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Volume XXXIX.—No. 3S.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY. MAY 9, 1*85.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
Free raw material i* what the man
ufacturers of tnis country need.
James R. Osgood & Co., the well-
known Boston publishers, have fail
ed. -
What the people of Georgia want is
a great deal of peace and big provision
crops.
The U. S. Supreme Court has refus
ed a rehearing of the Virginia coupon
tax cases.
The epidemic at Plymouth. Penn
sylvania, is more violent. There were
eleven deaths from it on the 4th in
stant.
The newspaper correspondent that
was expelled froinGeneril Middleton’s
army was glad of it, if he knows a safe
thing when he sees it.
Public officials have no reason to
hope for Immunity from criticism, and
they will never desire it when their
records are above reproach.
The capital of West Virginia has
been again changed from Wheeling to
Charleston. This is the third change
of capital since West Virginia lw-came
a State.
Editor Waitekson has gone on to
Washington City and fallen In love
with the methods of the Administra
tion. What will Senators Beck and
Blackburn say to that?
The “saloons’’ are on top in In
dianapolis,hut it is not a misfortune to
excite regret. People who deliberate
ly choose a master are not to he pitied
when they prefer a hard one.
Tice most inveterate gold-hug would
not object to seeing a great deal more
silver money in circulation in this sec
tion. "There may he money enough in
the country, hilt if so it is badly dis
tributed.
A LOST DAT. *
How many tasks I planned at dawn,
I said. “when this fair day has gone
And I sit down at eventide
To count the work my hands have done
Between the rise and net of ran
I s-hall be fnlty satisfied.”
And then I wove a web of dreams.
And hours slipped by like sonny stiearns
Unnoted in their rapid flight.
And when I roused myself at last.
To act, I found the day was past.
And sunset fading Into night.
Oh foolish dreams, oh wasted day!
This; and this only, can I say—
“Not one good deed my hands have done.”
How much I might have done, liadl
But used the hours as they passed by
But I have squandered every one*
God gives his days for us to use
For some good purpose. If we choose
To squander them, how great our sin!
1 shudder when I think he keeps
A record of them all, and weeps
To see.the misspent ones therein.
Oh, ye who give to dreams God’s hours,
A serpent lurks beneath the flowers.
Of idle moods and delay;
House! make to-morrow’s record fair.
Be this the angel’s entry there.
**To-day atones for yesterday.”
—Eben E. Rriford.
The Latter l>ay .Saints arc disjxised
to look upon themselves as people
* 4 persecute!I for righteousness’ sake.”
It looks decidedly humorous. Matters
should he made still more lively for
the old pagans.
It will he found out, before many
years, that the strongest defenders of
the doctrine * of States-Rights are citi
zens of New England. That section
will have need of the protection afford
ed by the doctrine.
The Dougherty county grand jury
has very correct views of the impro
priety of the abuse of witnesses and
parties litigant by lawyers. Such con
duct Is ill-mannered, and it really
ought to be dangerous.
Somehow the name of General Mid
dleton is suggestive to us of that of
General Braddock. Slowly as he is
advancing, he may get to where he is
going too soon for the well being of
himself and his soldiers.
Saturday’s foreign dispatches indi
cate a hack-down on the part of Eng
land in the Afghan boundary dispute.
‘‘How are the mighty fallen!” It
would have been better not to have
sent out a stern ultimatum, in view of
the cooing retreat that is clearly fore
shadowed.
Under the constitution of Georgia,
no man can rightly be Governor more
than four/Recessive years. Any opin
ion to the contrary is necessarily the
quibble of a pettifogger. The require
ments of the constitution will proba
bly be respected in the next nomina
ting convention.
Gov. McDaniel has sold the entire
issue of 4}.J per cents—three and a half
millions—to Messrs. Wolffe and Rog
ers, at a premium of five-sixteenths. It
is claimed the premium will more than
pay the expenses of getting the bonds
placed, paying the State more than
par for the entire issue.
There has been a great falling off in
Lynchburg's tobacco sales, hut no one
has witnessed any fall in the prices of
the weed. If the tax were entirely re
moved from tobacco it is by no means
certain that there would be a cent's re
duction in the price. It was not affect
ed a particle by the reduction made by
the 48th Congress.
It is impossible for one who took
part in the civil war, and kept posted
on its various movements and events,
uot to have his faith in the details of
‘’history" shaken when he reads the
numberless romances of that conflict*.
The war novels of John Esten Cooke
are about as real as the average North
ern history of the war. The possibili
ty of writing absolutely correct "his-
torv” is doubtful.
Writ feu for tin? News ano Adycrtimkk.
Mrs. Parsons’s Tramp.
England has offended China by
Diking possession of Port Hamilton.
It is likely that Russia, also, will take
unbrage at the act. It is as much an
act of aggression towards Russia as
the capture of Herat by the latter
would he towards British India. Eng
land's indifference to the rights pf
other countries ought to make her
very slow in holding to account other
nations that follow her example in
the acquisition of territory.
Having wallowed the French down
In Tonqitin, the Pigtails are trying to
raise a row with the Russians over the
Manteliooria boundary question.
China will have to in* politically hum
bled before that great country will be
opened up to free commercial inter
course with the rest of the world, and
Russia is better prepared to accomplish
that'result than any other nation.
There is no reason to doubt the success
of Russia in such a conflict.
