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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA. GA~ TUESDAY JANUARY 4
Martyrs to Headache
Seek pallet In min, until they begin to
tuc Ayer’. Sarsaparilla. TUea they re.
fret tlia year* ol auflorlng they might
hive escaped lied they tried tbla remedy
•erller. The trouble wee const ItstUmal,
not local; and, mull Ayer’, Sarsapa
rilla did its eilcctlve work ae an
Alterative and Illood-pn lifter, they were
compelled to aurter.
The wife of Samuel Pace, 21 Austin
at* Lowell, Haae., waa, tor a long time,
subject to ectrere headaches, the result
at stomach and llrer disorder*. A per-
feet cure has been effected by Ayer's
Sarsaparilla.
Frank Boberta, 727 Washington at.,
Seaton. sara that he formerly had ter.
sihls headaches, and until he took
Ayer's 8nru|*rUIn. never found an/
medicine that would giro
•_ Permanent Relief.
"Every spring, tor yearn," write*
l.lzxle W. DoVeau, 903 Ftftoenth at.,
Brooklyn, H. Y„ "I hare had intoler.
able kewladkee. I commenced the use
tt Ayer's Sarsaparilla last March, and
have not had a headache since tbet
time."
“i suffered from bendaehe. Indiges
tion, sad debility, and waa hardly able
to drag myself about the hone*,” writes
Mrs. M. >1. Lewis, of A at., Lowell,
Maes. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla has worked
a marvelous change la my caee- 1 now
leil strong end well as ever.”
Jonas Onrman, Esq., of Lyklna, Pa.,
K«:r*T^ , urim.J
caused by Impurity of the blood and
flllouiness. It seemed for days and
weeks that my head would split open.
Nothing relieved me till I took Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. Title medicine baa cured
me completely."
When Mrs. Oenevrn Belanger, ol 24
Bridge at., Springfield, Mass., began to
use Ayer’a Bananerllla, she bed suffered
far some years from a serious affection
at the kidneys. Every Spring, also, eba
was afflicted with headache, leas of
appetite, and indigestion. A friend per*
BUded Mr to use Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
which benefited her wonderfully. Her
health I* now perfect. Martyrs to bead,
ache should try
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
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A FatA*tlc Hery of tbt Hi turn of tbt Mateem-Crow
ing the E'owah - Ftlton’s Chapel ond Old Oam-
nr.B-TTlftt ID uo Burnol City-The
ATiBftr of Blood Ilf* Tie.
Twenty-two year* ago the New Year wot
not calm and serene to any of our folks. For
throe or four month* we had been tempest*
tossed in vain efforts to And a *afo retreat from
the foil Invader, hnt he seemed to be hanker
ing specially after my lovely wife and off
spring, and everywhere we went he came un
til Anally we pot away round behind him and
had a little troubled rest. Our heart* yearned
for the hone we bad been driven from on that
eventful night, and so when we heard that
Borne had been evacuated we determined to
make a Uc Hue for the eternal city.
For sorao week* we bad been hiding out
on the Chsteboocboe and by the
help tf kindred had been able to live and en
joy some anxious tranquility, but the country
waa Infested with other outlaws who claimed
to be soldiers, and oar kindred were kept busy
and excited In hiding what little there waa
left. The family sliver was interred under the
stone hearth In the family reoat. A few aides
of bacon were buried in a box that we rank la
the bottom of a deep gully, and some hams and
sbenlders were bid in tbe old blacksmith shop
on tto river bank.
*We hurled It darkly, at dead of night,
While the Isnlcrn was dimly Irarnlug.”
We excavated a large hole In the hearth of
the ahop-tha place where the bellowshlewsaad
the charcoal waa piled up, and after we put the
meat la place we covered everything aa it was,
and put the old coal basket right on the top
where we found It. .Several other "cairn*"
were established, and all of thorn proved safe
but two. Whether they were robbed by ne
groes or tramps or outlaws waa nevar known.
About tbe close of tbe year we made prepara
tions to go home. We traded a covered
wagon with our goods and chattels and
some meat and meal and a supply
of corn and fodder, and two or three cooking
ntcmrils, and a coffee pot, and some coffee made
of rya and goobers and sweet potatoes parched
and mixed, some sorghum syrup, a puppy dog,
and a gun or two well loaded, and n few other
G lmltive trk-ks, and felt amazing rich that wo
d so much to begin the world with—so much
that others did not have.
