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" ' / ' ...,*•• ''. i ,' .. ** ' .,;' ■ f~- ( .. *“ ' ' ' .5 • ;i % ■'•' j i. ■• ■ > •' , - -—■ " . . ' ' • * .*• • inrartgi nn ftlVH 1 1 z:.. .. - -T' •> .1 •• - f f ■ r ■»’• «■ «W» VOL. VUL COMPETITION BOUNCED. PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS! WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, 10 PIECES, $42.50. A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $18.00 CF* EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITURE. ^3 COOKING STOVES AT ALL PRICES. PADGETT’S FlfMXlfVRK AND STOVE HOUSE, 1110 and 1112 BROAD STREET - - - _ AUGUSTA, GA. fyRefer yon to the Editor of tht« paper. BE FORGOT. * Importer of and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fine Cigars, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Gin, Ale, Porter, Ac. 637 and 639 BROAD STREET - - AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. CF“ Country orders accompanied with the cash promptly attended to. Yu lay Tf iM Yoar FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISH ING GOODS, BUT I. L. STANSELL, 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Can get away with them all in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS for this Fall and Winter in the rcry Latest Styles and at Prices that astonish everybody that looks at'them. He means to outsell them all. Give him a trial and you will go home the beet pleased man in the State. (7* Don’t forget|the place. I. I_i. BT JOISTS ELL, 746 BROAD STREET’, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO ALL. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINE OF GOODS. vJOHlSr BE. Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 729 Broad Street, Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga. GRANDYS & ZORN, ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER. Contractors and Buildcis, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds l>er and Building Material. We are preparer! to take contracts or give mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills ai of Luin- esti- at are “Grandvs,” 8. C., postoffice Windsor, 8. G. We also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sta., Augnsta, Ga.. all kinds of material as above stated. All orders sent to cither place will be promptly attended to. We are, respectfullv, GRANDYS A ZORN. .1 us. W. Turley’s SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO SENSIBLE PEOPLE. DIR, <3- O O L S. kocK of Goods at the smallest profits First determined dispose of my GRAND DISPLAY OF FALL AND WINTER IMPORTATIONS OF DRESS GOODS!! Embfacing the verv Latest Novelties in Fabric Colors, and intermixtures of colorings of the most pronounced and RELIABLE STYLES AT POPULAR PRICES, In Plaids, Brocades, and Solid Colors, irera 10 cents per yard up to the fittest. lylTIE NEWEST SHADES IN SILKS AND SATINS..*! A handsome line of Velvets and Velveteens, comprising all the new and pretty shades from 50 cents to the finest Silk Velvet. An elegant line of Black and Colored Gros Grain Silks from 50 cents yard up to the finest quality; also a complete stock of Black and r ‘- R. D. Cashmeres, a celebrated make. per Colored Jackets, Ulaterettea, Peliaea, New Markets, Circulars, Jerseys. Handsome Jackets from $2.25 up to $15.00. “c, 76c. tuare, $1 and Shoulder Shawls, 25c, 85c, 50c, 76c. Large Shawls, 2 yards soua $1.50 each. Large Wool Shawls, black and colored, $2, $3, $3.50. Ladies’ Cloth and Flannel Skirts, 60c. to $2 each. White Blankets, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00 to $10.00 per pair. In our Woolen Department can be found one of the largest as well as the best assortments of Kentucky Jeans, Kersevs, Cashmeres, RepellauU, Water Proofs, Diagonals, Broadcloths, Ac., all at bottom prices. Plain Rea and White Flannels from 15c. per yard up. An extra good quality in Red Twilled at 25c, 35c, 40c. and 60c. Opera O'. / ’V >» v ’ v m m* r - - " BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1884, Bereft. Touch with thy vlrfln Up these flowers; then twlae Then In thjr hair aad lay them oa thy. brtsit. amonp them thou wilt weave thk heart of mine. the her And near thine own it lovinflr may reel. •hall her Thus, for an hear, my bliss shall be supremet And, dreaming la tby smile, 1 may forte* That as these flowers fade to ends my drsam. Bo fades my hope, and thou hast ao regret-* Y» blossoms pure! return her stainless hiss; Your fragrant breath give to her sweeter Her haughty soul entrance till radiant biles aghtj Kevesls*tba love-look In her joyful ays ■ »d O cruel maid I cold art thou as one dead Witb whom my love eternal Hath urned. Tbou vanished start whoso light my spirit led. . . But not a spark ef all Its warmth returned. Borne day. peioltsu;oc. In dreamt thou wilt raJ cs<l I A