VOL. V.
THESE PRICES
-*TELL * THEIR * OWN t STORY*-
Granulated sugar, 20 pounds for $ 1 00
Brown sugar 28 pounds for. 1 00
Good green coffee 11 pounds for 1 00
Arbucklo’s coffee, per package 10
Twenty-five boxes good tobacco, per pound 20
Good smoking tobacco per pound 17
Four pounds soda 10
. jTwo thousand four hundred best matches 8
Jlest kerosene oil per gallon 14
Tinware.
Twelve dozen 2 gal. buckets, each 8
Six dozen heavy, pressed dish-pans, each 12
Four dozen half gallon tin dippers, each 5
Five dozen black handle dippers, each 4
Large galvanized wash-pans, each 20
Best red cedar three-hoop bucket, each 40
Nice wood buckets, each 9
Best well bucket made 25
1 gallon oil can 12
1 gallon coffee pot 9
Half gallon pot 74
Large sieve 7£
Nails.
20 kegs steel nails at from 42 to 55 pounds for 1 00
Underwear, Etc.
Big Lot of Ladies’ Undervests, each. 15c to 80
10 doz. unlaundered white shirts, each 20
5,000 yards good calico, per yard * 8f
1,000 yards good yard-wide sheeting, per yard. . . 4
1,000 yards heavy sheeting, per yard . 44
10 rolls oil tablecloth, per yard 124
5 bolts “A. C. A.” bed ticking, per yard 104
2 doz. full-size bed spreads, each . . 55
2 doz. full-size bed spreads, each 50
1,000 yards outing dress goods per yard 4
10 pieces eiderdown, per yard, from 15c to 80
15 pieces heavy red twilled flannel, per yard 12
6 pieces heavy blue flannel at 14
5 bolts drilling at 5
Best Spool Cotton at 84
Ball Cotton, 10 balls for. 5
Good pins, 6 papers fJ £,. 5
10 pieces cotton fl; 4c to 8
School Boy jeans psr yard 11
All-wool 9 oz. jeans per yard 21
Double Width Waterproof from 274 to 48
CAPES.
Six dollar plush capes 4 50
Five dollar plush capes at 8 75
Four dollar cloth Capes - 2 90
Three dollar cloth capes . 225
Six doz. $1.50 capes will go for 1 10
Two dozen $1.25 capes will go for 90
SUSPENDERS.
Boys’ heavy suspenders at scts.’
HATS.
30 Doz. Men’s and Boys’ Hats exactly at cost.
CLOTHING.
25 All-Wool Cheviot Suits at $2.75.
24 Heavy Wool Suits at $8.25.
24 Nice Clay Worsted Suits at Five Dollars.
Twenty-five Ten-Dollar Suits for Six Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents.-
24 Mclntosh Overcoats for Two Dollars Each.
SHOES.
A big lot of shoes of all styles and sizes going at actual cost.
MILLINERY.
A big lot of Millinery goods on hand. You will do well to see my
goods before buying elsewhere.
Ask no questions as to
why I am selling at cost.
Money talks! Bring along your Cash!
The lawrenceville news.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER, 12, 1897.
NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER.
How manj bnttons are mi ••rintr today?
Nobody known but »n lwr.
How many playthings are strewn in her way?
Nobody knows but mother.
Ho>/ many thimbles and spools has she missed?
How many burns on each fat little list?
How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed? 1
Nobody knows but mother.
How many hats has she hunted toaay—
Nobody knows but mother—
Carelessly hiding themselves in the hay?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many handkerchiefs willfully strayed'?
How many ribbons for each little maid?
How for her care can a mother be paid?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many muddy shoes all in a row?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many stockings to darn, do you know?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many little torn aprons to mend?
How many hours of toil must she spend?
What Is the time when her day’s work shall
end?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many lunches for Tommy and Sam—
Nobody knows but mother—
Cookies and apples and blackberry jam—
Nobody knows but mother—
Nourishing dainties for every “sweet tooth,”
Toddling Dottle or dignified Ruth?
