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Peerless
“IS THAT AIL, CAPTAIN?"
’em broke his wrist when he fell, ’cause
be tried to save his old fiddle from get
ting busted. Said it was all he had to
get-a living with. Yon better not fool
with these fellers, 1 tell yon. They’re
mighty spirited boys, these is."
Well. Griswold said that he had agreed
to lecture there, and he believed that he
would try it He began and showed
good nerve. Yon can imagine, how
ever, the feelings of a man who is try
ing to wring laughter from an andience
who came to mob him, and who had
not been above mobbing a helpless little
band of blind singers. He got about
half way through when the noise was
too great for him, and then his wife
came forward. Her eyes blazed. The
mIm cessed for a moment
Don’t bay a Freezer until you
have seen the “Peerless” and the
“Gem.” They have been tried and
found perfect See them and get
informed before you purchase your
Freezer.
A fine line of Suipmer / Goorla ar
riving at the Housekeeper’s Head
quarters,
209 Broad Street,
K E. JONES & CO.
April 11—dtffnexteitcol
“Well, Uncle Hose, I hear yon have
another pair of twins at your house.”
- “Yaas, missus, yes, we haa. Lord trees
dey little hearts.”
“Have yon named them yet?"
“Yes’m. Done named ’em aftah two
ob de fust pres’deuta ob dis country.”
“Indeed? What two?"
“Ole Christofo Clumbus an’ Juleyous
Coosa r, ma’am. We’se great on namin'
Wf'
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*HE ATHENS BANNER SUNDAY MORNINUMAY 10, 1891
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WANDERlflG BILL NYE.
A FEW MORE REMARKS ABOUT
TEXAS ANO THINGS.
• SI Wat Tmtm4 Ha la Safaris* to as
(Oopjrridu. tan. br Edgar w. Nya.1
lx Tax as Still.
Today we rode past whole townships
of cacti All kinds of rare vegetables
grow in this strange and mighty state,
lbs fuzzy cactus flourishes hers es
pecially—flourishes like a professional
There is nothing small about
ranch that does not embrace
moral
THE DOWNTRODDEN CHEROKEE.
a whole town is hardly worth assessing.
A county with a barbed wire fence
around it is more like the customary
thing. A friend of mine here has the
best of a county. It is fenced in with
barbed wire, which the outlaw used to
cut now and then so that the cattle
would get out and wander away into
Pern and other neighboring places. He
h:»d to keep a force of cowboys to “ride
the lines” and examine the fence every
dny, until it occurred to him that he
could make the top wire a telegraph
wire, and with an instrument at head
quarters he could detect a break and
locate it at any time So now a line re
pairer and a cheap operator, who has
nothing to do but to communicate with
himself all day, constitute the fence
force in place of the old and expensive
corps of riders and repairers.
We rode up from Galveston the other
day with Conductor Taylor. He is a
hearty man with a genial smile filled
with mirth and gilt edged teeth. He is
the kind of conductor who looks out for
his passengers’ comfort He telegraphed
ahead and got a lunch for us, which
saved our lives no doubt, for we had to
travel all day on the Houston and
Shreveport railroad, which is said to be
the worst in the United States. Yet it
is a genial and accommodating road.
All the trains are accommodation trains.
The one 1 rode on stopped fifteen min
utes while a tall man went back to re-
covef bis hat, and it was not a very
good hat either.
When the train pauses at a station on
the Houston and Shreveport road the
little bronze razorback hog comes and
eats the axle grease off the cars, and the
inebriated Cherokee Indian assists his
jag on board the train and reproaches
the white man for robbing him of his
lands. We had one as a fellow passen
ger. He wore a pink shirt, with large,
wide flounces at the wrists and around
his neck. He had been drinking, so 1
was told by people who knew him.
thongh 1 thought at first that it was his
way. He spoke of the past with some
sorrow, and as he held my hand a great
big warm tear welled up in his dark eye
and fell on my vest He said that his
folks owned all the south at one time,
bat the white man came among them,
and two or three treaties with thirty
days and costs deprived them of their
once lands. *
0 The Cherokee has not been well treat
ed, of course. Neither has the negro,
nor anybody else, for that matter. The
heathen has been imposed upon, and so
has the missionary who went across the
sea to knock a little gospel into him. A
missionary who graduated with me—at
. the same female seminary, in fact—went
over to sock a little Calvinism into the
heart of Timbuctoo, bnt his relatives to
day do not even know the names of
the folks who ate him. On the other
hand, the heathen is said to murmur a
good deal about the flavor of several
well meaning pastors who need tobacco
to excess, and which impaired their use
fulness from a food standpoint The
use of tobacco for many yean makes the
most toothsome people as unpalatable as
* Mexican.
In the day coach there was a lady
with a snuff stick in one corner of her
month, asleep. The “dipper" is quite
common here among the plain people.
