Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

I News-Herald f lano Constitution, I | 12 S^Eontlis--$1.25. I THE GWINNETT HERALD. ) thk tAvm:NCKv?uK SEW 9, , CODSOlidStfid JdD. 1, 1898. EAtablUhed in IHUK. ) BUILDIHC - MATERIAL. DOORS—INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. SASH, SIDE LIGHTS, BLINDS, MANTLES, FLOORING, CEILING, BASE BOARDS. CORNER BOARDS, DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMING, MOULDINGS, LATHS, SHINGLES LOCKS, HINGES, WINDOW WEIGHTS, ETC. Ail material complete for building a house. Atlanta prices duplicated and freight saved. J. A, AMBROSE & CO. Lawrenceville, Ga. KISEMAN BROS. ATI .AXTA. The largest stock of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings in the South. Thousands of styles for you to select from, and prices that are from 25 to 50 per cent, cheaper than any where else, that’s because we are manufact urers and do not pay a profit to middlemen. Men’s Nobby Suits, -500 up to 25 00 Boy’s Long Trouser Suits, 450 up to 15 00 Boy’s Knee Trouser Suits, 1 50 up to 10 00 We buy the best fabrics and choose the newest and handsomest patterns and coloring that are produced. Buy here once in person or through our mail order department, and the satisfaction you’ll receive will make you a permanent cus tomer of KIBEMAN BROS. ; Atlanta, 15-17 Whitehall street, STORES Washington, Cor. Seventh anti E Streets, ( Baltimore, 213 W German Street. 15-17 WHITEHALL STREET.-Our Only Store in Atlanta. A Gloomy Outloox. Apropos of the recent divorce and immediate re-marriage in New York “high life,” the Evening Post of that city paints a gloomy pic ture of present and prospective j morality in the North. It is char acteristic of the Post to use strong j language, but it is to be feared that there is only too much basis in fact for the followiug : “The institution of marriage can hardly be said to exist among us, any more than in the fifth century at Rome, when twenty wives in succession were not an extraordi nary allowance even for a Chris tian deacon. “When you eee a couple living together, happily or unhappily, in “God’s holy ordinance,” you may feel pretty sure that it is not the law of the land that is causiug it, but pure inclination or stroug sense of loyalty, truth and honor. Min isters, and even judges who admin ister the law, have no hesitation in making the law on this point a mockery, without taking the troub le to offer any excuse but personal taste or convenience. Men and women both act as if we were dwelling on a desert island, where sense of individual duty had to do the work of law-givers and jurists. * * * It is not a wild supposi tion that in another generation we shall be in enjoyment of ad vantages, in point of expense, ot the regime of free love. ” ECZEMA (Itching, Burning, Scaly Humors), A BLOOD DISEASE. An Old Medicine which Cures. The real cause of Eczema is the acrid condition of the blood, and to cure this annoying disease requires only pa tience and plenty of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Dr. Gillman made his flrst cure with this medicine over for ty-seven years ago, and the medi-ine has been a godsend to over 500 suffer ers since. Recollect that your system is saturated with this Eczema, or Salt Rheum Humor, and this poison must be forced out, and B. B. B. will do it as sure as the sun is to rise. Julia E. Johnson, Stafford’s P. 0.. S.C., writes: “I had suffered thirteen years with Eczema, and was at times confined to my bed. The itching was terrible. My son-in-law got me one half dozen bottles of Botanic Blood Balm, which entirely cured me, and I ask you to publish this for the benefit of others suffering in like manner.” We have many more testimonials which we will gladly show. They are printed in a little book, which will be sent, free of charge, to any one who ad dresses us. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B. ) is a purely vegetable preparation,original ly compounded by Dr. Gillman, and used in his private practice. It has cured many people of all blood humors, scrofula, and from the common pimple to the worst case of Blood Poison. It is put up in large bottles for SI.OO, and sold at all druggists, Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. THE NEWS-HERALD. SAVANNAH wSSKIiV KVIVE TWICE A WEEK. 104 PAPERS ONE YEAR FOR SI.OO. This popular edition of the Sa vannah Morning News contains all the latest news and market re ports, and is sent out with the daily paper, while the news is fresh. It is the old and popular Savannah Weekly in a new form. It was changed