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FULFILLED.
: from out her curving palms
plit she could not see ;
p they were and running o'er,
l ! been space for not one more—
*d w'th kisses three.
. / 1
' kisses, newly pressed
palms, tenderly; . i
sty lips she eager quaffea,
1, until for joy she laughed
|th tears, and could not see.
-Anna C. Brackett, in Scribner.
lassie Saved the Suoons.
’ BY AXNIE H. FRECHETTE.
OWN in the milk
ing yard of the
Bostwick farm two
young girls were
milking a,nd talk
ing cheerily. The
autumn evening
was closing over
them and already
in the shadows of
the barn it was
quite dark.
girls were Bose and Cassie Bost-
’and their pleasant chatter fol-
their parents upon a journey
►had that morning undertaken,
mere also speculating as to when
(brother, who had driven them to
station twenty miles distant, would
sk. They were bright, capable
with little timidity about them,
at the fact that they were corn-
lively alone upon an isolated
did not troublo them much. Es-
aliy was this the case with Cassie,
younger of the two. Self-reliant
full of resource, she would have
ghed to scorn any one suggesting
■ thought of fear. She was big and
(■mg, and to her life -was a grand
flic, and her sixteen years had been
'i unbroken “good time.”
J*At the house their younger sister,
ilorence, was preparing the supper
id entertaining “the baby,” a boy of
lliree, who between the falling of
pvening and the pangs of hunger was
growing sleepy and low spirited.
Out from the kitchen’s open door
Appetizing odors of coffee and frying
ham stole to greet the two girls as they
came toward the house with their
brimming pails of frothy milk.
“It smelis good,” said Cassie, “and
I’m hungry as a tramp—”
“Oh, Cassie, why did yon say that?
I’ve just been trying not to think
about tramps. I always feel creepy
when I’m about the barn after dark
anyway, and now—”
“Well, my saying that won’t bring
any r along.”
“They are positively the only things
in the world that I am afraid of.”
“Well, then, I’m not afraid of them.
And suppose one should come along,
surely three great, stout girls ought to
|j be able to take care of themselves.”
fj “Oh, Cassie dear, please stop talking
j j about them. I feel as if one were step
ping on my heels. Let’s run.”
“And.spijl the. milk? Not much!”
The Kitchen looked so bright and
cheery as they entered it, that Bose
i seemed to leave her feaio outside with
j the duskiness, and by the time she had
j strained the milk and put it away she
, had forgotten that tramps existed.
Cassie had gone up stairs to make
some needed changes in her toilet, the
baby had roused from his tired nap,
and was taking a rather mournful in
terest in the preparations for supper,
when Bose, who had just stopped to
ask him whether he would have honey
or preserves, heard a stealthy step
upon tho jiorch. A moment later, the
door was pushed slowly open and a
man walked in.
“Good evening, ladies. Is your pa
at homj>?' 1
“N—no,” faltered Bose, trying to
settle to her own satisfaction whether
this dirty' looking stranger might not
be some new neighbor, who had come
on legitimate business or whether he
was her one horror—a tramp.
“Any of your big brothers in?” with
rather a jocular manner.
“N—no, sir.”
“And I don’t see any bulldog loafing
round,” he added.
“Our dord, he is dead,” explained
the baby, solemnly.
“Well that’s a good thing. Will the
old gentleman be in soon?”
“I—I don’t know—you—I—I hope
so. Is there any message you would
like to leave for him?”
Before the man could answer, the
j r *t>oy’s voice was again heard.
“My faver he’s dorn orf. ”
“Whore’s he gone, sonny?”
“He’s dorn on the tars, so’s my
mover—and my' brover he putted y r em
on—and he won’t be home ’till I’m
asleep—and lie’s doin’ to brin’ me a
drum and put it in my bed.”
(Oh, how Bose longed to shake the
baby'!)
“Well, then, ladies, since you are
likely to be alone, I think I’ll stay and
keep you company, and since you
press me to, I will stay' to tea and spend
the evening. Don’t go to any extra
work for me though. I’m rather
hungry, so you may dish up that ham
at once, my dear.” This to poor
Florence, who had shrunk almost into
invisibility behind the stove-pipe, and
who seemed glued to the spot. ‘ ‘I’ve
usually a very fair appetite,and I am
sure I will relish it.”
He tossed his hat down beside the
chair which he drew up to the table.
With the light falling full upon his
dirty, insolent, face, Bose knew that
her greatest dread was before her.
H ith her knees almost sinking under
her, she started toward the stairs, for
she felt that she must let the intrepid
Cassie know, and find out what she
advised.
‘ ‘Where are you going, my dear ?”
askedthe tramp, suspiciously. “You’ve
not got any big cousin or uncle or
anything of that kind upstairs that
you are going to call to tea, arc you?”
“Oh, no, there is■ no one upstairs
but my poor sister,” she managed to
gasp. She could not have told yon ;
why she said “poor sister,” unless it \
was from the sense of calamity which : of eight a pleasant sound come fitfully
“Does he know I’m here?”
“Yes, I’ve told him.”
“Then it would be no use for me to
pretend to be Nedthinking aloud.
“I’m afraid not.”
Another silence dedicated to thought.
