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VOLUME IX.
DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MAT, 4 1887.
NUMBER 44.
Professional Cards.
DR. W. C. GIBSON,
Macon, Georgia.
35 1-2 COTTON AVENUE.
Treats diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat.
Nose, aud Skin diseases. [mar 80 ly
Dr. P. M. JOHNSON,
PRACTITIONER,
Lovett, - - Georgia.
C l ALLS ATTENDED TO AT ALL
J hours, Day and Night.
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[SIX MILS NORTH OF DUBLIN.]
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large. Calls promptly attended to, day or
night. Office at residence,
aug 20, ’84 ly.
CHARLES HICKS, M. D.,
PRACTITIONER.
Dublin,
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Georgia.
DR. 6. F. GREEN,
PRACTITIONER.
Dublin,
Georgia.
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A-'hours. Obstetrics a specialty. Offioe
Residence
T. L. CRINER,
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AT LAW,
Dublin - Georgia.
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“Whata pretty place 1” I thought
as my nephew, Seth Carter, reined
np his horse in front of a cottage in
the village of Uphatn. t
“Where does your cousin James
liver’ I asked, as Seth, aided me
m dismounting from tho buggy.
“Right there 1” answered Seth,
pointing to the cottage next his own.
“James and I married ;aisters, and
built our cottages side by side, and
exactly alike.”
He opened the gate as he spoke,
and we passed up a neatly-gravelled
path, bordered by brilliant flower
beds to the house. Upon the porch
stood a lovoly little lady, who was
introduced as:
“My wife, Uncle John !’’
I did net wonder at the prond
fondness'of my nephew’s voice, when
1 looked at the graceful womau, who
lifted large, soft brown eyes to my
face, and gave me a cordial, smil
ing welcome.
I had just returned from Califor
nia, after fourteen years’ absence, to
find a homo for my old age iu Up-
ham, and of the many relatives;from
whom I had parted, only the sons of
my twd brothers Were, loft to wel
come me.
These young men, brought up in
one home, were like brothers in af
fection; and it did not surprise me
to fiud them partners in a flourish
ing business, and living side by side.
James was absent from homo, up
on business for the Arm, and it was
understood that my first visit was to
be to Seth and Nellie, afterwards to
James and Susy.
There wore but few servants in
Uphatn, so I was not surprised when
Nellie left me to prepare supper,
calling Seth and myself soon after
wards to a well-ordered table, whore
dainty dishes of her own cooking
provoked an appreciative appetite.
Bnt as the days wove into a fort
night I was surprised at the many
leisure' hours the busy little house
keeper found for sowing, reading
and working in her pretty garden.
I do Hot think I fully realized how
easily all this domestic niuchiuery
worked iuitiDJivnies returned home,
and 1 crossed the gardens to make
my promised visit to him. I hud
already seen Susv, and sorrowed
over her pule, anxious face, offering
my sincere sympathy for her grief in
tho loss of her only child, one year
with the angels,
But when I crossed th6 threshold
of the cottage door where Susy lived
I knew that there was more than At
mother’is sorrow to account for her
pallor and anxiety.
With the same income, tho same
home, the same furniture as .Nellie,
Susy’s life can only bo described as
a perpetual scramble to catch up
with her housework; aud she was a
weary, prematurely aged woman at
twenty-three, while Nellio, five years
older, was a fresh, bright and active
as a Tgirl of sixteen. • . y , , ,
I wondered over all this with pain
ful interest. 1 had gathered wculth
iu my years of exile, aud it \was al
ready willed to Seth and James. I
purposed building a house in Up?
ham and keeping bachelor.hall, with
a housekeeper, to be near them,
loved them with all the fondness I
would have given sons of my own,
had I eyer married, and I loved the
refined, gentle women they had ta
ken for their, wives.
So it grieved me to the heart to
see Susy’s life seemingly so sorrow
ful, so hard worked and over bur
dened, while Nellie’s was so Cheery,
so full of leisure hours and pleasant
employment. t j- /' ''
Both Seth and James, in tlfeir
hemes, were kind and loving; of
that J was sure; both temperate, and
living upright, honorable lives
Where, then, was the canker eating
away one life ?
1 was chatting with Jume-j on the
porch one evening, wheu the affairs
of the firm come under disunion.
Wo had talked over the increase of
business, the up and down of finan
cial prosperity, whod James said :
‘Until wo’ were married Seth and
I never knew how much of our in
come was spent by one or the other.