Our oldest boy waa then about fifteen, and
bad sente and self-reliance like a man, for be
had born with me In the army in Vlrgtnia,und
had been bumped around smartly, and waa
used to trouble. Bo we started him
and onr faithful friend Tip with
the covered wagon and team, anil
we followed after In a one-horse rockaway.
There were only seven children then and none
to spare. The weather was cold and the roads
in an awfhl condition, for they had not been
worked In a year or two, and we had to out our
way around the Allien trees and patch up the
little bridges und make baste slowly, but we
were going home and that inspired us to en
counter everything. Wa got along pretty well
tbe first day and night, but on tho second day,
aa we neared the Ktowah river, we struck that
desolate and deserted country known as Bher-
man’s belt—that same Sherman “who
waa so careless almut lire.”
Htedc’a bridge waa ahead of us aud wan mil to
be the only one left The ferries were all
abandoned and the boats goue, so we pressed
forward to the bridge, and as we mounted the
hill that overlooked It wo were surprised to see
our boy and Tip and some ether refugees car
rying plank from aa outhouse to the bridge.
The floor was gone and they were contriving a
way to get tho wagons aeross. They picked
up enough plank of one sort or another to lay
two rows lengthways across tho bridgo.a row for
the wheels on each side of the wagon, It was
slow work and perilous work to put the plunk
down on the open sleepers, but they did it, and
then carefully pulled and pushed tho wagons
across. The surging wutors away down among
the rocks tome forty feet below, had no terrors
to exllca going Innie. After getting tho ve
hicles across tho bridge tho horses and mules
were swum across tho river a short dis
tance below, and aU wero safely landed
on tho homotviird side. We wore
soon on our way rejoicing. Tip aud
the older boys went before so that tho anxious
mother could keep In sight of hor ‘baitna’ and
now that wo were in that territory of outlaws
of whom wo linurd terrible accounts, wo all be
gan to look out and listeu for tho trump of
their hones’ hoofs upon the highway. Tho
dark aad dismal night caught us as we uoared
an old shell of a achoolhouno by tho way, and
so wo halted anil took possession and built up
a rousing fire In tho old log-built flrepkrco.
The houso bad been used for anybody's
•table, but we cleaned up a
comer aud scattered the myriads of
fleas aroutul and put them In circulation and
then sptrad down an old quilt and put a bed
upon it ami fixed up tha mother and her babies
pretty well, considering that thin waa war. An
old log stable was near by and it bad a long
old-fashioned feed trough that waa made of
half of a hollow log. We put our stock in the
•table and fed them in ouo end of tho trough
aud our bter boy slept in the other end with hla
gun by nto side. Tip kept up tho flro all
nlgbt und It shone brightly through the big
•racks aad kept tbe stable and the wagon in
eight. Mules and hones were proclou* then-
more preciousthau gold. By daylight Tip waa
rooking breakfast und making our oofiee, and
It did not take long to make our morning tot-
k t Wo had to got some water from a branch
near by and wash our faces, and that was all.
The tun didn't rise that day aad tho mist and
the deads wore thick and heavy. We wero
soon all aboard and expected to reach Rome
and bom# by night. Tha rood waa hilly and
rough aad grew almost imp taxable aa wo got
into tho dark chocolato tends of Bartow.
By noen the rain logon to fall and auon
clou pud to a sleet. By and by wo paasod
Felton's chattel and then (>« station, whore
tbe depot bud Wn burned, and tbe air woo
odoriferous with rarouae* of dead homes. It
waa a horrible sight. Wa took tbe Itewvlllo
road, und found nothing loft of that beautiful
Iowa—nothing but loaooomo chim
neys and the tottering wills of
tho colleges and brick iuau>ions that
had not long before bosn tho happy homes aud
tbe ornaments of a prosperous aud cultured
village. All the day long wo had looked and
longed to mo aome living thing—a rmums boy,a
nogrts a dog, a hog, a Uni -anything to break
the spell of otter desolation. Then: was noth
ing animate except tho buaxanla that now aad
thou took their heavy flight from aome carcass
by the way. There was aanlly a house left —
aoas that were occupied. No cattle or sheep,
no rooster to crow, or dog to hark.
