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ABOUT SEAMEN.
MOM* MTORIKW ABOUT TIIKIU IHHI'FIt
KNT HI'I’KMKIITIONH,
Omraa el Hoed and Evil Tknl Haller. are
Nuiipoaed to Believe Is.
Thero is probably no class of people
in the world no fall of superstitions be
lief lie the average Bailor, unloßu, indeed,
it be Ibe negroes of fho South. This
Ix-iicf in omens of the sea Is not confined
alono to forecastle men, but is to a
greater or lesser extent shared by cap
tains and mates. In conversation a few
days ago with a grizzly bearded and
bronzed old mariner, who lias trod tho
quarter-decks of ships as master for up
wind of a quarter of a century, a re
porter broached the subject of the snpor
stition of sailors. "Do sailors lieliove in
omens?" said tho Captain, relating
the reporter's question, "well yon can
iict your starry toplights they do. They
are the crankiest lot of men in tho world,
and yon would bo astonished to know
what trifling matters sometimes causes
them to give up going on a voyage. I
have known snilors to predict the direct
calamity of a ship liecause they happened
to sneeze while goiug on board. Then
again, if a vessel is dclnycd in port and
docs not sail at the appointed timo it is
a had omen, according to Jaek's ideas.
They have good omens too. A fair dny
when they ship is a good sign, and if
the sun is shining brightly on tho day
they sail it is a sign that the vessel will
have a speedy and prosperous voyage.
A Inditing head wind leads sailors to the
belief that there is a Jonah on board
and they do all sorts of things, such as
burning a piece of an old sail or ro|H>-
yarn and the throwing overboard of a sea
biscuit, to exercise the evil effects of his
presence, mid when the wind does shift
and becomes fair they attribute it to
(heir soroerism, their good spirits return
and all goes merry until something else
happens to disturb their fears.
"I remember an old fellow I onoo
shipped at Liverpool for tho voyage
homo to New York,” continued tho oap
tain. "He was a veritable old sen dog
and the crew at onoo set him down as
a Jonah, He was culled Liverpool Jack,
and was the queerest chap I ever saw.
He wanted tho voyago prolonged as
much as possible, and one dny the men
caught him in the foretop whistling for
a head wind, and, sure enough, the fol
lowing morning tho wind shifted and
came dead from tho head. This, of
course, necessitated the frequent tacking
of the ship, and tho curse* of tbo crew
were loud and long. That wind stuck to
us for three days, and the orew decided
to chuck Jack overboard, and I believe
they would have carried the threat into
execution had not tho wind ohanged.
Nailers also have an aversion to clergy
men’s sons, and if they know that one is
on board a vessel they will not ship un
der any consideration. Why they dis
like it vessel with n minister’s sou on
lxmrd I have never found out, hut it is
considered ns one of the worst ‘hoodoos’
by the sailors. Out at sea if, as is fre
quently the ease, a shark follows ill the
wake of a vessel, it is a sign that some
one on board will soon die, but it is ono
of tho worst emeus to kill it. Of all the
sea birds wiiat are known as a Mother
Gary's chicken, a dark bird somewhat
resembling a gull, hut about the size of
a chicken, is hold most snored by tho
forecastle men. Its presence foretells
an approaohingstorm, and this sign hard
ly over fails. A seaman would ns soon
think of swimming aorots the Pacific
Ocean as to molest one of t,<e chickens.
Then, again, it is bail lnck, as sailors
say, to kill these gulls that fol'ow ships
out at sea, as tlioy are considered the
harbingers of good luck. If dolphins
accompany the vessel, it is also consid
ered a good omen.”
A singular incident happened some
years ago "on board nil American ship.
A few days out from Now York, a booby,
a bird somewhat like a gull, but much
smaller, alighted in the foretop, and one
of the sailors went up and caught it.
The 1 sadly was brought ou deck, wliero
it was attacked by tho ship’s dog. The
animal flow at the bird, which drove its
bill down the dog’s throat, and thus the
two remained until separated. The
booby was thrown overboard and was
not seen for some time, when suddenly
it reappeared, perched in tho foretop
again, A sailor went aloft and captured
it, ami it was brought down and taken
into the forecastle where the sailors held
a trial ami the bird was sentenced to
‘loath. Tho executioner was the oar
peiitor, ami the unfortunate liooby was
beheaded. The dog disappeared after
the encounter, but immediately after the
bird was killed it came on deck tuid began
running around in a circle. This waa
continued for some time, when suddenly
it made a dash for the stern of the ship
and jumped overboard. Even tho oap
tain, n Boston man, was a fleeted by the
incident, and for several days the deepest
sort of gloom prevailed among those on
lmard, and a majority of the orew pro
dicted some disaster before the end of
the voyage, and none felt entirely easy
until the port was reached.
In addition to being superstitions,
sailors have queer names for things on
shipboard. His bunk in the foreastle ho
terms his pew; he says “aft” for “abaf"
and “forust’’ for “forward.” The cap
tain is known as the “old man,” the
carpenter as “ohips” and the cook is the
only man abaft the foremast that has the
distinction of having his office men
tioned in connection with his name, and
he is referred to as Ben or Joe the oook.
An old sailor is called “a whale.” A
drunken man is referred to as being
“three sheets in the wind,” no doubt
lcecanse he staggers like a ship in a
storm under shortened sail. As to the
use of profanity, sailors are peculiar. ;
They do most of their cursing in heavy
weather, when sails are being furled and
when the wind is howling through the
rigging with terrific force. Take him in ,
/air weather, however, and he is a mild
sort of a person, seldom swears and
cheerily braces the yards around to the ,
tune of “Ye ho, heave a ho, for to Hong
Kong we will go, ”
THE SOUL OF BUSINESS.
