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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13
The Rest Rend Man.

From The st. Louis GIobe-Democrat.
1.-The best read men are not those who
read most books" said Professor Julius
ThorDdyke to little knot of travellers who
We're discussing learning in the corridors of
the Laclede. "a man who attempts to read
everything Is much like a man who dimes at
every restaurant he comes to--he swallows
much, good, bad and Indifferent, and digests
nothing. A man who really desires to profit
by his reading should never read for pastime,
should never touch book that is not worth
second or even third reading. He should
never pass chapter without understanding
every line of it. In other words, he should
read only the very best authors ana Ill
gest everything he reads Any other kind OF
reading is as profitless as Caesars discourse
was to the non-Greek- speaking CaSca. Time
was when it was necessary for the student to
spend much Of his life acquiring Latin, Greek
and French because the learning of the world
was locked up in those languages. Such prep
aratiOn for study is no longer necessary
Nearly every book that is of particular I'M
portance has been translated into English, ana
while few may have suffered thereby, un.
uuestionably others have been improved. 1ee
Dedants protest as loudly they may, the
'Iliad of the Greek text is inferior to the Tree
English literature and an English learning III IL
world can show. A century hence, when dis
lance has lent enchantment to the view, Milton
will be universally recognized as Homers WI
perior, Burke and Pitt will supplant Demos
themes and Cicero as the ideal orators, Bacon
will succeed Plato, the practical wisdom OF out
rhodomontade of the academy. Our Shakes,
peare already stands in public esteem head
and shoulders above all foreign dramatlsts,
from Aeschyius to the writer OF the last
French farce We import our learning now
only as n matter of luxury, not OF necessity.
n bas pesn the
priceless Jewels that ever sparkled In the
worlds Intellectual crown Of glory"
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A Samson.
From The San Francisco Examiner.

From The San Francisco Examiner.
Edward r. Berry has been q piano mover in
this city continuously through the seventeen
years past Berry is a big man, standing six
feet, stocking clad and weighing 260 pounds.
He is so well proportional as not to appear 80
heavy. He is a native son, having been born
forty-two years ago in Del Norte county, near
where Rouge river meets with the sea. Del
Norte was u Wilderness then, and Berry grew
up sportsman and an angler, pursuits which
made him strong of limb and sound OF wind.
When "A youth he went in for athletics some
what and was the premier wrestler OF north
ern California until he was apprenticed to n
tanner and ourrer. That trade did not suit
him. and he tried horse training, profession
in " hich his strength first became noticeable.
leaning followed. and as one of its most u-
crative branches Berry took UP the moving of
fine furniture.
His daily work is to move from fifteen to
twenty pianos up and down stairs, sometimes
several flights. Berry manages one end of the
piano, while two men can barely handle the
other. The strong man also takes the lower end
i'll going up stairways, often being compelled
to sustain the whole weight Of the instruments
of the grand" form. which weigh between
200 and 800 pounds. He estimates his daily
lifts of dead weight to be fifty, and the weight
lifted each time to average 600 pounds. AS
the weights must be sustained for length Of
time, the feat becomes the more remarkable.
Iidb 50 many years VI heINICS &t SuCi bdsf-
ing labor has not broken him down Berry be-
lieves is due 10 the fact that he has always been
regular in his habits, sleeping long hours and
retaining from drinking. He claims nothing
for himself as TO strength, but along Kearney
street and among expressmen generally he is
considered the Samson OF the profession.
Berry has never tested his strength tie the
uttermost, but thinks that with suitable har-
ness he might lift ton and q half. Without
such aids lie would not care to lift more than
l.50O pounds, and would avoid such a lift if
possible.
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Ills Fortune Is Made,

The Vienna Progress says: 1--WE met fell
low the other day who said that nobody could
tell him anything about the tariff or silver
question, as III. knew it all. We were exceed
ingiy glad to meet him. as he is the first man
we ever saw who knew all about these queS
tons. AS as we get money enough we
are going to offer him 81 per day TO come to
our Office and instruct us"
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"LoNa LIVE THE CONSTITUTION.
Each Man on Deck Waves High His Check