“Bose.”
“Yes.”
“I’m going to be crazy. I’m going
to chase him off the farm.”
“Oh, Cassie, you can’t. He’s a great
big impudent wretch. What folly to
talk about chasing him off the farm.”
“It’s our only chance. ”
“Don’t count on me. I can’t help
you, I couldn’t help chase a fly!”
“You cau scream, I s’pose?”
“Oh, yes, I can do that.”
“Well, yon do the screaming and
I’ll do the chasing. Bush down stairs
and scream and scream-—and bang the
door to, and just shriek : ‘She’s out—
she’s out—she’s coming down stairs!’
And you will see what a perfectly beau
tiful lunatic I will be—it’s a good
thing I have this old dress on—and
only one shoe. Now make a rush—
and scream.”
Bose’s over strained nerves were her
best allies, and as she flew down the
stairs, it was the easiest thing in the
world for her to give one piercing
shriek after another. They resounded
from the narrow stairway through the
kitchen, and for the moment seemed
to paralyze its inmates. As she burst
in upon them, Florence was transfixed
midway of the table and the stove,
with the platter of ham in her hands—
the baby had climbed upon a chair—
and the tramp had arisen with a be
wildered air from the table. As her
skirts cleared the door, she turned and
dashed it shut and flung herself against
it, shrieking: “She’s out—she’s out of
her room!”
To the mystified Florence there came
but one solution to her behavior—
fright had overthrown her sister’s
reason, and with a wail she rushed to
ward her crying: “She’s crazy 1 Oh,
she’s crazy!”
“Who’s crazy?” yelled the tramp.
The baby now wildly terrified 6et up
a loud weeping, while from the stair
way came a succession of blows and
angry demands that the door be opened.
A moment more it was forced ajar, and
a head crowned with a mass of tossed
hair was thrust out, and quickly fol
lowed by a hand in which was clutched
a gun.
“She’s got the gun—oh, Florence,
run to the baby,” cried Bose.
“Who’s that?" demanded the ap-
parition, making a rush toward the
tramp.
“Here, keep off—leave me alone,”
backing away and warding off an ex
pected blow.
She stood before him, tall, strong
and agile.
1 won’t leave you alone. What do
you mean locking me into that room ?
I’m no more crazy than you are.
What’s this?” as she stumbled over the
hat which the tramp had put beside
the chair and into which he had de
posited the silver spoons from the
table. “Oh, I see, yon are all in
league to rob me of my gold and
precious stones!” and catching it up
on the muzzle of the gun she gave it a
whirl which sent the spools glittering
in every direction, then advancing
upon him she thrust the hat and gun
into the face of the horrified man.
With a volley of oaths he sprang back
ward, upsetting his chair and falling
over it.
“Oh, don’t kill him, Cassie, don’t
kill him. ”
“We’ll have a merry time,” gayly
dancing about him and prodding him
sharply with the gun, .as he tried to
scramble to his feet.
“Keep of! with that gun, ean’tyou !”
he yelled. “Can’t you hold her, you
screaming idiots?” and half crawling,
half pushed, he gained the kitchen
door which had stood partly open
since he entered.
“Where are you going, my pretty
maid? Don’t you try to get away,”
shouted Cassie as she flitted lightly
after him. The tramp stayed not to
answer her question nor to obey her
command, but clearing the door fled
wildly through the dusk.
“Here’s your hat—I’ll fire it after
you,” she called, and a sharp report
rang out on the quiet evening air, then
all was still.
The three girls stood for a moment
in the door watching the dim outline
fleeing across the meadow in the di
rection of the highway.
“He’ll think tw'ice before inviting
himself to supper another time,” qui
etly remarked Cassie with a satisfied
smile.
“Oh, Cassie darling, you have saved
our lives, ” cried Florence, flinging her
arms around her sister.
“I don’t know about that, but I’ve
saved the spoons anyway.”
“There, there, baby,” going to the
still affected boy, “don’t cry any
more, sister Cassie was just making a
dirty old tramp hop; she didn’t really
shoot him, she was just playing
shoot. ”
“Oh, Cassie, you splendid brave
girl, how did you ever happen to
think to go crazy?” asked Bose, as she
looked over her shoulder from the
door which she was barricading.
“Well, I knew something had to be
done, and that just popped into my
mind. I was doing ‘Ophelia’ the other
day up in my room, so I was in prac
tice, and didn't I make a sweetly pen
sive maniac. Now I hope you girls
will never again make disrespectful
comments upon any little private the
atricals of mine. If I had never cul
tivated my dramatic talents, what
would have become of you, I’d like to
know?”
It was some time before the tidal
wave of excitement subsided sufficient
ly for the girls to settle down for the
evening or for the baby to go to sleep.
Again and again they thought they
heard stealing footsteps, and. although
t he door was locked and doubly locked,
they drew up into battle line when
ever the autumn wind shook down a
shower of leaves upon the roof.
Just as the clock was on the stroke
neck over?” as the owner of the voice
tripped upon an old slouch hat.
