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mmSMm e=z," tr ■ ■' ■- — , •TOitJ'N H. HODG-JCS, Proprietor, t ■■ -■ ■— - - - ■- - ——- — ■ ■■ ■- — - DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CUL’iURE. s— - - ■ - —i -—!—.—i —!—— IPRIOIE: TWO DOLLARS A. Year. VOL. XXI. f—— ; :— : —•—; ^ — ' ■ ’ -r— -r / ■ ' ^ ? • : ; — PERKY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1,1891. - - NO 1. WILLINGHAM’S WAREHOUSE. MACOK, GEORGIA. Good Facilities, Clnse Attention to 3uslress, Liberal and Square Dealing. Money Loaned to those who Deal with Me at 8 per cent Per Annum. QerLd. "STo’u.a: Cotton C. B. WILLING^ .4M. Vt ■ SHOES Fill ROFF SIMS & BR02 406 Third Street. Macon, Ga. PRACTICAL HINTS To Those Contemplating ihe Purchase OF A PIANO. You can bny a Piano from 8150 upward. Let . us know how much you care to invest, and we , ”' 11 givothe fall vain* of your money. The best instruments are scporior in all res pects, and if desired must be paid for. There is no alternative. What are you willing to pay? We would suggest the following to aid you: WEBER PIANOS. The favorite-Piano of the world's great singers Patti and Nilsson. Positive evenness or scale, sus ceptibihty of action, freedom from metallic tone and extraordinary durability, characterizes this world fam«mspiano. . . ___ _ _. EVERETT PIANOS. “An honeetpiauoat an honest pries,” or in oth er words, a strictly first-class piano within the reach of those of moderate means. The Everett Piano took the highest awai d at the recent Georgia State Fair for superior tone, per fect actiou, and el«giuc* in design ami finish. The victory was complete, though the Everett came in competition with most of the best known. Pianos of the wcjul. HARVARD PIANOS. The summit of superiority in a low .price ptauo. The great parlor favorite on account or its not being bigli-priced and shoddy, but low-oricod and reliable. Full Cabinet and Grand Size. ALL HONOR AND GLORY TO GEORGIA! The first of the southern states to in vent and man ufacture a Plano! And groatev the honor and dis tinction when it can be shown that the GEORGIA MADE PIANO has improvements which no other piano has or can use. A PJBRFJECTSOFT PEDAL. So constructed that it can be applied and held position for any length of time without continued pressure of tl.e foot. With this wonderful Soft Pedal arrangement the tone of the Piano is so i really reduced that a person practicing cm scarcely be heard outside of the room. \Y otth^its weight in gold to persons of nervous temperament, DUPLEX TOUCH. simple Improvement which enables tke per former to change the action from light to heavy; the object of which is to strengthen weak fiugeis and wrists. Some persons can never beeomegood performers on account of weak fingers and wrists. The Cooper Planed the Georgia Piano] has solved tne problem in its duplex touch. M> other piano possesses these great improvements. In tone the Cooper is grand, every note being clear as a bell. We handle in our business pianos of nine^differ ent makes-, and organs of five different makos. Write for catalogues of different manufacturers. Call on or address. GEORGIA MUS C, HOUSE, 558 Mulberry Street, Macon, G*. * N B.—Our Pianos took all premiums at the State Fair of-1849. Pianos represented by other firms took not a eingle premium. Merit will tern- AdmiBtrator’s Sale of "Valuable House and Hot in Perry. Will be sola before the court bouse door, in the town of Perry on the first Tuesday in January next, the duelling house and lot, of the late Samuel Felder, deceased. This is a valuable residence and large lot. Sold by virtue of an or der from the Court of Ordinory for dis tribution. Terms one-half cash and one- half in twelve months with interest at 8 per oent. _ _ _ C W Feeder, Adm’t. of Samuel Felder, deceased- Georgia—Houston County: Jno. T. Sistrunk, administrator, de bonus non, of the estate of S. H. J. Sis trunk deceased, has applied foi? dismis sion from said trust. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to appear at the March term, 1891, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be ^Witness my official signature this Nov. 27,1890. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. Crawford County Land for Sale. GEORGIA Houston County. Under and by virtue of the power vested in Mallory Bros. & Co., assignees of Smith & Mallory, by a mortgage given by J. L. Akin to Smith & Mallory dated March 13. 1889, empowering Smith* Mallory or their assigns to sell the real estate hereinafter described at the court ed in Perry, Ga., once a weeks, which mortgage has been duly assigned to Mallory Bros. & Co .