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SUBSCRIPTION. Thk Courant American is PurUikhed \\ KEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF BaRTOW County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to gxpect an Undivided County Patron age. UfllQl Hartehsvill* i’oprast, Established IHS J . „ _ , I nU.ioJ Cakteksvillk Amkhican. “ oif so lid at kd 1387. Rare Treat in Store for Lovers of Bargains. J. P. TOIT ES, The Regulator of Low Prices, Inaugurates the Fall Season by an offering of New Goods in every Department. The Cheapest and Prettiest Stock ever Shown in Cartsrsville. DBESS GOODS. Special attractions in everything new All Wool Tricots, Combination Suitings, Fancy Diagonels, All Wool Cashmeres in every desirable color, All Wool Henrietta, Ladies Cloth in all the new shades, Silk and Velvet Novelties in every color suitable for trimming. ATTRACTIONS. Velvets in all shades, Silk velvets in (>very desirable colors, Rrocaded Woven Velvets. 50 Pices Brocaded and Plain Dress Hoods Double Width Cashmere, all colors, at 18c.; worth 25c. J. P. JONES, Cartersville, - - - Georgia. FIELD SEEDS! Rye, Barley, Orchard Grass, Red Top, ' Blue Grass, Timothy, Clover, &c. AT BOTTOM PRICES —A3STD— Guaranteed Prime Quality BY” DAVID W. CURRY, WHOLESALE DRUCCIST, Broad St. Cor. Howard, ROME, GA. PEACOCK & VEAL, DEALERS insr -TFiJRNrnjRE' - (NORTH GEORGIA FURNITURE HOUSE.) THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE FINEST Parlor and Bed Room Suits in this section. WE STILL CLAIM TO SELL BETTER GOODSSHLESS MONEY Than Anyother House in this Section. — As space forbids mentioning everything, we will only enumerate & few. We hav in stuck and to arrive finest parlor furniture, SUBSTANTIAL BEDROOM FURMTURE, ROCKING CHAIRS, WARDROBES. BABY CARRIAGES at any Price, MATTINGS, RUGS,CARPETS Etc. LADIES. SEE OUR WALL PAPER, of which we have the latest and most unique design. We Guarantee Prices and Goods. Respectfully, PEACOCK VEAL, CARTERSVILLE, GA. SPEC I A.Li. 10 Pieces All Wool Red Flannel at 18c yard; worth 25c. All Wool Red Twill Flannel, 25c. White FJannels at all prices. Gray Flannel, 20c.; worth 25c. Cotton Flannel at 7c. yard. Jeans, good quality, 15c. per yard. All Wool Jeans at a bargain. Men’s Undershirts, all wool, from 25c up. Ladies’ Vests from 35c. to f 1.00. Extra fine all wool Jerseys from SI.OO to $2.50. Breakfase Shawls from 20c. to SI.OO. Large all wool Shawls from $1.25 to $3.00. A beautiful line of Cashmere Shawls iu the latest colors, from $1.25 to $3.00. THE COURANT-AMERICAN. SHOES! SHOES! If you are in need of Shoes I will only tell you in a few words, I bought every pair in my store for SPOT CASH, ena bling me to get the Lowest Inside Prices. I am selling Stribley & Co.s’ Shoes— ENERY PAIR WARRANTED. If they don’t give satisfaction money will be refunded. Ladies’ fine Kid Shoes at $3.00 per pair. My Ladies’ Shoes in Kid and Goat Button at $2.00 are well worth $2.50. Ladies’ Button Shoes at $1.50 others will ask you $2.00. I sell the beet $1.50 Shoe in Cartersville. In Men’s Shoes I can show you the best and cheap est line. A splendid pair Shoes for SI.OO. lam satisfied with a small profit. Don’t buy Children’s Shoes till you learn my prices. Bargains in Men’s and Boys, Boots Cards to the Public. I have this day sold my stock of goods to Mr. John J. Skinner, and have retired from business. I sincerely thank my customers for their favors iu the past, and ask that they be transferred to Mr. Skinner. My successor is so well known to our whole people and it goes without saying that he will carry on a business most satisfactory to those that patronize him. Respectfully, Oct. 4th, 1888. CHAS. T. JONES. From the above it will be seen that I have bought out the goods of Mr. C. T. Jones. In taking charge I wish to assure iffe trading public of Cartersville and vicinity, that I will keep a stock of groceries, fancy and staple, that will give satisfac tion. I ask a trial, knowing when given that the success of my new business is only a matter of time. I will keep the best grades of goods and will sell at the cheajiest margins. Yours for Groceries, JOHN J. SKINNER, At the Red Corner. DRUGS! DRUGS! J. H. WIKLE & CO, (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Ilnve now in store the b< st selected, most complete and varied socfcoi Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Patty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. Come to see 11s, examine good* and fret pi ices. Physicians Pre eriptions filled w ith the greatest care day and night by a license t pharmacist. AGENT OIL COMPIT’Y Ch.as. A. Wilde, Manager. McCanless’ Baling Press The cut represents the Hand-Power. Can be operated by three hands. Turns out Bjß 8 TO 10 BILEu PER HOUR. ■ size of bales 