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A WEEKLY PAPIR,
Published Tuesday,
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TV. GL SULLIVaX,
ID1T0B AND PROPRIETOR
One TEEMS:
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the wa\ui;ui:b’s soxo.
BT MRS. J. V, H. KOON8.
When through the rough and wintry world
In wretchedness I roam.
With childish lore I breathe the names
Of father, mother, home. r*
They bear on© 1 act in fancy sweet
To boyhoods had pierced sinless 'lays,
Ere thornB my weary feet
In desolated aye;
Bacfc to the dear old orchard tree*,
Set out by father’s hand.
Beneath whose shade the perfumed breeze
My boyish brow has fanned;
While I in silent wonder lay
Upon the velvet grans,
And watched in joy life’s fancied play
In panorama pass. /
Ah, me I ’tis well those dreams were gold.
Their memory gilds the lead
Of real Iffe, when hearts grow cold
And dreamless as the dead.
If there is aught In us survives
The fearful wreck of death,
The mother-love that warms our livM
Unto the latest breath
Must be the part, the deathless link
That binds the soul to God:
That sings to it of heaven and homo
And lifts it from the clod
JUST MY LUCK.
Let anybody who likes turn up their
nose, I feel not the sligh.est hesitation
in avowing that I was m a hurry—in a
great The hurry. steamboat
bell w'as ringing, for
one thing, and blowing off steam in a
way to send a nervous man distracted.
t knew I couldn’t run—my boots were
too tight. Then my wardrobe was on
board—my and thirteen gray other suit, and my blue suit,
suits—all my boots
and embroidered slippers fancy neck
ties, embroidered handkerchiefs and that
ne )^_P? mn “ e -
sue e company if . they are
. lost, ,, T I exclaimed . . mentally. “What
business have they to be so frightfully
punctual ? Here I stopped for a moment
to talk to Jenks who lias brought over
the last new neck-tie, and
111 T ,„ .® have a > the first ^? u chance . d better at run, the heiress old boy;
I looked up and saw Ned laughing at
me. Confound fhe fellow ! How hand
shoifldlSfdare to present tf/eU,
be-duly findhhntoer^ttK, washed, e of coiS? would
shaved and curled,
whispering in shouted Nelly Langworih’s ear.
“ Bun,” Ned again. The
men plank. were There already withdrawing the
dressed wasa iust young, in front very plainly
woman of me.
“Out of the way, woman,” I said,
pushing past her. She screamed slighfo
ly, hands” and would had have fallen, if one of the
“ not extended his arm and
caught much her. absorbed So Ned told me, for I was
too in looking after my
baggage oven to think about her.
Smd he: “You nearly knocked that
little woman sitting behind us down.”
“Do you suppose I was going to let
vou have Miss Langworth to yourself?”
t answered, chuckling.
Ned. “Why, is she so attractive?” asked
“Haven’t the least idea, my dear fel
low-. You know, I’m only acquainted
with her father; hut I’m sure she’s an
angel. She has five hundred thousand
in her own right.”
“ Five hundred thousand is a nice little
sum !”
“Yes, when I’redj I get it (for, to be plain
with you, I have a suit in the
trunk that I think will put the matter
beyond with doubt). Mrs. When I get it, I shall
start shall spend six Nelly months. for Paris, where I
From there I
sliall go—”
Fred burst mto a loud laugh.
“Wait till you’re introduced, Jim;
perhaps If she she’s cross-eyed.”
million “ I’d were make humpbacked, her for half a
Mrs. Jonquil.”
“Well, you are welcome to her. Give
me, a little rosy, bright-eyed woman,
who won’t say to me, ‘It was my money,
sir, that made you what you are.’”
“ There’s the house—fine old place,
ain’t it?” I said, pointing to a handsome
vjlla on the bank, “When I’m master
mere you shall come and spend the
summer with me.”
Fred laughed louder than ever. The
boat stopped, and this little woman,
whom I had so nearly knocked down,
landed with us; but what was our sur¬
prise, alter ensconsing ourselves in Mr.
Langworth’s hold her handsome carriage, to be¬
with the perohed on the driving-seat
“It’s some governess, or poor rela¬
tion,”! “Til bet said, trying to reassure myself.
you five to one that it’s Miss
Langworth herself.”
“Miss Langworth, indeed! Why,
she —see!” has actually cotton gloves. There
as we entered the grounds,
“ didn’t I tell you so? She is going in
the buck way,”
“All the same. She’ll tell the heir¬
ess what you said,” persisted Fred, and
would talk of nothing family else till Mr. Lang¬
worth and his appeared, which
they only did after a long delay.
At the first word he uttered I cast a
glance of triumph at Fred. The little,
plainly-dressed insipidly-pretty woman—who, by-the-by, with
was an pen on,
blue eyes, regular features and brown
hair—was a Miss Jenny, a sort oi
proved companion to Miss Langworth, who
to be about five-feet-ten, thin,
pale, under high-nosed, dashing, and a little
30.
Of course, 1 immediately opened a
conversation with her, leaving it to Fred
to do the agreeable to the milk-and
water Miss Jenny.
“ Yon have a charming retreat, Miss
Langworth.”
