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ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, .JUNE 18, 1892
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TOILET SLIPPERS !
r in Plush, Alligator and
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hou, Shoes, Shoes 1
1 iouel'u uuruau iruiu mu luuny ucigub iu iud
vast round rliiK of tho world;
A throng of vessels on tho sea their white softs
bad unfurled!
With wide wings glittering in tho light, east,
west, north, south they flow,,
Tho breeze Bent each upon its way across tho
levol blue.
Musing 1 marked their beauty and thought of
thoir varied use,
From the sprit sailed Asher’s little voyage to
tho whaler’s arctic cruise.
From tho pationt coaster’s canvas to the mighty
column of white
That clothes the groat ship proudly to tho top
of her stately height.
Four masted schooners ponderous, with acres
of sailcloth stout.
Great fans of yachts spread wide to catch all
wiuds that stir about;
Such press of sail from stem to stern, from
deck to topmast tall,
They skyward yearn and hardly seem to touch
the tldo at all.
The lateen sails of southern seas, curved like
the pinions light • „
Of soar!tig gulls, and then the folds of raiment
glowing bright
With which fair Venico drapes her musts in
colors rich and deep.
To woo soft Adriatjo airs that in the stillness
sleep.
And it seemed a wonderful thing to me that all
tho countless sails,
A web unfurled round the whole world to
capture all Its gales.
Should spring from out of tho dusty curth-
that the cotton plant should grow,
Blossoming golden o’er myriad Holds, to scat
ter its flluiy snow
From the ripe'hlaok seed in « dazzling cloud,
to bo gathered and woven and spun
For tho ueo of muu in every ouo of the uutions
under the sun.
I said as I watched the white winged fleet,
“There Is nothing large dr small.
The poppy seed 1 can hardly sco is as great as
tho earth’s huge ball,
For tho spirit of God is everywhere, and tho
life of all is one.
From the wing of tho gnat and tho breath of
tho rose to the central fires of the sun/*
—Colla Thaxtcr in Youth’s Companion.
For the Ladies, Gents,
isses and Children. All
; selected specially for the oc
casion.
A full line of Leather Bags,
, Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc,,
at popular prices.
rlich’s City Shoe Store.
SIGN GOLD BOOT.
A drummer who hud just como
I castfrom tho Pacific slope stud that
* Common Receptacles. ,
Secondhand barrels play a more j n ^ Portland, Or.;» the day before he
left for home, the city wtw thrown
i ’'E. L WIGHT X GO.
FI DUE AG’TS.
Washington Stmt, Albany, St,
Laborers In Alaska.
The workingman need not com
plain in Alaska. Three dollars a
day, with hoard and lodging pro
vided by his omployorb, are miner's
wages, Indian workmen in the mines
receive two dollars a day and "find
themselves. Tho cost of provisions
adds a dollar a day tor each white
employee to the expenses of the min
ing company, and with these items
in the- operating expenses, any frac-
tlonQ of dividends sufficiently prove
the richness of tho mines. Hydraulic
mining begins in May and lasts until
October; and unless they are situ
ated in suowchoked .canyons, diffi
cult of access, the quartz mills can
run all tho year round. The great
Treadwell mill 011 Douglas island
thunders night and day, winter and
summer, grinding out ,,iu twelve
months >709,706.80—sufficient answer
to all that has been said' against
Alaska’s being or becoming a greet'
mining country,—Harper's Weekly.
Wu|C«, of New, York Waller..
Eighteen or twenty years ago wait
ers iu down town luncheon houses
were paid sixteen dollars a week.
Now the receipts are no less, but tho
wages from the proprietors are only
four or five dollars a week. Tho
public makes up the difference.
This illustrates the growth of the
tipping system. When sixteen dol
lars was the waiters' wage there were
no tips. In those days when you ate
luncheon you paid for it. Now you
pay tho waiter’s hire as well os your
bill. It is an odd fact that while the
prices on the bills of fare have not
materially decreased and the restau
rant keeper has been relieved by his
customers of a large item in his ex
penses, the business is no more profit
able than it used to be, probably be-
causo of tho increase of rents.—New
York Herald.