It is nonsense for the protectionists
to say -tliat their opponents want to
‘‘allow England to manufacture the
goods used here.” Their opponents
want revenue duties imposed on im
ports, in the interest of a full treasury
and low prices. If the manufacturers
here are unwilling to furnish the cheap
goods required to compete with the
cheap imports, with the duty added',
it is their own lookout. They should
not object to the grab because it isn’t
big enough.
Protection arguments are cut
throat things. For instance, it is
claimed that the sole object and the
necessary result of “protection” Is to : But some impulse reduced her to a
sudden silence. ‘‘Tell me what to do,
If anybody ever doubted thfc courage
of Mrs. Emily Parsons, the doubt must
have inevitably vanished at signt of
the bright, energetic face of that
charming little widow.
Her married life had been a good
school in which to learn courage, for
Capt. Parsons had been something of a
trial to her in those days. She had
faced ami subdued him many times,
and yet*she was a gentle and amiable
woman withal; only she had little pa
tience with good whiskey, and even
less patience with a husband under the
influence thereof.
Having held her own pretty well
against the late lamented Capt. Par
sons, she felt fully equal to holding
her own against a world sometimes
rather hard on unprotected females,
more especially if they be comely and
not utterly forbidding to the op|H»site
sex.
Therefore, when (.’apt. Parsons pass
ed into the vast hereafter, aided and
hastened on the journey by what cer
tain unfriendly disposed neighbors
milled “snakes,” Mrs. Parsons at once
set about getting her affairs settled
advantageously, and, v being a woman
of spirit and independence, she turned
a (leaf ear to the advice of her city
friends and determined to remain upon
her plantation with her five-year-old
son, her sister—a maiden of ei£ liteeu-—
ami her young brother, Harry, into
whose charge she entrusted .the little
cross-road store, known to all the
country round as Parsons’s Post-
office.
This may Ik* taken as a brief sketch
of the family living at the “Parsons’s
Place,” in Redbone district, Monroe
county.
This Parsons’s Place—leaving out
the five hundred acres of good cotton
land and a mill—was a fine old place,
tying on the main road much traveled
by summer visitors to Indian Spring.
The shade of its huge oaks, the clear
water of its deep well, under one of
those giant trees, and the cool shadowy
retreats among the mammoth cedars
of its front yard, may even yet lie re
membered by travelers, who sat,
sometimes, on the front porch and lis
tened to Capt. Parsons’s friendly talk,
while the driver watered and fed
the horses preparatory to a fresh start
towards old “Indian.”
It was then, and was even at the
date of this little sketch, a comfortable,
matter-of-fact country home. The
very last place on earth to suggest an
adventure. With a clear-headed,
practical mistress, who, when our
story open, was known to all the coun
try round as a money-making woman,
with uo foolishness about her.
Nevertheless, fate, Providence—
what you will—makes playthings of
us in most inaceouutable ways some
times.
It happened in this wise: One fine
September day a tramp stopped at the
cross-road store.
Tramping had not become so com
mon at that time, and there hung
about these infrequent mysterious
visitors numberless traditions of horror
calculated to freeze the blood of the
most heroic rustic.
News of the tramp was duly com
municated to the family by Mr. Harry
when he came for his dinner, and,
after his departure, the talk between
the two sisters during the whole after
noon, by fits and starts, would fall
upon the wanderer.
Miss Lily confessed herself nervous
and alarmed.
Afraid!” exclaimed Mrs. Parsons
for, perhaps, the twentieth time, as
the two sat upon the front porch en
joying the balmy evening air. “Afraid!
That’s folly. There’s Bulger in the
back-yard,” and glancing into the hall
where a Smith & Wesson hung con
spicuously near the hat-rack, “and I
am a pretty’ fair shot. You are excit
ing yourself needlessly, however.
Tramps are not such dreadful crea
tures. The truth is, I’ve a sort of
sympathy for them. It must be fine
fun to take your foot in your hand, as
the negroes say, and see the world
leisurely according to your inclination.
If I were a man, I might be tempted
to try it. There was Goldsmith, you
know. Oliver-—”
Bat the sentence was destined to re
main unfinished. Both ladles sprang
to their feet at the sound of a dog’s
furious hark and a scream which they
recognized as proceeding from the
faithful old cook, Lou.
“Fore de Lord, Miss Emily, Bui-
ger’ll kill him,” the old negress cried,
as Mrs. Parsons and Lily rau towards
her.
To grasp the dog’s chain and drag
him oft' the prostrate man, meanwhile
giving directions iu a tone at once so
calm and imperious that old Lou was
irresistabty brought back to her senses,
was the work of a mere Instaut of time
for Mrs. Parsons.
Afterwards, when the wounded man
had been carried into Harry’s room
and was lying there faint and suffer
ing, a sudden rush of nervousness, for
the first time, overcame the flushed
and panting* little woman.
“I am very r sorry!” she began, big
tears beginning to gather in her eyes.
it will hurt so dreadfully,” she inter
rupted.
“That Is a small matter, isn’t It?”
That faint smile in the face of diffi
culties, which Is one of the sure marks
of a gentlemanly training, illumined
his face, ghastly, pale and distorted
by pain as it was.
His wounds proved to be serious,
indeed, as Harry, who came with the
doctor, , soon discovered. One leg
from the knee totfre ankle was liter
ally torn * to peices, and his right arm
was injured to a similar extent.
It was the fixstjof October before the
wounded man could drag himself intir
the parlor just across the hall, where
daily, as the twilight deepened, it was
Mrs. Parsons’s .habit to sit at her
piano and play the low,.sweet music,
which was the only restrospection and
reverie her busy life permitted her.
