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W H.Persona SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On* copy one year $1 50 Oa* cop.v six months, 75 One copy three months, 40 Will club Thk Herxld and Ad- tkktiser with eltbei of tho following named publications at $2 50 per annum for both papers: Atlanta Weekly Con- etttntion, Macon Weekly Telegraph. Loatsvilla Weekly Courier-Journal, Sou thern Cu tivator. Remittances can be made by P.O. Money Order, Postal Note, Registered Latter er Express. THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER. VOL. XXII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1887. NO. 31. if JOHN THE LEADER IF I HAD KNOWN. ADELAOE D. BOLL6TO>*. She lay with lilies on her pulseless breast. OF LOW prices; JUST BACK FROM NEW YORK! THE NEW GOODS ALL IN NOW. Dim, woodland lilies wet with silver dew. “Dear heart,” he said, “in life she loved them best! For her sweet sake the fragrant buds were blown, For her in April-haunted nooks they grew— * * • Oh, love,if I had known! “If I had known, when yesterday we walked Her hand in mine, along the heders fair, That ev-n then th^ while we careless talked, The shadow of a coming loss was th**re. And death’s cold hand was leading us apart— If I had known tne bud she would not wear Nor touch, lest she should mar that perfect grace, " To-day would press its dewy, golden heart Against er poor, dead face! “Last year, when April woods were all aglow, She said, ‘If it be death to tall asleep,’ And, bending, kissed the lilt*-s sweet and wet, ‘A dreamless sleep from which none awake to weep— When I lie down to that long slumber, dear, JOHN KEELY orrERs you this week STARTLING ATTRACTIONS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. DRESS GOODS! fi00 pieces brocade Dress Goods, 4c. yard. All colors in Cheese Cloths, fine quality, Gc yard, worth 10c. Beautiful gray mixtures 8c., worth 12‘^c anywhere. Very line grade Nun’s Veilings, wool filling, Wc. yard, worth 16c. 100 pieces spring shades Cashmeres yard. 150 pieces “Cable Twills” spring colors, 12»*c. yerd. Beautiful lot Spring Worsteds, and 15c. yard. Black and colored Albatros wool dress goods 16c. yard. Double width Cashmeres and grey mixtures He. yard. Choice evening Nuu’s Veilings, etc., at 20c. yard. Lovely double width Cashmere and Nun's Veilings, 25c. yard. Beautiful Cashmeres, Ionian cloths, etc., G-4, S5e. yard. Flannel suitings, Albatros Cloths, etc. All color*, 50c. yard. Camelcttes, Serges, Diagonals, Camels Hair, Albatros, Gray mixtures, ccrdcd Batistes, Checks, Gray and Brown mixtures, ‘etc., In line French goods at.50c., 75c. and II a yar ‘. Lovely goods 1 It bids fairly to disrupt the trade of this season in that particular branch. It will do It too. All the benefits arising from “this slaugh ter” of a most desirable class of goods are laid before you at JOHN KEELY’S! 180 pieces “Batiste Claire” and 35c., lovely goods! Li ue ns—20, 25, Excellent Bargains in Plain Nainsooks! Superb Values In Victoria Lawns, 6 to 50c. yard! Fine Stock BISHOP’S LAWNS, all prices White Linen Lawns, at every known price Extra fine grades, checked India Linens! Persian Lawns in every color! White and Cream Mulls In every quality! FANS. Challenge the Fans! South on Stupendous Bargains in Dotted and Figured Swiss! Llnou Di Daca Lawns 12>Jc. to 50c. yard! The largest stock of Persian Lawns in Geor gia! But the effort to enumerate fully the variety of White Goods here offered were vain! THIS NEWSPAPER Positively does not afford SUFFICIENT SPACE to enable me to dilute fully upon the details of the wonderful offerings now being made lit this department. JohnKeely’s MILLINERY Department is being made still more attractive by the daily additions which are being made to the stock. Every Novelty of the season will be found here in the greatest prolusion. A truly fcuperb Stock of Goods! Close upon the Heels of WHITE GOODS COME EMBROIDERIES All the evening shades in all grades and Ices. -H rflJI ft I Beautiful Hpring stock of Worsted Dress Goods, embracing all tho French novelties of JOHN KEELY’S LACE MITS Bent the world for their beauty anil etarapne Such offering!, have never been made in this desirable class of goods. Tho variety Isslinply Immense! Tho Stock of EBROIDERIES is MAMMOTH! “PET” DEPARTMENT. No wonder that it “BLOOMS” as it does in the way of sales, for enough CAPITAL, LA BOR and THOUGHT ha* been os ponded upon it to run a pretty good sized 60 Solid Cases or NE WHITE MUSLIN DRESS GOODS! >m tlte Laroest Auction Sale of tlie Season. PURCHASED at about one-half