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liAY, MAY 91, 1889.
LASTweek, peaches sold In New
York for $1.50 apiece. Home Florida
trait grower ought to make a fortune.
'' 1 Jr'W authoritatively annnnncod that “Ward
NoAllUter wa* horn (n Oenrala.* It la n little
hardoHOeoraia.hut*heinny anaver that ahe
ooilld not help It.—CldonRii Intor Ocean.
1 Northern papera have, at least, one
good quality—they are willing to give
the devil his due. No, Georgia aould
not help lilp being born within her
boundaries. Hhe shook him olear of
, ...,i t her sklrta as soon aa possible, however,
and lays no claim to him as a Georgian.
1 Tim Democratic Club of Dougherty
county held Its regular meetlng.last
night and adopted another campaign
document whloh will soon be circu
lated throughout the Second Congren.
alonat district. A resolution was also
adopted to invite lion. O. B. Stevens to
visit Albany and address the'people of
Albany on the issues of the day. Mr.
B. L. Weston was appointed to tor
ward the Invitation to Mr. Stevens, '
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'•ni.iarra or ni tunv
After printing two editorials, re
vamped from the Btevetis organs of
the' Second district^ censuring the
Democratic Executive Committee of
this district for something that It had
not done, and giving currenoy to the
it char
silly and unjust charge that the com
mittee had proscribed from participa
tion In the primaries Democrats who
were favorable to the demands of the
.Ocala platform, the Atlanta Constitu
tion now graoiously "relieves the Ex
ecutive Committee of that district of
thgt,charge.” In yesterday’s Consti
tution we And the following:
Our nttontinii Is ended U» the following test*
«MUl>JI«lied by the iHnnoenitle Kxeontlve Com*
mltlvo of the Meeoml CongroMlotml (listriot, to
govern the (trinuriee now bclrfg held in that
divtiiet:
It dim »1 vet I, Thnt the teat for a voter at the
‘In thU district tic that
Demooratlo primaries
wfian
the voter# wfien clmlleiijml* shall swear that lie
in good fititliv The r ‘
accepts, in good faith. The tilnlhirm <if|irlnct-
Jili*- f,111,111i’i 1 Uy the NiUi.mnl lleinucrutlc Cun*
venhon nt rtdcnjrn, tnul thnt the Sntli.mil Item-
norntlo platform iidupied nt Chicago be the trite
tile til.
tent of Itetnoernoy.
Thin, uf countc, ndleveit the Executive Com
mittee of thul illetrict of the elmrsu thnt It linn
liriMcrlbcil (non |iurtlcl|intton In the primnrlcn
licinncrntn who are fnvornlilu to the Oculn
pltdform. Only In the Eleventh illntrlet loin
thin liven done, ntol only in one county In thnt
dlntrlot, *n far ns we know—Coffee comity.
We are glad to know that such n tent hnn not
Iweiientnbllnhed in tlm Hooond illntrlet, an wim
reported. It In-undcmnorntlc.
The Constitution had its “attention
called'’ to the faot that it had placed
the Executive Committee of the Sec
ond dlntrlot In a false light by tlic
Tnx World’s Fair Exposition will go
begging for funds shortly If Congress
. does not grant the $6,000,000 naked for.
It seetnn atrango that Congress would
ba Willing to grant $80,000,000 on the
river and harbor bill for tho purpose
of Increasing trade and dally so long
St
over this $5,000,000 that will result in
bringing more trade and enterprise
Into tho oountry than a doxen such
(.harbor appropriations.
Alabama,
CONGRESSMAN OATXS, of
..-made a speech at Duthau, the other
day,and in It he paid this high oom-
• pllment to Hou. II. G. Turner: “There
Is but one man In Congress, with
’Whom I would swap records, and that
la my friend, Turner, over the river, In
theBeoond Georgia district. I have
been In Congress twelve years, and
there Is but twu votes that I would re-
oall. Turner has noue to wish to re
call. lie never makes n mistake.”
