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The Grippe and Sulphur. In my daily papers of December 22d I find that there are supposed to be something like 100,000 cases •of grippe in New York city, and that it is also prevailing largely in Washington, Philadelphia and oth er cities, and is now threatening Boston. It is a fact that when it was prevailing as an epidemic largely in our city a few years ago J ascertained, by inquiry of my of ficers at “Byarn’B Match Factory,” that of the forty-three persons em ployed there, not one had been troubled by it I have at various times told the press how many at Memphis, Ten nessee. | including the agents of “The Howard Benevolent Associa tion”] escaped the terrible epidem ic of yellow fever there [es they claimed | by wearing powdered sul phur in their shoes—-also the evi dence of a distinguished German medical writer translated into Bnglish, that wearing sulphur in this way has proved a complete protection against cholera and cither epidemic diseases, —also that'those working in the sulphur mines of Italy escape the malaria which prevails all about them, — tdeo that sulphur in the shoes has cured various cases of rheumatism, —also that sulphur taken inter nally or worn in the shoes has suf ficient power to pass through the body, the clothing and the pocket hook, blackening the silver there. I find in the London Lancet that no lees authority than the presi dent of the Institute of Civil En gineers of London declares that the sulphurous vapor produced by the combustion of coal in that city kills the disease germs in the atmosphere. It seems to me a duty, at this time, to again suggest as widely as possible through my own paper and others that sulphur is very cheap, and whether it destroys or keeps out germs of disease from the body, or only acts upon the imagi nation it cannot do much harm to try i t. In the Scott County [Mississip pi] Register of June 15th last will Iw found an account of how the agents of‘’The Howard Benevolent Association,” at Memphis, escaped yellow fever by wearing sulphur in their shoos. Hfc’f a teaspoouful of powdered sulphur m each shoe or stocking is considered to he sufficient. As our readers know, we did our j beat lust spring to put these facts ; $ hxr the protection ot our soldiers ] before our army and navy officials at Washington. We do not know whether any thing was done about the matter by our medical ollicers there, but tee have roceived letters from army olTicers and men, that with sulphur iu the shoes they had no fevers And also found the sulphur a com .plote protection against ileas. On this same Decembe 22nd we receive in a letter from Captain Julius A. Palmer, of this city, the following: u ‘By the way. in view' of your f e vjuent recommendations of com mon sulphur, it came to my notice vooetrtly that on California ranges where walnuts are prepared for the market the shells are bleached by the use of brimstone fumes, and that the men having charge of that work are never touched by the grippe, influenza or other epidem ics which attackjtheir fellow-labor ers on the eanie estates.” —In our hum Animals Geo T. Angell. La Grippe is again epidemic. Every precaution should be taken to avoid it Tts specific cure i9 One Minute Cough Care. A. J. Shepord, Publisher Agri •nltural Journal and Advertiser, Eiden. -Mo., says: “No one will be disappointed *ll using one Minute Cough Cure for La Grippe.” Pleas mt to take, quick to act. <J W. D.'L vPcrriere. THE MAIL ROBBERY. A CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE THE POOR OF CHEAP LITERATURE. 4 * Con k reim man Loud'a Attempt to CknnKe the Ptatul Laws In the In terest of the Itich Not a Word AKolnat Transportation Robbery. The conspiracy to knock out period ical publications is still being pushed by Lond and his committee of corpora tion monopolista It is claimed that tho big deficit in the postal service is owing to the trans portation of second class matter. If railroad transportation could be had at fair and reasonable rates, there would be uo deficit. It has beeu shown time and again that the government rays from three to ten times as much for carrying its mails as the express companies pay for carry ing packages. Asa rulo mail pouches and express packages are carried in the Eame car. They therefore receive the same care, are transported in the same time and at the same actual expense. Then why should tho government pay three and four times as much? Of course there is “l>oodh” in the contracts for mail service, and Uncle Sam’s servants who are intrusted with the matter get a rake off. One of the inspiring causes, however, for knocking out serial publication is the opposition of the plutocracy to an education of the masses. The more en lightened the people the harder the road for the wealth accumulators. Ignorance is the cornerstone of a moneyed oli garchy. There are hundreds of thousands of homes in the United States today where good though cheap books can be plenti fully found as a consequence of cheap mail transportation. Within the last dozen years millions upon millions of these books—9o per cent of them useful and meritorious—have been distributed among the poorer classes, where not a single book could have been found to day had it not been fertile cent a pound postal rate. The question is, Shall this education al benefit to the poorer classes he de stroyed in order to put the postal serv ice on a “paying basis?’’ Another interest which is to be serv ed in cutting off the cent a pound rate on periodicals is that of the wealthy user of letter postage. Tho wealthy mer chant or manufacturer, the banker and the broker, who uses anywhere from SSO to SSOO worth of postage stamps a day, is anxious for a 1 cent rate for let ters. This will save him any where from SI,OOO to SIOO,OOO a year. It would save tens of thousands of dollars every year to each of 50 rail roads that could be named. Is it not safe to say that, including all correspondence, notices sent out, etc., by express companies at least $1,000,000 a year is paid for letter postage? Now, if letter postage can he cut down one-half, it will be a direct benefit of $500,000 a year to the express companies alone. Then think of tho wealthy insurance companies which use thousands and thousands of dollars every year for let ter postage. There is a single national bank in Chicago which uses probably $25,000 a year in postage stamps. What a “good thing’’ it would be for that one institu tion if letter postage could be cut down to $12,500! It is safe to say that two-thirds of all postage stamps used in the United States are used by wealthy men and wealthy corpoatious. In 1895 the number of letters aud packages at letter poetage rates mailed was 2,298,000,000. This year it will reach fully 2,500,000,000. This means about $50,000,000 expended for letter postage in a single year. If two-thirds of it, or, say, $35,000,- 000, is spent by wealthy men aud cor porations, a reduction to a 1 cent rate would mean a saving to them of sl?,- 600,000 a year. But so long as the present annual def icit of about $20,000,000 exists in con sequence of the low rate on periodical literature, as it is alleged, there is do use of talking about 1 cent postage, say the moneyed champions of cheap letter postage. Therefore, “the first thing to do” is to shut out periodical publications, even if it does deprive the masses of cheap reading matter. Congressman Loud of California has been selected as the champion of this grab all’s plan to knock out one kind of cheap postage which benefits the masses in order to inaugurate another kind of cheap postage which will benefit the rich. Constituted as the government at Washington is today, the chances are that Mr. Loud's conspiracy will win.— Norton's Monthly. Slilllod Rifle Shots. Attingbausen, a village in the Swiss canton of Uri, as one of the homes of William Tell tries to keep up its repu tation for shooting straight. Out of 500 inhabitants 184, men and women, are skilled rifie shots. The first prize in the last schuetzeufest was carried off by a 15-year-old girl. Her father, seven brother* and three sisters all shot, the family taking nine prizes. "Pitts' —- Carminative Sawmd My Bmby’m Ltfm.” ¥¥ UMAR & RANKIN DRUG CO.. I can not recommend Pitta' Car minative too strongly. I must say. I owe my baby's life to it. I earnestly ask all mothers who have sickly or delicate children Just to try one bottls and see what tho result will bo. Respectfully, .das. LIZZIE MURRAY. Johnson's Station, Ga. ¥¥ Pitta 9 Carminative Im mo/d by nil OrofpMa. PRICE, 2B OEMTS. PERSONALITIES. Senator Platt of New York has an enormous stock of conundrums which he originates himself. Samuel R. Collaway, president of the Nickel Plate railroad, began work at a salary of $8.83 a month. Ethel Mary Charles is the first wom an in England to adopt architecture as a profession, aud she has already taken many prizes. Of all New York’s millionaires Cor nelius Vanderbilt is said to be the most sensitive to criticism, particularly crit icism in print. Frank G. Logan of Chicago gave $35,000 to the Chicago Art institute as a Christmas present. The money will be used to build a library building. Congressman John Murray Mitchell of New York is a most enthusiastic wheelman. His bike is of the most ex pensive make, as are all its accessories, including a $lO lamp. The latest story of Lord Kitchener is that when asked if he contemplated a narrative of the Sudan campaign he an swered: “No, no. Do let us have one general who has not written a book!” The latest sensation of Paris is a young Swiss giant, Constantin byname, who is amusing the audiences at the Folies Bergere. He is over 8 feet tall and so weak in the knees that he cau scarcely walk. Virgil N. Bakiluck, a native of Braz za, in the Adriatic, and a member of San Francisco's police force, is a good Latin and Greek scholar and speaks English, Russian, French, German, Italian and Spanish. It is related of Francis McKinley, great-uncle to the president, that when he was shot for participation in the Irish uprising of 1798 he snatched the bandage from his eyes and himself gave the command to fire. Two of the most famous living Scotsmen are cripples—Lord Kelvin, who is the greatest living Scotch scien tist, aud Dr. James Macgregor of Edin burgh, who is said to be tho greatest living Scottisli preacher. William Allen Butler, the transcon tinental railway magnate, is the man who, 80 years ago and more, created the once famous Flora McFlimsey in “Nothing to Wear.” He is uow t a suc cessful New York lawyer. Tho three greatest, living British sol diers aro from the Green Island. Lord Wolseley was born in Ireland, Lord Roberts of Kandahar was born in India of Irish parentage, Lord Kitchener of Khartum was born in County Kerry. James R. Keene is said to be the most methodical man in New \ T ork. He has his whoie day laid out to the minute long beforehand and can remember at