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INDSTINCT ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, .JUNE 18, 1892 SECONDHAND BARREL*. A. Cruel Sell* 'THE LIFE OF ALL IS ONE.” Lurk In the Use of These Grave PRINT -YOUR- PRESENTS CALL AT THK- We ofter a full line of Ladies’ and Gents’ TOILET SLIPPERS ! r in Plush, Alligator and Ouze. A full line of good and re liable 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. m 11 Installment Sales a Specialty. MAYER X iaSSS&S® ' FURNITURE