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THE COCK AND THE PEARL.
A rooster once pursued a worm
That lingered not to brave him;
To see his wretched victim squirm
A pleasant thrill it gave him.
He summoned all his kith and kin;
They hastened up by legions,
With quaint, expressive gurgles in
Their oesophageal regions, M
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Just then a kind of glimmering
Attracting his attention,
The worm became too small a thing
i For more than of hungry passing hens mention; and rude
The throng
1 He skilfully evaded.
Said he: “I’ faith, if this be food,
I saw the prize ere they did.”
It was a large and costly pearl,
belonging in a necklace,
And dropped by some neglectful girl—
Some people are so reckless! forlorn,
The cock assumed an air
, And cried: “It’s really cruel,
' I-thought it grain of
was a corn;
Itte nothing but a jewel.”
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k* shadows of the
fjffrv llJlIfV-ib f flooded through which forest I
V ^ LL ™ || had aud been carrying pushing
mv my
9 wheel ever since
■ the early night de
9 ~! k scended,something
, Suddenly loomed,
dark and high, before me. Sp-siiently
and unexpectedly did the huge, black
bulk confront me,, like koine.iton’ster
stretched across the. road, that I
stopped involuntarily, my heart heat¬
ing thick and fast; Then, ,ag I
strained my eyes to make out the na
•tare of the object In my path, its black
•outlines gradually resolved themselves
into the shape of a covered bridge,
raised high above the road on its stone
piers. With an exclamation of joy, I
dragged my wheel up the’ sharp pitch
of the roadbed and out of the icy
water, into the welcome dryness and
shelter of that refuge in a flooded
wilderness.
For two days the rain had been
pouring heavily and steadily down up¬
on that deep valley iu the backwoods
of Maine, through wlych by the route
which I had chosen for my bicycle
tour. Thinking that the storm would
soon wear- itself out, I had keptonmy
way, penetrating deeper and deeper
into the wilderness. The road, m
spite of increasing mud, had proved
fair for wheeling, and not until the
afternoon of the second day of rain
did I encounter sufficient standing
water to make it necessary for me to
dismount, and wade. I hadnotpassed
a hopse since early in the morning,
but kept hoping 1 should yet chance
upon some isolated backwoods farm
ere the night fell. The valley kept
sinking in level, however, and I soon
realized that I must be approaching
it ‘a lowest point, where there would be
little likelihood of finding a habita¬
tion. One always shrinks from turn¬
ing back, however, while there is a
possibility of going forward, so I kept
on until I came to the bridge. There
was, at least:, solid satisfaction in hay¬
ing a roof over my head and dry
boards under my feet, though the
doors of my house stood somewhat too
widely open to the chill flight air for
perfect comfort.
However, I was disposed to make
the best of a situation which might,
■Surely, be worse, and leaning my
wheel against one of the stringers of
the bridge, I sat down and proceeded,
first of all, to remove my soaked shoes
and stockings and replace the latter
with a dry pair from my luggage bag.
"When I had changed my shirt also,
.
ana ’wrung about a quart of water
from my coat, I felt so much hettqj
that I began to whistle. “Every
pickle,” said I to myself, “has the
elements of adventure in it; and a bi¬
cycle trip lacks its chief charm if not
spiced with adventure. ”
Fortunately, I had the remnants of
a lunch in my bag, and having de¬
voured the cold bread and meat and
lit my pipe, I was still further disposed
’ to take a philosophical view of the situa¬
tion. I was, at least, sheltered for the
and might he able to snatch
sleep by lying close to the string
of the bridge, at its center, where
would be comparatively out of the
As soon as daylight came, I
could review the situation and make
up my mind whether to go forward or
turn back.
When my pipe was smoked out, I
took a walk the whole length of the
bridge, using matches to light my way.
The structure proved to be only about
fifty feet long: an old fashioned cheap¬
ly constructed affair, such as one al¬
most always finds in sparsely populated
sections, when it has become neces¬
sary to bridge a stream of any size.
The river, now overflowing its banks
so widely, was evidently, in ordinary
weather, quite narrow; though, drain
ing so large a section as it did, it was
doubtless deep and carried a large
_
volume of water.
As I lay down to sleep, with my
head resting against one of the trans
verse stringers, I heard the rain still
beating fiercely against the side of the
bridge; and, during' my fitful slum
hers, this was ahvays the sound that
“To thine own n self be trus.aad it will follow, as night the day, thou cans't not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898
He turned again to where his clan,
In one astonding tangle.