So far nothing beyond the man’s
name was known of him. And his
face of difficulties flashed swiftly across
his eyes.
“Well?’*
He had paused, and she asked the
question as if there might be much
more to tell.
“Well! I’m a well man now, must
do like ‘poor Joe* in Bleak House. Only
I muct not wait for orders to ‘move
on’.”
“But you want work, don't you?”
There was a strange coldness In her
voice. He was not slow to perceive it.
A look of Jpained surprise flashed into
his face. It vanished instantly, how
ever, and he answered quiet frankly.
“Yes, I want work, of course.
Why?”
“I need a business manager. Harry
Is too careless, I discover. If it suits
you I’d like you to consider the offer;
and tell me what salary you can afford
to take.
.STORY or A BOTTLE.
A Love Latter From Jlid-Ocean
Reaches its Destination.
Bo«fon Herald.
A sea captain relates that on June 4,
1884, the schooner R. Bowers, captain
Thompson, bound to Gloucester from
Messina, was pitching about In a long
ocean swell in. latitpde J2 degrees 46
raiuutes, longitude 6Q degrees 47 min
utes. We liad made a good run thus
far, but on this particular day struck a
dead calm. There was little to do, ex
cept to watch the vessel and wbistirfor
wind, and several schemes were in
vented by the officers to pass away the
time. The second mate of the schoon
er, Mr. Cruikshank, had left a sweet
heart at home, and naturally his mind
drifted across the watery waste to her
bright eyes. Xoticiug Ids preoccupied
manuerj the captain’s wife suggested
that he send his love a message from
the sea. The idea seemed :t good one.
His face flushed, and an uncertain He wrote a note, enclosed it ni an en-
Tbe only way to keep a good hof§e
is by care. If you do not have to do
the work yourself It is* necessary to
know how, so you can intelligently
direct the labor of others.
Before starting on a long drive a
horse should not have an extra heavy
feed, as a great many people very
foolishly insist on giving. He should
only have a regular amount of food,
tiie extra quantity l eing reserved un
til the horse’s return. The drive
should be moderately for the first few
miles, so as to allow the horse au op
portunity to get settled: afterwards he
can lie driven faster without injury..
Many a good horse has been spoiled by
feediug heavily, harnessing at once
and then putting him down to his
name—Mr. 3(iuus—had altogether too • look, half questioning, wholly tender, ] velope, addressed It to the young lady
-- -- i at Big Brook, Caiie* Breton, enclosed
—Four horses have died in Macon,
recently, of pink-eye.
.. —The health of General Toombs is
said to be much improved.
—The Valdosta Times says that “the
melon crop is late but promising. The
acreage is not so great as it was last
year.”
—Rome now has river steamers, and
will soon be thinking about being made
a port of entry. It is more of a “sea
port town” than Atlanta.
—The Greenegboro Herald is now
under the management of Mr. Edward
Young. With the next issue it will be
enlarged to ah 8-page size.
—The Wad ley statue has arrived in
Savannah from New York. The work
on the foundation will soon be begun
in Macon—that city having been se
lected for the location.
COLUMN.
cheapen all manufactured goods; and,
in the same breath, they acknowledge
that the absence of “protection” Is
what accomplishes that result, by
swearing that competition with “free
trade England” would drive them out
of the markets! They confess that It
is “free trade” that cheapens all man
ufactured articles, by refusing to meet
the results of that policy on a fair
field. Their profession and practice
are at war with each other.
please. I’m very ignorant abont such
things,” she added after a moment's
pause.
The change in her tone brought a
rush of color into the man’s face. At
first she had spoken to a tramp, mere
ly. At the last she addressed a gen
tleman and her equal. Something in
the face of the man spoke eloquently
for him.
“I’ve heard that turpentine —” Bat
uncertain and algebraic a sound to
please young 31 r. Harry. Mrs. Par
sons, with singular credulity and in-
cautiou, had accepted the man, name
and all, without questioning; being
controlled by an impulse of chivalric
hospitality, altogether unaccountable
to the miud of her mure unemotional
and practical brother.
October drew to its close, and Mr.
Minns had recovered sufficiently to
make frequent visits to the cross-road
store. He had even gone so far as to
atteud the regular fourth Sunday ser
vices at the little country church, rid-
iug by 31 rs. Parsons’s side In the big
family carriage with five-year-old Joe
on his knee and Miss Lily and Mr.
Ilarrv sitting just opposite.
To all this 3lr. Harry occasionally
made faint protests. But Mrs. Par
sons was a lady of considerable force
of will and, moreover, could express
herself with unmistakeable clearness
upon occasions. Therefore, as a mat
ter of course, Mr. Harry was driven to
view matters from an observer’s stand
point merely,and beinga light-hearted,
careless young fellow he fell into the
new order of things easily anil accept
ed Mr. Minus to the full extent of
that gentleman’s qualifications.
These qualifications proved them
selves to he considerable, as Mr. Harry
soon discovered, when the November
trade at the little store become more
than usually brisk. The store, hereto
fore too hopelessty like a curiosityshoj
beguti to assume definite shape and or
der. .Comeliness, too, of a certain
kind, as Mrs. Parsons unhesitatingly
proclaimed upon one of her periodical
visits of inspection. Calijo, flannel,
hosiery and notions were found dis
played to a new and striking advan
tage. The two front windows actually
assumed city airs and proved them
selves to he no mean advertisement to
attract the passer-by. The books of
the business, also, were not quite such
enigmatical volumes, Mrs. Parsons dis
covered. For all of this, by
a swift intuition, she thanked Mr.
