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Griggs courier., 1894-05-25

was not enough 70 give her even a
scant supply, and she moved into town
and took in sewing.
Time had healed tho sorrow in the
hearts of the town folk as it had GOV.
cred thegrave with green. As watched
her I thought of her sorrow and great
needs, and wondered how we could 90
soon forget her.
Isaw her enter q shop and come out
directly with disappointed look, tuck
ing something under her arm. In my
own arms carried box of cut 1iow-
ers which had purchased to place on
the grave of an only son whom I had
laid to rest just after that dreadful bat
tie of Bull Run.
Although it was raining very hard at
this time, wondering still more at her
mysterious way, followed. The last
place which she had entered was q
music store and I racked my brain to
find . reason for her doing 90. She
hurried along and presently she seemed
to come to the desired place, cautiously
looked around her and then entered.
When I came abreast of the place
saw that it wan a loan-shop Could it
have como to this? Was she so reduced
in circumstances that she found it nec-
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
A DESPERATE CHARGE.

IL Carried . Bold Confederate Brigade
Completely Through tho Union Army.
From nine in the morning till FIVE in
the afternoon this charging and coun.
ter-charging in the woods went on.
Brigade after brigade was knocked to
pieces. fell back. reformed and went in
again. There was O.. surprise every
half hour. The trees were not SO thick
as to hinder the progress of the troopa
They were thick enough, however, to
conceal movements. until often the
columns marching in different direc.
tions came front to front or front to
flank within half musket shot before
either discovered the other. Then vol.
leys were delivered and received at
short range. Masses of troops fell to
fighting until one or the other gave
way. This happened when Stuart, OF
the confederate side, marching to re.
licve Cheatham, came plump upon two
brigades of Van Cleve's division oi
union troops, and fought them muzzle
to muzzle. Bates brigade, led by the
present junior senator from Tennessee
made one Of the most remarkable
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
A Genuine Castle I'm tho Air.

It will be quite in order now for
every worlds fair to try to eclipse IN
point of novelty all of its predecessors.
Antwerp is in line with castle in the
air in the form of an immense balloon.
This will be anchored by strong ca bles,
and will float some hundreds of feet
above the ground. Elevators holding
about dozen persons will maize trips
consuming from six to eight minutes.
The gas bag is to be made Ut extra
heavy fabric, and every precaution is
to be taken to insure safety; Il neces.
sary precaution when one reflects that
the balloon must sustain a large car,
fashioned after the kiosk idea, as we'll
as the cables, of which there are up.
ward of thirty, and the entire elevator
machinery. 1t will unquestionxbly be
q novelty, but one that timid and con-
servative persons will be quite willing
to study and admire ut dista nre.-N.
Y. Ledger.
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
Flower Ghosts.

Any child who wishes to see the
ghost of flower has only to make q
very simple experiment. LIE. him go
up to cluster of blossoms and look
very intently for several u.inutes at
one side of it. Then very suddenly he
must turn his gaze upon the other side
of the same cluster. He will. at once
distinctly sec q faint and delicate cir.
Gle of colored light around this second
half of the cluster. The light is al
ways in the hue which is complement
tary to that of the flower. The specter
of the scarlet poppy is of greenish
white. The ghost of the primrose is
purple. The ghost of the blue fringed
gentian is of a pale gold tint. In these
circles of color the shapes of the flow.
er's petals are always family but cleass
" seen. St Louis Republic
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25

