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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 'kr- op. \ v? r''\ v o j '■XfiWv VVt/lvVb QdWv \J 'Ey Sai/ CwVA/ - \AiW/y TttJQC/Wy WxVUQw 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. w'vaiViY^ 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 ———a ?va=s mammmm m av*snM*navmi~n*umn*a*3*MmMamMmmmtmmmmmummtmaumuiamamm—m*ma —— wm i— 1 ■ MencY SavcDi We Sell Goods to Compote With Any House in the Country, qaaA 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