three years ago from once a week to twice a week without change in price. It contains full accounts of what is going ou in Cuba and the Philippines and all the news of the world. This year, like the last, will be full of startling news, not only the war, but of the polit ical situation which promises to be exciting. As in the pa9t, The Savaunah Weekly News will sup port the Democratic Party, be its I platform what it may. Send SI.OO and get you the best uews j paper for a year that can be had j for the money. Address, Morn ; ing News, Savannah, Ga. We club the Savannah Weekly News, twice a week with the News Herald for $1.50. Bangor manufacturers are send ing canoes of birch and canvas to Palestine,(Japan and China. One recently sent to India was made to the order of a British officer, and the cost of transportation was more than $75. A canoe just ordered is intended for a trip up the River Jordan. The laborers who built the pyr amids did not work under such disadvantages as have long since been attributed to them. Recent research shows that they had solid and tubular drills and lathe tools. The drills were set with jewels and cut into the rocks with keen ness and accuracy. Any person who desires a pre mium list of the forthcoming fair, can secure a copy by dropping a postal-card lequest to the secreta ry, Mr-T.H. Marlin, Prunential Building, Atlanta The book is not quite ready for distribution yet, but shortly will be, and all requests for a copy will be imme diately attended to. Rarely, indeed, is.? a wealthy Turk seen at his wife’s dinner ta ble, He usually dines iu a part of the house remote from that oc cupied by bis connubial partner or partners. CANNONEERSIX (1 HA. HOW THE ARTILLERY FOUGHT TO SMASH THINGS SPANISH. CnfPron and 111 m Goiim nt Work—Black Pow der Spoiled (lie American Game. Bloody Work n< (■rlmeM* Gaim Be fore San Joan—Tlie Bombardment. [Copyright. 1599, by O. L. Kilmer.] tided Stiw. In defending Santiago tbe Spaniards liad a tremendous advantage in artillery well posted and using smokeless pow der. But they had no cannon or ma chine guns at El Caney, where the Americans opened the ball with Ca pron’s light artillery on the morning of July 1. General Chaffee, one of Lawton’s brigade commanders, was responsible for Capron’s battery in the fighting outfit that day, and it was due to him that there was but one battery on the ground. He asked for one and got it. As matters turned ont. El Caney might have fallen earlier than it did if the artillery had been doubled in effective ness. Heavy gnns were needed to smash blockhouses which the troops couldn’t reach on a charge nor silence with rifle shots. At El Caney the American line was shaped like a V, with the village at the month and the stone fort in the angle. Capron’s battery was 1,000 yards or more from the line at the angle and was in danger of shooting into the troops on the opposite lino as they neared the Spanish position. Capron opened at 2,900 yards on some Spanish cavalry in the village of El Caney and killed an officer and 16 troopers. In the village was a loopholed church, but the gun ners were ordered not to fire npon that, The firing began at 6 o’clock and was suspended at 11:15, at which hour nothing had been accomplished beyond stirring up the Spanish in the village. Some shells had been thrown at the blockhouse, the key to the position, bnt the Spaniards still held it in full force. Several times the infantry had sent word to Capron that his fire endangered them. Lawton stood by Capron all day and directed the fire of the gnns. At 12:80 the shots were turned on the blockhouse, and at 2:15 its flagstaff was cut down, and the enemy began to de sert it. Soon afterward Chaffee’s infan try charged up and found holes in the walls large enough to admit a man. I asked Lieutenant W. K. Kenly, who commanded a section under Capron that dav and represented his captain, way the guns were not taken nearer, so as to double their power. He said that owing to the black powder the enemy would have found them an easy target and the gunners could not have lived at closer range than abont 8,000 yards. But after tbe blockhouse had fallen the guns were rushed up to within 1,000 yards of tbe smaller blockhouses at the .village. After firing two shots word came that the Spanish had surrendered. In the trenches at Santiago Capron’s guns were within 800 yards of the Spanish infantry and J,500 of the ar tillery, but then the gunners were un der cover. At El Caney they had stood in the open, except for the cover of chaparral and the branches