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Bu n HIGHTOWER & Bl SIS, AUoriieys at Law, Lumpkin, Georgia Ji.n. 1, 188-L WKLLIlOltS F. CLARKE, AtU i i cy ut I aw. Lumpkin, Georgia. Will practice in Stewart Com ty. Special at tenth-in given to collections. Lum| kin, Gn , May 5. 18S3. K. G. SIMMONS A t TO it x i :y at l aw, AMEFUCU3, GA. Will pra.-tjye in mH the counties o! This Judicial Circuit, in the Supreme Court id tl.e State of Georgi i, and in flu District Court i f ihe United £latas, and in all other courts by special.ci ntnu-L july 23-81. KBSI 3 AL GAELS W. A. GREGORY, Physician & Surgeon, Lumpkin, Georgia. Oct,20 ly A. E. & W. P. CARTE!?, Practlci isg Plmieiaus, LUMPKIN, - GEORGIA. Office South Side Pubhe t quuie Oct 20 ly J. A. THORN'ON J 1 L, Practical Dentist, LUMPKIN, GEORGIA. Will do all kinds uf Dental Work in n neat and snl stnntia man er. Office up stairs iu the Cuba House. Opeitifing days: Thursdays, Fri¬ days ami Saturdays. Oct.23-1 v LUMI KIN HOTEl JOIIIV YAKimOUGII, PllOPIilKTOlL This old and well-known Hotel is still open to the public and offers su¬ perior inducements to travelers and drummer*. M ith an experience ot 20 years the Proprietor thiuks he knows how to look nffer the comfort of his guests. Table famished with the best the market affords Polite attention and reasonable charges. Stock fed at 25c t er meal each. Lumpkin. Ga., Sept. 1, 1883. If l ivery and Feed Stables, LUKPKIN, GEORGIA A. F. HOLT, PROP. Tie undersigned is prepaired to furnish the public with any kind of team desired at reasonable prices. HACK LINE I will also run a Fine, Comforta ble Hack between Lumpkiu and Cuthbert, leaving Lumpkin Friday, cverj Monday, Wednesday and returning same days and making connections with morning and even¬ ing train. Only skillful drivers em¬ ployed. SttgfCasb in advance will be lequir ed for passage and packages, |®-Drovers will find a 1 irge and Commodious lot for their stock. A. F. HOLT. Lumpkin, Sept. 1st, ly LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1884. Reverie. “He that doth not smoke, bath never kti-nvu great, sorrow, or else deuyeth himself the softeth comfort that the heart doth know.” That quiescent, dreamy, half-som uoleut. condition which steals insen¬ sibly upou one who is just emerging from, or has passed the acute and painful stages of a terrible, inflam¬ matory attack, seems peculiarly fa¬ vorable to the creatiou of those strange and weird forma and evaues ceut images which thickly people the realms of the imagination at 6uch times. Iu the dim and mellow light of a quiet winter evening, we were reclin¬ ing upon our pillow, dreamily watch¬ ing Ihe filmy rings of azure smoke as they lazily ascended from the cra¬ ter of our old meerschaum. At first the tinv rings that stole out from tile glowing ash, were dense aud steely blue, but. as they widened upward, they faded into grayish white ; their sinuous edges breaking into thou sands of wrodlnng, curling, ringlets, while the parent rings were reeling and rolliug, uncoiling, unfolding, ad¬ vancing. retreating, contracting, ex i audiug iu iutiuite fautt.stic eouvolu tions oi uncanny imagery ; until their iritiicato and interfusing lines diffused 111 mrelves and were absorb ed tuto the ciicumarubient air. Tile eye would become coufussd in trying to follow each tiny whirl,as it would become evolved and spring upward to become dissolved in the inixtrica Ide tn»zus of that miniature cloud. O-ie can almost see in miniatun the domination of that mighty cosmic law, by wliicll tne nebulous matter pervading space wa« drawn togather into one vast concentric orb of whirl iug atoms, wh cli began slowly to ic volve and acee erate tl ir speed as they con 1< use, nutil the sun was formed, » so'itary, incandescent mass if matter of immvasur..ble magtii tude. He sees at in'orvals succes¬ sive lings thrown off’, which whirl, condense aud form themselves into glowing planetary orbs, which as they cool, become fit habitations for organic beings, lik a oil u Aim a Mater, earth. S'ltiii- g ant orbs are yet uu cooled, aud for a million years will roll and burn with undiiuishcd"heat, suns to their families of satellites. Otaers have cooled, become the abodes of ecnliejt beings, passed through the smile age, and now lie cold and lifeless in the embrace ot di at a. Our twin sister orb, the Moon, is one of these, where ever lasting silence sits supreme and holds her court within a lifeless world. Wh.it may uot be evolved from thy somnific realm, Sublime Tobacco! —Ed Independent. !» Father and Son. ‘Saladin!’ Saladin paused' and his attitude was one to charm the eye of artist ■m t the soul of poet. One lithe leg was already swung over the top of the fi nee, clinging theieto by the firm bent knee. Below the other leg --the left one it had intended to have left with the other one, right soon, but fur the voice that hailed him back. Chestnut brown, and shod with lusty stone-bruises, were tbe nnsaueiaied feet. Under the tower¬ ing rim of the torn straw hat Sala din glanced with eyes that gleamed less with defiance than more with n distressful consciousness that he had been caught up in the very moment of his triumph. H« turned, and knew bis father, and him he answer¬ ed iu that expressive monosyllable ol bis native tongue : ‘Fay !' ‘Back to thy haunt, false fugitive ! Ha! Bend to thy task, aud ply the greas-ed saw with many a muffled wleeze, till high the severed hickory piles the woodbhed floor, lest with a pliant skate strap I pursue, aud raise the fur along thy trunnt spine. Ha, thou rebellions child of mine, wnat bid’st thou underneath that recreunt jacket ?’ For a moment Saladin struggled witb his emotion, and strove to look as though he had nothing under hie jacket. But a large sized tomato ,can is too obtrusive ip its rotundity, A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County. and too definitely pronounced in its platform to escape public attention, even when close buttoned under the snug fitting garmeture of a boy of eleven years. With a despairing sigh he said : ‘Can full o’ worm8.’ The skate strap fell from his lordly father’s nerveless grasp. ‘Fisbiu’ worms ?' he asked ; ‘han nem toomy 1’ Which, by interpreta¬ tion, is hand them unto me. He ook the can and stirred up the menagerie with a stick. ‘Vurlet..’ he said, ‘where keepest thou thy rod an 1 lines?’ Saladin pointed to a gloomv corner of the wood-shed, and bis worthy father scooped the tackle in. ‘Where, thou truant villian, where urn they bitin’ best?’ 'Right in the slough, just below the second bridge,’ Saladin seid. ‘Now, by my halidame, aud did 1 enjoy not an afternoon’s sport myself I were worse than an infidel; and thou, Sir Sluggard, if there be one small stick not sawn asunder when I hie me home—see thou to it.’ And his sire was gone; gone with his rod, his hooks and lines, bis bait. As his hurrying feet carried him out of sight, Saladin smiled, a melaucholy, bitter, yet withal, a joy¬ ous smile. An’ if ho find not tha ice at the second bridge frozen clear to the bottom,' he said, ‘an’ it be not still thicker at the first bridge, an’ if he find a hold in the ice iu all that land whereto I have seut him, then may these yearning eyes of miue ne’er gaze upon the back of me neck again ’ A nd turning to the wood, ile, nr.d picking out all the hard, tough, knotty sticks tossed them with a boy’s generous impulse over the (i nco into the yard of a poor neigh¬ bor. ‘They wii] steal our wood any how,’ muttered Sat a din, ‘and heaven knows it iH light that f should save them the sin, and pick out the hard ones.’ And as with many a rhythmic wliee saw, wh.-e saw, he savu d the i asy slicks, the boys heart, ever slow to harbor malice, softened and melt ed in tl e Ureas', as he thought of the old geutleman trying to cut holes in ten foot ioe wiiLi a pocket knife. Verily, the man emptietli ashes against the north wind who thinkctu thal- he getteth a loug way ahead of even a very small boy.— Burdette, in Hawk-eye. '•* How to Attain Old Age. The Psalmist David a’lowed sev enty years as the natural duration of life, Pythagoras placed the limit at eighty, L union's hygienic philos¬ opher, Dr. R'chardson, gives us tec more, while Flonrens believed that mau ought to live one hundred years. There is uo doubt that the physi ological limit of human life has been slightly increased in the present Cell tury, and a hundred years later it may be found that old ago comes on more slowly and gently. For, with the increased uncertainly of a future life, human energies are directing themselves with greater earnestness toward solving the problems of a more h. althful and longer terrestrial existence. OH nge is part of the life-history of the organism. There is that in the child at birth which determines very mrrly when old age shall ap¬ pear. Senility is a failure of nutri lion. We can only delay its appear¬ ance by living a life which puts no undue strain on the orgauinin, aud by furnishing it with the easiest means of working. We cannot ex¬ pect to