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DENTIST,
Dublin, Georgia. -
Office, No. 6 Leitch-Stubbs Building,
f<P“Yonr patronage solicited.
DENTAL NOTICE.
DR. C.C. JORDAN
TENNILLE, GA.
Office over J. T. Walker's store
Next to New Hotel.
Dentistry in all its Frances Spe
in Crown and Bridge word.
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surrounding counties in the
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thin day dissolved by maiuai consent.
Mr. Kent will wind up all the unfinish¬
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Kext & Hatches,
Attorneys at Law.
Tills January 1 st 1902.
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3 T Iffi PASSING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
i OF MR. and MRS.
4 JOSEPH BRUDER
By Henry Irving Dodge.
Copyright, 1901 ,
By Henry Irving Dodge.
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“Big Four” pulled into Beaver Mead¬
ows on the Rome-VVatertown division,
and Joseph Bruder and his wife got
down from the passenger coach that
was trailing behind six “flats” of rails.
Bruder was six feet four and broad,
and his wife was five feet and narrow.
Bruder carried a huge valise that cost
a dollar and had done service, also an
ax. Mrs. Bruder wore mitts and a
plaintive, piquant smile. In her eyes
there was a standing apology for the
disparity in their sizes. This seemed
to be a sore point with tho little wo¬
man, for she was ever on the alert for
the quizzing glances of strangers, and
if one should stand apart and glance
at the odd couple he was sure to have
his gaze arrested by a plaintive glauce
from the woman which said as plainly
as speech, “Please don’t make fun of
us.”
But the man never bothered his head
about wbat other folks thought. He
was a woodehopper, and that's all lie
knew or eared. Next to his wife he
loved his ax, and It used to he his
pride that he could put a kecu enough,
edge on it to shave with. He used to
lay his cheek foudly against the purple
blade and pat it and call it his darling.
And the ax seemed to understand him,
for it would bark with quick delight
when his giant arms swung it aloft and
bite the maple and bury its nose to the
point where the tempered steel joined
the softer stuff.
When Bruder got off the train, lie
looked around in a sort of inquisitive,
defiant way and put his hand clumsily
around his wife and drew her shoulder
over against his thigh. There was no
one at the depot hut the agent, a vet
eran iu the business, the tenure of
whoso position had was before due 1 contributed o five toes j
that lie years
to the annual list of accidents on the
road. Smith had heard that Bruder
was coining to take the place of one of
the striking woodelioppers, and it filled
him with grave concern. Almost all of
his relatives belonged to tiie strikers,
and his sympathies were deeply with
them. On the other hand, it fell to his
lot to show ostentatious loyalty to tho
company. Beaver Meadows was the
chief v.oodiu up point of the road.
l '° r “»«> tb e contiguous country yield
ed nothing , from its stubborn soil save
stnntol bcct . b and knottP(] U! aple.
*nie president of the company that
supplied the railroad with wood was
Smith’s hacker. A nod from him would
have dislodged that worthy from the
comfortable uiclie that afforded him a
comfortable living- So Smith was he
tween the-devil and the deep sea. Ilis
heart was with the strikers, his Inter*
rst with the company. That’s why I 1 I 3
usually placid mind was tilled with
perturbation when lie beheld the lum
hering form of Joseph Bruder and the
diminutive wife alight from tlie ea
boose of Big Four.
Binder had an arm as long ns his
wife's tongue and could fell at a blow
either kind of jackass, human or
brute. Mrs. Bruder was the brains of
the outfit. She look charge of tho
money, when there was any. allowing
Jo ;eph only enough for h 1'aeeo. (Mr'
erwi-e Iso was „ teetotaler. * »:i till:
whole, this s: range couple was declin’d j
a combination to he avoided. No ono
ever knew where they came from. On
that score Bruder himself was silent,
with a persistency that defied all the
subtle influences of bucolic diplomacy,
Surmise said he was on ex-convict,
and as chapter and verse of Ids past j
were not forthcoming this comfortable
tlusory crystallized Into a very good
counterfeit of fact. ,
When the woodelioppers learned that j
Joe Bruder was coming to take Cy Sol
den's job, they knew there would bo
trouble, for they were a determined
lot. There was an understanding, how* ;
ever, a sort of feeling, although no
words’had been spoken, that somehow
Smitli would settle matters, and so
it was determined Hint no one from
among the strikers should meet Bruder
at the depot and attempt by moral or
nnisctilar force to turn him back,
Smith knew what was expected of
him by his friends and relatives; he
also knew that the suspicious eyes of
the president were upon hence
the delicacy of his position. 'lie hated
being "double faced,” hut lie had a
very comfortable niche indeed, and
times were exceedingly hard in those
parts. He reflected with considerable
disgust that it was quite unjust that
he, who had no personal interest in the ,,
matter, should he the one upon whose
shoulders the task of adjusting the af
fair’should be thrust.
