Newspaper Page Text
1 $25,000.00
IN GOLD!
Wilt BE PAID FOB
APiBDCKLES’ COFFEE WRAPPERS.
1 Premium, • * 51,000.00
2 Premium., ’ #600.00 each
6 Premiums, • #250,00 ‘
25 Premiums, • #IOO.OO
100 Premiums, • 850.00 V
200 Premiums, • f 20.00
1,000 Premiums, #IO.OO
Toe foil particular, and direction, m Clreu
tar ta orar j pound ol lansu.' Ooren.
K Y A.SMITU ,
end Rciai— _ j
Bookseller anil Music Dealer
, - Kwp Constantly on Handl* LarzcStock ol a: * ,
Blank h+iU*, letter Cap, Note ' » ~» c lo,’ c *
ink, Slate*, Engraviiifi". len •
( I.roniot, Photograph
ture Frames, WaH Paper, Horner*. \\ in
dow Shades, tile. Al*o Agent lor
Chickering & Co. and Southern Gem Pianos
Rojf| Also Mason & Hamlin A
X O.PAYNBAS CO.,
Chattanooga, b - beks
Aril RETAILERS IN
Brats, Statiray, Watt Payra
™JS. E 3*l“ “9J?
oek the largest and most eomplete in the state, anr
?Hce* hottD.* Sarnie ol Wa» paper mailed «h»
Besired.. _ zpA-YTSTIB, 8r CO.,
823 Market vtreet, (jliatlahocia, Tennes. •>
MRS. JANE WEAVER
18 EAST EIGHTH oTREET, • cUAmNOOOA, TE>X.
FASHIONABLE
SllpLliP} ftl }D UjpSIMKE!!^
NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES
MATERIALS FOR ALL KINDS OF EMBhoIOLRf
IE TmTSi
RAVEDI
fe* A GENTLEMAN IF HE WILL HA VE HIS CLOTHES DYE1 1
• 111,R A NED AND R "PAIRED AT
AVISFB S 818 HOUSE SUMIAKKCI STBEEI
Ladies should bring their dresses to have tFemre-djed. I .pa* JJ*
penses one way on goods when charges auiount to *>3,00 Loth Taj
when charges amount £6.00 .1. O. Box ->ul-
GIBSON, LEE & CO,
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF
Stoves, Tire re, Queensware, Glassware,
ct ATE AND TIN ROOFERS
fi'LAlJii ainu iiiN * HEEf IRON W orkERS.
OO and o£, liar«et Street.
CM ATTAIiOtMiJA, - “ TKAA
JAMI S EAWKITs, NOAH ItCDDUi
HAKKIhS & ’HJ3DE.
DIALERS in #
HARDWARE .iiu CUTLERY,
steel, .tleciamcs’ Tools, F irml 'g
rials, and Field Seeds.
AGENTS FOR THE GALE CHILLED ,PLO A S.
MILLER Ss GARMMT,
E. MOXTOOMBRY AVENUE.
no.
VbTG 81 'PPLY OF THE BEST GUANO
WE thItTS SOLD ALSO PHOSPHATE FOR COMPOST
, THA^: 5 ENOUGH TO SUPPLY EVERYBODY.
. « n.e lirst dav or Htrcli move onr stock
- W'e w g J* l n ®" tiroceries and Whiskeys into the Bass
o« ...... one 0n.., i»ii.-ingoiir basin,ss
hwl*d»ug a ‘ J |n 030 we mil keep a well selected
* ,F *. r Hf brv «««ds and shoes, enough to supply
wtoc»o* • |>r;l , A „„h( rri—*s. We dill not be
every hod > . R^ nifmljer .j:p»“tVe will kedp t«r0,,8?
~B? t nndt'>,.isiiM* enoujt.. »o supply Georgia
Series ■’* _ |U ? 'jennessee. Everybody give usa
Alaham- ro „ vincet?.,
MILLER & GARMAKV.
Walker County Messenger.
VOL. X.
