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LINCOLN AND STANTON, These Anecdote* Show How They DUmlMed Applicant. For Place. An old St. Louisan who will not allow his name to be mentioned tells the following personal experi ence he had with Lincoln and Stan ton: In the winter of 1864, after serv ing three years in the Union army and being honorably discharged, I made application for the post sut lersbip at Point Lookout. My fa ther went with mo to Mr. Stanton, who was then secretary of war. We obtained an audience, and I was ushered into the presence of the most pompous man I ever met. As we entered he waved his hand for us to stop at a given point some dis tance from him and then put these questions: “ Did you serve three years in the army?” ‘‘l did, sir.” “Were you honorably discharg ed?” ‘‘l was, sir. ” ‘‘Let me see your discharge.” I gave it to him. He looked it over and then said: “Were you ever wounded?” I told him yes, at the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1861. “I think we can give this position to a man who has lost an arm or a leg,” said Mr. Stanton. “Ho would be more deserving.” And then he told me he thought I looked hearty and healthy enough to serve three years more. He would not even give me a chance to argue my case, but dismissed us with an other pompous wave of the hand, and wo withdrew from the august presence of the secretary of war. Outside my father suggested we go over and see Mr. Lincoln. We didn’t think it would do us much good, but we went. Mr. Lincoln’s reception room was filled with ladies and gentlemen when we entered, and the scene was one I shall never forget. On her knees before the president was a woman in the agonies of despair. With tears streaming from her eyes she implored tho chief executive for the life of her son, who had deserted and was condemned to be shot. I heard Mr. Lincoln say : “Mad am, do not act in this way; it is ago ny to me. I would pardon your son if it was in my power, but there must bo an example made, or I will have do army. ” At this speech tho woman fainted. Mr. Lincoln motioned to two attend ants, who lifted her up and carried her out. Everybody in tho room was in tears. Changing tho scone from tho sub lime to the ridiculous, tho next ap plicant for favor was a big, buxom Irish woman, who stood before the president with arms akimbo, saying: “Mr. Lincoln, can’t I sell apples on tho railroad?” Everybody laughed. “Certainly, madam; you can sell all you wish,” said Mr. Lincoln. “But you must give me a pass, or tho soldiers will not let me, ” con tinued the dame from the Emerald Isle. Lincoln wrote a few lines and gavo them to her. “Thank you, sir. God bless you!” exclaimed the happy Irish woman and whisked out of tho room. I stood and watched the president for two hours, and he dismissed each case as quickly as the forego ing. When my turn came, Lincoln turned to my father: “Now, gentlemen, boas quick as possible in stating your business, as it is growing late. ” There was but one chair near him, and he motioned my father to sit, while I stood. My father stated the business that brought us. When he had finished, Mr. Lincoln asked if we had been to see Mr. Stanton. We told him we had and that be had re fused. “This is Mr. Stanton's business, and I cannot interfere,” said Mr. Lincoln, “but I am sorry that I can not help you.” He saw that we were disappoint ed and did his best to revive our spirits. “I'll tell you how this is,” said the president jocularly. “I have thousands of applications like this every day, but we cannot satisfy all for this reason, that these posi tions are like office seekers—there are too many pigs for the amount of milk. ” The ladies who were listening to the conversation put their handker chiefs to their faces and turned away, but the joke of old Abe put everybody in good humor. —St. Louis Republic. His Marriage Theory. A writer in an English magazine claims to have discovered that mar riage is a mere accident and no test whatever of sex attractiveness. Be yond the fact of marriage there is Nothing to distinguish the wedded from the un wedded. Some of both classes are pretty, some plain, some are jolly, some are shrewdish, some are intellectual, some are stupid. Spinsters are just the inevitable remnant resulting from monogamio institutions and the overplus of the sex Two of a Kind. A year or two ago a Methodist minister was sent to a circuit in the eastern portion of this county. His name is not now remembered but we will call him Bro. May. His first work, after assuming charge of the new field of labor, was to inquire into the spiritual condition of those of whem he had been placed in charge, and he soon found that a number of the breth ren had back-slidden —had strayed