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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
A Sermon Directed to the Great Army
of Men and Women Employed as
Clerks in the Various Occupations—
Words of Advice and Encouragement.
Text: “And u certain woman named
Lydia, Ttyatira, a seller of purple, of tho city of
which worshiped God, heard us,
whose heart the Lord opened.”—Acts xvi.,
14. “Seest thou n man diligent in his busi¬
ness? He shall stand before Kings.”
Proverbs xxii., 29.
The first passage introduces t» you
Lydia, a Christian merchantess. Her busi¬
ness is to deal in purple cloths or silks.
She is not a giggling nonentity, but a prac¬
tical woman, not ashamed to work for her
living. All the other women of Philippi
and Thvatira have been forgotten, but (rod
has made immortal In our text Lydia, the
Christian saleswoman. The other text
shows yon a man with bead and hand and
heart and foot all busy toiling on up until
he gains a princely success. “Seest thou a
man diligent in ids business? He shall
stand before kings.”
Great encouragement in these two pas¬
sages for men and women who will ho busy,
but no solace for those who are waiting for
good luck to show them, at the foot of the
rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is
folly for anybody in this world to wait for
something to turn up. It will turn down.
The law of thrift is as inexorable as the
law of the tides. Fortune, the magician,
may wave her wand in that direction until
castles and palaces come, hut she will after
a while invert the samo wand, and ail the
splendors will vanish into thin air.
There are certain styles of behavior
which lead to usefulness, honor and per¬
manent success, and there are certain
styles of behavior which lend to dust, dis¬
honor and moral default. I would like to
fire the ambition of young people. I have
no sympathy with those who would prepare
young 'oiks for life by •whittling down
their expectations. That man or woman
will be worth nothing to church or state
who begins life cowed down. The business
of Christianity human is not to quench but to di¬
rect ambition. Therefore it is that
I utter words of euoouragemeut to those
who are occupied as clerks in the stores and
shops and banking houses of the country.
They are not an exceptional class. They
belong to a great company of tons of thou¬
sands who are in this country, amid cir¬
cumstances which will either make or break
them for timend for eternity, Many of
these people have already achieved a
Christian manliness and a Christian wo¬
manliness which will be their passport to
any position. I have seen their trials. I
have watched their perplexities. There
are evils abroad which need to be hunted
down and dragged, out into the noonday
In the first place, I counsel clerks to
remember that for the most part their
clerkship is only a school from which they
are to be graduated. It takes about eight
years to get into one of the learned profes¬
sions. It takes about eight years to get to
be a merchant. Some of you will be clerks
all your lives, but the vast majority of
you are only in a transient position. After
awhile, some December day, the head men
of the firm will call you into the back
office, and they will say to you: “Now, to’ you
havo done well by us, we are going do
well by vou. We invito you to have an in¬
terest in our concern. ’ You will bow to
that, edict very gracefully. Getting into a
street ear to go home, an old comrade will
meet you and sav, “What makes you look
so happy to-night?” “Oh,” hi you will say,
“nothing, nothing.” But a few days
your name will blossom on the sign. Either
t’n the store or bank where yon are now.
or in some other store or bank, you will
take a higher position than that which you
now occupy. So I feel I am now address¬
ing people who will yet have their hand
on the world’s commerce and you will turn
it this way or that. Now clerks, but to be
bankers, importers, insurance company
directors, shippers, contractors, p,upenn-
tondents of railroads—your voice mighty
“on ’Change”—standing foremost in the
great financial and religious enterprises
of the day. Tor, though we who are in
the profession may, on the platform, plead
for the philanthropies, after all, the mer¬
chants must come forward with their mil¬
lions to sustain the movement
Be therefore patient and diligent in this
transient position. You are now where
you can learn things you can never learn
in any other place. What you consider
your disadvantages are affluent your grand oppor¬
tunity. You see an father some
day come down a prominent street with his
son who has just graduated from the uni¬
versity and establishing him in business,
putting £50,000 of capital in the store.
Well, you are envious. You say: “Ob, if I
oniy had a chance like that young man! If
I only had a father to put £50,030 in a
business for me, then I would have some
chance in the world.” Be not envious.
