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VOLUME VII.
PROFESSIONAL CAROS.
Lawyers.
A. MASSEY,
Attorney at Law*
j Douglasville, Ga.
■* (Office in front room, Dorsett’s building.)
‘ Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglas county.
1
Attorney at Law,
Douglasville, Ga.
inr.c'ice in ail the courts, State au<l
J)fficu on Court-house Square.
SBSh r.
Attorney at Law,
Douglasville. Ga.
practice in al! the courts. All legal bus
receive prompt attention. Office in
1 p D. CAMP,
. V,
Attorney at’Law,
♦ Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
* Douglasville, Ga
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*■ T> G. GRIGGS,
.Fx Attorney at Lew,
Douglasville, Ga
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||SgHEHQ.'ih*ra I. ~
■bßuhn m. edge,
Attorney nt Law,
■ Douglasville, Ga
Bha Wffill practic*’ hr all the -courts, and p
la all b'ldnusw <-ntiu»ied to li>- crtff.
~ wSgtea
> fAT Law,
.ja. Ga
The Weekly Star.
S<.*l’^»^_jj ( , n gi a
or heaps of <’arpbt*MlMpW?Ta.n busy
•■stringing the red and White kernels on
nieces or eord about six feet each in
length. ' :
‘‘How do you pay—by the string
or the hour?” inquired the reporter.
■‘We give them one cent a string,
and they can work as long as they wish.
Lots of them are street girls who
wish only a few cents for a ribbon or a
brass ring, and will work only lorg
enough to earn a half dollar or so.
Then they’ll leave as soon as they get
that muck, and go - well go to the bad,
1 .suppose, and other girls will take
their places, H
“How niapy strings can the average
girl do in one day?*’
“Anywhere from 40 to 100, and some
of my old hands get up to 125. The
most skillful ones I put to making the
variegated strings, which are filled
with red and white kernels alternately,
ami give them half a cent more to the
string. There is a ‘know-how’ to’ it,
you see, ju st as there is to everything.
Un the whole, these girls get good
wages, earning, as they may, from $3
to $6 a week. Shop-girls rarely do as
well as that, for among them even the
heads of the departments don’t often
reach more than #5 a week. This
work gets tiresome, though, and makes
the arms aohe and the eyes watery in
time. Just look at that kid there,”
pointing to a child of about 12 years,
whose head, covered with long, heavy
brown curls, had fallen back against a
pile If cloaks and overshoes on the
shelf behind her, and whose dreams
were probably a wild confusion of pop
corn. candy, and Alaska diamonds.
“How much corn are you putting on
string?” resumed the reporter.
* “About ten barrels. O, I forgot
though? 1 am doing charity work.
Seme lame girl down hero on Ogden
avenue read my advertisement for help
and sent me word this morning that
not come to the shop, but if I
send a barrel of corn to her
bouse she would do the work there. I
want down to see her and found her so
needy thaa 1 just packed a barrel-full
right down there, though I can’t speak
for her honesty. There's a neat little
<»rotit in ppp-corn, anti I can afford a
ittle charity occasionally. In work,
cord, com. and waste I spend a little
over two cents on each of those strings,
and then sell it for five cents.”
“Who are the best patrons of your
pop corn couplers?”
“Newsboys and mission churches.”—
Oktritpo 7Vi<dLs*.
Beautiful fans are made entirely of
the plumage of tropical birds in their
natural colors. A web of feather cloth
is formed by ghting th® plumage, each
tiny leather separately, upon silk fab
ric This gives the texture the precise
appearance of a hiving bird. Thu tope
are tipped with ostrich feathers.
“A judHmw wife,” says John BfflF'
kin. “is alwavs nipping off from her
htubnnd’s nature little twigs that
*r* growing in wrong directions She
keep, fatta ; U shape by continual prun
ing.”
One thousand busbwls of onions have
beea gv teWo a single acre of grouhd
Snow-Bound.