In eager haste together ran ]
To slay the helpless angle, size!
And should sighod: have “He used was discretion. of massive
I
Too late! Around the toothsome prizo
A bargain sale’s in season!”
The worm’s remarks upon his plight
Have never been recorded,
But any oho will know how slight
Diversion it afforded,
For worms and human beings are
Unanimous that, when pecked,
To he the prey of men they far
Prefer to being hen-pecked.
The Moral: When your dinner comes
Don’t leave it for your neighbors
Because you hear the sound of drums
And see the glenip of sabres;
Or. like the cook, you’ll And too late
That ornaments external
Do not for certain indicate
A bona fide kernel.
—Harper’s Bazar.
greeted my ears on rousing to con¬
sciousness. At about 3 o’clock in the
morning I became so chilly I coukl
sleep no longer, and so got up and
beat my arms until the blood began to
circulate more freely. Then I went to
the end of the bridge to see if the
water had risen any higher. I was
amazed and startled to find that it was
nearly on a level with the floor of the
bridge, and was surging by with a dis¬
tinct gurgling and lapping sound, that
showed there was considerable force
to the current. It was, I knew, only
a question of time before the bridge
must yield to the undermining power
of the flood, and yet I dared not leave
it, for I realized by this time the water
on the flat must be over my head.
Returning to my wheel, as if for
silent companionship, I sat down;
lighted another pipeful of tobacco, and
waited. It might have been half an
hour later—my ’pipe’ was not yet
burned out—when I heard a sound
like heavy breathing from-the end of
the bridge I had lately visited, and
then a distinct splashing, over and
above the gurgle'and lap of the water.
Presently, as my eyes were fixed on
the jppt whence the sounds seemed to
come, I saw what looked like two dim¬
ly burning caudles, set close together, :
rise over the edge of the floor and
slowly enter the bridge. At the un¬
canny sight I felt as if a stream of. ice
cold water were running down toy
back; my hands involuntarily clutched
my knees, and there was a strange,
prickling sensation all over my body.
It was positively a relief when I
heard a scratching sound on the floor
of the bridge, and knew then, at all
events, there was nothing ghostly
about my mysterious visitor. Evident¬
ly, it was some wild creature of the
woods seeking shelter and safety, like
myself, in the bridge, I could hear it
rustling cautiously about, aud occa¬
sionally uttering a slight wheezing or
coughing sound, as if to free its throat
and nostrils from water.
By and by the‘(animal, whatever it
was, began to sniff suspiciously, and I
knew that its quick sense of smell had
detected my presence. Then, for the
first time, I experienced a feeling of
genuine alarm. I could see the eyes
of tho beast glaring through the dark¬
ness; and the size of the phosphor¬
escent eye-balls, and,the distance be¬
tween them, showed that the animal
was one of considerable size. I was
unarmed, save for a light 22-caliber
revolver that would prove about as
effective against a boar, wolf or cata¬
mount as a boy’s popgun. Suppose
the beast should be hungry enough to
crave even a meal of soaked and
gristly bicycler? Shut up in that cage
of a bridge, what could I do to balk
him of his purpose, should he decide
to eat me?
While I was debating one side of
this question, and my unseen visitor
ivas, doubtless, debating the other
side, something occurred that was cal¬
culated to divert the thoughts of each
from the other, for the time being.
Without the slightest preliminary jar
or lurch, one end of the bridge floated
off its pier and swung down stream.
Then followed a grinding noise,as the
other end was dragged from its bed of |
masonry, and with a rolling and toss¬
ing motion our uu wieldly craft got un
der way down stream! i
I had sprung to my feet, as I felt
the water rushing up through the
cracks iu the floor. There was an in
sane idea in my mind that I must
make a rush for the free end of the
bridge and leap into the water, to
save myself from going to the bottom
with my leaky craft. Then I reflected
that, from the time of Noah’s ark un
til the present, all wooden structures
tossed upon floods—no matter how
leaky—have invariably floated until
they found some resting place on dry
land again. Undoubtedly, comfortable I was
safer, and -would be more
where I was than anywhere else in
that flooded wilderness—provided my
fellow passenger would keep his dis¬
tance. So I sat down again, unmind¬
ful of the cold water swirling about
my feet, and listened.