“Bring that article of wearing ap
parel to me if you please,” requested
Cassie as she opened the door letting
flood of light out upon the visitor,
“That is a little token of remem
brance which I wish to keep. There?’
holding the hat out at arm’s length
“I have long wanted a gilt toasting
fork or rolling pin or something artis
tic for my room; now I shall em
broider these shot holes and gild the
brim and hang it up by long blue rib
bons, just where my waking orbs can
rest upon it as they open in the morn
ing. Ah, this hat will ever have stir
ring memories for me, friend George,
eyeing the young man dramatically.
He looked at her a moment then
burst into a hearty laugh. “Is she
crazy, Bose?”
“Yes, she’s the dearest and bravest
lunatic in the world, George,” an
swered Bose.—-Courier-Journal.
WORDS OF*WISDOM.
If wrong our hearts, our heads are
right in vain.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make
happy the true empire of beauty.
Choose rather to punish your appe
tites than to be punished by them.
Be still prepared for death, and death
or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
Vast chasms can be filled, but the
heart of man can never be satisfied.
He is the freeman whom the truth
makes free, and all are slaves beside.
Government is not mere advice ;
is authority with power to enforce the
law.
A propensity to hope and joy is real
riches: one to fear and sorrow, real
poverty.
Woman is like the reed which bends
in every breeze, but breaks not in the
tempest.
Make but few explanations. The
characiei’ that cannot defend itself is
not worth vindicating.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure which is useful to
praise which deceives them.
Let us hope that science, commerce
and labor will flourish ; for tho shed
ding of blood is a thankless business.
What are the aims which are at the
same time duties? They are the per
fecting of ourselves and the happiness
of others.
Tlic Passing of the Rusller.
“These stories that are finding their
way into the papers nowadays about
impending trouble between cattle
men and rustlers on the ranges of
Montana and southwestern Dakota
have probably little foundation in
fact,” said George Weare. “Themave
rick and the rustler appeared about
simultaneously in the history of West
ern cattle-raising, and with the dis
appearance of the maverick the rustle?
has also left the ranges. Iu an earlier
day great herds of cattle, owned by
Eastern capitalists, were left on the
ranges in charge of men who had no
personal interest iu them. These
herders were none too particular about
gathering in and branding calves.
Cowboys, who had nothing else to do,
found a lucrative business in picking
up these strays, branding and selling
them. This was the origin of the
rustler, and in a fewyearshc’ncreased
amazingly. It was not uncommon for
them to band together in formidable
combinations, and when mavericks
were scarce there was a tendency to
keep up the supply by cutting out
calves from the herds by night. Barely
they would make daylight raids, but.
on such occasions the poorly paid
herdsmen did not care to • risk their
lives to defend the stock of men they
had never seen and had no particular
reason to love.
“The rustler’s methods of getting
rid of their stock were numerous. A
favorite plan was to give a chattel
mortgage on a given number of cattle
of a certain brand, then grazing in a
specified locality. The cattle were
usually found according to representa
tion and the money was advanced, and
before the fraud could be discovered
the mortgageor was well out of harm’s
way.
“But of late years all this has
changed. Herds, as a rule, are under
closer supervision by their owners.
Cowboy's are better paid and corre-
spondingly more loyal to their em
ployers’ interests. I believe there
isn’t a man on the ranges in which I
have any concern who would not fight
at the drop of the hat if he thought
our interests were being interfered
with. Mavericks are scarcely known.
The men of neighboring ranges carry
the brands of their neighbors as well
as their own, and wherever a cow is
found with an unbranded calf the
brand of the mother is applied to the
youngster. Under these conditions
the rustler has gradually disappeared,
and the only relic of his race is found
in the common cattle thief. Live oaks
and lariats are rapidly thinning out
evdn these. ”—Sioux City (Iowa) Jour
nal.
had overtaken them all
“In that case be spry, for I’m
hungry and want you to pour out mv
tea for rae. I like to have a pretty
face opposite me at table.”
Bose dragged herself up tne narrow,
closed stairs and into Cassie’s room.
k>so, you must be about
flickered'out. You came upstairs as
though you were eighty,” said Cassie,
locking up from the shoe she was fas
tening. “Why, what ails you? You
look as if you had seen a ghost!”
“Oh, Cassie, there is one of them
downstairs, ” came in a w'hisper.
to them. It was a softly whistled tune,
and .the chee:y cadence told of a mind
free from unpleasant doubts of wel
come.
“Surely that can’t be Ned back al
ready—he wasn’t to start home till
9,” said Bose, going to the window and
cautiously peeping out under the cur
tains.
“Bight you are there. Sister Bose,”
assented Cassie. It sounds uncom
monly like young Farmer Dunscomb’s
whistle to me. ”
“Well, whoever it is, I am deeply
thankful that somebody beside a tramp
“What do you mean, Bose Bostwick? : is coming,” interrupted Florence.
A ghost downstairs!”
“No—no—a tramp !”
“Whew!” and Cassie gave a low
whistle. ‘ ‘And I s’pose you’re scared ?”
*' “Oh, Cassie, I feel as if I were chok
ing! Do hurry down; he may be
killing-poor little Florence and the baby
—what shall we do? The baby has
told him we are all alone. What can
do—try to think.”
the button hook
“And so am I,” demurely agreed
Bose. “Do go to the door, Cassie,
and peep out and make sure that it isn’t
that dreadful creature coming back. ”
“Are you a dreadful creature com
ing to murder us all!” demanded Cas
sie of the whistler, setting the door
slightly ajar and thrusting her head
out.
