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THE * GEORGIA CRACKER. SATURDAY, JULY 27,
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jhe Georgia tracker
Official Organ City of Gainesville
Gainesville Ga., July, 27, 190..
SOME TALL YAK NS.
All Shorts and Conditions of Men
Tell of Lofty Tumbles They
Have Witnessepl, and the
Champion Liar Gasps .
for Breath.
, Thev were talking over the late
frightful fall to death of the ne
gro, Anderson, at the Vesta cot
ton mill, the other night, at the
Erwin house, and the landlord re
marked that a plunge through
space for a distance of fifty-three
feet, with something hard to* stop
you at the end of the serial jour
ney, was enough, not only to kill
a man, but to hammer his body
into a jelly.
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“On the seventeenth day of June,
1895, at Durham, North Carolina,”
observed the Man-frqm-the-Tar-
heel-State, “I happened to be pass
ing a mill chimney-stack upon
which the bricklayers were just
finishing their work. It was 87
feet, six-and-one-quarter inches
from the ground to the top of the
chimney. As I stood looking at it
a negro laborer on the summit lost
his balance and fell. He turned
at least three summersaults in his
descent, and landed fairly upon
* his feet. I.was horrified at the
sight and, when he struck the
ground, ran forward expecting to
find a pulpy mass of bonei and
flesh. To my great surprise the
faller did not even lose bis foot
ing, although he rebounded sever
al feet into the air when he struck,
like ah india-rubber ball. Except
that be complained of ‘feelin * sor
ter jarred,’ he was all right. Not
a bone was broken, and there were
no perceptible bruises on hiB body.
In two hours and twenty minutes
thereafter he was back at work
again and—”
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lead, in forty feet of water. He
struck out for the a surface and, be
ing a good swimmer, reached the
rocky bank and crawled out. (3ne
thing rejoiced his heart: The ter
rible pain in his ear was gone; the
plunge into the water had washed
out the bug; but when he looked
up the cliff wall and saw the
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“Wan toime Oi moind me in
the city av Dooblin, where the
foiremin have the name av bein’
the foinest in the wu-r-r-ld.” in
terrnpted^the Irish Pedler v “Oi saw
wid me own oies, wan av thim
foire-laddies joomp a matther av.
nointy-siven fate frim the top av
wan av the towers av Dooblin Cash-
tie, which was on foire at the
toime. He laped onto some thrus-
ees av hay. an’ barrin’ a few
bruises was not ha-r-r-med in
the laste. He was—”
“Crowds of people here in this
country,” put in the Deep Water
Sailor from Union county, who
was stopping over on his way back
to join his ship in Savannah, “go
<o see these high jumpers who
travel about the country with cir-
msses and street fairs, and think
their act a most wonderful one.
[q Sweeden and- Norway, whose
>eople are the finest swimmers in
she world, they have the art of
• igh jumping and high diving re
duced to a science. Often when
ay ship has been lying in either
f the harbors of Christiana or
Stockholm, I have seen boys and
iris, in age from six or- seven
ears up, diving from the main
ruck of a full-rigged ship, a mat-
r of a hundred feet or so in the
ir, and some of ’em would turn
half dozen summersaults before
ley struck the water. I remem-
*>er one little girl who—”
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horror of it overcame him and he
tainted dead away. I had the cu
riosity to measure the canyon wall
by lowering down riatas and stake
ropes knotted together. It was
I one hundred and ninety-nine feet
Prepared by E. c. d«witt a co.. Chicago, exactly from the cliff edge to the
Geo. H. Fuller Drug Co. river. ' Except that his feet were
— blistered from striking the water
“Sneaking of diving and jump- with such force, the man was not
iihg,” interjected the ex-6oldier, | injured in the slightest, and—”
“but when the Southern Pacific
railroad was being built through “I’ve seen some pretty high
Texas my company was stationen jumping and some terrible falls in
for several weeks at a camp-supply my day, ” declared the Structural
town on the Pecos river, which Steel Worker, brusquely, “but in
went by the significant name ot "94, when I was working for the
Murderville. Our camp was on a Tacony Iron Company, of Phila-
evel mesa ju9t below the town delphia,“they sent me to the new
and between it and the Rio Grande municipal buildings, at Broad and
river. One night when I was on Market streets in that city, to help
guard I heard a terrible yelling in put in place, on top of ths tower
;h« vicinity of Murderville, and the 37-feet-high bronze statue of
presently a man clad only in un- William Penn. We were five j
dershirt and drawers came bound- weeks setting it up, and when fl
ing toward me screeching at every nally it was firmly anchored in
amp. I could see him plainly, position, the top of the crown of
or the moon was bright. I thought the old Quaker’s hat was 517 feet
le had the rams—that Murder- 5 inches from the granolithic
vilie whiskey was worse than aqua pavement of the courtyard below,
fortis—and did not seek to stop A man can go up through the hol-
him. On past me he plunged, and low body of the statue and, by
his yells grew fainter and fainter, means of a trap door in the crown,
until finally, with one awftil, reach the top of the hat. There
blood-curdling screech, they ceased were five of us on the job, and the
altogether, and my heart leaped day we finished we decided to cel-
into hay throat, for I knew that | ebrate the event by eating our din
ner and drinking a bottle or two
ot beer inside Billy’s metal body.