I could hear nothing of the un
known animal whose company I so
much desired to part with. But,
I located his blazing eyes j
way up the side of the bridge, j
perceived that the beast, w%en i
water rushed into the bridge, had
on one of the slanting beams,
and was now crouching there, in more
unreasoning terror, doubtless, than
mine. I thanked fortune then for
the floating off of the bridge and the
inrush of water, which would, proba¬
bly, act as au effectual barrier be¬
tween what I now realized must be a
catamount or wildcat and myself.
Shiveringly, I waited for the dawn.
The bridge floated smoothly enough,
save when it whirled in the current
and struck some tree on the rive!
bank. Then it would tremble alt
through its timbers, but soon swing
free and start upon its course again.
The floor was about two feet under
water all the time, and I soon con¬
cluded to follow the example of my
brute companion and climb up on on?
of the beams. Here I ensconced
myself as best I could, and spent a
miserable two hours, until the first
gray light of morning began to steql
into my prison.
As objects gradually became more
distinct I made out at last the tawny
body of a panther, stretched, head
downward, along a beam opposite me,. still
•The fierce, fixed eyes were
turned toward me, and although the
body of the beast was perfectly still,
a constant vibration and slight lashr
ing of the tail betokened its intense
alertness. ’ Never once did it turn its
blazing eyes away from mine, but for
over an hour watched me as a oat
watches some bird that it is intent to
catch.
Then there came 4 sudden tremen^
dous shock to the bridge, aud one end
of it shot ftp several feet in the air,,
submerging the other end where thej
jmnther was clinging, until the water:
surged over the head and shoulders shrink Of i
the startled beast. I saw it
backward quarters up the blocked beam, by but the its frame-1 hind-j i
were
work of the roof ere its head got abo ref
water. Then it launched from the.
beam with * a mad plunge, and swam
heavily past me, till it reached the
shallowing water at the other drowned, end o|
the bridge, and climbed, half
up into the morning light.
At that instant, when its head anc
shoulders hung over the threshold o:
the bridge, a rifle shot rang out
and sharp. The great cat
convulsively and then sprang
and disappeared.
I slipped down from vAr.perch, and ■
plunged through the wateA
climbed up where the cat had lain.
Below me yawned a gulf forty fee%
deep, into which the flood thundered!
in a yellow, yeasty mass. The bridge
had struck a dam, and the forward
end, sliding up over its slimy verge,
hung suspended in mid-air. At this
point banks of the river were steep
and high, with huge boulders scat¬
tered over them. On one hank,
clinging to it like a swallow’s nest, was
a sawmill. The greater part of it was
under water, but a man stood at one
of the upper windows, with a smok¬
ing rifle iu his hand. He saw the
look of intense inquiry on my face,
though he could not hear the shout I
raised, amid the thunder of the waters.
In re}jly he pointed to the swirling,
foaming gulf beneath me. Then I
understood how the wounded panther
had leaped to his death.—Detroit Free
Press.
Farm Work For Imbeciles.
The State of Ohio has decided to
inaugurate a new experiment iu the
treatment of imbeciles. Hitherto these
weakminded unfortunates have been
housed in great asylums, where under
the constant care of trained attendants
they have received elementary class¬
room instruction. While this system
developed the intellectual resources of
the imbecile, weak and wavering as
they were, there was no opportunity
to build up the physical energies.
Gymnasium exercises failed to meet
the requirements.
The State Legislature has recently
appropriated §150,000 for the purchase
of a farm and the establishment of an
imbecile village iu connection with it.
Instead of a great asylum there will be
a great number of cottages, each in
charge of a competent attendant. It
is proposed to develop the minds of
the members of the colony by class¬
room work and their bodies by out¬
door exercise in practical farming.
They will thus have the same mental
stimulus as before and will also have
advantage of pure air, physical ex
ercise, and the healthful incentive of
sustained work along practical 'lines.
The result of the experiment will be
watched with interest.—Pathfinder.
The Knot.
A knot is the nautical synonym for
the geographical mile. The geograph¬
ical mile is one-sixtieth of a mean
of a meridian on the earth,
and is, therefore, one-sixtieth of 69.09
English statute miles, or, what is the
same thing, the length of the geo¬
graphical mile, or knot, or nautical
mile as it is also called, is 6000 feet.
