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ovorshirts reduced from
is at the N. U. Co’s
cents s atine mu reduced to 5, at
Q al Union Co’s.
ginghams reduced to 5 at
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Union Co’s.
,j prints at 3 cents at the
Union store.
ciion in laces at the Nation
Store.
[the National Union Compaq
see their bargain counter.
L ,,f those bargains at the
Lion Co’s before they are
clothing to arrive at
5. JI. Almand & Co.
at h P. & D M.
fe Co.
lot of bran, oats, y”d hay, corn
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k Co.
lot ol notions to arrive in a
is at H. P. & D. -yp
St Co.
lot gents collars just U re
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stock shoes on hand at
ED. M. Almand & Co.
stock fresh and new
shoes at H. p
land A Co.
t eggs and chickens at
I.P. A D. M. Almand & Co.
isarfs dy the thousands at
UP. Cain.
I ®es less than wholesale
as.
ire and i see Cains spring
before you buy.
h A. P. Cain has the larg
P s P ri “g clothing that ever
payers.
n g at Cains from $1.50 to
suit.
'll jfh V handkerchiefs, 9, ain can sed you
“ tali hose 25 collars,
olesa’e per cent less
cost.
J® i young us kreceived men ! G. W- & A.
durbies a large lot
siyies of also 50
crush hats.
best green coffee for
lot of gents dress shirts
leap. at
L- eater is
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
6UA r
Miss Georgia Stephenson, after a
visit of several days in this communi¬
ty, returned to her home last Sunduy.
R.’ Jj.H. is quite sad.
Messrs. Colie Warren and Harmon
Bishop, two handsome young men, of
Bithonia, were seen in our midst Sun
<jay. Come again gentlemen.
Misses Leila McDaniell and Fannie
Thrasher, after a visit of several days
to fiends in Covington, returned
home Saturday.
Messrs, Tom McDonald, John Al
man d, Ed Ewing, Bud Almand, Otis
^ty, an q Yollie Almand, of your
attended Oak Grove S. S, Stto
day afternoon.
Mr. David Marr, of Lithonia, visit
e d in this community last Sunday,
guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Beatie
Miss Ida Almand, a beautiful young
lady, of your city, visited in this com
m uuity last Sunday.
Tod Griffieth, of McNutt, Ga.,
visited the family of Mr. O. S. Hay
good tat week. .
Messrs. Tom Bird and James Bare
inis com'
Mrs. Jack Walden, we are glad to
learn, is improving.
Iwonder who the young man is,
that the dogs the _ have
at crossing
such a spite at.
Youug men, remember, hereafter,
when you call on your girl to alwyas
cr y ou t “ Hello .' ” that is the latest
“agony.”
Mr. and Mrs. William Beattie, visG
ted friends in Lithonia last week.
We have not, yet, received a visit
from the famous dog eater. r but
nevertheless, it is doing much good
for “ frying size ’’ boys, for they are
keeping pretty close to home, at night
We are sorry to learn that some
of the young men from an adjoining
settlement, who visit Oak Grove,
spend a portion of their time on the
Sabatk day playing cards. Five of
them were seen last Sunday a week
ago engaged in a game, and all
church members, three Methodist
and two Baptist, one of them the son
of a preacher, one the son of a dea¬
con, one the son of an officer of the
law and two the sons of lay members
Boys we have a high regard for your
welfare and would say never be
guilty of such a thing again, boys
st °P and think, remember how hard
that dear old father and mother have
tried to tram you up in the fear and
admonition of the Lord, think how it
would g reive and make theil ’ heavts
ache if they knew it, and abova all,
think how it grieves your Savior to
see his professed followers indulging
in such pass time en his holy Sab¬
bath.
Lorlie.
SHADY BALE
Mr. Ed Huson of Jackson Ga, vis¬
ited Mr. G. W. Thornton Monday
Tuesday.
Miss Lillie King is still sick with
La grippe. We hope she may soon
be well again.
Mrs. Berner Yeal is on the sick
list this week.
Mr. G. W’ Thornton had his land
lines run this week by Mr. Jinks of
Butts county.
Mr. J. N. Parkeu is terracing his
plantaiion this week in Newton Co.
Some of the boys will go to Cov¬
ington to day to hear- Col. Livingston
speak and will get a bottle of “ tan¬
gle leg,” and come home happy on
-
the wa y.
The dog eater is still prowling
aro ^ nd this community. One of
our neighbors thought the other
night the varmint had called on him,
oecassionally he could hear a roar
which lasted pretty well all night,
SHEFFIELD ITEMS.
Everything is moving on nicely in
this section.
Some of our energetic farmers are
about ready to begin to put in their
fertilizers.
Mr, N. H. Capeharfc moved his
family to his father-in-laws, Air. J W
Swords last Monday. We regret
very much to give them up, but wish
them abundant success where ever
they go.
Mrs. Jane Born is very sick at
present but we hope to hear of an
early improvement.
