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says from what little he did see, it was all make belief that you was j TVHAT PBOHXBITIOX Ams AT. DIVIDK THE LOSS. UXCLAOiEi
looted to him life both j^>i whip- gittin’ drunk. Yoa all seem to be I
petL He said they ‘ran here and . nice men, and we are not afriad of; The- trae object aimed at by pro-j 1= "~"j ■'=~«=a*=- 2*==:m.jxiHts
yonder and everywhere. Soma m v *- you now.” 1 hibitionists and supporters of pro- In Yiew of the low prices cotton j We want to call
at each other and shot, and got be- “Well mam,” says Jim, “thatj Mbitory laws wafi thus pertinently j is now bringing, a writer in the ; oar exchanges fo a
hind trees, and fell down like they big man there,” pointing to Zeke, 1 delineated by Sev. Herrick John- Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser think is of some in
were dead, and same were . dead' “used to be a down before- he join-1 son - Chicago. j ur S es cheaper handling of the sia- though itmay not
sure enough. Than he said a whole 1 ®d the army and *ifs his natural “Prohibition aims at a thing not P* 6 - 3^ suggests that commission country newspapa
crowd run along down on this side way. He can’t help playing fool a ® aD - It would smite a traffic, merchants and warehousemen re- many thousands of
of the river, and aoother crowd run | even in. tbe.war.” . ‘ < not a personal indulgence; annihi- dnce their-charges; that tbe rail- dfed in banks whiel
along oa the other side. Then bei “And mam, ourbiHe fngndbe-ihte grog-shops, but-not invade roa ^ 3 lesen^ihe transportationed. A stranger ma
g>g omit hi; wing (1ip nw’im ihey; longed to a roving band of Gypsies; homes. Sea how this works in nth- that those who gin eharge! city and make a dej
were cannon) standin’ on die pike \ before be joined ns, and it is said I er matters. A mob is a bad thing. ^ ess P 61- ba)e than heretofore, and and disappear in ;
and ma&in’ a noise like thunder,] none of that race of people were s Prohibition says, ‘Hepress it’ Bat j tbat price of picking be lessen - and never beneai
and sich a great smoke, like a j exez known to tell the truth. They j to repress it, it may be necessary i ®* 1 - in rorther explanation and j heirs never know th
cloud, that you couldn’t see the I arc taught from childhood io lie—j to seize private property and de- ; ea T arcemea I ol h 3 proposition the deposit. A man ni
men standin’ arnimd ’em. Then I they call it joHng.” - : stroy life; nevertheless, ihe mob Is i WTller shows that, while the nei on New York and p
you eould hear ’em holler a mile, j “But, we have enjoyed yonr} what prohibition is after, not the ] p E a Sve-hondred-pound: it, and be burned
and directly them big guns on 1 hospitalityto -Hie fullest extent,-life and property, i. coiffl8gia-^ 6 cents per idraft in his pocket
vheels'with six and eight big horses [and. assure yon all that we-v will] Monism bad thing. Prohibition jP° n j] s ®~£ t kc e o=st of the pick--suppose his money
sonM be seen going down on both j never forget your Hndnea*. The! says, ‘Stop it.’ Bat to stop itrmay j ^ 2 . ciar S15-60, ieay-. with him and never
:ides the river, with men on their] boys have decided we cannot re-1 require seizure and destruction of| ,a f “ * Cut oi this, rerehc^, and the bai
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Practice in Am SUPREME COURT of
the United States^
553 00727 0? CLAIMS,
AH iha Sxaeettvs Sepatsuat* *ad 3 litre
RETREAT FROM LAUREL HILL.
“ j raate a call for the cutting oa of j no hardship on the femfco.- to be
~I all possible cost and expanse. j obliged so publish unclmmed mon-
} In jastiee to the producers, upon j ey which he has the use of. Th«
l whom ail the burden of low price j law requires the man who
^ must fall, this suggestion should] money to advertise it Unclaimed
, | recede proper consideration at the | money is lost money to the heirs,
1 j hands of the general public j and should be advertised. Some
i 'through whose hands cotton mast j of us undoubtedly would be sur-
’ pass from the fields to ihe mids. j prised to learn the amount. We
- A slight redaction by each, ihe j have heard of $40,000 of one man
’ picker, giauer, factor, banker, rail- ] who deposited ft while drunk and
\ road and commission cotton mer- forint it T r . r
, ^ . . - - 1 - or ='" 1 3i years, oecame poor
ehaal; would produce an advance j and acrid eniaiv discovered his
j in the price to the farmers of the1 deposit
j spuih that would amount io &L-
j 250.000 on this crop; and yet would A LECTURE TO LOVERS.
