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VOL. XXII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1887.
NO. 35.
LARGEST STORE IN ^HE SOUTH,
CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON & CO.,
IMPORTERS
AND HEADQUARTEllS FOR
DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY, SHOES AND DRESS MAKING.
SILKS 1 all th* New Weave*, Color* and Hhades, Including the finest line of Black 811k in the South.
VELVETS 1 £H^Lyon* French Dress Velvet*, a specialty in black and color*. Fall stock on hand.
TRIMMINGS | n French novelties. We cany the largest and most elegant line* in the South.
WOOLENS 1 Si^Kverythlng New, Stylish aud Pretty. Our stock represent* all flrat-class mills in America and Europe.
WHITE GOODS! £^*French Weaves a specialty. We have certainly the largest stock In the country.
EMBROIDERIES! EIBF-Imported from 8t. Gaul, Switzerland, all widths for full suit*. Seothem.
TABLE LINENS I £9*From Germany, France and Ireland, with Napkin*, D'Oyle* and Tray Cloths.
WASH GOODS! All kinds, all styles, all prices and all colors. In Immense quantities.
CASSiMERESI t>B~v reneb aud English suitings, with •» lull and complete line of Boy Cauimeres.
HOSIERY 1 £M^And Gloves In all the new styles and colors. See this elegant variety.
MILLINERY I Bonnets and Hats made only to order—W* sell no parent goods.
DRESS MAKING ! 19*Equal to Paris In Fits. Myle and Design. Node superior. Few equal.
CARPETS! CARPETS! CARPETS!
In Carpets we lead the van. We Import »llr*»ct from the mills, and use cash In discounting every bill—saving to the trade from 20
to V» per cent, beside* giving new. clean **nd stylish goods. We have no middle man to divide with, but pay our duties on imported goods
here at our custom bouse, and as we are the only Importers in our line, we know that we can give frodier goods with later styles and design*
than any other Southern Arms who deal exclusively with second and third hands. In fact, we have virtually no competition in the South, and
farther we guarantee price* equal to New York or any other Northern or Eastern city.
WE ARE THE SOLE AGENTS FOR
The celebrated Crossley factory of Hartford, England, and have a full and complete stock of Velvets, Wiltons and Brussels received for the
•prlng trade, all with rugs, poitiere goods e*c., to match.
FOR SHOES, SLIPPERS AND BOOTS
Don’t forget that we have every pair made to order In *11 lengths and widths for Ladies, Gentlemen, Bovs, Girl* and Children.
Now don’t forget our place and remember that the prices as well as the quality are guaranteed on everything we sell. Samples of Dre*s
Good* *ent on application.
Agent for Butteriok’* Patterns. CHAMBERLIN, JOHNSON A CO., Importers,
G6 and 08 Whitehall, and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 Hunter St*., Atlanta, Ga.
CAPRICE.
FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS.
A summer night with perfumed breath.
' 'old 'ove-tale* to the listening trees,
And hedge-row buds. In gni«*» of death,
l -ay dreaming of the lips of bees.
While wheeling, circling, faint and for,
A fire-fly showed its shimmering spark,
And. like an evanescent star.
Painted Us life along the dark.
And I. who wandered in the lane.
Grew envlou* of a thing so free.
And sighed pr.ed and s»ghed again.
The “Old South."
: New York Time. ]
i Lieut. Gen. D. H. Rill delivered an
! address on the “Old South’’ before the
; Confederate Society, at Ford’s Opera
| Hous» in Baltimore, one night last
; week. The bouse was crowded, and
i the applause was hearty and frequent.
I The concluding portion of the address
; was upon the effects of the war, and
! wa« as follows:
i “I would place first of those the
general diffusion of love for the Con
j stitutinn of the United S'ates. Time
| was when the South-bating philan
j tbropists denounced it aa ‘a covenant
■ with death and a league with hell,
i gotten up by the slave power in the
But in 1861 the
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow
us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that there
must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did
not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped
in what few auction houses there are in New York; neither did
we have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped
out to us as a sample lot, for we don't do things by halves
But here is the trouble for this week:
An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS.
