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the Editor :—I have an absolute
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t . aids of hopeless cases have been already
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T. DOUGLAS MORTON.
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‘ < r ■■ 4 ' ••• n< v t eat ituiKling, It ha» given me more
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"De Valley an de Sliadder."
By HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS.
[Copyright, 1800, by The Century company.
All rights reserved. J
CHAPTER I.
A log hut with a stack chimney, at
the foot of a long, low hill, where the !
path that winds around it disappears
■under a great spreading black gum; an
other log hut with a stack chimney,
over by a belt of pine woods, and an
other of like build beyond, where a
group of water oaks marks a bend in the
swamp, and others still, right and left
in the distance, until the number runs
up into the dozens—this is Black An
kle. But not all of it. Yonder are a
shed, and acorncrib, and a leaning stack
of fhdder, and a blue stem collard patch,
and snake fences, and vehicles that have
stood in the weather unlil sunstruck, a
forlorn mule, a cow that all her life j
has evidently practiced the precept,
“It is liett-cr to give than to receive,’’ a
stray hen witli her little family under
a gorgeous sunflower—this is Black An
kle.
But hold! There are little negroes in
single garments that reach to their
knees only and the 10-year-old girl
bearing in her arms the infant. There
are the clothes fluttering on the knotted
lines propped up by fork saplings.
There are black women, with tucked up
dresses, scrubbing over the washtub,
and in the air the marvelously mellow
plantation hymn, and on the ground the
shadow of tiie circling hawk, and the
grasshopper balancing himself in mid
air, and the dipping mocking bird on
the haw bush. Ah, now indeed is this
Black Ankle!
The sun had gone down, and the shad
ows were creeping out of the swamp
veiling Black Ankle. All the poverty
signboards were buried in the gloom,
and where the cabins stood fiery eyes
twinkled through the night. But under
the groat black gum, where the spring
gushed, a pine knot fire blazed merrily,
piling up the shadows and paihting in
waving light thecabin front. The little
porch, over which ran the morning
glory and the cypress vine, stood forth
as though projected by the brash of a
mighty artist. From every direction, by
every path, there camo dusky figures,
the simple children of the soil, filling
the air with songs and laughter, and
passed into the light.
In a chair upon a table, his back
against the black gum, sat a little
wrinkled fiddler with his battered in
strument under his chin, the bow twist
ing and sawing. And by his side, dram
ming on the strings with a straw, stood
a boy, who ever and anon turned his
c
“Pretty UttV Lou."
head to laugh at some gay sally from
the company gathered upon ths smooth
and well trodden ground. A favorite
dancer exhibited his skill until breath
less and was turning away amid the
plaudits of the crowd when a young wo
man forced her way in, crying:
“Git erway, niggers; lemme come!”
The crowd shouted: “Lou, Lou!’’
“Lou’ll knock do shine off er ’im. ’’
“Yon got ter shuff’ now, Beeswing.’’
The teeth of the young man who beat
with the straw shone whiter and broad
er as a short, active girl broke into the
circle. Beeswing grinned.
“Come back, nigger, ’’ she cried. The
crowd laughed again, and as the girl’s
feet began to keep time with the music
a dozen hands patted upon as many
thighs, and a voice, to which the chorus ■
replied, added words to the strains of
the fiddle, the dancer adapting her steps
to the hints given:
ShuffT, littl’ Lou; pretty llttl’ Lou;
Same ns you; pretty littl’ Lou;
My gal, too; pretty littl’ L >u;
Forwood, too; pretty littl' Lon;
Come ’long, Lou; pretty littl’ Lou;
Back step, Lou; pretty littl’ Lou;
Pretty littl’ Lou; look at Lou!
The dancer held her dress back and '
"walked around,’’ turning her toes in, i
and the crowd laughed. But the song
continued:
Pretty littl’ Lou; pretty littl’ Lou;
Cross step, Lou; pretty littl’ Lou;
Balance, too; pretty littl’ Lou.
The girl whirled around amid a cloud
of cotton, revealing her ankles, and the
leader started the laugh by chiming in,
followed by the refrain again:
Oom oom 00; pretty littl’ Lou;
Short dog Lou: pretty littl’ Lou;
Pidgin wing Lou: pretty littl’ Lou;
See yer froo; pretty littl’ Lou;
Turkey ‘rot Lou; pretty littl’ Lou;
ShuflT, littl’ Lou; pretty littl’ Lou.
