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MORGAN. GA„ FEB. 18, 1CH.
Stick to t rue, honest, democracy.
That's next to hog and hominy.
With plenty"of Img and
out farmers are Mire of making
meat and bread.
‘‘Bell cords” and dinner horns
seem to be taking a very proiniueni
part in Georgia politics this year.
More people make a sos of them
selves through envy of successful
rivals than from any other one
cause.
Cattle raising could be made to
pay very handsomely in C.illiour,
county, and at less expense than 5c
cotton.
What has become of tho artesian
well question? Things are getting
mighty “dry” in this neck of the
woods.
Wo want no office; no prize fight¬
ing and no war, hot, we will take a
good 'possum with a ft w raters
around on tho edges.
We’vo hcanl of the '‘One-eyed
plow hoy from Pigeon Roost;” but
where is tho “Two-eyed mulo-gnidor
v,. from Chicken Roost?”
Tho street corner whitlers are in
hopes that the weather this summer
will he pleasant and agreeable, as
hot weather and hot politics don’t go
well together.
Editor Geo. 1, Keen, of the Leo
county Journal, is making things
hustle in his part of the country.
He is giving tho people of Lee couu
t.y a Meat, country weekly on a regu
lar city style.
The mctropulitmulfe'’ , as well
as tho pfdlTieinnR, are clamoring war
fvlui some nation. While yon are
counting your soldiers kindly leave
ns out, ns wo haven’t, time to “mank-
oy” with such small matters.
Tbo farmers in this section are
not worrying themselves about, poli¬
tics or tho price of this fall’s cotton.
They are figuring on how many
bushels of corn and how many hogs
they are going to raise this year.
Why is it that a person always
weep when they are tolling tho con¬
gregation that their sins have been
forgiven and they are heavenly
bound? It seems to us that they
would rejoice at being aide to release
themselves from tho clutches of the
devil.
lion. Phil. Cook, of Leesburg, who
lias announced himself a candidate
for Secretary of state, seems to bo
the choice man of the entire state
press. Somehow or other this scribe
is a little partial to tho senator, and
when the time comes wo can be
found up in tho front ranks.
Georgia politics lias already begun
to simmer, and if ono !s to judge
from tho present outlook, there is
going to bo hot times in tho old
stato on election day. Candler now
has tne field all by himself as Joe
Terrell is out of tbe race. Candler
will doubtless make a safe home
run. It is understood that Terrell
will run for re-election to tho office
he now holds. Candler will proba¬
bly be, succeeded by Phil Cook for
Sectetary of state, and O. B. Stevens
is wanting the oilico of Commission¬
er of agriculture. Wo think it
would be a hard matter for the Dem¬
ocrats of the state to select a better
team. Here’s to their success.
Judge Spencer U. Atkinson is u
candidate for the democratic nomi¬
nation for governor of Georgia Ills
announcement, was no surprise to
his friends, since it was known for
several days prior to his announce-
ment that Judge Atkinson was like¬
ly to take the stop he has. Judge I
Atkinron is at present a member of
the state railroad commission. He j
resigned recently from the supreme I
bench, and several years ago was a!
superior court judge, from which po- >
sition he resigned to make the race j
for congress against Hon. H. G.
Turner, of Brooks. Hon. Alien I>.
Candler has sent in his resignation
as secretary of state. Colonel Can¬
dler claims that he can’t make a
lively race for one important office,
while bolding another. Thus things
Now 1,1 ,l, e gubernatorial situation.
*0". cut your “di-does," gentlemen.
Prince I fern y of Orleans is report • l
to have htartf'l on another .Vovssi in
expedition !! " t - Q \
exsoldirrs of t lie — foil.:;t ar.nv, 33
frier.<ls. 12,030 ri.1 w, -/) ) /,0 )3 C:UV
tridf !-s, 2 chine cT'i-- and other
•: Wiiv SUppli/ •« His intention is, if is
reported, tf tbo tipper Nile .
coutilrv claimed by lviglanil and es-
tablisb h kingdom of hi o \v 11 .
;
Th© black plague is raging in So*
Cbue i, China, ab Hit. twelve iuindred
miles up the River Fitngtso. In one
villiig«j GOO deaths have oecmed aud
the y<*;m*ii v of coffins i I - ho great that
in some instances the bodie a re
thro \ m to t lie d%s*
Klondike Kolored Klttli,
j Of Cliokco.
