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JOHN II. HODGES, Proprietor.
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VOL. XXL
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1891.
NO. 6.
THE NEW
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To Those Contemplating ihe
Purchase
OF A PIANO,
• You can buy a Piano from Slop upward. Let
ub know how much you care to invest, and we will
give the full value of your money.
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is no alternative.
What are you willing to pay?
We would suggest the following to aid you:
WEBER PIANOS.
The favorite Piano of the world’s great singers
Patti and Vilsnon. Positive evenness of scale, sus
capability of action, freedom from metallic tone
and extraordinary durability, characterizes this
world famous piano. ■ _
EVERETT PIANOS.
“An honest piano at an honest price,” or in oth
er words, a strictly ftrst-clas3 piano within the
reach of those of moderate means.
The Everett Piano took the highest awai d at the
recent Georgia State Fair for superier tone, per
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The victory was complete, though the Everett
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fho summit of superiority in a low price ptano.
The great parlor favorite on account of its not
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The first of the southern states to iu vent and umn-
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A PEUth-.OTSilFT PUDAL.
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scarcely be heard outside of the room. Worth its
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DUPLEX TOUCH.
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the object of which is to strengthen weak augers
and wrists Some persons can never becomogood
performers on account of weak fingers and wrists.
The Cooper Plano |the Georgia Piano] has solved
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. We handle in our business pianos of nine differ
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Write for catalogues of diflerent manufacturers.
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took not a single premium. Merit wilTtell!
rest!ess and nervous, and by night “Mr. Weaver, I am sorry for mother; and so it proved, for
that be was pale and weak. The, this,” Mr. Wade said, simply,, as
next day he did not appear at the j he left, toe room.
office, and word came that he was! His heart was very tendfr to-
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“Jimmy!” called Frank Hep
burn, the-bandsome yonng book
keeper for Wade Brothers.
Jimmy the office-boy for the
same firm, as is usual in such cases,
did not hear. It is a singular fact,
not yet explained, that deafness is
more prevalent among office-boys
than among any, ether class of
wage-earners.
“Jimmy!”
Frank Hepburn called more
sharply this time, and Jimmy, 're
linquished his favorite ■ occupation
of drawing cats with red ink on the
firm’s note heads,'nud slowly ap
proached Mr.' Hepbnrn’s stool.
Take this letter to the postof-
fiee, and drop it into the box mark
ed ‘City,’ and be quick, please.”
Jimmy took the letter, placed it
carefully between his teeth while
he put on his hat and coat; he then
surveyed the envelope closely and
asked:
“What’s that mark in the corner
for, Mr. Hepburn ?”
“Clear out, you rascal 1” laughed
the young man, slightly coloring.
“It’s a secret-society sign. Now
go!”
As the boy passed from the of
fice, Weaver, the cashier, looked
up and yawned: “Well, it’s my
lunch time,” and a minute later he
was hurrying after the leisurely
Jimmy.
“I’m going past the postoffice,
Jim,” lie remarked, as he overtook
that youth; “give me Hepburn’s
letter and 1,11 drop it in for you.”
Jimmy, glad of an opportunity
to engage in an interesting game of
marbles, he -sa.v being played
round the corner, willingly gave up
the letter, and Weaver passed
down the street.
“Ah, that’s the way the wind
blows, is it?” he thought, glancing
at the address. “‘Miss Bertha
Willey, 219 Madison avenue.’ I
thought that engagement was en
tirely broken off. This doesn’t
look like it, but I mean to know
for certain.”
Weaver had long beeu Hepburn’s
most persistent rival. The lady iu
the case was n prize well worth any
man’s earnest efforts to win, and
when Frank Hepburn’s engage
ment to her was announced, none
of her admirers felt half the chagrin
that seized Weaver. He had felt
almost certain of winning her him
self at one time, and in the expec
tation of handling her snag for
tune had incurred certain debts
which, according to the rude fash
ion of debts, were now “staring
him in the face.” Great, then, had
been his satisfaction when a report
reached him of the broken engage
ment, and he immediately called
on Miss Willey. She received him
cordially, and in the two succeed
ing weeks he frequently repeated
the call.