Herald a week ago, and at the same
time the teat established by the com
mittee to govern the primaries was
reproduced for the especial informa
tion of that esteemed contemporary
and Chairman Atkinson, of the Slate
Executive Committee, who, taking his
euo from the Constitution, doubtless,
had also felt called upon to leoture our
district Executive Committee.
While the Constitution has been a
little tardy In relieving the Executive
Committee of tills district of the un
just charge It helped to olroulate, It is
better late than never. Its two edito
rials giving oredenoe to this false
charge and censuring our Executive
Committee for something of whloh It
had not been guilty, have been repro
duced In all the Stevens organs of the
district. Now will these papers be
fair enough to reproduce the nbove
correction? We will see.
—
It will be necessary to do something
imiore than legislate to keep his lord-
n ship, the heathen Chinee, out of Amer-
-Ica. The Indianapolis News sayBt
-“The Influx of Chinese to British Col
umbia Is assuming large proportions.
The majority of the new arrivals, after
paying the Douitulon poll-tax of $60
per head, disappear and are smuggled
across tho line Into the United States.
The revenue collected of the Canndtan
- .government from Chinese Immigrants
:resched $18,000 during tho past month,"
According to the returns to the
Federal Department of Agrfoulture,
ootton planting has been delayed by
unfavorable weather, and on Mny 1
only'78.8 per cent, of the intended area
had been planted up to that time. The
report states that 80 per nent. of the
crop Is usually planted by the 15th of
May) but its estimates a year ago was
only 77.5 per cent, and the yield turn
ed out to be the largest on record. The
Government’s estimate of the acreage
in cotton, whloh is the point of great.
Really, It begins tolaok like pur
oountry, after the lapse of more than
a quarter of a century since its armies
did any lighting, is going to be mined
by the pensions paid to Union soldiers.
The figures are startling now, and If
the demands of the ambitious young
Third Party with reference to pen
sions should receive the sanotlon of
Congress the oountry would be effec
tually bankrupted.
In an exoetlent article on the cost of
pensions, the Philadelphia Record well
says that It la several years since the
pension Hat of the nation oeaaed to be
a roll of honor, and became associated
In the minds of the people with an or
ganised system of papladllng and
legalised brigandage. The era of de
moralisation began with the passage
of the arrears of pensions bill in 1878.
tin that year the pension applications
numbered 18,819. Under the stimulus
of the arrears aot they rose In 1880 to
141,448. The law expired by limita
tion on July 1,1880) and In 1881 the
number of applications fell to 18,446.
The veterans bad merely aooepted the
Invitation of careless or venal legisla
tors to loot the public treasury; and
ever since they have been favored with
many suoh opportunities. The people
do not blame them, but rather the sys
tem under which pensions have be
come practically the rowards of un
swerving political allegiance. v In the
meantime the experts in and out uf
Congress wrangle unceasingly over
the Increased amount of pension ex
penditure; which Is prevented from
expanding to an appalling sum only
by the snail-like progress made in
considering and adjudicating the
olalms of the vast army that Is still
unpenstoned. Secretary Noble has
asked for $147,000,000 for pensions for
the next fiscal year. East year $118,-
500.000 was required for this purpose.
There Is reported a defloienoy of $7,-
074,889 for the current fiscal year; and
It Is likely thnt we shall pay out for
pensions within a few yenro nearly 50
per oent. of the entire national expen
ditures,
Representative Tucker, of Virginia,
has been digging into the budgets of
the leading European nations to And
out, If possible, what these countries
of advanced civilization spend on war
equipment and pensions; and some of
the figures disclosed furnish a start
ling and instructive comparison with
the practice In this country. Great
Britain’s standing army of 189,000 tnen
costa pnnually $81,000,000; Franoe
•pends $191,000,000 a. year on- 699,000
men; Germany’s standing army of
445.000 men costs $85,000,000 yearly;
Russia has 780,000 men, coating $196,-
000,000; Austria, with 984,000 men, ex-
The Democrats of Fq|$on county
met on Saturday to elect delegates to
the State ’Convention whloh meets on
next Wednesday to Meet delegatee to
the National Convention at Chleago.
