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:! Old * .1 VVorry.
\.> doubt much is gained on the
sc or 41 of longevity from inheritance.
Ancestors who lmv® attained long
Me for many generations, hand
down the gilt do their successors.
But while this may ha the greatest
fortune which an ancestor can
leave, it may be dissipated like any
other inheritance. No one can
count upon life long without area-j
sonable conformity to the laws of
health. There area few prodigies
that survive,-who have never ob
served any laws. For on 9 dissi- j
pa ted person who reaches extreme |
old age, there are a thousand who
die in the prime of their years, j
Physiologists have argued, with a
grant force that the duration of
human life should be a hundred
years. But it is far short ot it. So
ITw round up the century that ev
ery instance attracts special atten
tion. The dream of perpetual youth
is constantly repeated. Dr. Holmes
at eighty is as frisky as a kitten,
lie learned the art of carrying bur
dens lightly. Most people do not
wear out. They worry themselves
out of life. They are always old
because they have carried so much
dead weight. Nil doubt the oulli
ration ot a youthful feeling is one
of the arts of prolonging life; when
people, through the indulgence of
a morbid feeding, get the impres
sion that they are too. old for his
world, it is a pretty sure indication
lii.it they are loosing their grip; the
grace and beauty of age is to keep
in touch with the world, to know
bow its pulse beats from day today
and to be alive to all human inter
ims and sympathies. Age in such
a life never wholly crowds out the
i myuney of youth. The spring
and elasticity survive. In most in
stances the long life has been a
good life. The world has been bet
tor that the individaul has lived in
it. lie lias been looking more for
the good than the evil things of the
wo.ld. Grace and beauty have
come to him with the fulness of
years*
hxi u p ptll ii -ii 111.
A Pu i'.u, ri sleeper conductor: Every
body , wants h berth in a sleeper
wants tbo lower 1 erth. 1 have been in
the cmp ov j she company for foar eaa
years, 1 have never yet had au
app.i.aticu for aa vp >er b rtb„ Of
course, tl.- is per berth is not so easy
of am3:? as toe lower, but if you don't
mind e’unibiug to the upper berth yon
wiii at (ice admit, afttr tho night is
over, tirnt it r- tl e mo e eomiortable
of the two. The ventilation is bat let
;,nd you are not so close to the rumb
lin' uni; e. You are m n private than
oc art ia a lower berth, and in e s
of acvichnt you have a chan e of 0 ru
logout or tcp In hot weather the
t o; r bi-rth is cooler than the lower.
The lower berth, as yo’u know, is
r .ids up fro*at the cushioned seats,
which stro of warns material. I have
rtver known a man to fall out of an
tipper berth. I think if the e mpany
would make a difference of a half dol
1 r n favor of the upper berth it
would so ,n He us Uaiiiaud. list i be*
j o v o t o Tollman company naVir
i: ..decs an;/ difference in the chi tgw.—
[Ouwaffo Tribune.
A: welt at the ta >usj.at, aa i yin
i ; e perforae 1 a gcoi action to al
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Electric Lamps for Travolers,
One ot tho latest novelities in
the application of electricity con
sists of an electric reading-lamp,
which is being lifted to the car
riages on tho main line of the
south .astern railway. It is on the
principle of the “put a penny in the
slot” automatic machines. Tho
apparatus is situated immediately
over the passenger’s head and ua
der tho ra •k, and is contained in a
small box live indies by three. The
light is of five candle power, and
is obtained by tho introduction of
a penny at die top of the box, and
by tho subsequent pressure of a
knob, and will last for half an hour,
extinguishing itself at the end of
that time automatically. If the
light be required for an indefinite
periud of a penny every half hour,
wil'-sullMe, The light can be ex
tinguished at any moment by
means of a second button, provid
ed for the purpose. One of the spe
cial features of the invention is
that if the instrument is out of ord
er, the penny is not lost, as it is in
tho present machines. It drops
right through and comes on*, at the
bottom of the box, so that it can be
recovered, and the same result
happens in the case of any coin
other than a penny. Each carri
age is fitted with an acculafor that
supplies the electricity. This in
vention will add greatly to the
comfort of passengers during night
journ e y s.—[ E xchange.
An Odd Kissing Game.
“I found a peculiar custom up at
Sb*pherp*town, W. Ya., where I
spent my v.-cation, ’ 5 said a goutLman
the ether day, “which was a aovf.lt,y
Tub people have what theycall soups
A‘soup 5 is a sort of outdoor piemo.
Each person invited brings a dressed
chicken. The host provides the vegeta-
Lies. The chickens and vegetables are
put into huge kettles, ho 1 ding ten to
twenty gallons, and cooked oyer op< n
fires for several hours until the combi
nation is reduced almost to a jolly.
Pepper and other seasoning are iui.ro
daoeJ. The young f mus stir tbs soup
with long-handled iron spoons, walk
ingaroundtbe kettle aa they snr
When a girl’s spoon cliieks aga nst tl e
spoon of a young man he is bound to
catch t;Q 1 hiss her. As ycu caniin.\-
i .a there ard a good many lively scrim
mages around the kettle. When tue
soup is done it is ladled out into plates
and eaten, and is delicious. The cus
tom is an old one and I was unable to
find i;s ergm. A company of Stone
wall Jackson’s command was reou'.ted
ao md Shepherdstcwn and it still
keep up the origination. It has a re*
u lion every.year and celebrates the oc
casion with a grand ‘soap.’ A Soup’
of that company to lx? gotten up should
be made of stolen chickens, hut the
veterans have had to give up foraging
since the war and no w make a com
prise with necessity by go ng around
in (quads and robbing each other s hen
roost by a prearranged iinderttandiag.”
—[W ashingtoa Post.
New York bis a wi-man locksmith
dhe carries a kit of tools tor doing the
small joos for which It ksmiths ar•
sailed it;. Her husband las a, shop
md they take turns in a trend Kg to tie
calls. Any big piece of work is tuened
over to the man, bat the wife is quite
its expert be is in fitting keys,
uttieg new locks on trunks, putting
;>n window fastenin';, and attending to
he vonntle-fs otler details of house
hold management.
Johnson Mane's Heroes,
The fund for putting of headstones
fo the grave-, of the (Jonf. orate dead
buried on Johnson’s Inland- is not is
c. a in" ; t the rapid rate it onp'nt to
be. Weeks ago the gentlemen in charge
ot the matter appealed h r help throngs
the colums of t.ie Telegraph and asked
that contributions be sfnr to this office.
At first there was a lerdy respond',
hut for the past fi w days the bat ha
been lagging behind.
An old cavalryman walked into tin*
Telegraph office yesterday aid put
down his dollar with a tear giist, ni g
in his eye..
“It recurs that some people are losing
that cherished regard tor the Coaled
etate dead, judging ly the slow con
tvibutioas,” said the cavalryman, “cat
we veterans can nevei forget our txpe
rieeces, and such a call as that r.ppea s
strongly to <*ur hearts aud pocket books
too.
“To think of the va’.iaat fel
lows iying there side by side, without
even a simple headsioue io mark than
resting places, alter What they did foi
iheir Country,
1 simply turn :ny mind back to ttie
if Uienabrauce of one nay,* and tn-at
alone was sulficieut to make mo st r
up and get hero with my dollar
Would it tyere a thousand ins'.ead of
cue single bill. 1 ice! we can’t do too
much for such a cause.“
The list has been growing slowly,
so slowly in fact that ihe committee iu
charge has almost at times tek discour
aged.— [ Macon Telegraph.
Missi Katherine Drexel of Phila-
a convent iu Fitts
burg some weeks ago. Her sisler,
Miss Elizabeth Drexel, prefers to
enler matrimony, and in a month
or so, she will be married to a son
ot the late Gen. Thomas Kirby
Smith. Her lial p sister, Louise,
married Edward Morrell last Jan
uary. Etch one of them is worth
about $5,000,000, and it should be
mentioned to their credit that none
of them put in a bid for a bank
rupt tilled foreigner.
Ex.-Gov. Rufus 11. Bullock has
written a letter in which lie says
that the republican dele it last
month was due to federal i uter
ic rence in sd.ate elections. lie says:
“If Hie republican party is forced
to defend the issue of centralized
power by interfering with the do
mestic affairs of the states, there
will be no possibility of politacai
growth in the south, and ths reac
tion iu the north will make certain
an opposition majority in tho next
congressional election.”
August negroes are catching
the emigation lever, but instead ot
going west or to Mexico, a party
turns up to day who waat to go
back to Atrica. It is stated that a
party ot thirty-one colonists trom
this city have already applied to
Pies. Coppingerot the national or
ganization lor transportation to Li
beria or some convenient point in
Atrica. It this movement is suc
cessful, it is said there >ue others
ready to go.—[Augusta Evening
News.
. A man of aa independent mind
shows his independence by the way
Lo treats old subjects.
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Groceries, Flour, Meats, Etc.
Our stock is Complete and we are fully prepared to a. > cur Cus
tomers in respect to styles and Qualities.
Everything sold for prices fsr below snv ever made in this or v ot; or
MARKET IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. , Besots to tr. :nd see
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HARDWARE And CUTLERY, -
Line of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural, Implements, Etc., can rot
be round in better Quality and Durability, Elsewhere. We also have in stock
a firve line of guns and pistols, and we are the only house in Harmony Qrove
rh ,r pay a Lioehbb to sell Pistols and Cartridges. Cal) and see ns.
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lKmilies must have Castor Oil, Spirits Turpentine, Pills, Mustard and Com
position Powders. Liiiments, Horse and CatTa Powders, Sarsa
paiilla and.other Patent Medicines. Before buying
such supplies, call on Dr. .D. Lockhart at th
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harmony Grove ga,
•T. II WTker, A. 8,. Principal, Chas. TVI. Walker, A. 8., Assistant.
Miss Annie Hurst, Second Assistant. Mrs. L. A. McSmith, Music^Teacher.
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And Continues Thirty-Eight Weeks: Two Weeks A acatioa Christmas.
RATES OF TUITION:
First/xrade 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, Chemis
try, Physics, E.e.
Music, 3.00
Incidental Fees, rail Term 20 cents, spring Term, 30 cents.
All patrons allowed full benefit ot Common School Fund.
Board can be had in the best family at eight to twelve dollars per month.
Harmony Grove has, by taxation, built a large and commodious biiok
buildiD". abe school will be thoroughly equipped with patent desks, black
bos ids, ''comfortable recitation seats, maps, globes, apparatus, and eyery mi and
■in improvement for successful teaching. This' school, with a full corps u :
:'ood teachers, with comfortable building and modern improvemen.a cojumeud
itself to the parents of Harmony Grove sod surrounding country.
We most respectfully solicit the pationag® of the citizens of Banks (Aunty.
For further information address J. 11. WALKER, Harmony Grove, oa.