^we will sell at the court house in Perry, Houston county, Ga., between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in January 1891 next, the following real easte, to- wit- A tract of land containing fifty acres more or less, located in the Sixth district of Crawford county, Ga., and bounded by the lands of J. A. Brown, M.M. Jack- son, J. A. Walton. Sold as the property December 4th, 1890. JpGRRY lEAlLBOAn SCHEDCL Daily, Except Sunday. Leave Ferry at 7-60 a. m. Arrive at Fort Valley 8:40 a. m. Leave Fort Valley at 11:35 p. m. Arrive at Perry at 12 :20 a. si. Leave Perry at 3:05 p. m. Arrive at Fort.Valley 3:50 p. if. Leave Fort Valley at 8:25 p. si. Arrive- at Perry at 9:10 P. K UavePOTySouam. Arrive Pori Valley jjSjj® *?}- Lo»ve Ft. Valley 5 *0 p. m Aa-ive Perry -lopm. Saar Uni* forinnnhareheenxnadeat work for kk, by Anna I**ge, Austin. iTaM, and Jno. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio. ' cut. Other, arc dwnfaiwe.L on? Some cam over *600.00 a :h; 'You can do the work and live home, wherever you are. Evenbe- ginnera are eailly earning: from *5 to #10 a dar. All acre*. We «how you bow and start von.' Can work in spare time or all the time. Big money for work ers. Failure unknown among them. - _ _ •- SEW and wonderfuL Particulars free. U.HaI!etta:Co..B«x «80Portlnnd,Maino HOUSTON SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a fi fa from Houston Su perior court I will soil between the legal hours of sale, before- the court house door iu Perry, Ga., on the first Tuesday in January, 1891, the following property to-wit: Lots of land 141,143,148.144,145 and 146, all in the Lower 11th district of Houston county, and-levied on as the property of John Faulk to satisfy a fi fa from Houston Superior court in favor of D. M. Hughes and E. L. Dennard, Exec utors, vs. John Faulk, and returnable to April term, 1887. Also at same time and place, lot of land No. 125 and the east two-thirds of lot No. 124, being 135 acres of said lot, in all 337J4 acres, all in the Lower llt.h district of Houston county, and levied on as the qroperty of M. H. Faulk, to sat isfy a fi fa from Houston County court in favor of J. H. Hertz vs, M. H. Faulk, and returnable to April terra, 1889. Also at the same time and place, one town lot in the town of Perry containing gjf of an acre, more or less,' bounded on the north by Carroll street; east, by the store house and lot originally owned by J. W. Mann; south, by lot of C. F. Coop er and Mrs. Pringle; west, by the Bank building and lot of Geo. Paul. Said property levied on. as the property of G. W. Killen to satisfy a fi fa from Houston county court in favor of W. Brunson vs. G. W. Killen,.and returnable to Novem ber term, 1890. M. L. COOPER, Dec. 4,1890. Sheriff. GEORGIA—Houston County-: J. H. Hampton and J. J. Moore, execu tors of the estate of Jacob Hampton, de ceased, have applied for dismission from said trust: This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to appear at the March term, 1891, of the court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have, why .said application should not be granted. Witness my official signature this December, 4th, 1880. J.H. HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County: M. L.'Cooper, administrator of the es tate of Mrs. Amanda C. Brown, has ap plied for leave to sell all the real estate in Houston county belonging to the es tate of said deceaesed- This is therefore to cite all persons con cerned to appear at the January term, 1891,of the court of Ordinary of said coun ty, and show cauge, if any they have,'why said application should not be granted. Witness my official signature this December 4,1890. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. Georgia—Houston County: E. S. Weilons, administrator, of the estate of Thomas Hardison deceased, has applied for dismission from said trust. This is, therefore, to cite -all persons concerned to appear at the March term, 1891 of the court of Ordinary of said county and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. Witness my official signature this Dec. 4, 1890. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County . J. B. McDowell has applied for perma nent letters of admintration on the estate of George W. McDowell, late of said county deceased: ‘ . This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to appearatthe January term, 1891, of the Court of Ordinary of Hous ton county, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should hot be granted. ' . - Witness my official signature this Dee; 4, 1890. J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County:. Court of Ordinary at Chambers. It appearing to the court that th? es tate of I. R. Bason, late of said county, deceased, is unrepresented, and not like ly to be renresented. ‘ These are therefore to cite and admon ish all persons interested in said estate to day in January, 1891, to show cause, if any, why E. S. Weilons, Clerk of Superi or’court, or some other fit and proper person, should not be appointed the ad ministrator of said estate. J. H. HOUSEB, Dec. 3rd, 1890. Ordinary. Georgia—Houston County: J. M. Gray has applied for 12 months support for the minors of Mrs. M. A. Y. Cook, deceased. This is therefore to cite allpersons con cerned to appear at the January term, 1891, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have', whj said application should not he ^Witness my official signature this Nov. 27,1890. 