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©he tSathtnsrille 3Uraiue.
A WEEKLY PAPER,
Published Wednesday,
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Watkinsv»l|i>, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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SPITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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One year, In a1vauee.....f. •ft 00
Six months................ .. 60
WAIFS AM) WHIMS
K iiotino mother labeled her pre¬
serves, “Put up by Mrs. D.” Her son
ate them, Johnny and wrote D.” on the labels, ‘Tut
down by
“Jack, what relation to you is that
siid gentleman I saw you with this morn¬
ing?” grandparents’ “ Oh, not mush; he’s married to
my only daughter.”
“ His sermon was very good, but that
think prayer, he beginning stole with ‘Our Father/ I
entire. I know I have
heard something like it before.”
The price of mince pies in Leadville
has fallen to forty cents each, at which
figure all the buttons found between
the crusts must be returned to the
waiter.
“ Dos ,'t be afraid,” gaid a snob to a
Oerir, a n laborer; “sit down and make
ypvjrself Ltow mv equal.” “ I yould haff to
the Teuton. my prains out,” was the reply of
‘Humph!” saida young gentleman,
at a play with a young lady, “1 could
play the lover better than that myself.”
“‘I would like to see you try,” was the
naive reply.
It is sai l ihat the Uzar of Russia
never retires at night without looking
•under the bed. His object in looking
under the bed is to see if there is any
Nihilist there.
“All' things come to him who will
but wait.” Not much. The fellow that
borrowed twenty dollars of you last
summer will tot come to you if you
waitfive hundred years.
An ethereal maiden called Maud
Was suspected of being a fraud;
Scarce a crumb was she able
10 eat at the table,
But in the back pantry—O Lawd J
A teacher in a public school iu
Franklin, N. H., questioning a class in
geography, Merrimack asked: “ Where does ihe
rise?” and was promptly
answered: “Down back of Warren
Daniell’s barn,”
d come people are born to ill luck. An
o woman who has pasted nearly five
thousand medical receipts in a book
during been ill the past forty years has never
discouraged. a day in her life, and she is bt
coming
One of our dry goods dealers adver
tises “something new iu corsets/’ We
do rot. know what it can be that is auy
better than what was in them before.
Not any new thing in corsets for us, il
yon please.— Peek’s Sm.
Little Rhode Is’and is sensible
enough shooting to pass a law against pigeon
—New Orleans Picayune. H’m,
yes. The shot used to scatter into ether
States so badly that Connecticut and
Massachusetts chickens were in danger.
Shk amble*! along like a vision,
On the foulest side of the street,
And turned up her nose in deris on,
As we stole but a glance at her feet,
, Which were shod iu number gaiters,
Made from two
the finest French kid—
Who’d have thought that her father sold ’taters?
And who dares to say that he did ?
“ Make a minute of that duel, Mr.
Shearer,” said the chief to the newM
editor. “Can’t do it,” replied the
subaltern. “Why not ? ’ “Cause there’s
only two seconds in it.’” (Verdict of
accidental death, caused by a sudden in¬
crease of salary.)
A , of Winnemucca,
miner Nevada,
was seized the other day with lockjaw.
Greatly and alarmed, he ran to a drug-store,
‘that was the druggist, so peicipitate in his entrance
xramp, knocked him mistaking down. him for a
■say, ihe lockjaw cured instantly. Strange to
was
Ts this my train?” asked a traveler
at the Kansas Pacific depot of a lounger.
“I don’t know, but 1 guess not,” was the
doubtful reply. “1 gee it’s got the
name of the Railroad Company on the
side, and t expect it belongs to them.
Have you lost a train aaywhere?”
Something iretJLg of a Limit.
.irecu
The allu.ion in a recent letter of
Louisa correspondent to the old revolu
tionarv giant hero, Peter Francisco re
vives many tradit ons and reminiscences
of the wonderful performances and dar
ing deeds of that extraordinary man.
Mj father, recently deceased at ibe ad
canoed ace of ninety, well remembered
him, haiii'g frequently seen him in his
native county of Buckingham, and re
lated many anecdotes of his stirringand
perilous adveniure* and bafr-hreadth
escapes, as he heard the recital fall from
scribed the lips of the giant himself. He de
him as six feet one inchin
•fex o?d^L U sSt P b 0 v U ft’tu^sS
ccmmonly ordinary large, his thumbs beinv B as
large as an man’s wl-ist.
Such was his personal strength that
he could easily shoulder a cannon weigh
iug 1,100 pounds, and he had seen him
take a man in his right hand pass over
the fl( or and dance .is head against the
ceiling with as much ease as If he h d
been a doll baby. Tne man’s v eight
was 195 pounds. Partaking of the
siS irtSzWkEx
month waif other battles at the north,
und trT^'^v. U> 'i he S ° Uth unde /
General MfJ.m ene '"i he iU‘ e was engaged
in the »»° the Cow pens Camden,
uuillora iuilford ( ourllmuse, etc. He was so
brave and ,s )8 e.^ed of such confidence
in bir prowess that he was positively
fearlcss He umd a sword with a blade
fiV feSr n Vrd b i; ;h ^ ^ M 'f
a 7i.’' ,r0rd :TY 7 bo
came within reach ' l.'m paid ihe for
tenor feitofhisiis his I,h.
