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•"JJow We AdTanoe.
■ In the last forty years the nvorago
of humcn life has increased from twen
ty-seven to thirty-four years. This is a RfiDUVlC
remarkable fact. Seven years added to
the average human life in forty 1 It
took over oighteen hundred years, to
increase the average of life eight years,
which shows how much more rapidly
we advance in these days. From the
days of Cresar to the present, fifteen
years have been added to- the average
°f life,.seven of which of this desirable
addition are to bo accounted to the
advancement made in sanitary 'science
during the last forty.years. We live
in better houses; wo wear better
clothes; wo care more rationally for
our children and wearo not so enslaved
by superstitious fear.
ThiB lengthening of -life has. been
made in spite' of the many bad habits
yet indulged in. by the people. The
ubb of intoxicants and tobacco, late
. hours, dress yet inadequate, the hurry
and worry of' the age, stil
age, 'still tend, to
shorten our days, of life upon the
earth. If those causes could be re
moved;.; another fifteen years could be
added,to.the length.of life.' Men and
women should live to be one hundred
years old, and there should be notable
exceptions to the rule who would live
to be one hundred and t.wenty-five or
thirty. The Overage-animal or’bird
lives, oh.an average, rflve times as long
as it> takes them to mature physically.
Some live much .longer than this pro
portion. Man should do at least as
well as the animals, and with his abili
ty to care for himself he should sur
pass the animals. We need a more
rational modo of life. We believe we
are gradually learning it.—Exchange.
Give the Boys a Chance.
I think we heed to study our chil
dren, and however dissimilar they may
be to each other it is essential that
equality of treatment be used. Give
the boys a chance. Let them feel that
they have a warm place in your moth
er heart. Wish to know about their
pastimes and amusements when-out of
your sight, and of their little affairs
with their companions. Without be
ing censorous, you might often nip in
the bud infirmities of temper and dis
position and give them timely counsel.
Let them enjoy the refinements of
home that are too often only reserved
for the girls. In attending to -their
wants be prompt, thus setting them-an
example.
- Occasionally allow a room entirely
at their service for an evening to en
tertain their companions. A boy likes
to show his pictures, his music, etc.,
to his friends, and they in turn are
more respectful for being treated
nicely by the family. Why should
the girls only be allowed these privi
leges? Thus we gain our son’s confi
dence and love, enabling us to instill
into their minds the same hatred that
we have for all kinds of vicious prac
tices. This bond of sympathy between
our natures being strongly established,
there will be no need of preaching
against the cigar habit and saloons
and their attendant evils. A son who
loves his mother when he marries will
be most likely to make a good hus
band.—A Mother in Detroit Free
Press.
Hot Left in Doubt.
Neighbor—“I hear your father in
tends to put up a new house. Who is his
builder?” ■
Boy—“What’s that?”
“Why, the—er—one who bosses'the
job?”
“Oh! Why, ma, of course.”—
Street & Smith’s Good News.
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No Show for. Cholera.
Foreign Tisitor—“Cholera obtained
no foothold in America this summer.”
'American—“No. Times were so hard
that people had to content themselves
with three meals a day.”—New York
Weekly.
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A poet assures us that “death is .man’s best
friend.’’- Perhaps so, but it is a friend that
most of us are in no hurry to meet.
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Even New York Goes Under and Ohio,
and Iowa Follow Suit.
Returns -from the elections
New York state, Tuesday, shows the
shornt tf
situation of a year ago is almost exae
Iy - reversed. The. republicans have
apparently swept everything. Actual
figures arc bard" to get; Practically
complete -returns from- many of the
counties of the state, and scattering.re-
turnsfrom the others indicate that the
republicans have elected their entire
state ticket and that they will have a
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I was taken ill with spinal disease and rhea?
mutism. -When I returned home my trouble
was still With me, and I wasr confined to my
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tor taking seven bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla
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ana feels like a newwoman.” James
A. Wheeled, 1900 Division St., Baltimore, Hd.
good working majority in the-next
legislature. In Brooklyn the lo
cal campaign Was - fought /most
bitterly. ~ Mayor Brody, -who
wap re-nominated by the democrats,
was defeated by'8,000 or; more. ‘Wil
liam B. Gayner, the prominent demo
crat, who" for the past -two years has
led in the fight against Boss McLaugh
lin and his ring, was nominated by tho
republicans for supremo , court judge
in the.seeond district with a “result of
a 20,000 majority in- his- favor. The
local contest in New S York city was
very interesting, the republicans mak-,
rag but small efforts'ra behalf of their
tieket. The complete returns for the
city show the election of the entire
Tammany ticket by majorities ranging
between 67,000 and 68,000.
The Sun says: Every return from
the state shows gains for the republi
cans, and that the -state has gone re
publican by about 40,000.
NEW JEBSEX IS XiOST.