18x94 by 86 inches. Weight ill of bales from 100 to 150 pounds. IH 1 PRICE oxn.7 SSO. '|| 1 McCanless & Cos., A| | \ o CARTERSVILLE, GA. Ifgjv J j Tried and recommended by J H. Gib e uth, J. W. Gray, W. C. Barber and others CARTERSVILLE, GA:, THURSDAY. OCT. 6, 1887. Clothing;! Clothing! A splendid stock or Clothing at very Low Prices. If you need anything in DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, 7 • FLANNELS, WATERPROOF and thousands of other articles, don’t for get to call at my Store. I can’t sell you goods for less than they are worth, but I will guarantee to sell you goods at a living price. Don’t fail to call on me when you come to Cartersville. SEVEN PINES. ‘•The Racoon Rough*'* and Their Coon Skin Cap*—Governor Gordon Talks of That Bloody Occasion. The Atlanta correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat writes: One day in the spring of'6l, when the clans of the Confederacy were gathering, there tramped into Montgomery, then the tem porary capital, a conqany of gaunt, wild eyed, jeans clad men. As they marched along in irregular tiles, with an “every man for himself air, somebody on the sidewalk called out: “What command is that? - ’ “Independent Rifles,’’ was the reply from the ranks. “Independent Rifles!” a spectator echoed with a grin. “Raccoon Roughs!” came from the free and easy trampers. “1 reck’n that'll suit you uns!” Every man in the company wore a coon skin cap, and “the Raccoon Roughs” they were from that time on. The com mand had been recruited from the miners and mountaineers of the northwest corner of Georgia and the northeast corner of Alabama. They were neighbors and fellow workmen whose association lapped overstate lines. Their Cap'ain was John B. Gordon, at present the Governor of Georgia, but he didn't, hold the position long. “The Raccoon Roughs'' were mobilized with some other companies, and became the Sixth Alabama, to the command of which Captain Gordon was elected. At Seven Piues the Sixth Alabama re ceived its baptism of fire. Before that, there had been some skirmishing, but this was the first battle, and, as Gov. Gordon describes the scene, they make up for the regiment a first battle record which probably is without parallel on either side. A shade come over the Gov ernor’s expressive face, and his voice drops to lower tones when he talks of that day. “I started on the charge,” he says, “with GOO meu in my regiment. When the fight ended at nightfall 39G of the GOO lay on the field dead or wounded. My Lieutenant Folonel was killed. Of forty-four commissioned officers only thirteen came out of that day’s fighting unscathed.” “I had a brother with me, a boy,” Gov. Gordon continued. “He was shot through the right lung, but recovered, only to die with Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. lie was 19 years old. I had several bullet holes in my clothes when night came, but was not wounded. One ball raked across my chest, and would have shattered my right arm if I hadn't uplifted it to point with my sword a movement I wanted my com mand to make.” “The Sixth Alabama,” the Governor went on, “was opposite a portion of the Federal line which that side had uo idea would be taken. We made the assault in the forenoon. There was a charge across an open field, perhaps a distance of five hundred yards. Then we came to breastworks behind which the Fed eral were as thick as they could stand. As we went over their lines we found the evidences that they had uo idea of being driven back. Cooking was going on, and iu a house a meal had beeu prepared for au officer’s mess. We followed them back of the works and into a swamp where a great many trees had beeu fallen. It was impossible to go ahead, and there we stopped, stood in the water up to our knees and fought till dark. 1 had to detail meu in there to hold to the heads of the wounded above water to beep them from drowning. And some of the time I could not find enough well men to take care of the wounded.” “Governor, do you recollect of any other command which lost so heavily in a single charge at any time during the war?” was asked. “No,” replied the Governor, after a little pause, “I don’t recollect anything which was quite equal to it. Our loss was within three or four men of being two thirds of the whole regiment.” SUCKERS ALWAYS BITE. The Mohs Covered Counterfeit Money Racket Worked On Two Ken tucky Smarties. An old swindling dodge, long since familiar to suckers in more advanced localities, has just penetrated the wilds of Perry and Leslie counties, Kentucky. Ten days ago Basil Cornett, of Perry county, went to Loudon, Ky., registered at the Lovelace Hotel, and after several days quietly loitering around town, he, with the most confidential air, informed certain persons that he was waiting