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Short communications ou matters of pub¬ lic interest and items of news respectfully solicited from every source^ > ^ Editors and Prop’rs. The Newspaper Law. The newspaper law says if any per¬ son orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arreages, or the publish¬ er may continue to send ;t until pay¬ ment is made, and collect the whole amount. Also an action for fraud can be instituted responsible against any person, whether he is in a finan¬ cial view cr not, who refuses to pay for his subscription. Dr ,l ¥JE. IS&rcHo on Tenders his professional ard services vicinity. to the citizens of Arlington AY hen not professionally absent, may bo found at his residence or office iu Di. Ewell’s Drug Store. apr-ly -^ESASTIO KJ33 3.V. V- - .W TB.USS ___HrzaPa-e 'i-\* iVot'i all Ijuitlsi otters, ' copil with ooM-ii Is :■, j- a.‘I Ssinn cecisr, ttdrptgl tseii to 2ft 0* tho body, while, toe ’b? TRuaia SfcteVfclass3ftp.aporsoxvou thocv.npvef.sft8 ba ct th* jM frU5» tSae glagSTo With light praaaa' the Herniafe held Recutely gay nig ht mtri G ffadlpal itia easy, dvjabw 4 3 "*32CflLESXOH TaBSS CO, CMcogo, 1U» A* 1, JON£S. WATCK-MAKEE and J -EWE EE, ARLINGTON, GA., v Offers his services to the citizens of Arlington Old vicinity. All kinds of repairing cm watches, short otice clocks, and jewelry. at- etc., done on n a low puce. ‘ & d o ue n responsible panics. apr30-tf -r--.- $75 FOE A 'jf'03xA2i CAxtfi l : *?Y able monthly) for the -bldest PhotO" Co ing House iu America, Apply at once py postal for particulars. preferred. Agents ■oru town ana country Address, ». HARRIS, Prop’r. Tvrone Box PbofmCopying 424 fyvoivCity, House, Pa. juue4-12m WM :Wilder $& Son Dealers in FURNITURE, WINDOW 8HADGS, SPRING COTS & MATTRESSES W> J v D t METAL IG GOFFlNti All of which. W' ekeap for cash. Washinjtcn street, Albany, <?a. marlom GILMORE CO„ LAW UOLLmS HOUSE, its F, st„ Wzsbtegtm, E?« Q _ Make Collections, Negotiate confided Loans and attend to all business to them. Land Scripts, .Soldier’s Additional Home¬ stead Rights, and Land Warrants beughj. and sold. Haluekt „ „ E. Paine, Late GommUisionee of Eaten,ts. iJenj. F. Grafton. Story 2>. Laiicl - T—i .A. A rr*l JL TT! H "NTT i~n C3 O- i ^ PAUiis, GKAiTToN & ladd, .tuorw^.-ur a,* Solicits of American and Foreign Patents* Pfiti.-ce FI,.’- .Street, Waslilngton, D. C. the Fatent patent Office, law and In the all-ta Supreme branehes and In Circuit Conns of the United States. Pam- phiet sent lree. ceeio-M -non. 3 every'mwnm ey. ta\-S s cnp n Anyone become “to worid can a 8n «essful agent. Six ehmant. worWof art given free to subsenl '.-ib. r;,- price u so iw Mia: almost everybody 120,subscribes subscribes, une agent reports taking making in. a <i a --. A lady agent reports over ?2oti clear profit in ten dais. All who engage make money fa 3 t.. You can devote all your time to the business, or only your spare time. You need tot be away from home overnight. others.^ff-’uil You can doit as well as directions and terms free. MrtlSSk Sm^oo 1 /2 dress at once it «bsu nothing to try the buRinesi \ T o one who engages = fails to 10 make great pay. Adrress Geobge Stixsos & Co , Portland M'Snt. :t shall we do said 1 ix. It’s iuc-t 1 am' fail ill just when wo i f) jm a lost. A nd every napkin in wash, an ^ no table line) to lust t wo You m cat be a poor manager, not to i..,v more c f sne h things!’ Old Mrs. Lcnuos «gbed as rubbed the gl :ges of: her spectacles. ‘jiy J dear, sa: id she, T should had more it I could have ti) m. But things are hard, ‘V s, I’ve heard all that suit! Mary irreverently. ‘But question is, what shall wo do washing, now that Katrina come ?’ Mrs. Lenno^heaved another-sigh. She was old and rheumatic, and the great piled-up basket of cloths seemed a,terrific' bugbear before her eyes. ‘I’m sure I don’t know,’ said she. ‘But if you girls will heljr a little about the dinner, I will try and see can do.* It must be got out I suppose and—’ Bat here a light, dark-eyed girl-with 1 a clear, olive complexion, and wavy black hair growing low ou her fore¬ head, turning from, the table >. here she was rinsing china. ‘You will do nothing of the kind, grandma,’ said she, as resolutely as ii she had been seventy instead of seven¬ teen. ‘Ton attempt a day’s washing, at your ago ?” ‘But my dear.’ said grandma Len¬ nox, feebly, ‘who will do it?’’ ‘1 will,’ said the dark-eyed lassie. ‘Georgia I am surprised at you said Mary. ‘Why you never did such a thing in your life!’, ‘That’s no reason I never should.’ ‘But George—if any one should see yon!’ ‘We don’t generally receive compa¬ ny iu the kitchen,’ said Georgie Len- lore. A*ut if a my one suoi.id come iu’— ‘Well ?’ ‘If they like my occupation, I shall be very- much pleased; ii they do not they are quite at liberty to take the other way! An4 Miss Lennox tied a prodigious ^pron around her, rolled up bel¬ sfcev.es, ’ and resolutely - took no her stand-in front . . of ... the wash , , bench. ‘It seems too bad, 0 rev dear, with Oiu iixts. i^'U «#*' ii.rt'Solutoiy. »< y-».' ‘Ob, my hands !’ laughed George. What arc they good for, if not'tomake themselves useful ?’ Mary drew herself disdainfully up. ‘Well,’ said she, ‘I never yet,stooped to such a degradation as that!’ ‘It would be a groat deal worse degradation to stand by and let my rheumatic old grandmother do the . washing,’’ • observed George, with philoipby, as she plunged her hands into the snowy mars cf suds Old Mrs Lennox tr been left ^ 3 011 ?,u ^ And so old Mrs. Lennox bo- it herKolf to ole out her slender ■ meaKS t!, ° reception . of . summer boarders. And in bepiember when her two grand-daughters obtained theiejortnight’s leave of absence from the millinery establishment in Troy whetfe they earned their daily bread, they came home for a breath ot fresh mountain air, and helped grandma Lennox with her boarders. For there no girl . , at . the farm-house, ^ k aud , was r.o outside assifitfecocalled .-iv ,, , . except in as as German Ratrma came onco a week to wasu ana scrub. V. «« W, .k. 8 M y and slender ° ’ with )ipu tair fair com com- plexion , uuk-blue . ,, eyes, and a Byromc dissatisfaction with her lot m life. I»r «« George, who had ho * “e n f Hl!^S ^ cbloa aa ’ anddecorate \ »° J' ‘You’ll ® hang out f these ’ ’ ,clothes , # for me , Mary, won’t yon said’George, a* she . flung the ,, , last , reubordered ... , , towel . , on the tep of the clothes basket, ‘ while 1 r „,„ w ol su , tue H 1 ' IOW casec " . ‘Indeed, I shall not, said her sister, With ,t,ri the-Mbs Pooleys playing cro- qnet m plain sight ? Never. 1 ‘Then I must do it myself,’ said Georgie, with a little shrug of her of , , her shoulders. . u ‘Ana’- ,, „ Bat ju3t as she spoke there came a ARLINGTON, GA.., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1881. P at or. ‘Como iu !’ ii (.xt'orcie. Yiu, I 1 rile her gist* un*uiug caoeks, j :Ud' five hi erself anti her 'CO on or pee ig hind j the big roller towel. And Mr. Raymond Abbot walked I j 11 be S jour pardon, Miss Georgie,’ : «»M bn rather blankly. -1 didn’t know shout! disturb you.’ | y cu e not disturbing me at all’ | S;ut1 - E'eorgie, serenely, resting oue elbow on the wash-board . a ed Poking at him like a praotlcalized copy of one of Quisdo’S angels, out of a cloud of soapy steam. ‘But,’ he went on, ‘I was going to nsk one of the aemints for a basket to bring fish homo in.’ ‘I will get one for you with pleasure’ said Georgie.- And as sho turned to the dresser, her sister answered the puzzled ex¬ pression of Mr. Abbott’s face; ‘You are surprised to sea Goorgie doin G that ? ’ with a gesture towards the plebean tub. ‘And I don’t won- der. But it is" only for a frolic—a wager. Girls will do such things, you know. But Georgia had heard the last words, and turned around with crim¬ soned cheeks and sparkling eyes. ‘It is not a frolic,’ said eho. ‘And it’s not a wager. It’s serious, sober earnest. I am doing the washing be¬ cause Katrina has sprained her ankle, and there’s no one else but grandma to do it ?’ ‘Indeed,’said Abbott. ‘And cannot I help you ?’ ‘Yes,’ George promptly made an¬ swer. You can carry that basket oi clothes out to the bleaching ground for me.’ ‘Goorgie!’ exclaimed her sister as Mr. Abbott cheerily shouldered tho load and strode away in the direction indicated by Georgie’s pointing finger. ‘Ho asked !iw,’ jwrifV Gwrgw. ‘I shouldn’t bare asked him.’ ‘Judge Abbott’s son!’groaned Mary. ‘The richest man iu Ballston! He’ll never ask you to go out rowing ou the lake again wilh him.’ But the reappearance of the gentle¬ man iu quest ion put a stop to the dis¬ cussion . ‘Miss Georgia,’ said he, ‘I would have hoisted them upon (ho riggins for you’ but the wind takes ‘era off so.’ ‘Tibi t’a because you needed the clothes pins,’ said Georgie, handing them to him with alacrity. ‘Couldn’t you come and help,’ said Mr, Abbott, wistfully. ‘Two CH O man-age so much better than one, ■) ‘Oh, I’ll come and help,’ said Georgia ‘and bo glad to get my clothes out drying.’ She tied on her small gingham sun- bonnet aud ran out into the yellow Sei tember t while M DIU'Sb O m x Sili3.il Vl&V&V ' £f)-v OV€r diS ft’V3.C@ ' ... . ,, . novel ’non'r Georrie wriri" ‘No-"d-iu’tcak has no di nit no 1 V-p * 'i * * tt to l ^ r( i o T B H” • -, dreadful! ‘ ! V, I T declare i I’ve a mind never to . . sister . , . own lier as a again i ‘Have yon fin-riied the washing ...... " ?' said Mr R- ymond Abbott ‘Yes. I’ve finished it,’ raid* Georriu "to Lennox ' ' ’,. But I shouldn’t " ‘ ‘ like ‘ earn earn my my living living . as as a a laundress, laundress, , It’s It’s a a very very A tiresome tiresome J- ', ,0 business.’ business \ Y. ’ ‘Georgia was “cooling - "-a. off,’ under u - ^ the the ., frost frost grapevines grapevines in in tlm the woods, woods, with with ... a a book book , , in in her her , hand, hand, , . and and .... the the curly curly , locks ^ blown Wowa back |wck {[0m from her h(; , pretty ttv ' Spanish gh * forehead. iore{j(a ,j Air. TlT Y'' Abbott * , lY .. looked v'fj?'' admiringly 1 “’'Y"? ” down , V " on ®“ her. €I * All A his - Iil!i life-long, " ' “ n d- his expejn- * *!*«• CDce CQCe had had lain !ain among among tbe the smiling, smiling, artificial actificittl dolls dolls of of eoiiVeational conventional society. 80ciet Ho „ had , , admired.Georgie , . , Lennox T v the ti first time he had ever seen her; bri but that that day’s day’s experience experience of of her her frank frank true true nature nature had had given given depth depth and and earnest- earnest¬ ness to to the the feeling. feeling. ‘Miss Lennox,’ said he, do you ’,f no w what •»<*—l I’veV-en u. u-tn thiukiu" imuiiiL 0 ,.joi,i since we hung out those towels and table clothe together’’ ° ' ’ ‘Haven t the least idea, ’ said uncon- geioua Geomm, 6 fanning 8 herself with pe-leave pinned . , together by S a thorn. have been thinking,’ said he that I should like mv wife to bo just such woman as you are. ‘A washerwoman?’ said Georgia, rv to laugh off iiox* blushes, in only a' world i poo said ingenious Georgia, i;i»i to tremble all over, and halfm- dined to 'cry. ‘M f— ow a love, J yon arc rich In all that kr cart cohid wish! pleaded 'Abbott, taking In r hands in bis own; and I want you Uv my own !” Raymond. Abbott hud fancied Geor- pi.- I.■ 'iin;ax ndicu he saw her playing croquet, in. pr.lo pink muslin, with a tea rose in* -ter hair: ? but the divxso ♦ ■ flam? love^first stirred . his heart of in win r KilO locked him through tho va- pory clouds of the wash-tub—Guido’s angel Joidim; her fair wings in a farm¬ house kitchen. Just sc. curiously are romance and reality blended together in the world. ---- - . —- ( hr Little Ones. Who can look at a little child and not feel tho diviuodoyo and innocence reflected in its dear little face? And yet I see alharouod me mothers who, when they have clothed and fed their children, turn them into the street8 to play, not knowing-, not caring what company they keep, and think to themselves, ‘ ITow 1 have done my duty, and they arc nil right for an hour or two at least,’’ Suvdy this dees not compriso a mothers duty? Poor little limbs! I feel, when I sco one of these neglected ones, that L must clasp him to my heart and taka him homo ! with mo, that the poor child may know the life my boy leads and grows strong in. Oh, mothers, love, the little ones! Teach them that mother is their friend; that mother sees and understands their trials and troubles; make them feel that you sympathize with them, anil that you are never too buay to speak a comforting word. Make home lovely and attractive; tell them stories, sing them songs; have games for the long-winU»r evenings; and they will It k'O&evad My hoy, now 9 years old, will, when tired of all else, creep into my arms, and, laying his head on my breast, say! “I know I’m heavy, mamma, but sing, to mo a little whilo.” God bless.bim! I am only too glad to feel that he has not outgrown all love lor mother’s songs and mother’s >irms; so I sing him song after song, wondering the while bow any mother . an re&ist tho love and affection that a little child gives when taught to look to mother for com tort. A child brought up in a loving and rcfi.ii d luanuer eauuot fail to reflect credit upon its parents;.and from tin* m art of ou.) who is made happy iu his childhood the picture of home aud mother never bides; and in alter years, when assailed by the cares of mature tuamiood, ho will look back and say, ‘‘God bless m.v mother!’’— Ex. Couraf ry to Success- <>j Owemrci pertinently , great deal of'talout ac-s, a 18 ,ost in the 'urW tor «uo want oi a courage. Every day sends to the 'grave a nauber of obscure met , who only remcineil iu obscurity be cause their .: . timidity ...... has . prevented ., 1 lt0m makujg u fi, ' sfc ^ ort > a,1 ‘ 1 , wlu> i£ they could have been induced 10 begiu wouid iu inability have 6 re »* lengths in fame, hue fact is, to do anything in tho world worth doing, we must not stand back shiver- ing and thinking of the cold and g f, e r, bat just " jump in and scramble through , as well as we can. It will not ^ , ^ pciiatu.-Hy ,, calculating , , risks and adjusting mec chances, n did very wtsli l-jn r tori* f before the Hood, lid lrt« » mm mmm «>«*«“ wiww L, »*P®“ ur0o •« ... mtenaed a.jd publication DUl.liealien for a hundred aud fifty years, and then live to see its success afterward, ■'»““* * »»»«***. ^ hesitates and consults his brother f* U:, u “ *f*' l / Ue a da f f ‘‘® , hla h “ da ht: “ years ot age; then uo has lost ( so mucil tiiae iu consulting his first consul and particular lncnds . that he has no time'to follow their advice. ♦ Little Dunce (looking up suddenly from r her , history , book) Oh, mummy darling, I do so wish i’d lived under James the Second.’’ Mamma-“Wby? Little Dunce—“Because I see here that , education , was very much , ueglec- , ted iu his reigu !”— Puuch. NEWS ITEMS Lv.irriKGa from ouii kxchangks. The i dbb county farmers’ club is in favor of no fences. A two-legged, rat is one of the won¬ ders of AYniton county. Gen. flaueo, k, i! , u.n!« rstood, will bo present at the inauguration of Gen. Garfield, A bill to revive the whipping for wife beaters is likely to pass Indiana legislate. e. A wife in Ohio, who sued her hus¬ band for money she loaned him marriage, has won her suit. Hon. Wm, E. Smith voted against putting Grant ou the retired list with the rank and pay of General. In the recent presidential election the Democrats cast over 0,000 more votes than the Republicans. Tho next United Slates Senate, it is said, will be the richest body of men that ever assembled in the capital. Dr. Wild, of Canada, predicts fifty- live years of war after 1882, and an¬ nounces tho millenium.to begin in 1935. Mr. It. Newton, of Jasper county, ia said to have raised thirty bales of cotton ou fifteen acres of upland with¬ out fertilizers. Old farmers In Alabama say that good crops have always succeeded hard winters in that State, i^id they are going to spread themselves this year. The cotton crop of lust year is cMi- uauted atG.YOO.OCO..bales, Texas, leads with over a million bales, uud Georgia comes next with eight hundred thou¬ sand. The increase in small-pox in New Y'ork City is said to be sudden and alarming. The board of health is ar¬ ranging for enlarg'd facilities fo r treating infectious di:i aces. It is said that Arthur, Vice Presi¬ dent elect, was bom in Canada, and is therefore ineligible to the office. Nevertheless, it is not likely that.this fact will deprive him of his seat. The town of Blaokshear, on the S., pq ^ railroad, had an election on q'ueeday of last week for councilmen. J 3 y an oversight the polls were not 0 p eue d until 5:30 p. m., and were 0 ] oset j is ,t 6 p. m. Only nineteen votes were cast and when the count was made it. was foun 1 that two negroes were elected aldermen. decision . has just been rendered A in the Wisconsin Supremo Court,which holds that money lent on Bunday can’- not be recovered. It regards the act in the light ° of a business transaction, and . even goes to ,,, the extent of holding ««‘t it a promise . is made , subsequent- ly to pay the money borrowed on Suu- flay it oannot be recovered. It has been said that if you were to put a Georgia ,, . “cracker , ’ and a Ver- m ont Yankee on a desert island and di vide the land equally between “cracker’ would have the Yankee work on rented land in less than a month. I do not know that this is bo h there is a wonderful shrewdness ooikt tb. n.hoo of toll, th»o A«.er- man iean tvnes types but ou. it i- is is ceuam eeitain tnat that aoutn- .South- ern men who have dn ted North and engaged in business have held their StST**’ * ' ---- An Altoona youth is disgusted with *0 subpet of ice-cream. Don t men- uc.n it to him ««!»» yoa arc _ spihug t°r «■ flg ufc . He invited his girl to an ice-cream saloon, and they ordered p uac g and vanilla. Suddenly ho ex- cased himself for a momemt aud left the the room. room He lie didn’t uiuu t come corno back oaca, aud ana his absence is explained by the fact that after he was seated m tho saloon he discovered that what he supposed W us a teu cent piece was a tin totmeco tag. Perhaps you have frequently k. ee “ fool “ d ^ ***^| “““«■ You see ou the pavement und you go to |liok it up , mistaking it lor a dime, But all is