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HIGH ART IN DESIGNS THE NEW SUMMER FABRICS SHOW MORE THAN USUAL TALENT. Silks Over Which Flowers Appear to Have Been Scattered by Baby Hunds —Palm Leaf Patterns on Swiss —A Silk Trimmed Gown That Can Bo Laundered. [Copyright, 1803. by American Press Associa tion.} i H. -p. I*■A'-*£ jf,“j 1 frtiuded of their just due, for the de signs aro more than designs this season. They are so inauy perfect pictures, each after its kind. I liavo seen pictures paint ed by artists which were not nearly so artistic and true to nature as are some of these. There is a dark ground—some times black iudia silk—with the most perfect flowers scattered over it, as if thrown by a baby’s liands, some of them crushed and faded a little, as though they had been held too close in the loving grasp and had wilted under the warm caress. The tiny daisies, cowslips or violets are marvels of delicacy, and then there aro others where there are broken off blossoms of the pink wax begonia, tiny sprigs of parsley leaf pattern and broken fronds of maidenhair fern, rus «et and reddened under too bright a sun. There are others with small branches of pussy willows in bud and bloom, and perfect orchids in their gorgeous color ing. and pale, brittle leaves. Tiny rose-; buds lying on a rose geranium leaf that : is partly green and partly faded yellow are seen in one pattern, and pink pirn-' pernel makes another. So do the deli cate white chickweed and apple blos soms and clover blossoms both white and red. and a few velvety pansies. But the taste of the artists seems to have turned rather toward the despised and overlooked beauties that lie about us. One beautiful pattern of a gray green ground has pine needles strewn over it. some of them singly and others in bunches of five or six all in a heap. There is no set figure, or if there is it is not repeated often enough to permit the whole to appear at one view. One most exquisite pattern had a pearl gray ground, with irregular pale pur plish blue leaves in two shades and moss| rosebuds with short broken stems in i pink and purplish bine woven in the. cheney pattern, so that it looked like the I colors of mountains seen through the j misty haze of distance. Some other pat- i terns have disks of one color or another ou the background, and lying partly on the disk and partly on the solid color half opened pink daisies or some other small flower, which makes an artistic contrast and pleasing -whole. A few have geometrical figures alternating with a pattern of broken twigs, the pret tiest being a black ground with very ■pale green rhomboids and twigs of the ’ wild chicory, also in palo green, with a blue flower on each one. But there are hundreds of varying patterns, all exquis itely lovely, so that it is hard to choose from them. To suit the matter to every purse these patterns are aH reproduced in sateen, fine cambrics and chailies. Tho dark grounds are likely to appear clean longer than the others, but those with the light er grounds are far prettier and more lummery. How aro they to bo made? Well, hero is a picture that will show you. One has a ground of French gray, with pim pernel blossoms and leaves for a pattern. The skirt is gored and without ruffle or ornament around the bottom. Over it is a quaint cape, which, after encircling the shoulders, forms a sort of waist dra pery easily understood by the illustra tion, and this then forms sash panels which reach to the bottom. This is of faille in dull blue. A lovely pink batiste was made up as if it was the most extravagant silk, with six gathered flounces, each headed by a band of bias silk, changeable old rose ! and gold, the capo revers and stole ends all of the same. These bands are sewn over stiff muslin and then loosely cat; stitched on so that they can be removed ! if necessary to have the #own washed, \ but it could, barring accidents, be worn one season at least without requiring it. Among the other lovely new springI and summer cotton fabrics one finds i empire brocades, satin striped and plaid ; ginghams, French twills, rayonette. i figured and hemstitched; chintz, two : toned figures; gloria foulard and a num-i <1 & I ’w® Saw * ■- ' f PRETTY SPRING DRESSES. ber of styles in fancy French muslins with -woven spots, both white and col ored, many of them in imitation of the i unique straw embroidery from Fayal. where the natives embroider beautiful patterns with straw on net and thin muslins. There are also Irish lawns, crinkled; ginghams and Havana cloth. As if ; these were not enough in the way of wash fabrics, there are many pretty pat terns of fine Madras and man-o’-war suitings, printed check lawns, where the pattern is very delicate and pleasing with its soft tones and semitransparent , fabric, and there is a broche Swiss. This latter is a Swiss muslin, which all worn en know means a stiff one, and on it art 1 printed the old broche and palm leafi patterns, which gain a new softness and tuauit.v on account of the sheerness of I me musun. nns puuern rues aiways been used on woolen goods, and some times on sateen, bnt never until now has it been