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CIVIL 4' li 4* N l A f
S' L Huidiius^)» *§*' ’Up
i) T Cain. CltfMnp. <•"•*•». f J V
j f UrnkiA Odbuivy.
w p. Oteby, hlmriti.
■v'K Brown, Treasurer.
Uff.’ Andrews, Tax Keceiw. I
j S V crner, IflS
KNs till 1 ' ■■■'
j j| Wilson, Coroner.
' COUNT* COMMISSION KKS.
J. D d pence, Zi
Banned, J K •’ H A "
drew darner. &**
BOARD Of KDII’ATION,
„ v ,, School Comm issi oner, J
D Spence, AT- I’nrilln, V ,1. W
j R Noel T K. Winn.
MUNICH* AT-
Jobs C.Smith, Mayor. _
, council.
A L Moore K D llerrin S A
W J Brown
jaai,^i. ANii PKeAiiTpan or rsais *
f 'jtrnvcsirohi Suwannee. 5.50 ui
leaves lor'hi waauee, 7a- m
iKKIVAI. AND BICeAKrUBK oi
iKi'FKKSON— Arrives 12 ui. .Apart*
D. in,, Monday and ThnrSifa
Tkaqlks Stork. —Depart ti u ui or
ives e pin, Monday and T rsday. ■
Bobanviluk.— Arrives 10 a U), de
parts 1 p r.i. —Daily.
Y*u.ow ilivKit. — A rnves 12 m., de»
iailA la in.. Wetoesday uffd Stifrtnmf
tttl< yv.u. hlrvky, P. ...
CHURCH KS It V
> BaVtist- fiev L tt Barrett, pastor
Services every Sunday.
MstHodist—ltev Kk. Aiken Pal Lor j
Services on the lot and 2nd Sundays.
Sundav School. — Al 1 Pattiilo, Supt
Uverry Sunday at 0 p m
P V w f K ßian- -ltev 1' Mcl.lelkmu,
ou 2 iid m 1 ,4 Yu
in each month, «.• » *
Sunday Schooi., —T H Powell. Supt
Kvery Sunday at 9.30 a m
kratkrnal.
Lawrkuckvillk Masonic I.or>av..—J
DSpence W il., S Aiiugood, S V\i
SJ Winn, J W, Meets ms first Ifidsikry
night on or het'o; e lull moon in eaeb
must*. ■• ■ 1 1 l-, “ 1 _ ■
fit Y r krnon Chaptkr, No 39, R A
M.— i l» Spence, It P, * 'l'
Sec Vieete Finlay r,i r 4“ l,Nl™c mF’
3rd sauday in each month.
UWINSpr JpUUKRIBR COURT.--N. L, j
doiiveocs on tbftlk-# 1
Monday in .Hot h and S< Riemtn % * $ 4
l. frank McDonald,
ATTuBVEY AT LAW.
L iwiencevilte, Ga.
Will prftcli' e in t 4N* U"**"
Court of 0 dinary, anrl Superior
Couit of U win net and surrounding
eouuUen.
Colleclions a specialty. Cilice
i ot&e Ewing building, down stairs on
Grogan street.
Fitch ,lf. John *o tt
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GAINESVILLE,
Will practice in this and
circuits, anti the Supreme Court Jt tCj
State. Business intrusted to lire care
sill receive prompt attention.
2<WjL -
IM •<-. „ ■ bod.aa
, ... sU>T;« 7~ ■V.„ jcf $0•
E. S. V. BRIAN T
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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All business eturwteel
care will receive ]foiJjv «lPol§l.
Collections a spectalt v.
I Ajjr.H-ly
i — v — l j
J, A, HUNT,
‘ATOtiNEY at law,
NORCUOSN, (iA.
Viii practice in the Superior Courts
tiesnf r« S -° f ?] diuar >- <>f ,TUe 001*1-
uesof (.wmnett and Miltou„undlin
tne nstn tfi court of. botliWmntiia
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Eeli a-’BS-Imy.