“Oh ! yes, sir. Hain’t you never saw
,it before ? ”
early. Mirk Langworth was inde
pendent of grammar ; but I admired her
the more. It was only a proof that she was
unsophisticated and not spoiled by the
W0
“t “ ® . K '‘ r , ler, b l 1 should
think this such 1 a spot as i Lamb, : V the great
poet, would have loved. ’
1 hezanied tins at a venture, for I am
not great m tlie jsx-tical line ; but J was
sure she wouldnt find me out if I did
tt? ine * reply "'t* was, 1- however, t somewhat
Lam i. wny, . he , used to live down
, butcher, and we uiual
always to ics laiifroiii ats,ut lit* name,
1 saw rred and Miss Jenny smile, atnl
pro)M«ed • walk in tlie gajrden.wheri
IUM Langworth murdered at Queens
Tlie Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
English at her own sweet discretion, and
I made love at mine, at which she didn’t
Wush_ but giggled (.though in such I do believe encouraging she tried man¬ to),
an
ner that I thifik I should have proposed
on the spot, if the dressing-bell bad not
sounded at that moment.
fiit&ticaHy, “ Spltmdid, ain’t she ? ” said I,';enthu
to Fred.
“Bawiboned, rather,” said Fred,
doubtfully. “Raw-boned! * Sbe’s perfect Juno.”
a
“ yhe’s no chicken.’
“ Own up, old boy—you’re jealous.”
“ Not a bit of it. That little Miss
Jenny is charming, modest, intelligent,
and* pretty.”
“ Everyone to his taste. Mine, I con¬
fess, is more exalted.”
“If you refer to her height, I agree
with you.”
“ There goes the dinner-bell.”
“ Then you’d better burry up, Jim. It
takes you about half an hour to tie that
cravat.” And away w r ent Fred, laugh¬
ing maliciously. He would take the va¬
cant should seat by Miss Langworth, of course.
I lie unbecomingly would be bungle—ray red in the
face—my whisker cravat wouldn’t look a like breali
left a
fast roll, and—down went the jar with
the new pomade. isn’t
I didn’t swear, for it gentleman
ly; but I said something forcible about
the jar, and went down to the dining
room,
There my worst fears were realized.
Fred was helping Miss Jjangworth to
gravy, as I entered, and the only empty
c i ialr was by Miss Jenny,
It struck me, as I seated myself, that
my arrival had thrown this little person
into something of a flutter. She raised
her handkerchief to her face, and when
B h e asked for potatoes I fancied that
her voice annoyed.' faltered
I was If it had been in a
country ^ farm-house, and nobody else
T might have noticed her; but,
with Miss that Langworth evinced opposite, I was
surprised she no more dis
cro tion. It was not my fault if I was
fascinating; * ’ and, ’agreeable if my clothes did lit
well> it w s not to have im
young females falling in love
1 believe she made some remark about
thcopera, but I turned my head to talk
to Mr. ould Langworth.
1 V “1 sw ear \ l 1
saw her drop her handkerchief. , u I could
take my oath, however, that Jim Jonquil
clicln t pick it up.
Ater d ? ner - T
, wluch Ml \ L Worth
had «" ° f . , \ ou f ’
? 0 bad> ^ ' B ‘ u< V to V*' „, ed- .
, in 0nl y JS,!?, T bave a 7“! ■ doW let 1D
t l< \ f 1 , beard e 1 V 8 a lot suppressed lg d enough, titter behind me,
Langworth ? ud for a TT** had overheard f , anC1 ^ me tU ?\ but it
,
} vas ont v Mlss Jenny, who seemed to
-
“ av ® "V unconquerable propensity to
burst out into causeless fits of laughter.
I stepped past her to Miss Langworth,
for I was determined Fred should not
outwit me this time,
“Miss Langworth, shall we have a
game ? We can play against Fred and
you?;—friend.” Miss Langworth
acceded graciously,
and I instructed her in the mysteries of
knew counting up; for, strange to say, sho
halls, nothing and about it; and I got the
I placed them in her some
what bony hands, and I cried bravo
when she knocked down a pin, and
looked out of the comer of my eye to
see ahe did the like other Troian. little woman roil, which
a
I must confess I was disconcerted ;
but I reflected tliat bowling was a some
what masculine accomplishment, and
that the lady who could mak« a ten
strike might be able to knock her hus¬
band dov/n with equal grace and vigor.
But, of course, Miss Langworth was a
proficient in music, of which I am fond.
“No,” she said, “I kin neither play
nor Miss sing—I couldn’t never abear it.”
straightway Jenny could, however; and
executed one of Beethoven’s
sonatas in masterly style.
Fred was in raptures. But I talked
all the more to Miss Langworth, who
told me “she was not cold-hearted, but
she was afraid to marry, because every¬
$500,000 body know her Jier pa would hand her over
afraid on they wedding-day, wanted her and she
was for her
Dear creature, how I loved her—how
I burned to assure her of my disinterest¬
ed affection! How I longed to ask her
to fly with in me her-pocket), to some green isle (with
$500,000 and live, “ the
world forgetting, by the world forgot,”
in a brown-stone palace, in that remote
comer of the beautiful isle of Manhattan
known as Fifth avenue.
Wliat orders I’d give Granch, my
tailor ! What a team I’d drive ! And
wouldn’t I have a yacht, and belong to
a club, and drink five bottles of cham
pagne at dinner every day !
