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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
An expert, who has examined the iron
ore region of the Island ot Cuba, says the
resources of that island are practically
limitless. Great, preparations are being
made to increase the shipments to this
country.
In lour years Europe will be connected
by steam with the very heart of the
Dark Continent, Perhaps American
steamers will also be running to the
seaward terminus of the Congo Free
State Railroad.
Last year the Argentine Republic
shipped 445,000 tons of grain to Europe.
This year it. will send 2,500,000 tons.
The* Government, is at present assisting
inimgration. It pays the passages of all
immigrants from the coast to their desti¬
nation in the interior.
It is claimed that there exists in Kan¬
sas City the most disastrous business de¬
pression that has been brought upon any
Western city in the past fifteen years.
There is, without doubt, $20,000,000
Invested in Kansas CTty that is not pay¬
ing a dollar in return.
Unless all signs fail, prophecies Goml
aWx Fun, the country is on the eve of a
grand industrial revival. Nothing but
had financial management will bring dis¬
aster. Wc have had excellent, crops; la¬
bor is employed in all branches of indus¬
try; t here is a good deal of money accu¬
mulated, and everything has a promising
■outlook.
• Olive oil is being so extensively adul¬
terated with cottonseed oil that the olive
industry in the South of France is being
fast, destroyed. The French Govern¬
ment is anxious to stop this adulteration,
the extent of which may be inferred from
tin* fact that 2,000,000 gallons of cotton
feed oil are annually shipped from the
United States to Marseilles.
The Indians are not making much
trouble now, and if lias been decided to
establish a small fish-propagation station
»t each army-post out West. The sol¬
diers can do what little work is necessary
and guard the growing fish. The Fish
Commissioner is going to look over the
ground and make plans for putting this
scheme into operation. It is a new idea
and has everybody’s approval so far,
save, perhaps, the soldiers’.
Reports from Chamberlain, in South
Dakota, show that the emigrant with
“land hunger” already has his eye upon
the United States territory which will he
thrown open to occupation when flic
Sioux Reservation is formally declared
the property of the Nation. A large
number of inquiries about the 11,000,
OOO acres in the reservation come from
persons who say they represent bodies of
men who intend to found colonies.
Greater advance seems to have been
made in Russia in the displacement of
wood and coal as fuel than in almost any
other part of the world. Naphtha dregs
are vised everywhere, and the railroads
and manufactories have adopted the uew
fuel to the exclusion of the usual articles.
it is fully 35 per cent, cheaper than
either wood or coal, occupies much less
space iu storage and can be handled more
readily. Its use has already become
common for domestic purposes, and it is
rapidly supplanting all other means of
furnishing heat.
-—a.
A Wyoming territory prosecuting . at
torney being asked to proceed under the
territorial law against an Indian murderer,
refused on the ground “that he did not
think, if arrested and held to appear.
thm any grand jury could be found that
would re irt a true bill against one In¬
dian for killing another, as such act w as
hoi particulaily objectionable or unpopu¬
lar with the white people of Stevens or
the adjacent cot ies. Hence it would
be incurring t much legal expense
without any bei ii rc suit. In fact he
could not see that it was a matter of any
concern to the taxpaying citizens, so
long as no white person was killed.'’ It
seems to the disinterested spectator, says
the Detroit Free Prexe. that the logic of
the official leads inevitably to the con¬
clusion that the Indian should be prose¬
cuted and hanged SO that two birds may
be killed with one stone.
A LITTLE LIGHT.
‘""G.i*T . --
’Twas but a little light she bore,
While standing at the open door;
A little light, a feeble spark,
And yet it shone out through the dark
With cheerful ray, and gleamed afar
As brightly as the polar star,
A little light, a gentle hint
That falls upon the page of print,
May clear the vision, and reveal
The precious treasures doubts conceal.
And guide us to an open door
Where we new regions may explore.
A little light dispels the gloom
That gathers in the shadowed room
Where want and sickness find their prey
And night seems longer than the day,
And hearts with many troubles cope
Uncheered by one slight ray of hope.
O! sore the need that some must know
While journeying through this vale of woe!
Dismayed, disheartened, gone astray,
Caught in the thickets by the way,
For lack of just a little light
To guide their wandering steps aright.
It may lie little wc can do
To help another it is true;
But better is a little spark
Of kindness, when the way is dark,
Than one should miss the road to heaven
For lack of light we might have given.
f'y *—New York Ledyer.
MABEL’S TROUBLE.
At the breakfast table that morning
Frank Hatfield’s wife, one of the dearest
and most winning of women in the
world, had said to him:
“Have „ you heard , , from . brother , _ Walter
yet?’
“No, Mabel; not time yet. You know
he only went day before yesterday. Get a
letter to-morrow, maybe.”