How much love sweetens the labor, forsooth?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many cares does a mother’s heart know?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many joys from her mother love flow?
Nobody knows but mother.
How many prayerc by each little white bed?
How many tears for her babes ha she shed?
How many kisses for each curly head?
Nobody knows but mother.
—Mary Morrison in Housekeeper.
A PARIS NOCTURNE.
“The price will do. ”
“Monsieur is most kind. "
“And—ah—tenoz, madame. This is
the fifth, I believe?’’
“No, monsieur,’’ simpered the land
lady, slightly drooping her eyes.
“But you told me, " began the gentle
man with the Bohemian air, Greek nose
and shaggy blond curls, “you told me,
madame’’ —
“Yes, monsieur,” Mme. Toudouche
half stammered. “I—l had forgotten.
At the fifth there is a room occupied, and
monsieur desired this floor, the fourth,
to be quite vacant. ”
“Yes,’’ loitered the reply With a
remarkably white hand, though large
and muscular, the gentleman stroked a
clear chiseled chin. Suddenly, with this
same hand, he made a sweeping gesture:
“1 will take all the little suit. But,
mind yon, 1 hope for quiet during the
week that lam here. I shall rest and
drowse most of the time. I shall have
no visitors—absolutely none. Frankly,
1 shall be in retreat. An absorbing affair
—a matter of business, most wearisome
business—will soon engross me, and
hence 1 am taking this preparatory
term of repose. You are sure I shall not
be disturbed. madame —absolutely
sure?”
“Oh, yes, monsieur, absolutely.”
‘My name is—-er —Duroc—M. Albert
Duroc '
“Thank you, monsieur. ”
"Please let my luggage be sent up.
You have no doubt perceived that it is
very small 1 shall ask you for a cup of
coffee each morning—good, strong cof
fee —a roll and a bit of butter. Pray, let
all three be excellent. Stay, madame.”
And here M Duroc glanced about him
at the shabby but clean apartment.
“Perhaps you would prefer that 1
should give you half my promised sum
in advance ” He then drew out a purse,
and as he did so the old woman’s wrin
kled face became one immense labyrinth
ine smile
After she had gone M. Duroc leaned
from one of his high dormer windows
and looked at Paris below the slumber
ous azure of a perfect autumn afternoon.
Yonder was the lie St. Louis, with
Notre Dame so near that one could al
most make out the grimaces of its
ghoulish gargoyles. Ah, dear old Notre
Dame, with the adorable sculptures of
its main doorway, saints and martyrs
all tangled together like roses in a huge
wreath! Dear old “other side of the
river!” What thrilling memories it
evoked 1 There wound the unforgetable
and unique Seine, with its little toylike
steamboats, bound for Chareuton, foi
Suresnes, for numberless ports besides.
And the stately fawn colored buildings
on either bank, skirting so palatially
each curvilinear verge. Ah, the de
licious days of boyhood I And to be here
once again where he had dwelt -for so
many youthful years! What refresh
ment after the loud, bustling life of
that other Paris, whose boulevards and
cases and theaters and salons teemed
with a thousand ambitions, rivalries,
hates!
“1 will dine over here near the Lux
embourg, ” meditated M. Duroc, “in a
little restaurant which has long ago for
gotten my existence. Then I will coma
back to my placid refuge and enjoy the
first serene sleep of seven others, all oi
which, 1 hope, will be equally serene.
Ah, what comfort to be hidden away
like this! After Monday next my work
must begin Meanwhile rest, rest, rest
before the leudous task that awaiti
me. “
Later M Duroc followed out his in
tent He took a stroll through obscure
yet familiar streets for nearly an hour
after dining and then resought his new
lodgings. He was a light sleeper, yet a
healthful one. Hardly five minutes aft
er blowing out his candle he had fallen
into just the suave slumber that he
craved.
“La-la-la —la lah la-la-la tira,
lira, lira —lah—la-la—tira, liraah, lira
—iah-r-r-r-r!”