45-inch wide Lace Flouncing and all over and narrow to
match.
New Nottingham for yokes.
Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have
ever shown.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
.New White and Cream Mits.
An immense variety of white fans.
A whole car-load of Tabic Linens, and we lead the pro
cession on low prices.
It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhere
to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house can
touch us on low prices.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
Our lace and Swiss Embroideries are superb. We are
lower than ever, owing to “CUT RATES.”
A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles,
formerly sold at $2 to $5, and we are closing them at $1 for
choice.
We beat the State on handsome Ruchings.
Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs.
SHOES.
We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De
partment, which shows for itself how our trade runs. We out
sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and are prepared to
prove what we say. Shoes for everybody and lower than any
body.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
NOW LOOK OUT!
OR YOU WILL
MISS A BARGAIN.
I. P. BRADLEY
Has the goods aud they must be sold, for he wants the money. A splendid line of
Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes. Hats and Heavy Groceries.
Cash or credit, ob which the very lowest lieu res are marked. Tor many goods for
the season. They must be sold at some price.
A BIG LOT OF FRESH
SPRING WHITE AND STRAW GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY.
A SPECIAL LINE OF
CLOTHING,
Guaranteeing Fit and QnaUty, on which I can Save Yon Money. Come and
aee me and you wiU be ante to bay.
Mr. t>. P: Woodroof ia with me and wiU welcome bia Mends.
L P. BRADLEY.
CLOCKS!
Buy a Clock from me
With a guarantee
That insures your Clock,
Against a stop.
I live in your town,
Where I may be found
'Most every day,
Doing what I say.
(Tills Is not spring poetry.)
My love came trippinr down the lane;
The boughs bent low to t<*uch her head;
The cWvcr never felt the pain
Of death beneath so light a tread;
And ere I knew, the fire-fly’s wing*
Were tangled in her burnished hair,
The tremulous, fair glimmerings
Illumining » face more fair.
Then I. who felt my heart beat wild
The love-light in her eyes to see.
Bee *me capricious a* a child,
And prayed:^-Sweet Heaveu, grant to me | j Dt erests of slavery.
. j philanthropists experienced a change
Bill Nye in Central Park. ; heart and ever since have talked of
New York World.] the Cons'jtution aa that ‘sacred in
But the most curious feature aboat ; strument.’ that ‘bulwark of free
the exhibition afternoon spin In the dnm,’ that ‘palladium of liberty,
paras i« the great prevalence ofj ete. I am glad of-their conversion
mourning symbols. Almost, if not suspiciously sudden, though it was
quite, one-third of the carriages one
meets is decorated with black in every
poasitile way, till sometimes it looks
like a runaway funeral procession.
Why people should come to Central
Park to advertise their woe by memos
of long black mourning tassels attbeir
horses’ beads and a draped drivtr
w ith broad bands of bombazine con
cealing the russet tops of his boots,
sometimes dressed in black through
out, is more thau I can understand.
The honest, earoest and genuine af-
fectiou of a good woman for a worthy
man, alive or dead, is too sacred to
and I hope they will never fall from
grace. As a stalwart Presbyterian
I believe in the preservation of ‘he
saints.
‘‘The philanthropists used to tell of
the cruelty and brutality of slave
holders to tbeir slaves, and sa'.d that
they had reduced the negroes to the
lowest state of Ignorance, barbarism
aud bestiality. But in the reconstruc
lion period the philanthropists under
went a radical change of views, and
discovered that these negroes, whom
they had described as more savage and
degraded than the barbarians on the
treat lightly and the loye that survives i Cong.->, were not merely enlightened
And selling the best and
cheapest Watches, Clocks,
Jewelry, Spectacles, Silver
ware, etc., to be found in this
section. Call and see me for
anything in my line.
Respectfully,
W. E. AVERY.
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the wreck and ruin of gathering years
has inspired more than one man to
deeds of daring whereby he has won
everlasting renown, but the woe that
is divided up among the servants and
shared in by the horses is not in good
taste, it is not iD good order and there
are flies ou it.
