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■ ’■ 7 VOL. 1. ALBANY, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1892 NO. 25. WHILE SELE6TIHG -YOUR- PRESENTS -CALL AT THE- City Shoe Store. We offer a full line of Ladies’ and Gents’ TOILET SLIPPERS ! in Plush, Alligator and Ouze. A full line of good and re liable $koes, Shoes, Sim For the Ladies, Gents, wlisses and Children. All selected specially for the oc casion. A full line of Leather Bags, Trunks, Umbrellas, etc., etc., at popular prices. 1 ./. i | SIGN GOLD BOOT. 11 < % % I E.L. Wuhiagtoi Sififi, Altuj, 8s, % LET’S I t i I The Barnes Sale and Livery Stables, Win. Godwin & Son, PROPRIETORS. H is new buggies and the best ot horses, and will furnish you a turn out at very reasonable prices. Ac 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. ■-i &9g HE GAME TO TERMS. »•, ft ( v . '• •; • ' 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 L.'Jl Iflltt HO -jlifti.’i ~— 3 |/en!uv A Pi Itl Installment Sales a *orTteutf la ' t 1 * • L ' ZP n7fC/J3 PJ jKMJQEfrWfj Un’H ‘ "r> WE -: 111 afcfiOT FURNITURE CO.