In New Jersey the situation is very
similar to that in:-New York. There,
for the first time sinoe they passed the
local option laws in 1888, the republi
cans will control the assembly.
A WATERLOO IN OHIO.
The demoorats of "Ohio met with a
perfect ’Waterloo in the election Tues
day. The returns so far seem to indi
cate the election of McKinley by not
less than 60,000 nor more than 75,000
plurality. This is the largest majority
given to any candidate in this- state
since Brough beat Vallandigham in
1861 by more than 100,000 majority.
It’s a perfect landslide, and while the
democrats did not expect a viotory,
they are dazed at the overwhelming
defeat, which is attributed to various
causes. Cincinnati and Ham
ilton county have gone. for Mc
Kinley by from. 10,000 to 14,000,
and the - entire republican ticket is
elected. Hard times induced the
working men and others of the dis
contented to blame the demoorats with
all tho trouble, and they accordingly
voted with the opposition party. The
returns from the northwest show that
the farmers were disgusted with the
democratic position on silver and went
back on them. The legislature will
bo from three-fourths to four-
fifths republicans in both branches.
VIRGINIA OVEEWHEIiMINGIiY SAVE.
A Richmond special says: The elec
tion in Virginia, in which the demo
crats won a sweeping victory, was one
of the most remarkable contests ever
known in the state. A governor, a
lieutenant-governor and attorney gen
eral were chosen together with mem
bers of the "general assembly. The as
sembly will, in its turn, elect a full
judiciary except county judges, from
members of the supreme court of ap
peals down, and also two senators in
congress, one to fill the unexpired term
of the late Senator Barbour and
the other to fill the long term.
This was the first time in twenty years
that a single contest involved the fil
ling of so many of the important state
offices. Although the vote throughout
the state was small the democratic vic
tory was one of the most complete in
the political history of Virgina. With
partial returns in from perhaps two-
thirds of the state it is clear that, be
sides electing its ticket by a handsome
majority of from 25,000 to 40,000 the
democratic party has chosen at least
three-fourtlis of the members of the
general assembly. Returns from al
most every quarter havo been encour
aging.
MARYLAND ADD RIGHT.
Returns from many precints* of
Maryland show that democrats have el
ected candidates for state comptroller
by a large plurality.
IN MASSACHUSETTS. r-
Advicos from Boston state that
forty towns in the state show net dem
ocratic loss, from last year, of 1,852.
One hundred towns give Greenhelge
(republican) 20,321, Enssell 19,852.
Same towns last year gave Haile (re
publican) 29,236, Russell 24,210. Net
democratic loss of 5,3-13. One hund
red and eighty towns show a net demo
cratic loss of 9,554 from last year.
Returns from 300 towns show demo
cratic losses. Returns from 237- towns
give Russell 42,280 and Greenhalge
64,866. The same towns, in 1861,
gave Russell 45,S35 and Allen 55,685.
A-Boston special say?: The repub
licans elected their candidate for gov
ernor in Massachusetts, Tuesday, by
30,000 plurality. All during tho cam
paign the democratic leaders.have felt
thnt they were fighting against hope
less odds, but the overwhelming vic
tory which Frederick T. Greenhalge
won is perhaps the greatest of all the
great surprises which have occurred in
Massachusetts polities in the past-four
years.
IN KANSAS. -
Tho republican majorities in Arkan
sas City will run from 50 to 200. In
Winfield, from 325 to 390. Estimated
republican majority in Cowley countv,
500.
'lOWA REPUBLICAN.
' UeVMmns snpoial says: TIip re
publics ns swept Iowa Tuesday. They
sleeted their candidate for governor,
F. D. Jackson, by 35,000, and the re
mainder of their state ticket by a
large plurality. They will have a good
working majority in both branches of
the general assembly and elect a Uni
ted States senator to succeed James
F. Wilson, jj •
Hood’s Fills-ora the test after-dinner Pills, as-
listdiscsUon, euro beadacb^. Try a box.
KENTUCKY IS SAFE.
Full returns throughout Kentucky
will not be available for several days;
but so far as reports have been re
served it is pretty certain that the rela
tive standing of the political parties
have not changed, The only elections
ef general interest was for election of
general assembly. The legislature will
be democratic on joint ballot by about
4 tol. The only issues in this election
were factional, the dominant faction
of the democracy being: the Cleveland
party as, opposed to the wing, which*
supported Mr. Henry Watterson in his
opposition to Cleveland’s nomination.
EXPECTED OE NEBRASKA.
