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!M III i. HE SELECTING IN 9LD AGE. -YOUR- 'istmasFreseits! —CALL AT THE- ty Shoe Store. fe offer a full line of [Ladies’ and Gents’ LET SUPPERS ! Plush, Alligator and f Ouze. A full line of good and re liable tes, Shoes, Sloes; |r the Ladies, Gents, 5s and Children. All bed specially for the oc- [full line of Leather 13ags, ts, Umbrellas, etc., etc., Ipular prices. IN GOLD BOOT. *5"T Whftt Is it now to livi? It la to breathe The air of heaven, factoid the pleasant earth, Tbo shining rivers, tU inconstant sea. Sublimity of mountain, wealth of clouds. And radiance o’er all f countless stars. It Is to sit before the ccerful hearth With* groups of frleuq and kindred, store of books. Rich heritage from nun past. Hold sweet communis, soul with soul. On things now pust, or pesent, or to como. Or muse alonfe upon my urller days. Unbind the scroll, whiyou is writ * The story of my busy He; Mistakes too often, but st-eessus more. Ami consciousness of d|y done. It is to see witli laugliing yes the play Of children sportiug on he lawn. Or mark tlio eager strife of men And nations, seeking can and all, Bellko advantage to obtan Above their fellows; suelts man! It is to fool tiiu pulses qulcku, as I hear Of great events uear or air, Whereon may turn perehnee The fate of generations, age hence. It is ttf rest with folded arm betimes, Aud so surrounded, so HimUned. Ponder ou what u*rv yet lifall In that unknown W sterlus realm Which lies beyond the rang of mortal ken. Where souls immortal do foover dwell; Think of the loved ones when wait me there. And without murmuring or iwurd grlof. With mind unbroken And o fear. Calmly await the coming of to ixtrd. —David Dudley Field lu Net York ludopond- ent. A Stout Hearted fegro. A negro man displayeda phenomena' amount of courage at the vy Street hue pitul Saturday. He haaqnite a local reputation as a "fiddler." He was re cently «Ictim of an teddent tliut necessitfleil the aiuputalon of one o. his legs. He was at the lospital when the surgeons arrived to conduct the operation. Not withstands;? his serious and painful condition, am the fact thul he was to nndergo the excruciating agony of huriug one «of da legs, and probably bo-.li. cut off, lie greeted the surgeonB witi a broad sniil. His injnral limbs were carefully ex amined, and one of the sui-uons, with a solemn and significant siaku of the head,eaid: ‘‘Boh, it’s i biul job; but tour legs are In u bad coiditiou, aud nnpntution is necessary." Bob looked up quizzically and asked: “What ytr mean by luupertusbou, bo3s.'” “1 mean ylurlogs must como off." “Gee wind cip’u, bufo of 'em','’' “Probnblyso, I can’t tell yet." wattlie reply. . Tim smile os the ebony face wia ut once succeed'd by a dark aud trouiluil look, and tot oegan to explain the change tlius|’: “Cap'n. if foa took Ixifudeso her,mud pedals off 1 Isa ruined nigger Eiore’s God. i will luvo to quit do pereshon which I have I dlered utility life. I doun mine do cnlitioperashot . Imt yoi see's I'm a fidilkTjm if yon int hofe bgsoff 1 won’t havohnttmt leftjm pat wd, and I will never 1 is, no mo) count a a tid dler. Pleiue, floss, path tqi (tie leg fur ano ter pvt will an cut nthqr’ei off," Whether bo surgeon vas totalled by the story ornnt JiO coni|iied will Bob's request, mil lie si ill Ins a leg to pat with. —Atlinta Constitiiion. ..WIGHTS CO. ruhission Street. Albany. Ga. ■!» . i| 1 -M. A Barnes Sale and Livery > Stables, Godwin & Son, i PROPRIETORS. I new buggies and the best ot fe, and will furnish you a tuna- ] very reasonable prices. Ac- podations for drovers uuex- These stables are close to Mayo, on Pine street, being Uy located, and the best fin town to put up your team. I on us for your Sunday tum- WM. GODWIN & SON. INDSTINCT PRINT dm = NO. .7. ■ __ • ‘ ft ■ lie Alwaya KiiJrtJ'wl llio Fire How often we fail U Ray wlut we mean even when we want to say jwf. the right thijg. They tell tlia story, I n- in stance: The daughter of Deacon C was a tiitio “slow,” both of speech and understanding, but “as gpod as the day is long.” After her father's death she was talking with u nei^ibor, who had just “dropped in,” concerning sonu of the characteristics of the departed. “Father,” said she, “xvasahvays a gmnt hand to ’tend (ires. Hu jest enjojed pnttin in wood *u theil spreadin lis hands out to fo«*l the warmth. I lo hope”—reflectively aud with consider* able tenderness In her tom—“1 do hole they’ll have n good fli’e wpcrepa’sgoml” —Buffalo Connnerrial, | Stout Women Should Not Smoko. The question of whether women sha) smoke or not hasevidently not yet beel settled. Any