All this happiness within my grasp,
and nothing needed to secuie but toe
momentary ab enoe of Fred and that
disagreeable Miss Jenny, who was tit
tering again. ladies
“The propose a sail,’’said Fred,
“Will you go, Jim?” .
Of course I would: and, wrapping
Miss Langworth iu a shawl, for the day
was cool, we started down a winding
path shaded by overarching trees, and,
&' scending a few stone steps, beach, found our
selves on a fine l.igF. gi'avelly <W on which
lay the boat and
We soon got her off—that is, Freddid,
for he was a stalwart follow, and I didn t
wisb to soil iny new pantaloons-—and the then we I
helped the ladies mto boat;
discovered that Miss Langworth had a
large ankle, but it failed to dampen niy
love. I scorned to be influenced by sueii
worldly considerations, and I grew even
more devoted to Miss Langworth, who
leaned up heavily against me, wlule Frod
and Mies lnBt-mentioi«4 Jenny raved. short
The lady, after a
tima, boat'up profaned in •'little that inlet, wm should and make run the
onr
way home by another and more circuit
<ms route, the whole distance l»-mg
about two miles.
“ Bhe wants Fred to imp tlie question,”
I thought. " l’(s»r sltalfhave follow ! But I'm
obliged to tier; Langwteth I a clianco and to
projs,se to Miss so 1
seconded tig) uwjve with anl or.
Fred agreed, <«f course, and Um
Lingwurtli kind, “La, .yes! Jadj»#u4n.y* die didn't
care; ” aad r getting out, urn
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER * 28 , 1880 .
self walked on slowly behind speedily Fred and
Miss Jenny, who were out of
sight.
OTS&.Uikr-di
and _ .... it makes me sad, , Miss T Lang
Dear me, does .... it give you the rheu
matism? Folks do say it’s damp here,
but I never feel it.”
“ Rheumatism of the Heart, Miss
Ltogwortli,” leavo I answered. “To-morrow
I you ; should I ever (which is im
probable) revisit this spot, on whose arm
should I find yon leaning then ?”
Miss Langworth said, areldy, she was
siu-e she couldn’t tell.
“A husband's, perhaps,” I continued, _
in mv deepest bass voice ; Borne fortu
nato being, who, unlike me, may be es
teemed worthy to possess the that priceless
treasure”—I meant five hundred
thousand dollars; but I said—“your
beai 't-”
“I shall never marry,” , she said,
faintly.
sink “Oh, say not so,’’ I cried, about to
on one knee ; but, looking down, I
saw that it was muddy. “ Say not so,
brightest and best of beings. Drive not
to despair (seizing her band) one who
loves you so fondly. Give me but the
faintest gleam of hope—say but that you
will be mine, alter years of toil shall
kaito enabled mo to ask your band of
yotir joyfully father, and I will go forth more
than ever—ever horse went to
water.”
That wasn’t very poetical; but I could
think of nothing else. “ Speak, dearest,
—only Miss one word. ”
beliind Langworth her had hidden her face
out: handkerchief; but gasped
“Yes. dear Jim; ask pa right away.
He ivoivt want you to go out aud fight,
aud all that sort of thing,”
‘ ‘ Blessed innocent! he could not wish
it less than I did. ” But it was only after
long persuasion that I consented to fore¬
go my resolution to win name and fame,
and ask her pa at once.
The old gentleman was in the library,
and just as I entered I met Fred coming
out. I gave him a nod and a wink, and,
him walking up to Mr. Langworth, informed
that his daughter had just declared
her willingness to be united with me in
the bonds of holy matrimony, and re¬
spectfully “Iam implored bis blessing.
sorry, Mr. Jonquil,” said toe
old gentleman, looking at me, rather
her quizzically, friend, “ but I liave just promised
to your Mr. Drummond.”
this “Impossible I” I exclaimed, “I have
moment left her. and, if you will
permit me, I will bring her, that you
may hear my statement confirmed from
her own Ups.” And, running out, I
found and conducted the fair lady to her
lather in an exceedingly short time.
“I beg your pardon, Mr. Jonquil,”
said the old gentleman, as soon as he
saw her. “ I was speaking of my
daughter, Nellie, whom I have promised
to your friend. But, as for this lady,
marry her as soon as you please; my
jurisdiction does not extend to my
daughter’s It seamstress.”
was too horrible. I rushed madly
out of tho house. The little plainly
dressed woman, whom I had nearly
knocked down and treated since with
such per revering and sccornful neglect,
was no other than Nellie Langworth—
who, overhearing onr conversation on
toe boat, bad chosen to revenge herself
by substituting the long, lean, ugly,
awkward creature with whom I had
been playing the fool for her sweet little
self.
I left for town in the next train, where
I shortly after received an invitation to
her wedding with Frod. I leavo it to
the reader to guess if I went.
insanity as a Good.
A . « German physician . .. , has started t _ , a
pleasing theory with regard to insanity.
