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THE TELEGRAPH AND MESS vofr. FRTHA Y. MAPCIT 20,18-5.
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What would spring be without the red-
Sogt _
The earl; Democratic rooster has cap
tured the worm.
Tot English gorernment has invested
$100,000 tor the benefit ol Gordon's lamlly.
It Is believed that Cleveland's reform
book is most too big (or a Roach to swal
The time Is at hand when the angle
worm will find it convenient to burrow
deeper.
Wnan Grant was aaked by his physlcisn
U he could give np bis cigar, be promptly
xepliod, I cancer.
The withdrawal o( the treaties will prob
ably end the extra session of the 8enate
with the coming week.
Tns administration cst knows how to
akate on rollers and ride a bicycle. There
iano escape from him.
Hssat ia the key to India, but if the Czar
ean’t get the key he will not hesitate to
buret the lock with gunpowder.
Ua.Ci.tvsi.AitD is going to adoptthe
European plan, and pay for what he gets.
Tbit style is foreign to the White House.
THtis never was a mote opportune time
for Richelieu Robinson to sail in and twist
tbs British lion's tail into a gigantic poste
rior bang.'
Ir a certain woodcut now traveling the
rounds la In reality a good likeness of
Btnj. F. Jonas, we hereby hand the whale
a unit claim to all title and interest In
Cleveland ns n Conservator.
A writer in one of the London jour
nals says:
•There was oncicntencetaPresldtnt Cleve
land's address which warmed my heart to
him. It has been commented on in one or
two newspapers In England, but will bear
repetition. lie said: -Those who arc selected
for a limited ‘.,me to manage public affairs are
still of the people, and may do much by tbelr
example to encourage tt at plain way ot living
which, among tbelr fello *’ citizen*, aid* Intcg-
zlty and promotes thrift and prosperity.'
“Hear this, ye kings with your tawdry
crown*, ye dokoa and earls with your tinsel
coronet*, ye Lords oi the Bedchamber and
Hold Stick! In waiting with your salariea
drawn from the hard earned wage* and Blen
der resource* of the thrifty poor—salaries paid
to you for no service productive of good to the
public, but only for playing the tlunky and
the fool. Is it not time, O patient English
democracy, for ua to open our cyca and take
couoael of our wiser children? The money
wasted over the pomp sad pageantry of court t
la spent In bolstering np ttao pretension, of
rtnk snd birth. Would It not he bettor spent
In feeding the poor and teaching the Igno
rant?
The immensity of the interests cen
tered in this republic, its importance
as a factor in the world’s daily problem,
as contrasted with the simplicity of its
customs and methods, have for a cen
tury attracted the attention of every
country. Since the expected disso
lution of the Union failed, and the
strength of the American system was
vindicated in a crucial test that would
have destroyed any other in the world,
the conduct and history of this people
is a puzzle. To nations that are accus
tomed to pomp and pageantry in pro
portion to wealth and power,the return
oi the American people to an even
stricter aimplicity, in thclionr of their
grandest triumph, is incomprehensible.
But it is effective. The example given
day after day makes the royal burden
heavier. People begin to ask them
selves, Why may not simplicity in gov
ernment and economy in office be up-
plied to every nation? In applying
Jeffersonian ideas to ilia administra
tion, Cleveland not only justifies his I all bands to heipbim cat it, swal
he can lay claws on. He will not hesi
tate to try to eat a dead elephant, so
great is liis greed, and yet a child’s toy
pistol car. frighten him out of ap
petite for a week. lie is a fraud,
and was never more fitly
brought into use than when
stamped upon a silver dollar worth
only 84 cents. Out upon "the noble
bird of freedom.
On the other hand the rooster has
advanced in public favor upon his own
genuine merit. Although not yet offi
cially recognized, he has in reality be
come the American symbol. Inch by
inch he lias been turning the rascally
eagle out. Wherever. victory hovers
over honest efforts may the rooster be
found flaunting in the columns of the
unpurcbasable press. It was a rooster,
wo are informed, that saved Rome,
but the invaders called him a goose
for raising such a racket. Hence the
error. It was a rooster, too, that call
ed Peter to repentance and made a
better man oUiirn
Tho chanticleer very properly shines
among the Democratic masses as
strictly American. He is industrious
He is the first to rise and get to work
in tho morning. He is watchful, self-
reliant and self-assertive. He is the
head of an orderly and hard;working
family of producers. And he is brave,
The grit of the rooster is beyond criti
cism. Take a blue-blooded rooster,
who has pride in his ancestry and hope
in the future, like all Americans,
aud thirteen hens to defend, and
you will find in him courage and
devotion to a a extent never yet eclipsed
by anything that walks. He can look
tiie sun in the eye as steadily, and with
a far clearer conscience than the eagle.
