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ANOTHER GEORGIA WONDER.
AnotherelcetrijiU wonder ha* boon
diacovere-d in Gaorgia, of the Lula
liurat type, and her powers are re
markably similar to those exhibited
by Miss Hurst and Mix. Abbott, who
la known aa the little Georgia mag*
net. She ia Ajfiss Fannie Heater, of
Greene county, near Salem. She ib
now at the Pulaski house, accompa
nied by her father, Mr. P. J. Hester,
ef that place, Mrs. Mattie Thompson
^nd (Japt, W. Miller.
Miss Hester’s father brought her
here at the instance of Mr Tomlinson
F. Johnson, who desired to see to jusl
what extent her powers went, with a
view, if it could be done, of having
her on the stsgo. She is only 14
old and weighs but 90 pounds. Miss
Hester did not discover the fact that
she had the power until Nov, 7, not
quite a month ago. Hince that time
she has appeared at several of the
country school houses ne^v homo,
^ind on some occasions has by her
power tired out some fitty or more
Strong ipen without showing any
signs of weariness herself.
Since she has been in Savannah
siverai gentlemen who can lift ordR
narilv with ease 150 pounds or more
have tried to lift her from the floor,
but have been unable to do go. By
merely laying her hands on a eh air
or walxing 9 tick, sue can prevent
the strongest men from moving it to
any extent. It is said ot her that
when she walks on damp grou nd, a
Braes, eleotrieal sparks can be seem
Yet she can hold nothing tightly in
her hands. As booh as she attempts
to do so her hands begin to shake and
the article, whatever it ipay be, will
1'ali irom them. There are many
deinQiistrations of her peculiar and'
striking power, which so far as is
,km>wn has never been found except
in the three mentioned, at least not
jip this section.--'Savannah Nows.
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCERY,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange, the,
whole system when entering it through
Jthe mucuoue surfaces. Such article-?
should never be used except on prescrln.
lions from repu able physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you can possibly derive from them .
Hall’s Catarrh Cure manufactured hy F.
J. Cheney A Co,, Toledo, O., contains no
raerCuryi and Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and nineuous sin
faces of ! he system. In buying Hub's
(latarrh Cure be stne you got the genuine.
It Is t a Kell internally and made in Toledo
Ohio, hy F. J. Cueney – Co. Testimo
nials free. Sold by dru ggists, price 75c
per bottle.
Humming Bird’s Umbrella.
A writer in The American Sports
man tells a remarkable story about
a humming bird:
In front of a window where I
worked last summer was a butter
nut tree. A humming bird built her
nest on a limb that grew near tho
window, and wo had an opportunity
to watch her closely. In fact, wo
could look right into tho nest
One day, when there was a heavy
shower coming up, wo thought we
would see if she covered her youug
during the rain. Well, when the
first drops fell, she came and took in
her bill one of two or three large
leaves growing close by and laid this
leaf over the nest so as completely
to cover it. Then she flew away.
On examining the leaf we found a
hole in it, and in the side of the nest
Was a small stick that the loaf was
fastened to or hooked upon. After
the storm was over the old bird came
back and unhooked the loaf, and tho
nest was perfectly dry.
Ww In a Hurry*
He—Miss Luella, I love you mad
ly. Will you he mine?
She—This really is so sudden, Mr.
Bissnis. I must have time to think
it over before I answer you.
He -Can’t give you much; last
car goes in 15 minutes.-—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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|p eastern eounrines cloth is still
measured by using tlie arm, the
length of the forearm, with the ad
dition of the breadth of tho left
hand, making the measure.
Mr. AWB?y s '^ a8 Fvxsia was the
, natural defect
CHINESE STOCK EXCHANGE.
Speculator* JX> Urely noaine** In tba
Onttvarn of Hongkong.
The Hongkong stock exchange is
one of the financial wonders of the
world. But to begin with, there is
uo stock exchange, ^ roperly speak
ing, in Hongkong. What exchange
there is now is the gutter.