“Well, I don’t go round giving my
self out as a dreadful creature^’ re
sponded a jolly voice from
A Dog Who Deserves Fame.
While Herman Bichard, who is em
ployed in the south yards of the
Northwestern Bailway Company, was
driving from his honiein Mil
waukee, one of the buggy wheels
struck a sidewalk approach,
the vehicle was overturned and
Bichard was thrown out. His left leg
and one of his arms were sprained.
The horse broke loose and continued
down Broadway cn a gallop. Mr.
Richard has a Newfoundland dog
which usually follows him downtown,
and this morning when the dog saw
the horse break away he started in
pursuit. At various places between
Michigan street and the Broadwaj
bridge, the faithful dog grabbed the
trailing lines, only to be jerked about
until he lost his hold. But the dog
succeeded in slacking the speed of the
horse somewhat and some men caught
it near the bridge. When the dog
got back to where his master lay he
was utterly exhausted, but afterward
picked himself up and followed the
ambulance containing his master to
the Emergency Hospital.—New York
Recorder.
Fish Packed For Transportation.
Fish transported long distances in
hot weather are thus packed: They
are laid in tight layers iu boxes and
loaded in refrigator cars, which are
reduced to as low a temperature as
possible. The floor of the car is
covered to a depth of several inches
with chilled sawdust, upon which the
boxes are loaded, leaving a space of
some inches between the sides, ends
and top of the car, which space is
filled with cold sawdust. Then the
car is closed and the door sealed. No
Ice is placed in the tanks of the refrig
erator car, as it has been found that
ice is unnecessary if the packing is
thorough.
The Shakespeare Society of Ger
many has sold-20,000 copies of a cheap
edition of the dramatist’s works within
a few months, and 10,000 additional
GEORGIA HEWS NOTES.
Interesting Callings tor ttie Perusal ot
tlie Casual Reader.
The office of internal revenue collector
for Georgia has been turned over to
the new coUector Hon. Paul Barclay
Trammell.
* * *
The reunion of the Fourth Georgia
regiment at Talbotton was an eminent
success and the programme for the day
was highly interesting.
* * *
The state convention of justices of
the peace held at Atlanta completed a
permament organization and will meet
on the first Wednesday in August every
year.
* * *
The Georgia State Horticultural
Society held its eighteenth annual ses
sion at Athens last Wednesday. The
Attendance was very large from alj
sections of the state.
* * *
Marshallville has now under success
ful operation one of the best canning
factories in the state. It has a daily
capacity of from 5,000 to 8,000 cans,
and sixteen skilled workmen are re
quired to do the work.
* * *
Harry Kittrell, who murdered Levi
Boss, by splitting his head open with
an axe in Milledgeville in 1870, has
been caught and jailed by sheriff
Ennis, and after twenty-three years
will be tried for his life.
The three hundred workmen in the
Richmond and Danville railroad shops
at Atlanta are now working only five
hours a day. This cuts their time
just one half, with a corresponding
cut of just half tlieir former wages.
Many of them are now compelled to
work for as low as sixtv-five cents a
day.
An excursion party of a hundred
or more Augustians will visit the
World’s fair on August 15th. The
excursion is in the interest of the An-
usta exposition and the Georgia State
fail, which opens at- Augusta October
17th and closes November 17th The
party will secure exhibits and attrac
tions for the Augusta exposition.
* * *
C. W. Gunnels, of Bronwood, has a
gold watch, a family relic, that costover
$500. The mechanism of the watch is
so intricate that only an expeit can fix
it when it gets out of order. At one
time, when the watch needed repairs,
it had to be sent north, as it was found
that no one at Dawson could reg
ulate it. It cost $18 in New York city
to clean and regulate it.
* * *
The DeKalb County Sunday School
Association held its twenty-eight an
nual celebration at tlie children’s tab
ernacle at Decatur last Wednesday.
The annual exercises of the associa
tion are always one of the interesting
events in the yearly history of DeKalb
and the day set apart for the event is
observed by all the residents of the
county from one end to the other.
* * *
The semi-centennial anniversary of
Atlanta, which will occur on Decem
ber 23d next, will bo one of the most
important chapters in the history of
the city. Tho Pioneer Society which
first suggested the semi-centennial are
working to make the event a success.
It is true the date is along way off,but
the members of the society prefer long
work to short work and for that rea
son have commenced doing business at
once.
Heretofore the hanks of Atlanta
have done much free collecting.
Whenever checks were presented they
would he cashed for their full face
value. The clearing house association,
however at a recent meeting decided
that there must be a change in this re-
ard,beginning on the 15th of August.
After that date a small per cent will
he charged on certain items for collec
tion.
The beautiful cyclorama painting,
‘The battle of Atlanta,” was sold at
auction in front of the court house at
Atlanta a few days ago. It was bid in
for the East Atlanta land company for
$1,110. The company will in all prob
ability, put the painting up at Grant
Park or at Ponce de Leon Springs,
most probably the latter, and keep it
as one of Atlanta’s permanent attrac
tions. The painting originallv cost
$37,500.