He has in several instances looked the
eagle In the eye and whipped him.
It cannot be denied that the rooster
is sometimes hard to understand. Fre
quently he will find a worm and call
alrov:
Though Lost to slsht to Mamorr Dear.’’
The New York World having stated
for the benefit of a correspondent that
'no man living knows where the quo
tation ‘though lost to sight to memory
dear’ comes from,” a gentleman from
the literary corner of Texas turns up
and declares that the author was Buth-
ven Jenkins ; date ot publication, 1701.
To this our contemporary replies sneer-
ingly,declaring the version given by the
Texas gentleman "commonplace.”
Upon the authority o(
John Bartlett, of Cambridge,
the World further declares that every
poet from Chaucer down has been con
sulted in vain for the poem in which
occurs.
A writer in Harper’s Bazaar several
years s s nce declared that Uuthven
Jenkins was the author of the lines
which have survived nearly a century
remarkable fact considering that
they are commonplace as the World
states so positively—and that they
first appeared in the "Greenwich Mag-
az no for Marines” in 1701 or 1702.
The Texas gentleman misquotes the
poem and omits a line. The proper
version is as follows:
Sweetheart good bye, that fluttering tail
Is spread to waft mo far from thee;
And soon before the favouring gale
My ship shall bound upon the tea.
Perchance all dea'late and forlorn
Theie eyes shall miss thee many a year.
But unforgotten, every charm—
Though lost to sight, to mem’ry dear.
Sweetheart good bye, one laat embrace!
O cruel fate, two souls to sever!
Vet In this heart's most stored place
Thou, thou alone, ahalt dwell forever.
And still shalUrccollectlon trace
In fancy's mirror ever near,
Each amlle.each tear; that form, that face
Though lost to light, to mem’ry dear.
mg
own election, but becomes another fac- I it just as the swiftest arrives. But this
tor in the force that works at the foun-1 practical joke, this sell-reward, is
lation of royalty and oppression. I strictly American-like and bears out
onr premises.
War and Rumors of war. I That the Democrats have brought
It haa been predicted for some timo I forward this eminently proper aubsti-
past that the continent of Europe might I tute for the alleged bird of freedom is
shortly be plunged into a great war. highly creditable to the party. We
The situation between England and I will be greatly disappointed, it when
Russia adds strength to the prediction. [ the hone9t dollar comes into vogue,
The depression of the money markets 1 the rooster is not allowed to appear up-
in European capitals, anti the jump in I on it as “tails.”
the provision markets of this country,
Indicate that the crisis la delicate and
dangerous. England, with the Mahdi
on her hands, despite her navalsnperi-
Tna villa on the island of Elba, which
m as occupied by Napoleon after his ab
dication In 1814, was recently purchased
by the Jesuits, who intend to convert it
into a college.
Taw hasty workdonelo the closing hours
of Congress begins to show itself In excul
rated aud ioeulpated clauses of the appro
priation bills calculated to embarrass tbs
administration.
Tna average Ohio Democratic Congress
man seems to feel that he la between the
devil and the deep sea. Ohio has got to
taka her chances with this administration
just like any other Slate.
All quiet akmg the Potomac to-night,
Ksccpt a stray elerk, here and there
Summarily bounced from the government
nett
Confldei hit lament to tho air.
Pear Puck: The honest fatrat Is just en
tering the treasury building through a
whole on the White House side, and Ilia
rascally rati are tumbling out pell mell on
tbs other. Fine nubjeet (or a cartoon.
A Wamuiwotox special aaya; The Presi
dent whispered to a caller to-day that the
office-seekers from hit own Stale were
more ravenous than thoaa from any oilier
section. This ia complimentary to the
Booth/ _ <
dOLUVAif says ^e will fight Ryan and
Burka at the time time and In one ring.
We will subscribe to this enterprise, in the
hope that two men may do tor the Boston
bully wbat no oue man haa yet accom
plished. <
Sara an exebaDgt. “ To maintain hit luck
• > Alabama boy sent the Presidents buck-
eye. It came in bit first mail. The sender
telle the Preeldent to be sure to keep the
hockeya in fill pocket. He wants no office,
and ia only sight yean old."