It. is like saying to the world, “Come
and see how I sutler.’’ It is parading
your sore toe iu Central Park, where
people with sore toes are not supposed
to congregate. It is like a widow
wailing her woe through the “Want"
column of a healthy paper. It is, in
effect, saying to Christendom, “Come
and bear me snort and see me paw up
the ground in my paroxysms of wild
and uticoutreliable anguish. My grief
is of such a penetrating nature and of
and civilized enough to be freemen and
voters, but to be United States Senators
aud Congressmen, Foreign Ministers,
Consuls and Marshals, Governera of
States, Judges, members of State Cab
inets, etc. I am glad that tbe philan
thropists found out that tbe Old South
had trained its slaves so carefully for
these high and responsible duties.
No other masters in tbe world’s hjs.
lory ever gave such training to their
slaves The thirteenth, fourteenth aud
fifteenth amendments to tbe Constitu
tion of tbeUoited States are the grand
est possible eulogies to the Old South
But there was one great error in this
training. The simple-hearted,cnnfld
ing Southern masters, always careless
of their own money, did not teach
their slaves to be cautious about tbeir
that searching variety that it has ! investments, aud tens of thousands of
broken out at the barn, and even tbe I these credulous creatures put their
horses that I bought two weeks after, money in a bauk in Washington es-
'he funeral, with a part of the life in- i tahlisbed by the philanthropists and
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surauce money, have gone into
mourning, aud tbe coachman who got
here day before yestesday from Liver
pool has tied himself up in hlack bom
bazine and tv tea special delight in ad
vertising our sorrow.”
I do not. believe that it will always
be popular to wear mourning for our
friends unless we feel a little doubtful
where they went.
Black is offensive to the eye, offen
sive to tbe nose and it makes your
flesh crepe to touch it. (Will the proof
reader please deal geutly with the
above joke and T will do as much for
him sometime.)
Henry Ward Beecher had the right
idea of tbe way to treat death, rnd
when at last it came his turn to die his
borne and bis church both seemed to
say: “Tbe great preacher is gone, but
there is nothing about tbe change that
is sad.”
There is something the matter with
grief that works itself up into blaek
rosettes and long black banners that
sweep'.be ground and shut out tbe sky
and look like despair and feel like tbe
season-cracked hack of a warty
dragon.
But wealth hag its little eccentrici
ties and we must bear with them. But
be alone is indeed rich who is content
and w ho does not look under tbe bed
every nigbt for an indictment. Look
at pour old Mr. Sharp, with his stock
of Aldermen depreeiating on his
bands—men for whom he paid a big
price only a few years ago, and who
would not attract attention now on a
teu cent counter, while he don’t feel
very well himself.
No, I would not swap places with
J. Sharp and ride through Central
Park behind a pair of rip, snortiug
horses, with mourning rosettes on
their heads, and feel that I must bur
ry back to help select an unprejudiced
jury. I w<wld rather baDg on to tbe
brow of a Broadway car till I got to
Fifty-second street, and stroll over the
mmagerie and feed red pepper to the
Sacred Cow aud have a good, plain,
quiet time than to wear flue clothes
aod be wealthy and hate myself all
the time. I believe that I am hap
pier in my untroubled, dreamless
sleep > n my quiet coucf, which draws
a s ilary during the daytime as an up
right piano; happier browsing about
at a different restaurant each day, so
that the waiters will not get well ac
quainted with me and expect me to
give them the money that I am sav
ing up to go to Europe with; happier,
I say, to be thus tossed about on the
| bosom of the great, heaving human
j tide than to have forty or fifty millions
! of dollars concealed about my person
! that I cannot remember how I ob-
; tained.
lost it all. I love to bear tbe praises
of the wonderful deeds of McClellan,
Grant, Meade and Hancock, for if
they were such great warriors for
cru-hing with their massive columns
tbe thiu lines of ragged rebels, what
must be said of Lee, tbe two Johnsons,
Beauregard aDd Jackson, who held
millions at bay for four years with
tbeir fragments of shadowy armies.
