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ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1892
NO. 25.
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PROPRIETORS.
H is new buggies and the best ot
horses, and will furnish you a turn
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ccmmodations 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.
WH. GODWIN & SON
SECRET SOCIETIES.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE FAMOUS
ORGANIZATIONS OF YALE.
Napier and the SwordiuiH,,.
After Napier’s battlea with the
Hindoos opposed to the English a
famous juggler visited the camp and
performed his feats before the gen-
IN A FREE READING ROOM.
Strange Proceedings on the Canipua of the
New Haven University—Peculiar Rites
and Ceremonies of Skull and Hones.
Scroll and Key nod Wolf's Head.
Tha election ceremonies to the Skull
and Bones, Scroll and Key, and Wolf's
Head societies of Yule university are
very impressive. The members of the
junior class on the afternoon of this duy
gather in little knots in front of one of
the big buildings which are used by the
scholars as sleeping rooms. The win
dows of every other building which
commnnds a view of the expectant stu
dents on the campus below are crowded
with other scholars and their friends.
Suddenly a solemn looking young man
comes around a corner of one of tho dor
mitories. He goes straight toward tho
wailing crowd without a word to any
ono. Ho walks in among tho fellows,
many of whom are ids friends, without
noticing anybody. Every other student
stands perfectly still, and without turn
ing liis head follows with his eyes the
movements of the mysterious looking
fellow who lias recently appeared and
who is going up and down, up and down,
In and out, in and out nmongthe crowd,
looking at nobody, speaking to no one,
apparently seeing nothing. Then ho
goes around in a circle. All hold their
breath. The people in the windows on
every sido lean a little farther out and
watch with increased interest. It is a
moment of intense suspense! All of a
sudden the quiet man, on whom every
body's eyes are fastened, slops a fellow
student right between the shoulderB and
almost knocks him over
Then a great sliont, goes npl The
students on tho campus are yelling them
selves bourse. Tho crowded windows
are alive with frantic men and women
who are waving handkerchiefs and hats,
clapping liamlB and laughing, each add
ing something to the terrible uproar.
Meanwhile the student who was slapped
on the buck is the happiest man in the
immense crowd, for he has been elected
a member of Skull and Bones, the fa
mous Becret socioty of the univorsity.
The first thing the fortunate student
does when he realizes that he has been
slapped is to go stralghtto his room, with
out a word to his most intimate chum,
or even to the man who has so rudely
struck him. He is followed by the man
who did the slapping, and who all this
time has not even so much as smiled or
Said “Hallo" to any one—in fact has
not recoguized thg uigni he iS. fqJJtiWjngi
except by the slap,
Nobody knows, except tHese two, what
takes place .in the room, and the men
are not seen again that day. for the in
terest of the people outside is centered
on another man who has Come from the
same direction as the first one, and who
is going through exactly the same per
formances that the first fellow exectited.
When he finally slaps a man, another
great shout goes up, and then these two
students go away to the room of the one
whose back has been slapped. These
scenes aro repeated until forty-five men
have been slapped, for that It the num
ber composing the.three Societies. Each
society is made up of fifteen men, no
more and no less, and each member is
said tp choose-one student.
When the forty-five have been selected
the eleotidns ore over and the people go
home feeling that they have witnessed
an event more interesting and more ex
citing than the graduating exorcises
which take place when a whole class ure
about to leave the school. Nothing more
-is done to the students who have been
slapped until the next Tuesday.! What
occurs then is seen by nobody exeept a
few of the students who gather in front
of the secret society houses.
The namps even of the societies are
not known. They are called Sknll and
Bones, Scroll' and Key, and Wolfs
Head, because each member wears a
Uttlo gold pin, with one or another of
these objects on it as the case may be.
The Sknil and Bones pin is a horrid
bit of gold in the shape of a hnman sknll
and crossbones. The Scroll and Key,
as the name implies, is made up of a
small sheet of gold, like an ancient piece
of paper. On the Bcroll is a key, above
the key are the letters. "JJ. 8. P." and
below the* " ‘
What theyistai
the pips know*.