'J. H. HOUSER, Ordinary. Cotton, Wheat and Silver. Atlanta Constitution. There is a phase of the silver question that is of vast interest and importance to the cotton planters of the south and the wheat grow ers of the west. It is a phase, too, to which they haye never given fair and careful consideration. This is the intimate relations which ex ist between the price of silver and the price of cotton and wheat. It is only recently, indeed, that the farmers of the south and west have had an opportunity of studying for themselves the practical operation of these relations. On the 12 of July the present silver law was passed. The price of silver bullion went up to $1.15 and $1.20. There was an immedi ate response in the price of wheat, which went np to $1.06 a bushel in in Uhicago, and in the price of cot ton, which sold for 11 cents a pound. When the price of silver declined to $1 an ounce, wheat de clined from 15 to 18 cents a bushel, and cotton went down to 9 and 9J cents a pound. This little episode might seem to be very unimportant, and yet it is full of meaning to those who have cotton and wheat to sell. Let us look into the matter a little. A loss of 1\ cents a pound on a crop of 8,000,000 bales of cotton, or 3,- 600,000,000 pounds, amounts to $60,000,000 taken from the pock ets of the planters. A loss of 15 cents a bushel on a crop of 400,000,- 000 bushels of wheat means a loss of $60,000,000 to the furmers. Here is the plain and practical results of the attempt of our so- called American statesmen to st range our finances and our curren cy tq suit the views of the British. But this is not the whole result of the engrafting of the British __poli- cy on oar own. England demone tized silver because her busiuess men found it an easy and a practi cable method To - swindle Indio, Egypt and Ru.ssia. The United StatesMollowed suit because, in 1873, the British influence was paramount in the treasury depart ment and in congress. The full history of the demonetization clause has never been written, but enough of the facts.have leaked out to show how British agents lobbied it through. England coins silver money for India and Egypt. She buys the bullion at a discount, and then coins it at a gold value for her eastern dependencies. She imports two-thirds of her bread food, and one of her most important indus tries is the manufacturing and handling of cotton. Silver has now been demonetized in the United States for seventeen years, andjdu- ing each of those years England has saved and the American pro ducers of wheat and cotton have lost on an average at least $125,- 000,000 on their crops. The farmers of the west are be ginning to open their eyes. This silver question is by far the most important that is now before the country. It has been muddled by the politicians, but at last the peo ple are beginning to see clearly where their interests lie. There is but one solution of the silver ques tion, and that is free coinage. There is bat one remedy for the financial stress that overtakes the country every fall, and that i8 a simple act placing silver bullion on an equality with gold at the government mints. The arguments and protests of the so-called financiers of the east are not worth the wind required to give them utterance. This is a government of the people, and the people are in favor of free silver. What Year I§ This? St I>onis Republic. A German. professor says our erroneous.” I find the above item I To Make One Bale of Cotton per Acre. Southern Culaivator. I have a level farm of red loam and sand soil. I want to make one bale per acre next year, and I want to know what kind of fertilizer, . the proportion, and what quantity \ goi^g the rounds, with an added to distribute at planting, and when j line which meekly informs the shall I use the balance, or is it ad- : reader that we are off four or five visable to nse all at planting? I j years in our mode of reconing have six hundred bushels of cotton j p centaries there has been seed. Is it advisable to nse seecii or make compost? If so, what : doubt as to tiie correctness of the shall I use with the cotton seed in accepted calculation of the Chris- A Chance for the Mormons. Savannah Morning News. # The Mormons will