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Joseph Stiekney, of the New York Yacht
club, lias just had one built, the Sus
quehanna, at ii cost of $1,000,000. She
is two masted, schooner linked, and
measures dOO tons. By means of the
trimk cabin tin* crew may work tlx* ves
sel without going on deck.
Stoiim Siunads.
As Ibe coming of a great storm is
herahled by I lie display ot cautionary
signals, so is the approach of that dread
and latal disease, Consumption of the
Lungs, usually announced in advance by
pimples, hlotehes, erruptions, nleers,
glandular swellings, and kindred out
ward inanifestatioiiH of the internal
blood poison, which, it not promptly ex
pelled from the system, attacks the deli
cate tissues of tin* lungs, causing them
to ulcerate and break down. Dr. I'ierce's
“Holden Medical Discovery” is the great
remedy for this, us for all diseases having
their origin in bail blood. It improves
I lie appetite ami digestion, increases iiu
t ritiou and builds up I he w asted system.
A novel sight was witnessed in Indian
apolis, lad., Tuesday last, us a result of
the high temperature of the post three
weeks in that section. Home time ago a
commission merchant of that city re
ceived a consignment of eggs, packed in
boxes, after the usual manner. The eggs
were placed in storage, and Tuesday the
consignin' had occasion to open the cases.
When the lid was removed the low call of
chicks sounded in his ears. One entire
layer of eggs was found to he hatching
out, mid ill a few minutes after the eggs
were brought to the light fifteen well de
veloped chicks picked their way through
the shells. A motherly old hen was
taken from a coop and placed in posses
sion of the brood. A mutual under
standing was soon reached, and the en
tire family are doing well. Another layer
of eggs began to hatch out about noon,
and ul last accounts it looked as if the
entire consignment w ill hatch.
Fly's ('ream Halm was recommended
to mi' liy my druggist as a preventive to
lla.v Fever. Have been using it as di
rected sinci* the 9th of August, and have
foil ml it a specific for that much dreaded
ami loathsome disease. For ten years
or more 1 have been a great suffeivr each
\ear, from August 9th till frost, and
have tried many alleged remedies for its
rare, but Fly's ('ream Halm is the only
preventive I have ever found. Hay Fe
ver sufferers ought to know of its efti
eary.— F. H. AINSWORTH, Publisher,
Indianapolis, lad.
Several months ago Miss Fmma Xeu
mun, of Hristol, Conn., had her scalp
torn from her head by her hair catching
in the machinery in the mill where she
was employed. A physician of Hristol.
says Hie Hartford Times, has Imh'ii dili
gently engaged since in building up a
new scalp by grafting on the head min
ute bits of skin taken from the arms of
various persons. Probably he has ex
hausted the list of Miss Neuman's friends
who were willing to contribute to her re
lief, for at this time he calls for outside
aid in the following published card:
Vo lag |>ersons, not over thirty, who
nre willing to confer a favor on Miss
Fmma Neuman,.will greatly oblige her
and her friends if they will allow seeds for
grafting in the new scalp to l>e taken
from their arm. The family and friends
have furnished material, and a good
scalp is being made, but the lack of suffi
cient material is now the greatest obsta
cle in successfully covering the entire
head. The piece for grafting is pinched
up and slipped otf wit hont pain or bad
effect on the person. Those who will as
sist tie* recovery of Miss Neuman may
call on Hr. Wilson at his office at 9:30 a.
m., or notify him, and arrangements will
be made for the convenience of parties.
Two Certain Cures of Poison
Oak.
(lentleiiien—Three years ago 1 was
poisoned with oak vine, ▼he poison
broke out on my body and face. One
large bottle of S. S. S. entirely cured me.
Mv ease was a jierfect test of the power
of S. S. S. ns a blood purifier.
A friend of mine Ims been cured of a
smaller poison by S. S. S., and it was
through his recommendation 1 took it.
Mo here are two certain cures of poison
oak by Swift’s Specific. Yours truly,
Akthuh Whitk,
For. Carroll and Cniversify Sts.
Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 28, 1887.
A Capitalist’s Case.
Eli Mitchell is the wealthiest man in
Corinth; Miss. He has retired from ac
tive business for years. His word has
the greatest influence in his community,
lie Inis long been a staunch advocate of
S. S. S.. and here is the cause of his great
faith and his friendship for the medicine:
Swift’s Specific Cos., Atlanta, (in.:
(ieidlemen—l hud had the rheumatism
for twenty years in my arms and shoul
ders, and some time ago I underwent a
coui ne of S. S. S., taking a dozen or so
bid t ies. It entirely cured me, and l
very cheerfully give this testimonial of
its virtue in my case.
E. S. Mitchell.
COrinth, Feb. 17, 1887.
Treatise on Hlood and Skin Diseases
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ta, tin.
Our Farmers and the Lctn Asso
ciations.
American Recorder.
To listen to the complaints ma le of
the bills now before the general assembly
one would Is* disposed to regard our leg
islators as extremists, which they an* to
a certain extent, for one extreme begets
another, and there are many abuses
wllieh need to'lie reilllS li<s|.
The money lenders bnve. by their'
greed in fleecing borrowers by commis
sions, brokerage, fees, etc., brought upon
themselves ii punishment in the shape of
a bill to restrict their rates .of interest ,
and charges to a degree tlmt IbitD fair to '
drive them out of business.
