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EXPERIENCE IN MILKING. One morning 1 went into the barnyard to perform the daily of fice of milking. I was mad to be gin with. (cause: Mrs. Hopper grass’ perversence.) 1 didn’t give rose half a feed.l think she suspect ed something was wrong from the start, for I did not speak in that soft, persuasive tone which cows like so wf. 11. I forgot to say —or rather I could not say everything I wanted to in the first sentence — that it had rained the proceeding night, and was still drizzling, but such is the fact. I refer you to Mrs. Hoppergrass if you are dubi ous, she remembers the occasion. The calf was a half-mile off in the pasture. The blamed thing got just as far off as it possibly could. I had to trot after him my self. Bill, our chore boy. being sick or lazy, I got soaking wet to the knees. I also got mad. The calf went all around a ten acre pasture, stopping to mutilate sev eral bunches of rich clover he had failed to see during his rounds the night before. It was not the mu tilation or the mastication I ob jected to but the keeping me out in the wet clover. I yelled myself hoarse. I let fly one cjiss word at him. It surprised him. He had never heard me swear before. He turned deliberately around and looked me sqarely in the face with two great, soft, brown eyes so reproach fully, that for a moment, 1 felt like relenting. But the remeniber ii'ice of Mrs. Hoppergrass’ harsh treatment came to my aid, and 1 rushed on as inexorable as fate. At last we got to the gate, and 1 drove Jumbo in. The rascal ran like a greedy pig (did anybody ev er see any other kind of a pig—ex cept a dead pig ?) to his mother, and began to devour the milk so rapidly that I feared he would get it all; s> 1 ran with all my might, yelling at the top of my voice, as I went, for him to let up. Rose be came frightened, and charged around the lot, fearing, no douot, that I had lost my senses —and it did look that way. I still kept running and yelling for her to stop: but she didn't do it right then. You remember that I said that I was mud ; well, that infernal cow and calf worked me up to a fren zy. 1 got me a good rawhide and laid on to Rose’ hide. We went charging round the barnyard at this mad rate for about a quarter of an hour. Mrs. Hoppergrass ran to the door to ascertain what all that rumpus meant, and hollered out: •"Mr. Hoppergrass, ain't you ashamed of yourself, for treating Rose that way! Do stop!’’ I foamed. I told her to seek a warmer cli mate, to ’tend to her own affairs, and to do many other things which I have since learned she did not do, howevt r she did this : She foamed. My' attention was turned from Mrs. H. by seeing Rose come to a halt. I approached her. She shied and started off again. I addressed . her in that soft, sweet tone I some , times employ in speaking to Mrs. H. I remembered Mr. 11. had often told me, "A soft answer turneth away wrath,” the idea occured to me that it would also turn away fear. So I plead and beseeched dear Rose to stop, that I was not ' mad, that 1 was only in fun. She , was rather suspicious for awhile. ■ At last, however, she stood still, and suffered me to approach, which 1 did very gently. Jumbo had followed her in her mad flight around the yard and when Rose ’• came to a halt he went to work j for dear life, just as if he had not I i been in a pasture of rich clover all Rfi’pight. That set my wrath in ac ’ five ebolution again, but I saw I Ijnhad best keep it concealed from BBhk£*' '".-I >h<' bt'-oine frightmii'd and patted her, saying in a sweet, conciliatory voice: “Dear, sweet Rose, did you think I was mad? No, no, dear girl, not with you; you could not do anything to anger me!” This 1 said to Rose. I could see Jumbo on the other side of her just mak ing that rich milk fly, I whispered to him while 1 was trying to paci fy Rose: “You little devil! How I hate you! I’ll have you for steak and roast before sunset.” But Jumbo did’nt heed my rath er persona 1 remarks in the least. I gave Rose another pat or two, then stooped to get my share of the milk, at the same time hunching her in the Hanks to make her back her leg. She did sopvith good grace 1 then turned my attention to get ting Jumbo away from his moth er, which I finaly succeeded in ac complishing. I thought Rose was completely pacified: I wished afterwards that I had noticed the devilished glitter in her eyes, but I failed to do so. I was dreaning the last teat when it occurred to me that something hit me. I could’nt tell whether I had been struck by the lightning or whether a bomb had bursted under me. I think Rose must have been afflicted with the hematosis and thought by straightening out her leg very sud denly she might get rid of the su