Night-dark night—overtook us five miles
from Boor, aad those fora miles are a horror
tome bow. I think 1 grow older that night by
a year at least, perhaps Avo, Tha road could
not bo aeon, and aome of the gullies wero four-
fob But'lip and our boy never faltered nor
wilted. Fometimea, when tho team seemed
reluctant, they would step aud ouo go ahead
aud explore and then try It again.
Fences are sometimes a g'immtrin<
guide in tho darks ass, bat
there wore no fonceo. Wu had not soon one a'I
the day. Wearily aud anxiously wo nn vo!
along, etrcollng ovary msnmol tehrtak <!owj
or bo camixed and then ah, theu, what world
tbe mother aud child run do in this piuWs
•term of sleet. When we rosebud the suburbs
of town tho mute team same ran in up agate*
a fallen trio, and on eiptetiug then won
amml In tha way, for It was an abandoned
cams and tho trees hid been rnt down for In-
word. It took as an hour to turn round and
dud another route. It seemed
to am then that vro spent half a
night right there hunting for a way. B it at
text wu get into tho town-tbe town where
street lamps used to burn am! a ttemtnl w«t-
oaawUghte were la the wiaiows of happy
homo*. Nowall was dark cud lonesome and
aa aitent bs the By ton uVto'k we were
la front efa kinsman* house, nad a glimmer
ing Ufht shone through the car
ta find-window lattice. Oh. htppy use-
a eat—Mowed rvi»ft I actually
f< t weak from tbe reastian that followed from
Ho lorg and intents anxiety. I knocked
etgcrty at lb# door and a wfcoVoterm said
“Who is that, aud wbat do you want/” It was
acme moments before I could convince him that
I wa* not an outlaw or a robber, and it took
him sometime to uulock and unhar bis door.
There was bat a handful of people In the
deviated town ami they lived in greater appre
hension than when the federal* were there.
The outlaws and deserters from both armies
were perusing Jibe country und pillagiog and
robbing for wbat little there was left. They
lihd killed poor Ombtrg a short while before
because he dared to intercede ami remonstrate
against their brutality to old father Quinn. I
must pause to aay that Nicolas Omberg waa a
brave and noble-hearted roan. Borne never bad
a better citizen. Hit wife was already dead,
and now his little children were left
orphans in tbe wont of all
times, and tbera was no avenger of blood.
Those children In some way nrvived tbe groat
calamity, and have prospered, and are respect
ed in tho land. Those mate outlaws killed old
man Pryor white his boys were in the army,
and when John returned, he. In some way, got
their names and haunts, and panned them.
Wherever ho found one he killed him without
warning. He went from Georgia to Tozaa on
hla desperate minion, and uover stopped or
rested until be had exterminated all but two.
Ho was the avenger of blood.
No wonder that tho doon were locked and
barred, und the lights kept dimly burning.
War te horrible enough, but the absence of all
tew und all restraint is worse, for the weak
und defenceless are then at the mercy of tbe
strong. Of course, we found our dwelling sacked
and gutted of Its furniture. We left it full and
found it a skeleton; Indeed, tho whole town
wss a skeleton. A good portion bad been
destroyed by tbe very able man
who was so careless about Are, and
what waa left waa empty. Even tho churches
were empty—not a pew nor u aeat left. My
own house had been used us headquarters and
the telegraph wire waa still hanging in the par
lor. There wa* not u paling nor a plank around
the premise*. There was a new stable about
sixty feet long fur tbe horses of tbe general and
hi* staff, and tbe troughs were made of the pews
of tho churches.
We moved into our liouso and called It homo.
We borrowed some beds and bedding and a chair
or two from kind nabort and settled down. I
had some confederate moaey, but it wouldn’t
buy much. I gave three thousand dollars fora
chunk of a cow, the only one I could hear of
that was for sale hi tho coonty. 1 brought ten
bushels of rorn down the river and kept it hid
cat from the s roots and outlaws, but they got
half of it, anyhow. We lived through the win
ter—a hard winter—and I reckon wc could do
It again, hut we don’t want to, and are now
thankfblforthe comforts of life and the securi
ty that cornea from peace and well-regulated
lawn Bill Anr.
Vo Yob Waal a Guu? Mr. W. U. W. Barnett,
of Rich Hill, fl. C., subscribed to The Coshtitution
during December and got a gun os his Christmas
present. Head in your subscription and a few new
one* and you may get a gun a* n Now Year's pres
ent. vec announcement ebon here.
A BAP, POL11 WOMAN.
She |m aa Daring as a Mala Vs*perado aad
Makes Light of Marder.
