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A Physicians Advice.
I suffered for yean
from general debility.
Tried oilier remedies,
ud got no relief.
My Pliyrician prescribed S. 8. 8.
I increased in flesh;
My appetite improved;
I gained strength;
Was made young again;
It is the best medicine I know of.
MaiiALKY Xuni'EN, Oakland City, Ind
fiend for our book on Blood and
Skin Diseases.
Swift Spbcifio Co., Atlanta, Ga.
THE CHANGING SENATE.
IT IS NOT NOW SO SELECT AND
ORDERLY AS IN FORMER DAYS.
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mU 1 lUn irarrantedt and. every pair
jON bis aiuv and price stamped on bom
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN
Tine Calf and Laced Waterproof Graft
The excellence and wearluu qualities of ttifci gtfj,
cannot be better ihowo thau by the strong endont
of Its thousands of constant wearers.
*5°°
Sst.OO iland-aetred Welt. A line calf shoe
*» uncquaUed for style and durability.
KQ.0O Goodyear Welt is the standard dress
O shoe, at a popular price.
*0.80 Policeman's Shoe is especially adapted
w for railroad men. farmers, etc.
All mado in Congress, Button and Loco.
S3 & $2 SHOES LA F D°.gs,
hare been most favorably received since Introduced
and the recent Improvements make them superior
to any shoes sold at these prices.
Ask your Dealer, and If he cannot supply you send
direct to factory enclosing advertised price, or a
lostal for order blanks.
W. I» UUbtJLAS, Bracksaa. Uv
ThiiBMOI Ik HIAU.KY, AB IT
us, Georgia.
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Inlaid in tho backs
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For; sale [by
JAS. FRICKER & :BRO
B ■ rlow Block, Aiuerlcue, Ga.
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mMtmemtu maraanwuttjst
KIAlifES golden specific
It can be given In codWe, too, or In article# of food,
without the knowleture of patient If necesaary *.
U la abaolutely harm leu and will effect a permo*
oast and speedy con, whether the patient is e
moderate drlnklfc or an alcoholic wreck/ ITNKV*
KB FA1LH. It operates so quietly and with each
certainty that the patient undergoes no I neon-
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For sale by Or. K. J. Eldridgo,
▲merlous, Ga.
Gapt. Bassett—The Old Decks—Morrill
Site at Daniel Webster’s—Edmunds'
Ambition—Beed and the Next House.
He Will He the Only Kx>6peaker.
[Special Correspondence.]
Washington, Dec. 18.—The Republic
an side of the senate chamber is now
thickly populated when all the senators
are in their seats. So many new states
hare been admitted in the northwest,
and so many senators have come here to
represent them, that the senate chamber
is gradnally coming to look more like
the house of representatives and less like
the small, select and genteel senate of a
half century ago. Fifty years ago the
senato was only a little more than half
os large os it is now. Then thero were
fifty-two senators, now there nro eighty-
sis. Fifty years ago Michigan, now re
garded as one of the old states, was the
youngest sister represented ou the door
of congress. With the advent of these
now senators from the far west and the
increase of the number of senutors has
como a great deal of disorder on the floor,
so much that Senator Ingalls, who is the
senatorial mentor in matters of order
and decorum, felt it necessary tho other
day to rise and appeal to tho senate and
to the presiding officer not to permit the
traditional good order and quiet of the
ancient body to he destroyed.
But the character of the senate is grad
ually changing, und will ne doubt con
tinuo to change. It is becoming less
dignified, less uristocratic, less formal,
and tho standard of ability and eliarac
tor of its membership is not as high as
it was years ago.
It is a singular fact, which I discov
ered tho other day by accident, that tho
chair in which Henry Clay used to sit In
the senate chamber is now occupied by
one of the young und inexperienced sen
ators from tho west. Old Capt. Bassett,
the veteran senate employe who has
charge of the furniture and pages on the
floor, keeps as his own secret the iden
tity of tho chairs and desks which were
once used by such famous men as Web
ster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Cass and
others. These old chairs and desks have
been carefully preserved, and once they
were pointed out to visitors, but as relie
hnntors began to mutilate them it was
found necessary to conceal their identity.