The other society has for its pin a lit
tle gold head of a savage looking wolf.
Often .the eyes are made o{ two brightly
shining diatr mds.
Another wonderful thing about these
pins is that the wearer never loses one.
He never lays It down even for a second.
Of conrse they have to bathe, and how
do yon so suppose they do then! Yon
would think they would have to Jay the
pin aaide at that time anyway, womdn’f
yon? Bat they don’t; they hold the bit
of gold in their mouthsl
“Bones” is the oldest of the three so
cieties. Tradition has it that the pins
first appeared in 1882. About ten years
later men w> p had expected an election
to "Bones" and were disappointed or
ganized the Scroll and Key. Wolfs
Head tag founded less than I
ago, but today is almost as exclusive'in
its xnembershlp as either of the others.
In fact it generally represents ss much
wealth among II* members asthetwo
other societies combined.’—New York
Herald- ., .
Blotting Paper from Cottonseed,
a fish, and when it is treated it becomes
pars cellulose. It is absorbent to a won
derful degree and will in all probability
enter largely into the future manufac
ture of blotting paper, eren it b!
People Who Patronise tho One IluiU by
the Late Peter Coopers
Uniquo, always interesting, during
„ . - i the months it is open, aro the people
eral, his family and staff. Among j to bo met ln the { lvaAing l r ^ m
other pertormances this man cut in „ f ,rm —
AMERICAN PIE.
c iuo luiMJifi. y. a. XT,,. Hull
key are the letters “C, C. J,”.
- stand for only the wearers of
__ performances
two with a stroke of J9s sword a
lime or lemon placed in the hand of
his assistant. Napier thought there
was some collusion between the jug
gler and his retainer. To determine
the point the general offered his own
hand for the experiment, and he
stretched out his right arm. The
juggler looked very attentively at
the hand, and said that he would not
make the experiment.
“I thought I would find you out I"
exclaimed Napier.
“But stop," added the other, "let
me see your left hand.” The left was
submitted and the man then said
firmly, “If you will hold your arm
steady I will perform the feat.”
“But why the loft hand and not
the right?"
“Because the right hand is hollow
in the centre, and there is a risk of
cutting off tho thumb; the left is
high and the danger will be less.”
Napier was startled, “I got fright
ened," ho said. "I snw it was an
actual feat of delicate swordsman
ship, and if I had not abused the man
as I did before my staff and chal
lenged him to the trial I honestly
acknowledge I would have retired
from the encounter. However, I put
the lime on ray hand and held out
my arm steadily. The juggler bal
anced himself, and with a swift
stroke cut the lime in two pieces. I
felt the edge of tho sword on my hand
as if a cold thread had been drawn
across it."—Chicago Herald.
A Woman with Horiii.
Horny excrescences arising from
the human head have not only oc
curred in this country but linvo been
frequently reported by English sur
geons as well as those from several
parts of continental Europe. The
Imperial museum at Vienna, the
British museum, the Museum of the
Vatican, Rome, and several leBser
institutions of the kind have very
fine single specimens or whole col
lections of these curiosities. In the
“Natural History of Cheshire” a
woman is mentioned who had been
afflicted with a tumor or vein on her
head for thirty-two years.
It finally greatly enlarged, and
two horns grew out of it after she
was seventy years old. These horns,
which are each within a fraction of
eleven inches long and two inches
across at the base, are now in the
Lonsdale collection in the British
museum.—Philadelphia Press.
A Trick for RporUiuen.
“If I were a gambling man I could
win lots of money on my ability to
shoot a hole through a 4-inch pine
plank with ordinary bird , shot." said
B. L. Houston, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
“The way to do it is this: Take a
blank cartridge and load it yourself,
putting the powder in first, of course.
Then on top of this powder place
your wad and ram it down well.