Then the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle and
thrum, thrum, thrum of a piano; then
the woman’s voice and also the piano,
both dawning together into awakened
concionsness; then a man’s basso voice,
repeating every tira-lira, every lah, of
the feminine one.
By this time M. Duroc was thorough
ly awake. He soon lighted a candle and
looked at his watch—ten minutes past
midnight. The vocal exercises contin
ued. Sleep was now impossible. He
anathematized his landlady. Why had
■he dared to lie like this? Had she
not promised him peace? The detested
sounds came, too plainly, from a cham
ber just above him. At a quarter past 1
o’clock they ceased. Soon afterward he
heard a man’s step descend the stair
case, passing his door.
The chain of sleep having been thus
rudely broken, it was three good hours
before he rejoined its disrupted liuka
He awoke at about 9 in the morning,
full of indignant protest. Finding the
landlady below stairs, he poured upon
her a torrent of reproaches. Was it for
this that she had accepted his advance
payment? Had she not assured him that
his lodings should be quiet? Of course,
all the while, she knew of these two
owls up stairs, these midright cats,
with their bass and treble miaulings!
And the piano, too—a ramshackle thing
at beet! Was this honest dealing? W'as
It not shameless deceit?”
But the landlady could now afford to
rle would remain tor one day more
and a night at least If the tira-liras
■gain woke him, as of course they could
not fail to do, he would make of these
nocturnal nuisances an emphatic re
quest to keep silent. This would be
wreaking a kind of vengeance on his
landlady, for neither would she relish
having her duplicity publicly disclosed
nor would the fair repute of her inn be
thereby enhanced.
“Perhaps, after all, though,” mused
Duroc, "I shall tleep through the clam
ors of tonight. If not, farewell forever
to Mme. Toudouche ”
At 10 that evening Duroc ascended
his staircase with the intention of re
tiring. Scarcely had he closed his door
when madame’s somewhat plaintive
voice caused him to reopen it.
“1 am so sorry it has happened, mon
sieur. Of course I realized that mon
sieur has been perfectly right. 1 have
not an idea who she is Apparently,
however, she is very poor That touohed
my heart.” And Mme. Toudouche made
the motion of widiug away a tear.
“She says the gentleman is her brother.
She pays very little for the room. The
piano is her own. She had it brought
up herself. And now, M. Duroc, I have
come to assure you that you need only
command and I will obey.”
"Command? Obey, Mme. Toudou
che?”
“Yes, monsieur it is affreux that
you should be kept awake like this. I
will tell the young girl when she comes
tonight that 1 shall require of her uo
further pay and that she must at once
cease from these disturbing practices.”
"W 7 hat a poor little handful of sous
that ‘pay’ must be!” thought Duroc,
with irrepressible cynicism.
Somehow, after the landlady had de
parted and while flinging himself into
the only easy chair that his room con
tained, a twinge of conscience assailed
him. Might he not, after all, be thwart
ing some purpose of self support on the
part of this girl—just referred to as pos
sibly very poor? There might be cogent
reasous why she should hold with her
brother these weird concerts ‘ * Well, no
matter what happens tonight, ”he med
itated, “1 will endure it And tomor
row, if I have been annoyed as I was
last night, I can make a change of quar
ters. Meanwhile, the most merciful plan
is to see Mme. Toudouche at once and
tell her that she must restrain her veto;
that it is my earnest wish. ”
But soon, as it happened, a drowsi
ness overtook him and he fell asleep
there in the armchair He was a man
in perfect health, but for many past
days he had been constitutionally tired
by a peculiar pressure of work.
Wakening abruptly after what he felt
to have been a long and wholly unfore
seen nap, he heard the piano banging up
stairs and the tira-liras bleußSwith its
notes. S
Rubbing his eyes, he laugl Si aloud.