From the L»e comity Journal we
I li,; ' 1 ,h,! f ‘*r<> ‘ j n2* comph-to account
jollim organization of tho alcove
sty!' (1 club:
j President. I oclo Bob.
Secretary, Pitch: Henderson. !
Master and Grand U b.-r, ,
Matron, Mary J me.
IJY LAWS,
1st. Hbrv member of dis bigb
and important convalescence of Afri¬
can distraction is and must be pt'i'.S-
cut if lie is in ile room.
2nd. Do white man is do conse¬
quential (bit, brings about, do implo-
rabie condition ol do free American
ob African distraction, darfore it, i.s
our implacable duty as ancestorIans
of I lam, to use our most, unsavory
efforts to contratiatul Ids condition'.
3rd, All and ebry one ijiit cur-
tails demself to di.s high and co’i-
demnal>!o body, must al'tavs and
forebei have de greatest stigmatize
for do white race.
•4(1). We are de children oli do
promise, as A irham who doriveted
do shackles from our most unworthy
limbs, said is sepulchral undo, in ms-
ness, did forty Acres and a mub i was
de di.-iinhurit.nnco ob de contraband
ob secession; darfore we must not be
weary ui de well doin, but continue
our utmost, and salubrious effervos-
mice to contract de circumference of
de white man.
5th. Chickens dat roost, low and
[ugs dat ramble are do natural and
nocturnal consequence of our lust,
'andjlcveloper ob our corporosity, in
consequence therefore all an ■! such
nre do delight, and support ob our
race.
’J bo president arose and said as
dar was no object to do preamble as
refld by de i Ion. Secretary, and do
attend was .small, day would sojourn
until de next uieetin.
lhe matron then sang tho closing
hymn,‘‘New Coon in Town,” and
the convocation adjourned.
it Pays Well.
Ah Oklahoma giil has proved be¬
yond argument that advertising is a
good investment. She advertised
for a husband and got him. Total
cost of advertising, wedding on* fit.
and railroad faie, $103,55. In elev-
on months the hu-shand died, leaving
a life insurance of $5,030. Net prof¬
it on tho investment, $4,899,45.
Now, read this to tho chap that
don't advertise.—Selma Times.
A Financial Right.
A Macon lad takes tbe cake for fiuau-
ciering, and if bis future deals are as
shrewd as the one out. of which ho made
a quarter as slick as a button yesterday
ho will get a* rich an Croesus, even
though , tins whole , , should I
country be ! :
eomo a School Democracy colony before
lu‘gets grown.
The lad wanted to run away from
home. He went down to tho Southern
railway ticket olliee and asked for a
ticket. He hud oulv 75 cents and found
that ms lionet would cost $ _ 1 . so he ,
couldn’t buy it. Ho walked out of tbe
oilico siuPy disappointed, but after
thinking awhile be figured out a scheme
which marked him as one of tlie greatest
business men of the age. lie went up
to a pawnshop and asked if he could
leave 75 cents aud get an advance of 50
cents on it. “Of course, replied tlie
pawnbroker, as he threw tbe 50 cents
down and drew in the 75 cents.
The paw n broker then gave the lad a
pawu ticket for the 75 cents. With the
ticket for the 50 cents in cash the boy
went down the street to a merchant and
asked if he could sell the pawn ticket to
him for 50 cents, “Of coarse,” replied
the merchant as ho threw down 50 cents
;U1,i iu llu ’ l " %n 11 tK,kot ‘
*ow hoy had secured the two
hMf dellars. tho exact amount his rail
road ticket would cost him, so he went
his way r> j doing. |
Who lost by the transaction?—Ex.
There are three little things which do
more work than any other three little
things created they are the ant, the beo
mid DoWitts Little Early Misers, the last
srre
Henry Turner, Edison. I*. E. B 0 yd,
Leary.
j h;u*i*cssf:il Farming.
1
The following article is clipped from
j one of our exchanges and credited to
{ the Home and Farm as a prize letter
j written by J. II. Jones:
'1 cotutuc. o <1 *evc*n years ago at the
! '’'dtorn of the ladder. 1 had 100
of land, and one scrub of a horse, aud
oo money.
j **I bought another 100 acres of
improved land on credit; gave $1,000
for it.