Hence, w-hen a ship has gone one
knot it has gone 1.1515 statute miles,
or w-hat is nearly the same thing, a
ship which is running thirteen knots
an hopr is traveling at the same speed
as a railway .train ^vhich is going fif¬
teen miles an hour. The name is
derived from the knots tied on the
appendages of a ship’s log line.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
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LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
One Reason—Rough on Him—The Cause
Removed—A Cause For Joy—Too Nar¬
row-Only an Oversight—Quite Acci¬
dental—A Mean Crawl—In Doubt, Etc,
There is one of many reasons
’Tis Why summer is best of all—
the pride of all the seasons,
For it goeth before tv fall.
The Cause Removed.
“How is your insomnia?”
“It’s ail right; the cornet player
next door has got a job on a railway.”
—Chicago Record.
Rough on Him, 1
He (unreasonably)—“Were you ever
in love before you met me?”
since.”—Harper’s She (lightly)—“Oh, yes; but never
Bazar.
A Marriage Settlement.
Tom—“Did your father-in-law set¬
tle anything on you at your marriage?”
Benedict (dejectedly)—“Yes; him¬
self and his whole family!”—Puck.
Running People Down.
Laura—“I hid to give up the bi¬
cycle. I coul - not conquer my in¬
clination to„ ra : people down.”
Flora—“Especially when their backs
were turned, eh, dear?”
Ill Donbt,
Biggs—-“Where is your family go¬
ing to spend the summer?”
Boggs—“I don’t know yet. My
wife hasn’t found out which place is
most expensive.”—Life,
A Cause For Joy.
T> ensmith (a callow bard)—“Mv
pom is returned with the editor’s
thanks. Huh! I don’t see what he
ha to thank me for!”
Grimsliaw—“For what you didn’t
send him, probably. ”—Harper’s Bazar.
Only aw Oversight.
“See here, I only got-, one piece of
meat in my order to-day. I ahvays
get two.”
j., cook mugt hav£) fol . gottcll t(J - cut
he piece in'two!”— i
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The Mother Tongue,
■ Willie—“Papa, why do they call
the ‘mother., tongue?’ ”
Pft^a—“Because the fathers so sel
fj&ai gpt a chance to use it. ”
Willie will understand this when he
•gets aflittle older.—Philadelphia Call.
llis Insignificance.
Askius—“That fellow, Small, is a
person of very little importance, isn’t
he?”
Grimshaw—“Yes; he cuts about as
much figure iu life as the middle part
of a doughnut does in a square meal?”
—Puck.
Too Narrow.
Funnicus—“Did you hear about
Measleigh’s narrow escape?”
Easymeet—“No. What happened?”
Funicus—“It was a fire escape, and
it was so narrow that the building in¬
spector made him take it down and
put up a wider one.”—Facts.
A Good Feature.
“This paper, ” remarked Mrs. Mid
kiff, “tells of a man arrested an hour
after his wedding and sent to prison
for ten years. Isn’t that awful?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” answered
Midkiff. “The law doesn’t compel
him to take his wife with him.”
All Happy Now.
Mr. Chick—“Your father is such a
passionate man, Mabel! Do you thiuk
he will be violent if I approach him
with regard to my intentions to your¬
self?”
Mabel (wearily) soon!”—Tid —“No, buthe Bits. will j
be if you don’t
Increase the Supply.
“Ugh!” groaned Mr. Fussbv dur¬
ing one of his sick spells, “I—I
can’t breathe.”
“Children,” said the agitated Mrs.
F. to the two boys who where gazing
curiously at their suffering parent,
“stop breathing till pa 2 ia gets better.”
—Judge.
Quite Accidental.
“Do you think it proper,” said the
man who was trying to keep his tem¬
per, “to laugh at a man who slips on
a banana jieel by accident?”
“Well,” replied the spectator, apolo¬
getically, “I laughed by accident, too.
I didn’t think of such a thing until I
saw you.”—Detroit Free Press.
Every-lJay History.
Winkle—“I wonder what becomes
of the hoys who leave the country and
enter the great struggle of life iu the
cit Y ’
Ivinkle—"Ihey make big fortunes,
and then lie hack in their easy-chairs
and advise country boys to stick to
the farm. New York Weekly.
A Shopping Trip.
