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VOL. XXVII. NO 40 WITHOUT THEE. Without theo, love, without thee, Oh, wlmt ia life to me! Without thee, love, without thee, Oh, what would heaven he! Us splendid dome Would not arch'home. Without thee, love, about me. . And earth’s bright face Is a dreary plane Without thee, love, without thee! kteithout thee, love, without thee, I? Ati, life’s an einp.y shrine! Without thee, love, without th e, : There's nothing seems divine! The heart may sinir And time may Iwing Dear friends and dayPshout me. * lint all is naiigut, And sad the thought. Without thee, love, without tins! Prayer broke up a dance at ■Heredo, W. Va., a week ago. According to a dispatch front Huntington the Rev. James H. Rigg, of the Baptist church, has been conducting a revival meeting at Ceredo, and has ta ken fiequent occasion to de nounce dancing and theatres. On Saturday night after his •ervices for the evening were over he was passing down Bri igo street when tlm sound of music and dancing b near-by hall fell upon his ear. He entered the hall, and, winding hiH way through the merry couples on the floor to the center of the ball room, called out autborita tively. ‘‘Lot us pray!” Th«n he prayed fervently for fully ten minutes. At tir-t only a few knelt, but at the end of fiv minutes every couple on tin floor bad fall n on their knees | er hsd bowed their heads, while many were s le.’tly weeping. Whan tie preacher had fin ished nic e than a dozen of the dancers went forward and gave him th**ir hand. There was no more dancing that evening. Tue dancers dispersed while the orchestra in a low tone, played, “Nearer, My God, to Thee ’’ PLEASURES OF AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES. The members of the North American Millionaires club, a elub admission to which is dif ficult, as only persons possess ing the trifle of fifty million frruos are admitted, have just invented a new spoit, in com parison with which bicycitsm with oil or benzine engines and antomobilism are more child’s play. These gentlemen have converted themselves into loco motive engineers, if you prefer. The xjelcbratod millionaire, .Lillies A'stor, runs once a week the express train of the Illinois Grand Central. Evil tongues »uv that Mr. Astor does this be cause he wishes to watch the adin nistration of a line the ■hares of which beloug almost exclusively to himself or to bis family. Mr. George Gould, eldest son of the celebrated railroad king, himself runs the locomotives of j the excursion trains which he gets up ev» ry week. The president of the board o' | directors of tie Union Pacific i makes all his inspection tours I as an engineer. His colleague,Mr. Thompson,j of the Pennsylvania Centra! i railroad, has acquired the repu tation of a skilllul fireman,and Mr. J. E.llill. the chief share holder of the .Great Northern company, together with his sous, has several times traveled across the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in the capacity of an engine d iver And they speak of snobbism in France. THE GREAT BBON Ml-D --LLE. He entered th« shop huiried ly, with the Hir of a man whose mind was filled with a weighty commission. These whom he t ad passed at the door heard him muttering under bis < reath a formula, which be seemed to le*r might slip away and be lost. He ap pmachtd the counter like oue who wishes it were well over “I wish to get,” he said bold !v, “some ribbon for a red baby.” The shop girl's blank stare set mod to arouse him to a sense o' something luckii g. “That is,” lie said, “I would like some baby for a red ribbed one.” The shop girl wss smi'ine broadly now, and four errand boys, a shop v a L er and -even la-iy cus <>m> r gat c-e an smiled in uni-on lb b gun again: “That is—of coui>e —yu know—l m-uu—some red rib bed baby for one—that is—some rod ribs for one baby—souio one's red baby's ribs—sonm ba by for on-- red rib—some—thun iter aid guns! Where’s the way out ?” He departed on the run “1 wonder,” said th-' sh >p girl, thoughtfully, an hour or so afterward, ‘‘if lie could have meant red baby-ribbon V First Lady—What pretty ll t lumiufcted cardsl Teat one with the in >tto ‘Honesty is the beat policy,’ is especially nice. Second Lady—Yes. I brought th m from Europe, aud the b“ t of it is I g-.t them through si h a lot of