Returns so far from the election, in
Nebraska show that the work done by
the/free silver democrats in revenge;
I became of the administration policy
“" I on'silver, has badly cufrinto the show-/ nHm bcf Of i
j ing ptofle by theparty at this election. Sy on6
uoiunee for ouuge Irvin and
voted for Hc'lffijpb,- populist, while
mtny administratihn democrats to pre
vent Holcomb’s election have voted
fir Harrison, the republican oandi-
■;ate. This division of votes has made
tloleolmb and Harrison run very‘close
together. ' Tho populist state central
committee claims the election by 15,-
900, while the republican committee
claims Harrison elected by 5,000.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN BY 90,000.
Dispatches, from every county in
Pennsylvania, save a few in the ‘ ex
treme western part of tho state, show
republican gains of 300 to 900, indi
cating that Boss Quay was correot
when he said a few days ago that the
republican majority would bo “run ‘up
to 90,000, The entire state ..ticket, qf-
- course, goes in by heavy majorities.
SOUTHM ms I
Be frill el Her fwress ani Pros-
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
. .Pithy Paragraphs. '
■ Af$lO0,000 woolen mill is being seri-
ously considered as.the next factory to
Be established at Huntsville, Ala.
The World’s Convention of Christian
;Workers assembled at Atlanta, Ga.,
Thursday morning. Delgates, were
in attendance from all parts of the
country.
The Commercial club, of Birming
ham, Ala., .has resolved to circulate a
petition to the ways and means com
mittee asking it not to lower the duty
on iron and coal in tho new tariff bill.
The relief train, sent out by the New
York World, numbering eight carloads
of provisions and supplies, arrived in
Charleston, S. C., Wednesday after
noon. The train has. been turned over
to the’locol committee,which will con
fer with the president of the Red Cross
Society before making any disposition.
Thirteen hew cases and. one death
were reported by tho Brunswick board
of health Wednesday. The dead is J.
H. Hickman, white. Three of tho
new cases are whites. Twelve patients
were discharged. There are 126 pa
tients under treatment, the twelve dis
charged and one dead Wednesday
striking a balance with thirteen new
cases.,
Tho Alabama Christian Missionary
Convention met in regular session at
Birmingham, Tuesday, about fifty
delegates attending, coming from all
parts of the state. Rev. Irwin, of
Selma, the president of the association,
presided. The president’s annual ad-
address showed the church to be grow
ing rapidly in Alabama. It row has
more than ten thousand members..
D. Yorenberg & Bro., at Gurleys,
Ala., doing a large general merchan
dise business, made an assignment
Wednesday night to Walter Wells, for
the benefit of the general creditors.'
It was precipitated by .the pressure of
certain creditors. This assignment in
no way effects the Alabama Lnmber
and Manufacturing Company, at Gur
leys, in which Yorenberg is largely
interested.
The United States grand jury at
Norfolk, Va.,Wednesday, indicted the
following for violation of the pension
laws: Elln'Etheridge, colored; Eliza
Ward, colored; Mary K.. Morris, col
ored; Eugenia F. Etheridge, white; R.
C. Perkins, white; John Ward, color
ed; James Sawyer, colored; William
Selden, colored; R. P. Handy, color
ed; Anna Brocket, colored; Julia
Shannonhouse, colored.
A Birmingham, Ala.,special of Wed
nesday says: The committee of tho
Commercial club are working hard on
the memorial which they will present
to the ways and means committee rel
ative to the tariff on coal and iron.
The latter committee will be furnished
with abundant statistics and argu
ments why these articles should not
be put on the free list. The memorial
will probably be forwarded at once, so
as to put the committee at Washington
on notice.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Jes-
up, Ga., says: There'are no new eases
of yellow fever to be reported. The
last one .has been discharged from
treatment. The government repre
sentative has made np his mind that
all danger of infection is over and in
his opinion he has been backed by
Surgeon Murray. Everything in Jes-
up is almost at a standstill. It is sin
cerely hoped that the authorities at
headquarters will relieve the tovm at
once of a quarantine, which is now
useless and expensive.
A Jackson, Tenn., special of Wednes
day says:—The celebrated case of the
United States against tho Rev. George
Frederick Howard, charged with
using the mails for fraudulent pur
poses, has just arrived at a point
where it is becoming interesting. Tho
plea in abatement, which has occupied
the attention of of the court for the past
four days, is now out of the way, hav
ing been decided against the defend
ant. Many knotty questions- of law
have also been swept away by the
conrt. .The way is. now clear to try
the main case upon its merits, which
will be done-at once.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for-the Past Week.
Tho review of ths industrial situati -n in the
.South for the. past week shows that the settle
ment of the financial question .is producing
good results. Renewed confllence is shown by
enquiries received from prospective investors,
by an increase iu the, demand for machinery,
by arrangements being made io start up plants
.that have not been working, and by an en
larged volume of mercantilo business. No ma
terial advance can be reported in the iron and
coal market whiob has practically tonched-bot-
tom. The Louisiana sngor crop is now com
ing into market and is one or tbe largest for
many years, and the same is trne of tbo rico
crop. -Aslight advance in tbe price of cotton
baB brought ont an increased supply, bnt many
planters who can afford to do bo are holding
for yet higher prices.