Judging by the reports that are
printed In' the Atlanta papers, the
meeting was more like a Republican
pow-wow than a Demooratlo conven
tion, and waa anything but oredltable
to the Democracy of the Capital Glty.
A compromise, between the Hill and
Cleveland factions bad been previously
agreed' upon, but It seems that the
Olevelandltea found themselves in tbe
majority when tbe crowd gathered,
and proceeded to take control of the
meeting and elect straightout pro
nounced Cleveland delegates over tbe
protests of the Hill men.
After the Cleveland crowd had car
ried everything Its own way and ad
journed In great eonfuslon, the Hill
faction and some of tbe Clerelandites
who were willing to keep faith with
those who had agreed upon a compro
mise ticket, organised and elected
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a* msdiss r
At the convention of Northern
Methodists, in Omaha, last week, a pe
tition waa introduced which had for
its object the expunging from the
ohuroh discipline that section which
prononncea dancing as not In accord
ance with religious principles.
The MetbodlstB have alwayB took a
very strong stand on this question,
and the striking out of this section'
from their'ohuroh-discipline, scores
one for the liberal-minded people.
Youngsters demand a recognition
and they refuse to admit that light
hearts and danolng feet are an indica
tion of empty heads.
The New York Herald takes the
side of the coming generation, and
argues that there is no reason why re
ligion should be either sombre or
gloomy. It Is not heterodox to In
dulge in jolly laughter nor to allow
your feet to slip gayly over the floor.
The result of the discussion in the
Omaha convention will be watched
with considerable Interest.
To-day waa a scorcher I
So waa yesterday, and so to-morrow
,
bids fair to be. j
How many times have yon said to?
day, “Isn’t this hot weather I” How
meny time* have you been asked the
question, “Is this hot enough for yonf"
The weather is always a fruitful
topio of conversation, anyhow. No
other topio oould have been so con
stantly referred to for tbe laat ISufjj
years without becoming stale.
People discussed tl» weather before
Christ.was born; they talked about It
in Mark's time. Weather-wise fofks
ns-t their eyes at tbe skies and won
dered If it ever would atop raining,
aa they do now-a-days-ponly now they
wonder if it ever will rain
I
discussed the
another delegation with alx Hill men
anil six Cleveland men on It.
Tbe result will bo that two delega
tions from Fulton oounty will ask
recognition at the State Convention
on Wednesday.
THR DKVII, TO PAV.
Democrats
salute you.
of Glynn oounty, we
Atlanta’s Cleveland and Hill com
promise didn’t work. The rabble was
too strong;
Tiir McKinley way of cheapening
things, including even the necessaries
of life, Is to tax them.
Evkn with the Alliance almost solid
for him, Candidate Stevens is finding
the road to Congress “a hard road to
travel.”
Sxnatou Zkh Vancx is lying seri
ously III at his home near Asheville
N. C. Ills relatives have been sum
moned to his bedside.
Tuhnkr carried Glynn county over
Judge Atkinson by a majority of 940
in the primary on Saturday. Judge
Atkinson stood on the Ocala platform.
Now that his own oounty has de-
The origin of the phrase, “the devil
to pay,” Is coming In for disousslon In
some of our exchanges just now, and
some clever fellow has offered the fol
lowing Ingenious account of It: i
The phrase in question doubtless
originated, says he,In a printing office
on the occasion of the Saturday night's
settlement of weekly accounts. The
publisher, with scanty purse, receives
the ominous call of the foreman
When the publisher settles up one ac
count after another, and at length de
clares, ‘-That’s the last cent,” the fore
man exclaims: “But you’ve forgot—
there’s th8 devil to pay.”
The learned Augusta Chronicle pro
nounces this quite n plausible theory,
but suggests that a more literary, if
not more satisfactory origin of the
phrase may be found In Thomas
Moore's couplet on a cast of Sheri-,
dan’s hand—
Good nt n light, hut hotter nt plnv,
God-llko In giving, but tho dovit to pay.
olared against him and his Ocala plat
form, the Brunswick Times advises
Judge Atkinson to withdraw from the
Congressional race.
