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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.