never be per- calculation of the Christian era is emitted to do as they please in —Syrup Kettles and a tip-top Pane^Mill can be bought cheap at GEORGIA—Houston County: H. E. Cook has applied for letters of ■^ministration on the estate of Mrs; M. A. Y- Cook, deceased. Tbisisthereforeto citeall personscon- cemed to appear at the January term, 1891 of tho court of Ordinary of said coun ty, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. Witness my official' signature this Nov 27 1890. J H. HOUSER, Ordinary. *0000.00 a rear Is being made by John B- Goodwin.Trov.N.Y^ht work fur us. Reader, you may not make as much, but we can teach rou quickly how to earn from £» to #10 n day at the start, and more as yon go ~ utb sexes, all ages. In any part of -a, you can commence at borne, pr- jsrsssssssgss?- even- worker. We start:jma. tomUbmg ev erv: hhi ^ HAS l|.Y. |l’ELgLV Joined. making this compost? I can ex change for cotton seed meal and phosphate, two and one-halftons of seed for one ton of meal and phos phate; what do you think ofjthia? My land has made an average of one-half bale per acre, for the past three yeass, using one hundred pounds of cotton seed meal and one hundred pounds of phosphate per acre, all distributed at plant ing. Hoping you will answer through the columns of yonr jour nal—J. E. C., Fort Deposit, Ala. Answer.—There is no rule for compounding and applying of fer tilizers that will give infallible re sults. If the natural production of the land be kfiown, . as in this case, ia may be assumed that one dollar’s worth of a properly com pounded fertilizer will produce fifty to seventy-five pounds, or one and a half to two dollars worth of- seed cotton. It will rarely pro duce more, and often much less, depending on the seasons, cultiva tion, and largely on the character of the soil. The larger the appli cation, as a rule, the smaller will Tbe the percentage of increase, cal culated on the amount or value of the application.* For instance, if it be found that one hundred tian era. Learned historians can not agree whether Christ was born in the year 747, 749 or 754, count ing from the foundation of Rome. Prof. Sattler, Munich, has pub lished an essay in which he tried to reconcile the testimony of the evaugelists with other historical data on this point. He has exam Utah. As they seem determined to do as they please, it would be' wise in them to emigrate to some country where they will not be in terfered with. There is an open ing for them in Mexico. John Young, the eldest son of Brigham Young, has just obtained a half interest.in 3,000,000 acres of land in the northern part of that coun try, and the Mexican government offers $200 to every family, and $50 to every single man who will lo cate permanently upon it. The Mexicans don’t care wheth er the Mormons encourage polyga my or not, and they don’t care Remarkable Memories. From Sparc Moments. There was a - Corsican boy who couh] rehearse 40,000 words,wheth er sense or nonsense, as they were dictated, and then repeat them in ; the case to him without any oma- tlie reversed order Without making j tion. a single mistake. “The thing for you ro do, mad- • A physician, about sixty years j am,” said the lawyer, “is to sue the ago, could repeat- the whole of I woman-for alienating the affections “Paradise Lost” without making a ' of your husband.” Cash Value of the Loss. Chicago Tribune. She was a large, resolute-look ing woman, and she sat in the at torney’s consulting room and stated ined four copper coins which were, particularly wbatkind of doctrines struck in the reign of Herod Antipas tlle Mormon church teaches. They one tbe sons of Herod the Great, ^ant their waste lands occupied, How cau we expect that another should keep our seeert when it is more than we.can do ourselves. Lebanon, Ky., April 2 1890. Radam’s Microbe Killer Co., Nashville, Tenn.: . Gentlemen—I have used a part of three jugs for indigestion and general debility, and am now iu my usual health. Uusd it with my little daughter for catarrh of the stomach, and it has entirely re lieved her -when, everything else failed. Very respectfully, Mrs. W. W. Wathfn. For sole by Holtzclaw& Gilbert, sole agents, Perry, Ga. pounds of a given fertilizers wilj produce, on a given character of soil, an increase of one hundred pounds of seed cotton, it will not be safe to assume that five hundred pounds (5f the same fertilzer will produce an increased yield of five hundred pounds. But let us discuss the formula to use: For fertilizing purposes, a ton of cotton seed is -equal—to about - oeven -hundred 1 poundsj;of cotton seed meal; and two and a half tons of cotton seed are equal to 1750 pounds of cotton seed meal. Now, one hundred pounds of cotton seed meal are eqrial in commercial value