We had literally but one purse. But.
aftor we started our homes I beoaino
anxious to save something for my
family, and opened a bank account.
Seth did tho same; and we then com
menced a quarterly reckoning and-u
fair division of bhe proflts. Wo have
different views of household econo
mies. I think Seth is wasteful and
extravagant; ho thinks I am miser
ly.”
As James spoke Seth stopped out
of the open window behind us, hav
ing heard the lasc words.
“dome, James,” he said, cheer
fully, “suppose we let Undo John
decide this question that has boon a
vexed one for six years, and the only
poitil of difference of opinion of tyiy
importance in our lives.”
* Willi ugly,” >James replied; “and
you shall tell your story first.”
“We had our first difference, un
cle, in the building ol those houses,”
said Seth. “Outwardly yon seo they
aro^preoisely alike; bub mine cost
nearly double the price of this one.”
“Indeed l” I said.
“I wont to Boston before T built,
and I make a study of, home com
forts. It was impossible for me to
bring all I desired to Upham, but ns
far as possible I made my house per
foot for my wife’s convenience. My
collar was cemented curofully and
floored, so that it is perfectly dry,
while large windows keep it light.
In that is the best furnace I could
find, so that Nellie carries np coal or
ashes in the winter abovo the kitch
en, every room being heated by the
cellar furnace. How many .stoves
have you, James'?”
“Fiver”
“All of whiph have to bo watohed
every day. In my kitohon I have
a fiftt-rate range, and from that
pipes carry water to evory bedroom,
so that Nellie carries no water up or
down stairs. Besides the range I
have four stationary tubs, aud in one
a good washing-machine. All Shave
hot and cold water, and waste-pipes
so Nellie has no lifting of tubs or
pails upon washing-day My ma
chine spares her hands tho hard iub
bir.g clothes upon a board, and she
has a wringer, that saves her wrists
tilt strain of twisting heavy cloth
ing. So much for my kitohon.”
,‘And has Janies none of those
conveniences ?”
“None. When Susy washos, she
must bring up heavy tubs from the
pump, heat what she requires upon
a cooking-stove, rub all her olothes
upon a board, wring them with her
hands, and then take an entire day
to wash for two people, while Nell
washes for four iu about three
hours.”
“Corno, Both,’’said James, un
easily, “You area little hard, on
rpe.”
, “Is it not true ?” Seth j asked,
gravely. “I am saying no more now
that l have said many times in she
last'six years*” / . ^
“Well, finish your story.”
“From my kitchen,” said Seth,
“i wont to my dining-room, anil lip-
stairs l carried out the same plans.
As I said, when the houses were
finished, mine cost double the price
of Jame’s.”
“But that is all over.” I said.
“Not so. 1 make it a part of my
life work to procure for Nell all the
modern inventions that are really of
practical value iu a house. I do not
rush off aud buy every grinicrack
that is advertised, as James thinks!”
“Yo» miss precious few!” Janies
said.
“Uncle shall judge ! U I buy a
sewing machine that will euublo Nell
to get through all of her sewing iu
one-tenth of tho timo hand-labor
takes, I consider that money well in
vested. And so with other labor-
story, now you oan decide between
us.”
“Stop!” JamoB said. “Seth has
told you of tho oqst of his house, of
the money lie put into .the modern
intentions. I looked at this money
And thought if I diod, it would be
in the bank for Susy. When I am
tempted to put spare money into my
house, my furnituro, or fine olothing
I think of the future, and so my
bank account for Susy whon I die
more than doubles Seth’s.”
“It seems to me you both aot oon?
scientiously,” I said, as my neph
ews waited for me to spoak, (“but I
think Soth’s plan tho wisest. Should
you both die, Nellie has health and
strength to battle with the world,
while Susy (forgive me for speaking
plainly, JameB) is overworked, and
fairly broken down.”
There was a moment of silonce,
thou James said, huskily :
“I never meant to be unkind to
Susy.”
“LeV her decide,” I said,
“Ask her whether you sVall take
from her future legnoy the sum re
(fciliisite tb givo her all Nellie has of
home aonvoniehces, aud see whether
she hesitates.”
We talked thou of other matters,
until wo saw tho sisters coming up
the garden walk, laden with bund
les.
“We have been over so Mninstreot
shopping,” Noliio said, in hor clear,
siveet voioo. “Cold weather will bo
coming soon, and wo must be ready.”