You have advantages over that young man
which he has not over you. As well might
I come down to the docks when a vessel is
about to sail for Valparaiso and say, “Let
me pilot this ship out to sea.” Why, I
would sink crew and cargo before I got out
of the harbor simply because I kitow noth¬
ing about pilotage. Wealthy sea captains
put their sons before the mast for the
reason that they know it is the only
place where they can learn to be suc¬
cessful sailors. ’ only drill
It is under
that people get to understand pilotage and
navigation, and I want you to understand
that it takes no more skill to conduct a ves¬
sel out of harbor and across the sea than to
steer a commercial establishment clear of
the rocks. You see every day the folly of
people going into a business they know
nothing about. A man makes a fortune in
one business, tbtyks there is another occu¬
pation more comfortable, goes into it und
sinks all. Many of the commercial estab¬
lishments of our cities are giving their
clerks a mercantile education as thorough
as Yale or Harvard or Priueeton #re giving
scientific attainments to the students ma¬
triculated. The reason there are so many
men foundering in business from year to
year is because their early mercantile edu¬
cation was neglected. Ask the men in high
commercial circles, and they will tell you
they their thank God for this severe discipline of
early clerkship. You can afford to
endure the wilderness march if it is going
to end in the vineyards and orchards of the
promised land. clerks
But you say, “Will tho womanly Time
in our stores have promotion?” will he Yes. well paid
is coming when women ns
for their toil in mercantile circles as men
are now paid for their toil. Time Is coming
when a woman will be allowed to do any¬
thing she can do well. It is only a little
while ago when women knew nothing of
telegraphy, and they were kept out of a
great many commercial circles where they
are now welcome, and the time will go in on
until the woman who at one counter a
store sells >65000 worth ot goods in a year
will get as high a salary as the man who
at the other counter of the same stove sells
$5000 worth of goods. All honor to Lydia,
the Christian saleswoman.
The second counsel I have to give to
clerks is that you seek out what aro the
lawful regulations of your establishment,
and then submit to them. Every well-
ordered house has its usages. In military
life, on ship’s deck, in commercial life,
there must be order and discipline. Those
people who do not learn how to obey will
never know how to command. I will tell
you what, young mnn will make ruin
financial and moral. It is the young man
who thrusts his thumb into his vest and
says: “Nobody shall dictate to me. Iam
my own master. I will not submit to the
regulations of this house.” Between on
establishment in which all the employes
are under thorough discipline and the
establishment In which the difl'ei'Snco employes
do ubout as they choose is the
between success and failure —between rapid
accumulation and utter bankruptcy. Do
not come to the store teu minutes after the
time. Bo there within two seconds and let
it be two seconds before instead of two sec¬
onds sitrniflennt after. to Do do not well. think Do anything not too “It’s in-
just sav,
only once.’* From the most important
transaction in commerce down to the partic¬
ular style in which you tie a string around
ft bundle obey orders. Do not get easily
disgusted. While others in the store mav
lounge or fret or complain you go with
ready tented hands and cheerful face and con¬
sounds, spirit the to your work. When the bugle
shoulders good soldier asks no questions,
but his knapsack, Alls his canteen
arid listens for the command of “March!”
Do not got the Idea that your interests
and those of your employer are antagonis¬
tic. His success will be your honor. His
embarrassment will be your dismay. Ex¬
pose none of the frailties of the lirm. Tell
no store secrets. Do not blab. Rebuff those
persons who come to rind out from clerks
what ought never to be known outside the
store. Do not be among those young men
who take on a mysterious air when some¬
thing is said against the firm that employs
them, as much ns to say, “I could tell you
something if I would, but I won’t.” Do not
be among those who imagine they can build
themselves up by pulling somebody else
down. Be not ashamed to be a subaltern.
Again, I counsel all clerks to conquer the
trials of their particular position. One
great trial for clerks is the in considered; ion
of customers. There are people who are
entirely polite everywhere else, but gruff
and dictatorial and contemptible when they
•come into a store to buy anything. There
are thousands of men ana woinoa wtio go
from store to store to price things, without
any idea of purchase. They are not satis¬
fied until every roll of goods is brought
down and they have pointed out all the real
or imaginary defects. They try on aR kinds
of kid gloves and stretch them out of shape,
and they put on all styles of
cloak and walk to the mirror to see
how they look, and then they sail out
of tlie store, saying, “1 will not take it to¬
day,” which means, “I don’t want it at all,”
leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons
and laces and cloths to .smooth out, a
thousand dollars’ worth, of goods—uot a
cent of which did that man or woman buy
or expect to the buy. Now. I call that a dis¬
honesty on part of the customer. If a
boy runs into a store and takes a roll of
cloth off the cou nter and sneaks out into
the street , you ail join in the cry pell-mell,
‘Stop thi 5 fl” When I see you go into a
store, not expecting to buy anything, but
to price things, stealing the time of the
clerk and stealing the time of his employer,
too, “Stopthief!”
