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with the Ball corset: if you
want ease and shapeliness,
you buy it—but you don’t
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South Hutchlsson, Kan.
This piece is written in the president's
room or the Bank of South Hutchinson.
The president is not here, however.
Neither is the cashier, nor the teller, nor
the first or second bookkeeper, nor the
away.
little
dded to flea together. Ton will
e»» at Coney Island, and tipping up
one aide of tbe United Statee wherever
she treads tbe writhing streets. I saw
her on a bobtail car last summer. She
was standing up and holding a damp
dog. Cor it wats a rainy day. She was
bolding on by a strap and starting tbe
gathers in her skirt a good deal. Her
drees waist waa made with a little jack
rabbit tail to it which hunched np more
and man as we moved along, and ex
tended oat over the dashboard, as I may
say, like .the tin, anti-caterpillar over
skirt on the giant elms off Boston Corn-
power.
Yon will wonder why 1 am here all
alone in a bank, and in a state where 1
am so well known, and yon will natu
rally say that it is an odd situation, and
yon will wander how soon I am going to
stop writing and knock off the door of
the vault; bnt I shall not toy with the
vault It is open. There is no one to
defend it 1 can take my time. The po
lice of Sonth Hutchinson will not dis
turb me. I could do business here all
day and clear into the night and no one
would annoy me.
Down the street there Is a three story
brick block with brown stone trim
mings and covering half a square. It
is called the Indiana block. It probably
cost $400,000. In it a mamma hornet is
building her nest She and 1 own the
town. How quiet it is! The hum of in-
dustry and the sharp, metallic report of
tile city council have died away, and the
last echo of the exploded boom has long
since been smothered by the deep si
lence.
Even as the hot and hungry torrent
and the dry and ashy deluge smote the
business interests of Pompeii and hnshed
the great heart beat of industry and life
and social activity, so tbe lightning
sought out and perforated the shiny and
distended boom of South Hntchinsou,
and today, while the mocking bird
whistles in the peach orchard far away,
and the shorthorn buhl-buhl is calling
to her mate in the blnegrass pastures
across the heaving prairies, myself and
the mamma hornet in the $100,000 brick
and stone block are practically con
trolling the business coarse of the town.
From the front door of my bank I can
see the steam laundry of Sonth Hutchin
son, bnt no steam escapes from the
waste pipe. No gleaming white shirt
tails crack defiantly in the crisp zephyrs
of Kansas. No'hot, soapy air of indus
try and prosperity conies from the broken
windows and sagging doors. No strange,
mysterious health garments or singnlur-
#ly distorted and nnnatural litigerie, dis
tended by the lascivious breeze, hangs
on the broken and Tagged clothesline.
Near by stands the blacksmith and
carriage shop of Sonth Hutchinson, but
the village smithy and the red fire of his
forge have gone out together. On his
door is written in bine paint, by means
' of a rather passe broom:
Her hair also was becoming disar
ranged, and one could see a sediment of
salermtns on her flashed scalp. She did
not know whether to let her hair come
down or ask some total stranger to hold
the dog. At that moment the car gave »
great larch, and with a sob she sat down
in the lap of a man with a raspberry
nose and deeply-dyed anthracite whis
kers. As I came away she was still sit
ting there, and, mingling with the dead,
museum black of his long jute beard, 1
saw the loosened masses, the great
wealth of insincere and antique oak hair
belonged, apparently, to the sal-
eratns blonde.
Bnt she is not hero now. Neither is
the precocious Little Lord Fauntleroy
who usually frightens people away from
hotel. He also has gone. Tou will
not see him here now. Toucan almost
enjoy yourself, it is so destitute of him.
The kicker also has gone. He did the
best he conld for the last few days that
he was here, and then he found that one
man could not do the matter justice un
less he got a clerk who conld speak sev
eral languages. So he went away, and
now you can only see the freckles on
the front of the counter where ho has
kicked against his bill.
Kansas generally and Hutchinson
proper are in a more hopeful condition
than for many years past. The abun
dant rains have guaranteed a good crop
already, and a good -crop in Kansas
makes the granaries of the globe laugh
and hold their sides with ill concealed
joy. Hero also may be seen not only in
dustry but thrift. James Garvey, the
railroad rancounter and after dinner
speaker (also a good before dinner con
versationist), said yesterday that a
neighbor of his advertised this spring
for 100 men to catch driftwood on shares.