successfully produced on thin cotton goods. I also noticed a line of striped seer suckers and another of pampas cloth, and theso two will bo largely employed in making tennis suits and such gowns as will receive tho hardest wear. Velvet trimmings on gowns will bo worn all the season through wherever they can be put. Private information tells mo that plush is to bo worn in tho fall to an extent never before dreamed of. 1 am not sorry, for it is a superb material and becoming to all. the only drawback being its cost. Henriette Rousseau. New York. AN INTERESTING GROUP. The Family of Mott Smith, the Hawaiian Minister. One December evening a little over eight years ago the literary society of Washington met at tho residence of Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander,aquaintold fashioned white frame house not far from the capitol. General Hawley presided, and many other distinguished men and women were present. To mo one of the most interesting was a plump little woman with a bright, attractive face, crowned with wavy gray hair combed yk w x MYRA MOTT SMITH. MRS. SMITH. back from a broad, low forehead. This was Mott Smith. I sat beside her for some time and listened with delight to her pleasant voice telling me about her home in Honolulu. It all seemed very wonderful and new, and such a long way off! And now we are talking about annexation, and the young Princess Kaiulani is protesting against it. Dr. Mott Smith was then a special commissioner from Hawaii. I don’t re member whether he and Mrs. Smith kept house in Washington that winter or not, but they did the next winter in a large, plain house on I street. This agreeable family attracted the best people in the city and the distinguished stranger with in her gates, so that one was sure, even at the least formal evening at this house, to meet more than one personage of po litical or literary distinction. An interesting feature of that big, pleasant parlor was a “Hawaiian cor ner.” with a fine collection of photo graphs of the royal family and many points of interest. There Were instru ments of various kinds, specimens of na tive handiwork, some of the beautiful feather work, strings of the loveliest shells and man}’ things which I cannot now describe. Dr. Mott Smith, a native of New York, went when quite young to Hawaii. His wife was born in Honolulu of New Eng land parents. She received most of her education in this country and has made the trip to and from Hawaii many times. Her children were born in her native city, and there was a houseful when they were all at home —four girls and three boys. Then this charming family went away in pursuit of knowledge, which to them was a pastime, not a hardship. The eldest two girls spent two years in O THE men or women who de- j sign the figures and flowers seen on the new silks, sateens und chai lies come under the name of art ists, or are they only “designers?" If they are not called artists, 1 j think they are de- OKUbI, ■ f / jfy' "** ww sd&. ••>.<: If >• IDA MOTT SMITH. MAY MOTT SMITH. Dresden studying German and music, and the rest were scattered Mr awhile. About four years ago they got together in Boston and set up a home there, where the younger members pursue their stud ies, while the elders come and go as busi ness or pleasure calls. Mrs. Mott Smith is now very much of an invalid, and her social duties are dis charged by her second daughter, Myra, a pretty girl, with soft, golden brown hair, dark, golden brown eyes and fair complexion. She is as bright and clever as she is good looking, and as natural and unaffected as the schoolgirl of seven years ago. Ida, the third daughter, who might easily be taken for Myra, so she resemble her, graduated with ...lany honors from the Harvard annex some time ago. Iler knowledge of mathe matics especially is something quite won derful for a girl, but she does not con sider her education finished and is now taking a “post-post” course. May, about 14, is following close in the footsteps of her sister and promises to rival her in mental attainments and good looks. Os the boys, Harold, just of age, is studying architecture. Ernest, two years younger, is still at Harvard. Morton, who was one of the little ones I remem ber, has a decided taste for electricity. Juliette M. Babbitt. Prize Money Well Spent. When the wealthy and talented Mrs. Sears of Boston won the SSOO prize with her “Romola” at the water color exhibi tion, there was much quoting of the Bib lical “To him that hath more shall be given.” But the gracious prize winner has bestowed the entire amount, together with no inconsiderable sum from her own purse, upon a teacher in Boston, who has not had a vacation for 15 years, to enable her to make a trip to Europe. Miss Mabel McElheny has won the first prize of §2OO offered by the New York Mail and Express for the best tariff essay. The judges were Governor McKinley and Senators Aldrich and Kiscock. The fair or sale of today is usually conducted on business principles, and good value is given for every price paid, which is another small way of attesting the progress of woman. THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 