Qanaau. Onaar'a pay as general, upon
the retired list, la $13,300. He geta in addi
tion to thia $13,000 from the trust fund
raised for him. A man who has an assured
annuity nf $28,300 certainly cannot say
that Ufa holds no charms for him.
Bines Grant eats more than ever, la able
to write his reminiscences and Parson
Ntwman lingers amid the delights nf the
New Orleans eapjaltlon, perhaps the pub
lic might dispense with the doctors’ bul
letins until s radical change shall warrant
them.
Local legislation and biennial sessions
in Georgia might be benefited by the enact-
■uantofalaw similar to the one in force
fci North Carolina, requiring ths payment
•f a fee of $2M as a condition pre:edent to
entertaining any application lor an act of
iucorpoiettoo.
At tha tale of V. K. Stevenson's effects
|» New York the following items appear:
T «o hundred shares John P. King Menu-1
tifacUuing Company, tluOeach, atpri per ]
a-i-tre. One bnndreJ and aighty-sevan
eh ires Sibley Manufacturing Company,
$.00 each, at $51 per share.
Two w.iols dtyi hire pasted and not
n eof J je Brown's organa hart bounced
tbs great ami good TaLtuaarn. For the
first ttme in fireyairs w* begin to feel that
we see open to berth cri Liam. Oeutlc-
m-n. U thaia is anything w« can do to pro
voke yon please deeer.be it,hit for gracious
a ikes don't let >be la praasioo that yon in
dorse ue get abroad.
r? (a n moved that riyuouth church la
ve»y met*uoho’r bereave Henry Wetd
IL-ech-r it oi Muod.y morning going
t<-U'b fur tb es w-eke nn e l<rtnr;ng tour.
Toe drliberetneeaull ■ f Ur. Bnecber upon
e emlling and hup-fn' section Is enough to
make say-o fy m larehtdy. The tympe-
ihy > f our P-ymonth fileixla la very dear
1 teuton..,h - i Me.
Vhe Confederate Documents,
In another column of the present
isirne may be found the first install-
orityT in the’ evenTwitii'a war with I " ,en ‘ ° f documents relating to tho late
Russia, would bo compelled to have Confederate struggle, which have not
allies. France, at present, has hcr before appeared in print. They w.ll
hands full with China. read “ melancholy interest, as
But warlike news is not confined to touc,lin S tbe f nal ‘W*, 0 '«-memorable
Europe, but is not far off from our own cont est. I 'erhaps if tho line of dis-
doors. Our Central American neigh- cu «>' )n by them had been
hors seem likely to have something "> ade publ cat « ,e P* a 1 0, l tWr da ‘?’
more serious than the periodical revo- «the People at large had been made
ntion, a change of government and an hjm'har with real facta and the views
assassination of a President. Presi- ol tUc,r leaders ' | h « end ml * ht lmve
dent Barrios, of Guatemala, proposes I ' ome ““f > and “ “ m ® t e»P 6cU
to unito in n compact confederacy the stlrrou ” < e ' b ^ happier circumstances.
Central American republics, and J, The letter of General Riply gives a.,
hold supremo command in hie own "s ght into tlm official blundering and
person. This 1. something oi the bold ’<*">'>* concen rated about
spirit of Bismarck, and if Barrios is the Charleston daring ha entire war.
man for tho occasion, he may succeed. , Baraw<dl » ‘*' e
In the meantime tho repnblk-H everybody else about RIch-
of Nicaragua, San Salvador, Ilondura rao " d a ‘ that Ume to haveb ** n ho P in «
and Costa Rica object to the plan, and # K am,t ’ . ... ., ,
propose to resist by arms. The good I JuJso Aldrich was seus.ble at least,
office, of Mexico have been invoked in ad ' 1,l "K thc ™ al abl f
and the attention of the new ndmlnis- ne « r f* th * reach ‘►“bead-
tration has been called to the matter v * ncln “'- cd " a ' co ' u “ n *
by the Senate. If thia threatening con-
G. vernor Magrath having despaired
ditionof affair, may demand nothing aid (rora ‘ he Confederate govern-
more from our government, it certainly ” ent , waa d a f°“ d * ■?* ‘ rom
will make clear tho necessity oi having 0< ? rg '\ a 8,ae hat at “*• pinc l w “
as representatives at Mexico and the ab,e to P ro,ect her “ ,f ,rom deT “-
Central American republics, men who "liion.
rise somewhat above the average poll- °™™ r ' an< * Beem, „ to har ® con
tician and whose Intelligence nnd can- t0 *° m , e co ^ff™ tivo 8tato £*
tion may he safely trusted. Thltcoun- tio “ to P^ v ' nt -°® eth n * wor “: J*
try cannot affonl to l« complicated in a PP« a " ‘ ,a "> »* en lm P r I c “ ed witb .
