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How We Advance.
' In the last forty years the average
of human life has increased from twen
ty-seven to thirty-four years. This is a
remarkable fact. Seven years added to
the average human life in forty! It
took over eighteen hundred years to
incroaso the average of life eight years,
which shows how much more rapidly
we advance in these days. From the
days of Caesar to the present, fifteen
years have been added to the average
of life, seven of which of this desirable
addition are to bo accounted to the
advancement made in sanitary science
during the last forty years. We live
in better houses; we wear better
clothes; we care more rationally for
our children and weare not so enslaved
by superstitious fear.
This lengthening of life has been
mad&in spite of the many bad habits
yet indulged in by the people. The
use of intoxicants and tobacco, late
hours, dress yet inadequate, the hurry
and worry of the age, still tend to
shorten our days of life upon the
earth. If those causes could be re
moved, another fifteen years could be
j^^J^ddei to the length of life. Men and
^^H&hen should live to be one hundred
years old, and there should be notable
exceptions to the rule who would live
to be one hundred and twenty-five or
thirty. The average animal or bird
lives, on an average, five times as long
as it takes them to mature physically.
Some live much longer than this pro
portion. Man should do at least as
well as the animals, and with his abili
ty to care for himself he should sur
pass the animals. We need a more
rational mode of life. We believe we
are gradually learning it.—Exchange.
Give the Bofs a Chance.
I think we need to study our chil
dren, and however dissimilar they may
be to each other it is essential that
equality of treatment be used". Gfve
the boys a chance. Let them feel that
they have a warm place in your moth
er heart. Wish to know about their
pastimes and amusements when out of
your sight, and of their little affairs
with their companions. Without be
ing censorous, you might often nip in
the bud infirmities of temper and dis
position and give them timely counsel.
Let them enjoy the refinements of
homo that are too often only reserved
for the girls. In attending to their
wants bo prompt, thus setting them an
example.
Occasionally allow a room entirely
at their service for an evening to en
tertain their companions. A boy likes
to show his pictures, his music, etc.,
to his friends, and they in turn are
more respectful for being treated
nicely by the family. Why should
the girls only be allowed these privi
leges? Thus wo gain our son’s confi
dence aud love, enabling us to instill
into their minds the same hatred that
we have for all kinds of vicious prac
tices. This bond of sympathy between
our natures being strongly established,
there will be no need of preaching
against the cigar habit and saloons
and their attendant evils. A son who
loves his mother when he marries will
be most likely to make a good hus
band.—A Mother in Detroit Free
Press.
Not Left in Doubt.
Neighbor—“I hear your father in
tends to put up a new house. Who is his
builder?”
Boy—‘‘What’s that?”
“Why, the—er—one who bosses the
job?”
“Oh! Why, ma, of course.”—
Street <L- Smith's Good, News.
No Show for Cholera.
Foreign Visitor—“Cholera obtained
no foothold in America this summer.”
American— “No. Times were so hard
that people had to content themselves
with three meals a day.”—New York
Weekly.
Success Follows Failure
To euro disease when, instead of the numerous
palliatives of that scourge of humanity, that
potent and comprehensive medicine, Hostet-
ter’s Stomach Bitters, is resorted to. Im
provement is rapid and relief complete when
it is used in cases of liver or malarial com
plaint, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness,
kidney weakness or neu*algia. Debilitated
people speedily gain strength when digestion
is renewed by the Bitters.
A poet assures ns that “death is man’s best
friend.” Perhaps so, but it is a friend that
most of us are in no hurry to meet.
For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion aud Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making o d persons feel young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
A bookkeeper’s lunch is the bite of an ad
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Ohio.
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No matter of how long standing. Write
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Sorrows are preserved, not drowned, in
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If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out,
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When the auctioneer shouts “gone!” it is a
knock-down argument.
Beecliam’s Pills instead of sloshy mineral
waters. Beecham's—no others. 25 cents a box.
Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
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“ W Me Serving My Country
I was taken ill with spinal disease and rheu
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I was well and have not since been troubled
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and feels like a new woman.” James
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Hood’s Pills are the beat after-dinner Pills, as
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THE BATTLE 01 BALLOTS.
RepnF.icans Victerions in Many Demo
cratic StronsMs.
Even New York Goes Under anil Ohio
and Iowa Follow Suit.
Beturns from the elections in
New York state, Tuesday, shows the
situation of a year ago is almost exact
ly reversed. The republicans have
apparently swept everything. Actual
figures are hard to get. Practically
complete returns from manj- of the
counties of tho state and scattering re
turns from the others indicate that the
republicans have elected their entire
state ticket and that they will have a
good working majority in the next
legislature. In Brooklyn the lo
cal campaign was fought most
bitterly. Mayor Brody, who
was re-nominated by the democrats,
was defeated by 8,000 or moxc. Wil
liam B. Gayner, the prominent demo
crat, who for the past two years has
led in the fight against Boss McLaugh
lin and his ring, was nominated by the
republicans for supreme court judge
in the second district with a result of
a 20,000 majority in his favor. The
local contest in New York city was
very interesting, the republicans mak
ing but small efforts in behalf of their
ticket. The complete returns for the
city show the election of the entire
Tammany ticket by majorities ranging
between 67,000 and 68,000.