The bill has passed the senate, and
provides that it shall be unlawful for any
corporation, company, firm or individ-
Uat engaged in the bi/siuesH of lending or
advancing money upon mil estate, upon
a deed of bargain mnfsale to secnrothi*
payment of ihe same, or upon a died and I
bond for title ba* k ...to the borrower,
upon the payment of the sain**, ns pro
vided in section ItMit Of the code of till*
state, to reserve, charge or take for such
loan or advance of money, any rates of
interest Or other charges, such as bonus
money, brokerage, commission or other
compensation to tv-ents effecting such
loans, for searching titles, making ab
stracts an.l other seiArifti*sgreater ,#lj nil
eight jM*r centum ]s*r aiiniim of the net
amount advanced to and actually re
ceived by the borrower, either directly
hy way of interest to the lender, or indi
rectly by way of bonus money, commis
sion for advances, discount or exchange,
or by way of brokerage, commission or
other compensation to agents negotia
ting such loans, or by any contract or
device whatever. Alld**eds to real estate
executed by the borrower to secure loans
or advances of money, where 1 greater
rates or charges than eight per cent per,
annum are reserved, charged or taken
directly or indirectly, by way of bonus
money, brokerage, commission or other
compensation or charges, for agents ne
gotiating and effect iife such loans
(whether sueli agents net in the matter,
as the agent ot the lendtr or borrower or
both) shall be absolutely void and of no
effect, even in t he hands of innocent third
parties.
Many of these companies have taken
advantage of the necessities of farmers
to charge them as high as twenty per
cent in the way of interest, commissions
and attorney fees. The fact that most
of these companies represent foreign cap
ital, and the fear that, they will in time,
by foreclosures, own a great port ion of
the land upon which they have made
loans, lias created a prejudice against
them which has found expression in the
bill before the legislature.
Hut in all these ext rentes there in dan
ger, and sometimes in the endeavor to
correct an evil we create a greater evil.
Hue'll, we fear, will be the effect of this
bill.
Thecompetition of these loan compan
ies has already greatly reduced the evil
complained of, and on a five years' loan
money can now be secured, including all
commissions, at a rate averaging about
ten per cent, a less rate than can be gen
erally secured at the banks. AYe believe
that competition will st ill further reduce
the rates, at least such has been the ex
perience in other states. In 1878 the
fa rmers of Jllinois, by a reason of a con
tinuous failure of crops, were in ii meas
ure bankrupt. They neeeded money to
carry on their farming operations, and
could offer no security but that of their
lands, which were then at a very low
price. The national banks w ere prohib
ited by law from making loans on real
estate; and the other bunks had not the
necessary capital to supply the demand.
Eastern loan companies came in and
loaned in Obey to the farmers on their
lands at ten per cent, with commissions
added. These loans saved the farmers
from utter ruin, but soon there was
heard the cry that eastern sharks were
trying to gobble up all the land, that
mortgages would be foreclosed, and the
loan companies would get the land for
one-third of the value. When the time
came for payment a majority of the far
mers could not pay, but instead of being
sold out their loans were renewed at
seven per cent interest. These loan com
panies do not want the laud, nor are
they particular as to the prompt pay
ment of t(ie principal, but they want the
interest. They are only agents for indi
viduals w ho have spare funds which they
want to draw interest on.
The greatest danger from the bill now
before the legislature is that it will drive
out from the state these loan companies
and force them to wind up their business
as rapidly as possible. A large number
of the loans they have made are now
nearly due. Many of the borrowers will
be unable to make the payment when It
it is due. They cannot renew the loans
with these companies unde;* this bill.
Can they borrow the money from the
banks or of private individuals under
this bill? l)o you know of any bank or
individual who will loan money on real
eetnte at eight per cent, and pay for the
examination of land and title? If they
cannot pay and cannot borrow the
banks or individuals, the property is sold
and the farmer eit her becomes a renter
of the land he once owned or is forced to
to go. Considering the many loans that
have lieen made in this state, do the leg
islators realize the amount of suffering
that must ensue?
Our merchants and bankers have lieen
largely benefited by these loans of for
eign capital, for it has enabled the far
mers to pay their debts and "has made
money easier. It lias also made the rate
of interest lower on short time loans.
We are making no plea for the loan
companies, for they deserve none. By
their greed t hey have brought the incon
venience which will result from the pas
sage of the bill upon their own heads,
and the losses they will sustain w ill be
but small in comparison to the profits
they have made. This is a big country
and they can easily loan their money
elsewhere. I nfortunately in this case,
as in many others, the blow will alight
upon the heads of the wrong parties,
and it is our own people who will suffer,
THE OOUKANT-AMERICAN.
A I><*!t Paying- Religion.
Just ni this time our country needs n
j religion that will make a man pay his
debts. Shouting don't settle old notes
and accounts with God and man—cash
; up. We want to pounce right on a fel-
I low and put him out of church it he goes
to a ball, or theatre, or gets drunk, but
never say u word to the pious scamp
who never pays Ids debts. Preachers
I and people who never pay tlmir debts
are doing the church more harm than
1 dance and drunkards —there are more of
them in the church.
Header, am 1 getting close to you?
