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THE DAT IS GONE.
BY LONGFELLOW.
The day is gone; ar.d the darknoSa
Falls from the •wings of night,
Asa feather is wafted downward
From an angel in his Sight,
I see the lights of the vilEsgo
Gleam through the rain and mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o’er nre
That my soul cannot resist.
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only!
As the mist resembles the rain,
Come read to me some poem—
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the though t of day.
Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant fooster.s echo
Through the corridors «f time.
For like the strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life’s endless toil aud endeavor,
And to-nlgiit I long for rest.
Head from some humbler poet,
Whcse songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer.
"Or tears from the eyeiids start.
Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid offcaee,
Still beard in his soul the music
Of wondrous melodies.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows alter prayer.
Then read the treasured volume,
Tho poem of my choice,
Aud leud to tile rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
And the night shall be filled with music*,
Aud tlic cares that infest the day
Sliall fold their touts, like tho Arabs,
And as silently pass away.
hope so, I am a church member, and his strange method will he the makin.
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A. C. RiLEY^
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w t. HOX- SAMUEL HALL, Macon. Go.
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'^efe i'.i^OOKT, GA.
DR. BLUNTS PATIENT.
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If ever a mortal man was fitly named,
such was the case with Dr. Blunt, the
name expressing one of the strongest
characteristics. Had lie been colled Dr.
Skillful) the same could have been said
of him with truth. And then the ex
pression on his face was a faithful index
of another equally strong point of char-
iietei, viz.: great kindness of heart. So
quick spoken was the doctor on ordinary
oeccitsions.be not only abbreviated sen
tences, but words themselves frequently
suffered a very perceptible clipping.
• All-of the vrilygo of 'L .was very
iuueh exerchcd one. morning by the in
telligence that two of the best rooms in
Mis. Lowell's elegant, house, which had
hi on unoccupied for a year or more be
cause the rent was so high, iTadticeu
taken by a young lady who was a real
live heiress, Iraving no one but herself
to support, and she was going to fur
nish fee room with no end of costly
“piects” and lovely ornamonts, and
furthermore, Lawyer Peckham, who
had charge oi i ® ^estate, said she was a
beauty, hut in very-poor health, he
believed. So the good natrired gossips
rumored ns to how sad it was that one
couldn’t have everything in this world.
If you have wealth, likely as not you
have no health with which to enjoy it;
things nie pretty evenly dealt qnt, af
ter all, and so after the manner of the
news venders.
Dame Buntov seems, for once, to have
heard only the facts in the care, for in
a few days the rooms were really fur
nished and occupied as predicted, and
Mrs. Lowell was highly elated ovei the
good looks as well as the affluent cir
cumstances of hor new boarder, though
in describing her she had said:
“But something ails the poor gill; she
is so nervous, my deal’ —but fresh look
ing as a daisy, and. not the least mite
pale or wasted, and my! the way she
dresses!”
One morning, as Lawyer Peckham
was coming out of Mrs. Lowell’s house;
lie met Dr. Blunt going iu.
’’Morning, Peckham,” said the doe-
tt^in his quick way.
“Good morning, doctor Guess my
client is about to become yonr patient,
eh?” .
“Yes, yes,” jerked out .the doctor,
“shouldn’t wonder,” aud ho disap
peared.
A moment later Dr. Blunt entered
Miss Lacey’s room. A very fair young
lady reclined languidly in the sumptu-
ons depths of a “Sleepy Hollow” chair,
but the quick experienced eye of a
medical man knew at a glance feat
something was wrong,although, as Mrs.
Lowell had said, she was rosy auct
plump, the expression of the eye was
troubled, restless and morbid. The
doctor seated himself beside his fair
patient, felt heirpnlse, and they vented
the remarkable query;
“Was it me or the young doctor you
want?ed”
“Oh, you, by all means,” said Miss
Lacey with a smile, but instantly the
troubled look returned. She added:
“I want all the experience possible
brought to bear on my case-”
“Any parents?” queried the doctor.
“No, sir, my mother died of consump
tion when I was very young; my father
’ died^when I'was a mere child,”
- “Humph.! Have any local pains? Suf
fer from headache, nausea?”
seems to be a fear o
j time, an undefined ^ .
nu.it, Discount. Exchange. jE ues * ^inh I may dii
^ ' ■ ^fsnmption.”
have been for years. I love my relig
ion,” and quick 'sympathetic tears af
firmed the truth of the prompt asser
tion.