“i went to work, cleared land, bought
horses, and built, tenant bouses
(of coui.sc had to borrow money.) ami
( now f have a fine, fiveliorse farm opened
np, mid my laud, horse* and bouse
1 Paul fur. 1 Imv, always made it a rule
to nilike more of everything than I con
j Kiirnud, und have no trouble in
khIo f„r it
“A* •«* W'F «f farming, I
i see that my land is anil terraced.
j “1 sow ten acres of oats to the horse,
i lm,t ii„it it., " Mjfull r u U,au j | , *' • n '1 ,,U, - K-
>
: them undue uni,
mg one hor.se turners
very deep. I never fail to make oats.
“1 make all the manure I can I,,.
, keeping • my lots and stables littered .... , with ...
pine straw, because it m the best ah*
umber of the urine. t compost
with cotton seed and acid for coin, aud
broadcast cotton seed under n„ gram,
‘•1 sow stubble in peas soon as gram
i.s cut off. I sow ni}’ corn in peas, when
i laying by in the full,
“I pick What peas 1 I need for sod and
feuding . purposes, and turn the balance
under. By this means the peavines arc
well rotted for the next crop. I think
this tbe cheapest and best plan for build¬
ing land np I have ever tried.
“1 believe in using guano freely, not
less than 200 pounds to the acre. 1 get
the best results from cotton seed meal
and acid. 1 used 300 pounds of this
mixture last, year to the acre, and intend
to increase it this year. I try to use tbe
latent improved seed of all kinds. 1
have tbo Jones improved big boll cotton,
which tbe experiment station claims to
lie olio of the most prolific.
“I rent on the half system. By this
means I superintend ray whole farm,
and my land is improving every year. I
see that t hey do not plow when ground
is too wot; that is one great mistake
farmers make. It injures land worse
than anything.
“1 never have any trouble with hands,
they always pay up when crop is gath¬
ered, and have something left to live on.
So by making my supplies at home 1
make farming a success and pleasure.
“Last year I made eighty bushels of
wheat, 500 bushels of oats, plenty of
corn to do mo, 1,100 pounds of meat,
125 gallons of ribbon cane syrup, good
as you ever eat, 7 twoborse lends oi
potatoes, peas enough to sow my land
broadcast this year, with the hot dry fall
we bad in this section, aud 53 bale's of
cotton, to say nothing of tbo patches !
gave iny tenants,
What 1 Lave done and other farmer
may do if be will but put his energies
into it, which lie will have to do it he
makes fanning a success,”
I’isc Thnv Sisters Who Lisped.
Tliere were three sisters who lisped
very badly, and their mother, who was
solicitous about finding husbands for
thom to hold their tongl , e8 . This is ditll-
cult for girl . that 1 impediment
a ms no
« "I"**. 1>llt 11 » impossible for
one that stammers. One evening the
three lispers were invited to “a quilting”
at a neighbor’s.
4lV “;Sow, mind, • i girls, : , •. said the anxious
mother, “some nice young men are
going to be there, ami yon must not sav
a word, or they will learn that you lisp,
and won’t care to make up to yon.”
They promised to be silent, and went
to the quitting. When they reached the
house they sat down and quilted diii
gently in silence, and nothing could iu-
ditoe them to tak part in the conversation
At last tbe eldest wanted the scissors
and tried to make signs to her next sis-
ter to pass them to her, but could not
attract her attention. Losing patience,
she stammered oat:
“Thither, path me tbe thilorth.”
The other replied with indignation:
1>iliu ' t m “ llia v lhut 00 ““»‘>du t tlmy
-
anythin’?”
This was too lunch for the youngest,
, , excUiraed . . , m . a self ... cougratula-
tory tone:
‘ Bletli God, 1 nin' timid nothin’!”
--Ex.
C " ilJrCn mU ’ 1W t0, ' tm '° d by l " UTO ‘
scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases
am J’ secure, instant relief by using
DeWitfs Witch Hazel Salve. It Is the
rT*; H ' m y Turner, ’"*• Edison. - * P. K.
Boyd, Loan
CLAY CHALLENGED CHOATE,
Kentuckian Danced a ISreakdnvrn t .nd
Choate ( nt i\ Pigeon Wing;.
