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PERRY. GEOEGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1889 ROYAL powoSS unriyrC-V: IF YOU WANT 8jgi8W!i m - r-n roRi --ANY KIND OF -GIVE THE -The Home JouhNAi, ee is fully prepared . to 'do aaj kind of .Ccininercial job wbri likf may be needed: All nicely jjk&r lied, and at prices that 4rill Col»- jj pete with any city. Cnll nhd lo«£ at otir samples and get our pricM ’ Tii nking of that cannon, and of But presfenlly the excitement of at high tide lie saw the water would ings, while the boat swung back-^ Some' Interesting English Sta- what he could do with it if he discovery overcame his qualms of not be much mote than two feet ward and forward , like a great j tistlcs. A bar had formed off Warble’s could only get hold of it, sometimes conscience, and He began with deep. w that the door was not-pendulum, flashing through tb$! * ‘ Wharf, sd that a whaler could not kept him anjke at nt ht. He. even great interest to examind His sur-; fastened, he could roll up his rays of sunlight. The particles of , Pan m»u < ezette. lie at it,, nor anywhere near it; but tried op several occasions to roundings by the uncertain light trousers and wade in whenever he" dust which the jar had shaken ; It is snid that encfl year 15 peP- this was not a matter of any spe- make friends with Miss Ruth, to that entered through the hole that chose to. cial consequence,- for more than the end that he might gain per- he had dome in by, and that filter-j After he had gni out of the oil- tliirty yejys had passed since a mission to investigate this delect-: ed through the cracks in the old Inns* 1 , and inte his clothes again, whaler and the wharf had anything able place. Once—when he had walls in long gleams of sunshine Teddy bad some twinges of con to do with each other. discovered the Barkum’s pigs in tvhich crit across the shadows like : science in regard to the liberties he thought he would Sneeze his; been married before and 902 are Mtoa Pnfli’c onrl rlt*nvrA it :;i ' ! _ i_ _ a i l .1!* : '! til n n ll63.d off. I StlillflfPTS. T WpIfa lYlfl rriflfroa nnt It Was a wharf in ruins; and al- Miss Ruths garden, and drove ; golden wires. most as badly dilapidated was the them opt before any great harm j He found himself in Something; Warble’s property. These twinges oil-house that stood bn the end had been done of it, with great doors that opened cd. out over the water so that a gang- j To Miss Ruth, in her poverty, way could be rigged across the ; the loss of her garden staff would 'ship’s rail and into the big room , have been a very serious matter where barrels of oil were stored. | She was truly grateful to Teddy But these doors were never open- he almost succeed- like a little open dock in the floor were but feeble on the following stopped swinging, and hung stead,! The average age^ at which men ■of the oil-house; evidently a place I morning, however, and be cduld fly by the falls just ffiefir of the marry is about 27, while the aver- where, in former times, a boat had scarcely eat his breakfast, so eager been kept. Steps, black and rotten 1 J as to get to work at setting the with age led to the level- of the little boat afloat. ed now, nor was the little sliding Moor that shut fairly down into the water, and, ’when raised, opened a channel in which a boat could be floated. Both of these doors were fastened oh the inside, and the door that opeiied on the wharf was fas tened with a padlock as big as a small cabbage, and as rusty as if it had been towed astern of the Har mony Home in a whale-cruise. ihe,Harmony iloinh Was the Whaler that used to discharge he| Cargo into the oil-house. She had been owned and sailed by Capt. Tranquil Warble, and for a long time she and her master * had the reputation of being the lilckaest ship and luckiest captain afloat. Captain Warble was coining mon ey, the Graybells., people said— Graybells was the name of the little port—and was getting richer and richer every year. Moreover he was hoarding his money in coiu “No banks fur me,” said Capt, 'Warble, “an’ no reel estate, nuther. I tried banks in ’37, an’ where was 1 after they all broke, I’d like to kpow?. An’I tried reel estate ’50, an’ after the man I’d bought it frum got off to Californy, another mail come ’long an’ proved a mort gage on it, an’ where was I then? No, no! Hard dollars hid in a place that nobody but me knows about 'thet’s safe, an’ thet’s sure.” .This was ail very well so long as good luck attended tne Harmony Home’s cruisings; but when news came from the northern seas that the Harmony Home had been nip-- ed in the ice, and had gone to the bottom with every soul on board, the captain's financial methods did not make quite so satisfactory (showing, for his widow had not the lehst notion in the world where the fortune in hard dollars, that was how hers, was to be found. 