woman win has a lurking desire to bo cnrolh'd utldur the bauuei ot the [vagrant leaf vill *|<> well to read this caution from 'Mr. James Payn Says he; “It is noticeable ti.il \^|»en I his prac tice among women is advocated the- lady smoker is always represented n». young and beautiful and handling her cigarette as if it wen a flower. From an artistic point of viev 1 tad hound to confess that no lady 'of nature years and inclined to fttontiiuni slum Id venture upon this enjoyment." ) j Freak* of lli# An elderly man in Deenog recently recovered from an attack of the grip that cost him his teeth and nearly cost him his life. Ho was takei suddenly and Violently ill aud the saim day every tooth in his upper jaw became so loose that ho could move them with his tongue and so sore that ho could not masticate. They were sound enough bofdre to war rant their lasting several years, but they all had to be extracted.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Natural InqtilMlUreiicm. At one of tho grammar schools in this city the fourth grade pupils were not long sitico reading tho story of an im portant liattlo during tho rebellion. The text read, “Both sides fought with dogged pertinacity.” When thispoiift was reached a boy in one of tho back seats raised liis hnnd and calmly in quired, “Wliat kind of weapons are those?"—Buffalo Express. A Remarkable l'i.h. •txolotl, or fish with legs, is the name Mexicans give to a queer creature which can swim like a fish or run up a smooth wall like a fly, can live and grow when kept constantly in water like a true fish, and yet can live and grow entirely away from water (excepting a little to drink) like, n true air breathing animal. HOSPITALITY AMONG WOODSMEN. When the Stransor Is Taken In null Made to Feel nt Home. Anong the genuine woodsmen in eastern America great hospitality to s trim fere is tho most distinguishing trait. By woodsmen is meant those who make their living by chopping and huffing logs, and who live all winter in log camps, half buried up in th» snows of a vigorous northern climate, far away from the outor world Among these people there is no lav against tramps. The solitary hunter or the lonely traveler whom night lias overtaken in hiB journey alwayi receives a cordial welcome, not horn one, but from all of tbo crew. i As toon ns the stranger's head is inside if the low door by which tie hut isenterod, the cook calls out him t* walk in. for it is this fun, tionarj who does the honors of camp. He is then invited to take place <n the “deacon seat,” that may 1» better able to warm his ft before the fire. The question is the'i put, "Hove you had your supper it and the wanderer is asked to stop up and lure a bite; even If he has al ready rapped he will be almost forced to take a piece of sweet coke and to drink a cup of tea. Thetcakettle always sits beside the Ore, nod on tho stranger's arrival tin) cook gives this “a good boil,” foi woodsmen want their tea boiled. Some fat pork is cut and put into tlio pan and is soon simmering over a cheery fire. While the stranger ii takiig off his moccasins and putting on ndry pair of socks, with which the look is always ready to furnish liin; the cook is plying him with questions as to what is going on out in fie settlement. fo soon as the "boss” or owner of tht camp and crew como in at night, tlcir day’s work over, the Btranger is.'ordially greeted by all; in fact he bicomcs one of themselves and is repected to walk up to the bean pot o' tho frying pan and to help himself t> anything that suits liis palate vithout asking anybody. Ho not only becomes ns one of tlio crow, but die best place in the berth is reserved for him, sorno one turning out of it and Bleeping on tho deacon sent (the hewn plank on which the crow sit when eating tlioir meals). Some times the deacon scat is preforable to tho berth. Many yours since, late one stormy winter night, I .arrived nt Mr. W. Richard's logging camp at the “Otter Slide," on the Nashwalk river, New Brunswick. Tlio crew had retired. When I entered tho camp Mr. R. raised his head from tho fir boughs on which he was lying and said to me, “Como, take this place.” I caught at the moment a glimpse of a bod of snow beneath the green boughs, “No, thank you, I prefer tho deacon seat.” On this I gladly stretched my weary limbs with my boots for a pillow and coat thrown over my shoulders for covering; and yet, after all. my sleep was Bonndor and more refreshing than that of one amid all the luxuries of the town.