That explains why Smith was per
turbed upon the arrival of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Bruder. It also explains
why he alone was at the depot to meet
the distinguished pair. It is an axiom
that good luck always comes to tho
lazy. Smith was a lazy man, which
accounts for the piece of good luck
which came to him on the morning of
the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Bruder.
Bah Armstrong's two-year-old baby
boy had died of cholera morbus a few
days before, and the sorrowing par
onts. who were. farmers, had put the
little creature In a simple pine box and
: were sending him down the road to be
| hurled in the Armstrong Camden. family The bury- tiny
■ ing ground at West
morsel of Humanity was at that mq
' raent restiug ,a t,K ‘ froightroom of the
; Reaver Meadows dep' t.
As g, u ith limped down the platform
toward Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bruder he
looked through the open door of the
freiglitroom and got his Inspiration.
Then he accosted Bruder.
“Waitin’ for Harris’ team, ain’t yer?”
Bruder looked at his wife, and she
said, “Yes.”
“Goin’ ler work on the job, ain’t
yer?”
Again Bi nder looked at his wife, and
again she said, “Yes.”
“Well, I'm right glad ter see yer,”
said the unconscionable diplomat ef¬
fusively. “I tell yer, we’ve been havin’
great goin's on aroun’ here.”
Again Bruder looked at his wife, and
again she said “Yes” softly and press¬
ed a little closer under the shelter of
his mighty thigh.
“Between you and mo," continued
the Wily Smith, “these woodelioppers
I mean the Beaver Meadow fellers,"
he hastened to cxpluiu as a slight con
him that any siuruporMhe^craft'wouili
not be welcome—“don't know when
they’re well off.”
He paused, and Bruder looked at his I
wife, but she remained silent.
“Of course I ain’t got nothin’against
these men here, and it may not sound
well cornin' from me, me bein' in the
employ of this corporation, as ain't sup¬
posed ter show no partiality, but seems
ter me these men is a little unreason¬
able. Yer see,” he went on as neither
Bruder nor his wife spoke, “times have
been pretty hard around hero, with
crops failin’ and a good deal of sick¬
ness in the neighborhood, and I think
these men ought to been glad to got
steady employment. Of course they’re
really in the power of the company,
cos they ain’t got no money, and the
officers knows it, and so they cuts
down their wages. Now, some of ’em
finds out that the big fellers Is mailin’
dead loads of money, and so they
makes a big kick and goes on strike.
So the company Jest shuts down, and 1
heard the superintendent say as that
they was goin’ to start a process of
starvation. Of course I don't want
that to go no further,"
“Did the company treat tho men
fair?” asked Mrs. Bruder.
“Of course It did,” said Smith quick¬
ly. “Ain't they got a right to pay their
money out any way they like? Couldn’t
these men pick up and leave if they
didn’t like it?”
Most of those men has their own
homes, hasn’t they?” asked'Mrs. Bru¬
der. !
“Yes, they lias," said Smith, “but if
they keeps 011 this way they won’t :
have no one left in their homes.” Then
ho added as lie walked toward tho of¬
fice: “Ye’d hotter come In and sit
down. Harris’ team may not he here
for an hour yet. They generally conies
ter moot the down train. ‘Big Four’ is
waitin’ here for it ter pass.”
lie adroitly halted the couple in
front of the open door of the freight
room, and Instantly the maternal eye
of Mrs. Bruder caught the little coffin.
"Whose is that?” she asked.
“That’s Cy Seldeu’s baby,” said
Smith, lying heroically.
Mrs. Bruder looked at her husband,
then hack to Smith. “What ailed it?”
she asked. “Cholera morbus?”
Smith drew closer and Ipwer.ed his
yoiop a lilt. “That’s what they give
out.V he said, “but between you and
me it didn't have enough ter eat.”
Just then Smith found sudden bus!- j
ness in the ticket office, where be re- j
nialned until he heard the booming of
the down train, when lie went cut on
to the platform to pass up the mails.
Ho lingered for a moment and watch
ed “Big F'>or” pull out fren the rifl¬
ing: then h" look• I all nr imt. Then ■
wan Hu line in slgln.
: II iV.i yer tin If."Rill:”. ’ :j
r,,, t( | v it I;.: If* dn/.eu
si'riUers .it).iked and listened,
“j didn’t do nothin’, and '
I don’t
kn0 w nothin’,” snapped Smith. “They :
come, and they’re gone, ain’t they?” ■
And then to modify the rebuke the good i
soul continued In a tone that smacked
suspiciously of tenderness as lie puffed .
his pipe reflectively in the darkness:
“Strange; I used to know those folks
years ago—didn’t know it till terdny—
they was n good deal younger then— '
just married, I gucs§—they were pact* |
fy ^oii't poqr-had a little baby that dled-1
know, but folks aroun’ there said
the little thing died—cos It didn’t— 1
get—enough—ter eat.’’