If one oould have seen this peri slum
boring there, with her snuff swab in the
oorner of her sagging jaw and the com-
cob stopper of a bluing bottle—which
did not contain bluing any more, how
ever—as it peeped from the pocket of
her deep and profound mourning dress,
he would have said to himself, “How
cool and restful must have seemed the
grave in which her husband secreted
himself!” Any way that is what I said.
Others, of course, might have looked at
the matter differently, however.
Everything is out of repair on the
Shreveport road except the receiver. He
is looking first rate.
In Louisiana the great parent of wa
ters was on the rampage. Recently pipes
and domes of one kind and another have
been inserted at various points along the
banks of the river, so 1 am informed,
and when the water is high a leakage
frequently occurs which grows at last to
be a terrific crevasse. Then the water
wanders away all over the state, and
floats Hie pork barrel in the cellar of the
better classes.
We met up with the Mississippi and
fonnd where it was at, more than six
bours before we really crossed it I was
minutes, 1 concluded that possibly I had
missed it in Mississippi. All railway
conductors in the south are captains.
Captain Taylor, of the Sant* Fe, said
that they used to do a very poor busi
ness between Galveston and Houston.
Once, he said, he played to fifteen cents
a round trip. I think he used this term
in order to make himself clear.
Speaking of the show business reminds
me of a pleasant afternoon and evening
with Mr. Griswold, the old “Fat Con
tributor,” only a few days before his
sodden death. He was a most gentle
and genial man to meet, and when I use
the overworked word “genial” 1 do so
because it did really fit him. He told
me about his experience as a lecturer in
X little place, 1 think, in Pennsylvania.
This town had made a laudable reputa
tion for itself twenty-five or thirty years
ago because it could and did break up
everything in the line of a show that 1
had come there for years. What a glo- ’
rious ambition! Just as some of the
tough schools of the woolly wilderness
used to clean out the teachers who tried
to educate them. 1 remember one case
where a consumptive boy teacher was
virtually murdered by big boys in such
school His successor only remained
one day, but he conquered the school.
He entered at 9 o'clock with a Bible, a
valise and an armful of beech gads. He
oi>ened with prayer. Then he read a
chapter and opened his valise. He took
out a hammer and a big nail. He drove
the large nail into the door frame over
the latch. Then he took a big revolver
out of his valise, and with that in one
hand and a big beech whip in the other
he went at that school, and with won
derful generosity and liberality, and a
commendable equity, he whipped every
boy in that school so that people passing
by thought there was a carpet renovat
ing establishment inside. He did it so
well that two of those boys are now said
to be in the ministry, and two of them
doing time in congress for a term of
years.
Then he took his valise and left the
place. He never asked for any salary,
but those who saw him last saw him
with his little valise in his hand, crying
over the grave of his brother, the poor
consumptive teacher who preceded him,
and who gave bis life to this tough and
heartless school.
Well, “the Fat Contributor” was ad
vertised to “argy” at the hall on a cer
tain evening in the town 1 speak of, and
as he did not know anything about the
place or this record, which, I am told, is
now forgotten almost, he had no fearj
about it. and so went there to honestly
please and entertain people as well as he
could, knowing that if they did not like
his methods they had the divine right to
remain away.
Well, after the owner of the hall had
received his fee, and had filed it carefully
away in the dried pancreas of a “beef
critter”—which was the popular purse in
that town—he told “Gris” that they had
the reputation there of breaking up
every show that came, no matter what it
was. Not because the show was poor,
mind yon, bnt because the town had a
reputation to sustain.
“Oh, yes.” he said, “the last thing
was what’s called the blind vocalists.
Come back here and I’ll show you where
they had to jump out Struck down
there, about thirty feet, on that lumber
pile. 1 bet you it was rich. One of ’em
was deef, and she lost her bearings and
thumped her head agin that blacksmith
shop over there. Oh, they lit out like a
scared covey of quails, you bet One of
Fair Bostonian (on a visit abroad)—
By the way, Mr. Kipling, may 1 ask
what is your favorite vegetable?
Mr. Rndyard Kipling—Certainly. Miss
TicklowelL My preference among vege
tables is the dolichos ensiformis
(Haughtily) “It is not a matter of the
■lightest consequence, Mr. Kip”
(Hastily) “Or sword bean of' India.
• * * Certainly, Miss Ticklowell, cer
tainly, I shall be happy to call on you
when I visit Boston.”—Chicago Tribune.
A. —Will you tell me where Great
Jones street is?
B. —Har?
A. —Will you tell me where Great
Jones street is?
B. —Excuse me, I’m a lee tie deef.
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O.'A. WELL
H. B. LINTON
OLD CHARTER
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Bluthenthai & Bickart,
Wholesale Whiskey Merchants,
46, 48 and 50 Marietta St.
Atlanta, Ga.
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DR. BOWES A to.
Southern Medical Dispensary, Atlanta, Ga
Chronic, Xenons and Private Diseases
A—Where is Great Jones street?
B.—I don’t know—I'm a stranger here.