LET’S ME A
The Barnes Sale and Livery
Stables,
Wm. Godwin & Son,
PROPRIETORS.
H is new buggies and the best ol
horses, and will furnish you a turn
out at very reasonable prices. Ac
commodations for drovers unex-
% celled. These stables are close to
f 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 & SON.
Objected to Their Confirmation.
A good story was told the other
day at luncheon by the bishop of
Marlborough. He was, he said, about
to administer tho rite of confirma
tion in a rural palish, ut which many
boys and girls presented themselves,
but only two were adults, males. As
they were advancing up the aisle, the
bishop found himself being nudged
in the side by one of the boys. Tak
ing no notice at first, as the nudges
became more frequent, he said, in an
aside,“What i8it I myboyl” “Surely,
my lord,” he said, 1 ‘you are not going
to confirm these men; why one’s the
Punch and Judy man and the other
is his pal.”—Kensington Society.
Doing the Sights.
First Yankee—You say you saw
everything in Rome in three days?
That's impossible.
Second Yankee—But you must re
member that there were three of us.
My wife took all the churches, I vis
ited all the picture galleries and my
son went for the restaurants and
cafes. Then we met in the evening
and exchanged experiences. — Ex
change.
Street Numbers in London.
It is puzzling to he told in London
that you can get what you are look
ing for in a store “just down the
road,” and then to find that the
numbers go up on one side of the
street and down on the other, as in
Tottenham Court road, for instance.
—New York Sun.
Oa* Good Quality.
Mrs. Minks—There’s one good thing
about these matches. They always
make a noise when one steps on
them.
Mr. Minks—Yes, they are just as
safe as rattlesnakes. — New York
Weekly.
important part in the storage of the
food products used in tho .city and
its environs—in Brooklyn, on Long
Island and throughout no inconsider
able portion of the state of Now Jer-
soy—than most housekeepers, or for
that matter, most people, are aware.
But few if any new barrels are
made in this locality. Now barrels
are made and exclusively used in the
west. It is western made barrels re
coopered that are used hereabout,
Theso rccoopered barrels are used
for packing biscuits, sugar, fruit,
eggs, butter and other kinds of food
products.
The newly made barrels como
hither from tho west filled with flour
and other food stuffs, from tho fish
ing centers crammed with captured
donizons of the deep, and from other
places laden with delicacies intended
to tempt the appetites of citizens of
tho Empire State. When they are
emptied tho retail provision dealers
who purchase their contents sell
them indiscriminately to all comers
willing to pay tho price, which is
generally from ten to fifteen emits
or upward for each barrel.
Tire inhabitants of the tenement
houses in the eastern district of the
city are among the largest pur
chasers. The people living in the
poorer districts on tho west side are
also largo purchasers. It is from
the epidemic localities,, particularly
those on the east side, owners of
coojierages in this city und Brooklyn
buy a large proportion of tho second
hand barrels they rejuvenate. But
It is not only tho proprietors of coop
erages who do so. Biscuit manufac
turers and representatives of sugar
houses do likewise.
The cast off barrels sold to the in
habitants of tenement houses are
used for holding dirt, ashes, dead
ruts and other kinds of vermin, oast
off clothing and underclothing that
often contain germs of malignant
lisease, and would not have been
parted with by their impecunious
owners except through necessity.
Recooperuge of these secondhand
barrels is carried on to a large extent
in tills vicinity. Five firing alone re
cooper over 22,000 barrels dffily, and
in sugar houses and .{biscuit bakerjes
probably 8,000 more are doily re
coopered.
Over twenty-two years agon Brook
lyn assemblyman—Samuel Muddox—
introduced a bill into the state legis
lature to prohibit the packing of food
products in secondhand barrels. The
bill wus withdrawn owing to circum
stances. Tradition soys that over
>30,000 was put up to defeat it.