Minus.
This was in the soft Indian Summer
weather which comes In November.
31 r. 31iuus sat upon the little front
porch, his fingers listlessly keeping
his place in a volume of Tennyson’s
poems. His hat was pulled down over
his eyes, and from under the friendly
refuge of the ragged brim he looked
aimlessly out. upon the landscape.
Across the road, beyond the oaks and
the well anti the watering trough were
the cotton fields now white for the
picker.-; beyond, the woods rolled off
golden, brown and scarlet under the
sun's rays, to the creek where the old
mill kept up it< incessant, musical
clatter. The mill ami the noise there
of, were uot discernible, by reason of
the distance; but the thicker forest
growth marked the course of the creek,
and the knowledge that there was an
old mill hidden somewhere over there
gave a deeper meaning and mQre po
etic suggestions to the view.
“What a pensive melancholy, dec!”
Mrs. Parsohs exclaimed, coming
around the house from the direction of
the cotton-lofts. “May I ask what you
are thiuking about?”
.She stood just below him, leaning
against the lower part of the railing
guarding the front steps.
I was thinking that even a dog bite
couldn’t excuse my stopping here any
longer,” lie said slowly, with ill-
repressed sadness.
As he spoke she come up the steps
and stood facing him, her back turned
to the sunset and the fields which
spoke of her prosperity.
“When do you go?” She spoke
rather slowly, while a strange look of
sudden resolution crept into her face.
“To-morrow. I’ve sinned against
your hospitality too long already.
You will forgive me I know when I
tell you I hadn’t moral courage to
break off from all this. Before I go I
shall tell you who I am.” His face
flushed, and a yearning look came into
his eyes. He pulled his hat further
forward, then suddenly by a quick im
pulse, he lifted it and looked her
squarely iu the face. He could he
lingered ip his eyes. i the wllole
He had risen U> hi» feet at her words, board:
and was standing by her side.
She was a little woman; the bright
braids of auburn hair, colled high on
her head, hardly reached his shoulder.
Her face, firm and strong, with all the
resoluteness of her character showing
in It was turned upwards towards him.
It was a lovely face in the full perfec
tion of the mature beauty of her eight
and twenty years. Delicately fea
tured, quick to flush and quick to pale;
the rich red mouth firmly set, yet full
and sweet; the dainty chin, with, be
witching suggestions of self-w ill and
impetuous strength of emotion show
ing In Its rather square yet dimpled
beauty; a graceful,snowy neck with the
blue veins clearly traceable, ami a full,
curving breast clearly outlined by her
dark blue home dress.
He looked down upon all this,aud his
dark eyes grew wonderfully soft and
tender and flow ing.
“Will you let me work like the old
Iiatriarch for a similar reward ?” • he
said tremblingly, after a moment of
silence which was not quite unintel
ligible to her, for her eyes had drop
ped, and, even as he spoke, she turned
rapidly and went Into the house.
In younger days, before Capt. Bar-
sons had taught her the stem logic of
life she had been some what of a co
quette, perhaps over-foud of conquests
of this sort.
Therefore she smiled, with no sur
prise in her face, when she found her
self followed. He had a will of his
own also, and being in no way well
disposed towards delays in matters of
this sort he stepped before her as she
moved rapidly away, saying:
If I am to be answered at all. It
must Ik* now, for I shall be leaving to
morrow.”
She looked up quickly. There was
a tone of mastery and jiossession in his
voice quite new to her. He towered
above her In the full height of his six
feet two, a grand figure in spite of the
fact that his clothes were seedy and his
linen worn.
Well?” he asked, laughing softly,
aud letting his eyes rest upon her
w*ith an evident sense of satisfaction
ami enjoyment. The old mischievous
impulse so long dead revived.
What did Mr. Dick say must be
done with poor little David Copper-
field?” she said quizzically, tears
shining in her eyes nevertheless.
Wasn’t It ‘better have him measured
for a new suit of clothes’?’’
It was a strange answer; but evident
ly it was quite satisfactory for he
caught her in a close embrace, and,
afterwards explained to 31 r. Harry
who stood in the doorway a picture
of horrified dismaj*, that he was in
deed and in truth
Mrs. Parsons 1 Tramp.”
There, was great speculation at the
time as to where the bottle would
bring up; but in a few* hours a breeze
sprung up, and, in working the vessel,
all thoughts of the 1 Kittle and its con
tents were forgotten. The schooner
in due time arrived in Gloucester, anil
Mr. Cruikshank started for Cape
Breton. . His arrival was expected,
but his astonishment may lie imagined
when Ids lady love brought forth the
identical Ixittle which the mate had
throw'll into the sea, and produced the
note contained therein. The story of
the drift was a singular one. It* had
b*K;!i picked up on the shores of Little
Dover Bay, on the east end of Nova
Scotia, after a drift of forty-one days’
duration, anil the tinder sent it to the
young lady. Anotlrer singular circum
stance connected with the fiuding of
the bottle was the fact that the finder
turned out to he a near relative of 3Ir.
Cruikshank, although they never had
seen each other.
tt»ml threw- H over-} or .simply jagged for* mile or
so from home, if the drive has been a
AM EGG FACTORY.
Fifty million Eggs Counum
Daily in America.
led
Indianapolis New*.
“Come out and see my egg factory,”
said a Southside citizen, leading a visi
tor around the house into the back
yard.