12, 1893. WOMAN’S WORLD. SOROSIS CELEBRATES HER TWENTY FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. Alive Mitchell In the Aaylum —Women In the School* —Mrg. Croker In Waaiynffton. Athletic Training at a Woman’s College. What Does It Mean? The painted loves in the onyx ceiling of tho Savoy hotel leaned down wonder ingly over their rose wreaths above a brilliant company of notable women as sembled to celebrate with feasting and oratory and music the twenty-fifth anni versary—the silver “singlehood”—of So rosis. About the long tables festooned with garlands of smilax and spring blos soms were seated women savants in medicine and philosophy, women spe cialists in education and sociology, wom en celebrities in literature and art, wom en of the stage and women of the pulpit, women reformers and women society leaders. At tho center of the officers’ table Mrs. Lozier, the thrice elected ex ecutive officer of the club, presided with gracious tact and dignity. Julia Ward Howe, a tiny woman with snow white hair, small in stature to bear so great a weight of honor and fame, was at her right. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of the National Council of Women, a state ly and handsome woman, sat at her left. Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, the sweet faced poet laureate of Sorosis; Jane Mead Welch, tho historian; Charlotto Emmer son Brown, the president of the Federa tion of Clubs; Jean Kincaid, the jour nalist from Boston; Dr. 11. S. Densmore, Mrs. E. B. Grannis, Mrs. Richard F. Avery, Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols, Miss Eunice Fry, Mrs. C. C. Bartol, Mrs. Theodore Seward, Mrs. Amelia Knight, all were among the famous women crowded about the officers’ table as guests of tho club. The Princess Vic toria Kaiulani of Hawaii, accompanied by Mrs. Theodors Davis and Miss Davis, was among the most prominent of the guests. "We welcome you heartily to our twenty-fifth anniversary breakfast,” said Mrs. Lozier when the time for speaking came. “Our advanced aged gives us ample reason for maintaining that the club for women is an institution that was not born to die and make no sign, but is bound to diffuse itself wherever women individualize themselves and to grow vigorously so long as it shall be helpful to the woman, to the home and to the family.” Mrs. E. M. Merrill (Jean Kincaid) spoke first for the women of tho east. “1 would like to present to you today,” she said, “a composite photograph of the women of New England in tho past. I would like to flood it with light; I would add to it the charm of color; I would give it voice and gesture. And there should be reproduced the face of the first woman that set foot on Plymouth Rock, after her the pioneer woman who felled the trees and tilled the soil and cared for her children in her cabin in the wil derness, and then the brave face of Han nah Dunton, who released herself from Indian captivity. This should bo fol lowed by Abigail Adams, who wrote what is called the first declaration of in dependence and signed it with a wom an's name, and tho heroism of Ida Lew is, the sweetness of Lucretia Mott, the faithfulness of Dorothy Dix, the friend of prisoners and the insane, all these should form and influence the picture. “Among literary women there should be Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Ful ler. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Louisa M. Olcott. The educators should in clude Eliza Peabody of tho kindergar tens, Mary Lyon, Sophia Smith, tho woman who had tho good sense and the good heart to leave Iter money to a col lege for women. There should be Har riet Hossmer, the sculptor, and the far seeing eyes of Maria Mitchell, the astron omer. After all, I think the great characteristic of the New England wom an is her appreciation of all that is best and greatest in the world.” Mrs. Sewall responded with a plea for the women of the west, happily worded and most eloquently delivered, convinc ing her hearers that tho gift of oratory is not denied to woman. Mrs. Croly gave a resume of the pro gress and influence of Sorosis since its founding in 1863. “It was the first ex clusively woman’s club in the world, formed by women for women wholly and wholly sustained by women. From the beginning it has been self developing.” The highest insignia of honor in Sorosis is the diamond set badge of the club in the form of an S, and this coveted deco ration was conferred at this meeting upon three women—Mrs. Lozier, the president of the club; Mrs. Croly, the honorary president for life, and Mrs. Bergholtz, the chairman of custodians.