their value! Ithey will be sold at about that . RATIO. |You have never seen anything like them. , 15 .olid eases of the FINER grades white India Muslins In short lengths, but in perfect ondttlon. at 8.10,12.4 and 15c. a yard. Every lUillOU, at o, i.’j nuu j worth double its price. White checked Muslins at 5,6, S, 10,12& and foods not to be matched for the price. An innumerable variety of STRIPES, CHECKS And Fancy Weave wiiite India Linens at S, 10, 12} aJ and lac., I Goods never intended to sell Jfor less than louble their price! DRY GOODS STORE. $30,000 THE STYLES AND QUALITIES ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO NAME. But they brat everyth’ng ever offered in Fans in this or any other market. They range in price from 5c. up to $3.50! YOU CAN MATCH THEM NO WHERE ELSE. They aro Laid Out so you can see them at a Glance I THE STOCK IS IMMENSE! The Variety is Unsurpassed. They are selling like “HOT CAKES!” Price and Quality Will Sell A ny Quantity of Anything. LACE MITS! 1* ometliing Very Attractive I Closed Out a Lot of 1,500 Dozen Black and Colored Lace Mils. JOHN KEELY’S Stock of Black Summer Dress Goods is immense ; 100 differ ent styles of Black Dress Goods in stock, in both Jet and Blue Black, in every grade, style and effect. No possibility of you failing to find just what you need here in Black Dress Goods! LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDER WEAR. Ladies Chemise 25,35, 50,6”, 75, S5c, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and up to $2.00 each. Ladies’ Night Gowns 50, 60, 75 90c., $1 and finer grades. Ladies’ Walking Skirts 35, 40, 50,75,*1, $!.25 and finer grades. Lad ies’ M uslin Drawers 25,50c, $1, $1.50, etc ONE WORD! T his lot of Underwear ex cels for beauty of design, qual ity and finish anything ever offered in Atlanta. The unan imous verdict of the ladies is favorable. They are picked up very rapidly. $5,000 WORTH OF NEW PARASOLS. And life for you has dark and empty srown, Come to me th**n. and though I shall not hear. Lay your sad lips to mine, and whisper low (If I had known! Oh. love, If I had known’ That you would not forget. f “ Ladies’ Gingham Parasols and Sun Umbrellas. Ladies’ Alpaca Parasols and Sun Um brellas. Blaek Silk ParasGls and Sun Umbrel las at $1, $1.25. $1.35, $i.50, $1.75 and $2.10 each. Natural Sticks. Fine Black Silk Parasols, Pearl Han dles, HALF PRICE, at $1, $1.50, $1.75, and $2.00 each; positively worth double the price. I OBTAINED THEM FOR A SONG. If your voice id any whero near Mediocre You Can Get What You Want of Them. They Embrace the Best Goods Made! They Embrace Nothing Worth less than $6 per Dozen. They Run up as Hitch in Value as $1 per Dozen. 'i isses" Black Lace Mits, fine goods, 15 pair, worth (:0c. WORTH OF EMBROIDERIES In tills Stock to-day. The Bales of Embroideries in this House just now are l mining up to Irom $S00 to $1,000 a Da*! THIS MEANS SOMETHING! Hamburg Edgings and Insertions to match, 5c. to$l ^ard! Lovely Nainsook Embroideries, from the “Daiutiest” little beauties, to the widest, grandest Flouncings with inser tions to match. Mull and Swiss Embroideries in sets of fouraud live widths to mat^h. Sweetest Tttle “Bain* Sets” in Mull and Nainsook. Superb line of Skirtings from the low er^ to tho highest grades made. This auction sale was a ruin- lus measure ! The low prices Jbtained at this sale caused e a commotion in Dry foods circles. 100 different styles of Colored Embroid eries in all the widths to match, with sol id color Lawns to match all of them. Hundreds of “Allover” Embroideries, from 75c. to $5.00 a yard. The truth is that never before has such an Immense Stock, such a Surpising Va riety or such au Array of Beautiful Em- uroideries ever been laid before the Ladies of any Southern City as that now- offered at JOHN KEELY’S Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits, 20c. pair, worth 65c. Ladies’ Superfine Black and Colored Lace Mits, 25c. pair, worth 75c. Ladies’ Lace Mits 35c. pair, worth 85 anywhere. REMEMBER! Tills Is no Mere Exaggeration! It Is Fact! Ladies’ Black ind Colored Laee Mits, 40 and 50c. pair, worth $1.00. Ladies’ Light Colors—Lace Mits, the best made, 60c. worth $1.25. - WELL! TUis settles the Lace Mlt question for the Season. Notning like them lias ever been shown here before. Nothing like them will ever be shown here again. To examine them is to purchase them. Ladies’ Fine Mourning Parasols at from $2 to $5 each, Black Satin and Black Laee Parasols, half price. Colored Fine Satin Parasols, half price. BARGAINS IN PARASOLS. Any quantity of