From the bar of the club to about
100 yards down the Queen’s road is
the local rialto. But there, all day
long, a financial business ia dono
which I doubt if any 100 yards ia
the world except the spaces includ
tog the London and New York stock
exchanges and the Paris bourse can
3qualeitherforvolumeofmoney.au
iacity of speculation or sensational
ups and downs.
Everything i.s done eithor under
the punkahs in the hall of the club
or literally in the gutter, and by
the most motley crowd of brokers
to double decked hats that the world
can show.
There are Englishmen, .OermanB,
Anglo-Indians, Chinese from Can
ton, Armenians from Calcutta, Par
sees from Bombay and Hebrews
from Bagdad. And from the princes
of finance who play with hundreds
of thousands—there are several of
them in Hongkong -down to the
humblest who’buys ten shares here
and sells ten shares there, all are
making money fast. The former
live in their little palaces, they en
tertain like princes, they aro as gen
erous as they are prosperous, and the
latter kick their heels all day long
in tho street and the corridors of the
Hongkong hotel. And although to
say that all of them make money is
not unlike saying that two men live
on what they win from each other
at cards, still the paradox is a truth.
Money in Hongkong seems to have
less value than anywhere else, like
wheat in Manitoba or petroleum in
Pennsylvania. A player at poker
the other night dropped a long chip,
value £20 under the table, “Mas
kee,” he said in pigeon English—
“No matter.”
“It’s £20,” somebody reminded you’d
him. “If you were at home,
look for it fast enough. ”
“By Jove,” ho replied, “so I will!
I forgot how much it was.” And
here is an example showing at once
all three characteristics I have
claimed abovo for Hongkong
finance.
The total capital of Hongkong lo
cal companies is not less than £10,
000,000. Tho average dividend of
the local companies which have al
ready been ia existence long enough
to pay ono is a fraction over Ilf per
cent per annum. And their average
annual yield to investors at tho so
called inflated current prices is 02
per cent. New companies are being
fioatixl almost every month in Hong
kong. As tho new lands of tho far
east aro gradually developed, it is
to Hongkong that they look and
must look for financial aid. And
capital there responds to tho right
call, as tho flash responds to the
trigger.
Financiers at homo send telegrams
to their representatives hero urging
caution, and merchants write Jong
homilies to their agents. Yet I have
heard that the very merchants
and friends, both at home und else
where in China, who are so anxious
on the one hand that Hongkong
should become a model of Scotch
prudence or are so ready on tho
other to denounce it as a bucket
shop aro themselves applicants for
shares in new enterprises, with the
purely gambling intention of resell
ing them at the first rise.
In tho past shares have been free
ly allotted with this result. In the
future, I understand,local promoters
intend to bo a trifle more particular
whose fortunes they make. I must
not presume to decide the question
whether Hongkong is or is not rest
ing on a financial volcano, but I seo
no reason to believe it and many
reasons to believe tho contrary.
And in defiance of this opinion I
think Hongkong financiers will ad
mit for a long period no stranger has
given the time or attention to the
affairs of the colony that I have,
for it is not until after you have
studied Hongkong that you begin to
discover, and that slowly, what u
marvelous place it is. —London Mail.
Clams* F-K£m.
The clam’s eggs are carried by the
mother on her gills. When there
are fish in tho water-with them, the
mother clams disclnu-ge the eggs,
whioh soon j hatch, hiyt if there are
no lis,h - they carry tlie eggs until
they decay. The reason of this
strange behavior is this: When the
eggs are set free in tkb Water, they
•soon hatch, and the Little ohes swim
about until they find so are fish to
which to attach themselves. They
live for a tinie on the mucus of tlie
fish and then drop off, sink to the
bottom and form burrows for them
selves. This curious semiparasirio
life is no doubt a reversion to the
habit of seme ancient ancestor,—®'
Margaret W. Leighton in Popular
Science Monthly.