PiETiJiLv _
united in Wisconsin ertirers have been
the h.d. W vYr Tke.r
since .Unuarv I. and t wel
news f u.,u>t> hive beeKMim Pr TrT nded »^ r? n ron
Sfquem e~l>,lro,‘ f
mean that twelve w -wspaiwr, a'n.lYred" have ^" iie en
Mis r enoe,i by ,, W! ,
.
ing a; pure', all rigiit. Hut if von in
sinuate thrft recent matrimony y hn2
brought twelve 'iVireon,i„new ? ‘to* nerH
to an un!i»n»'y gr v,. W e me in liml.
tion to pr..ve that, yon are from
ians. ii e tl«. wo de-ire any controversy tY'
or hard feelings, Uuidana^w bui ih« editor tFV ,d
FreeP.n ». *
If#* •till DWfr Mkc it back— v*. /V«4«AW
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME ' I.
llipcov n its Mule Through Dreams.
I Temple Bur. 1
A certain lawyer was seriously per¬
plexed with a complicated law case. In
the night his wife saw him get np, walk
to a “opinion,” writing-table, com nose carefully an elabor
ate placed it in a
drawer, and return to bed. Next morn¬
ing he remembered nothing of his dream,
and could not believe it till his wife
gave him ofccular demonstration of the
fact by pointing out the drawer where
the “opinion” lay complete,
Stu dents and poets arts often indebted
the to dreams marvelous for their brightest ideas, and
“Rubla Khan,” composition by Coleridge, of the frag¬
ment will
occur to every readelr. lie says he had
fallen asleep in his chair while reading
in “Purchas' Pilgrimage” of a palace
built asleep by Khan Rubla, and remained
about three hours, during which
time he “could not have composed Jess
than two or three hundred lines.” The
images with them rose before him as things, and
sions, “ without the corresponding sensation, expres¬
auy or con¬
sciousness of effort.” When he awoke
he instantly sat down to commit bis
composition by to paper, but was called
away a person on business; and when
he returned to resume the poem it had
utterly Languages vanished from his memory.
ently but imperfectly long forgotten, known or in waking appar-*
life, have been known to recur in dreams
and delirium. Abercrombie rels tessev¬
eral authenticated instances of this sort;
and the writer knew an able clergyman
who, when a boy, preached over in his
sleep ingly the word sermon for he had last heard, seem
Word, and it was friends ho tin
common occurrence f <r his to
gather round his b dside to hear his
discourse. But he Was endowed with a
marvelous memory in his waking hours;
and on one occasion, it is said, he learned
three books of Euclid on his way home
from school.
places Missing documents and forgotten
are sometimes recovered in
dreams. Sir Walter Scott, in his notes
to the “Antiquary.” speaks of a because gentle
man sorely troubled in his mind
he was pressed for the payment of some
tithe money which he believed was un
justly fused charged, recollection and of which he had a Con
bought by his deceased as having father been
out many
years ago. In bis dreams he thought
the shade of his father appeared to him
and inquired the cause of his grief. Not
at all startled by the apparition he
gravely stated the facts of the case.
The shade told him that he must seek
out an old lawyer who had retired from
professional business and was now living
at Invereek. He gave the lawyer’s name
and remarked that the papers relating
to hands ihe purchase but of the tithes were in his
now, that as the transaction
had occurred many years ago, and this
wan the only one in’which the lawyer
was would ever be engaged on call bis account, it
necessary to it to his rec¬
ollection by this token, that “when 1
went to pay his account there was a
gal difficulty niece of in getting gold, change for a Portu¬
and we were forced to
drink out the balance at a tavern.” On
reaching Inveresk the gentlemau called
upon the lawyer, who could not remem
ber the transaction till the incident of
the Portugal coin was mentioned, when
it all recurred to his memory. The
documents were handed over to him and
carried to Edinburg to prove hie -.sse.
■Honien Voting.
Miss T Louise • M. mi Alcott, at aa m • a letter i to
the Woman* Journal, about the Concord,
Mass., election at which women voted
for the first time for School Committee,
thus describes the scene and reports her
also impressions: the Registrar, “ The. Moderator, (who is
and has most kindly
and faithfully done hiB duty to the
women, in spite of hs own difference of
opl.jo.) w ould P/ lh„ e P ar e ...ou.c.d ‘heir votes th.Ht. And deposit
them u before the men did. No one ob
jected, we were ready, and filed out in
g 0 ^ 1 order dropping our votes and
pawing . back to our seats as quickly and
quietly as possible while the assembled
gentlemen watched us m silence. No
1,olt fell on our audacious heads,
but “° earthquake Rasing shook the created town,
general a outbreak surprise laughter
a of
and applause, for scarcely were we
siea P° s f. * < rt 2 V'V* that the V u< ^ e be r0 closed V a ? d P The ro '
Srw e C Jffl
allowed proceeding, we thought, since we were
no voice on any other question,
The businrsa of the meeting went on,
and the women remained to hear the
A/acussion ^ officers elected of ways and with means, neatness and an.i see
the despatch town pretty by those much who appeared they pleased. to run
tfce as
At 6 o’clock h usewives retired to
get tea for the exhausted gentlemen,
come aeain ' a.%kTd how theylfkeiit
- red , them , - .