The price paid journeymen for re-
coopenng is 3$ cents a ban-el. Ex
perts scy that careful (Washing and
cleaning would he sufficient to purify
secondhand barrels for the use of
food products.—New York Adver
tiser.
The Beit Protection.
The marked and sudden changes
of temperature to which our climate
is subjected during tho winteririouths
are not to lie combated by changes
of clothing, for this would he obvi
ously impossible.
The thing to be done is to keep the
body in a condition to resist the
changes. This condition is best main
tained by having the skin and all the
organs active. The degree of sensi
tiveness of the skin in regulating
heat loss is the largest factor here
concerned, and a sound condition of
the skin is to he expected from a
proper system of exercise and bath
ing.—Youth’s Companion.
Giving Order, to a Pope,
Mr. George Healy, an American
portrait painter, tells an interesting
anecdote regarding Pope Pius IX.
His holiness was sitting for his por
trait, and becoming tired suddenly
stood up and came over to see what
Mr. Healy was about. Mr. Healy
was annoyed at this, and exclaimed
somewhat sharply;,
‘ 'I beg your holiness to sit down.
The pope laughed and said; “I am
accustomed to give orders, not to re
ceive them. But you see, Mr. Healy,
that I also know how to obey." With
this he submissively went back to
his choir.
The Funnleifc Sight In Paris.
The funniest sight in Paris is to
see the bears in the pits at the Jar-
din des Plants seat themselves com
fortably, hold up their forelegs in a
position of supplication and, with
wide open mouths, beg for buns,
their eyes rapidly blinking in the
strong light from above. They eas
ily catch in their mouths anything
that they can reach without moving
off their bases.—New York Sun.
War In VaakliftM.
The citizens of Oakesdale, Wash.,
annoyed by a large mudhole in the
main street of the town, planted three
or four old hats and a pair of boots
in the center of it and-labeled them
with the names of the city council.
But the council retaliated by posting
up a card with the notice, “Payyour
taxes and we will fill this hole,"—
Philadelphia
into momentary excitement by what
appeared to be a cruel murder in one
of its principal streets in broad day
light.
A man with blood streaming down
his face dashed out of n cigar store
pursued by another, wild ww yelling
wildly and brandishing a revolver.
The crowd followed, and at tho next
corner tho pursuer caught up to the
fleeing man and shot him in the
back. lie fell headlong to the pave
ment, and the other attempted to
run away, but wns captured by n
policeman; Ho was taken to a mag
istrate near by and testified that his
victim had deliberately grabbed a
cigar (naming tho brand) from his
mouth, on being told by tho dealer
that he had just sold the last to the
gentleman in question.
He had naturally been rendered
furious by the loss of such a fine
cigar, and hod struck the man and
then followed him and shot him.
Ho wns hfckod up, and it was not un
til the next morning that the affair
wns shewn to he a sell, for the sup
posed victim had bribed a doctor to
say ho was wounded. Every paper
but one fell into tho trap and pub
lished tho .name of tho brand of
cigars.-Philadelphia Record,
Yawning In Contagious
The theuter was emptying and a
number of cars were waiting for pas
sengers to fill them up. A young
man wlio is well known in South
Brooklyn and a practical joker of the
most vicious type; boarded a Court
street car with a friend, whom he
was showing the town, and got a seat
well forward. 'The car wns comfort
ably filled when it started and the
young man remarked to his friend
"Now watch me closely and I’ll show
you a peculiar phase of human na
ture. Won’t know what they cull it,
whether mental telegraphy or not,
hut it’s certain every time raider tho
right conditions.”
Then he began to gape in the most
conspicuous manner, throwing out
hie armb and stretching liimsolf as if
there wasno one olse within a mile
of him. His' yawns were kudible,
and they- attracted the attention of
the rest-of the tired theatergoers.