; be only a few cents per bale ou the
: revenue that each person handling --’ er °me Jerome, the English
j the cotton woald get j f 3s ^|f*5l fcamorist.delivers this
j As quoted above, the tola! ex- j ia3eres ^ E « lecture to lovers and
I pease of handling a bale is S15.60; th contemplating love:
! ten per cent, deduction from this, j ^ on _ l00 -ish, foolish little
{say §L50, amounts to a million and-] mall ; eE5 5 with yonr neads full of
[ a quarter dollars saved to fhera-jJ 11 om, bow often, oh ,how of-
| mers oa the whole cropr a catting 1 2l f * 03 vrarne< ^ ^ ;s
off of oxpon*. Uat o«r»bodv £ g| thios in
m .-iod,mrr*
•hid, bsipa Wgeio'ft. ei Js ™ am S “*
whom ihe balk of the loss falls 1' loT£r sighing like a fur-
acyliow. 1 Hg ^ ao£ §° 03 sighing Hke a
j Lei everybody show a helping J " sri3 “ ce ^ver. That furnace will
] spirit and tefe a million dollars of [ ?° J “”. ,, become the hns-
■ * ' 'ioal-ieis .F th°i ^ GJ °- stras S e oaths, jealous
, - ^ Wife honor, sudden and qnick in
prodncers la the mnnser sagsest^! -, . hoick in
j quarrel, aaa grow into the lean
A Change in tie Weather. 1 and slippered uaifaloon.’ TV, _
COTTON
BLOOM
july 14th 1S6L "• he.
: “Well, can he be trustedr says “ Ye3 * ^agh the whole of it
1 * dint a ad we give them ‘ginger olae,
: I ^)h yes, he will do anything for aud have gone yelping ova
I a Utile monev. Money and apole- *® ward -i:-yiau—
1 jack will carr'v Mm with vou to'the and iobithy
jumping off place. He knows ev- and Ssphrony rdi these men wa
en thing and everv oath in the ih that awful fight we heard a
mountains. You couldn’t lose him brack’s Ford the other day: am
in the night. He’s like a bear, and tn®y thsy whipped them,
some say he- smells his way like t |Ohg-.p, ask them if they an
other animals. Bat, he’s mighty g^i 136 10 hgM any more" Do b^
kind and clever, and there’s not one em to quit fightin and on<
bit of harm in him.” another. AYe are so Afraid thej
“How far did yon sav it was to fight here and kill ns alL
the topr says CKnt * By this time the entire femilj
f^Oh, I like to forgot to tell yon. seemed to be.perfectly reassured
It is about five miles, but it is aw- ^ exhibited an inclination for ui
fal steep, and will give yon gaH in to remain longer to enjoy then
places; for yon wfll have to puU hospitality and kindness, whiet
from bnsh to bosh-so steep yon kad been so. greatly appreciated bj
know, and mighty ioagli and °' ns -
rt>ck-v” " Zeke, and Clint, and Jim had
- “How long will it take ns to go wholI y redeemed themselves with
to the top if we start off directly?” the oldman and old lady, andes-
“Weil, if you are long-winded peckdly wittethe girls. The roagh
and good climbers yc-n mav reach exterior had been erased by the
there by dinner time; bat you g^tility that underlay the whole,
won’t think it is no foolishness ^Leiher at home or m tne mouc-
when yon get up. 1 am usen to it, tains amongstits hcmblest citizens.
and it don’t bother me much. Yon “My friend, says Clint: “The
fellows are young and look like yoa c ^ a ‘ ^ ^“ Te W3 th von has been
wold stand a mighty heap'of ver i interesting indeed, and I
rough and tumble. “ When I was WMn,d toask yoa agreat many
young like, 1 didn’t mind it more ^ neshOD3 abont tbe peculiarities
than playin’.” of the mountains, its people, and
“Did yon hear any cannon a day how J on 331 en i°J Iife Kving so far
or so ago anywhere in the moan- a P art ’ to notME § of 30 few in
tains?” says Clint many sections'of the moantain,
“Mv Lord, I think I did, and but our time is limited and we will
Samanthian, the old woman, and baTe fo leave you mid make onr
both the gals were skeered nigh on wa 5" a P th e mountain,
to death. I fell yon what! I didn’t Says fee old man: “Cant you
feel comfortable myself, but I had ^ s ^ nd 1118 If 1 * or at
to pnt on Eke, or thev would have lsa f 1 afier dinaer aud S°
been dean across Cheat and Alle- on late in the evening when it will
ghaney both by now.” ^ mnch eooIer tbroogb tiie
“Who was it had the cannon, did talns " Toq to be fa-
yon hear?” says Clint tigned, anditwilldo yoa good to
“It makes me narvous now to ^ a few honrs " 1 can promise
talk about it, bat 1 did hear that jon we will make it pleasant for
Mr. McClellan and Mr. Garnett yoa and give yoa the best dinner
both had cannon, and ever so many that can be had in these parts.”