from the fold, as it were. He be gan woik earnestly with a view of recalling these wanderers, and get ting them once more in closer touch with the church work, and of renewing their interests in things spiritual. One day he started out to see a back-sliding brother whom we will call Taylor. That is not his name, but it will answer here. After much devious winding about along the trails and by ways he came to the place at the foot of Taylor’s ridge where it was said Bro. Taylor dwelt. Bro. Taylor was a mighty hunter, by the way, and spent much time chasing the fox, the deer and other wild game in the sequestered ridges and valleys of the moun tain. The two men met in the road, and the minister introduced himself as Bro. May, the new preacher in charge of the church. Bro. Taylor shook hands with him. After some preliminary remarks about the weather, the crops, etc, the minister remarked: “Well, Bro. Taylor, I am out hunting up the lost sheep of Israel.” “Lemme tell you, Bro. May,” and the speaker pointed with his long, bony finger to a ridge not far away. “I hearn a sheep bell out on that pint yestiddy, ai d I’ll bet them uz the sheep you’re lookin’ for!” What reply Bro. May made to this, or whether he made any, our informant did not state. This funny little episode, which actu ally occurred, merely shows that the preachers, like other men, sometimes strike a rocky road in this work a day world. Last summer there was a wheat threshing in the valiey. The ma chine had stopped and the men were taking a refreshing drink of cold well water, and resting in the shade a few minutes prepatory to resuming the arduous work of the day. During this pause an old gentlemen, who had lived to the ripe old age of 80 years, but who was still quite active and vigorous, was entertaining the crowd with his talk. He was telling them of the regret he felt for his past life — for he had been “a fightin’ and a cussin’ man” in the days of his giddy youth—and told them that he had firmly resolved from that time on to abandon his wrong ways, and to so live that he might meet death —which for him could not be far off —without trembling or fear. His talk was very earnest and greatly impressed his hearers. Soon the word was given to start up, and the old gentleman resumed his place on top of the straw stack, for he was fully convinced that no man on the ground could do the work so well as he. The hum of the machine grew louder each mo ment, as the speed increased, and the straw came pouring out. A tall, lank negro was standing there with a pitch fork, to pitch the straw up on the stack. As soon as a big fork full had fallen he lifted it, and with a mighty heave sent it up on the stack where our old friend was waiting to receive it. Somehow, the negro was careless and one prong of the fork entered the old gentleman’s leg. Without one moment’s hesitation he sat down suddenly and came sliding down the stack, and when he struck the ground he presented his fork, bayonet fashion, and charged the astonished negro. “I’ll kill you, you —! — 1 —’ rascal. You blankety blank black crow, I’il kill you *” And the negro fled, the old man in close pursuit with the fork, and the air blue with impre cations, After he had chased the negro off the grounds he returned, when bis friends gathered around to learn the cause of the riot. When asked what the trouble was the old man replied: “The blank ety blank son of a gun stuck a fork in my leg.” He rolled up his trousers leg and as he rubbed the wounded spot tenderly he dis coursed vehemently and volubly in all the known foreign tongues. When his friends found that his injury was only slight, and when they remembered how earnestly he had avowed, only a few min utes before, never more to go as tray, it was too much for their gravity, and they roared with laughter, and whooped and yelled until the energetic foreman shouted once more: “Start up there I” SHOTATHIS SOUL. George Green Goss Gunning For His Immortal Self A.nd Fires When He Finds It. George Green, a negro who acts as porter in the barroom of Abe Humphries at 301 Peters street, took a pistol and shotgun last night to go gunning for his spirit, which he imagined had left him. He discharged the weapon at what he thought was his ghost, and after several efforts to recover it ended in a cell at police headquarters. A charge of lunacy was placed op posite his name. The negro is said to have been in a demented condition for some time but it was not until recently that he took a notion that his spir it had left him, and determined to find and recover it, even if he had to shoot it. Last night he secured a revolver for the purpose and went out to search for his lost, strayed or stolen immortality. Green left his home quietly. As soon