Senators Morrill and Edmunds are the
only other iiersous about the senate
chamber who could point out these fa
mous desks, hut I am able to state, with
out any violation of confidence, that Mr.
Morrill himself uses the chair and desk
which once belonged to Daniel Webster.
Senator Edmunds, by tho way, has one
ambition which is not generally known.
He hopes to live long enough and re
main lung enough in the senate to
eclipso the record made by Tom Benton
for longest continuous service ever
known in the United States senate.
Benton was a member of the senate for
twenty-nine years and seven months
continuously. Henry B. Anthony, of
Rhode Island, served twenty-fivo years
continuously, and April 5 next, if he
lives, Mr. Edmonds will complete his
quarter of a century of continuous serv
ice. Senator Sherman has served long
er than Mr. Edmonds, bat not continu
ously. It is quite probablo Mr. Edmonds
will live to eclipse Benton’s record. He
is still halo and hearty, not so very old,
and about his re-election os many times
he likes there is not a particle of
donbt.
It is enough to startle one to look at
this venerable old man, Capt. Bassett,
and to think that he was hero in this
body thirty-five years before Mr. Ed
monds came. Yet such is the fact. It
was Dec. 5, 1831, when Bassett, then a
mere l.ul, took his place as one of the
two pages employed by the senate. Ho
was ajqiointed by Daniel Webster, who
was very fond of him, und here ho has
been, as boy and man, over since. Ho
told mo tho other day that when ho was
a page the boys were required to wear
uniforms, but finally the blue cloth and
gilt buttons were abolished on tho de
mand of a senator from one of the far
western states (probably Ohio or Indiana),
who thought a uniform inconsistent
with oar simple democratic notions.
Capt Bassett says ho was the second
page employed by tho senato, and that
the first is still living and employed in
one of the departments. Next Decem
ber, on completing his sixty years of
service in the senate, Capt Bassett will
give to tho world a book at his experi
ences and recollections, fi will proba
bly be a very interesting Malta]. The
good captain waste it understood, how
ever, that ha does not Intend to tell all
ha knows shout the senators with whom
ha has been thrown in contact If he
were to unburden himself without re
serve his book would create a sensation.
Capt. Bassett is tbs only man about
the Capitol who can remember the timo
when it was customary for representa
tives to wear their hats in tho hail dur
ing sessions. It was not till 1838 that
this custom, borrowed boot tho English
bouse of commons, was discontinued.
Fora time in the early history of the
house ladies were not admitted to the
gallery, but finally gallantry and
prevailed, and eftor a serious diseoasioo
of the question, which at that time was
tho ladies
were not only admitted bat a gallery
was provided for their especial use.
te venerable CapL Bsssett, who is
of the most interesting links bs-
n past sod present we have in the
capital city, never ceases to deplore the
iWyjenqft of tbft mif bOX. H> "wwfffl*
berm the day when the snuff box was in
and also
is entitled to some weight, the old Botnan
was the greatest statesman of his time.
CapL Bassett has in the little room
which be calls his own, and where he
has locked np in an iron safe memoranda
concerning the identity of the famous
old seats and desks, for the information
of those who come after him, a collec
tion of old snuff urns and snuff boxes
oat of which hundreds of statesmen,
famous in their day and generation, bat
now almost forgotten, have taken the
titillating powder. ' j
There, also, he has many relics of his
senatorial career, such as a piece of -the
cane with which Preston Brooks assault
ed Charles Humner, inkstands which
have been thrown by angry statesmen
at the heads of other statesmen, pen-
liolders and pens which have been used
in signing great bills, and a fine lot of
old fashioned quills. It was in Capt.