In tbe long ago antebellum days,
when southern aristia-aey made its
summer headquarters at the noted
Virginia Springs, where the planters
came up from the Carolina*, Ken-
lucky, Georgia and Mississippi in
their carriages, with great baggage
| trains and a retinue of servants, and
i when they came the 1 st of June aud
staid until frost fell, those were gay
old times at the mountain resorts,
When life was worth the pain of liv-
*
j n , r
Beginning with the first register
bi lb 05 and coining on down to 1800,
«ue linda a succession of historical
names. 1 here are the Snmters, the
p iekfc . I1HeH nit( , lhe Hamptons of the
Carolina,s; the Clays and Marshalls
and Crittendens of Kentucky ; Cor-
win and Ewing and Trimble of Ohio;
11 io Choates and Webs tors and
Pjerce8 of N( . w England; Dickinson,
Marey and Dallas of the middle
states; Cass and Douglas and Benton
from the then far west; the Floyds,
Cabells, Prestons and a galaxy of
bright namea from Virginia; the
Carrolls from Maryland, and a host
of others whose names have render-
ed American history J„ illustrious.
^ notnW in tbejr
ghadbellied coats and sideboard col
lars, and a'proper, dignified time
they bad of it as they mingled their
^ sulphur water and mint juleps J to
aml taJM J)fliitic8 was
away back in 1837, when there must
have been .something in the wind of
importance to tho Whig party. On
* ol<1 l> a 8 « ol the hotel regia-
ter of that year, in flue, almost
feminino handwriting that is fa-
miliar to all, we find this inscrip-
tion, “H. Clay, Kentucky,” while
among the next day’s arrivals are
Rufus Choate,Massachusetts; Thom-
as Corwin, Ohio; William C. Rives,
Virginia, and Millard Fillmore, New
York.
Those were the days when tho
making of a julep was an art as well
as a domestic accomplishment. The
night before Mr. Clay’s departure
from the Springs he gave a banquet
in his cottage to his friends. For-
tnnatcly there is still a living eye-
witness to that entertainment, and,
if his description can be relied upon,
it was a gala event that transcends
all modern blow Outs. Old Uncle
Jimmie Patterson, tho venerable
gatekeeper, who has been an attache
of the White Sulphur from time im-
memorial, was the floor servant on
the row in which the Clay cottage
was located and helped to serve the
banquet. He says that tho deport-
ment of tho host and the guests was
eminently proper until about tho
hour of midnight, but from that
tirne of the night until the morning
dawned there was a high old time
on the premises. When the cloth
had been removed and tbe Powhatan
pipes were brought in— thedegener-
ate practice of cigar and cigarette
was not in vogue in those halcyon
clays—some one called for music,
and a messenger was sent for a ne-
gro fiddler, who soon appeared with
j,j s 0 j t | fashioned instrument. The
old tiddler started in with “Money
Musk” and then played “Sugar In
the Gourd,” but when he touched up
“Mississippi Sawyer” Mr. Clay step-
ped into the middle o{ the floor and
gave them a Kentucky breakdown.
Tliis was a fair challenge for Mr.
Choate, who followed with a Now
England pigeon wing. When tho
old negro struck the chord of “Ok!
Virginia Never Tire,” the
Rives, afterward minister to France,
felt that the reputation of the Old
Dominion was at stake and, shedding
his coat, executed the double shufila
with a skill that would make a min-
strel man envious. And thus the
fun grew fast and furious until tho
gray dawn peeped over the moun-
tain tops.—Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Au Actor’s Excuse.
After his first great successes Mr,
W. tl. Pcnley had to act in many
plays which somehow did not seem
to please the public. Some of these
bo just kept alive by his brilliant
“gagging.” On one occasion, when
a wretched play had been going for
some weeks in this manner, the con-
eeited young author came behind
and asked Mr. Penley why he “gag¬
ged” so much.
“The play will be all right,” ho
said, “if you will only speak my
lines quietly and wait for the
laugh.”
To this Mr. Penley replied prompt-
ly: “That's all very well for you,
old man—you live in town, but, you
see, I live in the country and have
to catch the 12:15 from Waterloo!”
—London Tit-Bits.
What Delayed Her.
Mrs. Darley—You nro so late.
You should have been hero two
hours ago. I got so tired waiting for
you.
Mrs. McBride—I’m very sorry,
dear, but 1 came as soon as ever I
could. You see, Jack gave rue his
coat to sow a button on this morning
before he went to the office.