“I will strike while the iron is
hot,” he said to himself, and on
this ve'ry evening had determined
to know his fate, when the sight of
Hepburn,s letter upset his plans.
“I will know what is in it,” he
thought, desperately. “I can open
it—it’s very carelessly sealed
Hepburn can’t come between us
again, if I can help it.’ ’
He hurried home, and holding
the envelope over a steaming ket
tle in his mother’s kitchen, soon
had its coveted contents in his
hand. It ran thuf:
“Bertha, Dear: I was wrong,
and you were right. Cat I come
and be forgiven? I have a fine
business offer from a house in St.
Paul; if I do not get a favorable
reply from you to-morrow, I shall
accept it, and go immediately.
Life without you is unendurable
here.. Frank.”
“You will get no answer to-mor
row,” Weaver muttered; “and once
safe in the West, my coast is clear.
What an idiot, to trust all his hap
piness to a letter! But then he’s
so terribly proud; he thought it
would hurt his dignity less to write
a note than seek sn interview.”
Yes, Weaver was right; Frank
was proud, and so was Bertha. A
trivial lovers’ quarrel had come be
tween them, and Berthn, feeling
sure Frank must see in time he
was wrong, did not try to right
herself. She would gladly meet
him half-way in any effort of re
conciliation, but farther than that
her womanly self-respect would
not let her go. Meantime her even
ings were lonely, and when Mr.
Weaver called, he found her very
ready to be entertained.
On the day nfter Weaver obtain
ed this letter, he watched Hep
burn narrowly, and saw he was
sick.
“Packing up for St. Paul,'
Weaver sneered to himself. “It’s
just an excuse.”
But Frank Hepburn’s was no as
sumed illness. “A bad case of
brain fever,” the doctor said, as he
gazed with more than professional
interest on the young man lying
before him. His brown eyes were
wide open, and restlessly flying
from one face to another, as if in
search of one that never came,
while his parched tongue constant
ly formed the word “Bertlin," gen
tly and pleadingly spoken as long
as strength permitted him to utter
it. Then, as he became weaker,
only a balf-articnlated murmur
greeted the ears of the anxious-
watchers who bent above him.
“Who is Bertha?” the physician
at last asked the weeping, gray
haired mother who had come from
a distant city to care for her only
son. “We must find her. 1 have
done all 1 can for his body, but
only lier coming can relieve his
mind.” And, he added softly, “she
must come soon.”
“If I ouly knew,”' the mother
answered, “how I w.ould fly to her!
It is breaking my heart to face
those eager, longing eyes; but I do
not know. Among my boy’s pa
pers -are several notes signed,
‘Bertha,’ but no other name is
given, and all are dated ‘Home.
Oh, doctor, it is hard to know a
woman holds my beautiful boy’i
life in her hands, and I cannot
even plead with her for it!” And
with a passionate gesture she turn
ed away.
• At the office, things went on as
sual. Weaver noticed Frank’s
desk remained vacant, but said to
himself, when the clerks spoke of
his illness:
“Men don’t die of broken hearts,
and'he will recover, cured of his
fancy.”
He could not, however, bring
himself to destroy the stolen letter,
but when alone, constantly took it
from his pocket and glanced at it
One day, while doing so, Mr.
Wade suddenly entered the room.
Hastily slipping it under a pile of
bills, Mr. Weaver looked up
“Mr. Weaver,” his employer
said, “let me come to your desk,
want to glance over poor Frank’s
papers. Iam afraid the poor boy
himself will never do that again.
Sad, isn’t it?” And Mr. Wade’s
kindly voice grew husky
“Is it so bad as that sir?” Wea
ver murmured, while a deadly
faintness seized him.
“So bad as toat, I fear;” Mr.
Wade answered, mechanically tak
ing up a pile of papers and run-
-ning over them. Suddenly he’ex-
claimed:
“What’s this?—a letter written
by Frank himself, and never sent?’