Then laydown the paper and go and
pay up and then you can read on with
ease. And don't you stop paying be
cause the “statue of limitation " excuses
the one account you made for your
bread arid rneat—God's law knows no
such statue. You pay ir in cosh or God
will make you pay it in lire and brim
stone. God knows no such excuse from
paying vour debts and you can stop
singing “When 1 ean lead my titles clear
to mansions in the skies." —you've got
none up there. You may say, “I would
pay if I could.” How hard have you
tried? If trying at this moment could
you say, “I have done all in my power.”
Have you tried to save a little each week
or month for debts? Are you spending
no money for things io eat and wear
thatyou could not do without? How
much do you spend a year for cigai-s and
tobacco? Make your calculation? l’ut
the'amount to your debts. Do you eat
dainties and luxuries? Plainer diet
would keep you from making doctor s
lull that you won’t pay, and brings up
l ank accounts. Do you strut about
with an umbrella over your head while
.vour creditor walks in the broiling sun?
Don’t you cut shines in hired turnout
(may lie they are not paid for) when you
might walk and use the money to make
your creditor smile? A plainer suit
would be more becoming till you can pay
for those worn out last season. When
expenses not necessary for the feeding
and clothing of the body are cut off and
applied to the payment of debts, then
you will grow in favor with God, and
not till then does God excuse yob. Re
pentance on this point must lie of that
Godly sort llmtnredeth not be repented
of.
Header, were you sorry that you had
not paid your debts w hen you made a
profession of religion? If you were not,
that is just why you have not got a
debt-paying religion. True repentance
has a retroactive as well as a prospec
tive effect on the lift* of the believer. He
w ill as far as possible make good his
past wrongs. Many converts sing,
“ Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.”
No such thing; .Jesus did not pay it all,
neither do you owe it all to Him. If the
week before you were converted you
owed ten dollars and you were able to
pay it, and you owe that neighbor ten
dollars yet, .Jesus did not pay that for
.you. If you don't pay that debt it will
meet you at your judgment just as sure
us you are a sinner. It is mean in you
to expect Jesus to pay debts for you
thatyou can pay yourself. If you have a
Christian heart in you, think how much
Jesus paid for you thatyou never couid
have met at God's bar of inflexible jus
tice. Some people think that the cleans
ing stream of Jesus' blood w ashed Sinai
away and deluged the law —no such
tiling. Jesus came not to destroy, but
to fulfill, and gave grace that we through
Him might fulfill. Jesus everywhere en
forces the commandments as the rule
of life.
At the close of our great revival at
fifth street church two years ago a num
ber of young men came to me to know if
they ought to go and pay bills that they
had made ut barrooms for whiskey, etc.
I told them to “owe them anything,"
“let not your good be evil spoken of"—
give the devil his dues. All of those
young men save one or two, went and
paid up those bad debts and have had
no more. Those who could not see that
it was their duty to pay these debts have
returned to their old paths and their sec
ond state is worse than the first.
Then let the whole church pray for a
revival of the debt-paying religion. In
every revival let prayers be made that
the new converts may have grace to pay
up old debts and not contract new ones
without good, probability of paying
them. Let the ministry enforce this duty
publicly and privately (with discretion)
and great good can be accomplished. If
the preachers would look after this mat
ter of debt paying among their congre
tions their own debts might be prompt
ly paid—chickens come home to roost,
Both preacher and people need to be
more cautious, prayerful anil pay fid
along this liar. The great necessity of
the present time is confidence among the
people. Let the church demand and
command her membership to live up to
their promises and contracts and soon
present financial darkness will give way
to a brighter morn of prosperity to all
business circled. Keep the amen corners
and front seats clear of members who
can and won't pay then debts, (the pul
pit. too,) ami the word preached will
reach sinners. May Hod give increase to
these words which are written for the
promotion of His kingdom in the prac
tical dealings with men.—Kev. D. H.
Tuttle, Wilmington, X. 0.
St. Louis, A gust 4. —The Post-Dis
patch has a dispatch from Block Island,
Long Island Sound, which states tlust
I*. W. Fauutleroy, one of the attorneys
of 11. M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, pre
sented to-day the case of his client to
.Tuetice Miller, of the I'nited States Su
preme Court, who is stopping at the
Ocean View Hotel there, anil obtained
from him a writ of error in the ease.
The effect of this order will be to bring
the case of the chloformer before the
Sijpreme Court for a hearing on const i
tional points, and will act as a superse
deas anil defer the execution of Brooks,
which was set for the 26th of this
month.
Young or middle-aged men. suffering
tram nervous debility or kindred affec
tions, should address with 10 cents in
stamps for large treatise. World’s I)is
pejisgrv .Medical Association, Buffalo,
Si- Y,
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1887.
Presentments 'Which Come to
Warn Mortals of Their
Last Moment.
Little Agnes Huckley, a policeman's,
daughter, of Newburryport, hail a strong
realization of her approaching death, al
though the physicians had not given her
up. <ln the day she dii*<l she called her
mother to her bedside to make arrange-1
meats for the funeral, and announced j
that she had only a minute or two longer I
to live. Just then the gate clicked and
she heard her father's footsteps coming
up the w alk. Raising herself in bed with
her remaining strength, the child cried
out: “Hurry up, jiapa; lil wait a min
ute for you." The agonized father heard
the cry, and rushed up the stairs to the
liedroom. He had barely time to take
his daughter in his arms when she whis
jiered “Good-bye" to him and expired.