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TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor.
VOL XV.
V A MIDNIGR I PERIL.
ft ~r~
■be night of the 17tli of Oclo-
IteJp—-si ull I evor forget il s pitchy
Darkness, the roar of the autum
nal wind through the lonely for*
eat. and the incessant downpour
‘This conies of short cuts;’ I
muttered petulantly to my-elf, as
ftfyo* keeping close t°
the trunks of the trees to avoid
the rivine, through will eh I could
hear the roltr of the turbulent
stream forty or fifty feet below.
.\Ty ,blood raa cold as I thought
what Hiight be the posible conse
€ieuce pi a misstep or a move in
e'wnlna direction. Why hud i
not tlei. Cori/e/tied to keep in the
righT'i'oad?
Hold on! was that light, or my
eyes playing me false?
I stopped, holding on to the low
■rminoas boughs of -a hemlock
that grew on the edge of the bank
ifojAt actually seemed that the
wind would seive iu« bodily and
iutti rue down the precipitous tie 1 -
a light—thank Provi
dence—i was a light, and no ig
nis. talus 10 lead me on to destruc
tion and deat .
•.MJEiV,
. My voice ran ihrough the woods
■Jdw au warion. 1 plunged on
through*tailgle 1 vines, dense bri
ars and rocky banks, gradually
nearirg, l could perceive a figure
JWBTVps3 7n“an oil .‘loth cape, or
oaK jjamitU«a Lutern. As the
rrqiou his face l al
most recoiled Would not soli-,
theMfoy is Oe preferable to
of thin withers
etl, wrinkled otu man? But it was
too late ta recede now.
"What’s wanting!’ ha snarled
witii a peculiar motion of the 1 ips
tfial BeetßAl to leave his yellow
all hare.
‘I am lost in /he woods; can you
direct ine to it station?’
‘Yes, R~—station vs twelve
eyilus from here.’
“Twele miles!’ ,
1 jitoed aghast.
‘Can you tell me any sheller I
could' oh||ui for the night"?’
' •Whiro [ffe you going?’
„ ‘To.Life’s, down by the maple
swamp.’ t
■-a ‘ftjft ft tavern?’
‘No.’
‘ H’ould tlieyjjhey take me for
::. „• ' cOUld pay them
His eyes gleamed; tha yellow
stutnpß Stood revealed once more
*1 sol folks don’t step
i here.’
• ‘ls it far from here?’
‘Not very; aoout half a mile.’
‘Then and let us
rii < dto , .| ■jf--.*, dmiehed to the
W r e plodded cu, my companion
more than keeeping pace with me.
.AAcsuntly we left <he edge of
tit* rayrne entering wha. seemed
it iricktess woods, and keeping
sto'Aigiit\ on, until lights gleamed
di fully through the wet foliage.
It was a ruinous aid place, with
the windows all drawn to one
.! To «s if the fonudalioii had Bet-
and the pillars of a rude
away.
'ls itmianl'auswered my fellow
traveler’s My companion
wihljyiered a word or two to her,
ippd 'sll® turned to-we with smooth’
vßl#Ble^wor^s yt we'cutne.
vdh, v revetted the poverty of
ihwUaccouimodaUons; but I was
wtJlecmirf'to" fhem,' such as they
weffif/ 1 *;
.i/:‘Wtiete is Isaac?’ demanded
ruy guiiie.
‘.lie ban noe rtome in yet.’
I »i*t : <lowff Ton a wooden bench
tle'^e r .and - ate a few
•
1 A-oUtd itko to, retir* as soon
as poesfi iic,, said, for my weat -
JVas’ijUieaaive'.-
» ‘Ct^ajoly, 1 .V "
*** 1*1,6 w'ouiaT’ started up with
atioay. •
'AYUerc ate you going to pit
h;masked yuv guide.