’ ‘Ever seen Jesus Christ sick and vis
ited Him, or naked and clothed Him, or
ministered to the thousand and one
wants, of the ‘little ones’ forever rep
resenting the Savior’s symbolized suffer
ings?”
“Alas, no!” sighed poor Miss Lacey,
“I have wanted for years, but this
nervous weakness unfits me for any
thing useful or practical. I give regu
larly to some charitable objects, and
hope some good is done in that way.”
“Humph! Well, I’m going now.
Don’t know just what I shall prescribe,
but feel confident that I can help you.
Perhaps I’ll run in again before night
with directions—bless me, what look
ing gloves! Will you mend these for
me, my dear?”
“Certainly, with pleasure,” laughed
Miss Lacey, and for that instant theio
was no trouble in lier clear eyey.
“You see,” said the doctor apologet
ically, “my housekeeper isn’t much on
' mending, according to my idea, and
then there’s only my boy, the young
doctor, as people call him—the most
graceless piece. As for wife,” aud the
voice grew wonderfully tender—“dear
wife has been singing in paradise, three
dozen years or more. ’* The'door open
ed and closed softly, and the doctor was
gone.
“What a funny doctor! What a
queer, dear old gentleman!” thought
Miss Lacey; “ and these gloves! Well,
I have a piece of work here, no mis
take; must get out my meet-bag and
find some bits of silk or something,”
and, forgetting her fears aud weakness,
she was soon doing her best toward re
pairing the doctor’s well-worn driving
gloves.
Presently there carae a khockat the
door, aud Mrs. Cameron was admitted,
the “very respectfully Scotch woman”
whom Mrs.ffioweJl had recommended as
a “first-class” laundress,! neat, honest
and a church member,
i The woman bore in lier aims a goouly-
sized basket in which were, various arti
cles of clothing beautifully done up.
As Miss Lacey rose to receive them,
Mrs. Cameron remarked:}
‘•Perhapssome oneis siek i’thchouse.
I saw the doctor gang awa’just as I was
cornin’ in.
“I was not feeling very well,” an
swered Miss Lacey, ‘ ’lie came to see
me.”
“Oh, did he, miss! :tu’ isn’t the nuld
gentleman jis lovely?” aud iu the most
enthusiastic terms she told of the great
goodness and kindness experienced at
the doctor’s hands. Told how all her
life wus bound up in her “one wee
girlie, her bon nie Janie.” who had nev
er been strong since the first time she
had convulsions, caused by indigestion,
arid how “monny was the nignt the
gnde mon had staid until morning ami
niver a penny of pay would he take
for it. ”
“Do you know tho young doctor,
ma’am?”
“No I’m a stranger here: and know
but very few persons here;”
Well, miss, the young doctor is a
winsome lad. and a ohri-t an indeed.
He tells me often I should not fret for
fear my lassie will he ta’en irom me,
but pray the. gude God to spare me one
ewe lamb, an’ it will be his will. He
lias practiced with his father the year
or more, and how the auld doctor loves
him! He has a funny way of calling
him all kinds of nncanuy names, bu iv-
ery one knows he is the light of the
auld man's eyes.” And soOu sifter Mrs.
Cameron gathered up her basket and
departed.
Miss Lacy Jiad succeeded v iu closing
up the gaping rents in the doctor’s
gloves, the tea hour had come and gone,
but no doctor had reappeared, j
“Oh, he thinks me too comfortable a
patient to need much attention.” she
thought repiningly, “but he might have
at lent told me what my complaint was:
There! the bell, rings; perhaps feat is
he now.
And that moment a rap at' the door
being answered, Dr. Blunt entered,
hurried, flashed, and more abrupt in
manner and speech than before.
“Say, my dear girl, yon-will help a
poor woman in great extremity?”
“What do you mean, doctor?”
“Oh, get your hat and shawl, and
cofrie now. You have no husband to
consult.no children to leave, and a
poor wowan is in danger of losing her
only child to-night, ami some ane must
watch with her. ^ must be off in an
other direction. My dear chad,” again
that tender tone, “wouldn’t you like to
hear your Savior to say to you to-mor
row morning: ‘Inasmuch its ye did it
unto one of the least of these ye did it
anto me.”
"Ob, Til go doctor, I’ll be ready in a
moment.”
“Better take off that long-tailed dress
and don % good sensible calico
peAurs of thought.
of me.”