— Forest and Stream Til® Ota l-'itrJner'* Gltlii Pieces. VOne day when I was receiving teller <Jf n bank," said Otis Htidley, president of the Kansas City Car riage and Omnibus company, “an old farmer. came in with about $5,000 in gold pieces in a sank. Tlioy were all black, like an old copper, and looked as if they hail boon soaked in tea grounds or acid. I asked the man where be got them. “ ‘Well,' he said, 'Iliad that money when the war started. I never had no faith in theso here banks-in them days, and wasafeard if tho war went tho wrong way, they'd all go up the spout. So I buried the money just a hundred paces from my well. 1 never had no use for it since, but al ways watched the stone on the ground there to "see that it wasn't moved. The other day I got to dick ering with the man that owns the section ’joining mine, and if we swap I’ll want this ’ere gold, I reckon. I thought I’d fetch it up here so Icould draw it. I got mighty ashamed of leaving it in the ground. The farm- MODERN RACHELS AT THE parts makes what they Mi you fellers.’ that the money Uy kept, and gave ■it book and he went out Gtit thteo weeks he returned, i hiB faoe, but he said he t was the feller what took and he produced the A Substitute* fur Cnnul Locke, H. G. Kotehum. engineer of the Cbignooto ship railway, is credited ns the author of a scheme by which vessels drawing upward of twenty feet of water can be pushed through tlio present St. La wrence canals from Port Arthur to Quebec, and through the Soo canal now being excavated, without deepening the canals or en larging the locks, thus obviating tlie expenditure of millions of dollars upon canal deepening. Mr. Kotehum proposes that large vessels bo placed upon steel rafts or pontoons, and thus floated through tbo canals nnd over river shallows, tho vessels to be plnced upon the pon toons by means of hydraulic lifts established at the entrance of each canal. He says $500,000 would pro- ride pontoons and lifts for all tho ex isting canals; but these lifts could be toed os graving docks; but little time would lie lost in placing the vessels upon tho floats, and the plan has been successful el3(swliere. — New York Telegram. One Way to SuCbceto a Frog. A frog cannot breathe with his month open. The conformation of his breathing apparatus is such that when his mouth is open his nostrils will Ikj Closed and, paradoxical as it may seem, all you have to do to suf focate a frog is to put a stick in his mouth so he cannot shut his jaws. It is a strange phenomenon, probably unparalleled in anitnai history, but nevertheless any one who pledges may make the experiment, though it certainly will be disastrous to the Vog. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Olive Oil Becoming it Myth. The development of tho cotton seed industry has been so great and tho many articles now made from it are so useful that it has supplanted the famous olive tree products in a ma jority of cases.—Now York Journal. No Time to Look. Dashaway—Wliat did Miss Palisade have on last night? Staffer—I don’t know; I- only saw her at dinner. —Cloak Review. et* in call would him a smiling. "Inal I’d forgo! ‘reckoned his mom _ hook. I remembered film then, and he said he’d mode the deal with his neighbor and wonted hie money. I showed lihu how to draw a check, and sent him to the paying teller. Tlie cheek was cashed in bright and shining gold. “ ‘That ain’t my money,’ he ex claimed In a forlorn Bort of way, •What have you done with my mon ey?’ and a look of anxiety and fear was on his face. The teller told him it certainly was his money. Ho began to examine tbo coins and found some old pieces in the lot, and then he smiled and said : ‘B’gosh, you fellers must V had a fine time rubbing all tliom pieces up in this way. I reck oned you all had something else to do.’Knnixu City Star. Tim London r»ntmuu« No whistles are used by tho car riers in: London. Instead, they use tho postman's doublo knock, which is roade|l)y giving two distinct raps on the door. 1 Every door is provided with q kW'Jiprimdthe doors ara.al- ivays locked; leven tlio dwellings of the very poorest of London’s popula tion urd provided with their knockor and kept clotpd. There are perhaps a few that have four stories, but they are very few. 1 . Of course this refers to dwellings only. They have large office buildings such as are found in npy city in this country. Tin- postman in Englund is looked upon as an integrate part of the gov eminent, and ns such is treated with the greatest of consideration and re spect. Such a thing as u carrier hav ing to wait in the hallway of a house for two, three, or sometimes five minutes before he gets an answer, as we liavo to do, and to be unable to deliver a letter and to have to mark it “no answer” is something unheard of. When a carrier starts at the head of a street to deliver liis mail he gives his double knock on the first and sec ond houso, nnd tho entire street al most is awake to the fact that the postman is coming. The result is they are waiting for him. In an or dinary city block it would not be necessary to knock more than, two or tlireo times, once or twice at the head of tho street and agnin in the middle. Tlio carrier nevor has to wait, and this onables him to make better time.