EniToit Orubr, of the Darien Ga
zette, is one of the best paragraphers
in the State. He has a happy knack
for boiling things down; and there is
an Idea In every sentenpo of the mat
ter he prints;
Tnx
but
est Interest tills season, will be triads
Ex-Srnator John Jamxs Ingalls,
-delegate-at-large from Kansas, Is the
, Administration candidate for perma-
i -nent chairman of the Minneapolis
'Convention, and ex-Colleotor Jacob
Sloat Fassett, of Now York, Is the
nntl-Adinlniatratiou candidate, or, at
least, Platt’s candidate, whom the
' other antl-Harrlsim leaders are likely
to take up. Ingalls la seleoted, It Is
said, In spite of former differences
with the Administration, because he
is now on friendly terms with Presi
dent Harrison, favors him in prefer
ence to the other candidates, and Is
the ablest and fairest presiding officer
who will be at the convention.
on June 1; but the May report gives a
preliminary foreunat which points to a
decrease of 18.8 per cent. It is too
early aa yet for definite information
oil this subject, and the results In
previous years have been so greatly at
variance with the early foresltodow-
ings of the crop statisticians that but
little dependence is now placed upon
the April data as a guide to the Anal
out-turn of ootton.
punds annually $49,000,000, or
$9,000,000 more than the oust of the
United States army of a paltry 90,000
men.
Father of Waters Is giving
trouble along Its banks. It seems bent
on sweeping everything within ten
miles of Its banks through parts of
Louisiana and Mississippi into the
Gulf of Mexico.
This is good news which reaobes us
from Germany: Col. Murpliy has suc
ceeded In inducing the Emperor to eat
a dodger made of American corn meal,
and our meal Is now to be used in the
German army. German millers are
ordering machinery for grinding
maize. If Col. Murphy has created
demand for our great product abroad
he has done more work than all the
Ministers and Consuls sent out by the
Harrison admtnstratlon. Some brainy
Georgians have flourished on hoe-
cake.
Christ’s disciples
weather question and mode mistakes
in forecasting storms, just as our
weather prophets do now. For dldn 1
they get caught out in a gale ouce that
threatened destruction to the party?
Man is privileged to disouss the
momentous question of a rise or fall in
the thermometer or Darometer. It Is
our right, given to man with tho ore-
ation of Adam, handed down through
the intervening ages, and no man shall
gainsay the privilege.
So talk about $he weather, rail at It
if it does not suit you, give it a good,'
old-fashioned blessing-out If It gets
too uncomfortable, and relieve your
feelings by trying to make your
neighbor think that it is worse thaw'
it is.
The weather oan stand it, for of all
hard-headed, seir-willed,do-as-I-please
things, that will continue In a course
of action known to be emphatically
disapproved of, and generally detri
mental to all human and humane in
terests, recommend to us the weather.
It is the essenoe of contrariness and
conceit boiled down.
It can exhibit more brass in utterl;
disregarding all importunings nn
modest petitions than the most un
grateful newly-eleoted member of Con
gress that ever lived. And It will
keep on the even tenor of its way with
a smiling, joyous front that exasper
ates nearly to madness.
Oh, for a wise, far-seeing weather
clerk to dispense the weather In -just
suoh packages as meet publio approval,
and marked hot, cold, stormy or olear
to suit individual demands.
n- f T
Muimmj- la Albauf.
To the Editor of the HERALD.
To a
When pension lists are compared
Thn functions and powers of politi
cal party exeoutive committees, and
the relative authority whloh they
have, or are presumed to have, over
eaoh other, and wbioh, In turn, they
exercise over their respeotlve constit
uencies, are being brought under
serious consideration by differences
that have arisen between Democrats
functions and
Chicago has a musical prodigy In
the person of little Ella Breidt, a U-
jrear-old daughter of a German fam
ily. Seated upon a high piano stool,
-over tbe edge of which her tiny feet
■acaroely showed, she played aweet
auualo to a large gathering of must-
•clans and music loving people a few
.eveuluga ago. The programme was
; -composed of selections from Moiart,
-Beethoven and many other famous old
masters, and these she performed in a
.wanner whloh was marvelous, consld-
-orlng her age. In addition to being
.an infant pianist, she is also a com
poser, and alte played two little gems
of her own composition, a birthday
greeting and an impromptu.
