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The §n;e <£itizen. Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. SaftscriptioH Rates: One Copy oue year - - $2 00 a a ' six months - I 00 u a three months - 50 POSIT IV E L Y CAS II. CI TIZEN Volume 8. Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, August 24th, 1889. Number 1 L. C. Hayne, J.T. Newbert, President. Cashier. Planters Lean ^ {Savings Bank, K;1 Broad .St., AUGUSTA,GA, Capital—All Paid in Cash, $100,000. *VV itli Stockholders liuhilit v which guaran tees absolute safety to all depositors. This is the oldest Savings Rank in this city with an unbroken record of nearly 20 years. It transacts a general Banking 'business in all ot its branches, and is authorized to re ceive and disburse money, securities or prop erty in trust, and to act as financial agent for any person firm or corporation. Interest allowed on deposits in the Savings Department. :ipr2t»,’S9-by gS~ The Democrats of Virginia ha ve nominated Hon. Philip VcKenney for gubernatorial hon- 0 ,. ?> The main issue will run on the color line. gjff" Commissioner Henderson has returned from New York. He expresses a hope that the English cotton exchanges will ultimately he forced to grant the reduction on cotton tare. fi§T The Rev. Henry Montgom ery, a colored preacher who lives near Ponce deLeon, one of the su burbs of Atlanta, was shot by Amos Johnson, another negro. When shot the preacher was stealing corn from Johnson’s field. ££T Two Mormon emissaries were picked up by the citizens of Warren county, and given the choice of leaving the county or take a flogging then and there. They hustled, and when last seen they were scratching dirt on an air line for Utah. t£T There are 40 counties in middle Georgia, and of this number 32 have adopted the no fence law, and in each ot the remaining S counties, there are certain districts which have also adopted the law. Without an exception these coun ties report that the “no fence law” has given general satisfaction. Now that the Olive bill is killed, the Atlanta Constitution cannot understand how good and sensible men could haye been per suaded to swallow it. It helps to account for it, hy saying that the people have been deceived by scheming politicians and design ing patriots. The entire press of the state now seem to unite in this opinion. 'i .’he board of directors of the New Orleans cotton exchange have invited all other exchanges to meet in that city on the lltli of September, to consult and agree on a uniform method of adjust ment in tare on cotton and jute bagging. Their proposition will be from a certain date that all cotton be sold by net weight, allowing 5 per cent, of gross weight lor jute and O'.j lor cotton bagging. IfisT* Physicians in Savannah say that much mortality among chil dren is caused from damaged milk. Cows fed on slops do not yield pure milk, and even where they drink impure or stagnant water the milk is not fit for food. Milk bottles that are not carefully aired and well washed, breed sick germs in the milk. All milk should be boiled, and rubber stoppers and bot tles should be frequently cleaned with a solution of cooking soda. ^JET" Mr. Liyingston and his clique in the agricultural conven tion got on their time worn politi cal hobby and tried to ride the Olive bill through the convention. There was too much conservatism and intelligence among the dele gates, and the attempt resulted in failure. The farmers may for a time be led astray, but their sense is bound to come to the rescue, and second rate politicians cannot make them their cat’s paws on all occa sions. tW The Central railroad has generously appropriated .$1,900 as prizes for the counties making the best agricultural display at tin coming state fair. The E. T., Ya. A Ga. road it is said will also dupli cate this act of generosity. The Central has also tendered an excur sion to a number of delegates ap pointed by Mr. Northern at Cedar- town, who will make a general tour through the West, to see and study up the agricultural methods ot that section. The original “Old Black Joe” died a few days ago in New Jersey at a little cabin where he had lived for years. lie had the reputation of being the oldest man in the state, being 112 years old. He claimed to have been a runa way slave from Virginia. The in human treatment lie received dur ing his days of slavery must have given stamina to his constitution, and acted as a Brown-Sequard E’ixir, elso how could his days have been stretched beyond a cen tury. &W" Hon. Lewis Arnheim, a member of the legislature from Dougherty, died