Tho Sun says: Every return from
the state shows gains for the republi
cans, and that the state has gone re
publican by about 40,000.
NEW JERSEY IS LOST.
In New Jersey tho situation is very
similar to that in New York. There,
for the first time since they passed the
local option laws in 1888, the republi
cans will control the assembly.
A WATERLOO IN OHIO.
The democrats of Ohio met with a
perfect Waterloo in the election Tues
day. The returns so far seem to indi
cate the election of McKinley by not
less than 50,000 nor more than 75,000
plurality. This is the largest majority
given to any candidate in this state
since Brough beat Yallandigham in
1861 by more than 100,000 majority.
It’s a perfect landslide, and while the
democrats did not expect a victory,
they are dazed at the overwhelming
defeat, which is attributed to various
causes. Cincinnati and Ham
ilton county have gone feu Mc
Kinley by from 10,000 to 14,000,
and the entire republican ticket is
elected. Hard times induced the
working men and others of the dis
contented to blame the democrats with
all the trouble, and they accordingly
voted with the opposition party. The
returns from the northwest show that
the farmers were disgusted with the
democratic position on silver and went
back on them. The legislature will
bo from three-fourths to four-
fifths republicans in both branches.
VIRGINIA OVERWHELMINGLY SAFE.
A Richmond special says; The elec
tion in Virginia, in which the demo
crats won a sweeping victory, was one
of tho most remarkable contests ever
known in the state. A governor, a
lieutenant governor and attorney gen
eral were chosen together with mem
bers of the general assembly. The as
sembly will, in its turn, elect a full
judiciary except county judges, from
members of the supreme court of ap
peals down, and also two senators in
congress, one to fill the unexpired term
of the late Senator Barbour and
the -other to fill the long term.
This was the first time in twenty years
that a single contest involved the fil
ling of so many of the important state
offices. Although the vote throughout
the state was small the democratic vic
tory was one of tho most complete in
the political history of Yirgina. With
partial returns in from perhaps two-
thirds of the state it is clear that, be
sides electing its ticket by a handsome
majority of from 25,000 to 40,000 the
democratic party has chosen at least
three-fourths of the members of the
general assembly. Returns from al
most every quarter have been encour
aging.
MARYLAND ALL RIGHT.
Returns from many precints of
Maryland show that democrats have el
ected candidates for state comptroller
by a large plurality.
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
Advices from Boston state that
forty towns in the state show net dem
ocratic loss, from" last year, of 1,852.
One hundred towns give Greenhalge
(republican) 20,321, Bussell 19,852.
Same towns last vear gave Haile (re
publican) 29,236,'Russell 24,210. Net
democratic loss of 5,343. One hund
red and eighty towns show a net demo
cratic loss of 9,554 from last year.
Returns from 300 towns show demo
cratic losses. Returns from 237 towns
give Russell 42,280 aud Greenhalge
64,866. The same towns, in 1861,
gave Russell 45,835 and Allen 55,685.
A Boston special says: The repub
licans elected their candidate for gov
ernor in Massachusetts, Tuesday, by
30,000 plurality. All during the cam
paign the democratic leaders have felt
that they were fighting against hope
less odds, but the overwhelming vie-'
tory which Frederick T. Greenhalge
won is perhaps tho greatest of all the
,;vat surprises which have occurred in
Massachusetts politics in the past four
years.
IN KANSAS.
The republican majorities in Arkan
sas City will run from 50 to 200. In
Winfield, from 325 to 390. Estimated
i iq ublicna majority in Cowley county,
100.
IOWA REPUBLICAN. .
1 GokMo’us ‘-"eoial «nvs: The re-
publioa ns swept Iowa Tuesday. They
fleeted their candidate for governor,
P . D. Jackson, by 35,000, and the re
mainder of their state ticket by a
large plurality. They will have a good
working majority in both branches of
the general assembly and elect a Uni
ted States senator to succeed James
F. Wilson.
KENTUCKY IS SAFE.
Full returns throughout Kentucky
will not be available for several days,
but so far as reports have been re
vived it is pretty certain that the rela
tive standing of the political parties
have not changed, The only elections
of general interest was for election of
general assembly. The legislature will
be democratic on joint ballot by about
4 to 1. The only issues in this election
were factional, the dominant faction
of the democracy being the Cleveland
party as opposed to the wing, which
supported Mr. Henry Watterson in his
opposition to Cleveland’s nomination.