novelties in Parasols viz: in White and Cream Parasols, Fan cy Fine Black Lace Parasols, Fan cy Colored Silk Parasols, Colored Bro cade Parasols, Fancy colored Satin Par asols; in fact An Immense and Beautiful Stock PARASOLS! And at prices which fairly startle the purchaser! You will find just any kind of a Parasol ye x need here. LACE CURTAINS. A BOOM IN A Rare Piece of Western Humor, Dan De Quille, in Salt Lake Tribune.] Tom Colette, with two friends whom I shall christen Joe and Jake was making a slow aud painful jour uey Itom Pine Grove. They camped oue afternoon near some hot springs not far from Walker lake. Discover ing a large hole or pool that was full of cold water and convenient to one of the hottest springs, they turned the hot water, as it flowed out of the spring, into the pool until the hot and cold water blended made exactly the right temperature for a bath. This done, they plunged in and enjoyed the delicious water as only those can who have ttaveled some days over dusty alkali trails in hot weather. When supper was over and they had lighted tbeir pipes the theme of con versation for a long time, as they smoked, was the delightsome bath they had taken, and the wonderful sense of refreshment it bad brought them. Full of the joy of it, they spread their blankets on a grassy spot beneath some willows, a few yards distaut from the spring, and fell asleep. Tom was up with the dawn. Recol lections of bis flue bath of the previ ous evening were still fresh in mind So, bounding up from his blankets with a skip and a jump he plunged in to the pool to his middle. With i groan of agony he sprang out again with the agility of a wildcat. The ho: water had been running all night. Hours before dawn thecool-waterpool had been rendered almost a- hot as that of the hot spriDg itself. Brief as had been the period between his en try and his exit, Tom’s lair skin was exchanged to the color of a bo-led loh s’er. He was soon in a terrible state, as the skin was almost suffii-ieiiiix cooked to peel off. As he asserted, h- “was as tender as a young pullet thai had been cooked two hours." Wit! infinite care he drew on his panla loons and boots, though be felt as though the cooked flesh were peeling ■ •ft iu strips wherever his clothing touched him. Foicing back the tears of anguish that were welling out of his eyes Tom crept back to camp. Though it wasa most difficult thing t no, he put on his old-time frank stnih as he neared the sleeping place at the willows. Jake had awakened and wa: sitting on his blankets, gaping aud stretching. Seeing Tom approach, Jake asked where he had been—if he had been out looking after the ponies. Tom re plied that be had so enjoyed Lis bath ••t the evening before, and had been so much benefited by it, that he could not think of breaking up camp without repealing " Lace Curtains and Curtain Laces. Lovely tot Scrim goods, 124 and J5c. yard, half price. Beautiful printed goods 15c., worth 25. Madras Curtain Superb “Etamine” Lace goods, 20, 25, and 35c. yard, cheap. l.Ot 0 pairs Laee Curtains 90c., $1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 pair. Better grade goods away up to fine grades. Nottingham Curtain Laces at from 10 to 35c- yard. SPRING WRAPS! John Keely’s SHOE DE PARTMENT is one of the marvels of the trade to-day! 1 he run of patronage is im mense, but the stock is the largest and the best ever placed before the Atlanta public! No Shoddy Goods. No Trash. But the best “Custom Made” Goods, every pair of which is warranted! 1,500 Ladles Caslimere Scarfs $1 eacQ; beautiful tMngs. 1,000 fine Embroidered Scarfs at from $1.50 to $7 each! AU colors, various styh s, etc. A fine line of ladies’ Cashmeie Shawls, in every grace of goods at p« ices rang ing from fl.50 to $10 each, in black, light blue, white, cream, cardinal, pink, etc- SILKS! Black Silks at from 50, 60. 75. S5J90, $1, $1.15, $1.25, $1.35, $1,50, $1.65, $1.75 and up to finest grades of Silks made. Every Black Silk above 90c. vard is GUARANTEED! No such a variety of Black Silk in Georgia! A fine line of Summer Silks, Solid Color Gros Grain Silrs, Black aud Col ored Satins. Rhadames, etc., all colors and grades of quality. Thousands ol Novelties is Trimming Silks, Satins aud Velvets. Ah new. All fresh. “Jake, ’ said he, “It’s just lovely!" Jake did not wait to hear more. Bouncing up from his blankets he rushed away toward the pool. As swiftly as he could move, considering the tender condition of hi- -kiu, Tom followed, and dodging behind aeon venient clump of willows, kepi covert watch. Jake threw off the lew