Mrs. Darley—I seel Were tho let-
tors so interesting as that i—Harlem
Life.
Whooping cough is the most distressing
malady; but its duration can be cut short
by lhe use of One Minute Cough C
is also tho best known remedy for
S. T. Clayton, Morgan. Henry I i
Edison, P, E. Boyd, Leary,
FREAKS OF THE EYES.
A Remarkable Illustration of a Case of
Collective Hallucination.
Example;! of collective halluciea-
i tions are very numerous. Let hi
I dt0 one that certainly is not gen-
’ lieu¬
erally known, and of which a
tenant in the French navy, M. Lea*
tonnat, was the victim.
“In May. 1S81,” said he, “I was
on board the bark Caroline. We
had just left Iloilo, in the Philip¬
, aud tr aveling toward
| pines, wo were morning
the Sunda strait. One we
were moving slowly, at the rate of
j about tour or when' five the knots, rn a very the
light wind, man on
1 lookout shouted to me that be saw
n pirogue or sharpie on the star-
board qi.artu. Lverytliju-, KVprvtbi,.* that that we
i j .
see at sea. however ir.-igmfieant, is
always interesting. Consequently,
I placed myself m a position to see
the ol) 3 ect that tho man reported.
But, on account of* the lower-sails, a
j was obliged to go forward. From
there I saw, at about two points to
starboard, tho pirogue, which seem-
ed as if she was about to cross our
| bow. Suddenly the mate shouted:
‘It is not a pirogue. It is a yawl-
i boat.’ Then the sailor came down
' from the rigging and reported that
he saw distinctly a man standing in
the boat and that he was making
signals,
“ ‘It is not necessary to be aloft
to see that,’replied the mate. ‘1
can see him distinctly here.’
“After having observed the boat
with attention, 1 saw as plainly as
possible, and all tbe crew saw just
as I did, a man making signals with
something in his hand that we could
not yet recognize, but which evi-
Gently was a gaff or ail oar at the
end of which was fixed a piece of
cloth,
“There was no longer any doubt.
We had discovered an unfortunate
shipwrecked man, whose vessel
doubtless was lost upon the rocks of
the shores called, if my memory
serves mo correctly, the Thousand
\ isles. I immediately reported to tho
i captain, who took his glasses and
• followed me to the forward deck,
| i He recognized, just as we did, a boat
painted white, and in the bow there
was a man dressed in a blue gauzy,
who was waving an oar, at the end
j of which was fastened a piece of sail-
| cloth,
“ ‘That poor devil is lucky,’ said
1 the captain; ‘for if we had had nioro
j wind yesterday we would have
passed him in the night, and, of
course, we could not have seen him.’
“But as the current was drawing
the boat away from us he gave tho
order to the man at the wheel to let
the vessel fall off so as to get the
I boat well on our starboard. In this
way we could easily reach it with-
out tho necessity of lowering a boat,
which is always a tedious operation
on board sailing vessels. The man,
seeing that we were coming for him,
ceased to signal, and sat down iii
tlie stern, and with his oar he steer¬
ed the boat toward us. We could
distinctly see the boat’s mast was
broken at about three or four feet
above tbe sailing thwart. When she
was about 300 meters from us, tbe
captain, who was on the poop, asked
the mate if everything was ready,
and, on the latter’s affirmativere-
ply, lie gave the order to head her
up a little to starboard. At this mo-
ment the emotion on board the ves-
sel was intense. The entire crow
leaned over the rail. Then sudden-
ly, as if we all had been aroused
from a dream, the man and the boat
turned into a block of pumice stone
on which were several branches of
banana trees. After drifting slowly
along the side of the vessel before
tbe stupefied sailors it vanished out
of sight. The men were so utterly
astonished that several of them
could not help crying out: ‘But, by
jingo, there was a man on it, sure I
We all saw him!’
“If the sea had been rough, so
that we could not roach that little
floating island, we would certainly
have been convinced that a fellow
creature had been left to perish.
“Nevertheless our mind was free
from all anterior preoccupation.
Notwithstanding the spontaneity of
the thing that had started it the
suggestion was none the less vivid.
Its intensity was as strong in the
mind of the officer as it was in tho
mind of each sailor, and this goes
to prove that in the case of a-crowd
the mental quality of the individuals
that compose it is without any im¬
portance.’’—Paris Cor. Courrier des
Etats Uuis.
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