other things with out paying a cent of duty! Washington Bur. The Gwinnett Herald. From The Land Of Gwinnett. Wo had occasion not long siuco to visit the town of Ru wnnee up on the Southern Rail road . Now Sinvaneo is not a groat town, but she’s a good town. We mean morally and spirit nal •y- Did you know it’s a very dif ficult matter to carry on a re vival there? Why? Because nearly everybody, old or young, black or white, Jew or Gentile, belongs to the church and se uns to be happy on the way. Besides beiug a religious town she’s a healthy town. Y'ou scarcely over hoar of any body dying up there. They ab solutely haven’t got a cemotery within the corporate limits. Thou its a law-abiding town. Why the marshal never thinks of pulling a fellow. There is no need of an adjourned term of the Mayor's court. The marshal actually hasn’t made an arrest since Morg. Brown be gan raising those big juicy wa termelons away down upon Hu wanee river. List. Her citizenry is ai lonor to historic old Gwinnett. And with such peoplo in the town as the Brogdons', Harris’s, Baxters’ and other substantial and onterprisiog people, she ought to prosper in spite of cre ation. • * * We are* glad to not# that onr young friend, John Hook*, ha* the paying position as agent for the Southern Railroad at Lula. He is "up of tho boat telegraph 'perntors ou the line. The “Major,” as he some times calls himself, it a bale fellow well met, and he num bers his fri'iids by the scores. Just after be left Lawrenre eeville, two or three years ago, aud was working at Tocioa, he wrote us a very intereresting lettor which was full of witti cisms. In giving a graphic de scription of the county, among other thing* he said: “Haber sham is one of the main tribu taries flowing into the United) States court.” In speaking of tlie newspaper at Toccoa, he said: “We bad a one-bore newspaper here but tho eh-rift! cabbaged ou it and sb» ha* gone glimmering.” John Hooks was put out for a writor and he ought to enter the j journalistic Held. • • * - It is nothing uncommou in this fast age for women to prac tice medicine, preach the gos pel to lost men and women or work daily at the bar in the in terest of their clients. But it is somewhat surprising that a young lady should wish to be come a veterinary surgeon. Miss Su j an J. Bravton ofi Easton, N. V., whose father is j a 1 urge stock owner, is taking a c>urse in the New York Col lege of Veterinary SurgeoDS. Next. • * » Richardson Bro's. show last Tuesday Dight demonstrated one fact. And that is that all devils are not experts with tire. When the Herald’s devil at tempted to set the down’s bus tle afire he made a complete failure. • • • A gang of lazy, worthless and impudent negroes is a curse to civilization. As a matter of course they can be found in all sections of the South. Now we are not talking about all of them for we have some very good old darkies who are industrious and useful. But here’s oue of the crowd to whom we make mention. Wh n that di-astrious tire wa raging iu the Ewing budding aud it seated that the whole block would be laid iu ashes, a w ! iie n>au "tiered a negro one d liar per hour t" go u|»on G. W &A. P. Caiu's store, which was nearest the fire, and help the boys pour water ou the roof, and he replied that he would go if he was paid in ad vance If some fellow had cracked his head with a brick-bat we d"0 t believe it would have cost him a red cent. Scribbles. The fear that our kind acts may be received with ingrati tude should never deter us from performing such acts. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14th 1897. WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD. CONTENTMENT, nv lirnK sniff. When I speak of contentment I am spenkingof something that is not attainable in this world. Ht Pan), one of the noblest characters wo read of in the Bible, said "Godliness with contentment i» great gain,” but Ht. Paul was never con tent ed, although he was a bright and shining light to all around him. lie said, “Forgeting the things of the past, I pres* to wards the mark of (he high call ing of God in Christ Jesus.” No contentment in this world, Napoleon the Great was nev er contented. When he wanted to conquer this world, he mus tered his forces together aud all Europe was drenched in blood, and he died on the isle of Bt. Helena, a