There will be a state convention of
the Georgia Prohibition Association at
Macon on Wednesday, August 23, at
11 o’clock a. m., to consult as to the
best course to be pursued by the state
on the question of prohibition. While
delegates will he admitted from tem
perance organizations, whether state
local, and from counties and
churches without limit, each county
ill be allowed only twice the number
of votes it has iu the house of repre
sentatives.
The weather crop bulletin sent out
by Director Park Morrill for the past
week shows a decided improvement in
all the crops. The drought is over in
many parts of the state and both
cotton and corn are improving. The
melon crop has been helped also. In
southwest Georgia there has been some
complaint in regard to the prevalence
of hog cholera, hut it is not thought
to he serious. The fears in regard to
damage from caterpillars in this sec
tion have been dissipated.
* * *
The Nancy Hanks will bo taken off
a few days, according to reports
from Savannah. It will be a sad blow
to the Central’s pride, for tin's, is the
fastest and handsomest unvestibuled
train in the south. The Nancy makes
a mile a minute, and is far ahead of
any train ever run regularly in these
parts, and is really the fastest long
distance train, with one exception, in
the United State. The alleged reason
for taking the Nancy Hanks off is be
cause it does not pay to run her. She
is a popular train herself and carries
crowds, but she has paralyzed the
business of the other trains.
Judge Speer has rendered a decision
which declares that certain ordinances
of the city of Macon in reference to
the government of the market house
are unconstitutional, null and void,
they being in conflict with the inter
state commerce law. The city of Ma
con forbids butchers selling western
meats at their shops and stores during
certain hours and dnring these hours
they can sell only at the market. The
Georgia packing house and others who
are dealers in western meats and rep
resentatives of western houses asked
that Judge Speer to declare the ordi
nance unconstitutional.
opencer. HTs report relates to the
geology and resources of ten counties
of northwest Georgia. It is an illus
trated book, treating the upper section
of the state “from the scientific,
economic and agricultural stand
points.” The ten counties are Polk,
Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Murray,
Whitfield, Catoosa, Chattooga, Walker
and Dade. These constitnte the paleo
zoic group. The report is technical,
and even the geological board does not
profess to find it plain sailing,
* * ,
A Home of TUeir Own.
Georgia’s public school teachers
will meet in convention next year in a
home of their own, sa/s Major Guinn,
assistant state school commissioner.
He is chairman of the committee which
went down to the £ea cost last week
to see what the St.’ Simon’s and Cum
berland Island Companies are willing
to do to get the permanent home of
the teachers. Propositions were made
in behalf of both islands. No offer
was accepted and it was announced
that the matter will be left open until
the loth of September. Up to that
time bids will be received by
the committee. The teachers
prefer the sea coast for a site. They
are planning to get an auditorium
built and in that will hold their annual
conventions. It is believed that the
session will be lengthened voluntarily
and that the annual meeting will grow
more and more educational in charac
ter. Something on the chautauqua
order is contemplated. Georgia has
5,000 white teachers. Low railroad
rates are assured if a large attendance
can be secured. The committeemen
feel that they can arrange a permanent
summer resort for the teachers at fig
ures which will be as cheap as staying
at home almost.
* * *
Commissioner Nesbitt’* Report.
In his monthly report, just issued,
commissioner Nesbitt says:
“A general review of the condition
of the crops of the state is difficult,
for the reason that only limited areas
have been subjected to the same
amount of sunshine and rain. In
many cases in tho same county in cer
tain sections the seasons have been
propitious, while in others all crops
have been parched for lack of proper
moisture. In southern Georgia the
area where the weather has favored
the growth of vegetation is larger in
extent than where crops have suffered
for want of rain, while in middle and
north Georgia the damage area is
greater in extent.
“The ability of the cotton plant to
withstand drought enables it to pre
sent a far more healthy appearance
than the corn crop iu those sections
where there has not been a sufficient
rainfall. As stated this area is larger
in middle and northern Georgia, where
growth was retarded by the cold wea
ther prevailing iu the spring and ow
ing to which imperfect stands were
secured. Upon tlie whole the plant
in these sections is unusually small
subjecting it to the liability of future
damage by early frost. Only in ex
ceptional cases has the want of a prop
er stand been to any extent compensa
ted for by vigorous plant growth. In
southern Georgia the outlook is more
favorable, though here we have reports
of localities suffering from drought
and other localities where injury has
resulted from too much rain.
“The last days of July brought
showers to nearly every point in north
Georgia of great benefit to all vegeta
tion and invigorating to the cotton
plant. Compared with the report for
July the condition of the crop shows
in the average for the state only a
slight change, this a decrease of a lit
tle over 1 per cent. Compared to last
year the condition for the entire state
is about the same, while the sections
vary widely.
“Comparative figures as to the corn
crop are not encouraging, whereas last
month the department from the re
ports of the correspondents was able
to report a condition that promised a
large yield. Owing to the drought,
especially in the principal corn section
of the state, the condition has fallen
off over ten points aud the outlook is
unfavorable. The crop on the alluvi
al lands has not suffered so greatly,
but the usual product of the uplands
have been greatly reduced. In the
more southern parts of the state the
crop is matured, but in the northern
portion the recent rains will prove
very beneficial.