Among the many ludicrous personal
notices published in the New York
Herald, the following recently ap
peared :
-A Southern young mail, well cdm-tited. ro-
fliie.t highly cultliri-il ami of the best sooinl
standing, would many a lady of menus; ear-
t-e*|>oodence solicited. Address Sontlionicr
I’ost Office ho.\ .*•<>. \ages'.a, da.”
What is the matter with Augusta
..young ladies? Are there no eligible
parties omvng them? We extend our
heart, felt sympathies to a young man
who is forced to the extremity of nd-
. veriising for a wife to cheer him oil
bis lonely way through life. And lie,,, . ,
-lie 11 B° with executive
, puts the question so modestly, too
In the State. The
powers ot our Demooratlo committees,
relatively and severally, are coming up
for disousslon throughout the Second
Congressional dlatrlot, and increased
interest in the subject will be develop
ed by the correspondence between
Hon. O. B. Stevens and Col. C. B.
Wooten, the two opposing candidates
for Congress, whose letters are pub
lished elsewhere in tbe Hrrald. The
subject ia one upon wliloh we are all
entitled to our own opinions and Upon
whloh there will, of course, be diverse
opinions. As the Hkrald under
stands Democratic party polity, every
exeoutive committee, National, State,
Dlatrlot and Couuty, is n power unto
Itself, and lias distinctive and conclu
sive control over the affairs properly
coming within its jurisdiction. Rel
atively speaking, no committee, sim
ply because its provincial duties lie In
a higher sphere of our politieni sys
tem, has any authority over another.
In other words, the State Committee
has no control or authority overtt dis
trict committee, nor a district com
mittee over a county committee, mit-
I side of or beyond what! may be termed
j advisory. One committee occupying a
j higher position in our political system
than another can advise and rceom-
■ mend, but its rulings or decrees enn-
I not be properly construed as m.-tnda-
t tory. Discretionary powers necessar-
■uithority, and
the disparity becomes still more glar
ing. Last year the United States paid
for pensions nearly $60,000,900 in ex-
oeaaof the pension Hats of all the
aountrles above named. Great Britain
paid for pensions in 1801 about $97,-
000,000; Franoe, $99,000,000; Germany,
$18,000,000; Russia, $18,000,000, and
Austria, $19,000,000. In these coun
tries the sums paid for pensions are
not 0 per oent. of the total expenses
for govermental purposes; in the
United States It was 88 per cent- last
year, and will be 40 per cent, next
year. These figures are suggestive;
yet no one on either side In Congress
appears to have the courage to apply
the knife to tho -colossal pension
•buses that mail sooner or later be ex
tirpated.
Thk disgraceful wrangle whloh the
Democrats of Fulton county had in
their mass meeting on Saturday, re
sulting In the election of two delega
tions to the State Convention which
meets on Wednesday, was the legiti
mate outcome of the very unwise, im
politic and undemocratic policy that
has been .pursued by the Constitution
and the Journal in their rivalry as ad.
vocatea, respectively, of Hill and
Cleveland. It is to be hoped that the
foolish rivalry of the two Atlanta
papers will not be allowed to assert
Itself In the State Convention on
Wed nesday;
Australia wants 195,000 square feet
at the World’s Fair, and she promises
an astonishing and unique exhibit..
Let her have twice that apace if she
asks for It. Australia is our dearest
sister, should be, at any rate, for
next to America, ahe is the moat
promising country of the globe.
Bellamy says ahe la the future
country of the earth, though we
are not quite willing to accord Iter thnt
honor. We do say, however, that she
should have all the apace desired at
Chicago for *93.
REfHKSKNTATirK Sayrxs, of Texas,
in extenuation of the large aggregate
of the appropriation bills passed by
the House, shows that $60,000,000 re.
quired for tlic payment of additional
pensions and subsidies are n legacy
from the Billion Congress. The laws
authorizing these expenditures cannot
bo repealed as long as the Senate re
mains in the control i)f the opposition,
and lienee tho money must be provided
ns a matter of necessity, not choice.