Pile up huge pedestals aud surmount
them with bronze horses and tiders in
bronze. All the Union monuments
are eloquent of the prowess of the rag
ged rebels and tbeir leaders.
“Suppose the tables had been turn
ed and that either of the Southerners
named above bad been superior to uis
antagonists in all tbe appliances and
inventions of war, and bad been given,
moreover, an excess of 2,000,000 men
over them, how many statues, think
ye, my countrymen, would there be
of bronze warriors aod prancing
chargers? The Congressmen from the
Old South have voted liberally for all
legitimate pension bills from Union
veterans, for they know what a tough
job It was for tbe 2,859,132 Union sol
diers, with their magnificent outfit, to
overcome the 700,000 rebels, poorly
fed, poorly clothed, aod poorly equip
ped. Theue pension bills are -piendid
tributes to tbe pluck, patience, perse
verance and fortitude of the chivalry
of the Old South.
“I love to hear the philanthropists
praise Mr. Lincoln and call him the
second Washington, for I remember
that he was horn in Kentucky and
was from first to last, as tbe Atlantic
Monthly truly said: ‘A Southern
man in all his characteristics.’ I
love to hear them say that George H.
Tbomas was tbe stoutest fighter in the
Union army, for I remember that be
was born in Virginia. When the old
lady of the Old South hears the eulo
gies upon these men she pushes back
her spectacles that she may have a
better view of tbe eulogist aud says:
‘These were my children.’ Then
the old lady adds: ‘I have another
sod born in Kentucky, and be is not a
step-soD, nor did I raise him to die on
a sour apple tree.’ ” *
Too Soon.
Boston Courier.]
There is a revival in progress in a
town not far from Boston, aud various
incidents have marked the progress
of the work of grace. Among others
is related the following, which has at
least the merit of illustrating a phase
of bumau nature. Two ladies quar
reled about a year since, and have
since then refused to recognize each
other. One of them, moved by an el
oquent sermon delivered by the reviv
alist on the need of brotherly love.
▲ Few Stock Prevaricator*.
Brooklyn Eagle.]
“I said in my ha.-te,” remarked the
psalmist, “all men are liars.” That
there are more liars in the world to
day than there were in David’s time
goes without saying, because there are
more men. And with this increase of
population there has sprung into be
ing a new line of stock liars with
whom David -"as unacquainted; fair,
average liars, who do a plain, every
day business, and only go in star parts
wheu the star liar of the combination
is sick nr tired nr something. Among
these stesdy professionals may be
mentioned:
The man who “never reads the
newspapers;"
The man who “nev-rs“e* the edito
rial cutting him up until his attention
has been called to it:”
The candidate who is “out ef pnli-
ti< s and wouldn’t take the nnmiuation
if it were offered to him;”
The raau who “put Cleveland where
he is;”
Tbe man who “never had a day’s
sickness in his life;"
Tbe man who says the captain told
him “it was tbe worst storm be bad
ever experienced;”
The family who was in Europe three
weeks, “and went everywhere aud
saw everything;"
The professor who tells you that in
all bis life be “never knew a child
with one hair the marvelous talent
for (music) (drawing) (elocution)
(mathematics) (anything else) which
your child has already developed;”
Tbe man who “wouldn’tbave taken
$100 for that dog;”
The man who “made the mistake of
his life when be didn't read (law)
(medicine) (theology) (go on the
stage;”)
The man whose wife “doesn't ap
preciate him” (a great deal more ac
curately that he knows;)
Tbe man who “whipped every boy
he ever fought with at school;”
Tbe mao who “could take that text
aud preach a great deal better sermon
from it” (tbau his pastor did;)
The man who says “he wants you
to tell him just what you think,” and
never feels hurt at candid criticism,
no matter how severe it is;’
The man who “never slept a wink
last night;”
The man who “told (somebody you
never heard of) tbe'day before (Cleve
land) (Garfield) (Blaine) was nomina
ted, just on what ballot the convention
would break on and how it would
go;”
The man who “never made hut one
mistske in judgiug character in his
life;” -
The man who “can remember the
only lie he ever told;"
The man who “was offered $900 for
that horse the day before he went
lame;” and
The man who “could turn a double
hand spring from the ground, back
ward or forward, when he was a boy,
but hasu’i tried it for fifteen years;’’
(sometimes, with a redeeming im
pulse ot gracious and beautiful truth,
this liar will add, that “he doesu’t be
lieve be could do it now.”