'She looked’in all the likely places for it, aiid in all the unlikely places that she could think of—and she thought of a good many—but not a trace of it could she find. At last, while she was still looking for it, she died. Then her daughter, Miss Bath Warble—who was then a young girl and very energetic, though that seem shard to believe now—be gan the search. And Miss Ruth spent all her youth aud most of her energy in search ing/fitKi here She was now, forty years old ahd looking fifty, with her fortune as safely hidden as ever, and herself still as poor as anybody could be butside of the town farm. Miss Ruth was S thin,- sour, Bharp-tongued little woman, but the Greyshells people, who were very sofry for her, said that it was no wonder that she was so thin, when she got so little to eat, and; that she was less to blame for her sourness and sharpness than she would have been had her temper been less sorely tried. For Theodore Bedford—widely and, I am pained to add; somewhat hnfavorably known, as'‘that Teddy Bedford”—the oil-house down at Warble’s wharf had a wonderful Attraction. He had peeped through the chinks in the boards time aud again, and what he had seen inside ihade hinfVildly eager to explore it thoroughly.- For strewn about on the floor were old harpoons,- and piles of de lightful ropes, and big and little' blocks and oars. He was almost for saying it, and told so with much warmth. Indeed, she even went so far as to add the some What equivocal compliment that “it was a comfort to know shat he wasn’t bad all the time, anyway.’ 5 Being thus encouraged, he was emboldened to ask her if she wouldn’t, sometime or other, let him take a look around in her oil- house. And Miss Ruth, still mel lowed by her gratitue, said almost kindly that maybe sordeiime ; or oth er she would. ♦ Nye’s wharf, down on the Point, was where the boys usually went in swimming. Warble’s wharf was nearer, but because, of the bar, the swimming was not very good there, even at high water; but it happen ed one hot day that Teddy felt too lazy to walk all the way down to the Point, so he thought he would j ust step down to Warble’s wharf and get cooled off a little. He whistled for Noah JBarkum, but as N :ah did not hear him,he had to go alone. Although it was low water, and the bar was bare, there was a cool- looking pool just in front of and shaded by the old oil-house, and into this pool he settled down very .‘.omfortably. While he was i sit ting on the sandy bottom • in this pleasant place, with ODly his head out of the water, he made a very exciting and.delightful discovery. It was dead low-tide, aid the stone foundation of the oil-house was bare clear down id the tops of the piles on which it rested. The sliding door was out of water en tirely, To his joy, Teddy- per ceived that so large a part of one corner of this door had been floor; Up these slippery steps Teddy went gingerly. His first object of investigation was the shadowy place under the stairway. He found that he had been right. It was a cannon, a little six-pound er, such as whalers used to carry to fire signals with, and it was a regular little, beauty. If he only could manage to get the use of that cannon for the ap proaching fourth of July, he thought, bow gloriously he could celebrate that glorious day! He did not stop to eiftmine the other interesting things that scattered about him. With these, thanks to his frequent peepings through the cracks; he already was tolerably fatriiliaf. The sall-loft was an undiscovered country that he longed to explore, so up the stairway that led to it he went, two steps at a time. The loft was far lighter than the room below; for the sunbeams came through the cracks in the roof as well as through cracks in the wall. It was a great bare -place, with some old sails piled up iu one cor ner, some sail-making gear still lying pn a little bench, and stiiiie chalk marks still on the floor" that doubtless showed the exact cut of the Harmony Home’s last' suit of sails. There was something a little awesome in finding all these things just as Oapt. Warble, years and years before, had left them; almost a suggestion that at any moment the captfdn himself might come up the stairs. But unpleasant thoughts of*this nature Were driven quickly and completely out of Teddy’s head as he caught sight of a delightful, fat little tub of a boat; standing close kuocked away—probably by a bang j to the side wall at the end of the from the hoSe of some badly steer- building nearest the water. The ed boat in a long' past time—that a boy twice as big as he was could wriggle through the hole. It is only just to Teddy to state that he did debate briefly with himself the propriety of taking ad vantage of his discovery, and it also is but just to add that on this occasion his logic and bis conclu