The morning sun steals in with ruddy flam*,
And gilds the arabesques upon the wall;
I Hee—and hail with notes of loud acclaim
The pure white curtain trailing over all.
For all night long the feathery flakes have
dropp'd
From ebon clouds upon a silent world;
I see the distant mountain pc;.as, snow-top-
Bcneath. lie drifts by winds fantastic
whirl'd.
The trees, each fairy twig divinely swathed
In radr.ut whiteness—pure as cloistered
Seem in a gleaming sea of diamonds bathed,
A million gems, transmuted by the sun.
Yet naught, alas ! to wretched me is this—
This pureness—marble—alabaster—chalk;
Fain must 1 quit this scene of ravishing bliss,
I’ve got to go and shovel off the walk.
—Boston Traveler.
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SUSIE’S DIPLOMACY.
“If I had been born poor, instead of
rich, I firmly believe my life would
have been much happier,” said Rich
ard Maur with a sign.
Richard was sitting with a friend on
a bench overlooking the sea. He would
have been a remarkably handsome fel
low, were it not for the discontented
expression, which always clouded his
face.
On the other hand, his companion,
Arthur Kenmore, was a plain-looking
man, with nothing to redeem his want
of comeliness but a bright pair of eyes,
and a winning smile.
At first sight, women were struck by
Richard’s appearance; but after a
time they gradually began to feel a
preference for Arthur, because he talk
ed. amusingly, and made himself so
agreeable.
To tell the truth Richard was too
proud and reserved—a fault for which
his parents hail been to blame, for he
had been a spoiled child.
“Do you really believe what you say,
or do you only make that assertion to
startle one?” asked Renmorein answer
to his friend’s remark.
“I really believe that if I had been
born to poverty I should be far happier
than 1 am now,” returned Richard
gravely.
"Then I’ll slygw away out oi i
you Jhm
quired in a low tone:
“Is there any sickness in Mr. Pill
box’s family? I sec his boy came in
hero a little while ago.”
“If you wish to know about Mr. Pill
box’ von had better go and ask him.
Id' ot make a practice of retailing
goss. about my customers.”
“Au’ Good evening.”
“There is another reason why a
druggist should forget his work when
it is finished.” said the compoundet
after the Inquisitive man had departed.
“Such • practice enables a man to
keep ihe confidence of customers with-
I out trouble. Nothing is more fatal to
• druggist than a well-founded belief
among the neighbors that he will gos
sip about persons who buy drugs from
him. It is surprising how many per
sons make attempt to got information
from druggists about their neighbors.
Imitative Coloring in Marine Life.
The adaptation of the innumerable
tints to every grade of change in the
color of the sea-weed is really marvel
ous. The younger, lighter green crus
taceans are always to be found on the
young, verdant "fronds of the plant,
while the older parts of the weed are
inhabited by older, brown animals.
The older stems are often incrusted
with the white shells of bryozoa, and
corresponding with these we are sure
to find white spo\ on the brown armor
of the crabs. 1\ -legs of the animals
are frequently of an olive-green ground
with brownish spots, deceptively like
the slender sea-weed-leaves that are
just beginning to turn brown. If one
will, as I did, pull one of the large
plants upon- tho <itaehvkmva.it. in a. cask,
of sea-water for an hour or two, and
then look through it for crabs without
disturbing it, he will find it very hard
to discover three or four of the animals,
although he may be sure there are a
quarter of a hundred of them there;
and. if he gives the mass a lively shake,
he will find a curious assemblage of the
most varied sorts tumbling off the bush,
whose behavior will go far to verity
Wagner’s view; for. if they are allow
ed the opportunity, they will all swim
back to the sea-weed' and each will
seek a part of the plant most like it in
color. I tried the experiment forty or
fifty times, and never saw a little green
crab settle on a dark-brown stem. The
crustaceans keep to their color, and the
brown ones will, with amazing speed,
dart through the thick net-work ot
stems and leaves, to the darkest s]H>t
they can find, where they quickly es
cape observation.— Dr. Withi’m
enoacA, «n IVpslar Setcmce
January.