A young woman employed as a domes
tic by a Denver family married a private
soldier in the regular army a year before,
and immediately after the wedding re
turned to her service, while her husband
was sent out to Fort Union, in New Mex
ico. One afternoon, w hile sitting in the
kitchen, she heard a tapping at the w in
dow, and on looking up saw the face of
her husband there. The upparation re
mained for a minute, without speaking,
and then slowly faded away. The young
woman ran screaming into the presence
of the family, related the strange appear
ance to them, and then fainted. Later
in the day she received a telegram from
the fort announcing that her husband
had died of lever the day before.
At a uecent seance in Cleveland a .Mrs.
Moss related how she had been fore
warned of the death other husband's sis
ter Maggie. The two women had been
warm friends, but had not seen each
other for years; but last week, while Mrs.
Moss was alone in her room, her sister
in-law appeared before her, and after
speaking affectionately to her, kissed
her and departed. .Mrs. Moss was much
disturbed by the visitation and tel
egraphed to learn if her sister-in-law was
ill. She was not surprised to receive a
letter the next morning announcing that
Maggie was dead.
A Nashville lady dreamed one night re
cently that her old school friend, whose
bridesmaid she hud been at her wedding
to a Virginia planters! year before,had
died suddenly, and that she was present
at the funeral. The lady related the
dream to her family, and refused to be
convinced that ii: was a premonition of
death. A week later a delayed letter
reached the lady informing her that her
friend had died about the same time
with the occurrence of the dream.
A Confederate veteran related in Amer
icas, Ga., the other day, a strange coin
cidence that attended the death of Capt.
Wynn, a gallant Georgian, who was
killed at Gettysburg. The captain had
frequently boasted that the “bullet was
not molded that was to lay him low,"
but on the day of the fight his wife was
startled to see tin* oil portrait of her hus
band fall with a crash to the floor from
the wall on which it hung in her parlor.
Singularly enough the only damage done
to the picture was in the shape of a small
hole which was punctured through the
forehead by a chair foot which the paint
ing struck in its fall. Two days later
news came from the field that the cap
tain had been killed by a rifle bullet,
wliich had struck him squarely in the
forehead.
Louisa Benn, the daughter of a labor
er in Wednesburg, England, made up her
mind to emigrate to Australia, and
gained the consent of her parents. Just
before she was to sail, however, her
mother dreamed that the ship which was
to carry her daughter struck a rock near
the Australian coast ami went down with
great loss of life. She succeeded in per
suading Louisa from going, but not un
til the girl's baggage had been placed on
board the vessel and every preparation
made for her departure. The ship went
down, as Mrs. Benn imagined it would,
and among the lives lost were those of
several girls who were to have been Lou
isa's companions.
The Farmer’s Alliance.
The Farmer's Alliance is a movement
originated in Texas in the interest of
farmers, and which is spreading into
other states.
It is based upon the principles of co
operation, which has been tried with
such wonderful success in England. They
will have in a few weeks eight State Alli
ances, with 1,500,000 members. Dallas
and Waco have each offered a #IOO,OOO
bonus to the Alliance people to induce
them to locate their cotton and produce
exchange with them. They also agree
to furnish telegrams from every trade
center of the world free of charge for one
season. The Alliance proposes 1o sell,
through the exchange, the corn, wheat,
hay and 800,000 bales of cotton this
year, direct to Lowell and Liverpool;
thereby getting rid of the street buyers.
They expect to save #2,50 on each bale
of cotton by shipping direct from coun
ty railroad depot to destination. New
York takes thirty-two pounds tare for
bagging, ties and dirt, which they pro
pose saving by putting 32 pounds on
each bale, heretofore having only fifteen
pounds. The Alliance is to have its ex
changes in Waco, Little Rock, Vicks
burg, Shreveport, and a central exchange
in New Orleans. They are looking for
ward to establishing a branch exchange
in each of the cotton, tobacco and grain
states. They will quote quality uml
prices of these products eyery day in the
year. The difference in their plan and
the old way is to sell 1,000, 10,000 or
100,000 bales at once instead of a single
bale, to be graded at the branch or
State Exchange by an expert, from ac
tual samples furnished. Lumber is to be
handled in the same way. They expect
to save millions of dollars this year to
their membership, in the purchase of
farm implements, wagons, buggies, ma
chinery and hardware, buying in carload
lots from the factory. The Alliance of
Texas has bought the Marble Falls of
Burnett county, which is not surpassed
for waterpower in the South. On the
12th and 13th of July lots were sold,
and a city is to be built there in six
months with street railroads, electric
jghts, telegraph and telephones, etc.
There will be a cotton, woolen, paper
and other factories to be envtcd there at
ome. On the Ist of September, 1887,
the State Alliance Agricultural College,
of Marble Falls, will begin its second ses
sion. They have also a publishing couir
puny with capital stock of $50,000, and
proposes to furnish in one more year, to
tfie* membership all over the South, an
eight page paper at actual cost, and
stive the Texas membership $40,000 an
litiaHy in school books.
It will be seen from (lie above that the
object of tin* Alliance is to protect the
fanner from the middleman. The
scheme, of course, is an exjieriment, but
from what we see through our Texas ex
changes. the Texas farmers have gone
into it with great enthusiasm, and are
confident of success. The Alliance starts
oilt under most encouraging auspices
and it is well backed by the farmers of
Texas. Arkansas. Louisiana and neigh
boring states. It declares that it has
no intention of coming into conflict or
antagonizing other interests. We await
further development of this gigantic
aud ambitious experiment with much
interest.