Beeswing broke out of the circle, and
the dance ended amid the shouts of the
company.
The tune changed. Old Morris, the
fiddler, began a quaint march, and two
by two the dancers promenaded around, ■
the clear voices of the women leading
the song:
Turn ’er high, turn lady,
Turn lor’.
Turn dat lady Cymlin;
Turn ’er high, turn lady,
Turn lor’.
Turn dat lady roun.
The men turned their partners with
one handheld overhead, and “the lady’’
spun until her dress swelled out like a
balloon. Then she bowed, and the men
patted quick time, all singing, while
their partners sprang to the center and
danced:
Knock candy, candy gal;
Knock candy, candy gal;
No harm to knock candy;
Littl' in de wais' an pretty in de face;
No harm to knock candy;
Two ways to knock candy gal;
Nc harm to knock candy.
Again came the quaint song, “Turn
'er high, turn lady,’’ again the slow
march and again the whirl. This time |
the men sprang to the center, and old I
Morris, sweeping his head to his knee,
ttspek up a breakdown, to which the
women sang:
You sif’ de meal, you gimme da husk;
You bake de bread, you gimme de crus';
You bile de pot. you gimme de grease;
Qle Kate, git over;
I Git over, ole Kate;
Git over!
Several verses followed, first the wo-
■ m°n dancing, then the men, ever re- ;
' turning to the promenade song.
Dance followed dance, jig, shuffle,
: song and refrain, and the hours glided
by. A tiny silver crescent was the moon,
I but it had long since sunk behind the
, hill. Old Moms nodded, but his bow
j kept moving. “Wake up, old man,”
shouted a voice as the rout went roun<L
"Hush yo’ niouf, nigger,” he answered
back. “ Dis fiddle knows me, an hit 'u’d
I keep er-singin cf I uz to go plum ter
I sleep.” Aud the livelier wave in “Sal
lie Gooden,” which the interruption
had stimulated, faded away into mo
notony again.
So went the night. But a gaunt spec
ter stood unseen on the black bank of
shadows piled up lieyond the gum tree.
Into these old plantation dances, harm
less once and picturesque, had come,
witli the new freedom, a new element.
On the porch in the shadow, where he
had rolled over unnoticed, stupid with
drink, lay Ben Thomas, the host. A
heavy, brawny negro, he seemed some
50 years old when the stirred logs flash
ed a light upon him. At the far end of
the little porch his young mulatto wife
was tossing small coins in a circle of
men, who applauded when she won and
were silent when she lost. Suddenly tlie
game ended, the woman empty handed.
What stirred the sleeper? Who can
toll? But stir he did, then waked aud
gazed about him. The last throw of the
coin attracted his attention. He felt in
his pocket. Then letting his feet to the
ground he staggered forward and sup
ported his wavering form against a
post.
“Mandy,” he said gently, and he
seemed to sober as he spoke, ‘ ‘ did you
tek my money?”
“Yes,” she laughed, “I did.” Her
tones were careless and defiant.
“Wliar hit, Mandy?”
“Whar you reck’n?”
“Whar hit, Mandy?” The man’s
voice was still calm. Silence had fallen
ou the group.
“Los’. ”
“Oh, w’at you mekin er fuss c-rbout
er littl’ money fur? Ain’ er man’s wife
got dor right ter hit es hit’s his’n?”
The speaker was a low browed, vicious
looking negro, Mandy’s late opponent.
Ben did not notice him, but returned to
his query:
“Who got dat money, Mandy?”
The gambler contemptuously threw
throe silver quarters into her lap, for
she was still sitting.
“Ileah, Mandy, len you nuff ter pay
’im. Dora er man w’at’ll 'base es wife ,
’fo’ folks alien ’er own house.” The
gambler looked around for indorsement, '
but got none. All eyes were upon the ‘
husband. He stooped forward and took
the coins, placing them in his pocket. .
“No man kin len money ter my wife, ”
ho said gently, for tho first time ad
dressing the gambler, “an hit ain’ len'in
w’en money w’at’s stole comes back. ”
“Who stole hit? Who stole hit?” A
savage look gleamed in the gambler’s
eye.