Mail from New Yswk cIty t<V*the
German Kameruu’wiil be delivered
ii| 41 days.
FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
Bo me of the Quaint Old Warrlage Cus
tom* anti Superstition*.
According to an old writer, the
wedding ring war) first designed by
Prometheus and fashioned out of
and iron hy Tubal Cain,
The samo writer says that it was
“o.} ven w Adam to his son to this
enfl , that therewith ho should es
0 a wifo » When paradise bad
quite receded from view, men, who
ar0 ( j ect) j vurH ever, got into a fash
fo n of wwlding with a ring made of
rutdl0Si to make their vows the less
binding But ' 4n 1317 the bishop of
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Salisbury effectually put bis foot
down on this practice. Wedding
ringa wer o nmdo as often of silver
UH of gold and of fantastic shapes,
with “posies" insido, one of which
ran:
Fortune doth both! you, hat* It well or ttl,
Thia plain gold ring to wod you to your will.
The wedding cake is the remains
of a Roman custom. In ancient
Romo a bride held in her left band
throe wheat ears; the attendant girls
threw corn, either in grains or in
small bits of cake, upon the heads
of the newly married pair, and the
guests picked up the pieces and ate
them. In the eighteenth century the
wedding cake came into general use.
It was then,composed of solid blocks
laid together. and iced over with
sugar. When it was served, it was
held over the bride’s head, and the
outer crust was broken. Then the
cakes inside fell on the floor and
were distributed to the company.
Throwing the slipper has an origin
the reverse of sentimental and is a
reminiscence of those barbarous
times when the relations of man and
wife wore much akin to those of
master and slave. Tho shoe was on
Anglo-Saxon emblem of authority
and was given by tho bride’s fattier
to her husband in token of transfer
ence of power, which the groom ac
knowledged by tapping his bride
lightly on the head with it as an
earnest of mastership.
The superstitions connected with
entering the married state arc nu
merous and curious, and most of
them are a purely feminine posses
sion. Aa a preliminary there is a
little difficulty about choosing a day,
if this little verse is to be believed:
Monday for Wealth,
Tuesday for health,
VedneKdny the befit day of ftll.
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
If a day has finally been chosen,
then comes the question of season.
“Marry in Lent, and you’ll live to
repent,” takes that period out of
consideration. Then each month
has certain unlucky days, on which
marrying and giving in marriage
ip not to bo thought of. Then there
„ro other sibylline utterances to
which tho prospective bride should
pay heed. She must know that “to
change tho name and not the letter
is to change for tho worse and not
the hotter;” also that to marry and
yet “to keep her own name is to
keep her condition forever the
samo.”
When all those little obstacles are
overcome, a bride in arraying her
self for the ceremony must be sure
to wear
Soroothlns okl and 8onu»tbtng now,
Something borrowed and something bluo.
The sun must shine on her wed
ding day, and she must not trip on
the way to tho church or cross tho
threshold with tho left foot first.
The same applies to the bridegroom.
No one must open an umbrella while
the bridal pair are in tho house.
That would bring the worst of ill
luck. A horseshoe and a wishbone
hidden in the flowers under which
the pair stand to plight their troth
have a most salutary influence on
their future life.
So, if those who are contemplating
matrimony wish to seeuro tho prize
of happiness in that lottery of lot
teries, they have only to follow
faithfully all the directions here
given. —New ark Ad v or riser.
lie Know th© Women,
The window dresser for a big
State street firm in arranging a dis
play of mourning goods recently
used as a centerpiece the wax figure
of a young widow dressed in the sable
habiliments of woe. The proprietor
sent for him. “See here,” said the
latter, “that black goods window
won’t do. You're rigged up a dum
my in mourning who wears a smile
as broad as a French joke, tmd who
looks us radiant as the dawn of pay
day. ” “Well, ” said the artist, “I’m
not advertising trouble. I ’in bidding
for business'. When the women pass
that window and see how beautiful,
how charming, how dangerously
alluring our dummy looks, the wid
ows will tumble over each other to
buy our goods, and the girls will go
right away and get married in order
to fall into line for a chance. ” His
wages were raised on the spot.—
Chicago Tiines-Herald.