of consumption in Atlanta on Sunday. He was a native of Germany, and coming to America in 1808 made his home at Albany. He was altogether a self- made man, as he started life in this country both penniless and friend less. He soon developed into an excellent lawyer, and his brilliant and success!ul career in the legis lature is well known. Though a mreigner and a Jew, his career fully demonstrates that in this country a man’s birthplace and religious be lief cannot shut him out from high preferment. THE HOME OF THE CHASES. The .Testing anil Brooding Places of the Fowl on Daufuskie. j Savannah News, Aug. 12th. Visitors to Daufuskie island dur ing the summer tell of the roosting ■ and brooding places of the cranes on the island. Storks, cranes and bitterns spend the day along the estauries of the sea coast and wade and fly over the miles and miles of salt marshes. Along about 4 o’clock in the afternoon they begin to collect in the matted shrubbery and undergrowth of Daufuskie is land for the night. They fly singly, by pairs and in flocks ranging from twenty-five to fifty. A gentleman who was maroon ing on the island a few days ago said that lie was ignorant of the sea fowl, and* one evening near twilight he was returning to his quarters, and when passing near a dense thicket, he heard a great chattering, and many of the voices ounded like that of humans. Rest ing on his gun lie listened atten tively and finally come to the con clusion that it was a colony of cranes. lie threw astrick into the the thicket, when with a wild shriek and screech some 400 or GOO cranes flew out, circled about awhile and having recovered from their fright settled down again from sight, still keening up their continuous chatter and clatter. Capt. W. S. Thompson says the cranes find in the dense under growth of some parts of the island a secure and almost unapproacha ble retreat from intrusion, and they lay their eggs and rear their broods of young. Few people have the temerity to inyade the thicket to disturb eggs or young birds, for it is not only a home for the cranes, but a paradise for rat tlers and moccasins, which are the only enemies that make much headway against the cranes. It is said, however, tiiat one or two sum mers ago a daring hunter, with difficulty, forced an entrance into the thicket and carried off three barrels of eggs, for which he found a ready market in Savannah at the price of hen’s eggs, for which he sold them, but as the eggs are high ly prized by epicures he might have more than quadrupled his money if he had shipped them North. The experience was so perilous and difficult, how ever, that no one has ventured into the thickets to disturb the nests since. The young cranes are now pretty well fledged, and most of them have taken to looking out tor them selves. Before leaving the nest the parent birds bring them small fish, often from a great distance, and feed the young, and a hunter who shot a crane on the island a few days ago, said that she had nearly 200 small minnows in her pouch. As the young grow older, larger fish are caught by the parent birds which are cairied in their bills and the fish eagle watches the flight of the stork and crane, and often pur sues, forces the lightened bird to drop the prey and with unerring descent, the fish eagle catches the fish before it reaches water or the ground. The cranes go farther South on the approach of cold weather, but if the winter is an open and mild one they do not all migrate, and their tall form and snow-white plu mage, is often seen in winter though the herbage of the marshes like a picture. The crane is pursued vigorously by the hunter who finds a ready market for the plumage,as the snow- white leathers are popular with the women of fashion, and plumage dealers in New York have hunters regularly employed at a salary in the SouthFlorida and along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the peninsula, and all through the almost impene trable lagoons and bayous of the Everglades who keep up the warfare upon the birds of plumage and song all through the winter, and th!s fact has led to the agitation of the question whether a rigid law should not he passed to punish by fines and penalties all who are convicted of shooting any birds except those which are edible. Poison the fountain, and the stream is impure; poison the blood, and its taint is carried through the entire system—those innumerable veins and arteries carry disease and death instead of life and vital ity. As a result, you have head ache, scrofula, dyspepsia, kidney disease, liver complaint and gener al debility. An inactive liver means poisoned blood; constipation means poisoned blood; kidney dis order means poisoned blood. The great antidote for impure blood is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis covery. Acting directly upon the affected organs, restores them to their normal condition. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” The “Dis covery” is guaranteed to cure in all cases of disease for which it is l’ecommended, or money paid for it will be promptly refunded. A Fiend Hong. On the afternoon of the 17th, ! Walter Asbury alias Berrien, a ne gro who once lived at Milieu, at tempted to commit a rape upon a 15 year old German girl, Lula Kissinan, at Pooler, a station on the Central, ten miles above Svan- nah. The screams of the girl brought aid before the object of the negro was accomplished, but she was terribly beaten and bruised. One eye was closed, and her neck was so badly wrenched that she was unable to turn her head. The floor and furniture indicated a tierce struggle, and had it not been tor the determined resistance of the girl the object of the fiend would have been gratified. Sever al posses soon got on the trail, and in the search it was discovered that after leaving the Kissman house, he went about a quarter of a mile and entering the house of Mrs. Grayson, beat her over the head with the but end of a gun which he seized as soon as he enter ed the house. Mrs. Grayson for tunately made her escape and ran into the street. He then after raid ing the house went to the home of Mr. Walls, and was about to assault Mrs. Walls, when her husband for tunately came to her rescue. He then took to the woods. The search parties during the night found him at a low dance house only about a mile from the scene of his villiany. lie was taken before Miss Kissman and she at once identified him. He plead guilty, and begged for mercy. But the indignant people strung nim up to a tree, and his body was soon riddled with bullets. GUARD AGAINST THE STRIKE, And always have a bottle of Acker’s English Remedy in the house. You cannot tell how soon Croup may strike your little one, or a cold or cough may fasten itself upon you. One dose is a preventive and a few doses a positive cure. All tiiroat and lung troubles yield to its treat ment. A sample bottle is given you free and remedy guaranteed by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. Another Snake Story. The Athens Chronicle is coming to the Iront as the narrator of queer things, its latest is this, quoting its informant: “Last week I purchased a lot of watermelons from a country man, and sent them home. After I had eaten all the melons but one. and having an appetite that de manded more, I placed this one on the table and cut it. Imagine if you can, my surprise, when I found there was no heart to the melon, but it had a smooth opening on each side. By placing the two halves to gether, I could see the space was made by something round, I began to look around to try to discover what could have made the place, when right under my nose on the table lay a small snake. It was of light green color, about 10 inches long, and had a horned head. T never saw, or heard of one like it before. The rind of the melon was perfect, and it could not have crawl ed through it. The nearest I can guess at it is this: It must have been a very small snake when the melon was in bloom, and got in one of the blooms, and when it developed into a small melon, the snake went into it.” The Chronicle thinks the above the hugest snake yarn that it has ever heard, but prints it as a fact, on the authority of one whose ve racity it would not dare question. HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT Cannot go hand if we look on the dark side of every little obstacle. Nothing will so darken life and and make it a burden as dyspepsia. Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets will cure the worst form of dyspepsia, consti pation and indigestion, and make life a happiness and pleasure. Sold at 25 and 50 cents by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. A New Cooking Stove. Vason M. Barrett, of'Atlanta, has patented a new stove. A factory for its manufacture is to be built at once. The Barrett stove reverses the principal by which the old-fash ion stove did Its work. The fire is placed at the back and near where the stove-pipe is located. The draught and the heat has to pass en tirely around the stove before it reaches the flue. The soot is con sumed by the fire, and there is no clogging. In appearance the stove resembles