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VOLUME IV—NUMBER 20. -
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Rip
Van Winkle And
The Athens Dispensary
The Story of Rip of the Catskill and
the Rip of the Religio-Politico
Hell-Hole.
Proud of Him.
The Courier is not given to u
due praise of any man or set
men, but when we see unexoelli
grit and undaunted zeal, takii
nothing and building an immens?
enterprise, we cannot refrain
BY THE EDITOR.
Did you ever hear of Rip Van
Winkle, or see the great Joe Jof
ferson impersonate him? Most of
you have, but those of our read
era who have not, we will Bay that
Rip was a very unique character.
He was one of those fellows who
enjoyed drink to such an extent
that he did nothing but hunt,
while his wife had to take caro of
the household. This reminds us
of some people we know of who
are a little different from Rip—
he went hunting, but those we
know of are too infernally lazy to
go hunting,' but while their chil
dren are slaving their young lives
away in some factory they
wearing out the already
bare seats of their
on the banks of the
ing blue steel, and dig
authenticity of
as to try to I
mostavailabl
for
early morning sunshine bathing
them in its glory. We do not
know what he thought, but we do
know that there are numbers of
good women in this our day who
think that it would be c God
send to them if their hubbies
would kindly imitate Rip and
take a farewell look at their
wrecked hopes, and there wouldn’t
be “anything doing around their
hearts,” eithor.
Well, Rip after looking back
turned on his heel and went whist
ling up tho mountain side, with
his dog. As he went up
growth grew
Courier : I note that
•lton had a well-timed
sensible , article in the
the 24th met., in re
our city nuisance, that
detestable rock quarry,
from according that praise which | whlh should never have been al
lowed where it is. I am glad the
Major haa stirred up the matter
and hope h^will not let up until
true merit deserves.
Such a man is Mr. John A.
Darwin.
Coming to Athens a few yearg our oitfjs ^id of this abomina-
ago, he engaged in the fire insure -tioa. Now there are some other
ance business, but while foiling
that his master mind was’ not in
active and ho brought to light
the Mutual Life of Georgia. For
quite awhile it was a slow go.
The people did not seem to take
hold of it, but undauntedly he
pushed on, overcoming obstacles,
and a little later on the true
mqtten which aro suggested by
this artiole and which should re-
oeive the attention of our people.
Rd/erence is made to the paving
rber street and that the
the rock crusher is
med for that purpose,
irvant and inquiring peo-
pl Would like to know why this
beik’ty of the undertaking burst street,\used only for resident and
nnn!i f.Vio nannln lilro n mofanr ..11 1J t,„
street railway, should now be
paved to the neglect of Lumpkin
it, one of £ke most important
used streets in our
Brand New Phase Of
Our Waterworks System
As Told by a Subscriber of This
Paper.
That the water meter in Athens
has been a failure the Courier has
convinced every one in Athens ex.
cept a few of the powers that be
and if we Bbould call for a yea
and nay vote we are euro a ma
jority of them are our way. We
unhesitatingly say that there
should be a change in this respect.
The splendid system of water
works which we have should not
be a drain upon the city treasury
any longer, and should not only
be self sustaining, but really a
money-maker for the city. Why
not? The deficiency must be met
by the tax-payers, then why not
the city own the meters and let
the people who do not use water,
Vho would if they could get
|ont paying for the meters,
'' 'create a revenue suffi
ce expenses. If we
thly expenses
file the in-
and
aside
and both use water. Oue of them
uses 45,000 gallons and pays 10c
per thousand, and the other uses
48,000 gallons and pays 15 cents
per thousand. In other words
the man that uses 48,000 pays
$0.45, while the man who
45,000 pays $4.60, or tl>e ODe who
uses the largest amount pays $1.95
less than the other. I cannot tee
where the justice comes in here.
If a man were to read hit meter
(that is if he was allowed to touch
it), and it was. to show a con
sumption of 48,000 gallons 4e
could save $1.05 to open up his
faucet and let a couple of thou
sand gallons run into the branch.
Victim.
That’s the way of the world my
friend, somebody must always
get hurt, and it is usually the
small fellow, or the poor man,
who is like the Chinamen, who
most pertinently said: “No mat
ter who wins in this great contest
between China and Japan, China
catche hello in de necke alle
mee. More anon.
Which Costs The Most,
Good Food or Poor Food?
FLOUR IS THE CHEAPEST COHHODITY
ON THE MARKET.
GOLD LEAF
15 THE BEST.
Therefore-it is the cheapest in the long run. It
costs you less than a hall cent n day to have the
best on your table. GOLD LEAF makes tho
whitest tread you ever saw. It is the sweetest
and tlakiest. It always rises. It will.show more
proteids, the strength giving p -rt ion of the wheat,
than any high grade llour manufactured. Abso
lutely the whitest—made only from absolutely
pure choice selected Miss uri Soft Winter Wheat
—at all times the best-. Every sack has a Gold
Loaf on it—Copyrighted.
Mauvtactvrcd Only By
Cape Covnty Milling Co.
. JacKson, Missouri.
the difference in Kip'
he was a rollicing kind of o'
low and wo arc constrained to
. liev# that when he went home
drnnk he never kicked up a row
and keep tho children in the gar
ret, or under the house—like a
few of the aforesaid., but was al
ways singing and dancing. It
may not be that that was bis nat
ural disposition, and only learned
tho lesson after having picked
himself up from tho door a half
dozon times only to borccoivod
between the eyes with a rolling
pin in the hands of Mrs. Rip.