Sn.VKBCifY, N. M., December SO—When
Pusan Warfield was young her parents movod
to Nevada from Wales. There tho slendor girl
became tbe herolno of the camp, and was wooed
snd won. She was a daring horsewoman and
n deadly shot. Sho married Thomas D. Iteper,
in 1K70. There wero hostile Indians there
abouts in those days. On one of their raids hor
brother wa< shot and her husband wounded
Husan strapped the sufferers to a horse, killed
two Indians, and then carried her chargos to
anlace of safety. Accordinp|t({the traditions of
that section,Su»an and Thomas separated not
long afterward and she went to California with
a gallant scout, and later returned. Tho pair
were accused of stealing jewelry and other
articles, and she waa tried several times for
stealing cdttlc, but wasalways acquitted.
Once when she and her compndre wero flee
ing from a deputy shcriflfher escort whs wound
ed. She gave him her horse, which w.vt tho
test, and held the deputy at bay with a revol
ver wliilo the wounded ruin escaped. For a
while sho wss tho n**ocinte of Colonel Robert
Payne, who wns engaged in horso stealing in
the Humboldt Valley. From Elko ahn went
to Colorado, and tbero owned a stago lino bo-
twren Com jus and San Antonio, after having
lived in Puoblo under the numo of Huun
Stone. In 18N2 sho married Jack Yonkers, of
Independence, Arkansas, und moved to Rir
Arriba ronhtv, New Mexico. Noxt sho kept a
saloon at Wallace. From thcro tho fair start
ed toll.incolu county. Ku route they campod in
a cabin. Tretty soou a yellow flag was hung
out, and nobody vontured near. After a cou
ple of weeks she left there saying that Yonk s
era had died of smallpox, and sho hud dug h *
grave and buried him.
8I!K KILLS IIKll LOVRR.
But she did not go alone, for ono Robort
Black sccma to hava concluded to leave kb
form and go with her to ldnooln county.
After s*>louring there a while with hor sons,
who hau proceeded her from Colorado, Mrs.
Yonkera went to Socorro, accompanied by
Black, and began keeping a bearding house.
Black was a boarder, and kept a saloon until
tbe sheriff took possession of it. About that
time—In Augurt, 1H84—Black went home ono
Saturday night and waa beard angrily demand
ing his money. She called in the city marshal,
had tha angry, intoxicated man taken away,
and said if he returned sho would kill him.
She would not answer to a protest made by
Black about being turned out of hit bourn
Next day Black waa .heard making the asms
demand grout hla money being returned
Then Mrs. Yonksra went down town, bought
a pistol, hired a colored man to go to
another place after cartridges, and returned
borne. Noon after two shots were fired in
quick succcesioa, sho at unco emerged from
the bouse and went to tho sheriff's office and
surrendered hciself, saying sho had shot Black
in iwlf-defcnsc. She waa taken before a justice
of the peace, but waa discharged on the plea of
•elf defense.
She thru went to Dona Ana ami married a
man named Dawson. Frank iteodo killed
this husband, and again Susan was alone,
ABRsamco roa murdke.
White tbe trial waa in program, Mrs. Yonkera
wet at Las Oncea as a witness against the da-
feudant, when she waa arrested and takcu to
tbe Socorro Jail on account of an Indictment
for killing Robert Black, found against her by
a graud Jury before wham her son, William
Iteper' bad voluntarily appeared. It waa
claimed that this Indictment waa brought and
the arm! made to prevent her testifying
against Goode, she being the pried pal witness
In that case.
When the case waa railed here this week the
spectators were surprised to And tbe defend-
entagrey hairrd whmanof 45 years and not
one who appeared to be dissolute. From her
appearance she waa evidently used to to a life
of rough battling with the world; atom look-
ng. tall,rather slender, with the hond of a man,
•df-poacasa). respectable looking, bat un
attractive. Daring tbe proceedings sho fre
quently placed her haadkervheif to her eyes,
end when testifying a few tears wet her check.
Directly afterward, however, when another
witness was on the stand, she indulged in an
inaudible snicker behind the kcrcheif when an
amusing remark was mad*
The theory of theprowratten has been from
the start that there waa a conspiracy to get
tie meaty and property of tbe deceased, and
that defondant saw her opportunity and mar-
dr red kim when there were no eye witness**.
The Jury after a little debate rendered a ver
dict of “net guilty, w
Lemon Slot Drops.