Well, while we were thus enjoying
ourselves, a hungry stray cat,
that we had several times noticed,
prowling about the tower below,
attracted no doubt by the smell of
the food, crawled up to where we
were snugly enscohsed in the big
bronze man’s interior, and began
to rifle our dinner buckets. One
of the men spied her and yelled
‘Scat!* The cat dropped the mor
sel of food it had pilfered and
scrambled higher up, finally, pass
ing through the open trap door to
the hat top. I crawled up after
puss, for I was afraid the poor
brute mighj; slip *and fall off.
When I poked my head through
the trap the mouser was crouched
down on the very edge of the hat
crown. Tfle noise I ma<je caused
the feline to look arouud, and
then, with a' frightened squall, it
leaped out into space. Well; gen
tlemen, I expected that when that
foolish cat struck the pavement
its remains w*uld be spattered
over half the city; but, miracu-
ous as it may seem, that tough
old Grimalkiu sailed through the
air like'a bird, with legs and tail
stiffly extended, struck the pave-
ment.upon her cushioned paws,
jounced into the air once or twice
and then scurried away, as fast—”
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But just here old “Tige,” the
andlord’s dog, who is presumed
;o know something about the leap
ing power of cats, sprang to his
eet with a snarl of disgust and
crawled under the house, while
the holder of the champion liars
medal gasped for breath.
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Infants and Children—Experience asrains* T^ealth of
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he had plunged over the precipi
tous canyon wall into the river
and had gone tumbling down
ciQwn, down—to a certain and
horrible death. When I was re
lieved from post I had the curios
ity to inquire about his fate. A
Greaser water-carrier told me the
whole story. The man who hac
passed me yelling, was a ‘navvy
employed by one of the big rail
road contractors. He had been
paid off the day previous, had go
drunk on Murderville whiskey
and fallen to the ground in a stu
pot on the outskirts of the tent
town. While lying there some
rustlers robbed him of what money
he had left, and took his hat.
shoes and clothing. When I heard
that first yell, he had just come
to himself because of a horrible
buzzing in his right ear, accom
panied by the sharpest and most
excruciating of pains. He real
ized instantly that while he had
been sleeping a bug or some other
insect had crawled into his ear
and was slowly but surely boring
its way into his brain. Maddened
with fear and pain he sprang to
his feet and ran blindly—he knew
not, cared not whither. When he
really recovered his senses'he was
in tPe Rio Grarde river, sinking
:o the bottom like a plummet of
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If you haven’t a regular, healthy movement of the
bowels every day, you’re III or will be. Keep your
bowels open, and he well. Force, in the shape of vio
lent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The smooth
est, easiest, most perfect way of keeping the bowels
clear and clean is to take
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lazy folks can lie in the shade.
A great many of our citizens are
attending court this week.
Several of the childien of this vi
cinity have had scarlet fever, and
some of them have suffered severe-
iy-
They had a very nice singing at
Bellton last Sunday, conducted by
T. W. Fowler.
Miss Maida Woodall had her fin
ger bitten by a mule.
M. K. Woodall is having great
success gumming his beans. '
Mr. Andrew Harrison is still
humping.
Mat Canup is still packing Irish
potatoes.
Mr. Steve Gailey will soon have
enough wool to supply Hall coun-
ty.
Prof. Watkins is getting along
very well with his school. We
wish him great success.
the first girl you ever kissed, Gor j
don?” Gordon —.“No, my love,
but you are the last.”
“Am I, really? Oh, Gordon, ■
makes nae so happy to. think
that.” * ' f
“I wish to truthfully state to joij
and the readers of these few lines tM-j
your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is, witr.cn: I
qnestion, the best and only cure h
dyspepsia that I have ever comeineot-j
tact with, and I have used many otto
preparations.”—John Beam, West jud
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the natural digestants. It wd|]
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■ .
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve should
be promptly applied to cuts, burns and
scalds. It soothes and quickly heals
the injured. There are worthless coun
terfeits, be sure to get DeWitt’s. Geo.
H. Fuller Drug Co.
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narramoke items.
_ Crops are looking very well
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN i Tanners are about done work and
“What is the matter, Tommy?”
asked the mother of the small boy
in tears.
“I’m lonesome. The other boys
wouldn’t play fair.”
“What was the game?”
‘‘We were playing United Sta*tes
senate. I resigned and the other
boys forgot to coax me back. ”
Those famous little pills, DeWitt’s
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your.body. Are easy to take. Never
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Mildred (still blushing)—“Am I
Cato’s celebrated answer to w
Roman senate when asked
is the surest way to enrich s v*
tion” is as true in A. D.
inB. C. 246. The answer «»
couched in two words, f ^
cattle.” Cato was a great far®®
and cattle feeder, as well as ag! _
general and statesman. ^
truths like this live more
9
000 years.
In warm weather Priced*
tees helps your staying j
Workers who use it occas 7 ^ s - ;
the heat better and are
night. Dr, E. E. Dixon & Co.
If the papers would oul.^J
disfranchieement qo-
Eplfll
up the
and discuss it in the gre3[
and without prejudice, R ]g
good would come out o i ^
i important question a
people are deeply eoncerne
the outcome. D,acajou
in order, brethren of tto P
Darien Gazette.