Put in a second wad, but be careful
to leave a slight space between the
two. Then pour in your Shot and
fill the remaining end of the shell
with damp paper. Now with a keen
blade cut around the shell just be
tween jhe twq wads, and when you
blase away It the four inch plank
you will discover to your surprise
that your load shot.* bole through
the board. In no other way Cfin shot
be made to penetrate so thick a
plank.*—St Louis Globe-Democrat
He Inducement.
It is not learning but logic ,thpt
counts, most The ability to see
things in the correct light is a won
derful gift A Chicago youth, resid
ing in Englewood, possesses this rare
quality. He and some other hoys
excited the anger of a German neigh
bor by tying a tin can to the tail of
the tetter’s dog. The German later
on saw 7 the hoy passing his house
and called out to him, “You blamed
leetle tefil; you come in here I geef
you a thrashing)* “No inducement
Whatever,!’ said the youth. “I
wouldn't /come in there if you’d
promise me three thrashings."—Chi
cago Times.
Pew* and War.
“What is <ui inward monitor!”
asked the teacher of the Sunday
school class.
“I don't know,” responded a tow
headed boy, “but I know what an
outward monitor is.”,,
“Well, what is that?’’
teacher with a degree of
“It’s one of them iron hound ships
that knocks the stuffln out of every-
tiling for. forty-seven miles around,
ma'am, that’s what 'if is,” and the
boy puffed over his answer as if he
had earned in four buckets of water
hand running.—Detroit Free!I
Aanrn ltto fiaailm.
Why do so many people we see
•around us seem to prefer to suffer and
be made miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of ap
petite, coming up pf the food, yellow
en
— VJl
them. Sold by H. 7. Lamar & Sons. (2)
at Cooper;-institute. Tlireo distinc
tive classes, us regular in their movo-
mentsAB tho clock, find intellectual
recreation in scanning tho 100 dailies,
countless weeklies, magazines and
the thousand volumes to be hnd for
the asking. Early in tho morning
comes a curious coterie, fresh from
lodging houses or men out of em
ployment. Inviting is tho warmth
of the great room, and the heat often
overcomes the thirst for nows and
the disbeqi-timed often fall asleep, to
be rouseij'by the vigilant officer witli
whom they are liable to have a per
sonal acquaintance.
To weed out all olijoctionable
people cards wore issued some years
ago, requiring each visitor to Btato
liis occupation and give references.
Of 3,000 cards collected in one day
000 gavo down town printing offices
as references. This is tho class'that
continues to drop in about noon and
rarely departs before nightfall.
Forced to work at night, they sleep
until noon, when they seek Cooper's.
To newspaper and illustrated period
icals they are devoted. Inveterate
readers, not infrequently they are
storehouses of general information.
After supper their placeB aro filled by
mechanics, clerks and business men.
Every tabie, every file is crowded.
Day and night men and boys stand,
often two rows deep againBt tho wall,
devouring this miscellaneous feast
provided by one mindful in his
wealthy days of tho deprivations of
his youth, when he, too, hungered
for this communication of ideas now
to ho had by the poorest without tho
expenditure of a cent.
Characters are not wanting in this
motley throng, always representa
tive of the very people the institution
was founded to benefit. Nearly all
the magazines are worn to tatters
before the month expires. Duplicates
of 100 doilies are always on file, and
the want advertisements are care
fully scanned. The call for French
periodicals is constantly increasing.
A French and a Spanish daily have
recently beep added and there are
three Italian journals. There is a
marked characteristic difference in
the appearance ot the Frenoh and
German pastors. The readers of the
former handle their periodicals with
the greatest care. There, is scarcely
a finger mark On the French maga
zines. On the contrary, the German
are battered beyond recognition.
But pfobnhly there are many more
German readers. There are seven
teen German foreign periodicals pro
vided. Rarely is a paper willfully
destroyed or a hook lost.