He soon got a nice little crew - at work,
and has built up a good business, which
is almost devoid of the disagreeable ele
ment of risk. It is as safe as the indus
try-60 popular on Madison avenne and
Fifth avenue, which is conducted by the
bright youth of New York, and which
consists in stealing valuable cats and
then waiting for a reward. Sometimes
a dog which is distasteful to the hus
band is offered to one of these boys, with
a two dollar bill in addition if he will
drown iL He keeps it until the wife
offers five dollars for its return, and then
he sneaks it around to the honse, thus
making seven dollars on a 27-ounce dog
found that
piglete died off, and so it waa condemned
and made iato a depot I sat there three
They do- hoars, and all that I could find to
rill see her was a copy of The American Beek
for 1819, and it had been used to clean
the lamps with. Bnt I road all of it
Part of it I memorized.
There was a barber shop at Btitmoro,
bat being Sunday it was dosed while
the proprietor scrubbed the clotted blood
off tbe floor. I do not shave myself yet*
though 1 am going to try it this sum
mer. So 1 took the train, bearded as 1
was like a pard, as I beard a poet get off
the other day. 1 stepped overnight at
Knoxville, but left before the shops were
opened in the morning. That evening 1
had to argue in tbe hall at Dayton, O.,
and would get there at 8:15 p. in. Sol
saw no chance to get shaved. I feel
naturally great pride in my personal ap
pearance. It is all 1 have. When one
has been endowed that way I do not
think it is wrong to add to one’s per
sonal beauty by shaving every five days.
I spoke to Joe Harris, a member of the
Tennessee legislature, about this, and he
said it was rather tough to lecture with
a “Ten-Nights-in-a-Barroom" beard, and
would 1 mind letting him shave me at
the junction, where we had to wait
thirty minutes. I thought a moment,
and then I said I believed I would vent
ure. He was very kind. He did not do
it as a general thing, but he wanted to
do me a favor, and he had a nice razor
that came as a prize to each subscriber
of The Little Hnstler, a monthly child’s
paper.
We got off at the junction and retired
to the woodshed of a pleasant little cafe
near by. The rest of tbe passengers
came along also. All of East Tennessee
not otherwise engaged came too. Some
left their work and came. They were
still coming when we got through. The
effects of the amesthetic wore off as 1
approached Lexington, and my face
pained me a good deal, but I looked bet
ter, every one said. Mr. Harris deserves
my thanks, and 1 heartily tender them:
[ can truly say that I was never more
ielightfully shaved in my life—by
nember of the legislature.
Since then 1 have bought some razors,
md os 1 write these lines I am nerving
nyself up to try one of them. Napoleon
laid that the men who won victories and
jonquereH the world shaved themselves,
t have got some new sliaying soap that
smells like the upper drawer of Cleopa
tra’s clothes press, and I have a bright
new strop, with a red case for it, and a
beautiful pad of sliaviug paper, and a
hunk of alum to staunch the blood if I
ent the core ont of my Adam's apple b>
mistake. Tomorrow, if the sign should
be right, I will shave myself.
Goue to the Upper Congo valley
to shoe a passle of elephants. Will
: he back in a few momenta.
yean. In that tone tea or eleven sons ap
pealed and broke, causing me great pain aad
suffering. I feared I never should get well.
“ Early la lias I went to Chicago to visit a
sister, hut was confined to my bed moot of the
time I was there. In July I read a hook,‘A
Day with a arcus,’h» which were statements
of cores hy Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I was so Im
pressed wilh tbe soccesa of this medicine that
I decided to try it- To my great graUHcation
the sores soon decreased, and I began to feel
better and In a Short tone I was am and
onto! doors. I continued to take Hood’s Sar
saparilla for about a year, when, baring nsed
ilx bottles, I had become so fu«y released
from the disease that I went to work lor the
Flint & Waning Mfg. Co., and since then
BAva hot non* a scram sat
on account of sickness. 1 believe the disease
is expelled boo my system, I always feel wen,
am in good spirits and hare a good-appetite.
I am now 3T years of age and can walk as well
as any. one, except that one limb is a little
shorter than the other, owing to the loss of
hone, and the sores formerly on my right leg.
To my friends my recovery seems almost
miraculous, and I think Hood’s Sarsaparilla
la the king of medicines.” William A.
Lxhb, 9 N. Bailroad St.. KendaUrille, lad.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by mil druggists. *l t slxfor*J. Prepared only
by a I. HOOD A GO, ApotheeedM, Israeli. Uses.
IOO Doses One Dollar
e best known Furniture House in Athens. In
market our Cash gets the bed rock price and at home our
long experience gives the people confidence in our goods.
We have too the best selection in plain, fancy ami artistic furniture. Our im
mense Ware-Rooms are full to overflowing. We invite an inspection of the
stock at prices that cannot be met by tho«e having no experience in the business.
We also have k full line of Coffins, Caskets, ete.
J3. S- EDGE FURNITURE CO.,
Furniture and. Undertaking,
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May 9
321, 322 and 323 Uroad St., next to S. C. Dobbs.
cFvh IS—dkwim.
Our Spring and Summer Stock
IS NOW READY FOR INSPECTION !
