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VOLUME VII. —>> V - -4^^fcofeas>' flk /QlPj-v Irl F i: • RWlb, *w3HMi XJjg^^r^ ,_. '7AC3MMV-' M\N.. '*» <JEW%?aMsHßwWMWgwWawtiW^lMwww^i«Miaßw»E'lßß^y^.^^M-^OBE^,-. AwV^aMß. h;.W^aIBIMMgJE^MMBaM^a?- ®BHasp» JagMß&jn&ira\ yaWSMI ¥ ;< IHEk *Mr ; WWf ' c, ”| Wb a 'We i w*V **&n; ' UK- - £ 5 '«s?.^-^^ s T f«w Fr-: - ilk '-filbito. ‘L "' ' ■ 'J&sjgt'- - \. -? -Mfe ''.9»r .w f^'^k^|Mi|^~ a,, ~ ~ ' “ ”**-0118^1^ Bill HnlloM ! Where are you going.’ “Don’t no, Boss, ’ceptin going to trash; dat’s all.” «I have tried all kinds offmachines, but this is the Best.” 1 LOOK OUT! I ERE V/ E COME AGAIN; HEAD US! full x‘?.|‘ wrwXM?w r r^nJ re . yo ">i g ? iDg > C . thr . P l ßll .r'!vS! , r t iSo a ' o 'y'” l“ s '??. J “<' “l’k d ‘l n ’ t y< "! forget “ MACHINERY is of the VERY BEST QUALITY and in FIRST-CLASS TRIM. I will furnish a ——■' 11 —— - - - . •‘They call us the threshermen, < * , Hanpy young threnhermen, And of the title wo are prou I ; For we are so famous, 'I he champions they claim us, 7he chiefs of a jolly good crowd. Our triumphs are legion, In whatever region The gloriotis follows are seen Our conquest! are many, ,jßggk -.-SsWA .■' Z 3 i 1 had J. L. Perkins, of Winston, Ga., to Hm-Khmy grain, he done the work tw> quick ami nice I wauled to compliineni hint, but he was gone In’torc I had time. Neighbor Brown h ad his threshed by Mr. Baby BWt to>. “Dootar/’ lie began, as ho entered the ofhoo ©J » well-known medical man the other day, “we’ve been talking it over.” “Ah !’’ “And have concluded that it will be beat for the baby’s health to go to tbs country this summer.” aee ‘” “What do you think of it?” “At a relative’s, I suppose ?” “Yes.” “Swamp any where near the house?” “Well, I believe there’s one about a quarter of a mil© away.” “That’s good. Is the well in the woodshed ?’’ “It is.” “Good Again. That will keep the floors damp and muddy. Is the cellar concreted and drained ?” “I think not,” “That’s elegant. A cellar with a natural earth bottom can always bo defseudod on for sour smells, and one without a drain helps along fevers. Lots of shrubbery around ?” “Ob, yes; yon can hardly see the house in susnuw.” “Exactly. That keeps roofs and walls damp, and you can depend on malaria. Pig sty and barn handy to the back door ?” “Yes, only a few rods away.” ••Very nice—very. You can rely on the odors, and perhaps the well water u improved by the percolations, Ever no tice the cistern ?” “Yas, It b a nice wooden one.” “Splendid ‘ The water is always throwing off a eonr smell, and some thing less than a mfiliou mosquitoes Weed there every summer’s night I agree with you to a dot, especially il time are any box-drains around to breed typhoid fewr.” “Yon— you wouldn’t advise i!»” queried the father, “8ay!” mid the doctor, m he leaned over the tebte, “let the nuw drop him out of toe window—push him down the back stain -gel him run over by au io*. hua your revolver to pUy with I There’s a de«an ways of killing him off beanies taking him to toe ooua try, **»& wtywm of them will saw you lose and wnayT—MMf FH t Prm. ®M ItreWo Sta, Our failures not any, Out work is all perfect and clean. There is none will deny it, Os thousands who try it, Our thresher is an article prime ; You will tire of it never, It will serve you forever And doubly repay you in time. The farmers compete for us, Ladies look sweet for us, My long experience and close application to business, and a de termination to Succeed, regardless of cost, have won for me a most e enviable reputation as a public thresher and ginner, Many thanks for past patronage, asking a continuance of the same. Yours very truly, J. L. Perkins. -- -- - - -- - -- - - - - -----— ■ J Beavers at Work. “That is a curious country, truly, says a visitor to Alaska. In one day’s trip I was treated to a rare sight. From behind a rock, I saw a family of beavers at work felling timber and building dams. I say a family but there must have been 200 of them, every one working away like mad. I had been making a trip to see some of the country back from th© sea, and was surprised to see how heavily wooded, compara tively, it was. I was guided by a Kenai tzo Indian, and long before we reached the lake where I saw the beavers I was puzzled at the crashing of timbers to the ground as if some great whirlwind were at play among the trees. I could hardly believe the Indian when he said the trees were being felled by « beavers. When we came in sight of the lake and the hills about it I no longer doubted. Scores of the busy animals wore gnawing down the trees; j others wore trimming the branches off • is ueatly as it could have been done with an axe, others were chopping the timber into the proper lengths for nee; others rolled the pieces into the water and floated them to the dam-workers, who were rapidly laying up a wooden structure of which an expert human workman might well have been proud, i watched toe beavers at work for an sour, and then left the spot reluctantly. Ibat night, by the way, I had bearer meat for supper, went to bed on beaver tkina, and covered myself with beaver furs, and had beaver meat again for breakfast, 1 had never eaten beaver meat bt fore and I found it good. My guide told me that toe lake where we had seen toe beavers was one of a chain of seven, and it was the great Indian trapping place. They trapped in <me lake one year, in smother the next and so on, tons giving the beavers an opjwrtunity to increase in toe waters which were not disturbed. A PORC’TRt.W AItoVMKCT. “What i» toe matter, James? What Eirtk-w you limp ?” inquired Smith. “Had a dmqjreement with my bow the other day. I struck for more “What did he do? Did he agree tottf* “Xo; he kicked.”