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Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

| suffering the wrong you have suffered
kills, in moment of mad anguish, the
man who stole his happiness and
robbed him of his wife's honor. But
before you commit this rash act, ask
yourself if you have any grounds to
even suspect me? None, except that
1 am a stranger, and happened to meet
your wife when she was young and
innocent girl. And, as 1 heard her
speak of you yesterday, and as 1 saw
her face beam with a happiness which
could not have been feigned while tell
ing me of how much she loved you, 1
believe there is some terrible mistake
here-that your wife has either played
some joke on You, or that this letter
was not meant"
"Stop, stranger! 1 believe We air
innercent; but eff yer try ter preach
ter me erbout her, l shall curse her
purity face. Oh, fool, that 1 ever
brought her ter sich a lonely place as
this. But I&zzthought she meant it
when she said she'd be happy any
whares with me. God curse ther day
thet 1 ever thought she could be happy
here. wuz so happy 1 thought of
none but myself / see now she hain't
been ther same since I got her them
new dresses, an the books of city ways
an styles, an thet fine lookin' glass
thur. An ther little gal has changed
since ther papers 1 'scribed fur came
all filed up with love, an grand ways
O ivin', an plenty O company fur
young wives. She wur all alone.
l know l oughten ter expected she'd
like it, an it never oughter come tween
us, me bringin' her here. It's awful
rough, stranger, but 1 guess I'm ter
blame. My God! she mighter stayed
one day longer, an Civ me warnin', SO
S l could er drunk in ernough O ther
music O. her voice ter las me. an so s
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
Properties of Ouicksand.

The properties OF qulcksand are thus
described in the Mechanical Neacs !:
"The difference between building sand
and true quicksand is most easily ex-
planned by comparing building sand to
road metal, while the quicksand must
be represented by fragments no larger
than large buckshot, but shaped like
very smooth potatoes. In word, the
quicksand is small and thoroughly
waterworn, so that every fragment has
been deprived of all it's angles and
fairly well-polished. It's particles are
very small as compared with those of
the building sand. The smaller the
size and the more complete the round
ing the more nearly will the sand ap-
proach liquid condition when it is
moistened. The first glance at a fairly
mounted sample of quicksand under
microscope is sufficient to show that the
guickness Of the sand is amply ac
counted for by the innumerable fric-
ton wheels which the particles them
selves furnish. Sharp or building sand.
on the other hand, will show few round
corners, many angles, corners and
general condition like that of broken
stone Sea sand is often unfit for
building, even though perfectly de-
prived of its salt, the reason being that
the particles have been worn and pol
ished till they have no more binding
powers than so many cobble-stones. It
is well to remember that quicksand
when dry, if very fine, shows the same
properties as liquid In holding up
the centers of large bridges it is some
times put into cylinders with plunger
on top of it. 1t will, when thus con-
fined, hold up the load like column
of water. When it is desired to strike
the center plug is drawn out of the
side of the cylinders, and the sand
flows out like so much water. The ad-
vantage, of course, is that the sand
does not need a packed piston. and
does not leak out, though the work be
prolonged for years Quicksand when
dry and confined forms an admirable
foundation, and when wet can be load
ed over its whole surface, and give a
good support if side openings can be
avoided"
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

four o'clock in the afternoon, I strolled
out in the woods with book, about
noon, to enjoy quiet repose under the
shade of the trees and the thick hang
ing vines so common to that locality.
It may have been Imagination, and
it may have been the spirit of proph-
ecy, but I stopped reading to hear
the signing of the great tall pine trees
as the zephyrs gently swept through
them. 1t seemed to be whispering to
them a story of sadness and tragedy
As the soft voice of the southwest
winds played upon the long needles of
the pines, 1 could hear them say,
"O-o-o-h, o-o-o-h! W-w-o-o-e-e, w-w-o-
o-e-e. S-s-s-o-o-r-r-row!
I closed my book. the soughing.
mourning pines making me too sad and
lonely to read more, and went back to
the house. AS drew near Iheard the
voice of old Mrs. Adams crying and
moaning, and asking herself why was
she ever born, and what had her dear
son, ther best an kin'es' son an trust
fullest husband In the world. ever done
ter deserve sich deceit an sich er blow
ter his hap'ness?" was amazed be-
yond measure; but when I went in my
amazement was turned into bewilder-
ment at what I heard and learned
Mrs. Adams started in fright when I
entered, and I asked her what was the
matter, and she shrank from me as if I
were ghost.
"Whur is Hank? Didn't he fin
yer?" she asked, as if amazed.
"Where is he? Find me? Why, what
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
: I hev. Go. quick, befo' I furget