Bassett's time that each house of con
gress employed an official penmaker,
whoso duty it was to mend the goose-
quills used by senators and representa
tives. Many of the legislators were ex
ceedingly particular as to tho “degree of
Hexibility and breadth of point” of their
quills. While some would use nothing
but "broiid nibs," others reqnired the
finest of “lino points,” and the pemnuk-
ers had no easy task in trying to suit the
different writers. There were ulso, as
Capt. Bassett )>ointed out to me the
other day, official sealers, who were in
trusted with the sealing of letters and
packages with red wax. Tho “station
ery” used in both houses inclnded pen-
knives, scissors, razors, pocketbooks,
kid gloves, bottled perfumery and bear's
grease, besides numerous other little
articles which the officials would pur
chase “by request” whenever they went
to New York to get their supplies.
To the present day all of these articles,
the bear's grease alone excepted, are
used by members of congress, and
charged to the government in their sta
tionery accounts, tho only man now in
congress using bear’s grease on his hair
being the venerable Mr. Vaux, of Penn
sylvania. Mr. Vaux is also noted as 1«-
ing the only man in congress who ad
heres to the old quill pen, which he cuts
for himself with neatness and skill. For
a number of sessions in the old days an
innocent beverage called swiehell, com
posed of molasses, ginger and water,"
was largely consumed by the representa
tives, and it was popularly supposed that
among its innocent ingredients were
good French brandy and Jamaica rum. It
was always charged in the appropriation
for stationery under the head of ‘<airup.”
Nowadays the statesmen manage to
get their lemonade at the public exjiense,
the beverage being provided by the offi
cers of the two houses, but they do not
dare indulge in intoxicating liquors pur
chased out of government funds. It is
not so many years, however, since the
famous “hole in the wall,” a small room
tear the senato chamber, and much fre
quented by tho bibulous statesmen of
that day, was running full blast, well
supplied with all sorts of liquors, paid
for in the appropriation bills
lunches.” Capt. Bassett remembers
those old days, and likes to talk about
them in private .'onversation, but he
would not like tohavesomeof the stories
which he tells of putting intoxicated sen
ators to bed printed in the newspapers,
even at this late day.
Thomas B. Reed will be lonesome in
the next congress in more senses than
one. Not only will most of his lieuten
ants of the present house bo conspicuous
by their absence, hot he will be the only
ex-speaker on the floor. In the present
house there were three ex-speakere 1 -
Randall, Carlisle and Banks. Randall
is dead, Carlisle has gone to -the senate
and Banks will retire from pnblio life at
the end of his present term. Mr. Beed
will also bo the only man in the next
house who has been talked of for the
The hard times need not prevent you from making
FOR BY GOINCSrO
its glory in tho senate
in the other house, ItH
inti* mat*, tat, ah* Qtp*. Bha * i*
the to the old
days urn* filled with the best “old8ootoh"|
were kept in both bouso and senate 1*
order of the official*, but tho custom
long since became obsolete in the boose,
and tho last ssoatoc to join Capt. Barnett
in an occasional bat quite regular pinch I
waa Allen O. Thurman, and of coarse,
fftMr. Bsssstfs ngtotsa, wtocb afNgqfl
presidency. Carlisle bums quiet way
long been a presidential quantity, bnt
he ia gone. Randall was also a candi
date for the nomination of bis party.
McKinley might have been nominated
for president two years ago bnt for his
manly loyalty to John Sherman.
Nathaniel P. Banks, some people may
remember, was nominated for the presi
dency thirty-four years ago. He was at
that timo speaker nf the house, a Native
American by election, a Whig by ante
cedents and a Republican by affiliation.
The regular American convention met
at Philadelphia in February, 185S, and
nominated Millard Fillmore for presi
dent Seme of tho northern delegates
bolted the convention, and called another
convention to meet at Now York in
June. After a bitter contention between
thooo who wanted to indorse Fremont,
the candidate of the new Republican
party, and those who wanted a straight
out ticket, the latter carried the day
and pat up Banks as their candidate. Aa
he bad been a delegate to the conven
tion which nominated Fremont be
promptly telegraphed hi* declination of
the honor.