“It’s hard to be charitable,” he mut
tered. “How strange 1 should have
fallen asleep like this! I suppose it’s
my broken rest of last night. ”
He rose, with the immediate design
of disrobing All at once the sounds
ceased. Theu came another noise—that
of voices He opened his door and went
out into the hall
Up stairs Mme. Toudouche was vehe
mently talking “1 meant to wait up
for you and tell you. mademoiselle, but
1 was too fatigued and I lost myself in
a long doze. Now- I must insist that
you stop your singing and playing at
this unseemly hour —you and the young
man whom you call your brother. ”
“He is my brother, Mme. Toudouche,
just a 3 I have said. ”
“Yes, madame, she is my sister.”
" Well, 1 can’t help that. The gentle
man down stairs will .not stand it, and
he is perfectly right 1”
Duroc listened no longer He mount
ed briskly the steps leading to the upper
hall. There he saw in dimness three
figures.
“Ah, M. Duroc, ” exclaimed the land
lady, “it’s you! Of course you have
been distressed again by this wretched
business. And slight wonder. ”
The light from the near room struck
full on a pale, girlish face as “made
moiselle” advanced several steps.
“Oh, M. Duroc, may I beg you to let
ns go on? This young man is my broth
er, though madame here has hinted
otherwise. I cannot play and sing at
home. I had the piano brought here.
It’s the only possession of the least
value that we now have left. My brother
plays in the orchestra at one of the
small Montmartre theaters. He would
have time to teach me in the day, but 1
have no time then. lam always at the
bedside of my poor, sick mother. She
takes her sleeping potion at half past
11 every night, and till half past 1 it
keeps her quiet. In a week from now,
my sister, Who is a shopgirl at the Bon
Marche, will lose her position. They
•re discharging many hands there now
that the dull season has begun to set in.
But I have been positively promised a
place in the chorus of the new opera at
tho Comique, provided I can only learn
how to use my voice a little better than
I use it now. My sister, you see, mon
sieur, will then become my mother’s
nurse, and the money that she can no
longer earn I will eafa instead. At
least this is my hope, for it seems too
hard that the whole burden of our fam
ily maintenance should fall upon poor
Aehille here. Look at him, monsieur.
Achille is not strong. See how pale and
thin ho is and only just 19! But he has
marked musical talent, and he is help
ing mo a great deal. Oh, pray do not
have us turned away! It lias cost so
much for us to get our piano up here
and pay the rent of the room —so much,
I mean, for us in our forlorn poverty!”
The girl’s lips quivered with entreaty
as she paused. Her eyes, large and
black, were quite tearless, but they
burned with a keen, dry shine.
“And what is this new opera, ” asked
Duroc gently, “in the chorus of which
you hope to obtain a position?”
“Does not monsieur know?” here
politely asked Achille, whose slender
frame was as dim to Duroc as the lat
ter’s taller and burlier one was dim to
him. It is ‘Fiordelisa, by the celebrat
ed composer M. Albert Charantelle.
Ho is the writer of live or six other
works, all of which have been great
successes here in Paris. It is said that
‘Fiordelisa’ will eclipse them all. M.
Albert Gbarantelle is a strange gentle
mun in certain ways, though greatly
beloved, I am told, by a wide circle of
friends. For instance, when he has
thoroughly completed an opera, and
everything is ready for the first rehears
al, he has an odd way of disappearing
from the world for a week or more and
nobody cun find his whereabouts. They
say that he lias uow disappeared like
this. It is to gain rest, complete rest,
or so I have been informed, before the
great labor shall begin of putting the
opera on Mu- stage But punctually on
the maruinftof rehearsal he will appear
at the Opera Comique and take up his
baton antu drill the singers and the
tne stillness As it continued It seemed
to blossom even more than to sound.
You might have fancied it some gar
land woven from flowers of music by
the hands of Invisible spirits The poor
little ill tuned piano seemed to its lis
teners an instrument of diapason divine
Entranced, intoxicated, the young
girl felt her brother’s hand clutch her
own.
“It is he, Gilberte, ” gasped Achille.
"It is M Albert Charantelle himself!