and and , assured aHS o them that that, , there , had , not
been heen so so orderly orderly a a meeting meeting of for for years. years
f th pi f;m rC nt sights To w" mv eves
was a flock ../■ " 8lctl c "T B
with great ,• interest , their mothers, aunts,
? nd slate ". who were showing them
>ow * Tote w,i en their own emanc.pa
S oYw^n
bands who greatly enjoyed the affair
l„nan ^loudi inane “ad : Their^doubt! of them differed in
d atouttfie suf
frage question Among the newvoters
ofthet* incordfight a^d andYrhe’rs renown tworf
H.nwck ‘rt^fTThe™ Quincv whore
toen among the first rauiers of the
town A woraerf mKidlv arravof dignified and
earnest families"' though some of the
“first of the historic aSe" town
were conspicuous conspicuous bv hr their their absence.
r,,‘ ‘ E M A tKAy ? k*Umg up a
7 ^ r d , \ y for . ul" g ' 1U \ r *
}!** i^’ , r0 1 \,L Mr f 'i Frorhard ? *f ria of W.lkin., The two the
n Orphans, is the latest re-euforcemcnt.
WATKINSVIILE, GEORGIA. MAY 26, 1880.
THE I'KLNS AW’D THE l‘LOW.
Wo envy not the prineely man,
In city or in town,
Who wonder* whether pumpkin vines
Turn up the hill or down.
We care not for his mat hid httlta
Not y»t h!s heaps of gold.
Wd wtnild not own his sordid heart
ttotr all his wealth twice told.
We are the favored ones of «mh,
Wf breathe pllrt air each morn,
We sirlv, IVe frenp the golden grinn*
We We toft—we gather Hie in the com. whal tW* earH,
on
And more than this tie do—
We hear of starving millions round,
And gl&diy feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,
Yet drags a weary Hie,
He never knows a peaceful hour,
His at mospliere is st rife.
A merchant thumbs his yardstick o’er,
Grows haggard nt. bis toil,
He’s not the man God meant him for;
Why don’t he till the soil?
'J he doctor plods through storm and rain—
Plods at his patient’s will;
’IN hen dead ami gone, he plods again
To get, his lengthy bi’b
The printer—Wees his noble noul \
He grasps the iilighty e&Hb,
And stamps it on our daily sheets
To cheer the laborer’s he art.
We And sing honor the honor the ot the pibW,
to press—
Two noble instruments of toil,
Each with a power to bless.
The bone, tile nerve of this fast age.
One Trute tills wealth the evePdaithful of hulnnh klhdj earth,
The other tin- the mind.
AX INTERNATIONAL episode.
BY l?Li#A V. HAlL.
“ Yes, And I liked you at first, I must confeafe,
a week ago 1 might have been won,
Bltt that is all over*” she pensively sighed,
” For 1 find yoU nHJ only a ymtuger son.”
I'bere Was silent*? awhile on that A)piue height,
They ettmd heiir the sttmid of a mountain stream;
He twirled his nilistrche and his alpenstock,
While she softly warbled, “ It whs a dream."
We leave to-morrow ior France," she resumed,
“ i hope 1 shall meet you at Paris next spring,
Now don’t say I've flirted, for culture, you know
Is hardly consistent with that sort of thing.”
“ If it’s not a flirtation, whal, under heaven,
Would question, your ladyship call it?” that he fiercely well said,
And the ! own, is one
Might bother the average British head.
She turned her lare lo the rosy West
Where the Hush ol dying days reft,-. still glowed;
” ’tis nothing.” she pouted, lively,
“ But an ‘international episode.’ ”
—Sceilmer's Monthly.
1.AI1) ll\.
BV A. M. MUNSTER.
Laid by in my Bilent chamber,
I hear them' stirring below;
Voices 1 love are sounding clear
And steps I kuow ar« in mine ear,
Still passing to and fro.
And ask my heart, Shall I never more
Of mine own will pass through that door?
I ask, Oh! is it forever
That I have ceased to be
One of the group around the hearth,
sharing their sorrow or their mirth?
Am I from henceforth free
From all concern with the things of life,
Done with its sorrow, and toil and strife?
Shall they carry me forth in silence,
With blind and ^aled up eyes?
Shall they throw the windows wide to the air
And gather mementoes here and there,
As This they she think, fond with of—this tears and sighs,
14 was she wore,
But she never shall need them any more."
— LUtt'h’s Living Age.