duds in which he bad slept, bounced inti' ■ he pool, uttered a yell of mingled n guish and rage, then clawed his wa> out upon the green turf with theceler- ity of an adder. As soon as be stood erect be began making swift applica tions of bis open hands to various parts of his body to arrest the paiD, each particular square inch of his side seeming to hurt worse than the other. All this time be was swearing a blue streak. Louder aud louder rose hi- voiee, as light begau to break upon his mind, when Tom stepped out from hi- hiding place, eryiug: “Hush up! Would you bawl like a bull calf aud give us away, when that other sou ot a gun up in the camp is not yet cook ed? You and I have had our dose. Man,wemustconk him orweshall nev- ear the last of it!" Soothed by this, Jake carefully drew on bis trousers and shirt and the pair leisurely pro ceeded to camp. By this time Joe had commenced to rouse up. Seeing Tom and Jake ap proaching he asked if they had “fuuud the stock—the ponies?” “Pouies, no,” said Tom, “we haven’t been looking for the ponies. We have been takiug a bath. Do you thiDk,”eaid be, as be stood holdiDg his pantaloons away from the rear ot his persou, “do you think we’d break camp without one more magnificent swim? Not much.” At tlii Joe sprang up crying: “Not much, you bet!” and dashed away to ward the little pond. As Joe disap peared behind the willows Tom sprang for his pistol and took off all the caps He and Jake then secured their own revolvers, Tom crying: “G t your pistol, Jake—quick! There’ll be bus iness when Joe conies back!” In about two minutesJoe did come back He washowliugand cursing furiously, and, all naked as he was, ueverstopped running until be got his six-shooter in his hand. “Drop it,” said Tom, "‘Ihave a dead bead on you ana so has Jake. Be sides, I took all the caps off yourguri.” The difficulty was amicably settled as soon as Jake and Tom had related their experience. The trio took tbeii breakfast standing that morning and —to spare the pooi-s—they did not ride much for the succeeding three days. It can be achanning and model in fant when no one is around, hut when visitors are present it can exhibit more bad temper than both of its parents together. I can brighten up a house better than ail the furniture ever made; make sweeter music than the finest orches tra orgauized; fill a larger place in its parents’ breasts than they knew they had, ana when it goes away it can cause a greater vacancy and leave a greater blank than all the rest of the world put together. Bill Nye’s Answer to an Eager Cor respondent. Rodney L. Patigboru, of Tuscon, A. T., writes as follows: “I dearly love a young lady here who a year ago led me to believe that she wa» not displeased with me. “I know that she is my superior in many ways, as her folks keep a girl, whereas my mother does her own work; but need that cause us to drift apart? “I think that where two fond hearts throb in unison, and » here a young person of my sex earnestly and devot edly loves a young person of a diamet rically different sex, and he des’re- her to be his’n and would not mind being her’n, ought our difference in station to make any difference in our destiny? -‘What do you think of my penman- ship?” It is difficult to answer you, Rod ney, without being flippant, hut I know by the lone of your letter that you do not feel flippant and you would resent it if I were to treat your query in that way,so I will try to talk to you the same as I would discuss the matter if it were my own. Socially we are always at war, Rod ney. If your mother had kept a girl your own father rnit ht have kicked you into a shapeless mass, cursed you and disinherited you for loving a young thing whose mother did not keep a girl, or you might have fallen in love with oDe whose parents kept two girls. I know of a case where a young man named Randall, whose parents were plain people, his father having been in the well digging and pump industry, aspired to the hand of a young woman whose bands had never yet been immersed in dishwater. Her parents also maintained a cot tage organ and a Brewster side-bar buggy with red running gear. One day he was ridiDg on the same train with her and heard her ex. ress a desire for a bunch of beautiful peri winkles that grew In beauty on the railroad right-of-way, regardless of and entirely oblivious 'to the interstate commerce bill. The train only halted at that point for an instant in order that a man »’ilh a sledge hammer and a dash of aron his nose might pound on the •ar wheels in a desultory kind of way Mr. Randall