If I were asked which class of persons
most needed the grace of Go 1 amid their
annoyances. I would sav. “Dry goods
clerks.” All the indignation of customers
about the high prices comes on the clerk.
For instance: A great war comes on. The
manufactories are closed. The people go
oil to battle. The price of goods runs up.
A customer comes into a store. Goods have
gone up. “How much is that worth?” “A dol¬
lar.” “A dollar! Outrageous! A dollar!” Why
who is to blame for the fact that it has got
to be a dollar? Does the indignation go
out to the manufacturers on tho banks of
the Merrimacbecau.se they have closed up?
No. Docs the indignation go out toward
the employer, who is at his country seat?
No. It comes on the clerk. He got up the
war. He levied the taxes. lie puts up the
rents. Of course, the clerk.
Then there are all the trials which come
to clerks from the treatment of inconsider¬
ate employers. There are professed Chris¬
tian men who have no more regard for their
clerks than they have for the scales on
which the sugars are weighed. A clerk is
no more than so much store furniture. No
consideration for their rights or interests.
Not one word of encouragement from sun¬
rise to sunset, nor from January to Decem¬
ber. But when anything goes wrong—a with
streak of dust on tho counter or a box
the cover off—thunder showers of scolding.
Men imperious, capricious, cranky toward
their clerks—their whole manner as much
as to say, “AU the interest I have in you is to
see what I can get out of you.” Then there
are all the trials of incompetent wages, not
in such times ns these, When if a man gets
half a salary for his services he ought
to be thankful, but I mean in prosper¬
ous times. Some of you remember when
the war broke out and all merchandise
went up, and merchants were made mil¬
lionaires in six months by the simple rise
in the value of goods. Did the clerks get
advantage of that rise? Sometimes, not
always. I saw estates gathered in those
times over which the curse of God has hung
ever since. The cry of unpaid men and
women in those stores reached the Lord of
Sabaot'j, and the indignation of God has
beon around those establishments ever since,
flashing in tho chandeliers, glowing from
the crimson upholstery, rumbling in the
long roll of the tenpin alley. Such men
’ merchandise
may build up palaces of
heaven high, but after awhile a disaster
will come along and will put one hand on
this pillar and another hand on that pillar
and throw itself forward until down will
come the whole structure, crushing the
worshipers as grapes are mashed in the
Then there are boys ruined by lack of
compensation. it has been In for how the many last twenty prosperous
stores years
that boys were given just enough money
to teach them how to steal! Some were
seized upon by the police. The vast
majority of instances were not known.
The head of the."firm asked, “Where is
George now?” “Oh, he isn't hero any
more.” A lad might better starve to death
on a blasted heath than take one farthing
from his employer. Woe be to that employer
who unnecessarily puts a temptation in a
boy’s way. There havo been great establish¬
ments in’these cities, building marble pa¬
laces, their owners dying worth millions and
millions and millions, who made a vast
amount of their estate out of the blood and
muscle and nerve of half paid clerks. Such
men as—well, I will not mention any name.
But I mean men who have gathered up vast
estates at the expense of the people “Oh,” who
were ground under their heel. say
such merchants, “if you don’t like it here,
ther go and got a better place!” As much
as to say: “I’ve got you in my grip, and I
mean to hold you. You ean't get any other
place.”
Oh, what a contrast between those men
and Christian merchants who to-day are
sympathetic with their clerks—when they
pay the salary, acting in this way: “This
salary that I give you is not all my interest
in you. You are an iinmo'rtal man; you are
an’imrnortal woman. I an. interested welfare, in
i your present and your everlasting
want you to understand that if I am a
little higher up in this store I am beside
you in Christian sympathy.” Go back for¬
ty or Illfty years to Arthur Tappen’s
store in New York, a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty. the
Every morning he brought all
clerks and the accountants and the
weighers into a room for devotion.
They sang, they prayed, they exhorted.
On Monday morning the clerks were asked
where they had attended church on tho
previous day and what the sermons were
about. It must have sounded strangely,
that voice of praise along the streets where
the devotees of Mammon were counting
their golden beads. You say, Arthur Tap-
pen failed. Yes, be was unfortunate, like a
great many good men, but I understand he
met all his obligations before ho left this
world, and know that he died in the peace
of the gospel and that he is before the
throne of God to-day—forever blessed. If
that befalling, I wish you might all fail.