“Do you know, Frank, I am almost
wild with curiosity to see his wife? Such
an odd notion of theirs, to put off their
wedding trip for three months after they
were married!”
“Wanted to make it in pleasant
weather, I suppose; showed their good
sense,” said Frank.
“Anyhow, they’ll be here in ten days,
as soon as bis business is arranged,” and
Mabel Hatfield’s almost girlish face
beamed with delight at the thought, for
she almost idolized her “brother Walter,”
and had heard wonderful stories of the
beauty of bis bride.
Such had been, in part, the talk of the
breakfast table, and there had not been
in all the city a sunnier face than that
with which Frank Hatfield -had said
good-bye to liis dear little wife and his
rosy faced baby boy; but now, half an
hour later, he sat in his down town office
glowering at a bit of crumpled paper on
the table before him with an expression
of countenance which might fairly be
thought to include doubts of his own
sanity.
“Oak Street Station House!” lie ex
claimed. “What in—well, I might as
well go there.”
And so lie did, with barely enough
presence of mind to put bis hat on before
he started. A few minutes of almost
fiercely rapid walking, a brief parley
with the officials in blue, and Frank
Hatfield was admitted to a dingy and
dimly lighted cell.
“Frank—”
“Good heavens! You here!”
“Hush! Not a word ! I gave my name
as Harry Taylor, and it’s gone into the
reports that way.”
“But how did it happen?”
“I can't tell, Frank. I only know they
found the pocketbook in my pocket, and
1 was so dumbfounded I could not say a
word.” la
“The pocketbook?’’ Pennsylvania
“Yes, it was at the sta
tion. i had just checked my trunks
when they began to make an outcry,
and that’s about all I know about it until
I was nabbed and searched.”
“But Florence?” said Frank.
“I wrote to her that 1 was detained iu
New York for a few days by important
business. Then I gave your name as my
counsel and sent for you."
“I didn't get your note till this morn¬
ing,''said Frank.
“Some mistake or other.
s^“ a ' vha *
“Oh. I can get you off easy enough;
it's an old game of the pickpockets. All
l have got to do is to prove who you arc,
and the Judge won’t fail to see it,” said
Frank.
“But I don’t want to prove who lam:
it would kill Mabel aud just about mur
der Florence. You don't know how sen
sitive she is. No: I must be got off and
acquit ted as Harry Taylor, or Ill never
get over it. Now, Frank, old fellow,
promise me not to let my name out to
anybody, least of all to Mabel. Flor
ence's letters will come in your care as
usual; and I can send a letter to Mabel
dated from home, you know, as if it was
inclosed to you."
“You must take the responsibility of
all this deception, then," said Frank;
;md aftei great deal of hesitation the
the young lawyer allowed himself to be
overpoworeci into giving the required
promise, but left the station house and
returned to his office a troubled and
anxious-hearted man. He did not like
deception in any shape and he seriously
doubted his capacity for concealing any
thing from his dear little wife.
Ami so it was when Frank Hatfield re
turni d home that evening aud silently
handed Mable au unpostmarked missive,
over which her blue eyes glistened and
which made her kiss the babv twice, he
did so with a flush on his cheek aud a
cloud on his brow which never left him
the whole evening. In vain he tried to be
gay, or to make the crowing youngster a
means of concealing his perturbation, for
the quick eyes of his wife penetrated his
clumsy artifices, and then—well, if he
had been in trouble before he was badly
enough beset now.
Of course Frank kept his promise of
ceerecy, but at the expense of a red face
and a flustered manner. He was not half
sure that his conscience had not caught
him in several petty equivocations or well
defined fibs. More than that, Mabel was
quite well aware that she had not pene¬
trated her husband’s secret, and she was
not only a hue daughter of Eve as to
curiosity, but as self willed and imperious
a little body as she was loving, with a
good deal of that peculiar element of char¬
acter out of which jealousy is manufac¬
tured under favorable circumstances; and
so, though at first she tried not to show
it, Mabel was more than a little offended,
and Frank, poor fellow, could not help
seeing and feeling it. And thus the next
day passed and the next, and matters
down town looked worse and worse and
matters at home grew clouder at a rate
Frank Hatfield would hardly have
thought possible. So much for keeping
a secret from his wife; and the poor fel¬
low grew gloomier discoutentcdL|gce with every glance that hjd at
the fretful and
hitherto been sosuhnyT Even the baby
was compelled to suffer his, share ©f the
household trouble. In her irritated mood
Mabel’s thoughts "one naturally turned to her
brother, and so day she sat down and
wrote him a letter in which she said a
great many things that were only in¬
tended fo’- his own eyes. Perhaps no
harm would have come from it if Mabel
j iad ncd ma j| e cl the letter with her own
hands, without saying a word to her hus¬
band, and that, more by accident than
anything else, it was opened and read by
a young married lady in one of the large
Pennsylvania towns on the following day.
ii.