not a dime that glitters. Vol. II. No. 16. FACTS ANJt FANCIES. IIvlp ua, Caaaius (cash um,) or we sink. Envy shoototh at others and womicl- eth herself. Family Ties—A marriag t. Acute and eight children. The best of us are very ant to be mealy-mouthed about three times a day. They were twins. Tlio parents christened one Kate and the other Dupli-Kale. Learning is well enough, but it hardly pays to give r fire thousand dol¬ lar education to a flvo dollar box. What tree in tho forest would be most likely to be known by its bark ? We should think the dog wood. ‘What l want to know,' said an Arkansas school-board official, 'is lmw a river’s mouth is gwine to bo bigger dan it’s lurid.’ The English language is very com¬ prehensive, but (he language used by the natives of Finland has more of the real Finish to it. ‘How long should girls bo courted ?’ is the heading of a current article, it somewhat depends. We prefer them not over six foot three. Look thou before thou leapest, Trust not the calm of foes; That river G the deepest Whose top tho smoothest flows. Young clergyman at a clerical in (fet¬ ing: ‘I merely throw out tho idea.’ Old minister. ‘Well, I think that is the best thing you could do with it.’ Extract from Angelina’s letter: ‘Dear Henry—You ask if I return your love. Yes, Henry, I have no use for it, and return it with many thanks. By-by, Ilenry. ’ ‘Would you like to look through the big telescope V asked one girl of an¬ other. To which the latter replied: No; I’d, a great deal r<ittie»«io8k through a key-hole.’ In France wedding ceremonies now last three days. In some parts of America tills style would never become popular. It would interfere with the proceedings for divorce. A toper stood in front of a type foundry, spelling out tho sign as fol¬ lows. ‘Type f-o-u-n, foun’ d-r-y, dry; foun’ dry. That’s jes’ njy condisbun. I’m that sort of a type myself— foun’ dry.’ The way ministers are being found guilty of kissing other women than their wives, proves that you may roll a tnau under the wheels of' theology for years, but you cannot squeeze all the human nature out of his heart. ‘Why don’t you put the tooth-picks on the table asked a guest at a Galves¬ ton hotel, after he had finished his dinner. Because, uitor you used one yesterday, you didn’t put it back in the saucer,’ responded tho new waiter. Tl;»-v on their weddiii.-.; t--ur, * and she said,‘Darling, why did you choose me V ’I saw you sweeping tho library one day.’ ‘Then yon chose mo because I did not disdain the broom U ‘JNo; but because you could not handle it well. ’ Tll0 late K( . v . u,-. Symington, not feeling well one Sunday morning, said to his beadle who was a “charac- ter:” ‘Man Robert, I wish you would „rwu»h pieacu.ioi for me mu ttwd-iv w u.iy. > ‘f p c.iuua inna iir> uo that,’ promptly replied Robert; ‘but I often pray for you.’ Though . a man without ... . money is man with ... nothing out money poor, a , ifj atm Woridly gifts cannot b0ar up t ; !C a ., irits froia fttiut j u ,, aDd «•“»* . . , , '“V 1 ”®*'’ tf “ u !lelwlitc ^ 0 “* sUied by a fe - 0 ]dei; crown, or toothache by a cbain of pearb . « “ no! be regarded Tig- u0 raut so long as he is a careful read- e) , u[ And he will have a fc * “ ' ' 1 uavs ' for them instead of reading somebody , 9 else or owing * the publisher for them In canning peaches mothers should get their litle boys -o helf peel the f ru j t . A gr. at deal of labor is thus otm . ■ ' aca , , A \ ,,, informs - ,r.ns im u. that mat - the p-aches she had supposed would JL 1 h™" ShM in^Deelinff^d her mh little s.m he help her in peeling, ana therefore got through her canning quicker than she anticipated.