for his partner, who had gone to New York on business, and in the meantime he tele graphed or wrote to a bank in Stanford, where he had a deposit, requesting that they send him S4OO in cash. Last Satur day his partner, J. N. Baker, of Leslie county, arrived, and, after the two had conferred together, they proceeded to the Adams Express office and received a package shipped from Albany, N. Y., to the address of Baker, on which there were S4OO charges, which amount they paid the agent. Shortly after this little business trans action Cornett took a friend aside and whispered into his ear that they had beeu beaten, whereupon he unbosomed himself of the entire scheme. He told how they had beeu induced, like the tra ditional little fish, to gulp into their un sophisticated mouths a bearded hook on which was fixed a dainty allurement. The tale runs thusly: They had received from Albany, N. Y., a circular, in which a “party by the name of Smith,” or some other simple cognomen, had offered that for S7OO of any good circulating medium the said party would furnish SIO,OOO of “stuff” which would pass anywhere; and as an inducement the said party proposed that if they should have any doubt or misgiving on the subject they were in vited to come East and receive the stuff in person; and accordingly Mr. Baker proceeded to Albany, where he found the proper street and number, and was soon engaged in negotiations by which he was to realize $lO ,000 with the small outlay of only S7OO. He said the party showed him a trunk full of the prettiest money he ever saw, and explained to him how the thing worked, and that the money was duplicates of regular treasury notes, printed at the Treasury Department, and that they would never be detected until presented at the department for redemption. A trade for SIO,OOO worth was soon made, and the amount was packed into a box and handed to Baker, who paid S3OO in cash, with the under standing that S4OO more should be paid when the box was duly received through the express office. Baker was to carry the box to the office in person and ex press it, as a matter of caution against detection. As an evideuce of good faith, the party took a S2O bill from the lot aud handed it to Baker, and advised him to purchase his railroad ticket wifh it. He says the hill was taken by the agent without a murmur, and he proceeded home in the proud knowledge that he had struck it rich. When he and his companion opened the box, which he had seen packed and had in person expressed, it contained a good hard brick, such as used in build ing. The two greenies Consulted a law yer aud a suit was filed, and the S4OO attached in the hands of the Express Company. “I cannot praise Hood's Sarsaparilla half enough,” says a mother whose son, almost blind with scrofula, was cured by this medicine. HORRIBLE! A Young Girl Transformed Into a Decrepit Woman. The Powerful Effects of au Electric C’urr. ut. Cleveland, Oct. 2.—On the Brecksville road, about six miles from the town of Lorain, lives a fanner named Max Har mon, who came from Pennsylvania about a year ago. Harmon’s family consists of a wife and three children. The oldest, named Mary, is a young lady nine teen years of age, who has passed through one of the strangest and most painful experiences which has ever fell to the lot of a human being. A short time ago she was a plump, rosy-cheeked girl in robust health and of a sunny disposi tion. To-day, through the influence of a most peculiar accident, she is in all but years a shrunken, j>eevish old woman. The story of tins strange metamorphosis is as follows: Mary was engaged to be married to a man named Jacob Eberlein, who worked for Mr. Harmon and made his home with the family. About six weeks ago the young couple came to Cleveland to make some purchases and aud see the sights. One of the young man's friends worked in one of the elec tric light establishments at the time. Eberlein proposed to take his future bride through the place aud show her the ma chinery. It ap|>ears that a broken wire of her panier or bussel had unperceived worked its way through her dress. While passing along the wire came in contact with one of the powerful electric ma chines, and her hand resting on an iron bar at the time, completed the circuit, and she received a severe shock and fell to the floor. In a few moments she re vived sufficiently to be removed from the place and was taken to her home. Medi cal aid was summoned, and for four days the girl lay iu bed in a paralyzed condi tion. Then she regained the use of her limbs, but immediately began to lose flesh rapidly. The hair on the left side of her head turned gray and began falling out, After weeks Miss Harmon was able to be about, but in that time she had been transformed from a young, handsome