AC'' w, quick, De1O 1ufg0e
She glanced at the note, recovered
her spirits In q moment, and then burst
into a peal of the merriest laughter I
ever Granddaughter in which real
mirth was mixed with the melody of
happy heart suddenly relieved of a
great burden. Then, before he could
recover from the stupor into which
this threw him, she ran up the steps.
grabbed his face in both her hands
looked into his honest eyes a moment.
and then kissed him repeatedly, laugh
ing and crying, and exclaiming:
You sweetest of husbands, and did
this little note make you Jealous?
And did you have that gun to kill me
on sight, or the man whom you thought
I had gone with?"
She explained the note was one she
had penned as the beginning of little
story she was going to write for an
Eastern paper, and which she did not
intend Hank to see until she read it to
him in the paper. She had written
several stories, and had been paid for
them, and was going to use his name
IN this one, and then read it to him,
and tell him the secret.
Itwas merry household that night.
and never was treated so royalty in
my life. Hank took me out into the
horse lot" after dinner, and saw that
no one else was near. and then said:
Mr.. McP I hope yer will not
hint ter jimmy whut er blamed fool 1
made O myself over thet fool thing. By
Jlngs, trimble when l think how near
L come ter shootin' yer. 1 hev told
mother ter never breeth er word O.
whut carryin's on we had fore jimmy
come back. 1t has larned me er lesson
"a bitter one, too. I'll never be jeal-
Gus O my wife ergain. I think a
jealous man is ther bigges' fool on
earth. I said this onct befo', when I
saw er play erbout thet feller, 'Thello
an Desdymony, but never knew whut
it meant till now. A man whut is
jealous ov a wife whut is lovin' an
gentle an bright to him at home is
villain: that's whut L think. An /
don't want jimmy ter ever know whut
er blamed fool 1 wuz fur nothin'."
1 Ipromised [ never would tell, and l
have never done so. If they see this
they viii know who wrote it, perhaps:
but l know they will forgive me, and
know that Hank will bear me no i'll
will for thus breaking the spirit of my
promise, as there is great lesson in
this experience to others. I think
most of us can profit by Hank Adams
Bitter Lesson"
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
comm back shows he might be inner

comm back shows he might be inner
cent"
His hosses an buggy amt no sign,
nor his bein' back hear, nuther, cause
he'd be sharp ernough ter try an blin'
us that way. But I'll let yer hev yer
way, mother, seein' as We air all 1 hev
le' ter me now"
He handed me the paper, and I read.
in clear, feminine hand, these terri
bly, plain words, the outraged husband
watching me closely as 1 read:
"Dear Hank-I thought I loved YOU
once, but find do not. I ought to
have told you before, but could not
bear to do so, as you seemed so happy.
1 cannot longer bear the loneliness.
and the drudgery, and the desolation
of life here. If 1 staid longer hould
hate you for bringing me here. o, how
can sign my name to this terrible let
ter? I go away with one You do not
know, but do not try to find me. 1t
will be useless. I will not sign nv
name, because [ want you to forget it.
Forgive me, as 1 hope God will"
That was all. But I trembled as
read it, and staggered, and would have
fallen, had rot his strong arms caught
me.
"Mr. Adams" I managed to say,
"this is, indeed, terrible. How YOU
ever came to imagine I was concerned
in it do not know. But, kill me if
you will; but, if You believe 1 did this
terrible thing, I shall die forgiving
you. 1 believe that if God ever does
forgive murder, it is when q man.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
She Would Like to Be Wicked Just for
0nan

