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The Old Oaken Bucket. Science goes for tilings dear to as without mercy. Everybody who has IKed in the country an 1 who knows tho old well tho “old oaken buck et.” We all love it because we ha ye read what the poet says about it, and iu our school days we chose the poem as cur “piece’' and spoke it. We have quenched our thii&t he m the old oaken bucket with its contents after carefully looking into its dubious debts fer “wigglers” or worms. We hive balanced the rusty, dripping in convenience on the curb anti submerg ed our noses in the nectar we gulped. We have spilled the crystal cn our shiit front and profanedy growled as we felt it tuckle down inside our col lar. We have seen the leaking driz zle. from a hole in the buckot, spoil our five cent shine. We have longed under these circumstances for a cheap glas3 tumbler or a common tin dipp°r, but in all our tabulations we never thought the old oaken bucket an iron oound death dealer, but it seeun that it is, for a scientist tells us that it is a compound, condensed mass of nitro genous and pho6phatic hlthness, the heme of the microbe and the all-pre vailing bacteria.--[Martha’s ' v ’ine yard Herald. Cure for Biliousness. First, on get ting up and going to bed drink plenty of cold water. Eat for breakfast, un til the bidous attack passes, a little stale bread, say one slice, and a jbece half as large as your hand of b< i'ed lean beef or mutton. If the weather .is warm, take instead a little cracked ' • . wheat or oatmeal poridge. For dinner take about tho same Go without yonr supper. Ex- rise free'y in the open atr, poo ducing perspitatinn, once or twice a day in ale v days your biliousness is all goi e. This lesult will come ■ v en though, the biboesne-s is one of tin spring sort, and one with which you h .vc. frorr year, been much afflicted iierb drinks, bitter drink, lager be: r, ale, whiskey, and a dozen oth'r fj'iing medicines are simply barbatous The age ol fishes Glows are com in only said to live for a hundred yea: a and. tin tie* are said to have even long er life; but if Prof. Beard be right the greatest animal longevity is possessed by fishes. Piof- Baird says that a Gal* has no maturity, there is nothing to prevent it from living indefinitely growing con’inually. Lie cites in ptoof a pike, living n Russia, whose age dates back to the fifteenth century. In the royal aquatium at St. Petersburg there are fish that have been there 140 years. Homer’s Ghost. One of our yount; men was out late one night last week, and in coming home met with an unearthly object on the hill above tho Presbyterian Cnutch, and as it 6remed to be ready to stop and talk a few minutes the young man ente.ed into conversation with it, and a dismal click came from its thioat. Ou being questioned as to what was ths matter be replied: “If you must know, 1 am a ghost, and’’ At this moment tho young man was sttuck with abject terror and amaze rnent and started to run, but the ghost waved its hard in an ftnpreceding man ner add anotlnr click cune from its throat. The young man stood riveted to the spot, and as ibj ghost proceed ed with its story be hecarm- filled with interns-, and pi*y and the ghost related the following Strange rtory, as ic limp ed with much diOicul y towards a lev el spot of ground with its l ones o*eak ing and its joints popping. “You kriuw I have been laying down yonder in ti e old cemetery for a lor.g number of years. I rested pci Cs ably for a long time, bslrnd the*okl Presbyterian Church with tho large oaks swaying and singing in the bretz es. Once a )ear the Prcsbyteiians came over ibere where the pablic square ; s now,and held a CBmpme*dng. Tho singing and shouting of tho c< u gregation was music in tny eat', and I was La} py. But after awhile Dok Hooper and CGI. Talk and a few othcis among them tho inferior rOuH, got iu to a big ru\v about putting up anew court house here. This lasted for a long time, and at la-t they began to cat down the trees around here and to build. This did not disturb me much but when they the old church away and 1 could no longer hear the s nging I began to feel lonesome.” Another click in the throat and the ghost rcinaike “I have not had a drink of watei in tivtuty fivj years.” The young man made another start but another wave ol the hand s!opp and him, and the gl.o:>t pruCee led. “After awhile the old grave y.td began to be much neglected, ami the cattle came u and traicpb and mound andgnzvd in the. cemetery and slept •h re, and great h les Logan to sink in the groan 1 A; last a flood of w a ter came and filled up the place where I lav, and I attempted to get up and make my v.ay out of the dismal pi a e. bn doing so tny fot tell into one oi the old neglected graves and l brok * my .high. I coaid do in belter an 1 ciawled down in o the hole ‘ini found that a darky hoi be n l-a Tied there 1 -aid i'.ei unt 1 my thigh gr well, and 'he darky tdd mo. that t.l e white folks had quit burying there, end some of our neigh: orS had he*n taken up and moved to the new Presbyterian grave yard ou the hill. One ilav some boys in town got af ter some chickens and they ran dowD into our hole and we subsisted ou them until now. I have started out to find the new cemetery Can yon tell me where it is? 1 think all my old neighbors iu tho old cemetery have concluded to leave for more le-pecl able quaiters. Can you give me di iections, please? But the young man was so terrified that he ran for life and, the ghost off into the old field, saving “I will pick an opportu nity to meet some of the littla boys oDe of these rnghts. Maybe they will tfll me? I alwayn make it my busi ness to go everywhere of nights.” Failure in tho Yam Trade; wiring unsuccessful novel-. FREE TO AL L Call at the Store of General Mer chandise & Plantation Supplies, Dry Goods, Notions, 'O'UOtfc, "tao.’tfc, T'Qo.'AvuSiU, JO'to.vCCk, Mour and Meat, Sugar and Codec, for Cash, or Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Price. W. C. J. GARRISON, Ilomer, Georgia. o]ieap Cash, Store, ) G\vG G, <MvQTGV„, GlvOVi’W,, General Merchandise & Plantation SUPPLIES, DRYGOOi)S &NOTIONS. Keep on hand a full stock of G :i s. Flour, M*;d. Me." . Sugars, Coilees, Teas, Molases, robaecoa:.b (.hg irs. CWiilr;- i‘ d.i< Taken in Exchange at Highest Market Pr.ee. W hen in t< r ; in. J, E. Stephens, iiomer, ga. A Nice Line of Confectioneries, ewA sScufc,* ‘'yO.Vyd.Vvk, J©\o.<iCo <J.vA C’WO.’Vt, Country Produce Taken in Exchange at Highest Earket prices.