girl into a feeble old woman. Her form, which had lieen plump and rounded, was thin and bent, and the skin on her face and body was dry and wrin kled. She had been a sweet tempered, affectionate girl, but is now peevish, irrita ble and selfish. Her voice is harsh and cracked, and no one, to look at her, would imagine that she was less than sixty years of age. The Harmon family are horrified and well nigh heart-broken over the fate of their once handsome daughter, while young Eberlein is almost crazy over the change iu his affianced bride. The physicians claim that the electric current communicated directly with the principal nerves of the spine and left side of the head, and that the shock almost completely destroyed their vitality. In stances in which a person’s hair has turned whitein a single nightfrom fright, grief, or some excessive nerve shock, are not rare, but this is supposed to be the first case in medical history in which a person has been known to step from the bloom of vigorous youth into the de crepitude of old age within a week. Bloodiest Battles of Modern Times. It is not uninteresting to state what have been the bloodiest battles of the last hundred years; that is, to compute the percentage of loss to the numbers en gaged. Within the allotted time the Na poleonic battles come first. The battle of Lodi, Bonaparte’s first brilliant suc cess, was simply the daring passage of a bridge, and does not enter into the com putation. Areola was the most san quinary struggleof the Italian campaign. The forces engaged numbered about 70,- 000, and the loss was about 25,000, or about 25 percent. At Rivoli there were 80,- 000 men engaged, and the loss was 40,000, but 20,000 of these consisted of Austrians who surrendered to Napoleon, so that the real loss was only 15 per cent. After Bonaparte’s return from Egypt he fought the battle of Marengo. In its re sults this was one of the most momen tous engagements in history, but all ac counts agree that it was the worst planned and worst fought of all Bona parte’s victories. There were 60,000 men engaged,and the loss was 17,000,0 r about 28 per cent. At the battle of Austerlitz, which by many is considered Napoleon’s most brilliant victory, the French and Austro-Russian armies numbered 210,- 000 men, and the loss was 40,000, or about 18 per cent. At Jewa-Auerstadt there were 325,000 men engaged, and the loss was 40,000, or about 12 per cent. At Borodino there were 170,000 men in battle, and 80,000 were killed and wounded, amounting to more than 47 percent. AtLeipsic there were 500,000 men in battle, which lasted three days, and the loss was 110,000, or 22 per cent. At Waterloo 140,000 men were engaged, and the loss was 40,000, or 27 per cent. In the Crimean war there were 125,000 men at the battle of Inkerinann, and the casualties amounted to 25,000, or 20 per cent. At Magenta there were 225,000 men; the loss was 11 per cent, or about 25,000. At Solferino there were 250,000, and the loss was 40,000, or 16 per cent. At Sadown the hostile forces numbered 425,000, and 70,000, or 16 per cent, were killed and wounded. At Gravelotte there were 450,000 men in the encounter, of whom 35,000, or about 8 per cent were killed and wounded. At Shiloh the armies numbered 90,000, and the loss was 30,000,0 r one-third. At Fredericks burg there were 180,000, and the loss was 20,000, or 11 per cent. AtAntle tam there was 150,000, and the loss was 30,000 or 29 per cent. At Chancellors ville there were 150,000, and the loss was 30,000 or 29 ]>er cent. At Chancellors ville there were 150,000, and the loss was 30,000, or 29 percent. At Gettysburg there were 160,000, and the loss amount ed to 57,000, or 39 per cent. Thus the figures show that Bordino was the bloodiest battle of modern times, •ith Gettysburg in the second place. Governor Gordon’s Ambition. The Washington Post of last Sunday says: Georgians have a right to be proud of their Governor. They were proud of him long before he was Governor, and will be long after he shall have ceased to be governor, John B. Gordon has uttered manly and patriotic sentiments without number, but never one better than that contained in his letter to the managers of the Evansville re-uuion. “Formyself,” writes he, “I had rather be an humble instrument in the hbnds of Providence to obliterate the dissensions growing out of our late cival war than to occupy the highest position in the universe.” He means all he says. From the time of the surrender uutil now, he has been steadily engaged in building up his state. He put the dead past behind him, except its memories, and looked steadily towards the future. The whole country is much indebted to just such men as he is. A sullen, discontented, disunited south would have impresed itself ou the north and