Startling Prediction.
Two hundred years ago in China there
was just such a craze about natural gas
as we have in this country to-day. Gas
wells were sunk with as much vim and
vigor as the Celestials were capable of,
but owing to a gas explosion that killed
several millions of people and tore up
and destroyed a large district of country
leaving a large inland sea. known on the
map as Lake Foo Chang, the boring of
any more gas wells was then and there
prohibited bv law.
It seems according to the Chinese his
tory, that many large and heavy-pres
sure gas wells was struck, and in some
districts wells were sunk quite near to
each other. Gas was lighted as soon as
soon as struck, as is done in this country
It is stated that one well with its unu
sual pressure, by induction or back
draught, pulled down into the earth the
burning gas of a small well, resulting
in a dreadful explosion of a large district
and destroying the inhabitants thereof.
Lake Foo Chang rests on this district.
The same catastrophe is imminent in
this country unless the laws shall re
strict further developments in boring so
many wells. Should a similar explosion
occur there will be sueh an upheaving as
will dwarf the most terrible earthquakes
ever known. The country along the gas
belt from Toledo through Ohio, Indiana
mil Kentucky will be ripped up to tin*
depth of 1,200 to 1,500 feet and flopped
over like a pancake, leaving a chasm
through wliich the waters of Lake Erie
will come howling down, filling the Ohio
and Mississippi valleys and blotting
them out forever. —Cincinnati Commer
cial Advertiser.
The young woman who has attained
the most notoriety in the past fortnight
is Miss Josie Holmes, of Cincinnati, the
pretty private clerk or secretary of Vico
President Harper, of the defunct Fidelity
Bank. Friends and enemies agree that
she is decidely the prettiest prisoner ever
locked in an Ohio jail. Miss Holmes has
astutely figure, a fair complexion and
brilliant brown eyes. She is about 25
years old and was born in Cincinnati.
Her parents were respectable, but were
without means, and she was well edu
cated in the public schools. Several
years ago her father died and Miss
Holmes became the sole support of her
mother. She obtained employment as
amanuensis for Dr. N. H. Wolfe, but sub
sequently applied to Mr. Harper for a
position and, being employed, rapidly
rose in Ids favor. In addition to her
beauty, she discharged her duties in a
very acceptable manner and finally be
came the trusted business confidant of
her employer.
How to Start Balky Horses.
Hood authorities on the horse agree
that a balky horse should never be whip
ped or abused in any manner. One
writer says: ‘‘lf he wont go, let him
stand still and think it over. He will
very often think better of it, and after a
few tosses of his head go on of his ow n
accord; or, if this does not answer, get
out of the wagi n and pat him and talk
to him kindly. Sometimes it is well to
loosen a strap or start a buckle. I have
known the mere act of unchecking and
rechecking the animal to answer the
purpose and stop a determination to re
sist. For this same reason an apple or
a bunch of grass from the roadside, or a
handful of oats, or a few kernels of corn
will often accomplish what an hour's
beating could never effect. If the above
does not start him pat the horse on the
neck, examine him carefully, first, one
side and then the other; if you get a
handful of grass give it to him and speak
encouragingly to him. Then jump into
the wagon and give the word go, and he
will generally obey.
2. Taking the horse out of the shafts
and turning him around in a circle until
he is giddy will generally start him,
3. Take a couple of turns of stout
twine around the fore legs just below the
knees, tight enough for the horse to feel
it; tie in a bow knot; at the first click he
w ill probably go dancing off. After go
ing a short distance you can get out
and remove the string to prevent injury
to the tendons.
4. Take the tail of the horse between
the Iliad legs and tie it by a cord to the
saddle-girth.
5. Tie a string around the horse's ear
close to the head; this will divert his at
tention and start him.
All in the family! At St. Jacobs, 111.,
Monday last, says an account, John
Schuler and Miss Fannie Simpson were
married by a magistrate. Shortly after
Mrs. Schuler and Mr. Simpson, the moth
er anil father of the newly wedded pair,
and almost past the allotted three-score
and ten, concluded to become man lind
wife, and the ceremony was therefore at
once performed.
False Colons
are sometimes offered to the public where
Diamond Dyes ore called for. Do not be
deceived. These adulterated and use
less dye-stuffs will not answer the pur
pose or do the work of Diamond Dyes.
Favorites everywhere. 82 colors. 10
cents.
Marriages Between Cousins.
Xevi Yorfc Sun.]
The inqfiiry as to the effects of such
marriages on their offspring comes from
a friend in Oregon:
“Is not the common belief that mar
riages between first cousins an* objec
tionable somewhat like the belief in the
effect of the moon u|iou the planting of
crops, shrinking of meats, etc., merely
coincidence and not caused by the moon?
1 am aware, of course, that family traits
must Im* more pronounced iutheehildren.
but where both sides are mentally and
physically sound I can't see why such
marriages should have the tendency to
produce unsound children.”
Though the prejudice against such mar
riages has a sounder basis than mere
siqM'rstition. their evil effects upon off
spring seems to have lieen exaggerated,
except in instances where there is a fam
ily predisiiositioit to serious disease. In
I*7l. when the English census was to be
taken, Sir John Lubbock, Dr. Playfair
anil other scientific men made an effort
to have statistics obtained ns to tin*
prevalence and consequences of cousin
marriages, but unfortunately they were
defeated by a Parliament which was
silly enough to treat their proposition
with scornful laughter. Afterwards Mr.