4Jprelisnftet? ,v :
‘But him to Isaacs room.
■No.;’
‘TtVthe most coiiifhrtahle.’
But here I interrupted the wltis
pering colloquy.
Tbi not particular -1 don’t
care where you put me, so you
make haste.’
bo I was conducted up a steep
ladder that stood in the corner of
the room, into an apartment, coil
ed with sloping'Tie am a and ventilat
ed bv onejnnall window* where a
cot bedstead, crowded close
against the boaul partition, and a
nine table with two or three chairs,
formed the soie attempts at turni-*
line.
The woman set the light—au
old oil lamp—ou the table.
“Anything moi e I can get yon,
sir?’
‘Nothing, think you ’
‘1 hope you will sleep well, sir.
When shall I call you’’
‘At 4 o’clock in the morning, if
you please. I must walk over to
R station in time for the 7
o’clock expiess.
‘l’ll be sure t ) call you, sir.’
She Withdrew, leaviug me alone
in the gloomy little apartment. I
sat down and looked arom*Liue
with no very agreeable seasaiidfi.
T will sit down and #rite ..o
Alice,' 1 thought; ‘that will soothe
iny nerve aad quiet mo, perhaps.'
1 descended the Udder, the fire
still glowed redly in the hearth
beneath; my companion and the
woman sat beside it talking inn
ow tone, and a third person sat at
the table eating, a short, stout,
villainous-looking man, in a red
fiaunel shirt and muddy trousers
I asked for writing materials
aud returned to my room to write
to my wife.
‘My darling Alice— ’
1 prosed and laid down my pen
as I c.-neluded the words, twit
smiling to think what she would
say, con d she know of my strange
quarters.
Net till both sheets were cover
ed did I lay aside my pen aud pre
pare for s'umber. As I folded
my paper J hap pencil to glance to
ward tire cough.
Was it ihe gleam of a humuu
eye observing me through the
board partition, or was it my own
I'any! There was a crack there*
but only black darkness beyond,
yet I could have sworn that some
thing had sparkled balefully at
me.
1 took out my watch—it was
one o’clock. It was scarcely
worth while for me to Uudresa for
three hour's sleep. I would lie
down iu my clothes and snatch
what slumber I could. So, plac
ing my valise at the head of my
bed, and barricading the lockless
door with two chairs, I extinguish
ed the light and lay down.
At flrst I was very wakeful, but
gradual y a soft diowsiness seem
ed to steal over me like a misty
mantle, until, all of a sudden,soiue
startling, electric thrill coursed
through my veins, and I s*t up
excited and trembling.
jx luminous softness seemed io
glow through the room —no light
of the moon or stars was ever so
penetrating —and by tht litile
window I saw Alice, my wife, dress
ed in floating garments of white,
with her long golden huir kn'/tte l
back with a blue ribbon. Appar
ently she was coming to me with
outstretched han*is, and eyes full
of wild, anxious tenderness.
I sprang to my feet and rushed
toward her, hut as I reached the
window tue fair appari.ion seemed
to vanish in tlie stormy darkness,
and I was left alone. At the self
same instant the sharp report of a
pistol sounded —I could sse the
jagged stream of fire above <be
pillow straight through the vary
spot where ten minutes since my
head had lain.
With an instantaneous realiza-i
lion of my danger I swung myself
over the edge of the window,
jumping some eight or ten feet in
to tangled bushes below, aud as I
crouched there recovering my
breath I heard the tramp of foot
uteps into my room.
‘ls he dead?' cried a voice up I
the ladder—the smooth, deceitful j
voice of the woman with halfclosed
eyes.
■Of couse he is,’ growied a voice j
back; ‘that charge would have kill- j
ed ten men. A light there quick;
and tell Tom he to ready.’
A cold, agonized shudder ran ,
through me. What a den ot mid*
eight murderers had l fallen ii to!