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 1887.
A BIT OF DRIFT. !
“Brutus Cassius Danks! Are
you going after that water, or do
you expect the spring to come to
you?”
Tiie man thus pointedly itddi essde
slid slowly down from the f nee
where ho was sitting whittling,
closed his huge jackknife by press
ing its point against the rail, and
shambled toward the house.
The wpman jn the doorway
watched iris leisurely approach
with an expression curiously min
gled of indifference and irritation.
A small, stooping figure, with a
weak slope to the chin and shoul
deis; the flaccid face withja fringe
of hay-colored beard, and Burmoun
ted by a sunburned hat; the loose,
unshapely clothes which seemed to
haye adapted themselves to the
wearer’s habit of mind was this
the piuk-cheeked, trim young fehow
who courted her fifteen years ago?
“I was a thinking’, '.Malviny ” he
said, taking the pail from her , out
stretched hand, “that a ketch of
fish would taste kinder good
We’ve had mush pretty stiddy
lately.”
“It ain’t my fhtult,” said the wo
man, shortly.
‘ “No! I s’pose it ain't,” ho re
joined slowly, as though the fact
occurred to Him for the first time.
Just then a little tow-healed
giil rau round the comer of the
house.
“Where are you going’, daddy?”
In called.
“Down to the spring. Wrnt to
go, Onpitola?” he answered.
She looked lovingly at him with
her china-blue eyes, slipped her
grimy little hand into his, and
trudged otl beside him.
The woman stood on the door
stone looking after them. “They
are well mated,” she thought bit
terly. “One has about as much
idea of getting a living as the
other.’’
She hiiii not lacked warnings
years ago; for Malvina Frost, with
her slim, straight figure and snap
ping black eyes, was the likeliest*
gill in town; and mothers of mar
,t
iageable sons had hot hesitated to
enlarge in her hearing upon the
“Danks shiftlessness.” reinforcing
their own opinion liy sundiy old
proveibs, such as “What’s bred in
the bone will come out in the flash,”
and “L : ke father, like son.” But
Malvina only tossed her black
curls, and went her own way.
So one June they were married,
and went to housekeeping in a lit
tic house on the bank of the Ohio;
aud Malvina, in the strength of her
youth and love, felt able to move
mountains,but she found the grari
ta'ion of inherited shiftlessness too
much fir her.
He, lied done well fdfr a time
The little cottage was nearly fixed
up, and when a year after, the first
baby came, ihe y ung with
iiis own hafifds, fashioned /or it a
.cradle tliac was the wonder and
envy of tho neighborhood. But
heredity was too strong for him,
and, tuough the cradle had six
successive occupant o , its first coat
of paint was never renewed. Mrs.
Danks had neJer heard of Sisyuhus.
It she bad she would have found
her task very much like his, with
the (xception that Iter's was infin
i'ely harder and more hopeless;
Wbat was it? Mental’, or moral
or phyiical weakness, or all three?
Or an evil fate, that whatever he
turned his hand to immediately
failed? JCven Lis nkmo seemed an
unkind fling Os fortune. His molh
e: - having attended, sbcitely be
fore his birth, the performance of
some s'rolling d'etor,’was so much
impressed' that the name of Brutus
Cassius wiof waiting for him when
he arrived upon the stage where
he was Jp play so insignificant a
part, it was seldom,' however,
that be had the benefit of his full
name, for the community in which
I he grew up delighted in abbrevin
j tiuris.' But even their rough fam
iliarity hesit tad to call a man
I “Brute” 1 1 his face, so he was
' dubbed “Cash,’' a perpetual satire '
upon him who rarely had any cash |
in pocket. Against all those odds j
Mrs. Danks Letd fought a good
| tight; but in the struggle her
st a ght back had boeti bent, and
the snap lad gone from her oyes
to hor voice.