“Egg factory? Ifouest? Who’d a
thought? When they brought out
these steam incubators 1 thought ge-
nius|had exhausted itself iu this ilirec
tion: hut I shouldn't he surprised uow
if some one would invent a diet which
would persuade tin* roosters to take to
laying.”
“Where’s your egg factory ?”
“Do you see that large box with the
hen standing on it? That’s the facto
ry.”
“What! the box?”
“No: the hen.”
While the joke ris recovering from
the effects of this deception he will
have time to wonder where all the egj
come from, anyhow. Every well-
regulated hen is setting, or is already
leading her brood where worms are
fewest and garden seeds and sprouts
are thickest and tetuleresi. Yet there
is no lack of eggs, the daily demand in
America for fifty million is met, and
tliat, too, without forcing tlie price
above 13 cents a dozen.
But to revert to the male hen. Who
ever ate a rooster, or part of one?
Nearly every farmer has sold them,
hut he will tell 3*011 that roosters are
among the very few things that are
sold at wholesale, hut. not at retail.
To illustrate: all the produce dealers
pay 8j» cents per ]>ound for. chickens
and hens, aud onty 4 cents for roos
ters. But the unsolved riddle of tlie
age is not that of the Sphinx, hut it is
what becomes of the roosters after the
commission man lmys them? 3Iale
and female buys them (at different
prices); hut his selling price is uni
form, and his output is always tender,
fat, young pullet-*.
speed from the start. Upon return- i —\ company for the manufacture
ing, the horse should be slowed up and { of medicines has been formed iu 31a
CREMATED AT MIDNIGHT.
Weird Scene* and Ceremonies in
the Lancaster Crematorium.
Lancaster, Pa., May 3.—Weird in
deed was the crematiou which took
place at the Lancaster Crematorium
shortly before 1 o’clock this morning,
and it was none the less weird because
the hour at which it occurred was the
result of accident. At 5:30 yesterday
afternoon*a party of gentlemen from
Chicago, briuging the body of a
friend, arrived. They looked amazed
at finding no one to receive them.
They had telegraphed the Crematorium
Association of their coming, but the
telegram had miscarried. Fortunate
ly, however, the furnace fires had been
lighted at noon for a crematiou that was
to take place to-day, and by piling ou
fuel the retort was In readiness for
service at midnight. The body was
that of Charles F. Hercher, a promi
nent wholesale druggist of Chicago,
who was an avowed atheist, aged fifty-
one years.
At midnight about twenty’ people
gathered in the flickering light of dull
coal-oil lamps about the body of the
deceased, whose head, face and neck
were exposed to view by direction of
deceAsed in his will, which directed
that his body should be cremated. As
the doors of the retort were throw n
open to receive the body a ghostly
light illumined the place, which was
silent as the tomb itself. Then, with
not a word spoken, at a nod from Dr.
Sheppers, the eldest brother-in-law of
the deceased, approached the body,
ye -. tI 6 C . 1 . — - passed his hand over'the cold forehead
master of himself evidently, whatever jHenAtMired. fill flit 1ft-*-
mlght be the force of his Impulses or - ~* 1 ■ “ ~ ~
his wishes.
‘Yes, tell me,” she said simply; but ' 10 explanation
^he drew a step nearer, and a close ob
server might have seeu a suggestion of
tears in her brown eyes.
It was the then uu usual story of a
rash young fellow entangled in debt in
his native town who goes west to make
a fortune. For a while he succeeded
flnety*. Got work in a retail dry goods
■tore, where he was promoted rapidly
until he became a traveling salesman
for the wholesale branch of the busi
ness. His family, a fine old Georgia
family, identified With Augusta and
the Sand Hills, were well known to
Mrs. Parsons, and she at once knew
him to he tlie prodigal brother so much
mourned by an old classmate and
friend of hers in the happy school days.
The prodigal himself fared well, living
up to the full extent of a comfortable
salary until there came a sudden busi
ness crash and his house with others
in Chicago, w’ent hopelessty’ to ruin.
At that time he found himself just sev
enty-five dollars in debt to the firm,
with absolutely no business prospects,
for the crisis of ’73 was upon the coun
try, and he had just five dollars in
his pocket. He tried various business
ventures, all of which ended disas
trously for him. m
‘'At last, broken in health and pen
niless,” he continued, “I determined to
make my way hack to Augusta. I had
reached this point in my tramp, when
good fortune, in the shape of a bull
dog, overtook me.”
Once more the old taint smile In the
the onty ceremony. The twenty per
sons present were mostly physicians,
with a sprinkling of press representa
tives and others, including several la
dies.
At 7 o’clock this morning the ashes
were removed from the retort to make
way for the body of Samuel J. Sar
gent, which arrived at 6:30, and was
placed in the retort at 8:30; making
two cremations inside of eight hours,
and three within three days. Mr.
Sargent was a native of Oneida Coun
ty, New York, but who died at Pitts
burg, from heart disease, aged forty-
two years. These were the first Sun
day crenyitions in the history of the
Lancaster Crematorium.
Well Known Men.
I consider Hall’s Georgia Chill
Remedy the very best Chill Remedy I
ever saw. C. L. O’Gorman,
of the firm of J. W . Rice A Co.
3lr. Geo. H. Plant, of Houston
County, Ga., says lie has never knrwn
it to fail.
3Ir. Henry S. Feagin, another prom
inent citizen of the same county, en
dorse sit above every other preparation
in the world.