“Harry,” said Mrs. Tredway to her
husband at the breakfast table, “I am
quite out of money, and I want to
“What do vou want sixty cents for’”
ceat, far
A Hard Problem.
“Sticgiman has gone crazy at last.” ■
“YVhat threw- him off his trolley?”
“He has been studying about mak¬
doughnuts and the holes iu thttn.
first he thought it was cheaper to
the holes larger. Then he con¬
that if he did it would take
dough to go around them. Then
went crazy.”
A Mean Crawl,
Mother—“Why, what grieves you,
Willie—“I asked pa if he could spell
Mother—“And what did he do?”
Willie (sobbing)—“He thought hard
minnit an’ then got mad an’ said he’d
me, if I bothered him again when
was readin’.”—Judge.
How She Coaxed Johnnie.
“I think,” said the pastor, who
was making a call, “that it is easier
to coax children than to drive them.
Gentle words are more effective than
harsh ones.’^
“I think so, too,” said the lady
tenderly. And when the clergyman
had gone she raised the window sud¬
denly and shouted: “Johnnie, if you
don’t come in out of that .mud pud¬
dle, I’ll break your back for you, you
young scamp.”.—Koxlrary Gazette.
Mendacious Man.
Mr. Sparkle—“What an admirer of
you Joe Pumpling is. I never see
him that he doesn’t congratulate me
on having such a beautiful or such a
young-looking wife.”
Mrfe. Sparkle—“What a foolish fel¬
low Joe always was!”
Mr. Sparkle—“By the way, I prom¬
ised to meet him at the club this
evening, if you don’t object to my go¬
ing out.”
Mrs. Sparkle—“Oh, not at all. I
want to run over to the Johnstons
anyway, and I know you wouldn’t en¬
joy it there.”—Chicago News.
WORDS OF WISDOM,'
Kighteousness is victory.
True men are the diamonds of his
tory.
Some gnus kick; revenge is one of
them.
It is not cowardice to fear to do
wrong.
No abilities are independent of in
tegrity.
He is far from home that has none
to go to.
The sweetest flower of the gospel is
charity.
X little sin has as much death in it
as a big one.
If you can’t swim, never wade in un¬
known waters.
Few w«ar their characters like their
cloaks—outside.
Potluck may be poor luck if taken
with a stranger.
A poor picture is not helped by be¬
ing put in a good .light.
In religious controversy ferocity is
not the only sign of fidelity.
The man is usually iu the right who
owns himself in the wrong.
The confession of past folly may
be only the profession of present wis¬
dom.
The thing that makes pessimism is
failure to find in men what angels pos¬
sess.
He who always complains of the
clouds receives little of life’s sunshine,
and deserves less,—Ram’s Horn.
Under Sealed Orders.
The custom of having warships sail
“under sealed orders” has arisen from
the desire of maritime powers to pre¬
vent their plans from becoming known
to the enemy.
In the American Navy such orders
come from the President, and are de¬
livered to a commander of a ship or
squadron by a confidential messenger,
who knows nothing of their contents.
Sometimes they are in cipher, but
they are alwaj s sealed with the official
seal of the Navy Department, and the
package cannot be opened until the
time marked on it, which is usually
several hours after the hour of leaving
port.
By this precaution the newspapers
are prevented from disclosing prema¬
turely movements which may he of
the greatest importance, and the spies
of the enemy are rendered useless so
far as their ability to discover the se¬
cret of such movements is concerned.
Sailing under sealed orders is now
the common naval practice in time of
war.
These instructions are found in the
packet of “sealed orders,” -which is
opened when well out to sea.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
corn Cob m a pi o Suijar.
A farmer is accre dited with the dis
covery of maple sugar substitute. In
pjg endeavors to utilize corncobs for
fodder> ]ie found that continued boil
developed a sweetish taste in flavor
similar to maple sugar, and by certain
admixtures of other- foreign matters,
! ( e now produces a fictitious article in
the following manner: Twelve clean
cobs are put into a gallon of water and
dark-brown sugar solution. This
» Med . Httl. whd. to
SSSfJPSSSMffa’Slt fine quality of sirup hardly dis
be a
tingnishable froth the maple product,
—Atlanta Constitution.
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LEARNING TO SWIM.
Tits Chief Characteristic of a GboJ Sw?i
is a Slow Stroke.
