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THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH Notes ol Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And Important Happenings from Da; to Day Tersely Told. Moses Brothers, who failed at Mont gomery, Ala., two years ago, for large sum and were placed in the hands of a receiver, are gradually paying their depositors. On Tuesday the bank paid another dividend of five per cent. At this rate depositors will be paid in full inside of the present year. On the farm of B. A. Honea, four miles south of Aberdeen, Miss., Mon day, a colored tenant and his wife left their three children, all under five years of age, in the hQUse alone and went out to work. During their ab sence the house caught fire. All was completely destroyed. The children were cremated. Fire Thursday afternoon at Wiiming ton, N. C., entirely gutted the large grocery stores of Stevenson & Taylor and B. W. Hicks, and also the build ing recently occupied as a store, but which two Wilmington divisions of the North Carolina naval reserve had just occupied ns an armory. Loss, $25,000 half covered by insurance. A petition for the appointment of receiver for the Atlanta and Chatta- hoochee Biver Bailway company was filed in Atlanta Monday by attorneys for the Short Electric Bailway Com pany. The grounds in the bill are that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiffs $41,000 ; that it has failed to pay taxes, for street improvements and for its rails. Fire at Kelso, Tenn., Monday night, destroyed several business houses and the dwelling of Benjamin Thompson a local merchant. While the flames were still in progress Mrs. Thompson erroneously supposed that one of her children was still up stairs and rush ed into the burning buiding. Her cloth ing was ignited and she is dying from the effects of the burns received A Jackson, Miss., special of Wed nesday says: Mayor Chiles has issued a proclamation urging the people to contribute to the cyclone sufferers in Simpson county. Forty dwelling houses were blown down and thous ands of acres of growing crops left fenceless. Five persons were killed Thomas Amos and his two children and Elijah Husbands and a negro boy. Several persons are missing. A dispatch received from Tracy City, Tenn., Monday, states that the troops are retained there because of a dispatch from Bon Air mines to the effect that 1,000 miners are marching on Tracy City. While this is believed to be exaggerated, as a precautionary measure Governor Turney ordered the retention. The troops had made all preparations and were on the eve of departure for Nashville when the order was received. A special from New Berne, N. C. says the excitement which prevailed among the citizens of that place and James City has subsided at last, and on ^Thursday all the negro residents of James City signed leases by which they rent the property for two years from James Bryant, its lawful owner. The troops will be sent home at once. Governor Carr will remain a few days. No more trouble is anticipated. There nre 554 families in the place. The will of the late John Schardt, cashier of the Merchant’s bank, at Nashviile, was probated Wednesday. Ho directs that his indebtedness to the bank be paid in full out of the $80,000 life insurance which he has transfer red to the bank. The balance with all his real estate and personal proper ty, he leaves to his wife. The will is dated two days before his death, and was witnessed by the president and one of the directors of the bank. It was developed at Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, that the Southeast ern Tariff Association has decided to advance the rates of fire insurance in the city on business property. At the last meeting of the legislature a strong fight was made to allow the people of Alabama to insure property with com panies having no representatives or office in the state, which would have tended to keeping rai£s down. This legislation was defeated and the pro posed raise will cause a sensation and much dissatisfaction. The eleven whitecappers of Carroll county, convicted of riot, were given the maximum of the law. All the men save three have sentences of twelve months each. Two of the Duke boys who turned state’s evidence, are being prosecuted in the United States court for conspiracy in that they assisted in the whipping of the Britts who had re ported an illicit distillery. The eleven men will be carried to Donaldson’s con vict camp to spend a year. All of them are able to pay a fine equivalent- to the year in the gang, but the law will not t llow it. At the democratic primaries in Baleigh, N. C., Tuesday there was for the first time an attempt to vote for a choice for postmaster. The result was decidedly negative and the plan failed. There were three aspirants for the position and while one was active in the primaries and had printed tick ets the others took no part. The ac tive aspirant got nearly all the votes cast. The experiment will hardly be repeated and the postmaster-general will probably make his selection in the good old way. The matter has excited considerable interest at other points. A package containing $1,269, sent by Paymaster Bobinson, of the Georgia Central railroad at Savannah, Tuesday, to A. H. Stevens, agent of the railroad a* Birmingham, to pay the