I once heard him play at a cqpcert, and
some one near me said, ‘lf he had not
chosen to be a great composer, he w ould
have been the greatest of pianists!’ ”
“Mon Dieu!” faltered the young girl,
and Mme. Toudouche, enveloped in an
extremely unbecoming wrapper, gave a
whinny of consternation.
Here the music slowly ceased in a
ripple of tinkling arpeggios. With his
hands dropping away from tho keys, M.
Albert Charantelle turned toward the
young girl.
"My dear mademoiselle, you must
accept from me a louis tonight for the
sake of your poor mother” —
“Oh, monsieur!" cried Gilberte,
bursting into sobs.
“And at 10 ’clock, juste a l’heure,
next Monday morning, present yourself
with this card at the stage entrance of
the Opera Comique. Then you shall see
what you shall sea From your tira
liras I feel already quite convinced that
you will do excellently well in at least
one or two of the choruses of ‘Fior
delisa. ’ ”
Gilberte passionately kissed the card.
"Oh, Achille, you are right! It is he—
it is the real M. Charantelle himself I
Ah, what a wonderful stroke of good
luok!” _
“And now, ” said the gentleman, run
ning one hand through his short glossy
curls while he fixed the gaze of his
brilliant, tawny brown eyes first on
Achille and then on his sister, “I havs
to beg a favor of yon both. Please give
ms a few quiet nights from now until
Monday next. Will you not kindly
grant me this favor?” Achille broke in
to a laugh at what struck him as the
delicate satire of these words, but Gil
berte wiped her eyes, from which the
grateful tears had uot yet ceased to
flow.—Edgar F’awoett in Collier’s
Weekly
D 1 (Tailed Light.
The superiority of diffused light ovef
that which is direct is now generally
insisted upon by scientific experts, the
fact being urged that, while the lattel
wearies the eyes and predisposes to
shortsightedness, the former is, like
sunlight, soft and soothing. The prin
ciple involved in lighting a room by
this method is certainly sufficiently
simple and practicable for its general
adoption, consisting, that is, in having
reflected upon the ceilings and walls
the required luminous rays, which thus
fall softly on the desk or worktable.
All that is necessary to secure this re
sult is to place a reflector not above the
source of light, but below it, by which
arrangement all the rays are reflected
toward the ceiling In some of the pub
lic assembly places and institutions of
France unique methods are resorted to
in carrying out this plan, as at the
school of St Cyr, where a conical re
flector, painted entirely white, is placed
under the arc lights, while at the ly
ceum in Aix a parabolic reflector is
used, which is bronzed on the lower
and silvered on the upper part A great
light is thus obtained, far more than If
direct
THE VOLUNTEER STATE.
Tennessee’s Prowess In All Our
Country’s Wars.
In the revolutionary war, in
1812, in the Creek and Seminole
wars and in the conflict with Mex
ico, Tennessee earned the reputa
tion and sobriquet ot the Volun
teer State. In the revolution her
pioneers left their feeble and un
protected settlements on the Hol
ston, Watauga and Nolachucky to
pour themselves a torrent of death
on the invaders of the Carohnas.
At the commencement of the
war of 1812, before any requisi
tion from the government, 2,500
Tennesseeans volunteered; and
this uumbe" was increased to
28,000 before its close. Tennes
see fought the Creek war almost
unaided, and furnished the heroes
who won the bloody field of Chai
nlet t.e before the gates of New Or
leans. It was Tennessee valor
and in the person of the gallant
Gaines that won the victorv for
the American arms at Fort Erie,
which first checked the invasion
of the east. In the Mexican war
Tennessee’s quota was 2,800, and
80,000 volunteers responded to
the call. In fact from the revo
lution to the great civil conflict
Tennessee took a leading part in
every war. When the war be
tween the states came Tennessee
furnished 200,000 men to the con
federacy and 85,000 volunteers to
the union; thirty-nine general
officers to the confederates and
eight to the federalists. To the
southern navy she gave a Maury,
the pathfinder of the seas, and to
the northern a Farragut. The
claim that Tennessee furnished
more soldiers to the civil war than
any other state will hardly be
disputed. Four hundred and eight
battles and skirmishes were fought
within her limits, a record sur
passing that of any other state
except Virginia; and Tennessee’s
soil holds “the dreamless dust” of
more heroes that died in the con
flict between the states than does
the soil of any other state. Noh
all is peace and fraternity. Should
the restored uuiou call for sold
iers, regiment after regiment
would enlist as fast as men could
write their names, peers of the
vitorious Tenth Legionaries of
Home or the invincible Ironsides
of Cromwell. —Walter P. Brown
low in The Illustrated American.