—New York Sun. Alice Mitchell In an Asylum. When tho legislative visiting com mittee went through the west Tennes see asylum for the insane at Bolivar, their attention was naturally directed more to Alice Mitchell than to all the other patients. They found tho slayer of her girl friend in fine physical condi tion. She has never been ill a day in the nine months of her confinement. She has gained 20 pounds in weight and is as handsome a girl as one could wish to see. Mentally, however, she shows no improvement. She seems content with her lot and has very little to say about the outside world. When the name of Freda Ward is mentioned, she seems subdued by sad rec ollections for the moment, but the in fluence soon passes away, leaving her as joyous as ever. Her favorite diversion is playing the harmonica, which she does frequently for the entertainment of the other patients, all of whom have the greatest affection for her. Before the tragedy of 12 months ago sho was a skill ful performer on the piano, but she is un able to stretch an octave now, owing to having severed the leaders in two fingers of her right hand in handling the razor with which she cut her victim’s throat. The hand is not deformed, but the in jured fingershave lost their former flexi bility. She is frequently visited by members of her family and seems glad to see them, but shows no grief at their departure. The most skeptical are now convinced that the girl's malady is genuine, and the asylum physicians have no hope of her re covery.—Cor. Louisville Courier-J ournaL Women In the School.. Tho present superintendent of public instruction, tho Hon. Henry Raab,'has often given expression to sentiments on tho subject of education that tho most enlightened educators can hardly in dorse. A conspicuous example of this was found in a speech which ho made a year or two ago in southern Illinois, in which he expressed contempt for the display of tho national flag on the school houses and for the singing of patriotic songs in tho schools as a moans of awakening the sentiment of patriotism. He was much criticised for this at the time, but of late not much has been heard about it. In his late report on the schools of the stato he has taken occas ion to express his belief that women should bo excluded from positions as teachers in the ungraded schools. We undertake to say that this is against the’judgment of tho great body of educators in his and other states. Men may have some advantages in a few respects over women as teachers, but in tho main women are by far tho better teachers and bring to their work a high er zeal and devotion. There can be no doubt whatever that the mass of the people aro against his view of the case. It may bo that it would bo better if as a whole the teachers in the public schools were more equally divided between the sexes, but the idea of excluding the women from teaching in tho ungraded schools is so ridiculous as to provoke sneers rather than acquiescence and ap probation.—Champaign Gazette. Mr.. Croker In Washington. While most attention has been paid the men who have been in Washington during inauguration season, it has not been because they were the only people worth talking about. There have been many clever and 'veil known women in the city from all over the country. Probably about none have questions been asked more frequently than about the wife of Richard Croker. Mrs. Cro ker is a tall, robust woman of fine pres ence, and she is bright. She had her first real view of the sights of Washing ton, and Mr. Croker showed them all to her. He took her to the house of repre sentatives, and Mrs. Croker’s views on the deliberations of that body are char acteristic. She objected to the style of the mem bers. “Why, they all were reading pa pers or writing. Did they know what was being done? The speaker there— Mr. Crisp—must be wonderful to know are saying. He pounds and pounds, but it didn’t make them pay at tention. That’s a great way to do busi ness. If I were speaker and ran that house, I’d seo that they paid attention. It isn’t respectful.” Mr. Croker explained that the whole thing was arranged beforehand and the speaker knew just what was coming, but Mrs. Croker would not yield her point, but if everything was arranged beforehand she thought that altogether congress was a very useless body.—Wash ingt?n Post. Athletic Training at a Woman’s College. AU the class boating crews at Welles ley have gone into the gymnasium for regular training preparatory to the sum mer poat race on the lake within tho col lege grounds. The first attempt at scien tificdrainlng in oarsmanship was made on the lake last autumn and with marked success. It was not until tho fall of 1891 that physical training was made a full and regular course in the college. Now every freshman that enters Wellesley re ceives a thorough physical examination, including measurements and strength tests, and from each three hours’ work are required each week. The result of the experiment shows a gratifying de velopment of physique, improvement in the vigor and carriage, and also an in creased capacity for mental application. It is an interesting fact that while the records show an increase in strength of 100 or 150 pounds in the back in six months, the strength of the legs some times declines rather than increases, in dicating that the young women were ac customed to walking more before they entered college than to exercising other members of the body than the locomo tive extremities. A woman examiner and a woman instructor have charge of this department.