was anxious to procure the entire group of periwinkles aud so he delayed too long. In jumping ou the platform, ham pered as he was by the bouquet, he missed his footing and also oue of his legs. I will not go into details, Rodney, for it would be useless ar.d vain Suffice it to say that bis great sacri fice availed him naught. The periwinkles for which he swap ped his fair young leg on that bright and balmy spring day have long since faded, and as Mr. Randall in the gloaming sadly unbuckles his white >ak leg and hangs it at the bead of his lonely bed, he may be heard to ejaeu late something in regard to the folly of striving to leap across a broad social hasm. But you are still young, Rodney, and you might yet win the object of vour love by winnings place upon the social plane equal to that of the party yon refer to. Your penmanship is good. It is highly ornamental and reminds me of a woven wire mattress. The red ink you use also enhances the effulgence >f vnurchirography a good deal. Yon would succeed in a large count- ng house I tbiuk. Yon could prop the door open with yourself iu sum mertime, and in winter you could be a railroad cut rate sandwich. All Light There. M. L. Rayne iu the Detroit Free Press.] Children are happy counselors! They are to our bard, practical, ev ery-day lives wbat the stars are to the heavens, or the flowers and birds to the earth. Ah! what wou'd the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread fhe desert behind us j than the dark belore. There is a family in this city who are dependent at this moment npou a little child for ail the present suDsbihe of their lives. A fews weeks ago the young wife and mother was stricken down to die. It was so sudden, so dreadful when the grave family physician called them together iu the parlor, and in bis solemn professional way intimated to them the truth—there was no hope! Then the question arose among them, who would tell her? Not thedoetor! It would be cruel to let the man of science go to their dear one on such an errand Not the aged mother, who was to be left childless aud aloue! Nor the ynuug husband, who was walking the floor with clenched bands and rebellious heart. No—there was only ope other, and at this moment he looked up from the book he had been playiug with un noticed by them all ana asked giave- ly: “Is my mamma doin’ to die?” Then, without wailing for an an swer. he sped from the room and up stairs as fast as his little feet would carry him. Friends aDd neighbors were watch ing by the sick woman. They son- deritigly noticed the pale face of the child as he climbed on tbe bed aud laid his small head on his mother’s pillow. “Mamma,” he asked in sweet, ca ressing tones, “is you ’fraid to die?” Tbe mother looked at him with swift intelligence. Perhaps she had been thinking of this. “Who—told—you—Charlie?” she asked faintly. “Doctor an’ pppa an’ gamma—ev erybody,” be whispered. "‘Mamma, dear Title mamma, doan’ be ’fraid to die,’ill you?” “No, Charlie,” said the young moth er afier oue supreme pang of grief; “no, mamma won’t be afraid!” “Jus’ shut your eyes in e’ dark, mamma; keep hold my hand—an’ when you open ’em, mamma, it’ll be all light there.” WbeD the family gathered awe stricken at the bedside, Charlie held up bis little band. “Hu s-h! My mamma doan to sleep. Her wou’t wake up here any more!” Aud so it proved. There was no heartrending farewell, no agony oi parting, for when the young mother woke she had passed beyond, and as baby Charley said : ‘‘It was ail iighi ibeie!” ADVERTISING RATES. One square 1 tnon tb, - - - • - $ 2 0# One square 3 months, ----- 350 One square 6 mi nths. - - - - - 6 00 One square 12 inontbs, ----- 10 JO Quarter coluii n I month, - - - 5 0* Quarter column 3 months, - - - 12 0® Quarter column 12 months, - - - 30 0® Half column 1 month, ----- 7 SO naif column 3 months, - - - - 2f (J Half column 12 months, - - - - 60 00 One column 1 month, ----- 10 00 One column 3 months, - - - - 25 00 One column 12 months, - - - - 100 00 tbe money to the bank. He had bia lawyer draw up a will in which he bo- qUeaihed the sum of $100,000 to tbo bank, being the sum borrowed on aucb date, less $2,400, being tbe amount charged for two years’ enforced idle* ness at $100 a month. Life Insurance. No man, uoless he is able to leave bis family provided for, can afford to ignore lileiosurauce. There are tbous* auds ol widows and children that would to-day be in destitution but for the thoughtful care of tbe husband aud father. We can all call to mind men who receive handsome salaries, and whose families