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VOL. t.
ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY si, 1892.
MILE SELECTING
THE QUEST.
-YOUR-
CALL AT THE-
We offer a full line of
Ladies’ and Gents’
I0ILET SLIPPERS !
in Plush, Alligator and
Ouze. A full line of
good and re
liable
'Sloes, Shoes, Shoes <
For the Ladies, Gents
lisses and Children. A1
selected specially for the oc-
" casion.
A full line of Leather Bags
Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc.
at popular prices.
Mct’s City !k Store.
SIGN GOLD BOOT.
Wfi
E. L. WIGHT 5 CO.
WENT MAD IN HI8 CAB.
Aortrtrd had gatherefld* Um market place;
X hath had fallen on the motley throng)
Then one, a stranger youth fall fair of face.
Raised up his Yoioe and seat it forth In song.
'Twas sweet, the lay, and when the end was
eome
The people praised tho minstrel; bade him
/ turn N
The tune again, and some made bold to hum
The dainty atr that was so light to learn.
Triumphant trolled he on, until at length
He, being keen of wit and sharp of eye.
Did see the time was come when victory’s
strength
Was‘at the full, and ceased—as modestly.
A chorus of regret rose as he turned
To pass out on his way. Aud many pressed
Upon him silver, saying, •* ’Tla well earned,”
And cheered him roundly with right royal
seat.
80 through tho city gates he went. And lol
When he had reached the high road, at his
side
He saw a man, white locked, with back bent
low.
Who, nnthleas. trod his measure stride for
stride.
And then it camo to pass, that ere he knew,
The minstrel found him telling, full and free.
The stranger bow his hope was bom and grew
That ho might e’en excel In minstrelsy.
How he .tad longed for praise and found it
sweet, "y i’\ * .
Now it was his, but how his fear would rise
Lest ho might lose it: That, alasl too fleet
Might prove the glory of his fair emprise.
The stranger listened. ”Lad,” at length said
be,
“Your song was sweet—i heard it with tho
rest—
But If on that you build your hope, ’twill be
To see it die, or wither at the best.
**When you have found what art is naught
without.
E’en Inspiration, then will be your lay
Enduring. Aye, and all rbur fear and doubt
Will vanish as tho shadesmt fcriak'of day.”
“But where is Inspiration?”.asked the youth.
“I’ll eeek It far and wide. Or Shall 1 Walt
Until ’tis sent me? Tell me and, in truth.
I’ll strive for it henceforth and prove me
great.”
“No one can tell another where it liee.
Nor how to gain it. Only this I know:
That it woro valu to’wait it—that rare prise.
Best seek it, lad. Aud now adieu! I go.”
80 saying turned he back. The minstrel
pressed
Upon his way. And so for many years
He trod the world ways, eager In his i
Of gaining that which should dispel
Until at last, one day when joyous spring
Was waking up tho world, he stood once
more
And lifted up Ills voice and ’gan to sing
In that same market where he’d suug before.
And now, as then, all tongues were hushed and
still;
The crowd were silent white the minstrel
sang:
But when he finished, lol no cheers did All
The air with echoes. No bravos out rang.
The men stood grave eyed uud tho women
wept,
And then he sang again and straight they
. smiled.
Then trembled as with fear. And so he kept
Them tranced ,gpd.. speechless, ’neath his
magic tnild.
And When ho turned to go they thronged
around
And plead In kiss his robe or touch his hand
In humble adoration. And the ground
His feet hr l trod was reverenced through
the land.
For he had found ”what art is naught with
out,” *
Found It about 1dm, here, there, everywhere.
In field, In meadow where the grasses sprout;
In sea and sky, in water and in air.
Rare tears hod cleared his vision and he saw
Earth’s shine and shadow; knew eartfTs Joy
and dole;
Heard note of birdling and tho bloat of war—
And held humanity within his soul.
—Julie M. Lippmanu in Youth’s Companion.
quest
1 his fears.'
Washington Street, Albany. Ga.
Jus.