soldiers, and all with a gun apiece. “Yes pap, says Tobiihy and
I don’t know tolher from which, ShpMony, now freely chaUfog with
bat thev said one of ’em come from j||§ r,ne ^° d then the other or the
the North with a great crowd oF boys, and apparently well pleased
men, and the tolher eomeJrom the with some of them, “we will kill
South with another crowd, all with Woe pallet and that half-grown
gj| They sav thev met or caught red rooster for apfe, and we will
up with one another over yonder go out yander qu ihe mountain and
on'Cheat river at Csirack’s Ford, P 3 c=. some -hucsle femes; for^.
"andsich another fightin the world ^e terry dmnplm, and too
never saw tefore-font like dogs.” fad - V °“
“flThat were thev fighting about?” ^ ^boutkdhng, yonder m the
sa CHnL * " e hardly ever have any
“^he Lord only knowsTldon’L company, and besides, it so hot
We didn’t know nothin’of it’til ^w to pidl over the mouafains.’’
we heared ’em fight in’. The man The old woman now pipes in
oa top of the mountain come down *cd says: “Yes men, we waul to
here and says be ‘hearn they were hear you all talk some more and it
fightin’ something about the nig- won’t cost you a twelve pence, or a
ger, or that the Xoith and the penny. I tell yoa, for sore, we was
South ted fell out about something all afraid of you at first, - and
that didn’t eoncern ns much no- thought that big gentleman,”
how.’ There aint no niggers in pointing to Zeis, “and the other
this beat, sid nothing bat. cows what has been talking and langh-
and bogs and sich like, and we mg with the old. man, and that,
don’t care nothing about ’em. We other snail like man,” pointing to
don’t want to fight; for we aint mad Jim, “wfcat’s teen runnia’ on at
with nobody at all, and don’t in- such a high'rate with Tobftby, was
fend fo fall out with any of them gittin’ drunk mighty fast. We was
fellows shoolin’ up each other, gittin’ mighty uneasy and did
pears like for fun.” wish you hadn’t come to our
“Who did you hear whipped at house. Yon know I remembered
rip Track’s Ford?” says Clint bow "my grand mammy told me
“JoeSoekett got caught between once soldiers would git drunk
sorter like, the two big crowds, and sometimes and go on scandalous.
Md under a clay root, and says he Bat we seed"how qnick, after you
was sobadly sheered,ce didn't know all had whispered - together a Utile
whether he was under the day bit you straightened up and quit
root, or sraadln’ ds hU Lead, but > foolin’ with one- another, that it
usbuuu u« 9> sranaaru i nn pp_ A
WAGON SCALES FRETs
i steeper and steeper grows the as-! tine? No. Neither can a private
; cent, ’till finally from bash to bush j drinking asage constitute a good
s we pall onr way np with perspira- j reason for opposing a prohibitory |
' tion pouring from every pore. Now; liquor law. If the law smites the;
forward one step and back two, or ; usage in smiting the saloons, it I
■ threaienning to lose onr hold and i does so only incidentally. Gkx>d;
j go rolling back down the moon- j citizenship will willingly bear an j
, fein - - j incidental evil for the sake or an i
“My Lord,” says Jim, “this is ] essential and universal good. life, j
l tougn, and I don’t believe I will j i? the end, will be more sacred if ]
ever be able to g4t up.” j ^e repress the mob. Property, in |
“That old man told the troth,”; the en^ will have better securities j
[ says Clink “If this aint gall 11 53 we put out the fire. Personal'
never tasted any before.” \ liberty, in the end, will have com-
Says Zeke: “My feet are actual- j plete ssf^fnards if we stamp oat
ly bleeding, and these rocks are j tbe contagion. So every' interest j x ,
horrible.” j of society and of the individual, in • °“ ’’ 8
(to BE GOXnMJED.) , i the end, will be better shielded,, if
' — i once we sav, determined! v and ef-
Had Bead About Samson. j jgggjgg ^ te mtit go.’ ”