tweet remembrance ef my lore and we, And any, “1 waa bis quaes aad hi mj t brail, I .. My knightly lover in the long ego. These parting flowers—then but a faded 1 wreath— The emblem of my withered heart will bey Their icrfume sad Its passion lost In dsath. Gone liks the vision* I have dreamed of thee. FOB H18 COUNTRY. They woa4eru«l. in that qniet nr village, could ipava hid i countr quiet little how Edward Dorranoo family and ge straight forward hhto the midst of deadlv bat tle, aad they wondered how Rachel could Wt him go. Edward waa twenty-eight years of age; a strong, healthy, intolligeat, baadeome man; a hatter by trade, with aid ad y work, and sure of good wages. Hia wife, Rschel, was two years younger; and everything as a woman that her husband waa as a man. Before her marriage she had haen the life of the social circle ia whieh •he moved; no gathering for haalthful amusement could be thought perfect that had not her for one of its directors. And their marriage did not remove them from society. Of course, they found not so much time to devote to lighter affaira; but the more weighty affaire—especially everything that had to do with the re ligious society witb which they wor shipped—never suffered because of their absence. Their union had been blessed with two children—a boy and a girl—Eddie, aged five, and little Ella, aged throe- two beautiful, bright-faced, golden- haired, laughter-loving children, be loved by alL The war had been going on a year when Edward Dorrance had fully coma to tho conclusion that be ought to go, He was a man of deep and strong con- victiona, and when his mind had beea once made up, nothing less than a stroke of Providence could turn him from it ‘'Rachel," he aaid to his wife, as they eat aloae late in the evening “snppoee I should live to be an old When the news ehel oould find Bo obtained tho paper account At Ike end of six came from her hi croud and "My darling;'' 1 he wrMa, Joy. And yet, alaa! how many others must find Misery inMeed of joy. • I hare been promoted aguin. I am now colonel of my regimaefl, and it ia one of the very beet m the army. Aad I am proud to know th flhl have the credit ef having done much foWardi bringing II to ita present high standard of ex cellence. Colonel Tflfiey -died last week In hoepltal at Harrisburg. Oh, how f pity his famllyl*' The dsyt and the ‘weeks pussed on' into hise»rr, as hefora, uetU at length yak quaked with rumors ed a battle more terrible to its results of mortality than any Which had preoedsd Rachel heard the ruvrs In the air, as she sat In bar quiet little drawing room, but she did not, as before, hasten away for th# paper. Something whis pered to her of dark and dismal fore bodings. She felt as she had never felt before. Heretofore she had beea eager to as sure herself of her hatband's safety, but now the feellag earn* to her that ■be did not dare to knim. But little Eddie wan moved by no such dark foreboding. ‘ When he heard tbeaf talking of a gnat hauls, la which be knew his papa must have taken a part, he ran away to the post-office where there was a stand for the sale of papers and per iodicals, and he got a paper, telling the man. “Mamwis will pay you for it." And away ha went to his home. "Mamma! Mammal Another big bat- in her music pupils, Rachel had found it lor her interest to employ a sc employ a servant; aad that servant answered the sum- mean at the door; and presently she name in and reported that a soldier, s negro, was at tne door asking for food, asm for shelter, aad rest for the night Be had beea told, he said, that he would be anre to find It at the homo of the widow of hia old oolonel "What!—a man of Edward’s regi- mentf" "So be says.” ‘Then bring him in. No—I will go myself.” And she took tho lamp and went into the front hall, whpre the ap plicant stood. He was a colored man —uttarly black—habited in a soldier’s garb, appeared neat and clean, and of pleasant, honest dotfntfcnance. 7 ~ ^ T r Something in his look appealed to her woman’s sympathy, and captured her atoeee. She led him late Hie room where Ihey had been sitting, and motioned him to a east Hia head was of goodly shape, though covered by a thick mat of oloae-eurllng wool, while his face, by far the greater part of it—was like wise ornamented. She had never teen a woolly beard so thick and so heavy. "Ah.” he said, slowly shaking his head, "dey tole me ’f I could find m&s’r colonel’s widder I’d find friends, suah. Yaas’m I wer’ de colonel’s cook. Didn’t he obber write to yer ’bout old Pompeyf Oh, when he fell!" Rachel wiped her eyes and presently asked the poor man if he was hungry. He answered her that he could not tell how hungry he really waa; whereu A Crushed Pudet It was on a Cohey Island boat. Ihn crowd on the steamer would sbod on lost amid the wild dissipations