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• !•; 1)I tOKTAL COMMENT..
llrtn .soli is making preparation
for a voyage of recreation. i lis tour
has wt yet been located,
Tiio Road Gongivts meets iw
Atlanta on the 22iul of May. Ranks
county should h'n p’o sented.
Miss Rosa Elizabeth Cleveland,
k -lfc'! <d' the ex-president, visited
reialives and friends in Sava nail a
few days ago. She had spent part
of the winter in Florida, where she
has an orange orchard, and was on
her way home to New York,
Carter Colquitt, the only son of
Senator died at Liica, N,
on tho 16th inst. IT® was just
entering into manhood, the only
child of loving parents, wlnose lives
were wrapped up is Ins. llis ill
ness and death was caused from tho
excessive smoki g of cigarettes.
Mrs. Gush.ngton—Why, Jullia,
what makes you look so down
hearted?
Julia —My servant girl has left
me, and my poor old no! her, who
is just barely recovering from an
attack of rheaumatism,is compell
ed to do all the house work.
Citizen (to (Jude K i-tn-) —So ilia*
is the ii ouisu you're goiog to marry?
uncle Rastas — Yes sah, dat am do
laey, She ym:.t much to Igolc at,
Citizen Y\TI, no, not very ranch.
uncle Itastus—But she hab got foil
ty sebeu dolivli.s in de bsr>k, bo6s, an’
phe bah promised to give me de powah
ob attorney• ■reum iA; i:>
A general plan has been adopt
ed for the Georgia Confederate Ve
terans Home, and a board of direc
tors chosen. It is generally con
ceded that there will be no oppo
sition to Atlanta as the location for
the home. It will be so arranged
that it will be open to the wires
and dependent children of the ve
terans as well as for the veterans
themselves 1 .
Foreman of the jury—V. ell,
hnv, r much damages do you think
the young man is entitled to?
First juryman—As I understand
it, he ain’t suing for blighted af
fections, or anything of that sort,
oh? Just merely wants to get his
money back that he expended for
presents, ice cream and the like?
Second juryman—That’s all.
First juryman—Well, I ain’t in
favor of giving him a cent. If the
f,!ti he Lai didn’t amount to more
than his presents, that his lookout,
I courted t hat girl myself once.
Harrison kn we how to use rough
language when necessary Below
is a synopsis ol his tone to au Ala
bama delegation:
‘•Mr. Mosley, you have been
], re very frequently and I know
ail about you. You meed not put
vourselt to any inconvenience to
on me again upon the business
v. deli brought you here 10-dav. I
on Id be in a very sorry condition,
: ■ Iced, it I had to resort to you as
hr medium through which to dis
,arise official positions in Alabama.
Good morning.”
After looking around sheepishly
! :ko a boy who had received an im
x oectecl box on the ears, and smii
• n _' dckly smile, Mosel v retired
u itli his crowd following v. ry close
ir >on Ins heels.
liurriso.'i expresses a dasiru to
have young men ill the ollicos—
whether or not they are avowed
republicans or of party illuence.
From this. it. would seem. Harrison
thinks his party (tying out in prin
ciple, or too corrupted to further
give assurance of another republi
can president. The following is his
ideas of a southern policy: The
president’s policy with relation to
southern appointments has been
Made clear l southern office seek
ers here, and there is not likely un
availing discontent, lie has declar
ed his intention to select none but
men who have the respect of their
neighbors, and who are intelligent
and (capable. He wants to recog
nize young men and progressive
men, who can do fho party good,
and will not act merely as leeches
for the party because of what they
can get out of it. Any distinguish
ed and capable man, who is repub
lican in principle, whether so by
avowal or not, may be selected for
appointment. The idea is to get
rid of self-constituted leaders who
bring the party into disrepute, and
to let down all barriers that keep
white protectionists out,
Scientitle Road Building,
The movement in Georgia and
other southern states to secure a
better system of public roads, prom
ises gratifying results.
It is proposed by Vanderbilt uni
versify, at Nashville, to oiler in its
engineering department a course of
free instruction in scientific road
building t one principal or depu
ty highway official from each coun
ty in Tennessee. The course of irf
struclion will consist of lectures
and work on the economical loca
tion of highways, the repairs of old
roads, methods of drainage, cul
verts, bridges, etc. The road offi
cials, after their course of study
will go home to apply their scientif
ic knowledge to their highways.
This will be a good thing for
Tennessee, and doubtless other
states will be stimulated by her
example to a greater degree of well
directed energy in this vitally im
portant matter. Here in Georgia
we are about to have a road con
gress, and it is to be hoped that out
of its deliberations will beevolvod
some practical plan of improving
i>ur country roads that can he pat in
operation in every comity. Sooner or
la f er Geoigia will get there.—["Con
stitution.
Leirer,
[From the Journal’s Correspondent.J
Wa#hington, April 1(3,158S -Though
spring has won tt lam victory ove; w.n
ter, cowslips and trailing arbutus are
out upon the ci y’s waste places and
the buds upon the trees are bursting
into leaves. Some fiovrrrs greet, the
passer-oy with suggestive fragrance of
green fields end hinh, blue skies, ani
ike day dreams that “in part are pro
pbocies and in part are longings wild
1 and vain ’’ It tbo practical in divide
al has carefully erased from his memo
ry the records of yonth, tbse eplcndid
days make hi mi thirsty with visions of
the near time when mint shall bo fra
gs ant in the glass and elaict and ice
be a solace. On down tows streets,
colored urchins who tre frightfully
di:’v deepde the iacteat-c in real estate
v a lies, now offer arbutus at Qv'cents
a bunch i.i tho morning and two tor
tivo in the ev; n n:, turnishing n strik
ing ilks'rat'sn that everything com *
to him who waits
The grounds o: the executive ninu
-ini ara nearly as tureen as in midsum
mer, and a white nipped nurse gn
bringing little Ben Meft.ee, Pie*idei
Harrison's jrand-ehild, for a rotnj
adds to the familial ly rural scene, i.
hoht of chiblrexi have played on the
White House iawss every season for
years. A number of the ch Idren have
born nr inkers of the executive house
hold. Little Tuad Lincoln used to
r II hoops down the bill when the
hand flayed on summer af ernoone,
ad strut abent in Lis niiniatuie uni
form ot a lieutenant, playing at war,
with a si rill, piping order to 1 ■
i ueginary troops. Then came Andrew
Johnton, jr., a boy of twelve, wiih a
propensity ur stuffing himself on ev
ory imaginable edible and lolling
about undir the trees. Then Jers
Grant, to tiot with other children, af
ter ho had ridden home from schorl ou
his Shetland pony. Then the damme
Fannie and Srott Hayer, good chil
dren who always kept their olothe
clean and their noses duly wiped.
Then the Gaifpld children, with base
ball and bicycle, ruling from March to
midsummer in high glee, when thtir
brief reign closed with the aw ful trag
edy of their father's death. Here
strolled Allan Arthur, tall and unde
veloped, and hie sister Nellie, who pos
sessed her father’s mind and her moth
er’s face, the heri age denied her broth
er.
Than the ghosts of the White House
number not a few childish taces, and
:q one with a good memory a score ot
these familiar spirits come up even at
noontime on the fairest day of all the
spring.
the only false no'e in the overture
of spring is afforded by the presence of
the office eeoker. From the contem
plation of nature, Pres. Harrison turns
to grapple with political delegations
and to wrestle with office seekers. The
sunlight that slraya into tbo corridors
of lire departments, falls aslant of of
fice seekers by the d> zni, seated on
the sofas, occupying the chairs, lean
ing against column*, lulling in win
dows, ranged along the wall, waiting,
waiting The variety of dress is : s
great as the variety of faces aad ex
pression .
A little, thin, sensitive, bloodless,
old man, with an ancient silk hat and
a White tie, sits next a burly, red faced
a ert politician, who firmly trusts iu
his ability to “do the thing upfright.”
Across from the couple a Texas re
publican is seated, black moustache
and goatee, aad broad-briraed, slouch
hat, of course, listening with horror to
a comrade who is telling him that the
Department of justice has actually had
the audacity to refuse to appoint a cer
tain one of the Texas brethren simply
because ho has kil led half a dozen men
when it has bean plainly nhowa to the
satis-artion of Texas* juries that ho al
ways acted ia self defense. Not a few
figures in the crowd, denominated by
irreverent messengers fa the depart
ments, as “tbs statuary,” are those of
preachers, who seek to go abroad.
The diets net from ocean to oceai by
the Nicaragua Canal is 169.8 miles;
length of canal, 28.8 miles; length of
lake, river and basin navigation, 141
miles; length of summit level, 152
miioe; elevation c.f summit level above
sea, HO feet; number of locks, 6.
The office-.-eekere from seorgia con
tmns to fiovd the wli.ts house.
Buy Your Shoes
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES
FROM
Wade And Sledge,
ATHENS, . - GEORGIA.
We sell at the lowest possible price, and gurantee every article to be abso
lutely Pure. Orders by Mail will receive prompt attention. Remember tho
name and place.—-WADE & SLEDGE, Druggists and Pharmacists.
Between Ilodgson Bros., and Talmadge Bros,, Clayton Street. 16
112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Pcstoffice, Athens, Georgia.
Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors.
*" O'WJr’Ai'
Ljf ’ Yiol'rs, end all kind- o! rnnsi.-:;; i;>-t :u-
TtnentH on hand and for s&le at greatly to-
Nv ’ .G'. dneed prioes for cash, or on the install
; *&-. If*i' gffj meat. Special rates to churches and
jjj|W schools. Picture frames on band or ma le
to order at short not ce. A fall and com
tfl stock of Artist s’ Material tor draw
and painting iu oil and water colon-.
D. P. Haselton, Thos. H. Dozier.
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Merchants Can Buy Blank Books, School Booko, Paper Bag?, "Wrapping
Paper, Twine and Stationery of Every Description From us at N. Y, Prices
MCGREGOR & ROBERTSON
(Burke’s Old Stand,) ATHENS, GEORGIA
Ls u* n i\s y* VI
eldU sJi B U Uisi sJsai&S) Bl
Stock Larger Than Ever!
Stoves! Stoves!
—Stoves Bought by Car-Loads!—
AncLPrices That are Bound to "3?^
L.- vi_.\.. .'
Attract Jones’ Standa’d Tinware,
PooCng, Guttering and Jot-Work, Call o; Write for Prices.
E s E. Jones, 209 B’oad St. AHTENS