FAIRLY CAUGHT,
storm 6 Tinv bS^ vearsago'lm thTfirm aitoMhad .
e3ov learned 1^^was mv ^the n whore
a'centleman’s undertook manstoTand meetton w^n of
a gentleman a mansion, aim I i was sent
tV? age near to to rn wmen wS ta tne th W e° r mansion mansTo h n was was
built was on the shore of an estuary of
the Bay of Morecom be, not far from the
Sve market town whose would name T nnt
fomesever^f As mv work aLm.clTJdton/w^ keen me from
aZrst de*iribte weeks tbi’n^^but alr&hl
tried to eet accom miration’in a nrivate
house fiYhe’villaEe Hailed and the^I was ord^dmtesl forced to lodue 6
inn
freornttorCaioresatohostel^w^ Amontr those who were in the habit.of
St?**
[)Pr . His home was about a mile from
the village, couple on the side of a lane lcadtog
to a of farms. His house, like
himself, was a queer one. Originally it
had been built for the storage of corn,
the produce of fields at a distance from
the farmstead. Somehow it had ceased
to be needed for that purpose, s> the
owner and turned such it it into a occupied dwelling house,
as was now bv the
aforesaid strange man. It was divided
in:o three apartments on the ground
floor, one of which, a very l large one,
was set apart and used a kind of
^VTVa!l
worked warehouse’. for stock and this lan-e rnnm
his ’
was
He was a man of ill-temper Kid and loose
habits, and for some time borne a
dubious ° character. si^tedHheyYTuld When neopie were
agked why he was
not give ? a satisfactory ^y reply' “ “He He
hves, lives,” equal ’they they would would say, expenditure “without whicti S doing
work work equal to to his his expenditure, goYto
looks looks bad.” bad.” As As l 1 got to know know him him I I
found that he bad an unamiable temper;
W8S morose, sour, and at times passion¬
ate. He was aiso fond of dis
to betting, and like all such.._____
uneven life, oftenerloitering about than
at work. So I did not wonder that well
meaning ^ people did not like him.
He mogtly 1 ^ C came f me on Wet wet nights to the,
I ‘ or d Ad m “ l<1 A* As we we became became ac- ac
..... — m....... '.,
Xu quainted collection , he . of invited me to look ° ovrr T r his
birds and *** quadru <|Uadra a ^ j dl ii V t
^ i had
a go., d collection, , and, as well
M 1 couifl judjge, did hi* work well. He
had also a good assortment of butterflies
an d moth-, and in a corner, close to the
SeSfngt'x'"w'hLh S rmint mil to
tomn aL, r hirS nmti' D a ^ e
tfl eiven siuffine £ ’
to Z
.nimais ?>ne wt I ,« whirlTdifl. r ^i /an?i from lt.lt im’’ U .°
uauU u rl ^
V 1.Tf «l ? r M U ‘* r ab L *
"nTn 1 , The^^f| rl «idf hiifT^ flllr
K )7mebnw hL ^Vailed^tn^ialre^Lhem^ m«n e ^
rheywereplacedat r,u 1 oneend ndlY.t ot ther™m, «.***'*’
one in each corner, away from the win
dow, and close to the wall, where, ex‘
cept in strong daylighf, they could not
T' y ' PP “ c " nn * ru ‘!?,
particulars , w,th . . mystery will fresco
mtheaequal. about
1 bad been in the village si j
weeks when the neighborhood was
aroused and alarmed one morning bv
the re port of the robfeiy of a jeweler’s
shop that in the had market been town effected already during referred the
to, night. valuable
preceding Much propet
ty had been taken. This robbery had
beeh effected in sufih a wiry as led to the
belief that a gang of practiced thieves
had done it. The prevailing question
was: “ bo the robbers live among us, or
have they come from a distance?” This
query was still going from mouth to
mouth when we were startled, astounded,
indeed, by a report of a second robbery
of the same premises, and ou the night
following bv the breaking warehouse into and pur
Joining of a provision writing in our
own village. Were I robbers fiction, I
would not have made the pay so
soon a second visit to the jeweler’s, as
such an act would have been deemed
preposterous, but I am feinting what
really what oCctifred, have said. and so am forcea to say ‘
I
The jeweler had been so taken up by
efforts to find out the thieves and regain
his first loss, that he had not placed ad
ditional guard over what was left; be
side's, he was sure, he revisiting said, that thieves
would not think of for a long
time. As for the provision dealer, he
said in my hearing that he had no fear
of his place being entered, as he be
lieved robbers would rot care to touch
property his. so bulky and had of reckoned such inferior
value as But he with
oiithis host; for he had lost a fine ham,
a large lot of tea, a deal of spices, a few
boxes of cigars, and indeed a portion of
most he dealt in. The excitement ami
alarm occasioned by these robbeiies
were great and widespread
The hatches of detectives, one from
Lancaster, our’village and ene from what Cendal, could came
to to see they
find out. They were not short of ques
tions, I mind; but they took care what
sort of questions they answered, it
was easy to see that one of their believed aims
was to make it appear that they
the robbers came from a distance, in
order to put the thieves off the their opposite guaid;
for their own opinion was
of this. .
