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& IMtinsuille gtduancc. A WEEKLY PAPIR, Published Tuesday, —AT— Watkinsville, Oconeo Co. Georgia. TV. GL SULLIVaX, ID1T0B AND PROPRIETOR One TEEMS: year, in advance. ..................$l 00 6ix months ••••........................ 60 ...... 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. A WMKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED AT Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia. 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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.