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WAR ANDJTSHORRORS.
• Graphic Description of A Stampede
By the Army of Greece.
A correspondent of the Associa
ted Press who was with the Greek
army after the baitkfcf Mati, and
the abandonment of Larissa, a
Grecian stronghold, gives the fol
lowing graphic description of the
stampede of the Greek soldiers at
night.
“When I overtook the Greek in
fantry,” the correspondent tele
graphs, “they were in straggling or
der, footsore and grimy from four
days in the trenches and b-ng ex
posures from shells enough to un
nerve even veterans. They went
along in silence, a contrast to the
ordinary chattering in the Greek
ranks. The night was pitch dark
and the red glare at Deliler in the
distance added to the wierdness of
the scene.
Later I passed batteries of artil
lery, mule trains, carts, wagons,
crying villagers, women and chil
dren. It was pitiable. All were
hopelessly mixed up. There was
no attempt at order. All arms
wore intermingled and the confus
ion was completed by the shouts
and rushes of evzones and irregu
lars in every style of outfit. Their
previous sullonness gave place to
the clamor of disappointed and
dispirited men. They forget their
weariness in wild imprecations a
gainst their generals and other offi
cers.
The retreat became a rou.t Our
carriage was slowly picking its way
through despondent men, crying
women and children and horses
and donkeys, all overladen, which
were creeping along at a snail’s
pace or prancing with nervous
fright.
Suddenly above the din of the
confused masses on the road and
the adjoining fields came a roar,
developing into a fierce, sustained
yell, rolling from the distant rear
with lightning speed. Soon in the
midst of this yell could be distin
guished cries of,
The Turks Are Upon Us.
In a few moments, a dozen
horsemen and as many riderless
steeds appeared on the left at gal
lop, the men shouting with frenzy :
‘Run! Run! The Turks are here!’
Into the night air rose this agon
izing roar, fairly paralyzing imag
nation. It will remain in my
memory forever.
The stampede was immediate.
The animals were lashed into a
gallop, and men, women, children
and soldiers joined pell mell in a
mad rush, many who fell to the
ground being trampled to death
Vehicles were overturned, mixing
up bedding, funiture, ammunition,
horses, donkeys, oxen and buffa
loes.
Accordingly to one story, the
horsemen who so suddenly appear
ed and caused this fearful stam
pede were really Circassian caval
ry which debouched from Bengha
zi ; but this report is not generally
believed.
Beside our carriage two infan
trymen appeared with faces
blanched with terror. They jum
ped up on the steps and we tried to
keep them out. One of them
thereupon leveled his rifle in our
direction. But their combined
weight on the steps of one side of
the carriage overturned it, smAsh
ed it to pieces, and the London
Times correspondent and myself
were thrown out. I was pinned
by the leg under broken timbers,
as the pandemonium around in
creased.
In a perfect insanity of terror
soldiers, irregulars and armed peas
ants began firing their rifles in eve
ry direction. From the front rear
from right and left, the bullets
whizzed; but scarcely heard above
he roar of human beings and ter
ror of maddened animals.
Even in the Ship v a pass, or in
the hottest part of the fearful
fighting at Plevna, I never witness
ed such wild firing. The whoje
plain was lit up by the
Flashes of the Rifle,
in the hand of the terror-stricken
soldiery and peasants.
Eventually the Times correspon
ent and myself succeeded in get
ting inside a ditch by the roadside
and thus proceeding slowly. In
this manner we succeded in push
ing forward for when we
were thr.by a rush from
behind and trampled upon by
scores of people. As I succeeded
in rising to my feet, an irregular
who was rushing past deliberately
turned, raised his rifle to within
three inches of my head and fired.
I ducked just in time and fell to
the ground, thus saving my life.
I had lost my companion in the
meanwhile, and walked on in the
ditch already mentioned, or else
plowed my way through the thick
of the stampede.
