEDICAL CARD. J. E. & W. P. CARTER, Having associated themselves together in ths practice of Medicine in its various branches respectfull solicit the patronage of all. The senior partner of the above firm feels grateful to the public for their liberal patronage m the pa.t and ask that it be cont nned. "MSS LITTLEJOHN.” t Savannah Weekly News OF OCTOBFR 13th, 1883, . XVill cent in the opening chapters of a new .•rial, by Miss Eleanob M. Jones, of North Carolina, entitled . “MISS LITTLEJOHN.” : I - The plot of this interesting channel story runs 1 smoothly along and fhe in reader an even becomes of quiet I interest, so much in love with the pure, unselfish character of f Miss Littlejohn that he forgets to look for / startling events and becomes wholly absorb l «d in the development of the noble purpos f *s and plans of the heroin*. The Savannah Weeki* News is a mam | | moth sheet, contains 8 pages of reading maj fcr, comprising all the news ot the week, I ’ gii, (special attention being given to the Geor Dispatches Florida and South the Carolina,) hour of Telegraph going ic np to to press, Agricultural Items, Original Serials, l In addition to a first-class newspaper, we t offer to each yearly subscriber a copy of any li L of the pnblished novels of the Mousing: News Libbab x fret. I I Subscription—Weekly, in advance, 82 a year ; Daily I New*. $10, |\ 6 a b criptions and Postmaster.., can be sent through Local Aa« t or diced to 3 ’Vlitakeb J SxBBrr, H. ESTILL, SyvannaH. Farmer* and others desiring a genteel, uorative agency business, by which $5 o $20 a day can be earned, send address at once, on postal, Fulton to H. C. Wiekinson A Co., 195 and 197 Street, New York. Dec. 23rd-1882-tilu. LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1883, THE DAYOFBESl’. Holy and beautiful ! The very bird Thfttpouishie weed :h of music on tlieear Seems, to our chastened hearts, by wor¬ ship stir ed. To {my his tribute to the season dear. The breezes puss us by with loitering wing And less distiuct the insects’ joyful hum; Fainter the voices of the gurgling spring. And nil proclaims the welcome lost hath come. The Sowers hang droopiugly on pliant Stem, The pule, thin clouds float down the azure sea With gentlest motion; and tie heart,like them. Fain would go forth, sinless, and calm, and free 1 All things without do utter “holy time,” And all w ithin the soul gives answering cheer ; The burden of el grief, and c.ire, and rriino Is vailed from sight, it cas's no shadow here. Into llio dt ep recesses of the mind, O holy peace, descend and long abide i Till a perpetual Sabbath there enshrined Sheds guiding ays across life's ebbing tide 1 —Boston 1 ran script. THE BAD BOY. “What you sitting theie for half an hour for, staring at vacancy?”said the grocery man to Ibe bad boy,as l.e sat on a stool by the stove one of these foggy mornings, with his fin¬ gers clasped around his knee, look¬ ing as though he did not know enough to go to bed. “What are you thinking about any way?” "I was wondering where you would have betn to day if Noah had ruu h ; s ark into such a fog as this, and there bad been no foghorn on Mount Ararat and he had passed by with his excur¬ sion and not made a landing, and had floated around on the freshet un¬ til all the auimaft starved, and the ark had struck a saag and burst a hole in her bottom. I tell you, we can ail congratulate ourselves that Noah happened to blunder on that high ground. If that ark had been lost, either by being foundered, or being blown up by Fenians because Noah was an Englishman, it would have been cold work trying to pop¬ ulate this world. In that case another Adam and Eve would have to be made out of dirt and water, and they m'gltt have gone again, and failed (o a so a family, aud where would we have buen. I tell you when I think of the narrow escape we have had it is a wonder to uie that wc have got along as well as we have.’’ “Well when did you get out ol the asylum,” said the grocery man who had been stf-nd n» back with opcu mouth looking at the boy as though he was crazy. “What you want is to have your head soaked. You are get¬ ting so you reach out too far with that small mir.d of yours. In about another year you will want to run this world yourself. I don’t think you are reformed much. It is wicked lor a boy of your size to nrgue about such things. Your folks better send you fo college.” “What do I want to go to college for, and be a heartless hazer, and poor base ball player. I can be bad enough at home. The more I read tho more I think. I don’t believe I can ever be good enough to go to heaven, any way, and I guess I will go into tho newspaper business, where they don’t have to be good