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VOLUME IX
DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 21. 1886
NUMBER VI.
Professional Cards.
Dr.T. tf. WILLIAMS,
DENTIST.
BSirOflice at His Residence,-^
Sinmis’ Building. First door
below the Court Hoftse.
apr21.’86,ly.
Dr. . P. HOLMES,
PRACTITIONER,
CONDOR, - - GEORGIA.
STALLS ATTENDED TO AT ALL*
\.J hours. Obsterics a specialty. Office
Residence.
mch24, 7m.
• Dr. T. A. WOOD,
00 ~L SPRINGS, QA.
( 3ALLS ATTENDED TO AT ALL
J hours. Obsterics a specialty. Office
Residence.
mcli24, if.
Dr. P. M. JOHNSON,
PRACTITIONER,
Lovett, - - Georgia.
C IALLS ATTENDED TO AT ALL
J hours. Day and Night.
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Dr. J. L. LINDER.
[SIX Mn.ES HORTH OP DUBLIN,]
OFFERS his services to the public at
large. Calls promptly attended to, day or
night. Office at residence. .
aug 20, ’84 ly.
CHARLES HICKS, M. D.,
PRACTITIONER.
• Dublin, - Georgia.
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DR. C. F. GREEN,
PRACTITIONER.
Dublin, Georgia.
ALLS . ATTENDED TO AT ALL
AJhoiirs. Obstetrics aspecialty. Office
Residence
T. L. CRINER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR
:> AT LAW,
Dublin -
may 21 tf.
Georgia.
THOMAS B. FELDER, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dublin. - - Georgia.
Will practice in the courts of the Oco
nee, Ocmulgee and Middle circuits, and
the Supreme court of Georgia, and else
where by special contract.
Will negotiate loans oa improved farm
ing lands.
Feb. 18th, 1885 : -0m.
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THE STRANGER AT THE
GATES.
“Please, ma’am,” said Nellie Ho
gan, who did all the rough work of
Mrs. Roniuey’s big lodging-house for
eight dollars a month—“please
ma’am, would you go to Number
Seven? I think he is very sick, for
he do bo groanin’ badly; and perhaps
he’s been murdered, like the gentle
man in the newspaper yesterday.
“Don’t say suoh .dreadful things,
for mercy’s sake, Nellie Hogan!”
cried Mrs. Romney, taking her mas
ter-key from her pocket. “No doubt
he has only been drinking too
much. Bachelor lodgers, are apt to
be dissipated. Murdered, indeed,
and a coroner’s inquest in my res
pectable house!”
Then she hurried to Number Sev
en.
The room had been hired a few
days before by a gentlemen of
middle age, handsomely dressed, and
having a very “taking” manner; and
Mrs. Rouiney congratulated herself
on having another lodger, and one
who reflected credit on the establish
ment; but when she opened the door
and Saw the gentleman lying half
dressed across the bed, groaning, in
deed,' as Nellie Hogan had said, and
evidently delirious, her heart quailed
within her.,
♦‘You’ll have to run for a doctor,
Nellie, she said, “but, mind you, say
Mr. Marsh wants him. Don’t men
tion my name;” and having dismissed
tho girl on this errand, the
lodging-house keeper used nor time
to advantage. She peeped into port
manteaus, and dived into pockets;
and opening a pocket-book, counted
the money iti its folds.
“Only live dollars,” she said. “1
don’t see any signs of means about
him. I shall send linn off to the
hospital, and just keep his trunk
until he sends for it. If he gets well
he will. If.not, why, a trunk full
of clothes is something.. I’m going
to take cure of number one this time.
I’ve been cheated often enough.’’
Poor Mrs. Romnoy! Perhaps those
who cheated her were responsible
for her hard feeling to the world in
general. There was a time when
hoi* heai^ wa8 softer.
“He is very bad, indeed,” said Dr. ;
Dew berry, tVT th tlib e ud of his cane
to his Roman nose; “very, and he
must not be moved on any account
whatever. Don’t you know his re
lations? IFliat a pity—dear! dear!
