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[ Letter Contiuud
From Editorial Fngo.]
woo’d doubtless bo will ing to accept
t,ha posit'.m, but in static;' an ;.titer
view for publication that, a man muftt
be *'acted fur tfco position who ib not
“com rattled to aervioe peasioHe,” fie
hilt. - hie chsnc-.0, unless ha can
plait* the An grape satisfactory. Any
one ■■.• ho wants to be it commLeionor
of Pensions should avoid a newspaper
reporter. .• Lo 'vonld tbs plague, for
the .ttiiciaiaftaUon has not yet deter
mined upon it i pension policy and
m;-y not until v.-01l along ia the nest
con;-"osEonti Ression. Ia the mean*
time, eilenos ia insisted upon.
We have ILO notable example of
Mr. i;iror,i Smith, deputy commission
er of pensions. No sooner was Oorpor
al Ts/aar bounced and the charge ot
the bureau given him pending the ap
point neat of a r uceessc-r, than the do
,pnly, Smith swelled up with import
ance. no at once, under a mistaken
notion that the administration would
he pleased with the general reversal of
all of Mr. Tanner’s plane, reeinded
several oidcro that had loe promul
gated by the corpora!.
On last Wednesday Secretary
Noble sat upon deputy Smith
with a dull, sickening thud and he
lias u©t been hoard to utter a sound
since, I!is indiscretion, together
with the fact that he had his own
pension re-rated during the whole
sale crab by the pension office
clique of clerks, will doubtless
cause his removal. In the tender
and expressive language of the
street Mr. Smith has been “100
fresh/’
The sheep who wait until their
Filler goes through the gap in the
* nee are not such foils as they
i-vok. If Corporal Tanner had wait
( and to see what his leader intended
to do, lie would be ia the pension
< . ice yet, and if Mr. Smith had not
blindly started in tor himself ha
would not be so chop-fallen this
evening.
Frank G. Carpenter, the well
’ known newspaper correspondent,
has returned from his trip round
the world and settled down to the
stmson’s grind. Mr. Carpenter left
.a September last tor Japan and
went thereon to all the oriental
countries. He hnd with him a
olioiraph outfit, a type writer
and Lis wile to operate the type
writer. The amount ot work he
■ up-plied to a syndicate during the
h ip and the amount he brings back
iro tremendous. I firmly believe
that Mr. Carpenter would contract
;!o write a history of the moon in
t k irty days. He would, doubtless,
and i\v on his imagination for his
facts, but die supply of “copy”
would be rnexhaustable.
A U preparations for the cesci kyq
of Knighfs Templar are being ear
ned on the most extensive scale,
fbe final arrangements are being
] .. -footed and all will be in readi
nt v in good time. Additional noti
fications from commanders that
have not heretofore signified their
•V-hv lobe present at the con
ch ve are being received daily, but
ik fear ©f exhausting the accomma
dC ioas of the city is feared by the
cc nimi'ltee of arrangements.
Women Jugglers of India.
I saw two women jugglers at
Jeypore, writes Frank G. Carpen
ter. T buy we re bright, irrtel lige n t
looking girls, ne of whom appear
ed almost old enough fo La thsmo
ther of tiie other. They did many
wonderful tilings, one of which was
mixing up sand in wafer and then
putting tho hand into the discolor
ed fluid, they brought ahandfal ot
sand, vrhich they filtered through
their fingers as Iry as before it went
in. The youngest ef thesa girls
was, perhaps fifteen. She was fall,
well - formed and fine-looking. She
had. bracelets on her arras and on
her feet, and c-u her eyas vers as
beautiful as those of a grmelF; one
cf her tDck.n vas the lifting of a
heavy chair by her eye-lids, the
thought of which almost makes my
oyt-f sere. The chair was a heavy
which belonged to
the room in which I was staying.
She lied two strong strings to the
top of this and affixed the ends of
these strings to her eyes by little
round cups, each about tho size of
a nickel. These fitted over the
eyeballs and under the ]ids, and
she bout; over while they were so
fastened. Raising herself, she pull
ed up the chair with these strings
with the muscles of her eyelids
and carried it from onesile of the
room to the other. It was a horri
ble sight, and as she took the met
al cups from her eyes they filled
with water and she almost sank to
the floor. I told her the trick was
disgusting, and Hint she ought nev
er to try it again. Still for all this
aad the rest of the show these girls
wore well satisfied with two rupees
or about 70 cants.
Secrets of Dresses,
Fancy a woman going about in
her carriage with' two men on lh
box, a team of blooded horses in
harness, a crest on the blinkers and
not enough money in her purse fo
pay lor making a morning dress.
A wealthy poor woman—the irony
of it! And yet the New York mod
isle declared to a World reporter
that there are plenty ol them in
society.
“Only a week,” she said, “I m&dj
a lac® toilet for a customer and
what do you think Bha paid me
with? A snak®bracelet! lihejew
el I know must have cost S2OO,
which more than covered the bill,
but I didn’t want it; I pretorred to
be paid in cash and told her so.
Then she took from her hand a
small diamond clustering ring and
begged m© te receipt the biil. I
was obliged to do so, as she is f.u
old customer. Rich? The world
thinks so. She wears beautiful
clothes, always comes in a coupe,
and I know Bhe has a maid, for 1
have seen her.
“I onee mad© a wedding dress
for a fashionable young lady rvho
agreed beforehand to give me five
rings in lieu of the money. The
jewels were all engagement rings
that had been received from dis
carded fcweethearts and which she
never would be permitted to wear
as the wife of her accepted lover.
We had an understanding that she
should have the privilege of paying
the amount due, with interest, and
getting back the rings, about which
she had a woman’s sentiment, well,
I kept the jewels two years and
cleared SBO on the;; -Mo.