one of the ordinary kind with the pipe fitted on the wrong end. All the stove dealers in the city have seen the Barrett stove,and they all pronounce it the best they have ever seen. A CHILD KILLED. Another child killed by the use of opiates given in the form of sooth ing syrup. Why mothers give their children such deadly poison is sur prising when they can relieve the child of its peculiar troubles by us ing Acker’s Baby Soother. It con tains no opium or morphine. Sold hy Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro, and E. A. Harris & Co., Midyllle. HE WILL BE RELEASED. A United suits Prisoner in Fulton County Jail. Atlanta Constitution, Aug. 17th. George W. Crawford, the young man who robbed the United States mail on the third of August, and who has since been in Fulton coun ty jail,will be allowed to die outside the prison walls. A number of charitable ladies have made a practice of visting the jail for the purpose of singing and praying with the prisoners. Yester day they went as usual, and before leaving they were told that inside the walls, somewhere, was a young man dying of consumption. When questioned, Jailer Poole said it was all true. He had in his keeping a young man who was so ill, that he had been moved to one of the upper rooms in order that his last days might be made as comfort able as possible. The sick man was Crawford, and a willing con sent was given the ladies to visit him. In a narrow room, with white washed walls, bare floor and narrow grated window they found the wreck of a man. He was lying on a prison pallet, clean but very hard, and lit tle suited to the needs of a dying man. Beside him was his food—a little water in a prison cup and some coarse bread in a pan. There was no need for prison locks and bars here. Crawford is so weak that if the doors were left wide open he would be unable to walk out unassisted. His voice is so far gone that he was unable to tell the story of his troubles. From another source, however, the ladies learned that he had been a mail carrier between Cedar Blulf and Cave Springs. His health grew so bad that he was forced to put a man in his place. On August 3d he resumed his work and while un der the influence of whisky robbed the mail of $S. The hearts of the kind ladies were touched by Crawford’s pitiful condition. He was without friends, without money and dying. They de termined to make an effort to have him die in a hospital, and expressed a willingness to do all in their power for the sick man. When Mr. O. E. Mitchell, of the United States marshal’s office, heard that friends had been found for Crawford,said tha the would do all in his power to assist the ladies in pro curing the dying man’s transfer to t : ie hospital. District Attorney Dar nell’s consent had to be procured to the change. It was not difficult to get it. Mr. Darnell said that his attention had been called to the case and he had gone to the jail to see Crawford. lie found him so sick, however, that he thought It would be cruel kindness to turn him adrift in the streets without money, to die. He said he would immedi ately ask Judge Newman’s consent to the release and attach his own signature to the document if Dr. W. A. Chapman would certify to the man’s condition. He also said that the government would pay half of Crawford’s expenses at the hospital. Dr. Chapman was even more in terested in the case than the other gentleman. He said that Craw ford might die at any minute, and that lie might live several weeks. In either case the prison was no place for him, no matter now will ing Jailer Poole might be to allevi ate Crawford’s sufferings. The pris on was not provided with the neces sities of a dying man. And the coarse food and solitude could only inten sify the death bed agony. Dr. Chapman gladly wrote a letter to Marshal Nelms stating thatCraw- ford was dying, and it would be cruelty to keep him in prison longer, therefore reccommended his trans fer to a hospital. As soon as Judge Newman signs the papers to-day, the ladies can re move Crawford to whatever hospi tal they may select. (ieoIoKlnl Survey. The corps of Engineer M. Prick- ett’s geological survey have been around Athens for several days, and are on their way to the Blue Ridge belt of Georgia and South Carolina, to make a suryey for the government. They came from Scotsville, and will go from Athens to Lawrenceyille, and thence to some point in South Carolina. It is their purpose to make a thorough survey with geological tests all along the foot of the Blue Ridge through Georgia and Carolina. Don’t be Humbugged with the foolish idea that catarrh cannot be cured! The world moves, and medical science is progressive. The proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Ca tarrh Remedy will pay $500 reward for a case of nasal catarrh, no mat ter how bad or of how long stand ing, which they cannot cure. Reme dy sold by druggists, at only 50 cents. Subscribe for The Citizen. Balloons Bear off a Baby. Chicago, Inn., Aug. 19.