There are a great many young men and
young women who want a word of encour¬
agement—Christian encouragement. One
smile of good cheer would be worth more
to them to-morrow morning in their places
of business than a present of 415,000 teu
years hence. Oh, I remember the appre¬
hension and the tremor of entering a pro-
fessioa. I remember very well tho man
who greeted me in tho ecclesiastical court
with the tip ends of the long Ungers of the
loft hand, and I remember the other tn,an
who took my hand in both of his and said:
“God bless you. my brother. You have en¬
tered a glorious profession. Be faithful to
God, and He will see you through.”
Why, I feel this minute the thrill
of that handshaking, though the man
who gave me the Christian grip
has been in heaven twenty years. There
are old men here to-day who can look back
to forlfv years ago, when some one said a
kind word to them. Now, old men, pay
back what you got then. It is a groat art
for old men to be able to encourage the
young. There are many young people inland in
our cities who have come from
counties, from the granite hills of the
north, from the savannas of the south, from
the prairies of the west. They an* here to
get their fortune. They are In boarding
houses where everybody seems to bo think¬
ing of himself. They want companionship,
and they want Christian encouragement.
Give it to them.
My word is to all clerks, Be mightier
than your temptations. A Sandwich
Islander used to think when he slew an
enemy all the strength of that enemy came
into his own right arm. And I have to tell
you that every misfortune you conquer is
so much added to your own moral power.
With omnipotence for a lever and the
throne of God for a fulcrum you can move
earth and heaven. While there are other
young men putting the cun of sin to their
lips you stoop down and drink out of the
fountains of God, and you will rise up
strong to thrash the mountains, The
ancients used to think that pearls wore
fallen raindrops, which, touching the
surface of the sen, hardened into gems,
then dropped to the bottom. I trial have have to
tell you to-day that storms of
showered imperishable pearls into many a
young man’s lap. Oh, young man, while
you have goods to sell, remember you have
a soul to save. In a hosoital a Christian
captain, wronged a few days before, get
delirious, and in the midnight hour he
snrang out on the floor of the hospital,
thinking he was in the battle, crying:
“Come on. boys! Forward! .Charge!” Ah,
he was only battling the imaginary specters of his
own brain! But ii: is no conflict
into which I call yon. young man, to-day.
There are 10,000 spiritual foes that would
Oft pture you. In the name of God, up and
at them!
After the last store has been closed, after
the last bank has go um down, after the
shuffle of the quick feet on the custom
house steps has stopped, after the long
line of merchantmen on the sea lias taken
sail of flame, after Washington and New
York and Loudon and Vienna have gone
down iuto the grave where Thebes and
Babylon bells and the Tyre lie buried, day after have the tolled great
fire of judgment
at the burning of a world—on that day all
the affairs of banking houses and stores will
come up for inspection. Oh. what an open¬
ing of account books! Side by side the
clerks and the men who employ them,
Ever y invoice m ade o ut, all the
labels of goods, a! I certificates
of stock—all lists of prices~all private
marks of the. firm now explained so every¬
body can understand them. All the maps
of cities that were never built, but in which
lots were sold—all bargains, all gougings,
all snap judgments, all false entries, all
adulteration of liquors with coppers and
strychnine. Ah mixing of teas and sugars
and coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate¬
rial, all embezzlements of trust funds.
All swindlers in coal and iron and oil arid
silver and stocks. On that day when the
cities of this world are smoking in the last
conflagration the trial will go on. and down
in an avalanche of destruction will go those
who wronged manor woman, insulted God
and defied the judgment. Oh, that will be
a great day for you, honest Christian
clerk. No getting up early, or retiring
late, no walking around with weary limbs,
but a mansion in which to live and a realm
of light and love and joy over which to
hold everlasting dominion. Hoist him up
from glory to glory and from song* to song
and from throne to throne, for while others
go down into the sea with their gold iike a
millstone hanging to their neck, this one
shall come up the heights of amethyst and
alabaster, holding in his right hand tho
pearl of great price in a sparkling, glitter¬
ing, flaming casket.
OIL AND COAL IN ALASKA.
Enough to Supply the World Said to Havo
Been Found There.
A remarkable discovery is reported several from
Alaska. Rome gold prospectors seemed be
months ago ran across what to a
lake of oil. It was led by innumerable
springs, and the surrounding mountains
were full of coal. They brought samples to
Seattle, the tests proved it to bn of as high
grade as from Pennsylvania wells.