Ilrv. Kobrrl Cellver on Ike Kvlnllon. of
I'rlvitlr Vlrlnn lo J'ulillc CredlC.
"The Lord God is a shield,” was the
text that the Rev. Robert Collyer se
lected for his Sunday sermon. After
speaking of the absolute necessity of
man's keeping constantly liefore him in
all transaction of life the knowledge and
the fear of the Lord, Mr. Collyer said,
if I am a merchant, I may fairly try to
make my calling gainfnl, hut I must al
so make it noble or I shall fall short of
the mark and prize of my high calling,
and if I have to givo my business to my
sons when I get tired of it or die, I
should take at least as much pains to
form and mould and inspire them for all
noble anil true adventures as I do to de
velop my business liefore I givo it over.
I must rememlxir that not all my creed,
nor even my paternoster, hut that public,
credit is tho soul of business in good
times and bad times alike. I must also
remomher that this credit token alto
gether, as the wise old German says, is
a sacred deposit which should never lie
touched by rude and ruthloss hands, and
whoever brings it into peril wilfully and
with bis eyes open, and for his own
private gain, is worse than the man who
breaks into your store or crnck* yonr
safe. The virtue of a man of hnsinoss
should I mar the same relations to his
good name as the things ho sells do to
the coin or piqicr he takes in exchange
for his wares.
More greed of gain only makes a man
sharp sighted to his own interest witii
out thinking of tho consequence to his
fellow citizens or to the Commonwealth
to which he belongs, until at last, as a
quaint old writer suys, he swallows all
he can catch and never thinks of tho
bones wherewith he may lie choked.
To such a man nothing but his own loss
is of any moment and the profits of a
single year aro more to him than the
gain of a whole century to the world
nlsiut him. A man, no matter what his
name or profession may lie, has taken
the first step downward in the corrup
tion of morals when ho ceases to care
for the opinion of tho upright and down
right man who has God for his shield,
and unless public opinion now marks
and makes an example of such a man
there will soon tie no suoh thing in our
nation as pulilio opinion. Rut we all
know that every nation and every city
that have a spark of virtue left in them
are ashamed of suoh moil’s presenoo.
The man who in the trials of man
hood walks uprightly, and mskos and
sells things that are ns genuine as a bit
of heaven, knows of no way hut tho
straight way, no word bnt tho true
word, will not look at mean things lest
his eyes ho defiled and will have no gain
that is against the genuine good. He
in like the man who plants trees of
which lie may never see tho fruitage,
hut which he knows will give fruit when
he is gono.
Another Itoml Call.
Tho Heeretary of the Treasury has is-
BUed a call for $10,000,000 of the three
per cent, bonds. In tho ten months of
the current fiscal year tho debt lias been
decreased iiy $87,000,000, or about $28,-
000,000 lees than for tho corresponding
months of tho preceding fiscal year.
The chief reduction lias, of course, been
made in the throe per cents. On June
30, 1883, thero woro outstanding about
$32,000,000 of tho throe and ouo-half
per oents ami $'118,204,350 of tho throe
per cents. Tho former have all been
called in, and on May 1 there wore
$254,(121,050 of the three per cents out
standing and subject to call. A part of
this amount, about $20,000,0(8), is in
cluded in the last bond calls issued, so
that it is very probable that at the end
of the onrrent fiscal year there will not
lie outstanding much more than
$230,000,000.
As tho excess of income over expendi
ture for 1883 4 applicable to debt reduc
tion is estimated to lie $105,(881,000,
aud, If anything, will be larger in alxnit
two years, unless conditions are
changed, all of tho throo per cent bonds
will have been cancelled. If there is a
revival of industry the process of oan
oelliug bonds will bo more rapid, as the
national revenues aro quick to reflect
changes ia tho commercial condition,
though uot in the financial and indus
trial condition of the country. At all
events, unless some marked reduction
in the national iucomo is made, in about
two years the government will have paid
off all that part of its debt that is uuder
its eon trot. It must thou wait until
1891, when the four and a half percents
become due, or go into the market and
purchase its bonds at whatever premium
the holders choose to ask. —IV. X
Herald.
Clril Service Rules.
The Civil Service Commission a short
time ago requested two officers in a post
office in lowa to net iu the capacity of
! oivil servioe examiners. The officers,
without assigning any satisfactory
! reasons for non-compliance, declined to
do so. The commission thereupon
; brought the matter to the attention of
| tho Postmaster General, who wrote a
j letter to each of the lowa offloers, in
| which he said:—
“The examination is held under the
j Civil Service law, and according to
i its provisions and the rule ado ed
under it you are not at liberty to decline
the service unless for imperative reasons,
satisfactory to the Postmaster General.
I desire and expect that you wilt per
form the duty.”
Charlet White, the minstrel, snys
that the first band of negro minstrels
was organized late iu 1812 in the board
ing house of Mrs. Brooks iu Catherine
street, New York city. It consisted of
Dan Emmett, Frank Brower, Billy
Whitlock, and Dick Pelham. They per
formed for the first time in public at the
benefit of Pelham on Feb. 7, 1843, in the
old Chatham Theatre, New York, and
afterward in the Bowery Amphitheatre,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Tint fact that Sullivan the "slugger
has cleared one hundred thousand dollars
in seven month Is calculated to assist
American youth in getting an honorable
living.