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LET’S ME i Bl!
The Barnes Sale and Livery
Stables,
Win. Godwin & Son,
PROPRIETORS.
H is new buggies and the best ot
ho:ses, aud will furnish you a tum
our at very reasonable prices. Ac
commodations for drovers unex
celled. These stables are close to
Hotel Mayo, on Pine street, being
centrally located, and the best
place in town to put up your team.
Call on us for your Sunday turn
outs.
VM. GODWIN &'S0N.
A WIU 114. IW TwIM • Trat.lMd
•f Wnlan fwnfm
Probably one of the most exciting
incidents over known in railroading
was told a reporter by Mr. Julius
Smith, who has returned from a trip
to the northwest. He was in Ta
coma. Wash., for some time on
visit, and on his return started back
on the Oregon Short line. The road
leads along the base of the mountains,
and the passengers were enjoying a
fine view for some distance, and
every thing appeared to be going on
nicely until suddenly it was noticed
that the train was gradually increas
ing in speed until it fairly flow along
the rails. The passenger's began to
get uneasy, but .when they saw the
conductor and brakeman ruBta fran
tically toward the front of the train
they then know that something sen
ous was the matter.
Faster and faster flew the train
until it bounded from side to side at
a fearful rate and the frightened
passengers were thrown about the
cars like so many puppets. Trees
and polos flashed and the train was
going at a clip equal to 100 miles an
hour, while it seemed only a miracle
which kept it on the track. Around
curves it would spin, almost stand
ing the poor victims on their heads,
while they were every minute ex
pecting to be dashed to pieces.
The conductor soon discovered that
the engineer had gone mad. He
stopped for nothing, but flashed past
the stations at lightning speed, and
for a stretch of forty-five miles the
train went so fast that it was impos
sible for the passengers to hold their
seats. The fireman could not bo
seen in the cab and it was determine,
to make all effort to get to the mad
man before he sent the whole train-
load of people to eternity. The con
ductor and brakeman crawled care
fully along the tender and worked
their way into the ongihe .behind the
engineer, who stood with his head
bare and his long hair floating baca
as he gazed ahead, muttering to
himself.
With a blow the madman was laid
on the floor and the conductor shut
off steam and gradually brought the
train to a standstill. The madman
was secured and a dispatch sent
back over the road asking for in
formation regarding the fireman.
It was discovered that at the last
stopping place the engineer had
shoved the fireman from the ei
just as tho train started, and then
put on full steam. The engineer was
always sober and had never shown
any signs of insanity before.—Kansas
City Journal.
Two Hard NuaM.
We may point out the desperate
attempts of our countrymen to get
at the proper utterance of Goethe’s
name. Probably the patronymic of
no great man has been so widely and
so variously miscalled.
Among the varieties are Goaty,
Gweethy, Gooter and even Gutter, to
which mode our less ambitious effort
was lately corrected by a superior
bookseller.
Tho editor of a popular journal
lately gave it out, with perhaps a too
liberal concession to the inflexibility
of the English tongue, as “Gerty."
Tho name of Marie Bashkirtseff is
another verbal rock on which many
a British tongue comes to grief.
Have you Marie Baskt-horself-
Basht-lierself? (almost everything
shortaof Badgered herself) are the
varieties one overhears at the circu
lating libraries.
A young compatriot of tho hapless
heroine gave it to us us Baslikeert-
cheff, with the accent on the second
syllable, which some might find as
difficult to utter as tlio throe sneezes
and "ski” supposed to be typical of
Russian nomenclature. —London Tit-
Bits.
Itay Hum.
Bay rum is manufactured in Do
minica from the dried leaves of Pi
mento acris. Bay rum is procured
by distillation, and this in a very
simple manner. The leaves are
picked from the trees and then dried;
in this state they are placed in the
retort, which is then filled with wa
ter and the process of distillation is
carried on. The vapor is then con
densed in the usual way and forms
what is known as “bay oil,” a very
Wfcjr Inq Mm Am AImU.