The pity that a moment ago had
filled Weaver suddenly vanished,
and a fierce desire to escape detec
tion had taken its place.
“Why, yes,” he said; “I remem
ber Frank intended to invite Miss
Willey to the opera for Thursday,
but changed his mind, and I sap-
pose did not send the letter. How
ever, I am going down to inquire
after him at noon, and if you will
give me the letter, I’ll leave it
with his mother.”
“Yes, yes,” assented Mr. Wade,
“that’s a good idea.”
But he still held it in his hand,
while Weaver could hardly retain
his desire to snatch it away.
“If I get the cursed tiling in my
own hand once,” he thought, “it
will never be seen again.”
Just then Jimmy entered.
Catching sight of the letter in Mr.
Wade’s hand, h e exclaimed:
“Why, Mr. Weaver, yon didn’t
mail that letter that day!”
Weaver turned pale.
“You don’t know what you’re
talking about,” he said, as Mr.
Wade glanced op inquiringly.
“Yes I do,” Jimmy persisted;
“that’s the letter Mr. Hepburn
gave me to mail the! day before he
got sick. Don’t you remember his
saying that little cross was a secret
society sign?”
Why didn’t you mail it Jimmy?”
Mr. Wade interrupted, sternly-
“Why, sir, on my way to toe of
fice, Mr. Weaver took it from me,
and said lie’d mail it hiingelf,”
Jimmy had taken toe letter from
ward the poor boy he had seen that
Frank Hepburn awoke—very weak,
indeed, but rational, “ready to
drink a gallon of beef tea, and be
married that very afternoon, ’ Jhe
The Outlook for 1891.
John H. Dent m Southern cultivator-
morning tossing .restlessly from i whispered, faintly,
side to side, agd still -trying to. j When-Mr. Wade returned to the
murmur “Bei^ha.” . j office, he found Weaver had drawn
- “The name is the same,” he j bis pay and left-
commented. ‘TU take her the
note and explain its delay. There
may be a eonnectson between this
and his brain-fever: God grant
that there is.”
Hurriedly calling a cab, he drove
to the address on the envelope,
and was soon greeted by a. young
lady who responded to bis inquiry
for “Miss Bertha Willey.” '
She was a very, beautiful girl^
but there was none of the gay
brightness one would look for in,
creature so yonng. She had
air of weariness like that which
comes from long nights of sleepless
ness, and there was a suspicion of
tears in her voice as she greeted
her visitor.
“Is this your letter?” lie asked
abruptly.
She looked at him rnther-haught-
ily an instant, then her whole air
changed to ope of intense eager
ness as she cangbt sight of the ad
dress. “Yes,” she breathed, and
in a moment had Taken toe note
and devoured its contents.
“Where did you get it?" she
asked, looking up the pretty color
that tinged her cheeks as she read
dying out, and her little air of
hauteur returning, though her eyes
still danced, and there was: a glad
ring in her sweet voice. ; ;
Ignoring her question Mr. Wade
said, sharply:
“Do you know its writer is dy-
Frank—oh, my dar
ing?
“Dyin.
ling!”
There was no need to ask if this
was Bertha. Only one woman can
utter a man’s name in that tone.
The light and color died oat of
her face in an instant, and a hard,
strained look came in their place,
more pitiful than any tear. She
put her hand on her heart a mo
ment and then said, simply:
“Take me to him please.”
“Get your hat,” Mr. Wade
swered.
But she only lookod- at him
again and whispered. “Take me
to him.”
Without a word ihore, he led her
to the still watting cab.
On reaching the house, Mr.
Wade left her in the hall and hur
ried up stairs. A few swift words
explained to the doctor below, and
he hastened down.
“Yon must be very quiet,” he
said, gently, thongh the charge
seemed nnnecessary in greeting
the almost stony figure that await
ed him.- “Sleep must coins within
an hour, or death, or hopeless in
sanity will result; but go to him,
look and speak quiet and naturally,
and if it is yon he is dying for (a
shudder ran through the gial) we
may save him yet.”