She opened her bundles, telling
how this was for woo Johnnio, this
for little Nollie, both of whom wore
waiting at grandma’s for papa to
bring them homo ufter tea; And
whilo slio display od all her purchases,
Susy was wearily removing her hat
uad shawl.
“You do not show us what you
bought,” I said to hor.
f “It is all plain sewing,” she an
swered. “I do not buy pretty things
till that is done. I have no boy now,
you know/
“Oh, no! But every stitoh is
stitch,” she said}, smiling;
“Should you like a machine ?”
James asked.
“Oh, James!” she cried, catching
her breuth, as u child does in suddon
glad surprise, “1 thought you did
not like them !”
Very gravely Jamos told her of oua
aftornoou’s talk, and put before her
the proposition that 1 had suggest
ed.
There was not one moment’s hesi
tation in Susy’s answer.
“Put tho money into the house,”
she said, quickly, and, oh, so gladly,
“and into the same labor-saving im
provements that Nellie has. 1
would novor complain, James, so
long as you considered these things
mere useless extravugance; but since
you ask me—
Hero she put hor.arm around her
sister and drew her to her side:
“1 only answer—Look at Nellie
and look at mo. To liavo Nellie’s
brightness, strength and bounty 1
would cheerfu|ly spend every dollar
we huve. And Nellio owes it all to
Seth’s thoughtful euro in her domes
tic arrangements.”
“1 am convinced,” said James.
“To-niorrow w6 improve the house.”
It took tnuny morrows to intro
duce the improvements into the cot
tage, but we were all Soth’s guests
throught the worst of tho confusion,
and Susy’s eyes fuirly danced us she
watched the workmen.
It is two yours since 1 arrived at
Upliarn, and Susy has a crowing ba
by for me te dance upon my knee.
Tho cottages are precisely alike now,
inside and out, and over each pre
sides a roay-chccked matron, full of
cheerful happiness.—New York
Ledger.
Struck a Pocket.
From tho Overland Monthly.
However it might be, the tiding
of a pocket struck at the Bouthoru
border of the canyon flew hither and
thither with unexplainable oelerity ;
and about midday, when as usual
Mark should have been unobserved,
except porliaps by ono or two of his
own party, upon chancing to look
up from tlio bottom of his pits, he
saw that quite a little fringe of spec
tators had colleetod around tho edgo
of his olnitn and woro intently ob
serving his labors.
“Turning out trumps, is it ?”
said a solemn, sallow-faced man,
breaking the silence. “The very
place I thought of digging in my
self—only I didn’t.”
Upon that, one or two .others in
substance said the Bamo thing. In
fact it was astonishing to find how
many men there woro who had ori
ginally Qdmtonipluted locating upon
that very 10 foot square of valloy-
bod, but somehow hud uoglootcd to
do so, aftor nil.
Now with bitter regret and flolf-
objurgation they mourned over thoir
ill. fortune; a ad if the present opera
tion should turn out favorably, there
Was no doubt that each ono of them
would thenceforth treasure up the
mattor as un additional grievance,
adding it to sundry other ' instances
wherein he imnginod that he had
made hair-broath escapes from af
fluence.
Meanwhile, ns the nows continued
to spread still 1 more widely, the little
came infatuated. A strong attach
ment sprung up between them and
tho relatives of the lady noticed that
slio soemed to take an unusual in
terest in tho humble miner, but for
all this, they little guessod the true
state of tho lady’s heart, and were
altogether unprepared for what was
to follow. Ono day last week tho
miniug community was startled at
the report that Lady Amoor and
Mr. Bell had boon married. Their
love was of the kind that laughs at
looksm i i!hs, and they had plan ned a
successful Gretna Green a,four.
Lady Amoor’a unplo, who liad been
in bad health for some days, was
mado soriously sick by the unexpect
ed denouement, and her sister was
thrown into a state of groat excite
ment and distress. Howovor, the
affair could not bo mended, and the
neighboring people quickly conclud
ed that congratulation's worp in or
der and most cheerfully have they
boon oxpreHsod. Lady Amoor comes
from a distinguished (family, and her
husband> though of humble birth; is
n sturdy young son of the old north
stato, and will make her ladyship a
true and loying husband.
crowd of spootators constantly in-
ac*j wrow o)umor-
creased, audjtjie placi
mm with oritisin and suggestion; al
most at onco brokon in upon by
cry of surprise as, at tho bottom of
the pit, Rudforn was seen lifting up
to the light a piece of nearly six
ounoes, just unearthed by a fortun
ate stroko of the piok.