salaries of the clerks, arrived, and when opened was found to contain strips of white paper instead of money. Examination showed that one end of the package hs.d been carefully cut open and the money extracted, the paper inserted arid the package closed with thin court plaster. The express and railroad offi cials are making a rigid investigation, but no arrests have yet been made. In the United States court at Charles ton, S. C., Monday, Judge Simonton signed an order directing Beceiver Comer, of the Central railroad, to turn over to the Port Koval and Augusta Bailroad Company all the property and effects of the com pany in his possession as receiver of the Georgia Central. This decision, based on that issued at Savannah by Judge Pardee, places the entire property of the Port Boyal and Augusta railroad in the hands of Be ceiver Averiil, who was appointed in a suit in the state court instigated by the majority of the stockholders of the Port Boyal road backed by the state. A new move in the fight against the enforcement of the South Carolina dis pensary law, which is to go into effect July 1st, was developed at Baleigh, Saturday, A meeting was held by a number of leading merchants and property holders to consider the situa tion, the counsel employed by the liquor dealers having advised that it would be useless to attempt to resist the law. Kepresentatives of pretty nearly every society in the city were present and it was decided to send cir culars to the freehold voters of the city, requesting them not to sign the petition of any person applying for the position of state dispenser of liquor. BUSINESS REVIEW. Dun & Co’s. Statement of Trade for Past Week. K. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Monetary doubts have overshadowed all other influences at New York, but have not yet greatly affected trade at most points. Wheat has fallen 2 1-2 cents, with sales of 40, 000.000 bushels here; corn 2 3-8c., oil 2 l-4c. and coffee 1 l-8c. Wheat re ceipts have been 2,500,000 bushels at western ports in four days and Atlantic exports net six hundred thousand bushels. Pork products are somewhat lower, though declining less than corn. In the cotton market liquidation has continued, and with sales of 1,200, 000 bales here, the price has dropped 6-16. The week’s receipts from plan tations are fully up to last year’s and southern advices generally indicate some increase in acreage this year Keports from other cities show con siderable embarrassment from severe storms and the backward spring, with some signs of shrinkage in the trade from other causes. The tardy spring makes clothing quiet and the advanc* in shoes retards buying. The build ing trade is active and the demand for lumber large, but sales for wood are moderate. Currency does not return as expect ed and large sums are tied up in fair preparations so that bankers are con servative. Keceipts of cattle, butter and barley increased moderately over last year, sheep 30 per cent., wool 33 while in cheese, hogs and flour there is a moderate increase; dressed beef and oats 33 per cent., in corn and rye and in cured meats 60 per cent. The weather retards trade at Louis ville and at Nashville, Knoxville and Little Bock, business is quiet, at Co lumbus very dull, but with improved collections, and at Atlanta fair for the season. At Mobile cotton is moving more freely, and at New Orleans sugar is strong but rice and other trades quiet with money in active demand. Collections throughout the country are at most points slower than usual and in such a condition that monetary stringency might occur if exchange with New York were embarrassed Meanwhile exports of merchandise in April fall much below last year’s, whila imports increased nearly 20 per cent. So that the excess of imports, though it tnay not be half the $26,000,000 of March, is likely to be large. The business failures occuring throughout the country during th last seven days number 208, cempared With a total of 209 the week before. VASHIHGTOH GOSSIP. Happenings from Day to Day in tie National Capital Appointments in the Yarions Depart ments—Other Notes of Interest. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development During the Past Week. A review of the industrial situation in the South for the pa-it week shows the organiznti in of The Southern Leather Jlanufactming Com pany, at New Orlenii, La., with a capital of $350,000, of the Fearls Oil Company, Hist< rs ville, W. Va.. with a capital of $300,000; $100,000 cotton mill at Opelika, Ala., a $75, 000 oil company at Groeshock, Tex., and a cot ton mill company with $59,000 capital at Hai mony Grove, Ga. Thirty new induslrios were established or in corporated for the week, together with twelve inlargemeuts of manufactories and twenty- eight important now buildings. Among the new industries not referred to above, are cotton compress, at Smiihville, Texas, eleotrio light plant at West Point, Ga., flour and grist mill at Petersburg, Va., ice factory at Winston, N. C., foundry end Machine 6bop at Olaren- don, Arkansas, wheel factory at Honston, Texas, mining company with ©30, 000 capital, at Augusta, Georgia, furni ture factory at Elizabetkton, Tenu., lumber company at Crowley, La., planing mills at Beaufort, N. C., Griensboro, Ala., Little ltock, Ark., and Rural Hall, N. C., saw mil's at Gilmoro, Ark-, snd