EXPECTED OF NEBRASKA.
Returns so far from the election in
Nebraska show that the work done by
the free silver democrats in revenge
because of the administration policy
on silver, has badly cut into the show
ing made by the party at this election.
The silver men deserted their party
nominee for Supreme Judge Irvin and
voted for Holcomb, populist, while
many administration democrats to pre
vent Holcomb's election have voted
for Harrison, the republican candi
date. This division of votes has made
Holcolmb and Harrison run very close
together. The populist state central
committee claims the eleation by 15,-
000, while the republican committee
claims Harrison elected by 6,000.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN BY 90,000.
Dispatches from every county in
Pennsylvania, save a few in the ex
treme western part of the state, show
republican gains of 300 to 900, indi
cating that Boss Quay was correct
when he said a few days ago that the
republican majority would be run up
to 90,000. The entire state ticket, of
course, troes in by heavv majorities.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift ot Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
A $100,000 woolen mill is being seri
ously considered as the next factory to
be established at Huntsville, Ala.
The World’s Convention of Christian
Workers assembled at Atlanta, Ga.,
Thursday morning. Delgates were
in attendance from all parts of the
country.
The Commercial club, of Birming
ham, Ala., has resolved to circulate a
petition to the ways and means com
mittee asking it not to lower the duty
on iron and coal in the new tariff bill.
The relief train, sent out by theNew
York World, numbering eight carloads
of provisions and supplies, arrived in
Charleston, S. C., Wednesday after
noon. The train lias been turned over
to the local committee,which will con
fer with the president of the Red Cross
Society before making any disposition.
Thirteen new cases and one death
were reported by the Brunswick board
of health Wednesday. The dead is J.
H. Hickman, white. Three of the
new eases are whites. Twelve patients
were discharged. There are 126 pa
tients under treatment, the twelve dis
charged and one dead Wednesday
striking a balance with thirteen new
cases.
The Alabama Christian Missionary
Convention met in regular session at
Birmingham, Tuesday, about fifty
delegates attending, coming from all
parts of the state. Rev. Irwin, of
Selma, the president of the association,
presided. The president’s annual ad-
address showed the church to be grow
ing rapidly in Alabama. It row has
more than ten thousand members.
D. Yorenberg & Bro., at Gurleys,
Ala., doing a large general merchan
dise business, made an assignment
Wednesday night to Walter Wells, for
the benefit of the general creditors.
It was precipitated by the pressure of
certain creditors. This assignment in
no way effects the Alabama Lumber
and Manufacturing Company, at Gur
leys, in which Yorenberg is Inrgely
interested.
The United States grand jury at
Norfolk, Ya.,Wednesday, indicted the
following for violation of the pension
laws: Ella Etheridge, colored ; Eliza
Ward, colored; Mary K. Morris, col
ored; Eugenia F. Etheridge,white ; R.
C. Perkins, white; John Ward, color
ed ; James Sawyer, colored ; William
Selden, colored; R. P. Handy, color
ed; Anna Brocket, colored; Julia
Shannonhouse, colored.
A Birmingham, Ala.,special of Wed
nesday says: The committee of the
Commercial club are working hard on
the memorial which they will present
to the ways and means committee rel
ative to the tariff on coal and iron.
The latter committee will be furnished
with abundant statistics and argu
ments why these articles should not
be put on the free list. The memorial
will probably be forwarded at once, so
as to put the committee at Washington
on notice.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Jes-
np, Ga., says: There are no new cases
of yellow fever to be reported. The
last one has been discharged from
treatment. The government repre
sentative has made up his mind that
all danger of infection is over and in
his opinion he has been backed by
Surgeon Murray. Everything in Jes-
up is almost at a standstill. It is sin
cerely hoped that the authorities at
headquarters will relieve the town at
once of a quarantine, which is now
useless and expensive.
A Jackson, Tenn., special of Wednes
day says:—The celebrated case of the
United States against the Rev. George
Frederick Howard, charged with
using the mails for fraudulent pur
poses, has just arrived at a point
where it is becoming interesting. Tho
plea in abatement, which has occupied
the attention of of the court for the past
four days, is now out of the way, hav
ing been decided against the defend
ant. Many knotty questions of law
have also been swept away by the
court. The way is now clear to try
the main case upon its merits, which
will be done at once.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review ot the industrial sitnati n in the
South for the past week rhows that the settle
ment of the finauc at question is producing
good results. Renewed confilence is shown by
enquiries received from prospective investors,
by an increase in the demand for machinery,
by arrangements being made to start np plants
that have not been working, and by an en
larged vo'ume of mercantile business. No ma
terial advance can be reported in the iron and
coal market which has practically touched bot
tom. The Louisiana sugar crop is now com
ing into market and is one of the largest for
many years, and the sime is true of the rice
crop. 'A slight advance in the price of cotton
lias brought out an increased supply, but many
plantsrs who can afford to do so are holding
for yet higher prices.
