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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.