Kerrvile, Tenn., shingle mills at Bard, Ark., and Peck’s HiLL Ala., spoke factory at Covington, Tenn., and Stov8 factory at Dickson, Tenn. A box factory will be established at Thomasville. Ga., a pot tery and a canning factory at Natchez, Miss. The enlargements reported for the week in clude cleotric light plant at Chattanooga Tenn., fertilizer factory at Paradise, Fla., oi mill, Dublin, Texas, tantn ries, Cumberland, Miss., Flintstone, Ga., and Borne, Ga., cotton mill at Bock Hill, 3. C-, furniture factories at Fort Smith, Ark., and Rome, Ga., spoke works at Humboldt, Tenn., and wagon works at East Point, Ga. Among the most important new bnildings re ported for the week are noted the following Court house at Clintnood, Va., court house and jail at Griffin, Ga., court house at Hempstead, Texas, and Mumfordsvi is, Ky., and jail at Sunbright, Tenn. A warehouse will be erected at Lewisbm-g, Tenn.. school bnildings at Char- iottsville, Va., snd Nashville, Tenn., chnrohos at Cleveland. Tenn., Petersburg, Vj., and Roa noke, Ya., depo s at Montgomery, Ala , and Nashville, Tenn. An infirmary will be ereoted at Louisville, Ky., and hotels at HuroboHt, Term., and Ta'lahassee, Fla.—Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.) TO SHOOT GLADSTONE. Sensational Story Published iu the Pall Hall Gazette. A London cable dispatch says: The Pall Mall Gazette in its issue of Thurs day contained a most sensational ar ticle, headed “Knmors of an Attempt to Shoot Gladstone,” the tve used in the headlines being the largest in use for that purpose, The paper states that the alleged attempt upon the prime minister’s life was made while Mr. Gladstone was walking through St. James’ park at midnight last night on his way to liis home, on Downing street. The accuracy of the report of the Pall Mall Gazette is doubtful. It is probable that the story is based upon the fact that a man who is now in custody on the charge of firing a re volver iu a public thoroughfare had in one of his pockets a notebook contain ing a number of entries detailing the recent movements of Mr. Gladstone. The prisoner will be arraigned shortly and his object in making these entries will be learned if possible. The arti cle in the Pall Mall Gazette caused much excitement among the friends and supporters of Mr. Gladstone, and many inquiries from various parts of the country have been made as to the truthfulness of the story. COMER RELIEVED and Mr. As Receiver of the Port Royal Augusta Railway. A Savannah, Ga., special says: H. M. Comer has been discharged by Judge Pardee as receiver of the Port Boyal and Augusta Bailway companv. This decision arrived late Saturday night and is quite a lengthy one, set ting forth at length arguments, answers and petitions in relation to the same, and concluding with an opinion as to why Comer should be discharged, by saying nothing as to the confirmation of Averill’s appoint ment. The opinion of Judge Pardee states that the question of jurisdiction of the state circuit court of Bichmond county in the appointment of Mr. Av eriil, as receiver, did not require his consideration; that court being the judge of its own jurisdiction, and it is assumed for the purpose of this appli cation that Judge Boney’s court is fully seized of all the jurisdiction it has exercised. ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS. Hon. James G. Blount, of Georgia, may be minister to Hawaii. He will, at least, be in practical charge, if not actually the minister until all of the present troubles are settled. Everybody in Washington who had the leisure and money to warrant a trip to New York left the capital Wed nesday to see the naval exhibition which is to emphasize the opening of the big show at Chicago. Barely has it happened in the history of this gov ernment that Washington has been en tirely deserted by the president and his cabinet. Such, however, was the ease Thursday. New postmasters appointed in Geor gia Wednesday were E. M. Carter, Carter’s, Murray county; C. D. Har per, Chelsea, Chattooga county; W. N. Bussell, Crow, Whitfield county; C. C. Landers, Livingston, Floyd county; Francis C. Peeples, Oakwell, Camden county; William Touchton, Pearson, Coffee county; A. F. Elrod, Sonnersviile, Gordon county; B. L. Hargrave, Spivey, Putnam county. The president Wednesday announc ed the following appointments: To be government directors of the Union Pacific Bailway Company: Henry F. Dimick, of New York; Don. M. Dick inson, of Michigan; J. W. Doan, of Illinois; Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia; Joseph W. Paddock, of Nebraska. Otto Dobederlein, of Illinois, to be consul of the United States atLeipsic : David G. Brown, to be collector of cus toms for the district of Montana and Idaho. The fiet gold in the treasury Tues day morning over and above the $100-, 000,000 gold reserve was $900,000. This accounts for the gold taken from the New York sub-treasury for export dur ing the day; also for the gold offered and accepted from the Boston bankers. It does not, however, include the gold which was offered to the government from San Francisco and Boanoke, Ya. These amounts will appear in treasury figures when the actual exchange is made. Secretary Carlisle is much en couraged at what he terms the patri otic position taken by the Boston banks. The following appointments