we should have had a miserable country all around. The peace and har mony which we now enjoy are due in a great measure to just such men as Gov. Gordon, who accepted the situation with no mental reservations, but with all their hearts. A PA LACK ON VVHEKLS. Tito Train H'nirli is to Convoy the I*rel tlent ml Wifo Through the Country. The special train which is to convey the president tiud Mi s. Cleveland through the west and south husstarted from Wash ington, and isuttracting much attention. It is a marvel of tasteful elegance, and seems to lock nothing which money could purchase or human ingenuity devise and construct to make traveling comfortable. Three Pullmau cars—the “Alfaratta,” “Velasco” and “I*. P. C.” —Hie so connected as to form one con tinuous car, traversable from end to end without openeuiug u door orsufferiug ex posure to the weather. The private quarters of the president and Mrs. Cleve land are in the“P. P. C."—Mr. Pullman's private car —which contains a parlor, bedroom, dressiugroom and commodi ous observatory, the walls of the latter being almost entirely of plate glass— will be the rear car after the train passes Baltimore, affording its occupants from the observatory and wide safely railtfl platform behind it an unobstruc ted view of the country. The middle car is, in general feature's patterned after the familiar Pullman alee] nr model, but embodies in its details all the later improvements made by Mr. Pullman. The first car contains a smoking room, library, barber shop and bath room. The train is fresh from the shops, and is newly upholstered through- out in the richest velvets, pannellings and the carvings of oak. cherry and maple are in keeping with the rest. Blic a-brac, ferns and flowers in vases, and a parlor organ are among the incidentals of the train s furniture. Hoorn is found in the corners, invisible to the passengers, for an engine and dynamo, which are to furnish electricity for lighting the train and ringing its bells, and for the cook ing range and the entire outfit of a first class kitchen. Five Hundred Dollars is the sum Dr. Pierce offers for the detec tion of any calomel, or other mineral poison or injurious drug, in his justly celebrated “Pleasant Purgative Pellets.” They are about the size of a mustard seed, t herefore easily taken, while their operation is unattended by any griping pain. Billiousness, siek-headache, bad taste in the mouth, and jaundice, yield at once before these “little giants.” Of your druggist. ALL FKOM DRINK. Paupers Craving for Stimulants They Cannot Get. The Poor House Superintendent of St. Louis, says that nearly four fifths of those who come to the poor house are brought there by drink. In their younger days, when they should have been laying away something for old age, they were spending their money for drink. Of course misfortune brought many of them to want, but drink wrought the poverty of most of them. When, therefore, they have been with me for some time, with out having tasted liquor, they will drink anything to satisfy their old craving. We used to have an annex in a rented house just across the road from the main building, but were forced to give it up, as the paupers found it easy to get away and get tipsy. It was a mystery where they got the money to buy the liquor, but they got it. They would pick up rags, iron, scraps, and borrow each other’s clothes and sell them for a drink. We could not always keep our eyes on them, and they would manage to escape. Once in awhile they steal a inarch on us by drinking the mash for the yeast in the bakery, and I have known an old fellow to swallow a bottle of medicine for the pleasure it would give him to burn his throat. They have drank indigo and other liquids, and get tipsy, too. It is a very curious craving, this old love for dripk that keeps gnawing in men and women 60 and 75 years of age. The love of tobacco is equally strong, and the only interest they show in life is when we give out the rations of smoking and plug tobacco. Is it Really Consumption t Many a case supposed to be radical lung disease is really one of liver com plaint and indigestion* but, unless that diseased liver can be restored to healthy action, it will so clog the lungs with cor rupting matter as to bring on their speedy decay, and then indeed we have consumption, which is scrofula of the lungs, in its worst form. Nothing can be more happily calculated to nip this dan ger in the bud than is Dr. Pierce’s “Gold en Medical Discovery.” By druggists. A Fair Showing for the South. The Chattanooga Tradesman in its quarterly review of Southern industries makes a most flattering showing. It says: “The past three moijths, although the embarrassing midsummer period, shows no cessation in the wonderful in dustrial development in