“Fuss .she stole hit,” said tho hus
band, “an den you stole hit, fur ter
cheat er wooman es de same es steal
in. ”
Quick as the spring of a panther was
the movement of the gambler as he
threw himself upon the now sober man
who had accused him. There Avas a
brief struggle. The gambler clasped one
hand over his breast and staggered. A
knife dropped from under his hand as
he suddenly extended his arm, and with
a deep sigh ho sank lifeless in his
tracks.
The crowd opened, letting the red
firelight flood the scene. Ben stood with
folded arms gazing upon the corpse,
but like a shadow falling the woman
glided from her low perch by the pros
trate figure and snatched the bloody
knife from the ground For an instant
she crouched, her yellow face upturned
to her husband, a strange light in her
eyes and her long black hair tumbling
down upon her shoulders. She seemed
alx>ut to spring at his throat. But only 1
for an instant. The knife vanished in
the folds of her dress, and she pointed
straight into the black depths of the j
swamp.
“Run, run!” she whispered. Bengaz- !
ed about him defiantly, then turned and 1
strode away into the shadow. None pur- '
1 sued. His arms dropped as he disap- |
peared, but 110 eye was strong enough to
follow aud see the faint flash of light '
that trembled for an instant upon the !
steel in his hands, like the glimmer of ■
a glowworm through the texture of dead ,
leaf.
The woman still crouched by the !
corpse, but she saw it not. Her eyes ‘
i were fixed upon the shadow that had 1
I closed over her husband. Horror and
: fear seemed to have frozen her. The
’ wondering group discussed the tragedy
i and constructed a rude litter for the
' dead. But as they bore the body off a
I man approached her and asked to see
j the knife. She turned her yellow face
' to his for au instant, then bounded by
him and was swallowed up in the
swamp. Forward she went through
brake and bramble. A great gnarled oak
reached out to stop her, but in vain,
and from the grasp of the bushes that
clutched her she rushed madly. Sudden- !
ly the silent stretch of a great lagoon
was before her. She lifted her arm and
frantically hurled the knife far out into
the night. No sound came back, though
she held her breath until her eyes start
ed from their sockets. But, yes, at last,
a far, faint splash, as when a cooter
' glides from his log and seeks his couch
in the slime below.
‘ ‘ Ben!' ’ she whispered. ‘ ‘ Ben! ’ ’ There
was no answer. “Ben! - ’ This time it
was a scream. A thousand echoes dart
eel here and there in the sounding
swamp, and as they died away a strange,
■ sad sigh was wafted out of the depths.
Turning, she fled back to life, pursued
by a host of terrors. How she reached
it she knew not, but presently she fell
prostrate upon the floor of the cabin.
Couching there in the shadow was the
I aged form of her husband's mother,
crooning to his babe. Neither spoke,
and lying on her face the young woman
spent the remaining hours of the night.
But ever and anon she heard the splash
of the knife in the waters, the echoes
! calling “Ben!” and that strange, sad
i sigh of the spirit as it left the dead
i man's bodv.
[TO BE CONTO-VED J
The hearth authorities have been un
usually vigilant of late on account ot
smallpox aud yellow fever reports from
; Cuba. The news that yellow fever had
broken out at Vera Cruz has made the
j government solicitous about watching
the gulf ports of the United States.
i
COMPLAINT OF DULLNESS.
Political Excitement and Intense Heat
Have a Bad IZTect on Busines®.
Baltimore, Aug. 17.—The Manufac
turers’ Record, in its review of southern
progress, says: Political excitement and
the intense heat have conspired to re
strict the organization of new enter
prises throughout the south during the
past week. There is general complaint
of dullness and inactivity, with an in
disposition to take up now enterprises
at present.
Notwithstanding this, however, a
number of important matters have de
vcloned during the week and several
large enterprises put under way. Ar
rangements have been about ompleted j
fur building a $750,000 hotel at Norfolk; I
the contract was let for a $200,000 to- I
bacco warehouse at Baltimore; a S3O,- ;
000 company has been organized at
Crowley, La., to build a rice mill to
. handle 500 barrels settled by 8,000 or
10,000 western people within the last
seven or eight years.