When Baby was sick; we gave her Castorfa.
HTien slie was ft Child, she cried for Castoria.
When sfte became Miss, she clung to CasUxria,
H’hen sb-i hnA CYhiidnsa. ah© gavethty '•>%>
DO NOT BOY
Mowers and Hay-Rales
TILL YOU GETOURPRiCE
Mallary Bros – Co,
MACON GA.,
Jf.Qadqua.rtGTs f -or JffaohinQrij.
W. C. AYC 0 CK – SON
100 Regular size Doors and windows 100
Wholesale Price for Cash. *
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
W. J. WALLER
LEBULON.
General -Merchandise*
STCYES, STOYES.
Lageit Stock, Bvst Assotment
Lowest Prices in Middle Ga.
Cook Stoves at any price.
Heaters from 81 75 up
You ndrs a ba'S 8 ?' 1 * v n *^^ railing on ns before buying. We are detei
mined to sell ami offer you thy beat needs for the It a-' mouev. Do not
fail to sec our womic fut Air light heaters lor w-toor Coal. They will
hold fire longer and hum le.s fuel than any stove made. Guaranteed to
save 25 per ,-t nt of feel. Ii i“ only uoccessary to take up ashes in wood
ftoves on ( e a month , Four lo six cents a day is u.e cost of heating. Get
our prices and you will not uiil lo buy.
H ; G; BURR’S: SONS
THE HARDWARE LEAD – RS,
GRIFFIN
DILL*
David Waxeibaum – Company
Proprietors NEW YORK STORE Griffin I
Are going to close out their immense store
of goods by January 1. Enormous
sacrifices must be made in order to
do this.
New stock of Dry Goods must be slaughtered
New stock of Cf Dthius muSt be slaughtered
New stock ot Shoes must De slaughtered.
We call the attention of Country Merchants
to this.Sale, a price will be made for quanity
Also the store they occupy from Jan-1 for rent.
David Waxetan II Mo.
Selieuerman Building, Griffin, Gu,
January Sheriff Sales
Will be *uld before the court homo
in the town of Z«UnU»n, TO;**
county, Go, on the ftvst Tuesday in
January .181 >7 between the hours of 10*
o’clock ft. m. and 4 o’clock f>. rr. ro t) o
highest bidder for cash the following,
de*cribed property to wit:
One hundred and mxtv (jfioj ;jere-< of1 i id, ft
same being parts of lot* Nog, 1C5 and m ai.d
Bounded as follows: on the south by the pnbhtj
road leading from Jordan** Store to Wilhan
yitle, < n the wvst Uy Eskm* ©reek to ft certain
black–nm tree standing on the t uu ot said creek
Wi ere said laud Joins th© land of J H Barker,,
on the north by lands of the said J H Barker,,
commencing at said biackgmu tree and running
nearly east to a certain Vock corner betwe* n
said land and the land of J H Barker anti on the
cast by lands of J II Barker, commencing at
said rock corner and running south to starting
point.
Also thirty (30) acres, th * tame being parts of
lot* Nos. 18H and U*T, being all the swamp land
on the west side of Elkins creek, beginning at
the bridge and running north en the west aide
of said creek to the north east earner of mud
formerly owned by .1 B C Madden.
Ala*eighty (80j aerosol land off of land lot
No 161 lying in the south weal portion ot said
lot ami bourKed as fol.ows: ou the north, by
binds of J M Carreker. on the east by lands of
J J Ch–ppel, on the south by original land line
and on the west Uy lands of J M carreker.
lying The and entire being tract m the or ‘Jtn parcel district of land o! l ike situate coin 9
tv, Ga., and containing in the aggregate two
bandied mid seventy (270; acres of land more or
less and levied ou as the property of James A
Garland by virtue Of and tivo satisfy a certain
fl fa issued from 1'ike superior court in favor
Tlic, New England Mortgage and Security Co
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vs J m. A. Garland. Legal notice given of said
levy, This Bee, 1, 1–M5.