The Mile-a-Hinnte Myth.
“It is interesting to stodv railroad
statistics,” said a railroad director to
a Mail and Express reporter. He con
tinues! In the same strain: “There
are 290,000 miles of railroad in tbe
world. Iu 1885 the railways of the
United States carried 312,686.641 pas
sengers and 400,453,439 tons of freight.
Each person was transported an aver
age distance ot twenty-three miles;
hence, tbe entire movement on all the
roads was equal to carrying 3,541,309,-
674 persons one mile. Massachusetts
takes the lead in passenger transpor
tation with 53,800.887; Pennsylvania
next, then Xcw York, Illinois, New
Jersey and Ohio. In freight tonnage
Pennsylvania takes the lead with 105.
507,916 tons, and New York second.
There are about 25 miles or double
track, sidings, etc., 19 locomotives, 621
freight cars, 5 baggage and mail ai d
13 passeDger cars for every 10,000
oiilesof railroad in the Uni'ed Stales.
“Speed is hard to average. The 60
and 75 miles an hour train isgenerdly
a myth. An average 48 3-10 miles per
hoar is tbe fastest time in the United
States. This is made on tbe PenDsyl
venia ‘limited,’ in its run from Jersey
C ty to Philadelphia, 90 miles in less
than two boors. The Flying Dutch
man train is supposed to make the
fastest time in the world, belweeu
London and Bristol, llSJ- 4 ' miles In
less than two hours. The average,
.though, of even this fast train is ouly
59}s miles per hour. There are several
other trains noted for remark .lily fast
time on short distances. Sometimes
a straight and even grade for a dis
tance of 20 miles will permit a train to
run at tha rate of more than a mile a
minute. One train on the Canadian
Pacific road, from Cotaneau to Otta
wa, averages 50 miles an hour for a dis
tance of 78 miles. On the Central
road the late Mr. Vanderbilt traveled
at the rate of 90 miles an hour. An
average of 36>j miles an hour is con
sidered fast traveling. Mauy of the
limited, lightning expresses do pot go
at a faster rate. The value of railroads
iu the United States exceeds eight
billions of dollars.”
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Murdering a Town.
Jay Gould’s project of establishing
a railroad town iu the West remind*
the Philadelphia Record of the story
of the summary manner in which h®
wrought vengeance upon a communi
ty that had incurred his displeasure.
When tbe great strikes were on one
year ago on tbe Missouri Pacino and
other Western lines controlled by Jay
Gould, the town of Sedalia, M«., was
a thriving place. 'It was what is com
monly known as a railroad town. Car
sho|>a were located there, and Sedallw
Imre about the same relation to the
Gould railroads in Missouri that Al
toona hears to the Pennsylvania rail
road in Pennsylvania. During tb®
strike tbe store-keepers and tradersof
tbe town supported tbe striker®
aud called mass meetings in their
aid. Travelers who now pass the place
are told that Sedalia people bad gone
further than the < cession demanded.
He became incensed at their activity,
and it is reported that when tbe story
of their doings was laid before him he
exclaimed: “Within a year I will
turn that town into a churchyard.”
The strike ended In a failure. Jay
Gould ordered tbe removal of the car
shops ai_d all of bis railroad property.
Within a month tbe town ot Sedalia
began to show signs of decay, as the
trains roll by and passengers note the
absence of life, train men tell them
that the place is Jay Gould’*- church
yard. The revenge of the great mil
lionaire is complete.
Cautions to the Last.