He’s very bad you know. Put up
screens before the bed; hang blank
ets at the door; don’t let a draught
of air in, and watch him day and
night. It’s his only chance. A
responsible person, I suppose?”
“I’m sure I don’t know,” said
Mrs. Bomnoy. “It don’t look like
it, coming hero to be taken sick.
“Oh,” said Dr. Dewberry, “yes;
and if I were you, Mrs; Romney, I
should call in Dr. Fuller,, an excel
lent young nmn, jysts going into his
profession, and right at your door, as
I tnay say. My hands are full, and
I hare to leave town tp visit Senator
Toadies, Who has luml
see him twice a day, and thkt is ne
cessary. Good morning, ma’am.”
“Dear me!” gasped Mrs. Romney.
“I wonder whether he knows what it
is to let lodgings and keep only one
girl! I can’t turn nurse besides. I
shall send him to a hospital.”
“What’s the matter my dear?”
said Mrs. Pell, the next-door neigh
bor of Mrs. Romney, who also let
lodgings, and who had been cheated
quite as oftou, but who had not been
hardened in the process, only soften
ed iuto a tearful condition.
“What is the matter, Nellie Ho
gan? You look as if you had been
crying.”
“I have that, ina’atn,” said Nel
lie. “I nover soon such cruelty.
She is going to send him to tho or«-
pittal, and the doctor says boil die
if she does, nnd it’s murder; but
there’* hi* wife somowhoi'e a won-
tierin’ about him. It’* a fearful
|«liamo.”
“Who is he?” asked Mrs. Pell, be
wildered.
“Number Seven, by the name of
Marsh,” said Nellie. “And he al
ways spoke so good, and- gave mo tv
quarter when I did a narrant jfor
him.”
And Mrs. Pell quite under
stood.
“Don’t cry, Nellie,” said she.
“I’ve got plenty of empty rooms, and
I don’t know as any one ever suffered
for doing her Christian duty yet. If
Mrs. Romney will let that door in the
upper hall, that used to join the two
houses, be opened, I’ll have a couple
of men to bring him in hero. If it’s
a case such as I think it is, the cold
air will be his death if he’s taken
outside, and I shall ask uiy doctor
lodger to look to him—out of chari
ty. Why, what are wo here for but
to help each other?”
“Well, Mrs. Poll, if yon want to
do it I have no pbjeotion,” saidMrs.
Romney; but I can’t keep a chanty
hospital myself, and I don’t doubt if
you can afford it. I’ll .unlock the
door; but you are the biggest
goose—”
“She’s a angil,” said Nellio Hogan;
“and luck will come to her off it.
You see if it won’t.”
“Hold your tongue, Nellio,” said
Mrs. Romney. “Got the keys and
open the door; aud you oan let thorn
tatco tho portmanteau, but not the
trunk: I’m going to have my
week’s board if that man gets
well.”
Shortly after the lodghr was car
ried in a sort of funeral procession
from Mrs. Romney’s houso to Mrs.
Poll’s. The latter lady headed the
slow-moving body, and the former
locked the door sharply after them,
shutting in Nellie Hogan, who long
ed to follow. However, the latte r
was not quite left out of the affair.
She httd her Thnrsday afternoons
and one Sunday out of two, whop
the dishes were washed; and on these
holidays she ran into Mrs. Pell’s and
helped her nnrse the stranger.
Moreover, the doctor-lodger spoken
of looked upon the case as an inter
esting one, and the change frotiv
Mrs. Romney’s to Mrs. Poll’s was a
very beneficial one. The stranger
lived—- grew better—grow well. At!
last he made inquiries us to the rea
son why he had changed his quar
ters, and heard the whole story from
Nellie Hogan, who was on duty at
the time.
“She’s a lovely lady, sir.” said
Nellie, “is Mrs. Pell, and has seen
better days, and been brought up
beautiful; can play the pianuy and
all; and she behaves like a rale lady,
too,.which is letter tjbah lookin’ it,
as do even iri her common things.”
“Assuredly, I have proved her
goodness.” said Mr. Marsh.
“ W'here’s my trunk?”
“Mrs. Romneykept it, sir, I’m
ashamed to say, seeiu’ she’s my
missus,” said Nellie.”