OR. BOWES A to.
Seitheis Hedlcal Dlspessary, Atlanta, Ga
Chromic, Nerves* ssd Private Diseases.
It comprises all the latest designs of foreign and domestic manufactures
carefully selected by Mr. C. H. Feiris. Ii is the most complete selection
we have ever ottered. Everything that is new and stylUh has been bought.
Taking these facts into consideration, in connection with our established
reputation for good fitting, stylish and well trimmed clothes, we are more
than ever able to give satisfaction.
. Tailors and Outfitters,
fc20 BROAD STREET. - - - AUGUSTA, GA.
Samples mailed on application. Feb 27—cdecl3—d3m
Covington & Macon Railroad.
lETWEEN MACON AND ATHENS.
NORTHBOUND.
SOUTHBOUND.
The air of the shop is still and depress
ing. Where once the melody of the
anvil rang out, and tbe soft and seduc
tive odor of the scorched foot of the
bronco filled the glad morning, now all
. is hashed. The red glow has died away
in tbe giant, heart of the forge. The
smithy washed his groat big honest
hands in the water trough, and polling
down his sleeves to cohceal the bright
red beard upon his massive forearms he
went away. Rust and ruin are giving
place to tbe activity and crash and
hurry of trade.
Excuse me a moment while I step into
the cashier’s room and pay myself off as
president of the bank. I will be back
in a moment
Down a street or two farther is the
barber shop and bath works of Sonth
Hntchinson, bnt even the voice of the
barber is still. I couldn’t, if I tried for
weeks, express the fall meaning of the
term “quiet” any more powerfully than
that Here and there about the door
the quick eye of the visitor may see the
Bhorn and grizzled locks of the honest
-boomer of other days, bnt tbe lather is
dry in tbe old sink, and the last echo of
the loud smelbng hair oil of the happy
pH past has died away in the bosom of the
poorly planned acoustics of the past
Even the low, hoarse death rattle of
the bathtub has ceased in its silent
throat, and the gas leak, with its hands
across its breast and its feet in the soap
dish, recks not of the flight of gathering
years. '
The hotel is also quiet Wait till I
dose the safe and wo will go over to the
hotel a moment No one rashes to the
door to pull the handle off your valise
and check it for yon. No one stands be
hind the richly caparisoned counter to
give yon a dripping pen with one leg
amputated anil a dead cockroach on the
other. Yon can select your own room
now—with a bath and southern expos
ure too, if yon wish it Tbe police will
A BEAUTIFUL MAUVE BEARD.
sometimes. Lot booming seems to be
pretty well over, and now that the law
has gone,into effect reserving 160 acres
of land in each county for agricultural
purposes there is nothing in the way of
prosperity.
Pueblo, Colo., is going to have a min
eral palace that will certainly astonish
and delight everybody with its luxuri
ance, taste and beauty. Abundance of
money has been produced, and the build
ing will be open by the middle of June.
It will be the finest exhibit of minerals,
no doubt, in the world, and the building
will be worth going hundreds of miles
to see. The dome is said to be the sec
ond only in size in this country, and the
decorations are most beautiful. The
arts and sciences will also have a part of
the building. ■ The Gold King, the Sil
ver Queen and King Coal will be beauti
ful and costly figures of great size, and
will be in session during the entire time.
The palace is Egyptian in style, with
American door handles.
Among other minerals to be exhibited
will be native gold, silver, platinum,
mercury, copper, magnetic ore, chromic
iron, celibate, pyrites, galena, nickel ore,
quartz, feldspar, calamus, mica, beryl,
tourmaline, pearline, garnet, malachite,
Hittite, hornblende, Terpentine, asbes
tos, wavettite, bracite, baryta, gypsum,
calc spar, talc, stalactites, free silver
talc, stalagmites, floor spar, sulphur,
graphite, alum, borax, bluing, salt, coal,
time, cement, green and dry bides, stove
wood aad plastering hair. There will
also be pilasters of white and colored
marble, alabaster, onyx, agatized wood
and obisidan. Other things will i
added from time to time. It is really
going to be a most wonderful collection
of the rich minerals of the most wonder
fnl state in this most wonderful repub
lic.
I had a strange and wild experience
last month. I had been in the hills of
North Carolina four days, and a beauti
ful mauve beard had sprung up tike a
Ho\r They Met*
A Court street car in Brooklyn stopped
at Harrison to let-a lady wearing a
spring hat alight At the same moment
a lady wearing her winter hat wanted to
take the same car. They met face to
face on the lower step. -They were
strangers. The one with the spring hat
had the right of way, and she tossed li'-r
bead in a defiant manner. Winter Hat
felt that the odds were against her, but
she braced .up and looked the other
square in the eye aud refused to give
way.