Dr. H. Moaunr.-Dear Sir: I have suffered
for Ave yean witha severe eettffc and lung
trouble. I aaw year ad vertteemeat of Lemon
Hot Drop* and procured a small 35 cent bottle;
havitg tried every rough eyrnp and towage
that 1 could hear of with bat little boaeflt; I
ted m all faith In it. To my rarpriae, 1 de
rived benefit from tha Am dose. My cough toft
nr, also the ton new of my tongs, by the use of
four *n-all bettlee only. Myeuagh was so ae-
vase aa to psodneo heeserrhagea. at the time I
legan to eee it, aad tho relief was ae grant that
I stall cv«v feci gratefoi |o yea.
Mte bt Sims.
New 4 Orange street. Atlanta, Go.
Fold by druggists. 25 cent* per SdUto. Fro-
|W>vd by IF. faexlcy, If. D., Atlanta, Ota.
BETSY AND THE GALS.
EATING A SNOW MAN WITH SUGAR
ANDCREAM.
A PUcoartc cn Cbrlatmee sad the Chrtotma* Treo-
Ueux Oo— • 8topples - BS# VUil* tb* B f Store* ,
CD wsitehkll street end Bee* tbe Peepte
Cone end do TDroogh tbe City.
The sun ris out from over the tops of the
high mountings back of our houae, and shined
bright and warm all over the valley, and
melted the snow. It run down from tbe trees
in long Icicles big around as my wrist and
clear as glass, but they melted and drapt off,
and now it’s all gone ’oept Uttlo patches here
and tbar betwixt tbe big rocks, whar the sun
don’t And it. The snow man the chUlun
made in the back yard stood a long
time atter bis head and arms was gone,
and mought er been thai tel yit
If they hadn’t eat him with sugar and cream,
I tell you the snow made sugar and milk bop
at our houae, and pap be was ae bud about 11 aa
Aunt Mahaly's boys and Mias Gooden’s chU
lun.
We all had a power of fun while it tested,
but I'm sorter glad its aU gone,
so as to gin ns a chance to clean
np. Maw the lowed If th*e snow lasted much
longer they wouldn’t have to have no funeral
over us, we’d all be burled in dirt and grease.
We dono scoured it all up now the blck’rynnts
and walnuts and goobers and popcorn and
taterpceUns and the churnin’ of milk that spilt
on tbe floor, and the dog tracks and all; and it
looks nice and clean like spring of the year,
and me and Cousin Pink dressed off the pic
tures with holly and mistletoe for Christmas,
and it don’t look like the same louse.
Holly grows powerful plentiful on our
spring branch ana all np and down the creek.
Wo diked off the school house with it.
too, and strung up pop corn all
over it, hi festoons all around the
walls and sot the Christmas tree in the middle
of tlie floor, and Cap Dewbonry he waa old
Santa Claus aud tbe chlUun never found out
who he was.
Mo'and Cousin Pink and the Roberson gals
and Trcasy Ann Turutlno waa 'plntod to buy
tbe present* for the tree. A right smart chance
of money had l>ecn rlz. and some of ’em lowed:
“For the land sake don’t let them galai git
off with all that money, we wont never hoar
tell of the gals nor the money no more.”
That night when Buddy and Bill Johnson
got hack from Anniston, the gals
was all at our bouse and we
was all in a frolic a talkln and a
plnnnin about gwine to town next day, when
the boys they lowed a cheap scumloii train was
a gwine to Atlanty, and why’nt you gals go up
thar, says they, you can git thiugs so much
^The list one of the gals clapt ther hinds and
said “Less go!”
Cousin Pink she si* and sot intosingln’:
“Chxis'ma-s come* but wun-t a year, Let ever’
nigger have hi* »ber.”
And u> we all went—and when we got thar
it was a rainln. Columbiana Roberson she
lowed, “Pm so glad its a rainln; it wont be so
crowded and we’ll hev a better chance to trado
and git tho wnth of our money.” It pcarod
like ever’bcdy else hod the same notion,
they all turned out They say
rain don't set Atlanty folks lack no time,
Nliop|iin' all the time is a big thing in Atlanty.
but if you want to see bees In a hivo, or flies In
a empty lasses barrel, go In them big stores on
White ball a few days ’fore Christmas and watch
the folks come and go.