Mr. J. G. Smith, of Clinton, Jones
County, Ga.* says Hall’s Georgia Chill
Remedy cures every time.
Mr. Charles Dreyfous, of Macon,
Ga., says he was cured of Chills and
Fever with Hall’s Georgia Chill Rem
edy when everything else had failed.
Mr. Hall.—I can cheerfully certifv
to your Georgia Chill Remedy being a
certain cure for Chills and Fever. I
have known it used in a great many
cases, and it always made a cure. I
have used it myself. Yours &c..
C. M. Wood.
For sale by "W. E. Hilsman & Co.
and Lamar,* Raxxxx & Lamar, w&su
long or spirited one, so as to cool him
off.
It does uot hurt a horse at all to wa
ter him while en route, even if he is
warm, unless he is much over-heated,
if you do uot give him too much, and
Uo not stop longer' than to have him
watered. The perspiring workers in
the harvest field drink liberally of
water, and keep on with their work
without injury. It is only the ex
tremes that work injury to iqan and
beast. If the horse Ls warm when
brought in, his mouth should he
sponged out with cool water, and then
he should he rubbed down briskly with
wisps or dry straw until he is dry,
and if lie is found then to he very
warm, he should be walked arounti to
cool off gradually. If the weather is
hot lie should be placet! in the stable:
let him rernaiu unblanketed, unless he
has beeu clipped, and out of the
draught. If the weather is cold au
overcloth should be put on him,which
ought to remain until he cools off and
dries, and afterwards blanket or not as
has been the custom.
The .horse’s shoes should be reset
once a month. Plain shoes should be
used, with the heels a little thickened
not calked or toed, and five nails wil
general!}’ he euough if properly put
in. In times of ice and sleet, when
the roads are slippery, frost nails
should be used, to be renewed as often
as necessary, aud there will be no
trouble from slipping. The horse
should lie kept on a ground floor in
the stall. If the feet become dry and
hard neither oil or grease ought to be
used; the feet shomd be cleaned out,
then soaked iu salt water, putting one
foot at a time in a bucket and then
chafe briskly until thoroughly diy.
After this, at night, fill the foot with
fresh cow dung, if it can be had, press
ing it In and then let it remain over
night, cleaning it out next morning
aud washing and chatting as before.
Two or three applications of this sim
ple remedy will generally effect a cure.
For a puller or Tugger a large leather
or rubber-covered bit, not a twisted or
curb bit, should be used. There have
been many instances where luggers of
the worst character have been cured
by adopting just such a hit. The
former is more humane and effective,
while tlie latter course seems to be
cruel iu tlie extreme and makes the
horse much more desperate and dan
gerous.
A little linseed meal, given occas
ionally, will help to keep the coat
bright and glossy. If the horse has
been out to grass and “slobbers” bad
ly, just before you are ready to start
upon a drive a head of cabbage, one
which is not hard euough for use or
sale will do, and it will remedy the
unpleasant habit. In grain, oats—
good, bright and clean—should be the
principal^ food, with an occasional
mess of cut food—roots aud the like—
to break up tlie monotony. Bright,
sweet timothy, hay onty, or bright and
well-cured corn blades should be the
only hay given. Clover is hardly fit
for a driving horse, though it may do
for work horses.
HE WEARS CORSETS AMD
SKIRTS.
An Aged Masquerader in Chicago
who Keeps House Like a .flurried
Woman.
Chicago, April 18.—Georgia Dull-
Ineter resides at No. 143 South Green
street in this city and seldom ventures
beyond the precincts of the back-yard
fence or the front gate localise he fears
that the meddlesome law .will interfere
with his harmless recreation. His pet
hobby is female apparel, which he has
worn these many years in all its com
pleteness, even to tlie corsets and hus
tle. Jle is about fifty years old, with
smooth face and long hair, which curls
down below* his shoulders. He cooks
and keeps house for tlie owner of No.
143, who boards there. Dallmeter
keeps pace withjdl the latest fashions
ami gives as his reason for doing so
that woman’s raiment is more comfort
able and convenient than man’s. It is
said that he served liis country in the
war of tlie rebellion and received a
wound for which he gets a pension,
and this, together with his housew ork,
supports him. Tlie neighbors appeal
ed to the police to-day to arrest the
aged masquerader, but without avail.
So long as he remains within the prem
ises w here he lives he caunot he mo
lested.
Down in the Treasury Vaults.
Washington Star.
The count of the money in the treas
ury began to-day. A Star reporter
wa« taken to the great silver vault by
Treasurer Wyman to-day to see the
operation of the count. After passing
through two or threeTrooms, protected
by iron gratings, the Star reporter was
conducted to an iron barred elevator
and* lowered into the immense fire
proof iuid burglar proof patent-time
combination-locked'Vault, which te al
most as big as a house, and will hold]
about fifty million silver dollars.
Squatted down in the middle of The
aisle of the vault, with a light and a
pair of scales between tnem, were the
committee, with their heads together
libfc traditional misers counting their
money. One man stood in a cell, on
one side of them, passing out the hags
of silver (a thousand dollars in a bag),
which were weighed and numbered
and then passed to the next mau, who
stow ed it away in the next cell. There
are about ten million silver dollars
thus to he counted—or, rather,weighed
—and it wijl take about teu days to get
through with it. The numbering of
the bags is a tiling that 3Ir. Jordan in
sisted upon, and it delays the count
considerably. Tlie clink, clink of the
silver goes on with a metalic monoto-
ny, and the men lean silently over
their tasks. Ouce or twice tlie* num
bers did not tally, and they began
over again, cautiously clinking the
“daddy dollar.”