“Now watch the people,” whispered
the joker, and lo and behold, one by
one, they began to gape, some quiet
ly behind their hands, others broad
ly and openly; every one, even down
to the small telegraph hoy in the
comer. “Well, well, well, that is
curious," was all the friend could say
for a.moment, and then he yawned
himself.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Germ* of Fungi.
“The importuut part which fungi
are intended to play in the economy
of nature, chiefly as scavengers, is
indicated by the plentiful provision
mode for their reproduction," said a
student of vegetable pathology. “So
widely distributed are the germs of
these plants that every breath of air
you take probably contains several
kinds. They ore everywhere in the
atmosphere, ready to develop them
selves whenever the peculiar condi
tions adapted to each species are of
fered.
“This accounts for the prevalence
of those troublesome forms of vegeta
tion which are called ‘mold,’ ‘mil
dew’ and so forth. Fruit preserves
are very apt to afford a propagating
ground for mold, and likewise any
pair of shoeB which you may leave
unworn for any length of time."—
Washington Star.
nil Occupation*
Bunker—How does old bachelor
Sapstone make his living? He never
goes anywhere and never seems to
be doing anything.
Hill—Why, don’t you know? Be
writes the notes on woman’s dress,
for The Sunday Kaleidoscope. —Cloak
Review.
Dr. Cutting, of the Vermont board
of agriculture, once counted £22,800
hairs to the square inch of a pif .ee
clipped from the pelt of a full blood
ed ram.
Hot the Men In QaeetlM.
A laborer in a rough felt bat and long
Binock walked the other day into the
Shakespeare library, and after looking
attentively for some time at one of the
custodians, went up to him and said, “I
say, zur, be yon Mr. Shakespeare as I’ve
heer'n speak ov?” The custodian ex
plained to Hodge that he was not ths
gentleman referred to.—London Tele
graph. _
The practice sometimes indulged
in by smokers of soaking a meer
schaum in hot water, milk or steam
ing it i6 altogether wrong. It spoils
the meerschaum and ruins the color.
To teach a class is as much more
inspiring than to teach a single pupil
as to play first violin in an orchestra
is more inspiring than to perform on
the jewshaip.
Monday is the dullest day of the
week in Paris. There seems to be a
good deal of getting over the effects
of the fun they had on Sunday.
ANOTHER IDOL CRUSHED.
A Hinl tlnnrtoil mil ItiifVotliitt Knglttner
lleplles to i l’«w OticHtlnim.
Our train wns delayed by a smash-
up, and ns I came hack from tho
scene of the wreck I stopped a mo
ment to look at onr locomotive on tho
siding. She was a uiugnificent piece
of mechanism, and lay there broutli-
ing in short, quid; gasps, as engines
do, impatient of restraint and throb
bing to bo (lying along the glittering
lines of steel. The engineer was
hanging out of tho cal).
“She’s beautiful, isn’t she?” I
marked nfiuii
“Which one?” he asked, looking
after three or four ludy passengers
walking on tho track. “That little
one in front is a corker, only she’s
most too squat.”
I was inexpressibly shocked.
“I mean your engine." I explained
hurriedly.
Oh,” he said in a half tono of dis
appointment.
‘I suppose you think a great deal
of her, don’t you?” I vontured as I
stepped nearer and laid my hand
gently on a projecting bar.
“That’s my business, and I don’t
have time to think of anything else
while she’s on the road," ho re
sponded.
"But don't you love to watch her
pulsating with life und to feel the
thrill of her speed as she whirls you
along?”
"Well, I can't soy that I do exact
ly,” he said as he rubbed his head
for thought.
“Don’t you caress her, and humor
her, and pride yourself upon her, as
you would a woman you loved ?”
“Not lmwlly," ho said with a grin.
“Don’t you call her ‘sweetheart’
and ‘dear old eighty-seven,' and
things like that?”
“Of course not’’—this in a tone of
disapproval.
"Don't you feel toward her as if
she wore human?"
“Not that I know of."
All the poetry and tradition of tho
engineer and his engine were oozing
out at every pore, but I kept on to
tho bitter end.