of West Brighton. The stately elephant wan already visible. Wild straina af al leged mnsio smote the ears of tha sus ceptible passengers as a dim forealud- awing of the pleasures to oome. Among the passengers was a faint yonng doda with an imperceptible outline and a still more imperceptible moustache, and a marvelous collar, beneath which he seemed to be constantly sinking. He polled himself up from Its depths, however, and resened himself from ex termination. He had been discussing a soft-shell crab W being i d Wt ’particularly ajpdrd- ’ priate to bia tender being. A atow still lingered on his plate, and ha waa toying with hia fork in a ferent manner, when a syl an, wonderonaly olad robes, flitted before him him to remain, with the ,Ji*»der, wt,. Whan you fret] 'WMi you not to that mudo U i jam and crab’s poised between his taper fingers. produced upo was the impression prod ils elaw Such upon the dude by this apparition that ho allow ed the claw to fall re&l-haavy-don’t-ye- know on the plate, while lie himself torned to the individual behind the counter. “Deuced pwetty girl," he llaped, his voice sounding like the summer wind amongjhe trees; “dayvillish pwetty my man? I’11 give topeou iteto tha we lost a good man j girl. Who is she, my you a nickle if you tell me. ’Pou me word, I will, and the expense." The individual addressed, however, with a remarkable disregard for busi- doclineu somewhat in now nungry ne reauy waa; whereupon , ness enterprise, declined somewhat In- sho got op and went out into the kit- dignantly to bo interviewed, leaving chen; and as she opened the door lead- the dude to depart. That parody on tie. Read to us abauLpapa.’ With tremMtog hands, she took tha sheet, and opened it She saw the wilderness of flaming head lines, and she altoWed her eyas to follow them down. A few seconds, aad than, witb a low stifled cry. and a catching of her hand over her heart, she tot the paper fall and sank senseless npoa the floor. Eddie caught up the sheet, and looked where his mother’s ays had rested. Ha had learned to read easy words, aad those bold head-lines he oould make oat every one. Presently, two-thirds af the way down, ha found it “Colonel Edward Dorrance among tha killed.” man, what shall I tall my children. story of a battle? If I should tall them that I stayed at home, while others did the fighting, what should I give as my reason? Ah, they would not ask. They would shriuk away, shamefaced and pitiful; and I can fancy their saying to themselves: “Poor f randpa! I won't ask him what made im afraid.’ Darling, think how I An extra Flannels in all ahadeb • also Basket Flannels,' in the new Fall colors. Dark, Gray and Bine Gray Skirt Flannels. Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels from the lowest price* up to the very heaviest quality Thousands of dote ns Ladir*’ to the finest, and fresh stock The South Carolina Seamless Hosiery, in Men’s Half Hose, New Fall Mix tures' also Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's, ia Fall colors. up to the very heaviest quality. >f dozens Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's Fancy Hose at 10c. up iar A visit of inspection is desired. No tro JAMES W. TURLEY, SOS No trouble to show v goods. St., Awgwate, Ca. CUYILASS IS AHEAD II FOLITCS, -BUT WE LEAD IN- 'OUR MOTTO, like bis. is “Reform”—Old High Prices mast get out of the -wav and give wav to the New Low Prices. We bay for Cash, hence are able to rget'the Bottom, as our Prices will prove. Read and wonder. SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET WASHSTAND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS. This is what Cash docs. We have Suites from this flip to $800. We are now fitting on two Hotels, who bought as cheap from as as they could bay from the factories, and a little cheaper. We defy all competition Or All goods packed and shipped free of charge. Call bnv ana i see as. have talked during the past yoar; how I have nrgod others to enlist; and how I have proclaimed the eacredness of our cauae. And now, my precious, 1 am offered a company, it 1 will ga Charles Weston, and George Ambroee, and Walter Jacob* are going—all mar ried. and two of them lav* children. Rachel, what eay yon?" •■First, Edward, tall me yonr own deepest wish.” “Can you seriously aakP I think I should never hold np my head again if I should hold back.” Rachel swallowed the big Inmp in her fhroat; she kept beck the naiag tears, and finally, with her arms around his neek, and her head pillowed npoa hie bosom, she hoarsely whis pered; "Darling, I will not be a coward. Go, and may the God of battles ba merciful” In Just on* week from that time Ed ward Dorrance was in full uniform, with his captain's commission In his pocket People gaxed in surprise. It seemed to them strange and unnatural He was so necessary to tha life of tha vil lage, and his little family was such s picture of comfort and happiness What need was there? There wer* enough without him. How oould Racbdl endure it? How they pitied her! how they pitied her! But he was going, and Rachel smiled when she last held his hand and eheerily bade him Godspeed. They saw all that, bat they did not see her afterwards, alone to tiM cham ber, upon her bended koeaa by ner bed side, sobbing and praying, and weep ing, as though her heart was breaking. Ah, they would have pitied her then had they seen, and they would have pitied with cause. Bat she rose bravely after a time, and when the first ordeal was passed ■he resumed her household dntiea, and ■ought relief from painful thought by mingling in society, and giving her aid wherever it oould be of benefit as of old. At length came word of a battle to which she knew her husband's regi ment was engaged. She hastened tor tne newspaper, eager for the true in telligcnoe. That narm had befallen Edward did not enter her mind. She found the paper and carried it home. Little Eddie was old enough to understand and possessed understand ing enough to be anxious for news of papa. "Oh, Eddie! Eddie! Papa is a t >rl There has been n great battle. laten: ‘Captain Edward Dorrance, by his own personal bravery, and marvel lous daring, saved Hnngerman’s Divi sion from rent, and so, in fact, saved the day for ns.’ And bar* is tha leaf Una: ‘He was made a major on tha field.’ Alas! bow many brave man toll” ' ■ "Bat papa ia safe?” "Yea, papa ia safe.” ‘Oh, lam so glad! Da ‘Colonel killed.” For days aad weeks Rachel Dorrance lay havering between life and death. Bat far bar children, aha would here given an and pasted ever to Join bar Easbana; but th* thought of her little left all aloae to ball is tor their weak young liras turned th* scale, and ■he lived. Whan the warm ■nrtoMhB*Awl rfil trees near her door, her ayes brighten ed. her face took on soss*thing of its eld color, and she want one* more about the duties of a mother. Bat she waa broken to spirit; marks of age had oome upon her lovely face, and th* am lies war* gone to return no more—so she felt la Ear heart of hearts. She had thought at first that she should aarar care more for Ufe, bat as time passed on, and the first terrible agony gave place to settled melancholy, and that, ia tarn, to true Christian res ignation, based upon Christian faith and promise -after this, she entered society one* more, giving herself, with every energy of body and spirit, to tha work of earing for other widows and mors unfortunate than her- f, for her hatband had owned tha at pretty cottage la which they had lived, beside* nearly two seres of land around it, and Edward had lati nearly five hundred pounds in tha bank whan ha want away. Nor was this all She had not a par ticle of trouble in obtaining a generous i to ^Mch ing to the hall, the old dog, Princo. a beautiful Englith tpaniel which Ed ward Dorrance had purchased at a pup when hia ton was born, eight years be fore, came bounding into the room. He saw tho negro soldier, gave a sharp snapping yelp, and Eddie called to him to “lie down." Bat the dog did not obey. He drew nearer to the stranger, and presently with a cry that was almost human—a cry of Joy and jubilation—a cry not to be mistaken—he leaped upon the man, fairly clasping his forelegs or arms round his neck, lapping, and kissing, and panting and struggling to get nearer and nearer, like one possessed. Eddie stamped his foot and shouted with a vigor of authority that ought to have quieted the brute at once; little Ella cried with a terrible fear that old Prince would eat the poor black man up; while Rachel having heard the frightful racket, had come in from the kitchen to see what In the world the matter could be. She knew that old Prince was a fastidious dog, and per haps he was trying to eject the dark- skinned invader. depart. That pflrody youth roamed about the lower deck for fully thirty seconda, when he espied tho object of his search seated with an-- other girl just before him. "Ha! ha!" said he, "here’a look," and drawing a stool close to tha femi nine couple ho bestowed his imperoep- tible outside upon it and oast lan guishing glances at the object of his particular admiration. His glee reach ed & climax when the maiden smiled •eraphically upou him. It was nd i timid smile, but an open, undeniable salutation. She was evidently pleased to see him, and his soul rejoiced with^ in him. “Off to Coney, alone?" he said, with an ere to business. i “Yes, sir," said the damsel with a bewitching laugh. “No one will ran away with me, I hope." The dude looked as though he would have liked to soar far above terree tial nuisances. Coney Island elephants^ and such vanities, with the yonng girl but he restrained his ardor and only sighed, omitting a sound like tho hav ing of insects among the marshes, i think 1 have seen you wandered on imagination the dear old mother, was her accustomed place if bar life depended a heel” of that stockl Father waa reading Just as I ha' times. My all there as nsnal nod tha sal and paired batore-tim tore *1 branches, aad tha bosk law at h hot aim rolled from ita Blade tad tared ambare hare aad ttMnt seen It do ovi ■boats of th* oat, the harry of glowin U - J DCIOrt of unsightly th* activity af progress of tk* th* overturning smoke aad all the oitemant aad effort la ware as I had ■-&S was aot there to help, and omabl* longfeg to gn and to tha dear old aaanaa aan What would I have gtoan ~feu tito poor privllaga af bornlM mgr Anfftotlt a futile effort to sat apthaMtoS **• dogs? "—■ * ‘ ™«i Bow Ii I danced tor Jay oven to bone m from hrmthing tk* swahsf f| have bean onto second to kato have had m elker Mnd np mm MBflNtiA her anxlely In And e«$ wMNr I wnfl shamming. Btonoi Ihtoftototo total ■‘-■fr** —wm> 0*»4m. ■j ■-? < r oh aha as- pension; in addition tablished herself as a teacher of mnsio, whence, in th* coarse of a few months. lOrseU BOWLES & CO., avovsta, she derived enough to support and children; so that when, as tha rslne of real estate neatly Increased in the village, a wealthy man offered her a large sum for a portlet of her land, the weald net sail She had no need of tha money, and siaoe her son’s father had left it, to that son should It descend intact when she had done with It Many of the soldiers—both officers and privates—of her hasband’a regi ment called upon her; and they never tired of sounding his praises. The ad jutant of the regiment—he who waa Adjutant at the time of tha battle— called, and gar* her more particulars than she had before rooaivad; for ho had been with the advancing column, and close by his colonel’s sink Said he: "We should hare had th* body em balmed aad sent home, had the thing been poaaiM*; bat he was killed by the bursting of a shall—one of tha largest aad most destructive shells I ever saw. We were hand-to-hand with the enemy at the time, and I am vary sore that the same missile that killed th* oolonel killed more than on# of their own num ber. He was Bat I will not tell you any more. "Yes, yes—tell me all I would rather know. I have wondered why his body oould not have been embalmed and tent home to me." And then he told her that the shell had literally torn her husband to pieces. They could only gather up the poor mangled mas* and consign it to a grave by itself, which they nad carefully marked. The days and the weeks and tho months paaaad on, until three years had gone siaoe that dreadful day on which her hatband bad fallen on the field of battle, and Rachel sat to her little parlor, with her children by her side, reading to them the glorious new of the closing of the waa. Eddie had now grown w* 1 e bnst boy of #ip K “ ***' la had v*n»,- happened. The dog. in hit frantic ef forts to get at tho face of the strange guest, had got his paws entangled in the matted wool and presently—lo and behold!—tho whole woolly moss—from bead, cheeks, and lips—camo sway, leaving oxpoeod to view a wealth of golden-brown, curling, glossy locks; cheeks white and smooth, with only a neatly-trimmed, handsome moustache upon the upper lip; and tho first tiling she heard was a startling cry from Ed die: "Oh, papa, paps, papa! You aro my paps! You are! you are!’’ And then Rachel saw a pair of strong arms fly swiftly around her boy; saw him dragn dose upon tho soldier’s bosom, and heard smothered sound^ of kissing and blessing. The next few minutes we will leave to the reader’s imagination. It .was Edward Dorrance, in his own proper person, alive and well. “Pardon me, darling,” he said, after he bad washed hia face—a face as fair and as handsome as ever—Rachel thought it a thousand time handsomer —"pardon me. I did not assume this disguise in sport—far from it. I shrank from the wild turmoil and uncomfort- abh> interruptions that would inevit ably result from my sudden and un heralded appearance among old friends, after having been thought dead so long. "Furthermore, I hade misty idea of allowing tho truth to break upon you gradually; bat tho keen perceptions of Old Prince dished that part of it. And yet, my preciona, I do believe if 1 had appeared at yonr door aa I am at this moment, the shock would have beea severe. The comical manner of my revealment took away the shock, and orm for a min ate or so. "Yon have," waa the answer. “Ah, you remember me, do you? O, bliss." ecstaticaUv rejoined th* dud*. “You bet Ido," was the answer. ! "Don’t you recollect it is 1 who bring round your Sunday oollar and yonr one pair of cuffs every Saturday morn ing. And, sir, mother says she shan’t allow you to have those articles next week unless you pay her tha sight cents you’ve been owing her for a fort night.'’ There was silence, and the dnde fell j back overwhelmed. The big elephant was blurred from hia sight, aad the gleaming houses ou the island lost i their interest for him, and he sighed j when at last he saw tha he artless dam sel masticating a toothsome Frankfort sausage between two crusty pieoes of bread and taking her place on a mer- ry-go-round. whaa wsir to y'pBlow was woi 1 ImmI imllrt fiff moMmt la \ ao Iwas lady of tha kowa was kind few* oftan whan aka feoad am waaptom ■trok *4 my hair ao Uka mj ia vaaraagoM. Iw 1 Th* hoars alas to stops* baton tha soom ware hoars of good-by* was said to my toa hall t Th* hall tappad, aad I was an th* warn Spaad was far too alow, aad I to- t felt that 1 sauM ga tofltot M I aflMUta! The End of Two Monster Ships, brought It to yon pleasantly.” And Rachel a agreed with him. In telling the storr of that terrible day, when it was believed that he had been killed, he said that tome other man, battered oat of all shape or rec ognition by the bursting of a shell had been mistaken for him. He had on that occasion advanced a considerable distance beyond tho spot where the shell had exploded, suppos ing that his men were behind him. He Sf upon their ranks witb irigl effect, and so eager and determined was he that he never thought of look ing round until he was directly under the muzzles of the enemy’s guns; then he turned, and found not a man of his regiment in sight. He was captured and sent to the en emy’s rear, and on the next morning, with many others, he was lent away to a dismal prison, where he had been kept through the long and weary months and years that had since passed He bad written several letters, had For a few days there will ba soom life and activity in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for a large number of workman have already been engaged to destroy two balks known at tha Colossus and Java. For the past twenty years these two uncompleted vessels hare never been moved from the ways on which they were originally bailt, sad the very timbers on which they Ue are almost rotten from long exposure. Th* Java and Colossus have always attract ed a great deal of stfontion from visit ors, and from their battered appear ance many people supposed that the two ships must have been through some frightful naval battles. The Colossus was to be a double tnr- retod monitor carrying four fifteen inch guns. She was designed by Ben jamin Delano, one of tho most skillful naval constructors of his day. Two millions and a half were to be expand ed on her, but when tho war was more advanced orders were received from Washington to stop work on the Colos sus. This was done, and many . man in consequence thrown out of employ oeeii ment The ship’s engines had jostbeen { »ut in her, an i ‘P d she was all ready for away r- but it was plainly to be seen they been intercepted and destroyed. aunching when the men ceased work, and nothing has been done to bar from that day to this. “What about the Java?" “The Java was designed for a fast steam cruiser for the purpose of par- suing such fast vessels as the Alabama and others of her clast. She was to b* capable of attaining a speed of seven teen knots an hoar; in fact she might have equaled the speed of the Arizona. The Java was mainly built for speed, and all her woodwork was of the best white oak. She would have made formidable mate to the Coloaans, aad especially in those old war times th* two vessels co tfcJl .t' ware os foot man began to sail oat the tions that I knew, asy * with every riatag hops eostaey of joy. At sounded aad tha bn name of the Tha train R Tk* plattof i What ehaag* world? Th* ’ so high two law; the boys tha girls ware to llttla sweetheart dor, shy end hardly apeak tha same. F ■ore gray, th* ekfldrsa “ ' toco* I rdeaUad tk* aa*t» I want away. Tk* Ai and inactive, aad the Are baQdiags I hi jarej^retowh £ wSretoUMt iS to her. At hMMt H w>$ Father aa* i president of G P. Hantiagtoo, rings ia tha Utwt a| •treat ia wadloak, will tog the tempt tor a flrst-elaas This will not' — of tha Alto tracts, aad ha has I his position Sidney DUloo Pacific) wa ' Central Pacific ■ ton was estimated at $lM began poor, aad bow that ho la t likes to talk shoot tha tire* a month waa big w splendid hottaa aw whieh ho will bring oloa* of thafr praaaai gaa to advaae* tk* TAp ltoj ding took plan* What aa future happiness! are foot, he had been so in< set free, for a is" "Color'-’ w4'~ - W!«Xr' . t«-. i ^ 7<* L CentPal Hotel, Broel Street, Angola, Ga. marema, that ha wlU be sofa alt What a pang shot through hr rar boy asked tha «. Ska ooold aA aaawiMRS. W. M. 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