It is, he thinks, a mistake to look uprm
it as an unmitigated evil It is in
many cases a boon rather than the re
verse to the person immediately affected,
The loss of reason lands the sufferer from
a sea of trouble into one of comparative
calm—often into one of decided happi
ness; aud attempts torestore such a per
son to sanity would be cruel rather than
kind. Moreover, he insists that without
ft certain amount of insanity, success in
life, in toe ordinary acceptation of the
term, men,” is quite impossible. All “emi
nent he contends, arc decidedly
more or less mad. Many of thorn are
dangerous desirable monomaniacs, whom it would
be but who, on nevertheless, public grounds to shut
up, achieve grand
careersand are credited with doing a vast
amount of good. This false notion he
attributes to the fact that toe greater
mass of mankind are also insane and
quite unable to distinguish between good
and cviL Whole nations are, he says,
occasionally seized, like individual per
sons, with attacks of madness, and,
led by eminent roadmen, either destroy
themselves or their neighbors. These
paroxonms are, ho admits, undoubtedly
dangerous, with but when madness is blended
within just bounds sufficient self-control to keep it
and prevent it from lie
traying itself, it displays itself iu nerv
ous energy, and enables the lunatic ex
ercise immense influence over Iiis fellow
creatures.
—;---------- —
A Celestial Revelation. «^_4
Mr. Gool«r_as the story ive d
in the Mormon country. He had but
one wife, and never thought of taking
any more tiU one day an elder told him
it was his religious duty to seal unto
himself a few others. Mr. Goober went
home and sadly informed his wife of
what the elder lnul said, and Mrs. Goober
said she had no objection, provided the
elder would come round and argue the
ease elder, with and her the piously. cider dropped Goolier h-ld the
around. He
smiled sweetly as Mrs. Goober advanced
to meet Wm. The next thing he knew
he his was coat skipping slit the around back toe and room his with hat
tip
knoekei into pi, while Mrs. Goober
wielded tlie lirooim.tick. He finally
jumped out j»f a window, and aud escafNal
with In# life, 'as adder a wiser man.
Tie 1 rg-H firm* lie met Goober he told
him he Had limla teilcstinl revelation by
which (imAtir was iclh ved from tb»- n-
c.-«,ity of tnkuig any more wlvcw
Goo’- - r would count for Hlteost J,(XW in
the SB few Jerusalem,
The Village Hotel Veranda.
After supper we march into the offic«
ip Indian file, arm ourselves with poplar
toothpicks, and then all march out and
take seats on the hotel veranda and hold
a convention. If you have never taken
part, in one of those gatherings on too
veranda of a village hotel you have missed
a good thing. The audience includes
every The phase discussion of human nature.
usually opens between
the village blacksmith and a farmer and
fi. starts the weather ’
on
Tho blacksmith asserts that we have
had too much rain. Tho farmer can’t
agree. Tho undertaker, who used hi
farm it, then joins in with toe remark
that ho has seen seasons when we had
more rain, and seasons when wf> didn’t
have as much. This calls out the shoo
maker, who can remember one year when
it didn’t rain from the 20tli of March to
the 1st of October. While lie is trying
to remember what year it was, the oooner
tfits back his chair and asserts that lie
can rained distinctly recall a year iu which it
toe middle every of day from the 1st of can" May to
November. He re
member it all toe more distinctly because
his father believed that a second deluge
ing was coming, and watertight spent two months try
to make a Noah's ark of
toe horse barn. Ho can’t tell the exact
year without footing it a distance of six
miles to examine some old documents*
but rather than have his word disputed
lie would willingly go to that trouble,
No down one to doubts give him, however, and he sits
room to toe man whoso
three-year-old fence-stake, colt has been impaled on
a and who wants a cure for
toe wound. Ho follows a discussion on
horses, lasting fifteen minutes, and it is
about to cross the line and take up mules
when an old man spits over the heads of
toree boys in line and says:
“I don’t know much about bosses, hut
if I had one, and ho should drive a fence
stake clear the through stake him, I believe I should
grease and pick off the slivers
before I pulled it out! I tell ye horses
can’t stand everything, no more’n a man
can.”
Whatever new discussion might lie
created by this bold assertion in-barred
by the tho appearance of a villager who mado
No trip to California in overland (lays. ‘he
one knows just how much money
brought back. The estimate runs all the
way from two shillings to $20,000, but
he is discreetly silent as to the exact
amoiKit. There is one thing certain,
however. He killed upward of filly In¬
dians, a dozzen grizzly bears, arid over a
hundred buffalos while he was gone, aud
title.rtorommand ’the on the
Fourth of July. A move is about to be
inode to draw him out on wild Western
scenes, when somebody suddenly reel
,Soffit ofd^ toHuteiyridy arid 8 sceZs to £
bad for a moment, them it is remem
hered how he made his wife go barefooted
in Winter, lent money at fourteen' per
cent., and whipped sloi/ly a yoke of stoevs to
death, and question, the tide turns. There
is one however, on which all
arc palmy agreed. Uncle Jerry, during his
cider and days, once shouldered a barrel ot
carried it forty rods.
“ Yes, and I seed him do it,” sighs tho
old man behind me. “Fact of it was*it
was all on my account, and I beat him
pretty bad. 1 was up k to Fuller’s cider
mill artcr a barrel the sweet, when
tlme^veor old^/y'i-^We^rVf. final!? agi ,>< ’ UI1, coufd ‘ ln H
ing, and wo that if I
lift his steer I was to have him, and he
was to have too cider if he could shoulder
it. I don’t koer to brag around now in
my old age, but I think L lifted that steer
without »!vcn growin’ rod in tho face. Un
ele Jerry turned as white ns a sheet, and I
thought he’d faint away, but lie stuck to
his word and I took toe steer hum. Ho
for got a heap o’ credit all over the county
liftin’ tliat cider, and never let on that
l lifted the steer, and that’s one thing
I’ve kinder laid up agin the old man.”