—At Shef field park.yesterday, an Italian ped dler of toy balloons attempted to serve two puchasers at once, and in doing so let go his string of bright colored globes. The cord got twist ed about the left arm of-two-year-old Sophie Schwab, and the buoyant rubber bubbles started heavenward, taking her along. The bystanders stood horror stricken as the bal loons swept close to a tree and the infant grasped a handful of twigs and checked her flight. A young German was ascending the tree in an instant and then crept out on a branch nearest the child. At this moment Sophie’s strength gave out 1 and the balloons,suddenly released, went again upward at least a hun dred feet, drifting then out over the lake. Gust Knoch, a sharp-shooter grabbed a repeating rifle, hurriedly jumped into a skiff with two com panions, and pulled out in lake. Knoch succeeded in pierceing sev eral of the balloons, each successful shot helping the bunch to descend. Before it finally reached the water the boat was at the spot and the lit tle Sophie did not even get her feet wet. The Women Prise 11. B. B. The suffering of women certainly awakens ♦ lie sympaty of every true philanthropist. Their best friend, however is 15. 15. B. (Bo tanic Blood Balm.) Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., for proofs. H. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes: “Three bottles of B. B. B. cured my wife of scrofula.” Mrs. It. M. Paws, Zalaba, Fla., writes: “I have never used anything to equal 15. B. B.” Mrs. C. H. Gay, Rocky Mount, X. C„ writes “Xot a dav for 15 years was I free from head ache. B. B. B. entirely relieved me, I feel like another person.” James W. Lancaster, Hawkinsville. Ga., writes: “My wife was in bad health for eight, years. Five doctors and many patent medicines had done her no good, Six bottles of B. 15. B. cured her,” Miss S. Tomlinson, Atlanta, Ga,, says: “For years I suffered with rheumatism, caused by kidney trouble and indigestion, 1 also was feeble and nervous. B. 15. B. re- lieuec me at once, although se/eral other medicines had failed. Rev. J. M. Richardson, Clarkston, Ark., writes: “.My wife suffered twelve years with rheumatism and female complaint. A lady member of my church had been cured by 15. B. B, She persuaded my wife to try it who how says there is nothing like B. B,’ B., as it quickly gave her relief.” Wlio Is the (Inner 1 In Carroll county there is a tract of land for which no owner can be found. The tract embraces ninety- four and one-half acres of land and is a fractional part of land lot No. 107 in the ninth district of the coun ty. When the land in this section was given out or sold about 1821, this strip, which is next to the Ala bama line, was left untaken. For some unexplained reason this land has remained unoccupied, and no notice has been taken of it until within the last two weeks. About a dozen people from Carroll county have been into the secretary ot state’s office asking about the land, and one of them offered Ben Davis, one of the clerks, $100 if he could find any record of its being given or sold. The record could not be found, so the secretary of state will order the sheriff to sell the land at public outcry to the highest bidder. Land in that section is worth about $10 an acre, but it is thought gold has been discovered on this strip, which accounts for the anxiety of so many to find traces of its being sold. WE CAN AND DO Guarantee Acker’s Blood Elixir for it has been fully demonstrated to the people ot the country that it is superior to all other preparations for blood diseases. It is a positive cure for syphilitic poisoning, ulcers, eruptions and pimples. It purifies the whole system and thoroughly builds up the constitution. White- head & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. May Be It’s Elixir or Death. Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—Doctors have decided that May Steele, named in recent telegrams, has blood pois ing. He will sue for $5,000 damages. Felden Weire, the first man who experimented here with the elixir, and whose wonderful cure was tel egraphed broadcast, is in bed again. Great hard lumps appear where the incisions were made, and he is delirious. Dr. Longfellow, who made the first experiments, in a published statement says he has lost faith in the elixir, and that a lo cal paper paid all expenses of his experiments for the first news. Dr. Langorgbick, the chemist, who pre pares nine-tenths of all the elixir used here, says it is dangerous if used after an hour, and rank poison after two hours. The scare amounts to a craze. There are reports that the workhouse physicians have ex perimented indiscriminately with frightful results. A DUTY TO YOURSELF. It is surprising that people will use a common ordinary pill when they can secure a valuable English one for the same money. Dr. Ack er’s English Pills are a positive cure for sickheadache and all liver troubles. They are small, sweet, easily taken and are for sale by Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro and E. A. Harris & Co., Midville. A SEtJKOES HOT EDITORIAL. He Predicts the Ultimate Supremacy oT the Blarks. Birmingham, Ala., Aug 19.—An article in the Independent, a paper at Selma, Ala., edited by a colored preacher named Bryan, has created a stir in Alabama. An editorial in the last issue abused the whites tor various injustices against the colored race, and concluded as fol lows: Were you (the whites) to leave this southland, in twenty years it would be one of the grandest sec tions of the globe. We would show you mossbaek crackers how to run a country. You would never see convicts half-starved, depriving honest working men of an honest living. It is only a matter of time when throughout this whole state affairs will be changed and I hope to your sorrow. We were never destined to always be servants, but. Tike all other races, will and must have our day. You now have yours. You have had your revolutionary and civil wars, and we here predict that at no very distant day we will have our race war, and we hope, as God intends, that we will be strong enough to wipe you out of existence and hard ly leave enough of you to tell the story. It is bound to come, and just such hot-headed cranks as the editors of some of our Democratic journals are just the right set to hasten it. It is fate. The whites in Selma are taking steps to prevent Rev. Bryan, who is now absent from the city, from ever coming back. The executive committee of the White Republi can Protective Tariff League, with headquarters at Birmingham, met here to-day and passed resolutions denouueing the editorial as incen diary and dangerous, and tender ing their moral, and if necessay their physical aid to stop such ut terances. Selma, Ala., Aug. 19.—There is no race trouble here beyond the publication of an incendiary article in the negro newpaper. This pub lication is only one of a series of articles which has been published. Much indignation has been exciied among the citizens, and a meeting was held to-night to take measures to prosecute the offenders. The city is quiet to-night. Death ot “Old Black Joe.” New York, Aug., IS.—The origi nal “Old Black Joe” died at Mount Holly. N. J., yesterday in the little cabin where he has lived for years just on the outskirts of town. Ills proper name is Joseph Queen, and he undoubtedly is the oldest man in the state, being 112 yearsold. He was born in Virginia in 1777, and the fact Is recorded in faded characters in an old family bible. “Old Joe” was a runaway slave, and came to New Jersey 1827, where he was ta ken care of by some of the residents of Mount Holly, one of whom is still living and remembes that the well along in years When he came here. For years past the town peo ple have ministered to his wants and kept him in comparative comfort, he was very patriarchal in appear ance, and his form was bent nearly doublewith the weight of years. A monument will be erected to his memory by the citizens. Swift’s Specific cured me of ugly and very painful boils or risings. I had twenty-three on my back and neck at one time and a great many on my body. I took S. S. S. and two bottles cured me. This was five years ago, and have had no boils since. W. M. Miller, Arlington, Texas. W. II. Wight, of Rogers, Ark., a prominent farmer and stock grower, says that Swift’s Specific cured him of tetter of twenty years standing. Of course in that time he had a great amount of treatment, and says the wonder is that he did not scratch the flesh from his bones. S. S. S. cured him quick and permanently. The continued use of mercury mxitures poisons the system, causes the bones to decay, and brings on mercurial rheumatism. The use of S. S. S. forces impurities from the blood, gives a good appetite and