Twenty-three newindnstries wexe established
er incorporated during the week, together with
seven enlargements of manufactories, and five
important new buildings. Among noticeable
new indnrtries are the organization of tbe Bes
semer Development Comapany at Llano, Texas,
capital $360,OOO. by T. J. Semple and-others, to
develop ore lands; the Winston Machine Com
pany, at Winston, N. 0., capital 120,000, by T,
H. Sutton and associates; the Elkins Furniture
and Hardware Company, at Elkins, W. Va..
capital $20,000, by J- S. Posten and others,and
QJmmftn’o 'Rafrytrorft.lnw anil Aronnfnofnwtnrr
the Simmon’s Refrigerator and Manufacturing
Company, at Dallas, Tex., capital $20,000,' by
James Simmons and associates.
A compress company, and a tobacco manu-
fantory.are reported at Chattanooga, Tenn.;
mines and'quarries are to be opened at Cedar-
town, Ga., Faith and-Woodside, N. 0.; flouring
mills are to be built at Horse Cave. Ey., Elkin,
N.-O., and Union; City, Tenn.: lnmber mills at
Atlanta; Ga., and Logan 0. H , W. Yu., and
saw and planing mills at Ball Play, Ala-, and
Bartow Fla.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Fully Ono Thousand Bend.
'A cable; dispatch of Tuesday from
Madrid,’ Spain, says: The latest de-
tuils.coheerhing the terrible disaster
at Santander - Friday 6how that the
’ —- dead, missing'and wounded
of a Day. Chronicle! in
Brief aM Concise Par-arts
And Containing tho Gist of the News
From All Farts of the World.
Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the em
bezzler, whose extradition^ from. Oasta
-Rica excited so much talk, was taken
toSingSjng Thursday to serve out hie
sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.
One of the gas motors; used by the
North Side Gable road, at Chicago,
exploded Thursday morning, setting
fire to the barns. Before the flames
Were extinguished eleven motors,
forty cars and the barns were destroy
ed. The loss is about $100,000.
A New York dispatch of Thursday-
says: It is definitely ascertained that
-the Brooklyn navy yard’s new armored
erniser, the New York, through a rod-
cal defect in her construction, draws
considerably more water than intend
ed, and is unable to get into any dock
in this country*
Friday the famous Edison- patent
expired in England, and the manufao-
tnro and 'sale of incandescent lamps
in that country is now free. This is
.said to mean the possible decrease in
the price of incandescent lamps and
tho establishment of a number of new
manufactories.
The supreme court of North Caro
lina, Thursday, decided the right- of
way case between tbe Raleigh and
W.estern and the Glendon and Golf
railways in favor of the latter. The
Glendon and Gulf is a link of the im
portant line between Durham and
Tharlotte, and it is officially stated
chat the work of construction will now
soon be resumed.
‘ A south-bound express crashed into
t north-bound freight, on the Hocking
'/alley railroad near Rising Sun, Ohio,
Thursday evening. The collision was
luo to the disobedience of orders on
the part of the engineer of the freight.
A heavy fog prevailed at the time- and
obscured the vision of the passenger
.‘uginoer. Four people were killed
outright.
A special of Thursday from Omaha,
Nebraska, atateathat the returns from
80 per cent of the counties in the state
indicate-the election of Judge Har
rison, republican, to the supreme court
by about 5,000 votes. This result
was a complete surprise to every one,
especially to the republicans who did
not expect it. A study of the returns
shows a most lamentable democratic
loss.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday
says: Twelve rapid-firing Hotchkiss
guns which were on exhibition in the
transportation building during the
summer,were hastily packed up await
ing shipment east. Their destination
is Brazil. This is the opinion of the
customhouse, inspectors and exposition
officials. .They have been watching
the movement of tho Hotchkiss Gun
Company the last few weeks.
Ad-fices of Thnrsday from North
Bay, Canada, state that it is now
known that twenty-one lives were loBt
by the burning of tho steamer John
Frazer on Lake Nippising Tuesday
night. Of twenty-eight persons on
board, only seven were saved. At the
time of the fire the steamer was carry
ing lumbermen and supplies from
Callinder to Davidson and the lnmber
camp at the western end of Lake Nip
pising.
The Columbus, Miss., council at
their regular meeting Wednesday
night nnanimonsly decided to contest
the payment of the $100,000 in bonds,
which tbe city voted to the Georgia
Pacific railway. The Georgia Pacific
has in many instances discriminated
against Columbus in freight rates, and
the aotion of the conneil in contesting
the payment of the bond is endorsed
by a large majority of the citizens. A
lively legal contest is promised.