once the opening and closing, highest and lowest quotations of even the most obscure stock for any day of a week previous YOU don’t need the doctor for every little trouble, but you do need in the house a trusty remedy for times of danger. Thousands are saved by having at hand DdlLMchiire Liveisfteyßalni a certain cure for disorders of the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Use it atonce for sore back, furred tongue, lost appetite and changes in urine or bowels. It is wise to be always ready for them. Sold by druggists, si.oo a bottle. THE DR.J.H.MCLEAN MEDICINE CO. 6T. LOUIS MO. For sale by H. C. Poole. *1 WAGONS |* ; AND B T.J G G I B S \ \ / 9HH My stock of Wagons an Buggies for this season i the largest ever brought t this section An examination of my stock will convince the most skeptical t the above is a true statement of facts. ALL NOTES NOW DUE SirSMS is a sufficent warning to our many customers, \\| are due us by note or account, that they must cot up at once and settle the same. Don’t delay this matter longer, as we mean what we say anij compelled to make these collections right away. Respectfully, t. a. maynard; WINDER, GEORGIA. Tilt Age of Trusts. One of the most pregnant signs of the times in the commercial and financial world is the concentration and central ization of capital in allied branches of trade and industry and which tend to ward the monopoly or practical control of each certain field. “Trusts” and monopolies are tabooed by the law of the land, but as there is more than one way to skin an eel, so there is more than one way to organize what is, to all intents and purposes, a “trust,’’ with a full control of the desired prod uct or branch of trade. The name “trust” has now been legally eliminated from the corporate titles of these mam moth corporations that are springing up on every side and in every branch of trade and commerce, and as the success and large profits resulting from these large combinations of connecting inter ests have become mora apparent similar organizations are almost daily being formed in heretofore neglected trades or industries. From the present outlook it would appear that the end will be the control, or practical monopoly, of each and every one of the larger branches of trade and commerce by some mam moth corporations that, to all intents and purposes, fulfill the popular idea of a “trust.”—Brooklyn Eagle. State Farmi, A joint committee of both houses of the New Zealand parliament, appoint ed to report on the desirableness of es tablishing state farms and industrial settlements as a means of alleviating the evils arising from irregularity of employment, recommended the estab lishment of such state farms. The re port goes to show that state farms are necessary in order to meet the wants of those who are temporarily unemployed, have been displaced permanently by machinery, or who, owing to irregu larity of employment, are desirous of obtaining practical knowledge of farm ing operations and are unlikely to ob tain employment elsewhere on account of old age, bodily incapacity or ineffi ciency. To these scate farms would of fer a temporary home and employment tinder certain specified conditions dur ing the slack period and would give useful and necessary training, aud to the infirm would offer a comfortable home and surroundings, besides tending to lighten the burden of charitable boards. SOMETIME. Out ol today’s mad struggle and distress. Out of its ashes and duli weariness, Hope sweetly rises with a patient grace Strange to the fury of life's grinding plait And, pointing o’er the hills where Sowell dwells, A whispered promise of her pleasure tells. And we, who drag our yoke o’er heavy roi Close in the shadow of more crushing loaai Pause when the lash is still and lift oureji To pictures hung against the distant skies There we forget the sorrows of this clime In the glad gardens of that fair SomelimS Tomorrow is today again renewed. With added penalties and servitude, And smaller chance to dream of Someth peace, Where wasting weariness will find release. Yet faith is stronger than our galling cares And so we wait; but, oh, the waiting veaik —George E. Bowen in Chicago Ke** The Nicaragua Canal. Several different syndicates are *i Ing to build the Nicaragua canal, M they wish the government to fun" the money aud give to them the col pleted work. We ought to havetb canal, but we ought to build andoi it as a national possession. Nob® wants to see another steal like those: eultiug from the building of the Pa c ‘ railroads. The people paid for build' those roads three times over, yet ti) don’t own even a single tie. W. build that canal, pay for the work 1 treasury notes, collect tolls enough pay expenses and to gradually pa. T( those notes, and then the great will belong free and unincumbered us aud our children forever. Any o|l> way of building it will be a stupeedd steal.—Omaha Nonconformist. The Sweet Child. De Gauche (who has just broke" plate)—Oh, 1 am sorry I Mrs. Flash —It’s of no conseq"'" Don’t apologize. , Flash, Junior, (age 5) —No, d® matter. It’s only a borrowed one! -•“* it, ma?—London Fun. A Hopeless Qnest. Fond Mother —Three years ago I ** him a chain, and he’s worn it out. years ago I gave him a diamond = aud he lost it, and last year I g° l a watch, and he broke it. Now, can I give that boy that will last- , Jeweler—Why not try diamon r >ugs? J Fond Mother —He couldn t them. He pawned mine four y- ■ ! —Jewelers’ Weekly. j