Thk South Is now credited with 872
cotton mills, of which North Carolina
claims 92. Their produots have in
creased from s2l, (XX), 000 in 1880, to
$40,000,000 in 1884.
Is house cleaning don’t forget the
cellar; pestilence may tie breeding in
heaps of rotton vegetables and rubbish
there. Give the cellar plenty of cleans
ing and plenty of air and light.
Tint amount contributed to college
and university education in the United
States during the past ten years is $35,-
522,188), and since 1847 the total amount
given has not been less than $50,000,000.
Du. Jbmcp, of Beyroot, Syria, esti
mates that twenty years ago not twenty
women in a population of two millions
conld reo<l. There are now over seven
thousand girls going to Protestant schools
in Syria.
Tire late John Clancy, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., bequeathed $50,000 to
the Roman Catholic Bishop of that
diocese to found an orphan asylum, to
lie governed and controlled by tho
Bishop anil his successors.
In Leigh Richmond’s advice to his
(laughters, he wrote; "Girls, tie cheer
ful, hut not gigglers; be serious, but not
dull; lie oommiinicative, but not for
ward; lie kind, hut not servile. Beware
of silly, thoughtless speeches.”
In Mansfield, Conn., within the last
twenty-seven years, twenty-eight persons
havo died whoso ages averaged ninety
sevon years, four of whom were over a
hundred, and one, Mrs. Mary Mouth
worth, was a hundred and five.
The Cuban revolutionary leader Carlos
Aguero is not yet thirty, and has lioon in
arms against the Spanish authorities al
most continuously since ho was fourteen.
Ho weighs only one hundred and fifty
pounds, and belongs to a rich family.
Tiik last oonsus in France gives the
numlier of insane persons as one in every
444 inhaliltauts; but Dr. Lunler, in a
rooont leotnre at the Morbonne, says tho
real proportion is 7 to every 3(8) or 350
inhabitants. Dr. Lnnicr remarked that
in countries presenting the same degree
of civilization the proportion of insane
people ia identical.
Tai.maor declared in his sermon last
Sunday that "the poorest men in Now
York city are those who aro worth a
million dollars or more.” Despite the
prophetic warnings of so exalted an
oracle as Talmagc, hundreds of jieople
are sacrificing health and honor to be
come members of the great army of tho
poorest men in Now York.
At Monto Carlo it is the custom to fill
tho pockets of suicides with hank notes
so that it may be seen that they did not
kill themaelves on account of losses.
They tried the trick on a presumably
dead Irishman a short timo ago; lint he
was uot dead at all, aud skipped ofl with
the money in the most lively style.
The New Orleans Picayune relates
that an old lady, eighty years of age,
residing in that city, was dependent
upon a daughter, who was a school
toachor there. Hard work, ill pay, no
pay, and the worry of keeping deoent
and honest and out of debt, set the
daughter crazy. Mho is now in the
asylum, and her mother earns a miser
able living making button-holes aud do
ing fine embroidery.
Bennett the Elder,
Ben. Perley Poore in his reminisoenoes
says:
James Gordon Bennett in 1828, when
in his thirtieth year, became tho Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Hnquirer, which was then on the top
most round of the journalistic ladder.
It is related of him thnt during his stay
in this jKisition he came aoross a copy of
“Walpole's Letters, ’’ nnd resolved to try
the effect of a few letters in a similar
strain. The truth of this is doubtful. It
is more probable that the natural talents
of the man were now unfettered, and he
wrote without fear of censorship, and
with all the ease which a sense of free
dom inspires, lie was naturally witty,
sarcastic and sensible. These letters,
however originated, were undoubtedly a
great hit. They were lively, they
abounded in personal allusions sud they
described freely not only Senators, but
the wives and daughters of Senators.
This sort of thing was a novelty then ;
the descriptions of toilets, the oravats of
the President and tho hunting saddle of
his niece tickled not only the fools, but
also wiser people, who liked the sensa
tion. These same letters established
Mr. Bennett’s reputation as a light lance
among the hosts of writers, and he found
a ready sole for the poetry and the love
stones which flowed from his pen dur
iug his leisure hours.
rhe Soudan.
Kecent events in the East bring to
mind Borne old legendary long forgotten,
The Soudan is old historic ground, for
it is the Ethiopia of tho Bible, whose
kings onoe conquered Egypt when that
country was one of the mighty powers
of the world. Tradition has it that
Moses once led an immense Egyptian
army against a king of Ethiopia, whose
victorious hordes had cut their way to
the very walls of Memphis, and defeated
him with great slaughter. It is a vast
country, lying in, perhaps, the hottest
region of the world, whose people are
certainly the blackest in person and
fanatical in religion. Slaves and ivory
are the principal staples of commerce.
Why England Bhould think such a
country worth the lives of the brave men
who have recently perished there, and
the millions of money she has spent in
the recent operations near the Bed Sea,
rather strains the ordinary mind to com
prehend.
Congressmen will now proceed to send
out their turnip seed. Each member
is allowed eight hundred packages,
PRESIDENTIAL FAVORITES.