all sections of the South. While speculations have been restricted, the material growth has correspondingly increased, and reports to the Tradesman from commercial and industrial centres of the South betoken a most gratifying condition of affairs. Crops everywhere in the South are about the average, ai/d the general volume of business is increased. Up to a fortnight ago money was easy, and while collections are somewhat slower now, the movement of crop will improve the financial situation. The industrial situation is very active. Manufacturers are crowded with orders, and the largest iron works are running on double time. Railroad building is in active progress in many of the Southern States, and rolling mills in Chattanooga and Birmingham have orders for months ahead. Returns from the Southern cotton mills show an important improvement, the consumption of cotton having in creased over 2,000 bales in the past twelve months, or nearly 5% per cent. The total number of mills up to Septem ber 1, 1887, was 249; number ofsindles, 1,213,346; number of looms, 27,983; cotton consumed per year, 601,452 bales. New companies are being rapidly formed. In the [last three months thirty-two new factories have been organized, divi ded as follows: Alabama 3, Arkansas 1, Georgia 2, Louisiana 2, North Caro lina 12, South Carolina 3, Tennnessee 2, Texas 7. The Effect of Sleeping in Cars Is the eoutraeting of cold, which often results seriously to , the lungs. Never neglect a cold, but take in time Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum' and Mullen—nature’s great cough medicine. One of Gen. Forrest’s Old Men Lucky. As announced, Mr. W. A. Barnhill, of this city, held one-tenth of ticket 29,146 that drew $50,000 in the August draw ing of The Louisiana State Lottery, and received his mouev—ss,ooo— promptly through the First National Bank of this city. He is an old man, 55 years of age, and proposes to manage his fortune so as to live easy, and experience as few of the worries of life as possible. He served through the late war on Gen. N. B. For rest’s staff and made good soldier. Persistent and patient investing of one dollar each month in The Louisiana State Lottery, and that the practice he has kept up so long, he proposes to con tinue.—Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune and Sun, Aug. 26. Al> VKIITIBKM ENTS. The Courant-Amebican is thk only Paper Published in one of thf. Best Counties in Nobtii Georgia. Its Cir- CUI.ATION IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITSC I.ASS. Reason a hi.k Rates on Aitucat ion. $ 1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. Starving Work-Girls. From Longmans Magazine.] “What the eye doesn’t see t lie heart doesn't grieve for,” and, honestly, I am afraid that ladies don’t cure how many working-girls are killed so long as they don’t know anything about it. They will even go as far as to say. What is the use of knowing or caring if it can't lie heljied? To which the answer is: It can lie helped if only enough people will begin to know and care. I niouism by itself will do a good deal for women, as it has for men; but there an* special difficulties in the way of their organization; the first thing their friends can do for them is to help to remove these difficulties. Trade unionism, however, is not, any more than co-operation, a panacea for all tin evils mid dangers of our industrial sys tem; it deals only with two of the three great factors of the problem; as if the capitalist and the laborer could decide their quarrels about the intervention of that virtual employer of both —the con sumer. The only real and effective pro tection that can Ik* extended to the starving work-girl must come from a universal conspiracy of consumers not to buy the produce of stolen or half paid for labor, spending, of course, the money so economized in employing at first hand a corresponding number of women at trade society wages. No doubt, if we all were to buy only what we could afford to pay for honesty, some of us would get, as the lovers of cheapness say, less for our money; but a clear conscience would be thrown in as a compensation, and the industrial interests of the com munity would not suffer, since* as large a pro|H>rtiou of the national income would still Ik* s|K*nt on the prod Acts of agriculture and manufacture, though a larger proportion would be spent and consumed by the producers themselves. Tallest People Lazy. • Why are the tallest people the laziest? They are longer in bed than ot hers, and if they neglect their coughs or colds, they will be there still longer. Cse Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen. Napoleon on Acting. London Athenian in.] Talma used to go out of his way to get into a passion when )>eoph* talked to him