were announced Tuesday at the white house: L. F. McKinney, of New Hampshire, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Columbia; Thomas L. Thompson, of California, to be en voy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary to Brazil; George William Caruth, of Arkansas, to be minister resident and consul general to Portu gal; John W. Wiley, of New York, to be consul at Bordeau; Harvey Meyers, of Kentucky, to be commissioner from Kentucky on the World’s Columbian commission; J. C. Sanders, of Georgia, to be alternate commissioner from Georgia on the World’s Columbian commission. An Extra Session. There will be an extra session of congress called not later than Septem ber and possibly sooner. Buck Kil gore, of Texas, called on the president Wednesday morning and asked the point blank question. “Why do you want to know?” asked Mr. Cleveland. “Because, if you are going to call an extra session,” answered the congress man, “I want to rent a house before I go home and be ready to bring my family on when I come.” “Your reasons for knowing are not very sinster,” laughed Mr. Cleveland, “and such honesty should be met with honesty. Yes, there will be an extra session called, and I see no reason why the business men of the country should not know. It will be called between the 1st and 15th of the month, and if there is any special urgency, it will be called sooner.” This is the first time that Mr. Cleve land has stated positively that- an ex tra session would be called. Lots of Money Needed. Postmaster General Bissell and his assistants are struggling with the usual problem how to get through the fiscal year with the growing demands of the postal service on the meager appropria tions made by congress. The biggest appropriation outside of the salaries of postmasters, which are fixed by the law, is that for clerks in postoffices, aud the strain to meet the demand from the 65,000 postoffices of the country is something enormous. The increase in the appropriation this year over last was over $300,000, but appli cations for assistance aggregating $2,- 000 000 were on file when the year began. Chicago alone asked for half the in creased appropriation and New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore were not far behind her. The increase for the next fiscal year in this appropriation appears on its face to be $500,000, but $50,000 is knocked out of this to pay for canceling machines, for which a separate appropriation was asked. The allowance for the third-class offices has also been increased $20,000, and now stands at $620,000. These increases of about 3 per cent are only half the av erage increase of the postal business of the country, which of late years has been nearly double that of th*e popula tion. • CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA. Sixty-Tiro People Dead and Many More Fatally Injured. A special from Oklahoma City, I. X., states that two distinct hailstorms, cy clones and a waterspout combined to cause great destruction in Oklahoma City. Taesday night. It is reported that sixty-two human lives were sacri ficed. It is positive that forty were killed, while several were fatally and scores seriously injured. The damage to property is inestimable. The brunt of the storm was laid up on the prosperous little town of Nor man, on the Santa Fe road, about twenty miles south of Oklahoma City. At that point thirty-one people were killed, dozens injured and the town almost completely destroyed. There a pall has overspread the town, business is suspended and everybody able to render any assistance to the poor un fortunates or towards removing the dead bodies, are out searching along the track of the cyclone. The people are frenzied and cannot give any estimate of their loss, and know nothing except to care for the dead and injured. Oklahoma City has responded nobly, and the mayor and principal citizens organized a relief corps and are at the scene of destruc tion. Further on the town of Downs and Keokuk Falls fared but little better, being nearly devastated, and scores of people injured fatally and otherwise, though the loss of lives, if at all, will not be as BejioRe as at Norman, Instinct in a Cat. “I have often wondered,” said Fran cis Estey at the St. James, “in how much human beings are guided by in stinct. Every one knows that animals are largely regulated by that queer in fluence we are pleased to name, but very few people believe that it plays any part in human lives. I once had an office cat that came to me a starving kitten. I fed it for the once, and daily it came to the office at the time I arrived, about 9 in the morning and always very promptly. Once it was stolen from me by a party of clerks, good friends of mine, and they kept it for three months. They told me they had been in the habit of feeding it at noon, and that daily at that hour ex actly the cat showed up with remarka ble promptness. Then I became inter ested. I changed the cat’s meal hour from 12 noon to 3 in the afternoon and watched the result. Up to that hour the cat was never to be found. At that honr, however, scratching and clawing occurred at my office door, and my cat was always on time. Now how* did that cat know when it was 9 or 12 or 3 o’clock? We say, ‘instinct, instinct, of course,’ but the question still remains unanswered.”