Hswis lßtergftns Earls tonrrrnlsg ths Mss
W ko HI null I 'lmgil In the Chlsf Kirrgllu,
visitors who fromi uriosity orbu ini-sv.harn
railed at ths Whits House, must have been
Imprsiied by ths courteous yet systematic
manner with which they wero receive 1 amt
escorted through the mansion. The gentle
men whose duty It is to receive all [*-r on*
coming to the White Hnu-e are Colonel
K. S. Henmore, Mr. John T. Rickard and
dir. T. F. Pvn<lel, and they have occupied
th ir present psitinns through the various
adminlktrationi sin e and even during
the war Mr. I'endel wee i r.eident
Lincoln •ho ly guard saw him to his can luge
the fatal night on which he visited Ford s
tnealre. and lie now has in his possession the
blood vtnine.l coat which Mr LJnio'n woro
in that momo ab’o occasion. There ia not a
put lie man in Amirica to day who does not
know, and who Is not known by, these gen
tlemen. and the reminiscences of public and
. o -ia] life which they can recount w ould (111 a
•nngr-moot ai volume I ’uring the weary yet
exciting y. am of the var; through tho more
jicuceiul t lines of Chant's adm ills trillion,
while linysn In id the r-ins of governm-nt,
end w* en fia l Held was s 1 o% it was thaw-men
wli- *t'-ol in thn executive mansion weioom
! ;ig the advent of red new administration,
l-owing at it* di-pnrtu'e, and receiving both
tuartvrs through its r orta's.
i)i ring that I ng, hot and never to tie for
flitt r. ium-.fr wla-n President < arfleld lay
etwien ' two worlds," the nation liecame
aware of the deadly malarial influence which
hung about the White House. But all through
that period thewi three nu n never deserted
their posts for a sing e and iy, although ea h
one was suffering intensely, in •on vernation
with the writer, Colonel liensmore said:
"It is impossible to dea nbo the tortures I
nave und rgi ne To bo ' -orupeiled fo smile
nnJ tr. u 1 tlie tiiousvnds of visitors who come
here daily with courtesy when one is in
tile greatest agony requires a tremendous
i fl'rt All that summer I hail temh e
headachea, hoait hum and a stifling sensn
tion that sometimes took away my breath.
My appetite wav unr rtain and I felt levrrw
; aii.s in I lie small of my liack. I wns und -r
the do-tor s care with strict instructions not
to go out of the h him- li it I remained on duty
uvertlule h. Yoi woukl lie surprised to
know tL- ni o into' q linfue I took; on some
Jays .1, was a much as sntecn grains."
"And was Mr. Pickard tiadly off, tool
” I should think he wns Why. time and
fcgoiu we have nicked him up and laid him
on the mar tel, hero in the vestibule, he was
sci used up.
"Yes exclaimed Mr, Rickard, "I wav m
weak I could not rse after lying down with
out h-Ip, nn l -onM onlv walk w.tli the aid of
two cam s, nnd then in a stooping position.
(*h. we have he-iipii a pretty find condition
here, all of us.”
‘ And yet yon are ad the embodiment of
health," said the writer, as he looked at the
three I rigid, and vigorous men before him.
"Oh, yes. ’ s id Mr. Rickard, "we have
not known what sickness was for more than
a year
"Hav- yo i some secret wav of overcom
ing tie- ma aria ond ite attendant horror, PJ
"I think W'o have a most certain way," re
plied Colonel liensmore, “but it is no secret.
You ran, id>" it tw lyears ago iny w ife began
to grow blind, mi l f wav n armed at her con
dition. Stic finally lo nine so site could not
tell whelh-r nporron wav white or black nt
a distance of ton feet. One of her lady
fiionds advised tier bi try a certain treat
merit that hail done wonders for her, anil
to mnkc a long vhiry short, she did so and
was cunp’ot-ly mred This induced me
to try tim same means for my own restora
tiuti, and us soon ns 1 found it was doing me
go si I recommended li lo rny associates, and
we have all is-cn cured right here in
tile stronghold of malaria and kept
in perfect healdi over sim-e by
means of Warner’s Hafe Cure. Now I am
not a ! eliever in medicines in general, hut I
do not he-itato to say that I am satisfied I
Arnold have died of Bright s dissisost the
kidney s l-fore this had it not been for this
wonderful remedy. Indeed, I use it ass
household m dieme and givo it to my chil
dren whenever they bnveany nilm--nta."
" Yes,” exclaimed Mr. Pcmlei, “I use it in
iny family all tie while and have found it
the most erthdent remedy we havo ever em
ploy,d I know of very many public men
who ore using it to-day and they all speak
well o it "
"1 weigh I*o pounds to day,"said Mr. Rick
ard, " end when my physic.ans told me over
a year ago I could not hops to recover 1
weighed led pounds I ndot such fnfluanrei
you cannot wonder that I consider this the
treat medicine before the Amerii an people"
The above statements from 1 h -s. 1 gentle
men need no comments They ere voluntary
and outspoken expressions fr m sources
which are tho hi host in the land. Were
there the slightest question regarding their
authenticity they would net lie medo public,
hut as they furnish sm h valuatde truths for
ail who are suffering, we unhesitatingly pub
lish them for the good of ail.
Bhe Twigged.
He called at the house and asked if
she had any oarpots to beat, adding that
he had been in the business for over
twenty years.
“How much to beat that parlor oar
pot ?” she asked.
"One dollar.”
“Why, that’s awful! There was a
man here yeaterday who offered to do
tho job for fifty oents.”
"Exactly, madam, but how wae he
prepared ?”
"He had a clnb in his hand."
"I presume so He intended to tako
the carpet out on a vacant lot, didn’t
ho ?”
"Yes, air. Our yard is too small, you
know.”
“Exactly. That is a tapestry Brus
sels carpet. It is badly worn. It has
numerous holes in it. He would make a
great show in getting it out and in here.