T]iell t , U! mxt wuu ffi-s about the num
berof crows hesaw in Kansas, aud so we
go Ulltil it k sharp 10 o’clock and the
mosoiiitoes beffin to hnniror for
i,Tt-cn tlwv bid cu-b other oLiin
nicht and Quad} senaratetomeet and lie ’
‘ 1 *
A Defense of Cleopatra.
Allow me to inquire here, parenthetic
ally, how it happens that toe queen of
Egypt has come to be regarded as an ex
ample of extreme misrepresented. inconstancy. Bhe has
been grossly History
tells us that she was married to her
brother, Ptolemy his XII, by the will of hei
father after death. The union was
merely an arrangement of state; had no
binding consummated, force, and was the not probably,
ever as appointed couple were
minors. Pompcy was their
guardian, and it has been intimated that
he was her lover. There was no authority
whatever for this, indeed everything
points merely chaste, to the he contrary. almostpassionless, He was not
was
as Cicero has testified. When Caesar hail
invaded the country, and Pompcy liad
been murdered, lie was fascinated by
her, and she became his mistress, more
from love than interest. Then, in order
to give weight to her sovereignty, her she
brother, was given in child marriage of to second
a seven XII, having years—her
other brother, Ptolemy been
drowned—and the foremost until man of all
the world lived witli her he re
turned to who Romo, carrying with splendid him the
woman was the most part
went of to splendid lus last conquest. When Hispunia, he
for campaign last in
she saw him the time
At Antony s meeting with her,
jiad iction baen to dead him mint was years; no disloyalty so that her to
former'protector. she J hey were the
men of whom eyrrpretended to lie
fond, aild she was devoted to them in
mind, heart and soul. Ihe Opinion
sho biu accepted basis. Augustus Hliaksp- /0ct#yuu)
* r, “ aro giv*-s this im
pressKni, Ll< l*it merely rc/oie, as instekd a jioettc licanse.
Oj'Stra, UH of la-ing an
incarnation of disloyalty, was a nnslel
j pyaltyjesjssudly "nut hmy /Iruit'h for that UM<r.
-
A votso man who taffy*to was pleasantly his girl eti
gaged in dealing out much disgusted over
tlis P-b-phoia' wire, from was the central office
at hearing a, voice burry if have
: “ 1'lease up yim
ion thing to suy | tluie is a tutsinens nuui
vuiithig for the wire,”
Street Acquaintances.
You know a great many people you
we not acquainted with,
Your accustomed walks on the street
bring children you face to face with men, women
«»<1 every dav, who grow fa
miliar to you, but you know them not.
Just about so far from the same corner
every morniug you meet the care-worn
man, weighted with life’s burdens, his
hu'o wrinkled with the history of strug
K Ies - You always feel like taking oil
your hat, to liim ami offering a sympa
tlietio ward.
The spruce young clerk, with one liun
drod and twenty sliarply steps to the minute,
glances at you imd whizzes by
llH if the world wouldn’t move till he got
there.
The distressed looking woman, with
pole uit of face, resolution shabby-genteel expressed by dress her closed ami a
month, tiresomely comes down toe walk.
Her face has moved you to pity every
mining for a year, little breeze coming?
What is this
ing With metallic toe sidewalk heel-plate like the clicking, ringing dick- of
on a
clog dancer’s step, jaunty hat to one
dido of her head, neat costume, and a
fancy, hut don’t piquant dare air? speak Meet to her her. every day
to
This little toddling girl with Viangs,
protected sidewalk by an older brother, dolly. playiug
on the with hoop and A
gleam of childhood’s sunshine that greets
you Those cheerily. jolly fellows coming, tell
two
their ing Btories and laughing hearted, all tho way they to
work. Light like turning because
were born so. You feel about
and having a laugh with them, but they
are The only “grubbing” street, acquaintances, sort of whom
men
you meet every clay round-shouldered, carrying a pipe and be
tween their teeth,
having a hangdog sort of a gait perfectly
indifferent blue to everything. them, It makes °
man feel to sec
The gray-haired and muoh-bowed vet
erau, whose life is near adjournment,
You meet him on Saturday mornings
only, streaming loaning the on his breeze; staff, his picture white which locks
iu a
we all look upon with reverence.
These arc but few types of tho people
we meet every day in too street and
know, but are not, acquainted with, that
are as much a part of our every day life
as are our duties that add so much to our
pleasure and opportunity for study, Mod¬ and
more than books or newspapers.—
ern Argo.
No Place for Chinamen.