A Chicago company will build a large
woodeuware factory at Mobile; New
York people have bought marble quar- ’
ries in Georgia for $225,000 aud will de
velop them; a large water power has
been bought at High Falls, Ga., to be
developed for transmitting electric
power; stone quarries at Lithonia have
been leased and will be operated on a
large scale; an extensive rice mill will
be built at Savannah, Ga.; the Jennings
Rice Mill company, of Louisiana, will
enlarge its plant to a 600 barrel
mill; a $25,000 ice and cold stor
age plaut will be built at Greenville,
Miss.; Oxford has voted $20,000 bonds
for waterworks; a fertilizer factory will
be established at Spartanburg and a
SIO,OOO knitting mill at the same place;
plans are being matured for the con
struction at Wichita Falls, Tex., of an
irrigating plant, to cost SOOO,OOO, and to
irrigate 300,000 acres of land.
Comparatively little new construction
has been reported in railroad undertak
ings. Active work is in progress on the
line from Caryville to La Follette, Tenn.;
plans are being made for the construc
tion of a 23 mile road to Foot Point,
Port Royal harbor, S. 0., with a view
to the construction of shipping facilities
there.
MAY USE WIRE TIES.
Farmers of the South Trying to Foil the
Tians of the Trust—An Experiment.
Charleston, Aug. 12.—The first bale
of cotton bound with wire instead of
the usual ties was compressed in this
city at the Champion compress, in tho
presence of Manager M. P. Duncan of
| the State Farmers’ Alliance Exchange,
11 special committee from the Cotton
Exchange and a large number of local
1 cotton men.
The wire with which the bale was
i bound stood the strain well. There
was some cutting of the bagging, but it !
was claimed that this was due to tho
inferiority of the material used and not
tho wire.
Manager Duncan expressed great sat
isfaction with the experiment., but the
compress and local cotton men did not
I generally agree with him. Tho special
committee from tho Cotton Exchange
j has not yet reported.
The compress men said that tho wire
was very hard to handle, and that if it
were generally used that much more
time would be consumed in compressing
than is required for bales bound with
ties.
The use of wire is being advocated 1 y
fanners in many parts of the south be
cause the price of ties has been so ma
terially increased recently. It seems
probable that upon the rocommonda
t on of Manager M. P. Duncan many
South Carolina farmers will use wire
this season.
CAPTAIN GOSLEN KILLED.
Well Known North Carolina Republican
Thrown From an Electric Car.
Raleigh, Aug. 17. —Captain J. VZ.
Goslen, editor of the Union Republican,
the organ of the Republican party in
this state, met with a fatal accident op
posite his home in Salem. He stepped
from a street car before it stopped and
was thrown violently on the macada
mized street. His head struck a stone,
| which produced concussion of the brain.
■ He died at 5:30 o’clock. Captain Goslen
was 55 years old, and was a gallant sol-
I dier during the war. He was promoted
j from a private to captain. After the
war he taught school until 1873, when
1 he assumed editorial management of
I The Republican.
■ The directors of the insane asylum
1 here have ordered the building of an an
nex to the male ward, to accommodate
iBO patients. There are many urgent de-
I inands for admission.
The rains of the past six days, though
not general, have resulted in marked
, benefit to crops in many sections. In
: some sections dJouth continues and
streams are low and wells failing.
Incendiary Blaze at Dade City.
Dade City, Fla., Aug. 11.—A dis
‘ astrons fire occurred here, in which
Coleman & Ferguson’s general store, T.
! J. Howard’s drug store, J. J. Wilson’s
! poolroom, Powell’s barbershop and A.
A. Boone’s grocery store were destroyed.
The loss is about $27,000. Insurance:
Coleman & Ferguson, $J3,000; Howard,
$2,300, and Boone, SSOO. Boone is the
greatest loser. The others were not in
sured. The fire is supposed to be the
work of incendiaries.
Doctors of Three States to Meet,
Chattanooga, Aug. 14. —At a meet
ing of the executive committee of the
Tri-State Medical society of Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama it was resolved to
hold the next meeting in Chattanooga
on Oct. 13, 14 and 15, instead of
in Nashville, as originally proposed.
The postponement of the opening of the
Tennessee centennial exposition necessi
tated the change, as the society will
meet there next year.
A North Carolinian’s Sentence Suspended.
Washington, Aug. 14.—The president
has suspended sentence of five years in
the penitentiary imposed upon Frank
Pruner, convicted of counterfeiting in
western North Carolina, pending fur
ther investigation of his case.
Dallas Merchants File a Deed of Trust.
Dallas, Aug. 11. —Hetherington &
Nelson, dealers in machinery supplies,
filed a deed of trust Tuesday. Liabili
ties, $34,340.