.. „ „ .the idea that Governor Brown, of
quarrels or fights. | „„„ ^ to llo ^thing
terrible.
The feet of th* business is that the
This graceful little love song will
live despite the critics, and it matters
little whether it was written by Jen
kins, or Fontaine, or by Col. Joyce in
wine-cellar twenty years ago. The
easy flow of its numbers, its sentiment
and its feeling will endear it to the peo
ple.
OuEBlIns For Offices.
Tho administration will make mis
takes in appointments. It is to be ex
pected and can hardly he successfully
guarded against. But the desire nnd
intention is to appoint good and tree
men, and such as are entirely satisfac
tory to the business communities in
which they live. Snch is our under
standing, and it is given out by author
ity of cabinet officers.
The people themselves can greatly aid
the administration in this work, by
giving proper and timely information.
No personal or partisan juggling will
bo recegnized. 4Vo hear that there are
combinations oi this character on foot.
It is said that it is in contemplation to
pash parties from tho interior of the
State for positions in the cities. This
is all wrong. For instance, the post-
office at Savannah should bo filled by
a citizen of that place, many of whom
are entirely qualified for the position.
The importation ot officials is a custom
that should go out together with the
Republican party and its rascals.
Under the Wires,
x. I. X.
Walking upon a railroad track la quits
as profitless at riding, If yon bare expected
to enjoy the scenery. You view all that
there la to be aeen from your elevatlon.it
It true, and a little longtr, but you still tut-
far from a consciousness of befog rigidly
restrained front aatodatlon with or per
•onel Interest In IL The clank of the
wheels npon tbe rail joints 1» not more
monotononi than tha measured tap ot your
btela upon the croea-tiee.
No ona has yet caught more than
the echo of mighty etralne, eare tha
Southern long blrg swinging on tbe vocal
tree-top, the look that burls himself In ec-
atacy upward from tbe crooning brook nnd
the muter whn lays hie cheek agalmt the
great musicians breast end with dosed
eyu catches the far retrain upon his own
trembling etrlDgs. It It not atangethet
the world should crave that which nature
tries so herd to communicate, and neither
find a way to help the others.
Did you ever study theie gr iy wires that
string themselves along through apace?
They seem a diagram deacribing the black
bird's looping flight.
We can no more judge ot the supreme
purpose of the universe by tbe few
days that atretch before and behind
than we can gness the
secrets of the half hundred wire
loops that gallop out from under the eye
beyond tbe horizon. The great musician
may strike upon them, but they have other
uses, as have the deys In light. I know
as 1 walk here, that thought, Invisible as
music rushes to and fro over my head. A
thou land miles it puses from right to left;
a thousand miles back. I face the eut.
Yet from beyond the stinrise ahead mind
speak* to mind beyond the sunset at my
beck. I am an atom. The message does
not concern me anymore than It concerns
the bine bird that aits upon tbe swaying
strand. Yesterday I read the verses of n
poet who bss slept a thousand years. The
music of a soul muslc-ladened j rang ten
derly through Its lines. I heard only tbe
muelc, and caught no deep meaning from
hie words. A thousand years from now
they may stir e soul to immorti! action.
Alas for tbe messages unheard that pais
us by.
The thrill whistle of an approaching
train warns me from the track. It (a the
realities of life, at last, that govern. E rents
crash those who dream In their pathway.
The train that flashes by iajladened with
men, women, children—Idlers and work
ers. It bears letters and freight for thous
ands. Every passenger will alight at bis
own station at the proper time. Every
package will fall into the right bands. Sjo
pus the days with tbelr precious burdens,
bearing messages to people; bearing to
some freight; bearing some to their sta
tions.
Now that Hszen has become involved In
a court-martial scrape, the good instinct
of ihc weather will be allowed to usert
themselves.
Ix 1884 there wu not a single death from
small-pox In either New York or Brooklyn.
Boston, Baltimore and San Franeisco had
eech one death; Chicago 2, Cincinnati 22,
Philadelphia 35, and New Orleans 2J1.
New York takes the lead in deaths by
measles, diphtheria, end whooping cough;
Philadelphia in deaths by ecariatina and
typhoid fsrer, while Boston heads the lilt
with deaths by dlarrhmtl disease, haring
orer 800cues more than New York.