to about one hundred and twenty pounds of good acid phosphate. So, then, you would get for the two and a half tons of seed a ton of mixed meal and phosphate, containing 750 pounds of cotton Beed meal, and 1,250 pounds of acid phos phate. " A better proportion for use for an application to your land would be,’say, 1*300 pounds of acid phosphate, 600 pounds of meal and 200 pounds of muriate of pot ash (or 200 pounds of hull ashes). Eight hundred to 1,000 pounds of the above mixture per acre would probably bring the yield to one bale, if a good year for cotton. Wfe donbt if any material ad vantage will follow from making more than one application of the fertilizer. Apply at bedding time just before planting—one-third in center furrow and one-third each in each listing farrow. from which he deduces the conclu sion that Christ was not born in 754, but in 749, after the foundation of Rome, and therefore that 1890 is 1895. This opinion the professor substantiates by what he takes to be corroborative testimony of the evangelists. According to Matthew, Jesus wns born toward the end of the. reign of Herod the Great, and that when Herod died Jesus was yet a little child. Luke says that James was born in the. year in which the governor of Syria made the first census iu Judea. In another place lie says that John began to bap tize iD the fifteenth year of tbe reign of Tiberius Caesar, and’ in that year baptized Jusus, who was then 30 years of age. St. Luke says that in Judea the first census was made during the reign of Her od; this census must have been or dered in the year 746 of Rome. Probably it was begun in Judea in 747. Professor SattlerJJthinks it was not made in Jerusalem ear lier than 749. He finds that the four ooins ennbled him toi—make clear the testimony'of the evangel ist as to the fifteenth year of the Emperor'Tiberius. Though Au gustus died Aug. 19, 767, the reign of Tiberius must be counted from a year and a half earlier, from Feb., 766, when be was appointed co-regent; therefore the fifteenth year of Tiberias falls in 780, when John baptized Jesus, who was then about 30 years of age. . One of tbe evangelists says that Jesus began to preach forty-six years'after the building of the tem ple by Herod at Jerusalem.. Now it is known that * the temple was begun eighteen years after Herod was appointed regent by the Ro man senate, or in the year 734 from the foundation of Rome. Adding forty-six to that it gives 780 as the year in which Christ be gan to preach. If all these calcu lations of Professor Sattler are cor rect then the Christian era began five years earlier than is usually supposed. In olden ’time the burial of a su icide was characterized by impal ing the body with a stake. Happi ly nowadays- no such horrible method of discountenancing the act of self-slaughter is practiced, though if it were and the virtual -suicides included in tbe list with the actual ones, staked graves would be largely in the majority. Virtual suicides in this connection means that class of people who die rather than save themselves by a specific snch as Rsdam’s Microbe Killer, which, according to respon sible authorities, will cure all dis eases if taken in time. Radam’s Microbe Killer testimonials are well worth -reading, and give hope to the afflicted, who will find it to their interest to send for circu lars. For sale by Holtzclaw & Gilbert sole agents, Perry, Ga. The Sultan of Tuskey laoks much like Jay Gould, except .that he is somewhat taller than tbe Wall street wizard, and bis nose is a trifle more prominent. gubicribelav the Home Journal, candies taste good. - : :r ■ « " 1 4 V Bnckleii's Arnica Salve. •The Best Salve in the world for Colds, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns . and all Skin Eruptions, and posi- Tkis very tj ve iy cures Piles, or up p$y re name pute a bad taste in a child’s! qaired. It is gnarap.tpec? to ’give mouth, unless a mother has be^q- perfect Malefaction ev money re, Worm medicine! When the temperature of milk is below 45 dags, the cream will all rise on it in twelve hours. But if the temperature is" ^ above 50 degs. then the milk should stand twenty-four hours. Physicians informed me that I was threatened with paralysis or apoplexy.' I suffered terribly with pain on the right side of my head, especially when I would read or write, and on rising to my feet wonld become perfectly blind and had to hold to something to pre vent my falling. I am happy to say that Bull’s Sarsaparilla has entire ly relieved me. My appetite is good and for the first time in a long while I enjoy my dinners.