—St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat. In Hard Luck. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. THe News of tHe World Condensed Into PitAy and Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. Street Urchin—“Say, mister, gimme fifteen cents, won’t yer?” Gentleman—“What for?” “Please, sir, me mudder is sick, an’ fadder is out o’ work, an’ I got stuck on me papers.” “Poor little chap!” “Yes, sir, an’ I ain’t got no money to go to de t’eater.”—Street A Smith’s Good News. Scandinavian Bread. Sift together half a pint each ol wheat and Graham flour, one pint of barley meal, two teaspoonfnls of Price’s cream baking powder and a teaspoonfnl of salt; make into a bat ter with one pink of milk and bake in a greased bread pan in a fairly hot oven. . It is a Horrid Nuisance To be nervous. Starting at the slightest found, uneasiness by day and fitful slumber l»y night, unrea c onable apprehensions, odd •ensations, (onstant restlessness—these are among its diabolical symptoms. Dvspepda is the fountain head. 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I am free from kidney trouble, and can sleep on either side now, thanks to Hood’s Sarsaparilla. My wife has had a chronic sore throat for Hood’s Parma Cures more th n 20 years. It always troubled her more or les-, but for the last 0 months, since taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, she has not had a sore throat except once when she took a slight cold. We cheerfully recommend Hood’s Sar saparilla as a good reliable medicine for the blood and to build up the system; I consider it the best medicine in use.” Git ant W. Barnes. GET HOOD’S. Hood a Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, as sist digestion, cure headache. Try a box. 25 cents. Young Mothers! We Offer Vow a Semtdff which Insures Safety to life of Mother and Child. "MOTHER’S FRIEND" £obs Confinement of its Fain, Horror and Bisk. After usfngone bottle of “ mother’s Friend” I Suffered but little pain, and did not experience that weakness afterward usual In such cases.—Mrs. Annie Gaos, Lamar, Mo., Jan. 15th, 1891. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle. Book to Mothers mailed free. BBABFIELDBEGlXilOR CO., ATLANTA, GA, BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. AN ASTONISHING TONIC FOR WOMEN. McELiHEE’S It Strengthens the Weak, Quiet* th# Nerves, Relieves Monthly Suffering and Cures FEMALE DISEASES. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST ABOUT IT. S1.00 PER BOTTLE. CHATTANOOGA E*ED. CO., Chai!»m*gi, Tern. Arbor day was appropriately cele brated by the employes of the nation al agricultural department. The discovery was made Monday that the $5 currency notes of the La- gonda bank, of Springfield, O., had been counterfeited. The evangelical ministers of Kansas City, at a meeting Monday in the min isters’ alliance, voted to take a day off two weeks hence and play baseball. A motion waa made by Bev. J. M. Cro mer to take an outing May 8th, and play a game of ball. A banquet was given at Blooming ton, 111., Thursday in honor of Hon. James E. Ewing, recently appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plen ipotentiary of the United States to the court of Belgium, by the Bloomington Bar Association, of which body he has been a member for about twenty-five years. At Chicago, Saturday, Christopher Columbus, twenty feet high and all of bronze, was mounted on his thirty- foot marble pedestal, which stands on the lake front at the foot of Congress street. The figure is said to be the largest bronze figure in the United States and with its pedestal represents an expenditure of $40,1)00. A San Francisco dispatch of Sunday says: Colonel Clark E. Boyce, clerk of the Veteran’s Home Association, is short in his accounts at least $20,000, and it may be $40,000. The Veteran’s Home, located at Youngsville, Napa county, is an institution supported jointly by the state and federal gov ernments for the aid of decrepit and disabled union soldiers. There is a big stir in mining circles at Guyanjuato, Mexico, over the dis covery of extensive and rich deposits of tin. The find was made by an American prospector. The new tin properties bear evidence of having been worked by the Aztecs or some other race centuries ago. The work of developing the mine will be begun as soon as machinery can be obtained. Cassville, county seat of Barry coun ty, Missouri, was almost wholly de stroyed by fire Tuesday morning. Twenty-six business buildings and a dozen dwellings were consumed. Two banks, the newspaper offices, two lum ber yards and three hotels were includ ed in the burned district. In fact, a small drug store and a small grocery was all that was left of the business part of the town. Loss, $150,000; in surance, $20,000. The Catholics of the New Orleans see held their centenary celebration Tuesday. A great many of the clergy were present from all sections of the United States including the following; Cardinal Gibbon, of Baltimore; Arch bishops Bynn, of New York, and Elder of Cincinnati; Bishops Keane, of Washington; Kann, of Wheeling, Meerschaert, of Indian Territory; Ver- daguer, ol' Brownsville; Yandervier,of Bichmond; Gallagher, of Galveston; O’Sullivan, of Mobile; Heslin, of Natchez, and Nevaso. of San Antonio. THEY WANT BONDS. Wall Street Sharks Will Not Turn Loose Their Gold