And how foal fully nanow had
•.. ** vi at fIHK
Our Ovrn H'dion^^rl r L<tbur For lttt Advancement.
GA January 26 1886
luieu my escape!
With the i-poe<Ubat only tnortuj
terror ai d deadly peril ean give 1
fUsbed through the woods now il
luminated by a taint glimmer ot
starlight I know Lot what impulse
guided my TooUlepe —l never
shad knew how many times I
crossed my own* tVac^f,. now
clese I stood tt> ifie brink of the
deadly ravine; but a mericiful
Piovidenoe eueompawfed me with h
a guiding and projecting care, fui :
when the morning dawned, with
taint, red bars of orieut light
against the stormy eastern sky, 1
was ok se to the high road some
seven miles from It——-.
Once at the town, [ told my sto
ry to the police, and a detach
ment was sent with nmUi ilie!
spot. j t rs u -i
After much searching and many 1
false aim ms, we succeeded in find
ing the rumpus old house, but u !
was empty—on- birds hgLytown,
nor did 1 recover my MtUse, and j
inch latter I had |
c;. i, ,
•I s Brew’s gting^isaiirmrcwnak :i
er of the. pulice.* ‘and
troubled us no these
years, 1 dowu’t ifiiuk thPugh
they’ll come bach litre j ust at pres- j
eut.’
Nor did hey.
JLliu the strangest par<*efmy
Btoiy is yc* to edne. ..u i H*
Some tlneo weeks suoeequently J
1 received a Jts.ter my sister
who was wiui Alice in her English j
home -a letter whose intelligence
tilled ine with surprise.
‘i must tell von something
si range;’ wrote my- sister, -‘thal
Happened on the night of the I7ih
oi Octomer. Alice had not been
well for some time, in tael stie had
been confined to’' her room nearly
a week, and T was sitting bbsidc
her reading- it was line—the
clock had just struck one- when
at orco she seemed to iain/ away,
growing white auil rigid us a
corpse. I lrastenei to call assist
ance but all ons efforts to restore
animation were in vain I was
just about sending for the doctor
when her senses returned as suds
denly as they bad left her, ard she
sat up in bed punning back her hair
and looking wildly around her.
“Alice,' I excla'med, ‘how you
Lave terrified us alll! Are you
ill?’
“Not ill,'she answered, ‘but I \
feel so sfrunge. tiracie, I have i
been with my husband.’
‘And all our reasoning failed to
convince her of the impossibility
of her assort ion She persists to
this moment that she saw you and
was with you on the morning ot
the 18th of October. AVhere and
how she cannot tell, but we think
it must have beau a dream. Sh°
is better now and I fvhb ycu could,
see how test sue is nap raving
This is my plain, unvarnished
tale. Ido net pretend to explaiu j
or account for its mys.enea 1 j
simply *elate facta Let psohycho
logist unravel the
skein. 1 am not superstitious,
neither do I believe in ghusts,
wraiths, apparitions; blit ibis
thing Ido fcnowy--thut although
my Wife was iu England in body
on the morning of the lbidi of Ot
reber, her spins surely stood be
fore me in Now York in the i
inent of the deadly peril rhatmep
aced me. It may be that«-*o sub* j
tie instinct and s.rength of a wife’s i
holy love all thines are pos-ibie,
hut Alice surely saved luy life,
turnlng~a”to\vn r i >sidl 1
DOWN. .
I had devil in tj>e E«ser
office, in a town in lowa, •- about
;; • t'l !■ •
lour uiuntliH when the editor wee
one day called away. The man
who was acting as compositor,
pressman, job printei*,
solicitor and so forth, seized the
opportunity to go off on a vpree
and I was thus left in sole charge.
Just after dinner, as I was wash
ing the roiltr and cloaning up gen
erally, in walked the first okl ‘print
er bum’ 1 had ever semi. The
duds on his back wuiea’t tforfh a
silver quarter, his hair, was long
and unkempt, bis face covered
with dirt amt bristles, and his
breath scented the room. He was
ragged, dirty, homeless, and pen
niless, aud had been let out ot the
county jail, eight miles away, that
morning.