True to their old tricks, the Pop
ulists stuffed the ballot box iu
their convention here last Satur
day. The Carroll County Times
states that they did likewise in
that county. Honestly what may
we expect them to do in an elec
tion when they stuff the ballot box
against their own party in their
conventions. This is the second
time they have stuffed the ballot
box in their conventions in this
j county.—Dallas New Era.
COTTON BADLY DAMAGED.
The Continued Drouth In th-? South Has
Injured the Fleecy Staple.
Atlanta, Aug. 11.—The continued
drouths in the Mississippi valley and
the western states have made the cotton
market extremely nervous and the re
ports received by the cotton men here
show a decided fall in the prospect of
the crop tin- ughout the states west of
the Mississippi river
Heavy rains in the southeastern states
find continued drouths in the western
states is the summary of tho crop’s con
dition announced from the department
of agriculture at Washington. The
! same report says the crop will be much
■ earlier this year than on previous occa- |
■ sions aud a general decrease in the size
j of the crop is made as a forecast.
; In the Mississippi valley there has
been no rain for several weeks, and in
the states and territories further west
the condition is much worse. Not only
has the drouth cut quite an item in the
decrease of the crop, but the extreme
heat has made a material cut in the
crop. The plant is suffering badly for
] want of rain and cooler weather, and it
■ is said the damage is irreparable in the
dry districts.
The crop in Georgia, South Carolina I
and Alabama has suffered from tho
heavy rains, then the drouth and next
the heat, but notwithstanding these un
favorable conditions, tho crop will be
large and the present indications are en
couraging. The farmers take a cheer
ful view of the situation and hope to har
vest a bountiful supply of the staple,
provided nothing more occurs to cause
damage.
The report sent out from the depart
ment of agriculture in Washington ,
shows the condition of the crop to be as 1
follows:
“The reduction in the condition of
cotton during July from 92 5 to 81.1, the i
averages of southern states being: Vir- '
ginia, 86; North Carolina, 9?; South |
Carolina, 88; Georgia, 92; Florida, 8-1; ;
Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana, I
70; Texas, 69; Arkansas, 65; Tonnes- |
see, 89.
“Heavy rains in July damaged crops,
especially in bottom lands, in Virginia,
North Carolina, Florida and some por
tions of Georgia. Over a largo portion
of Georgia the crop is in fair condition.
Drouth over Alabama,- Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Toxas for sev
eral weeks produced more or less dam
age. and in some counties of Mississippi
irreparable damage. There are com
plaints of too much dry weather in Ten
nessee. Over almost the entire cotton
belt the cotton is maturing rapidly, and
is earlier than for many years.”
EXTRA SESSION CALLED.
The Tennessee Legislature Will Meet on
the Seventh of September.
Nashville, Aug. J 5 —Governor Tur
ney has called an extra session of the
legislature for Sept. 7, to amend the rev
enue aud assessment laws increasing
taxation so that the state will be able to
meet its expenses.
The surplus of half a million in the
treasury in 1894 has been used up. Tho
legislature reduced the state tax
per cent aud also reduced privileges.
Increases in the assessed valuation of Ml
property was expected, but there was a
decrease instead with the result that
the revenue was reduced $565,000 from
the preceding year.
The expenditures exceed receipts and
the balance now in the treasury belongs
to special funds. Unless the legislature
had been called there would have been
a default in January interest and a
large floating debt. The state tax will
be increased.
The call just at this time may hurt
the Democrats, but the leaders preferred
taking the risk to seeing a default in the
interest.
ALABAMIANS PARDONED.
The President extends Clemency In the
Cases of Pritchett and Bryan.
Washington, Aug. 13. The presi
dent has granted pardons to Warren
Curtis, sentenced in eastern Texas to
three years’ imprisonment for horse
theft; W. L. Pritchett, sentenced in
southern Alabama to four months’ im
prisonment and fine for cutting timber
from the public lands, and Charles Ed
ward Bryan, sentenced in northern Ala
bama to two years for counterfeiting, to
restore citizenship. He has commuted
one year and three months’ actual im
prisonment of the two year sentence
imposed in Texas on James C. Jackson
for assault with intent to kill.
Pardons have been denied in the cases
of M. S. Dougherty, sentenced in eastern
Texas to two years and fine for passing
counterfeit money, and Albert Stahr,
sentenced in western Missouri to one
year’s imprisonment for a like offense.