Twenty-three new industries were established
er incorporated during the week, together with
seven enlargements of manufactories, and five
important new buildings. Among noticeable
new indu-tries are the organization of the Bes
semer Development Comapany at Llano, Texas,
capital $300,000, by T. J. Semple and others, to
d velop ore landsj’the Winston Machine Com
pany, at Winston, N. C., capitsl f20,000, by T,
H. Sntton and associates; the Elkins Furniture
and Hardware Company, at Elkins, W. Ya.
capital $20,000, by J. S. Posten and others,and
the Simmon’s Refrigerator and Manufacturing
Company, at Dallas, Tex-, capital $20,000, by
James Simmons and associates.
A compress company, and a tobaoco manu
factory are reported at Chattanooga, Tenn.;
mines and quarries are to be opened at Cedar-
town, Ga., Faith and Woodside, N. C.; flouring
mills are to be built at Horse Cave. Ky., Elkin,
N. C., and Union City, Tenn.: lumber mills at
Atlanta, Ga-, and Logan C. H , W. Ya., and
saw and planing mills at Ball Plav, Ala., and
Bartow Fla.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.]
Fully Oue Thousand Dead.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
Madrid, Spain, says: The latest de
tails concerning the terrible disaster
at Santander Friday show, that the
number of dead, missing aud wounded
is fully one thousand.
OUB LATEST DISPATCHES.
Tte Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brief aM Concise Parasjaplis
And Containing the Gist of the Sews
From All Parts of the World.
Lawyer Francis H. Weeks, the em
bezzler, whose extradition from Costa
Rica excited so much talk, was taken
to Sing Sing Thursday, to serve out his
sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.
One of the gas motors used by the
North Side Cable road, at Chicago,
exploded Thursday morning, setting
fire to the barns. Before the flames
were extinguished eleven motors,
forty cars and the barns were destroy
ed. The loss is about $100,000.
A New York dispatch of Thnrsday
says: It is definitely ascertained that
the Brooklyn navy yard’s new armored
cruiser, the New York, through a rad-
cal defect in her construction, draws
considerably more water than intend
ed, and is unable to get into any dock
in this country.
Friday the famous Edison patent
expired in England, and the manufac
ture and sale of incandescent lamps
in that country is now free. This is
said to mean the possible decrease in
the price of incandescent lamps and
tho establishment of a number of new
manufactories.
The supreme court of North Caro
lina, Thursday, decided the right of
way case between the Raleigh and
Western and the Glendon and Gulf
railways in favor of the latter. The
Glendon and Gulf is a link of the im
portant line between Durham and
'harlotte, and it is officially stated
:hat the work of construction will now
soon be resumed.
A south-bound express crashed into
v north-bound freight, on the Hocking
valley railroad near Rising Sun,Ohio,
Thursday evening. The collision was
lue to the disobedience of orders on
the part of the engineer of the freight.
A heavy fog prevailed at the time and
obscured the vision of the passenger
ngineer. Four people were killed
outright.
A special of Thursday from Omaha,
Nebraska, states that the returns from
80 per cent of the counties in the state
indicate the election of Judge Har
rison, republican, to the supreme court
by about 5,000 votes. This result
was a complete surprise to every one,
especially to the republicans who did
not expect it. A study of the returns
shows a most lamentable democratic
loss.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday
says: Twelve rapid-firing Hotchkiss
guns which were on exhibition in the
transportation building during the
summer,were hastily packed up await
ing shipment east. Their destination
is Brazil. This is the opinion of the
customhouse inspectors and exposition
officials. They have been watching
the movement of tho Hotchkiss Gun
Company the last few weeks.
Advices of Thursday from North
Bay, Canada, state that jt is now
known that twenty-one lives wc-re lost
by the burning of the steamer John
Frazer on Lake Nippising Tuesday
night. Of twenty-eight persons on
board, only seven were saved. At the
time of the fire the steamer was carry
ing lumbermen and supplies from
Callinder to Davidson and the lumber
camp at the western end of Lake Nip
pising.
The Columbus, Miss., council at
their regular meeting Wednesday
night unanimously decided to contest
the payment of the $100,000 in bonds,
which the city voted to the Georgia
Pacific railway. The Georgia Pacific
has in many instances discriminated
against Columbus in freight rates, and
the action of the council in contesting
the payment of the bond is endorsed
by a largo majority of the citizens. A
lively legal contest is promised.
A New York special of Thursday
says:—Interest is practically at an end
in regard to the election. New York
has elected the republican state ticket
by probably 40,000 majority. Shieren,
has 30,000 plurality in Brooklyn and
the machine has gone all to smash.