The University of Missouri re;
OVER THE STATE.
The Monroe cotton mills will be
doubled in size.
•
Baldwin couuty will have a pro
hibition election on Nov. 17.
Col. Frank A. Irwin pf Cedar
town is a candidate for congress.
There is another movement on
foot among the Atlanta negroes to
imigrate to Africa.
Four negroes are to be tried for
murder at the next term of Troup
county superior court.
Charles Z. Blalock, a member of
the law firm of Culberson & Bla
lock of Atlanta, died Friday from
an attack of appendicitis.
A republican meeting was held
at Gainesville recently at which H.
P. Farrow was unanimously in
dorsed for the postmastership of
Gainesville.
At a recent meeting of the Au
gusta presbytery in Sparta, the
pulpit of the Second Presbyterian
church at Augusta was declared va
cant. Rev. B. M. Shive, the pas
tor, recently received a call to a
church iu Memphis, and notified
his congregation that he had ten
dered his resignation to the pres
bytery.
|The Union Trust Company and
other creditors of the Kirkpatrick
Hardware Company of Atlanta
filed a petition Thursday to place
the Kirkpatrick Hardware Compa
ny in the handsof a receiver. The
Kirkpatrick Hardware Company
sold out its slock of goods Oct. 31,
1896, to John M. Lofton, and then
proceeded to wind up its business.
Information has reached Baxley
that Dr. Ed Overstreet, a promi
nent physician in his section of the
country, while intoxicated near
Surrency, Thursday, killed a ne
gro minister by the name of Mc-
Cabe, who was sleeping. A friend
called him to go, and the doctor
hearing it remarked, “No, he can’t
go,” shot him five or six times, in
stantly killing him.
Prof. J . P . Campbell of Athens
has gone to Thomasville to inspect
a large number of fruit trees at
the nurseries there. Under the law
it is necessary that all trees that
are shipped out of tho state be in
spected by the state entomologist
before shipped and that he certify
that they are free from insects or
disease. Prof. Campbell has a
great deal of this work to do each
year.
The November term of the Sump
ter supei ixuc, court will not be a
leDgthy one so far as civil busi
ness is concerned, less than thirty
new cases having been entered up
on the docket and these involving
small amounts. The criminal
docket is heavy as usual, however,
and this will serve to keep the
court busy until after the holidays.
There are already thirty-five pris
oners in jail awaiting trial.
Profs. W. H. Bocock and C. M.
Suellingare representing the state
university at the meeting of the
association of colleges and public
schools now in session at Knox
ville, Tenn. Among the important
matters to be considered will be
the report of the committee on the
requirements for entrance into the
different classes of Greek. Of this
committee, Prof. Bocock of the
University of Georgia is chairman.
Raft Watson, colored, was shot
with a load of buckshot from am
bush at Dearing, near Thomson,
Monday night and instantly killed.
George Hobbs, colored, was arrest
ed and jailed as the murderer. It
is thought that Hobbs intended to
kill a negro named Marlin, who
was with Watson, with whom
Hobbs had had a quarrel about his
wife. Hobbs denies the killing
but there is a strong case against
him.
Dahlonega Nugget: The suit of
Bigbee vs. Summerour-Spriggs
over the rich gold mine, which was
guarded with the gun and bayonet
came to an end last week. The ju
ry was out all night without reach
ing a verdict and a settlement was
agreed upou the next morning.