A democratic Pennsylvania
thus puts him-jX'’ l li ne u > be struck
hv anv l K at ,Jt ay h*
nlavin.*wrouud next March: “Our re-
Ufoieta friends have generally made
itTnile to put newspaper men tn the
postoffiees, and the role strike® us very
favurabhr. Editor# are the poorest
paid partv servants, and a good post
omve salary would be a deserved rec
ognition of’ *erv ices to the party and
the country generally. Modesty for
bid- us being more explicit al pres
ent-”
FAWNING TO NOINEI—CHAXtXT *
nniTnr asivtt.t.P CJUnRUTA THUINDAi
some luncheon; are you coming?”
No, Richard would stay where he
was. He felt rather glad to be left
alone with his thoughts.
Young, rich, and handsome, he was
as utterly miserable as any mortal
with such advantages could be. His
money seemed to stand between him
and happiness, and yet he would not
have parted with it for any considera
tion. He prized it so much that he
feared that it might have the same val
ue in the eyes of the girl he loved.
What if it induced her to give him her
hand without her heart?
Edith Palmer was comparatively
Soor, and he knew she loved pleasure,
he had often told him as much, and
complained of the dullness of her life.
He remembered how her cheeks had
flushed and her eyes sparkled with ex
citement when he had spoken of the
fay world of fashion, or described the
ifferent places he had seen.
"No, I will not ask her to be my
wife,” he told himself with intense bit
terness. “My money is too great a
temptation for any 'woman to resist.
She would accept my offer if she didn’t
love me, and I should discover it after
wards, and be wretched for life. I will
leave S as soon as possible, and
try to forget her.”
He had risen now and turned his
back upon the sea, and some children
who were playing in the sand gazed
after him in surprise, wondering what
made that big man look so cross. He
certainly had anything but an agree
able expression on his face as he walk
ed along nibbling the ends of his long
mustache.
“Hallo, Mr. Maur,” said somebody
at bis elbow, in a clear, young voice.
“Oh, is it you, Jack?” returned
Richard. “Where are you off to now?’ ’
Jack was Edith Palmer’s brother,
and Richard had shown him many
kindnesses, completely winning his
boyish heart.
“I was looking for you,” said Jack.
"Come up to the house and see Joe,
will you? Father says be does not like
the look of him. Do come; there is no
body at homo; Edith has gone, to see
Susie Drown.” * .
“All *right, I’ll come,” returned
RichanJg relieved and yet disappointed
||MHra£f||votild sister.
liiMbubTi; b*
ally, and developments
awaited - .
Making Beds and Climbing Staßjpg
There is nothing, writes a New YM
correspondent, more cheerful
sight of a tired person than n
soft couch--pleasant to the eyes ;BL,
as to the touch, and giving PWl'.djifl
dainty rest. 1 may add that AsAq /gj
cupation is a woman more
than when engaged in the sejrii®
of making up just such a
you remember how the heroij|<(w
Stoops to Conquer” bags hq^fl,
mean wins a husband —by’ Ifara
view her at such house
vice to girls, in eases w
young man happens to bejjyimi ' ■ jtS
the house, is, not to disdai^^feyf^.'-' 1
tion with household atlairi@i|w» i !A&
idea of impressing him wiMOwl,'’
goodness for that kind of
stead to find some excuse
chambermaids, so that
see you transform a At&jLl
snowy, slick, and ontranflHg|||n| '"ijl
the job be done deftly it
potent in its effect on tIMHB JKi
beholds it. But there '.4,4,
are dangerous for a girl
in the presence of her
up-stairs is one of the
enough to descend
grace, but I defy any nvin«ywseiL
skirts to ascend without awkwanfl $H
In the current play at Daly’s ThK r< *.