She flew about the room in a surpris- ■ Gaiignani.
ing manner for her, donned a good warm j A German author has made a collec-
moming dress, and in another moment tion of mixed metaphors, which lie calls
the doctor’s horse was tearing along the | pearls of thought. Some of them are
road as if to out run his master’s impa-1 worth quoting if only as a warning to
tience. Yet during the ride the doctor
explained to his companion how she
must be very calm—“and you can b<3,”
he added with convincing emphasis—
for the child was suffering from spasms
quite violent, distressing and danger
ous. lie told .briefly how the baths
must he administered, ana: the water
kept hot all night; and finally, in men
tioniug the patient’s name, surprised
Miss Lacey by revealing the fact that it
was poor little Janie Cameron, who had
taken ill that very afternoon, during
her mamma's absence.
Arrived at fee house, the poor, dis
tressed mother became very much com
forted by the prese'e of “the dear,
sweet, young leddy who was too good
to show such kindness to a poor body
like myself!” The doctor gave the
most minute directions to be followed
through the night, then left with the
cheerful observation:
“I’ll send the y oung doctor around
about midnight, if he .makes his appear
ance at the, family mansion before feat
tine.' Oh, tho most graceless bibed!”
and he was gone, ’
Miss Lacey reflected with great "satis
faction the next day that not otic
thought could she remember having be
stowed upon herself during that Ion
painful night, wife its new experiences
of real suffering. All bev energies-and
sympathies were directed to ward-helping
aud comforting the agonized 'mother
and relieving the sick child. w
About midnight while she was lend
ing over a warm hath, in which she was
firmly holding the convulsed frame cf
poor Janie, the door opened and the
young doctor entered. There was no
sort of an introduction between the
two—who thinks of formalities at-such
a time?—but at once they worked to
gether over the suffering child. Miss
Lacey was vaguely aware that a young
man bearded aud mustached, with a
calm deep voice and shapely white hands
gave orders which she promptly obey
ed, and spoke words of encouragement
to the poorfeyzed mother. It did not
once occur to her that there was any
thing novel in her position, as, hold
ing the child in her arms, .quieted at
last, the young doctor sat close beside
her, asking questions and giving ad
vice, no v and then turniug down a
corner of the blanket to watch flic
chaugiug expression of the little sleep
er’s face.
But he, more accustomed to such try
ing scenes, after the first Yuomeuti of
intense application tothc case, began
wondering - who this angel of mercy
could he, woiking as if her whole sonl
were bound tip in relieving this poor
little child of a lowly mother. How
• -long he might have remained is uncer
tain, had rot a messenger from another
quarter summoned him away.
The next morning Jonid was . better,
and continued to improve until the
anxipus mother was again relieved con
cerning her.
The next day but one, Miss Lacey re
ceived a call from three bright iuterest-
sug young gills, who, to her litter as-
tpnishment.informed her that Dr. Blunt
had recommended her as just tho per
son to becoiiie president of a Dorcas So
ciety.
“Oh, you must, you mnsti” they
chirped in concert, and before they left
she had partially promised to accept the
position—to her own dismay.
Bat when the minister called a few
days afterward, and said old Dr. Blunt
had insisted that a class of unruly boys
in the Sabbath School, who needed a
teacher, wrs just the work adapted to
her class, sfce succumbed tit one, “sur
rendering at discretion” all light to de
cide for herself.
Miss Lacey wrote tho doctor a spicy
little note, telling him she believed
any more prescriptions would undo the
wonderful cure accomplished.
But of late the village gossips could
nnt fail to notice how continually-the
young doctor called at Mrs. Lowell’s
house.
One morning the eider doctor was
coming out of fee house he met Lawyer
Peckham, when the following character
istic colloquy followed:
“Hi! Good morning, doctor. 'WeB,
1 hear that fee yoimg doctor is about
to bring a daughther for you to fee
‘family mansion.’ ”
“Yes, yes!”—very quickly. “Well,
well, there’s room enough m the honse
and my heart for fee precious girl, the
good Lord knows, and as for the young'
Blunt M. D.—who actually presumes
to believe that he loves and appreciates
-her better than I do-^-tho renegade! if
she can do anything ‘toward reclaiming
hit reckless casr-—There! forgotten iry
gloves, true ns the world must- go back
for them. Morning, Peckham. ”
highflown orators not to allow their
magniloquence to fly away with them
altogether. “We will,” cried au in
spired democrat, “burn all our ships,
and "with every sail unfurled, steer
boldly out into the ocean of freedom!”