FAIR FASHIONFOLLIES.
Fashion favors brilliant effects.
Marigold is the new shade of yellow.
Silver flowers on pale blue gauze are
exquisite.
Tiuted ottoman cloths arc flecked
gold.
Tulles are embroidered in heads of
various colors.
Cloth costumes are trimmed with
braid threaded with gold or silver.
A string of cut crystal tieads forms
the shoulder-strap of a stylish corsage. | dieted wiTh nervous debility, loss of vi-
The “Eve” toilet has the ed«*e of j tality and manhood, and all kindred
low-cut corsage, bordered with fi«- troubles. Also for rheumatism, neu-
leaves. ® ralgia, paralysis,.and many other dis-
~ _ * • ■— I eases. Complete restoration to health,
IT WILL PAY TO GIVE SHRI-} vigor and manhood guaranteed. No
ner’s Indian Vermifuge a trial. It . risk is incurred as thirty days trial is
will destroy and expel worms and allowed. Write them at once for illus-
beautify the complexion. ' trated pamphlet free.
Highly Characteristic Letter
from the Owld Sod.
Tcllymuck, Parish of Bullyrag-
gett, April the wanth, eighteen 70
six—Dear Nephew : I haven’t sint ye
a letther since tlie last time I w rote to
yc^bekase W’e have moved from former
place of livin’, an’ I didn’t know
where a letter would find ye; but I
now with pleasure take up me pin to
inform ye of the death of yer one liv-
iu’ uncle, Ned Fitzpatrick, who died
very suddenly last week, afther a lin
gering illness of six months.' The poor
fellow was in violent convulsions the
whole time of his sickness, lyin’ per
fectly quiet, speechless, all the while
talking incoherently and cryin’ for wa-
ther. I had no oportunity of informin’
ye of his death sooner, except I wrote
to ye of his death sooner, except I
wrote to ye by the last post which same
wint oft' two.days before he died, and
and then ye would have postage to pay.
line at a loss to tell what his deth w as
occasioned by, put I fear It was by his
last sickness for he was never well ten
days together iluriiig the whole of his
confinement, and I belave his death
was brought about by his aitin too
much of rabbits stuffed with pais and
gravy, or pais and gravy sufl'ed with
rabbits, hut he that as it may, when
he breathed his last the doctor gave up
all hopes of his recovery. I needn’t
tell ye anything about his age, for ye
will know* tliat in 3Iareh next he
w’ould have been just seventy-five
ears old lackin’ ten months, and had
ie lived till tliat time he would have
been just six months dead.
His property now’ devolves to his
uext ot kin wich all died some time
ago, so that I expect it will be divided
betw’een us, and ye know his property
wich was very large w as sold to pay
his debts and remainder be lost at a
horse-race, but it was the opinion of
iverybody at the time that he w’ould
have won the race if the baste he run
against liadr’t been too fast for him. I
niver >a\\ a min in all my life, and
tin* chM-therS all 'aid so,
directions or medicine
did, lie said lie would as leave dhrink
bitter as sweet if it liad only the same
taste, and ipesakana as whiskey punch
if it would only put him in the same
burner for fighting’, but poor soul he
will niver ate or dh rink'any more, and
ye haven’t a livin’ relation in the
world except rneself and yer two cous-
ius who were kilt in tlie last war. I
will not dwell on the mournful subject
anv longer, and shall sale me letther
with black salin’ wax, and put on it
yer uncle’s coat of arms, so I beg ye
uot to brake the sale when ye open the
letther and don’t open it until two or
three days afther ye recave this; by
tliat time ye will he well prepared lor
the sorrowful tidings.
Yer old sweetheart sinds her love
unknownst to ye. When Lary Mc-
ghee arrives in America ax him for
this letther, and if he don’t bring it
from among the rest, tell him it’s the
one tbst spakes about yer unkel’s death
and saled in black. I remain yer affec
tionate ould ghrandmother,
Bridget O’Hoolahan.
P. S.—Don’t write till ye recave
this. Direct to the care of Lary
O’Hoolahan, late of the town of Tally-
m:ick, Paris of Bullyraggett, near
County of Kilkenny, Ireland.
YOUNG MEM! —BEAD lrilS.
The Voltaic Belt Co., of 3Iarshall,
Mich., offer to send their celebrated
Electro-Voltaic Belt and other
Electric Appliances on trial for
thirty days, to men (young or old) af
flicted with ~ ■' ‘
con. The kinds of medicines that are
to be manufactured are not stated, but
that, probably, isn’t material.
—The Valdosta Times wants to aid
in making Congressman Turner Gov
ernor of Georgia. The point is just
this: Would it be better to have him
in the Executive Mansion than in
Congress? That is the question.
—“The daily papers are paid for
publishing base hall reports,” says the
Banner- Watchman. So they are—by
their subscribers. The daily papers
pay for baseball reports, too, when
furnished by the Associated Press.
—Says the Thomasville Times: “The
editorial mind of Georgia is already
getting excitedover the question as to
who shall be the next governor, mem
bers of Congress, Ac. Let’s go slow*,
gentlemen: there Is ample time to get
warmed up.”
—“Fishing is good now and the
price has gone down to 10 cents a
pound,” says the Rome Bulletin. This
is somew hat obscure. We can see how
a fellow may have to pay for fishing
by tlie job, as it were; but when it
comes to paying for it by the pound
we should be somew’bat at a loss in
deciding upon the correctness of tlie
bill.