No event, however serious, can keep
hold of people’s minds beyond certain
time; and these robberies were other begin
ject, ning when (3 give the place to some sub
next act in the drama be
gan to be plactd. it was on a hridav
afternoon, about a month after the rob
beries. The day was wet and wild ; and,
as my work was the out-door carrying
of stones which had been placed in posi
tion in the rough I was enable to go on
with it, and so had to return to my
quarters. I had got my dinner, and had
just called for a pint of ale with my
pipe, when an elderly, ill-dressed man
came beside in, and, sitting down on Lancashire a bench
me, said, in a broad
accent. “I’ll sup wi’ tha lad, if tha
doesn’t care;” on which he lifted my
mug to his lips and drank freely. I had
got over my surprise whe.n he, wip
the mg J.s history mouth of the with past his day hand or two. gave The me
account was this: He had been a gen
tleman’s gardener near Lancashire,
over twenty years, had a capital place,
h /" had "“f h ? d sense enough to keep
. ’ f ° t wh had ' c b ^ one was on morefthan lo, f? h,s for mas- a
ter would put u P with so he was d.s,
charged. “ it wor day afore yesterday,
^ tion Haid ever ’ “ sin’, * n ! V" trampin’as <lra ", k ' fo I T r v drank, , ary . vexa an’ ;
H0 ’onnenv here I am, i’ wi’ noeket a dry math an’ Uiinki” wi’out
a mv my pocact. Doesta i/oesca mnaj
u u* cont,nued rnn ralae a ,r nny or
'
(l PP^e Rmar.g the
1 &T* ! lim 11 othe ? H did lhft
sarae called I having for bread, thus “ cheese, raised and the ale, wind/’
he and
mB de a 8 0o d mea •
been During , talking the , time the the , gardener landlord , had
tome had
’/ ^* a d T. 7. You v h are a gardener, C R '“V I under- i ’
5
-wtu” Ito.he the rente
Well, said the landlord, «i I have h ,v. a
time to attend to it myself, and u L' aVe as it is
tIn >e the seed was in 111 employ you, if
yo “ ar ? ' vlH,n g- I H find you plenty to
‘V and ; You can havc.a bed as
wel1 . fnd if you pea-e me Inot see
^
y ‘ a y y
‘ 1 . »ay agreed/’replied the gardener,
.
^
rid(1 y for Monday morn.”
This proposal was satisfactory, where
fore the gardener was made happy.
Shortly afterward we had an rddition
to our company bv the incoming of the
old bird-atufler, whom I shall hereafter
call the naturalist which (as pleased this designation
was the butterfly-feeder, one him>, h.s
son, the and two other
men whom I had not recn. These-the
called for a glass of mm apiece.
the table, and hii head on hi« armn, no
fell, .„.■, or seemed mn-.u,,« to . • fall,asleep, m...imu, The ram,
which wb /i!ij continued conl lr ' u ® d to comedown.com- come down, com
me Ht, ( ll to hide , undercover; so,
placing my chair in a corner and put
ung my head against the wall, I tried
to get a nap also. The naturalist and
his companions were now the only per
sons in the room besides the gardener
1 can not tell u 1 half u nor quarter of what
WR « s»'d by first one and then another
° }*["’">! n “ r fl-l.Iunder- whwll they
"WF'T'n and “stuffing were W, words ' nder often - “ fla em- "
±11* , hv was thera the name ’ 1 of rew the llm dog, th and '"
‘'Y® nd «|’ that of the lamb, in the
*eum before spoken of; and th. other
tp wltb . ri r''’ wb,cb Y Ke< they i!’ re were errC<1 stuffed; U> l n e J m \ but U,r,a I !
could not see wi.y they should speak in
so low a tone as they did when they
spoke of theih. Once or twice they re
ferred to a bird by some slang phrase,
But aft,revrnu ma.l« this clear enough,
By-and-by the the weather cleared n P ,
wDan men, draining their gla.sses,
got up and went away. Thu moment
they were gone the gardener roused up,
took a memorandum out of his pocket,
and began to write therein. He then
asked me if I knew who the men were,
and what was their occupation, and if 1
understood any of the words uttered in
the lower tone of voice. 1 gave him
what information I could. “But/' I
said, “both they and I belieted you were
asleep ”
“It is well to go into dreamland at
times,”.he > said und then added: “Did
;
you say that the old man keeps a mu
seunr? Have you seen it? Do you
think I could get a look at it?”
The questions were put one after the
other in quick succession, as though he
were eager and anxious about some
surprised thing. 1 said “yes" to each, but I was
he at the good English in which
marked now spoke his and the Stiil refinement I which
manners. could make
hothihg of it. few
i pass over the next days, as they
broitght gardener forth no remarkable incident.