Tammany holds its grip on the city
and elects all of its local candidates by
pluralities averaging 65,000. Ten
democratic civil justices, eight senators
and twenty-seven assemblymen are
also elected.
A St. Louis dispateh of Thursday
says: President Clark, of the Mobile
and Ohio, delivered his ultimatum to
Grand Master Sargent and other rep
resentatives of the employes. He of
fers to change the reduction from ten
per cent, to eight per cent, until
March 1, when, if the condition of the
country warrants it, the wages will be
restored. Another conference will be
held when the employes’ representa
tives will give their answer.
A New York dispatch says: It now
looks as if the Corbett-Mitchell fight
would eertainly come off in Florida.
A certified check for $10,000 has been
received by Richard K. Fox from the
Florida people as a guarantee of good
faith, and at a meeting Thursday of
representatives of both men, they
agreed to accept, providing the Florida
Athletic Club deposits $5,000 to be
divided between the fighters as train
ing expenses if the fight is not allowed
•to come off.
A New Orleans dispatch of Thurs
day says: The Olympic Club has deci
ded to reject the amended articles of
Pugilists Mitchell and Corbett, and
the fight between them will not take
place in this city. The club had made
a liberal offer of $20,000 to the two
men, but Mitchell and Corbett threw
this offer into the waste basket and
prepared their own articles, asking
$5,000 for traveling and training ex
penses. The club considered this de
mand exhorbitant and unanimously
agreed to reject it.
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Before the Land Commissioner—Titles
Asked for Land Giants.
A Washington special of Wednesday
says: Assistant Land Commissioner
Bowers is considering an interesting
land case from Louisiana. About the
beginning of the war the United
States granted patents to citizens of
Louisiana to the amonnt of 13,000
acres. These patents were never re
corded. The governor of Louisiana dur
ing the war granted the same parties the
same lands by state patents, assuming
that as Louisiana had gone out of the'
Union that it had taken the public
lands within its borders with it. The
•state patents were recorded and at
present are the only title by which the
lands are held. The lands have been
assigned and a request is now made to
the general land office for patents from
the United States in order that the ti
tle may be secured for the parties now
owning the lands. This is the first
case of the kind ever brought before '
the land department.
GEORGIA ROAD CONGRESS.
Call Issued for a Meeting in Augusta,
November 28tli.
The Georgia road congress has been
called to meet in Augusta on the 28th
instant, the Augusta Exposition hav
ing set apart that day as “Road Con
gress Day.”
The vice-presidents of the body are:
Hon. H. P. Smart, of Savannah; Hon.
O. A. Barry, Coleman; Colonel G. W.
Jordan, Jr., Hawkinsville; Hon. W.
J. Weeks, Talbotton; Dr. J. W.
Nelms, Atlanta; Hon. W. A. Huff,
Macon; Col. J. O. Waddell, Atlanta;
Prof. C. M. Strahan, Athens; Hon.
J. W. Robertson, Cornelia; Colonel
O. H. Beall, Sandersville; Colonel
A. T. Putnam, Brunswick.
The time for the meeting is auspi
cious, as the unprecented low rates on
the railroads will enable every county
to be represented. The basis of rep
resentation is doub e the number of
representatives in the lower branch
of the general assembly.
The Georgia state fair adopted the
suggestion of the secretary of the
Georgia road congress and instituted
a department of roads, and now the
management of other fairs are imitat
ing them. It will be seen that Geor
gia leads the van in favor of a perma
nent system of improved roads con
structed under the direction of the
most skilled engineers, and by the use
of convict labor and improved road
working machinery. Every county
in Georgia should be represented by
her ablest men in the congress that
meets in Augusta on the 28th.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Goyement and Route of
Hie House auR Senate Discussal
Notes of Interest Concerning the Pea-
pie and Their General Welfare.
Secretary Hoke Smith left Wash
ington Wednesday night for Macon,
Ga., to take part in 'the trial of two
important railroad eases. The secre
tary expects to he absent about one
week.
The prevailing opinion among dem
ocrats and republicans at Washington
is that Tuesday’s elections determined
the republicans’ presidential ticket in
1896. It will be McKinley and Reed,
and the fight will be between the dem
ocrats and republicans on the tariff.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: The secretary of state has re
ceived the translation of a decree of
October 20, .1793, making importers
liable at Mexican ports from, and af
ter January 1, 1894, to an additional
tax on imports of 1 and 1-4 of 1 per
cent. %
Secretaries Gresham, Lamont, Hoke
Smith and Morton received the elec
tion returns at the white house in Pri
vate Secretary Tlmrber’s room. A
special wire delivered the bulletins.
Such as were indicative of results were
telephoned tho president at Woodley.