Ed New York dty, where the stand
ard of salaries is as high perhaps as
in any American city, it waa recently
shown that of the young men in good
commercial positions 70 per oent
earned <2,000 per year and only 8
per cent, exeoodod $3,800 per year.
Upon these incomes all the. home
comforts of married life are possible,
but only by good management.
Girls with frivolous ideas of life
make failures of such homes, but the
earnest girl can make happy herself,
her husband and her children. Into
these homes our girls are daily going
as wives, and it is apparent that
young fnen must be careful in thoii
choice,
The young men whom our young
women meet in the nicest homes of
our largest cities are those who are
earning the incomes referred to
above. Large revenue are few, and
if by a “desirable" ma/ringo is only
meant tho alliance to young men oi
dazzling salaries, just alxmt one girl
in every thousand will make a “de
sirable'' match. Facts such as these
must be taken into consideration by
the girl of today, and when they are,
it will be more clearly understood
why young men are apt to be fright
ened from anther than attracted ta
tho girl whose chief idea of popular
ity is to be “smart" in her chat and
careless" in her manner. —Edward
W. Bok in Ladies’ Home Journal.
Medicine and Surgery In Japan.
Surgical operations are very suc
cessful in Japan, and the healing
process is rapid, owing probably to
the abstinence of the people from al
cohol and their not being flesh eat
ers. The Japanese are unsusceptible
to scarlet fever, and smallpox, which
was at one time rife among them,
has been checked and almost ex
terminated by voluntary vaccina
tion.
The mortality of Tokio, a vast city
which covers 100 square miles of
ground, is only twenty per 1,000.
The infant mortality is high, owing
to the too early exposure of new
born children. It is not unusual to
see a week-old baby strapped on the
back of a child of about eight, and
sent out to lie jumbled about as its
infant nurse plays and romps with
other children in the street.—London
Hospital.
Scared Burglars by Hit* Voice.
The ventriloquist, Fred Maccabe, has
put his special gift to good use. Retir
ing late one night he tossed about for
some time unable to fall asleep, and
then, healing footsteps down stairs, he
felt’convinced that thieves had got into
the house. Crawling down stealthily
close to where they were at work he,
by means of ventriloquism, began a con
versation aud huHaballooin many voices,
“Here they are! Bring the lights! There
they go! Shoot, shoot them quick!” The j gn iall quantity of which is inquired
whole gaug of burglars thereupon bolted ; for eacll punc lieon of rum. The
ill panic, leaving all their intended plun- , nauu f ao ture of bay rum is carried
der behind. London lit-Bits. on at the n01 . thera c , n(1 of Dominica,
A Sufficient dtcoaiiiiiicndutlon. | P IOTe8 “ VC . 1 ? 1 " Cmti ^? bUS | nC f
Little Dick-Aren't you goin to call | to tho8e ensaged m it, as the plants
on that new neighbor across the street? j a™ Plentiful m this district.-Gar-
Mamma (hesitatingly)—1 don’t know ucn an( * Forest,
anything about her yet.
A Logical Argument.
A man was urged to take a news-
pajter.
I “What is the use of taking it? I
B«oii« Versus Dgiit and Air. -never open it, so I don’t know what’s
Better live in a house without win- 1 in it. What good would it do me?”
dows than in a house without books.— “You take liver pills occasionally,
Ham's Horn. don’t you?”
“Certainly.”
“Do they do you any good?”
“Of course they do.”
“Did you ever open them and find
Little Dick—Oh, she’s all right. She's
the mother of that new hoy I play with. .
—Good Nows.
More than 100,000,000 Chinese, it is
said, are engaged either directly or in
directly in the tea industry.
The Farmer anil the Lawyer,
This story is told of Charles Dick
ens and Mr. Frederick Ouvry, tho
well known solicitor. On one occa
sion, Dickens was in treaty for n
piece of land at the back of God's
Hill, the proposed vendor being nu
old farjner, a keen old man of busi
ness and a hard nut to crock. An
interview was' arranged with him ut
God’s Hill for a certain evening, and
Mr. Ouvry came down for the pur-
poee'of being present when the bar
gain was struck. Dickons and Ouvry
were sitting over their wine when
the old man was announced, “We
had .bettor go in.” said Dickens.