—Wellesley Letter. What Does It Mean? In the inaugural address of tho presi dent he said: “Loyalty to the principles upon which our government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the laud. The enjoyment of this right follows tho badge of citizenship wherever found, and unimpaired by race or color it appeals for recognition to American manliness and fairness.” Now, women are citizens. On the pass port of every woman of this country to a foreign country she is called “a citizen of the United States.” If the president is right, that citizenship implies “equal ity before the law,” and if those who elected President Cleveland agree with him, there should not only be a large ac cession of Democrats to the ranks of the woman suffragists, but the Democratic administration itself should be a power on the side of equality before the law for the one class which is now denied equal ity.—Boston Woman’s Journal. A Mignonette Wedding. Portland is on the qui vive over matri monial speculations. I have heard of a bride who is planning her wedding and the gifts she will give her bridesmaids. The wedding is to boa mignonette af fair, and the maids will all wear green gowns with low necks and short sleeves and carry huge bouquets of mignonette and roses. Their hats will be of pink straw trimmed with mignonette roses. When Mrs. Cleveland Drives Out. Mrs. Cleveland has been driving about town for the past few days in the most stylish turnout which ever belonged to the White House stables. She handled the ribbons over a pair of handsome, clean limbed, dock tailed bay horse.- drawing a low phaeton or victoria, wit' a ramble behind, in which sits bolt up right a very black tiger in very white livery. Mrs. Cleveland sits on a driver': cushion, and when she has a gentlema i with her, which is generally the case. b< is compelled to look up to the handsoim woman by his side, who holds the win; and reins like a true jockey. —Washing ton Letter. BULLETIN NO. 2<k Editors Chronicle: —At. the regular meeting of the Bee:eh Island Farmer’s Club today, I was instructed as corres ponding secretary to call yaur atten tion to the following paragraph, page 28. Bulletin No. 20, Georgia Experiment Station, Feb. 1893: “Think of it. Wo have shown that 88 worth of a well balanced fertilizer may bo expected to increase tho yield of seed cotton on ouoacro 1,000 pounds, with 11 aro worth 830, leaving $22 of profit.” This estimate of tho value of 1,000 pounds of seed cotton is a conservative one, as things are going. Thoro would be 347 pounds of lint, value say Bc. per pound, making $27.70, and 053 pounds of seed worth, at some recent quotations 34 cents per bushel, for tho man , ufactnre of oil, $7.01. Total, $35.37. The result is startling. A profit of $27.37 | per acre in cotton growing, over and above I any profit that may accrue from tho actual I and unaided .productiveness of the soil, with |no additional cost of culture. But even be yond this golden promise the Bulletin re ferred to states that money expended in fertilizers is to be regarded in tho nature of an investment (p. 28). repaying tho cost, and a profit of 100 to 500 per cent. The larger tho investment tho larger the basis it furnishes for tho per eentago of profit, and the correspondingly larger tho amount of fertilizer loft in tho soil for tho use of tho succeeding crop (p. 22). The computation of theso surplus profits is not given in this Bulletin. Doubtless they will be furnished in succeeding issues should it bo deemed advisable. Meanwhile a vista of fabulous wealth is unfolded by tho experi ments and calculations detailed in Bulletin No. 20. It is demonstrated by the highest authorities of scientific agriculture in the great state of Georgia that seed cotton can bo produced at a cost of less than sl6 a ton. Or, if we prefer to dispose of tho seed to oil factories at recent quotations, lint cotton can grown bo at a cost of less than SO.OOIB (eighteen one-hundredths) of a cent pet pound. | In the face of such a demonstration as | this, it is difficult to find terms in which to characterize the folly of those who have so strenuously advised the reduction of the cot ton acreage. Its mere announcement should have sufficed to disperse the convention re cently met in New Orleans to recommend moderation in cotton planting. Perhaps it did cause that oonventiou to dwindle down i to a few disheartened planters of the Louis- , iana, Mississippi and Arkansas bottoms, who, knowing nothing of the multiplying powers of Georgia fertilizers, have been stupidly re lying on the natural produetiveuoss of the soil. I regret to say that I am further instructed by the Beech Island Farmers’ Club, to ex press to you their serious fears, after many trials during many years, that they have not tho ability to realize in their practice the profits demonstrated by the agricultural scientists of your state. They are moreover I deeply discouraged by seeing in the same I Bulletin that fertilizers do not increase the profits of corn culture (p. 5), nor does sub soiling, or intercultural fertilizing (p. 7), or deep or shallow plowing (p. 11), avail for j tins staple food crop for man and beast. Nothing seems to answer to thoir great