The members of the cabinet at the
white house attributed the results to
the business depression of the past
several months.
There will be no appropriations for
public buildings by the coming con
gress, if the chairman of the senate
appropriation committee succeeds in
carrying out its plans, beyond that
for a new government printing office,
the necessity for which is clearly rec
ognized. It is proposed to provide
an approprsation of $150,000 to re
construct and repair the present build
ing so that it can be used as an office
building.
The opinion is expressed at Wash
ington that the cause of the rise in sil
ver for the past few days is due in
part to the belief that the goverment
in Russia is contemplating the step of
adopting silver as apart of her mon
etary system. It is said that intima
tions have been received here by the
government officials that Russia will
replace her uncovered paper money
with silver to be used for subsidiary
coin.
The following are recess appoint
ments of those who failed of confirma
tion by the senate: Charles E. Davie,
of Mt. Auburn, agent for Indians of
the Colorado river agency in Arizona;
Isaac L. Wooten, of Laurel, Del.,
agent for Indians of the Navada agen
cy, in Nevada; George Harper,of Car
rollton,Ga.,Umatilla agency in Ogden;
Guy Bryan, of St. Louis, assayer in
charge of the United States assay
office.
The republicans at Washington are
exultant over the election. An ob
server in passing through the govern
ment departments can easily identify
the republicans holding places. Their
faces are wreathed in smiles and they
cannot refrain from crowing over their
democratic associates. The prevailing
opinion in the city is that the defeat of
the democracy in tho northern states
is mainly due to the existing business
depression and hard times.
The low water mark of the available
balance of the treasury was rea'ched
Thursday, the total stood at $99,908,-
242, of which $84,656,412 was the gold
reserve. The large expenditures over
receipts thus far this month are re-
-sponsible for this condition, but. no
alarm of uneasiness is felt. The hope
is expressed that better times will
soon come and the reserve, as well as
the net currency balance, will again
begin to rise. It was stated at the
department that no order having in
view the actual coinage of the silver
bullion in the treasury purchased un
der the sherman act, have yet been
issued, but they are expected any
time.
Hands Off Hawaii.
There is a great deal of gossip and
many rumors as to the administration’s
policy with regard to Hawaii, but
from the best information obtainable,
Minister Willis, who should have ar
rived at Honolulu last Sunday, has in
structions to keep hands off, that the
provisional government will not be sus
tained by the power of • the United
States, nor will the monarchy be re
established. The people of Hawaii
will be afforded a fair oj^portunity to
decide for themselves what sort of
government they want, while the Uni
ted States holds aloof. This govern
ment will not permit any other govr
ernment to interfere in any manner
whatever. _____
King Lobcngula Trapped.
Advices of Thnrsday from Cape
Town Africa, says that the native run
ners who are reaching Fort Yiotoria
confirm the belief that King Lobengula
has been trapped. He is blocked to
the northward by the tzetse fly coun
try, through which it will be impossi
ble for him to drive his cattle, and to
the southward by the imperial troops
and the forces of the British South
African Company. Lobengnla’s forces
are supposed to be in the vicinity of
the Shangani and Gaulo rivers, 140
miles west of Fort Charter, The cap
ture seems probable.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Out Most Important
TeleojapPic Adyices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
The Ditmar dynamite factory, at
Bay Chester, N. Y., was blown up
Tuesday morning. It is reported that
several men were killed.
Frauces H. Weeks was sentenced at
New Y’ork Wednesday to ten years
imprisonment in Sing Sing prison. He
pleaded guilty on arraignment and the
entire proceeding did not occupy five
minutes.
Under date of Unalaska. Alaska,
October 7th, Captain Healv, of the
revenue cutter Bear, reports that an
epidemic of la grippe and pneumonia
has broken out at that place among
the people of the village and on the
vessels of the harbor.
J. W. Williams, white, and Henry
Mack, negro, were jailed at Albany,
Ga., Tuesday night for burning the
stockade and barn of Jesse Land, on
the night of October 20th. Williams
has confessed that he watched while
the negro set fire. Governor Northen
had offered a reward for the guilty par
ties.
A Chicago special says: Mayor
Harrison’s assassin, Prendergast, ap
peared for trial Monday, but upon the
request of attorneys, secured for him
by his brother—a letter carrier—the
case was continued by Judge Dunn
until November 27th. The lawyers
for the defense stated that they desired
time to study the case.
A dispatch of Tuesday to the London
Standard, from Berlin, shows that
since November 2d there were six cases
of cholera and three deaths in east
Prussia, five new cases in and near
Stettin and six new cases and one
death in other places in Pomerania.
Since October 29th three cases of chol
era and three deaths were reported at
Havelberg and one death at Potsdam.