..° n «*« rondi leading from Fairplay nailed to
A1,na aud L«odvfileis a board s.gn
to ft and bear “« ’V 8 devl f :
“ n ,T warned uot 1,,cnU> 1,1 . lhw
t) “ H Wftniiu B- two foo ' ,,ar<1 - v
w ms f ^em mountod the stage at Fat¬
1 ’f. ™? k **
’ U
"' ou nd ti P 1,tl - v thelr ], T - ,» nd
. P™\ of thnr garment* which
? ^ ,vd,7 'f ra the breeze wear lu . cn tl,w rwto f y for aut ^ma. « , flut "
Ib, \ B mde that broada f ed t l0 r da fr
.Ta , ” T 1 W th . ° n * ht ’
1 h .° ddd t,,r ‘wasbee-washes wns 1 large,
and H'^telWble ‘‘‘ST ™ re jabble . tb ° ,r8t from l " the race top ‘ of £ h the .V lr
^ 1 “ * *ttcnt.,mof * passing
trover,got J , ofti eD , ? an ’ / return ^ Ulred tick- - I*
The'latter BniileeNuid whipped up his
borBeB > “ of th " fdn awai,i "«
hiniat lus distillation,
rne,d ^ tbe celestials J cub: « ,d were tow V- slotted and ''''f the 11 lim¬ tho
t!,,a<dl l *fP od U ‘“ mcd,atel - Y KUr '
ronndad 1 b J a ‘irowd. The white passen
rs ihsmoimted, but lingered on the
wlur f of ,‘ ho ,f. owd aWa ! tl “« davel «P"
,nolJ f K - IheOhniamcn started to do-
8 f ! ld fcom tb, ‘P' Mto perch on the top
°f. tbc “ aob > b,d ‘ llH ft, u 8ha fl>
sticks and several nfles stretehed up to
T’' 1 )’ 0 U,onl ? aU8ed to hastily
? l!U " b ^ ®J» A “! d * f cneB and
• 1<)ot * f ‘he crowd to take them out and
b »nc them, a man stepped forward and
firmly informed the celestials, now place al
most pale with fear, that their
was on top of that coach till it went
back, when they were to go the too. remarks
And stay they did, for
were of such a tenor as to admit of no
dispute. And when the stage wended its
way back to Fairplay that, night the two
sad faced Chinamen occupied same in
exalted seats os did toe merry ones
toe morning .—Jjeudville (Jhroniele.
Origin of a Long Word. *
, io r one _ wlm , . nxiks . with ... enough . care to .
worus ," H ,ie passes Uiem to ana tro to
the “fossil lustory which they
'»ave been cleverly pronounced to be, the
word manufacture, witlntsotherfonns,
’.i a ” a murk of important
c ‘ 1 “ng<-s. « was Darned wuen. uimgs
were literally manufactured, i. e., hand
andwos then a correct description
S? "ut the articles development to which of machinery it was applied. so tar
nat there is probably not an article ol
jme into whose production some processes
“Y machinery do not enter, has made
word a gross solecism, because its
'bynmlofimal , meaning and its application
mi tly contradict each other. When we
«f toe manufacture of common
P 1IJ R or nails, we reallv speak of nano
mu, fo mucin no-made jm)». I nerc sire
no niore mannfiudured articles in tins
cou,Jtr y;toe homespun m 17 1 > was sueii,
ST l*’. "l
but the hnii-lied falarkss und nails of 876 are
|,,, r( ii v with the hand until fin
ishe,f The »«7r«l has l-ist ite siirnilh-an.-i
... . _ , , , :, j_ :, M
(mtjilmmsness tt should be amended
ami corrected bv drotmina the fi -st half
i..., e, denote thimrs made
o.,-inakini/of thinns- “f e-lor" could
then steml for the doer or maker being
r ,,ii,. V w1 from its uresent use as denoting
,,,-rcial agent in which latter use
b, not mwairv - Jt there being H good sun
.
A miaswn Western circus mid advanceil- nieuag
eris manager distrihutes in
lui'rated primers for children, in which
ah ,he sad pictures and lie descriptions in his relate show to
feats tieast* to seen ;
hut the show itself is not immtioued,
and it is only when the |K>hiers are put
up and the lumiliar that tlie objects value endihtzoned Uiead
outlie walls of ver
tiM-cu-nt Isconu-a apparent In the Mger*
net* <4 the yming onus to tns Ug; show,
NUMBER 30.
Two (front Men.
Mr. Thompson. Secretary of the Navy,
passed Francisco, through hero on his way to with San
his party. on Wednesday evening,
In company with Delegate Downey,
Judge Blair, ilnd United States Marshal
Sohniteer, I went into the special ear,
and talked with him while the train
stopped here.
Tho other members of the party did
most tho of back the talking, of toe chair and 1 and eloquently whistled sat
on a
few bars from a little operetta that t am
having east at the rolling mill. I am not
very hilarious iu too presence of great
men. I am not so much at home in their
society as I am in my own quiet little
boudoir, with one leg over toe piano and
the otlifr tangled up among the $2,01)0
lace curtains aud Majolica dogs.
show By the and by I thought that I boil hotter
Hecivtary that I knew more
than the casual observer would suppose,
and 1 said, “Mr. Thompson, how’s jjour
navy looking this summer? Have you
sheared your iron-clad rums yet, aud if
so, think?” what will Ho laughed toe clip average, rippling do .you
laugh, and said'if a merry, ho
ho was at home
would swear that lie wns in too presence
of the mental giaut, William G. MtvDue.
I was very much pleased with the Sec
rotary. This will insure too brilliant sue
cess of his Western trip.
I could sec that lie was accustomed to
the very best of society, for lie stood
there iu the blinding glare of my da/,
/.ling beauty as self-possessed and cool ns
though Butler ho were at, home, talking with
Ben and Ooukliug and Carpenter
and other rising young men.