ALSO
at the sain'* time and place the following desenb
ed property tow it: one f rm lying m a body
consisting of parts of lots of land No 203, No 204
ami No 3uo in the Oth dist. of Pike county, G«,*
and bounded as follows: on the north by lands
of Nancy Irvin, on the ea. 4 t by lauds «d Edgar
.Johnson, ou the south by lands ut Gio.ge J£
Strickland am) on the west by lan*.» of J©»*o
Lawrence said land levied tn a." site |»**.pert y
ot Jes*e Lrtwience by i uTue of amt to oattefy iv
certain 11 i t issued from Urn superior cuu*t of
Pike county in favor of William II Mine, lk*n
jandn Graham, William Hall, Jr,, and II if
Uagdcn vs AI Lr im-itte, V\ ruler. HO.ieo
given as r©<iiiiivd by law. im* Ihc . ,, , JO.
A I>vJ
at tlie iHitue tinteA.i.. |H t#ir fulh)tvit»£i'j»rojj»
erty tow it: •>..>,,* luti ,u„. o.ivs (-» ,* v Uflt*s
of lni.d *»i «h •G, ila‘1 lit Hi . (.j) fll'i' !*
ttioruCor off of ,i»t ,S*. i.i. m the
sotUD wvf.ti e*vm-,M'ol ^ l./t, >*. lijtcf *
fist of liic os KMut.uu in li la iu her iauttuft ifti td,
known as the ChawUfte nine©. Said land
ilHt ami iu ituj JUi u*«t. oi *
Gft. Levied on as the property of Eunice Ed
wards by virtue ot and to satisfy a certain
mortgage U fa i-suud from the Superior court of
Pike county in favor of Woodall – Lea vy
Ruuice llrowr.. Tin* J)ec. 1, W.W.
ALSO
one house aud lot in tlm town of Piedmont. PLe .
county, hit., containing three quarters of
acre of land more or lets- and bounded as foi
Iowa: on the north bv public road, on tho ea~t
by G VV Wartiicn, on the south by I C Collier
and on the west by Mt. Zion church lot, Said
property levied on h* the property *>r Mrs, S J
Evans by virtue of and to satisfy a certain li ia
issued Inna the county court of Tike county m
favor of James W Atwater vs Mrs. S J Evuiia
ami J 11 Nelson. Written notice served o»
doit, in terms of the law. Property pointed
out . y plain lid's attorney, lids Dec. 1, 1N96.
J. G. lilude. .Sheriff.
MRS. M. 0. IIALAN,
HEANIV.IiLE, GA
THEI ADYSPElIALIST
FROM A'OCKFOfiD, UL
Has been very successful in treating all
forms of “Female Weakness” with her
woudrful “Balm of Figs.”
Ladies you can go on with your work
as usual, and I will cure your worst case
n three months time.
ELECTRICITY GIVEN FOR LOCAL
TREATMENTS.
CONSULTATION FREE
From 8 A M to 5 M
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
L. L. BRYAN,
Attorney ut Law,
ZEBuLON GA
Patronage solicited. Prompt attens
tion to business. Caff at office of Judge
Pope.
MONEY TO loan LOA t
I am now prepare'l to money on short
notice ftmt.easy terms. Correspond©* ee solic
ited.
S. N- WOODWARD,
Come, ut l.uw.
Barnesville. Georgia.
C. M. BRINKLEY,
Plain, and Dmarcptal
PAINTING.
El' LON : ox
GSTAllwork guaranteed.
£. F. DUPREE,
Attorney nt I,nw.
Zebulon Georgia.
SOUTHERN JIAJLMAI.
lanta Central inclusive; time shown Eastern from time Fort Valley to At
Sche effective Feb beyond. –L
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