niversary of the day when the graves
OF our beloved heroes are strewn with
the flowers of q nations love should be
observed with all the fervor which a
patriotic and home-loving people can
command.
The observation of Decoration day
should not be left alone to the organi-
cations of old soldiers. A grateful ma
ton should make of the day an annual
occasion for the rehearsal of the. valor-
Gus deeds of ''the boys of '61;" citizens
should vie with each other in exempli.
tying their affection for them, and the
youth OF the land then, if at no other
time, should hear the history of their
achievements Apatriotic people must
not suffer the stigma that they.have al.
lowed the enthusiastic and hearty rec.
ognition of this occasion gradually to
fail.-Chicago Graphic.
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- ~. accompany him home, which
Mickie refused to do. - to do so would
take him several miles out of his way.
Neale begged him most earnestly to GO
with him, as he said he must pass the
Foul Fords that night, and then used
the strong expression that he would
rather go through hell fire than to do
what was before him. Mickie asked
him why he said he must pass the
Foul Fords when by gt;ing a little
to the east or to the west
he might easily avoid the place
altogether, but Neale persisted. and
the other left him at last, a good deal
surprised, for the circumstances of old
Neale's death and the promise he had
exacted tom his family were well
known throughout the country. Henry
Neale was never seen alive again.
Next morning a laboring man named
Adam Redpath. who was on his way
from Cattleshiels, the nearest farm, to
his daily work, digging sheep drains
on the moor. found him lying stone
dead at the Foul Fords. There was no
mark of violence on his body. He ap.
peared to have run for his life, for his
hat, coat. and waistcoat were lying
about one hundred yards distance on
the Greenlaw side of the Fords. His
death made a great stir in the neigh
borhood, and Mr.. Orr, the minister of
Longformacus, feeling that since the
sons death his pledge of secrecy was
removed. told what the father had re-
lated to him, which was as follows:
Neale said that just as he had
reached the Foul Fords on his return
from Grcenlaw, after attending his
sisters funeral, his attention was sud-
denly aroused by hearing the tramping
of horses behind him. Looking round
he saw large company of riders com.
ing down the moorland track two by
two. AS they approached what was
his horror to perceive that one of the
two foremost was the sister whom he
had seen that day laid in her grave!
Among other riders he recognized
many friends and relations long since
dead. When the last two horses came
up he saw that one horse was
ridden by q dark man whose
face he had never before seen. He
was leading the other horse, which,
though saddled and bridled, was rider
less, and on this horse the whole com.
pany tried to compel him to mount.
Neale struggled violently, he said, for
some time, and at last only purchased
his freedom by promising that the first
of his family who should cross the Foul
Fords should 20 instead of him.
Years have passed away and nothing
remains, says the writer, to tell of this
ghastly struggle but a tall, gray stone
set up by my great-grandfather, Mr..
Spottiswoode, TO mark the place.-Chi-
cago Times.
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Gold Mining In south America.

Statistics just published show that
gold mining in British Guiana is maxi
ing considerable progress. In 1892 the
quantity of gold exported was 1s1, ,425
ounces, and in 1898 the output was
$4,000 ounces. So far all the gold has
been obtained by alluvial washing. but
mining has now been started on quartz
reefs in the northwest district, on the
Barina, and also on the Demerara
rivers. About half the output for 1898
was obtained from one district, COM
prising the Potaro river, Conawarul.
and other tributaries of the Essequibo
river. which district alone gives en-
ployment to upward of 5000 men. The
government has sanctioned railway
to connect the Demerara and Esse-
quibo rivers, SO as to avoid the rapids
on the Fssequibo.-London Times
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sPooKs AND SPIRITS.

Tale of Ghostlv Band OF Riders ON the
Scottish Border.
At the beginning of the century q
blacksmith named John Neale lived
with his family in the secluded and
romantic village of Longformacus, on
the border OF Scotland. He was by
that time a man of middle age, with
sons approaching manhood. He was
known all through the country for his
dissolute habits and Incorporate Ian
guage. One day he went to Greenlaw,
about eight miles off, to attend the
funeral of a sister. fully intending to
be home in the course of the afternoon.
AS time wore on and nothing was seen
of him, his wife and family became
somewhat alarmed. and they sat up all
night to wait for him. In the early
hours of the morning a heavy weight
was heard to fall against the door of
the house, and opening to see what
was the matter Neale was discovered
lying in fainting ft on the threshold.
He was put to bed and means were used
for his recovery, but when conscious
ness returned he was raving mad, and
talked of such terrible things that his
family were Mortified. He continued
till next day in the same state, but at
length his senses came back, and he
desired that the minister might be sent
for, and when he came insisted on see-
ing him alone. After a long converse
tion with Mr.. Ord. Neale called his
family round his bed, and required from
his wife and children, in turn, q SOL
emn promise that none of them would
ever pass over that particular place on
the moorland track between Lonforma-
Gus and Greenlaw, known as the Foul
Fords. He assigned no reason for this
demand, and the required promise was
given. After this he spoke no more.
but died the same evening.
About ten years after his death his
son, Henry Neale, who had succeeded
to his business Of blacksmith and far.
fier, and had led as bad a life as his
father had done, had occasion to go to
Greenlaw. 1t was late in the after.
noon before he was ready to return
home. The last person who saw him
as he was leaving the little town was
John Miclkie, the Spottiswoode shep.
herd. Neale tried to persuade the lat
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25

movements. II plunged Horwars
through the union lines opposite it
and kept going until it crossed the
state road, for control of which both
armies were fighting. On it went over
the road, through more woods, and in
to a clear field, bringing up at Widow
Glenn's house, half mile in the rear
Of the whole union army. Rosecrans
had to pull two brigades out of the
battle and send them after Bates to
drive him back to where he belonged
In that wild, resistless charge the Ten
nessee brigadier had three horses shot
under him. American Tribune.
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
THE CRUSADES.