It Wan n Dream.
When n certain divine was a younger
mnn , 1IU ] chaplain at the University
0 * Pennsylvania, like other ministers
fin e( ] that position lie was much
troubled over the apparent lack of nt
tention from the students during the
morning exercises in the chapef.
The exercises hardly ever continued
f or more than fifteen minutes. Some
of the students were ltt the habit of
taking their books into the eliapel and
studying there during the services to
make up for their tardiness of the
night before in not preparing their les
s 0 i«s.
The young chaplain was desirous of
breaking up tlio habit, so one morning
preceding his customary five minutes’
address lie spoke as follows:
“Young gentlemen, last night j
dreamed I was here; In the fliapej ad¬
dressing you. And as l spoke I saw
every eye fixed upon me. every man
attentive, while In all the chapel there
was not a hook opened, and then 1
knew It was a dream.”
German Scotch.
<‘A good story conics from Sydney,”
BayB the London Globe, “where letters
imve been received from two American
business firms asking whether com- ]
municatious to Australian merchants
should he written in English or ‘in the
language of the country.’
■ “It recalls an astonishing tradp olr
j oulnr received a short tin ,10 pgo l>y p
business firm ill Glasgow from a Qer:
man manufacturer, also written iq
what his versatile clerk had apparent
taken for the language of the |
Iy eoun
try. It was Id the best ‘kailyard’ style
and spoke of a ‘niuekle consignment_ 9 ’;,
chemicals.' ” •'*
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AN OPEN LETTER.
J. W. A. CRAWFORD,
WAGONS, BUGGIES,
HARNESS, SADDLES,
IMPROVED FARMING IMPLEMENTS, ETC.
WrightsvillE, Ga., January ist, 1902.
F)EAK SIR :—A happy greeting to you and your every interest. Wishing that this may be the most
'
P ros P i'ous , life, I take this method of informing
. e .. y ear °* your that I have used effort the
you every to meet
‘ nterests ot m >' customers. By buying my goods by the carload with the cash, I will keep all kinds of Farm
fools, and will guarantee better prices than any one else can make in my town. Come and get prices, and
that will convince you.
1 have just bought a carloaJ of Buggies, and a nice line of Harness, Saddles, Bridles of all kind, and the
prices will be right. I have a carload of first class Wagons of any size. Cook Stoves from $ 6.00 to $25.00;
anything in that line you may want. 1 will keep anything in Farm Tools, such as Spades, Hoes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Club Axes, Picks, Collars, Duck and Leather, Hames, Hame Strings, Traces, Back Bands,
Singlettees, Plows of all kinds, one- and two-horse. We have three makes of Dixie Plows, from £>1.25 to
$1.75 each, ueorgia Ratchet Stocks with solid back brace 75c., Haymon 85c., Farmer’s Friend Plows and
Fittings of all kinds, three Chilled Dixie Points for 25c. Steel Plows of all kinds at prices which cannot be
equalled in Wrightsville nor surpassed by any town.
1 also carry the only stock of Shelf Hardware here, and can give you almost anything you may want in
that line; also anything generally used in mechanical too!s ; and at prices to suit the times. I am prepared to
give you first class repair work, as 1 will be in my shops this year and superintend the work, and will see that
you have prompt services and first class work. I*will add one more man to my store force, which will enable
me to give my time to shop work. And 1 will state to you here that 1 have always appreciated your trade,
and will ask you if consistent to give me your shop work and your trade in my line, and 1 will promise you to
use every effort to make it pleasant and profitable to you.
I will offer to those who give me their cash trade this year an Eighty Dollar Buggy and Harness. For
every dollar’s worth of cash trade in my store I will from January ist to November ist issue a ticket which
will entitle the holder of that ticket to one chance at the Buggy and Harness. It will be drawn out November
ist, and the drawing will be made perfectly fair to all. I will also give away a One-Horse Wagon, complete
with body and seat, and it will be drav n tor on November ist, in the same manner as the Buggy and Harness.
I he tickets for it will be issued at the shop for every 50 cents worth of work done for cash at the shop from
January ist to November ist, 1902.
Call and see us. I have a small present for each customer who trades with us. I think I will enable
you to keep better up with your business than you have been heretofore. Call for the present, as I may
forget unless my attention is called to it. Thanking you for your kind words to others about me, I beg to
remain very truly yours,
J. W. A. CRAWFORD.
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ONE GIVES RELIEF.
ThfiW I*scarcely anv condition nf ill health Hint in nott-lKuiefltcd t»y the OCCMjfon*
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It will pay you to have your Cotton
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-AT THE
...Farmers’ and Merchants’..
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It is it Bonded warehouse and the Manager
is under a heavy bond.......
R. R. MARTIN, Manager.
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