Somehow the load pressed heav
ier than ever this morning. D
might have been because it was
early spring, and the air was full
of that indefinable sense of expec
tanev. that vaguo hint of rejuvena
tion that wpuld touch everything
except the l)auks fortunes. And
uerhups it wae because the flour
barrel was empty; but, whatever
the cause, Mrs. Danks turned from
the .doorway thoroughly wretche '.
llalf an hour later Mr. Danks
sauntered iu with the wntor, the
child folio viug with a string of two
or three fish.
Letting the pail down, he said in
a depr*citing way: “I hev about
c’ucluded to lake with Badger’s
offer, and go up to Cooperville."
slio made no answer, and ho
continued: “Es anythin’ sh’d hap
pen, I could como home.”
“O, yes!” she answered, “you
could come home easy enough ”
Ti e man winced, aud llis sallow
face reddened.
“I don’t s’pose I’m a master
hand at gettin’ a livin’, but 1 tell
ye. Mulviny, fate is agin me. Just
as I got a job across the river that
felon come on my singes. ppd when
I had a chance on the bridge, out
of twenty men I was the only one
the derrick hit when it fell. You
didn’t ought to be casliu’pt up agin
me that / had to come home; it’s
fate.”
“Call it by whain name .you like,”
she answered, bitterly, ‘Hu’s made
an old woman of mo before n.y
time-”
He made no reply, hut went out
on tlie doorstone, Where the little
girl joined him, aud presently his
wife heard him sav.
“Daddy s goiu'away. Is Cap
itola sorry?”
“Real sorry!” avid the child: ad
ding, “What’ll you bring ins. dad
dy?"
“Ilow’d ye like a string of
beads?” ho asaed, a f ter eonio de
liberation.
. . “Blue boi.ds' , ” cried the child;
tlien with the unconscious selfish
ness of childhood —“will you go
right off?”
Apparently ho was hurt, for his
voice quavered as he asked: “Which
would v« rather her- -daddy or tho
beads?’
“Oh you!” cried the child
throw,ng her arms lound his neck
slid pressing hor little face to his.
S i the hurt was heabd, and they
chattered quietly together till sup
per time, at wnich meal there] ap
peared five black eyed boys, tho
pattern of their mother. People
said the Danks blood had taken
a turn in the boys, for they were ns
keen, tougblimbed, energetic boys
usquiild be found in the country.
The following Monday Mr.
Danks started for Cooper-'ille.
As he took up his limp earpet bag
,lie said, byway ol treble joke:
' “Ain’t ye sorry to see me goin,
Malvi..y?"
She looked at him a moment,
1 then said eol<|ly: “You’d be back
soon enough! ’
He straightened himsolf and
said', with an air of decision quite
unlike himself; “You’ll not see
me again Anti l my woikis finish
ed;” uud so departed, followed
only by Capitols, who went to the
road with him ami called'alter him
not to forget the beads.
Mrs. Danks from ber washtub
watched him going slowly up the
muddy road, and as she looked her
h£art relented a trifle toward him
—the weak, kind-hearted, exas
, perating little man. Hastily tak
ing her hands from the suds she
took a bottle from’ the fiitebi n
sllelf and went to the door.
“Johnny!” she called to the tan •
gle of boys before the door, “your
pa’s forgot his liniment. Bui after
| him with it,' for he'll be sure to get
a lame back.”
With a parting tinust tow rl
his brothers the boy snatched the
bottle aud sped away like a young
athlete, chin up and elbows back,
'as he had seen picture of ruu
j acre.
When he overtook his father
and'delivered his me'ssage the lilt- i
te” seemed really touched. 1 hougii
indifferent; apparently, whether
his house fell to pieces or not, ho
was homesick outside his own gate,
and now was going away sore
hearted at the evident willingness
of his family to part with him.