digestion, and build9 up the whole human frame. Send to Swift Spe cific Company, Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ga., for treatise on blood diseases. The Swift’s Specific company, drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., offer a re ward of one thousand dollars to any one who will find by analysis a particle of mercury, iodide of potash, or other poisonous substance in S. S. S. “That was a very brave act of yours in stopping the runaway horse young man. Here’s a $100-bill for you.” “That’s a good deal of money for me.” “Nonsense. When a man saves my life, I believe in paying him what it is worth. To remove paint—Sit on it. Equally “up In arms”—New ba- I hies. Some men never foot a bill with out kicking. Not the “ocean grayhounds”— “Old sea dogs.” The church contribution box should be nickle plate. Regular blockheads—Ornamen tal figures on the steamship’s bow. Secretary Rusk should have his forthcoming book on cattle bound in calf. Father—Well did you get your A. B. ? Son (just graduated)—“Yes and made a base lilt every time.” An Ohio chemist who has invent ed a no w fly paper calls it “The Faith Cure,” because it means sure death. A man never knows what he can do untill he tries, and then, after ward, he is often very sorry that he found out. Remorse is like a wooden leg. It may help you on your way, but you always think how much happier you would be without it. Botanist-“This, Miss Dimple is the tobacco plant.” Miss Dimple— “How interesting! And when does it begin to bear cigarettes?” Two heads are better than one. The two-headed freak in the dime museum earns a larger salary than the one-headed college professor. Jones—Why don’t you lay by something for a rainy day ? Brown —I have done so. I’m keeping the umbrella Smith loaned me a week ago. We believe it was a member of the Chicago Literary Aggregation who, being asked if he could read Greek, modestly replied: “I don’t know. I never tried.” Madeline—George, you are not actually going to kiss me ?” George —“By Jupiter, I am!” M.—“Then I’ll tell you oue thing.” G.—What is that? M.—If you do I’ll retali ate. Sophronia—“Yes an agnostic is one that never affirms, nor denies, as you say. That is to say, he doesn’t affirm that you know anything and doesn’t deny that he knows every thing.” Food, fuel and light are the great necessaries of the people, says a po litical economist. He is right, but the working classes, while admiting the necessity of food and fuel, make light of oil. A Boston paper in a fit of enter prise had two of its reporters dis guised as beggars and sent out to ascertain how that class of society fares. It is thought their success was so great that they will remain in the business. She—“George, why do they cail Philadelphia the City of Brotherly Love?” He—Because whenever a girl promises to be a sister to a fel low he buys a ticket to Philadelphia so as to have a quiet place to think the whole affair over. A young business man has asked for four weeks vacation this year. He says he will spend two weeks in the country getting rest and re creation, and two weeks in the city recovering from the rest and recre ation that he won’t get. Stranger—“Did a pedestrian pass this way a few minutes ago!” Gran ger—“No sor. I’ve been right outen this tater patch more’n a nower, and notter blamed thing has passed ’cept one solitary man and he was tramping erlong on foot.” “Papa,” asked Jones’ youngest olive branch, how do the savages tell the time of day when they haven’t either clocks or watches? My son they count it on their fingers, re plied Jones, who could not suppress a smile of pity at his offspring’s ig norance. “Mr. Benson I wuz much pained ter neah ob de suddin death ob yer wife. Did dey hoi a post motem zaminatlon.” “Dey did sah, Mr. Willis; but dey didn’t hoi it till ar- ter she died. Fool Doctah might er knowed he couldn’t sabe her life den.” Nellie (sympatheticaly)-Yoa poor dear! What a narrow escape! And what started the horse? Gussie (indignantly)—Well—you well you know, Will was just help ing me out of the buggy, and the stupid horse could not tell the dif ference between—a good night— kiss and a signal to start And he just started. Some horses havo so little—sense. Tliose of you who are weary and heavy la den with sickness and care, weighed down with the infirmities that beset the human system, can find the one thing necessary to restore you to bright buoyant health, in Sher man’s Prickly Ash Bitters.lt invigorates and strengthens the debilitated organs,aids diges tion and dispels the clouds arising from a dis eased liver.