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VOL IX
CLIPPINGS.
It i- reported that the father of
Fannie Hester, the 13- year
old magnetic wonder of Oconee
county, has been offered $6,000
for her appearance on the stage
in New York for a season.
The Finger and Shelly Shoe Fac
tory of Gainsviile, Ga has failed
Liabilities 20,000 Assets the same,
and the plant unable to collect.
Shelly was at one time a resident
of Marietta.
A Georgia editor writes this well
timed item; Yes, times are hard,
and they will continue to bo hard
as long as people send off their
savings to foreign saving banks
and building and loan associations,
ins'i ad of putting it in home in
dustries. Put that fact in your
pipe and smoke it.
An exchange is responsible for
the following : Breathes there aman
with sou’ so dead, who never to
himself hath said, ‘l'll pay, before
1 go to bed, what I owe the printer?’
There are some, we know full well,
who never such a tale can tell;
but they, we fear, will go to — well,
the place where there’s no winter.”
Captain George B. Whiteside has
been offered the captaincy of the
Columbus Guard. Captain White
side is one of the most prominent
monos Columbus and is popular
with all classes. lie would make
an excellent commander for the
company which has ever chosen
officers calculated to reflect credit
upon it.
A few nights ago some mischeiv
ous boys in Carrollton carried a
shoe maker's sign to the seminary
and hung it upon the railing cl
the second story veranda. Per
sons passing the school the next
morning were startled to see that
the curriculum of the institution
had been extended by adding a
chair of cobbling.
A saw mill boiler blew up a few
days agofnear Oglethorpe and the
engine, which rested on skids and
weightd *3,000 pounds, was hurled
a distance of 100 yards, being half
buried in the side of a hill. The
sawyer, who was lying on the
ground nearby sewing a belt, had
a miraculuos escape. The whole
engine (lew over his head, missig
him about two feet.
A rather curious happening de
veloped in a justice court at Bruns
wick a few days ago. The court
was engaged in taking evidence of
a most bloody and revolting type
in a murder case, when the pro
ceedings wore interrupted by two
negro lovers who ask to be married.
The murder caso investigation was
suspended and the knot was tied
It was a strange mingling of sad
ness and joy,
A few days ago the Brawner
boys who live near town discover
ed a big hawk fluttering in a tall
tree. He appeared to be fastened
and one of the boys c imbed the
tree and found that the hawk had
got its foot hung in a narrow crack
where the limb of the tree had been
shattered by lightning and lhe
more it tried to get away the tigh
ter its leg became squeezed into
the crack. The hawk was easily
caught and brought down alive.—
Calhoun Times.
The pension burden increases. The
house, the other day, voted a limit of
SSO per month for a pension *of the
widow of an army officer. The Senate
refused to agree and made it $75. The
pension burden now amounts to $7.50
for every male person voting in the
t’nited States. The ordinary expenses
of the government amount to only a
bcut $9,33 for every citizen of voting
age. In the pension appropria
tion was thirty million dollars. In
1596, it was one hundred and forty
million dollars. New names keep on
being .added. Bankruptcy will be the
result if a ball is not called.—Marietta
JviuaaL
THE SUMMERVILLE’NEWS.
NINE KILLED.
A Shocking Tragedy Near
Chattanooga.
STRUCK ON A CROSSING.
By an Engine On the South
ern Railway And Hurl
ed to Death.
An incoming train on the South
ern It tilway ran into a wagm fill
ed with people at Sherman Heights
near Chattanooga last Wednesday
afternoon and seven of the occ;>
p mts of the wagon were killed
outright, and two little girls wore
fatally hurt and died a few ho urs
later. But one, an infant, escaped
death.
The tragedy is one of peculiar
sadness. The family whose name
was Woodward, consisted of nine
children. One of the girls had re
cently married and was going to
move away with her husband. The
departure of the sister made a
break in the family, and it was de
cided] that before her going, a
family group picture would be
taken, and it was for this purpose
they were going into Chattanooga
The thoughts of Lizzie leaving
home and breaking the family cir
clo caused sadness in the heart of
of the old people, although they
did not want to stand in the way
of the success and happiness of
the young people.
“We must have a photograph of
the family taken before it is scat
tered,” suggested the mother; “one
wo can keep forever.”
I'bis was unanimously agreed
upon and it was decided to have
the picture taken at once, Wednes
day being fixed as the day.
The cr >ssiug where the tragedy
occurred is peculiarly situated.