“No, no," said the astute lawyer—
“John” (to the butler), “show him
into the study and take him a bottle
of old port wine.”
Then, turning to Dickens, “A glass
of port will do him no harm; it will
soften him.” After waiting about
twenty ..minutes they went into the
study.. The farmer was sitting holt
Mjprigbt 4n an armchair, stem and
uncompromising; the bottle of .port
had not been touched. The nego
tiations then proceeded very much
in favor of the funner and the bar
gain was struck. With a chuckle
the old man then tamed his attention
to the port and finished the bottle.—
San Francisco Argonaut.
Be llroke Up the Genie.
In public, as well as in private, one
should ever be mindful of the rights
of others. Not long since a clergy
man, accompanied by two young la
dies, was traveling. It was nearing
the hour of midnight, yet they had
not ordered their sleeping berths
made up. Instead, they were indulg
ing hi' a game of words—faying to
see who could think of the most
words that begin with this or that
letter.
They spent half an hour or more
on “A," and then went to “B” with
a freshness that seemed to indicate
that they intended, despite the late
ness of the hour, to go to the end of
the alphabet. At any rate, that was
the impression they gave to the tired
man in the berth opposite, who was
faying in \r \n to sleep.
Presently there came a lull, when
none of tho three seemed able to
think of another B. Tho tired man
took advantage of the lull. Parting
his curtain the least bit of a space,
he shouted:
“And 'bores,' sir—‘bores I’ ’’—Har
per’s Young People.
Niglit Air.
One of the bugbears of oldtime
people is night air, and there is little
exaggeration in saying that tho
superstition against night air has
killed more people than the freo
circulation of it has ever injured.
There is abundance of proof that
night air is injurious to no one. On
the contrary, people who sleep out
doors under tho mere protection of a
tent are the healthiest of all people,
and the practice has largely gained
in popularity of late years, under
wider knowledge of hygiene, for
peoplo in delicate health to go in
camping parties and breatho tho bal
sam of the night air. The vigor
gained from a few weeks of such an
outing is a marked proof that tho
old projudico against night air is as
foolish as most other old wives’
whims.— Denver Sun.
An Xnfllihuiu'i Tvrrllile Ord«nl
RhmI* Dwrlug IEutat.
An Englishman who has resided in
Russia as the director of some iron
works tells a woeful story of his suf
ferings at Easter, when the people
welcome the feast with the old Chris
tian custom of kissing each other.
“For a week beforehand." he says,
“they are busy boiling and painting
eggs, which they are to present tc
one another with a kiBS. The mo
ment the clock strikes 12 the privilege
or penance, as the case may he, com
mences. Nobody then considers him
self insulted by the combined offer oi
a kiss and an egg.
"In a few cases, it may bo con
fesucd, the trouble is a pleasure, but
whou it comes, as it did with me, to
a long line of several hundred work
men—mostly ongnged in charcoal
burning, in the stoking and poking
of fires and chimneys and otliei
deeds of darkness—tho poetical and
sentimental view of tho religious cus
tom is completely shut out and sup
planted by the intolerable annoy
ance.
‘‘One may talk of the Balaklava
charge, tho storming of the Redan
and such exploits; think of the nerve
that waa required to stand my ground
before a bearded and vodka loving
Mujik, with cinders in his beard aud
charcoal dust in tho pores of his
skin, a mail who had been breaking
calcined ore perhaps nil night, and
looked liko tho doubtful progeny of
an African negro or a rod Indian in
bis war pnint.