“About fen months ./ye a lady
came fo me and loft an order for
three toilets. I had never done any
work for lief, but sho was well re
commended and I folt sure she v/r.s
all right. Well, Jo you knew when
I sent home the ,goods she came
.back with ths bill herself an i told
me she could not p; y if, as L-.r hus
band, in a fit of jealously, had stopp
®d her allowance. Tier jewels had
been pawned for SIOO, but were
worth $1,200, she thought. Would
' take the iickals, redeem them and
hold th case for a year? This was a
most astounding form of settle
ment. I referred it to my attorney,
who paid the money on the loan
and brought me back a leather casa
containing an asKortrasnt of rings and
bracelets and a set of ear-rings. That
was last April, and I haven’t seen or
heard or her since.
“No, I rarely iosa anything. YVo
don’t have bad debts, as tailors do.
Women, as a class, aro honest, I
have been swindle! by ad vent lira jims,
but my regular customers always pay.
“There lives at the Windsor Hotel
a wealthy widow who has bean a source
of annoyance to every dressmaker she
has had any dealings with. The first
time I ai&de her dress I ent it Lome
with a bill, whinh she deliberately dis
counted, item after iiera, sending me a
check for a third less than the amount
due. Ou investigation I found that
6ba had pursued this method with oth
er modistes, so I bottled up my indig
nation and waited fer anoihat older, ii
came in duo course of time. The ma
terial was her own. I made it up and
charged the balance clue on the first
account and politely with held fieii'-ory
uritil the whole amount was paid. Tae
woman is abundantly able to pay fer ev
erything she orders, and is ia every
other particu’ar a most delightful per
son, but she has a mania for discount
ing her drees-making and millinery
bills that amounts to positive dishon
esty.
“One customer I had was the wife
of aa eld miser, who promptly paid
her bills, bat ho never allowed her
any pocket money. At her order the
bills were made out in pencil and she
would ink them and add as much to
ihe different figures as she dared. The
collector f jund no difficulty in getting
a check from the husband, and the ad
diuonal sum oyar the original debt we
gave to lhe moneyless wile of the mil
lionaire. A dressmaker doesn’t need
to be in business very long kefo’O res
izing that ‘all that glitters is not
gold’”
It is a common belief that tha baav
er uses its tail as a trowel to plaster
the mud on tha walls of it* house anti
dam. Capt. Hardy studied the ha : •
its of the animal in Nova Scotia some
tinas ago, and came to the conuluaioa
that this opinion vras not well found
ed.
Tha vulgar opinion that the broad
tail ot the beaver was used to plaster
down the mad in its work, has long
dinee been pronounced erroneous. Its
real use is evidently to counterpoise,
by sn action against the water in an
upward direction, the tendency to sink
head foremost, when propelling iteel
through the water by its powerful and
webbed hind feet, and at the seme
time supporting the load of mud or
stones in its forepaw under tha chin.
Our Indians laughed at the idea of
the- tro.vsi story. That, and the asser
tion that tha tail is likewise used as a
rebickle for materials, may bs consid
ered as exploded notions.
G. W. Hood & Soa,
HARMONY GROVE, GA.
DEALERS IN
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Also find Line of Hardware, Tinwaie, Crockery and G'asjrare, Family
Groceries, Flour, Meats, Etc.
Our stool: ia Complete and we are fully prepared to satisfy our Cus
tomers in respect to styles ard Qua’ities.
lyrorylhieg sold for prices far below any over made in this or any other
MARKET IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. Bmu Hail and **o
us before purchasing eieowhere. The oldest Firm in this section. id
Harmony Grove Academy,
Male And Female*
HARMONY GROVE GA,
J. 11. Walker, A. B . Principal, Chas. M. Walker, A. 8., Assistant.
Miss Annie ilurat, Second Assistant. Mrs. L McSmiih, filur-. -s Teacher.
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And Continues Thirty.-Eight Weeks; Two Weeks seat!mi Cfirfitmas.
RATES OF TUITION:
First Grade—Writing, Orthography, Reading and Arithmetic $1.50
Second Grade. Embraces same topics as first grade, and Gram
mar, Geography and Composition - 00
Third Grade. Languages, Higher Mathematics, Rhetoric, Chorn:.*-
try, Physics, Etc. 2 50
Music, 0.00
Incidental Fees, rail Term 20 cents, spring Terra, 30 cents.
All patrons allowed full benefit ot Common School Fund.
Board can be Lad in the host familes at eight to twelve dodats per month.
Harmony Grove bas, by taxation, built a largo and eommouions brick
building. The school will be thoroughly equipped with patent c ... black
boards, comfortable recitation seats, maps, globes, apparatus, and every used
orn improvement for successful teaching. This school, with a ia!; corps of
good teachers, with comfortable building and modern improvements commend
itself to the parents of Harmony Grove and surrounding country.
We most-respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens of Banks County.
For lurtber information address J. 11. WALKER, Harmony Grove, oa.
Consult Your interests by Buying your
DRUGS AND MEDICINES
from
Wade And Sledge,
ATHENS, ' C- GEORGIA.
We sell at the lowest possible price, and gurantce every article to be abso
lutely Pure. Orders by Mail will receive prompt attention. Remember the
name and place. —WADE & SLEDGE, Druggists and Pharmacists.
Between Hodgson Bros., and Talmadge Bros,, Clayton Street. 16
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We Sell Goods to Compote With Any House in the Country,
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Merchants Can Buy Bjank Boohs, School Books, Paper Bags, Wrapping
Paper, Twine and Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y. Pi ice*
MCGREGOR & ROBERTSON
(Burke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORI-V