‘Howdy, boy,’ he sail! as he
came in; and arithom a second
glance at me he took a seat at the
ikhk and attacked >tie remains cf
nYy lunch. When he had eater
the last crumb he picked hia teeth
with the editorial pen, peeled oft’
his old coat, .aid commanded:
‘Boy, hunt cue up a job stick.’
, 1 obeyed, aud as he took it he
, *
walked oyer to the rack, slung in
two or thre*> lines of display iype
and then stepped to the small pica
case aad set up the body of a cir
cular reading:
UN HAS ARRIVED! •
If IE YY O RLI»- REN OVVN KU
-DROP PETERS! Y’EN-
I'RU.OyUlS'f! MES
MERISI ! PURE,
Nus. 0(11ST!
■; . . • • . .
Prof. I‘eiers ha.- engaged riry
dev’s hall for the evening of Sep.
i'L 1868. (to-.morrow evening)
and will give the citizens of Car
mu city uu exhibition of his won-,
deilid (towers in ventriloquism,
unesmerisai au«l phreuologvr. Will
imi’sfe the notes of all birda. Will
■peak to you in sixteen languages.
|«iii wager SIOO to $d that he can
iubstnerisc any person iu Hie au -
thence. Can nml your character
tby feeling of your head. Will
(forfeit s'>oo if lie fails iu a single'
phno. Meda’s from all the crowu
ed heads of Eiu> pe, ElaUtnng
press notices from the leading
newspapers of the wdrloLu Kvery
bddy tnrn out. AdmisHon tinly
tvwluty five cents. Chriklren
Free*
He placed the matter on a gal-
I 'ey, pulled a proof and corrected
l it, and then cdt a lot of print pa
per to the right size, and said to
me:
He. up the roller and roll for
me;. ■ *• * r
l complied, and lie worked off
200 of ihe circulars. He Was not
only a £»ood compositor, but he
'wrestled that old hand press
around like a man who had never
ilone anything ele. When we had
fiiHshrd, he said;
‘Take the tin pail and get me a
quart of beer. Toil ’em to charge
it to the office.'
l was afraid of the man, and I
go/ tho beer and paid for it out of
my own money. He drank tho
whole quart with only oue breath
‘Now. theQ, take these circulars
out aud distribute ’em,’ he said as
he put away the pail. ‘Be a right
good boy and i’ll give you two
tickets to this great enteriain-
Oieut.’
This was inducement enough,
and in two hours, with the help
of another bey; 1 had billed tne
town. When I returned, the
‘bum' had washed up, combed his
hair, and bad ou a new suit of
clothes. He had gone to a cloth
ier’s aud bought them and had
them charged io the office, claims
ing that h<> bad been engaged as
foreman. Further than that he
h«d been aud engaged the hall.
1 had been back only five miuu es
when the boozy compositor came
jin. //e bad sea cely entered the
| door when the ‘burner' rose up,
j waved him back and tragically ex
claimed.
‘Co hence! This is no place for
the depraved! How dare you en
ter my office in your preseat con
dition !
The ‘comp’ hacked down stairs
drunker than ever, aud aftei tAe
stranger had questioned me at to
when the editor woald return ne
went to the bstel and engaged the
best room. I bad heard that some
body held a mortgage od the of
fire, and it struck me that this
must be the rrnu's agent. I was
young aud green, and had never
seen a displry of tramp printer s
B*ll
- morning he took possses
sioh of the office When the now
.sober compositor arrived the
"bum’’ selected copy from him,
aud boused him around, and there
was no rebellion. He wiote and
Set up several editorials niuiself
and made up the outside pages of
the paper in a neat manner, and
worker! off two jobs for which
75 Cash was paid in- Daring
the day two subscriber- paid in
$4, and all ihe money went into .