Later : We learn that Mrs. Born
is dead.
Rev. W. A Chastain filled his
regular appointment at Bethel last
Sunday and preached an excellent
sermon, just such as always comes
roin that able divine.
Mrs. M. A. Woods has been on
the sick list for several days but is
very much improved.
Mr. B. H. Summers visited rela^
tives in Centerville this week.
Mr. Eddie Ficquette of Newton
county visited in this community
last Sunday.
Messrs John Eeles and Oscar Ay
cock has returned from Florida,
where they have been spending the
winter. Gents, we are proud of
your return.
From all reports Miss Darlina
Belle is getting along nicely with her
school. She is a lady of fiue instruC'
tive talent, and has such a nice lot of
young ladies and good children in
school.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Fannie Swords, was born in
Frankling county, Georgia, |May the 16,
1S17; was married to Mr. Jack Swords,
October the 10, 1845; and fell “ asleep in
Jesus, ’’February 10, 1802, “ to awake
amid the light of many mansions. ” To
say we miss her in the community, in the
church and in the home, by no means
expresses the true situation. She looked
well to the ways other house-hold. “ Her
children rise and call her blessed. ”
up
“ Her husband also, praiseth her. ”
Though gone from our midst she is not
dead. She still lives in the homes and
memories of those whose lives were made
better and brighter by the tender touch
of her sweet quiet life of inconspicuous
service.
Thus the Christian can die. What a
demonstration of God’s power ! An
emaciated form, too weak to raise her
head, but strong in (aith in Cod. Con¬
verted in 1866, she joined (he Christian
church, and continued to serve her Lord
and his members until called to her rest
and reward. As a wife aud mother none
could be moredevoted. And as we look¬
ed into that kinly face that had been to
us an o( ject of v< neration so long, and
upon those hands that had grown brown
and hard by toil forthuseshe loved, and
looking back over her past life as we had
known it, we knew, that, trimly, a good
woman was gone. And there renewing
our consecration to God, and taking
this life that had just ended as our pat¬
tern, we turn away with a determination
to keep sacred the promise made tj
meet our Father in heaven, 8he was
never heard to murmur or complain, her
sickness was short, but very aecute and
painful, she bore it with Christian forti¬
tude, Here one might fitly stop writing
about any good servant of ihs Lord. For
to her, our words can be of little worth,
and yet, to accent some aspects of her
beautiful life cannot fail to profit those
w’ ho still survive her here below- 8he
was two weak at the last to speak to her
loved ones as they gathered around her
bed-side, but when the pulse of her life
had ceased to beat, and “ the silver cord
was loosed, ” and “ the golden bowl was
broken, ’they vho hid known her so
well, felt perfctly assured ikat she had
entered into herheavenly rest. May cur
Father .comfort the bereaved husband
ami Gvo pln’lilrmi and il. host Of jjrand-
Woolly’s Letter.
Editor Solid South If you will
permit me, 1 will write a few lines for
your readers.
I can look and listen to the people^
and I find them oposeing each ether:
and everyone seems to be looking for
individual gain. There is but two le¬
gal parties, one for tariff, as we have
it on us to gather money to support
the Government; the other for
reform. I say the tariff should be set
aside, and the government should be
supported by import and tux on all
property, and not by revenue on the
articles that American citizens coti'
sume. This plan would be equal on
all people of our goverment. Now,
we need more money to carry on our
crops and to discontinue the future
sale of our cotton and grain. Our
cotton that is to be raised this year, is
now priced, and it cannot be changed.
However, the different states could
pass laws to punish all persons who
sell futures. If this was done, and it
undoubtly ought to be, the cotton
states would let cotton and grain be
priced according to the demand.
There isn’t no more cotton at present
than is needed, but the people canno t
buy the goods they need on account
of the scarcity of money. The labor¬
ing masses cannot get enough for
their labor, or for their produce, to
enabled them to buy, or pay for what
they actually need. Still, men of
ability are trying to iufiuenca and
control every poor man they can to
vote against democratic principles,
for the reason, in most, that they are
alliancemen. Let no man hold office
that is not for reform in our finan¬
cial affairs; and let those that oppose
the reform compose the third party.
Yet, they may call themselves demo¬
crats or republicans; but they are for
speculation and high tariff, and are
no friends to the laboring class of peo
pie. Tnere are more people, I be¬
lieve, living off of what the - farmers
make than there are at work; and there
are many that oppose the alliance,
who know that, if the alliance could
succeed to float more money on a ba¬
sis, that the people could control, and
get better prices for the produce; that
everybody could make more money,
and all people would be benefited. I
ask how many planters are there now
feeding people to make their crops,
and loosing money ? And The peo¬
ple that till the land are getting poor¬
er and poorer as the seasons rolls
around. If this state of affairs con¬
tinues, ere long, the whole business
of the country will collaps, and all
the poor of the land will have to go
West, where, with only an ox to plow,
they can make bread, and the cows
and hoys can support themselves from
the grass and roots of the forests, and
it would be far superior to the living
we make here. The poor laboring
people cannct stand to labor and have
nothing left over; and the people that
own land cannot afford to continue
feeding people to work it at a loss
much longer. The poor will have to
emigrate, if they have to do it on foot.