The Paris Journal of Monday ex
presses the belief-that the representa
tive of the French physicians sent to
Bournemouth, ' England, to examine
Dr. Carl Hertz, the Panama canal lob
byist, and to report upon his condi
tion, will hold that the prisoner is suf
fering from general debility and weak
ening of the mental faculties and from
a grave and pronounced diabetic and
cardiac disease.
A dispatch from Hanover, Germany,
says that Lieutenant von Meyerick,
who was most prominently connected
with the gambling fraud trials, and
who was recently convicted and sen
tenced to four years’ imprisonment,
was found dead in his cell Monday,
having committed suicide by hanging.
Lieutenant von Meyerick was a distin
guished officer of the Lanweher cav
alry, and was decorated with the or
der of the Bed Eagle.
A London cablegram of Monday
says: A public examination of the af
fairs of Hallett & Co., agents and
bankers, shows liabilities amounting
to $725,000. The duke of Edinburg,
the duke of York, Prince Henry of
Bnttenburg and most of the promi
nent naval officers are among the un
secured creditors. William Hallett
attributes his failure to financiering
the Dalwell News Agency to the ex
tent of over $200,000.
The New York Herald of Tuesday
morning printed a dispatch from La-
Libertad, Honduras, stating, that by
the alleged orders of President Yas-
quez and by the express command of
the commissioner of the port of Ama-
pala, seven cannon shots were fired
after the Pacfic mail steamship, Costa
Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as
she steamed away, because she refused
to surrender Policorpo Conella who
recently led the revolution in Hondu
ras, but was defeated by Vasquez.
PUGULISTIC ALDERMEN.
A Disgraceful Scrap in Chicago’s GUj
Council.
A Chicago special says: Such scenes
were never before enacted in tho cham
ber of the city council or the city of
Chicago as transpired Saturday. Be
fore the crepe-draped speaker’s desk
stood two aldermen, opponents politi
cally in the council, each declaring,
himself the chairman of the body. A
reading clerk, an officer of the coun
cil, in order to protect one of these
speakers in his alleged right to rule
over the body, leaped upon the back
of the opposing speaker and tried to
eject him from the stand. A clerk of
the body tore up a resolution regular
ly introduced, because it was not in
line with what his party desired. Over
the crepe-draped rail of the speaker’s
stand leaped another alderman upon
the back of the clerk. To his aid
flocked his colleagues. Upon him
jumped an alderman of the opposing
faction, throwing off his coat as he
ran and clutching at the throat of the
man who by force was trying to get
before the council that which should
not legally have been tried.
Police officers rushed into the en
closure to separate the struggling al
dermen, and in the fight the crepe
which hung about the desk of the dead
mayor was torn down and trampled
under foot. The men who three days
ago spent money and labor to honor
Mayor Harrison, disgraced his memo
ry by a disreputable brawl over the
right to sit for twenty minutes in his
chair.
The council is almost evenly divided
politically, the republicans having a
slight majority, while tho dead ex
mayor was a democrat.
The council chamber is guarded by
a squad of police officers and no man,
no matter what his politics or position
is allowed to enter.
TOBACCO MEN PROTEST
Against a Proposed Increase of the tax
on the Weed.
The Tobacco Manufacturer's Asso
ciation of the United States met in
convention at Washington, Wednes
day to protest against the proposed in
crease of the tax on manufactured to
bacco. Many southern and western
tobacco manufacturers were present.
They adopted resolutions protesting
against the increased tax and suggest
ing that the revenue of the govern
ment could be largely increased by
the repeal of the revenue laws of 1890,
permitting the sale of leaf tobacco di
rect to the consumers without the
payment of taxes. They also appoint
ed a committee of ten to confer with
the sub-committee on ways and means.
Historian Parkntan Dead.
A Boston special says: Frances
Parkman, the eminent historian, died
at his home on Prince street, Jamaica
Plains, Wednesday. Peritonitis was
the cause of his death. He recently
celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday
in an unostentatious maimer, receivihg
a few visitors but many -letters and
telegrams from all parts of the world.
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Have uses in cooking well known to every housekeeper ; but
the method of refining them to make them chemically pure,
and of mixing them together so as to produce their greatest
leavening power and best results when combined, is a matter of
great exactness, requiring the most expert knowledge and skill.
Royal Baking Powder
Is the product of this knowledge and experience and the
expenditure of many thousands of dollars in patents and
appliances for its preparation. It is a compound of strictly pure
grape cream of tartar and absolutely pure soda, combined with
exactness and care by famous chemists, and it will produce more
wholesome and delicate bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, etc., than can
be had where this modern agent of cooking is not used.
Beware of the cheap compounds called baking powders to
catch the unwary. They are made with alum and are poisonous.
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Cheap Toys Are Best.