George H. Darwin, a son of the great
Darwin, and himself a man of much sci
entific reputation, undertook an investi
gation on his own account, though in a
cnmpai atively narrow field, and reached
the conclusion that, outlie average, such
marriages did not produce the evil effects
commonly attributed to them.
But Signor Paolo Mautegazza, a pro
fessor at Pavia, made a somewhat sim
ilar inquiry in I 808, and his deductions
were that “consanguineous marriages
are, on the whole, more unfavorable to
the offspring than others," and that
“the nearer the kinship the greater
is the danger." and the more so when
the kinship is through Ike mother,
“because more evil or good is heritable
through the mother." Mr. Darwin him
self acknowledges that the preponder
ance of opinion among the many auth
orities examined by him is that the ill
effects of cousin marriages are greater
than his partial investigation showed
them to be.
Our Oregon friend will see, therefore,
that there is much difference of opinion
regarding the subject about which he
consults us, and that, all! lungs consider
ed, it is safer to marry somebody else
than your own cousin.
Negro Farm Labor.
The labor question comes nearer clean
ing me up than anything else. 1 have,
however, become convinced that the ne
gro is our main dependence; we have got
him, or he has got us, I don't know
which. Sometimes 1 think one way and
sometimes the other. At any rate, we
have to stay together, and we must feed
him or lie will feed himself, and I prefer
finding him; it takes no less to do him,
or there is less waste attached to our
feeding him, for he had as soon eat a
Berkshire pig worth twenty-five dollars
as a scrub worth only two dollars; or
your Ply month Rock chickens, or any
other cheaper food. On the shares, we
can't afford to give him a good mule or
horse to kill, or a costly lot of tools, or
seed to throw away; for if he was to
make six bales of cotton and three hun
dred bushels of corn, he would think he
ought to live easy the rest of his life.
You should feed him, and you or some
one else will be certain to do it, too.
Now when you take the expense off the
three bales of cotton (for 150 bushels of
corn-don’t go to his support; it goes for
Sunday clothes and whisky), we see
very plainly that it will not feed and
clothe his family. I ean suggest no rem
edy that will meet the ease. If the ne
groes would work and quit their stealing
I would be on Wall street, New York,
preparing myself for Canada in less than
ten years. At the present price of cot
ton, to work them on shares, or rent
them land and furnish them, is sure
bankruptcy.—Jeff Wellborn in Southern
Cultivator lor August.
Asa raindrop foretells a storm, so
does a pimple upon the human body in
dicate health-destroying virus in the
blood, which can be neutralized and ex
pelled only by Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.
No Ambushing Allowed.
Dakota Kell ]
A man from Chicago was in Little
Muddy, Dakota, at the confluence of the
Little Muddy and Missouri rivers near
the Montana line, last Sunday and at
tended church. When prayer was offer
ed the Chicago man knelt very devoutly
and was astonished to hear the minister
shout:
“Here, you feller with tin* coat! none
o' yer gettin' down behind the pew tryin'
to draw a gun on me! If you've got
anything agin me jes" pull ye.* weepings
while ye're up'n sight—l’m heeled an'
ready fer ye! I plugged the last man
that tried that game on me right through
the pew an’ I ortcr serve you the same
way.”
A word from Peter Cooper: “In all
towns where a newspaper is published
every man should advertise in it. even if
nothing more than a card stating his
name and the business he is engaged in.
It does not only pay the advertiser, but
lets the people at a distance know that
the town in which you reside is a
prosperous community of business men.
As the seed is sown, so the seed recom
penses. Never pull down your sign while
you exjiect to do business.”
“Do you think,” she asked, dreamily,
as he sat beside her at the circus, “that
this is the same elephant I saw when 1
was a child?”
“No,” he answered with scornful can
dor, “you know elephants only live to be
two hundred years old,”
It won’t be this year.
Dk.vb Littlk Babiks,
how we all love you. What a pity some
mothers of delicate constitution are un
wise enough to attempt to suckle their
ownVhildren, instead of using Lactated
Food, which contains the same constit
uents as the milk of a healthy mother.
It also furnishes perfect nutrition to in
valids.
Henry Wilson was not hung at David
son, on hist Saturday, as sentenced.
The supreme court has not acted on the
motion for anew trial in his case.
Nate Wells' Wonderful Kel.
i N’ow York CorrespomloßC* st. I.oai* Republican.
"Talkingabout eels." said Nathan I*.
Wells, of the Wagner Sleeping-ear enm
panv, at the Lafayette hotel the other
night, “the biggest ones in the worbl
grow in Lake t'haniplain." He was ad
dressing his conversation to Col. John
Fowler, a down-town lawyer and a few
years ago eliief of staff for (Jen. Shuler.
The colonel had just told a story about
a big eel he had seen dotrn at Norton's
I’oint, on Coney Island. He said the eel
was considerably over two feet long.
Col. Fowler prides himself on his accura
cy. Ile is accurate esptn ially as to state
ments. For this reason the most out
landish yarns are told in his presence
by his friends to draw him into an argu
ment to prove the accuracy of the prop
osition.
‘How big do eels grow in Lake Cham
plain?” the colonel inquired,
"Oh, they grow all lengths, and the
lake is full of them,” Mr. Wells replied.