“Inquiry as to the profits of the
melon crop compared with last year
has not been met with encouraging
answers. The growing of frnit for
market merits close study from every
farmer, and the causes of failure
should be investigated. It may not be
either the quantity or quality of the
product, but in the methods of mar
keting and the expenses of transpor
tation.
“Rice, with sugar cane and sweet
potatoes, as seen from the tabulated
statement, presents a more favorable
condition than the two great staple
crops. As these crops occupy a larger
place in our agriculture than is gen
erally acceded to them it is a source
of gratification to report that the yield
will be nearly if not quite au average.
QUARANTINE PRECAUTIONS
The state'has published a 400-page
^T° rt of the ej^^^e geologist, J.
Taken at New York Against Vessels
from Soulh America.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: Health Officer Jenkins has de
clared a five days’ quarantine on all
vessels arriving from South American
ports where yellow fever prevails.
This action has been rendered neces
sary by the danger of infection from
vessels in the South American trade
which have reached port in the past
fortnight with yellow fever on board.
The bark Alice Beed arrived Mon
day from Santos and was quar
antined for five days, the first
mate having died of yellow fever
on July 3d, and three sailors being
still confined with it. This is the third
vessel arriving from South American
ports within ten days which has re
ported deaths from yellow jack. The
port of Santos, Brazil, is a Feetliing
hotbed of yellow fever, aud a report
received at the maritime exchange
states that at the present time the dis
ease is making terrible ravages, hun
dreds of people being stricken every
day.
VIRGINIA POPULISTS.
Assemble in State Convention in Lyneh-
bnrg.
Tbe Virginia third party state con
vention assembled in Lynchburg
Thursday morning. Colonel Beverly
was made permanent chairman. A
large crowd was in attendance. Jerry
Simpson, of Kansas, and Congressman
Pence, of Colorado, addressed the con
vention.
A telegram from the silver conven
tion was received annonneing that the
silver men of the west would work
with the third party and predictin.
victory next year. The convention i
composed largely of farmers, andnei
ly every county is represented.
RICH RED BLOOD
“ For feeling of dead*
ness of the limbs, consti
pation and poor circula
tion of tl\e blood. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla has no rival.
My blood was in very
poor condition. Since
taking Hood’s Sarsapar-
11a I have good,rich, red
blood,and do not bloat as
1 used ;o. Hood’s Sarsa-
k parilla has proved its
merit to me as it will to all who take it fair
ly.” Mrs. M. F. Toms, Niantic, Ct.
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA CURES.
Hood’s Pills Cure Sick Headache. 23 cents.
Rood Position in a Bank.
The following letter explains itself :
Mebchant’s National Bank, Rome
Ga., April 27, 1893.—Professor B. W,
Jennings, Nashville—Dear Sir: No
doubt you will be surprised to hear
from me, hut as I know you are al
ways glad to hear from vour “boys,”
I will tell you that I have been elected
book-keeper in above named hank. I
don’t say t because I am writing to
yon, but 1 have said to many others
that the three months I spent with
you was worth as much to me as was
the twelve years’ schooling I had got
ten previously. I have compared my
books which I used at Jennings’ Busi
ness College with the books of several
other colleges, which other young men
from this section attended, and they
all acknowledged that your course is
much more thorough and practical
than the schools they attended.
Yours truly, T. J. Simpson.
Write for catalog with names of 1,000
students from 23 States. Address
B. W. Jennings, Nashville, Tenn.
Scorched Cloth.
A SALARY OF $5,00ft.
A Business College Graduate Gets a
Position as Bank Examiner.
Thomas E. Jennings, late of Nash
ville, has been appointed Bank-Exam
iner for the States of California, Ore
gon, and Washington, at a salary of
$5,000 per annum. He is a son of
Prof. R. W. Jennings, of Jennings’
Business College, Nashville, and this
appointment can be largely attributed
to the business training he received
from his father, as well as to the latter’s
| influence in securing positions. This
is perhaps the most thorough and in
fluential school in the United States.
Its graduates nearly always get good
positions.
Microscopic Writing.
In answer to a prize offered by a
French paper, for the best examples
of microscopic writing, a constant
reader sent in the whole history of
Christopher Columbus written on an
egg. Another wrote an the back of a
cabinet photograph Francois Coppee’s
novel of “Henriette” of twelve thous
and words. The prize was won by a
man who sent in the contents, written
at length, of the first two sheets of a
great newspaper, written on a post
card. The people who will ultimately
be benefitted by this strange competi
tion are the Paris oculists.
The Womac of the Future.
Susan B. Anthony is of the opinion
that we are on the verge of an era of
unmarried women. Our civilization,
she says, is changing. Daughters can
not be supported at home, and there
is nothing there to busy them. The
women used to sjfin and weave, make
carpets and soap, but now all that is
done for them in the factories. Young
men do not make enough money to
support their wives, and there is such
a craze for dissipation ami ng them
that the women would rather go into
a store for almost nothing than to
What to do with scorched places on
cloth is a question that sometimes
puzzles the careful housewife. If the
scorch is not too bad, dipping the ar
ticle in soapsuds and hanging it in the
sun for some hours will be likely to
remove it. If the Joy is dull, hang the
piece before the grate fire. Scorched,
spots that are very bad and yet have I mftrr . v - Reading Times.
not consumed the fiber of the goods,
are said to be restorable by repeated
dripping in a saturated solution of bo
rax. The saturated solution as the
chemists call it, consists of ns much
salt or crystal as the water will dissolve.