“Don't you sing to her and whistle
softly as you speed through the
night?” I usked hopelessly.
“I can’t sing any more than a
crow," ho admitted.
"Don't you chirrup to her in her
flight?"
“Never to my knowledge. Meb-
be the fireman does. I'll ask him.”
"No, no,” I Baid, putting up my
hands pleadingly. “Don't you speak
of her os a friend."
"No."
“Don't cherish her as of your own
flesh and blood ?”
“No."
“Don’t talk with her and commune
with her?"
“Naw, of course I don't."
The engineer was becoming uneasy
and suspicious.
“Don't coddle her os a child?" I
tried once more.
"Naw."
“Don't core whether she .runB
through hersolf or twists off a piston
rod or burets a cylinder head or any
thing so long as your wages go on
and you don’t get bounced?" I said in
desperation,
For the first time he began to look
natural.
That's about tho size of it, I
guess,” he said with a laugh, and I
went back to my car with the rem
nants of a broken Idol clutched con
vulsively to my bosom.—Detroit Free
Press.
No Chinee for Argument.
I was talking with one of the Eng
lish professors at Harvard about his
department, and he told me of an
amusing mistake made by one of the
students. All juniors are required
to write forensics on prescribed sub
jects. One of the subjects given out
was “Shall tho Electoral College he
Abolished?” This, he thought, was
a perfectly plain subject, excellently
suited for discussion, so he was some
what surprised to have one student
come up and tell him that it gave no
chance whatever for argument.
“Why not?" asked the instructor,
“I think there is a great deal to be
said on both sides."
"Well," answered the student, “I
can’t see how you, a Harvard profes
sor and a Harvard graduate can see
any argument to prove that oolleges
with the elective system should be
abolished."—Boston News.
How Spurgeon'i Horses Kept Sunday.
Rev. Newman Hall once asked
Sprageon what he replied to those
who objected to his driving to obureb
on Sunday. “Oh, I tell them I’m a
Christian and my horses Jews. They
test on their seventh day Sabbath,
and so help me to rest on my first
day, Sunday. Were 1 to walk, it
would be my hardest day of work."
—Good Words.
is made by purchasers oi our fur
niture. For some reasons it’s a
a better move than was ever made
before. One very convincing rea
son is that not until now have we
ever offered our goods at such a
figure. We have never felt that
we could afford to do it, and we
don’t feel that we can afford to do
it now; but necessity knows no
law, and we are taking the bull by
the liorus. It's a poor rule that
won’t work both ways. What we
didn't feel that we could afford to
offer, you certainly can’t feel that
you can afford to miss.
Well! Well!
You can scarcely blame him for
falling asleep in one of our Re
clining Chairs. Just as like as not
you’ll do the same thing yourself
if you have the good luck to get
one of them, aiM you may not be
a particularly sleepy individual at
that. If you’re a wide awake buy
er, you’re the buyer we are look
ing for. The wider awake you are
the more thoroughly you’ll realize
what a good thing it will be for
you to purchase our Reclining-
Chair, and what a bad thing it will
be for you if you don’t. We never
offered and you never availed your
self of a better chance—it's the
chance of chances.
Wood Pavements In Paris.
To insure durability wood pave
ments must be laid with great care
and have a concrete foundation made
of the best materials. Those that
have been laid in Paris have stood
about seven or eight, years under
heavy traffic and about fifteen under'
moderate,—New York Times.
HE
TO TERMS.
Whaf had he done? Oh, not
much! He simply refused to buy
one of our Reclining Chairs for
$6.50, and a little gentle persuasion
was necessary to make him change
his mind. There wasn't any justi
fication for such a refusal. It wasn't
reasonable, it wasn’t wise, and no
level-headed wife would listen to
it for a minute. Why? Because
these Reclining Chairs are simply
the biggest kind of a big bargain-
They are as good in material asr-
they are in make and in both they
are literally perfect. You can af
ford to miss some chances; you
can’t afford to miss this.
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