A local company was formed and experts
sent up. They have returned on the
steamer Topeka, and their report has more
than borne out the first statements. It is
said there is enough oil and coal in the re¬
gion to supply the world. It is close to the
ocean; in fact, the experts say that the oil
oozes out into the salt water. It is said
that the Standard Oil Company has already
made an offer for the property. The owners
have filed claims on 8000 acres.
SOUTH LEADS.
Statement Showing Railway Construction
in the United States This Year.
Statistics of railway building prepared Rail¬
for the first six months in 1897 by the
way Age show the South in the lead. Out
of a total of 622.56 miles built, Louisiana
has 111 miles. In commenting on its tables,
the paper says: “It is to be noted that rail¬
way building was practically suspended and in
tho New England and Middle States,
the work was chiefly confined to the South-
cm States, where the ratio of area and
population to railway mileage still con¬
tinues large.” It is estimated that the
whole year’s record will show an aggregate
of lSOO or 2000 miles of new road.
Too Many Potatoes.
Harvesting is on in the, potato patches
along the ICaw Valley bottoms between
Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas and tho
farmers say they cannot get enough help.
On every sidetrack in this potato district
cars are loading for shipment and tho fields
are full of men, women and boys digging
and loading the tubers. Tho yield usual this
year has not been as heavy as on
account of the dry weather, but the acre¬
age is larger than last year and there wiU
be no famine.
Letters to Be Legibly Stamped.
First Assistant Postinaster-Goneral Heath
has given orders which will lessen the
amount of illegible stamping of mail by
third and fourth-class postmasters. Much
complaint has been heard from persons
unable to teii the place at which a letter
was mailed because the stamping machine
used in marking it was old and left only an
illegible mark. obliged In the future that postmasters letters
will bo to see are
stamped legibly.
Shipping Steel Kails to Indin.
Tho British steamship City of Dundee
loaded 3500 tons of steel rails at the Mary¬
land Steel works. Sparrow’s Point, for for Cal¬
cutta, British India. The order is 7003
tons, and the other 3500 tons will he loaded
in a few days in the British steamship West¬
minister.
Fennsylvania’K Alien Tax Law.
The new uiien tax law of Pennsylvania,
imposing a of tax of three has resulted cents a day on the
employers aliens, in a great
tush for “first papers” in Philadelphia.
Fall In Silver.
The Director of the Mint has re-estimated
the value of foreign silver coins, and flnds
that during the last three months the aver¬
age SiO.6-1695 price of five silver has fallen 40.61280- value from
per ounces to
I.oyc’s Sacrifice.
“How do I know that yon really
love me?” she asked. “What assur¬
ance have I that you would be willing
to make sacrifices and endure hard¬
ships for my sake?”
He looked at her in reproachful as¬
tonishment and exclaimed:
“What more can you ask? Haven’t
I for six months refrained from laying
violent hands on your little brother?”
—Washington Star.
Very I5ad Judgment.
“Poor Heulsick has lost his job in
the postoffice. ”
“You don’t say!”
“But I do say. Some crank mailed
a letter addressed to simply ‘The
Greatest Man in America,” and instead
of sending it to his chief HeicUick sent;
it to Bob Fitzsimmons.”—Indianapolis ,
Journal.
If It Only Helped a Little
It would bo worth 50 cents. One hour’s free¬
dom from the terrible irritating Itch of tetter Is
worth more than a wholo box of Tetterlne costs. I
It will cure—sure, and it's the only thing that
will cure. 50 cents at drug stores, or by mall j
from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
Mr. Rider Haggard has finished a new novel i
dealing with Boer life, entitled “The Swallow."
teething, Mrs. Winslow’s softens the Soothing Syrup reduces for Inflamma¬ children j
gums, j
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle,
Fite permanently cured. No fits or turnons-
ness after ^^r'l first day's use of Dr. Kline s Great ^ j
Dk 1 ]? iNK ^Fliihi r p e ’ i
r>. Piso , s (ure ~c for Consiiraptlon 7 7* r Is an A . No. , 1 !
Asthma medicine.—\S . K. Williams, Antioch,'
Ills., April 11,1894.
BUCKINGHAM'S 1
BYE
For the Whiskers,
Mustache, and F.yebrows.
In one preparation. Easy to
apply at home. Colors brown
or black. The Gentlemen’s®
favorite, because satisfactory. B
R. P. IIall & Co., Proprietors, Nashua. N II.
Sold by all Drujrgists.
fcOOL Borne
ml'
n
Y of Hires Rootbeer
on a sweltering hot
day tial is highly essen-
to comfort and
health. It cools the
blood, reduces your
V'° temperature, the tones
7 stomach.