As ti e railroad track approach
ed Harrison pike it passes through
a deep cut, and is on a heavy
grade coming from the Missionary
ridge tunnel. By the side of the
cut, which is also a curve, is a
clump of woods. As a consequence,
an engineer can see ahead only a
few hundred feet, while a pedes
train or person in a vehicle cannot
see a train until it has passed
through this cut. George, it seems,
did not notice the approaching
train, which came thundering
along at the usual rate of speed.
The engineer saw the wagon
after passing out of the cut and
blew his danger whistle. He had
previously blown for the road cross
ing. The bell of the locomotive
was ringing. When within a few
feet of the track, George, who had
seemingly paid little heed to “the
warning of the locomotive whistle,
looked up, and seeing the engine
fast bearing down upon the load
of human freight, made an effort
to check his team. He ev
idently saw he’was too late to stop
the horses, and struck the animals
several blows with a whip to get
them-over the crossing ahead of
the train, but he was too late.
The wagon, with its load of hu
man beings, was struck squarely
in the center, and the impact was
terrific, the occupants being hurled
with frightful violence through
space, the shock doubtless killing
them before their bodies struck
the ground. One of the horses
was instanly killed and the wagon
was smashed to splinters.
The front portion of the. wagon
was thrown with violence upon
the mail catch-crane standing
alongside the track, and a piece of
the axle protruding grazed the
passing coaches and broke the win
dows on the side, producing a state
of panic among the passengers,
The train was stopped as soon as
possible, and the crew and passen
gers made a brief and hurried in
vestigation*
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 3, 1897.
“To Live While You Live.”
Many a gem has been stolen by
vice from the casket of virtue and
the above expression is one of them.
Though it justly belongs to virtue
it has for ages sh >wn brillian fly in
the crown of vice. For ages past
“to live while you live” was to lead
a reckless life of drinking, gaming
and all manner of vicious deeds.
Is it so? What is it to live? What
is it to live? Is it to drink all
night and have a dizzy head all
next day? Is it a feverish skin and
empty pocket, a desolate home and
aching hearts? To live fast and die
soon, to shed many bitter tears of
remorse before we fall into an un
timely grave t nd have but few tears
for us when life is finished, in this
life? If so, the bottle and the gam
ing table are the principal constit
uents of happiness, and “to live
while you live ’ means to plunge
headlong into all shapes of vices
until you reach :he precipice and
tumble over into vast eternity.
But to live means to get as much
of life as you can, to crowd into it
as much work, as many grand
achievments and to get as much
honor and enjoyment as you can,
to have brains blood and limbs in
the best working order, that you
may enjoy life as long as possible
Then “to live while you live” means
to be good, be wise, be earnest,
be sober, be pleasant, be cheerful
and thankful. Then you will live
much longer perhaps, and enjoy
living more here and still live in a
glorious immortality when passed
awaj’ from the present life and
leave a record loved and honored
by your friends.—Marietta Jour
nal.
An Omaha old book dealer
bought a bible from a tramp last
week, who said he found it “on the
road” between Ogden and Omaha.
The bible was printed in 1600, and
has manuscript notes made in
Plymouth, Mass., in 1659. The
bookseller has refused $175 for it.
A patent was recently issued on
a device for picking up live elec
tric wires, consisting of two levers,
made of non-conducting material
and pivoted near one end to form
a pair of jaws, with which the wire
can bo grasped, the lever handles
being long enough to prevent dan
ger.
It is said that the inauguration
ball this year will be the most ex
pensive, most gorgeous and most
attractive ever seen in Washington.
What benefiis are these balls to the
common people? How much good
rebounds to the nr ral or religious
nature of man from these balls?
We believe if William J. Bryan
had been elected, that he would
have wanted no ball, would have
cared for no gaudy show, but that
he would have been inaugurated
as a Jefferson or Jackson, without
pomp or show, but in simplicity
and love for mankind.—Jackson
Herald.
The Montgomery Monitor says,
Jacksonboro is a thing of the past,
and attributes the decline of the
placj to a visit many years ago of
Lorenzo Dow, the eccentric Metho
dist preacher. The tradition is
that he was scoffed at by the
natives, and, being much discour
aged, he walked upon a bridge
spanning Beaver Dam creek, near
by, and brushed off the dust of the
place from his feet, then departing
the town. From that time the town
is said to have begun to wane.
Rome’s Tax Assessors.