Women consult the fashion papers
and magazines devoted to housekeep
ing.- ‘ j Evidently . they are - cooks,
tailors, dressmakers or household
decorators. The awkward position
ot the women's reading room—at the
fuather end of the room—makes it
anything but a desirable retreat for
ladies. Thirty is the average atten
dance in the room. Curious femin
inity are wont to gather there. Fre
quently two cronies are found slyly
lunching. One day an industrious
old soul stealthily took out of her
pocket a piece of doth and traced out
upon it the pattern of a sleeve from
The Bazar supplement, and the gown
of somebody’s darling Was completed
in accordance with Dame Fashion's
behest. The majority of the habitues
have a weakness for the advertising
columns.—New York Advertiser.
for 7«o. we wUJ zeli them,
talizer, guaranteed to cure
Th. Hint «r PandlM.
The nes* and egg of a bird of para
dise (Ptiloris victorim) were found on
an island on the coast of Queensland.
The nest was about ten feet from the
ground, and the bird sat quietly, al
though the party was camped about
firefsetawayfrem the tree. The nest
was somewhat loosely constructed of
broad dead leaves and green bran
lets of climbing plants and fibrous
material and lined by two large
leaves, situated under pieces of dry
tendrils, which formed a springy,
lining for the egg or young to rest
on.—Nature.
nhlUh’a CHiasrilM Cara.
This is beyond question the most
successful .cough medicine we bsve
ever sold. A few doses invariably
cure the worst esses of oough, oroup
and -bronchitis, while its wonderful
success in the cure of consumption is
without a parallel in the history of
medicine.. Since/its first disoovery It
has been sold W s guarantee—s test
which no other medioine oan stand.
If you have a cough we earnestly ask
you to try it. Pnoe lOo, 80c and $1.
If your lupgs are sore, chest or back
lame, use Shiloh'* Porous Plasters.
Bold by H. J. Lamar 4fc.8ons, (1)
-a. xtrid ■
Clara—I hope you won't bring that
Mr. Hatter around to see me. I don't
want to see him.
Maude—But, my dear. he sAys he
used to play with you when you
were a little girl.
Clara—Tteat’s why I don’t want to
,4iim., It reminds me of the
I wore a homemade cloak to
Sunday school.—Cloak Review.
tt Ifi An ImligenmiN Product 'Which K»
Other Nation Cun liultntc.
A gentleman of New England nn
cestry, who lives on West Vine
street, Bolomnly asserted to the re
porter that pie Is largely responsible
for many of the mental peculiarities
of the American people.
“It is a fact scientifically estab
lislied,” he said, "that different kinds
of food havo distinctively different
effects on tho mental traits and ten
dencies of men. For instance, races
whoso diet is chiefly moat are til
ways of a bloodthirsty, sanguinary
disposition, whilo those who confine
themselves to groin and vegetables
are nearly always mild and unwar
like.
•'Persons who oat highly spiced and
seasoned food are apt to be peppery
and irvitablo, and so on. People’s
minds depend on tho condition of
their stomaeliH, and their stomachs
depond on what they eat. Now pie
is tho only kind of food oatou by
Americans that is not oaten by oth
ers of tho Caucasian race. It is n
distinctively American disli, When
it is considered that nearly 8,000,000
pies per day are eaten in America it
may bo said to he our national food.
And I do not think it unreason
able to infer that pie may be the in
spiring source ot many of our great
est achievements and sublimest
thoughts. At any rate all our great
men have boon very fond of pie.
Abraham Lincoln used to go out of
his way to get a good, old fashioned
piece of cherry pie, such as had
gained his youthful lips and fingers
m tho good old Kentucky days.
George Washington was bo notori
ously fond of mince pie that the Qua
ker housewives used to send them to
him with their bumble respects, even
after he had become president. The
Marquis de Lafayette is said to have
pronounced tho pies of Mount Ver
non “exquisite,” and lie attempted
to introduce them to tho liaut ton on
his return to Paris. Tho attempt
failed, because the muruuis forgot to
take an American cook back with
him, and no French chef has until
recently conquered the myittoriouB
pie. It is a remarkable fact that
pumpkin pie has recently become
very popular in Paris. It is the pi
oneer, but it will undoubtedly In
come the avant courier of ail our de
licious pastry.