Otherwise. A Washington special says: The outward movement of gold continues. Tuesday $3,200,000 went out, of which $2,000,000 was drawn from the sub treasury, the rest having been taken out last Friday and Saturday. But for the offerings of the Boston and west ern banks the gold reserve would be depleted over two millions of dollars. These banks advanced $6,000,000, $5,000,000 of it from Boston, so that the reserve remains intact with about four millions of free gold. It is now evident and admitted that the country was dangerously near a financial pauic last week. The pay ment of treasury notes in silver would have been the signal. The continued payment of them in gold and Presi dent Cleveland’s emphatic statement of Monday morning that their pay ment in gold would be continued, have served to relieve the tension and have, a large measure, restored public confidence, though the money market remains stiff and all danger is not averted. Conferences have been held between Subtreasnrer Jordan and the presi dents of the national banks of New York. Secretary Carlisle is very anx ious to have them come to the relief of the treasury as the Boston and west ern banks have done—that is, turn their gold into the treasury and take greenbacks for it. This they did to a limited extent last February. They declare that they cannot do so now. They insist that the govern ment shall issue fifty millions of bonds for a specific period, so as to make theiu marketable and that half of them shall be placed in Europe so as to fetch back some of the gold shipped from this country; the New York banks would take the other half. It believed by them that this step would tide the government over until the season of exports begins again and the balance of trade turns in our fa vor. Free Trip to Chicago. Separate W-o-r-l-d-s F-a-i-R and use the letters to spell as many words as yon can by using tho letters as many times as yon wish' either hack wards or forwards, bnt not use tb« same letter in making any one word more timet than it appears in “ World’s Fair.” It » said serenty-Are small Eflglish words can be spelled correctly from the ten lettera contained in 44 World’s Fair.” Example: W waif, soar, idol, etc. If you are good at word making yon can secure a fret trip to World's Fair and return, as the Scott Seed Company will pay all expenses, including R.R. fare, hotel bills, admissions to the Columbian Exposition, and $50 in cash for incidental ex penses, to the first person able to make seventy words from the letters contained in “ World's Fair,” as a! ove. They wi.l also give a free trip to the World’s Fair and return with $25 for incidental expenses, to the first person sending sir/y word* as above. They will also give a free trip to the World’s Fair and return (without cash for incidental expenses) to * u ~ first person sending fi tu*1ice words. To the first person sending fir, y words will be given C50 in cash towards paying expenses to the World's Fair; to the first sending f*>rty words will be given $25 in cash towards pay ing expenses to the World’s Fair.toeach of the first five persons sending thit ty-fioe words will be gi\ en $10 in cash, and to each of. the first ten sending thirty words will be given $5 in cash. Only one prize will be awarded to the same person. Write your name on list of words (numbered) and enclose the same iostpa:d with fifieen U. S. two-cent stamps for a large package of our Choice English Cottage harden Flower Seeds. This combination includes the latest and most, popular Eng.isli flowers of endless varie ties (same as will be contained in the elaborate exhibit of English flowers at the World's Fair). This “ World’s Fair ” Contest will be care fully aud conscientiously conducted solely for ♦ he purpose of introducing our business in the U. S. Yon will receive the biggest value in flower seeds ever offered, and if you are able to make a good list of words and answer promptly you will have a first-class opportun ity to secure a free trip from your home to Chico a»and return. We are spending a large amount of money to start our trade in the U. S. and want your trial order. You will be more than gratified with the result. Send to-day, and address the Scott Seed Company', Toronto, Canada. Finding a Lost Ring. A gentleman living at Sonth Ken sington ivas traveling with his son from GJoucester road to Mark lane on the underground railway. Arrived at his destination, the young man, in opening the carriage door, dropped from his finger a valuable ring, which fell be tween the carriage and the platform. The station inspector, who happened to be standing near, said; “All right, sir; I saw it fall. Wait till the train is gone, and I’ll get it for you.” And directly the train moved out he duly jumped down on to the line, but no ring could be found. The gentleman waited some time and then went home. An honr or so afterward the son went again to the railway station to inquire if the ring had been found, and while standing there the same train entered the station, having been right around the inner circle, and, wonder ful to relate, on the lower footboard of the carriage the ring was discovered, having traveled the whole distance ly ing on the open board.—London Tit- Bits. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. Tho many, who live bet ter than 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 is 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, who§e name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. August Flower’ GEORGIA’S NEW GEOLOGIST. So Not Be : with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the hands, injure the iron and hum red. The Rising Sun Stove Polish la Brilliant, Odor less Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin or glass package with every purchase. I I BLOOD POISON I | A SPECIALTY. I If any on* doubts that we can cure the m-st ob stinate case in 20 to 60 days, let him wr.tefor particulars and investi gate our reliab lity. Our fin*nclal backing is ♦000.000. When mercury, iodide potassium, sarsaparilla Of Hot Springs fail, we guarantee & cure—and our Marie Cypiiilene is the only thing that will cure permanently. Positive proof sent sealed, free. Coos RxxeaT Co., Chicago, 22b Sashloek 'Pat. ’92) free by mat for 2c. Stamp. Immense. Unrivalled. Only goo* one ever Invented. Beats weights. Sales unparallels 912 a day. Write Quick. Bbojlabd, Philo.. Pa tfc Morphine Habit easily cared- By one win a-ed it 13 years. Addre*3 J. A. PE LAP. Elisabeth, N,J- OPIUM H/ one_wjj i u-«d a 13 /ears. Addrej3 Governor >’orlhen Appoints Professor IV. S. Yeates as State Geologist. Tuesday morning Governor Northen appointed Professor W. S. Yeates to succeed Professor Spencer as state ge ologist. Soon after the appointment was made the geological board met and confirmed it. A resolution was passed by the board allowing the new geologist to select his own assistants. One of the troubles with the recent geological department was that the geologist, Professor Spencer, had no authority _ over the men under him, as they were selected by the board and from the very start there was confu sion in the office. Things went from bad to worse until the board abolished the old department. As soon as this had been done Governor Northen wrote to the Smithsonian Insti tute and asked that a man be recom mended as state geologist for Georgia. The officials recommended Professor Yates, and subsequently he wrote ap plying for the place. He is a native of North Carolina, bnt has been connec ted with tne Smithsonian Institute for the last twelve years. He has been curator of mineralogy, his duties being to classify 36,000 specimens of min erals. He is also professor of geology in the Columbian University at Wash ington, and comes highly recommend ed, and will doubtless be a very valua ble man to the state. Governor Nor then -has wired him of his appointment, and has requested him to report for duty at once, as his services are very much needed. “I have been afflicted withbilious- ness and constipation for fifteen years and first one and then another prep aration was suggested to me and tried, but to no purpose. A friend recommended August Flower and words cannot describe the admira tion in which I hold it. It has given me a new lease of life, which before was a burden. Its good qualities and wonderful merits should be made known to everyone suffering with dyspepsia and biliousness.” JESSE Barker, Printer, Humboldt, Kas.@ DIAMONDS, WATCHES and SILVERWARE. .Send for our Catalogue. «T. P. Stovous cfc 33ro., 47 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. Unlike the Dutch Process No Alkalies — OR — Other Chemicals are nsed in the preparation of W. BAKER & CO.’S reakfastCocoa tehich is absolutely pure and soluble. j It has more than three times I the strength of Cocoa mixed I with Starch, Arrowroot or . ’ Sugar, and is far more eco nomical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, and EASILY DIGESTED. Sold by Grocers everywhere. W. RAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass. Making Shoes Waterproof. Shoes can easily be made waterproof and snow-resisting by the aid of a lit tle paraffin disolved in benzine. A very little paraffin is needed, and only enough benzine to dissolve it and make it flow easily. The preparation can be brushed over the uppers and over the soles, and as it dries almost as fast as put on, the shoes are ready for wear without any delay. The par affin presents a firm waterproof sur face, and does not look amiss, although it will not take a shine like unprepar ed leather. But it will resist any amount of wet and is very convenient in snowy weather. The preparation differs, in that instead of making the leather stiff and hard, it makes it very soft and pliable. The mixture can be applied to patent leather tips and to uppers composed entirely of that ma terial, but it takes off the brilliancy of these stylish articles to be nsed very extensively for that purpose, although when the paraffin has worn off, the polish appears as brilliant as ever. Passed. Professor—“If a person in good health, but who imagined himself sick, should send for you, what would you do?” Medical student—Give him some thing to make him sick, and then ad minister an antidote.” Professor—“Don’t waste any more time here. Hang out your shingle.”