<he stranger’s pocket.
The editor was to be goue two
days and the man iook such com
pleie possession that we believed
in his right, and did not kick.
During the day he got a hat and a
new pair of boots, the same day
begot the clothes, aud te drank
three quart of beer To ou rexpense;
I’rof, Be‘e.e oiiculars filled
Synder’s hall that evening to over j
Rowing, and it was the old bum
who stood at the door and took j
/he money. When die last person 1
had passed in the doorkeeper slid j
into the darkness, and the people
T
sat there lor halt au hour hstore
they realized'that they had betu
! duped Then a grand man hunt
was organized, but it was too 'ate.
2lie bum .had stolen a skiff’and
dropped dowp the river,, just
about $1.70 aiioad of our lown-
PUBLIC BENITMENT IN
\U KANSAS.
The following suggestive hues
were found ou the door of a dug
out on au abandoned claim in
western Kansas :
250 Feel to water.
50 Miles to Fuel.
C‘lnches to Hell. |
Clod Bleas Our Home
,_ T __ ,!
SOME LONCi WO BOS.
A corr|spdfident' of the St.
lioiris askrd stir the
lohgfeid6vJS : Mfl' l ltf\fte Eh glish tan
gunge. Thcfro bave been a large
number of answetw, some of them
quite amusing Hei*e is a list of
wolds, wffh'tlie hutrrtief of Tetters
in each •
Lotttra,
Pluloprogeniliveness, ‘2O
/ncomproheDsibleness, 20
DisprOi-ortioflab/eifeas, 21
HohdrJfflSfbftuui'fiuify, 22
VefoHpCdesfrianisticii, ‘‘ 23
Transubsi ant humbleness. 23
(iaf ion ivta, 28
Only tie lit it three words are
to be found in l,iie last edition of
Webster’s dictionary, and d?«pro*»
portiouableiiuss iu undoubtedly
the longest wtrd in that volume.
The correspondent who originated
bonorificibilitudiuily detines it as
houurablenesjs, bat it certainly
not honoiablenes- enough rn «nv
tit e it to a neat iu the euaondged,
Velocipedestmuistical likewise
lacks age and respectability, but
it may find its way into Webster
iu time; it certainly baa good lo«
comotive powers.—Suticonsti 1 u
tionalist is doubtful, and we do
not believe even a uiauduuuis
would get it into the dictionary,—
Transubstaiitionubleuess might
get there if Webster wasn’t look
ing. The man who iuveuted pro
antiiiansubstaniaiiouisis says it
is a good English word, ‘derived
from a short and simple batin
root, and means one who diset ntu
from the doctrin of dogma of the
so-called Ileal Presence. That
may all be, btirhe ought to be con
demued to pronounce the word
twice a day as long as he lives, it
be tries to introduce it into the
speech of honest men,'
But speakirg of long words,
what's the matter with Llanfair
pwllgwyngyllgertrobwllgerchwyr
mbyligogerbwllzanltesiliogogogo-
Oh, the nr i.e of a village ii Wales?
THKLL BLACK v-KOWS.
A tall man, with long white
hair, which naif hid ms coat collar,
mood in i'ruut of, one of the large
buildings on lower Broadway at
noon the other day. il is face watt
upturned, and lie apptvioel to he
gazing earnestly at the roof Of the
(structuie. in a few iniuut s he
wan joined ny,another man, and
ip a few minutes more auother,
and then auother; until a bcore of
meu weie gafheied together on
the pavement, 'oolring at the up
per stories of the tall structur 0 -
As the crowd began to swell, busy
biokers stopped to look, messen
ger boys tlockeu to the spot Ironi
all directions, merchants, clerks,
peddlers, unit idlers stopped in
heir j itrney and gazed at the
budding a» if they rx peeled some
frightful catastrophe to occur.