Tna Maryland Court of Appea'e has da
elded that* Mr. Gamble may nil pools
with impunity. It lays: If by any eingu-
lar subtlety of discourse a hone race
could be shown to be a game of ebance,
by tbe earns reason we must hold it wu
played on tbe race-course, and that the
horses wen the players. The court adds
with a benevolence easily pardonable in a
State which haa long been celebrated for
lie fine horeee. "It it not consistent with
tbe just and benign spirit of our law to
giva to a criminal statute an Interpretation
which can be maintained only by a keen
and echolutio Ingenuity." Under thede-
citlon the keeping of pool rooms for tbe
sale of tickets on horse races ie not a flo
tation of tbe law.
other men ran to Mr. Forepangh'a t-
ance and assailed the elephant from so
many points ihat he paused irresolute.
During that pause n chain was passed
about one of his hind legs and fastened to
ananchored ring. This rendered him el-
most helpless. His other legs seere hob
bled and he was left alone until daylight,
Bazie being driven off to another part of
the quarters.
Oo Tuesday morning Ajax was at sullen
end vicious u ever. Bid elephants some
times remain in this mood for daya, and
no roan can approach them with safety.
Until such an elephant's spirit Ie broken
ba le worse then nseleta. Slept were at
once taken to convince Ajax that he mnst
obey bis keepers. OI tuo thirty-six ele
phants under Forepangh'a care, none was
as hard to subdue as A Wx.
The work of conquering the proud spirit
of A tx began at 0 o’clock on Tuesday
morning anil ended shortly before noon
yesterday. Beating has no effect upon a
mad elephant. It only renders him
more stubborn and wicked. The breaker’s
only hope ia to convince such an ani
mal that he is powerless against man.
That accomplished the beast becomes as
docile as elephants ever are. <>n Tuesday
morning four hawsers were passed through
immense pnileys attached to beams undir
tbe roof. Then a eet of harness, shaped
eomethiog like a monster shawl strap, was
fastened about Ajax’s defiant body. The
leelber straps, wb'ch were three-ply thick,
covered email chains. All the leather
plates were copper riveted anda foot wide.
Aitx looked as though he were in armor
after being encased. Three hours wers
spent in getting the harness on him, and
daring tbe job he slightly Injured two of
the keepers.
Through Iron rlogs. sunpirtedby great
chains, were passed the hawsers. Then a
dozen men grasped two of the lines of rope
that passed through pulleys, and befi re
Ajax knew it bis hind feet were six feet
above the ground, and be stood on bit front
ones in the most approved performing ele
phant style. For a moment he was part
ly zed with astonishment, but surprise gave
p'ace to fury when be appreciated tbe
ridlcnloua posture he was In. Hh surged
and trumpeted and flapped bis ears, but
all to no purpose.
When his struggles subsided some ot
the men ran off with the (rout ropes, and
In a jiffy Ajax's body was suspended in tbe
air. He niede the most frtntio efforts to
tear the beldng off with his trank, bat the
chains between his (ore legs end around
his shoulders prevented iL There tbi
monster brute hung at helpless as an in
fant. He was free to kick and pinnga and
bntt the sir as much as he pleased. From
time to timo be was lowered, so that he
might rest his legs, but none of the men
were allowed to approach or worry him.
In the evening he was lowered and fed,
and allowed to spend the night on the
ground, thinking over the indlguitiee that
had been rut upon him.
After hie breakfast on the 'ollowir g
morning be was trussed up as before. He
resisted, but his elfins were unavailing.
He was a stout-spirited brute, however,
end the second day’s punishment only
seemed to increase He rage. When be
came down to sapper he was the maddest
elephant tbar ever trumpeted in Fore-
pangh’s winter quarters. At the sight of
the harness ou Wednesday he became
greatly excited. Mr. Forepaugh said he
was "coming to his senses.” This, how
ever, did not prevent him from being bole -
ed np again. He surged about less in his
comfortable swing on Thursday, hut other
wise he was as stubborn and dangerous
as ever. An anchor was sank firs feet In
ilie ground and covered with earth in an
other part of tbe quarters. Only a ring
was exposed. Ajax's forelegs were hltehed
to the ring on Friday morning. Ropes
were attached to bis hind legs, which were
then drawn oat, leaving him "ap;
esgled" on his stomach on the etraw.