—The Banner- Watchman has this to
say on an important matter: “Capt.
Carlton informs us that a bill appoint
ing property Assessors In every county
in Georgia has already passed the Sen
ate and will doubtless go through the
house at the July session. There is al
ready a law* authorizing assessors when
the receiver thiuks property is not
given in at its proper valuation, but
Elbert, we believe, Is the only county
in Georgia that enforces it.
—They are coming. Here is the con
tribution of the Rome Bulletin, and it
is rather hard to beat—on a dead
level: ‘‘This morning at 3 o’clock.
Messrs. Doyl & Camp traced their fish
line on Oostanaula river, and to their
utter surprise and astonishment, they
fonnd a cat fish weighing 43 pounds
held spell bound by an eel. It seems
that the eel had swallowed the hook,
and the cat fish sw’allowed the eel, the
eel sliplng through the fishes gill
wound around through tlie other gill
thence through tlie fish’s mouth, and
in his excitement accidentally stuck his
tail into the hook again. Being bound
at both ends, and suspended in the
centre by a 43 pound cat fish Is hard to
beat by any fisherman
—The Cartersville Courant makes
the following interesting statement
concerning a Bartow county nonagen
arian : “There is living in the upper
part of Bartow county, an old lady,
Mrs. Carrie Vaughn, whose history is
as remarkable as it is interesting. She
w*as born in Habersham county, Ga., in
1788, making her 97 years old. She
was married at the age of 17. Her
husband has been dead forty-oneyears.
She raised eleven children, saw them
all married, with families ot their ow n,
except one. Tlie children are now* all
dead, but she has grandchildren, great
grand children and great-great-grand-
children, numbering in all about 100.
She never wore Spectacles in her life.
She could to-day thread the finest
needle, but for nervousness of her
hands. She is remarkably active and
spry for her age. Rather than go
around to a gate tw’enty yards off, she
will bounce a ten-rail fence. When
her children, who are very kind am?
attentive to all her wants, go to the
crib to shell up her com grist, they
find it already shelled by her own
hands. She attends to her busiuess
with great diligence. No idle bread is
eaten about her. She has smoked her
pipe of tobacco regularly from early
womanhood. She is all 'sufficient to
herself, asks no. outside aid or help,
and hAS a comfortable home and farm.
She and her husband were here before
the Indians were removed. She is
stout enough to live many years yet.”
A HOMILY ON MONEY.
Reckless Spending Wins Worth
less Friends—Don’t Be a Fool. .
Philadelphia Press.
“Money all gone” was the Rev.
Madison Peters’s subject last evening
at the first Presbyterian Church.
“When the Prodigal Son got his mon
ey,” said Mr. Peters, “he never stop
ped to count the cost. He didn’t care
expenses. But one day he counted
td it wa» half gone. His
hslnigMHHfastened on him and there
was no stop no\Y. Soon he con
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. Incorporated in 1888 for 25 years by the Leg
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EMBRACING everything KEPT IN A
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SUCH AS
Prints,
Checks,
Sheeting,
Osnaburgs,
Notions
LADIES’DRESSGOODS
Fine Silks,
Trimmings,
Laces of all Kinds
SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND MISSES UN-
DERVESTS, Etc.
A FULL STOCK OF
WHICH WILL BE SOLD LOW DOWN.
CLOTHING!
Is now complete, and was purchased wiflr
great care. If yon wish to buy a Nice Suit for
a Small Sum of Money come and see ns and
we will nave you money.
We are prepared to meet all <atopefij*®®* -JJJ
ask is for you to come to see os*“tl price
our Shoes, and yon will be snre tobny. We
bought our Boot* and shoes to sell and we are
going to sell them.
GROCERIES !
was gone.
(1 again
A fool and his money arc
soon parted. He becomes hard up.
But where are this young man’s ac
quaintances and friends and flatterers?
They are gone. The friendship of the
world is the bird, the foul, the obscene
bird, ‘whose wing ner er loses a feath
er,’ and this accounts for the bird’s
rapid flight. Such is the saloon friend
ship and all the friendship of the
world. As long as you have money
there will be plenty of men and women
who will declare with a ‘hip! hip!
hnrrah!’that you are the best fellow-
in the world if you will only, make a
fool of yonrself for their gratification,
but as soon as your money is all gone
they will be gone too.
“Trust not this friendship; it is a
boa-constrictor which folds itself
around you in friendly embrace, but
with that embrace crushes yon to pieces
and then devours you. Learn from
this to-night ‘that the way of the trans-
essor is hard,’ and I thank God that
is. Sin only belittles, poisons, robs,
impoverishes, degrades, disgraces and
damns. Stop now! Don’t make a fool
of yonrself any longer.”
Augcsta, Ga.
Dn. J. Bradfied: Dear Sir: I
have handled your Female Regulator
in my business for the past several
years with perfect satisfaction to my
self and customeis. I have found it
very saleable. Yours truly,
TV. H. Barrett,
■Wholesale Di
Treatise on the Health and
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.
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Macon, Ga.—I have known some marvelous
cures of blood disease by O. I. C. Among
other® I now recall, was a caee of .Svpfailis <5
ten years standing, that come within mv per
sonal observation. Tlie victim had tried al
most every known remedy and made repeated
visits to Hot Springs without benefit. 0.1. C.
effected a permanent cure. W. H. O’Par.
I -had in my family a case of Poison Oak that
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