Henry F. Aston, Jonesburgh, Monty gold
watch came July 10th; it is a beauty and is a good
time-keeper and am highly pleased with it. Ac-
ccpt my sincere thanks. ! like The Constitution
and as far Off as 1t is published | receive it the
day after it is pubishe d, before noon.
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greater tyranny than the tyranny of

SredUeI IyIduuy IldA t1io IJAs1nnJ VI
preStcraft
I wonder what is the matter with the
5,eople and why they are so restless and
excited and why they are all so .plit up
and torn up in politics. For the life Of me
1 can't see any very great difference be-
tween our privileges and enjOyments now
and what they used to be. Cotton Is very
preacher Is but man and there is no
low. but I remember when it was cents
q pound and we have had to haul it 200
miles to market Salt and iron were 3
cents pound and steel rs cents Those
were hard times sure enough, but the peo-
D]e didn't complain like they do now. We
have had good seasons this year and
made good crops and had no pestilence
and vet the people are not happy and
I'm afraid are not grateful. There is a
general row between labor and capital
and about silver and the banks and the
railroads and almost every man wants
something he hasn't got and is looking
over the fence to see what his neighbor
has got The producer says that prices
are too low and the consumer says they
are high enough and so there is Il clash.
More cotton is made than is wanted and
won't bring it's cost and the politicians
say that somebody is to blame for it;
but I can't find out who it is. A wagon
load of melons sold in our town for 70
cents dozen because the market was
oyerstocked and the man went home ours
ing the town and joined the peoples party
that night l wish we could harmonic
all these things and maybe we can after
the elections are over. / don't know OF
any farmer who Is suffering,
and to my opinion man
who owns a good little farm
and has healthy wife and indus
trious children is more secure against the
ills of life than any other class upon earth.
If he will keep debtor and credit ac-
count with his Maker and put down his
liberty and independence-hi time that
is all his own and not another's-his lat
itude and lOngitude-his pure country air
and good water that crowded neighbors
do not contaminate like they do in cities
his distance from vice and folly and fash
ion and temptation-his security against
pestilence and his good appetite by day
and his rest by night-when all these
blessings are weighed and put down for
what they are worth he ought to be
ashamed to envy the towns or the cities
or the plutOcrats. | have tried it and l
know it and if i ever undertake to raise
another 4amily l will 60 to the country
as quick as ] can get there. BILL ARP.
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Don Tobacco Spit Your Life Away"
Is the startling, truthful title of little book
Just received telling all about Notobac, the
wonderful harmless, economical, guaranteed
cure for the tobacco habit in every form To-
bacco users who want to quit and can't, by
mentioning The Atlanta Constitution get
the book mailed free. Address The Sterling
Remedy Co.. Box rs, Indiana Mineral Springs
Indiana.
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Getting Lively.

Now the ak rings In the forest
Where the campaign banner floats;
AL the trees for ballot boxes
All the leaves for votes.
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FOR SALE-Powerful field glass, cost $50
for SO Address 7. O. Box 1872. Cincinnati. O.
WANTED Students for teegraphy at Caro-
lima Telegraph School, Williamson, S. G..
Students enter any time. W.T.
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COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS.

IyoBrT- STUDY. Book keeping, Penmanship
vi I'M + Business Forms, Arithmetic, Short
IlOlFlL hand etc, thoroughly taught by
MAIL, at students home. Catalogue and trial
lesson cts BRYANT 81 STkAVTON, SO La
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BY AUNT SUSIE.