A New York special of Thursday
.says:—Interest is practically at an end
in regard to the election. New York
has elected the republican state ticket
by probably 40,000 majority. Shieren,
has 30,000 plurality in Brooklyn and
the machine has gone all to smash.
Tammany holds its grip on the city
and elects all of its local candidates by
pluralities averaging 65,000. Ten
democratic civil jnstices, eight senators
and twenty-seven assemblymen are
also elected.
. A St. Louis dispatch of Thursday
says: President Clark, of the Mobile
and Ohio, delivered his ultimatum to
Grand Master Sargent and other rep
resentatives of the employes. He of
fers to change the reduction from ten
per cent, to eight per cent, until
March 1, when, if the condition of the
country warrants it, the wages will be
restored. Another conference will be
held when the employes’ representa
tives wiU give their answer.
A New York dispatch says: It now
looks as if the Corbett-Mitchell fight
would certainly come off in Florida.
A certified check for $10,000 has been
received by Richard K. Fox from the
Florida people as a guarantee of good
faith, and at a meeting Thursday of
representatives ' of both men, they
agreed to accept, providing the Florida
Athletic Clnb deposits $5,000 to be
divided between the fighters as train
ing expenses if tho fight is not allowed
to come off. -
A New Orleans dispatch of Thurs
day says: The Olympic Club has deci
ded to reject the amended articles of
Pugilists Mitchell and Corbett, and
the fight between them will not take
place in this city. The club had made
a liberal offer of $20,000 to the two
men, but Mitchell and Corbett threw
this offer into the waste basket and
prepared their own articles, asking
$5,000 for traveling and training ex
penses.. The clnb considered this de
mand exhorbitant and nnanimonsly
agreed, to reject it.
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Before, the Land Commissioner—Titles
Asked for Land Grants.
A Washington special of Wednesday
says: Assistant Land Commissioner
Bowers is. considering an interesting
land case from Louisiana. About tbe
beginning of the war. the United
States granted patents to citizens of
‘Louisiana to the’ amount of 13,000
acres. These patents were never re
corded. The governor of Louisiana dur
ing the war granted the same parties the
same lands by state patents, assuming
that as Louisiana" had gone out of the
Union that it .had taken the publio.
lands within its borders with'it. - The
state patents were recorded and at
present are the only" title by which tbe
lands axe held.' The lands have been
assigned and a request is now made to
the .‘generalland office for patents from
the United States in order that the ti
tle may be secured for the parties now
owning the lands. This-is die first
case of the kind ever brought before
the land department. ^
Call Issued for a Meeting iu Augusta,
November 28(h. . ' ,
The Georgia roacl congress has been
called to meet in Augusta on tho 28th
instant, tho Augusta Exposition hav
ing set apart that day as “Road Con
gress Day.”
The vico-jiresidents of the body are:
Hon. H. P. Smart; of Savannah ; Hon.
O. A. Barry, Coleman; CoIonel.G. W._
Jordan,. Jr., HawkinErvi]Ie;:Hon.- W.
;J. Weeks, - Talbotton; Dr; J. W.
Nelms, 'Atlanta; Hon. W. A. Huff,
Macon; Col. 3: O. WaddeU,; Atlanta;
Prof. O. M. Strahan, Athens; Hon.
J. W.." Robertson; Cornelia; Colonel
O. H. Beall, Sandersville; Colonel
A T. Pntnam, Brunswick.
- The time for the meeting is auspi
cious, as the unprecented-low rates on
the railroads will enable every county-
to. be represented. The basis of rep
resentation is donb’e tho number of
representatives in the lower branch
of the general assembly.
The Georgie state fair adopted the
suggestion of the secretary of the
'Georgia road congress and instituted
a department of roads, and now the
management of other fairs are imitat
ing them. It will be 6een that Geor
gia leads the van in favor of a perma
nent system of improved roads con
structed under the direction of the
most skilled engineers, and by the use
of convict labor and improved road
working- machinery. Every county
in Georgia, shonld be represented by
her ablest men in the congress that
meets in Angusta on the 28th.
AT .THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Affairs t! Gdrennsit ad Paine si
Notes of Interest Concerning'tho Peo*
pie and Their General Welfare.
Secretary Hoke Smith left Wash
ington "Wednesday night for Macon,
Ga., to take part in the trial of two
important railroad cases. Tho secre
tary expects to be absent about one
week.
Tho prevailing opinion nmong dem
ocrats and republicans at Washington
is that Tuesday’s elections determined
the republicans’ presidential ticket in
1896. It will be McKinley and Reed,
and the fight will be bet ween the dem
ocrats and republicans on tbo tariff;
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: The secretary of state has re
ceived the translation of a decree of
October 20, 1793, making importers
liable at Mexican ports from and af
ter January 1, 1894, to an additional
tax on imports of 1 and 1-4 of 1 per
cent.