The mad firing continued for
fully half an hour. At the expira
tion of that time buglers were
heard sounding ‘cease firing,’ but it
was a long time before the contin
uous rattle slackened down to sin
gle shots.”
Singing Convention.
The Chattooga County singing
Convention will meet at Raccoon
mills with the Methodist church on
Saturday and Sunday May 22 and
23, which will be on Saturday be
fore the fourth Sunday.
All Sunday schools and singing
classes are entitled to four dele
gates each. Please send your best
singers. The convention will meet
on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock,
sharp. We invite all organists
and leaders of music to meet with
us, and bring your books with you.
Respectfully,
D. J, Hammond, Pres.
The Atlanta Journal wants a
method of exterminating the pota
to bug. Nothing simpler. Catch the
bug, put it on a board, put the heel
of your shoe on the bug’s back, put
your weight on the shoe, and —well,
the bug will be like “Humpty.”
All the king’s horses and all the
king’s men couldn’t put that bug
together again.
The Griffin News and Sun has
been able to find the silver lining
to the black clouds of poverty. It
says: “There is an advantage in
being poor. The poor man goes
out and gathers his own turnip
greens and has them fresh. The
rich man buys a lot wilted stuff at
the grocery, which his French cook
ruins,”
I =Mothers! a
y discom- is
I forts and S
*■ dangers of I 4 * I
child-birth can E
H be almost en- S
tirely
H Wine of g
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pectant moth
ers. It gives
toneto the gen- NqgEBSF \
r, ital organs, and
B puts them in
' j condition to do their work
■ perfectly. That makes preg
nancy less painful, shortens
Q labor and hastens recoveryafter
3 child-birth. It helps a woman
J bear strong healthy children.
has also brought happiness to
U? thousands of homes barren for
r, years. A few doses often brings
1 joy to loving hearts that long
I for a darling baby. No woman
should neglect to"try it for this
trouble. It cures nine cases out
of ten. All druggists sell Wine
of Cardui. f i.oo per bottle.
For advice In cases requiring special
directions, address, giving symptoms,
the “Ladies’ Advisory Department,
K The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
Mrs. LOUISA HALE,
of Jefferson, Ga., says:
•‘When 1 first took Wine of Cardui
I] we had been married three years, but
M eould not have any children. Nine
■ months later I had a fine girl baby.** H
Forbearance.
No community can prosper or be
happy, without the spirit of charity,
and forbearance, for the views, the
actionsand the faults of others.
Envy, hatred and malice are forbid
den in the scriptures, and we are
commanded to love one another.
Unfortunately, lor the weakness of
human nature, and the dominance
of human passion, this attribute of
mutual love, is conspicuously want
ing, and we allow the fires of hate
to smolder in the furnace of pas
sion until all the finer feelings of
our nature burn to ashes, to be cast
to the winds that blow from the
waste places of the earth, and which
come charged with poison to the
soul. Mau is a social being and he
cannot live and maintain a high
standard of civilization as long as
he forgets the high duties which
God and nature have enjoined up
on him and in the discharge of
which are to be found the noblest
aspirations, the most exalted
thought and glimpses of that other
life, for which this is but the prep
aration. It is poor consolation to
any people to know tl at the only
harmony they can have, is that of
the grave, or that the only peace
they can have, is the peace of death.
What a thought! None who cher
ish feelings of enmity, such as char
acterize some communities, should
ever visit the resting places of the
dead, without a touch of shame, be
cause they too will very soon come
to that common condition, where
neighbors do not quarrel, where
gossips do not disturb, and “where
the wicked cease from .troubling
and the weary are at rest.” Life
is short at best, and has enough of
trial and disappointment without
having our conditions here aggra
vated by vexations, and unseemly
and unvailing contentions.—Ex.
The Atlanta Weekly Journal is
now running a missing word con
test.
For fifty cents they send the
Weekly Journal one year and al
low the person sending the sub
scription one guess at the missing
word. The sentence select9d is:
“He who has ceased to enjoy his
friend’s has ceased to love
him.”