Even that flight was surpassed by au ef
fort of Justice Minister Hye, who in
I84S, in a speech to the Vienna stu
dents, impressively deelared-V“The
chariot of the Revolution is rolling
along and gnashing its teeth as it rolls.”
A pan-Germanist, Mayor of a Rhine
land corporation, rose still higher in an
address to the Emperor. Hs said “No
Austria, no Prussia, ore only Germany,
such were the words the month of your
Imperial Majesty has always had in its
eye.” We have beard of the month
having an e^e-tooth, but never before
of the mouth’s eye. But there arc lit
erary men who cannot open their months
“without putting the^r foot in -it.”—
Professor Johan her Schecr is ai exam
ple of such. In a criticism on Lenar.’s.
lyrics he writes, “Out of the dark re
gions of philosophical problems the
poet suddenly lets swarms of songs dive
up carrying far flashing pearls of thought
iriffbefr beaks.” Songs aud beaks Ire
certainly related to one another, but
were never seen in that incongruous
connection before. A German preacher
speaking of a repentant girl, said, “She
knelt iu the temple of her interior and
prayed fervently,” a feat no india-rub
ber doll could imitate. “The German
parlii<mentary oratory cf the present
day affords many examples of motaphor
mixture; but iwo must suffice. Count
Fntnkenoerg is the author of them. A
few years ago he pointed out to his
countrymen tiic necessity of “seizing
fee stream of time by the foreloek;”and
in tho last session he told the Minister
of Wan that if ho thought the French
were seriously attached to peace, he had
better resign office rud “return to his
parental oxen.” The count had no
doubt tiic poet’s pcUernu rum iu his
mind at the time.'* But none of these
pearls of thought and expression in Fa
therland surpass tae speech of the im
mortal Joseph Prndhomme ou being
presented wife a sword of honor by the
company he commanded in the National
Guard of France. “Gentlemen,” said
be, j '“bis sword is the brightest day of
my life!”
Arliiicisil diamonds.
A great deal has been said lately of
the discovery of a method of making
diamonds; At first tho discovery was
denied] and lastly it was declared true,
that something that behaved like a
diamond had really been made,' It was
a pure crystal; it would cut sapphire;
it split like a diamond; and burned like
diamond.
The chemist who has sncceoded in
making these diamonds is J. B. Haunv,
of Giusecw, Scotland, and hi3 process
may bo briefly described. A hydrocar
bon gas - that is, a gas compounded of
hydrogen and earbim—ia forced uuder
enormous pressure iuto a very strong
iron tube about four inches iu diameter,
and having,a boro of only one inch, -
Chemicals containing nitrogen that
have a tendency to combine with the
nitrogen,and thus leave the carbon free,
are placed in the tube with the gas.—
Under great pressure and at a red heat
this is said to take place, arid;ou break
ing tk£ tube open, the pure carbon is
found as minute crystals on the inside
of the tube.
These crystals arc tho artificial dia
monds. They are very small, but it
takes a long time and much labor and
money to make them, and they are of
no value whatever as diamonds.
They are too sm/ril to be of any use,
and if any yoimg gentleman thinks that
when the time comes for him fo buy an
engagement ring he Can get an artificial
diamond cheap, the poor girl. will be
dead, or married to another man,beforC:
that day appears.
This is the whole of the matter—dia
monds can be made, but it is not worth
while to make them. ,
•‘And tlie Leaves Were for tiic Heal
ing of ilic SatioBs.” j
This is fully exemplified in the dem
onstration that so common a pasture
weed as smart-weed, or water-pepper,
possesses medicinal properties which,
when efSnbined with essence of Jamaica
Ginger and other efficacious vegetable
extracts, as iu Dr. Pierce’s Compound
Extract of Smart Weed. It constitutes
a most potent remedy for bowel affec
tions as diarrhoea, dysentery, finx.
It is also an efficacious medicine
an
i-ioa of pain. Every family should
a supply of it. 50 cents
i-ew York mail was c-hul'cc.
_ . gfff a ilti-il the other day, a:
a * ia j liberty to a-iodge his ow
- 15J
AUSTRALIA
A correspondent of the Episcopal
Methodist gives tho following account of
some of the strange feiugs to be seen in
Australia:
You will be astonished to witness the
luxury of living in. this remote country.