Bob Burdette.]
When t he census marshal reached the
farm house of Macamerou Oberhelster,
in Conestoga enuuty. Pa., the wary
farmer met him at the door with a
shot-gun, and when the marshal asked
his name, one of tbe boys went out to
tbe bam and untied thret dogs. They
chased the marshal clear across the
township, when some neighbors head
ed him off, aud then they put him in
jail to bold him for trial. “Yer see,”
said Farmer Oberbeister, “we’re outo
those sharpers; they thiuk we’re fools
because we live in the country, but
we’re too smart for these town swin
dlers. You see, in 1879 there came
along a fellow w ho played tbe reaping
machine commission game ou me and
beat me out of $300; that made me
mad. Then along in 1881, a fellow
from Philadelphia came cut here and
ptayed the cloth gauieon me, and that
cost 1265. Theu the Three Horse Cle
vis man came next year and he beat
me out of $80 easy enough. Then the
everlastiug metallic paint man be
played me for $140, and then last year
the sunrise wheat fellow got into all
An Extra Session.
New York World.J
Senators Voorbees and Beck are re
ported as expressing the opinion, in a
conversation at Chicago, that the Pres
ident will call iff extra session of Con
gress for October 1st to consider the
question of revenue reduction. This
opinion ought to be verified by the
event. An extra session of Congress
is called for, whether it shall be called
nr not. It is foolish to belittle tbe ne
cessity on the basis of a juggling book
keeper’s “net balance” iu tbe treasury.
The undisputed fact is that the Gov
ernment redeemed in the first ten
months of the present fiscal year $125,
000,000 of the3 per cent, bonds. There
are ouly about $17,000,000 of these re
deemable bonds outstanding, and they
have just been called. Owing to tbe
failure of several appropriations the
surplus will be greater for the coming
year than it has been for the present
one. It is likely to reach $140,000,000.
Only a small part of this surplus can
be put to any legitimate use. Its col
lection should be stopped at the ear
liest practicable moment. Congress
should have been assembled in May.
By calling it together in October, and
confronting it with an emergency for
tax reduction, a surplus may be stop
ped which wil! otherwise be spent.
If the December session be awaited,
the holiday recess and tbe rush of reg
ular business will postpone actioD on
the taxes until next spring. Political
expediency unites with public interest
in demanding an extra session. The
Democratic party should Dot go into
the fall elections without one more
effort, and an earnest one, to redeem
its pledge to stop the surplus by re
ducing the war taxes.
Do Yon Know Who I Am ?
San Francisco Chronicle.]
I like the fellow t. ho is always ask
ing, or seeming to ask, “Don’t you
know who I am?” It is human na
ture to be ashamed of being insignifi
cant, of being unknnw-D. Theoccupa-
tion does not deprive a titan of that
sense of beiDg of some importance in
the world. At tiie same time, there is
of us for about $50 apiece, and this ""‘“ing a man resents as quickly as
year , the Bohemian oats crowd got b - ,D K a *‘ k “ d ‘ you know who I
For full particulars and directions see Circu
lar In everr pound of Arbucxi.es' Coffee.
JONES
PAYStheFREICHT
.5 To* Wau^oa Scale*.
I dislike notoriety, and nothing ir- I wen „ t to her Deil?hbor ’ and flavored
I to effect a reconciliation. Sheexpress-
t ed her regret that there should have
: ri rates me more than the coarse curi-
| oaity of people who ride at night in
the elevated trains and peer idly into !
my rooms as I toll over my sewing or
Bear-.nga, 1
• Box fc
C*ury lUe Scale. For ft*® prto® Ua$
■Mtir* thl* pistr tad kid mo
JOtES If BtittUITSa.
BINGHAMTON. N. T.
SALESMEN
WANTED A 1
to canvass for the sale of Nursery
Stock! .Steady employment guaranteed.
6 ALA BY A5D EXPENSES PA1I». Apply at
ke.statinx axe. (Refer to this paper.)
CHA^E BROTHER*, Rochester, N. Y.