— FAWNING TO NONE-CHARITY TO ALL. DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 23. 1885. _L When will they come ? is the cry; For light is the brewing i The baking and stewing, When J. L. PERKINS is by. No snail’s pack we carry, Nor Tom, Dick or Harry, But worthy of service and hire; All welcome our faces, I They save us good places We save them food, labor and fire. ’ Plain Dresses. One evidence of the return to simple styles, says , Harper's Bazar is that salesmen suggest sixteen yards of plain silk tor a dress, instead of twenty, as they did last spring. This smaller quantity can be used because there are fewer flounces and pleatings, and these are more scant than formerly, as many flounces are gathered and bias, and pleat ings are deeply lapped. The dress, however, which had no flounces or pleats except the depassant (or box pleats frill at the foot of the false skirt) is the most economical dress, and also the lightest weight for summer wear. Imagine this dress made of beige, bison cloth, mohair, striped wool, or any other fabric sold at the popular prices of sixty er seventy-five-cents al yard 1 The false skirt can be of alpaca of the same color, with a depassant three inches wide at the foot. Ths wool ’ goods crinoline lined and set on this lining quite plain, may extend higher on the aides or in front, or wherever toe drapery is caught up highest The apron has curved wrinkles from the right aide down, and falls in folds on the left The back has the pleated pointed over-skirt already noted. The basque, of the simplest shape, must be given an air of style by a high officer s ooliar covered with velvet or with rows of braid, and toe cuffs should match; then a vest of the state trimming only two inches wide should be set down the front between two rows of buttons and button-holes. If a polonaise suit is pre ferred, toe skirt may be quite plain, and the polonaise have short curved paniers in front, with long full breadths that cover the entire back. A Gboboia paper tells of a young man who daring the late war, donned his wife’s drees, kept his faoedeanly shaved and wore a big sunbemnet in order to keep from being conscripted and sent to the front. The officers in search of available recruits frequently rode np to his house and inquired of his wife where her husband was, and at that vary mo ment he could be seen working in the field in female apparel. By the time he had worn out seven cf his wife’s dresses he became tired of ma#querading and and made a good soldier. He now has ft large family, and is a highly respected citizen. | You will never see chickens Grow fat on the pickings That drop from this thresher of ours; And no one decries it, For every one tries it, Because of its wonderful powers. Then moving so readily, Swiftly ond steadily, Never a hitch or a break; The way lies before us, WIT AND WISDOM. Thb first newsdealer was Josepl Pharaoh made a ruler out of him, an he became stationary. “Rouleb skates must go I” yells 1 Brooklyn preacher. If he gets on a pai he’ll find that they do go. The crow is not so bad a bird. I never shows the white feather, and never complains without caws. It is said that Arabs have no fear of death. We should think not. The only thing a man can live for in that country is to die. A man may be loaded to the eyebrows with philosophy, and yet become as helpless as a child when he tries to get the last word with a woman.— Chicago I Ledger. Fbksh (reading Virgil)— “ ‘And thrice I tried to throw my arms around her’— that was as far as I got, Professor.’’ Professor “ That was quite far enough. ” A Kubd is not allowed a wife until he is a practised robber. If Fish and Ward of New York had been Kurds, we sus pect they would have been allowed to have ten wives apiece. An exchange heads an item, “The United State© Navy on toe Isthmus.’ We are glad to hear that it has reached land in safety, as we always feel troubled when it’s on the water.— Puck. .. “My arms reach out—in vain— They fold tha air.” sings D. C. Stedman, in the Century. Os course they do. They always do when you get on roller skates.