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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bemi-Weeki.y, One Year - - - $4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 ESTPayable in advance tyi All advertisements emiiiating from public dices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one Hundred words;eachfigureand initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each Advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - -Jl.oo Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 6? ISTTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length f time for which they are to be inserteo will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per liue each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Law* ‘ AMEItICUS, GA. decl6tf B. P. HOLLIS Attorney at AMEItICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2ot£ E. G. SIMMONS, Attorney at JLau> 9 AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort* Simmons. janCtf J. A. ANSLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involvingtitlesof land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of South west Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf CARD. I offer my prof essional services again to the good people of Americus. After thirty years’ of medical service, I have found it difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square janl7tf It. C. BLACK, M. D. M. H. O'DANIEL. MD Americus, Ga. Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow House. All calls promptly attended, day or night. Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store. feb7-3m mu THIS DATE Ladies will please come to tfce Store to select their HATS When they wish to purchase, as no Tiimmed Hats will be sent out unless sold. Mrs. M. T. Elam. Americus, Ga., April 12, 1883. ■ I I For Sale. * I offer a splendid little 40-acre farm three quarters a of mile northwest from Americus Ba. 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TUTT’S MANUAU of Information and Useful Receipts I will be mailed FREE on application* J fIOSSIJEIft tifreßS There has never been an instance in which this sterling Invigorant and anti-febrile medicine has failed to ward off the com plaint, when taken duly as a protection against malaria. Hundreds of phy-icians liavo abandoned all the officinal specifics, and now prescribe this harmless vegetable tonic for chills and fever, as well as dpspep sia and nervous affections. Hostetter’s Bit ters is the specific you need. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. IF O XT T Z 3 S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS No Hose, will die of Colic, Hot. or Lvxo Fx- YEB, If Foutz’s Powders are used In time, foutz's Powders will cure and prevent HogCholkra. Joutz s Powders will prevent Gapes in Fowls. Fontz s Powders will increase the quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent., and make the butter firm and sweet. Foutz’s Powders will cure or prevent almost evert Disease to which Horses and Cattle aro subject. Foutz s Powders will give Satisfaction. Sold everywhere. DAVID H. FOUT2, Proprietor, BALTIMORE, MD, INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1883. ___ VOYYtV.'Y. A GUAM) 01,11 POEM. Who shall judge a man from mannei'3 ? Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be fit for princes, Princes fit for something less. Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket May beclothe the golden ore If the deepest thoughts are feeling— Satin vests could do no more. There are springs of crystal nectar Ever welling out of stone, There are purple buds and golden Hidden,crushed, and overgrown; God, who counts by souls, not dresses, Loves and prospers you and me, Whilo he values, thrones the highest, But as pebbles in the sea. Man, upraised above his fellows, Oft forgets his fellows then; Masters, rulers, lords remember That your meanest kind are men; Men by labor, men by feeling, Men by thought, men by fame, Claiming equal rights to sunshine, In a man’s ennobling name. There are foam-embroidered oceans, There are little weed-clad rills : There are feeble, inch-high saplings, There are cedars on the hills; God, who counts by souls not stations, Loves and propers you and me; For, to him, all vain distinctions Are as pebbles in the sea. Toiling hands alone aro builders Of a nation’s wealth or fame; Tilted laziness is pensioned Fed and fattened on the same; By the sweat of others’ foreheads, Living only to rejoice, While the poor man’s outraged freedom, Vainly lifted up its voice. Truth and justice are eternal, Born with loveliness and light, Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there is a sunny right; God, whose world-heard voice is ringing Boundless love to you and me, Sinks oppression with its titles, As the pebbles in the sea. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALM4GE [The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks, 48 Bible House, New York. A number containing 26 Sermons is issued every three months, Price 30 cents, ?1 per an num]. SOLICITUDE. .‘A wise son maketli a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” —Proverbs, x,, I. In this graphic way Solomon sets forth the idea that the good or evil be havior of children blesses or blights the parents heart. I know there are per sons who seem to have no especial in terest in the welfare of their children. The lather says: ‘‘My bay must take the risks of life. If he turns out well, all right; if he turns out ill, he will have to bear the consequences. He has the same chance that I had. He must take care of himself.” A shep herd might just as well thrust a lamb into a den of lions and say: “Little lamb, take care of yourself.” Nearly all the brute creation are kind enough to look after their young. I was go ing through a woods and I heard a shrill cry in a nest. I climbed up to the bird’s nest and I found that the old bird had left the brood to starve. But that is a very rare occurrence. Gener ally a bird will pick your eyes out rather than surrender her young to your touch. A lion will rend you if you come too near the whelps; even the barnyard fowl, with its clumsey foot and heavy wing, will come at you if you approach its young too nearly, and God certainly intended to have fa ther and mother as kind as the brutes. Christ comes through all our house holds to-day, and He says: “You take care of the bodies of your children and the minds of your children; what are you doing for their immortal souls?” I read of a ship that foundered. A lifeboat was launched. Many of the passengers were in the waters. A mother, with one hand beating the wave and the other hand holding her little child out toward the life-boat, cried out: “Save my child!” And that impassioned cry is the one that find an echo in every parental heart in this house to-day. “Save my child!” That man out there says: “I have fought my own way through life; I have got along tolerably well; the world has buffeted me and I have had many a hard struggle; it don’t make much difference what happens to me, but save my child.” You see I have a subject of stupendous import, and I am going as God may help me to show the causes of parental solicitude, and then the alleviations of that solicitude. The first cause of parental solicitude, I think, arises from theimperfection of parents on their own part. We all, somehow, want our children to avoid our faults. We hope that if we have any excellencies they will copy them; but the probability is they will copy our faults and omit our excellencies. Children are very apt to be echoes of the parental life. Someone meets a lad on the back street, finds him smok ing, and says: “Why, lam astonished at you; what would your father say if he knew this? Where did you get that cigar?” “Oh, I picked it up on the street.” “What would your fath er say, and your mother say, if they knew this?” “Oh,” he replies, “that’s ' nothing; my father smokes!” There: is no one of us to-day who would like] to have onr children copy all onr exam ples. And that is the cause of solici tude on tho part of all of us. We have. ! so many faults we do not want them copied and stereotyped in the lives and characters of those, who come afier us. Their solicitude arises from our con scious insufficiency and unwisdom of discipline. Out of twenty parents there may be one parent who understands how thoroughly and skillfully to dis cipline; perhaps not more than one out of twenty. We, nearly all of us, are on one side or are on the other. Here is a father who says: “I am going to bring up ray children right; my sons shall know nothing" but religion, shall see nothing bnt religion, and hear noth ing but religion.” They are routed at ti o’clock in morning to recite the Ten Commandments. They are wak ened np from the sofa on Sunday night to recite the Westminster Catechism. Their bedroom walls are covered with religions pictures and quotations of Scripture, and when the boy looks for the day of the month he looks for it in a religious almanac. If a minister comes to the house he is requested to take the boy aside and tell him what a great sinner he is. It is religion morning, noon and night. Time passes on and the parents are waiting for the return of the son at night, lt is 9 o’clock, it is 10 o’clock, it is 11 o’clock, it is 12 o’clock, it is half-past 12 o’clock. Then they hear a rattling of the night key, and George comes in ami hastens upstairs lest he be accost ed. The father says, “George, where have you been?” He says, “I have been out.” Yes, he has been out, and he has been down, and he has started on the broad road to ruin for this life and ruin for the life to come; and the father says to his wife, “Mother, the Ten Commandments are a failure; no use of Westminster Catechism; I have done my very best for that boy; just see how he has turned out.” Ah! my friend, you stuffed that boy with relig ion; you had no sympathy with inno cent hilarities, you had no common sense. A man at middlo life said to me: “I haven’t much desire for religion; my father was as good a man as ever lived, but he jammed religion down ray throat when I was a boy until I got disgusted with it, and I haven’t want ed any of it since. Then the discip line is an entire failure in many house holds, because the father pulls one way and the mother pulls the other way. The father says: “My son, I told you if I ever found you guilty of falsehood again I would chastise you, and I am going to keep my promise.” The mother says: “Don’t; let him off this time.” A father says: “I have seen s) many that makr mistake by,too great severity in the rearing of their children, now I will let my boy do as he pleases; he shall have full swing; here, my son, are tickets to the theatre and opera; if you want to play cards do so; if you don’t want to play cards you need not to play them; go where you want to and come back when you want to; have a good time; go it!” Plenty of money for the most part, and give a boy plenty of money and ask him not what he does with it and you pay his way straight to perdition. But after a while the lad thinks he ought to have a still larger supply. He has been treated and he must treat. He must have wine suppers. There are larger and larger expenses. After awhile, one day a messenger from the bank over the way calls in and says to the father of the household of which I am speak ing, “The officers of the bank would like to have you step over a minute.” The father steps over and a bank offi cer says, “Is that your check?” “No,” he says, “that is not my check: I never make an H in that way; I never put a curl to the Y in that way; that is not my writing that is not my signature that is a counterfeit; send lor the po lice.” “Stop,” says the bank officer, “your son wrote that.” Now the father and mother are waiting for the son home at night. It is 12 o’clock, it is half-past 12 o’clock, it is 1 o’clock. The son conies through the hallway. The father says: “My son, what does all this mean? I gave you every op portunity, I gave you all the money you wanted, and here in my old dayß I find that you have become a spend thrift, a libertine and a sot.” The son says: “Now, father, what is the use of your talking that way? You told me to go it, and I just took your suggestions.” And so, to strike the medium between severity and too great leniency, to strike the happy medium between the two, and to train our children for God and for heaven, is the anxiety ot every intelligent parent. Another great anxiety, great solici tude is in the fact that so early is de veloped childish sinfulness. Morning glories put out their bloom in the early part of the day, but as the hot sun comes on they close up. While there are other flowers that blaze their beau ty along the Amazon for a week at a time without closing, yet the morning glory does its own work as certainly as Victoria regia; so there are some chil dren that just put forth their bloom, and they close, and they are gone. There is something supernatural about them while they tarry, and there is an ethereal appearance about them. There is a wonderful depth to their eye, and they are gone. They are too delicate a plant for this world. The Heaven ly Gardener sees them and lie takes them in. But for the most part the children that live sometimes get cross, and pick up bad words in the street or aro disposed to quarrel with brother or sister and show that they are wicked. You see them in the Sabbach-school class. They are so sunshiny and bright you would think they were always so; bnt the mother looking over at them I remembers what an awful time" she had to get them ready. Time passes on. They get considerably older, and the son comes in from the street from a pugilistic encounter, hearing on his ap pearance the marks of defeat. Or the daughter practises some little deception in the household. The mother says: “I can’t always be scolding and fret ting and finding fault, but this must be stopped.” So in many a household there is the sign of the heart’s being wrong, the sign of tho truthfulness of what the Bible says when it declares, “They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.” Some go to work and try to correct all this, and the boy is picked at, and picked at, and picked at. That always is ruin ous. There is more health in one thun der storm than in five days of cold drizzle. Better the old-fashioned style of chastisement, if that be necessary, than the fretting and the scolding which have destroyed so many. There is al so the cause of great solicitude some times because our young people are sur rounded by so many temptations. A castle may not betaken by a straight forward siege, but suppose there be in side the castle an enemy, and in the night he shoves back the bolt and swings open the door? Our young folks have foes without and they have foes within. Who does not understand it? Who is the man here who is not aware of the tact that the young peo ple of this day have tremendous temp tations? Some man will come to the young people and try to persuade them that purity and honesty and upright ness are a sign of weakness. Some men will take a dramatic attitude, and he will talk to the young man, and he will say: “You must break away from your mother’s apron-strings; you must get out of that puritanical straight-jacket; it is time you were your own master; you are verdant; you are green; you are unsophisticated; come with me—l’ll show you the world, I’ll show you life; come with me; you need to see the world; it won’t hurt you.” After a while the young man says. “Well, I can’t afford to be odd; I can’t afford to be peculiar; I can’t af ford to sacrifice all my friends’ I’ll just go and see for myself.” Farewell to innocence, which once gone never fully comes back. Do not be under the de lusion that because you repent of 6iu you get rid forever of it’s consequences. I say farewell to innocence, which once gone never fully comes back. O! how many traps set for the young. Styles of temptation just suited to them. Do you suppose that a man who went clear to the depths of dissipation went down in one great plunge? O! no! At first it was a fashionable hotel. Marble floor. No unclean pictures behind the counter. No drunken hiccough while they drink, but the click of cut glass to the elegant sentiment. You ask that young man to go into some low restaurant and get a drink, and he would say, “Do you mean to insult me ?” But the fashionable and elegant hotel is not always close by, and now the young man is on the down grade. Further and further down, until he has about struck the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he is in the low restau rant. The cards so greasy you can hardly tell who has the best hand. Gambling for drinks. Shuffle away, shuffle away. The landlord stands in his shirtsleeves, with his hands on his hips, waiting for an order to fill up the glasses. The clock strikes twelve— the tolling of the funeral flushes in the young man’s cheeks. In the jets of the gaslight the fiery tongue of the worm that never dies. Two o’clock in the morning, and now they are sound asleep in their chairs. Landlord comes around and says: “Wake up, wake up ! time to shut up !” “What!” says the young man; “time to shut up !” Push them all out into the night air. Now they are going home. Going home ! Let the wife crouch in the corner and the children hide under the bed. What was the history of that young man ? He began his disipations in the barroom of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and completed his damnation in the lower grogshops on Atlantic street. Sometimes sin even comes to the drawing-room. There are leprous hearts sometimes admitted in the high est circles of society. He is so elegant, he is so bewitching in his manner, he is so refined, he is so educated, no one suspects tho sinful design; but after a while the talons of death come forth. What is the matter with that house? The front windows have not been open for six months or a year. A shadow has come down on that domestic hearth, a Bhadow thicker than one woven of midnight and hurricane. The agony of that parent makes him say: “Q ! I wish I had buried my children when they were small.” Loss of property? No. Death in the family ? No. Some villian, kid-gloved and diamoned, lifted that cup of domestic bliss until the sunlight struck it, and all the rainbows played around the rim, and then dash ed it into desolation and woe, until the harpies of darkness clapped their hands and all the voices of the pit uttered a loud “Ha, ha!” The statistic has never been made up in these great cities of how many have been destroyed, and how many beautiful homes have been overthrown. If the statistic could be presented, it would freeze your blood in a solid cake at your heart. Ourgreat cities are full of temptations, and to vast multitudes of parents these tempta tions become a matter of great solici tude. But now for the alterations. First of all, you save yourself a great deal of trouble. O ! parent, if you can early watch tho children and educate them for God and Heaven. “The first five years of my life made me an infidel,” said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to sea, and after it has been five days out there comes a cyclone. The vessel springs a leak. The helm will not work. What is the matter ? It is not seaworthy. It never was seaworthy. Can you mend it now ? It is too late. Down she goes with 250 passengers into a watery grave. What was the time to fix that vessel ? What was the time to prepare it for the storm ? In the drydock. Ah ! my friends do not wait until your children get out into the world, beyond the narrows and out on the great voyage of life. It is too late then to mend their morals and their manners. The drydock of the Chris tian home is the place. Correct the sin now, correct the evil now. Just look at the character of your children now and get an intimation ot what they are going to be. You can tell by the way that boy divides the apple what his proclivity is and what his sin will be, and what style of discipline you ought to bring upon him. You let that disposition go. You see how he divides that apple. He takes nine-tenths of it for him self and gives one-tenth to his sister. Well, let that go, and all his life he will want the best part of every thing and he will be grinding and grasping to the day of his death. Peo ple hurl their scorn at the life of Lord Byron. Lord Byron was not half so much to blame as his mother. The historian tells us that when her child was limping across the floor with his unsound foot, instead of acting like any other mother, she said: “Get out of my way, you lame brat!” Do not denounce Lord Byron half so much as you denounce his mother. All the scenes in Venice, all the scenes in Greece, all the scenes of outrage when ever he went, an echo of that bad mother’s heart and that bad mother’s life. Two young men came to a door of wickedness. The one entered. The other turned back. Why ? Difference of resolution, you say. No. The one had a Christian influence; the other had no pious training. The one man went on his evil way. He entered and went on. No early voice accosted him, but the other heard a voice whose tones may have died from the ear twenty years before, saying, “Don’t go there, don’t go there !” Ithinkitwas almost the first time I ever made a religious address-it was in Dr. Bethune’s church; it was an anniversary of the Young Men’s Christian Association. I came in from my village home, and I remem ber nothing of that anniversary except that one of the speakers that night said: “Many years ago, two young men stood at the door of the Park Theatre, New York. They were dis cussing whether they had better go in or not. There was an immoral play to be enacted that night. One of them said, ‘I will not go in.’ The other said, ‘Don’t be afraid; let’s go in; who cares?’ The one who entered went on from sin to sin, the terminus of his life delirium tremens, with which he died in a hos pital. The other man turned back, came to Christ as his Saviour, entered the Gospel ministry, and he stands be fore you to-night. What was it that stopped me at the door of the Park Theatre, New Y’ork, so many years ago ? It was a pressure of a hand on my shoulder—the pressure of my moth er’s hand.” Begin early with your children. You stand on the banks of a river and you try to change its course. It has been rolling now for a hundred miles. You cannot change it. But just go to the source of that river, go to where the water just drips down on the rock. Then with your knife make a channel this wav and a channel that way, and it will take it. Come out and stand on the banks of your child’s life when it is 30 to 40 years of age, or even 20, and try to change the course of that life. It is too late ! It is too late ! Go further up at the source of life and nearest to the mother’s heart, where the character starts, and try to take it in the right direction. But O ! my friend, be careful to make a line—a distinct line—between innocent hilari ty on the one hand and vicious pro clivity on the other. Do not think your children are going to ruin because they make a racket. All healthy children make a racket. But do not laugh at your child’s sin because it is smart. If you do you will cry after a while be cause it is malicious. Rebuke the very first appearace of sin. Now is your time. Do not begin too late. Remem ber it is what yon do more than what yon say that is going to effect your children. Do not suppose Noah would have got his family to go into the ark ifhe stayed out ? No. His sons would have said: “I am not going into the boat; there’s something wrong; father won’t go in; if father stays out I’ll stay out.” An officer may stand in a castle and look off upon an army fight ing; but he cannot be much of an offi cer, he cannot excite much enthusiasm on the part of his troops, standing in a castle or on a hilltop looking off upon the fight. It is a Garibaldi or a Na poleon 1., who leaps into the stirrnps and dashes ahead. And yon stand out side the Christian life and tell your children to go in. They will not go. But yon dash on ahead, you enter the kingdom of God, and they themselves will become good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Lead if you would have them follow. Have a family altar. Do not with long prayers wear out your chil dren’s knees. Do not have the prayer | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 64. a repulsion. If you have a piano, or an organ, or a melodeon in the house, have it open while you are having prayers. If you say, “I cannot con struct a prayer; lam slow of speech and never could construct a prayer,” then take Matthew Henry’s prayer, or take the Episcopal church prayerbook. There is nothing better than tbit. Put it down on the chair, gather your chil dren about you, and commend them to God. . Y’ou say it will not amount to anything. It will, long after you are under the soil. That son will remem ber father and mother at morning and evening prayers, and it will be mighty help to him, it will be mighty rescue to him. And above all, in private com mend yotir children to God. Say; “Here, Lord, I am—all my imperfec tions of discipline and government— here are these immortals; make them Thine forever. The angels that re deemeth us from all evil, blesß the lads.” Are all your children safe ? I know it is a stupendous question to ask, but I must ask it; are all of your children safe? A mother when the house was on fire got out the household goods, many articles of beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask until too late, “Are thechildren safe ?” When the elements are melting with fervent heat and God shall burn the world up, and the cry of “Fire! fire!” shall resound amid mountains and valleys, will your chil dren bo safe ? Will your children be safe ? I wonder if the subject this morning strikes a chord in the heart of any man who had Christian parentage bnt has not lived as he ought. God brought you here this stormy morning to have your memory revived. Did you leave a Christian ancestry ? “O ! yes,” Bays some man; “if there ever was a good woman my mother was good.” How she watched you when you were sick ! Others wearied. If she got weary she nevertheless was wakeful, and the medicine was given at the right time, and when the pillow was hot she turned it. And O ! then when you began to go astray, what a grief it was to her heart. All the scene comes back. You remember the chairs, you remember the table, you remember the doorsill where you played, you remember the tones of her voice. She seems calling you now, not by the formal title with which we address you, saying, “Mr.” this, or “Mr.” that, or “Honorable” this, or “Honorable” that. It" is just the first name, your first name, she calls you by this morning. She bids you to a better life. She says; “For get not all the counsel I gave you, my wandering boy; turn into paths of righteousness; I am waiting for you at the gate.” O ! yes, God brought yon here this morning to have that memory revived,and I shout upward the tidings. Angels of God, send forward the news. Ring ! ring ! The dead is alive again, and the lost is found ! The Newer Arithmetic. A woman placed four pounds of cold meat and eight ounces of bread before a tramp. At the end of twenty minutes how much was left? A young man, by swearing off on cigars, tobacco and beer, saved thirty cents a day for six months. How many frog suppers would this give him at $8 per supper? It costs S2OO for a young lady to learn painting, and she turns out two landscapes worth forty cents apiece, what is the net profit? An Indiana girl trapped eighty-three rabbits and sold them for thirteen cents each. What was the sum total, and how much did she have left after buy ing her father a $lO overcoat? A certain shaft makes 045 revolu tions per minute, and a young man is seized by the coat-tails and whirled around for twenty-seven seconds. How many revolutions does he make? A man winks his eye an average of 30,000 times per day, and a woman’s tongue makes 78,000 motions every twenty-four hours. At this rate how long will it take the man to catch np? The average woman groans 125 times per hour when suffering with toothache, while the average man ut ters thirty-five cuss words every sev enty seconds. At the end ot three hours how far ahead will the woman be? A man in Richmond wound np an eight day clock every night for thirteen straight years. How much time, esti mating three minutes for each wind, could he have put in at hoeing corn had he known what sort of a clock he had? Seven different mothers interested in the heathen of Africa have twenty-nine children between them. Five of the children swear, three have been in the work house, two have run away and the police are after four others. What is the remainder, and how much will it cost to hire someone to wash their faces and patch their clothes? In a certain saloon are seven men. A woman is seen crossing the street, club in hand, and four of the men slip over the back fence. Two thirds of the remainder are struck five times apiece by the club, and the other one third is bit three times. How many hits in all, including three broken de canters? Pittsfoed, Mass., Sept< 281878. Sirs—l "have taken Hour Bitters and recommend them to outers, as I found them very beneficial. Mrs. J. W. Tui.ler, , Sec. Women's Venetian Temperance tTnton.