Sheriff Kennedy Has Surrendered.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 12. —The
grand jury of this county some two or
three weeks ago returned an indictment
charging Sheriff Robert H. Kennedy, of
Dallas county, with the murder of Mar
dis L. Wood’s brother, Percy Wood, of
Selma, Ala. Kennedy had previously
been given a preliminary trial here be
fore Justice Screws and had been ac
quitted. Tuesday night Kennedy came
to the city with his attorney, General
Pettus, and surrendered himself to tho
sheriff. Sept. 2 has been selected as the
date for his trial. In the meantime he
will remain in the county jail here,
where he is being made very comfort
able.
An Outlaw Kills a Deputy Sheriff.
Blocton, Ala., Aug. 13. Bart
Thrasher, the noted Bibb county outlaw
and murderer, has added another to his
list of killings by shooting Deputy
Sheriff Ba s. Thrasher escaped from
Pratt mines last fall, where he had been
sent for murder. Elisha Thrasher was
killed iu February last by officers while
resisting arrest, and Bart Thrasher
swore to kill the officers engaged and
has kept his word so far as Bass was
concerned.
Southern Will Not Buy the N. & W.
Greenville, S. C., Aug. 17. —Presi-
dent Samuel Spencer says that the
Southern will not buy the Norfolk and
Western. “There is not the remotest
possibility that we will buy it,” said he,
when asked about the report. “Tho
Southern has no idea of purchasing tho
property at the receiver’s sale, and is
not seeking its control.”
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TELOGA, GA.
Mte have been having some very hot
and dry weather but a very good rain
fell over a portion of our vallev yester
day.
Owing to the recent drouth cotton
in this section will not make much over
a half crap. Some report it opening
without any seed tn the lint.
Pete ( laridy and Misses Ford aud
Hix of Dalton, visited relatives in our
valley last week.
Mrs. Rachel Turley, of Cohuttab,
has returned home after several weeks
' visntng her father, J. 11. Gilreath.
J. G. Wilson and daughters, Mis-es
Mattie and Mary, of Summerville, were
visiting Uncle Billie Watson recently.
Little Hun Watson, of LaTayette,
: is visiting her grandpa Watson.
Janies ( hatin, after two weeks con
finement to his room uith typhoid fe
, ver, is slpwly improving.
Mrs. Warren Harper and son, Joe,
is on the sick list this week.
Also Mrs. C. C. McConnell is indis
posed. An infant child of Charley :
D ci-.son’s died last Tuesday night.
A little girl of Minor Chandler’s was
bi.ten by a snake last Sunday evening
and after much suffering died Monday
| night. No one saw the snake but the
( little girl that was bitten.
Lightning killed two milch cows of |
|D. W. F. Henry’s last Tuesday, leav- j
I ing him without, milk.
Rev. Mr. Parks tilled bis appoint
ment at the Methodist church today.
I Protracted services were postponed liil j
the third Sabbath in September.
James Layton visited Ch iltanooga ;
last week on business.
L. S. Thacker and family are visit
ing in Cherokee county, Ga.
Willie L— is visiting his best girl
in Walker today.
J. T. McWhorter is shipping a large
lot of cord wood from this place to
Round mountain, Ala.
Valley Girl.
KARTAH, GA.
News is scarce at pre,sent; most of the
«ick people in this section are improv
ing.
Mrs. Griffin ot Romo, returned home
Monday, after spending several days in
our valley with relatives and friends.
Several of our people went to Ebonoz
er church, in Haywood valley Sunday,
where a meeting has been in progress
for the last week. Ten were baptized
ounday morning.
The Bethel High school is in a flour
ishing condition at present, in charge
of Mrs. Wood.
The Holland boys came over to Dirt
town last Saturday afternoon to have a
game of ball against the Bethel boys.
While the Holland boys have a great
reputation as b ill players, tbe game
was pretty rlosc, the score being 18 t) I'J
in favorof Holland. (Junie again boys.
Mrs. Mary Scott and daughter, .viiss
Ella, and Mrs. Crawford Scott have
gone to Lookout mountain to spend the
remainder of tho hot summer days-
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Rheumatism that Greeted
the Swohn Flesh. .
The Most Wonderful Cure from this disease
in Modem Medical Annals.