Secretaries Gresham, Lamont, Hoke
Smith and Morton received tho elec
tion returns at the white house in Pri
vate Secretary Thnrber’a room. A
special wire delivered the bulletins.
Such as were indicative of results were
telephoned tho president at Woodley.
The members of the cabinet at the
white'house attributed the results to
the business depression of tbo past
several months.
. There will be no appropriations for
public buildings by the coming con
gress, if the chairman of tho senate
appropriation committee succeeds in
carrying out its plans, beyond that
for a new government printing office,
the necessity for which is clearly rec
ognized. It is proposed to provide
an approprsation of $150,000 to re
construct and repair the present build
ing so that it can be used as an office
building.
The opinion is expressed at Y/ash-
ington that the cause of the rise in sil
ver for the past few days is due in
part to the belief that the goverment
in Rnssiais contemplating the step of
adopting silver as apart of her mon
etary system. It is said that intima
tions have been received here by the
government officials that Russia will
replace her uncovered paper money
with silver to be used for subsidiary
coin.
The following are recess appoint
ments of those who failed of confirma
tion by the senate: Charles E. Davis,
of Ht. Auburn, agent for Indians of
the Colorado river agency in Arizona;
Isaac L. Wooten, of Laurel, Del.,
agent for Indians of the Navada agen
cy, in Nevada; George Harper,of Car
rollton,Ga.,Umatilla agency in Ogden;
Guy Bryan, of St. Lonis, assayer in
charge of the United States assay
office.
The republicans at Washington are
exultant over the election. An ob
server in passing through tho govern
ment departments can easily identify
the republicans holding places. Their
faces are wreathed in smiles and they
cannot refrain from crowing over their
democratic associates. The prevailing
opinion in the city is that the defeat of
the democracy in the northern states
is mainly dne to the existing business
depression and hard times.
The low water mark of the available
balance of the treasury was reached
■Thursday, tho total stood at $99,908,-
242, of which $84,656,412 was the gold
reserve. The large expenditures over
receipts thus far this month are re
sponsible for. this condition, but no
alarm of uneasiness is felt. The hope
is expressed that better times will
soon come and the reserve, as well as
the net currency balance, will again
begin to rise. It was stated at the
department that no order having in
view the actual coinage of the silver
bullion in tbe treasury purchased un
der the sherman act, have yet been
issued, bnt they are expected any
time.
Hands Off'Hawaii:
There is a great deal of gossip and
many rumors as to the administration’s
policy with regard to Hawaii, bnt
from tbe best information obtainable,
Minister Willis, who- shonld have ar
rived at Honolulu last Sunday, has in
structions to keep hands off, that tho
provisional government will not be sus
tained by the power of the United
States, nor will tbe monarchy be re
established. The people of Hawaii
will be afforded a fair opportunity to
decide for themselves what sort of
government they want, while the Uni
ted States holds aloof. This govern
ment wiU not permit any other gov
ernment to interfere in any manner
whatever.
from Our lost
TelegraBliic
And Presented in Pointed, and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
King Lobengnla Trapped.
Advices oU Thursday from Cape
Town Africa, says that the native run
ners who are reaching Fort Victoria
confirm the-belief that King Lobenguia
has been trapped. He is blocked to
the northward by the tzetse fly coun
try, through^which it will he impossi
ble for him.fo drive his cattle, and- to
the southward by the .imperial- troops
and the forces of the .British South
African Company. Lobengula’s forces
are supposed to be in the vicinity of
the Shongani and Ganlo riters, 140
miles west of Fort Charter. The cap
ture seems probable,
The Ditmar dynamite faotory, at
Bay. Chester, N.- Y., was .blown up
Tuesday morning. It is reported That
peveral men were killed.
Frances H. Weeks was" sentenced at
New York Wednesday to ten years
imprisonment in Sing Sing prison. He
pleaded guilty on arraignment and tho
entire proceeding Aid not occupy five
minutes.
Under date of Unalaskn, Alaska,
October 7th, Captain Healy, of the
revenue cutter Bear, reports that an
epidemic of la grippe and pneumonia
has broken out at that place among
the people of the village and on the
vessels of the harbor.
J. W.,Williams, white, and Henry
Mack, negro, were jailed at Albany,
Ga., Tuesday nigbt for burning tho
stockade and barn of Jesse Land, on
the night of October 20th. Williams
has confessed that he watched while
the negro set fire. Governor Northen
had offered a reward for the guilty par
ties.
A Chicago special says: Mayor
Harrison’s assassin, Prendergast, ap
peared for trial Monday, but upon the
request of attorneys, secured for him
by his brother—a “letter carrier—the
case was continued by Judge Dunn
until November 27th. Tho lawyers
for the defense stated that they desired
time to study the case.