From the looks of the crowd yon wouldn't
think they hail left anybody at home—even to
the cook. Black and white is all mixed up to
gether and some of tho niggers is dn sued up to
lino it's hard to tell whichcr from tot her.
All the whites Is out—you seo tho old man,
the old ’oman and tho last one of tho Chilian,
down to the baby in its little wuggin. and
the nigger a shovln it along gacin at evcr'thing
and tendin toover’thing else but her own bns-
Inera.
Rich folks, poor folks, high folk*, low folks,
all out a buyin for Chris'rona.
It waa ao crowded Itkop me and Cousin Pink
and our gang a twistin and a turnin sideways
all the time to let folks pass, and wnnst In tho
10c store 1 thought I’d nover git out; I was
jammed right an between two groat fat women,
ary ono would mako two of me. Ono was
gwine out and ’tother comin in, aud the crowd
behind both of ’em pushin’em together tighter
atid tighter agin mo. “Ouch.” says 1 as I tried
to squecso out to ono side, but thar was a
dumpy little man’s shoulder shovln right agin
me. then I twisted around ’tother aide and a
thick lip nigger met me with n snuff brash in
her month, blowed her breath in my face, and
axed: “Is dis yer do Npriso sto?”
“No; its the flvoand ten cent-store,” somebody
answered. “I’d give two tenoenses to git outer
here,” takl the nigger, and ahoved hor way
through to the door. I wanted to second the
motion, bnt I wasn’t in a fix to make no sorter
motion. Them two women hod mo in a vise.
They say when you git In a tight place the
best way Is to easo out, bnt I wasn’t easy and
couldn’t ease out. I looked np at ’em and, says
1, in » pitiful tone, “I’d be ranch oblocge to
you ’unaif yen’d lot me pass.’* They both
toughed nnfeolin’ like and ahoved 'up a little
closter to mo. “Which way do yon want to
“Airy way.’* says I, “I ain’t
got” says o
pertlckler.
. AU/ ITIJi •D/n A, A n.Kl i
“1 waa a aimin’ to gU not so as
ketch up with my folks, but
1 ain’t no ways pertlckler howl I’m plum
willin’ to go airy way jtot so I git out from be
twixt you two. Yon may not believe it, hnt
you are bardaclously a mashin of me to death.”
They ant into toughin’and a shakin’, and the
atoro they laughed tbe more they shack, and
the more they shark the tighter they squex
me. “I hope this won’t tost all day,'* says I
ketcbla’ of my breath short, and them fat
women laughed mora’a ever. “Oune on, Bet
sy,” said Columbiana. “When?” says I.
“Right now,” aaya she; “tother* is dono went
into Rich's and said for you to come on.”
“When?** say* I. “Right now,” aaya she;
"Hhty're a waitin'.” “Go on,” says I, “and ax
'em if tomorrow will do,” says I'Tor I don’t see
no chance to git thar today.” “I can't go,”
says she, “for 1 don’t know the way.”
“A thing of this sort can’t In reason test al
ways,” says I, and the women tonghod ttttcn to
die. Tbe mirry of aome folks to the pleasure
of toUtcrs, 1 thought to myself. After while
tbe crowd scattered a little towanto the door,
and them two women—I know In reason they
waa sorry to do it—bnt they turned mo loom.
Tha last I seed of ’em they was stiU a laughin’
and a shakin'. I thought abont the boys and
the frog. I bopped ont quick, and me and
Columbiana Roberson elbowed onr way into
Rich's. She hadn't never been nowhar before
in her life, and the was plum wild.
“Wbat makes 'em call this Riche*?*’ says she.
“Is it kaae he’s so rich?” And
she wanted to know: “Is things
at High's higherin any whar else, what nt*k«e
’em call it High's?”
“Why,” rays Cousin Pink, “you might aa
well ax if that tooth doctor aerom the street to
a brown man becauso his name to Brown, or if
a man is ohlegeto be green because his name to
Greene. Jim White, for instance, is the
blackest nigger on Mr. Nimpeon’e place. That
shoe store over tbar belongs to a man name
Blark, and he to white as you or me.”
We seen a heap of fine dresses. I beam a
gecd 'oman say the nicest folks didn't dike oat
in the llnvst clothes to go shoppin’. Onr gang
all bid on the best we had—hot
I never raid nothin', and I know
in reason tho thought we had lots better at
Vt paid for they frock, aad didn't
have nothin' fitten to eat aft hens.