There is a striking resemblance lie
tween the Secretary mid myself. We
aro both tall aud slender, wilh roguish
eyes and white hair. His, however, is
whito from age, aud is a kind of bluish
white. Mine iH white because it never
hud moral courage or strength of charac¬
also ter enough to lie any other color. It
has more of a lemon-colored tinge to
it than the Secretary’s has,
We resemble each other in several
more respects. One is that we are
both United States officials. He is a
member of the Cabinet and I am a United
States Commissioner. We are both great
men, but I havo succeeded better iu
keeping it a profound secret than he has,
—Mill JNye, In Hut Denver Tribune.
A Luckless Tramp.
Borne lime ago a tramp got into the fire
box of a stationary engine tliat was beiuR
shipped on a flat car to the Pacific coast.
careful By some brakeman freak of misfortune to him a
closed tho furnace-door
on him, and his the solitary picnicker was
alone with oonseicnoe and a few
friends that had come along with him to
represent the National Bug Bureau.
At first ho thought it was a joke, and
lie laughed a smothered, hysterical
laugh, lie didn’t but know as the whether hours dragged it day ou
wns or
night or whether it was the Fourih of
July or eternity, ho concluded to attract
tlie attention of the outside world, so lie
pounded on the inside of his cage till his
arms ached. Ho might as well have
tried to get out of a fire and burglar proof
safe with a corkscrew.
One day, through curiosity, a railroad
boy opened the door of the engine fur¬
nace and looked in. Tlie broad sole of
an old boot was turned up at the door,
and the brakeman took hold of it and
snatched it out. It was followed by au
attenuated piece of humanity, thgt rat¬
tled around on the ear like on old um¬
brella.
The him bystanders lie didn’t reviewed' him and
asked if feel hungry. He
said he did feel a kind of goneness in the
gastric regions.
An old man, who wns tbon acting treas¬
urer of the Irish Relief Fund, took the
job of Ireland filling him missed up. the Tliat beneficial is the reason effects
why the relief fund several mouths,
of for at
a time when she needed it worst.— Den¬
ver Tribune.
The Tragedian h Daughter, ., tpr
On Howard street, tho other day,
“Where arc you going, lay pretty
maid?” asked a benevolent old gentlc
man, as he chucked under the chin a fit¬
tic gravely tot of along a six-year-old, with basket who was her walking
a on arm.
“Give thee good-day, gray beard,” My re¬
plied the midget, toe shambles sinijilv. hie “ for father fat
bade me to a
haunch.”
“ “Haply W-w-what?” tlwu knowest ejaculatedtheold him, the party, good
mail BkidmOrc?” inquired gentleman, the tiny dame, much
“ N-o-o,” said the of tho
T M i/./.lcd at the evident earnestness
,,j li|(L .. Yl) „’re a i,naint little thing,
o, m< -with me and I will buy you some
candy.” forbid gcntlo
“Alack ! I am to tairy,
H j r j need be blithe. Their patience
hPi vk upon my coming.”
'‘Good-bye,” said toe blister,” old gentleman. aud dip
“Host, you, merry
j,i,ig a chubby little courtesy, the mile
trotted off.
“Bfoss my soul! what an extraorili
miry child!” said the gentleman to a
neighbor, who had lieen looking on.
“OH! “Yon that’s nothing,” the replied daughter the of
see she’s
Hiison, the heavy man at the theater,
an d I suppose they talk so much of that
Hind of lingo in the family that it comes
, lft i„ r .j m j,er. Doesn’t near anything
else, you see .”—San Front'Uea Tout.
An Oil City man went, fishing Satiir
day, little and lie came home with nothing but all
a caught?" half-pound asked his bass, friends. “is that “That’s
you “11,” rcqilied
the man. “How many
bites did you liave?” "Noue,” exclamnsl
hshermau, and the whole crowd
, ' r ’ < ' <1 - “He's found! he’s found! Hero
1H the honest fisherman.'’ He’d have
had fifty invitations to drink in ten min
U,4 ’ N if a smalllsiy hadn't broken through mister,
tha crowd, and said: "Bee h#ro
yer gave mu a bogua nickel for that air
Bsh. And now that crowd has no faith
hi human nature.
--- - —
Last Huudiiy, a gentleman went into
a drug store “Can't ami sell Hiked anything to huy but a piece med
soap. ichuis Bunday.” "But. alive,
on man
don’t you know that cleuiuiuess is next
to gfsllinsss?' “Well, half I try,” enn't icspouilrd help it, il
itis.” ihe “ You don't
senrehei for soap, as he wcut out
without it.
IMinscille gtaw.
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1. Ill ft UAL TUI* nm FOR nORE 8PACK
A MESMERIC SEANCE.
An« How It iffllrted » Trlwo Karkeepor.
[s,n Franco,. *wt.|
.
The other morning, while the swell
barkeeper at Baldwin's was putting an
extra polish on,some entered, pony glasses, and, a they con
pie ordered <>f strangers drinks, of them, as long
one a
haired, cadaverous person in a faded ul
ster, said:
you.” “ Oil, it's very easily done, I assure
'‘Easy!” exclaimed %is y>, companion,
with much animation; #’ Why, it’s the
most, remarkable—the. most did astonishing
thing 1 ever saw . What you say you
called it?” ;* :
“ Mesmerism," his glass saitl'dlie lip to .long the haired light,
man, holding principle discovered by Ger
" The was a
man scientist.llamed Mesnier, although mn
it, is, unquestionably, identical with the
animal magnetism known to toe early
Greeks. TaCiitis Rays - ”
ruptod “ But tho you other, don’t who mean to makingnvtor¬ say,” inter
was
midable demonstration on the free lunch,
“you don't moon to say, Professor, that
the person subjected to thb influence
hasn't toe faintest idea of whats going
on ?”