A dispatch of Tuesday to tho London
Standard, from Berlin, shows thAt
since November 2d there were six cases
of cholera and three deaths in east
Prussia, five new cases in and nenr
Stettin and six new cases and one
death in other places, in Pomerania.
Since October 29th three cases of chol
era and three deaths were reported at
Havelberg. and ono death at Potsdam.
The Pari^ Journal of Monday ex
presses the belief that the representa
tive of the French physicians sent to
Bournemouth, England, to examine
Dr. Carl Hertz, the Panama canal lob
byist, and to report upon his condi
tion, will hold that the prisoner is suf
fering from general debility and weak
ening of tho mental faculties and from
a grave and pronounced diabetic and
cardiac disease.
A dispatch from Hanover, Germany,
says that Lieutenant von Meyerick,
who was most prominently connected
with tho gambling fraud trials, and
who was recently convicted and sen
tenced to four years’ imprisonment,
was fonnd dead in his cell Monday,
having committed suicide by hanging.
Lieutenant von Meyerick was a distin
guished officer of the Lanweher cav
alry, and was decorated with the or
der of the Red Eagle.
A London cablegram of Monday
says: A public examination of the af
fairs of Hollett & Co., agents nnd
bankers, shows liabilities amounting
to $725,000. The duke of Edinbur/
the duke of York, Prince Henry of
Battenburg and most of the promi
nent naval officers are among the un
secured creditors. William Hallett
attributes his failure to financierin,
the Dalwell News Agency to the ex
tent of over $200,000.
The New York Herald of Tuesday
morning printed a dispatch from La-
Libertad, Honduras, stating, that by
the alleged orders of President Yas-
quez and by the express command of
the commissioner of the port of Ama-
pala, seven cannon shots were fired
after the Paofio mail steamship, Costa
Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as
she steamed away, because she refused
to surrender Policorpo Conella who
recently led the revolution in Hondu
ras, but was defeated by Vasquoz.
PUGULISTIC ALDERMEN.
A Disgraceful Scrap in Chicago’s (Xty
Council.
A Chicago special says: Such scenes
were never before enacted in the cham
ber of tho city council or the city oi
Chicago as transpired Saturday. Be
fore the crepe-draped speaker’s desk
stood two aldermen, opponents politi
cally in the council, each declaring
himself the chairman of the body. A
reading clerk, an officer of tho coun
cil, in order to protect one of these
speakers in his alleged right to’ rule
over the body, leaped upon the hack
of the opposing speaker and tried to
eject him from the stand. A clerk of
the body tore up a resolution regular
ly introduced, because it was not in
line with what his party desired. Over
the crepe-draped rail of the speaker’s
stand leaped another alderman upon
the back of the clerk. To his aid
flocked his colleagues. Upon him
jumped on alderman of the opposing
faction, throwing off-his coat as he
ran and clutching at the throat of the
man who by force was trying to get
before tho council that which should
not legally have been tried.
Police officers rushed into the en
closure to separate tho struggling al
dermen,, and in the fight .the crepe
which hung about the desk of the dead
mayor was torn down and trampled
-under foot. The men who three days
ago spent money and labor to honor
Mayor Harrison, disgraced his memo
ry by a disreputable brawl over the
right to sit for twenty minutes iu his
chair.
The council is almost evenly divided
politically, the republicans having a
slight majority, while the dead ex
mayor was a democrat.
The council chamber is guarded by
a squad of police officers and no man,
no matter what his politics or position
is allowed to enter.
TOBACCO MEN PROTEST
Agaiiist a Proposed Increase of the tax
on the Weed.
The Tobacoo Manufacturer’s Asso
ciation of the United States met in
convention at Washington, Wednes
day to protest against the proposed in
crease of the tax on manufactured to
bacco. Many southern and western
tobacco manufacturers were present.
They adopted resolutions protesting
against tho increased tax and suggest
ing that the revenue of the govern
ment could be largely increased by
the repeal of the revenue laws of 1890,
permitting the sale of leaf' tobacco di
rect to the consumers without the
payment of taxes. They also appoint
ed a committee of ten to confer with
the sub-committee on ways andmeans.
Historian Parkman Bead.
A Boston special says: Frances
Parkman, the eminent historian, died
f t his home on Prince street, Jamaica
’laxns, Wednesday. Peritonitis was
the cause of his death. .He' recently
celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday
in an unostentatious manner, receiving
a few visitors but many letters and
telegrams from nil parte of the world.
1 Cream of TartarM Soda i
Have uses in cooking well known to every housekeeper; but
the-method of refining them to make them chemically pure,
and- of mixing them together so as to - produce their greatest
leavening power and best results when combined, is a matter of
. great exactness, requiring the most expert knowledge and skill.
Royal Baking Powder
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Is the product of this knowledge and experience and the
expenditure of many thousands of dollars in patents and
- appliances for its preparation. It is a compound of strictly pure
grape cream of tartar and absolutely pure soda, combined with
exactness and care by famous chemists, and it will produce more
wholesome and delicate bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, etc., than can
be had where this modern agent of cooking is not used.