At tho senato end of the Capitol we
' possibilities of
wise enough to
many of tho future. The most
distinguished of these, of course, is John
Sherman, who has been • conspicuous
iTumHilftfit in frmr oopwwiH/ii^
Senator Allison has also been a promi
nent presidential aspirant tor eight
yean. Senator Edmonds was voted tor
by the civil service reformers and later
mugwumps in the Republican national
convention of 1884, and Senator Payne,
of Ohio, who also U about to retire to pri
vate life at an advanced age, was a con
spicuous candidate for president in I860.
Tbs new senato ia bringing ns many
new and younger men. New blood
means nsw method* and it is not im-
poatible that in the Mar future one of
tbi noil inciMlitiadttoai of Uni body.
tbit which wmtiii’wi ii long m
aayseoatoc wishes to tal* the floor, ren
dering it impoeriblo for the senate itoalf
to limit diacMtao* will be dlsoavdtdg
There are men who predict that In ate
half century the senate will ha
mocb more of a representative body toan
it U today, for then, aay three prophet*
there will berixty or seventy states te
tbs Union, each wnmsuod by tm»-
by direct vote of the
yr*um
in in mm iiiutiii «!a
You can find a number of handsome articles that are so useful that you can afford to mnke your wife and
children an appropriate Christmas Present.
pnnium -J
You have h selection from Beautiful Chamber Suits, Lounges. Office and Library Desks, Hat Backs, Side
Boards, Rooking and Easy Chairs, Plush Top Lamp Htauri*. Work and Extension Tables, Lounges, Book
Cases and a number of other articles, auy oue of which would makes most acceptable present.
iiIm Statsfl W«st%
In this lino we have Knives, Forks, Spoons, Ladles, Butter Dishes, Tea Setts, Urns, Tureens, Toilet Arti
cles, Salvors, Cake Baskets, Card Receivers, Nupkln Rings, in all styles and of tho best quality of goods,whloh
will be sold at hard times prices.
«AAM AS® tlBIAWASis
China Tea and Dinner Setts In new and handsome patterusof from 54 to 150 pieces lu the sett, Oatmeal
setts, Toilet setts. Fruit plates, Bowls, Tureens, Mugs. Hnndsome Cups. In Glassware there are beautiful
Toilet Articles, Cut Glass Tumblers, Wine Glasses, Sugar Setts, Tea Setts, Vases, Goblets, and so many otbei
pretty and useful things that the only trouble will be to deolde which is the prettiest..
Mwauf sadSfi&gfaf &«««»*<.
In great variety of Beautiful Patterns, from f-.oO up.
Wete @««I
l’retty as pictures, and as useful as pretty. , '
mtflli IAMBS* .
The pretties and largest line ever shown iu Americas. New styles and designs, that will ornameut any loom.
OHAff lltMWk
Then there are hundreds of other articles, all suitable for presents, ranging in price from 10c, up. You
Dover saw prettier patterns of Individual Salts and Peppers. Then there are Lambrequin Poles, Picture
Frames, Mirrors, Clocks, Brlc-a-Brac, and pretty and ends, to enumerate which would take up four pages of
the Recokdkk.
Call and see what we have got, aud wo will be pleased to wait upon you.
• D. B. Hlbh • -i£
Corner Jackson and Forsyth Street.
LOOK!
Shoe Consumers
We shall offer without reserve our entire stock of Shoes
Aiuoseoaio enu or
find many presidential
the past, and no one is i
aay bow many of the fut
; Wzloux,
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and Hats at a
Great .Sacrifice for
the
Thirty Days.
90 pairs Ladies Fine Dresss Button Shoes at
1.95 former price 2.25.
75 “
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2.20
2.50.
50 t‘ “
“H.S.“ “
2.70
3.25.
44 “ “
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3.15
4.00.
56 “ Hens B. Congress and Lace “ “
1.25 “ “
1.75.
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145 “
2.00.
38 “ “ “ “
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L70 " «
2.25.
48 “ “ Calf “
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2.60 “ «
3.00.
30 “ “ “
3.35
4.00.
30 « “ “ "
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4.10
4.7$.
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Remember these goods are all fresh stock and new styles!; the pro
^. ducts of the beet manufactories in the country. All other
goods have been marked down in the same propor
tion. Bring ns your cash and save monev.
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