Permanent Results Which They Effected
Upon European Countries.
On Europe the results of the crusades
had a most marked influence. When
Godfrey left for the east he sold their
freedom to the burghers of Metz, and
many another seigneur after his time
pawned or sold his lambs, and gave inn
munities in return for money to the
towns. ST. Louis. after his experience
in the east, not only encouraged learn
ing, protecting the university of Paris
and collecting manuscripts in monas-
teries, but he remembered the Italian
communes of Syria, and fostered the
growth of the middle class in his cities
as a check on both barons and clergy.
The italian republics were the
first to be benefited by the con.
quest of Jerusalem, and the German
cities became free during the struggle
with the pope. In Italy and Spain
first, and 'afterward in France, the
philosophy and science of the Mos
lens and of Aristotle were studied.
Bologna and Salamanca became ia.
nous, and the obscure university OF
Oxford followed in their wake.
The art and culture Of Venice, Genoa
and Pisa were almost entirely of orien-
tai origin. The Syrian glass. the met
al work of Damascus, the pottery of
Persia, gave models for Italian manu-
factures. Cimabue owed his inspira-
tion to the school of Byzantine artists,
who came to Italy after the Norman
conquest of Constantinople in 1904 A.
d. The roots of the Renaissance are
found in the civilization of the cru.
sades.
The wise laws of the Latin kingdom
set an example, not vainly placed be-
fore great kings like st. Louis, Richard
Lion Heart or Edward !. The wider
thought, which resulted from a wider
knowledge of ancient philosophers. OF
varying Christian beliefs, of Moslem
simplicity and Buddhist tolerance, led
to the birth of that free spirit of in
quiry which rejected the discredited
authority of Rome.
Peter the Hermit preached uncon.
sciously far-distant reformation.
Frederick II. laid the foundations OF
European science. Surely, when we
recall the actual results of tins great
period of schooling in the east. we can
no longer regard the crusades as having
been merely futile efforts, which weak
ened and retarded the progress of the
west. Nor when we read in detail the
account of that great building up of
the kingdom which was founded by
valor and preserved so long by justice
and wisdom. can we regard its rulers
as ignorant fanatics or religious enthu.
siasts. The history of the kingdom OF
Jerusalem is the history of the birth OF
freedom for all Europe. burgh
| Review.
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essary to pawn articles to exist?
waited patiently until she appeared,
the ''something" under her shawl was
gone and she started to retrace her
steps homeward.
l did not follow farther, but resolved
that would not sleep that night until
I knew just how Johns wife was
situated. After changing my wet gar
ments for dry apparel and having a cup
of tea, started for her home
When I reached the door of her
apartment at the end of a long, dimly-
lighted hall, heard her running the
machine and singing as she worked.
was surprised at this, for with poverty
l had always coupled discomfort.
She answered my knock by opening
the door and saying how surprised she
was to see me standing there. We
talked OF many interesting subjects,
she telling me IF the children and her
work and of her many, many struggles
with poverty and doctors and drug
bills. Naturally our conversation turned
to the subject of Decoration day as the
morrow had been christened, aud smil-
ing such q sweet, calm smile, she
arose and going to the sink at the 9TH
er end of the room brought from it q
box filled with flowers, which she had
bought to place on Johns grave.
She told me then, with her eyes filed
with tears. she knew her John was a
noble soldier and he SO dearly loved
flowers she could not think of his grave
with but flag to mark it and SO she
had managed to buy some for it. The
children would go with her earlv on
the morrow and they would spend an
hour or two with him.
''She had managed to buy some"
Yes, there was the secret of her walk
in the storm and her mysterious disap-
pearance into the place of the ''three
balls" l said nothing tu her of what
I intended, but silently admired such
deep devotion. saw his grave next
day literally covered with the fragrant
blossoms
That evening friend called at the
place of ''three balls" and upon inquiry
found that it was Johns old, loved
flute that she had not pawned, as she
was ignorant of the practice but had
sold.
He purchased the same at my request
and we sent it, together with a purse
well filled with money collected by the
army boys. to Johns wife. making it
indeed a day of decoration to those
lonely hearts.-Chicago News.
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25