Out on tho lot he would give you away
to every one who asked who the carpet
bolouged to. Is that the way to do a
job of this sort?"
"How do yon do it ?”
"I take the carpet ont through the
alley. I wheel it homo. I beat it in a
yard surrounded by a high board fence,
and wliilo I am returning it, all nicely
rolled up and covered with a doth, if
any one asks me what I have I reply that
it is a velvet carpet for 224 Blank street.
If any one asks any questions I call at
the houses on either side of yon and ask
if they have jnst ordered anew Wilton.
They watch me and see me come in
here. Madam, in tlio language of tho
Greeks, do you twig?”
Ho was given tho job. —Detroit Free
l'ress.
Hh Hint lias no resources of mind is
more to bo pitied than he who is in want
of necessaries for the body, and to lie
obliged to bog our daily happiness from
others bespeaks s more lamentable pov
erty than that of him who begs hiß daily
bread.— Colton.
Whoever is an imitator by nature,
ehoico or necessity lms nothing stable;
the flexibility which affords this apti
tude is inconsistent with strength.
It rains throo times as often in Ire
land as it does in Italy.
Advice to Young Men. —When about
to break np for the holidays, Mr. Spur
geon dismissed his young men with a
caution : “Now you will have a brief
holiday,” said he, smiling. “Your chief
business will be to take things re
markably easy. And don’t get oourting.
That is not good for students. Keep
yourselves to yourselves. Come back
as someone pats it, with your hearts and
manners uncraeked. Walk in the fields
like Isaac, by all means, and meditate,
bnt don’t lift up yonr eves for Bebaoca.
She will come soon enough.”— London
Standard. I
Cooking With Oil Stre.
Mrs. Lincoln, the Boston lecturer on
cookery, says: When one tells yon that
there is "no trouble” in using an oil
stove you msy be morally certain that
she does not know what she is talking
about. To be sure yon are saved addi
tional heat and dust in the snmmer when
you have so much of both from nature
herself; but unices you are careful you
will have a smoky atmosphere and a
disagreeable odor. Yon needn't have
either if you ohoose to manage properly;
the “no trouble” people will have It all
the time. The way to avoid it is to keep
the burner perfeotly clean, and entirely
free from the gummy bnraer deposit
which even the best oil will have on the
polished brass burner. Every day the
burner should be washed in hot, clean
snds, thoroughly dried and the wick re
placed; the little brass network about
the base of the burner should be care
fully wiped and kept free from every
particle of dust. The wiok should
be out squarely and evenly with sharp
scissors, and not even a thread should
be left that Is higher than the rest
When the blaze is extinguished, tho
wiok should be turned down at least
half an inch below the edge of the
burner. If It Is left above, or even with
the top, it will absorb oil, and the oil
will run over the top, making It greasy
and soiled, and emit an nnpleaaant odor.
The tiest quality of oil should be used,
as, after all, it is as fully economical;
there ia less sediment in it, it will burn
to the isst drop, will not smoke so badly
and does not leave snoh a rank odor.
The stove sfcr 'd be filled after nsing,
and when It is first lighted the blaze
should be watched, because it inoreasee
in intensity and very soon begins to
smoke. It ean then lie regulated and
left for some timo, especially if yon aro
baking; if you have water on boiling, as
soon as the water reaches the boiling
point tho flame will Increase again and
must lie turned down. The reason for
this nobody pretends to explain, but the
fact remains;
F.vxbt man feels InstiDctively that all
the tieantifnl seDtiments la the world
weigh lens than a single lovely notion,
and that while tenderness of feeling and
susceptibility to generous emotions aro
aceidenbi of temperment, goodnens is
achievement of the will and a quality of
life.
(Ttaw has now 10,000 small farms averaging
twenty live as-ren, owl th, whole must be irri
gated, .
Brd-Hags, Flies.
Flies, roatEk*s, ants, bed-fnifcs, rats,mine,chip
munks, cleAmi ut by “lUmgh on Hats.” 15c.
Thichk are more rwlorEvt people In OeorßTa
than there are Indian* in the whole country.
Georgia’ negro population is about TJ3,iA)O.
Greea Apples,
Eaten In the spring time, or tny othe season,
is liable to give one a lowel trouble, which can
be sithcdily checked by the nse of Dr. Diggera’
H<mthem hemedy, tbe great specific that will
certainly ours cramp colic, diarriima. dysentery,
and restore the little one gradually wasting
away from the efTeota of teething. This, with a
bottle of Taylor’* (Tierokee Remedy of Bwest
Gum and Mullein combining the stimulating
expectorant principle of the sweet rnm with the
demulcent healing one of the mullein, for the
enre of croup, whooping cough, colds and con
sumption. presents a little mkiuoih* chest no
household should be without for the speedy re
lief of sudden and dangerous attacks of the
lungs and bowels. Ask your druggist for them.
Manufactured by Walter A. Taylor, proprietor
Taylor's Premium Cologne, Atlanta, G*.
Tn* world’s tin production last year reached
45,770 tons, one-third of which was consumed
in ths United btates.
“Kodgk OB Dentist*’ Tooth Powder.
Hmooth, refreshing, harmless, elegant, cleans
ing, preservative ana fragrant. 15c, Druggists.
Over 50,000 Polish Jews, who fled from
Russia because of persecution, are living in
London.
No effort has ever been made to advertift
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound out
side our own America; ret frequont calls from
other parts of the world show that good news
will sprcail Packages of this medicine hare
been sent from Lynn, Mass., to China.