There is an inherent desire in the
breast of nearly every woman of life
and spirit to be at times just the least
bit wicked. She wants to don the un-
mentionables occasionally. fguratively
speaking, and go out and have time.
As young married lady remarked the
other day to an intimate female friend ::
"How would like to go .,ut on 'toot'
some night. I want to take in the back
rooms of two or three saloons, drink a
glass or two of beer, and eat some dry
bologna and Swiss cheese. My hus
band occasionally brings a lunch of
that sort home with him, and accom-
panies it with bottle of beer, but
there is no fun in it unless You 60 to
headquarters. I have often urged my
husband to show me the elephant to
q mixed extent, and have offered to
wear veil or his old clothes, but he
always frowns down my opportunities,
and I don't think it would be much
fun, anyway, to go with ones own hus-
band. Why should We be so circum-
scribed in our amusements? for one
propose to get out of the old rut some
night, and, while 1 don't intend to be
too wicked, /. shall be just wicked
enough to enjoy myself And there
is no doubt but that she will. Her
ideas may be condemned, but in how
many feminine hearts will you find
reflex of her desires s!-Sdcrdmento
Rec.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
Life on q Cuban Plantation.

In Dakota and Manitoba the en-
ployment on single wheat estates of q
hundred reapers and an aggregate of
three hundred laborers for a season
has been regarded as something un-
precedented in agricultural industry
but on one sugar estate in Cuba-"El
Balboa" from fifteen hundred to two
thousand hands. invariably negroes,
are employed, who work under severe
discipline, in watches or relays, during
the grinding season, by day and night,
the same as in the large iron mills and
furnaces of the United States and
Europe. At the same time there are
few village communities where a like
number of people experience the same
care and surveillance The male
workers occupy quarters walled and
barricaded from the women, and the
women from the men.
There are in every village an in
frmary, a lying-in hospital, ply
sician, an apothecary, a chapel, and
priest At night and morning mass is
said in the chapel, and the crowds are
always large. There is of Sunday
less restraint, though ceaseless espion-
age is never remitted. On these days
and in parts of holidays there are rude
mirth, ruder music and much dancing.
This picture is given somewhat in de-
;ail, because it illustrates how all-per-
yading and tremendous are the forces
that are modifying society everywhere,
in civilized, partially civilized and
even barbarous countries, conformity
with the new conditions of production
and consumption.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

I mighter bathed myself in the sun
shine O her bright eyes one mo- day.
But she's gone, as 1 mighter expected
eff I'd thought ernough ov anything
'cept myself. An here's her note, as
slick an nice es emmy schoolmarm
coulder writ-but ther words seem
hard and cold ter me, an I feel like er
man thet's dying by inches of ther bite
O pisen sarpent; but yet I can hear
the music O. her voice s if it wur sound
in ter me from away Off What's
tibet? Her voice? What's she sayin'?
Excuse her fur bein' so late, but she
stopped by Mrs. Quillin's whose baby's
dyin'? Stop thar, gal! Whut yer
comm back hear fur?"
Poor Jennie, who heard these words
as she started lightly up the steps,
with her lips pursed up for the usual
kiss, stopped as if petrifed at hearing
these words, and seeing her husband
with gun in his hands. Before she
could reply, he had flung the paper at
her, and hissed:
@Heur, take yer note, an 20 with
ther man who will treat yer better n
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
THE uNsowN SEED.
BY CLARA N. HOWARD.

/ saw garden, in springtime,
Prepared with greatest care,
And l thought when comes The summer,
Rare flowers will he blooming there.
But summer found in the garden
Full many a noxious weed.
With never a flower among them,
For none had sown the seed
] saw q life that gave promise
OF harvest rich and rare,
Ha5 the fertile soil been tended,
And the seed been planted there.
Neglected and implanted
O'ergrown with sins foul weeds
@, the flowers We might gather
Did We only SOW the seeds,
Oh the precious moments wasted!
The deeds of love undone;
TIE bitter thoughts we cherished
Come back to US one by one;
Ana we sigh for the vanished sprIn9-tinle
OF which we took no heed.
Oh. the harvest we might gather
Did we only SOW the seed.
Had we sown the seeds of virtue,
OF holy love and truth,
OF charity and kindness
II the springtiIne OF our youth;
II the autumn we'd have gathered
4 harvest rich and rare
A harvest of fragrant flowers
Been blooming for US there.
We'd have never cause to mUrmur
At the hardness of our lot;
Our lines full of contentment-
In palace or in cot.
Did We improve the golden springtime,
Root out each nOxioUs weed
What a bountiful harvest waits US,
Do we only SOW the seed!
.ARvEY. Wis.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
PITH AND POINT.