The time is coming when laborers
will necesserailly have to have lot tt r
prices than now, or they will have to
spin and weave again and live more
common and wear more common
clothes and go where guano is not
used and be a happier people. Econ¬
omy and industry will raise your own
supplies. Farmers, you are (axed be
yound ability. Iu my next letter,
providing (his one is published, I will
point out some of your burdens of
taxation that is not necessary. I am
not an aili inceman, but a poor citizen.
E. Woolly,
GANDERFEATHER’S GIFT.
I was just a little thing
When a fairy came and kissed met
Floating in the light '
upon
Of a hatiuted summer night,
Lo! the fairies came to sing
Pretty si mutter songs and bring
Certain boons that else had missed mflb
From a dream 1 turned to see
What those strangers Drought for me.
When that fairy up aud kissed me—
Here, upon tin’s cheek, he kissed me!
Simmerdew was there, but she
Did not like me altogether:
Daisybright and Turtledove, i
Pilfercurds and Honeylove. ■
Th'stleblow and Amberglee
On that gleaming, ghostly sea
Floated from the misty heather. i
And around my trundle bed
Frisked and looked and whispering said.
Solemniike and altogether,
“Vou shall kiss him, Uanderfeatherl”
Ganderfeather kissed me then— f
Ganderfeather quaint and merry!
No attenuate sprite was he.
But as buxom as could be:
Kissed me twice and once again.
And the others shouted when
On my cheek up rose a berry
Somewhat like a mole, mayhap.
But the kiss mark of that chap
Ganderfeather, passing merry—
Humorsome but kindly, very. i
I was just a tiny thing
When the prankish Ganderfeather
Brough! tliis curious gift to me
With his fairy kisses three.
Yet with honest pride I sing l
That some gift he chose to bring
Out of yonder haunted Heather;
Other charms and friendships fly—
Constant friends this mole and 1,
Who have been so long together!
Thank you, little Ganderfeather!
—Eugene Field in Chicago News.
Not to lie Hired.
A lady one day saw a roughly
dressed man at work on the trees in
a Portland garden, and stopped to
ask:
“What are you doing to those tree
trunks?”
“Girdling them, madam, with
printer's ink and cotton,” was the re¬
ply. ‘ Tt will keep off canker worms."
“How much does it cost?” inquired
she.
“About twenty-five cents apiece.”
“Well, I wish you would come and
girdle ours. What is your name?”
“Hill,” the laborer replied; but to
her repeated request that lie would
undertake her own trees, he returned
an evasive answer. That night she
told the story to her husband, aud
he burst into a roar of laughter.
“What is the matter?” she cried.
“Why,” said he, "that laborer was
the Rev. Dr. Hill, lato president of
Harvard, one of the leading mathe¬
maticians living, and the recently
appointed pastor of the First Parish
Church. ” —Critic.
Properties of Cellulose.
Cellulose absorbs water and, by its
swelling, provides the softest possi¬
ble obstruction. On account of its
low specific gravity, less than that of
cork, it is valuable for life belts, and
may be used in large quantities to
keep a seriously damaged ship afloat.
Cellulose compressed and packed in
the cofferdam of a ship, to forai a
leak belt, does not emit any unpleas¬
ant odor and does not decay for two
or three years. When penetrated by
a projectile it is not ignited, does not
give off any disagree smoke, possess¬
ing iu this respect a great advantage
over rubber armor. If dry, loose
cullulose be ignited, it gives out white
smoke. —Goldtliwaite’s Geographical
Magazine.
_
Some Famous Diamonds.
Among the large and otherwise fa¬
mous diamonds of the world the fol¬
lowing may be enumerated: The Pig
got. 824 carats; the Nassau, 81)3 car¬
ats; the Florentine Brilliant. 1994
carats; the Eugenie and the Green
Bi’illiant, each 51 carats; the Shah,
86 carats; the Saucy, 5.14 carats; the
Orloff, or Orion, 1944 carats. The
noted diamonds of lesser size and
value are the Dresden, the Hope, the
Austrian Yellow' and the Polar Star.
—St. Louis Republic.
Kverybody May Have Wlilte Hands.
Take a pound of white castile or
brown Windsor soap, stir it on the
fire with a little water. Add laven¬
der water or any other kind of es¬
sence when it is melted to a smooth
paste, but do not thin it too much.
Stir in half a cup or more of almond
meal or of common oatmeal. Keep
it in jars for use. This Is an oldtima
preparation for keeping the hands
smooth and white, which was used by
the belles of the olden time.
A boy caught in a wolf’s den near
Hasanpur could walk upright, but
preferred to go on all fours, and ran
so fast in that g that no one
could catch him. lie could not talk,