perfluous blood. I had no idea that an awkward ugly, and clumsy a thing as a cow could kick so hard, I never had be fore had gravitation to effect me so forcibly. I found myself sprawl ing in a pool of nasty, dirty, dark water flat upon my back ; while not ten seconds afterwards a deluge of something wet was poured over my face and body. I discovered afterwards that that docile animal had just sent the pail of milk over me with her compliments. I registered a vow in the chimney corner that morning. Mrs. Hopper grass overheard it (I do not accuse my apouse of eavesdropping. I scorn to say so mean a thing of my wife; but I repeat, she overheard me,) and that evening I decried her with the milk pail hung over her arm, gaily making her way to the cowpen, calling in a musical and somewhat classical tt>ne of voice, “Soocow ! soocow 1 cowench 1 Come, my bonay Rose, to your evening meal.” I did not molest her of her mis sion. I read from afar the sublime resignation on that angelic brow', and I would fain to revoke all the harsh sentiments I have allowed mvself to betrav. I have never milked since that morning I treated Rose so cruelly: 1 never shall again, Sometimes Mrs Hoppergrass has a hectic glow about the size of an ordinary po rus plaster on either cheek when she comes in from the cow-lot; on such occasions I refain from ques tioning her, and she very prudent ly keeps her own corner. We get about three quarts of milk per day now, but if Rose continues to “give down” her milk for ten longer, I fear Mrs. H. will have to be conducted to her last resting place, where the “wicked cease from troubling” and the cows are to milk no more. PAUL REESE. When traveling, alwnys take a cake of Johnson's Oriental Soap w’ith you diseases are often caught from using In tel siap. For sale by J, T. Crouch Co. Tax Notice. Notice is hereby given that the second half of he tax upon real and personal property within the city of Rome is now due; Payment to be made at Clerks Office. City Hall- Halsted Smita. • f- Clerk of Council. Application for Letters of Dis mission. Georgia, Floyd county; Whereas Alexander Johnson, Administrator of Joseph Sharpe represents to the court his peti tion duly filed, that he has administered Joseph Sharpe’s estate. This is to cite all persons con cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration and re ceive letters of dismission on the first Monday in January 1864. This October Ist. 1894. John P, Davis, Ordinary Floyd County, Georgia. ; Ist. d in for 3-m. What’e tue u«e O’Kickiug when vou can get fitted out from tip to [ toe at Cokers. Hat for $1 00. Suit (ail wool) $15.00. Shoes solid leather. $1 -00 iptal *7 pq i THE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER, 30 1894. The Populists Platform. It’s a heap of consol it ion in this general stagnation, when wr find a felloiv mortal, an official, or a State, Th«t we can just g,-t a shot at, curse, belabor, and get‘hot at we can stand so much butter the unhappy frowns of fate. How it fosters resignation if the tide* of emigration strands our barque upon a. sand bar, where it seldom rains or snows I'o attribute lack of rations to the bank and corporations—tiow the fireside faces brighten ! what in telligence it shows! What we want’s aclap of thunder that will burst the banks aseun der—a division of the plunder is the thing for which we sigh. But to ta'k of thrift or labor, that may help to feed my neighbor, but foi me, I must confess, I’te a little bit too dry. I’me a true-born politician, and it plainly is my mission to secure a seat in Congress when my bleeding country calls. This is why I am engaging in the wirthe Pops are waging, though me north-west winds are raging in my summer overalls - Mart Howe in Memphis Scimtar. ALMOST A NEW YORK DAILY That Democratic wonder. The New York Weekly World, has just changed its weekly into a twice a w r eek paper and you can now get the two papers and the weekly courier for the same old price SI.OO a year. Think of it! The news from New York right at your door fresh every three days—ls 6 papers a year. We have made arrangements by which we can furnish the weekly courier and the twice-a-week New York World all for SI.OO a year. Here is the opportunity to get your own local paper and The New- York World twice every week at extraordinary low- rate-. BEW ARE OF OINTMENTS FOR( A TAKRH THATCONTAIN MERCCRV as mercury will surely destroy th sense of smell and completely de range the whole system when e'n ering it through the mu cous sur faces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co,, Toledo, 0., contains no mer cury, and is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure ba sure you get the genuine. 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