“Just as soon as the warm weather wR
sets in, many persons who, at the closa fill
of few last summer, were able somewhat to swim tim- a! H pffl
strokes, will again *8*
orcusly enter the water,” writes Frank
H. vizetelly in an article on “The S
Simple Art of Swimming'” in the Wo
man’s Home Companion. “The ma¬
jority will find this self-imposed task l f.
far more difficult than is anticipated,
I: is necessary to remind those who
tlulge in short, hurried strokes that -
one of the golden rules of swimming Those
is move slowly and deliberately.
who wish to become good thef
lmis’, cultivate self-reliance, anil »
shc.dd always beat- in min'd that .wate^ l
itself has a sustaining power far ..
greater than that of most liquids. of good' Th#.|, ‘i®
slow stroke is the very essence
swimming. It enables thq bathed ta i
inflate the lungs and thus unconscious-
!y turn them temporarily into life
preservers. To move slowly is to get '
plenty of breathing time, and to get
plenty of breathing time is to .get plen
ty of strength to repeat the movements
which propel tho body through the f
water. Te second golden rule which *
the beginner could school herself to t ,*
remember is that the living human
body is specifically consequently, lighter does than not water, Wjjk.
and that, it
essarily §tnk therein..Confidence in the
sustaining secret to swimming., power of water i’he best is the way only to;.IS 1||
convince the’ no vice' of the buoyancy 1
of water is to let her wade out until ;
the water comes up to her breast; butp I
before doing this she should take Anmerso,, care, j jj S
when in shallow water, to,
her whole body, so as from to avoid which the rush '% j | .
of blood to the head, many ||
bathers suffer through neglecting to g
do this. With the water once on a ■ 1
level with the breast the bather should
lie on liar back and extend her raised arms j j
out beyond her head, but not •
out of the water. This position makes j
breathing easy and' counterbalances i
the weight of the legs. The bather :-tk
should lie restfully and avoid stiffen
ing the nether limbs. The hips should JH
be rigid, the feet close together, but
not out of the water, for if they were
they would overbalance the weight of
the head and carry it beneath the sur- |
face.
wsuiyan. 'j
In the island of Bmhadoes Targe
quantities of a mineral Cave been
•found which the natives call “inaujak.”' 1
It is of a bright black color sometimes and o ■■urs j j
at a very slight depth, on
the surface, in beds one to two feet j
1 thick. It generally appears under an j
angle of about 40 degrees, and In the
immediate vicinity of rock. It is pre- !
sumed t.o be solidified exuding petroleum, from which the J ]
is often seen there
earth or floating on the water. Iu Its i
composition this mineral is similar to 1 1
the pitch of Trinidad, to the Gilsonite
of Utah and the Canadian Albertite, ®
but it is of a much better quality. The 1 |
best varieties of “manjak” contained I
£ per cent, of water, 70.85 per cent./of
volatile organic substances, 20.07 per 1
cent, of ditto solid ones and .18 per *
cent, of mineral parts. Trinidad pitch
contains from 21 to 30 per cent, of wa- •
ter, and about 38 per cent, of ashqs. j
Hence the manjak mineral is mucM
richer in natural bitumen. It is used, ;
among other purposes, for the insula* •
tion of electrical conduits, for varnish,
bituminous concrete and for fuel, mix*
ed with peat, etc. It may to some ex*
tent supplant gutt.a percha as an in*
sulating medium.—Savannah News- ^
HE .FIXED HIM.
A somewhat reckless youth who had
enlisted for the war and had spent
his time in camp in writing home for A
money, finally sent this telegram as
“a clincher.” ■ i
“Father: Leg shot off in sham
battle. Send all funds you can. "*■ i
To this the old man replied:
“Son: Don’t know your number,
but wooden leg goes to you by ex¬
press. If doesn’t fit, gat camp car¬ •
penter to plane it. Bast love. All
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GEORGIA RAILROAD.
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Connections.
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—ules and Rates, Both—
Passenger and Freight
Write to either of the undersigned.
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You will receive prompt reply and
reliable information. .
JOE. W. WHITE, A. G. JACKSOH, B. >
T. P. A. G. A, .
Augusta f Ga.
S. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON,
C. F. & P. A. G. A.
Atlanta. Athens.
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Macon. Maooa. 7
M. R. HUDSON, F. W. COFFIN,
S. F. A. S. F. & P. A.
Milled ge vilie. Augusta^ .5