On Saturday tbe Ohilds-Drexel Home
for Aged Union Printers, at Colorado
Springs, was dedioated in the presence
of an immense crovvd of people, of
whom fully two-thirds were printers.
Messrs. George' W. Childs, of the Phil
adelphia Ledger, and Anthony Drexel,
a prominent banker' of Philadelphia,
•re the foremost patrons of tbe enter
prise, aud the Rome was dedicated on
the 08d anniversary of the birthday of
Mr. Childs. The Home ia located
about one ntlle from Colorado Springs
and ia constructed of white lava stone,
with red sandstone trimmings. The
style Is Renaissance and the construc
tion cost $60,000. The Home la four
stories in height and 144 feet front,
with a depth of 40 feet. It has three
towers, with baleonies extending
along both sides and on every story.
Thomas county Democrats held a
big meeting yesterday, and the Alli-
Tiik Indianapolis News prints the
following interesting item of news:
“An Englishman is experimenting
with a scheme which, if perfected, will
’ prevent the rolling of Steamships. II is
idea is that a self-adjusting weight
[’will preserve the poise of the vessel.
I He lias- made experiments which re-
) stilted satisfactorily, the resistance be-
■ “would marry a lady of means.” There eTer 7 executive committee.can call and j j found sufficient to reduce the roll
. . .... ... its own im>4»fin<rc cmiron. . . ...
ing motion materially. Should i-t be
is no brashness about thnt youth. n<! |regulate its own meeting;
' tea- not demand iliings with the 1 ,ums °f P*'mane* as maj seem best foun( | p OSS inie to control the motion of
[galliot-beaded impetuosity of youth. su . ltc . ° le c 'j lu 1 'P 115 °' ),aln j large vessels, one of tbe great draw-
lie just quietjy and' coolly remarks !" 1 11,1 le n* 111 3 » ‘ts jurisdiction, j ], n0 ^ s t0 ocean travel would he, gotten
bat “Barkis is: v» tilin’,”-provided the 1 About fiajjto’ \ytrth of
l)y lias means,' Vto wish him sue-1 went up in smoke at Jacksonville on
) in his projeot. 1 Sunday.
property rid of.” The traveling public will
oall down blessings ou tbe head of
that man <f blsexperlment succeeds.
ance was in the saddle. Stevens was
unanimously Indorsed for Congress,
resolutions condemning the action of
the district Executive Committee were
adopted, and the meeting took a wide
range. Even the World’s Fair came
in for a resolution with reference to
having the show closed on Sunday,
and the resolutions adopted on va
rious candidates and subjects take up
three columns in the Thomusville pa
pers. They even jumped on that gal
lant old veteran and tried and true
Democrat, Cant. John Triplett, by
electing parson Jim Eus’iin to take
liis place on the district Executive
Committee. To one who knows the
people of Thomas, it is very apparent,
from reading the report of the pro
ceedings, that the Alliance lias every
thing its envn way down there, and
that the local place hunters have all
fallen into line with them and are vie-
ing with each other in nets and words
of toadyism as nearly up toward the
head of the procession as tuey can get
in the soramble.
stranger it is the quietest of
quiet places. The congregations at
the churches are not large, hut the
population are away from the public
streets. '-
At night the churches arc better at
tended tlinn at noon. What a mixed
population thetown has got, to bo sure!
Last night, during the hours of divine
service, right across from the Baptist
church, the parlors and linlls of a Jew
ish residence were aflame with light.
In the church the anthems of praise to
God were being said and sung. Across
the street, the giddy danoe, “Hands all
round,” “Change corners I” made the
welkin ring.
Do these people observe a Sabbath?
They do not observe the Christian
Sabbath, and have none of their own.
They pretend to call Saturday their
Sabbath, but their shops on that day
are always open. To a stranger it
looks as if they might observe the rule,
“When you are in Rome, do as Rome
does.”
A Stranger from Chicago.
Albany, Ga, May 16.