Tho Frenoh have nothing ap
proaching our pie. They 1 make all
sorts of delicate and creamy puffs
and meringues that are dream* of
the culinary art. In many respects
they excel our efforts in similar di
rections. But they have never at
tained to the sublimity of pie. The
English have nothing that will com
pare with it but torts. While these
unpleasant little fripperies of diet,
they no more compare to pie than a
last year's bird’s nest does to the Cap
itol at Washington. The nearest the
Germans get to pie is the pretail.
Think of itl Pretzel versus {net The
Italian 1* still worse. Though he Is
a past master in the art of paste
muring, and has given to the world
that marvel of culinary ingenuity,
msccaroni, he has never thought to
combine the crusts with the
and berries of his sunny
No lazy person can make pie, and. so
the Spanish have none. It seems as
if the peerless dish had been reserved
by the gods from men until the ban
ner of freedom had been unfurled
and tyranny defied."—8t. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
i iapmUlln A boat Salt,
If at the table a little salt is spUt
between two people the. way to avoid
a quarrel is for each to take a pinch
aid throw it over his left' shoulder.
Salt always has seemed a wonderful
ly powerful mineral from the time
when we were small. Which of us,
when a child, did not firmly believe'
in that old joke about putting salt on
a bird's 1 tail? I remember d curly
headed little boy in kilts who went
out into the garden with a handful
of salt, resolved upon catching a
bird. He was very patient, and
cautiously tiptoed around for a long
while. Finally, a little discouraged,
he went in to his mother and said,
mournfully, “Mamma, they all flew
away.” His mother didn’t laugh at
him.—Harper's Bazar.
Tbs SmM te Kesfesa Mines.
In the mines of Mexico formerly
the descent and ascent of the shafts
were made by the aid of tree trunks,
with notches cut out of them, in
which the laborers rested the great
toe as they stepped from one to the
other. The demon in such places
was believed to have on each big toe
h huge nail or claw. with which he
would gouge out the piece# on which
the feet of the miners rested. Ac
cording to either legend the fiend al
ways left the ladders or tree trunks,,
after having destroyed their useful
ness, to tantalize the unfortunate
men who were thus imprisoned.
; fiaithst’s CATAaaa BKHzpv. amsr.
veious cure for catarrh; diphtheria,
canker mouth, and headache. With
each bottle there is an ingenious nasal
injector for the more sucoeuful treat-
nt of these complaints without
A GOOD MOVE.
That’s the kind oY n move wliicb
is made by purchasers of 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 at.
figure. We have never felt that
we could afford to do it, and we
don’t feel that we can afford to de
it tww; but necessity knows no
law, and we are taking the bull by
the horns. 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.
“RIB
n
meat
extra charg
3. Lamar <
Price 1
ions.
Sold by H,
(3)
You can scarcely blame him for-
falllng fee, in one M M : m
dining Clifurs. Justus like as not ,
you’ll do the sante thing yourself
if you have the good luck to get
one of them, and you may not be
a particularly sleepy individual at
that. If yoU’re a wide awake buy
er, you're tfie buyer we are look
ing for. The widerawakeyou are • ’
the more thoroughly you’ll realUe
what a good thing it will be for
you to purchase our Reclining
Chdir, and whftt a bad thing it wilt
be for you if you don’t. We never-
offered and yoti never availed your
self of a better chance—it’s the:
chance of chances.
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HE GAME TO TERMS.
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Whaf had he done! Ob,- 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’taUyjnstL-
fication for such a refusal. Itwasnft
reasonable, it wasn't wise, and no-
level-headed wife would listen to- .
it for a minute. Why? $eawuse; ‘
these Reclining Chairs are simply 1
the biggest kind of a big baygau*.
They are as good in material am ; •-!>
they are in make and in both they 7 ■
are literally perfect, 1 Yoti' can 1
ford' to miss ' some chances; y<
can’t afford to miss this.' > - 1 > #i i
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