Mr. Bigbee pays the cost, takes
charge of the mine and the colored
man interested allowed the pro
ceeds of a certain amount of ore
he had taken out.
Madison Madisonian : Mr. W.
D. Thomas, of Savannah, was in
the city Friday on business of im
pc rtance to our citizens. He pro
poses to build Madison a system of
water works to be operated in con
nection with our electric light sys
tem. He proposes to operate both
at a ci st to our city of about $4,000
annually. He proposes to lay
piping over the town and build a
stand fipe if the city will agree to
pay the $4,000 annually. The city
continued obstinate, were sent to
jail. Their sentences were SIOO or
thirty days’ imprisonment each.
The police have been requested to
subpoena before the recorder 200
persons who, it is.alleged, have vi
olated the ordinance.
The case of Frank K. Russak, ex
ecutor ol the last will and testa
ment of Benjamin Russak, against
William Wolf was tried at Macon
Friday, and the jury rendered a
verdict for the plaintiff for $20,000
principle, $1,286.19 interest, and
$2,128.61 attorneys fees and costs.
This was a suit brought for the re
covery of $20,000 loaned by the
late Beujamiue Russak to the firm
of Wolf & Happ some years ago
for the erection of their large
building. The building will be
sold at public outcry.
Dairen Timber Gazette: During
the last month there was shipped
from Darien, coastwise and foreign
2,429,825 feet of hewn and sawn
timber and lumber. During the
month ending on the 31st ultimo,
there was measured at the public
boom in Darien 750,000 feet of
square, scab and sawn timber.
This does not include the sawn
timber and lumber which came in
during the month and was carried
direct to the private booms. Du
ring the week there was shipped
from the port of Darien, coastwise
and foreign, 1,842,248 feet of tim
ber and lumber.
No Flaws in His Story.
A half dozen travelling men
were seated in the little station
waiting for the east bound train,
says the Ohio State Journal.
First would come a blinding flash
of lightning and then a deafening
peal of thunder. A fearful storm
was raging.
“This is a scary night to be on
the road,” remarked the soap
drummer.
“I see where you are .right,”
said the cigar man. “As I remem
ber,” he continued, “it was just
such a night as this when the train
struck a bad place four miles east
of here, and the next instant was
off the bridge. I was the only
passenger on the train to escape
with his life.”
“When was that?” was asked.
“Latter part of August, 94.
“I fail to recall that wreck,’”
said one of the crowd.
“So do I,” said another.
“How many did you say was
killed ?” asked the soap drummer.
“Didn’t say anybody was killed,”
remarked the cigar man.
“You didn’t, eh ? You said you
were the only passenger who es
caped with his life.”
“Certainly; that is easily ac
counted for,” explained the cigar
man, looking innocent. “I was
the only passenger on the train.”
“Aha! that’s your game, is it?”
said the soap drummer.
“Hold on here,” said the only one
in the crowd who had not spoken
up to this time, as he hustled up
in front of the cigar man, “you
said you struck a bad place on the
road.”
“We did, but got over it all
right. ”
“But you said you run off the
bridge ?”
“That’s all right. We ran off
it after we had crossed it. That
story is all right, boys. You can’t
pick a flaw in it. ”
The Georgia Penitentiary.
Some interesting figures are
presented by the principal keeper
of the penitentiary in his annual
report just issued.
Of the 2,800 convicts, Fulton
contributed 2748 —and the mill is
still grinding, Judge Candler be
ing on deck with a full head of
water —Chatham 147 and Bibb
109.
Dawson, Echols, Fayette, Har
ralson, Lumpkin, Murray and
White only have one each, and
Gilmer, Pickens and Towns none.
There are 899 serving life sen
tences, 190 were sent up for twen
ty years, 103 for fifteen years, 862
for ten years, 335 for five years
and 12 for one year. The average
sentence is a fraction over eight
years.