The had stuck to his contract
with the landlord, and I had been
enabled to get on with my. work. The
four men did not again visit us; but as
I went on witli my carving I saw first
one amt then another of them pass my
place. And once I saw them all in cam
est converse in a retired lane,
After supper one night r took the
gardener the naturalist. to the barn-like habitation of
old As we went along he
asked me to take particular notice of the
dog and the lamb. “For," said he, “I
was struck with the question one qf the
men put as to whether 'Bruce* and
‘Wonder’could take in any more‘cot
ton’or‘flax.’ And it is just possible,”
he continued, and “that he in has a way of
taking the skin out has become putting and stuffing hard—a after
set
thing worth knowing, I should think.”
When we got to the house the old
him. man Came to the door, closing it after
the gardener Being asked if he bis would collection allow
to see over of
preserved animals, he at. first, seemed Son,’*
perplexed, he went in, and leaving saying, us outside. “ I’ll ask my Shortly
he returned, and said: “It is not con
is venient being to cleaned enter the and room to-night, as it
the contents re¬
arranged; but night, if your friend will alone, come
to morrow and come he
shall see over it.”
We agreed and came away. 1 was at
a loss to account for the condition im
posed, but my companion was set up
with the arrangement,
off Next night errand. came, I and the all gardener set
tin his Was Impatient
for his return. But when he Came back
lie seemed unwilling to relate the result
of his adventure, simply saying: “I’m
in no humor for talk to-night; I’ll relate
what I’ve seen and said to morrow.”
My friend had gone on withhisgarden
nips ing. His potatoes and onions, his tur
and carrots had been got in, and it
was clear that if the next two davs
should prove fine he would finish tf.e
job oo Saturday night.
kitchen, On Fnday night he came to me n the
... n corner in which I was
reading and asked me t. take it short
walk wi-1. him. got up and went.
1 he night was fine butd irk. We walked
in the direction of the museum He
' T /'T ' f ? T tt
day or two had ltoplyingin the affirmative,
he sa d he a strong suspicion that
the old naturaustor nis son was no bet
!" tha " ?> ould b, ‘ ; lhat h f
he or they knew more about the late
robberies than other folks, and that he
believed ' if ‘ he V had a 1B few ahillincs " which wn,Cfl
? c >ul * ca! ‘ hls he ld at
°»’ , n «°« c,,me
truth, and , concluded , . by a-kmg . me
TJT a K ed, i or / had m bigun *" to < %17 feel an vn
accountable curiosity growing within
Wc w ha , 1 not walked , far f before w we met ,
the natural si’s son, apparently byap
S "lii wouTd hC TS IS
that therefore ^ be be at his
t day and a
purchase We parted ofHaturdaVater- and came home
About ™ the “ midle m e o uur nyttc
hour /’e became oa'ne hack lmck hear t ear.nga nt tolerable tolerab'e
' a ' ' J ,| a He’said' "' eJ ' "5 him iYthlbark
y Y rd hjjA “ teHev" “I’m on the Xht t a -k of
h onrcVhiiicthc' Last but
lafking muYumtheoldman house ardwhc
overthe
said lhat his son was rather short of
^ bu having nefcuged & a frame
«' a
w2 eU lD al a pront, or
’l a nd Ihesairw/nl/f^liBl^bU • «!,
hi.» y ’„ I nnf Jiitout 1,1
the money ft \-„ w ’not i tnLv
% i {,, b u t agreed would have done toa/
’i bavetr.t I to a k ,,/tl you for a Tit
^rt w w^cb t ■, rtl i„i Jhf in,™ el tnnZ i,
rkt chean i‘f,?^ ^
p m. rmw nr tbe ^ lm't
ing when a well known voice hailed me
from below. Uu looking <lown from my
stage whom should 1 me in the road be
old neath, smiling ail his face over, but my
friend, the gardener, in a police
uniform' ^in The truth 7went (lashed d"
through n moment.
Grastung my ym,“ hand he said- “The sc
erePs mT.ndU’ihe out u^bot.” Come along a,, " K wkh
I was about to witness a denouement 1
had not looked for. Up the road were
aeouple of imliccmen. My old com
panion was the chief, being a Bergeant
( He led the way .0 the mu
seum, and was the first to enter.
“Doo.1 morninv n-; old friend," he
said, on encountering the naturalist;
i have come to take away a few mote
naicels of your cheap provisions.”
1 H ’iw that the tod gardener was de
tected in the speaker, and that the game
was .otta be up. The old man's son
rushed up to the dour and scrambled
off, eluteh-s only, of however, to fall into the
the officers who were 0/1 the
watch. The old man was utterly S.nlc help
less, and almost beside hirarelf.
ing into thief; his chair, he cried out: "lam
not the the thieves are there,”
NUMBER 12.
could pointing to the door, and meaning, I
see, his son and confederates,
though We they were not present.
went into the museum. The first
still thing the old gardener did—as I shall
call him—was to take hold of
“Bruce,” Comrades wh.le lie desired one of his
moviflg Ihetn to lay noise hold of “ loose Wonder.” On
a of mt tal was
heard. A moment’s examination suf¬
ficed to reveal the Secret. In the off
siclfl of oach animal, in the soft part, an
orifice had been made by cutting the
skin In such a wav as to enable the
operator A of to the replace it had With been a little care.