have every com* fort and many luxuries. They spend all that is made aud seem never to thi uk of the consequences should death stalk m and remove tbe head of tbe family. Whatau awful thing to be arrested iu the midst of activity, tbe children’s > ducaliuu stopped, the dear wife’s Comforts curtailed, the whole aspect of tbe world for your family changed! And yet there are many sensible men to whom these thoughts never come, especially if they are in the enjoyment of good health. But, ah! how little warning we sometimes have of the approach of death. It ia like a thief iu the night. There are few people who would be willing to have their houses uuinsured. They would be restless, almost demented, roe fear of a tire, aud yet the human body with its wonderful mechanism is more liable to perish than a house is to be cousumed. The wife should urge it upon her husband to insure his life, auu to keep up his policies, unless a fortune comes to him which would render such a course useless. Not tba least important pari of the business is to deal with au established and relia* ole agency. Avoid these companies of “mushroom” growth, who prom ise everything anu perform nothing. BESIDES The best Li«<■ of Solid Color and Black Plain Silk Velvets and Velveteens ever shown here. AT JOHN KEELY’S, i8,60,62 AND 64 WHITEHALL AND 8 AND 10 HUNTER STREETS, ATLANTA GA, Ten Things a Baby Can Do. It can beat auy alarm clock ever in vented, waking a family up in the morning. Give it a fair show and it can smash more dishes than the most iudustri >us servant girl in the country. It can fall down oftener and with less provocation than the most expert tumbler in the circus ring. It caD make more geuuine fuss over a simple bra.-s pin than its mother wonlu over a broken back. It can choke i'self black in the face with greater ease than the most ac complished wretch that was ever ex- | edited. It can keep a family in a constant j turmoil from morning till night and night till morning without once vary- : ing its tune. It can be relied upon to sleep peace- , fully ail d»y when its father ia down j town aud cry persistently all night when he is particularly sleepy, i It may be tbe nanghtiesr, dirtiest, ugliest, most fretful baby iu all the world, but you can never make its mother believe it, aud you’d better not tty. Blaine's Southern Agents. A New York IForWn special from Atlanta, dated the6ih inst., says: For mie lime strange rumors have been current in political centres in the Souih of movements which would give an entirely new phase to the pres ent party alignments. Prominent Republican leaders have been visiting each other and making trips to the North, where they met men still high er in party leadership. Several months ago one of the best known Republican leaders of this sec tion made an alleged Western trip. Five days later a letter was received bya frieud,datedAugu8ta, Me., which indicated that tbe politician had Changed his course. The party wh received tbe letter inadvertently al lowed it to be seen. Said be: “It would not do for our scheme to be known yet, but we intend to throw ihe Democrats by a move which will leave them breathless. Jim Blaine is the man who has the dash to make it -ucce»sful. If we get it into 6hape New York may go to the winds, for wr will carry the general election in spite of her.” In vaiu was be pressed for further explanation. He would only say, “Wait aud \ ou will see.” It was just after this that Mr. Sliermau made his Southern trip, tarryiDg w ith Maboue on his way dow n and complimenting Governor Taylor, of Teuuessee, on his way back. Theu, as a further prepa- • atom for the events to come, W. D. Kelley, the Pennsylvania Congress man, has been spending tbe w inter iu Alabama. He was there when Con gress opened, and he hastened back when Congress adjourned. Hisspeech in Rome, Ga., oue week ago, was a clever appeal to a Democratic audi ence. Distinguished Republicans went thither to bear him, and a kind of political iove-feaat was held. Today the correspondent of the World had a long conversation with a Republican of wide reoutation, who is invited to tbe national consulta tions. Iu th: t conversation the wboie scheme of political manoeuvreing in tbe South was made plain. He said: “It has been slowly dawning upon tbe Republican leaders that elections can no longer he carried on sectional issues. It is hardly possible that we could rally tbe Irish as we did iu the last campaign. Now the plan is to strike for the South, Leading South ern Republicans have taken to tbe idea and insist that in this