The ages range from fourteen to
seventy-two. 4 Burglary seems to
be the most popular pastime with
this class of gentry, 780 having
been committed for this offense,
while murder comes second with
878.
Tkere is one each of the follow
ing avocations: Actor, printer,
policeman, railroad conductor,
bookbinder, news reporter, doctor,
cab maker, civil engineer and two
preachers. There are three news
boys, 868 farmers and 975 labor
ers; 157 are married and 1,278
single; 871 read and write, 218
read only, and 1,146 are wholly il-
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Kansas has 886,000 children
of school age.
Great Britain is spending some
thing like £78,000 in agricultural
education.
Great Britain is strengthening
Gihralter by constructing a huge
protected harbor and dockyard.
In London 206 firms, employing
15,500 men have conceded the
eight hours demand.
The secretary of the interior
has reversed the decision of his
predecessor that “marble was h£„ *
a mineral.”
Some folks in Hiawatha, Kan.,
nang a piece of raw beef over the
bed at night for the mosquitos to
feed on.
Since dairy instruction has been
introduced into Ireland, Irish but
ter is beginning to recover the
position it has lost.
The Oldtown, Me., woolen mill
is running part of the card and
spinning rooms until 11 p. m., re
suming work again at 8 a. m.
A Lewiston, Idaho, company
has gone into the business of pol
ishing opals. The Lewiston gems,
it is said, command the highest
price, *
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John Stollar, a Nebraska faGTU““
er who went into debt for eighty
acres of land, has raised enough
wheat on the farm this year to
clear the debt.
The city of Duluth, Minn., is in
such hard financial straits that it
has had to close up five of the fire
stations and dismiss a third of its
police force.
Benjamin Bissell, of Ballstou
Spa, N. Y., thinks he holds the
record. He has voted for eighteen
presidential candidates, not one of
whom was elected.
The land of morning calm, an
cient Korea, opened two more of
its ports to the world October 7th.
Chipampo and Nulpo are on the
coasts of two rich provinces.
A “health evangelist” who is
talking in the west says that in
his opinion many cases of alleged
total depravity are only cases of.'
total indigestion.
A new ordinance in Chicago re
quires that all fruit, berries and
vegetables shall have the quanti
ty marked on each package, so it
can -ba .clearly read by the pur
chaser. ' *
When dead bodies are entered
as cargo on a ship they are often
recorded on the invoices as statu
ary. or natural history specimens,
to allay the superstitions fears of
the crew.
A happy little maideq of
111., is the proud possessor of six
teen five-leaf clovers, twenty-six
tour-leaf clovers and two six-leaf
clovers, all of which she found in
one morning.
One large agency inLondou em
ploys women for bailiffs, putting
them in charge where the victim
of distraint is a woman or an el
derly person who is not likely to
make trouble for the custodian.
There are now
cieties in the United
which membership depends on
scent from ancestors who distin- ’
guished themselves by coming to '
America at an early date, or Ip* J
being participants in American!
wars prior to 18G1. 1
The University of
has voted to confer the |
doctor of
queen of RonmaTiTa, whose peril
name is Carmen SylVa, and a
utation from the university facul- i
ty will take the diploma to the
queen at Buda-Pesth.
The trolley cars in Des Moine#,/
lowa, are fitted with letter boxes/4
and they are required
whenever a citizen
deposit a letter. As
the poßtoilice an official removqM
the mail from the box. I
The British troops in India havjj
received orders to carry 20 rouni fa
of ball ammunition at church
rades. This practice was
tinned only a few years back,
its renovation can duly be loufll
upon a- a i ,i
i a u at' h and cha> mouse. B
i(lsn. The B
1 v married the woman ?■
a'VU-ed the seller of steal.
watch and chain, and the
went t<> a magistrate
o'eusi r's arrest on a efl
bigamy.
M 'i cral” soap is the ‘“BliffBI
id sir kind of e .el
i- parts W \ e ■
w hen taken from tlfl
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