The throng seon grew t>o large
for the pavement, and the gutter
and part of the-street- were speeds
ily occupied by several hundred
e/nowing, j netting impatient, and
curious sigtit-seere
‘I woader it tiie wall's a-going
to fall t’ oberr/ed a gpectil ttive
speculator on the oiKr-kiris of the !
throng.
• J bey- say tiie wall is going to
faiV repeated the man next to
him.
‘Look out the building is ge
ing to tumble!’ shouted the the
o *t.
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•Don't crowd ao 1’ yelled a man
in ihe center, 'the wail is going to
I fall 1'
'Look out! Look out 1' shriek
ed a dozen others, and the men
pressed backward on each otners
• toes until Here was space enough
i on the pavement to let a regiment
I march through.
T wonder whether its on ftre,
; observed another spectator.
‘/t’s on fire!’ shouted another.
•See the smoke!' yelled a third
; man.
‘Fire, tire !’ howled a score of
, other voi ees, and the crowd surged
! back to the pavement as dies on a
lump of sugar in summer time.
‘I hope there are no women or
children iu the building,’ remarks
i a charitably inclined oitizeu.
‘There are women and ohddren
iu the building getting bunted
up!’ yelled anot her.
‘Thiee women getting burned
up 1’ yelled another.
Open the window affd rescue
thorn!’ plprd a little man who
was observing th- building from
nuder a tall man's c«atstalls
‘Bring a ladderT yelled a sens! -
ble man,
‘Ladder! ladder! fotch a ladder!
bowled a dozen others, and a nuni
ber of boys were dispatched iu ta>
i rious directions for those useful
articles* t.
‘tVhy dosen’t seuieone turn on
the fire alairnt suggested another
man.
‘Turnon the alarm!’ took up
the crowd. “Call the fire depart
men/!’ and several men started
simultaneously for the fire-alarm
betas.
‘Fifty dollars to the man who
saves their lives!’ yelled a man
with a western air aud a wide
brimmed hat.
‘Break open (be doors and go
up-stairs !’ howled an enthusiast ic
man as he edged away from the
crowd in ihe opposite direction
from ihe buiiding'
‘Suva their lives!’ yelled anotn
or as he made a break through the
crowd for the sione steps, follow
ed by a half hundred men.
‘Call the police !’ said another
man.
‘Police! police! police!’ shoired
the crowd.
Someone will go through ihe
building and rob the offices!’ said
another on the outskirts.
‘ilobbers 1 Robbers ! Police !
Police 1 Fire 1 Fire I Save ih e
women ! Bring a ladder 1 Bust
in the front door /’ howled the
crowd,
‘What’s der row V growled a pe
lioeman on the opposi e corner, ae
he observed the crowd.
•Someone’s getting killed,’ re
plied an imaginative but long
range spectator.
‘l’ll rap for help,’ replied the
guardian of the peace, sagacious
ly
‘What’s der racket T’ cried an
other patrolman, as ha came pant'
mg around the corner.
“Terrible tight over there," re-*
replied the first ; “two men being
murdered.’’
More raps. More policemen.,
Fire engin ■ heard coming in
the dis ance. <
“Let's clear the crowd,” said a
policeman.
“Fire ! Murder ! Police !' shout
ed the crowd.
‘Clear de way P howled the offi
cers;
‘Whack, thump, bang !’ remark*
ed the policemen's clubs as tbe
sturdy officers reached the edge
of the crowd,
‘Here come the police ! Clear
the way 1 twilit hitting me 1 Ouch !
Stop crowding pne!’ shouted the
spectators, as they made way for!
the policemen and dodged the fast
gathering engines.
‘What’s the matter ?' cried an '
officer, as he rushed into the build 1
tug.
‘Nothing,’ replied the jan tor, 1
‘What is the row in the street V
‘What’s the row out here ?' in
quired another officer of one of
the spectators in the crowd.
Nothing is the matter here,’ re-;
plied that individual. # ‘its in tbe
building.’