DoN'r hit man when. he is down; h e
may get up.
SOME larks are musical and some are
not-all-night larks decidedly not.
How TO raise bread-With your fin
gers, of course; you should not take q
fork.
Mrs. Add you have a good time
at the sewing circle? Mrs. B.-Oh,
only sew. sew.
MABLE-Isn't young Mr.. Dolly a
spruce fellow? AMY knew he was a
stick, but 1 did not know exactly what
kind.
CUsToMER-Will this mucilage stick,
Mr.. Grocer? Grocer-Try it. sir, try
it. It stuck me, and am sure it will
stick you.
CITY Cousin-Uncle Abner. do You
play whist? Farmer Hayseed - No,
Charley; don't know anything about
any game but bunco.
Do KITTENS that have been mauled
and teased in their infancy become
Maultease cats in their advanced years
We paws for reply.
Mr.. MEDFoRD-Your son seems very
industrious. Mrs. Bedford-To GER
tain extent. He is always doing some
thing when it is time to go to bed.
CRoss-Eyed Gentleman Seeking q
partner)-Will you honor me, Miss
Smith, by dancing the next waltz with
me? Two Misses Smith Gin unison)-
With pleasure.
AN umbrella is very good thing to
have in the house when it rains" said
Mr.. Smith. "Yes," answered his COM
panion, "but why don't you get your
house shingled?"
ARTIsT-Now: in posing do not forget
that you are young girl who refuses
disdainfnlly wealthy old man. She
oh, that would be too foolish! I
never could do it.
A HARD problem: Flossie looking
up from her history)-Well, what I
don't understand about Columbus dis
covering America is how he knew it
was America when he'd never seen it
before
ADoREk (after a rebuke by the old
lady)-I didn't kiss you. / only pre-
tended l was going to- Why did YOU
call to your mother? Sweet Girl (re-
pentently)-I-I didn't know she was
in the house.
FIRST peddler-Vot haf YOU de re,
Levi? Second peddler-O! dis ish
great scheme, Isaacstein. Dis is let
ter carriers whistle, and it brings the
ladies to de door sure every time YOU
rings the bell
WHAT she made over: Mr.. Du-
mont-How's this, Maria? I gave you
money to buy a new hat. and you've
made over your old one. Mrs. Dumont
(smiling and I've made over SIS
also on the operation.
No BETTER evidence possible: Mrs.
Billus-John, you don't seem very
grateful for that box of cigars l gave
you for birthday present. Mr. Billus
lin anguish of . soul Not grateful,
Maria? Thunder! Amt I smoking
them!
Miss STEELE (of Pittsburg)-So you
have a real Chinaman for servant is
he efficient? Miss Pharwest (of San
Francisco)-So-so. He's dreadful hard
on dishes. But what would you ex-
pect of domestic that even talks
broken China?
HE-I got letter from cousin Tom
to-day. He says he is engaged to
Mollie Jennings. OF course he paints
his future bride in glowing colors and
all that sort of thing. She-So far as
that is concerned Mollie is pretty ex-
pert at painting herself in glowing
colors.
A LITTLE mental arithmetic, in
bakery: "Please, mum, how much are
those buns?" well, my little man, I'll
give you six for five cents" "Six for
five. That's five for four: four for three;
three for two; two for one; and one
for-nothing. Please, mum, ones all
want"
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

MoRsR's SCHOOL SHoEs.-made in our
large shoe factory at Omaha, Nebraska.
Ask your dealer for them. Refuse to take
any others. : If not kept in your town write
US asking where to get them. They wear
longer and it better than any other shoes.
Shoes have always been made too narrow.
We make them wide. A reward of Fifty
Dollars in gold paid for pair of our own
make of shoes that contain a particle of
shoddy, or anything but solld leather. We
make one hundred and fifty styles of Wo-
mems, Misses and Children's Sewed and
Standard Screw, Grain, Glove Kid and DON
COLA. Elegant styles, wide and good fitting.
We also carry one hundred and fifty styles
OF Mems Goods, Rubbers, etc.
". v. MORSE CO.,
Shoe Manufacturers, Omaha, Nebraska.
Wales Goodyear Rubbers are the best.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
ANOTHER MAN.
Whenever Boggs came home at night

Whenever Boggs came home at night
Appearing worse for wear,
He told his wife that he got tight
Because it banish care.
Said he: My darling Mary Ann,
1t makes me quite another man."
One night the door was tightly locked,
And though he raised din
As loud he called and louder knocked
She would not let him in.
"A faithful wife," said Mary Ann,
Cannot admit another man.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
HANKS BITTER LESSON.
BY WI. ALEXANDER BOWEN.
. Il A We L IN G.

through the great
pine regions of
East Texas one,
summer Satur-
day afternoon a n
found me on one
of those deep sand
roads, several |
miles from the
nearest town. l
knew that all
business was sus-
pended II those
country towns on
Sunday, and that
the entire popu-
lation a t t e n d
church in the
m nrn1 or anI
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
The Popular Favorite.