Some old squatters, who were sent ont
to Botany Bay years ago for crime, are
now more fabulously rich than the pet
ty princedoms of Germany. Within
their dwellings are all the luxuries that
exist in the moat regal palaces of the
old World. You are amazed here at
every stepyri yonrpregress in Australia,
I hope to see much of it before I finally
leave this strange land. You have hero
in three of these colonies the - greatest-
perversities of nature conceivable: birds
without wings as large as deer, their
bodies covered with hair instead of
feathers; beasts with the beaksof birds;
swans that are black, and eagles white.
Here ferns, nettles, and even grasses
grow to the size and shape of trees.—
There are rivers running from the sea
and lost in the interior swamps; trees
that are ever green despite frost and
snow; extensive plains on which one
tree, one soil, and one description of
birds, fiSh! or h- 1 *!oral, prevails alike for
for ten miles, or for one lmndred;where
the north is the hot wind, the south tlfe
cold; where the humblest house is fitted
up with cedar, and the fields are fenced
wife mahogony, where the kangaroo,an
annual between the squirrels and the
aeer, has five claws on its fore paw and
three talons on its hind leg like a bird,
and yet hops on its tail, where the mole
•ays egg3 aud has a duck’s bill, where
there is a bird that ha^ broom iu its
mouth instead of a tongue; where there
is fish, one half belonging to the genus
squams, the other to that of raja; and
where the cherry grows -with the stone
outside. Certain birds have the head
form and plumage of the parrot, and
the long, slender legs of the sea gull;
others, the legs and feet of tho parrot,
the head and neck made and colored
like tiie common sea-gull.and the wings
and tail of a hawk. There are trees
hearing three different kinds of leaves,
and others bearing the leaf of a gum
ties, with the gum exndiug, and cover
ed park nf a different kiml. Now is not
tliis a queer country?
.
-HOW. I). W. SPEER,
Under call of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee, the citizens of IToup
county assembled in mass meeting at
LaGrange, Ga., on Ihe first Tursday in
July, when Hon, F. M. Longloy offered
the following:
The citizens of Troup county,in mass
meeting assembled, under call of the
Democratic Executive Committee, here
by present to the democratic convention
of Georgia, Hon. D. N. Speer, of the
county of Troup as a candidate for
State Treasurer. Maj. Speer was born
in this comity and his life has been
spent among ns. His character is with
out spot or blemish, his superior judg
ment, his integrity, his financial ability,
his energy and business qualifications,
are all of the very highest order; and
we, his fellow-citizens, who have known
him from childhood, do thus publicly
commend him to the people of Georgia,
as a gehtleaan peculiarly fitted for the
office.
Shonld Maj. Speer lie nominated and
elected] he frill have no trouble in mak
ing a bond of undoubted solvency. He
is “pledged to tho doctrine that the
public purse should be used for public
purposes only.”
The above was adopted unanimously
by a rising vote.
■Words toTiiink of.
Vvork is no dishonor, and laziness is
no credit to any one. It- is good to have
good wages, but half pay is better than
nothing, and working for nothing is
better than.idleness alid vice. Thereis
no true mauhood without independ
ence. He whose individuality & swal
lowed up fey fashion, foli y, or society,
has lost that which he may never re
gain, and without- which his life mas:
be a Vain one. He who restrains him.
self from luxury may help others in ne .
cessity. He. who helps . others may'
look to God for help. Difficulties arc
placed iii oar way that we may over
come them, and pass through conflicts
to Victories, and through victories to
triumphs. Pride goes before destruc
tion, but honor and nobleness and in
dependence of sonl, are approved of
God, and are profitable to man.
Col. John W. Forney, although a late
convert of the democratic narty, aad,
therefore, very enthusiastic and, per
haps,- over-confident, is neverliielass a
very clear-headed politic:.! prophet. He
says feat General Hancock is snfe of all
the southern states, and also New Yor-.
These
d-eight y-
briij votes, or fefqp more than
elec; president. '. Col.