The girl rose and went to the
glass. “Look-and speak natural
ly.” Even in that hour of'anguish
she wondered if the face there was
hers. He would not kmjw those
pinched cheeks, those staring eyes
and bloodless lips. She stood a
moment biting her lips, rubbed her
cheeks and then smiled at .the
glass. That wonderful thing, a
woman’s love, had triumphed over
nature, and with a smiling face
she cotfld meet Death himself, if
smiles wonld help her in her des
perate endeavor to rescue her her
loved from his grasp.
The doctor led the way to - the
sick-room, opened the door and
stood aside as she entered. Bertha
sweyed for an instant.s&she .caught
sight of the pitiful, wasted form
extended before her; but again
Love triumphed, and swiftly ad
vancing to his bedside, she bent
above the wistful eyes and said,
clearly and softly:
“Love, did you call me?”
For a moment the lace looking
into hers retained the eager,
searching look it had worn for
days; then it died away, and one,
of perfect content filled its place.. :
“Bertha!” toe pinched lips tried
to say.
“He knew I wouldn’t keep him
an hour,” Mr. Wade said, while
relating the circumstance for the
hundredth time at the Hepburn-
Willev wedding, two months later.
“What kind of a heart must it be
thgt would try to separaie such a
couple as that!”
. And he glanced'with almost fa
therly pride at the handsome pair
who were standing nnder a floral
arch, receiving the congratulations
their friends,were showering upon
them.
“Bless my heart!” he added,
softly? “surely the angels them
selves must smile ou such wonder
ful love as 4 theirs.”—Popular
Monthly.
Too Indulgent by Far.
“Yes,” said Mr. Easyman to
Bev. Dr. Prudent, the new minis
ter, who was paying his parishion
er a friendly visit, “you are nn
questionably right. I do not be.
lieve in being overstern with chil
dren. Now mine treat me as they
would an elder brother or play
mate. No scampering upstairs
when they hear my latchkey turn
in the door. Not much! Make
your home cheerful—that’s my
motto.”
A frowsy haired youth of some
six summers appeared on the scene
at this juncture. After eyeing the
clergyman critically for a moment
he broke out with:
“Say, pa, what’s a jay?”
An omnious frown settled upon
the brow of the indulgent parent
as he replied: “A jay, my son, is
a rather showy bird, having a low,
erectile crest of feathers and—
“But, pa, they Can fly, can’t
they?”
“Certainly, my boy. They are
noted, too, for their propensity to
chatter and, for instance, to ask
foolish questions.” The frown
deepened as the boy went on:
But how can they fly, pa, with
out any wings?”
“My son, I think I heard your
ma calling you a few momeuts
ago
Yes, pa, I’m going, only as I
heard you tell ma last night that has found the farmers with a short
What is the outlook for 1891?
The year 1890 ends with an eight
million bale crop,provisions scarce,
cotton iow priced, provisions priced
high, that means debt, and hard
times for those who have their
provisions to buy. Cotton pro
duction will soon exceed consump
tion if they continue to increase
the area planted, and if so the far
mers will 'find themselves -in the
same fix as they were a few years
ago, making cotton to buy provis
ions with,, which means debt and
bard times. A little reflection on
the part of the farmer^ should con
vince them that such farming is
their rain; they have had the ex
perience of it already, so why per
sist in a system known to be their
ruin. The wise course would be
to plant less cotton, and raise more
stock, and make farming a source
of self-sustaining instead of in
debtedness and dependence. The
I review of farming 'for the last fif
teen years shows what an error
was made in raising all cotton and
buying provisions. Instead of the
farmers making any money it
made the merchants rich, built up
their cities and towns, impoverish
ed the farmers, and farms.went
down to nothing; in short, the far
mers became merely the hewers of
wood and drawers of water, but
little better than toiling slaves.