Is There Anything to Compare in Kiseiy and
I Suffering With It.
pri>m the Chronicle, Chicago, 111.
It waa four years ngo next month that
Hrs. M. M. Hoyt, who lives at 2429 Went
worth Avenue, came to Chicago. She was
at that time bed-ridden, suffering from in
flammatory rheumatism and not able io
raise her feet from the floor. One of the
best physicians in Chicago treated her here
three weeks but was unable to effect even
relief. Ha gave up her case, believing
nothing could be done for her and that she
had but a few days to live.
In speaking of her sufferings aud the re
lief and permanent cure effected later she
says: “When I was five years old I was
taken down with inflammatory rheumatism,
but after a comparatively short time it pass
ed off, and I was free from all its symptoms
until I was fourteen years old. Then I had
another attack, of which I was cured, and
did not have a sick day until four years ago
: Christmas afternoon 1892.
“I had lived twenty-six years in Luding-
I ton, Michigan, and fourteen years in Man
istee, Mic'nignn, both towns being situated
on the lake. The weather in both places is
even more damp, more raw and in winter
1 colder than it is here. In Manistee for many
I years I conducted a dressmaking establish
ment which I carried on until I was taken
sick. I knew all the prominent people in
Manistee and it was hard for me to close my
business and leave all the people 1 had known
; there for years. My '"our children, all of
■ whom are married, lived in other Stai.es.
One daughter lived in Chicago and be.ing
advised to change climate I came here. The
attack on that Christmas afternoon came
without warning. I was suddenly taken
with chills and rheumatic fever, which grew
worse day by day. Manistee physicians did
all they could for me, but I was helpless in
bed until the end of May 1893. The physi
cians advised me to leave the shores of the
lake and especially Manistee. I took their
advice and came to Chicago.
“Rheumatism was in my hands, my feet
and my head, in fact it was all over me be
sides having heart failure. I could not
think of leaving my chair. I was unable to
comb my hair, I was practically helpless at
the time I came to Chicago. Do you see all
those white sears on my hands? Well, let
me tell you how I got them. My bauds be
came fearfully swollen with the rheuma
tism and were smooth and shiny just like a
piece of glass. The skin by the swelling
was stretched to such a point that it burst
wherever you see the scars and from the
wounds came water for quite a long time.
My sufferings were almost unbearable, and
I tried the treatment of one of Chicago’s
oldest and best physicians. I took his medi
cine for three weeks, but only grew worse.
I became so nervous that I could not sleep
and my stomach became so weak, whether
from the strong drugs or my general dehiii
tated condition 1 know not, but it was diffi
cult for me to retain any solid food, lie
gave up my case and advised me to send for
my husband.
“ I knew by that advice, that he did not
give me much longer to live. Instead I
went to one of my daughters who lives in the
southern part of Indiana, in Elnora, Davis
County, where her husband, Asa Haig, was
cue of the prominent merchants. I believed
the Climate there, being away from the in
fluences of Lake Mieiiigan might help me.
I had been in Elnora about one week, not
feeling any better, when one day I received
from my daughter in Chicago three boxes of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, _
telling me in her letter that '.he had read iq
a newspaper of the wonderful cures they
had effected. That she had gone to. the wo
men the newspaper spoke about and found
their and they told her every word said
about them was true. She pleaded that I try
these pills and perhaps I would find the
same benefit". T did not hesitate, as any
thing that promised relief, let alone a cure I
was only too glad to try. 1 commenced tak
ing them, two pills three times a day.
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Local Schedule,
Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus railroad.
Eugene E. Jones, Receiver.
Passenger Schedule in effect May 3, 1896.
'OUTHBOUNit Stations. northbound.
Sunday only Daily No 2. Daily No. 1. Sunday only.
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7Ji 11 }■’> Cedartown ...21>2.. ...... ..\b 00
1 ( Eeltou ■ ■ ■ - 2 20
■l2 02 Buchanan 2 0 i
J - “0 Bremen j -15
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M. K. RORNE, Pro P .
WFAIf MAN CURE YOURSELF . .