leaving part stuffing removed,
a vacancy just like a throstle’s
nest. This wits filled with jewelry,
watches, guards, ear rings, and finger
rings, A further examination of the
museum revealed other and as singular
hiding cock places; for example, a game¬
was found put out of sight; ou
metal taking hold of it, a noise of clinking
feathers was hearu; on lifting up the
over the crop a small hole was
seen, out of which rolled, when the bird
was, shaken, a number of trinkets.
robberies Nearly of all the proceeds of the two
(lie jeweler were recovered,
one watch and a feW guards only being
absent. And some of the properly of
the provision dealer was also found
stowed in the breeding-box, though
most of it had been useel or sold. 1
need hardly say that the parcels sold to
the gardener were a part of it, and had
to uo with the detection of it. My
friend, thesergeant. informed me that he
httd been induced to assume the diame¬
ter, which he had so well Personated
entirely on of speculation. While making
a survey the neighborhood a few
days before he began to play his part,
he had observed the backward state of
the landlord’s garden, and believing
that he would readily catch at a chance
of getting it finished off in a c'-eap way,
and, being a good hand at gardening, he
had hit upon the scheme which an
swered so well. He had believed that
the robbere were nut far from the local¬
ity of the public house, and might
come thefe new and again, and so, could
he lodge there without heing known or
sired, suspected, And he might get at all he de¬
as he had hoped, so did it
come to pass.
The naturalist, who, it came out,, had
and long been a receiver of stolen property,
his son, whose first burglaries these
were, got each five years’ penal servi
tude; one of the other men—who came
from a. distant town, and were old
hands—was likewise convicted and pun¬
ished; but. the fourth, for some forgot¬
ten reason, got off. My friend came in
for a*good reward offered in this case,
and for the part which 1 had taken in
the affair the jeweler gave me a good
pencil-holder, which l value ss a me
meuto.
An Animated Arkansas Corpse,
^veral days ago an unsteady man
noticed walking ° along * the streets in
. A m n Ki U , y unateady y
woul(1 not |, ftvo tieon nol d , llirlicu
llirl tfc f or Texarkana, like Little Rock,
i(1 tcejse „f a great many unsteady
„ But resiled the man ,'t looked rick „ml
when streetowner be sank
<lown and lay / motionless. A crowd of
‘ io gath K red ftround( 'examined and wll( . n „
)hv aicia n arrived „ nd the
: *
n i.« ro , ar u ol \.
ti,, “ (ientlemen, the poor fellow is dead ”
‘ wul4 j r.i«/>^i |
J *’
n i «i coroner, ror who^had , . . , l>een notihed,
a jury and held an inquest.
“ Well, gentlemen,” said the coroner,
the consulUtion, “whst is you
as to the cause of death T’
.fust, then the corpse aro-e, thrust his
hands into his pockets and exclaimed :
“ I don’t know what your opinion is,
hilt I’d like allfired well to know who’s
t I'J...... pocketbook.”
...rttd b,.l w;,... PP ,.i
, ,y ,he c oroner . w h<> informed him that
he would . have to pay the expenses:
Tire deuce you say. Yoil talk like
» n undertaker that has conducted a
funerai!”
‘i 1 have held an inquest over your
, b Hdiculously fy) *i r and a * y() u have behaved
the county won’t allow me
anything, and of course you’ll have to
P ay , mP -
‘I didn’t send for you. f didn’t fell
yp u to'hold an inquest. 1 was getting
a 0 PP, ralp '
“Neither does an, dead man send for
^ But I wasn’t dead ”
“ Nor mine either. ’
“ You area hypocrit, sir; you are de
ceitful. You should not he recognized
in this community. And ( want you to
understand this: When you do die
W hold an Pend inquest over f you “ r 1 to wou,d save your n " 1
>««•”
Not Mnfh of a Ii0t».
: *&Z?Z^'ZT
with me, ’ replied the etiatomor; ‘Van’t
you let me have It for that?’
‘No, ma’am,” said the clerk, “but
you can igain." pay me the five cents when you
borne in
" But WularTv surus.se t wero to die ” s.id lh«
lady
‘Well il wouldn’t be a verv K great
loss ‘ ^ndYmtdiS^^YmUing "was
clerk
gathered from the indignant flash on
the lady’s face that be had been misun
derstood, that and, before be could assure her
it was the little balance and not
her that would be no great loss, .be had
bounced out at a go as-yeu ol^^his please gait,
and was beyopd the sound voice,
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time arrives we may
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to y, u per express llyou p«K>r
uncle John and little Biliv. can
spare aunt Jane and co'tisiu Harah, l
should like to hove them f v r a while.”
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THOUGHTS FOR SUNDAY.
Keep your own counsel upon all oc¬
casions. If you can not and do not, who
else can you expect to do so for you ?
It never yet happened to any man
since the beginning of the world, nor
ever will, to have all things according to
his desire, or to whom fortune was never
opposite or adverse.— Burlon.