And this state of things is brought
about again by making all cotton
and but little provisions. A great
er calamity could not be brought
about, overwhelming the agricul
tural writers of tlie soutb, than for
the farmers to adopt again such a
suicidal course: we wonld advise
the farmers to curtail 1 their cotton
crops for 1891, and increase their
grain, and grass crops and raise
more stock; do this, and let cotton
sell at low prices and it wont effect
them, but to plant another large
cotton crop on the back of the
eight million bale crop, the price
received for it will be below the
cost of production. As we manage,
we must expect results according
ly. So if we glut the world with
cotton, and neglect raising onr
supplies of provisions, we must ex
pect cheap cotton anJ high priced
provisions. The corn crop of 1S89
was abundant, so the farmers in
creased their cotton planting. The
ccrn crop of 1890 is short, and it
A Mechanical Cotton Picker.
Scientific American.
our new minister was a regular jay,
I just wanted to come in here and
see whether he could fly. Say,
mister (to toe astonished clergy
man), you ain’t got any feathers,
have you?”
There was a sudden movement on
toe part of the indulgent parent,Bay s
the New York Herald, followed by-
the sudden disappearance of the
youthful inquisitor. Then came a
aeries of discordant howls from the
hall beyond.
“My dear air,” observed the pa
rent upon entering the room,
“while I admit that I am a kind
and indulgent parent—why!”
At this point the .front door was
heard to slam violently. The min
ister had disappeared, and now
Mr. Easyman is talking about
renting a pew in another chnrch.
ly laying her cool lips on.his; “and
now, darling shut jour eyes. I
will put my cheek against'yours,
and we will rest”
Like a. tired child, he obeyed
Mr! Wade’s hand, and turning it-her, nestling his head on thecool,
over, exclaimed:
“It’s opened now!” j while the peachy cheek that lay on
There was no need to question his seemed to possesas an almost
Weaver; the look of bitter hatred ■ magic power. j
he turned on Jimmy told his guilt “He is saved!’- the doctor mnr-1J^pay a dTridenc! unFo^per
“There are,” said the drummer,
'some persons who seem to think
that the people of the far west,
however enterprising and hospita
ble they may be, live a in rough-
and-ready sort of style. Of coarse,
the fact is that people of refined
tastes like to be civilized wherever
they are, and in these days of quick
communication the people at' all
established centers of population
like in about the same manner
throughout the country. One
would be likely to find as many
men in dress suits lit an evening
social entertainment in a Montana
or Texas city as he wonld at any
similar entertainment in an eastern
city.”
The greatest craze among the
women of the city to-day is to keep
from getting fat.. A fashionable
doctor told a reporter, of. the New
York San that toe-illness resulting
from their methods of keeping
down their weight form toe bulk
of his practice. Few of them diet;
on the contrary, they dine elegant-
supply or corn, and an excessive
cotton crop.- The result will be,
their surplus cotton money will
have to be paid for provisions,
whilst if they planted enough
ground for provisions, and had not
increased their cotton crops, the
balance would have move equally
and profitably divided in this years
earnings. The'corn crop of 1890
being short, it must be made np
with oats; a large crop of oats
should be planted to help out the
corn. We have been so unfortu
nate with oats of late years, being
rties, and rely on
and tight lncing to
‘Yes, Bertha,” she cooed, soft- offset the effect of their indulgence.
A few who are strong will take to
gymnastics and walking, as men
do, but this doctor says those are
too few to be worth counting.
Oyster culture on the coast -of
Georgia as a business success, has
... . .A- fine outlook A Connecticut
sou arm slm slipped under it, company platted 100,000 bushels
last spring, and they expect 150,- ‘
000 bushels in return for the plant
ing, which will bo worth 8200,000.