and where they have passes everywhere. Do you know, I think when I was built they left out a cog wheel or something ia my head. I cunt think like some boys. I get to thinking about Adam and Eve in the Garden of EdeD, and of the dude with the cloven hoof that flirted with Eve, and treated her and Adam to dried ap¬ ples, and I can’t think of them as some boys do, with a fig leaf poli naise, and fig leaf vest I imagine them dressed up ia the latest style. I know it is wrong, but tbat is what a poor boy has got to suffer who has an imagination, and where did I get the imagination? This confounded imagination of mine shows me Adam with a plug hat on jnct like our min¬ ister wears and a stand up collar, and tight pants, and peaked toed shoos and Eve is pictured to me with a crushing angleworms-colored dress and brown-stripe 1 slockiogs, and newspapers in her dress to make it A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County. set out, and a hat with dandelions an, a >d a red parasol, and a lace handkerrlvef, which she pnts to her lips and winks with her left eye to the masher who is standing by the corner of the house in nu attitude, while the tail with the dart ou the end is wound around the rain water barrel, so Eve won’t see it and get scared. Say, don't you think it is better for a boy to think of our first parents with clothes ou than to think them almost naked, exposed/to the inclemency of the weather, with nothing but fig leaves pinned on? I wftut to do right, as near as 1 can but I had rather think of them dress¬ ed like our folks are to day, than to think of them in a cyclone with leaves for wearing apparel. Say it is wrong to fight, but don’t you think if Adam had put ou a pair of boxing gloves whdn be f-mr.d the devil was getting too fresh about the piece, and knock¬ ed him out in a couple of rounds, and pasted him in the nose, and fired him out in summer garden, that it would have been a big thing for this world? ‘ Leokahear,” said the grocery man who had been looking at the boy in dismay; “you had better go right home and let your ma. fix up some warm drink for yon and put you to bod. You are all wrong in the head and if you are not attended to ou will have brain fever. I tell you, boy you are in danger. Come I will go home with you.’ ‘Oh, danger nothin’, I am just tell¬ ing how things look to a boy who has not got the facilities for being too good in his mouth. Some boys cau take things as they read them, and not think any for themselves ; I am a thinker from Thiukarsville, and my imagination plays the dick¬ ens with me. There is nothing I read about old times but I c >wp»re it with the same line of business at the present day. Now, when I think of ‘the fishermen of Gallilee ; draw¬ ing their seines, I wonder what tils* would have dope if there hud been a law against hauling seines, as there is in Wisconsin to day, and I can see a constable with a wnrrunt for the ariosi of the Galilee fishermen, snatching the old apostles and tak¬ ing them to the police station in a patrol wagon. I know it is wroDg to think like that but bow can I help it. Say, supposo those fisher men had been out hauling their seines, and our minister should come with bis good clothes on, bis jointed rod, ■ his nickle plated reel, and his silk fish line, and his patent fish hook, and put a frog oa his hook and cast his line near the Galilee fishermen and go to trolling for bass ? What do you snppose the lone fishermen of the Bible times would have thought about the gall oi the jointed rod fishermen ? Do you suppose they would have thrown stones in the water wheie he was trolling or would they have told bim that there was good trolling around a point about a half mile up the shore where they knew hH wouldn’t get a bite in a week, the way a fel¬ low at Muskego lake lied to our min¬ ister a spoil ago ? I tejl you, boss, it a sad thing for a boy to have an imagination,’ and the boy put bis otber knee in the sling made by the clenched fingers of both hands, and waited for the grocery man to argue with him. ‘I wish you would go away from here: I am afraid of you,’ said the grocery man. ‘I would give anything if your pa or the minister would come in and have a talk with you. Your mind is wandering, and the grocery man went to the door and looked up and down the street to see if some¬ body wouldn’t come in and watch the crazy boy, while he went to break¬ fast. ‘Oh, pa and fhe minister can’t make a first payment on me. Pa getB mad when I ask questions, and tbe minister thinks I am past re¬ demption. Pa said yesterday that baldness was caused, in every case, by men’s wearing plug hats, and when I asked bim where tbe good Elijah (whom the boys