Jack ForepangU walked over Ajax's
prostrate body every tew mlnntee. The
elephant waalet up and thrown down ser-
anil timas daring the day. After three or
four hours’ experience of this kind
Ajtx became meeker, and he wee qnite
dejected when, in tbe evening, he wu un
chained and ordered to etasanp. He was
hobbled and thrown down on Saturday
morning, and when hit body touched tbe
ironed he cried out. and tears trlokled
town hie trunk He wat conquered. Tbe
cbeine were removed atones, end be '
up qnlatiy. At he word of command
waited into tbe room he had broken out
of ou Monday night, and was u ineek u a
aheap. Naxt week he will begin the train
ing noeeuary btfore he appears in public.
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RETENTION
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The New Bird of Fe*dom<
The Philadelphia Press, in a spirit of
uined levity, asserts that the Demo-1 confederacy, weak and trembling, was
cratlc rooster ia still masquerading ns locked in tho deadly embrace of war,
the American eagle, and hints that I tlio State* were fast being exhausted
tome day he will have his tail pulled of their resources of men, provisions
out, by a party not named, bat mean- and munitions, aad that at thia
ing no doubt tbe Republicans.
supreme juncture politicians were
There i* in the Press statement an I arguing the abstract qnestloas of State
error that surprises ua, coming at it I rights, and were ready to surrender to
does from a live and progressive I the United States government, which
journal. Tho Democratic rooater I owed much ot its success to equipping
it not masquerading as
eagle, nor aa anything
an and handling armies, to an immediate
else. I obliteration of State lines, and a diare-
He is simply parading aa a Democratic I g*rd of personal rights. The picture is
rooater. Only this and nothing more, a sad one, but under changed condi-
Now that we have tho subject In I tiona and at this distance, if perhaps
hand we are free to say that tho Amer-1 -we objurgate, we may not weep.
lean eagle has played ont as a bird ot
freedom. The true character, the hi.- Vouna N “‘ •V 0 "’ ?' ,h ;
toryand the association, of the bird Cleveland .. jutly entitled to
have long aince been made known, and *'“ 9 *PPrfUl«». A Washington epecia!
no sensible American to-day recognises erataf h#c , ra . 00l lntoon . ol
him as the representative of the true ^ ^ 0 i ,^ ,«caUv. on«s »n,i
American spirit. The so-called bin! of found iome fifty or aliiy of the leading newa-
Freedotn U the bird of fraud I papers of tbe country filed and hanging in
In the tint place he haa been linked ehem woo* bracket*. thwafiMallolthra.
ul . . ... I uvapapen ooma from?” bo naked, lie waa
with oppression and rascality ever ^ tCxUsey w.re sutecribefi foroot of tbs
, since the nations took form. The As- contingent fund of the While Hons* under tbe
Syrians need a part of him npon their | laat admlnUtrolloa, and that the mostof them
national arms. The Babylonians carved l !!5" “ b “ rt '" lo * u -
,. The President replied: “I went yon to stop
him upon their royal tombi. The
It Is an unsatisfactory mode of wander
ing. The bird, that haa been made aware,
by tbe same power that atira tbe germs
of life about him, that spring Is due, does
not fluitsr in your path, but tumbles back
Into the friendly wood, catling -your
acquaintance In tho most marked manner.
There is no vine to swing Its clatter of
bade above yonr head and Haunt Its
green banners in yonr face. No early flow
er looks np to you. No |4taiant surprises of
shadowy nooks, bubbling springs and
stretching, half lit vtitas. There Is noth
ing for yon bat the oold, rigid pithway,
whose anrroundinge weary .before they are
reached. Yet many good people walk an
iron bound track year in and year out.
Many whom thoughts beat helplessly
.gainst the tame monotonous, unyielding
facte of life; who never sea Ua freedom to
tha right and left, nor accept the iavita-
tiona extended.
Tbe telegraph wires overhead have a
aong of their own, that swells and bashes
with the brans. There are bat five of
them; ledger tinea they teem. P.rhapsthit
hidden moaiclan whom we all have heard
haa srritteu hia acorn npon them, a re
quiem for tbe dead of winter, or a lullaby
for tha infant spring, and ie chanting
words whore blended radences only can
wander through. Nature’s requiem and
nature's lullaby differ as lUUs at death
and sleep.
Or the many remedies before the public
for nervous debility and weakness of nerve
generative system, theta Is none equal to
Allen’s Brain Food, which promptly end
permanently restores all lost vigor; It nev
er (alia. $1 package, 0 for ik—At drug
gists, or by mail from J. H. Allen, 315
First Aveuue. New York city.