have abandoned fall sowing and
rely on spring sowing. Some years
ago, oats sown in January were
the most successful,but our springs
have become so late and cold, Jan
uary sowings are considered very
precarious, and it is safest to rely
on February sowing, especially in
North Georgia. Gar safest ar,d
most important crop is corn; some
years it may be cut short by
drought, but on an average of
years it generally makes a fair
crop. I have planted corn for fif
ty-six years, and have never failed
to make a sufficiency to *lo me,
while I have made failures in oth
er crops; hence, I say corn' is the
most certain crop we can make
Before old age overtook me, I was
considered a fair average fermsr,
and when I could give farming my
personal attention I made corn my
special crop, and it received thor ;
ongh culture, and there is no crop
planted so dependant on thorough
culture to ensure a good yield. It
is a crop when thoroughly cultiva
ted that can better stand dronth
than an other crop, and more easi
ly managed. It was an old saying
in my early days “that eoru should
be made when the seed was in the
crib,” meaning that the ground
should be thoroughly prepared be
fore the seed was put intp it, and
if done, the future cultivation
would be made light and easy, and
moderate seasons would ensnre a
fair yield. I found it to be so,and
the same rule still holds good.
The Waco Day, Texas, describes
as follows the -operation of a new
cotton picker, by Mr. Campbell,
lately tried at that place.
The essential feature is 330 spin
dles, or fingers, projecting through
and from a hdlow cylinder. These
fingers are ten inches long, and
have at the end a brush or tip of
fine wire, and set in four grooves
radially in horse hair, clipped so it
projects from the fingers about
one-twetfth of an irrch, the tip and
the hairs on the side being the
means of getting the cotton from
the bolls. The fiugers or spindles
are given a whirling motion by a
system of cog gear inclosed within
the cylinder. Moving forward,the
cylinder revolves, the fiugers come
contact with the cotton, the
whirling motion of the fingers en
tangles the cotton lint, and it is
picked, then carried upward and
backward until-cleaned from the
fingers by brushes, and thrown in
to receptacles holding sixty pounds
of seed cotton. v
The revolutions are so timed that
the fingers which project at the
spokes of a wheel strike the plant
without a raking motion, for .that
would damage the plant. No
jury comes to the leaf or boll from
running the machine over the
plant.
With a width of four feet, length
seven feet, and height of five and
one-half feet, th^ machine, com
plete, weighs about 1,200 pounds,
aud is of easy draught for two
mules.
The rows were IS5 yards Ion
and were gone over twice, the re
sult being the cotton was cleanly
picked out of the bolls, the ma
chine being ns thorough in this, re
spect as the fingers oE the negro.
No injury to the foliage, bolls or
branches, of the plants was noted.
In the morning when the cotton
was slightly damp, a gathering
from one row made by, the ma
chine, weighed a little more than
thirty pounds. The waste knock
ed on the ground by the machine,
was picked up by hand and weigh
ed five ounces. In the afternoon,
with the cotton perfectly dry, the
cotton picked from one row weigh
ed over twenty-eight pounds, and
the waste picked np weighed near
ly three and one-half pounds.
The time made was about five
pounds a minute, or 300 pounds an
hour. Allowing time, liberally,
for emptying the receptacles, stop
ping for repairs, meals, and so on,
the machine could easily work ten
hours a day, and-Would gather 3,-
000 pounds of seed cotton at a to
tal expense of 83 per day, making
the total cost of the picking for
each bale 81,50. At present prices
the cost is frilly 810.
A Dog With a Memory.
Quarterly Review.
The following, remarkable at all
. events as a feat of memory, was
killed out by freezes, most persons,) to1d me by the ownfir o£ an Irish
.IT i Vrsonn
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Ilrow's : nr.-. Hitters
will enable the com- rebuild, the H5r.1I0u.rcnmYes.es-
ecu of T£!u. th.t
•iuI-i: i a Get ihe genuine.
more eloquently than any words. mured to the happy, bewildered cent the first year.
water spaniel, the only dog I ever
knew that would perform tricks
and was good to shoot over, at the
same time. His master was out
walking with him at the beginning
of the long frost in the year 1855,
which set in about the middle of
January. He went on a frozen
mill-dam, where the- water was
Very deep, and accidentally drop
ped his snnff box through a little
round hole in the ice. The dog
was dreadfully distressed at not
being able to get it,but was obliged
to go home with its owner, who
thought no more about the matter.