afraid of the girls out here Still. we do not like
bashful boys, for they are always blushlng and
they laugh and grin $50 says the bashful boy to
another) that 1t they going to bite them.
Now if YOU wish the girls not to look as if they
were going to run from you, you must not stand
andbacE your ears and inch off.
Would like to exchange "Drifting Away" or
other songs may have, for kathleen"
Correspondents solicited.
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Ina Belle Smith, Navasota, Texas.-Since last
wrote to you about month ago, have received SO
many letters that it almost Impossible to
swer them all. So, with your PERM sion, will
answer them as best can, through The Constitu-
ton. will start to school on the 9th of Eeptom-
Der. We have new schoo!house that cost S20,0 600,
and is four stories with the basement. Navasota
has oil mill, four grist mills, an ice factory,
compress, electric lights, waterworks, two rail-
roads, six warehouses, four livery stables, fair
ground, public park and many other public
buildings
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\ &@ @Si ~ vain every remedy has discovered
simple cure which he Will mail free to his fellow cut
terors ILL., REF rs Box 1880, Now lork Cty,NT.
Name this paper. octGwly
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Cress White, Banner, Idaho.-My papa takes the
dear old Constitution, and my brothers and have
been greatly benefited by your letters, and much
interested in the cousins. We thank you especial
ly for your piece on table etiquette l asked
mamma to cut it out and put it on the castor
boys would think of its contents when go to
the table. We live in pretty little valley on the
Payette railroad, sixty five miles northeast from
Boise City. great mountain range extending
east and west, rises several thousand feet above
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l PAY highest price for confederate money
and postage stamps. G. Barker, Atlanta, Ga.
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Bertha Maddox and Mollie Norton Ochlocknee,
Ga.-As we are spending the week together, we
thought would write you short letter. 1t has
rained every day this week. but it has not kept us
from having jolly old time. We attended a
birthday party Friday night, which we enjoyed
dances around here, some of them shake their
feet around pretty lively sometimes.
"Mr. Boy, afraid of the girls" you need not DO
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or gent 10 do writing and have papers and
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Leona Larry, Irene, La am country girl and
live on a farm. | think Aunt Susies letters
nice and interesting. / have been going to school,
but it has closed now. ] go to Sunday school every
Sunday and walk about mile and half. study
the Illustrated lesson paper, and never miss any
lesson. | have pets. had a little white kitten,
but gave il away. / would like for some of the
cousins TO write to me, either Age fourteen.
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Harvey Ewing, Jacksonville, Texas.-Hero Is
another little Texas boy asking place with the
other cousins. | always look for your letters to
see what you have thought of to help US this time
/ have The Youths Companion of 1891, that
wish to exchange for the book, "Black Beauty"
or "An Old Fashioned Girl"
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Nettie Stidham, Haughton, La.-Some of the
cousins write about the scenery on the mountains,
and others about their pets. / have no pets ex-
cept my two little nephews.
Will some of the cousins please send me the
song: DRIFTING Apart?" / will. in return send
either 'The Ship That Never Returned" "Long
Ago" or enable Clare
VIII ask the cousins question: "What
colonel nicknamed Light Horse Harry and
why?''
will close by soliciting some correspondents
between the ages Of fifteen and twenty, from
Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas.
The morning call., 1892-01-09

" ABDNS MD IL ItItI 10 ~
CECOND- HAND BAKER-wAGON NEARLY
- new; or > horses. 1907 Polk ST. jas u"
IVANTED-TO EXCHANGE LABGE FAMILY
" carriage for 1-horse brOugham aud harness. 81
South PARK. la7 3t@
> SECONDHAND EXPRESS-W AGONS AT "a
= Besle ST. A. ~. SANkORNE nOll
The morning call., 1892-01-09
A HEAP OF BLOODY BONES.
All That They Could Find of Corpora
Smith, Missing at RolI-Call.