— Mr. B. C. Rivers, Louisville, Ky. The Dakota Bad Lands com prise a country about fifty 'miles long and wide, and so rongh and broken that it is almost impossible for a horse to go through it. Hills range from 50 to 500 feet in hight, and in some places it is difficult to travel more than five miles a day. and they are willing that the Mor- mons shall occupy them. The Mormons of Utah pretend that they have givan up polygamy, and they say that their church does not teacb anything hostile to the government. It is not be lieved, however, that they are sin cere. There is constant friction between them and the gentile pop ulation, and there would be serious disturbances if the gentiles were not so numerous. - Tips purchase of John Yonng opens a wayjfor them to flock • by themselves. In Mexico they can make their chqrch as great and as 6tryu& as they please. The time might come when t’he Mexicans would protest against polygamy and against the disposition of the Mormon church to control the state, but they would not do so for many years, and perhaps not at all It would be pretty hard lines for the Mormons to seek new homes in a comparative wilderness. They have made Utah a rich and pros perous section of country, and there is’ no objection to their re mainihg there they:, will obey the laws. When they went' there they knew that in time they would meet with opposition.. They can’t complain, therefore, that they -are not permitted to place their church above the government. If they want to avoid the restrictions which the government places upon them, Mexico offers them the op portunity to do so. There is Only One. There is only one Swift’s Speci fic (S. S. S.) and there is nothing like it. Do not be deceived by the numerous imitations, substitutes, frauds, etc., which are being push ed on the public by persons whose desire is to make money on the credulous. S. S. S. is a distinct medicine; is different from any other remedy. It must not be classed with the old worn-out pot ash, fmercury, sarsaparilla, thon- sand-doses-for-a-sh tiling articles which are advertised, vs it vis not at all like them. S. S. S. cures by eliminating all the poison from the blood by its action on the skin, and never fails to give relief and build up the health of the patient. Our treatise on Blood and Skin diseases’will give much valuable information, and will be mailed free to applicants. \ The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Blaine has not much repu tation as a prophet, but Lbe can very justly lay claim to more than he has. In 1875, in arguing against tbe counting of a quorum by the speaker when a quorum had failed to vote, he said: “The mo ment when yon elotho your spaak- er with power te go behind your roll call, why, gentlemen, you stand on the very brink of a volca no.” Who shall say now that Mr. Blaine was not right? The repub licans diigive Speaber Reed the power to go behind the roll call, a power which he exersised remorse lessly, and the voldano turned out to be there, just as Mr. Blaine said it was. It promptly went into eruption, and nearly all the repub lican members were buried under the lava-tide of public inc(igujition that spread far qu$ wide,-= Macon mistake, although he had not read it for twenty years. Enler, the great mathematician, when he became blind, could re peat the whole of Virgil's “iEneid” and could remember the first line and the last line of every page of the particular edition which be had been accustomed to read be fore he became blind. One kind of retentive memory may be considered as the result of sheer work, a determination to. ward one particular achievement without reference to either cultiva tion or to memory ■ oh other sub jects. This is frequently shown by persons in human life in regard to the Bible. An old b9gger at Stirling, known fifty years ago as “Blind Alick,” afforded an instance of this He knew the whole of the Bible by heart, insomuch that if a sentence was read to him be could name the book, chapter, and verse; or if the book, chapter and verse were named he could give the exact words. A gentleman, to test him, re peated a verse, purposely making one verbal inaccuracy. Alick hes itated, named tbe place where tbe passage was to be found, but atthe same time pointed out the verbal error. - The same gentleman asked him -to repeat the^nineteench verse of the seventh chapter of the book of Numbers. Alick almost instantly replied: “Thereis no' such verse. That chapter has only eighty-nine verses. Gassendi had acquired by heart 6,000 Latin verses, and in order to give his memory exercise he was in the habit daily of reciting 600 verses from different languages. Hot Springs. Have you ever visited Hot Springs? Alas! Yoa meet while there so many instances of terrible blood poison, evidenced by disfig urement of face and form. Hith er rush sufferers from scrofula, syphilis, eczema, selt rheum, ul cers, blemished skin, twisted and aching