‘Where's the tire?’ shouted the
firs man.
‘No fl're here.’ replied the police
man.
‘Whats the fight about V in
quired the police sergeant, who ap
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peart dea (he scene at (he head
of the reserve force,
‘No tight,’ replied the officer.
‘Where's the deed man V ashed
the ambulance-driver, as tie stop •
ped his panting horses iu front of
the bnilding.
•No dead man here,’ said the
officer.
‘Well !’ ejaculated the seigeant.
‘Well!’ echoed the pokcemeu,
tire marshall, janitor, and specie*
tors. -j.
In the thick of the crowd atoql
the man wan ihe while hair, h»
opes still fixed immovably ou the
building
‘Say, old man !’ said the s*rge*
ant, as he grasped his atm, ‘what
in tnueder are yon looking at f '
The old man slowly turned
around, his bat outstretched fb
his hand, displaying op his breA«t
a large placard whieh read :
Please Help the Blind.
Ttur«» hours later the old men
faced wie bar of justice iu (ht
toomba. 9 *
•Cli irgc ?’ observed ihe court.
•Bogging ou the street, blocketP.
iug the pavement, creatiug a lu
turbrnce,’ replied the police serge
aul . ‘ 'jm
‘Six months, replied (he ceu? ,
•Call the next case.’—Puck.
A HARD NIGHT.
; > *«* q
The thnuLogical atad*nta of
Ueret r ,Udiversity are frequency
called upon to till jkq. pulpits of
country churches within a radius
of fifty miles of Macon The plan
is a good one, beeause it sft’snda *
the student opportunism# nf prne- *
tice and does not hurl ihe church
es. * in***
Among the brigh est young
theologians whom Mercer is tnanu
faeturing, is the Rev. L. W* Par
rots. Within the recent past he
has been ministering acceptably *
as the preachers say to a ehurflh
in Houston county. When he
goes down t > wind up the broth-*
ren or another week, he speipjs
the time with first oue member ot
the church aud then auother. Not
loug ago he weut down and deliv
ered au unusually acceptable ser
mon. It pleased the wealthiest
and most cultured members of bis
cougregat.ion, and, as a result, he
was mvitad to speed the night
with one cf tl at class.
1 shall harrow neither the fee!
ingr of the reader ner those of
the Rev Mr. Parrot by de‘ailing
the elegance of ins reception ten
dered him at the hospitable home
of his host. It may be said,how
ever, that the supper was a fast,
and that seiCral ancient roosters
and hens mourned their offspring
in consequence.
7’be hour for retiring nad arriv
ed.
The host conducted the rever
end guest to the company non,
wished him a good night’s rest,
and departed.
The weather was veiy cold.
Rev. Mr. Parrot disrobed, and
then tripped over to the capacious
bed aud turned down the cover.
Horror!
Two thin cotton sheets were all
that he found with which to keep
out the ftosty air. * 1
.Somebody had blundared.
Rev. Mr. Panott, entirely too
considerate to mortify tbe good
wife of hie host by requesting the
loan of more co.vdr, pulled the mat
tress from the bed, placed the
two sliee',B on the slats, adjusted ,
himself upou the sheets, and then
covered himself with the mattress.
Imagine that the curtain is
down for the uight.
Rev. Mr. Parrott reappeared at
the broakf .at tab » next morning.
‘Ab, Brother Parrott,' smilingly
exclaimed tbe uneonecious host,
‘how did you spend the night?’
Dead silence greeted the quesa
lien.
*Ahem! Ail remarked, Bro h*
er Parrott,’ said the host, ‘how did
you spend the nigh V
Dead silence again.
The best repeated the question.
By Rose attention to the move
ment of his lips Rev. Mr. Parrott
understood his host’s quest-ou
He pulled out a pencil and a slip
of paper and wrote these words :
‘Not well.’
The breakfast was finished in
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