“Ask her to send it in,” said Mr.
Marsh.
Nellie took the message.
Mrs. Romney replied by a little
twisted note.
Her compliments; but not nntil
the money was paid.
Shortly, a ghostly form in a dress
ing gown much too large for him
was admitted at the communicating
door. It was Mr. Marsh, who ex
plained that his check book was in
tho traink, and who, unlocking it,
drew a check for a full weok’s
board.
“And re-occupy tljp room, I hope,”
said Mrs. Romnoy.
“No,” said Mr. Marsh; “I have
engaged rooms of my kind friend
Mrs. Pell, to whom I believe I owe
iny life.' Send my trunk in, if you
please.” •
Tho winter passed. May set in.
May i* a favorite timo for wed
dings.
Thero was on awning along Mr*.
Pell’s steps, and curriagos were draw
ing up at the door.
“1 don’t boa who oan ho going to
bo married at Mrs. Pell’*/’ said Mr*.
Romney, “There’s an old maid
.there, but her day is past, and a lit-
' i girl, but hers hasn’t cotno. Mrs.
Bjggins isa divorced lady, and the
rest are married. Who oan it be?”
Nellio Ilogun was at her elbow.
“Please, Mrs. Romney, it is Mrs.
Poll herself,” she said. “Sure, you
ought to see how young and pretty
she looks in her fine clothes. And
who is she going to marry, think
you, ma’utn’m? That Mr. Maish
that was took sick along of you. He
is very rioh. Oh, sure, then, thorp’s
no saying how rich—a millionaire,
they Bay. Aud they’re going co live
in the Fifth Avenue in style, and
’m to wait ma’am, with fifteen doll
ars a month and a little bedroom to
myself, as puaty as efer I saw. Aud
didn’t I tell you luck would come to
her, ma’am? And it has. And,
please, I’ll give warning my month
is no.Thursday.”
“Nellio, you’re an ungrateful
girl,” euid Mrs. Romney. I gave you
a vory good dress last month, with
nothing the mutter with it, but .holes
in the elbows and a scorch on tho
baok breadth, And I’ve been like a
mother to you.”
Nellie said nothing.
“But I’m sure you are mare troub
le than you are good,” said Mrs.
Romney, “and I’m glad to Change.”
But after Nellie had left tho room,
Mrs. Romney walked to the glass
and looked at herself. She was on
ly fivo years older than Mrs. Pell,'
and as she saw herself, much hand
somer. •
“If I had keptyhim, and nursed
him, perilps I might be tho bride to-
drfy,” she thought. “ IFipvt a ohance
to miss! But how could I guess
that he was a bachelor in search .of a
wife, and a millionaire? or that he
—Qh> pshaw! Mrs. Pell saw thp
whole thing beforehand, I’m quitb
certain.”—New Fork Ledger. '
THE PRODIGAL SON.
BY J. M. SMITH IN JONESBORO NEWS.
When | was a small boy and some
what younger than I now am, I read
of self-made men; men who had run
away from homo when boys aud had
made largo fortunes. One day the
idea popped into my head that I
would do likewise. So curly in the
morning I left home on foot to go
to an uncle’s of mine, who lived a
few miles weBt of Griffin. That
looKed to me to be a great distance
in that day. T walked all-day, and
just as the sun wa9 setting Centered
the city. The first man I met was
an old gentleman by the name of
Warren, who I asked the way tb aiy
uncle’s. He told mo l had best stop
over all night with him and go out
the next morning. So I stopped
over for the night and was well taken
care of. The old mag asked mo a
great many questions, and I told him
a great deal, but didn’t tell him Iw. g
a runaway. One of the first lessons
I learned was never to toll my busi
ness, and this has stuck to me
through ljfe. The next morning T
bade my kind friend good-bye and
started on iny way. In a few hours
I was at my uncle’s house. He
appeared glad to see mo, but after
stopping with him for a week he told'
mo I must return to my futhor’s
honso. So lie carried me as far
as Griffin, aud then patting me up
behind a negro on a mule ho started
mo for homo. But while in Griffin
my aucle and I met the Rev. Jesse
Campbell. I hud known Unole Jesse
all my life, lie having stopped at my
father’s houso often during protracted
meetings. I Was taught to think
Undo Jessie the best inun on earth,
and ull ho euid wus gospel truth.
He, after bearing that I was a
runaway, pattod me on tho lioad and
told a great story about u fellow who
lie called the “Prodigal Son.” Ho
said tho follow, liko mo, hud lofi
homo, got on n spree, and got burst*
od—or word* to that effect. Ho thoro
being no railroad* in that day, and
no conductors to bo bsat out of a
rido, tliojboy had to walk homo. So
as ho noared home, tho old man
looked up the road and saw a dust
arising and a bundle of rags a walk
ing, and wondored who it oould be;
then ho put on his spocs and looked
and saw it was his runaway boy.
Then tho old man jumped over the
fence, ran up the voad, and when lie
mot his son threw his arms around
him and fell upon his nook and
kissed him ana wept. lie then
carried him into tho house, put a
ring on his finger, had him to .wash
gave him a clean shirt an*d a suit of
liis big brother’s’ clothes to put on,
and when they got hi th rigged out
they went ont to the oowpen and
killed the fattest yearling on the
ranch. Then they sont out af tor-all
the girlO that lived in that settlement,
and a fiddler, and that
had tho biggest kind of a
all beouuse that tramp hud pothe
homo. Now, Unole JcbssO did not
use this language exnotly, but this
wus the substance of it, us I under
stood the thing.
As I rode along behind that negro,
I was thinking my father would do
me the sumo way. As wo cuine near
the houso, I did not boo iny father
come running up the road. We got
to the gate, I got down, but still |1
saw no demonstrations. Aslonterod
tho houso the family wore at dinner.
My futhor looked up, and as ho did
so remarked*: “Young ' man, you
have got baok, I see. I will settle
with you after dinner.” I knew
what that meant; I hud hoard nr be
fore. Then I boguu to tell him what
Unole Jesse had told me. My fathoi
said that it was very true, but Him
and tho old fellow who Undo Jesse
told mo about were two differed
persons, and looked at things in it
different light. He said he would
certainly fall upon ino, but I would
do the weeping. Ho,' picking up u
leather strap and taking me by the
hand, ho led me ou t behind the
smoke house, whore ho fell upon
me, and 1 did the-weeping. *
Aunt Betsy Attends tlie Mass
Meeting; ' (
Your Aunt Betsey is a queer olds
soul. She hear in of the muss meotiri,
und that everybody was invited, do-;
cidod she was included in that num
bor, and she attended. YoUr uurii
is very religiously inclined, punctual
ly attends all the big inoetins, fai
and neap, and believes that all moet-
ins are for devotional purposos.
Early in tho morniiig of tno 6th slip
put herself inside of her big Mothdv
Hubbard, gave Jaoob particular
cliargo of homo affairs, and, ill jsom
pany with a young man left f6r the
mass meetin. The morning win-
threatening, dark clouds floated
lazily before old Hoi, and thp low
mlitterings of distailb thunder wore
ominous of tho stormy day ahead of
your aunt. The mighty rain had
fallen on the earth; the little streams
were swollen to overflowing add
madly eurgod on to the Oconoo, ill-
creasing its grand and' majestic vol
ume. The pleasant company of tho
young man relieved the tedium of
tho way, and your aunt arrives iu
good condition at the scene bf tiftV
mass meeting.
Tho first thing noticed by your
aunt was the ladies, very conspicuous
by their absence; only one group
was soon, und your aunt knew
they wore not pure bloods cause
thoir bangs would hot stick close
to thoir foreheads, was your aunt
in u regular Ham Jones male
mcotin “for men only?” At 12
H. “sharp” tho preacher appeared
on a table in front of tho big
courthouse with more tliuu six
hundred hungry eyes staring at him*
He was a tall lean man with keen
black oyoa, but, pshaw! lie couldn’t
preach worth a cent, and Hie poo-
pluright away divided into two
sides, your aunt saw right then und
that* would be trouble. Tho big
si le bOUowod for Under, and tho
little sido roared like thunder for
Ureun. Now that first preiiohur
was badly bothered. Ho could not
r.jde ran high, but
mything to come near
mootin'. It seems the
tell which man was entitled to tho
tablo, and, would yon believe it,
sonic good old sinners got right up
on the tablo with the preacher to
help him out of his dilemma. It was
a predion men t for any man to be in
1 —the most men were on the big side,
but that little sido could make tho
biggest fuss. The preacher proved
equal to the emergenoy. He made
them divide, “as a shepherd separates
his sheep from his goats” so divided
he them. ,., The big side wont to the
right (being right) and thqlittle sido
to tho left. Thon that fussy little,
side still declared to bo the big sido.