two of the acts have for a scene t®L n _
terior in which a broad staircase K ( j s
directly back from the rear.
acters go up and down uncofc&r..
times. The women are person
tine ladies and wear the most fashMß?''
of dresj.es. On the siage level
are objects of estimable regard;
instant they begin to mount
dreadful stairs they become caMq s
elephants, anything that walks afi
quely with the hind legs. TheywLp'
ble from side to side, they strain KL.
gusset and seam in their clothee,
threaten to burst their corset-strM,;
their joints seem to refuse all oustort rv
action, and the outlines presente<Jbv
their backs bear no semblance to *.f r
normal shapeliness. It is dear toK v
nrtmuUxyt nature never
women U p s t ß j rs> f jO\S|
believe an angvb
mount the golden utherst»a®;l
surdly.
That was a truly sensitive
fined Mxmndrel that led the
robbed the Little Rock trai:uj||iOl ; J
sparing the purst<|j®MM||
womensun ul j t |j e t?a j nt w j t b ;
mark, ‘T'4p n 't forget that
erinejif her son is mBkJX
scoundrel.” Such genteel prdKf|y r r
mm\eoupled with eugagin3|B<
BCas, rkjUje midst of an enm- JEfeVI
sure this
h aro t r k "E t sW
member -
banged s<uueTL^7 f *7 >lon f u
tornV TheCSt^«; Q w Low»g|
to the gallows forvL “ M * s bWBBi J
father, and when th«L? unler i
what he had to say |--
was pronounced, he haW£
and simply remarked. teair
won’t forget, Judge, that I'W?
pbam” x
"ITY TO ALL.
SEPTEMBER 17, 1885.
mis sunused with M a 1 1111111
-i a „ ‘J —~ MOMTOI£ -
do X °' from“ 6 S o°” c iS-X F
Una ® ke d-” ekDeVV From the article by Colonel John movS^w^h^’ the^°
,’, jw .W.. jy* he loves vou ” cain Fay lor Wood, an officer of th« kt, • Oitl i n « without direction. Exactlv
“l.liar at , her “2^ m 0 e > 1
for b listened to Edith’s quot ® the following: "At nlefpd • P . honse and com-
we discovered IvinS between 5? a d - he examin ation of the iniurv at
Else f WitU hiS WCSlth
said Edith W-yanoa at a io >n“ppart«n SboU in , Motion ol
lose all his money it tlme f° r us, changing our plans whiob I station • ?i IVer -’i ant ’ on faking my
MOV iffere " cc to i'JZA? destr< v ,h - ? MtaCoVaJa t“Xi’ hoS • t ’ k ? us r
woulM iA . ' then the remainder of the fleet be?ow MerriX• I e ead " , d,rectlon of
“MBSr 118 ! led , °P en the fold- 1 5 >rtress Monroe. She appeared but I in retreLt ’ 1 A fl th > J lO was already
An<^E®E^ u ° k* Edith in his arms, !,r rn Z com pared with the lofty frigate the retiring Were fi red at
retired to she guarded. But in VC on to 51^’ She co^ia ued
dashing ~ w 5?““ |
i’. where is he J , in< i After . aa earl J breakfast, we got L in ll te V y° u 'What,” said a Scotch
«m here just now.” . uad « r w eigh and steamed out towfrd ? ddle ? “ I n Ja J JoiLa bet of £5 that if
?ed, said Susie demure- „• opening fire from our bow I can be o-ot tn
iat s the matter, Jack?” ’ and closingT we delivered our rU raake themshed tear! i n one"
-od over to the window breadside at short range, So’ Sin ” the next, and dance the
ids m his pockets, whist- L* c 1 !' as • returned promptly from her
was a suspicious moist- gHns ’ Bot h vessels then L / I>Onc ’ ’ said the Exeter professor