“Think of my horror of suspense
while one after another a whole regi
ment of such smutty objects shuffled
up to my place, each drawing a dusty
sleeve across his Booty mouth, each
diving to the bottom of his pocket
for the painted egg, each taking off
his hat and calling me down to the
punishment with tho politest of hows,
tho most respeettui of grins, and
when the first hundred had kissed
me 300 times in the aggregate, to
know that another hundred hod to
come after them I
Here were courage and endur
ance worthy of a better cause. But
I should have done wrong to avoid
the courtesy, and very likely should
have deeply offonfled the people, to
whom it was often the expression of
a long cherished feeling of gratitude
for favors which I perhaps knew
nothing of or had long ago forgot
ten."
■ W. WALTERS,
’ ATTORNEY • AT-LAW.
Practice In nil tho Courts of the Albany Cir
cuit, and elsewhere by special contract.
Ofilcu in Ventulett Block, Washington strut.
g R. JTONBft, ~
LAWYER AND REAL ESTATE BROKER.
Local agent Equitnblo Building and Loan Aa-
Boclutlon, Albany, Ga. 1-11-cUw-ly.
C. B. Wooten. W. E. Wooten,
yyOOTEN & WOOTEN, City Attfj.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
OilU’C In Vcntulett’a Block, Washington street.
Albany, Ga. 2-ll-daw-ly.
yy r. jonem.
' ATTOHNEV-AT-LAW.
All bnsinofs promptly and persistently at
tended to.
onicu in Willingham's lllook, Broad street.
Telephone 49.
JUUO UOBVNSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
stroet. Albany, On.
' At DAVIS,
■ rilYSICIAN AND SURUEON.
Onicoovcrll. J. Lamar A Son’s DrugStee
corner Broad and Residence streets. Residen
corner Flint and Jefferson streets.
BONDS FOR SALE.
Wo offer for sale the following bonds of the
city of Albany, Un.;
Bonds to be of the denomination of one thous
and dollars each, and to bear interest from tlw
day of their issuance at the rate of six per
centuip per annum, interest to be paid annually.
Bonds to be fully puld off in twenty-five years
from January 1ft, 1894, and in the following
manlier and amounts, to-wits'
reealiar Business Methods.
The amateur photographer is, even
at this late day, a Bource of wonder
ment to some simple minds. Just
why he should ho going about taking
pictures, if not for hire, is something
beyond thoir comprehension. The
author once photographed a mill in
a country village and sent a copy ot
the picture to the miller.
Next year, on going that way
■gain, ho met the miller’s man, who
expressed his surprise that so much
trouble had been taken without
charge.
The photographer, expecting his
joke to bo understood, said smilingly
in explanation: “It is only because
our business is so very large. We
take so many photographs that we
can afford to do them for nothing."
A look of blank astonishmont over
spread tbo man’s face, and then,
after apparently turning tho subject
over and over in bis mind, he ex
claimed:
“MaiBter, Oi’vo a mind to have
some more pictures took of mysel’
and th’ old missus!”
This was more than tho joker had
bargained for, and ho hurried away
without asking his subjects to sit.—
"Across England in a Dog Cart.”
Olilctit Pieces of Iron in the World,
The oldest pieces of wrought iron
now known to exist are tho sickle
blade found by Belzoni under tho
base of a sphinx in Karnac, near
Thebes; tho blade found by Colbnel
Vyso imbedded in tho mortar of the
great pyramid, and a portion of a
crosscut saw exhumed at Nimrod by
Mr. Layard—all cf which are now in
tho British museum. A wrought
bar of Damascus steel was presented
by King Porus to Alexander tho
Great. This relic of unknown an
tiquity is still preserved at Constan
tinople.—St Louis Republic.
A bright scholar in a Vermont school j what was in them?’
etated ill a composition that doughnuts! That made him shell out the sub-
were first made in Greece. I scription price.—Tessas Siftings.
Tlio investigations that are going
on concerning tho origin of the influ
enza have" led sorno men of seienco to
conclude that a micro-organism or
bacillus of ispjne kind, which lives
and i^'^jimlSed through the air, is
the cause’ qfvthis most troublesome
disease.”''