It is always safe to put in a little ex
tra ; if the borax stands undisturbed
in the bottom of the bottle, one is sure
of the full-strength solution. Repeated
dippings of this, with exposure to sun
or fire light, will remove what are by
How They Learn.
Litle Dot—“I don’t see how cows
can eat grass.”
Little Dick—“I s’pose when they is
young the mother cow keeps sayin’ to
their childrens, ‘If you don’t eat grass
you sha’n’t have any pie.’ ”
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
tei man others'and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the Avorld’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 refreshingand truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana 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 ana $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by tlie California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Sustain tlie Sinking System.
This common sense injunction is too often
unheeded. Business anxieties, overwork, ex-
w _ posure must and do cause mental and pliys-
most housekeepers considered hopeles's w!
discolorations.
TVhat He Had Heard.
Neighbor—“Your sister is going to
marry a very nice man, I hear.”
Boy—“His father has got fifty
thousand dollars, and hasn’t any other
childrens, and he’s got a rich bachelor
uncle wot’s too old to get married, and
he’s inherited a lot o’ money from his
Aunt Jane on his mother’s side,
and ”
Neighbor—“I mean he is averynice
man morally, and has good, steady
habits.”
Boy—“Mebby, I don’t know. I
haven’t hearn anything about that.”—
Street <£t Smith’s Good News.
injuriously upon the system. That most ben
eii ientnf toniesand re-toratives, Hostetler’s
Stomach Bitters, effectually compensates fora
drain of strength and .oss of nerve power,
regulates imp-tired digestion, arouses the dor
mant liver and renders tlie bowels active. It
is, besides, a preventive of malarial and rheu
matic ai inents.
Go to the devil in your private life and Vi ur
business will fo'low you.
If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out,
good for nothing, it is general debility.
Brown’s Iron Bitters will cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give you a good
appetite—tones the nerves.
Politeness som“times hurts an enemy more
than savage words.
'1 lie Business Age.
Friend—“Why didn’t you exhibit
at the "World’s Fair?”
Manufacturer—“Business, old boy,
business. Bee?”
“Humph! I don’t see.
“You are away behind the age. By
refusing to exhibit I got half the pa
pers to denouncing me, aud the other
half to defending me, until I’ve had
about a million dollars’ worth of first-
class advertising, and it hasn’t cost me
a cent.”
Wishing to become rich without wor
thy effort is wishing that others may
be impoverished without an equiva
lent.
Students, Teachers (male or female). Clergy
men and others in need of change of employ
ment, should not fail to write to B. F. Johnson
& Co., Richmond, Ya. Their great success
shows that they have got the true ideas about
making money. They can show you how to
employ odd hours profitably.
W© Care Raptor©.
No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hollensworth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.
Price $1; by mail, $1.15.
For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making old person^ feel young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
Suspect and watch the man who never
makes a m slake.
W. II. Griffin, Jackson, Michigan, writes:
“ Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years,
Hall’s Catarrh Core cured me.” Sold by Drug
gists, 75c. *
Beecliam’s Pills are better than mineral wa
ter. Beecham’s—no others. 25cts. a box.
If afflicted with sore eyes nse Dr- Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
At Chicago
Royal Leads All.
As the result of my tests, I find the
ROYAL BAKING POWDER superior to all
the others in every respect. It is entirely
free from all adulteration and unwhole
some impurity, and in baking it gives off
a greater volume of leavening gas than
any other powder. It is therefore not only
the purest, but also the strongest powder
with which I am acquainted.
WALTER S. HAINES, M. D.,
Prof, of Chemistry, Rush Medical College,
Consulting Chemist, Chicago Board of Health.
AU other baking- powders are shov n
by analysis to contain alum,
lime or ammonia.
ROYAL BAKING POV/DER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
I used August Ficnver for Foss of
vitality and general debility. After
taking two bottles I gained 69 lbs.
I have sold more of your August
Flower since I have been in business
than any other medicine I ever kept.
Mr. Peter Zinville says be was made
a new man by the use of August
Flower, recommended by me. I
have hundreds tell me that August
Flower has done them more good
than any other medicine they ever
took. Georgs W. Dye, Sardis,
Mason Co., Ky. %
k Can bs Cured Without the Knife k
4 Or use of painful, burning, pois- I
onous plasters. Cancers ex- w
4 clusively treated. For particu- A
tars address DR. P. B. CREEN’S C
4 Sanatorium, Fort Payne, Ala, A
His Own Doctor.
A Valuable FAMILY DOCTOR Book
by J. Hamilton Ayers, M. D., of six
hundred pages, profusely illustrated
and containing knowledge of how to
CUBE Disease, Promote Health and
Prolong Life. Tlie book also contains
valuable information regarding mar
riage aud the proiier care and rearing
of children.