Who of us that remembers how the
battered old every-day doll held that
first place in our heart which the best
doll, proudly produced on company
occasions, held in our vanity, but will
recognize tho deep intuition of M. do
Gonrmond’s assertion that the ele
gantly dressed doll, in all the pomp
and circumstance of the shop, is once
and forever only a fine lady or a peas
ant, a bride or a baby, while the every
day doll is “all that and all the rest,”
“according to the divine inspiration
given to the little child, which sup
presses for her pleasure time and
space, retaining only the idea, all
powerful in the art of metamorphoses ?”
To conjecture how much of nursery
naughtiness is due to the misapplied
indulgence of parents in the matter of
costly and valueless toys would carry
us too far. But surely M. de Gour-
mond is right in asserting that it is
not without reason that children rebel
against that “prison of the fact” to
which, with their dolls and talk of
steam engines that puff, parents try to
condemn them in their plays as in
their duties. And looking into the
•ways of French children we have a
right to conclude that it is because the
door to the ideal is still left wide open
for them in their plays that they rebel
so little against that prison of the fact
which is more straitly around them in
matters of duty and discipline than is
the case with our own children.—Har
per’s Bazar.
Dress Waist Holders.
An ordinary barrel hoop will make
four holders for dress waists by cut
ting it into as many pieces and cover
ing each piece with strips of silesia,
with a long loop to hang each
holder up by. Dress waists keep their
shape better when hung up in this way
than when suspended by the loops
nsunlly sewed in the armholes for the
purpose.
The Sagacious Porter.
Palace Car Porter (out West)—
“Don’ gub me no fee, sah, till we gets
to de end ob de trip.”
Passenger—“Very well. Just as you
prefer.”
Porter—“Yes, sah. You see,' dese
train robbers always goes fer me fust,
an’ ef I ain’t got nuffin, dey say dc
passengers ain’t got nuffin, and goes
off.”—New York Weekly.
Real and Imitation Lace.
A clear point for woman not versed
in discriminating imitation from real
lace, and the inability is by no mean*
so reprehensible at it once was, is to
bear in mind that tho meshes of real
lace are never so regular as those in
the machine woven. All real lace is
hand made, and it follows that it is im
possible to have it so perfect as that
spun by machinery. — Chicago Post.
POSITION AS RANK TELLER.
A Strong Testimonial from Bishop Fitz-
grrnld.
My knowledge of Mr. R. W. Jennings as a
busine smart of unblemi-hed reputation and
exceptionally full knowledge of business af
fairs, anl my knowledge ot his success at the
head of his Business Colle-e, prempr me 10
commend him and bis excellent school with
emphasis and without reserve.
O. P. Fitzoeraud.
The Bi-hop’s son, Oscar, graduat’d from
this school soon a'ter which he secured a po
sition as Teller in the American Nationa’
Bank, Kashviile, where he is now receiving a
good t-alar3%
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
tei (.nan 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
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 and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute 5f offered.
Time-Table for Bolling Vegetables.
Will You Marry Soon?
If *o, yon are obliged to have a solid
18 karat gold ring. Yon will want to
feel sure that it IS 18 karat, pure
and genuine. Write to us for our
catalogue of wedding ring^.
J. P. STEVENS 8l BRO., Jewelers,
ATLANTA, GA.
Potatoes half an hour, unless small,
when rather less.
Peas and asparagus, twenty to twen
ty-five minutes.
Cabbage and cauliflower, twenty-
five minutes to half an hour.
String beans, if slit or sliced slant
wise and thin, twenty-five minutes; if
only snapped across, forty minutes.
Green corn, twenty to twenty-five
minutes.
Lima beans, if very young, half an
hour; old, forty to forty-five minutes.
Carrots and turnips, forty-five min
utes when young; one hour in winter.
Beets, one hour in summer; one
hour and a half, or even two hours, if
large, in winter.
Onions, medium size, one hour.
Rule.—All vegetables to go into
fast-boiling water, to be quickly
brought to the boiling point again,
ought not to steep in the hot water be
fore boiling, which toughens them and
destroys color and flavor.—Rural
Life.
Don’t Tease Children.
The positive delight which some
otherwise very good people take in
teasing children is surprising. “I
would sooner discharge a nurse for this
fault than for any other, said a wise
mother, “and when I find a friend who
thinks it is an amusing matter to tease
my child I reprove him as readily as I
would a child for the same offense. I
have known dispositions to be utterly
ruined through this silly practice. ”
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“What is August Flower for?”
As easily answered as asked. It is
for Dyspepsia. It is a special rem
edy for the Stomach and Liver.—
Nothing more than this. We believe
August Flower cures Dyspepsia.
We know it will. We have reasons
for knowing it. To-day it has an
honored place in every town and
country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. It does one thing,
and does it right. It cures dyspepsia®
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the breast known, and worth the price for that
alone. ' Mbs. M. M. Bruster,
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