It was not the same cell that Frank
Hatfield had looked into before, anu it
was nearly a week later. The prisoner
was the same, however, and with all his
confinement he was hardly as pale as his
worried, bothered-looking visitor.
“It’s all up, Harry.”
“What’s up, Frank?”
“Why, this wretched secrecy business.
Florence is coming.”.
“Florence? How do you know?”
( . Read that telegram. Got to meet
at the train this afternoon.”
Frank had the better in color now
very decidely.
“Oh, Frank, my bov, what is to be
done?”
“She must know.”
“And Mabel?”
“We’ll see about that. Don’t see what
lean do but invite* her to the house.”
And Frank Hatfield looked more like a
baited wild animal than ever as he half
flung himself out of the cell,
Frank did not go home to dinner that
day or he might have discovered that the
nurse had been left alone with the baby
and his wife had “gone out,” no one
knew whither. So, in uncomfortable
ignorance of the dangers that beset him,
he went to the depot that afternoon ahd
waited for a lady who should resemble
as nearly as possible the miniature like¬
ness which had been shown him, and he
found her very readily. There was no
chance for mistaking the striking, nerv¬
ous looking beauty, and, in fact, as he
advanced to meet her the trembling lips
parted sllightly, Hatfieid?” just enough to say:
“Frank
“And you are Florence?”
“Oh, Frank! Where is my husband?
Why is he not here?”
t i He is safe and well, I assure you, and
you shall soon see him.”
“But I don't understand! TYhv 1 is all '
‘
this mystery and deception? said ’
“I can’t explain here,” Frank,
“but if you will get into a carriage I will
tell you as we go.” determined keep
And Frank was to
his word, though he had almost as soon
have been convicted of burglary. He
was not aware of all his trouble, how
ever. He had not noticed the veiled fe
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coupe which drove off: rapidly after the
carriage which contained him and
Florence.
Florence on the whole sustained , . . me ..
shock much better than Frank had ex
pected. Iu a few moments—for, with
all her nervousness, she was a brave and
devoted wife—Florence declared herself
ready to hurry at once to the “Tombs.
“I must stop at my o.nee for a
ment." said Frank.
“Oh, but I such a liuir,. „. said .,
am in
Florence.
“But it is only to leave a law papei
with my partner. He has been at court
all day and I have not seen him.
Frank’s office was m a very busy part
of the city, and both he and Florence
had their heads too full of exciting
thoughts to notice any particular ^ mera
bers of the hurrying throngs upon the
sidewalks, Still, as the carriage pulled
up at the curb Frank remarked: “Good!
I won t have to g > up stairs: there’s my
partner now. Brown, Eh. Brown!”
The gentleman thus addressed had
been standing on the edge oi tne walk as
if waiting for some one and now came
forward with a remarkably beaming ex
pression of countenance.
“Frank, my boy, it's all right. _ _
mW hat's all right? - ’ Tavlor’s case.”
•-Whv, that Harrv
Frank Hatfield had to catch his breath
for a moment, but stammered, “H—h—
bow?”
“Why, there was a whole batch sent
up this morning and one of them con¬
fessed to putting the pocketbook in
Harry's pocket.”
“Well, what did you do?”
“Oh, Judge M was as good as
pie; let him right out, and I've got him
up stairs in the office.”
A gloved hand was on Frank’s shoulder
and a trembling voice was trying to ask
him:
“Frank, Frank, isn’t that Walter?”
“Yes, it’s Walter,” said Frank Hat¬
field ; but he was sorry enough the next
minute, as he sat in a corner of the car¬
riage, trying to recall the color to the
white and beautiful face of Florence, for
she had fainted. As for Brown, he had
comprehended the situation well enough
to dash upstairs, and by the time Flor¬
ence had recovered her senses she was in
more tender hands than those of-half
frightened, clumsy Frank Hatfield.
And now the carriage was being
whirled away uptown, for Frank was
urged by something even stronger than
hospitality in his eagerness to reach his
clouded home. He could have no pa¬
tience with either horses or driver,
especially as Florence and Walter looked
so provokingly loving and happy upon
Home was reached at last, however,
and the somewhat irate driver reined in
his smoking horses in front of the bouse.
Frank sprang to the sidewalk and never
dreamed of aiding Walter; but Florence
by this time was well able to help herself.
It was not very late when they entered
the house, and Frank’s latchkey dis¬
pensed with bell-ringing and servants.
“Wait a moment in the parlor,” said
Frank, “while I call Mable.”
And so saying, but with a big weight
upon his heart, Frank pushed onward to¬
ward the sitting-room. As he threw
open the door before him, how r cver, he
was suddenly^ confronted by a lady in
full traveling costume, and a glance be¬
yond showed him a marvelous array of
trunks and traveling bags.