Ever body pearad to bs a tryia* to make
ther money go aa far as it would. I watched
tha crowd and listened aft 'em talk aad it
feueded about this way: '’Oh! I've got ao much
to buy and ao many to boy for, and eo many to
please I don’t know what to do first toy brain
is nearly addled and I'm eo tired now my foal
ache. I've bought things for nearly all of my
child tea, baft what's treahUa* am bow Is to
tied rowethiug for little Saute and Eddie. Pew
dons already neat se mash moavy, and 1 can’t
I«I cheap things fat fthnm ehiUan^ harems
“Ana SO H IS, HBJS VVUWU x •*— -t
the ones that gits tbe finest presents. Jtot
then a kind old man slept up to the counter
and bought some fianuel and domestic, ana
told the clerk to scud it to a poor sick woman
and not let her know a ho sent it.
Tbe clerk said, “That man tojWS he alnt
able to do that, but the Lord will bless hum }
“But there is one thing I can soy for Atlanta,
said he; “the rich folk* her© give more to the
loot than any place I know of.” “Have you
been waited on?” said he, and showed us to
whar they keep all sorts and sUcs
of handkerchers, and I
give five cento for a red bordered hnnkercher
and tarn to tother one and say: Alnt tnat
pretty? I'm going to give tt to Mary; she
won’t know bnt what it coat 50c.’ .And tother
UWJO nrvuur, »uu «« "
a five <*ftt bankcrcber.’ !Hhen * you could er
bought me for a nickle.”
Another woman rays: “Well, they are plenty
good enough for chillun to nso up and Jjso--
mine don’t nse no other aort; and I don t pay
over 10c for a toy for one of am, and they are
lust as well satisfied as if it cost a
dollar. But, tows, it would in
sult some chillun in this town to give em
a ten cent toy, or a five cent hankerchcr, they
won’t look at nothin’ that cost lem than a dol
lar.” A gray headed old num said, It s a pitv
when chillun gits old enough to know Jhe dif
ference twix a dollar and a dime. My little
gran’son, two year old, will throw down a dol
lar any tins for a nickel—a nickel la bigger n
anything else to him. When I waa a boy I
waa prouder of a corn stalk horse thau I was of
a pair of match bays after I waa grown. "Come
on, Betsy,” rays Columbiana, “I’m feared wo U
git lost from onr folks.” And we perused
around ever wbar, to Chftmberlin A Johnson a,
and Kccly's, aud Ryau’s and Dorongbtyi,
and Urcthcrton'f. and McConnell A James •»
and McBride'* chany »tore, and when we got
in tbar Cousin I'ink and Columbiana was pine
blank like hones in a burnin’ stable. I thought
wc wouldn’t never git ’em out.
Columbiana she was plum’ speechless, tel I
axed tho price of a flowerdy cup ami wiser,
and when they said ten dollan sho 'poared to
wake up, and looked up sorter skeerod like,
and raid, “Lessgo.” .. _
Wc bought all our things reasonable aud
mado a little money go a long ways, and as old
Miss Frcshoura says, “I lay our Christmas tree
looked as nice as airn in town.”
Betsy Hamilton.
Mr. G. 8. Willingham, of O'Xeal's Stills,
Ga., got three subscribers to Tux Constitution In
December, and 960 was the Christmas present wc
sent him. Get up a dub during January, and you
will have the same chance In our “New Year’s
Box.” •
POLITICAL G08811*.
WtsniKUTON, January 1.—[Special.]—
The retirement of Mr. Morrison
from congress will leave the
tariff reformers in the house without a leader.
Mr. Morrison haa held that position by an un
disputed title ever since Speaker Kerr placed
him at the head of the ways and moans com
mittee in the forty-fourth congress. Speaker
Carlisle mado hla fame by two speeches on tbe
tariff, and they won for h:m the gavol of
the house. Aud Mr. Ckrlislo will
go back Into tho speaker’s chair. 4Ir. Hewitt
will bo mayor of New Yoric. Mr. Tncker
will be down in Virginia. There will not be a
man on tbe floor of the house who has ever
figured conspicuously as a low tarill* apostlo.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, stands next in
the line of promotion; but he la a free trader
of the Frank Hurd type, a much more extreme
tariff cutter than either Mr. Carlisle or Mr.
Morrison. Mr. Cox, of New York, aspires to
tho big chairroanaLIp. Ho but never taken
any considerable part in tariff discussions.