I been hard feeling between them, took
rather more than she felt to be her
go gayly about hummiug . simple air ! “j 8hare ,° f bU “*’ “ d Mid ,, that
as I prepare the evening meal over ! *** ^ ,f the * 000,4 notbc
my cute little portable oil stove and ; "IF * ■f ,n ’ w , .
though I have not courted this interest! other woman heard •nth;* In
on the rart ef the people, and though ! " 1 * nCe ’ bnt W,th ‘ nuDMftened K litter
I wouid prefer to live less in the eye of! „ „ „ .
the public. I feel that, occupying the I T ,‘ V’ C ° m
position I do^T cannot expect io whol- ! " pitefU " y ’ f lMt ’ “ bot ^
ly consult my own wishes In tbe mat- ' OU * ht l ° h ‘ Ve Con * e n,onth8 *»°’
bout all the ready money there was
in the county and took notes for the
rest of it, and now this fellew he
comes along and wants to know what
my Dame is, but I am too sharp for
him. Ob, I tell you, the Conestoga
county boys are outo ’em; we’re too
smart for these fellows ” It will be
apt to go hard with the census mar
shal, although his trial wi,l not come
off for some time, as a man has just
come into the county selling State
rights for the Pottsdam fertilizer, a tna
chine that grinds up tbe hardest stoDes
into the richest aDd cheapest fertilizer
ever put ou tbe ground, and all the
farmersare too busily engaged in secur
ing agencies for the machine toattend
to court business.
ter, and I am content to live quietly ' ^ Bp * rk of gnce iu the heart of
and enjoy good health rather than
wear good clrthe* and feel rocky all
the time.
I would rather have a healthy alimentary
T 1 — -'‘-Vi* all rrrmrlth jim—r iminn i li
Drink does not drown cars, bat va®
taoitudaitoJtffwiMK
j the caller flared up an instant and
went out. The Hood flushed in her
ebaeka.
“No,” she said, rising with moeh
dignity. “Yon mean that I bare
come six mootha too anon.”
And now tbe breach between the
nlf IttMw !*■■ rrar
“My mother gets me up, builds the
fire, gets my breakfast and sends me
off,” said a br'ghtynuth.
“What then?” said the reporter.
“Then she gets my father up and
gets bis breakfast aod sends him off;
then gets the other children tbeir
breakfast and e.->nda them to school,
and then she and the baby have tbeir
breakfast.”
“How old is the baby?”
“O, she is ’most two, bot she can
walk aod talk as well as any of us.”
“Areyou well paid?”
“I get $2 a week; father gets $2a
day.”
‘‘How much does your mother get?”
With a bewildered look the bov
aaid: “Mother? Why, she don’t
work for anybody.”
“I thought you aaid she worked for
all of yoo.”
“O, yea. for all of ns she doe., bat
therrj.ln’t no mangy is it"—iMrt-
cmrantm.
am?" Nobody in creation can keep
tbe answer, internally, if he can keep
it to himsell, of “No, I don’t, aDd I
don’t care a .” There was once a
very important Siale official iu Cali
fornia who thought that everybody
knew him, or ought to know him.
He was one day walking through a
field, when a bull addressed him in an
undertone and made for him with its
head down and horns in a position to
raise him. He was a State official, a
man of dignity and political power
and natural pomposity, but he ran.
He ran surprisingly well. He ran
even better than he did for office, and
he got to the fence first. He clamber
ed over out of breath and dignity, and
found tbe owner of the bull calmly
contemplating tbe operation.
‘‘Whatdo you mean, sir?” asked
tbe irate official. “What do you
mean by havin* an infuriated ani
mal like that roaming over the field?’’
“Well, I guess the bull has some
right in tbe field—”
“Bight! Bight! Do you know who
I am, sir? Do you know who I am?”
The farmer shook his head.
“I, air, am Gen. —
“Why in thunder didn’t you tell the
bull?”