t eyes, and Susie anx- t, n^ d and passed again still closer lo ? e nanie Ido not give, “and ff vmw
ter V'esfen; Mom; tor w«s firing "Tn U "“lot ’oX
jfcoZo% h JW““ u’s,
Said Susie, po’/h 1 ”’ 1 ‘‘* d tliat t,H! draught was* so I nro.-e as to o-ettina an
a;- =s‘i™, s;'.‘.s™a « -* :.e “
»Wemf uiousiySto pSrJj Veing
■ loss forgotten for “> ei ion » could take any position nml I inp .pally raw-boned, overarnxvn
■elight a t the unex- 3ave u ? in rau ge of her guns k Cofch ja ds. who had recently left their
■L- kJ? %Y ere .p ivcn t<> concentrate s our i C °? ntl F to C W tea in the neth
■kighed as she fol- ‘ su ? t n the and with good S' Were the ver 7 °«es upon X
■presence of the hap- .l" ‘’ as ? Vf: ast erward learned. Moro he WJW s " re ,o ’»ake a hit P X
V- ±wo hours had passed, and we m Adb erngnow arranged, and the ut/
■ >>n ess was not so a . nia<le 1,0 impression on the enemv r i’?> s,, e |- ‘ , i‘y l-enig n . o
K B«t’ i W't. for Arthur, com *° faras ™ «,uM discover, while om- ‘ d ’ l!, ‘ r a,id the an
far offS*' I><!C J tCd l , le « ac y* insisted t ua ds were slight. Several timel nRnV°H <he d ’ nner - Th dre
in g aud in ho!, P 7X wo!° d flr A n ,g’ and were
• jbtifter and'
r when found it was taken *on the fly,’
„ because the turret could not be accu
rately controlled. Once the Merrimac
tried to ram us, but Worden avoided
‘ the direct impact by the skillful use of
. the helm, and she struck a glancing
w which did no damage. At the
sfto#ant of collison I planted a solid
L shot fair and square upon
[WR forward part of her casemate. Had
gun been loaded with thirty pounds
jjfSi|)owder, which was the charge sub
«gsb|uently used with similar guns, it is
that this shot would have
her armor; but the charge
TjSffing limited to fifteen pounds, in ac-
Tei|rdance with peremptory orders to
Ofiat effect from the Navy Department,
Lthe shot rebounded without doing any
>|*htore damage than possibly to start
gpkrpe of the beams of her armor-back-
Lettlng a Cat Out.
The other day a Rockland household
Kras made proud and happy by the in
troduction of a cabinet organ. The
Hpiother could play a little, and as there
Kras a “popular collection of music” in-
Jcluded in the purchase she lost no time
in getting every note and stop into
practice. The organ groaned and
wheezed and complained with the most
astonishing of music, night and day,
day and night, for a week. Then one
morning there was a knock at the door,
and a little girl from the next house
shrillv said:
“Please, marm, mother wants to
know if you won’t lend her vour music
book?”
was a surprising request, inas
as the woman next door was
|ipi to be organless. After gasping
or twice the amateur organist
asked:
“What does she want of it?”
The child hadn't been loaded for this
question, so she straightforwardly re
plied:
“I don’t know, ’m sure, only I beard
mother tell father that if she bad hold
of the book for a day or two mebbe
somebody could get a rest”
The woman softly shut the door in
the little girl’s face and went and care
- fully locked the cabinet organ with a
brass key.—Rodcland Courier-Gazette.