—Foetal Record. Fires In New Fork City. Do you know at what time fires usually break out? Is it during the busy, hustling hours of the day or during the still, silent hours of the night? Tlie report of the fire coin missioners answers the query. Tho average number of fire alarms in a year in Now York city is a little more than 4,000, which is at the rate of more than ten alarms a day. Lees than one-quarter of the fires start between 11 p. m. and 7 a. m., while about three-quarters start between 7 a. m. and 11 p. in. Oddly, the alarms are rarest lietween C and 7 a. m., when fires for household and busi ness purposes are kindled generally. Tlio busiest time for firemen is be tween 8 and 9 p. m., about the timo that fires for household purposes go out. Thera is no particular differ ence in days regarding the frequency of fires, except that they are materi ally fewer on Fridays than on any other day of tho week.—-New York Sun. Cblncio Ginger Jars. The ginger jars of haivthom and other decorations which are so high ly prized by collectors of Chinese porcelain, are so called because they are made at the Imperial Porcelain works under special orders from the palace and sent to Canton, where they are filled with preserved ginger and similar sweetmeats by the vico- roy and returned to the emperor at Peking.—Philadelphia Ledger. Tho Beautiful Madonna Faced Woman nt the Fountains of Mnjorca. Ono of my first intlirallmonts here was by tlie water carriers of Palma. They are not so naive as those of the Azores, so bold us those of Italian cities, so voluptuous ns those of Lis bon, nor so languorous eyed nnd petite os these of Grenada and Se ville. But I eoflld not help thinking that hero an artist would find hun dreds of perfect models for a “Rachel at the Well.” Toll, lithe, slender, but shapely maidens are these, and their dress, carriage, features uud ways Constantly increase ono’s ad miration and interest. For dayB I found myself, against all apparent mason, drawn to this fountain, and that, making all man ner of mental excuse for wliat my own judgment scourged mo with ns an accusation of impropriety, at tempt os I might, to study all other features, become interested in tlio majestic cathedral or essay tramps Into the interior, bock 1 came to tlie fountains to contemplate these fair maidens and endeavor to unravel the strange spell they hod cast upon mo. In the first place, I never eaw but one woman whose unrivaled art gave her the perfect carriage these women unconsciously own as na ture’s heritage. That woman was Sarah Bernhardt. Added to this was a conscious dignity and a not coylsh but superb and stately modesty which lent positive radiance to every movement, gesturo or look. Their attire added a rare charm to all elso. Theiv tiny feet were inrased hi dainty slippers. A skirt of loosely woven dark stuff fell in close and graceful folds about their long and shapely limbe, Over this lay a short napkinlike apron, spotlessly white. A dark bodice, low at tlie neck, dis played exquisite shoulders and brenr' and its sleeves stopping at the elbow, where nn edging of white wns seen! showed tho lower half of beautifully molded anus. Tlio head is baro, cov ered by a wealth of hair coiled low nnd heavily in tlio neck, giving in tlio suuliglvt tlio blue black luster of tho grapo. Tlio forehead is strangely wide for tho Latin typo, and tho eye brows, which almost meet, hnvo tlio low, wide arch. Tho eyes are largo, luminous, melt ing, sad, and never wore seen oyo- Inshcs of Ruch length and blackness oil other wornOn. 'Htltri'iethS is finely chiseled and the nostrils tiro thin and have a perceptible tremor. An oval chin, dazzling teotli, a mouth that suggests tho hot blood of tho south, chastened by endless repression, with lips of crimson, complete a face of Madonnaliko depth end fooling. This face looks out of a filmy white ker chief drawn close beneath the chin, with points fastened with a roBe or a triflo of jewelry to tho hair at either side of the head, while its longest point covers the neck and breast to the girdled waist below. In processions of a dozen to n score, wending tlieir way to and from, or when loitering beBido the fountains, they form groupings against the quaint old walls beneath the lonely palms fit for Tadema’s master hand. Tlieir burdens are never carried upon their heads. Tlio bottom of the empty or filled ewer always rests upon the right hip, the handle against the car rier’s breast, nnd her half bared white arm is flung carelessly around tho vessel just below its mouth.