But tho preacher would not listen
to that little side; iio actually made
thorn form and march like poldiera
till all were counted. Then ho put
the right man on tiio table, but he
ooiild not prouoli any bet tor than the
first one. A strong, fat follow in
the orowd, seoing this decided to try
his hand f Ho did some better sajT-
ine* something ubouttlip Lord seed
ing rain, etc. Now, “Undo Spy,”
from tho little side; seeing this fat
fellow from the big side was allowed
to spoak in rnutin rushed up to tho
tablo wilh proaoher No 2; atid wav
ing his tall beaver, did vociforously
proclaim, follow-citizens! and subsi
ded ingloriously. /Here, ut this cris
is in the meetin, your aunt would
gladly call to her uid tho pun of. a
ready wntor. The soono boggars
description. “Confusion .worse con
founded reigned.’;’ Pandemonium
broke forth on tho unoffending hum-
let^ men squalled, yollod, hurrahed,
frpthed, foamed and swoutod, Your
Aunt stood firm in her stockingB,
saying the like had never been soon
before in meetin. Good brother Love-
till stopped up and said, no never,
my sister, and high nbovo tho din
rang the echo, no never.
Your mint, you know, is a gooid
metiioclist. and has boon in somo
rousing mootins when the emotional
'' v ' Mi; ‘ she never saw
this mass
■JL
not get tlie right man and could not
igroo on anything. Homo called for
Gordon, the big side called for Ba-
oon, and, the littlo side seemed de
termined to have primary. Now as
die first two men are pretty well
known, your atiht thinks that broth-
jr Primary ought to have been al
lowed to introduce hitneolf, bdt it
was whispered about thut he was
i tricky fellow, and die 1 was not treat
with common respect. But brother
primary should not feel aggrieved
for there wore half ; a dd?en othor
preachers; whojomumos ivore note veil
nailed. One good baptist preaOheh
.jliinbod up on the table, full to the
top, hOilookod over tho tumultuous
ei’Qivdfc/his! face was solemn, then
pale; rigld and stum; lie collapsed
suddenly. And that methodist
preacher with Ins pompous ways
was trying to do something he did 1
not know; what. Ho wouid bustle
over to the little, side when some
loyal fellow would pike him, and
back, lie wpuld hurry to the, big side.,
Ho was like Bill’s old cow, darn hiin»
liO was tin both sides. Old shouting
Joe Was in Ins glory, trying to draw
thorn from the little side over to the
jbigsido, He charged but d'd not
swoon flway cause thoro was nary
woman thoro to hold his head ana
fail his heated brow. But Joe was
right, he know that people ought
nob r/j stand on the loft hand.
Your aupt did .not enjoy the mass
nieotin’much, felt ill at ease all tho
time, ami decided theie whs not
muoli religion in such meetings.
Jlor,great lover for big.meetings lead
her once iuto the wrong pew. , Your
aunt fpund no congenial oonipuny.
f’lie baptist pastor was not in tho
meeting -lie gave it u couple of res-
pootfnl go by’s. Tho mvthodist pastor
was not soon during the meetin. 5
Wus he taking care of the sisters?
Aunt Betsy will stay away Loovvhon
the next call is inudo. Sho will re
main at home with Jacob and take
euro of baby ami tho goslings. That
young man fools liko ho will stay
away too. Iio Win on the littlo side
and fell Hint l.e lirnl been badly Heat-
all right, and was regularly in for
anothui nmBs moot in,
Youit Aim Ubtsv.