needs, but cotton culture, and $8 worth of fertili zers or more to tho acre, and to this they feel incompetent. I feel very sorry for my neighbors. Per haps you can kindly and wisely say some thing to encourage them. I have tried to console them. 1 have advised thorn to sei I out their farms at once. The investment of a very small part of the proceeds in a resi dential lot in a farming village, would se cure to them the numerous comforts and | conveniences of city life. The residue put up in margins to cover sales in cotton futures could not fail to provide them with a hand some income. It cannot be doubted that these discoveries of the Georgia Experiment Station must become known to all mon, and that everybody will set in to buy fertilizers and make cotton. Under these conditions the staple must continue go down and down, as it has been doing ever since these agricultural departmens were established. Under the new light shed from Bulletin No. 20, a wide margin of profit is revealed to cot ton growers. But wide as this margin is. there must always remain a wider, and more secure one, for the seller of cotton futures. Harry Hammond. Beech Island Farmers’ Club House, April Ist. 1893. BULLETIN NO. 20. From the Georgia Experiment Station. Modestly Defended. Editor Chronicle:—A friend has called my attention to an article in your issue of the Bth instant, in which —according to tlm headlines —Bulletin No. 20 is “sharply criticised.” On a careful read ing I am unable to see that Mr. Harry Hammond has found -a vulnerable point in that Bulletin, ami were I not aware ! of the recent spirited contention between , him and Dr. H. C. White on the subject i of “Farm Villages and Intensive Farm- ' ing,” I should be at a loss to divine the : 'nature that inspired the “sharp criti- I cism.” It is not unusual for a lawyer to attack the credibility of a witness i when the evidence bears heavily against his side of the case. I can but admire the very fine and in sinuating sarcasm that pointed the pen of the scholarly gentleman. But as 1 . was not trained in that school in early ! life, it would be the rashest temerity i to enter the lists against such an adept j in that style of argument (?). Facts are very stubborn things, and often butt heavily against preconceived ideas ami long Intrenched prejudices. Garbled ex tracts may serve, for the moment, Jo point a sarcasm; but they are not edi fying to those who are seeking for the whole truth. Mr. Hammond does me gross injustice in quoting Bulletin No. 20 as authority for his own statement— “Or if we prefer to dispose of the seed to oil factories at recent quotations, lint ; cotton can lie grown at a cost of less ■ than SO.OOIB (eighteen one hundredths) I of a cent) per pound.” Now I read 0.0018 as eighteen l.emthousandtbs, instead of eighteen hundredths, as Mr. Hammond enumerates <)f course he is not. re sponsible for this glaring discrepancy, as he was writing under instructions, and it is possible that the Beech Islanders are using a “revised ami corrected” edi tion of old Smith’s Arithmetic. But where did he get the eighteen hundredths of a cent on the cost of a pound of lint? Not in Bulletin 20. but in his excite:! fancy, or the revised arithmetic. If the reported allusions to Bulletin No. 20,50 graciously and gratuitously made by Mr. Hammond, shall result in calling the attention of the farmers to the fact that copies of tho same arc still in good supply- and will be sent free to at.y f’rmt'T, the writer will ac knowledge ' a debt of gratitude to the ’learned but too sarcastic critic. These bulletins are intended to benefit those ’’sinners who are not wedded to liift #»d plantation ideas of farming, and whose minds are therefore in a receptive state. 1 Have not the time —life is too short— to whste in unprofitable discussion. Mr. Hnmniond’s criticism does not impress ; me as that of an honest seeker after i the truth, but rather of one who is after a victim to his withering sarcasm.(?) The writer of this short note (which indeed, may be considered tis depreca tory of further thrusts from tho Major’s keen blade,) does not. write under "in structions.” Had a wise instructor whis pered in his ear. perhaps this had not been written. Very rcspectfullv. It .1. Bedding. Experiment, Gn., April JO, 1,893. UNJUST TAXATION. It Is mijust to tax the stomach with burthens tie,it It. cannot bear. Matty silly people Ilins tyrannize that faithful sur vitor until it rebels ami punishes them as they deserve. Dyspepsia is usually the child of gastronomic folly, but whether this or Ihe natural assoelnte of inherent feeble ness from childhood: it s surely and pleas antly remediable with Hostetler’s Stomach Hitters, the finest and most highly sanc tioned gastric tonic In existence. As a re sult. of the tone Imparted to the stotnaeh, and the increased activity of its digestive and assimilative action. Insured by the persistent use of this benign iuvogorant, general stamina is augmented, the nerves strengthened and tranquillzed, and a tendency to Insomnia ami bypoehonon drasls defeated, bjllousuoss. chills and fever rheumatism and kidney troubles are con quered by this admirable medicine. CAUGHT THE THIEF. tie Had Been Stealing Systematically for Sonin Time. Millen, Ga., April 10.