accomplish this end simply by cutting off certain deleterious supplies. If one would live long, let him especially take care of his “mas¬ ter tissues”—the muscle and nerve_ when young. This means rational exercise of body, and a well balanc¬ ed cultivation of mind. Brain work¬ ers live long, brain and muscle work¬ ers longer still. No oue has yet giv¬ en better advice for the retarding a ff e ^ au did Christopher Hufe IubiI, a century ago. Let those who desire old ag n , study him, and put D0 trust iu distilled Witter —Medical Rx-or# Clippings for the Curious. Clans rose in Scotland in the reign of Malcolm II., in 1008. The Western Indians believe that fl> ofis follow red sunsets. Englishmen wore petticoats and stomachers iu early days. In Louisiana the Japanese persim mon is grafted in the native tree,and the fruit is as large as tomatoes. There ere 209 known varieties of cherries, sixty of apricots, 239 of peaches, 1,037 of pears and 297 ot plains. The calico and printed goods made in Lowell in 1883 would twice encir¬ cle the earth at the equator aud then all wpu'.d uot be used to do it. Ancient wine jars were made with a pointed end and set iu places espe¬ cially prepaied for them iu the collar or pressed down into the soft clay. It is said that all the inlets on the Jersey coast are gradually moving southward. The laud cu the south¬ erly side washes away aud new laud is made in the same proportion ou the northerly side. Some person of a statistical turn, and a disposition to add new terrors to doa'h, has estimated that one in every 5000 is buried alive. This cheerful observation was made in a paper recently read before the French academy of medicine. There are supposed to be about 1,000,000 species iu the animal king¬ dom. O. beetles alone, over 100,000 species aro known, and the whole number of iusects is set at 500.000. Of the higher auitrials there are 1200 mammals, 7500 birds, 2000 reptiles aud 10,000 fishes. ----- — A Heavy Load. Something had occurred to irri¬ tate Thomas Hampden, and Le was uttering a volley of oaths, when his employer, coining nearer, asked quietly : 'Dms it do you any good to swcai?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ was the quick reply. ‘It lets off the slenrn ; so I feel butter. I don't n.can any hurt by it.’ ‘But y< u do hurt by it.’ ‘How ?’ ‘Iu the first place y>u hurt your¬ self most of all by sinning against God. Then you hurt my feelings, and set a bad example to others I shouldn’t like to have uiy boy with a man that talks as you do.’ ‘You shouldn't ?'exclaimed Hamp¬ den, blushing, ‘I wouldu’t hurt such a boy as yours any sooner than I'd cut my hands off I’ve heard a great ileal about him. Clear grit, every¬ body says, and I like his loons. Ain’t afraid of work, I know. He’ll make his way in this world.’ ‘Aud make his way to a better world than this, I hope, when he gets through here,’ said his father seriously. ‘I behove ha tries to do what is right.’ ‘He ain’t none of your saints, is he, Mr. Wilson ? No offense, I hope,’ the speaker hastened to add. ‘But you see he don’t look like one.’ ‘What does ho look like ?’ ‘Like a wide awake, plucky boy, ready for’anything that turns up.’ ‘Should - you think’ any better of him if you should hear him swear ?’ ‘Can’t say that I should,' was the honest answer. ‘The fact, is, I don ’l suppose swearing does me any real good, but, you sec, I’ve got used to it. Tell you what, though, I wouldn’t let my old mother hear mo. I’ve al¬ ways been good to her if I Laveu'l done right iu other things. You needn’t be afraid of my swearing be¬ fore your boy, neither, unless I for¬ get what I’m about. It’s mean busi¬ ness, no mistake. I wish I hadn’t got in the habit of it. If boys knew what was best for them they’d steer clear of lying, swearing, tobacco and liquor. Yus, sir, they would. I know all about it. I've tried all but lying, and likely it’s no thauks to me i haven’t tried that. I never see no place where ’( would do me any good in the long run.’ ‘Then swearing, liquor and tobac¬ co have done you good, have they ?’ The man thus addressed hesitated a moment, und" then said : ‘No sir ; I won't tell a lie about it They’vo kept me at the foot of the hill all my life. They make a pretty heavy load, aud a man can’t climb very well if he has them on hit back,’ Ths Pour Truths. There was ouce an old monk who was walking through a forest with a scholar by his side. The old mau suddenly stopped and pointed to four plants that were close at hand. The first was just beginuiug to peep above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small shrub, while the fourth aud last was a full sized tree. Then the monk said to his youug companion : ‘Pull up the first.’ The boy easily pulled it up with his fingers. ‘Now pull up the second.’ The youth obeyed, but not so eaff b ‘And the third.’ The boy had to put forth all his strength aud use both arms before ho succeeded in uprooting it. ‘And now ’ said the master, ‘try your baud upon the fou th.’ Butlo! the trunk of the tall tree, grasped in the arms of the youth, scarcely shook its leaves, aud the lifctio follow found it impossible to tear the roots from the ear'll. Ihen the wiso old monk explained to his scholar the meaning of the four trials. ‘This, my son, is just what hap¬ pens with our passions. When they are very young aud weak or.e may, by a little watchfulness over self and the help of a litile self-denial, easily tear them up ; but if we let them cast their roots deep down into oui souls, then no human power can up root them—the almighty hand of the Creator alone can pluck them out. For this reason, my child, watch well your first impulse*-.’ An Astonished Cat. Gautier, the French writer, bad a cat which slept on his bed nights, on ihe aim of his cliair daytimes, fol lowed him when he walked, and al ways kept him company at meals One day a friend left his parrot in Gauiter’a charge during bis absenoe. The poor bird sat disconsolate on the top of his stand, while the cat stared at the strange sight. Gautier followed her thought, and read there clearly : ‘It must be green chicken.’ Thereupon she jumped from his writing table, crouched flat, with head low, back stretched out at fuff length and eyes fixed immovably on the biid. Parrot folio we I all the movements, raised his feathers, shar¬ pened his bill stretched out his claws, and evidently prepared for war. Thr¬ eat iay still but Gautier read again in her eyes : ‘No doubt, though green,the chick en must be good to eat.’ Suddcmfy her back was arcbeband with one superb bound she was on the perch, when the parrot screamed out : ‘Have your breakfast, Jack ?’ Pussy was almost frightened out, of her wits. She cast an anxious glance at her master, leaped down and hid under the bed, from which no threat or curess could bring her out for the day.— Our Dumb Animals Ilis Loving Wifu. He had tried to cross the track to get some peanuts for his wife, aud when the train stopped they com menoed picking him off the running gear, while the widow commented on his constituent elements. ‘There’s his poor spine! Keep his dear legs and arms together, if you can! If that’s his poor, dear stomach under the wheel, don’t pull on it! It was always weak. Oh, dear!’ and she burst into a torrent of tears. ‘Any¬ thing vve can do for you, ma’mn?’ inquired a sympathetic bystander. ‘If you would please hand me his poor deir right leg.’ moaned the widow', I would be much obliged.’ And when they brought it to her neatly donb up in a paper, she went into the pocket aud extracted the wallet with a fresh burst of sobs ‘Put it back with the other,’ she p'eaded, ‘and oh! if yon find the In art that loved me so look in the pocket and boo if the watch was injured.’ They made her comfortable, and aud when the down train came the conductor waited 15 minutes over Terms $1.5*0 Per A nmiiii-. time while she figured on the station clapboards whether she should put the money the cempnny woo’d pay her for her loss into a fsealskin sacque or an India shawl. — Drake's Irauelers’ Magazine. A Little Nonseuse. Father—‘I never imagined that your studies would cost me so much money.’ Student—‘Yes, aud I don’t study much either.’ ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘I always obey my husband, but I reckon I have some¬ thing to say about what Lis com mands shall be .’—Boston Post. A large Newfoundland dog is kept at one of the New York milk depots, doubtless to rescue persons who may chance to fall into the water. ‘I’ll teach you how to tear your pants !’ said an irate parent swing¬ ing a strap. T’U teach you.’ ‘Don’t hit ?ne, pa ; I know how already. Just look at ’em !’ Sam, how do you expect to get that mule along with a spur only on one side?’ Sam—‘Well, boss, if I gits dat side to go, ain’t de udder one bouu’ to keep up ?’ How does it happen that so many clergymen recommend patent medi cin«s? Physician.—Probably because the underpaid clergy can’t afford to hire a doctor ,—Philadelphia Call. At the taihr’s—‘I want a mourn ing costume ; I have just lost my uncle.’ The tailor brushes away a tear. ‘Well, why that tear?' ‘Be¬ cause you lose only an uncle, whilst I lose a customer .’—French Fun. A young Russian Nihilist named Boleslansmahamkiewiez has been ar¬ rested for throwing a dynamite bomb Foolish youth. He ought to have thrown his name. It would have been deadlier than the bomb —Graph ‘Doctor,’ said the grateful patient, seizing the physician’s hand, ‘I shall uever forget that to you I owe my life.’ ‘You exaggerate,’ said the doctor, mildly ; ‘you only owe me for fifteen visits ; that is the point which I hope you will not fail to rtmsm ber.’ The Philadelphia Press says : ‘It Philadelphia there is a funeral every hall hour the year round.’ It might also have added that Philadelphia has mere doctors than any other citv in the Utiio.i, and better advertising rates for obituary poetry .—New Or¬ leans ‘I notice that the ballet girls most !y wear smiles when they come upon the stage,’ said old Mr. Squaggs to his wife, who had insisted on accom¬ panying him to the theatre. ‘It shows that they think they ought to wear something,’ she snapped, and he said no more.— Somerville Journal. The Empress of Austria can set type. — Ex. We have been fortunate enough to obtain a proof sheet of a dozen ‘society’ items set by the Em¬ press, and present herewith a speci¬ men of bhr composition : ‘The Beau¬ tiful mnMp Krowc&ie. wqo Dresses icjth snch exsejlen; taste* is visiting ho.i f"iend Lulie Ja.wbro&eski!’— Nor¬ ristown Hcra'd. Never lend your step ladder. ‘Mr. McFarland, of Chicago, having a lit¬ tle job of painting, borrowed a step ladder from his neighbor, James Burns. Whilo he was using it the step-ladder gave way, and McFur land fell, breaking one of his ribs. Instead of being grateful for the loan of the ladder, ho brings suit against Burns, charging him with causing the accident by lending an unreliable article, aud placing the damage done to his jib ut $2,500 ’ Doctor —‘Have you got the better of the ague yet ?’ Patient.—‘No, sor. Me and me wife ia as bad ns iver, sor.’ Doctor—‘Did you get that whis key and quinine I prescribed ?’ Patient.—‘Yis, sor ; but it did uo good at pH, at all.’ Doctor.—‘That is strange! You took it according to the directions, I suppose ?’ Patient.—‘Yis, sor; ye know a man and his wife are one.’ Doctor.—‘What has that to do with it?’ Patient.—‘Well, you Ree, sor, be¬ in' as we are one flesh, I tuk the whiskey and gave Biddy the quinine.’ •— Phihiilelp'iia CM NO. LO-. BUSIIS ESS DIRECTORY, M. CORBETT-, DEALER IN DimsJMiciMS, Mull PERFUIORY, FINE SOAPS, Fancy and Cot.ie-iy Toilet’Articles; CORBETT HOUSE; M. COUS3ETT, Pl op., Lumpkin. ■ Georgia-. Every Aite'nrifm Given to the Ac^ commodai ion <(? comfort of Guesti'f Oct.l -1 E. M. SHERAM, MANUFACTURER OF PLAXTATHW WAG8X& Plow Stocks, Etc. Blaclmiithinc, & Wagon RepaiiuxcA. Oct. 20 1£ A. H. SIMPSON; DKA_J2R IN Family STAPLE m COCOS, SHOES* &G Coffins- Enrial Cases, Bedsteads^ Chairs E c. W. W. STOKES, Deader In Family k Fancy Groceries, C-ANMEDtOOOOS, TOBACCO-, Cigars anil Staple Dry Goods. Get lU ly W. A. GREGORY, DEALER IN Fancy & Family Groceries; CANNED GOn'tSjOONFFCTION ARIES, S 1 APLE DRY GOODS, Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, Tinware Etc; Get 20 M. M. & W. Si. (.itilTIS —PEA LEJtS IX— Fail? Gfooeries, Wildes* BEER, WINES, TOBACCO, CIGARS Splendid Billiard and Pool Tables; -North Side Public Square. W. 8. OSLLIS DEALER in F amily Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Country Produce Etc*. South Side Public Square. Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883. PIES INSURANCE Insure your dwellings, Furniture, Merchandise. Gin Houses, and other property. None but first-class Coni" panies represented. Rates low. J. B. Ricuaedson, Agent. Sept.2*th-18Sl-tf. Sltei am & Miller, -DEALERS IN— C 0 FF 1 XS, CASKETS AXI? Burial Cases Can furnish any stylo of COFFIN wanted at reasonable prices; fi«5“Repository at Suerasi’s Shops; Lumpkin, Ga., Sep 1, SIRLE’S CARRIAGE And Iflacksiuitli Shops. Having purchased the above well known Shops from Mr. D. W. Surletf I am now prepared to manufacture to order any kind of Wagons or Bug¬ gies that may be wanted. Skillful mechanics are employed and the best of rnateri il will be used in all work. Special attention given t,o repairings and all work promptly attended td; Terms Cush. O A. SIT RLE S. Lumpkin, Ga, Feb. 1,1884. — Globe Cotton Plants The Bust Now Iu Use! Call and see its perfect work; iiuiUi'kini S S. EVERETT, Ago*!* Ga. Tati; 28: