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stmhii hnuiiiiis In complete form, by the best au thors—Novelists, Poets, Historians and General writers, almost given away. Printed from new type on good paper. OUR UNEQUALED OFFER. all new subscibers to The Chattooga News (paying one year in advance) and to all old subscri bers paying their account to date and one year in advance, we will send frkk, any 20 books in the fol lewing list. We will also sell any of the books at the following prices : Any 3 books for lOcts, 8 for 25 cts, 1 18 for 50 cts, or any 40 books for | fl. Sent by mail, postpaid, to any address on receipt of price. Ad- i dress The News, Summerville, Ga. I ' » J*ek »r All Tr»«e*. Br CTu*uh Rlat* wbndnrful trial* es ea *rtl*®a wfrn d!4n t stick to bi* F»11 es eomioU attaseUons, f*aay laci-lenM of V,rsl ) a4 Aln ’ rtcB ' WuUUag ®4t enter •• m leepet M. Lord Berresford. By tbe" Duchess." W* «h*rmla< *o«Uty rtory la ene of the beet frbtn the •f th* pepsUr anther. It to spirited tn act toe, end full of fftteatlea* to illustrate high lift and gtr* ftgnaiKy t* ttt® narrative. Th* work of a getUn*. 83. Cl o teds and Sunshine. By Charles Beaded A happily told ilorf of far* Hft, faH of pretty serai stature® •nd pastoral *a«t4acnM. Au Ingpalou* pUt, amelUng norm eteraeter* with psuselen* and tnoffree /«** Uh* " egty •Ui AU it au. ea* of the most iaKr**tfn< aod rwdn* Mbrta «f th* IHuatrioa* author. * • M. The Hannled Henee. By Sir BL Bnlir<w Lytton. Thl* 1* an* es th* *T*al anther'* analnteat ooneeft® Ml happily told *torica. Weird and ihrfiXag threaghoht. road* it with b*U*<i of d*Ughu j j 81. John Milton. When, Why. and What he Wrote, by H. A. Talae Lib* all «f tel* brilliant author® Work*, th* presentene is a model of analyaia and *ompr***ed tnforatation. It 1* full of aurprlaci, and one can get a bet ter Mea of Milton, hi* time*, Myto and work* from it* page* than from any other »our*e. | ! Ml Dr. Marigold. By Charles Dickens. One Sbtaknai' erlapeat and moat atnualng *ketehea of a quaint id enrlou* eharnotor. Reivlabia, laughable, and a (uro •ntldote to dull earc. Mvery community need* Ita " Dr. ■arlgohl,” and all lov*rs tak* kindly to hl* prescription*. 76 The Ku in li tab ridge Mystery. By Charlo* Rte ad e Oh* of those ingontoudy d«vl*ed and tbrllllngly teld which i»maxtalUed Read®. Th* plot tv a word of art. Concealment la the artist's game, till after winding through a forest of mvsterlea, the fearful oioud hurst* en the reader Uke an Alpine aralanch* or ocean Water •pout. 76 Allan QuittertupJn ; the latest And boat Borel from tbe pea of tee tegular H. RUier Haggard. IQ *Llt atocy es Afrieo »4»mliun, the author aurpaase* the glewing doMrlptlve eiger. at ar Ung situation and thrilling •ettvlty teat made " She" auoh a revelation in fiction. No Ke eneltlng *eaaaeee haa ever oom* te the surface In Mah Hteratare and It mm share Ur pop uteri if of hU MS •Sher water. Part L r-O. Allan Quatornnin. Part IX 'jLuC I i Jp. Alloa Quatrrakutau Bart ILL, X Allan Quatermain. Part XV. N. The TDrinl of Pickwick. B/ C!iart«l Ltakew* Thl* « teo fire* Um* the ectlre story of the tedlant riokwiek'a adventure* with the Imprusionabl* Mr*i ■anlnll haa appeared tai eoaneoted form. It abound* t* fßtcroa* /ItaMßtam* end ■afrfrt-proreklng tooidoaU. n Duty Unto Drath, or Lifesnd WorkOt Bev Qnorge C. Haddock, Apostle of Prohibition in the Nerthw'M*. By hl* John A. Haddock. The murder •f thl* ervat pulpH and plait,rm orator and *loau*M tewpvraaae eltainplua »*nt a thrill es horror through the Aorta vest aa 1 entire ewnnlrv. Tho wort I* en ably WriMfia r*riow *f the tuiui and bi* career, ui<l apfrtela* g aaootnat.f his ******* la a Ho*. Parti. . <3. Daty Unto Dcntb, etc. Port IL 4 CO Tlio Coming Knee, or New Utopia By Er X. Bulwrr Lytton. A thrllßag bl*tory of Hft among an ral pvoplo fannl la tho centre of the earth, whero the Bca-i'ie* ar* Areadiau, lite farm perfect, the thought pure B&d laotlva fra*. A ch arming book ; light, checrftil. Part 1. Tl. The Coiulti£ Jlkkutr, or Now Utopuk Part II ® BHilling mid Butterfly. By Dfrvid Chriß. Be Murray. A Spicily told itory of hnmnn oharacter, yeg not a Wt ev<jcdiawn. Bulldogs and But lor files ace all •round as. « Sho; or Adventures in the Cares of Kor. By D. Rider Haggard. Thl* enlque and popular *t<»ry is a new dopnrturo in the field of fiction. Ila production ha* tarrl'-d the aathor Into fame os a writer and artist. Th® elg >r aad variety of tho book make It especially cnarming; In narrative Imparts a pleasont thrill as it glide* through wonderful »**ni-« and rta.-tllng trv«al*» Part I. ( <B. Nhc< or Advaihireft. etx Fart IL i i ) 87. She | or Adycntwßß, eta. Part ILL I ! Hhc i or Admturee, rto. Tart IV. (M. Cnlderon tho < *»nrtler. By Rlr H BuT. wer Lytle* Oae es Ik* beet es the great author** hi*tori® Mor|es. Full *f graphic tenatkaa*, quick action, and rar* Infomatlea. (U. Stabbed in the Dnrlc. By B. Lrnn Llnlon A strong, stirring story of the eld Neapolitan days, by an antbor who Invent® ingenious plots and handle! intrleaio situation* Uko a master. Fart I. 63 otnbbo*l In tho Dark. Part IL 61. Tho Cricket on tho Hcnrth. By Charloi tHekcus Ona of the sweetest and tender**! things eve* written by Dicken*. AM fove it Jer Its beauty and pathoft •ad II will be preserved and *csd leag after some of hit Most imaginative wote* have been for pel ten. flu. The I.rvdy of Lyons. By Rlr E. Bultvsr Lytton. This!* the lady a* aeen la th® *clebrated t>lay of M>« saai* aaneo. It rank* a* the praMiest picture or devo- Con and ilnoeeeet «xpre»**oa es the " tender passion “ eve* placed en the stag*. Jnlln nnd Her H omrs*. By Dsvid (Thrift. M* Murray. This author 1* always Ineenloa* and racy. In •' Jalla and Her Romeo "he 1* partUnlarly chiwmlag. Th® reader 1* h»4d u the last in a syek which make* him regret fb* end •< tee *»*e; 4 W Doom! Au Atlantic EpioHdc. By Justin B. MeCartev. A powerful and thrilling story es lift on art Anserloan ifher. The situations are natural, the plot In tecs*, th* sketching exquisite. The hand es a master la wtetble from tho " all aboard " at Liverpool, te tee terrlbln »aa&te® at New Tote. IT. William Mhaks>earrt How. When, Why and What ho wrote. Ry Il k Taino. Tnero never Ba* beea e*tapre«e®d Ins* *e*h brief space so nmeh abo el •be Immortal "Bard of Aven" a* in tel* work of th® bftlUanl Freaeh anther. It wIU epen th* *ye* es tho read*® I® • theaatattd teiag* he n«vrr dreamed es 18. ltte*M«4R«. PriArw' of AbruinlA. By Dr. •steed Jehnsem. One of those frnmortal writing* by • *>uwr MM at n* eaa afford not te read. It 1* a fftery es the human hear* la he happlrs* meeds, ewtreel testate, nad nteieet aspiration*. Part L ; M. Inatelte. I’rtawo ©f Abyssinia. Part IL 64. Money. By Blr E. Bulwy Lytton. WhCk. a*«r retrt Sh ekb peer* • " MersbaiM «f Venice" teeeld read ■nlwer's ” Money." Cndw tee sbov* 6tle yea Me th® Wtate* ted her* tee Jdagle es tit* ftte R Pe» W ofllngton. Bf •’harles TUado. This teamrplete by tee great n*veli*t ' l( M « <>/ those axqnlsit® ■eesalm with which gxeat mind* ornament their work. Not to kaew Fes Woffington 1* net to teoew Read*. Fart L M M. Pr« WoHlngton. Part IL •1. Mia® Toosey’s Mission, and Twaddle. Two •f thoe* rarely eoocMvtM and sharauingly told storle* of hem* and which refresh and in*|Jro. They ought te be read by every young person who has the world to fbco. O P..1 <R* Vlrrln In. By P’Ornadln de St’ Flerrs Thl* elegant household *lM*t« renew* It* freshness •nd beauty with *v**g reading. It is the " story that a*v*r die*, told in th* purest kanguag* aad t*u<*r*sl styl®. Far i 1. i 60. Paul and Virginia. Part IT. .68. Cardlnnl Richelieu. By Blr R. Bulwer Lytton. The character es the wily, ambitious and brilliant French nrlmate, a* sketched by Bulwer la hl* immortal (lay es Cardinal Richelieu, 1* the one which has booom® istorle. It 1* a maates-piece * dramatic composition. • <7. Enoch Arden, and other gmna. By Alfred FMiaysoa. Tor purity of stylo, genuine sweetness and bopshlqg patbo*. the great poet has never surpassed hl* FBaoch Arden.** In thl* poem of human affection he I* at bl* beet, and one oAnuot know the poevlaureate without Baewing It. M. Romen and Jnlleff. By William Black. An MtqeUi'e stetoh of twe foolish lovers, who mingle tender pen Um en t wtte the ludicrous In away to make everybody ■mH*. Thl* aateor * vwclo* ars always racy and full ®f MHag petet®. FRAZER GREASE f BEST IN THE WORLD. IU wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually outlasting two boxes of any other brand. Free from Animal Oils. garGET THE GENUINE. FOR SALE BY DEALERS GENERALLY. A PERSON ! 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THE HOMELESS, God help the homeless* wanderers on the earth 1 For whom no roof inclines its sheltering eaves; No fireside glows; no voice of love or mirth Calls to the garden flowers, the hillside sheaves. ’Tis theirs to see the gleam in cottage panes; ’ The happy groups about the hearth at eve; < While they must cross the moors through chilling ( rains, And hide in hut or hedge as twilight wanes. Without the wind for all their woes to grie re. 1 Sad hearts! the wayside and the wilderness I Arc near to heaven os any fire lit room! j Despairing Hagar angels stoop to bless; God talks with Moses in the desert gloom; And life is but n path to his repose, Whether we walk through meads of Joy and lov< 1 Or in lone wastes where every tempest blows; 1 Some peerless morn we reach our journey's close, j And lo! the rapture of the home above! f —Edna Dean Proctor. 1 THE TWO COMMANDERS. j Grant and Lee nt Appomattox—A Strik* Ing Contrast. The contraat between the two comman ders was very striking, and could not , fail to attract marked attention, as they sat ten feet apart facing each other. ; General Grant, then nearly 43 years of age, was 5 feot 8 inches in height, with shoulders slightly stooped. His hair and full beard were a nut brown, without a trace of gray in them. He had on a single breasted blouse, made of dark blue ! flannel, unbuttoned in front, and show ing a waistcoat underneath. He wore an ordinary pair of top boots, with liia trousers inside, and was without spurs. ■ Tho boots and portion of his clothes were ! spattered with mud. He had had on a pair of thread gloves, of a dark yellow color, which he had taken off on entering i i the room. His folt "sugar loaf” stiff ~ ! brimmed hat was thrown on the table beside him. He had no sword, and a ! pair of shoulder straps was all there was I about him to designate his rank. In fact, aside from these, 14s uniform wa* that of a private soldier. Loo, on the other hand, was fully six feet in height, and quite erect for one of hia age, for ho was Grant's senior by I sixteen years. His hair and full beard were a silver gray and quite thick, ox- 1 I cept that the hair had become a littlo [ ( thin in front. He wore a now uniform i of Confederate gray, buttoned up to the throat, and at his side he carried a long sword of exceedingly fine workmanship, the hilt studded with jewels. It was said to be the sword which had been pre sented to him by tho state of Virginia. His top boots were comparatively new, and seemed to have on tnein some orna mental stitching of red silk. Like his uniform, they were singularly clean and ! but little travel stained. On the boots i were handsome spurs with large rowels. A felt hat, which in color matched pretty closely that of his uniform, and a pair of long buckskin gauntlets lay beside him ou the table. We asked Col. Marshal afterward how it was that both he and bis chief wore such fine toggery and looked so much as if they had just turned out to go to I church, wb.ile with ussour outward garb scarcely rose to tho dignity eveij of tho . "shabby genteel.” Ho enlightened us ! regarding the contrast by explaining tKSt ' when their headquarters wagons had been pressed so closely by our cavalry a few days before, and it was found they | would have to destroy nil their baggage j I except tho clothes they carried on their ; backs, each one naturally selected the | newest suit he had, and sought to propl- ! ! tiate tho gods of destruction by a sacri- : | lice of his second best.—Gen. Horace > Porter in Tho Century. First Railway in South America. Though we of the United States have littlo to do with tho Argentine Kepublio i nowadays, the pioneers of tho prosperity of that country were citizens of this. In , 1828 William Wheelwright, of Pennsyl vania, was wrecked on tho Argentine coast, and made his way to a small town called Quilmar, hatless, coatless, bootless, and starving. remained iu the place because ho ?iad no means to pay his passage elsewhere, and forty years later constructed the first railway in South America, from Quilmar to Buenos Ayres. He built the first rail way in Chili also, and is founder of the Pacific Steam Navigation company, whose vessels run twice a week from Liverpool to Panama, through the Strait of Magellan. Both Ghili and the Ar gentine Republic have erected monu ments to the memory of Mr. Wheel wright in their public squares.—Will iam Eleroy Curtis iu Harper’s Magazine. Accldentfi in the Alp®. More accidents happened in the Alps this summer than at any previous season. Out of the twenty-four falls twenty were fatal. In the catastrophe upon the Jung frau six, in that of the Falkniss (callin’ of Chur) three, and in that of Les L®ex (Waadt) two people were killed. Then there were fatal accidents on the Morte ratsch glacier (Granbuendten), the Mole son (Waadt), the Gautrist (Berne), the Saentis (Appenzell), the Leissigergrat (Berne), Kaisereck (Freiburg), Dentdu Corjean (Waadt), Diablerets (Wallis) Scbaechentlial (Uri), with one person killed in each. That makes twenty deaths. Not one guide is among tho killed. The majority of accidents did not occur at places commonly considered dangerous, but upon promenades usually looked upou as uuite safe —Chicago News. THE MIERICAN'S TIMEPIECE. How Particular We All Arc to Have the Correct Time o’Day. “There is probably no other nation on this terrestial glolx),” said a well known Broadway jeweler the other day. as he regulated a gentleman’s timepiece, ‘ that is as proud of correct timekeepers as the Americans. We are taught from bGy- ; hood that the one great ambition of lif« is the possession of a watch. What man is there who has not in his boyhood days saved his pennies for buying a watch and then spent it for fireworks? “No American citizen who loves his country would disgrace it by appearing on the street without a watch suspended to a massive chain with about eight ounces of charms attached thereto. And ' we love to have the correct time, too. A ' watch that will vary one minute a week ' is considered a poor one, and the owner thereof will hie him to the maker and de mand to have it regulated so that it will I i k(N*p exact pace with the sun. “Notwithstanding this desire for cor rectness, we do not particularly care for five or ten minutes’ difference. This is a ! strange assertion to make, yet it is true, j Take a man whose timepiece has not ■ varied twenty seconds a day. lie will . look at it, jab it back in his pocket with an air that indicates his contentment I with the flight of time, and go his way. 1 He has scrutinized the hour and minute hand closely, but when you ask him what the correct time is he will, in ninety cases out of a hundred, look sheepish and say: ‘lt’s just—that is—' and then you will ' see him take out the piece again. And so | it is. The man who is the most portion- ! lar as to the correctness of his timepiece j is invariably the very one who will forget half a second after he has looked whether the minute hand is on the quarter or the j half hour,”—New York Evening Sun. WILD GEESE IN DAKOTA, Grand Annie® of Wild Birds—A Sight t« Delight a Sportsman’s Eyes. For the information and, perhaps, ben efit of sportsmen, I will give a faint de scription of what we are daily witnessing of the grand armies of the strong winged birds whose name heads this letter. Os the variety known further south as wild geese, the “honkers,” as they arc called, from their peculiar cry when on the wing, we see large nuinlx*rfl. A great many of them nest 1111(1 breed about the small lakes in our neighborhood, and people often take the eggs and hatch them under do mestic birds, either geese or hens. Be sides these there are the brant, a smaller, gray goose, and the beautiful snowy geese. Os these last there seems to be no limit to numbers. The air is almost con stantly filled with their notes, and one can scarcely look up at the sky— which is wonderfully wide from these highlands’— without seeing flocks of these magnifi cent birds wheeling across it in one direc tion or another. No mathematics yet invented could enumerate the hosts that havo so far appeared. Instantaneous photography istllo only method by which any truthful representation can be given of their hosts. We rode out the other day to tho lake (Wamnuska, sometimes called Stump lake). The day was one of the mellow, golden, bracing, thoroughly enjoyable days that October sometimes brings even to poor dwellers amid the mists and i damps of the east, but to us she is lavish ;of such treasures during her entire reign. All the day and tho days before—one can i not tell for how long—flocks of geese, in countless numbers, were sailing overhead in ranks and clusters of ranks, some dark and some snowy white, with black tipped wings. They are congregat ing about our beautiful lake, proba bly making preliminary arrangements for their southern flight. The whole blue vault, which showed no cloud, was lined in every direction by ranks of snowy birds. The afternoon sun shone , full upon their brilliant plumage, tinging l it a full golden color, than which no bird , of paradise could be more dazzling, and : the vast numbers on wing of shining gold hued hosts, made one of the finest sights that one can l>ehol<l. I never be fore saw anything to equal it. When we came in full view of the lake, where there are several miles of water in sight, there was another remarkable surprise for us. If the canopy above was full of flying birds, the surface of that long stretch of : glistening water was a hundred times more so. Along the further shore and far out from land there were thousands of geese floating, so close together that one saw no glimmer of water between them. Midway between the snores islands o. geese floated, but appeared, to observers on the high banks, like still, inanimate earth, covered with a fresh fall of snow. Sportsmen were crouching here and there ! behind clumps of bushes, and every now and then a rifle shot echoed along the woodland; but what were a few sporte | men among such multitudes of birds? My neighbor, the postmaster, brought in a half a dozen geese, the result of two or three odd half hours’ sport. Another neighlior took twelve the same day. Ono man shot fourteen within thirty minutes, s The flesh of those birds is excellent, and •in this climate can bo kept a long timo. A party of sportsmen are hero now from I Florida, and will spend a week or more. I Two gentlemen from Boston spent a week hero shooting, and bagged a large num l>er of ducks and several geese. They left for home some weeks ago. Had they remained two weeks their sport would, perhaps, have been more satisfac tory, as the larger birds are far more numerous at this time than a month earlier. As it was, however, these I Boston mon were so well pleased with their trip, and with the opportunities for good shooting, that they left their canoe here for next year’s use. —Harrisburg (Dak.) Letter. Gray Matter of the Brain. “Many jokes are made about the gray matter of the brain,” said Dr. Hammond, “but I will say right here that I have a great respect for the gray matter of the brain. There is no higher organism than that. It is the grandest organ in man, a.nd were I ever to worship anything it would be a portion of the gray matter of the brain. It is well for us to know that the emotions cause more unhappiness and erime than any other function of the brain. Human beings are governed by their emotions, and it is well that they should be, though it is the emotions that wear away tho brain, and not honest in tellectual work. Very few people sulf er from intellectual work, and if my mem ory serves me I do not recollect ever having a mathematician for a patient. “It is not intellectual work tlmt causes nervous dyspepsia, but the emotions, such as anxiety, fear, sorrow and love. I consider that eight hours are sufficient for a man to use his brain, because if he exceeds that time he becomes nervous and fretful, and an exhausted brain is an irritable brain. You may not feel tho evil effects of the stress of brain work at tho time, but you will sooner or later, when it will be too late. The men that work at night with their brains are the ones that expose themselves to danger and death, which will surely come unless the great strain ou the mind is light ened.” The Face of Russia. Tlio face of Russia is like Wisconsin, less the lakes and beautiful streams; northern Michigan, without tho largest pine trees, and New Mexico, with the ab sence of warmth. The pineries arc stunted, the fields covered with wheat— l in harvest during August—and the vil lages are of small wooden buildings, cov ered with straw. Nowhere is there ar chitecture, taste or cleanliness displayed. The advancement of the country may be illustrated in the statement tlmt though Russia is one of the greatest in wheat pro ducing, the cereal is sown broadcast, har vested with the sickle, threshed with the flail, and three-fourths of the work is j done by the women. The forests are in i fested with wolves and other wild ani mals; the fields, when not covered with wheat, are carpeted with Jean-Marie, with a yellow rattle and a plume of blue leaves at the top. Mushrooms and nil the fungi of a cold climate are seen, and one’s bewilderment increases as the slow train goes further and further into th* ! empire.—New York Sun. Stimulant* in Central Africa. As to the liquor question, there is no doubt that many men out here ruin their health by excessive drinking; but I think that many others, chiefly missionaries, ruin theirs by a mistaken and exagger ated abstinence. Stanley recommends two or three ounces of good wine every evening after sunset, and I find that most men who have passed any time on the Congo agree with him. Every one be- • comes more or less anaemic after a short • residence in this climate: and a man who feels himself getting unaccountably weak, with a strong desire for stimu lants, may injure himself by frequent i use of them—and. as a matter of fact. mnny do so on tho lower river, where f liquor is plentiful, A teetotaler, on tho f other hand, will most likely be pros trated by sickness, when the timely use . of a little wine would have kept up his ( strength. As a friend of mine, who has , passed some years out here, puts it, “A cocktail every night liefore dinner, if it ( does not save you altogether from ante- ( mia, will enable you to get through your term of three years, and leave you in , good health at the end; but if you take to drinking, in any quantity, at any hour of the day, you will soon have to clear out of the country if you wish to keep , alive.” The effect of brandy drunk under a hot sun is to cause a burning pain in the region of the liver; and I have seen men who have spent two yean out hero choking and gasping for breath after less than half a wineglaWul of neat brandy taken in tlw middle of the day, —Blackwood’s Magazine. An Anthor’s Predicament. Happening to make a call on a literary friend of mine the other afternoon. I found him sitting in an armchair Ixjfore a wood fire, smoking a cigarette and looking the picture of health. “Yes,” he said in reply to my congratulations on his appearance, “I do feel uncommonly well. I had a long walk this morning: after that a hearty lunch, and now I am in perfect phvsical condition; but the deuce of it is tJiat 1 feel too well. I can’t do my work. I meant to write half a chapter today of my new novel, and I have reached the most tragic, the moat harrowing part of the tale; but how can 1 go on with it when my nerves are all smoothed down, and wlien any thing like mental distress seems to me impossible and ridiculous? I don’t care a cent what becomes of my heroine; whereas Last night, when I was thonaighly tired, ner vous and irritable, I actually wept over her sorrows. ” So saying, he gave a dig at the fire with such a whimsical air of dejection that I laughed consumed!)'. The fact is, however, that the human mind, csjiecially, 1 suspect, the authorial mind, is a very delicate instrument, requiring a great deal of manuscript.—Boston Post. Your Umbrella as You Want It. “In umbrellas,” said the head of a house in that line of business today, “wo have something not only new but start ling. We are no longer comjxdled to put silver handles on umbrellas when the taste of the purchaser runs that way; nor is it necessary for him to havo his name engravtAl on his umbrella. He has but to make his choice, selecting what ever style of handle be detiiree—particu larly in wood—and we will have the silver cast ou the wood, filling every de pression and covering the handle to the snap catch. “In this way,” continued the Tele gram’s informant, “yen may perceive that it i* almost impossible for au um brella to be beyond identification if stolen, because no two knotty or gnarled pi«‘ccs of wood are alike, and the silver coating makes peculiarities more prominent. Such umbrellas range in price from $8 to sls, but I can assure you they are worth the money.”—New York Telegram. History of tho Finger Ring. Os nil the ornaments with which van ity, superstitiop and n flection have decor ated tho human form, few have more curious bits of history Uian tho finger ring. From the earliest times tlw> ring das been a favorite ornament, and tho reasons for tins general preference shown *or it over other articles of jewelry are numerous and cogent. Ornaments whose place is on some portion of the Apparel, or in the hair, must be laid aside with the clothing er head dress; are thus eas ily lost and often not at once missed. Pins, brooches, buckles, clasps, buttons, all sooner or Later become defective in some part, and are liable to escape from an owner unconscious of the defect in the mechanism. Tho links of a necklace in time Income worn, and the article is taken off to be mended; the spring or other fastening of n bracelet is easily broken, and the bracelet vanishes. With regard to ornaments fastened to parts of the savage body, mutilation is necessary, the ear must be bored, the noso be pierced, the cheeks or lijis bo slit, and, even after these surgical oj>erations nro completed, the articles uaed for adorn ment are generally inconvenient, and sometime*, by their weight or construc tion, are extremely painfuL In striking contrast with decoraWoni worn on the clothing, iu the hair, round the neck and arms, or pendant from the ears, iqw and nose, is the finger ring, tlw model of convenience. It is seldom lost, for it need not be taken off*, requires no preparatory mutilation of tho body, is not painful, is always in view, a perpet ual reminder, either of the giver, or of the purpose for which it is worn. The popularity of the ring must, therefore, be in large measure due to it« convenience, and that this good quality was early learned may be inferred from tlie Hebrew tradition, which attributes the invention of this ornament to Tubol-Cain, the “in structor of every artifice in braoa and iron.”—D. I£. McAnally in Popular Sci ence Monthly. Oil oil the Ocean** Ware«. Iu Cid et Terra Is an article iu which are detailed the conclusions of Admiral Cloue based ui>on the British and Ameri can official experiments, aud others non official. Admiral Cloue haa no hesitation in affirming that tho problem appears to him to bo practically solved. Tlio quan tity required to protect a ship during a storm varies from alxxtt t'vo to three quarts j>er hour, dropped frem perforated bags hanging over the sides of tl*a ship in positions varying with the direction of the wind. 'Hie rapidity and extent of the out spreading of the oil are marvelous. The film, by’ ita own outspreadfrig, reduces itself ta a thickness of only one-ninety thousandth of a millimeter—i. e., less than two-and -a-half-mfljiontti part of an inch. This inconoeivnbly thin film re duoee the broken orewted waves and dan gerous “rollere” to unlcoken undula tions that are practically harmless, as as tliey merely lift and roll the vessel without breaking over it. The oils which have been found the most effective are seal, and fish oils. «The hitter are very cleap, their chief present use I being for the dressing of leather. Min ’ oral oils are reported as too light. It is evident from this that the gentlemen en gaged in these oxi>eriments have only tried those wliich are in common use for burning in lamps. There is another series of oils distilled from the same crude ma terial, i. e. from natural petroleum and from shale oils, which are much heavier, ore used for lubricating purposes, may be had of any density from that of the com mon lamp oil to a crude dead oil that sinks in water. —W. Mattieu Williams in j Tho Gentleman’s Magazine. xtent of Experimental Snrgery. I was walking the other day with a young physician, who, after graduating, spent a couple of years attached to the , staff of a big city hospital. This is quite a common practice with our developing doctors, the posts furnishing them with j ample opportunity for experience, and , affording them a living though they gain ne money by them. Ry ecquiintanee in this Instance remarked; "It would make your eyes open to witness the extent to which experimental surgery and medicine are carried in hos pitals. ' Since I have been practising for myself I have often wondered what luck a physician would have who risked such chances as we used to take at the Saw- Your-Leg-Off hospital. The cases are safe enough when they £et into the hands of the older physicians, but the youngsters rarely halt at any experiment, however alarming it may be, if they conceive it to be possible of accomplish ment. That they do not more damage is to be ascribed rather to their patients’ luck than their own credit. I don't mean to say that they are cruellv reck less. They simply look on the hard work of the hospital ns an excuse for accumu lating knowledge and gaining skill, and they work it out on this basis, with only a second thought for the patients them selves. ’' Considering how often charges of need less mutilation and surgical violence have been brought against the hospitals and denied, this testimony from one who has been there ought to be of interest.— Alfred Trumble in New York News. A Delnge of New Flementa. Rapid as has been the increase in the number of supposed elementary sub stances during the last few years, sober scientific men have hardly been prepared forthe addition of more than a dozen new elements to tlso list in a single an nouncement, yet the discovery is refiorted on the authority of Messrs. Kruss and Nilson, Swedish chemists of highest re pute. Their researches have been car ried out upon the nitrates of the rare earths contained in thorite, wohlerite. cerite, fergusonite and euxenite, and have been long and laborious. The spectroscopic evidence presented by these investigations has made the conclusion inevitable Hint didymium consists of not less than nine distinct elements, holmium of seven, erbium of two and samarium of two.—Arkansaw Traveler. A prominent hotel steward in Chicago is said to make a good income by teach ing wealthy but inexperienced epicures the art of dining. OSTRICH FEATHERS IN FASHION. Again Wearing the Pretty Plume* Value of the Trade. “Are ladies again wearing oetricl plumes?” asked a reporter. “Yes,” replied the manufacturer. ‘ Os trich feathers will soon txi ns fashionable among the fair sex as they were a fc* years ago.” When did the fashion drop out?” “The decline in the use of ostrich feath ers began about 1883. and since then the fashion has steadily faded until last year, when scarcely any were used at all. But the revival has begun, and you will soon see the pretty plumes as plenty as over.” “Are the feathers imported in the con dition they an* worn?” “Oh, no; the feathers aro imported in the raw state and prepansi after thej reach here. There are only eight manti factories of ostrich feathers in the United States, and seven are located in this city. The-capital employed aggregates about $1,000,000, and employment Is given to about GOO to 800 persons, 250 to 300 of whom are girls.” “What is the work done by the gills?” “Curling, wiring ami preparing th« feathers. The curling is done by the aid of a peculiar kind of knife made for the purpose, the blade of which is curved. As the work is of a delicate nature—for each feather of the plume has to be worked upon separately—it is necessary that only exjx'rt hands should be em ployed. Carelessness or want of experi «iwe would soon cause heavy losses, for the beauty of plumes is heightened by the evenness of every little feather. It takes about five years for a girl to Income really expert, although many may be come fairly efficient in a shorter time. They earn from $7 to $25 a week, ac cording to their qualification. The dyers, who, of course, are men, earn from sls to $35 per week. Are the feathers of wild ostriches used?” “No, not now’. To get the feathers of a wild bird it h necef-sary to kill him. and were that kept np the species would soon become extinct. Ostriches are now reared on farms in South Africa, where the feathers are collected and sent to this country, via London. When they arrive they look very different from those yon see in the store windows. They are dirty, draggled and discolored, and have to bo gleaned. When first taken from the washing they look as bad as tho&i? on a wet goose. By the process of preparing they become the pretty plumes you see. Long and elegant plumes are prepared singly, while the smaller ones are made into bunches of three, like the emblem of the Prince of Wales. In order to prevent the feathers from breaking it is necessary at times to wire them, and this also requires ex- pertaess, for a broken feather is of little value.” “When did ostrich feathers become fashionable as ornaments for women’s bonnets?” “About ninety yeors ago. They were brought into use by a man named De Pinna, of London. Pnor to that the ladles wore them in dressing the hair for state occasions. They soon became a rage for bonnet trimming, and the de mand for ostrich feathers exceeded the supply^”—New York Mail and Express An Artist Has the Nightmare. An artist of eminence, whose engraved pictures are now to be seen in every print shop window, has the nightmare occasionally, but with him it invariably takes one form. He seems to be awak ened by a sensation of coldness, such as might he caused by the sudden admission of outdoor air, and nt the same times sees a man's hand busy with the window fastening. He slips quietly from his lied, takes up the poker, conceals himself l>o hind the window curtain, hears the fast ening of the window thrust back, and with a sensation of spiteful glee raises his weapon to bring it down with all his force upon the head which he knows will in a minute or two be thrust into his room. The window is slowly and softly raised, and lie is in a quiver of eagerness to deal the vengeful blow. There is a grim silence on his face, a fierce flash in his eye, when. 10l the head appears. But—-horrors o^iorrors’—the artist’s upraised is aj.il 1 and rigid; be cannot strike the, And the face i then turned toward him is one of hideous mockery and scorn, with protruding tongue, the fangs of a wild beast, and the expression of a fiend. And so he remains face to face with this frightful enemy, ut terly helpless, and in a state of ble torture. The effect of nightmare in this form is almost a maddening one, and he can only account for its frequent repeti tion as resulting from an unusually pow erful impression made upon his memory, in conjunction with its curious ally, the imagination, which is, in his case, one of more than usual power.—Cassell’s Satur i day Magazine. Ctattooga Real Estate COMPANY. | 1887. | i /'CT-DO YOU want to sell Real Estate of any kind? Place in our hands and we 1 will advertise if. No sale, no pay, and . then only a small commission. I f'lT’IM) YOU want to buy? Read the i following descriptions of Property we | have for sale, on time to good parties. * Eighty acres, miles front Summer ville; 12 acres open, balance well timber* i ed with White Oak, Hickory, Pine, etc. Good spring on it; good for tanning pur poses. JU mile from church and school. i L 1 Ninety Four acres,about 50 acres open, in good condition. 20 acres first class bottom on Chattooga river. 1 , level, re- mainder broken. Well watered, good dwelling with two tenant houses ami good out houses, orchard of choice peach and apple trees. 6 miles from .Summer ville, IC miles from church and schools. Town property 5 acres in the sub urbs of Summerville. Level; a most’ desirable site for residence; good small dwelling with out houses, well and spring affording an abundance of the best water; good young orchard of choice fruit trees: also a large number of choice grape vines. Eighty acres lying partly within the town of Summerville; 40 acres cleared, remainder well timbered; 25 acres level, balance broken; good clay foundation; in good fix. Fine for farming purposes and also well located for residences; also contains large quantities of iron ore. Town property—3 lots 6(>x120« 2 front ing on Alain street, one fronting on Church street. Level; good wagon ami blacksmith shop on corner lot. Most suitable place in town for business house; also desirable locality fordwell ing. Bost farm in the county for its inches and price. 200 acres; 100 open, other well timbered with pine, oak, walnut, etc., on Chattooga river. 50 acre a first class hot tom; well watered and in every why suitable for stock farm; about % level, the ether rolling; elay foundation and in g«»od fix. Two comfortable small dwell ings, .3 tenant houses, with good out houses: also large quantities of rich iron o”e on portions of it. Eight miles from Summerville. Farm—l 92 acres; 50 acres tine creek bottom. Upland fine for cotton and vhvat, and in high state of cultivation. In every way suitable for stock farm. I’wo good new framed dwellings; free stone water in abundance; churches schools and post office near. Farm—l6o acres; red and gray soil, 20 seres first class branch bottom, 70 acres elearedr welt fenced and in good state of cultivation. Balance heavily timbered. Thousands of fine tan bark; 3 Minings, 1 well, 2 framed houses and 3 tenant houses, all in good fix. Select orchard and vineyard. 8 miles from .Summer ville; 2 miles from postofllea,schools and churches. Town property—4 lots 00x120: 2 front ing on Main street; 2 rear lots, level; good small dwelling, framed, new, 2 good brick chimneys, good garden.patch lite. Also one of tlie most suitable sites for business houses in Summerville Terms easy and exceedingly low price. Farm—l4o acres—red loam and gray soil: 60 acres open,well fenced. Remain der well timbered and well watered. Good 5 room dwelling, with good barn, etc., on LaFayette and Blue Pond road, 1 mile ffom Alpine, Ga. Farm—l4B acres, just across the Ala., line, red and gray soil; well watered, 65 acres open, other covered with finest quality of timber, affording great quan tities of tanbark, inexhaustible lime quarrv; also supposed qualities of other valuable minerals. Good orchard,grapes etc; good 0 room dwelling, tenant house, barns, etc, being near Lookout is suita ble and convenient for stock raising. 