dissatisfied, discon tented wretch. No, content ment is further on. Sometimes we think that if we just had this thing or that or the other tiling out of tho way we would be contented, but alas I alas I just as soon as we get one obstacle out of the wav another one twice its size pops up just in front of ns. Very .often in our pilgrimage through life we discover some great mountain just ahead, and we wonder if there is not a road by which we may escape it, but when wo find there is no way of escape, we picture in our imagi nation* on top of that moun tftsn a Chair of Ea*«, a Table of I’leasure aud a Sofa of Con tentment. With this in view, we quicken our steps, our cour age is increased, and we run with anticipated joy to meet Disappoint ment and Defeat and Discontentment, for when we reach the summit of the mown-! tain we look with amazement and see a dark valley below, and Coutoutment is jtisl ahead, and thus we march al mg thro’ lit". People sometimes think that if they could accumulate a fort une they would be contented, but when done tlioy want two fortunes twice as bad as they did the first one! It is like drinking salt-water—the 1 more they drink the more they want. Newman says he has told ’em that if they didn’t unload and divide up they would burst wide, open, and he didn’t care if they did, but strange to say they j wouldn’t give him a uiokle. Take A. T. Stewart, Cornelius Vanderbilt and all the money mongers of the world aud let them go into partnership, arid they would not have money euough to buy one Sofa of Con tentment, and their credit would not be sufficient, and they would be left discontent ed. Newuian says hr thought when he was a boy that, if he ever got to be a man he would be contented, but wheu he grew up there was something lacking. There stood Clariuda, a great big obstacle between him aud contentment, and he said to himself, "I have found the great Elixir of Life; she is the Balm of Gilead, aud if I can only win her and call her my wife, 1 will take my seat on th* Sofa of Contentment the rest of my days.” Time passed, aud by and by they were mar ried, and in a short time there after Clariuda got mad and 'ore all the silk plush off his Sofa of Conteotmeut, "and,” said he, "I have never felt con tented since.’ 1 Time passed ! like the dews of the morning, jacd oue cold rainy night in i December the doctor called in and swapped Clariuda a bounc ing baby boy for Newman’s Sofa of Contentment, “and,” said be, “my contentment is 1 gone forever.” Aud thus we go, discontented and reetl-ss; we eau’t find real | conteotmeut in this world, aud ! which end of the road we are lon will determine whether we shall find it in the u»xt world | or uot. Christ said “Enter in at the | straight gate,” aud by so doing we can say in the language of King David, “I shall be satis | tied when I awake in thy like iness.” Thus w# shall ever be with the Lord, aud realise true and lastiug contentment Confectioners should make their candy over ben-ben tfrsi. PROSPECT. [Last week’s letter. | m Once again the cloud* have disappeared and the mui shines brightly. Mrs. Margaret Sox! m is con valescing all er several weeks of illness Rev. 1) I!. Oliver preached n very interesting sermon here Sunday. Mr. Bob Robitison of near Lawrenceville whs in our midst recently recently. A couple went to -New Hope last Sunday, and on their re turn thi* was their report of the day: "There wa« an awful mighty big crowd th* re mid we just had a large time.” We say hurrah for that couple. Miss Lena Pittman of Elbcth el attended services here Sun day. The Messrs. Ivy of Walton county visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. BUCKLEN’K A KMC A SALVE The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, So.es, Sal ltlieiiin, Fever Sores, Teller, Chapped Hand Chilblains, Corns un• 1 alt Skin Eruptions, ami positively cures Pile*, or no pay equired, I is guaranteed to give perfect satistao tlon,or money refunded Price 25 cenls n box For sale by A. M.Winn Lawrenceviile Cla CRAIG CHRONICLES. Wiuter in its coldest form will soon appear. Prof. Clark Hopkins of Nor eroHH wa* here recently. Mrs J. P. Thompson is visit ing her sister, Mrs. Brownlee, of near Sweet Water. Mr. Dock I’aden has killed his large hog. Il weighed fifif) pounds. Our Sunday school i- progres sing ninety wii > Mr l> S. \Vil lintns ns superint- ml , t. Wo are glad i" >•: v ihat we think Rolar Williams Ims ro roverocl from his r».*«* nt shock. Mr. Brumien is wearing ilie same aad smile. Belmont is represented here almost every Sunday with some of its dashing young men. We wonder what ttie attraction is One of nor vote g men is looking as sad na u luimral pro cession since lon giri linn gone to Alabama, We gii *s sin* will return soon Mr. I!. Ask Baby bow he enjoys go ing to North D cut nr. Why don't everybody take the Herald? We don’t see how we could do without it. DEATH oFmUL J. (’. WHITWORTH. Mrs. Whitwnrili died at her home near Law rcucrville ou the morning of Sept 2nd I*{l7. Thus ended ilie life of il good woman, nhe was bom April 28th 1842. SI e wu.- a daughter of B- H. Lamkiii, and married J. 11, Whitworth N v. I 1870: six children »■ r« b rn to them —four girls am! two iv*y*. She joined the church at Alcove in Aug. 1808. How strange it seems that one so useful, so tin*-}) fish and so good shoul I Ist taken from those who loved her and whom she loved, from u life which promised so much f• -r the Mas ter and His cause, and go much for the happiness of all who knew her well; especially of him the loved mom, and who feels his heart cru-lied under the blow laid so suddenly und heavily upon him. Wh know that He who uiletli doeth all things well, uud that our loss is her eterna 1 gii; , but while w« thank God :<>r t « assurance given in His word, aud which tempers our grief, we eaunot erase from our ti's-i* tho sor row caused by mic i an irrepar able loss, or purchase consola tion by forg tiulmas. As a friend, knowing her well and loving her as her noble nature so wtdl des*-rivd, agaiu aud again does con-tan!lv recurring memory bring irer before our vision a* she appeared ou so many occasion*, hallowed bv her Jofty s«ntnnei t« and conse crated by ber devoted friend ship, but se k a* we may to banish from our thought*) and sights her lan app arance as she lay as on l - asleep within her narrow bed, s > calm and beau titul, we can *>t Hit see her and think of her as she seemed —a creature fresh Irm the band of God, i»'d waiting f or the breath of life, not oho who bad lived su I suffered death. To know ber ««« i > love her, bnt only tho»* cut rightly esti mate her rare love iueas of dis position aud strou ;th of char acter Kind, genii® and help ful to all, it wan o jI y to those blessed by her oh*** friendship or nearer lie* that s'ih develop ed those rare tr.iit* that sealed their homage au<i their love, aud bound them t * her with a devuti hi which tinm nor change uor death itself ouu lessen or effect- What she was as daugh t«r, sister, wife uud mother >nly those can know and right ly value who wete blessed with 1 -ucli relationship; the words of friends cannot express it. j Thou art gone to the grave, i But we will not weep ,Sinee God was thy ransom, Thy love and thy strength. He gave thee, Ho took thee, And he will restore thee, And death hath no sting Since He hath received thee, Be it resolved, Ist, That onr church has lost an earnest, faithful worker. 2nd, That our tenderest heart felt sympathies are extended to the bereaved family. May they find comfort in the Savior’s precious promises, and cast all their cares on Him who careth most tor them. !>rd, That this testimonial of our affection for our deceased; sister bo sent to her family; | that it be spread upon the; church' hook, and a copy bel furnished to Thk Gwinnett! Herald and the News for pub lication. Mrs. Ri sik Mi Connell, i “ Aha J Arons, " Sv ritA Lankohd, CommUtM. WISE WORDS. —: — Let friendship creep gently j to a height; if it rush to it, itj may soon run itself out of breath. Happiness is like a sun beam, j which the least shadow inter-1 eopts, while adversity is as often j ns the rain of spring. The time is flying this way] on rapid wings, when the only thing that cun prosper in this; world is righteousness. Life is continually weighing us in very sensitive scales-and | telling every one of n*precisely 1 what liis real weight is to the last grain of dust. The greal duty of life is not j to give'.pain; and the most! acute reasouer cannot find an ■ excuse for one .who voluntarily ; wounds the heart of a fellow creftt uro. „ . * All great men are brave in initiative; but the courage I which' enables them to succeed 1 where Jothers dare not even at-' tempt is never so potent as i when it lends to entire self-for-j get fulness. Ifow mankind defers from day to day the best it can do and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, wit hout thinking j that every day may be the last ■ one, and that lost time is lost ; eternity 1 Be deaf to the suggestions of tale-bearers,cal uin nin tors, pick thanks or malevolent detrac tors, who, white great men sleep, sowing the tares of dis cord and division, distract the traiisquility of charity and alll friendly society. Wear your learning, like your] watch, in a private pocket, and do not-pull it out and display I it merely to show that you have one If you are asked what o’clock it i*, tell it, but I do not proclaim it hourly and •unasked, like the watchman. Houest and discriminating j pralie never really make* any : oue vain . It encourages fresh i efforts; it giveg new vitality j aud vigor; it is a pleasurable | stimulant, uot an intoxicating I drug. There is fur too little of i it in the world for the world's go>d. Toe way of life i# by uo ui«*ii» smooth, but us not make it rougher than it is. The world is not nil we could wish; but, if it got* wrong, let us not spend ouraelf trying to uiuke it worse Rather let us nmke it a little smoother uud a little pleasant er by our disposition, manner* and deeds. If men iu general are out of eorts, there is the more need of our being in aorta. FREE OF CHARGE TO BUF* FKRERS Cut this out, take it to your druggist and get a sample bottle free of Dr. King’s Now Discov ery, foi Coneuropti u. Coughs or Colds. They do not usk you to buy before trying. This will show you the gn at merits of this truly wonderful remedy, aud ahow you what can bo ac complished by the regular sine bottle. This is no experiment and would be disastrous to the proprietors, did they not kuow it wcuhl invariably mire. Muuy of the lies! physicians are now using it in their practice with great results and are relying on it in most severe cases. It is guaranteed. Trial bottles fro® at A M. Winn A Son’s Drug Store. Regular size 50 cent# and SI.OO. - Hardup—l know that you don’t believe iu sign# iu the or dinary sense lint don’t you sometimes find yourself in cir cumstances which cause pre sentiments of evil ? Close (1st —Vo*. Every time some people ask ss;* for a loan 1 feel as if 1 were going to lose money. | WORK OF A TRAIN DIS PATCHER. Jthoioh far AWAV from the KNHINK, IIE HAS MORE To Do THAN THK 'ENGINEER. George Ethelbert Walsh con tributes an article on ‘‘Running the Fast Express” toßt. Nicho las. Mr Walsh says: The eyes ot tlie engineer are lon the clock and time table be fore him, and he keeps a sharp lookout ahead. For various reasons lie may fall a few min utes behind hand at one point, bnt he manages to make up the loss at another. He has certain stops to make, and he makes all speed possible between them. Blithe is not mast*r of the road. At any moment a dan ger signal along the line may confront him. llh may be ordered to bring hi* train to a standstill at a small wav station and there receive telegraphic orders to run on a siding. He * asks no questions, but obeys orders. Five initiates later a “special” may rush past him, and t lie the signals aro set again, warning tile engineer of the ex press that he must make up for lost time. T«i understand thi* delay and the sudden change* made in the time table it will be necessary to go back to the headquarters and to watch the general super intendent and the train dis patcher. Although many trains running on the line are hun dreds of miles away, the exact position of every one every sec ond in tho hour is known and recorded. A telegraph operator i) working industriously in the office of the train dispatcher, receiving and sending orders. The running orders of all the trains are directed from this office. Each engineer Ims orders to make certain runs ac cording to the time table unless oilier orders frmg headquarters interfere. If any accident happens on tho road, the train dispatcher knows it almost a* soon as the passengers. A breakdown of some local train on the main line may upset nil the calcula tion* of the day. Immediately the expresses running on that line must be stopped before a collision occurs. A snowstorm msy blockade t> train on the northern branch of the road.] and thereby make necessary a change in the reguiar ached- j ule. A train from the west is half an hour behind perhaps and this interferes with the regular running of the other trains* Arrangement* must be made to let train* pass without accident. A western express may lie tie- j bind time und *tart out five minutes ahead of some special express- lu this instance it ; must give the special the right of way, and it is forced upon some siding. The special ex press passe* without losing a niinuta. There are 50 trains coining and going, oue behind time, an other ahead, probably, and easy crowding out another. The train dispatcher has to re gulate thi* tangle and keep things running smoothly. Thu* it i* that the engineer of a tlier may suddenly find Imuself side tracked. Should the train dispatcher make a mistake, or fail to make arrangrment* for two fa*t mov ing trains, the block signal sys tem would probably prevent an accident. The block tower# are connected by telegraph liueg' and a bell code enable# tbs men to commuuicale directly with each other. They can stop a traiu at any moment by means of their signals, independent of order*from headquarters 'Thus the engineer depends entirly upon others to keup the truck clear, and he merely runs hi* train ns near schedule time as possible and keeps his iron steed in perfect condition. Tobolsk, Russia, claims t» be the oldest iuhabitod place in the world. Iu England of 1,000 persons CH are named Mary, <SO Wil liam, 02 John, (51 Eliza, 85) Thomas, 8(5 George, 8(5 Sarah, i 88 Anne, 81 James and 28 Charles. Policemen in the city of Mos cow carry lanterns at night. When an officer rests or enteis a house, the lanters is set down on the pavement near where he happens to be. 1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE THE WOMAN TN THE CASE. From the Chattanooga Sunday Times. But one white woman bus ever been executed for murder in Georgia. And now that the deatli sentence is about to be carried out in the case of Mrs. Nobles, the white women of the state are pleading with the Governor to be merciful to her, becau*e she is. a woman, and white. “There arc- certain circum stances,” says the Baltimore Sun, "connected with the case of Mrs. Nobles which make it almost impossible for Gov. At kinson to commute her sentence to life imprisonment, Mrs. Nobles paid Iter colored man servant $lO to kill her husband. Tho negro was a poor hand at murder and had to invoke the aid of his employer to finish the work. Both were convicted and sentenced to death.” Now, if the Governor com mutes the woman’s punishment and allows her ignorant, brutal ized and hired pal to hang, lie will be justly charged with dis crimination of the most objec tionable character If he lets the woman taka her medicine with her partner in a cold blooded murder, he have a great number of influential white women down upon him, and they may ruin his political fu tore, which now hns a bright outlook. As we see it, the negro is fsr more deserving of clemency than the woman. She had some advantages of education- Hlie was one of the master race. Hlie has a commanding will and temper, and she used all three and her husband’s money to se cure the negro’s aid in ridding her of that husband', and final ly she assisted in giving the vic tim bis passports, and did her part with the savage ferocity of a she tiger. Why should uot such a tiling be put off the earth? Is there any reason at all? Of course there is none, "’(’anse she’s a woman” and i* a reason for hanging here. That her tool is black, ignor ant, but a few generations from barbarism, might be an excuse for extending clemency, in his ease; but the best use the pair ca:i 1)9 put is as examples, fn life they were united in a re volting, fiendish, cruel crime. In death should not be parted. PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. “I guess,” said the Congress man, as he entered the photog rapher’s studio, "that I’d but ter let you take three Lack and try it over again.” “Didn’t your photographs suit you ?” asked the young woman behind the show ease. “Y’es, they pleased me first rate.” “The likeness is remarkably good,” she commented, as iht held one out at arms’ length. "It is. If the resemblance was not quite so strong I might have kept them for iny family and myself to look at. We would tell the neighbors it wa* somebody else, and have made them believe it. But there would lie no use in trying tc deceive them with that pict ure.” “What is it you object to?” “The surroundings.” "Bnt this is one of the most popular backgrounds in out gallery; everybody understands that such things are only puiut ed on canvas.” ‘‘No,” was the reply, "every body doesn't understand if. J wouldn't have one of thost pictures get into the bauds ol the op|M)*itiou just before elec tion for ten thousand dollars. Veil’ll have to give me some pictures with another hack ground, even if I pay for hav ing it painted to order. Look where you have me! Seated on a plush arm chair, in halls of Byzantine architecture, with i garden of palm* in the back ground! It won’t do. What I’ll have to have is a per#|>ec tive showing a barn and a ha\ wagon, with a hired man in the middle distance, while i stanr. iu the foreground, with an earn e*t expression on my face, as ii 1 were telling him exactly wind we must do if we expect to save the cou u try.’’—Washington Star. Royal make* the food pure, wholesome and delicious. me POWDER Absolutely Pure WOVAt BAKING POWOiR CO-, WtW THE DYING CENTURY'. Oh century, tottering to thy rest, All vainly dost thou beat thy breast: A new dawn gilds the mountain crest. The glorv of the wondrous day, With all its glitter and display, In twilight shadows dies away. Almost the poet, in whose ryme Thy praise is sung in verse sub lime, Begins his lay "Once on a time.’ Strange fancies fill thy time worn brain, Thou dreamest thou are young again, With battle cry on land and' main. Ami a dread turmoil of unrest Embroils the Orient and the West; Alarums sound at thy behest. E’on Israel’s children, in thy throes, Imagine o’er again their woes; And many a hope toward Zion goes. The world is mud—men shout and cry— Beholding wonders in the sky, Renewing faith in prophecy. Old century, we love thee well. Thy fume the chronicler will . tell When long forgot thy funeral knell. —Felix N. Gerson. ODD DEATH OF Xsi’A RROW From Han Francisco Post. A little English sparrow root a tragic deatli oue day last week. A nuHitter of teams are stationed in Root street to help the passing street cars across the lailroad tracks. Two or three of them are at rest most of the time in the cool shade of neighboring buildings while their drivers lounge aud talk. Now, a sparrow thinks noth ing is quite so nice for nest building as long horse hairs. A number of them visited tho orner every day, aud gleaned the hairs from the ground. Of course, this was slow work, and one of the birds, more ambi tious than the others, finally concluded to go to the fountuiu head of horse hairs, and so he tried re pull to pull a hair from lha tail of one of the sleepy horses. No doubt the horse thought that a fly was biting him, und switched his tail vig orously, lu some way, no one knew just how, the sparrow was caught, and when the driver OHtne back he found the poor little lord banging quite still ami dead, with one of tho long hairs twisted around his neck. And the old horse didn’t s**em to know that anything was the matter. THE COMINU~WOMAN who goes to the club while her husband teuda the baby as well as the good old-fashioned wo man who looks after her home, will both at times get rim down in health. They will be troubled with los* of appetite headaches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The most wonderful remedy for these women is Elec tric Bitters. Thousands of suf ferers from Fame back and Weak Kidneys rise up and call it blessed. It is the medicine for women. Femaie complaints aud Nervous troubles of all kinds are soon relieved by the use of Electric Bitters Deli cate Women should keep this remedy on hand to (mild up the system. Only bOe. per bottle For Hale by A. M. Winn <fc Han. Abdul llamid. the sick man of the cast, lias exhibited a vigor and a power of sudden re cuporat ion which the Powers urate d they cannot account for. Russian gold, and Ger man officers among the Sultan's troop’s will doubtless explain the matter. Colonel Ingiwsnli says they ou<ht to manufacture a tiist e'as> bell for Weyler. To whith the Spanish general re pl e : "The same one you are oiug to wj***|>a agreable to me. I don’t caiurwor any frills iu miue. w Tammany has 1 New i ■ i h-CuM n ■