move lies the salvation of the Republican party. The whites are already divided upon the prohibition issue. There are Democrats in Georgia, for instance, who despise Senator Colquitt because he is a prohibitionist. There are oth ers who loathe Senator Brown because he is an anii-probibiti»uist. In Texas you have right now an example of the divisions which this question has caused. Then the tariff question has pushed its way into Southern politics. The northern districts of Alabama, four districts in Georgia, two districts in Snath Carolina, and a fighting chance for all in Tennessee and North Carolina, are claimed by the tariff ad- ▼oeateeuuder tbewr witivf t&ipp.” The Ministerial Candidate. Lucy McCann* in Harper’s Magazine.! I was traveling up the Ohio river oue day last fall on the packet “Fai ry.” The day was very cold. A par ty <>f us were sitting around the stove iu the lower cabin whilst the boat landed at some little wayside stopping place to take ou freight aud passen gers. Presently a tall, gaunt old man, ev idently a new arrival, came up, with bis carpet bag in baud, which he de posited between his kuees as he sat down aud spread out his long knotty fingers before the door of the stove to warm them. Casting his keeu gray eyes around hint as he did so, he suddenly espied the thin, cadaverous looking young fellow dressed ail in black broadcloth, who was sitting uext to me in the cir cle around the stove. “Why, howdy, Lemmel?” the old man said, iD tbe heartiest way. hardly knowed yer. How’s the folks?” “P-pr-pr-pretty w-w-well, M-M-Mr. J-J J-ihnson,” replied tbeyoung man. stuttering miserably, as be admitted to tbe hearty hand-shaking which the ■>ld man bad reached across several of us to effect. “Fiuished yer schoolin’ yeti” in quired he. “Y-y-yes, s-s-s-sir,” replied the young man, with difficulty. “Waal, what bizoess air ye now?” asked the old fellow, eyeing the dress of his young friend rather curiously. “I-I-I I'm st Bt-st-studying f,r the m-m-ministry.” •‘Phew—ee!” exclaimed the old man, iD a long whistle of intense sur prise. “Waal, now, Lemmel,” he he said, after a while, “that’s ab >ui the last line uv bizness I'd 'a ever thought uv attemptin’ to tackle ef I’d a heeD in yore place. What ever put it into yore head?” “I-I-I had a v-ve-very st-st-strong ea-ca-cell, M-Mr. Jo-Jo-Jo Johnson,” explained the young min, with a slight flush on his pale weak face. “You might’a had a dozen calls,” returned the old man, dryly; “but ef I'd a-been you I’d be switched ef I’d 'a come.” An “audible smile” ran .around the circle at the old maD’s wit,' which he, however, never noticed. Hi- ? -oung friend made do response to his ast suggestion, whilst be contiuued, in a dry, anxious tone: “It beats me, Lemmel, to know how you ’low, even concedin’ the call, to git through with the rest of the biz- uess.” “Th-th-tbe L-L-Lord win j, p put the w-w-words into m-niy m-m- mouth,” gasped the poor young fel low, stuttering worse than ever under tbe keen gray eyes of the old man. “He’ll have to do more ’an that, sonny,” said the old man, pityingly. “After He puts ’em thar, blamed el He won’t bev to send somebody else along to pull ’em out.” The young ministerial candidate re tired to his state room, and was seen no more. Simple But Dishonest. Memphis Avalanche.] Oneof thesiuiplestthingsever heard of, and which was still as neat as it was simple, was the breach of trust of a Philadelphia messenger. He re ceived a package of $100,000, aDd hid it safely away. He then went back to the batiK which had employed him anti told the officers that be was tired of being poor, and that he had deter mined louse the money they had giv en him to carry to a certain other bank. At first it was thought that he was drunk, then -razy, then j»kiug. Bnt he simply advised tbe officers to have him arrested, as be intended to keep and use the money in question. The principal he promised eventually to return. Tbe officers tried to persuade him, bu* without avail. He was finally ar rested, but his only crime was nreacb of trust- His declared intention of eventually returning the money made it almost iir.po-sible to bring hi- crime uDder tbe head of any indictable of fense. He was finally tried for breach of trust and came off with two years i iu tho penitentiary. This occurred about fifteen years ago. The perpetra tor still lives in Philadelphia and is •n favorable eircumstanc- s, and talks freely about bis little escapade. HvitW * JttiVWl* tV ISIS® The Dead Editor. Western Exchanged He is gone. He sleeps that long, last sleep from which