Tho unexpected attention quite
overcame him, and he looked round
for something to return in ac
knowledgomeut, but the fields were
bare. „ i
Suddenly ho spied by the road
side sonic pussy willows with their
silvery, hizzy hud, and cutting
i ff a branch gave it to the boy say
ing: “Give that to your nv and
tell her she’s tho best woman in
Meigs Co.ntv. ’
“Law!” said Mrs. Danks when
the bey burst in with his branch
and message: “Your pa’s getting
silly in his old ago. I don’t wa" lit
such truck in tho house.” But
after tho boy had gone she put it
can fully in water and set it on the
kitchen shelf, and sovcral limes
she looked up at it with a look on
her face which Mr. Danks would
scarcely have reroguized.
That gentleman’s absence nude
very little difference with hi > fami
ly, except to Capilbla. llis wife
scolded aUtleleks, and the boys,
who looked upon him very much as
another boy—only one who liked
to sit in the same place too long—
pursued their works and sports as
usual.
Rut the Thursday afler his iouvß
their outdoor fun was cut short by
a persist-nt rain, llow ic did
pour! Hour after hour, all day
aud night. Friday morning dawned
upon sweeping mists of grey, nnd
an angry, bo ling flood that crept
inch by inch up its yellow banks,
ami night closed in on the sauio
picture, Saturday morniig the
sun shone out bright hffd clear,but
on what a scene of destruction!
What had been a river was a rush
ing sea, which hud blotted out
field ufter field, and which enrried
on its heaving surface trees torn
up bodily, great timbors. buildings
and cattle. Toward night a large
barn came floating down, and loclg
ing just above tho house, made a
breakwater, round which the waters
whirled, bringing into the harbor
thus formed all inannor of wreck
a o e. The hoys watched , cagoilyi
speculating at the amount of fire
wood thus laid at their door.
“Hi! That’s a good one,” cried
ono of them, as just at d isk Bone
thing like a log upp<ared around
the corner of the barn, balanced a
moment, as though undecided, aud
then swept round into the little
harbor. But it was getting too
dark to see anything more, so they
went laughing und scuttling to
bed.
All night long mother and child
ren slept quietly in the little houße,
lulled by the rush of swift watsrs
All night long in the little harbor
the log swayed and turned, now
swept away from the shore, now
drawn toward it, as though uluc
pmt tc go
in tho morning, with a* whoop
and shout, tue boys burst from the
house, but in a moment were hack
again wrttn white cheeks an'l chat
tering teeth, and, clinging to their
mother, could utter but one word
, —“.Father.”
Yes! Fate had again been- too
stiong for him. Mr. Danks had
, come home.
They took up lho ( poor body,'
bruised aud battered, but invested
tor the first time in the eyes of
those who knew it with dignity,
and ns t' l ey bore it across tbs Hires
gold’ there fell from tho pocket a
string of discolored blue beads.
A little later they k’ne-.v all there
was to know of the pitiful story.
" His follow works e» hud gathered
on Ihe wliarf Saturday ufternoon
after work to watch the freshet.
One liy one they scattered to their
I hori f-(i up and down the river, and
; a neigbbi r seeing Mr. Danks cal
' led to him to come; out he shook
' his head, saymg be was not going
home til! his work was finished.
So they left Him there looking
' down the river toward his home.
One hour later the wlptrf was swept
| UWil y. No one knew what had be
come of the solitiry figuie—save
j (fuel Yu l as tho poor body
Nb. 40
without vo'itioii of it* owr., was
guided throt'trh flood ami darkness
t> it a Home, who c«tl deny that
the spirit—too weak to shape its
own course—was borne on infinite
pity iuto tho otornnl homo!—llester
Stuart in Chicago Tribune.
Iri i Chimney oVer a firo B
I was once taking a ride through
Si.wunee county, Florida, admiring
the luxuriant vegetation, the lazy
sw ng of the birds and the ripple
of shining waters, when at an ab
rupt turn of the roau I came across
a dissipated looking cabin', the only
sign ol life being a white-headed
“cracker.” who was lolling on the
doorsleps, viciously sucking nt the
stem of a tublimely dirty pipe.
As l was tired ami very thirsty.
I rode up and asked him if ho
would give me a Jriuk of water.