of trees. Showers of bullets swept through the trees, but at that distance were harm less. A volunteer who was in the trenches beside Capron’s battery relates this in cident of the bombardment. Said he: “Overhead the Spanish shells were humming and screeching. I could occa sionally see the glint of one in the sun shine as it passed over. About our ears a bumblebees’ nest of Mauser bullets was singing and zooing. There was Captain Capron, fieldglasses in one hand and erect and inflexible as ever. One of his gunners who had thrown a shell wide of the mark was beside him. LAWTON DIBKCTBD 'IKK KIKK. An unusually low shot from the enemy made the gunner involuntarily dodge. Capron looked at him impatiently. “ ‘Who are you bowing to, you danc ing master!:' he demanded. ‘Can’t you see a blockhouse right on the end of yonr nose? Cook through these glasses. See it? Now, try it again.' “The next shot landed on the mark. “ ‘Now shrapnel!’ shouted Capron as the Spanish survivors began poqring from the blockhouse. ‘Give it to them I’ The Summer Seaton Should Be Taknen With A Grain Of Salt. The way to the seaside is by the Seaboard Air Line. Saturday and Sunday excursions from May •20th to September 24th to Virgin ia Beach, Ocean View and Old Point Comfort, round trip $8.50 via the Seaboard Air Line. Tick ets will be on sale Saturdays and Sun :ays. good to return following Monday, fiom Raleigh, Boykins, Durham, Lewiston and intermedi ate points. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1899. “And give it to them they surely did.” Grimes’ battery had far from a blood less experience at San Juan and failed to silence tbe blockhouse. It opened fire at 7:50 in the morning from El Poso hill, an elevation about 75 feet above the level and giving a perfect view of San Juan hill and trenches 3,600 yards distant. The third shot bit the block house, bnt seemed to do little damage. The structnre was made of plank walls filled in with earth. San Juan hill is higher than El Poso. giving the Spaniards the advantage. Their guna were back of San Juan, but on tbe same level, about. At the third or fourth shot in answer to Grimes a single shell killed two of Grimes’ gun ners and wounded four. He had 80 men and three officers in the battery at the time. Grimes had had the San Juan blockhouse given to him for a target, and he did his best to make splinters of the structnre. After firing four or five shots the Spaniards opened up, and then began a three hours’ duel between the American and Spanish gunners. It is hard to say which got the worst of it. A staff -officer representing Shatter, Colonel McClernand, stayed in the bat tery and kept up communications by telegraph with his chief. The first shots of the Spaniards burst high and hit sonie of the troops and horses, as well as some Cubans on th‘e hither slope of El Poso bill. As stated, the third or fourth shot landed on the target, so it was evident that Grimes would not be let alone in bombarding Fort San Juan. The Spaniards had absolute range arid could see by the clouds of smoke just where the American guns were located. Bnt in firing at the Spanish artillery, Grimes’ only guide was the flash, and that not always seen. Tbe first flash seen was located between the blockhouse and a building some distance one side of it, in the rear. On thut range Grimes ponnded away until the military balloon got between him and the target. The Spaniards turned their guns upon the balloon, and tbe shots dropped among the American troops. After the balloon disappeared the Spanish opened from a new point to the left of the old one and of the blockhouse. The American cavalry had got up the first spur of the ridge in that direction, and fearing to drop shots among them. • LANDED ON THE TARGET. Grimes again opened on the blockhouse. Meanwhile the infantry was climbing the slope toward the blockhouse, and soon got in the way of the artillery. Then Grimes quit, having apparently done little damage to the Spanish stronghold. Captain Grimes is a veteran of the civil war and served from 1861 to 1865, He began with the artillery in 1870. He said that he could have finished the blockhouse had the SjAinish artillery let him alone. But that was not to be ex pected. There waß not an artillery shot fired during the morning hours to si lence the Spaniards, who were hnrling shrapnel npon the American troops in San Juan valley, except what Grimes fired. Battery F, Second artillery, Captain C. D. Parkhurst, went to El Poso hill at 1 o’clock and opened on Fort San Jnan, but the American troops soon