His friends think he will 1m) pat at
the head of tho next ways nud means commit
tee, and that he will be able to formatoto a bUl
for the revision of tho tariff which will com
mand a solid democratic support. Mr. Breck
inridge, of Kcutucky, au ardent tariff reformer,
has also been mentioned for this chairmanship,
bnt Kentucky can hardly expect troth tho
speakership and tho chief chairmanship of
Inc house .Mr.Carliatc lias little hope that In tbo
few remaining weeks of this session anything
rmi be dono with the tariff. Ho realizes that
tho cause of
REAL TARIFF REFORM
has suffered by reason of the bungling efforts
which have l>cen mado in its name
during tho past four years, and is
extremely anxious that this question shall bo
Judiciously handled in the next congress.
Wamiixoton, January 1.—The Star this
evening rays: “Lust night Governor Oglosby,
of Illinois, who came here to attend the
ftraeral of the late Scuotor Logau, in conversa
tion with several leading cittecns of that state,
declared, most positively and unequivocally,
that bo would not bo a candidate for tho rest
in the senate mado vacant by General Logan's
death. Ho reiterated bis formerly expressed
Intention of retiring to private life at the end
of bis term as governor.
THE NKW YORK SKNATORSIIIF.
Tbo approaching senatorial election in Now
York to tbo subject of much comment hero.
Senator Miller and Congremman Utoeook are
both at bone industriously working up their
chance*. The tight between Levi F. Morton
and Miller has grown very bitter, and Hit-
cock’s friends expert to see him profit by their
clash. Tbe preliminary canvomcs have been
completed, aud show that neither of the three
candidates ha* the forty-eight vote* required
out of the ninety-four republican senators and
assemblymen to elect. Senator Miller is tho
declared first choice of ten nenfitors and
twenty-two assemblymen; thirty-t wo assembly •
men and two senators favor tho Hon.
Levi P. Morton, and twelve assemblymen and
one senator are counted for Congressman His*
cock. There remain eight assemblymen and
two senators who£o preference haa been kept
to thtmaelvea. According to present appear
ances, tho three candidates will go into the
canms with about tbe strength named. and a
choice for several ballots looks highly improb
able. Keprestatatlve Hlsoock will unques
tionably bold enough votes to prevent an elec
tion for tome time, and It is certain that as a
tost revolt Senator Miller's friends would go
tolidly to Hlsoock rather than see Morton
elected. Tho only ktrougly marked fea
ture in the situation to tbe in
tense hostility between Senator Miller
and es-Benator Platt. It gives tho key to the
whole situation and will determine the out
come; for although Mr. Morton's friends recog
nize that this to bis teat chance, and that if he
fails in his thitd cnnvsm for tbe senatonhlp
be must retire freer politics, still they would
go to Hkceck if that seemed the only waving
of preventing his election.
Governor Robinson, of Maamehnaetts, baa
formally withdrawn from tho Maaaaehnaetts
arnatonhlp contest, aad It haa narrowed to a
fight between Senator Dawes end Congressman
Long, with the chances in favor ef the old
mom-back.
Minneafoi.tr, December 90.—Mayor Ames
said to a Journal reporter today:
“I certainly wiM contest the gubernatorial
election. If 1 can get my case into the eopremo
coort. 1 gums I can. I ahall take the oath as
governor of Minnesota on Tncaday next. On
Monday, 1 shall go to St. Paul and wftnem the
official count, and will afterwards be sworn
into office. My first step will be to make ap
plication to the supreme court for a quo
warranto, which will compel McGill to show by
wbat right be lays claim to the chair, and a
count wul then be demanded.
Wa»BHN>Ton, January 1.—[Special.]—tx*
CVngrearanan Frank Hard to here in gny spirit*.
He raja tbe report that he mean* to leave To
ledo and go to New York to ran for coafteas is
a canard. “I am In for thirwar,” said he today,
“and in it I mean te stay to the end. I shall
live and die In Ohio” a
“FulvorlaatheLand, whitever yon
"«U Goon the principle ol tho woman matOnf
• fooceVerry pte—wbahweeteaedlt all she dared.
• *ud then *bnt her eyes and put In a handful
‘mere. Rerk your toad until K to line enough and
“then reaver k agate. If roa do net ttriak this
-**tl! pa j, try to ea a strip inraagh the Rdd, tad
-then contra* It with the balaara.”
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