A new journal, printed on blood-red
paper, and oalling itself the Hydra of
Anarchy, has been started in Paris,
Special from Waltham, Mass.
Fifteen hundred watches are now
made daily at. Waltham, and they are
better in quality and lower in piice than
ever before.
A Toledo doctor takes strong grounds
on the transmission of disease by kiss
ing, forbidding callers to kiss any of his
children. Wait until your daughters
grow np, doctor, and then see how your
cautions will one rate.
Sfw|n|.)|H( (line 1 1 and Btry.
Thoao remarkable itema pour into our offloo
daily. Mr. H. R. Fu’ler. with the new Horn*
Mncnine company, of Orange, Mats., writo*,
May 28, 1883: ,4 I have usM Hunt's Remedy
in niy family for over ton years. My wife
was troubled with catarrh of the bladder,
suffered intense pain in the kid nay sand loins,
and urination was accomplished with the
greatest of agony. My friends thought that
she conld not recover. Wo tried doctors anti
medicines, and although better at times she
would grow worse again. She was obliged
to use the nr.nal as many as fifteen times in
a night, and was growing worse daily. At
this time my attention was called to Hunt's
Remedy, and I concluded to try it; and after
using one bottle she was a good deal better,
the inflammation was reduced, and the water
more natural. She began to gain in appe
tite, and felt no pain in the back and kidneys.
She could attend t-* her household work with
out pain. and this had been a preat burden
to do. even the lightest kind of work. After
using six bottles she was completely cured.
Since then I have had occasion to use Hunt's
Remedy for kidney and liver complaints, nnd
found it to be just as represented, and 1 con
sider it a most wonderful medicine. 1 would
not be without Hunt's Remedy in my family;
and 1 have recommended it to iny friends
here in Orange with equally good results.' 1
They tell of an editor in Florida who
vas a genins in his way—a way that per
haps would not commend itself to stock
holders anxious for semi-annual divi
dends. On being told one day by the
harassed proprietor that his leader was
too long, and that to publish it would
necessitate the leaving out of nearly all
the advertisements, h*> exclaimed with a
majestic wave of the hu-d: “Then leave
them out I am writing for posterity.'
“Do you believe that a woman nowa
days would die for the object of her
love ?” asked a bachelor friend. “I
don't know whether she’d die or not,”
answered the Benedict, “but I’ve known
her to go wild when the trimming didn’t
suit her.” —Newport News.
A lady writer in an agricultural paper
says: “A mother who allows her boys to
grow up ignorant of wholesome cookery
and the fine art of sewing fails in her
duty.” That is true. A knowledge of
cookery and sewing will come very
handy if the boy happens to marry a
college girl
Thin People.
“Well's Health nenewer" restores health and
vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. ®l.
Sorrfl Carolin a has VM& flour, grist ond
rice mills, employing 4,079 whites and blacks,
requiring a capital of 1‘.),7. , >5,750 and turning
out annually Fj/JSS.OOO w orth of flou*. tmi,
etc,
Natlsfnrtory Evidence.
J. W. Graham, wholesale druggist, of
Austin, Tex., write*: I have been handling
Dr. Wm. Hall's Paham for the Lungs for the
past year, and have found il on© of the mot
salable medicine® I havo ever hai In ray
house for coughs, colds, and even consump
tion, always giving entire satis/action.
me another gross.
There ore now thirty nine circuses trav
eling through the United States, and a large
number of them have the only sacred white
elephant
Tlioii*nn<l* Upon Thonvandi.
The proprietors of the world-renowned Car
boline—the natural Hair Restorer—never put
up less than 1,000 gallons at a time. This
gives but an idea or its immense demand.
Thirty Htates and territoriea have more
men than women, and seventeen States and
territories have more women than unjp,
.llatkera.
If you are failing; broken, worn out and ner
vons, use “Well 1 * Health lienewer." fl. Drgts.
John L. Hcluva*\ pugilist, has cleared
1175,000 in the last eight months
The increasing sales of Piso’s Cure attests its
claims as the best congh remedj.
Fishermen* say that tms ir a great fish rear.
All kinds of fish are uncommonly early in
an appoaranee, and they are big in size and
very abundant.
AiiEXT* WANTED mtm.
BLAINE AMP LO^AN
|*>d. Authentic iiiiport.sl Oimr U(, the JC**C *od CknapotL
bMi Sl.bO. Mil like M-W.f/A# per eB(. !• Ajceata.
Oxxtfi' Frt+, * e*il for F.xlrm 7'rrwu. *tc., to
lIAKirOKD P Mil.l MM ><* CO., Hertford, Uu,
ot-ag-AfirffrßWSNTTnmH
WIJEEDsorDARiMGftI
IlhftßlU E & GRAVII
Th* gre*t collection of th* moot thrllhnf pwrwnti*? *1 ventures,
r xploitinf ront strut spire, forlorn hnjwa.hero’.*- lirsrery, Iro-
Critonmrnta snd ho r-breodth rorspr*. r*msntl* InritrenU.
• rxl-to-hand •trugft>, pcriloua j<*urr-*v. dtnnc rstdasnd
Kid dreriaON BOTH MDF.ft dui .nB t’.efirrfft Civil War. N®
okLkeit eiOfUs£lTltmTßATll.c**uiA-a;i.aadre*
f.' AM Si hi. 4 link *144. i
Hot and Warm Springs
HOTEL.
Ihwpot and P. O, Warm Rpringn, MB<lißon county,
North Carolina
ltoacnptive Circulars mailrnl on application.
w \|{ >i BFEINHH ‘ O.IfPANT.