called ‘go np old bald bead,’ and the heart had a free lunch on them), got hie plug hat. pa eaid school was dismissed, and I could go. When the minister was telling me about the good Elijah going up through the clouds is a chariot of fire, and I asked the min¬ ister wlmt he thought Elijah would have thought if he mot our Sunday school Superintendent coming down through tbo clouds on a bicycle, he put bis baud on best! and said my liver was all wrong. Now, I will leave it to yen if there was anything wrong -about- that. Du you know what I think is the most beaatiful thing in tbo Bible V 'No, I d!»n’t, r said tbs grocery man, ‘and if voh want to tell it T will lis¬ ten just five minateB, and then I am going to shut up the store and go to breakfast. Yon make me tired.’ ‘Well, I think the finest thing is that story about the prodigal son, where the boy took all the money he could scrape up and went out West to paint the towns red. He spent his money in riotous living got full of benzine, and stuck all the gang of toughs, both male and female,and his stomaoh went back on him, and he had malaria, and finally he get to be a oow boy, herding hogs, and had to eat husks that the hogs didn’t want, HDd got pretty low down. Then he thought it was a pretty good scheme to be getting around home, where they had throe meals a day, and spring mattresses, and he started, home boating bis way on the trains, and he didn’t know whether the old mau would receive him with open arms or pointed boots, but the old man came dewn to the depot to meet him and right there, before the pass¬ engers and the conductor and the brakemen, be wasn’t ashamed of his boy, though ho was ragged, and looked as though he had been on the war path, and the old man fell on his neck and wept and took him home in a hack and had a voal pot pie for dinner. That's what I call sense. A good msny men now days would have the police on the tramp and'had him ordered out oU town What! you going to close up the store ? Well, I will see yon later. I want to talk with you something that is weighing on my mind,’ and the boy got out jast in time to save bis coat-tail from being caught in the door, and when the grocery rnr.n came back from breakfast be foand a sign in front, ‘This store is closed till further notice.— Shereff.’ — Peck'a Sun. It Was Certainly New. A few weeks ago we saw a man get up in a chnrch and heard him tell how he had been converted and blessed by his loving Heavenly Fath¬ er. Last Saturday we sat at our of¬ fice desk, when the same man ap¬ proached us and said : ‘I owe you some money for your paper and want to pay yon.’ ‘Where did you get it?’ We took down onr subscription book run over tbe names and failing to find it we asked : ‘When did you get it?’ ‘Five or six years ago,’he replied. We then referred to old books that haa been laid aside for several years and found bis name stricken with three dollars standing against him. He remarked as we banded bim a recept in full: ‘I am glud to got it off my mind.’ Here was a practical result of change of heart. Religion will make a man re¬ member and pay his debts. After all, genuine practical common sense religien is the great need of the country. It will not only adjust all small differences between individuals but it will solve difficult problems in business and politics.—-Union ana Recorder. Transporting flowers in Potatis — A gentleman from home who wished to send some beaut.f il flower-bads to his wife wxs at a loss how to do so. A florist friend said he would fix them. He cut a potato into two pieces and bored neles in them, into which he inserted tbe sterna of the buds, and placed them in a box with cotton to aupport them. A latter from the recipient acknowledged the remembrance aild said tbat tbe buda had developed into full blown flow¬ ers. There is sufficient moisture ib a gosd-siSed potato to support a flower for two weeks ifi a moderately cool temperature. Flowers from bou qneU or basket, . « , may beipres.fd . „ _ , in . the same way. Tbe potatoes may be hidden by leaves or moatea. Jerry Green In gs’ Saying-s. Homes, nowadays, seems t’ be simply places wbar tb’ brats her tber own way 'bout everything, and wliar married men go when they can’t find no other place t' set round in. It’s poor policy fer a man t’ want borrow money on th' plea that h’s extremely poor. Ef time is money, they’s a good many people has nure money than they know what to do with, I reckon I claim it's sheer nonsense lor a man to teach his servants t’ lie far bim, an’ thqn blame ’em when they lie fer themselves. Cigar in mouth an’ a Bilk ping hat don't alters make th’ genti’men ; skunks has fiue fur. Teachin’ that there’s a way t’ ’scape th’ consequences o’ sin is jest as bad as givin’ free incense t’ do evil. Canady thistle lores th’ lazy farm or. Some women’s fond o’ publishin’ their husband’s faults, forgattiu’ that they’re a-tellin’ their own at tho same time. It’s as seldom ye sse editors bred t’ th’ bizness as ye find th’ bizness as ye find th’ bizness bread t’ th’ editors. In marryin’ allers choose a small woman in preference to a big one, ’cause of two evils you’re sure to g 5 t th’ least. Wit bought is a heap better than wit taught. The only thing that holds a pretty girl’s hand 'thout equeeziu’ it is a muff. Tailors an’ undertakers is like woodcock—they iivo by their long bills.’ A coquette is a woman ‘thout any heart that makes a fool ef a man that ain't got any bend.—77ie Continent. The Arabs hare a s'.ory of a man who desired to test which of his three sons , loved him most. He _ sent , them , out , to , see which ol the three would ,, bring him the most , valuable , ,, present. . The three met . distant ... ... city sons m a - and , compared , the ,, gifts they had °” U * ” a a car which he could transport himself withersoever be would. Tbe , had , a medicine ... which would ,, cure any disease. ,. The third ... , had , . a gins- , “ . which , . , , to what , , . ia see was gemg on at , , home ; , be saw his father ill bed. ’ in T1 e first , transported . , all „ „ three to . their home on his carpet. The sec >nd , administered , . . . tbe medicine and , saved bis father’s life. The perplexi¬ ty ef the father when he had to de¬ cide which son’s gift bad been of the most value to bim illustrates very fairly tbe difficulty of saying whether land, labor or capital is most essen¬ tial to production. No production is possible without the co-operation of all three. An Instant Remedy for If a person swallows any poison whatever, or has fallen into convul¬ sions from having overloaded tbe stomach, an instantaneous remedy is a heaping tea spoonful of common salt as much ground inusterd stirred rapidly in a teacup of water. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the re¬ maining contents of the stomoch; and lest there be any remnant of poiso-j however let the white of an egg or a cup of strong coffee be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet; because these very common article, nnlify a numb er of viru l ent poisons. ^ To made excellent lamp wieds all yon have to do is to tade one of the men’s soft felt bats that is fit only to bo baroed up, and utterly Useless evec to a tramp, cutting them into strips the width of your boughten lamp wicks, and letting them soad in vinegar for a couple of hours, then drying them. You will find that this pi#ce of economy will stop one of the Sements Y0U1? Troubled houaekeepers will be pleased to hear tbat so simple a rem¬ edy aa tbe green peal of cucumbers laid along the edge pf the floor where they ed meet do congregate and freshly for two or three nighte diive every Cocdroach from premises. This is an unfailing rem¬ edy hud tbe secret is in the fact tbe juice of tbe peel is Clide ible and poisonous to th# selfish vsr min. Terms $1.50 Ter Annum. Enoch Arden’s True Story. When Enoch Arden came home after that memorable and disastrous voyage which shipwrecked him and his hopes he crept up the street to his old home* as Tennyson informs us, and looked in the window. There he saw Phillip Raj and Annie, his wife, and theif child, all seated si'ound the hearth cracking walnuts. The whole bitter truth came upon him with terrible* force. Annie, sup¬ posing Enoch to be dead, had mar¬ ried Phillip so as to have a home for herself and child and a mau about the house in cise of tramps. It was a sad coming back for Enoch, nud be wad about it. Not so much because Phillip had married his wife, for (hero were pleuty more wives to be had ; not because his child had learned to cail anothei man ‘pa,’ though that was A bitter pill; inas¬ much as the child looked a little like Phillip anytiow. Neither of these things worried him half so much ao to note that Phillip was wearing his (Enoch's) clothes. With a menacing gesture he was just about to dash into the house and annihilate them, when suddenly the anger of his cov.nte nance was supplanted by a look of terror, and he slunk away as silently as he had come. Ho had caught sight of Annie's mother, who, during Enoch’s absence, had biokou up housekeeping and come over to live with her daughter, and had become a fixture there. Enoch told some of the boys after¬ ward that it was the narrowest es¬ cape of his life, and that he would rather be shipwrecked every five minutes thon to encounter his moth¬ er-in-law.