Hardly looking up, he hospitably
pointed toa bucket and sal‘Light
sffapger, take the gourd and help
yourself.” I dismounted, to..k a
drink, offered him a cigar, and seat
ed tuysplf on the^ doorstep beside
him. The cigar unemed to have a
magnetic influence on him, loosen
ed his tongue, and ho told me of
a most surprising advent uro he
had once had tyith the Indians du -
ring tho war of 1837.
One cold day in December he
had gone into the woods to look at
his traps and, it being ti .time pf
supposed peace, had left his trusty
gun at home. It was an unusual
ly cold day for Florida and (reside
his heavy- clothing, he had a largo
thick blanket around him. lie hau
reached a point about five miles
from his house, wlien, looking
through jilip woods, he saw a large
body of Indians moving ,n his di
rect ion.
lie was almost petrifipd with
fear and astonishment, and at first ,
could not move from his p.'sition.
Another moment and it was too
late. The In-liana had discovered
him, and with fiendl.-h yells were
in hot pursuit. j(ow came a wild
race with a human 'i/e at stake; up
hill and down hill, tiilough hrirrs
and tangled wood, the savages
gaining at every step. II ) kur.v
thoy would catch him loug be'ore
he could roach his own house, so
ho bout all his energies Lowards a
dismantled monastery that had
been erected by the Spaniards more
than a century before. Os the e
ruius only the tall chimney re
mained With a supreme effort he
managed to scramble up this chim
ney, uni climbing neatly to ..the
top wa», as lie thougtit, beyond
the reach of his foes.
When the Indians saw him dis
appear iu the chimney, after fheir
first yell of disappointment, they
gutherod heaps of bark and brush
and made u roaring fire to roast
the impn-rm d foe, hut he told me
ihe frustrated their amiable desi n
by taking off* all his clothes, at d
laying them with the blanket,
whi h he had strangely held on to
ail during race, in tfie chita-'
ney below him, and (his prevented
the fli trios from reselling him.
“But,” sricl 1, “I should have
thought the yk thing w/mltf liuve
taken fire and burnt up ”
I “8o 'twould, stranger.” said ho,
“but ye see it war powerful warm
wliar I war, an’ I sweated so smart
dike that it kept them ur fixins
, souk’in’ wet,' ail’ the fire couldn’t,
\ : f <» •
ketch on. Aider tnay thought I
war all burnt up, they left an’ I
citin’ down an’ went home. That
.chunk of rock m lliar kem out of
that self-same ,chiinbly.”
' . “Good bye, old m .n,” said I, as
I mounted my horso, “you can cer.
tainly discount Eli Ferkiop every
time ’ —Correspondence Philade
phia Times.
ii » *—
Keep you: crop clean and we 1
worked, an I tkp Lor t will be re
ig’.r nstble for tho yield.
- • ary,
win tossing weak ami weary,
a- I Inn! a fit of ague,
Vnd j.iy bones were very sore,
iuddenly I t ead a label,
Ola lut'dieine on my table,
But to reach’t \ snarto was able; .
J wns »• infernal sore I
Took I just one dose,’tv. as hilb BKATRI
Soundly slept < and did snore.
Dad jlfr aguo nevermore * ....
, IS cents per bottle. Scid by all drugging
(Hiocrllnnenu* jtdei;ti»ement
1 1 V -*. ■ .'...1i 1.5
, H P. lUMPKIN,
ATTORN EY AT , LAW
bn Fayette, - • Georgia.'’
Will pr.tuttce In itiln the lourf*
and careful attention given ,j
>u*li.cm,
MONEY LOANED ,
os ini>u<ni:D i iktn
nr i .oiiiih ran ho negotiated for
atiynnioiint that c«n he secured, on
mm one to five year* liner'
H. P. LUMPKIN,
Lu Fayette
FW,;ioi’tUNJj, )EB3IJ 0, HUNf
LkPhji tU, da. Suiiimarrilli', fl«
COPELAND & HUNT
lawyers]
lafAyette & sum me: it
VILLE, GA.