Love, like a beautiful opal, isaclouded
gem which carries a spark of fire in its
bosom; but true friendsuip, like a
diamond, radiates steadily from its
transparent heart.— Mrs. Child.
Of all human frailties there are none
so base as ingratitude, none so infamous
as the to return evil for extended good - to debase
life-long purest friends. friendship to us by
Native, noble qualities of character
exist throughout the life of the posses¬
sor, and liv<s after him for all time in
the memories of those aided by his kind
words and deeds.
Bf. not unmindful of the feelings and
rights of others. Idly spoken words
often cause the deepest wounds and
many times are the source of the direHt
trouble.
There are distinct, perpetual, impel¬
ling desires springing out of our veiy
constitution which reek a more tenia!,
more phere Vitalizing, than that more satisfying atmos¬
which envehq e» mere
temporal interests.
To succeed in life demands at ouf
hands a complete obedience to the rule
confirming such our aims and desires to only
attainments as are absolutely with¬
in our power. We can then advanco
slowly but surely.— Per. Dr. Mullen.
The noblest victory is u'ways that
one obtained over one's self. ’ l is a diffi¬
cult task, indeed, to say “ no” emphat¬
ically to all the longings of our own
self and nature, but an easy one to die
criminate between the right and the
wrong.
Some of the most bem ticial results
are those eminaling from casual
thoughts the only. When the mind is rest¬
ing most difficult problems are fre¬
quently arrived ai, solved, the safest conclusions
and, many times, Ihe most
beautiful thoughts jotted down.
Lord Bacon says that as precious
odors are exhaled by crushing, so ad¬
versity discovers virlire, while prosperi
ty discovers vice. Of virtue no one
can rob us; for, as Bias said, so the in¬
wardly rich in virtue may say, “Omnia,
met mecumporlo ’’—all my own with uu?
I bear.
A problem yet unsolved is, of what
use is that class of people known pro
verbally as gossips—s andal rnoneers we
ciety? might, say—existing in all ranks of so¬
discord, Their course is always marked
by tha sundered links of friendship,
and creation of enmities hetwetn
those who have been life-long friends.
Follow not after new faces, untested
old friendship, friends—those but retain at all hazards all
who have been tritd
and found true. We all have such
among those with whom we mingle in
every-day do life, but they are few; there¬
fore not lose any of them. 'Em
harder to regain one such than to form
a thousand new friendly alliances as the
world goes.— Pen. Dr. Mullen.
To forgive our enemies is a charm¬
ing way of revenge, overcoming and a short without Caesar¬
ean blow, conquest, a
under laying our shame, enemies at our feet
sorrow, and repentance;
leaving inclined our foes our friends, and solicit¬
ously Thus to grktefu) adversaries relations,
to return upon our m
a healing way of revenge, a< d to do
good for evil is a soft and melting at -
tion, a method taught from heaven to
keep all smooth on earth.— Fir Thomas
Brown.
The philosopher Mullen has Miid:
Our progret-s would be slow indeed
were we to attempt advancement by re¬
garding ourselves as the model to fol¬
low after and imitate. We should
seek improvement—-the to embody in commendable our efforts art, quali¬ self
ties and charitable actions of other!
whose career of life is dotted here anti
there with sparkling gems bestowed
upon Item in the shape of gratitode
and thanks from the poor and needy,
from the weak and unfortunate, in
return for kind words, pure sympathy
and material aid.
Roasted to Death by the him.
Dr. Sfihtte.nfurth, in .'lecture which
graphical explorations Society on tae Central suojeciot Africa, nia
fittest in
gave his hearers a thrilling accruint of
the modeinwhich capital puis.i!.
J* inflicted Upon cninioals by the
V? tWreat ?reat V .nT^weSl r lUr ?,i „^,Li ieop e _
The malefactor wndemned , i to t
to a post firmly driven into the tre^affotd ground
in some open place where no
ring compatriot’a w^ich head with freah g»eeu
leaves, effectually shield his 1> nun
from I'limbus’ darts No Mich protection
i* however accoided to his hod v, which
graJuallv dries ” u P , shrinks together, and
eh.^ n/. 1 o^n toThe roll One
a D«t,on is
Zete^d.me whiie as vet he is Tf not cmn
^ttw^ihe to sf.nlnd death ” hi!' Jacw a c h . I
of
tormei t be Uat once casi loose from
his post and becomes the object of
special reverence, as a mighty mag can
in whose liehalf directly’ the supernatural
powers have clouds deigned seldom mte.fere ......ire with
vene. FtP
the administration public >d ju-ire mions on the
days chosen for ex . bv
appearaW the Al Cjuadji authorities: al least, that
Dr. Hchweinfutth's er
[wrience of African weather ss far as tl
upon the judicial roasting ol
malefactors,
~
The servant girl of a physician in
this city has been discovered issuing
certificates of death. It is t-ro-u.b e,
then, when she is absent the d.,‘
allows the eat to perform HnaM. toe same
Philadelphia Clnonirk-