— Cincinnati Saturday Night Selecting Seed Corn. Thetime .. and , of , selecting , manner seed , corn is . doubtless . , ,, well ,, known , to . most . farmers, , it should , ... be, , but , it. as . not , practiced to the extent that the is importance . . , of , good , seed , demands, , , Tbe see(J which tQ produca the fu . 1 . e cro p should be of the very best r# lvoid tl . ouble> ‘expense ^■Rsk, observe , the following rules . forselestmg , .. seed . corn. Tx If . farmers , will tollow this yearly thier . course crops will gradually increase, - , 1. Pick . ,i tbe ears that ., . set . nearest . t . > . 1 ° r ,° Un ’ 2. m Those ears . havisg - a short . , foot , , stalk. . „ 3. Frjm stalks having tho most ears. Generally but one ear on a ■talk is proper for seed, athat usuallj the seiond ear. 4. Never take from a stalk having but one ear, if stalks can be found having two or move ears. . S. Always take ears that are filled full to the end* and that ruu be on ,i the huak, if such cau be had. 6. Lay up four or five time as much as yon will need. 7. When you come to plant, before shelling, break every ear and see if the pith of the cob is dried np and hollow, for if it is not, the corn is not fully ripe: Then shell off the butt and tip till you come to the long grains. gome icteresti 8tatisll08 bavo been bUihed regar din« the wounds infUcted men in battle , from ^ it thafc during the 0rimeaa on( of a tota , of 7>660 wounded( 2 396> or 3jL2 per cent, received their wunnds in the low* er extremities. Among the French troops the ratio was a little higher: The par cent age in tbe Franco-Ger oo»n war was 30.5, or 7,360 wounds of tbe lower extremeties out of a to tal of 24,788 wound. Tbe following record of wounds reoeived in foreign battles is given : Crimean war-34,- 306 wounded, 11,873 wounds lower .xtremities;ratio34 6. Italian war of 1859—19,672 wounded, 7,704 wounds in lower extremities; ratio 39.1. Dan¬ ish War of 1864—1,907 wohnded, 553 wounds lower extremities ; ratio 28.9. Franco German war—24,738 Wounded, 7,500 wounds lower extrem ities ; ratio 90.3. This shows a ratio Of 33.4, or 35,519 Wounds of the low¬ er ek'femities in a total of 106,202 wounded: The conclusion is that tbe - relative frequency of shot wounds ef NO. 33. ills lower extreL-eties does not exceed that of wounds of the upper limbB to the extent that, might be anticipated from the greater s>ze of the lower limbs- This is doubtless due to the fact that, ih fighting in intrenched positions, the lower part of the person is partially screened from injury. AUCTION SALE! ON WEDNESDAYS ANP SATURDAYS AT A. T. FORT'S OLD STAND* —BY— W. H. WILLIAMS, Assignee of A. T. FORT, To-day we will begirt at 11 o’clock, and sell Dry Goods, Notions* Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Etc* NEXT WEDNESAY; DRESSGOODG! Hosiery, Notions, CLOTHING. BOOTS and WltoES HARDWARE. TABLE LINEN, TOWELS. ETC. W. H. WILLIAMS, Assignee of A. T. Fort. Sept 29, 1883. W.S. GILLIS, DEALER IS FAMILY GROCERIES, Plantation /Supplies* Country Produce Ptc* Sotilti Side Public Square. Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883. $100 DOLLARS A WEEK! We can guarantee the above amount to good, active, energetic AGENTS! Ladies as well as gentlemen, make a success in the business. Very little capital required. We have u household article as salable as flour. It Sells Itself. It is lised every day in the family. You do net need to explain its ■netita. There is a rich harvest for all who embrace this golden opportunity. It casts you only one cent to learn what our business is. Buy a postal card and write to us aild we will send you our prospectus ar d full particulars FREE! And we know you will derive more good than you have any idea of. Our reputation as a manufacturing company is such that we can u«t afford to deetiice. Write to us on a receive postal and give your address plainly and full particulars. BUCKEYEM’F’G CO., Mabiou, Ohio GIN AEGNCY! Tbe nfcdertignfld is Agent for thd Celebrated CENTENNIAL GIN and the DANIEL PRATT GIN. Parties wishing to buy a Gin will find it their interest to call upon ma al Lumpkin before going elsewhere; For terms or any information apply to S. S. EVERETT Agent. Lmnrkin, Ga., June 9,1888. T> X\j_LL) XTCinP 0 JL and not, life dare is sweeping before by, did gd you something mighty and $00 sublime week leave in be¬ hind to conqtier time. a your own town. $5 outfit free. No risk; Every* thing new. everything. Capital not required. We making will ifiruisb you Ladies make Many are fortunes. its much as men) and boys and girls make grear pay. Bead-' er, if you w nt business at which you cad mat e great pay all the titn«, write for par* tieulars to H. Halleit A Co., Portland Maine. Mar. 2Uh-1883-tf.