SGOOD NEWS
12 LADIES!
f.rvaleat iDilucemiTtl **t #f
fvrd. Now * yonr t-.n* to ant up
orders for our rl*trto<l Tens
nd < ofWa.and recurs a beauti
ful I.old Hand or Mosa Koae < hiaa
TeaHet, or Hand* me Lserrratoa
* Ibnosr Sot, or l.old Hand Hum
I>o<’i rated Toilet Hot. For full particular* address
TIIK <;kkat ajikkm an tea < 0.,
P. or Boa MS. 11 and Si Voooy St., Mow Twt.
ftCVMTV WANTED to evil our XXX Rlendod To*.
All 111 I .1 Gold Hod China Cup and ftauear given
witi each pound. I'rlce lo<’ Dealer* tend for par
t;-u ar Jan. B. Clark. 888 Ommrieh ft N v
M m TPAITO ' . cir N-w K .on
PA I ►M I \’*'ent*. I BINCHAM. Pit-
I I Kail I %# ant Kaoyer. Washington, L>. 0.
BgTANfiBTRATTOirB
Short hand by mail on t he ahort-hand machine in r>n*>-
third the usual time. Graduate* successful in getting
am ploy men t.
ACSEVT* WA vrt:i> o*ati TinH,.Ti.reo'
1 .-ora *sin|()l'K WILD IMMAVkh. On* lODGK
*nd Sli F.RM i \ svro.OfHi told **rr>U !1 I>to 8*
• dav se*Bend fur frtra Term*, "-rocimen Plate, etr to
A. D. WOK I HIIUiTUN A CO.. Hertford, Conn.
AVt7TTM ANDWIII ‘ SKY HABITS CURED
liPiSllwl in threk weeks.
II I 111 111 Fo Pamphlet*. Proof* and Tarma,
Ne Jb A A/ a'A Addraaa, in conft enco, with 3t.
lump. W. (J. BELLAMY, M. D.. 1% Broad btrest,
Atlanta, Georgia.
SOLID SILVER STEM WINDINS
FULL JEWELLED GENTS’ BIZE
WATCH FOR $12.50.
FULLY GUAR ANTEED. This offer made fot •
day* on y Goods lent if Kipress O. O. D., subject to
In spool ion before purchasing
J. P. HTKVKNH ACO .Jewelers,
Atlanta. *■**,.
r> A TTC WTC f Thomas P. Simpson. Wash
i /A I CL * 19a lngton D.C No p y a*k*d
fur patent until obtained. Wnte for Inventor*' Guide.
AO ENTS TV A NTED fw th* boot and fastest seU
mg Pictorial Books sad nibJeo. Frio** reduced M
per oent. WaTIOKAL Ptisi taaiwo Oo . Atlanta, (la
a Tents wanted
Oils. E. V DIKTEIIICIIH. Cleveland, Ohio.
d&EEBE!
IH CUES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS,
feaq Heat (oußh.Syrup. Tan tea good. |bs|
M Use In time. Sold by druggists, ia]
Aa m ria PAYS for a I tf* Scholarship is th*
V ma Loleiiinn Business College,
lb I ■ Newark. New Jersey Position* for
■ n graduate* Naiinnai patronage Write
▼ " for Circular* to 11 COLE WAN A CO.
n RO W MTi
iff Adi |j yffl ajk
.1 H yS only iron \ \ clans and aS *
9Upr <a imedicine |J Druggist* re-xJB K
fm Wy will not blacken\q\PUhit Y /ncommend It aa nJJ
Wr ■y or Injure the teeth. tho best. Try It. D
I g/ * SURE APPETIZER. BEST TONIC KNOWn\O 13
/g l /Will cure quickly and completely Dyspepsia, Weakness, \S& rja
■ Malaria, Impure Blood, Chills and Fever, 'uR [m
E |yjj |ml i
B PERSONS WHO LEAD A SEDENTARY LIFE. I
Brown’s Iron Bitters com- T Brown’s Iron Bittcrsistho
bines Iron Tvilh pure vegetable tonics. H Best Liver Regulator re-
It is compounded on thoroughly sci- £ moves bile, clears the sldn,
ontific and medicinal principles, and digests the food, CURES
cannot intoxicate. Belching, Heartburn, Heat
All other preparations of Iron cause t in the Stomach, etc.
headache, and produce constipation. S It h tbe best-known remedy for
Brottn s Iron Hitters is the | f ( . lnl ii e infirmities.
ONTLY Iron medicine that _ , , , ,
. . , I rhe genuine has above trade mark
is not ill)urious its use does not " . , , ,
, , . , O and crossed re<l lines on wrapper,
even r>lacken the teeth. w , ,
... . M lake no other. .'lane only br
It not only cures the worst cases of la
Dyspepsia, but insures a hearty ap- I Brown Chemical Cos.,
petite and good digestion. C Baltimore. Md.
After the Rabbits. — About one hun
dred stoats and weasels, which had liecn
caught with considerable difficulty in
different -parts of Lincolnshire by a ver
min catcher, have just been sent to New
Zealand. They have been purchased
by the Government of th at country for
the purpose of destroying the rabbits
which overrun the colony. One thousand
five hundred live pigeons have been
shipped for the consumption of the ani
mals during the voyage.
A rorsc. woman is about to open a cigar
store. We have no doubt she will have
capital to back her,
IIDU l. riNKHIM'S
'Tsx feietalle CoipraJ
181 Hit
* or C’eßiplaltsß4
A\Veaknef o *•
/ f our best female pepalatle*.