All That They Could Find of Corporal
Smith, Missing at RoII-Call.
Just as the sun went down we came upon
the camp of the hOstiles and charged it with
out a halt. The Apaches were taken by
surprise, as we hoped to take them, and we
ran them for two miles up the narrow valley
before the bugle recalled US. When the roll
was called at the campfire Corporal Smith
of 3 Troop was missing.
A mile and half up the valley. as night
came down, soldier, wounded and uncOn-
scous, was lying at the mouth of a ravne
leading into the foothills.
When the night has fairly settl ed down
he slowly opens his eyes and looks up into
the blackness. Where Is he? What has
happened? His thoughts are confused, and
it is several minutes before he works out
the problem to his own satisfaction. All,
yes! He WAS pursuing with the column
when wounded Indian lifted himself up
and fred at him. He was hit in the shout
der. and IS he Teeled about in his saddle his
horse dashed eff to the right. He does not
remember falling, but here he is, and all
alone. His wound? He moves his arm and
the pain makes him gasp. However, a bull
let in the shoulder is not disabling wound.
1t is a dark night, but he can find his way
into camp. He
whats that"
He was about to make move to reach his
feet when there was a noise only a few yards
away at the entrance Of the ravine. Indi-
ans proving over the battlefield to knife
and scalp the unfortunate wOunded-to mu-
tilate those who died before the sun went
down. His heart almost stands still at the
thought. There it is again-a body pushing
its way through the bushes, unmindful of
the noise created. There Is heavy tread
tine rattle Of stones on the brink of the ra-
Vine and then
sniff! Sniff! Sniff
Now he knows what it is! Better for him
had the blOodthirSty paches come Skulking
back TO use knife and tomahawk! 1t is a
bear. huge. stumbling grizzly, whose scent
caught the door of blood as be woke from
his sleep in the dark rPcesses OF the ravlne.
Sniff! Sniff! Sniff
He is only a few feet away, but he does
not seem to see the soldier lying among the
low bushes. The light breeze is strong and
circles about, and the monster must wait to
eaten the scent again and trail it up He is
hungry. lie is veXed By the delay. He
growlS in menaciBg way and sharpens his
claws on the fat rocks, while the face of
the wounded man grows whittier yet and
his eyes close as if he feared 10 sight the
creature up there in the inky blackness.
"GrOwll Sniff Sniff"
Now the breeze drops and the scent is
again waited to the nose held high in the
air. Now the ugly head is lowered, the
eyes burn and glare their way through the
darkness, and the white-faced man hears
the heavy tread of the growing beast and
utterS prayer TO God
Three of US, who have been searching for
Corporal Smith since the sun came up, sit
on our horses and look down at n great
blood spot in the bushes There are a
shreds of bloody clothing. We gather up
the arms. turn with horror from the bloody
bones, to which feet are still attached, and
ride away to report.-Detroit Free Press.
The morning call., 1892-01-09
HER NARROW ESCAPE.
Young Heiress' EIopement Frustrated
by WatchfnI NIother.

A Young Heiress' EIopement Frustrated
by WatchfuI Mother.
Among the rich and noted guests whose
| presence gives distingue tone to one of the
most fashionable OF the South Side boule-
ward hotels, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
are refined and wealthy widow and her
charming 1S-year-old daughter. They re-
| Gently came from pretty town in an adj
! iacent State to enjoy the advantages Of
| metropolitan society during the gay winter
| season. And they have been popular in the
! best circles.
| Now, 1t so happened that young and
! ambitious doctor, with magnificent head
! of blonde hair, and position in society yet
TO attain, had been hopelessly Smitten with
the young heiress' charms, while she and
! her rich mamma were yet living at their
! pretty country seat The tender passion so
possessed him that, while he was eultivating
! his foppish little muStache and artistic
! bangs, he was neglecting his patients
when he was lucky enough to have any.
| Soon he followed his fair one to the city.
New Years night arrayed in his best suit
! of clothes and with his nice little mustache
| carefully waxed, he posted away to the aris-
| tOcratie hostelry aud sent his card TO the OBJ
| ject of his devotion. While the smitten doc
! tor waited in the parl0F he became aware of
| the fact that two other less favored suitors
|
Then the anxious young physician re-
solved upon aetion-prompt action. He ran
! his jeweled hand nervously through his long
! lcckS, and. pacing to aud fro, exclaimed:
by heaven, I'll do it! III ask my adored
! one this very night to fly with me to Mil
waukee." The daughter saw him in the
parlor for one little hour-so short, so
J sweet-apd the plan Of the elopement was
| completed.
On Saturday both doctor and heiress were
unusually busy with their own sweet af-
fairs. They said nothing but kept right on
Saving wood" as the phrase goes. That
night closed carriage drove up in front of
the hotel door. few minutes later the
| young lady. closely veiied and wrapped,
| came out and was handed into the vehicle
| by her lover.
The driver cracked his whip and away
! they ratified to the railway station on the
! West Side. IL was q dark, clammy night
| but In their quick beating hearts all was
| sunshine for little while. But, alasl "the
best-laid schemes O. mice and men gang aft
a-gley."
| The conductor of the Milwaukee train was
The morning call., 1892-01-09
HER FUNERAL PYRE.
When the Fire Was Put Ont They Only
Found a Shriveled Skeleton.

Thomas Reilly, his wife Catherine and
their two sons, Mike and Jim, went to live
in an cid frame structure on Avenue b New
York, twenty years ago The old building
stands there still. The Reilly family had
just come to this country from Ireland,
where they had been evicted from their lii
tie home.
Two weeks after they took up their abode
on Avenue B Thomas Reilly died, Although
she was nearly 60 years old at the death of
her husband the Widow Reilly struggled
bravely for the support of herself and her
two little sons.
The youngsters were hardy and courageous
and after few years they earned enough in
a bottlng factory to render it unnecessary
for their mother to toll any longer. Every
cent they earned they gave her, and when
they grew to manhood they pledged them
selves on New-year's day, some ten years
ago, never 10 get married during their
mothers life.
This pleased the old lady beyond meas
uTe, and she was as happy as queen. She
persistently refused TO leave the Old place
in which her husband had died. In that
house she, too, wished to die.
The smile Of the old woman was always
as CHEEKY as the sunshine for the little boys
and little girls who live in the vicinity of
the home of Granny" Reilly. The little
ones delighted TO earn God bless you. my
child" by going errauds for her and tying
in bow knot under her chin the broad blue
ribbon which she took pride In wearing Oh
her snowy, old-fashiUned cap.
About o'clock Saturday afternoon she
was seen by Mrs. Waters, who lives next
door to the Reilly residence, to lean out of
the window, evidently looking for n Young
Ster to run an Grand Mrs. Waters told
her there were no children around and
offered 10 bring her what she required.
Mrs. Reilly said she merely wanted some
lamp oil and that she would hobble down TO
Henry's, the grocer on the corner. This
she did and she returned to her home to get
her sons supper ready.
An hour afterWaTd little Oracle Waters,
one of Mrs. Reilly's pets, told her mother
she was going to see Granny" Reilly.
Little Oracle tried TO 60 upstairs at No. 245,
but she was half smOthered with smoke
that came rolling down from "Granny's"
room. The cries of the little girl attracted
the attention of Officer Jones, who was on
duty near by. He rushed through the suf-
locating smoke. Smashing open the Kitchen
door he found himself wrapped in flames.
ScOrched and nearly blinded, he went back
to the street and called to his station for
assistance. Six officers soon arrived and
the flames were quickly extinguiShod.
And old Granny Reilly was shTiyeied
skeleton with not shred of flesh on her
homes. That was all that Temained of the
faithful mother. An oil lamp lay on the
ground near her fiesnless fingers. A coffee
pot. some burned bread and meat lay Oh the
table close at hand.
The supper for Mike and Jim was about
to be prepared when the lamp overturned.
At Z o'clock Mike and Jim returned home
from work. They found their mother dead
in the house where their father bad died
twenty years before.
The morning call., 1892-01-09

hoarsely shouting, "All aboard p for the
last time, and the lovers were ensconSed in
red velvet seat when another voice sud
denly exclaimed, "COme home this minute
or III have this detective arrest you" II
vas the voice of the runaway heirps,'
mamma, and by her side stood ar officer
awaiting her word of command. There was
nothing to do, on the part Of the romantic
young couple but to accept the situation as
mPekly as possible.
lady, and she probably realizes the folly of
her attempted elopement by this time.