where lived in the southern part of
Illinois.
Itwas in the eos and for some years
tho towns around us had been keeping
what you now call Memorial day, and
rsone one suggested that we. too. raise
a email Tag and scatter flowers on the
graves of our soldier boys once a year.
- that we would show to all that our
boys in blue and our boys in gray were
not forgotten, and the SOth of May was
eee apart for that work of love.
It was the night before the S0th that
I saw her walking along through the
rain, seemingly utterly regardless of
the storm which swept around her.
Sae had oeither umbrella nor cloak to
protect her slim form from the watery
esenents. She wore thin calico dress
: and a well-worn shawl; her head was
covered by an untrimmed straw hat
She was neat and clean. knew some
what Of her circumstances and SO won
saered at her being away from home at
dusk.
A number of years before she and
John, her husband, good, honest John
Snail, had begun their welded life in
u little, vine-covered cottage just on
the outskirts of our town.
John worked in the town-a splendid
'sneehanic they said he was-a manly.
looking fellow. tall. broad-shouldered,
with wavy hair and dark brown eyes.
He made comfortable living and they
wero very happy. When the oldes,
child was six and the youngest baby
in arms that great ''call to arms" for 9
n1tion's safety came, and John-wha,
could John do but respond?
A company was organized in our lit
tie town and John enlisted. One day
with banners flying, and the beat OF
drum and noise of fife resoundina
through the streets as if it were a gals
day instead of q day of gloom and fear
they marched away.
remember it plainly. as if it were
bat yesterday, seeing John stoop owe,
tho baby in her arms, as il loath t<
leave them, kiss the tiny face and hand.
over aud over again.
He fought and fell, q captain amous
our boys, and when we'll enough they
aeut him home, only for the loved one.
there to SEQ how intensely he suffered
Tho journey was too much for him
Uuc0nscious when he arrived, he re
W1ined SO until he lifted up his eyes il
tlsat land where battle strife and bea
OF martial drum are never known an,
sa0ldiers' graves arc never dug. W.
buried him-I say we because ou
whole town honored our fallen cap
tzia, and universal was the sorrow ex
Uressed for his wife and babies.
There was q little money left, an
Mary kept her place and raised gardel
Asta6 to SELL As years rolled by tina
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
AS BY A MIRACLE.

Showing How Presence of Mind Can se-
cure Absence OF Bodies.
The opera house was crowded. The
curtain had gone down hastily in the
middle of the second act of the musical
extravaganza, and the audience. after
q slight buzz of surprise and impa-
tience, sat waiting for it to rise again.
Something had happened.
A fire had broken out in the prop
erty room.
With the feeble means at their COM
mand the stage attendants tried in
vain to extinguish it.
The flames licked up the combustible
materials strewn carelessly about and
began to eat their way upward. Dense
volumes of smoke obstructed the ef-
forts of the hastily-improvised fire
brigade, and rose aloft through the
unprotected regions back of the stage.
The terrible truth could be kept from
the audience only few moments
longer. The fire was beyond control.
Something must be done.
Outwardly calm, but with a face
whose ghastly paleness mocked the
mechanical smile it wore, the leading
tenor stepped in front of the curtain.
There are times when the soul OF
man, moved by an intuition whose
lightning flash infinitely transcends
the swiftest processes of thought, leaps
instantly and unerringly to the solu-
tion of some gigantic problem before
whose sudden awful and inevitable
front the plodding faculties of reason
stand appalled, and helpless.
In the life Of this man the supreme
moment had come.
The problem confronted him, and he
was equal to it.
The building must be emptied with
all speed, but without the dreadful
knowledge that life and death were in.
volved. There must be no maddened
rush of frenzied humanity, blocking
the doors and barring its own way OF
I escape.
There was only one thing to be done.
Assuming the easy attitude of ia
vorite singer in the act of responding
to a second encore, the leading tenor
unfolded piece of sheet music and
spoke in q low tone to the leader OF
the orchestra:
prof. Gibbons" he said, ''oblige me
by playing Two Little Girls in Blue 2"
Chicago Tribune.
Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
PATRIOTIC OBSERVATION.

The Duty and Privilege Of . Loving and
Grateful People.
At this season there should be no III.
10y in the golden tribute of our country
to the soldiers. Their memory should
be cherished, their bravery extolled
and their examples emulated. It is inn
possible to value too highly their
deeds on southern battle fields, nor to
speak too emphatically of their patri-
otic motives The incubation of tho
lessons Of patriotism is as much a duty
as the defense of the country. The an.
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"A young Lake BENTON carnente,

"A young Lake Benton carpenter,
recently married. described the dear
girls dress as follows: "It has plain
sides, with base around the bottom,
crown molding above, dormer window
sleeves running into the gable. with a
scroll work of velvet around the neck d"
Minneapolis Journal
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~ ,ZSS.xM@:
! ! ! :: ! !:
zNNy m der sleeps, NJ
kNZHNN}S3iN| HNIIl To wake at breal
..eNs ,Xe04td, y. |H ing guns glad
In echoes die away:
mo more to hear the bugle note
Borne on the waking breeze.
= Or SEQ the smoke from campdres noat
Above the arching trees;
No more to breathe the incense sweet
From soldiers homely fare. ~
As busy hands and hurried feet
The morning meal prepare:
No more the breakfast call to hat
With lnerry Quip and jest
Or haste to greet the tardy mail
From those he 10 cd tho best:
No more to see the banner bright
Its lovely folds unfuri
Against the sky's soft amber light
Ana CLOUDS OF gOlo ana pearl;
No moro At mounting Of the guard
To take his place in ranks,
Or reap the morn-relief's reward
The weary sentry's thanks:
&, No moro to pass the long, long day
On lonely picket post
Where oft the bushes, far away,
Seem an advancing host:
No moro to speed the weary hours
With dreams DER fragrant pipe.
>0r plucking dear. familiar flowers
Or luscious berries ripe:
No more the camp fires genial glow
At teventide to seek,
Where tales Of love and joy and WOO
The laugh or tear bespeak:
OR as the blackened brierwood bowl
Its cheering vapor breathes.
To see sweet visions gently roll
Along the feecy wreaths.
He sleeps, the soldier sleeps, NO moro
To waken to the fray.
Tho cannon's loud defiant roar,
The bugle's blatant bray,
The shout Of sentries rushing in,
The long roll OF tho drum,
Tho shells wild scream and horrid din,
The bullets deadly hum.
Tho battle line. the cleaning steel,
Tho volley's blinding flash,
ThechaFga. the stricken comrades reel,
The veageful forward dash,
The grandeur Of the serried rank,
Az DER the field 1t sweeps,
The struggle on the breastworks' bank
For, lol The soldier sleeps.
Sweet be his sleep. for all he had
His lfe-be freely gave
That DER land with peace made glad
The dag he loved might wave:
And while his grave the chaplet bears
Above its lowly sod,
the crown Of duty done he wears
Before the throne OF God
Thomas Calver. in Once q Week.
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III l S rain Y
n Ugh t an d
talkin ng of
DecOra alton
day reminds
me of an in
cident of our
first celebra-
ton in the
The morning news., 1894-05-10

Miss Annie T Conner he leaves in trust for
the use OF Allan Conner Barnett minor. 5000
in bonds OF the state OF Georgia. To Emory
college he leaves fifty shares Of capital stock
in the Augusta and Savannah railroad and
TWENTY-FIVE shares OF capital stock Of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Campauy.
Young L. G.. Harris institute in Towns
county Georgia, gets fifty shares OF capital
stock Of the Atlanta and West Point railroad
and twenty-five snares Of capital stock of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
Other beQuests are as follows: Mrs.
Mary Ann Swift, only surviving sister,
g 900, Mrs. Robert L. Hampton 8 900,
Miss Annie T. Conner q. 900 William Carter
colored servant, 800. Oliver Carter. colored,
servant 800. American Bible Society OF New
York 5000. American Sunday School Union
OF Philadelphia 5000, American Tract So
ciety OF New York a 900, Foreign Mission So
ciety, Methodist Episcopal church South
5000. Church Extension Society, Methodist
Episcopal church South 5000 Sunday School
Society Of North Georgia conference 5000
Church Extension Society Of North Georgia
conference $1,000 Widows and Orphans So
ciety Of the North Georgia conference 50 900,
Preachers Society Of the North Georgia con-
ference - OO0 fund for special relief North
Georgia conference 81 600, Emory college
5000 Young Harris institute s. 00) Rev. c. c.
spence gold watch and cuff buttons The
will also directs the sale Of certain properties
the proceeds OF which are to be devoted to
the beQuests Of the will.