The missing word is the one nec
essary to fill out the above sen
tence and make perfect sense. It
is not a catch word, but is a plain
every day English word.
To the person first guessing the
right word The Journal will give 5
per cent of the amount of sub
scription received during the three
months that this contest lasts, and
5 per cent additional will be evenly
divided between all other persons
who may guess the missing word.
The Weekly Journal is a first
class family paper, having ten
pages filled with matter that will
interest all members of the family.
It has a first-class woman’s page;
an admirable children’s page; at
least one good story every week; a
vast amount of miscellaneous fea
tures ; and all the news of the world.
Address the Atlanta .Journal, At
lanta, Ga-
An editor in Minnesota has
“made his pile and will devote him
self hences jrth to work of doing
nothing and enjoying himself.”
This to notify the showmen where
to find the greatest curiosity of the
age.—Florida Citizen.
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EjLBKEB’S GIKGZB TOHIC Many who w-re bope-
Jesaaod diacouraged bare regained health by its use.
MOTICK.
1 wakt every man and woman in th J United
states interested in the Opium and Whisky
babita to have one of my books on these dis
*ases - Address B. M. Woolley, Atlanta,
3ox 382, and one will be sent ~ou free.
A SUDDEN DEATH.
A Former Chattoogan Dies In
Gordon County.
Below will be found an account
of the sudden death of Mr. A. J.
Middleton, formerly a citizen of
this county, which is clipped from
the Calhoun Times. Mr. Middle
ton was once in business in Sum
merville and left here to go to Cal
houn. He was known to a large
number of the citizens of this
county and was highly esteemed
as an honorable and upright citi
zen.
“On last Wednesday morning
Mr. A. J. Middleton, who has lived
for several years near Decora, went
to bis breakfast as well as usual,
and after eating walked into a
nother room and sat down where
he died almost instantly. He had
not complained of being sick and
his death is supposed to have been
the result of heart failiure.
Mr. Middleton was 66 years old
and had lived in this county since
1871 except one year spent in Tex
as. He was for many years a mer
chant in Calhoun and was well
known to most of the citizens of
the county.
He was married in 1853 to Miss
Nancy A. Gray, sister of Mr. Z. T.
Gray and raised eleven children
all of whom, except one, are
grown. For forty years Mr. Mid
dleton was an active Mason and
for 25 years a member of the Bap
tist church.
He was buried Thursday at Cor
inth church with Masonic honors
after a religious service by Rev.
John Martin Mcßryan.
Messrs Joe and Walter Middle
ton, of Nashville, came down and
attended the funeral.”
Children Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria.
A reign of terror pervades the
entire section around Gordon and
every man within three miles of
the town, armed with guns and
clubs, is devoting his time to dog
killing. No such panic has been
known there in years as that now
existing. Hydrophobia is the
dread of all. Two persons have
died with the rabies within five
miles of that place within the
past few days. Each one was bit
ten by the same dog, and there are
at least six others whose flesh was
lacerated by the same fangs.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Mr. C. J. Manning, at his saw
mill, the other day, in sawing a
post oak log of consideable size,
found imbedded six inches in the
tree an iron hook, which was
doubtless driven into the tree when
it was a sapling as a hitching post
for horses. Years of growth had
covered it up and was only discov
ered by the saw. He also found in
the heart of a log a well preserved
piece of leather, which had been
nailed to the tree many years ago.
—Marrietta Journal.
Jlo-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c, SI. All druggists.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Superior court at McDonough
last week was marked by at least
one unusual feature. It was a
suit by a negro against a white
man for slander. The negro is a
democrat and the white man is a
republican.
Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Yonr Life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or 81. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Reports from Fort Valley and
vicinity concerning the fruit crop
are not at all encouraging, some of
the experts being quoted as saying
that the peach crop has been in
jured 90 per cent in that immedi
ate section.
■When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castori*.,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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