"What was the biggest eel you ever
saw there?” the colonel asked,
“Well, the biggest one 1 saw there this
summer was eighty feet long, but I have
heard of them, when it was a good sea
son for cels, considerably over 100 feet
long.”
“Eighty feet long, did you say?” said
the colonel in astonishment.
“Yes, sir; and when 1 saw him he had
his head out of water thirty feet, and
some small boys were whistling to him
to come ashore and get some bread
crumbs.'’
“I don't believe that story,’’the colo
nel said nervously.
"I don't cure whether you believe it or
not, It's true, and 1 can prove it if you
will give me time to get the little boys
down here. Pshaw, you don't know any
thing eels in New York."
The colonel folded his arms and looked
at Wells a full minute, and then said;
“Nate, I know you are u truthful man
and would not tell a lie any quicker than
George Washington, but you have goi
to bring these little boys down here Ins
fore 1 will believe it. Hut I tell you what
Ido believe. It is my treat. What will
you take?''
An Event in Georgia •Journa
lism.
AuKUsta ((in.) Chronicle.|
Women in journalism in Georgia have
proved quite successful. “Bonnie Lee,”
the Block Creek correspondent of the
Irvington Southerner-Appeal, in Wilkin
son county, is an instance. She has
kept the paper posted on the size of the
melons, the late stories of t he snakes, the
death of the neighbors and the advent
of the babes. This week she drops the
reportoriul pen with this quaint valedic
tory: “Hark! What is it? It is those
wedding bells 1 hear again. Ah! they
are nearer than when I hist wrote you.
Soon the bell will tell a tale. Oh, in.v
heart beats high. Some one will be wed
ded then. I think it will ue I.”
Later reports are as affecting. At the
residence of the bride's father, in Irving
ton, Miss Annie Holland (“Bonnie Lee")
and Mr. Thomas F. Avant have b<*en
united in marriage. The Southerner-
Appeal fears that by the nuptials it lias
lost a valued contributor to its columns.
While wishing for the newly married cou
ple “usmooth voyage and safe and time
ly anchorage in the haven of eternal
felicity,” it pleads with its fair corre
spondent in this way:
“While ‘Bonnie’ inis changed her name,
But not’her 'nom de plume,’
We hope she will not forsake uh,
But greet uh with another article soon.”
EA RTHQUAK E S HOC KS.
A Wide Stretch of Country in the West
A fleeted by It.
CniCAtio, August 2.—Dispatches from
Jacksonville, Centralia and Jonesboro,
Illinois, this morning indicates that the
early earthquake shocks noted at Nash
ville, Tenn., St. Louis and Evansville,
Ind., were general throughout central
and southern Illinois. At Jacksonville
tin* vibration seemed to be from east to
west, but at Jonesboro from northwest
to south. A rumblingnoise was heard
and the shocks were of sufficient force to
cause picture frames to fall from the
walls. The time was 12:40 a. in.
Cairo. August 2.—A severe shock of
earthquake at 12:JO this morning lasted
thirty seconds. It stojiped many clocks
and frightened the populace. No dam
age is reported.
St. Louis, August 2. —A slight earth
quake shock was felt here at 12 o’clock
this morning. It woke up the occupants
of houses, but no damage is reported.
The movement was from north to south,
and tin* vibration lasted from five to
eight seconds.
Evansvii. i,k, August 2.— At 12:‘1<> this
morning a slight earthquake shock was
felt here, three tremors following each
other.
Here’s a lively Kentucky item for you :
“In a fight at Manchester, Clay county,
Ky., growing out of a dispute over a
negro “floater,” A. J. Hoeker was killed
and Dale Little fatally wounded. 1). W.
White was badly hurt.
ADVICK TO MOTHERS.
Mils. Win show's Sooth im; Syrup, for
children teething, is the prescription of
one of the best female nurses and pli.vsi
eians in the United States, and has been
used for forty years with never-failing
success by millions of mothers for their
children. During the process of teeth
ing, its value is incalculable. It relieves
the child from pain, cures dysentery and
diarrhoea, griping, in the bowels, and
wind-colic. By giving health to the
child it rests the mother. Price 25c. a
bottle.
The prohibition sentiment is growing
throughout the country, and we doubt
not if an election was held and the
county was properly worked up, Chero
kee would join the army of 114 counties
against the accursed drink. An election
will be held in this county at no distant
day we predict.-—Canton Advance.
Auk Mauuikd Pkopkk Happy?
Do sou think married people are ha|e
py, Uncle Jake? “Dat ur pends alto
gedder how dev enjoy demselves; if dey
hab chilluns an keep Dr. Diggers’ Hueklo
berrv Cordial, dey are certain to be, for
hit will cure de bowel troubles and de
chillun teething."
Home is looking for a population of
25,000 by 1800.
AI)EVIITLSEAI ENTS.
, Tme Courant-Amehican is the only
Papeh Pubmsiikd in one ok the Bk?t
Counties in Nqktii Georgia. ItsC'ir
fcri.ATlON IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITsCI-AS.-.
Reasonable Rates on Arruc.vr ion.
S 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy.