Prompt attention *« all legal busi
ness. Collecting claims a
special fy.
LiEWIS HO US k£,.
UrfUkfiul and Supper llnutfe,
(. Q, A. LEWIS, Propt’r.
Dalton, - - Ga.
Within ten slops of the depot. Tho
',omi! ol the Commercial travelers, 1
..live recently limight, the property
Icuown as the Uiltl' (irem. House anti
have newly retitted and furnished It
liroughont. Uive me a cull.
Dr. J. M. Underwood
PtJ YSICIAN &;»URGESdA
LaFayetts, * - Qa
Wm Hawkins D. D.
VIaYIIE FOUND AT lUrt
UOMiu IN WALKER COUN
TY, GA. POST-OFFICE
address, DIVINE,
TENNESSEE.
A PRICE OF
BURNHAM’S
IMPHOVKD »
STANDARD TURBINE.
Ami MACHINERY.
cost of manufactuirnc
amt advertising' dVifwi
1,1 it n th new price List,sent free
Bumftttf :Bm s ,iUnS. m
BEAST
Mexican
Mustang
. Liniment
crcrixmmt
Sciatioa, Scratches, Contracted
Lumbago. Strain*. Mneclaa,
Rboumatiim, Straini, Eruption*,
Barm, Stitohei, Hoof Ail,
Scald*, Stiff MUM, Soi-aw
Sting*, Backache, Worm*,
Bit**, Galls, SwlnnoTt
Bruiee*. Sorea, Saddle
Bnniom, Spavin G'.U*.
Oorm, Crack*. Pll**.
THIS GOOD OLD BTAND-BY
arcoapllslwi for #v»rjtbo<ljr KVt'l "hat u
clalmrd for It One of tl.e for llie *r«*»
, pupalarl* of tho Mueten* LuilOirut la fouiKl I f
0. uiilvOreiil npellcaWlllf, Kvetjrhoo/
ii«m*(lm such a uiPfllflnM.
The liHuibermau nee<ln It In on*# or ao-
The Housewife need* It for general family
U The (ianntsr ne.id.lt for hi* teams and hi*
men.
The Mechunle noedi It always on hla work
bench.
The Miner Itoad* It In caao of emergency. •
The Fl«nerr noml* It—cau’t got along wltt
out lU v, . ~
The Fnrm«rnb«ds Itln hi* houw, hi* »tafcJo>
and III* Htock yard.
The Kteu in bout mnn or ibe lloniaa*
netuis It In liberal supply nlt<*atand aahoro.
The lloroe-fnnrler need* H-H *• hi*
frlond and *afe«t reliance.
The Htork*g» ower need* It—lt will
him thou*and* of dollar* and a world of trouble.
The lAu Hi ond innn need* W and will need
I?*h Ibfffy as III* life Isa round of uccldenU and
dangers. * * .
The llndliwooileiiian need* It: There la
not hi iiu like it u* Mrt antidote for the danger*
to lift*, limb and comfort which *urround the
rrhn.it need. It .b«,ut hie rtor*
among hi* erriHloyee#. will happen,
and when tli«**ecome the Mustang Idulmeut la
"tlZtp n Hoirie In the House. Tl* the be*t
° f Keep ,, a llo»tld In the Factor*. It* im
mediate use lit case of accident sav«v pain ana
Alwnye lu ibe SHabF
t*r use when wanted.
ONIT TRUB ,
RON
EfTONIC
WIU purlfr the aLOOO rejuiate
tha ClVrfß KJfS&jJQgj}
'OH of YOT^lJ^Dyspepela.Want
Wiißlflh koluudy cured: Bom*. mu*
c'-m and wre r#c#'r# new'
~ force. EnllTons the wind
and eeppnos Brain Power.
lAUIbO HABIEB* iron IONIC.
■ftfe. speedy cure. Give* a clear, healthy complexlrn.
i TUI DR. HARTERS tDICINI 00.. ST. tOOtS, MR.