Beware of the cheap compounds called baking powders to
catch the unwary. They are made with alum and are poisonous.
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Cheap Toys Are Best.
Who of us that remembors how the
battered old every-day doll held that
first place in our heart which the best
doll, proudly produced on company
occasions, held iu our vanity, but will
recognize the deep intuition of M. de
Gourmond’s assertion that the ele
gantly dressed doll, in all the pomp
and circumstance of the shop, is once
and forever only a fine lady or a peas
ant, a bride or a baby, while the every
day doll is “all.that and all the rest,”
“according to the divine inspiration
given to the little child, which sup
presses for her pleasure time and
space, retaining only the idea, all
powerful in the art of metamorphoses?”
To conjecture how much of nursery
naughtiness is dne to tho misapplied
indulgence of parents in the matter of
costly and valueless toys would carry
us too far. But surely M. de Gour-
mond is right in asserting that it is
not without reason that children rebel
against that “prison of the fact” to
which, with their dolls and talk of
steam engines that puff, parents try to
condemn them in their plays as in
their duties. And looking into the
ways of French children we have a
right to conclude that it is because the
door to the ideal is still left wide open
for them in their plays that they rebel
so little against that prison of the fact
which is more straitly around them in
matters of duty and discipline than is
the case with our own children.—Har
per’s Dazar.
Dress Waist Holders.
An ordinary barrel hoop will make
four holders for dress waists by cut
ting it into as many pieces and cover
ing each piece with strips of silesia,
with a long loop to hang each
holder up by. Dress waists keep their
shapo better when hung up in this way
than when suspended by the loops
usually sewed in the armholes for the
purpose.
The Sagacious Porter.
Palace Car Porter (out West)—
“Don’ gub me no fee, sah, till wo gets
to de end ob de trip.”
Passenger—“Very well. Just as yon
prefer. ”
Porter—“Yes, snh. You see, dese
train robbers always goes fer me fust,
an’ ef I ain’t got nuffin, dey say de
passengers ain’t got nuftin, and goes
off.”—New York Weekly.
Real and Imitation Lace.
A clear point for woman not versed
in discriminating imitation from real
lace, and the inability is by no means
so reprehensible at it once was, is to
bear in mind thnt tho meshes of renl
lace are never so regular as those in
the machine woven. All renl lace is
hand made, and it follows that it is im
possible to have it so perfect as that
spun by machinery.—Chicago Post.
POSITION AS BANK TELLEK.
A Strong Testimonial from Rbbop Fitz
gerald.
My knowledge of Mr. R. W. Jennings, as a
busine-s man of unblemished reputation and
exeeptionallj r full knowledge of bus’ness af
fairs, ani my knowledge of Ills success at the
head of his Business College, prompt me io
commend him and his excellent school with
emphasis and without reserve.
O. P. Fitzgerald.
The Bishop’s son, Oscar, graduated from
this school soon a'ter which he secured a po
sition as Teller in the American Xationa
Bank, Isashvi.le, where he is now receiving a
good t alary.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter tean others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it i3 perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Will You Marry Soon?
If so, yon are obliged to have a solid
18 karat gold ring. Yon will want to
feel snre that It IS 18 karat, pure
and genuine.' Write to ns for our
catalogue of wedding rings.
P. STEVENS & BRO., 'Jewelers,
ATLANTA, GA.
Time-Table for Boiling Vegetables.
Potatoes half an hour, unless small,
when rather less.
Peas and asparagus, twenty to twen
ty-five minutes.
Cabbage and cauliflower, twenty-
five minutes to half an hour.
String beans, if slit or sliced slant
wise and thin, twenty-five minutes; if
only snapped across, forty minutes.
Green corn, twenty to twenty-ftvo
minutes.
Lima beans, if very young, half an
hour; old, forty to forty-five minutes.
Carrots and turnips, forty-fivo min
utes when young; one hour iu winter.
Beets, one hour in summer; one
hour nnd a half, or even two hours, if
large, in winter.
Onions, medium size, one hour.
Rule.—All vegetables to go into
fast-boiling water, to be quickly
brought to the boiling point again,
ought not to steep in the hot water be
fore boiling, which toughens them nnd
destroys color and flavor.—Eural
Life.
Don’t Tease Children.
The positive delight which some
otherwise very good people take in
teasing children is surprising. “I
would sooner discharge a nurse for this
fault than for any other, said a wise
mother, “and when I find a friend who
thinks it is an amusing matter to tease
my child I reprove him as readily as I
would a child for the same offense. I
have known dispositions to be utterly
ruined through this silly practice.”
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country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. It does one thing,
and does it right. It cures dyspepsia®
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