Our old young friend and former
townsman, John C. Lehman, now a
Death at aa lafaal.
Tile remains of tbe infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. II. C. Odom, of Leesburg,
were interred in the Oakvlew ceme
tery at Albany Monday afternoon at 4
o’clock.
The funeral party were met at the
afternoon train by the Rev. E. B. Car-
roll aud mnny friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Odom.
This is the second child of Mr. and
Mrs. Odom that lias died within a
year, and their many friends in Alba
ny and Leesburg, sympathize deeply
with them in their bereavement.
prominent and prosperous clt’zen of
Brunswlok, took an active part in the
Turner-Atkinson contest In Glynn
oounty, and Is among those who are
entitled to congratulations upon the
result of the primary election on Sat
urday. He was the challenger at the
polls for the Turner side, and waa “in
the thick of the tight.” John received
his early training in the sohool of
politics in Dougherty county, and is a
hustler. He always hustles on the
Democratic side, too.
In the cellar under Morris Mayer’s
establishment there is a contrivance
that furnishes unbounded amusement
for the clerks, but almost terrifies the
life out of those who arc daily victim
ized by it. The machine owes its
origin to the fertile imagination of
51 r. J. Loreh. The cellar i8 pretty
dark, and just as some unsuspecting
darky enters and gets to the bottom of
the stairs, his knees begin to shake
and his hair to rise, for just in front of
him, dimly distinguishable in the
light -of a low-burning lamp, is a
shrouded corpse, slowly swinging to
and fro in a coffin. There is generally
a territioii shriek or two, accompanied
by an impromptu call for mercy, and
an ashy-faced Negro eotnes up the cel
lar stairs three steps at a time. One
Aa Alkaalaa Rf«a«red.
On Saturday evening Mr. Ed
Jones received a communication from
Mr. L. W. Haskell, President of the
Military Agricultural College, of Cuth-
bert, inviting him to deliver an ad-
.J
dress during commencement exerclseai^
of '
before the leading literary society i
the college.
Mr. Jones, after giving the matter
some consideration consented, and, on
the evening of the 80th of May, will
deliver an address on the subjeot of
“Drifting.”
Albany la proud to send one of her
sons to deliver a commencement ad
dress at any of the Georgia oolleges,
and espeolally pleasethtosend one who
will so gallantly upholdlhe reputation
that our city has for produolng men of
unusual mental ability.
Tbe society and Mr. Jones both have
the congratulations of ’the Herald.
■aid tm Uw Ham.
Alderman Cassidy, a direct descend
ant of Brin, and Citizen M. Crine, a
native of the Fatherland, were looking
at a job lot of brlerwood pipes in
Mayor Gilbert's drug store Monday.
Picking up one with a broad Imita
tion amber mouthpiece, Mr. Crine
oommended It to Mr. Cassidy’s favor
with the remark, “Take this one; It
would Just suit an Irishman.”
“No,” replied Tammuny, “the stem
is too short and big; it would suit a
Dutchman better.”
“No, by gum, it wouldn’t do for a
Dutchman—he couldn’t keep his nose
out of it.”
And then they laughed and went-
round the corner to “see a man.”
old fellow, who lind to walk, with a
stick, when lie saw the dread appari
tion, forgot bis lameness, and from the
strength of-his voice and thengility
wltlt which he mounted rhe steps, one
would have thought be hud discovered
the elixir of life.
mimnarr at Itnnil.
Summer is upon us.
'Tis not the weatlier^hat indicates,
’tis not the nesting of the birds. (Do
birds nest in the summer?) Anyhow,
summer is close at hand, for Albany
has again come back to its hot weather
custom of closing stores at 6 o’clook.
And now, for the next three months,
the clerk may have eacli evening for
his own, to_ spend in the bosom of his
family or with his best girl.
As, at a few minutes after 6 o’clock,
lie wends his weary way homeward, he /
may have tile extremely, pleasant an
ticipation of taking his time to read
the Evening. Herald without being
harassed by fear of reaching the store
behind time. _
Yes,“summer is here.
—The' refrigerators will now begin
to gorge themselves upcc i:c, while
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