sion were equallj 7 unsound. Miss Ruth frequently had forbidden him to climb over her fences, he admitted, but she Sever, he rea soned, said a Word about forbid ding him to go through holes in her doors. Indeed, so far from having sail that he must not enter the oil-house, he had her own word for it that perhaps he might go in there some day.' Very likely, he thought,- she might have meant to take him in that very day, and had forgotten about it, in which case, of course, she would be glad to find that her forgetfulness .had been set right by his own energetic action. Of course this settled the matter; he would be very sorry, lie thought, that Miss Ruth should be uncomforta ble on his account. He gave a look up and down the river to see if anybody in a boat was in sight—a curiously" anxious look, considering that he had so well convinced himself that what he was about to do was just what Miss Ruth wanted him to do—and then having assured himself that the Coast was clear', he slipped, out eff the water and acro'SS' the bit of bare sand, and through the hole. When he Was fairiy inside—again oars,* and a little mast With sail wrapped around it, lay fore and aft on the twarts; and the riidder, all ready to be shipped, was lying in the stern-sheets. Runningtackle was rove to rings in bow and stern, afid to stoat hooks in the ridge-pole of the roof. Tne ends of the lines Wfere coiled away neatly over belay- iiig-pins in two of the upright beams. Then Teddy perceived that a gfoat trap-door,= rigged with coun ter-weights* opened in the floor just over the little dock below. Ob viously, this was the identical boat for which the dock had been built. So here' the boat was, in perfect order—except that her seams had opened a little, and that would be all right when she had been a day or two in the water—aud with ev erything ready for lowering her down into the water once more, and away for a jolly cruise! As he thought of what fun he could have in that boat—along with Noah Barkum and Lem Harbum and Pud Nye and, perhaps;' Sam Wyburn,—he forgot everything else; even the little brass cannon and the Fourth of July. He wanted to go right to" work at swigging the boat up by- the tackle’ and then lowering her through the trap-door, but h6‘ foundlfe'his surprise; by the way the light was fading, that the, sun must be nearly down. Accordingly he went downstairs again,' and fouud that the tide was half in, and the hole in the door s foot finder water. There was a pin that held the door down, and when he had pfill- Anyway, he thought, by way of salve to his Conscience, it would be good for the boat to be put into the water and swell its seams tight. He decided that it would be time enough after he had performed this useful and friendly act for the im- orovement of Miss Ruth’s boat, to ask Miss Ruth’s permission to go out in her. He hesitated a little as to whether he should or should not take Noah along with him. but finally decided that tb°|s would be more excitement in doing this part of the work alone, and then springing bis discovery on Noah and the other hoys when the boat was all ready for her first cruise. ’ It wris just half-tide when he went down to the wharf and there was only about a foot of water at the sliding door. He was bare footed to start with, and it did not take him many minutes to roll np floor, he was pretty well rested and j age at which women marry is ready to go to work, again. To! about 25 years. Oilt■of every l,0d0 open the trap-door he must raise persons 602 are unmarried, 345 the boat about six feet. He went at th9- r op"s with a trill, hanline are married and 53 widowed. Over - one-half of all the women Uei#een his trousers; slip down the edge.ot considering what a perfect right certain that he Could make out be had to bfi there—it certainly among the shadows aisddr the -was odd that the very first thing ! ed this out. he fofind that he eotffd stairway leeding to. the sail-loft. he thought of was a burglary, of [ raise 4 the dool 1 ^figiJy—-for if,* fijgo, overt he storehouse, a little brass ! which he had see!! an aecoant a i was’hung with _ foituter-weights— cannon,’partly covered with a hit few days before in a New Bedford I so' be got out without diving; and pulled totf -ftew ri Wga’hr,- E-yen rest. the wharf, open the door and shut it behind him, and then scamper upstairs to the sail-loft. It was the most splendid thing he had ever had anything to do with, he thought, aud he was so excited over it he quivered from head to foot. It is possible that Teddy would have qtjivered still more violently had he known that Miss Rath War ble had seen him go down on her wharf and then disappear over the edge of it—that she had felt in stinctively that something was going wrong, and ,had made up her mind to go down to the wharf herself, as soon as she had finished paring a pailful of JuDe apples, and see what he was up to. Notwithstanding his excitement. Teddy went fit his work very judi ciously. His plan was to swing the boat up by the tackles—haul ing alternately at the bow .and stern; and making each line fast to its belaying-pin before he went at the other—until she was free of the Chocks find high enough aoove the floor for the trap-door to open; then, keeping a couple of turns of the ropes around the belaying-pins, so that the boat would not get away from him, lowei first at the bow and then at the stern, until he had her safe in the*dock below. This was a gopd plan, but he eneouotered serious difficulties in oxeeutiug it. The bow came up all'right, but for the life of him he could not budge the stern. This was discouraging.; but Teddy was a lad of expedients, and had not lived all his life on the sea- i shore without le'armflg something about rigging. There were plenty of blocks and ropes lying around, and it did not take him long to rig a snatch-block to a Hearn and to the end of the line mat he had been hauling on. With this doable purchase, by put ting out all his strength; he was able to raise" the boat’s stern. It was the queerest thing in the world, .he thou'ghf, that the stern of that boat should be. so. heavy. It seemed as" though it was made of solid iron. ■ At last he got the boat clear of the chocks, and got the Hue. made fast just in time to meet the jerk on it that came as the boat—now hanging free by the falls from the ridge-pole of the ro'of—swung across nearly the whole Width of. the !d£t, with such ?. lange' that the ridge-!pole bent and creaked, and the whole frame work of tire aid . oil-house swayed as if thougii it were coming down run. ", , Teddy .vas glacf to take a' g away easily at the bow fall, and j 15 and 45 are unmarried. In all tugging at the stern fall, with the j countries aboet.5 per cent, of mar- louble purchase with all his might. | riages prove barren. At last:the bow was high enough. and one more tussle with tha 5 dreadfully heavy stern would mak everything clear for him to open the trap-door and lower away. At about this time, also, Mis r Ruth bad finished paring her pan of .Tune apriles. Teddy strained away at his tackle with all his strength; stopping t est and to puff , like a porpois; after each round,but gaining stead- ly. At last the. boat swung level a clear six feet above the fiqo'r, and victory was almost within his grasp, It was just when he had reach ed this almost triumphant point an his labors, and had turned to make the rope fast to the belaying-pin while be opened the trap door—at this critical moment Miss Ruth Warble’s spectacled face showed at the top of the stairs, and Miss Ruth Warble’s sharp voice exclaimed: “Why, Teddy Redford! Of all created things, what badness, an- you doing here. ?” ' Teddy jumped as if he had been shot. The rope slipped From his hands and whizzed through the blocks, and that tremendously heavy stern of the little boat flash ed downward through the^sunlight. With a bang and a crash of splin tering wood, it struck a beam with such force that the old oil-house swayed aud tren^bled and seemed in a fair way to fall to piedes and there. With this banging and crashing was also a most curious jingling sound; and very astonishing was. its cause. As the stern of the boat struck the beam; the stern-sheets were broken all to pieces, and out of the stern-locker poured a stream of gold and silver coins which jin gled as they fell,- and which blazed and glittered as the* sunbeams touched them while they went rolling every which way over the floor. In the silence which followed this outburst of noisp, Miss Rath Warble and Teddy Redford just stood and stared at each other across more gold—five-dollar pieces, aud ten-dollar pieces, and even twenty-dollar pieces—than either of them had ever seen any wheres, and certainly more than they were ever likely to see again, loose dn the floor of the sail- ioft. And so the lost fortune that Captain Tranquil Warble had hid den in this queer place, before be sailed away in the Harmony Home to his death in the northern seas, wag found at last.