Two months- afterward, when the
frost had gone, he and the dog
passed . by ihe same place. The
dog paused opposite Ihe spot where
the box had disappeared, sewned
to think intently for a minute, then
plunged in, dived to the bottom,
and retnrned with the snuff box in
his month.
It Was a Rich Man’s Panic.
% Atlanta Constitution.
It is safe enough now. to pass
judgmant upon the recent panic.
The flurry was confined to the
financial world—to Wall street and
other money centers. The people
generally wpre riot touched by it,
although many for a time gave
way to timid fears.
The general run of business has
been gcod all the time. But peo
ple with money felt alarmed and
refused to lend nnder any condi
tion. They locked np their fnnds,
and by their' cautious conduct
caused a scare to run throughout
the land.
When people had time to think
the riiatter over, and smvey the
situation, they saw that there was
really no ground for a panic. Es
pecially is this true of the sooth.
In this section the people are grad
ually getting out of debt; they are
rapidly developing their material
resources; new capital is seeking
investments, and the outlook is
promising.
It will be said that money is
scarce. So it was a year ago, and
so it will be a year hence, unless
the volume of currency is expand
ed to meet the demands of busi
ness. Money has not suddenly
disappeared. We have simply
opened our eyes to the fnct that
onr per capita circulation is too
small, and that when the crops are
to be moved there is a great de
mand for ready cash.
So far as the people are con
cerned, there is no panic. The
scarcity oE money is a normal con
dition under onr present financial
system, and there can bo no mark
ed change for the better until we
expand the currency and get rid of
the most oppressive features of the
national banking system. This '
reform is bound lo come sooner or
leter.
Babylon’s Method of Marriage.
Wellington Star.
According to the statement ot
the “father of history,” it appears
that iu Babylon, that wonderful
Asiatic metropolis, all the young
women, without exception, were
sold at auction to the highest bid
ders for wives. There was no re
serve in this matter. No father
had any right to dispose of his
daughter’s bund; she mnst be vend
ed under the hammer. With the
rich men of Babylon it was a point
of vanity to buy the most beautiful
girls offered at the periodical sales,
and to present to their friends any
such lovely chattels &3 they did
not need for themselves. The cus
tom was to first offer for market
the most beautiful maidens, and
after they were disposed of, the
plain virgins were fetched np and
bonuses offered with each to any
one who would bny them. And
here came in what one mast recog
nize as an admirable point in this
arrangement. All the money paid
by the rich men for the young la
dies they selected went to mnke
dowries for the unattrative girls,
which was duly paid in spot cash
to the poor men, who were thus
made happy with less seductive
brides.
King Charles, of Boumania, has
laid the foundation stone of the
new railway bridge across the
Danube at Tehernavoda. Jlis
Majesty declared that 'the new
bridge wonld be the lougest one in
Europe, and would form the short
est means of communication be
tween-the North and Black seas,
thus making an epoch in the his
tory of Europe, aud affording evi
dence of the economical powers of
Boumania.—New York Times.
One of the mo3t peculiar cases
ever known in the history of Illi-
noies is that of Judge Stipp, of
Princeton, who recently became
deranged from the effects of anxie
ty aud worry over the necessity for
passing the death sentence upon a
convicted murderer, although he
had been on the bench for twenty
years. But a relation of the judge
was recently hanged and snbse-
qvently proven innocent, which so
preyed upon the judge’s mind that
he became averse to applying the
death penalty on circumstantial
evidence, but saw no way to avoid
it. Such an end of a long and dis
tinguished career at the ripe age
of 70 years is truly deplorable.—
Exchange.
Dnring the last fifteen years the
enrolled military force of the lead
ing European nations has doubled.
There are now 11,000,000 men in
Europe ready to be called into the
field.
Merit Wins
We desire to say to onr citizens,
that for "years we have been sell-
Osman, of Cavallovit, Turkey, is
probably the oldest man in the
world. He has docnriients to prove
that lie has lived 160 years.
Life Pills, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell
as well, or that have' given such
universal satisfaction. We do not
hesitate to guarantee them ever
time, and we stand ready to i
the purchase price, if satic”
results do’not follow t, -- :
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