—Scribner’s Magazine.
My Friend O’Gallagher.
My friend Sullivan O'Gallagher was
in business for himself.
The fact that it was peculiar did not
make it less profitable.
My friend O’Gallagher was a watch
man at the hospital, and the City
Fathers paid him a good salary for
sleeping and eating and cheating.
He never wronged his friends, for he
had but one—his stomach. He could eat
a safe, warranted indigestible; and his
conscience was lazy and slept, even
when O'Gallagher was awake and about
his business. >
My friend O’Gallagher also supplied
certain institutions with dead bodies—
“stiffs” he called them—for the edifica
tion of various yonng men and in the
interest of science. O'Gallagher was
watchman, sexton, gravedigger and
chief and only mourner, so he had it, as
he was wont to tell me, “All me own
steering, and no bloody bobbies inter
ferin’,” for my friend O'Gallagher was
an English Irishman.
One day my friend O’Gallagher ob
served the fact that the occupant of bed
16, ward C, was in a bad way, and the
chief physician said that No. 16 C would
be among the angels or somewhere else,
where no respectable member of society
would care to be seen, in about thirty
minutes.
Then O’Gallagher pat No. ISCin a-
wooden box, lifted him on his shoulder,
carried liim through the graveyard to his
wagon, dumped him in, chirruped to the
moles and started off in the direction of
the medical institution.
No. 16 C complained of the jolting and
remarked that he was still alive.
“Shut up, yon blackguard I” said my
friend O'Gallagher, “Didn’t yon hear the
doctor say ye’d be dead in thirty min
utes, and sure isn’t it forty-five minutes’
drive to the institution?"—New York
Evening Son.
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Rererencca : Constitution, Jacobs Pharmacy Co.
8—d!62t.
Announcement to the Trade. .
We are now offering to the trade, a well-selected line of
of Spring Goods. Wo invite you to call and get our prices
before buying elsewhere. Hammocks, Base Ball Goods,
Tennis Goods, and many novelties in fine Stationery.
We bavn’t gotten them in “car load” lots, but have taken great care in
selecting a.nice line, of which we .are selling at “car load” prices—cheaper
than ever offered here before. People buy where they can gel the best
goods for the least money. It will pay you to call on us.
THE J^lCKSOUST & BUT?EE CO.
THE NEW BOOK STORE.
107 BROAD STREKI ATHEN8, OA.
Name this pancr.
Nov f
Breaking in
isn’t needed, with the Ball
corset. It’s easy from the
start. Coils of tiny wire
springs in the sides make it
so. There are bones that
bend, but can’t break, and
soft eyelets that won’t cut
the laces. You’ll like it.
If you don’t, after a few
weeks’ wear, just return it
and get your money.
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PASSENGER SCHEDULE.
G-eorgia Scmthera & Florida Railroad,
SUWANEE RIVER ROUTE TO FLORIDA.
Taking effect January 4,1891. Standard Time, 90th Meridian.
GOING SOUTH.
GOING
NORTH.
2 15 p. m.
6 15 p.m.
7 00 p..m.
9 86 p. m.
11 07 p. m.
18 45 a. m.
3 55 am.
6 55 a. m.
10 45 a. m.
11 00am.
1 65 p. m.
3 25 p. m.
5 00 p. m.
7 05 p. m.
Leave....
Arrive...
Leave....
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Arrive...
Arrive...
...Atlanta
.. Macon
...Macon,.../....,
.....Cordele
... Tilton
...Valdosta
..Arrive..
...Leave..
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...Arrive..
...Arr ve..
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10 00 p. in.
8 05 p.m.
5 55 p. m.
8 28 p.m.
1 86 p 'm.
12 01 a. m.
9 55 am.
10 00 a. m.
6 10 a. m. 7
6 45 a. m.
8 18 a.m.
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18 18 agbt
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.. Jacksonville, ..
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8 Op. m.
8 15 a. m.
13 03 a. m.
10 15 p. ni.
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... Palatka
. St Angnstine,.
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7 warn,
6 25 p. au
2 80 p.m.
Train! arrive and depart from onion depot* in Macon and P^Ulka and ?. C. A, P, depot in
Jacksonville.
Puli man sleeping cats od night trains.
Connection north bound ana south bound is made in Mason with trains on Central and E. T
V. A G. Railroad*
A. C. KNAPP, J. T. HOGE; L. J. HARRIS.
Traffic Manager. Gen. Paaa Ag’L Ticket dgent, Union denot.
HENRY BUBNriTo. T. and P. A. No. 518 Mulberry 8t. Macon, Ga. po **'
C. C. ROD-iS, Jr., Soliciting Agent, 8 Kimball Block, Atlanta, Ga.
L. C. CONOVA, C. T. A. R. T. RICHARD, Agrat^Union Depot W. P. LAW8HE, T. P. A, -
JAMBS MENZIES, Southeastern Agent!'iMWeatBay Street, Jacksonville, Fla,