—Youth’s Com panion. Among the English nobility 19 per cent, are childless. Married women liv* wo years longer than single ones, dthough 1 in 70dies in childbirth. If the mother dies first the fathei Absolutely Pure. 5 This powder never varies. - A marvel of *^ri5afc strength and wholesomencss. More economic* than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be -suldijjt com: 8 ition with the .multitude of low test# shop* weight, alnm aiid phosphate powders. Sold onljt in cans. Boyal Baking Powdeb Co , 106 Walnut street. N.Y. - survives 9J years, bu.t if the fathei lies first the stifyival of the moth er is 11| years as an average. Twt 'housand four hundred and forty me births occur in England daily about 33 for each 1,000 inhabitants. Februaijr is • the month in whici the greatest number of births oc cur, June the month in which oc our the fewest. The average num her of births for each marriage is 4.33. In every 1,000 births 10 art wins. Trying to Keep the Hogs Out. “Mr. President;” observed Oo 1 - onel Hartford to Mr: Harrison this morning, “have Yod tried the new pfizzle?” “What puzzle-Elijah^” inquired the President, gently.. “Putting the ‘pigs in -the' pen,’ Mr. President.” A shade came over the Presi dent’s face. “No, Elijah,” he said wearily; ”1 have'been so’busy trying to keep the hogs out of office shat I haven’t had time for any other' puzzle.” And the President pick ed np a pile of applications and muttered a mutter too deep to be articulate.'—Washington Critic.. Notice to Contractors and Builders. Sealed proposals will be received, sf the office of the clerk of the. Commie; sioners Court, of Houston county,’ up tcj. the -1st _l»lpu$ay in Juno next, for building and repairing Clarks’ bridges/ over Big Indian creek, on tho Macon an A Hawkinsville road. For particnlare and specifications, apply at the office of the Clerk of Commissioners’ C< ' Per y, Ga. , The Commissioners reserve the to reject any or all bids.- By order of the board. . .... j. m; HSvis, erk: April f24th, 1889. . Court,’ Georgia—HoustoA County: Mrs.'Mary Thompson has. applied for a 12 months support frqnL the-estate* of, filed their returniri this office:. This is therefdfeto cite all persons con cerned- to. appear ,at: the June term/ 1889 of the court of Ordinary i£f yaid.coun ty. and show cause,If any they haves, why said returns should not be received ana mage the judgment of this, court. , • • -■fWitness my official mgiiatnre,' this May 2nd; 1889. _ J H. HOUSER, ^rJina^y. ' GEORGIA—Houston Countt: He Tiiriied the Other Cheek. Willie had just come in with one eye in m’ouring, a swelled lip, and other traces of animated psrsonal encounter with some other bdy, but his face wore an unmistakable look of triumph. I’ve been fighting again, mama,” he said, in anticipation of a re buke, “and with Boh Stapleford, too, but he hit. me first. He* got in a stinger on my cheek' bone.” You should have turned the other pheek to him Willie.” j di d; mama,” replied Willie, looking critically at U Contusion on his diminutiye-fist. , “I turned the other cheek toward, him; but . cilesief Pearce bias applied for permaq nent letters of administration J>n theefif ih,te of Simon ESlde'r, deceased:. . - . “5 This is therefore to cite all persons eon/ cerned to. appear .at the June. Term/ 1889, of the ConrAdf .Ordinary ,#>f I said County,’ aiid .Show oaifse; if .fcpy they; have, why said application should*not be f "ranted, .. . .. fitness mv official signature this May 2cd,l8>39:' ; -. . . -.- J. II. HOUSER, ‘ Ordinary: GEORGIA—Houston County: Jot letters. estate of Mrs." A. C;.. Bryan has ai fiaminiktratioii. on the. Harriet. T. Bryan; deceased: , 'MSB | .This is. therefore to cite all persons com" cerned.do appear at the June, term/ 1839/ of the court of Ordinary of said, conn ;. ty| and show cause, if any they have/ jrhiy said application should not granted.*,. Witness my official signature thifeMaf 2tfd.A889r J. H. HOU&EB, $w. Ordinary/ you can jnst bet your little pile ! didn’t give him time to hit it.” A man has just died at Lancas- tei 1 ,- Pennsylvania, after fifty-three years of illness. When a boy of ten years he became afflicted with rheumatism, and from that time until his death was confined to his bed. His body was that of a bov with the- head . of a full grown man. In a Tarrytown sanitarium is a petrified prehistoric lizard 11 feet a;nd one inch long, 18 inches broril at the shoulders, and 9 inches at the head, and weighing three hundred pounds. Its color is gray and its substance . sand stone. The specimen, which is al most perfect, was exhumed ou tL e shore of Charlestown lake, five miles from Farmersyilfe, Prov ince of Ontario, in Jdfy of last year. . GEORGIA.—Houston County: C. G. Gray/admluistratbr bt the pafaM 6'f W. W. Cook; deceased, has applied for letters of dismission from said trust: Thisis therefore to cite all persons .Cbi?- ceroed to' appear at the : .July term 1889 of the COurt of Ordinary of - saio granted; _ t , r Witness rpy official, signature this March 28/1889. J-: H; HQUSER, 3m. _ Ordinary. A RUINED HOME. Our hotac- is on fire! Our home b burning op H What Jrj-so pipreing to the soul! Fire, indeed, is’ terrible when it adtroya inanimate things we love/ but-how rr.nch ihore terrible when it ddtroys tha! hyin^.t-ssucs of the fiesh! Fire,in the. blood, how. Oscar Clute, the new president of the Michigan board of agricul ture, has been a paper boy, clerk, teacher, farmer, minister fed edi tor. A Female Paradox.' 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