A preacher passing through a 1 W hen Cedartowu, Ga., was a
dark corner of the counties in this ] town 0 £ S00 or 900 inhabitants, and
section lately stopped over, with a j {jj ree or f oa r barrooms, tviSpoliee
family that never bad a Bible. The: ojgge^ were necessary, fo preserve
good man was shocked at this, and rgood order^now, with prohibition
gave ihe man of the honse a Bible j and 5,500 people, one policeman is
he had with him and impressed] able to preserve order, and—his
upon bun the importance that he time is so little occupied in this
should read die scriptures. Some- ]|ng that he acts as street commis -
time afterward the minister was sloner, and devotes nearly all bis
passing through the same neigh- time to overseeing the street work,
borhood when he called upon Ms Having tried prohibition since
friend to whom he had presented y >av jgga onr people ; . re ^
the Bible, and in conversation with " pjg^ ^ lt that at a recent
Mm inquired, “How did yoa like ejection where the issue was again They speak for themsevles. To
* be ^9^ 3 gare you? ^ “Oh, firsr voted onj prohibition prevailed by test the matter would not be a cost*
rafe” said the man, “It’s a -good near ly three to one.—W. C. Bunn, ly experiment to the sufferer, and
book, and has lots" of good stories yj a y or . it is an experiment that will sure-
in it- If that is a true story about lv bring relief.
Samson and the Philistines, old Trustworthy authorities state " ...
man Samson played h—I with ’em, that in eastern New Mexico nearly If irresponsible reporters told
didn’t he?”—[Exchange. &iX),QQ0 acres of fruit and farm ] unreliable tales about Jerry Simp-;
_ lands have teen reclaimed by Ihe son’s soekless feet, they, as apt as
Tie-Emperor of Germany is be- consimction of storage reservoirs not, are guilty of starting thesto-
coining a.armea over the increase ajj ^ irrigating canals during the riSs^refleetlug on the equipment of
ci ^ kenuess an tnaprev ence pgg} ^ wo years. Several corpora- his opper story. The one which
oicnjiBaE _a.c. _ re= tin^, tLr^- ^j ons organized for such work are is handed around as esoeeisliy
m. e pro.et.. a now seeking capital in the East, elioiee relates io an 6Tatonal effort
L ° T 1 Je ^ pre ^ 31 ° G ° r J > ! lbilC The above shows that private capi- at St. Joseph, Mo. The Herald of
drunkenness, ana insb Hied an Ld ean be secured for irrigation that city tells it this wav: “The
inquiry on the relation of drink to 3^355. that promise gxsl fesalts. other dav Simssoo In one of his
enme. J? ranee is becoming eqoai- . . . „ . ,
ly alarmed, and the- fact that one Gohc, Diarrhcea, Dysentery and „ l ? “ I j c= w ^ e eiilngiz.ug^ x i
coantry is the name of beer and ali kindred complaints are dauger- ' K OKp.i<ae r ^
Ihe’otiier the home o£j“pure wu.es” oas if allowed to run any length of y? ’** "
does not seem to insure sobriety, time. So, it is the duty of ail pa-
Strange isn’t it? We modestly rents to xeep^ a medicine on hand 3 ’ 311 wlU5 ? e! 7,
suggest fo the Emperor of Genoa- at all times that will effect a pari- * <i- 1 e ^“ n e ^ l: . e
ny that the cause of drunkenness tive and pennant cure. Beggs’ gave .iis
ri -a. t> i - , i. menu a scornful look and wms-
io arms: Diarrhcea Balsam is guaranteed to , - .
-t— , ... ,, , .,, pered hacS: ‘Noau bunt the ark,
A watch manufacturer of Liver- do aed warran by
pool has invented a lever watch LA. Felder, Lruggist, Ferry, La. - —■ - — ^
that only requires winding once _ ^,00— “Oh! how dreadfa^’v vellow and
every eight days. ^ Belgian government has is- ^ face is ^ttfog.” Sav,
. 1., M31 ili
Seed Crushers, Inspirators, Belting, Pul
leys, Shafting, Pipe
AND MACHINISTS’SUPPLIES.
Be sure and write ns before buying.
We can take care of yon. _
MALLARY BROS. & CO.,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria,