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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS, W. HANCOCK, | VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bemi-Weekly, One Year - - - |4 00 VVeely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 Payable in Advance^! All advertisements eminating from public Aloes 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; each figure and 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 Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - -JI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 ®“Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted 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 line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, Attorney at Late* AMERICUS, GA. decl6tf B. P. HOLLIS, Attorney at Law , AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G. SIMMONS. Attorney at Law , AMERICUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort & Simmons. janGtf ,T. 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 involving titles of land and real estateare my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Jr. Eldridge's Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf Or. and. p. holloway; DentisT, americus, - - - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den ,al organs. Fills teeth by the Improved nethod, and inserts artificial teeth on the >est material known to the profession. tyOFFJ.CE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, MIUfTH MB BUILDERS, Americus, Ga. We are prepared to do any kind of work in the carpenter line at short notice and on easonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, we feel competent o give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. may26-3m Commercial Ear. This well-established house will be kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor and Cigars, Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands of fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation o* customers. may9tf JOHN W. COTNEY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel, / G. M. HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, oedding and ail other articles. It is in the centre of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses, fee., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to hone, among its permanent and transient pests, on account of the excellence of its cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. may9-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. L GEORGE ANOREWB, BOOT MB SHOE WEB, At his shop in the rear of J. Waxelbaum & Co.’s store, adjoining the livery stables, on Lamar St., invites the public to give him heir work. He can make and repair all work at short notice. Is sober and always Dn hand to await on customers. Work guaranteed to be honest and good. apr-U-tf Insure Against Storms! All should at once_proteet their property iginst loss. by WIND-BTOBMS, CY JLONKB and TORNADOES, by insuring n the Phenix Insurance Cos. of New York, hmof tbe strongest American Companies. W T.’ DAYIENBORT * SON, Lamar St.,.Americas, Ga. Agents. aprlßß-3m fengement of Over, Bowels and Kidneys. UYMTPTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cougn and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would dc bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred wnen but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness. Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is uo in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feci heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will he saved by always keeping the Regulator ' in the House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never De out of place. The remedy is harmless aud does not interfere with business or pleasure. ITIB PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala, Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.. says; Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “P 16 only Tiling that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never nave found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver. Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. H. ZEILIN & CO. __ FOR SALE BY ALL D RUGGISTS. &rfwf* s Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters meets the re quirements of the rational medical philoso phy which at present prevails. It is a per fectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, atonic and an alterative. It fortifies tho body against disease, invigorates and revi talizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary change in the entire sys tem. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally; Wool Wanted, BY THE Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company. 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Direct to Laurel Mills Manufacturing Cos., ROSWELL, COBB COUNTY, GA. ■ aprll-sw&wly AYER’S Ague Cure 1$ WARRANTED to cure air carte* of ma larial-disease, such as Fever and Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, -Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com i plaiut. In case of failure, after duo trial, dealers are authorized, by our circular of July Ist, 1882, to refund the money* Dr. J. 0. AyerACo., Lowed, Mass. Sold by all Drugglite, ♦ TUp CUM IS ALWAYS me ouii interesting. From morning to morning and from week to week THE SUN prints a continued story of the lives of real men and women, and of their deeds, plans, loves, hates and troubles. This story it more interesting than any romance that was ever devised. Subscription: Daily (4 pages), by mail, 55c. a month, or *0.30 a year; Sunday (8 pages), *l.o per year; Weekly (8 pages). *1 per year. I. W. ENGL ANT), Publisher, may2-im New York City. , INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1883. YOY.'VRY. MY OWN SHALL COME. Sorone I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea, I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall oome to me. I stay my haste, 1 make delays, For whatavails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seok are seeking me; No wind can drive my hark astray Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand akme? I wait with joy the coming years, My heart shall reap where it has sown And garner up the fruit of tears. The planets know their own and draw, The tide returns to meet the sea; I stand serene midst nature’s law And know my own shall come to me. The stars come nightly to the sky. The dew falls on the thirsty lea; Nor time, not space, nor deep, nor high; Can keep my own away from me. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE [The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form hi 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]. The Sword Sheathed in Flowers. “The Lord of Hosts is His name.”— Isaiah, xlvii., 4. Under the God of armies we assem ble tc-day. He has mingled in all the great fights of the ages. He was pres ent at the awful hemorrhages of the world, Marathon, and Salamis, and Navarre, and Chalons, and Cannae, and Sodan, and Waterloo, and Gettys burg. He saw all the armies march, and knows where they fell. He pre sides over national cemeteries and grave trenches, and not a private soldier in all the centuries was sacrificed but God knows where his dust is as plain ly as though he had been covered by a mountain of marble glorified from base to top with epitaph and eulogium;over all the armies of the living, over all the armies of the dead. “The Lord of Hosts is His name.” In this spring time the nation kneels and with cool bandage of garlands binds up the wounds of battle. As the ages go by war becomes more and more destruct iveness of its weaponry, but to the fact that the most of those who fall in bat tle now are of the better classes of the nation, while those who fell in s other days were for the most part the worse classes of the nations. Mr. Blunt in 1717, in his book entitled Institutions of Military Law, gives his opinion of the European armies of that day when he says: “It the infamous men and all the criminals, and all the atheists an outlaws, and all the dastardly peo ple were weeded out of the armies of Europe, there would not he much left.” Flogging and poor pay made them still more ignoble. Officers were appointed to compel them to drink their ration of one pint of spirits a day. There were noble men in battle in those centuries, hut the moral character of the armies of olden time was ninety-five per cent, worse than the moral character of the armies of modern times. By so much is war now more to be deplored, be cause it takes the picked men of the na tion. In this great national observ ance, last week at the South and this week at the North, the nation has re corded and will record the havoc of battle. You have only just to glance at the history of the world to get your illustrations. When Napoleon march ed up to Moscow, for 160 miles he de stroyed every house and every barn. Our Revolutionary war cost the En glish government $680,000,000. In twenty-two years ending about 1820 there were expended in war $15,000,- 000,000. About that time the esti mate was made that in the history of the world there had been expended $35- 000,000,000. But all that ciphering was done before our great European and American wars had been plunged. Ev er and anon as a nation we go into a discussion of the heavy taxes, and we ascribe it to this administration, this line of policy or that line of policy, when the simple fact is we are now paying tor the ambulances, for the grave trenches, for the exploded fortresses, tor the hospitals, for four years of na tional martyrdom. But all this loss of property is most insignificant as com pared with the destruction of human life. Ah! what a story that is. In one battle of Julius Cmsar 400,000 were slain. In one campaign of Xer xes 5,000,000 slain. Under Genghis Khan at Herat 1,600,000 slain. At Nisher 1,747,000 slain. Because it is a great way off in time does not lessen the calamity. At Ostend 120,000 were slain. At Akir 300,000 were slain. At the siege of Troy 1,816,000 fell. The Tartar and African wars de stroyed 180,000,000-lives. The wars against the Turks and Saracens cost 180,000,000 lives. Our civil war cost 1,000,000 lives, falling either on bat tlefield or in hospital. “Oh,” you say, “that is a very small item to add to all that.” If a member of your family hid fallen you would not say that. Thirty-five times the present population of the world gone down in For Dyspepsia, Costive ness, |Sick Headache, Chronic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and I Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases caused by De- battle. Oh, it seems to me it is time for every Christian man and woman to pray God day and night that war may cease. Enough the tears. Enough the blood. Enough the partings. Enough the agony. Enough the mar tyrdom. The nation also in these decorative observances proposes to educate the new generation, and impress them with the facts that they would not otherwise be impressed with. You subtract 18- 64 or’6s, when the war ended, from 1883—subtract 1865 from 1883, and then you will get an intimation of what vast multitudes must have been horn since the war closed, and how many people must have been so young at the time of the war they had no apprecia tion of its horrors. There is not a person in this house to-day under 26 years of age who has any appreciation of what we went through. Young man do you remember it? You say: “I dim ly remember that my mother sworned away while reading a newspaper, and I have a dim remembrance of my fath er’s body having been brought home wrapped in a flag, and then I remem ber a great many people came there and prayed, and then my mother got weak er and weaker, and after a while there were more people in the house to pray. They told me she was dead.” But there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, in this house to-day who do not re member the roll of a drum or the tramp of a regiment, or a sigh or a tear, of that tornado of woe that swept over this land Until there was one dead in every house. Four years of bloodshed, four years of parting, four years of cof fins and hearses and dirges. It was hell let loose. What waiting for news. Oh, how we scrutinized the morning and evening papers to see whether there were any familiar names there. One day the papers saying the next day the battle would open; the next day the papers saying the battle was going on; the next day the papers say ing the battle was still raging; the next day the papers saying 30,000 were slain and giving the names of the gen erals who fell, but not of the private soldiers. Waiting for news. A few days afterwards a wagon going through the streets of the town with a load of wounded, but no news from our hoy. After a while the paper comes with a long list of the wounded, long list of the dead, long list of the missing, and in that last list our boy. Missing! Where missing? By what Btream? In what woods? Was he hurt when he was missing? Missing! Oh, the strain was too much for some! That wife’s brain gave way, and ever since she has been walking the floor, of the asylum, or looking out the front win dow at the path as though she expect ed someone to come up the path, and up the stairs, and soliloquizing month after month and year after year: “Miss ing, missing, missing!” What made it all the worse was, it might have been avoided. There was no more rea son that that war should occur than I should this minute drive a dagger through your heart. There were a few sensible Christian philanthropists at the North and at the South derided and caricatured, but they had the right of it. Christian philanthropists at the North and the South said: “Let the North pay a certain amount of money for the freedom of the slaves, and then let the South sell out.” The North replied: “I won’t give a cent.” The South said. “I won’t sell out.” The battle opened. The North paid more for carrying on the war than would have bought all the slaves, and the South had to give up slavery anyhow. It would have been better for the North to have paid a certain amount of money and saved 500,000 brave men, and for the South to have sold out her slavery and saved her 500,000 brave men. I swear you to-day by the graves of your fathers and brothers and sons to an intenser hucred for the champion curse of the universe—war. May the hot bolts of God’s omnipotent wrath strike it down. Imprison it in the deepest dungeon of the eternal peniten tiary. Cleave it with all the sabres that ever glittered in the battle. Put it into the hottest fires kindled by all the consuming homesteads. Deeper down ana in a hotter flame let it he consumed, and let it gather up all the agonies of eternity as well as time in its accursed heart. By the millions of the graves of its victims I curse it. We want a time of aihitration and peace instead of a time of war. In this great national ceremony we also honor courage. Those men were, many of them, volunteers, not con scripts. They might have sent sub stitutes-, they might have got oft on furlough, or they might have deserted. The fact that they lie in their graves to-day shows that they were brave men. Brave at the front, brave at the cannon’s mouth, brave under the sur geon’s knife, brave on the lonely picket watch, brave in their dying message to the home circle. When next Wed nesday we put garlands on their tombs we honor bravery. We want to-day more of it: The church of God wants more men than can stand under fire. The lion of worldly derision roars and the sheep tremble. In our great re formatory and Christian movements how many at the first shot fall back. The great hindrance to the cause of God to-day is the inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the namby-pamby ism. of professed Christians. They go into the battle not with warrior’s gauntlet, but with kid gloves, and they have to be very careful they do not clutch the sword too tight lest the glove split at the back. We want in church of God and in reformatory movements more backbone, more met tle, more courage. Quit yourselves like men. “Thy saints in all this glorious war Shallconqucr though they die; They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eye.” Yes, in this national ceremony we also put honor upon self-sacrifice. To those men home and country meant just as they do to us. How did they feel? I can tell you just how they felt. Just as we would feel to-morrow morning if we were going off from home with the prospect of never coming back again, for the intelligent soldier not only sees battle ahead, but malarial sickness and exhaustion. Those men did not leave because they preferred the camp to the home circle, because they liked the music of the drum and fife better than they liked the music of the domestic circle. They sacrificed all for others, Murfreesboro’ and South Mountain and the swamps of the Chickahommy were not playgrounds. If there is any sublimity beyond that spirit of self-sacrifice I do not know what it is. If a man keep three-fourths and gives to someone one-fourth, that is honorable; if a man divide even with others, that is generous; hut a man gives all away and keeps nothing for himself, that is magnanimity, Christ like. And that those boys did. Take a girdle and measure yourself. Meas ure over the heart. Is your girth forty or fifty inches around? Having meas ured your body, have you measured yourself? or having measured your self around your heart, do you find it takes a girdle large enough to encircle the earth? You who do not understand us dry theologians when we talk about vicarious suffering, go and look at the soldiers’ graves. That is what it means. Blood for others, suffering for others. Sepulchre for others. A few years ago at Arlington Heights, Wash ington, I was called to deliver the oration at the decoration of the graves* and I was not so much impressed with the attendance of the President and the Cabinet and the officers of the army and navy and foreign ministers, as I was impressed with the epitaph repeated all the way around, “Unknown!” “Unknown!” “Unknown!” The time has got to come when the United States government will take off that epitaph. They are no more unknown. We have found them out at last. They are the beloved ones of the nation. It is high time that the heathen Goddess of Liberty standing on the top of the Capitol at Washington should be brought down, for I have no faith in the morals of a heathen goddess, and instead of that let there be in all the national cemeteries a statute in the form of a Christian woman, with one hand on an open Bible and her feet on the Rock of Ages, and with the other hand pointing down to those graves, saying: “These are my sons; they died that 1 might live.” Away with the misnomer. We have found thee out at last. It is of very little importance what name they received in baptism of water. In the mightier and holier baptism of blood we have found out who they are, and in this springtime the nation knsels down and hugs them to her heart and says: “Mineforever.” Yea, we mean by this national cere mony a defence of our country in the future. We want all these young men next Wednesday to watch how the nation puts garlands down upon the resting-place of those who died for their country, and they will say: “Well, the nation does not forget its dead, and if God ever calls me to battle I will go forth. Once a year, at any rate, we shall be resurrected in the memory of the nation by the annual decoration.” There will he no more war between the North and the South. We have had enough of that. Once in a while the old decayed bone of contention, Ameri can slavery, is picked up by some poli tician, who hopes to gnaw something off of it, hut the war between the North and South is ended, and there will never be another war. As to foreign invasion lam not certain. I do not know that all those forts around New York harbor are going to sleep through this century. Ido not know but Barn egat Lighthouse may look oft' upon a navy proposing to come up and destroy our cities. There were nations when we were in our civil conflict that could hardly keep their hands off of us. I do not know hut half a dozen foreign nations might hand together, saying; “We’ll put an end to that nuisance across the water.” An inventor in the city of Washington told me he had contrived a weapon of war that could be used in self-defence, hut could not be used in aggressive war. I said to him, “Get out a patent for that as quick as you can; get it introduced among all nations; when you get that thing introduced—that contrivance of yours introduced—nations will have the millennium.” A weapon good for self defence, hut of no use for aggression. When I spoke against war I said noth ing against self-defence. I have no right to go over on my neighbor’s premises and assault him, but if a bur glar at midnight breaks into my house and proposes the assassination of my family, if I can borrow a gun and load it and can aim it straight enough, I will shoot him. I am not so certain about invasion—invasion of foreign forces. If the time should ever come when our land should be invaded by a foreign enemy, then we want men like 1812 and 1864—men who know how to fight and how to die. Then we want all up and down the coast Pulaski and Fort Sumter, joining in the same chorus of thunder with Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton. Then we want the regiments to go out in the same great host. Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, Sixteenth South Carolina sharpshooters, Seventeenth Pennsylva nia Riflemen, Eighteenth Mississippi Cavalry. Forward, the whole line. I have no faith in that cry, “No North, 1 no South, no East, no West.” We want each section to keep its peculiari ties and its preferences, and to be one of the four in the great harmony—the bass, the alto, the soprano, the tenor in the grand march of the Union. Ido not know hut that in order to settle all our home difficulties we will have to have a foreign conflict. I pray God , not, but I sometimes fear. j Again, in this national ceremony we propose the beautification of all the tombs in our cemeteries, not only of those who fell in the war, hut those 1 who died in their beds, or in our arms, I or on our laps. Have you not noticed the change ? Asa result of this 1 national observance of the decoration 1 of the graves, ail our cemeteries have 1 come to arboriculture and floriculture, and there is many a tombstone that was planted thirty years ago that has been straightened, and many a stone cutter has again evoked the half-oblit erated epitaph. It is beautiful. Take forth the flowers. Put them on the graves of the loved ones. Only one flower perhaps you can take. Well, one flower for you may mean as much as the Duke of Wellington’s catafalque. It is all we can do for them now. It broke our hearts when they went away from us. Get over it! We never will get over it; we cannot get over it. I From all these banks of flowers let j there breathe the promise of a resur- j rection. The Hebrews used to come from the graves of their dead, and j pull up the glass by handfuls and then i throw the grass over their shoulders,' suggestive of the resurrection. In this ! annual decoration we do not pluck up 1 the grass, hut we pluck up the flowers, j and instead of throwing them over our heads we put them down over the heart ' that used to love us, and over the feet j that used to run in kind ministries for us, and over the lips from which we j took the kiss in the last parting. Ii noticed in the cemetery over one grave this inscription: “A night’s lodging on the way to the new Jerusalem.” J Comfort one another with these words.' May the hand that wipes away the tears from all eyes sweep your cheek with softest tenderness. May the Christ i of Mary and Martha and Lazarus en- ! fold you in His arms. May the white- j robed angels that sat at the tomb of Christ roll away the stone from the 1 door ot your dead in radiant resurrec- j tion. “The Lord'shall descend with a shout, and the voice of the archangel.” j Then the Dead March in Saul will be- ' oome the Hallelujah Chorus. A Boy who Opposed the Advauee- ' meat of Medical Science. Dr. Ike was called to see old Ned’s son and after several visits the doctor 1 said to the anxious father: “Ned, I doan wanter distress yer,' but that boy can’t git well. De con- j glomeration oh de merabrena hab dun ' sot in.” “Wall, I reckon dat will kill him,” Ned replied. “I doan see how a chile wid his weak cbnstitution an’ conven tion can get ober such oneaseness oh’ i de flesh. So you gins him up, Doc tor?” “Yaas, 1 issues my decrement right lieali. Dat hoy can’t live five hours.” About two weeks later Ned met the doctor and said: “I thought you gin that hoy up 9 ” “I did. Ain’t he dead yit?” “Dead,” repeated Ned, contemptu ously,* “why he’s choppin’ wood dis mornin’.” The doctor reflected for a moment, and said: “Dat’s a nice way to fool wid medical science. How does yer expeck folks to hab confidence in de advancement of medical diskiveries when a boy acks dat way. Dat hoy, sah, lifts his self np to dispute de ’stah lished rules oh de school ob physicians. I’se done wid him.” “I’se glad ob it sah, hut yo’self must hab made a mistake.” “No, I didn’t, case I nnderstan’s me business.” “I means dat yer mout hab lef’ too soon. If yer’d stayed dar awhile lon ger yer might hab ’stablished de proof ob yer proclamation.” “Look lieali, Ned, yer’d better let me go an’ see dat boy agin.” “No, I’se much ohleeged ter yer. I’se got a heap oh work to do an’ I need de chile. Go off somewhere an’ pizen a cat.” Ancient Dishes. The British museum has just acquir ed an interesting collection of thirty nine silver objects which gives an in sight into the daily life of the Baby lonians, and reminds us of the discov ery of the bird dealer’s shop at Pom pei. These objects, which were all found together ou the site of Babylon, consists of fragments of silver dishes, the broken handle of a vase and coins, most of the latter being defaced and clipped 1 . It is easy to see that all have been broken purposely by a practiced hand, with the view of using the metal again, and we may fairly conclude that the collection is the remains of a silver smith’s or coiner’s shop. Among the coins is a Lycian one in good preserva tion. So far as can be judged from the vase handle and dishes, the art is dis tinctly Babylonian under Persian in fluence, and the workshop may date from the conquest of Alexander. j FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 74. MeetMe By Moonlight ALONE! Vis'll II! 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