W.030 •ICC j. HIRES
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•90
13 ■80
■7n Rootbeer
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should be in every
■50 || home, in
U office, in every
•4C every work-
-30 ■ 9B shop. drink, A temperance
■20 more health-
B ful than ice water,
•10 SHitnore H delightful and
0 y| satisfying than any
bio other beverage pro-
■ 20 jgi duced.
Made only hy the Charle* E.
Hires Co.. Phiin dolphin. A pack*
age makes 5 gai aious. Sold ev-
ery where.
WEAK WW MEN $
by HAGGARD’S Are fully restored SPE¬ /w? \u
CIFIC TAB LKTK. 1 box, |
$1.00; 8 boxes $2.50, by
mail. Address, ill
Hanaro's Specific Co.,
ATLANTA, GA. Alw
Full particulars sent fey
mail on application.
w E MAKE LOANS on
■ Llrt ipr* iuoiinniirr IfloUnArilh nnilPIFO lllLloltD. 1
If you have a policy In tho New York Life, i
Equitable Life Loan, or Mutual write Life giving and number would j
like to secure a us
of your policy, and we will be pleased to quote
rates. Address
TheEngiisli-AiiiBrican Building, Loan an! TrnstCo.,; I
No. 12 Equitable Atlanta, Ga.
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A resident of Shawnee, Tennessee, says ; “ I want to tell of the benefit
I received from taking
Ripans Tabules
My stomach had got into such a fix I could not digest my victuals at all;
everything I ate I threw up, with great pains in my chest and bowels. I
tried several doctors, who did me no good. At last, after spending about $ 75
friend advised ,
a I me to try Ripans Tabules. I commenced taking them and
soon could eat almost anything, and 1 had the satisfaction of knowing that
what I eat ‘ would stay with me.’ I am grateful for such a medicine, and I
hope before many years it will have place in the bouse of every family in
these United States.”
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FOR WOMEN. ’
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
EQUAL TO THE BEST
Colleges for men with every feature of i*
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A FACULTY OF 15 SPECIALISTS
From schools of international reputa¬
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Leading to degrees.
GROUP SYSTEM
With electives.
MUSIC CONSERVATORY
With course leading to dip ,- *'j.iu. Pipe
Organ, Vocal. Piano,Violin, Guitar, Banjo,Man*
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ART CONSERVATORY
Full course to diploma—all varieties.
FULL COMMERCIAL
- Course—Teacher from Eastman.
A REFINED HOME
■With every modern convenience.
CLIMATE
similar to that of Asheville.
COLLEGE frontage,IF! BUILDING, ft. deep, high,
172 ft. 4 stories
built of pressed brick, lire proof, with
every modern appliance.
Catalogue sent free on application.
Address,
ItEV.C. B. KING, President,
Charlotte, N. C.
FEW EXTRA COLLARS !C*>
Would You Like to flake Them?
\\> can offer Inducements toa few good MEN
/ anil WOMEN as well.) by which they cm
build up a permanent and profitable business
a few hours each day at first—after
while whole time Address,
the H. <*. LIN HEILMAN CO., Atlanta, Ga.
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WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts.
Paris Co., GALATIA, ILLS., NOV. 1G, 1803.
Medicine St. Louis, Mo.
Gentlemen:—Wo sold last year, COO bottles of
GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have
bought three gross already this year. In all our ex¬
perience of 14 years, in the drug business, h jtre
nevor.sold an article that gave such u ni versa! satin*
faction as your Tonic. Yours truly,
Abne y, Carr & CO.
“Success”
HK Cotton......
Seed Huiisr
and
km&m Separator.
Nearly
:-u W, doubles
the Value
of Seed to tho
Farmer.
All up-to-date dinners use them bccanse the Grow¬
ers give their patronage to such gins. Hulleria
PRACTICAL. RELIABLE and GUARANTEED.
For full information Address
SOULE STE AM FEED WORK S, Meridian, Mia»
WRITE %ee L iBeuue
FOR
in Actual Business. Railroad Fare Paid.
Positions Guaranteed. Students of botU
admitted dally. No vacations. Average
course three months.
Georgia Business College,
- MACON, GEORGIA.
ur mILiI . mnH ! lUli TU1Q 1 Hiu DnDro I HI K K In writing Aku07-2© to adver¬
tisers.