that £
OLIVE I.tMlA.V OX ADVERTISING,
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I supposo yon don’t know what sort
of pen I am writing to you with;! don’t
suppose you. care what kind a pen I am
writing to you with, yet the peu I auj
writing to yon with is an epitome of all
that has been printed,spoken of or sting
regarding the value of advertising to
the mercantile community. Observe tho
following faffs: ; ; i
In Paris, recently, I saw a friend who
had just come, over, using a pen of pe
culiar construction, designed with spe
cial reference "to those nutidy persons
who like myself, ink their fingers when
they write. Now, m" friend is a. man
whose hands are like lilies, with finger
nails like rosebuds in tint; notieenple
bands, even remarkable considering that
he is an elderly man and occasionally
helps with fee lighter work on his farm
in Nebraska. Catch him inking liisfin*
gersl “Why, where did you get -that
nice pen?” I asked him-with a vista of
blissful exemption from an nnioked
middle finger opened upon my joyous,,
expectant mind. “In Omaha/’ he an
swered. “I used to ink my finger bo.-,
fore I got it ” He did. He inked Lip
fingers! That was enough for ffleie t
got the name of tlie merchant fronv
whom he bought the pen, the price of
it, and inclosing the money, I sjntfraia-
Paris to Omaha for feat pen.-.. By-tho
last steamer it canie to nie. There bn.T
been a little delay. The stationer at
Omaha was ont of them, but he.sent up.
to Sioux Citj to the man thatadvcrtiSijg;
them for another lot. And here ja
where the laugh comes in, so-prepare to.
pucker. The pens are an English in
vention,and tons of them can be bonght.
in''London, if desired. At the-station/
er’s next door I could have got what ij
sent for to .Sioux City. But liow:cou!ct
I have known that? I dealt with the
shnn who advertised.
, : j,..
A dashing yonng fellow was recently
very attentive to a young lady whofeid
not secretly favor his attentions, land
wtio is blessed with an observing little
brother of only a few summn-’s growth..
The lady’s admirer was visiting her it
few days ago when the little chap broke,
into their presence,, and mounting ,fed
dashing yoffng man’s knee, said: “Hav-‘
en’t you got a fine room?” “Oh, ye3,”
prondly replied the dashing yonng fel-J
low.whose vanity was evidently touched
by the remark. Seeing, as be thought,1
in the circumstances an opportunity to
make a favorable impression on tho sis-,
ter, he gave life ridiistache an extra,
twist and reiterated his reply with cinj
pbas-iS. “Oh, ycs, a Very fine room.”
“I thought so,” said the young hopeful
musingly. “But what made you think
so?” said fee yotng Itkly’s adtiiirer, his.
curiosity by this time fully aroused,—
“Because,” was tlie crushing reply*.
“Sister Mag said your room was bettef
than yonr company.”
Joseph Pospiachill, who is now a pris
oner in the Austrian fortress of Ofcn.bij.
Conviction of high fray robbery, is said
to be the strongest nianliving, ijue of
the feats for which he was i’emownet]
was to support in the air witjljus hand'/.
ana i-oefe, u table upon which two gyp
sies haueed. while a third fiddled. Ho .
and one of his brothers,only less power
ful than himself, were wont to bear upon
their shoulders a wooden platform,'
shaped like a bridge, while a cart full of
stones, di-awn by two horseafrus driven
over it. The other day, when the jail,
in which ho is confined was undergoing
a risit from the municipal prison inspec
tors, this Hercules volunteered to giro’
the authorities a speciimiin of his powers
and, upon receiving their permission to’
do so, picked up with his teeth a heavy
mahogonyfeible, nine feet long, belong-'
mg to the Goverhtir, and balsuced it
aloft for nearly half a minute.
A bachelor uncle, to whom his hieco-
applicd for advice on the question of-
choosing between two suitors, one of
whom was rich and the other poor- tho
latter of course being fee.ruosc ardent,
as the favorite lover—sententiously re
plied: “My.deartho question beino-
stripped of all illusory elements, your,
choice lies between Jove and beef. Now-
love is an idea; while beef is a iklity/
Love you can live without,'but beef you.
mnst have, therefore make sure of your
beef.” ' . - >1
^ rom Mayor Harfe-ons speech at
Chicago; on the occasion of the dinner
given by visiting Baltimore Masons/
“Baltimore is tlie first large city.I ever
saw. ,4s a boy I went to it. ^Talking
•along Baltimore street; seeing its beau°-
tiinl women, oh, how I wished' I .was a.
man! I did not visit it again for long
years. A little while ago I went to jt.—.
uray hairs werp upon me. I walked’
along Baltimore street and saw its wo
men, and said, ‘Oh, how I wish I wei£
a hoy!’.”
—
A farmer on me line between Iowa
and Missouri Las been experiment* »g
wife cow-pees as a we«]| exterminwf >r,
i coeklebhrs and Spanish needle. !** og'
’ wZ.^'l i l:lkc ? possession of b?s orchard. Htj'
* '-fra, broaden i( the pea. wilt
Ranted j? ^ an^ cnl-
^ *LLout the