as it was found that he had gone his mother and father started after him. They failed to overtake him. The crazy man wandered a round Peters street and over in that part of the city until a late hour. About midnight he spied something that appeared to be the very thing he was looking for. It was suspended in midair. Green raised his revolvea and fired three shots flying toward the object, then looming up before his vision. Whether he hit it or not he did not say, but told Officers Randall and Beavers who sent him to the police station, that he had seen his spirit and had shot at it. Several negroes heard the shots and found Green with the smoking revolver. It was taken away from him, but still he was not satisfied and went in search of another weapon. This the officers say he found in the shape of a gun, and soon he was out again after his wandering spirit. The negro did not get to shoot the gun. Before he had time to realize that there was something before him, the gun had been taken from him by po lice officers. He was driven to the stationhouse in a patrol wagon. There he was given a cell in the lunatic department, where he talk ed in a rambling way about his lost spirit. This morning the negro’s moth er and several of his friends called at the stationhouse and took charge of him. They have agreed to keep the negro at homo and off the streets and he was released to them. —Atlanta Journal. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits- These pills are easy in action and are particu larly effective in the oure of Con stipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable.' They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not we: ken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the sys tem. Regular size 25c per box Sold by H. H. Arrington Druggist Ths Leading Conservatory of Carl Farlten, Director. Founded in 1653 by Send for Prospectus giving full information. W. 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Levied on and will be sold as the property of Eli hu Yates tc satisfy a fifa issued fiom Chattooga county court April monthly term in favor John S. Cleghorn vs Eli hu Yates defendent in fifa, levied on as the property of defendent in fifa. Ten ant in possession notified. This Oct. 7, 1896. J • C. Penn, Sheriff. Administrator’s Sale, GEORGIA, Chattooga county. In pursuance of an order granted by the court of Ordinar on the Ist Monday in October will be sold on the Ist Tues day in November next before the court house doer in the town of Summerville said county to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate to-wit: 53 acres more or less of lot of land No. 42 bounded as follows: Commencing on the northwest corner at a scaly bark hickory tree and from thence running east to a post oak tree and thence south to a stake and from thence west to an other stake and thence back to th. hick ory or starting point. Said land lying on the north side of said lot. A'so 80 acres south half of lot No 41, also 140 a cres more or less of lot No. 32 and t wen ty acres in the northeast corner of lot No. 6. All lying and being in the 6th district and 4rh section of said countv containing 293 acres more or less, oaid lands being ttie farm formerly owned by J. C. Hanson deceased, and to be sold for the purpose of distribution a mongst the heirs of the said J. C. Han son deceased. Will be sold in parcels or in a body to suit purchaser, 'fhis is an A no. 1 good fa.m, well watered, good residence with two good tenant houses on same, barn and all necessary out buildings and will be sold no doubt at a bargain. J. V. Wheeler, adm’r. with will annexed of J. C. Hanson, de ceased. Administrator’s Sale. GEORGIA, Chattoga county. Agreeably to an order of the court of ordinary, of said county ; will be s_>ld at auction at the court house door of said county on the first Tuesday in Novem ber, next, within the legal hours of sale, the following property to-wit: The west half of lot of land number fifty-four (54) in the thirteenth (13) district and four i (4) section of said county. Sold wi'.h encti mberance of dower. Sold as the property of L. R. Williams, late of said county," deceased. Terms cash. Also one washing machine and right. This Sept. 26th, 1896. C. P. Williams, Administrator. Application Administration GEORGIA, Chattooga county. To all whom it may concern: J. T. Shropshire and T. J. Rutledge has ap plied to the undersigned for permanent tetters of administration on the estate of O P. Watters, late of said county, de ceased, and I will pass upon said appli cation on the first Monday in Novem i ber next. Witness my hand. Sept. 26th, i 1896. John M. ttox, Ordinary. DELICATE**'!*!" FEMALE REGULATOR. 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