“I understand, sir,” be began as he
walked into a Grand Biver avenue
grocery, “that you say I didn’t pay
my debts. I owe yoi^$4. Take it out
<>f that $5.” “Yes—ah—take it out—
there’s your change. No. sir. I nev
er aaid any thing of the kind. Wbatl
did say was that I wished you oar ad
me a hundred dollars, as I w as sure of
*HH*g
Schools in Europe.
New York Sun.]
In Russia there are 32,000 schools,
having each an average of 36 scholars.
This isoue school for2,300inbahitants,
at a cost of less than a cent a bead of
the population. Iu Austria, with 37,-
000,000 of inhabitants, there are 29.000
schools and 3,000,000 scholars. The
average number at each school is 104,
andtbecost perinhabitautlOocnts. In
Italy, for 28,000,000 inhnbitauts there
are 47,000 schools, one school for every
600 people, at a cost of 17 cents a head.
The average number of pupils nt the
schools is 40. Iu Hpain ihere are3,-
000,000 t-eholars, 29,000 schools, giviDg
au average of 56 iu each school, and
one school for every 600 Inhabitants,
as in Italy. The number f schools
given for England is 58,000, which is
one for every 600 inhabitants, with
an average attendance of 52 per
school, and a cost of 36 cents. The
Germans have a school for every 700,
ivii'g a total of 60,000 schools, with
100 pupils iu each, and 38 cents per
inhabitant. Fraucehas 71,000schools,
being one for every 600, with 66 in
each school. France would, therefore,
seem to have more school* than any
other great European country. These
schools cost the country 29 cents per in
habitant.
Do Not Wait Until Death.
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness sealed up
until your friends are dead. Fill their
lives with rweetness. (Speak approv
ing, cheering words while their ears
caD hear them and while tbeir hearts
can be thrilled and made happy by
them. Tbe kind things you mean to
say when they are gone, say before
they go. Tire flowers you mean to
send for iheir coffin, seDd to brighten
and sweeten iheir homes-before they
Lave them. If your friends have ala
baster boxes laid away full of fragrant
perfumes of sympathy aud affection,
which ihey intend to break over your
dead body, wouldn’t you rather they
would bring them out iu your weary
troubled hours, and open them that
you might be refreshed and cheered
by them wh.le you need them?—
Would you not rather have a plain
coffin without a flower, a funeral
without a eulogy, than a life without
the sweetness of love and sympathy?
Post mortem kindness does not cheer
the burdened spirit. The flowers on
the coffin cast no fragrance backward
over the weary way.
The Chump Centre Clarion, which
was issued as a daily for the first time
on April 10, contained the following In
the salutatory: “This venture is
made in response to tbe clamoring of
many of our bes! citizens, and a con
viction that the growth aud enterprise
of Chump Centre demands a daily pa
per. Being thoroughly satisfied that
the people will stay by us and en
courage us in our innovation, we
launch our daily upon the sea of jour
nalism without a fear for the future.
We have come to stay, tjelabl” The
issue ol yesterday contained the fol
lowing: “With this issue the Clarion
becomes a thing of tbe past. A great
maoy of our best citizens clamored
for a daily paper, and when it was is
sued they wauted it delivered free, and
kicked because the inside page*, which
were filled with plates, were not de
voted to local news. They advertised
freely, but when the bills were sent in
they said they would see themselves
jimdasted before they would psy such
bills. We have therefore quit for
ker-ps. Selah!”
The Agricultural Department, in w
document just issued, declares that
10,000,000 acres of land are denuded of
forests every year for fuel and timber,
and 10,000,000 more acres are destroy
ed by fire, for tbe most part caused by
carelessness or design. As there are
but about 450,000,000 acres of wood re
maining In tbe whole Country, the
stock of timber in tbe United States
Is likely to be very small twenty years
hence unless tree planting is resorted
to with some vigor and intelligence In
tbe interval between now and then.
“Mamma.” said a small boy, the
other day, “do little boy angels wear
shoes and stock t DCs in somniertime?”
“No, my sou.” “Do tbwj go bare-
footed?” “Yes.” “And do they stay
out after sundown?” «l