THERE MAY BE A FEW
WHO STILL D08BT
If so they wUl Efind In our office many
such letters as the foUowing, but none that
are entitled to more consideration:
With my experience I pronounce',
Brewer’s Lung Restorer
the best lung remedy made. Four olmj
brothers and listers had died with con
sumption, and about three yean ago I
became so exhausted • by a long continued
cough, accompanied Lwith low fever and
night sweats, that I could barely get about
and my friends gareup all hope. I coughed
ao Incessantly that I could not sleep at all.
After trying aeveral lung medicines I b
gin the esc of ,
Browers Luns Restorer
end was greatly benefited by tbe first bot
tle, gaining flesh and strength and resum
ing work. I continued to take it and am
ns stout now as I ever was, rarely aver
cough nor (to I suffer with my lnmrs any
more than u they never had been affected.
I am never without a bottle of it In my
honsa. Daring the winter I give it to my
little children, even a little fellow three
years old, for anything like common colds
or when they show any evidence of croup
and always with the moet satisfactory re
sults. Very truly,
O.E. HUGELY.
BarnesviUe, da.
Brewer’s Long Restorer contains no opi
ates In any form.
Lamar, Rankin & Lamar,
MACON, GEORGIA.
declQeod&weowU
In the small hours of tbe late CoDgrvsa
the subeldy clause in the post-office appro
priation bill, after aucceialYO defeats, 11
nally scored a aacceM. Thewatohtul and
peraUteut New York Ban that icores the
different votes:
Vote of Vote of Vote of
Fobs It. March 8. March 4.
Aiken, B. C...„Antl-aubeldy. Bubtldy. Blleui*
BlackburUpKy.Antl-tubeUly. Silent. Subsidy.
Bralntrd.Pa....Anti-subsidy. Subeldy. Subeldy.
Brown, Pa......Antl-robeldy. Subeldy. Subsidy.
KUlott, Fa re. M .Antl-eubeldy. Subeldy. Subeldy.
Moulton, nL~Antl eobeldy. Subeldy. Silent.
Pusey, Ia Anti-tube lily. Subeldy. 8ubeidy.
Wilkins, O......Antl subeldy. Au.-e’dy. Subsidy.
Of these gentlemen, Mr. Aiken, Mr. Blaok-
burn, Mr. Klllott, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Pueey and
Mr. Wilkins are Democrats, and Mr. Brainerd
end Mr. Brown an Republican. Three ot
them, Mr. Aiken, Sir. Brown and Mr. Berlah
Wilkins, will sit la the forty-nln'h House. Mr.
Blackburn Is In tbe Senate, aud the rest were
not re-elected to Concrete.
Egyptians venerated him aa the Incar
nation of audacious rascality. The
Austrians, Germans, Russians, Itai-
Tbe President replied: "1 went yon to atop
everyone of thus paper,. If I went any
neersptpete I will eobecribe end pay for them
■jeelL’ 1
Tbe newspaper clerk who did the
Ian, and other nations have had and I clipping for the While House haa al-
■till claimhim aeabrightandaafficient I ready received hie walking papers,
example. Some have doubled him, I I tie preeent administration does not in-
even, to better illustrate their national I tend to be run by newspapers or their
characters. In fact there haa never j correspondents, and thia will cause the
been a conspicuous piece of roguery, honest, general public to indulge a deep
land-grabbing or monumental .win- sigh of relief.
dling in which he haa not figured a* an |
accessory.
Secretary Lsmont, who haa been a
newspaper man himself, will know
The eagle himself is a robber and a I how to stand off the correspondent*,
coward. He never hita anything of I and Mr. Cleveland haa made short
hia size, unless it be dead. He ia also work of the newspaper* themselves.
a glutton. Nine out of ten times lie |
gets bis breakfast by robbing a hard-
A large majority of newspaper corres
pondent* in Washington City are just
working citizen of the upper circles, j such fellows as manufacture and Jj,.
and for dinner be will take anything I tribute "apedaU” in Georgia.
A requiem for the deed of winter. Yes,
winter has It dead aa well as lumm.r. Th,
•hadowleae enowffake, have a hlr h, Ilf,
and death. They teem to come out of eter
nity as noiselessly as th* snn ray and with
th* aouudleaa tread of pa* Ing moment.
They cover np the b-letad fliwer softly,
tenderly, tirelessly; but they perish snd
pats with tbe moment*, with the sun ray,
back Into eternliy. Theie dead while pe
tals of winter are worthy of a requiem.