—Special.)-C. Par ker, of our town has been missing goods from ills store for some time. The stealing has been small and nearly every night. Last, night he. with two of Ills clerks, de termined to try and capture the thief. They secreted themselves bi different parts of tile store and awaited the thief. It was a long wait, for it was fully three o’clock this morning before he entered the store. He proceeded to empty th money drawer when he was ordered to “hands up,” which he did and submitted quietly to arrest. Two darkey damsels, paramours of his, were arrested early this morning and their rooms searched where was found several hundred dollars worth of goods. The thief is John Usher, a white man who has been employed by Daniel Sons & Palmer and C. Parker for a year or more as night watchman. Flo lias also been stealing from Daniel, Sons A- Palmer, as part of the goods recovered liave been identified by them as belonging to them. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has beer, used for children teething. It soothe: the child, softens the gums, al leys all pain, cures wind colic, and Is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty five cents a bottle. A WRECK. Bartow, Fla.. April 7.—Early this morn lug the southbound freight on the Florida Southern road was thrown off the track near here. Three ears and the engine were overturned and badly damaged. En gineer H. A. Fish was seriously, though not fatally injured. The wreck was caused by a rail being taken up. Officers are after the miscreants. Sufferers from Coughs. Sore Throat, etc., should try "Brown’s Broneliial Troches,” a simple but. sure remedy. Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cents. REPUBLICANS TO CONTEST. St. Louis, April 7.—The Republican City Central Committee after comparing the notes of a searching investigation made witli reference to the ballot box stuffing, repeating, bulldozing, etc., at the polls has decided to contest the election of Auditor Brown, who was returned as elected over Geo. W. Fishbaek, the republican nominee. The committee has been assured that ah money necessary for a vigorous prosecu tion of the contest will be forthcoming, and it is the intention to make the fight to the bitter end. The committee claims all sorts of frauds have been committed. THE FATHER OF MANY ILLS. Constipation leads to a multitude of phys ical troubles. It is generally tile .[■•■suit of carelessness or indifference to the simplest rule of liealt.li. Eugene MeKay, of Brant ford. Ont., writes: “I had for several years been a sufferer from constipation, hud taken a great many different remedies, some of which did me good for a time but only for - a time, then my trouble came back worse than ever. I was induced by a friend, whom Braiul retli’s Pills had benefited, to try them. Took two each night for a week, then every night for about, six weeks. Since that time I have not experienced the slightest difficulty whatever, and my bowels move regularly every day. I believe firmly that for sluggishness of "the bowels and biliousness Brandreth’s Pills are far superior to any other.” DR. TUPPER RESIGNS. Atlanta, April 7.—Rev. Tullius Tupper, rector of St. Phillip’s Episcopal <'liur< > li has resigned and his resignation lias been accepted. Dr. Tupper came here from the west nearly two years ago. He performed a marriage ceremony in Lent contrary to the express orders of Bishop Nelson which is said to have pecipitated the trouble. FOR DYSPEPSIA Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. J. J. McWilliams, Denison, la., s-tys: “I have used it largely in nervousness and dyspepsia, and 1 consider that It stands unrivalled as a remedy in cases of sleep lessuess, with gratifying results.” ANA RCHI ST CAPT 1' RED. Mailrirl. April 8.- The government dis cvered aai alarming conspiracy of An archist at Xeres, evidently having for its object an insurrection against the authorities. A. raid was made on a farm house near Xeres and the conspirators captured. They were armed with rifles and large knives. Documents captured showed that preparations had been made for another outrage in revenge for the executions of February, 1892. OEMs READTHIS! Valuable Real Estate to Be Given Away! From March 10th to April 10th, 1833, The Biscayne Bay Company will absolutely give to any Applicant of Good Character, One Building Lot in The New Town, “Bis cayne City,” on Beautiful Biscayne Bay, East Coast, South Florida, The company having decided for th.- more rapid developmen of their property, to give away every alternate lot on ili. ; beautiful boulevards of that new city, without consideration. Write at once to Biscayne Bay Co., Tampa Fla., And make your application for a lot. These lots are valuable now, and un doubtedly will rapidly be enhanced. Where can you find a better investment’.’ —one that costs you nothing', and by which you gain a lot in the midst of the most fertile and productive region on the continent; and the best spot in the world to build a winter home. 3