Rome, Feb. 25, —At a meeting of
the city council Monday evening Ma
jor \\ . f l . Ayer, W. W. Shropshire
and E. L. Bosworth were elected city
assessors for lhe coining year.
These gentlemen are ably qualified
to till the important office and the ap
pointments will give perfect rati f;< -
livu.
AMERICA LEADS
Railroads in This Country
Are the Best.
OUR SYSTEM SUPERIOR,
German Officer Who Has
Contrasted Systems
Says So.
wa iiington, Feb. 24.—Some
time ago the German goverment
sent a commission to this country
to study tho American railroad
systems. Tho result is a report
just published and transmitted to
the state department by United
States Consul Monaghan, at Chem
nitz, in which, a frankness almost,
unknown in such cases, the com-1
missioners contrast the American •
and German railway systems»much
to the disadvantage of the latter.
The report will be of much in
forest to railway mon and even to
tho general America public, for it
shows that notwithstanding the
criticisms that have been heaped
upon our own railroads for high
charges, insufficient passenger rail
road accommodations and the like
in every point we are far in the
lead of the continental systems.
The scale of prices included in the
reports shows in favor of the Amer
ican rate, for comfortable carriages,
while in the matter of schedule
time the European railways can
not be classed at all with tho
American lines.
There is nothing in all Europe,
the consul shows, to equal in run
ning time and comfort the service
between Now York and Chicago.
Worse Thau Country Papers.
“You city fellers make a good bit
of fun out of us country editors and
the nows wo print,” said the editor
of the Hoxawottomie Bugle to the
exchange editor as he looked over
the exchange list of the groat met
ropolitan daily whose office he was
visiting,” says the Chicago Times-
Herald.
“Yes?” observed the exchange
editor, interrogatively, as he
snipped out a couple of columns of
reprint.
“Yes, you make fun of us for
printing news such as ‘Farmer
Green has painted his new barn,’
or ‘Bob Jones has bought a new
cow.’ ”
“That’s all right for you to print
It interests your readers.”
“Os course, it does. But what I
was going to say is that you city
fellers do a good deal worse than
that, by gosh I You print things
we wouldn’t think was news.”
“What?”
“Well, give me your paper, and
I’ll show you. Look there, ‘Mrs.
Potter Palmer will bo at homo this
afternoon,’ and you say other peo
ple will be at home. How about
that? My paper, tho Bugle, might
say that ‘Squire Green had painted
his barn,’ but I bo denied if it
would say that ‘Squire Green was
at home.’ Ain’t people supposed
to be at home all the time?”
How to Cure a Severe Cold.
A few weeks ago tho editor was
taken with a very severe cold that
caused him to be in a most misera
ble condition. It was undoubtedly
a bad case of la grippe and recog
nizing it as dangerous he took im
mediate steps to bring about
speedy cure. From the advertise
ment of Chamberlain’s Cough
lb medyand the many good recom
mendations included therein, we
concluded to make a first trial of
the medicine. To sav that it was
satisfactory in its results, is put
ting it very mildly, indeed. It
acted like magic and the result was
a speedy and permanent cure .
Th ' Banner of Liberty, Liberty
town, Maryland. The 25 and 50
ent sizes for sale by H. H. Arring
ton.
Highest of all in Leavening Strength.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report,
ABSOLUTELY pure
THE “FAST” YOUNGMAN.
The Duty of Fathers to Portray
Him in His True Light.
In the March Ladies’ Home
Journal Edward W. Bek writes us
the “fast” man, and the duties of
fathers to their daughters in plac
ing him where he belongs and
warning them against him. Mr.
Bok believes that if it is said of
a man that “he has seen the world,”
in other words, is “fast,” there is
instantly a singular glamour about
him in the eyes of young girls—
girls as good and pure as were ever
created. There is a scent of dan
ger about such a man, and there
are girls for whom danger, even of
this sort, has a singular fascina
tion. “The girls know that these
men are bad. ‘But so long as they
respect me and treat me as a ludy
where’s the harm?’ says the young
woman when she is called to ac
count for her company.
“As a matter of fact, the exact
things which a man does to earn
the reputation of beings ‘fast’ are
neither known nor dreamed of by
tho girls for whom such a reputa
tion has this glamour. The troub
le lies in the fact that our girls are
brought up under a system which
hesitates to call a spade by its
right name. We are afraid of of
fending or, of shocking certain fan
cied sensibilities, where making
diamonds out of spades and giving
our girls a wrong idea of actual
things.