—— 11—bi « ew
A Big Bird’s Nest.
l What would my young readers think
lif they should find a nest 80 feet in di
lameter and <i or 8 feet high? There are
|such nests in the Molucca Islands,
gmade, too, by a bird as small, if not
than the straw-intail, and called
hnegapodius. Like the tropic bin!, too,
phey frequent the scrubby jungles along
rthe seashore, where the soil is samL\ !
gbut they have remarkably large and I
Strong feet and long claws. Where 1
yere is a considerable quantity of deb- j
gris. consisting of sticks, shells, sca-
B?eeds and leaves, the megapodius forms
Bnmense mounds, often with compara- |
five ease, for with their long feet they
Kn grasp and throw backward a large |
■hantity of material. In the center of
Ahis mound, at the depth of two or three
feet, the eggs are deposited and are
hatched by the gentle heat produced by
the ferme&Ution of the vegetable mat
ter of the mound. —Golden
apronslH
at high teasand the like over
made short are “Roman” in effSßßn
the skirt part, and are embroidered with
an edge in rich Oriental colors in Ro
man designs. The novel feature of the
apron consists of there being added a
sleeveless zouave jacket, but cut away
still more than even these diminutive
jackets usually are. The back of the
jacket reaches several inches below the
waist, and joins the apron on the side
seam.
Household Notes.
A delicious dish for breakfast is made
by serving broiled tomatoes on broiled
steak. Slices of cold roast beef may be
broiled with tomatoes and served with
them.
A good way to use the yelks of eggs
when you have them left after making
cake with the whites, is to keep them
in a cool place; in the morning beat
them well, and dip slices of bread in
them and fry brown. Stale bread may
be used for this.
Baked Beans.—Lovers of the sturdy
old New England dish, baked beans,
may be glad to know of a new wrinkle
in preparing in, suggested by Mr. Phil
brick m the New England Farmer. I
believe,” he says, “if people generally
knew what a delicious dish celerv makes
with common baked beans, there would
be a larger sale for it Chop up the
celery fine and mix it with the beans,
season with vinegar and mustard to
taste; you will call for a second plate of
it everytime.
Brown Fricassee of Chicken.—Clean,
wash and cut the chicken into compara
tively small pieces. Chop a quarter of
a pound of good fat salt pork and half
a small onion. Put the chicken with
these into a small pot with a pint of
cold water, and stew slowly until the
meat is tender. Takeout the chicken,
put into a colander and keep hot over
a pot of boiling water, throwing a cloth
over the colander. Strain the grayy
back into the pot, season with parsley,
pepber and salt. Thicken with a table
spoonful of browned flour, boil up once
return the chicken to the gravy, sim
mer ten minutes and serve.
Little Love Pats Between Neighbors.
Mrs. Flatte (who once lived on the
water side of Beacon street) —By the
way, Dr. Phlogiston says sealskin
sacques are real unhealthy.’ They bring
on consumption and also hysterics,
like the attack you had last year.
Mrs. Beacon—He only meant the
imitation sacques such as I saw you
pricing the other day at the closing-out
sale. Genuine seal never hurts any
body.
Mrs. Flatte—Were those sacks imi
tation? What an eye you have for
such things. Do you remember those
imitation diamonds you had after Mr.
Beacon got his first street cleaning con
tract? Most everybody thought they
were genuine.
Mrs. Beacon—How is Mr. Platte’s
deafness now? Does it grow on him?
Mrs. Flatte—Thanks; it is a.great
deal better since he left that damp Back
Bay house.
[Kisses and farewells.]— Boston Rec-
NUMBER 32
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fWvTlroir nun /.
j candidate ii; ’ITh; c7nnnni>Mtfep Jf :
. Parson Brownlow was born
s and came to Tennessee as a j ■
a ing Methodist preacher. Felix
/ dy, a Virginian by birth, had madeTKS
8 reputation and become Chief Justice onM
s Kentucky before he moved to Tepnes- ”
8 see, and Horace Maynard, a Massachu
-3 setts college graduate, emigrated to
Tennessee, and started in life as tu
tor. Aaron V. Brown, the law partner
of Janies K. Polk, and Postmaster-Gen
eral under Buchanan, came into Ten-
> nessee from Virginia at the age oil 20,
I and Sam Houston, Governor of the
} State, Senator in Congress, and fonnd
( er of the Texas RepubTic, was a Vir
ginian by b rth.— “Carp" in Cleveland
Leader.
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