got in the way, and the gnus were hauled off. At 5:80 tbia battery opened from the captured hill upon the city and fired an hour. The officers say they eaw no target, but the dead walls of tbe houses. Bullets played about the guns, however, and Captain Parkhurst and three men were wounded. Battery F was in Law ton’s intrenchments duriDg the bom bardment and silenced the Spanish on its front in an boor. At this time the battery had cover. Shell and shrapnel were used at the time, and the Spanish were driven from their intrenchments. Grimes was also in the bombardment and said that he fired at the artillery trenches. The Spaniards in return did not reach his battery, but dropped shots among the American infantry. He lost two men hit in the bombardment. Ca pron’s battery silenced the Spanish ar tillery on its front in I}4 hours during the bombardment. General Shatter skated in his report that his artillery apparently silenced the Spaniards. Bnt bis guns were all light and not eqoal to battering down brick and stone walls. Three inch shells are effective against troops, but cannot do much damage to heavy works. The Hotchkiss battery fired a few shots at Fort San Jnan, bnt did not get to work until the infantry was nearly to the crest and in the lineof fire. This battery was in the bombardment. Out of four wounded only one was struck by an artillery missile. Parker’s Gat ling battery, as is well known, did wonders, bnt its missile is the Krag- Jorgensen bullet. Parker’s wounded were strnck by Mausers. His targets were men, not walls or parapets Taken all in all, the artillery did as well as could be expected with smoking powder against smokeless Mausers. Gkorok L. Kilmer. Iu France, when a convict is | sentenced to death by the guillo tine, the day of his execution is not named in his presence, and he knows not when lie is to be led forth until within fifteen minutes of the fatal moment. AOKNTS WANTKD-rOtt“TllK MKK ANl> AchievcmcntM of Admiral Dewey, ”tb<j worlds greatest naval hero. By Murat llaUtoa, the lifelong friend and admirer of the nation’s idol. Biggest and beat b«»ok; over -‘siO pages. Bxlo Inch es; nea»ly 100 pages halftone illustrations. On ly 11.50. Knormons demand. Big commission*, out lit free. Chanc«fof a lifetime. Write quick. The Dominion Company Rrd Floor < ax ion Bldg., Chicago.—May jn- -Hw. COLONEL WINKLER AND THE 30AT. Rewritten From Away Back to Please the Children of Today. Smith Clayton in Atlanta Journal. About 2 o’clock the other morn ing colonel Bobby Winkler, who resides in West End, was awaken ed by hiH wife. He turned over, rubbed his eyes, yawned, and inquired: “What’s matter, wife? What’s matter?” ‘Matter enough!” replied the lady, who was wide awake. “That cow, man ! She’s just eat ing up all my rose bushes-the yard-don’t you ltenT her? Get up, man, and run her out-quick, Winkler-now please do go at once I” The colonel arose languidly, and slipping on his slippers, made his immediate exit at the front entrance in his night robe. Pick ing his way cautiously upon the lawn and peering into the dark uess, he heard a peculiar sniffle. And the next moment the dim outlines of a large, white male goat appeared before him. With out the slightest hesitation the goat reared on his hind legs and made a lunge at the colonel, who just had time to throw up both hands and grab the animal by the horns. The goat pulled back, swayed forward, threw his body in the air; sniffled and snorted and final ly began a series of jerks which made Winkler dance around with intense alacrity. The unhappy colonel tightened his grip at every jerk, which made his hands tingle and burn as though clasping a live wire. “Ye gods!” muttered between his teeth, “but ain’t this the devil of a fix? I’m afraid to turn him loose. He’d stab me in the back with his horns before I could make the door. Guess I’ll have to hold him.” At tm.es the animal would be come quiet. He then reared back and jumped forward in such a rough and reckless way that Winkler kicked his slippers off in the effort to hold him down and was finally landed in his bare feet on the graveled walk, puffing and blowing, while the goat stood at bay,his horns still firmly clutched. Jtlßl UIHII tile luito u. called from the house: “Why, man, haven’t you driven that cow out yet?” “Cow, the very devil 1 It’s no cow at all! It’s an infernal goat, and we are having the h—of a time out here-but I’ll conquer him yet-see if I don’t 1” Here the goat landed his hind legs in midair and tried to stand on his head on the colonel’s bosom. “Conquer him 1” responded