1 mile from Menlo, Ga. Farm—l6o acres, red, gray and sandy soil; lino siock farm; well watered; 8b acres cleared, 20 acres first class creek bottom; large quantities of fine timber; good 4room log dwelling,2 tenant houses, stables, etc.. 1 mile from Foster’s Store. Farm of ICX) acres in Floyd county 11 miles from Rome, 2 miles from R. <t I). R. R.; red and gray soil, well watered; S acres cleared'; contains thousand of lino timber,also rich deposits of iron ore Town property, about two acres, in suburbs of Summerville, good small framed dwelling, with two rooms and kitchen; good garden, patches, etc. Farm of IGO acres on Sand mountain, two and a half miles from Kartiih, 65 open and in high state of cultivation, balance heavily timbered. Adapted to growing anything raised in this county especially fruits, etc, good dwelling, 2 tenant houses, out houses, etc. Improve ments new and in good condition; 2 £jood orchards, 2 good springs of free stone water; churches, schools, and postoffice convenient. 28.—Town property 11S Acres on sub urbs of Summerville, level, well fenced * iQd in good state of cultivation, good young orchard apple and poach, good framed six roomed dwelling not quite complete, prettiest location in Summer ville for residences. 29—Town property—lot 4 in block 1G with good well upon it. Healthy ami desirable losuition lor dwelling. 1- 80—For sale or rent, farm of 480 seres' 4 miles from Summerville; 200 acres cleared, 35 acres good creek bottom; well watered, good dwelling, out houses, etc. Will sell all or a portion as desired. 31. Farm 213 acres miles from Summerville, Ga.; 50 acres rod mulatto balance gray. 125 cleared and well fenced, in high state of cultivation, splendid framed house with six rooms, 5 good tenant houses, and good barns and other out houses; healthv..location; contains large deposits of iron ores, with large quantities of various and fine timbers. 32. Farm 26 acres, well improved, first-class bottom on Chattooga river, 1 mile from Summerville; good 4-room house, stables, etc; well, orchard, Ac. 33. Farm 80 acres 2 miles from Sum merville; red mulatto soil, level, 60 acres open; well fenced and in high state of cultivation, balance heavily timbered good substantial improvements; 5-room house, barn, stables, orchard etc. 34. For sale or sent, splendid tanvard ted directly from a spring; all necessary fixtures and tools for tanning; good twd story tan shop; about ten acres good level land 6 acres cleared. Very cheap and terms easy. 35. Farm, 160 acres, gray and red mu latto soil; 50 acres open, balance heavily timbered. Good dwelling, tenant house stables, well, etc. Cheap, and on ox ceedingly easy terms. 36. Farm, 500 acres, red mulatto and gray soil; 125 open and in high state of cultivation, balance heavily timbtued; about 60 acres first-class bottom on Chat tooga river, well watered and in every way suitable to stock raising. Four good dwelling with good and convenient barns out- houses, etc. Supposed to con tain large deposits of iron and other val uable minerals. 3 miles from Summer ville, Ga. 37. Town property, 12,’i lots, 4 Jots 60x150, balance 50x120, all in one body; in the healthiest and most desirable part of Summerville. Can be divided into several beautiful building sites. Good two-story building, six rooms, neatly and comfortly finished; a good barn and good water. Price low and terms easy. 38. -One half interest in a corn grist mill on Teloga creek, 6 miles from Sum merville, Ga., 7 1-2 foot fall, giving an average of 12 horse power. 3 acres of land, good mill and gin house, good four room dwelling and out houses, in good neighborhood, convenient to schools, cct. Price low and terms easy. Farm 160 acres, 30 acres open, the remainder covered with finest timber the county affords, consisting of pine and all varieties of oak,especially moun tain oak; good tenant house, stable, etc; good well; also contains largo deposits of the richest quality of magnetic iron ore. 4 miles from Summerville: conve nient to churches and schools. 28 acres, mostly level, just outside the corporate limits of Summerville; 17 onen anil in high state of cultivation, other well timbered. Red and gray soil; good spring. Fine farming land and well adapted to fruit raising, etc. Best vineyard in the county, 4,000 select bearing vines, in good condition; also first class orchard of select apple and peach. I mile east of Trion Factory. 80 acres, 40 open and well fenced,balance well timbered; about half level; all suit able for agricultural purposes, and es pecially for fruit growing. Good spring and fine freestone well. 2 good small houses. Also contains large deposits of rich iron ore. Cheapest farm North Ga. Farm—loo jrrrrs, mostly broken, IS cleared, balance well timbered. Gray and red soil; good five-room framed dwelling with outhouses. School and churches convenient. Fa»m- 200 acres, 100 open; well fenced and in good state of cultivation. Well watered. 35 acres fine creek bottoin, red and gray soil, good dwelling, 4 rooms, barn, fish-pond, orchard, etc. Situated cast of Taylor’s Ridge. Farm—B2 acres, 70 open, well fenced, and in high state of cultivation; 60 fine creek bottom, well watered; good dwell ing. 5 rooms, stable, etc; also good gin house, and tenant house. Located in Dirttown valley. Farm, 300 acres, mostly level, 115 open; in good state of cultivation; remainder verv heavily timbered. Dark mulatto amt gray soil; well improved; good 8 room dwelling, 2 tenement houses, barn, stables, etc. Well watered; 4 miles from Summerville. Town property for sale or rent. Good i framed 4 room dwelling. Situated in I the healthiest, most desirable locality in I Summerville. Ample garden, etc, » Town property for sale or rent. Neat ’ framed store-liouse, ample and well » furnished, 1 routing on mam street. > I Stock farm-319 acres, 130 open in good ‘ cultivation and well fenced. Contains a great quantity of timber of all Yarieties, dark Cray and red mulatto soil, running water on all parts of the place; lino I peach and apple orchard that never fa.ls ! to hit; house and other iniprovenient. I good- I* P For further particulars as to dcscrip , tion and terms, call upon or address 1 Chattooga Heai. Estate Co., Summerville, Ga.