“Exactly,” said the Professor. “ The
person under the influence of mesmerism
has no more self-cousciousuess than a
cane-bottomed chair. For illustration,
you see that man at toe corner oven
there? He is evidently waiting for a car
—big hurry to go somewhere—and yet l
could bring him into this saloon in a per
fectly unconscious state in less than two
minutes.”
“Bet you five dollars you can’t do it,”
said tho other looking man, producing a some
what dubious V.
“ Ya-a-s,” added the barkeeper, the glass, arrauge- “and
ing his diamond pin better in he can’t do it. ”
I’ll go him twenty
“Well—or—hem—gentlemen you—and—ahem—I’m I don’t
want to rob not
simi I have that much with me,” faltered
tho “Oh professor. haven’t eh?” said the cock¬
! you
tail mixer, winking at the bystanders, their coin.
who were, also, fumbling out fire
“Well, we’ll trust you. Just away,
aud if you win, you can take the pot.” have
“Well, gentlemen, I suppose I’ll
to try anyway,” and amid a gathering variety of
significant winks from toe
crowd of bystanders, ho walked to toe
window and began making a series his of
mysterious passes in the air, with
eyes fixed on the party at toe comer.
• ‘ Did you ever see such a blamed idiot?”
said the 1 larkeeper. ‘ ‘ Looks like a Manta
Clara windmill, doesn’t—hello! by Jove,
too feller’s coming!” had slowly faced
The man on the corner
tho window, in bewildered passed his hand across and then his
eyes a manner
began walking in an uncertain way across
toe street. “ It will have move effect on
him when ho gets closer,” said the pro¬
fessor.
The man entered the saloon and stood
still, looking straight ahead with a vacant
expression. I’ll mitke him ask for drink,”
“ you a
whispered toe disciple of and Mostner. "Just
stand subject hack, gentlemen,” walked mechanically sure enough, to
the up
the counter, and asked in a hollow voice
for a little old rye.
“ Give it to him—humor him in every¬
thing,” whispered swallowed the professor, the drink and and toe
victim solemnly motionless before.
then stood as
“Now I’ll make him think he’s an ac¬
tor,” said the illustrator of will power,
and immediately Shakespeare the other began to strut
about and recite iu a tragic
voice.
“Make him bark like a dog,” sug¬
gested toe man who had bet the five dol¬
lars. Whereupon the man began to imi¬
tate a terrier, and tried to bite a specta¬
tor, to the immense amusement of every¬
body. After that he was caused to do
several things, such as crowing like a
rooster, catching a fly and pocketing toe
"pool” money which lay on the counter.
“ Make him think he keeps the bar,”
put in the Professor’s friend, aud toe
subject walked promptly around behind
the counter, turned up his sleeves aud
compounded a cocktail, put the money in
the, drawer and counted out the change
with great deliberation.
“Now,” said the Professor ‘‘ we will
make him put the contents of the drawer
into lus own pocket, then restore him to
consciousness and accuse him of having
stolen tho money. ”
Everybody said that wonld he a first
rate joke, and then toe five dollar
thought it would be better to let him
walk outside aud arrest him in the street
—his astonishment woulu tie all the
greater, be said.
The man solemnly behind cleaned bar out the till,
walked from the and out of
tho door. As soon as he struck the
pavement, however, he darted down
I’r.well street at a three minute clip.
1 ‘ Dear me,” shouted the professor. ‘ ‘I
must have been thinking about running, and
somehow. Come on, Mr. Smoothy, the soul sub¬
help me catch him,” aud
duer and his friend dashed off in Baldwin pursuit.
They are still waiting at the
for the return Of toe trio, who must have
divy’d about $50 apiece, aud toe detec¬
tives think they are liable to wait for a
long time. Die barkeeper says ho
wishes lie may be blank blanked to ever
lasting biaukation, while .Manager Tom
Maguire, who is out $8 on the mesmeric
proposition, says lie’s half a mind to have
the whole thing dramatized for the fall
season ; , ■
A Lost Occupation,
Tho Holt. John Wentworth compre
heials tho present condition of politics,
lie says that tho newspaper has made
tho orator a tiling of the past, and de¬
stroyed tho usefulness of mass meetings
mid other clap-trap accessories or cam
isiigns. And why? Simply of because
thev liresenfc tho arguments parties
the if t)uiy are jiarty journals, independent, or tho facts aud if
newspapers are
tlm reader is enabled to decide for him*
self, uninfluenced by apiieals to his pas.
sions and uncontrolled bv tin) personal
nmgncHsm’of orators. The voter, hav
ing bycomo u ruadax, ia also a tliinker.
As n thinker hesuperior todama
gogues aud tlttir tdbls. .
At this season of the year heslth, U can The
not lie tod careful of their
riuUitelphia'wcaiiss whoGaft her switch
lutugmg ulpMe a uuff of sir blew it out
of the window lias lust her hair.