his wife in high soprano. “Why don’t you ruu him into the street?” “Shucks, woman!” yelled Winkler, “you must be wild! Run him into the street, the devil I Just come out here and look ut us!” Mrs. Winkler at this time pok ed her head out of the window and holding a lamp to the front, looked “Welll” she cried, “if that don’t beat the—Eh! eh! Why don’t you let the brute go and kick him out ot the gate?” “I say it, woman! Do you think I want to be murdered in my own yard?” Here the goat bellowed ai d shoved Winkler about ten feet over the sharp gravels. “But you can outrun the old rascal!” suggested the lady. “I tell you I can’t. 1 would’nt risk turning him loose for a mill ion dollars! Dress quick and come out hero and throw some thing over me. I’m about to freeze to death, and besides it will soon be daylight and people will lie passing. ” Mrs. Winkler said “all right.” She spent a little lifetime adjust ing her apparel, and meantime Winkler had his hands full, for as I day began to break the goat, snif fing the fresh morning air, became j friskier than ever, and in addition to pulling and pushing the old ! man up and down the gravel walk, j began to bellow. This attracted the attention of a | policeman, who walked leisurely up to the fence, ana after spitting on the sidewalk, looked over. “You see my position,” said Winkler. “Yes, 1 see it—but position, old j man, is everything, and I guess you’ll have ter hole yor base, ez J yer can’t make er home run! Good tnnwnin. ” And the police j man walked off. j Presently a tall roan riding a pony came by. He stopped. “My friend,” said Winkler, “can’t you give me a lift?” “I guess not,' replied the tall man; “the goat will do that. Be sides, I’m a temperance man, and cannot tako a horn!” and ne rode on. Then ihree boys rode up in a milk wagon. They stopped, “What, oh, what shall I do?” whined Winkler. One of them yelled: “Go into the house and get a gun and shoot the white-whisker ed ole rascal 1” Another suggested : “Butt him square between the eyes and kill him !” The third hoy advised the col onel to throw the goat on his back and skin him alive. If I hat don’t go— “Lyrich ’iml” screamed the trio in chorus, and drove oIT Jaughing. After a while, when poor Wink ler was on the point of losing his mind, and likewise his grip, an awl;ward negro mair ambled up to the fence and explained : “Dah he now! Dali that goat! Kum here, Billy, Willy, Billy I Whnt you doin’ wid my goat, white man? Whut make you does dat good goat dat way-dat’s whut I say,” “Oh, I'm just playing with him,” suid Winkler with deep irony. “But I’m tired now, and you can have him.” “Yu-as, an’ whut’s more, um gwiuter hah ’im. Here, Billy, Willy, Billy I” and with this the negro reached over the fence with a long fishing pole and tickled the end of the goat’s tail. The animal spraug high in the air and as he came down gave a supremo twist, wrenching his horns from Winklers’ hand and throwing him sprawling upon the gravelled ground, cleared the fence at a bound, and followed the negro out Gordon street as if nothing unusual had happened. Just as Winkler arose painfully from the walk and slowly pulled himself together his wife, who was now dressed, appeared upon the scene. And us they walked hack into the house she was begging the col onel to tell her how he got rid of unu *> —-I that he would not gratify her cu riosity for 200,000 goats of solid gold. Fambrough May Pay Out. An appeal was made to Judge Edwards last Friday by the fami ly and friends of Seal) Famhrough to reduce the fine of three hun dred dollars.to one huadrod. It was shown that Fambrough would be unable to raise SBOO and in case it were maintained lie would be obliged to go to the county chain gang. In considera tion of Fambrough’s physical con dition, Judge Edwards decided that it would be advisable in this case that the fine be lowered so that the defendant could pay it. However, as the court had ad journed which had tried and sen tenced him. Judge Edwards did Mot think it was in his province to alter the sentence. Nevertheless, the Judge and Solicitor signed a written appeal to Governor Can ter, stating the facts in the case and asking for a reduction in the fine from S3OO to SIOO. At the time wo go to press the Governor has not been heard from in the matter. It is, however, very probable, that lie will act on tbe recommendation sent him. In case he should not, there would be no alternative for the defendant except the chaingang.