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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 der. * How’s This ! We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for anv case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for t he last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West & Tkoax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waldino, Kinvan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. HaH's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. We Cure Rupture. No matter of how long standing. Write for live treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J. Hollensworth & Co., Oswego, Tioga, Co.,N. Y. Price $1; by mail, $1.15. Sorrows are preserved, not drowned, in whiskey. If your Back Aches, or you are all worn out, pood for nothing, it is general debility. Brown's Iron Bitters will cure you, make you strong, cleanse your liver, and give a good ap petite--tones the nerves. 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 son’s Eye-water-Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. Sarsaparilla “ W Me Serving My Country I was taken ill with spinal disease and rheu matism. When I returned home my trouble was still with me, and J was confined to my bed, unable to help myself for 22 months. Af ter taking seven bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla I was well and have not since been troubled with my old complaints. My wife was in ill health, suffering with headache, dizziness and dyspepsia. She took two bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and feels like a new woman.” James A. Wheeler, 1900 Division St., Baltimore, Md. Hood’s Pills are the beat after-dinner Pills, as sist digestion, cure headache. Try a box. 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. % n * H * H * t 1 1 1 s i 1 Cream of Tartar and Soda 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. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 1 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. 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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. ” ‘August Flower' “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® CURES RISING “MOTHER’S FRIEND” MSfSS offered child-bearing woman. 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