“All outr shouted the conductor,
reaching for the bellrope.
Spring Hat would not budge. Winter
Hat would not retreat *
“All aboard!”
Spring Hat glared at Winter Hat, and
the end of her nose was elevated a bit
Winter Hat returned the glare, and
pug nose tried the same dodge, but
conldu’t elevate.
“Ladies, don’t detain the cart” cried
the conductor, and his words encouraged
Winter Hat to renewed exertions. She
pulled herself up the step, crowded
Spring Hat against the side of the car,
and entered the door'with a smile of
triumph on her face. The other stepped
off, gave her skirts a shake and her head
a toss and walked away, bnt despite her
dignity and defiance the conductor
looked after her and said:
“Finest spring hat on the whole tine,
bnt the lady inside takes the gate re
ceipts.”—New York World.
klCDlfflllO debility, seminal loases, lmpalv-
IsCflVUUO ed vital enemy, despondency,
lorn ol memory, effects of bait (mbits, confusion
of Ideas, safely and permanently cured.
Blood and Skin all*of its terrible re
sults totally eradicated. Ulcers, notches, sore
or ulceratcjl throat and mouth, scrofula, erysip
elas. Permanently cured when others have
failed.
TTr-ino t>vt Sidney and bladder troubles, fre-
Ut mat y quent nnd burning urine, gon-
orrbo-a, gleet, urinary sediments, cystitis, etc.,
qn ckl, cured.
Urethra
or
ess or occupation.
CUgIS GCmNTKF.D.
SURE CURE To young and middle-aged
men who have foolishly wasted their eneigiea.
Bend tic. in stamps for “ Perfect question List”
and book “ Diseases of Men.” Address Dr.
Bowes A Co. 2\4 Marietta street. Atlanta, Qa.
Betercnccs : C institution, Jacobs Pharmacy Co.
Name this paper. not 6—d!52t.
Too Much.
Customer—How much are these trous
ers?
Tailor—Twenty Hollars, sir
Customer—Got any cheaper?
Tailor—No. sir
Customer—Then change them to black.
(Sorrowfully) I want to be buried in
them.—Brooklyn Life.
Second Clans.
Local Ft.
Daily ex.
Sunday-
7 to am.
8 06
8 10
8 18
8 30
.8 42
8 S3
9 It
9 35
10 05
10 40
10 55
11 18
U 05 pm.
12 37:
l 0!);
1 15
1 27
0 00
2 40
2 45;
3 io:
3 50
4 25
4 50
5 02
5 14
5 35
5 55 pm.
Fit at C:at>s
51
Fast Mali
Daily.
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12 12
TIME TABLE.
In Effect Wedi.cedar;
April 2. 191.
. Lv Macon li.T.D—Ar.
Lv Macon
M ssey’s Mi l
Chalk Cut....
Van Huren..
Huberts.
Mocuu'
M rtci
Grays
Biadley
Wayside ....
Bound Oak
Hillsboro, ..
AdgaieviUe,
Mlmietta •..
Monticcllo...
Maclien ....
Shady Dale.
Marco
Godfrey ....
Broughton..
t.adlsi u ..:
Florence...'.
Fai miugton
Blsi.np
Watkfnsville
Sidney ... _
Whitehall,
6 20 pin
11 18
6 11
6 01
12 25 p m Ar. .Athene,
HAMILTON WILKINS, Superintendent.
5 SO
5 14
630
529
5 21
5 13
157
4 49
435
4 32
4 31
403
359
360
3 37
3 05
3 03
256
230
2 12
148
140
1 '.5 pn
2d Class
I
L’e’in
l>’ly t x
Suud’y.
6 45pui
A 30
5 .6
5 20
5 1-8
4 56
4 49
• 39
4 »
40.
3 10
2 to
2 25
2 15
1 20
12 GO
12 46
12 35
12 20
11 20
11 15
10 15
10 02
9 27
9 01
8 37
8 25
8 10
7 40am
CRAIG, Ass’t Sup’t.
wear, you can return it ar
have your money.
Comfort isn’t all of it
though. Soft Eyelets,
“bones” that can’t bre;"
kink—Ball’s corsets
both of these. m
MICHAEL BROS
. Settled.
Ethel—Is Jack wealthy?
Mand—He most be.' We have been
engaged two months, and he seems still
to have plenty of money.—Harper’s Ba
zar.
He Waa Tired of It.
“Young man, what tnne is that you’ve
been whistlin’ all the loomin'?”
“That? That’s an air from 'Lucia. ’ ”
“Well, don't you think a change of air
is sometimes beneficial?”—Harper’s Ba-
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d&w. Agent, Athens, Ga.
Insurance
Representing the following Companies •
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Country Property Insured lor three-fourths vulue.
Feb. 24—dtl
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