“Mable, my dear—”
A gloved hand held out toward him a
small whits envelope, while a husky and
trembling voice said:
“Good-bye, Frank.”
“Mable—”
“Isn’t that Walter’s voice? “Oh,
Walter, are you here?”
“Yes, Mable; here I am, safe and
sound.” And Walter himself rushed
forward, taking hold of his pretty sister
as if about ready to swallow her.
“Oh, Walter; take me away—take me
home to mother’s.”
“But, Mabel, wliat is the matter?
Frank has been just the best old fel¬
low—”
c i Walter—there she is—I saw her at
the depot—the very same woman; and
now he's brought her here! Walter,
what does it all mean?”
“Mean! Why, Mabel—come here,
Florence—Mabel, this is my wife, your
sister, Florence. I’ve been in trouble
and Frank has helped me through, like a
trump that he is. and you are mad; when
you have got the best fellow iu the world
for a hus—”
Mabel gave one look at her brother,
another into the wistful face of her new sis¬
ter, but she caught a glance of the keen
suffering in the trembling lips of her hus¬
band, and with:
“Oh, Frank, forgive me; I’ve been so
foolish!”
Frank Hatfield's worry was over.
A Dog’s Benevolence.
A dog in the neighborhood of Manches¬
ter, England, has been distinguishing it¬
self in a marked degree. This is not a
homeless cur, but a dog in easy circum¬
stances, and owned by a kind and iudul
l g ent master. Too indulgent, the reader
i may be disposed to think, when he is
! told that every morning at lunch time
; the creature is presented with a penny,
j which is carried in its mouth to the shop
I of a baker, and there purchased a biscuit.
: It happened, however, that the baker,
| meeting the owner of the dog, mentioned
to him that it had not been for its biscuit
i lately. This was unaccountable, and the
, because the animal's master had
'
mouev before it was due. When it at
' d
] ^ r eceived it it had never f ai]e to run
off iu a hurry, and after a while return
| , vithout the coin, seeminrtv satisfied with
; divestment.
The Qext moridn „ after the baker had
, d l • s rat ion to the gentleman,
^ 1Tnnn
latter after watch'd.’ giving his dog ffie penny,
was cllrious to And loandbe
^^ uever went near the biscuit, it*
s j lop ! Without an instant's delay
h . ;stencd t0 a tripe seller's, and there
1 bought and paid for a neat and tempting
ske ^ erino . 0 f “paunch.” But it was not for
- ts own eating. AYith cheerful alacrity
it took the meat in its mouth and made
for aQ tv house, and to the cellar
thercof and being closely followed, the
PeQevolent crea t U re was discovered in the
act of delivering its precious pennyworth
to a poor miserable tyke, a stranger to
the neighborhood, and apparently of the
“tramp" species. Evidently it had been
taken ill on the road, and probably which
would have died in the cellar into
it had crawled for shelter, had it not
been for the kind commiseration of the
other dog. who probably quite by acci
dent had found it there. *
The New York and Brooklyn Bridge
| is 5989 feet long. The length of its
I main suau is IoOd feet.
UNAPPRECIATIVE.
How little we are apt to appreciate that which
we possess. The hardy wood-sawver envies th«
wealth of his employer. The rich man envies the
health and strength of his poor neighbor.
“Our mind and our time we employ
In longing for what we have not,
Unmindful of what we enjoy.”
How much better if all exerted themselves to ob¬
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gain wealth by industrious and frugal habits. If
poor in health seek to use those remedies which are
the best and truest medicines. Among remedies
sold by druggists none is the equal of Botanic
Blood Balm for curing the ills of flesh and blood.
Felix Foster, Atlanta, Ga., says: “I took B. B.
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much trouble and would not heal from a use of
ULCERS other remedies. Within ten days my
health improved, and before I had
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improved my appetite and gave me flesh and
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Hudson Clark, Camden, Ark., says: “I was af¬
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of rheumatism for about 12
years, and suffered extreme misery during all that
while. I also had catarrh so bad it almost stopped
CATARRH my breathing through my nose.
My flesh in some places looked as
if it had been charred or scalded. My back was sc.
lame 1 could hardly stand. I tried nearly every¬
RHEUMATISM thing but found no relief
u.ntil I tried B. B. B. I used
several bottles and am now as sound and well as
any man in Arkansas.”
J. W. Messer, Howell’s Cross Roads, Cherokea
County, Ga.. writes: I was afflicted with chronic
SORES sores nine years, and had tried many
medicines and they did me no good. I
then tried B. B. B., and eight bottles cured a®
sound and welt” «9
S. G. RILEY
Physician and Surgeon.
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