—Walton tyews. The county exhibit contest at I the State Fair next fall is already i beginnibg to liven up. About a I dozen counties have begun the ' work of collecting an exhibit, and 1 any number of others are making ready to do so. These exhibits will constitute the leading features of the home made exposition that the Agricul- j tural Society is to hold next fall - The thousand dollars that has been offered as first prize, is well worth the winning. And so, also, ars the second and third prizes of SSOO and SBOO respectively. And besides that, every county making a worthy exhibit that does not take a prize, will be given an hun dred dollar premium anyway. Near Pontefract, or “Pomfret,” iu Yorkshire, lives a bankor wko has a collection of doors. All of them have come from ancient halls and castles, aud all have some other historic value. A col lection of ancient weathercocks is olso one of this gentleman’s pos sessions. LYNCHING IN ILLINOIS, That State Has a Record Almost Equal to Georgia. Atlanta, May 22.—Attorney ■ General Joseph M. Terrell has re , ceived a letter from a prominent state attorney of Illinois, in which he asks for information relative to the characters of crime punishable , i» Georgia by hanging. The wri ter, as will be seen, states that in his state there are at least some people who have adopted the pop ular method of Georgia, lynching j for rape. He intimates that Illi nois has almost as good a record as Georgia for punishing rapists by lyuching them at the nearost, most suitable and most convenient place. The letter says that with in the past few years Illinois has made sivch progress in this line that, her record is now almost a match for that of Georgia. This rapid advancement shows that the people of Illinois are alive and progressive in at least this line, and that with proper coaching there is no reason why the record of Illinois may not at an early day eclipse that of Georgia. The letter referred to reads as follows: “I am preparing a paper on the question of capital punishment, to be read at a meeting 'of the state prosecutors of Illinois. If you can conveniently, 1 would es teem it a great favor to have you give me briefly yqur'opiuion of it and its operation in your state. If I am correctly informed, it ap plies m your state to murder, ar son and rape. I would especially like to know the numbor of exe cutions in recent years for arson and rape. Also, if you can, state the number of lynchings that have taken place in your state within the last two or three years, and what for. “We have capital punishment in our state for murder only, uud in the last five years, to my knowl edge, in’ this part of this state, we have hud six or seven lynchings for the crime of rape, aud I am inclined to believe that it is most as good a record as claimed here for some of the Southern states.” Attorney-General Terrell will an swer the letter tomorrow, giving all the information requested. Frank Kennedy, now in Kansas City, was wounded nineteen times in the battle of Santiago DeCuba, says the Kansas City Times. Ho walks with crutches, since his right leg, broken six times, is still a little tender, but he hopes soon to be able to discard them, when he will again enter Uncle Sam’s service, this time as a regular. “I was a sergeant in Troop F of the First, Volunteer Calvary, com manded by Col. Wood. On July 8, the second day of the battle, I was serviug as mounted orderly for Gpn. Lawton. Early in the afternoon, while carrying a dis patch from him to Gen. Wheeler’s headquarters, I ran into a Span nish skirmish line, aud before I know it there were Spaniards all around me, yelling like Comanch es. It was too late to turn hack. I put spurs to my horse, and drawing my revolver proceeded to empty it into tbe Don’s faces. “Well. I felt the conventional ‘stinging sensation’ several times beforp I got out of that mess, hut I kept straight ahead, loading my revolver as I went, and incident ally taking an inventory of my wounds. I found that I had been shot four timos and cut twice with machetes. “A quarter of a mile further on I ran into another bunch, and again I had to run the gauntlet. The proceedings of throe minutes before were repeated. I emptied my revolver and put my horse to his highest speed. This time I was shot three times and received four cuts from machetes, which brought the total number of wounds up to thirteen. “After this second adventure I had ridden a mile, I guess, when a jshell burst near by, killing my horse and breaking my right leg below the knee iu six places. I fell to the ground, where I lay until 4 o’clock in the next after noon. It was 2 o’clock wheu I fell. “Shortly afterward 1 was placed on board a hospital ship and ta ken to New York. While I was still on the ship in New York har bor Maj. Armstrong, formerly surgeon major of the Second Kan sas National Guard, of which I had beeu a member, came on board and recognized me, and by his orders I was transferred to the hospital at Fort Thomas, Ken tucky. Here I was given the very best medical and surgical atten tion, I believe the surgeon took special pviue in bringing me out whole, as 1 was so badly cut up.” pp * News-Herald Journal, „SL,! Only $1.35. VOL. Vl.