We have an extensive retail sale Of your Al
lens Lung Balsam, and We recommend it above
all other preparations for obstinate as we'll as
for simple forms of Coughs Colds aud Con-
sumption. Two cases have come under our
notice recently where the Lung BaISam acted
with promptness after a number of other rem
e,iies had failed to do any good PATTERSON
4 OGLE. Druggists, Sullivan, Ill)
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20
He Fell Into the Tran

He-Ten me, confdentially, how
much did that bonnet cost you?
cShe-George, there is but one way
in which you can obtain the right to
inspect my millinery bills.
he popped.-L0wrence american.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

THE everyday cares and duties
which men call drudgery, are the
weights and counter-poises of the clock
of time, giving its pendulum true VI
bration, and its hands q regular ~
ton.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

Why not sure your clothes by using the
bes,. cheapes and most economical soap,
Dobblns' Electric Made ever since lSe4.
Try it once you will use it al,rGys. Your
grocer keeps IL or will get 1t. Look for the
uame Uo6Uins.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

The pleasant effect ard the perfect safety
with which laiies may use the Liquid fruit
laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all oondi-
tions ma 1t their favorite. 1t is pleasing
to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet eff
fe tual in acting on the hidneys, liver and
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

A definition.-''By their fruits ye shall
know them. Willie Brown, you mny give
an illustration OF that"
Willie B.: "You can always tell Dago
by his banana stand"
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

To the man who wears ready made clothes
life is mis- titful dream.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

A doctor practices on his own patients,
but a musician practices on the patience of
others.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

There is deaf and dumb man in Kansas
seven feet tall That is what we call long
silence.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

Asparagus and strawberries have come
but as for us, we want nothing but Ballot
Reform.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children. she gave them CastoriA
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

When man Is under a cloud the silver
lining is generally on the other side.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

1t is the man who can't sing that seems
anxious that everyone should know it.
Thomas County cat., 1890-02-20

Shoe Manufacturers, Omahs, Nebraska.
Wales Goodyear Rubbers are the best.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-13
NOTICE.

All parties are hereby forbidden to take prop
erty from or in any way interfere with the
wreck of the schooner Frank Harrington, as
she now lies ashore at Tybee, the same being
the property CT
SMITH & PAULSEN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-13
sCoOPED BY TIE TERMIN AL.

Result of the Election of the Augusta,
Gibson and Sendersville Road.
AUGUSTA, GA, Feb. 12.-The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Augusta,
Gibson and Sandersville railroad was
largely attended to-day by stockholders
living along the line of the road The
election resulted in the selection of the fol-
lowing officers and directors: r. NJ
Mitchell, president; r. w. Inman, vice
president; directors, j. II. Alexander, II.
II. Hickman, George ". Stetson, William
T. Gary, William B. Young. c. H. Howard,
r. NJ. Mitchell, r. w. Inman, Thomas
Warthen, A. E. Thornton, james l.. Neal,
L. d. Matthews, and James Stapleton. -, -.
GOBBLED BY THE TERMINAL.
The purchase of the bonds of the road
and the control in the voting power by
James Swami of New York. of the firm of
Inunan, Swami q Co., and the putting of
two Georgia railroad directors, Messrs.
Alexander aud Hickman, on the board
leaves no room for doubt that the line has
been gobbled up by the Terminal people.
and will be operated in connection with
that system.
Roadmaster Hamilton Wilkins of the
Georgia railroad viii become general
manager of the road, and Supervisor
Robinson of Atlanta will be promoted to
the Office of roadmaster The selection of
Maj. Wilkins as general manager means
the virtual retirement of President Mitchell,
who will probably resign within the next
sixty days as president. He would be only
a fgurehead, and he is capable of much
better and more valuable work than that.