there is no awakening iu this life. His ears will uever beakeu agatu to tbe musical voice of tbe "devil” when he yells for “copy.” No more will ibatgoodright hand g r «-p tbe facile shears. No more will these mellow eyes look pleading y over the bar. No more will those honest lips claim 1,500 cir culation for The Tooter. He is gone. His place iu the sanctum is vacant. Hia place at tbe free luuch counter is tilleu by another. The way-worn and weary shears rust iu idleness. The paste sours in the pot and the cock roaches break through to devour it. The well worn railroad pass rests in peace. The country exchange lies in its wrapper, (it also lies when not in us wrapper.) The delinquent subscri ber .receives uo nroro duus. The big pumpkin rots iu the sactum and the larmer who brought it gets no puff. The Tooter is iu mourning. Its cred itors also luuuru. Tbe column rules are inverted. Tbe office towel is tied ou the door. The “devil” sleeps sweetly iu tbe corner, while the fore- mau is on a drunk and the tramp printer steals the rules aud the sticks aud goes on bis way. The faithful gallou jug sits under the table in el- leut meditation. It is empty, showing that iu tbe last moments the editor never forgot his duty. The little clock ticks on, but the editor will go ■ >n tick uever again. His sand of life aud whiskey rau out at the same time. A Woman’s Way. Detroit Free Press.] An ageut with tl r e or four r tgs in a strap had called at a bouse on Na tional avenue and rung tbe bell with out arousing anybody, when a woman called to bun trout across the street: “No use ringing there.” “Lady goue?” “They are too poor to buy rugs.” He was about to pass on, when a chamber window was raised, and a woman stuck her head out and said: “I’ll show ’em whether we are or not! I think a carpenter's wife is just as good as a dairyman's wife, and has just as much r oney for flue things. Which is your best rug?” “This one, ma’am—for $8.” “Hang it ou the fence, where every body can see it. Now take this $20 bill and cull at all the houses around here aud ask for change. You won’tgetit, out 1 have the right amount to hand you wlieu you. come back. If yon uappeu to say to 'em as you go around that this is tne first $8 rug you’ve sold within a mile ot here I’ll give yon a piece of pie and a glass of milk.” Do you kuow that people like to be humbugged ?” asked a physician of a Philadelphia Call reporter. "It's a tact, anu a large peicentage of the practice of the most successful doctors is pure humbuggery. A great maDy people are tilled with imaginary aches and pains. They’ve had them for jears in their imagination, and grown o regard them with a tenacious affec tion. Wh n they consult a physician about them they do not like to have the matter poon poohed. They do not wish to he told t here is notbiDg the matter with tin i. They want to be told they are sic;; to be sympathized with, aud to he prescribed for. They ibeb pay the fee w iluugly. Rome of be best and most persistent patients ! have are as sound as a dollar. I listen to a recital of their symp toms right along, prescribe some harmless as well as useless dose and charge it iu tny little hill. It is to this little diplomacy of mine that I at tribute ujucu of my success.” A new feature iu the sociables in some of tbe adjoining towDB is tbe hugging match. A man is blindfold ed and placed iu a chair, and a wo man is then led up to him whom he hugs, paying litteen cents for the per formance. At a party given recently, a man paid hi- tiiteen cents and hug ged the woman as long as be cared to, but when the handkerchief was re moved from his eyes, he discovered that be bad been hugging his own wife. He was the maddest man ever seen, denounced the whole thing a swindle, and demanded his fifteen cents. Another one had a man palm ed off ou him who had been rigged, out iu female apparel, and the hugger got mad and leu tbe party abruptly, •re nouncing all as frauds and hum bugs. “I’ve struck It rich out West,” said a passenger from Kansas City, “and am going hack Bast to my folks and tell ’em «bat a success I’ve made. Let’s see, it’s now about three yean since I went West without a dollar to my name, and now I can swing a cool bundred.thousaod. Thai’s pretty good, aiu’t it?” “Yen, good euougb. Mining?” “No’p.” “Cat tie?” “Nawp.” “Ksnsae City real estate?” “Not any.” “Ah! Member of Legislature?” “No, sirree.” “What, then?” “Running a drug store in a red hot prohibition town in Kansas.” The buckwheat cake when crushed aud battered it sure to rise again. .W. :• ... - ■ . s : .