— Rock land Courier. Thb Lion will roar and the Bear will growl, but the American Eagle, high in the blue empyrean, with wide-spread wings, will reef, and with keen eye note the varying fortunes of the two, says a Western paper. * h - \- A gxntubman who visited a roller skating rink and attempted to partici pate in the pleasures, say» the idea of fastening a pair of skates on the feet is the queerest notion in toe world, be cause the feet were the only portion of his anatomy that didn’t touch the floor oftener titan one toning to ten. In our jolly chorus, Whatever the route we may take. The richer the farmer Oui’ greeting the warmer, For thrift goes with wealth hand in hand, 4 Good fellows together, In foul and fair weather, We live on the fat of the land. The larger th’ measure The greater the pleasure, ai Hotel Contrasts. When you go into an American hotel, you know, a boy takes your baggage at the door, the clerk embraces you at the counter, brushes whisk, and attendants dance around you till it seems as if the whole establishment had been eagerly expecting you for a week. Now when you go into an English hotel it is different. You tug and twist and shoulder-heave at th© door awhile, until at last you worry it open and drag yourself and your baggage in by painful degrees against the protest of an inhospitable spring that has been cunningly con trived somewhere to keep you out. Then you set down your things in a narrow, private sort of an entry with the feeling of a burglar awaiting an arrest, and wipe off your forehead and look over the ground. There are no signs, do bells, no anything. You stamp and cough and rattle around for a while, and by-and-by the commotion wakes up somebody in the rear of the house, who opeas the door and peers through. This te your opportunity. If you are affable, and persistent, and plausible, and state your case with, respectful urgency, this person (usually a female), after some preliminary examination, will disappear, and come back in time with another and higher functionary (also a female), who examines you in the higher branches, and may end, under favorable conditions, with your admission.— Correspondence Detroit Free Press. In a Dream. An exchange tells of a theological pro bationer who was being examined at the sessions of the Central Methodist Con ference at Huntington, Pa., lately, and was greatly worried by the questions. He was rooming temporarily with a young lawyer and & Methodist preacher. In hi? sleep the student began to answer imaginary questions on theological topics. Thereupon the preacher suggested the formal questions to the lawyer, who propounded them to the sleeper. The latter passed his strange examination with great credit, but on the following day made a bad failure when the same questions were asked by the authorized examiners. NUMBER 20. The better our grub and our pay; Through all the long summer, A welcome new-comer, Our band is not idle a day. T hen here is to the thresher-men, Happy young thresher-men, Jolliest that ever were seen ; Who run every season, With very good reason, For they use the Farquhar machine \ WW .** -•■A. £••*: Jr?gs£& , £fe&. : ' J nfej- it 4‘ Had- * •' That's very true, Mi*. Beck, but if I am spared to make another crop I’ll never have it butch ered up with wo; ,Mohh, run-down inachi nery, if I can get MR. PERKINS to come ove.- my way with hie RED MACHINERY, GOOD HANDS and FAT HTOCK. 11(1 .TAX ©AWiV. Undesigned Cheating. The Boston Globe says: A West End gentleman recently attended a poker party, where he indulged in numerous glasses of wine and parted with most of his cask Midnight found him on Tre mont street with just sixty-five cents In his pocket—a fifty-cent piece, a dime, and a nickel. Hailing a herdic, ho re quested the driver to take him to his home on Boylston street. When the latter was reached the gentleman, pro ducing his half dollar, asked the driver if he had a quarter. The driver, after careful search, regretted that he had nothing smaller than a dollar, which he produced. The gentleman, feeling poor, was disinclined to pay double fare, and the herdic driver was equally averse to accepting fifteen cents for his fare. They pondered th© matter a while and at last a happy thought struck th© gentleman. “I will tell you,” he said, brightening, “here are sixty five cents; you give me the dollar—that will be near enough I” The herdic driver handed over the dollar, thanked the gentleman for his kindness, and drove away; and the gentleman, pleased with his own ingenuity, entered the house where it flashed across him what he had done. Head-dear for the Soudan. At the Japanese village, London, there is now being made, by order of the English Government, an ingenious contrivance which will effectually pro tect the soldiers in toe Soudan from the rays of the burning sun and render an attack of sunstroke almost impossible. It is formed of light bamboo and paper and may thus be described: On each shoulder is fixed a piece of bamboo, bent in toe form of an arch; in the cen tre of each arch a piece of bamboo, somewhat resembling' an umbrella stick 18 inches in bight, is securely fixed, and these sticks support a light awning 2 feet in length by 18 inches in breadth; toe frame of the awning is composed of bamboo and the covering of paper painted green inside. The weight will scarcely be felt and the wearer will thus enjoy all the comforts of a large umbrella, without experien cing the inconvenience of holding it np and his hands will be left entirely free to carry big rifle or other articles.