Upon this, a tall, dark man, who
hithor-to had not spoken, became
aroused into suddon notion and
olimberod hastily down into tli'o
hole. . v
“You don’t know mo,” he said to
Mark, “but that does not matter.
Have only just oome in from the
Stnnisluus. Tlioro 1 did a good
stroko of work, notting 13,000. Be
fore that was at Mariposa, ar.d there
lost a little. A good stroke of work
1 say; but, to toll the truth, 1
don’t work at all. 1 truvol around
uad look whore others uro digging;
and when 1 see what Booms a good
location, 1 buy it up on speculation
if 1 can, and hire someone else to
finish oleanitig it out for mo. Some
times I mako and sometimes 1 lose;
but moro often 1 make, for 1 have u
pretty good eye at a, bargain—Now
then, how muoli will you soil out
for?”
“How muck will you give” said
Mara. “For as I have not put tho
claim into tho market/! take it that
you should fix a value upon it your
self.”
“Rightsaid the man. “Well then,
will 15,000 do it ?”
Mark paused and pondered.
How to Keep Out of Debt.
Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer.
One of our merchants who was out
on a collecting tour a few days ago
tolls us tlmt ho saw a practical ex-
emplificution of living hard to make
cuds meet withont going in debt.
Tho gontloman with whom ho stop
ped for dinner, just over tho lino in
Ohestcrfiold county, S. O., owned .
several hundrod acres of unencum
bered land, but owing ton bad crop
your, had gotton in debt a hu ndred
ur two dollars, and lie and his wife -
knowing how soon a uiortguge will
cat up land, had resolved to ‘lire ,
hard’ until they could rotnovo thoir
wasted fortunes and guL out of debt.
The gentleman’s wife told him they
had net bought a yard of cloth of
any kind in over two years, and tlmt
they wore living on pluiu broud and
moat and rye coffee, and all growing
futon it. This is a great deal bet
tor than to ‘mortgage the home--
stoud’aud then li v<5 high on' long
credit prices until the land is gone,
and wife and children without a
homo. A good maiiy are doing
this.
Some people think .that if a cer
tain quuutity of feed will keep uu
animal in good condition twice as
muoli will keep uu animal twice as
well. Now this is a grave mistake,
for when un uiiimal gets too much
feed it suffers immediately. Many
of the diseases that fowls are sub
jected to come from ovtrfooding. A
fowl that is stuffed with food docs
not digest proporly. The Uigestivo
organs become weak and diseases,
follow, foremost among them being
tho dreaded cholera. Thisls simply
a fever caused ohiefly by indigestion.
When a fowl becomes fut from over
feeding the blood is poisunod and
the system becomes disordered. One
sick bird poisons another uud thus
the disease spreads.
saving utensik I have told my
Save the soapsuds. Pour thorn
over the manure heap. They will
not only bo to the vuluo ot the man
ure but assist In preventing the es
cape of ammonia.
A ileal Itoniauce.
From the Charlotte Chronicle.
A Gretna Green affair has just oc
curred in the buck woods of this stato
that promises to produce a sensation
in English society. In briof; it is
this: Lady Amoor, tho daughter of
un English earl, eloped with un
liumblo laborer with whom she had
bccomo enamored.
The scene of this romantio occur
rence was at the Russell gold mine,
in Montgomery county.
Tho facts in the oaso, as soourrod
by a Chronicle reporter, leave no
doubt as to tho genuineness of the
case. Lady Amoor canto oyer to
this country with her married sister,
whose husband interested in tho
Russell mine, being, infuut, one of
the principal owners.
Among the laborers cinpleyed at
tho initio was an honest, lund work
ing young man, by the name of Har
ry Bill, with whom Lady Amoor b«-
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Mr. Wttttcrsou’a Mlstske.
From the Uulvcstou News (Dom).
Mr. Wattorson says t|ie President
has from the first had a genuine dis
trust of the, party that elected him.
The troublo is that Mr. Watterson
confounds the party with tho poli
ticians. The President doubtless
does entertain feelings of distrust to
wards the politicians as a mass, uud
therein is the secret of ins having so
well succeeded in pleasing tho great
body of his party.
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Senator Beck, of Kentucky, da an
interview at Richmond, said that
there was do doubt that President
Cleveland would be the uomiuee of
tho Democratic party for re-election.
Ho wus almost us emphatic iu the
assertion tlmt neither Blaine uoy
Sherman .could get the Republican
nomination, but that Blanc, full
ing himself,
and he would
lean,