If this is the truth of it wo say
in the language of tho weather
prophet, “O. formoroMrs. Ripsl
Rip had a dog, a lank, cadaver
ous kind of a creature, and be
loved Rip—possibly for the feed
ho got from tho gaino. A man
never gets so low in the scale of
human degradation, but there is
some one that will love him. Wo
have known men who lmd seomed
to become so utterly abhorrent as
that no ono could tolerato thorn,
yet some one woman would cling
to them like the ivy to tho oak.
But Mrs. Rip wasn’t built of that
kind of stuff, and so one day, the
jolly drunkard was drivon away
from home, and he is pictured
with his dog and gun as he wends
his way toward tho Catskills
mountains. Ho is seen with his
hand over his eyes, as ho reached
tho foot of tho mountain, and
lookod towards the dilapidated
house which contained nil on
earth that was dear to him. He
may have had a pang at his heart
and he may not as his eyes rest
ed upon the forms of his wife and
children in tho yard, with the
then was to sTi?
o’er their decay. Being assurei
that it was a slightly better grade
Rip gulped it down, like the old
soak that he was, and fell into a
sleep that lasted twenty yours. If
it lmd been the aforesaid blue
steel ho would hnve been asleep
till now. But ns time rolls on
the twenty years soon passed and
ono tine morning Kip stretched
bis limbs mid pulled himself to
gether and raised'up. lie had
long white beard, he whistled for
his dog, but all he could see was
a few bones which lmd been
bleaching in the sun for twenty
years; the stock of his gun had
crumbled to dust and the barrel
was eaten with rust. He arose,
though and went down tho moun
tain side into tho village. The
old bouse lmd fallen down, the
wife and children were dead, and
nobody knew him. He found
some of his grandchildren about
ns no nccount ns he was. The
tale is told ns near as we can ro-
member it, and wo publish it in
our own way for a purpose.
There is a Catskill mountain in
this town known bettor as the
Athens dispensary. It is full of
crags and crevices and echoes.
Many a young nmu 1ms attempt
ed to climb to its summit in
search of something, possibly the
enjoyments he thought wore there,
before ho entered ho looked bnck
and through tho eyes of his heart
he Baw his wife and littlo children
in thoir cozy little home, or his
old mother reclining in a rocker.
He little dreams that this is tho
leach
ing, UnUHHMmiCeting, Hosi
ery, Notions, all kinds smallware,
Shoes, Mens’ Kits and ail odds
and ends very. Useful, at the for
mer GLOfiE RACKET STORE
Bankrupt Sale, Broad street.
step to n long sleep but he goes
on mid like Kip he eits down to
rest, and a peculiar crowd sur
rounds him. Fust, there stands
preachers, all around him, each
has a congregation ill dress par
ade before him, butare holding on
lo a jug behind labeled “Athens
Dispensary.” And then there
are deacons and stowards, and
judges aud juries, and fathers
und mothers in that peculiar
crowd intended to indeed be a
“peculiarpeople zealous of good
works,” but who have indeed fal
len short since the compromise
with tho devil. But they give it to
him and he enters upon nis long
sleep while this peculiar crowd
keeps pouring it down. He does
not see it, but those around do—
tile wife’s checks have grown pale
aud wnu; the children are ragged
and shoeless, notwithstanding
they were givon some of the old
cnst-otY clothes at the poor folks'
Christmas tree; the house is rot
ting down; tho old mother's grey
hairs have gone down in sorrow
to the grave, and he sleeps on iu
his drunken stupor. Will he
over, oven after twenty years,
like Rip, awaken from his sleep?
AH is stillness, and from ayrny
down tho mountain comes rever
berating back tho echo “w-i-1-1
h-el”
Bnt wlmt caro we so the tax is
roduded.
dem
The
think, and al
to this condition of affairs iP our
city government, and if we mis-
<|ke not the signs oTtUa.tifiH'S,
are determined upon a change
Ycu, Mr. Editor, and others who
lmvo tho temerity to oppose the
bosses, und criticise the official
acts of our public servants, are
styled kickers aud croakers.
Would to God that every right-
thinking tax-payer in Athens
would go to kicking and croaking.
In this alone is the needed reform,
and our city.’a future safety.
Mr. Editor, you seem to be the
only outspoken sentinel upon the
watchtower of our city’s best in
terest, and with your permission,
some of us will help you to keep
these matters of gravest import
ance before the public. “Lay on,
Mr. Gardner, and craven bo he
who first cries hold,enough.”
One of the Croakers.
Parchment butter paper tho best
quality at M. M. Arnold’s. 4t
Death of a Boy.
James Harvey Short, tho little
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Short,
aged four and a half years, died
Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The funeral was preached at their
home on South Elberton street- by
Rev. M. H. Eakes. The parents
have tho sympathy of all, especi
ally those who have gone through
the tame trying ordeal.
re your
acks on eva
der an injustice,
rally the long fight you
ave made against the meters,
but there is one other thing con
nected with the water works sys
tem, which you seemed to have
not touched upon.
Two men conclude to take wa
ter; both pay for tapping the
main, both pay for the meters.
_i***.iJnsA
nt boom.
Tif genuine fra-
rought the order
ntTy before the people
ntly, and the coDsequenc- is
it applications for membership
are pouring in. After two weeks
the fee will be increased to twelve
dollars. We are glad to know of
the snccess of this splendid iu-
Jstitution. It seems to have grown
| like magic under the gniding
band of Mr. W. T. Dean, the Sa-
'chem. We wish it continued suc-
:cess.
! Brown leghorn eggs, 15 for 50
; cents, at M. M. Arnold's.
There were several articles of
interest which were crowded out
this week for want of space.