We : don’t believe that every one
thinlcs.biihself: handsome, but we do
bolievfe'taat every one wishes to be.
Ojtteo over Gilbert’. Drug store, lVutililnfftoia
— ‘" ' 14-iUw-Iy.
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1800,
1807,
1808,
1899,
lOot,
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ltK/2,
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J0U4,
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10(h,
1900,
1910,
19U,
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191ft,
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1917,
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K.N.Uf.AKK,
WM. Lookkyt,
Mohhio Wjchloiky,
f i.mnco Committee-.
Ol-TlUAL STATEMENT,
Purpose of Inhuo: For ..Waterworks and H
•Sewerage.
Total amount of Ituue: One hundred thona- -
Hand doliare.
Maturity: Four thousand dollars annually ”
for twenty-five years, beginning Jan. K, 1994-
Rate: Six por centum, payable annually*
Principal and interest, whero payableu AC-;
the Mercantile National Bank, New York.
Issued under witat authority: Act
August, mb, 1889. Section <9 of Revir
City ot Albany,Ga* adopted March9
Vote: Election held April 19th, 1699. Four
hundred and eighteen votes cast for bonds, and.
two votes against bonds.
Assessed valuation ot property for taxation*
for years 1889, 1890, 1891, showing relative in—
crease: 1889, $1,988^08; 1890, $2,271,169; 1891 r ,
$2,461,480.
Bute of taxation: Seven-tenths of one per*
cunt.
RESOURCES;
From taxation .. v $17,900*
.From licenses 8,000
Othecsonroes 4jJOO»
Total .$80J)00
Estimated revenue to bo derived from
waterworks $ 8JKJ0
Total .$88,000 *
Current expenses $20,000 •
Surplus $18,000*.
This U the only bonded indebtedness of the-s
city.
ao floating indebtedness.
Population: Between fi,000 and 6,000.
I hereby certify that thu foregoing statement
is true and correct to tlie best of my knowledge
and belief.
[Signed.) W. II. Uimikrt, Mayor.
Attest: Y. C. Ui'HT, Clerk.
SEALED BIDS.
Bids for the uforestuted bonds will bo re
ceived up to June ls.,.J892, at 12 o’clock noon
for tho whole Issue or any part thereof.
The City Council reserves the right to reject
uny or all bids.
Mayor and Council,
•f Of City of Albany, Georgia.
CITY TAXES.
Digest Nov Open for Return of Taxes.
Notice is hereby given that the City Tax
Digest is now open and that 1 am ready to re
ceive citv tax returns for the year 1892, at my
olllce in ’the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany’s ofllce on Broad street. •
uiiK-tf V. C. RUST, Citv Clerk,
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Richard llohbs.
A. W. Tucker.
Kngluiul Muy IIuvo Been it Dead Sea.
The borders of the Dead Bea are
now extensivo salt pans, and the
water is not so denso as tlio Droit-
wicli, England, brine. The fow mol
lusca that arc found correspond with ,
the brackfish shells of recent salt!
lakes, while tho ripple marks per- 1 T3n
potuated in tho lower flagstones in-
dicato tho near influence of tho sea
tides on an expanse of muddy coast
adapted for wading and estuary-hunt
ing animals.—Gentleman’s Magazine.
Tho Pioneer Driver of 18-13.
Henry Ilowitt, of Wheatland, a
pioneer of 18-13, claims the honor of
having driven tho first wagon down
tho western slope of tho Blue moun
tains, and the second that reached
Tho Dalles. It was in November of
that year, the exact date he does not
remember, but thoy reached Oregon
City on the Bth.— Portland Orego-
niflTU
Hobbs & Tucker,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Buy and sell Exchange; give prompt
attention to Collections, and remit ior
same on day of payment at current
rates; receive deposits subject to sight
checks, and lend money on approved ;
time papers. Correspondence solicited.
FIRE IIVSUBAIVCE.
We .represent a good line, of Insur-'
ance Companies and write in
surance on all properties.