It will sure entirely ths worst form ef To male Cl*
plaints, All Ovarian troubles, Inflammatl** and Ulesrm
tlon, Falling and DlspUcemomN, and •"••U'fJ
Bp Inal Weakness, and Is particularly adapted H the
t nang# of Lifs.
It win dissolve and expel tumors from tka utorug lm a*
early itag* of development. Th* tendency to
humorstn*r* la checked very speedily by Its msa. *
It removes falntoem. flatulency, dotrrs.
-or stiinuiant*, sad rvlieve* weakn*s of
:t cures Blooting, Headacbas. Eervoug P™*trmthmt
General Debllit y, and Indhrmj
tion. That feelfugof hosting dowa, oaiulngpaln walgM
and backache, 1* always permanently cured by U
It will at all times and aoder all clrrumstanrsi *■
harmony with th* laws that goreraih* Icma.* ayatmA
For ths ours of KldneV Complaints f stUsr *. IMS
Compoond la unaurpajmea. Wice SLO. BU bottles far W,
Ne family should be srlthout LYDIA K- PISLBAJPO
LIVER PILLS. They cur* constipation, bill on mesa a*4
torpidity of th# liver. W cents a box at all druggists.
Consumption Can Be Curetil
-HALLS
LUKas.B ALSAM
Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneuinoutu. I*-
loaauu Broncklul Difficulties, BroirlU%
lloiirseneuf, Astbinu. Cy#p, \\ hoeesg
( eugb. und nil Dlseusee of the Breathing
Organs. It soothes und heal# ibe .Hankraie
l the iiungti, lnftnnjed und poisoned hy *•
dhraae, ■nn provenje the night iwaats an
light none nr ruse 4tfilfc ‘ *al m hlrh arc# inn ns V
It. t en*uniPtlon hi onn Inrursble rnuludy.
KAI.I.’H RAI>AM s%i 11 cure yen, svs*
though profcMlunal aid latli. _____
Psjnos’ Automatic Engines and Ssw-Stll.
.(HrnTuMir l II P. lvo,nt“l Ercin. w'th XI.
60tn o\l Saw Mi ft be'tmg rant hooka, ng rrwpleto
for i>perN|on, on cap* .1G Kng|; •£
In** B>nd ft r circular (B) fl . I’A\ Nft £c
HONH, Manufactvr-r* of all *lylr* Anloniatlc K
fine*, from linjn || F. also Pulley*, Hanger* and
tialtus Elmira N Y Be 18uO.
TO SPECULATORS.
R. LINDBLOI* a CO, 8. G. MILLER * CO.
I A 7 Chamber of 16 Broadway
Commerce. Cbicagn. Non York.
GRAIN A PROVISION BROKERS
Members nt all prominent Produce Kiehange* o New
York. Chicago, fit. !.*■>§ aril Milwaukee.
We have viemsive private lelurraph wire between Ohs
rago and New York. Will vierute order* on our iudg
went when r ;a*eted. bend for circular* eonielaisg
particulars. ROBT UNDBLOM 4 00.. Chiesge. _
vMoorf'J
Atlanta., Gcu
AN OROANIZKD lIUSINISB COMMUNItt.
jam YFJkR BEND FOR CIRCULARS.
-- ■■ -
Fanpier White Snlphor Springs Hotel.
Fauquier County, Va.
Th* fifth season of this favorite and popular Sumruvn
Reeort, will open June 17tb, It will be ondncte
j under the asm* management that hae mad* this Hotel
a "Home" for thousand* Term* 912. Ml to 12100 peg
week. For particular*, axldreee (unt 1 .Fun* l<th),
F. TENS IT A CO.,
National Hotel. Washington, D. D a
Red Sulphur Water.
CURES CONSUMPTION.
Flneet Hotel aecommodatama in the moontaing.
Elevation l.ficd feet , 1 400 acre* of foreet and lawn.
Red Sulphur Springs, J
______ .Tlonron C'oanCyv W. Ta. T
Fmpnrfnnt Rednrtlon In the price nf
VASELINE
(PFTROI.RUM JELI.Y.I
Ose Ounce bottles reduced from 15c. lo 10c.
Two Ounco bottles reduced from 25c. to 15c.
Five Ounco bottles reduced from 50c. to iSo.
The nubile mail net accept any bat nriginai goods
bottled by ns. aa the imitation* are worth!***.
Chssebrough Manufacturing Cos., New York,
fk n I I IRJ WITHOIT PAIN OB DETEN
y rIU m TION from business.
CURE GUARANTEED,
_ _ _ AH rommunieatione itrietly en-
LJ A I fldential. For pamphl*te and
■IrA LI I I certificate* addr***
|GKO- BRADFORD. M.D.
f \ a a sw Druggist and Pharmaeist.
vvlK CL - P. O. Box \92. Columbus, Gn
_ to Soldiers A H*tr* Send ■tame
rOnCIARC'*” Cirolar*. COL 1. BIKG-
I VllwlUllw H4N A M’v W iiii'iyrlna D C.
A. N. U. Ttrrnty-flve, ’k?
Every man feels InstinotiYely that all
the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action,
and that while tenderness of feeling and
susceptibility to generous emotions are
accidents of temperment, goodness is
achievement of the will and a quality of
life.
“Now,” said a boy to a companion,
as they were playing, “Fll sit here and
yon come up and say you’ve got a bill
yon want me to pay.” “Oh, yes ! you
want to tell me to get out. You be the
one what comes with the bill-”