-N0 31 the EDITOR'S AI'I'BAL. “Kisli down in your pocket and dig ’ up the Suet, [ Or the editor will starve and the pa-1 per will bust. We’ve trusted you for many moons, ’ and did it with a smile; Ho Just return the compliment and trust us awhile. Our wife she needs some stockings, and the baby needs a dress; Jimmy needs some britches, and so does Kate and Bess. Bud is on the hog train and I’eggie is sick with grief. And good gosh almighty can’t you bring a man refieff Shell out the nickles and dig up the I dimes, I'ay your just debts and we’ll have j better times; There’ll be fewer patches on the bosom 1 of our pants, And we’ll make a a paper if we get h half a chance. Ilon’t give us the old story long agoii gone to seed About taking more papers than tliell family want to read; But help to feed the printer and he’ll * help the town to grow; You’ll thus escape the sulphur in the; regions down below I” I A Confederate Mule Story. ’ A notorious character was Mi-j > chael Dugan, commonly called! "Mike,” says John S. Wise in the| 1 May Atlantic. Dugan, a taste for spirituous liquors not uncommon with gentlemen of his nationality and station in life, and impelled thereto by depressed* feelings resulting from the iuglo-j rious ending of his military ca reer, had not drawn a sober breath for a week. He had, in fact, a horse bucket full of colorless North Carolina corn whiskey, from which he regaled himßelfi with a tin cup at all hours of the day and night. Muttering tq himself he moved about, some*; times becoming entangled in the tent cords, sometimes falling! headlong into or out of the tent, j In an animated discussion with aj teamster in the condition with] himself, he had been nearly brain-J ed by a pair of mule hames whirl J ed like a flail. M'ke was a plucky] fellow, and, fearing his wrath, hisl adversary, Rogers, had tied th€j camp. For several days Mike] had rumbled about, muttering tel himself: "Oi’ll kill Rogers. BeJ dad, and Oi’ll kill him. Oi’ll kila liiin if 1 have to follow him tel Tennessee. ” We were constantly ut i«no would happen to Mike. Tbe da,l before our departure something did happen. A party of us, seat! ed in the tent around a blaukel spread upon the ground wenl playing draw-poker. Of a suddeil a heavy body struck the tent, anti nearly carried away its fastening*l Rushing out, we found Mike lyinl there, unconscious, and bleedin J profusely. A mule, tethered to B tree hard by, stood patient, pastl ive, with head hung low an I drooping ears. We never for ■ moment suspected .the mulil Mike looked as if he was done fed Wo lifted him gently, placed ha head upon a McClellan sadtffl tree, chafed him, plied him win some of his favorite beveruge, anil about the time we were despairif I of resuscitating him,his eyesopejl ed slowly. I "Byes, am I’dead?” asked Milj j “No, no, indeed, old boy, you*! all right,” said we; for Mike, i spite of his failings, was a bra soldier, and much beloved. In a plaintive, tremulous voi ho began; “Oh, boys, do-an’t let me d Ye know Oi’m not afeard to di I was wid Floyd at Fort Dona! son, I was wid Seedney Johnsi ut Shiloh, Pimbertou at Vick burg, and Joe Johnston at Atla tu, and Hood at Nashville. <j ask dem, byes, if Mike <vas afeai But save me now, byes! Ohl is too h-u-a-a-a-rd to be kicked death by a mule, the day; ! ter surrinder.” The farmers of the State shot not forget that some of the hai somest premiums in point of i aj offered for the fair next fall, is ■ Georgia raised meat. In addit I to those that the Agricultural r I ciety hau offered, two priyfl firms will give SIOO apiece for[ l fattest calf, $25 apiece for the i fl test lamb, and $25 for the fattH pig- I The profession of “glove cutl in France and Belgium is a luF tive one. An expert is abler command a higher salary t* the cutters of the most fashi# ble tailors. Glove-cuttiug its" exceedingly difficult art. The ultilizatiou of grain el tor waste for sheep and cl food has given rise to a new dustry in the Northwest, waste brings $7 a ton,