SEND 00 CENTS
TO
The Atlanta FiiMisif House,
11G Loyd St., Atlanta, Ga., and they
will forward you the book by mail,
postpaid.
AN ASTONISHING
TONIC FOR WOMEN.
McELREE’8
It Strengthens the Weak, Quiets the
Nerves, Relieves Monthly
Suffering and Cure*
FEMALE DI8EASE8.
A»K YOUR DRUGGI8T ABOUT IT.
*1.00 PER BOTTLE.
CHATTANOOGA PED. CO., Ch.ttanooga, Twin.
HARNESS
THOMSON'S T
SLOTTED
CLINCH RIVETS.
Ko tools requir?d. Only a hammer needed to drive
and c inch th in easily and quickly, leaving the clinoh
absolutely smooth. Inquiring no ho e to be made la
ih“ leather nor ourr lor the Rivets. Thay are strOnff,
iongrli and durable. Millions now In use. A&
len Jthn. uniform or assorted, put up in boxes.
Ask yonr dealer for them, or send 40c. la
stamps for a box of 100, assorted sizes. Man’fd by
JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO.,
WALTUiX, 31 .ASS.
CSOTTON
SCALES.
5-TON
FRF.imiT IM II). It BA U BOX, Tare Beam.
A enmulou- Scale. KoM oa trial. Forfactawrlta
JONiilj OF BINGHAMTON.
B1NGII.V.UTON, N. T,
RAD FI ELD’S
FEMALE
REGULATOR
has proven an infalliblo
specific for all derange
ments peculiar to the
female sex,such as chronic
womb and ovarian dis
eases. [f taken in time it
regulates and promotes
healthy action or all func
tions of the generative
organs. Young ladies at
the age of puberty, and
older ones at the 'meno
pause, will find in ft a healing, soothing tonic.
The highest recommendations from promi
nent physicians and those who have tried it.
"Write for book “To Women,’* mailed free. Sold
by all druggists. Brad field Regulator Co.,
proprietors, Atlanta, Ga.
LASER mi
LEMONADE.
_ OOl9 the Blood.
either cold orhotwiier. Ark ■Quenches Thirst. |
for bottles * t grocers end drag- Ha lc < s Digestion.
gists, 25 ana 50c. Send 0 &. ™ 5
rtarr.ps for sample, by mail, or
$1.00 for two 50c- bottles, by expresi, prepaid.—enough to
make several gallons. (Agents make big pay with us.)
FRANK E, HOUSH A CO. 235 Wash'd st Boston, Mass.
Do ITot Be Deceived
with Pastes, Enamels and Paints which stain the
hands, injure the iron and bora red.
Tbe Rising Sun Stove Polish Ls Brilliant, Odor
less, purable, and tho consumer pays for no tin
5 package with every purchase.
BLOOD POISON
A SPECIALTY.
ilVPn - Young man acquainted with
m I fta 11 the grocery and liquor tra le on
_ I bh E# salary and commission. Address
Enterprise Cigar Co.,377 PallsadeAv.,Jersey City,y^.
SEND for FREE Circular.
J. N. Klein, Belleville,*. J.
If any one donMs that
I we can cure tho in atob
stin&te case in 23 to 60
days, let him wrtefor
paiiiculars and investi-
pate our reliub lity. Our
fnnclal tacking is
$^00,000. When mercury,
iodide potaasium, sarsapjrllla or Hot Springs tail, we
gn-irantee a cure—and our Macic Lyphilenc i3 the only
thing thut will cure pe.A-*ner’ tly. Positive proof seat
sealed, free. Coox Bz*B>Y Co., Chicago, 111.
60ITRE CURED
$75.00
To SiW 0 can be made monthly
_ working for B. F. Johnson A Co.,
_ Ifd. 3 south 11th St.jRlchruondjV*
AN ItJEAL FAMILY MEDICI
{For Indigestion, liiiioasnem,
= Headache, Constipation, Had
^Complexion. Offensive Hreatb,
* and all disorders of tho Stomach,
y Liver and Bowels,
N , RIPANS TABULES
= act gently yet promptly. Perfect-
■ digestion fellows their use. Bold!
= by druggists or sent by mail. Box
r m (fi vials >,75c. Peekag*- • 4 boxes), 22.
I For free sair. r>lea-k'Wi~s •
L* ln o A i S York.
HOMES FOR THE POOR
UNO RICH HIKE
Far^e and small farms in Alabama, South
Carolina and Georgia, for bale on Ion* time.
Special ad van tagesofifered to ten or more pur
chasers forming a co onv. Write for particu
lars to T. J. FELDEIl. Atlanta, Ga.
3 SEELEY’S HARD ROBBER
jcURE RUPTURE-
j Send for “ Meehania
:atmect of Rupture and Price List.” Addree
L B. SEELEY L C0425 S. 11th St., PhiiadclpJa^P^.
CANCER Cured Permanently
NO KNIFE, NO POISON, NO PLASTER.
JNO. B. HARRIS, Fort Payne, Ala.
Piso’s Remedy fbr Catarrh ia the
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
ists or sent by mail,
Stine, Warren, Pa.
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