of the art of declamation, and he claimed, quite rightly, that he acted and did not declaim. Why should one not act China, Biitannicus, Mithridate, leaving the human and simple character? Why should one not pour one’s own blood into the statue-like figures? “I like you,” said Napoleon to Talma, “because you are always the personage you represent. Pompey”Ca*sar, Augustus, that sly politician, can never ha ve resem bled actors who are always on the stage, and absorbed in getting themselves ap plauded. They used to speak, and not declaim; and even at the tribune or at the head of the armies they were orators, and not actors. Look at you, Talma,” added the Emperor; “you often come to see me in the morning. You meet a num ber of people. There are princesses who have been robbed of their lovers, princes who have lost their dominions, kings of yesterday, whom war has brought to 1 li* top, victorious generals, who are hoping lor or asking for crowns. There are around me deluded ambitions, ardent rivalries, catastrophes, sorrows concealed at the bottom of the heart, afflictions which force their way into notice. Cer tainly there is plenty of tragedy; my palace is full of it, and I myself am as suredly the most tragic of the figures of the time. Well, do you see us raise our arms in the air, study our gestures, as sume attitudes, affect airs of greatness? Do you hear us utter cries? Doubtless no. We speak naturally, as each one speaks when lie is inspired by an interest or passion. So did the people who, be fore us, occupied the world’s stage and also played tragedy on the throne. These are the examples to follow.” A Rich Legacy. The General attorney of the Pullman sleeping car company. Ex-chief Justice O. A Lochrane, states that old I)r. Riggers could leave no better a legacy than his Huckleberry Cordial for all bowel affec tions. Human Machines. Atlanta Constitution.] A few days ago a man dropped dead of heart disease at his post of duty in New York. For years he had stood at an ele vated railroad station calling out all day long: “This way to the street! That way to the terry!’’ Doubtless many of those who saw him day after day, and heard his monotonous cry, thought he had an easy task. But such a use of a man is a dismal spectacle, lie had been converted into a human ma chine and was used only because a ma chine of metal has not been invented to do his simple work. This man was a vic tim of niechanical civilization. Almost everything is now done by machinery. Machinery of metal is cheaper and more reliable for most work, but occasionally it will not serve the purpose, and then a man is used. A man is a pitiable sort of a machine, andean be adjusted to almost any sort of work. Our elevated station man was put into place years ago, told to stand there and utter ten certain words during twelve hours of each day; only this and nothing more. He did liis narrow duty faithfully unto the end; until something broke and the machine had to lie thrown aside to lie replaced by anew one. What combination of springs, and wheels, and steam-chest could have done lietter? Few such contrivances would have lasted so long, or gotten out of repair so rarely as this human ma chine. The incident has its pathetic side, but it has its hopeful one, too. It shows that there is still a demand for men, and that they are preferable to machines of metal even for the simplest tasks. Addition Making Shorter. What word is that to which if you add a syllable it will make it shorter? Short. —Taylor s Cherokee Bemedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen will shorten your cold and cure your cough. Booty, Not Patriotism. There was a meeting of Union soldiers in New York Sunday whose main object seems to have been the passing of resolu tions to loot the Federal treasury. They are not satisfied that every old soldier is entitled to 160 acres of government land; they now want the government 1 o “advance passage money and means for working the land.” A Woman’3 Dress. Is an important matter as regards their health. They are much more subjected to cold than men, and should be careful to protect themselves, but if they con tract a cough or cold they should take Taylor’s Cherokee remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen. Hate no one. It is not worth while. Your life is not long enough to makeitpay to cherrish ill will or hard thought to ward any one. What if this man has cheated you or that woman has played false? What if this friend has forsaken you in the time of need, or t hat one hav ing won your utmost confident*, your warmest love, has concluded that he' pre fers to reconsider and treat you as a stranger! Let it pass. What difference will it make to you in a few years when you go to the undiscovered country 0 Bam Jones,