It is all very well to be tender
in our regard for the feelings of
our girls, but there is a limit, a
point at which discretion becomes
a crime. And that point has
been reached when girls aro al
lowed to know and associate with
such men, all unconscious of the
danger. When every mother or
father, or person with whom the
duty may rest, classes the ‘fast’
man where he belongs, and port
rays him in his true light, it will
be better for our girls. It is high
time that some of them should
know that the man who leads any
thing but a pure life buys, in every
instance, that experience at a dis
tinct sacrifice to himself and at a
tremendous cost to the girl who
marries him.”
An Equal Standard of Morals.
“I believe absolutely in an equal
standard of morals for men and
women,” writes Edward W. Bok in
the March Ladies Home Journal,
replying to an inquirer. “Nor is
this an ideal condition because it
does not now exist. It is not at all
unlikely that such equality will be
I the standard of the future. At all
i events, for yourself live a pure life,
so that you may be able to look
every woman in the world in the
face and have the greatest satis
faction that can come to a man :
that when you marry you can
give to the girl of your heart what
you expect that she will bring to
you: moral purity. It is the most
solid of all foundation stones on
which a man and a woman can
begin a life of perfect understand
ing and happiness.
A Commercial reporter learned
this morning that 50,000 bushels
of western corn had been sold in
Rome within the past 30 days. If
the farmers of this section don’t
stop this foolishness the whole bus
iness will have to go into the hands
of a receiver,-—Rome Commercial.
Local Items.
Miss Mattie Jones, of shannon, Ga..
is spending, some tiiue in Fort Payne,
Ala., on a visit to Mrs. W. W. Russell.
An order was granted last Monday
to sell the lands belonging to the es
tate of Alfred Maples deceased.
Miss Florence Arnold, of LaFavettc,
is visiting the family of Jos Hammond,
near Teloga.
C. P. Williams, administrator of L.
R. Williams, deceased, was dismissed,
from said administrator in Ordinary’s
court last Monday.
Parties who send in communications
for the News will please give their
names, not for publication, but to keep
their letters out of the waste basket.
If no name is signed we cannot tell
whether it is written in good faith or
not.
Letters of dismission were given to
J. V. Wheeler, administrator in the es
tate of Mrs. C. S. Clowdis and Mrs. m.
J. Alexander, in Ordinary’s court held
last Monday. Mr. Wheeler was also
appointed administrator in Tom Atkin
son estate.
The rule nisi, to require the execu
tor of Mrs. M. W. Ponder, to show
cause why they should not give bond
in said executorship, was dismissed,
E. W. Ponder, failing to produce
sufficient proof to satisfy the court
that a bond was needed.
Mr John N. Kiker moves this
week with his family to Americus
whore they will in tho future re
side. The many friends of Mr.
Kiker and his excellent family
greatly regret their departure but
wish for them tho best of success
their new home. Mr. Kiker goes
to Americus .to be conveniently
situated to his work as stenograph
er of the Southwcsern circuit.—Cal
houn Times.
A bright idea occured to tho pro
prietor of a Tampa, Fla., shooting
range, to whom business had be
come dull. For the customary ne
gro’s heads he substituted a target
representing Weyler, with the
bull’s eye over the heart. Cuban
sympathizers immediately swarm
ed on that shooting range, forming
in line to take their turn at tho
target with the rifles, and the pro
prietor’s coffers forthwith be
came congested.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Cooper re
turned to tho city yesterday. They
have been in Boston for several
months past, where Mr. Cooper rep
resents the Howel Cotton Company
during the season. Mrs. Cooper re
turned several days since and stop
ped off in Trion to visit her moth
er, Mrs. Allgood.—Rome Tribune.
The Cartersville News reports
the convalescence of Col. R. H.
Jones of that city Col. Jones was
dangerously ill for a while, and
grave fears entertained as to his
recovery. His many friends and
acquaintances in Rome will be
glad to learn that he is improving.
Newspapers are folded, wrapped
and addressed by a machine re
cently patented by a man in Cal
ifornia. Now, if he had added a
subscription collecting attachment
ho would have had the invention
down pat.
Miss Nannie Warthen left tins
morning, Wednesday, to visit Miss
Bertha Maddox of R mid. Mrs.J.W.
Maddox is in Washington City and
on this account Miss Nannie will
probably stay several days. —Wal-
ker County Messenger.
Ripans Tabules: gentle cathartic
No. 52.