Still tbs unreen musician singe. Or I, lie
long? Bather do not bit fingtra strike
npon the greet hirpisung In the air; fin
gert that erase a hearing for the wonder
ful soul behind them 141 to the myatery of
tbe wind ? Some day this grand old player,
now masked by the weakness ol human
vision and baffled by the Umln ot human
bearing, may find a medium through
which to ponr the whole burlen of bis
melody and fill tha universe with it,
But until then 1 euppcee he must be con
tent with the wire*, the waves, the tree
tope, th* brooks, th* birds, the human
throat and the rod# implement! of our
art.
All the world at ona Ume or another bae
listened for minis and craved iL 8-xne-
tbaes It has listened without knowing it
SUBDUING AN ELEPHANT.
Swinging Him In the Air to Brin* Him to
Reaeon.
PalMelphta Timet.
It took adonn men five days of laat
week to break the spirit of a vicious
elephant In the winter quarters of Adam
Forepaogh’a menagerie. Early in Febru
ary one of Mr. FSrepaugh’a European
agents bought four elephants and shipped
them to this country. The hog* beasts
retched New York two week, ago, and
ware at onoe tranaferred to Pnlladelpbla.
Th- ee were docile, but the other, Ajax, Ie a
maker, eight (eet high and vicious.
On reaching this city he became sullen.
but Jack Furepingb, who baa charge of
the winter quarters, belltving that the
brute would oreome good natureil In a day
or two, hltehed him -ot past and lecked.
h‘m un fortbeulgbt, A few hour, later
Ajar broke hi, cnalii, butted down the
inm-boand door of bi< room tpd rushed
Into en apartment In which a ikzcn of the
more peaceable elepli.nl, live. He at
tacked a performing elephant named B isle
and a dea; era's figut De/an. Five or .|i
of th* email elepbanti broke loose. Tbe r
frlchtened enes soon exuiied every animal
In the buildings, and ilm air was Allen
with roan that aroused the neighboth m i.
The night keeper, wet, afraid to attempt
to separata Ajax and B.ale, who were
truni|e-iirg and ch'rs'ng at each o her
with great fury. When ibrir huge b d e.
came together at the end of every ru-h
the shock could be felt throughout tbe
place.
Jack Forepaugh was amt for. but be
fore he arrived the watchman di»:orere<t
tost Ajax and Bazie etresi engaged with
each other that they did not heed whet
was going on about them. 1 bedsore were
opened,andall the elephants except th-
lighters ware driven nut By the time tbi
was aeoompibhed Mr. F -rep inch arrived.
Hu baa bail thirty yearn' fxperiauc* with
slid ailm *•*, ana stands no more io fear
ol an elephant toa-i an o-d-nary pere-a
does ol a dog. Graiplt-g an elephant
book—a aplka and a ho X on a a'o-p
handle—be ran betw.rn the *n-l
one beat's rnd unbred II tie
back. U.aie obe ed. tc- me hiu.
U tbe new elephant w.» u> and re
charged n-itbaman, wh,eludedhioi end
fattened tb* book In the bemt'. e,r. Alii
turned and turedoen tipin Mm. Tbe
traineratabbnl him with die rioke amt
dodged behind a pod, Ajix lolled il l
poet down te though It utn a rrml. Toe
Ir. order to protect the public against infe
rior goods, sold as NJacon Sheetings, we are
putting a blue thread an eighth of an inch
from the selvage of our cloth. None genu
ine without the blue thread.
These goods are the best ever made South.
9
If your merchant does not keep them send or
ders to the
BIBB MANUFACTURING CO.,
Macon. Ga.
BUGGIES AND WAGONS
Finest Surrey In city. Pre-
Old Hickory Standard
Large stock fine Fair jobs,
lum Road Cart and Wage
and White Hickory Wagons.
CASH OR TIME.
Largest stock Engines and Saw Mills In the South,
look premlims at Atlanta. Louisville and Paris Exposi
tions. Best Saw and Grist Mills.
LONG TIME. TERMS EASY.
M. J. HATCHER & CO.,
MAOON. GA.
GANTT’S COTTON PLANTER !
The Best and Cheapest
Evi it Offered to i he Public.
. *»lth r^rfe^l regnUruf. Vrw
h.orfra for*Mk»*UTer -t»- *■•> J*
lnCeorgla. flptglal4Ucnuntt»th«tra.ie.
JAMEST. GANTT, Macon, Gcjrgia.