joints, limbs made crooked by rheumatism, etc., etc. Sonde find relief, some do not, and come away poor in purse and grieyopsly disappointed. It costs money to visit and sojourn at Hot Springs, The experiment of going there can' “Can’t I have her put iu the penitentiary?” she demanded. “Um-no. You can sue her for damages, though, and make the figures as large as you please.” “Damages. What for?” “For robbing you of your hus band, madam. It amounts to that in reality.” “And do you advise me to sue her for money?” “I do.” “Then I’ll do it!” she exclaimed vindictively. “I’ll make her pay his full value! Sue her as quick as you please.” “What damages will you claim?” “I am anfabused and insulted woman,” she replied, with dignity, “bnt I am a conscientious one. Make the damages aboutj$l.50.” The supreme courP of North Carolina has filed an opinion in an important and novel case, a 810,- 000 damage suit, brought by J. T. Youtfg, of Craven county, against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Last year Young’s wife went to Greenville, S. C., and there became severely ill. Her husband was-telegrapbed feu,,but the telegram was not delivered un til six days later. Meanwhile Mrs. Young died and was buried, Young not knowing of either fact till all was over. The superior court overruled the demurrer of the Western Union and held that the actiou was properly laid, and that the plaintiff was entitled to dam ages. The defendant, without wait ing for the case to come 'to trial, appealed to the supreme court; which sustains the opinion of the superior court The following is a will left by a drunkard of Oswego, N. Y. “I leave to society a rained character and.wretcbed example. I leave to my .parents a3 much sorrow as they can in their feeble state bear. I leave to my brothers and sistbrs as much shame and mortification as I could bring on them. I leave to my wife a broken heart—a life of shame. 1 leave to each of my children, poverty, ignorance, a low character, and the remembrance that their father filled a drunkard’s grave.” . Gen. Robtert E. Lee’s birthday, J an. 19, is now a legal holiday in Virginia. The proper celebration not be indulged in°without consid- of the day is now under discussion erable expense. .How thankful then should every one be to know there is a remedy even more bene ficial in cases of blood poison than Hot Springs. We refer to Botan ic Blood Balm (B B B), as to its merits thousands will testify. R. T. -Hallerton, Macon, . Ga., writes: “I contracted blood poi son. I first tried physicians, and then went to Hot Springs. I re turned home a ruined man physi cally. Nothing seemed to do me any good. My mother persuaded me to try B B B. To my utter as tonishment every ulcer quickly healed." Jas. L. Bosworth, Atlanta, Ga., writes: “Some years ago I con tracted qlood poison. I had no appetite, my digestion was ruined, rheumatism-drew up.my limbs so I could hardly walk, my throat was cauterized five times. Hot Springs gave me no benefit, and my life was one of torture until I gave B B B a trial, and surprising as it may seem, the nse oi five bot tles cured me.” among the Confederate veterans of Richmond, who expect to have a military parade on the anniversary aud make the occasion an imposing one generally. Mrs. Michael Curtain. Plainfield, HI., makes the statement that she : cold, which settled on he she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consum and that no medicine could her. Her druggist snggestei King’s New Discovery for sumption; she bought a botf ,. to her delight found herself Ihe biographies of distinguish- fitted from the first dose. Sliec Visitor—Isn’t your mother afraid, Willie, of catching cold in those slippers'? Willie—Huh, I guess you don’t know them slippers! Ma uses them to warm the whole family with.—American Grocer. Americas wants to h >ld an expo sition next year. JCTTOUB HACK ACIIES Or you are all worn out, really good for nothing it is general debi ity. Try JlROUX'S JROX HITTK11S. t a good ap ed living women will hereafter find a place in the new edition of “Men of the time.”' tinned its i bottles, found I .... well, now does her own honsewor BROWN'S IRON BITTERS bottles of ever Proud Father (showing off his boy before company)—My son, which would yon rather be,Shakes peare or Edison? . Little Son (after meditation)— I’d rather be Edison. ' “Why?” “’Cause he ain’t dead.”—Good News. There are 12.000,000 school chil dren in the United States. In the public schools ^here are 347,292 ' teachers. It takes $122,455,252 to run these schools. A Cbiuaman named Way Lee, who has just opened a restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., claims to be a relative of the present Emperor of China. IIE.71AEKABI.K BfitCCE. . AUdealers sell it. Genuine