— New York Weekly. A Little Management. Minks—“Say, Winks, my wife tells me that new servant-girl you have is a thief, and you’d better be on your guard.” Winks—“I suspected as much; been missing all sorts of things; but she’s so efficient and respectful my wife won’t get rid of her.” Minks—“She’d send her flying if you’d use a little management.” Winks—“What shall I d( Minks—“Kiss your wife ijo the dark some night and pretend yo' the servant-girl. ”—New Y *Mnk it’s Veekly. Not Convinced. Male Guest—“You must admit dp.o thing. Though American women can not vote, they are well taken care ofj.” Mrs. Strongmind—“They are, are they?” | Male Guest—“Urn ! yoq never see any bent up old women hete.” Mrs. Strongmind—“No; when wom en become too old to be offered seats in street cars, they get straightened out hanging to straps.” If your Back Aches, or yon are all worn out, pood tor nothing, it is general debility. Brown’s Iron Bitiers will cure you, make you ftronp, cleanse your liver, and give you a good appetite—tones the nerves. Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but that is not its regular business. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. A wonderful stomach corrector—Beech Pills. Beecham’s—no others. 25 cents a bo MV r R\Kme POWDER Pure grape cream of forms tilt' acid principle of the Royal exclusively. The Royal imparts that peculiar sweet ness, flavor and delicacy noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls, etc., which Absolutely Pure expert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable by the use of any other leavening agent. CC A SUCCESS. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., Gentlemen;— I have suffered from catarrh for about five years and have tried several remedies without relief until I commenced to use Hall’s Catarrh Cure last February. I must say that it is a A SUCCESS, the dropping in my throat disappeared entirely after the first bottle. It increased my appetite, so that I now weigh eight pounds more than my cus' tomary weight. I have recommended it to others and all who used it have been greatly relieved and speak highly of it. One of them was in my store yesterday and expressed his wish to peddle it this winter. Will you please let me know the lowest terms you could furnish it for, as I would like to keep it in stock. Hoping to hear from you soon, I remain, Yours respectfully, R. C. HAUSWEDELL, Lake City, Minn. BOLD BY DRUGGISTS, 75c. ureaEttPsaza 'Hie Best Cough Syrui : Cough Syrup. | Tastes Good. Use In time. jJSold by Druggists. We offer I you a ready made medicine for Coughs, Bronchitis and other dis eases of the Throat and Lungs. Like other so called Patent Medieines, it is well advertised, and having merit it has attained a wide sale under the name of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. It is now a “Nostrum,” though at first it was com pounded after a prescription by a regular physician, with no idea that it would ever go on the market as a proprie tary medicine. But after compounding that prescrip tion over a thousand times in one year, we named it “Piso’s Cure for Consumption,” and began advertising it in a small way. A medicine known all over the world is the result. Why is it not just as good as though costing fifty cents to a dollar for a prescription and an equal sum to hare it put up at a drug store? What Is Home Without HOME /■ HOME TACKS?! N Al LS ? Several size, to suit, In a compartment box,— handy when you need Tacks about the home for carpets, curtains, gimp, or naments, oilcloths, sheath ing,—1001 U3es you know of. Always find the right tack at the right time. Several sizes in a carton,— handy when you need nails for a loose board, shingle,or Fence Picket, broken furniture, rickety door,—to hang your hat and coat on, etc., etc. Always the right nail at the right time. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. Made Solely bj the ATLAS TACK CORPORATHffl, BOSTON. Warehouses: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Lynn, Factories: Taunton, Fairhaven, Whitman, Dnxbury, and Plymouth, Haas. EVERYBODY WANTS THEM. MEiKD HARNESS Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore Throat* Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee. BICYCLES. Complete line of hign, medium an: cheao«radi Bicycles. Sun dries of ail kinds. Immense Bargains in Sec ond Hand Bicycles, Pneu matic and Cushion Tired. Write f.-r catalogue and prices. The cn'y excias vely bicycle house in the /tfi Ad’n-s, BICYCLE UEP'T, LOWKY mV. CO.* h - P. Cha»fant, Miner., Nj. 39 Pe-achtiea Street, Atlanta, Ga. v A O feHIIMttoruhine Habit Cured in 10 r III Hi to days. No pay till cured. ■ ilflfl dr. j.STEPHENS. Lebanon,Ohfo. h THOMSON'S SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. No tools required. Only a hammer needed to driv-f ■>n l c inch them easily and quickly, leaving the ciir.ci vtiso'uteiy smoe tb. Bv-qniriug no ho e to be made jt he leather nor burr tor the Ktveta. They are ayi-ona:. oujrh snd durable. Millions now in us“. Al «*mrths. uniform «»r ais-Tted, put up in boxes. Ask yonr dealer for them, or send 40c. It tumps for a oox oi 10U, assorted sizes. Man'fd by JUOSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.. WALTHAM. HASS- I A. N* U... HOMES FOR THE POOR AND RICH ALIKE Larce and small farm3 in Alabama, South Caroii a and Giorgia, for sale on Jon; time. Special advantages offered to ten O” more pur chasers lormi"ga t " * larstoT. J. FELD* Write for particu- 4 Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is the Be5t, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. Sold by druggists or sent by mail, 50c. E. T. Hazeltlne, Warren, Pa. t Seventeen. ’$8,