Hound for “Hum.”
f 1 lie old-style covered emigrant wag
ons, with a single horse attached to
each, and a pony that pranced lx>t ween
the tk\o like a sergeant major on dress
parade, moved along Fourth street yes
terday until it reached the corner of
Fine, when the procession came to a
halt. A man of 45. with his wifr and
two cliulby-faeed youngsters, occupied
No. 1, while the 1-l-yoar-old son of his
father had charge of wagon No. The
pony, as soon as the halt was made,
tried to stand on its hind legs, but it was
called to a sense of proper city divoruui
by a stentorian "Yawn, there, Billy?"
file two little kids in wagon No. 1 poked
their heads through the awning on the
port side wheu-a li lobe-1 Vuiocra I repor
ter asked the old man whither he had
come and whither lp* was bound.
“We're bound ter hum,” ivplh*d the
traveler. “We've just come from Ash
land. Kan., and we're goin' plum back t.
Washington county, II!., whar we b'long.
Ain't Kansas a niss> place to live? Mebbc
it air for some folks, but ne ain't no
hogs, ami we know when we've got
enough. Lots of the neighbors from
Illinois kep' up a goin' out to Kansas,
ami my wife and the kids wouldn't give
me no peace 'till I went 'long too. Waal,
we’ve bin tlinr; ain't we Beckey?’
“Bight yevy be, John, replied his wife,
with a smile that would have made a
Chicago divorce lawyer ashamed of
himself.
“How far out is Ashland?” asked the
reporter.
"Nigh on to <OO miles, boss," replied
the traveler.
"And how long have you been in that
wagon?"
" I'll!•*>© weeks visterday; and we'll be
ter hum by Saturday night, and when
we git thar, as 1 said before, we'll stay
thar. We ain’t seen no place half like
it th hull wav out here. As for mo, I
wouldn't take th' hull State of Kansas
for a gift, t! long thar, Jim, and stir up
yer jints."
And then the procession resumed its
march for “hum," via the big bridge.
A Good Appetite
Ik essential good health; but at this sea
son it is often lost, owing to the poverty
or impurity of the blood, derangement
of the digestive organs, and the weaken
ing ellect of the chuiigingHCUHon. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medieinc for
creating an appetite, toning Hie diges
tion, and giving strength to the whole
system. Now is the time to take it. Be
sure to got Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
• -♦-!
The Augusta Chronicle says: Govern
or Gordon is not and will not Im* a can
didate for the nominal ion for Vice Presi
dent. If he lives, he is certain to In*
elected to the Senate to till the next
vacancy. The South does nut want the
\ ice Presidency, and it will, in all proba
bility, be given to Indiana if she desires
it.
Get rid ol that tired ft*eling as quick as
possible.. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which gives strength, a good appetite,
and health.
The Atlanta Journal rightly says:
One intelligent, courteous, property
owning negro does more to advance the
reputation and status of his race than
all the insidious schemes and blatant ag
itators lor social equality who have dis
turbed the country for a divade.
Advice to Mothers.
Dr. Riggers’ Huckleberry Cordial
should always be used for children teeth
ing. It soothes the child, soflm* the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic,
and is the best remedy for the bowels.
Try it.
At Marietta recently,a unique wedding
occurred at the African Methodist
church. Tin* contracting parties were
Martha Stark, aged 70, and Neusom
Williams, ngpd 92. both as black as the
traditional afro of spades.
Bad Bowels. •
The very expression implies suffering
Every mother knows the anxiety over
this sickness, but every mother does not
know that Dr. Bigger*' Huckleberry Cor
dial will regulate and cure all bowel
troubles.
The Best of All.
Of all the medicines I ever heard of or
used, ! consider J)r. Bigger*' Huckleberry
Cordial the best medicine for ail bowel
trouble and children teething ever us**d.
A. J. Stine, Oxford, N. C.
NOTHIN' TO 8A Y
Nothin’ to say, my daughter! Nothin' at all to
aa.vf —
Girls that'd in love, I’ve noticed, yin,Tally has
their way!
Yer mother did afore you, wlien her folks ob
jected to me—
Yit here [ am. find here von air! and yer mother
—where is she?
You looks like your mother; pur tv much snmp
in size;
And about the same eompieeted: and favor
about the eyes.
I,ike tier, too, about livin' here, because she
couldn't stay:
It'll 'most seem like von was dead like her; hut I
hain't not nothin’ to say!
She left you her little Bible—writ your narr.v
across the page—
And left her ear-bobs fer you, ef ever you came of
age.
I’ve alius kep"ein and guarded ’em, but ef yer
• groin’ away—
Nothin’ to say. my daughter! Nothin’ at all to
say! f
You don't rikollect her, I reckon? No: you
wasn't a year old then!
And now yer—how old are you? Why, child, not
“twenty?” When?
And yer nex’ birthday in Aprile? ami you want
to get married that day?
* * * 1 wisht yer mother was livin'!—but—l
hain’t got nothin’ to say!
Twenty year! ond as good a gyrl as parent ever
found!
There’s a straw ketrhed onto yer dress there—
I’ll brush it off—turn round.
(Her mother was jest twenty when us two run
away!)
Nothin’to say, my daughter! Nothin'at all to
say!
[.lames Whitcomb Uiley in the Century.
THROUGH THE STORM.
I heard a voice, a tender voice, soft failing
Through the storm;
The waves were high, the bitter winds were call
ing,
Yet breathing warm.
Of skies serene, of sunny uplauds lying
In peace beyond.
This tender voice, unto my mother replying.
Made answer fond.
Sometimes, indeed, like crash of armies meeting.
Arose the gale;
But over all that sweet, voice kept repeating,
“I shall not fail."
Noba Febby.