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Why Kaete time, money and health with “doctors” wonderful “cure
a . etc., when I will aend FKKE the prescription of a n<*w
_Do*itire remedy for the prompt, laMinc; curoof Lot
Kigrhtly Einiaaions, Nerroaa Wealtnem in old or
lx' Varie<M?ele, fmpoleney, and to enlarge weak, stunted
pypnKF after organs. Cures, in Two Weeks. I send this prescription Freeof
charge, and there ia no humbug or advertising catch about it. Any
good druggist or physician can put n up fur you, as everythin? is plain ami simple. All I ask in return
is that you will buy a small quantity of the remedy from me direct, or advise your friends to do so after
you receive the recipe and see that there is no humbug or deception. But you can do as you please
about this. Correspondence strictly confidential, and all letters sent in plain sealed envelope. Ln
ciose stamp if convenient. Address Ifck ML UVNOJEKFOBD, Box S-12, Albion Mieh.
“For eight months past I had rot been
able to cohib my heir, dress myself or walk,
and had to be fed during all tins time like a
babe. Weil, the first pill.; I remember dis
tinctly, 1 took on a .'-'el urday, and the follow
ing Monday I found this improvement;
namely, my nerves fiei'ined to be firmer and
my pains less. I wish to state that nt this
time, for the lost four months I had not slept
over an hour at a time, hud suffered so great
ly from nervous prostration, to the extent that
the least noice would completely upset me
and- make me shake like one having the ague.
This Monday evening I was sitting in my
chair, and bear in mind, my daughter’s house
was full of company making more or less
noise, all tending*to keep me nervous. With
all that I commenced to feel easier, a strange
and quieting feeling I had not experienced
since that Christmas afternoon 1 was stricken
down. I called to my daughter and said,
‘Ada, I don’t, know what has come over me,
I feel so restful and actually feel sleepy, I
think I will try to go to sleep.’ I could see
that she was surprised and pleased. Imme
diately she undressed me and put me to bed.
“ I slept soundly from 9 o’clock till 1
o’clock in the morning, and that mind you
with a house full of people. I remained
awake l>ut a short time, feeling better than I
had for months, and went into a Bound sleep,
never waking iiJl7 o’clock in the morning.
It was very hot doy n there in August, but
from that time 1 sh pt and rested well. Then
I felt and saw an im.lrtcement gradually go
ing on. The first l-.ing 1 noticed was, that
the swelling in my h nds was going down,
and after several v.ceks asseried their natur
al shape, and the tightly ih.iwn skin, which—-,
looked like gliws ili 'i i ;:' ' 11 -g dier as
well as tlie pain. Before Ibis lime when
ever I tried to close my hands my finger
joints would erack and the same cracking
sounds 1 heard when I bent my elbows or
tried to raise my arms ns high as my shoul
ders. 2,11 this left me and also all the fierce
rheumatic pains all through my body. I
came, back to Chicago entirely cured, feel
ing h-ilc and hearty, and tliat after having
used the miraculous Pink Pills of Dr. Wil
liams’ for about four months. I suppose 1
had taken during these four months about
one and a half dozen boxes.
“11, is now over three years ago that all
this Imppened, and I have never felt better
in my life. You can see for yourself that I
am pretty spry on my feet. 1 have no pains,
no aches imr anything thal would suggest to
me now, the terrible time I hud then. There
is another thing I wish to say in regard to
the Pink Pills, which to inc signifies a great
deal. That is when the weather changes,
from extreme heat to extreme cold, or from
dry weather to raw, damn, chilly weather,
ns we had the past two weeks, and have every
little while in Chicago all the year around,
I feel twinges and little pains in my shon].
dets or in my arm, or perhaps ii may be in
my aid', .-.1l I have to I’o i: to taken few of
the pills for a day or so and they take every
indication of tho;-;.' pnina away.
“Witli the exci ption of tlie periods when
the weather is frightfully miserable, I have
not taken any pills since I was cured. And
the pills I have taken since have not been
for my old trouble, but simply for colds
which have tried to settle in some parts of
my body, and which the pills have instantly
driven out. I also wish tostate that the pills
have cured my heart trouble, and in fact I
am in perfect, health in every r< spect.”
(Sighed.) Mid. M. M. lIOYT.
Sworn io and subscribed before I hi?' "
A. !•’. PouTjSWfl, Notary Public.
Dr. 'Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
arc now given to the public as an unfailing,
blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all
forms of weakness arising from a watery con
dition of the blood or shattered nerves. The
pills tire sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box,
or six boxes for f-2.50 (they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100), ’.y rid dressing Dr. Wil
liams’ Medicine Conlpany, Sehcm ctady, N. Y.