— Palma Cor. Chicago News. ▲ Remarkable Clock. Japan possesses a remarkable time piece It is contained in a frame threp feet wide and five feet long, representing a noonday landscape of great beauty. In the foreground plum and cherry trees and rice plants appear in full bloom; in the rear is seen a hill, gradual in ascent, from which apparently flows a cascade, admirably imitated in crystal. From this point a threadlike stream mean ders, encircling rocks and islands in its windings, and finally losing itself in a far off stretch of woodland. In a miniature sky a golden sun tarns on a silver wire, striking the hours on silver gongs os it passes. Each hour is marked on tho frame by a creep ing tortoise, which serves the place of a hand. A bird of exquisite plum age warbles at choclosoof each hour, and as tbo song ceases a mouse sal lies forth from a neighboring grotto and scampering over the hill to the garden is soon lost to view.—Iron. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I W. WALTERS, ATTORN K Y-A T-LAW. Pl’HOtico In nil tho Court* of tlio Albahy Cir cuit, u ml elsewhere by H|>eci»lcontrnct. Ortleu in Ventulott llhick, Washington street. £ It. JON ISM, LAWYER AND REAL ESTATE BROKER. Local ngont Equltnblo Building nnd Lonn As- Rootntion, Albany, Da. 2-ll-d&\v-ly. C. B. Wooten. W. E. Wooten, yy OOTJKN & WOOTB2V, city Any. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Ollloe lu Vontulett’A Block, Washington strool Albany, Un. 3-ll-d*w-ly. W. T. JONIM. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. All burtincsx promptly nnd persistently at tended to. onice iii Willingham's Block, Stand street Tclepiono 4», DOCTORS. H (1GO ROBINSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office ovor Gilbert's Drug Store, 1 street. Albany, Ga. IAI ARAVIN, W " PHYSICIAN AND SURGBON, Office over II. J. Lamar A Son's I corner Iimad and Residence streets, corner Flint nnd Jefforsou streets. W. p UUS1IIN, M. D., Having located permanently ir Albany, »•- specify tundors his professional services to and Hiirrounding country.' Office on Broad strcot^over Ctaln A Sons ! JMMT ot, Telephone No. 58. ..... street ovarCValn A Bom Htore. Office hours,BffiO to 11:80 u. m^ an UHOp.m. Residence on Washington to 5... near J/L. Jay. BUSINESS CAKDS. = COMMERCIAL BAI ALBANY,. GA. Paid Up Capital, $100,000 V? T. M. CARTKR,, President T. M. Ticknor, Cashier LEADING BUTCHERS I DUBLAVY It CONACHAN. Corner Broad tad Washington Streeti 1 When you want a tender steak, antce pleeoof pork, or anything in tlio meat lino stop at onr narket or give your ordors to our wagons. We deal in Beef, Mutton, Veal, Pork and Fork Sao sage, and our aim Is to pleased « ■Weekly Hhlpneik sf Fine Wen. ecf Received. CRAIN & SONS’ ALBANY NEWS CO. Have a fine assortment of every thing in the Book and Stationery line, and are prepared to meet all demands. Views of Albany and Vicinity, 25cts. each. Scrap Albums, Music Folios. Tissue Paper in all colors. Base Balls and Bats. Newspapers, Magazines and Standard Novels. .We name these few—there are many‘more You will always find at the new Book Store oi CRAIN & SONS. Richard Hobbs. A. W. Tucltcr ■ Thu Dentil Rattle. A correspondent tells this interest ing snake story: “A few days ago I sent two boys to tho spring after wa ter, and in a moment ono of them camo running back 'in great fright, saying that ho saw a stinging rattle snake with rattlers on his head and a horn on his tail, and one-half of the snake' was black and the other half spotted. I went with them to see tho monster, and when wo got thero a black snako about five foot long was swallowing a rattlesnake about 2 1-2 feet long. Tho rattler was rat tling with all bis might, while liis colored brother was swallowing with all his power. We left them, ant' went back in about onhour and both wore dead.”—'Great Divide. « Hobbs & Tucker, ALBANY, GEORGIA.. Buy and sell Exchange; give prompt attention to Collections, and remit for same on day of payment at current rates; receive deposits subject to sight checks, and lend money on approved time papers. Correspondence solicited. WIRE INSURANCE. We represent a good line df ! -ance Companies and write surance on all • - -1