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VOL. V. THESE PRICES -*TELL * THEIR * OWN t STORY*- Granulated sugar, 20 pounds for $ 1 00 Brown sugar 28 pounds for. 1 00 Good green coffee 11 pounds for 1 00 Arbucklo’s coffee, per package 10 Twenty-five boxes good tobacco, per pound 20 Good smoking tobacco per pound 17 Four pounds soda 10 . jTwo thousand four hundred best matches 8 Jlest kerosene oil per gallon 14 Tinware. Twelve dozen 2 gal. buckets, each 8 Six dozen heavy, pressed dish-pans, each 12 Four dozen half gallon tin dippers, each 5 Five dozen black handle dippers, each 4 Large galvanized wash-pans, each 20 Best red cedar three-hoop bucket, each 40 Nice wood buckets, each 9 Best well bucket made 25 1 gallon oil can 12 1 gallon coffee pot 9 Half gallon pot 74 Large sieve 7£ Nails. 20 kegs steel nails at from 42 to 55 pounds for 1 00 Underwear, Etc. Big Lot of Ladies’ Undervests, each. 15c to 80 10 doz. unlaundered white shirts, each 20 5,000 yards good calico, per yard * 8f 1,000 yards good yard-wide sheeting, per yard. . . 4 1,000 yards heavy sheeting, per yard . 44 10 rolls oil tablecloth, per yard 124 5 bolts “A. C. A.” bed ticking, per yard 104 2 doz. full-size bed spreads, each . . 55 2 doz. full-size bed spreads, each 50 1,000 yards outing dress goods per yard 4 10 pieces eiderdown, per yard, from 15c to 80 15 pieces heavy red twilled flannel, per yard 12 6 pieces heavy blue flannel at 14 5 bolts drilling at 5 Best Spool Cotton at 84 Ball Cotton, 10 balls for. 5 Good pins, 6 papers fJ £,. 5 10 pieces cotton fl; 4c to 8 School Boy jeans psr yard 11 All-wool 9 oz. jeans per yard 21 Double Width Waterproof from 274 to 48 CAPES. Six dollar plush capes 4 50 Five dollar plush capes at 8 75 Four dollar cloth Capes - 2 90 Three dollar cloth capes . 225 Six doz. $1.50 capes will go for 1 10 Two dozen $1.25 capes will go for 90 SUSPENDERS. Boys’ heavy suspenders at scts.’ HATS. 30 Doz. Men’s and Boys’ Hats exactly at cost. CLOTHING. 25 All-Wool Cheviot Suits at $2.75. 24 Heavy Wool Suits at $8.25. 24 Nice Clay Worsted Suits at Five Dollars. Twenty-five Ten-Dollar Suits for Six Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents.- 24 Mclntosh Overcoats for Two Dollars Each. SHOES. A big lot of shoes of all styles and sizes going at actual cost. MILLINERY. A big lot of Millinery goods on hand. You will do well to see my goods before buying elsewhere. Ask no questions as to why I am selling at cost. Money talks! Bring along your Cash! The lawrenceville news. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER, 12, 1897. NOBODY KNOWS BUT MOTHER. How manj bnttons are mi ••rintr today? Nobody known but »n lwr. How many playthings are strewn in her way? Nobody knows but mother. Ho>/ many thimbles and spools has she missed? How many burns on each fat little list? How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed? 1 Nobody knows but mother. How many hats has she hunted toaay— Nobody knows but mother— Carelessly hiding themselves in the hay? Nobody knows but mother. How many handkerchiefs willfully strayed'? How many ribbons for each little maid? How for her care can a mother be paid? Nobody knows but mother. How many muddy shoes all in a row? Nobody knows but mother. How many stockings to darn, do you know? Nobody knows but mother. How many little torn aprons to mend? How many hours of toil must she spend? What Is the time when her day’s work shall end? Nobody knows but mother. How many lunches for Tommy and Sam— Nobody knows but mother— Cookies and apples and blackberry jam— Nobody knows but mother— Nourishing dainties for every “sweet tooth,” Toddling Dottle or dignified Ruth? How much love sweetens the labor, forsooth? Nobody knows but mother. How many cares does a mother’s heart know? Nobody knows but mother. How many joys from her mother love flow? Nobody knows but mother. How many prayerc by each little white bed? How many tears for her babes ha she shed? How many kisses for each curly head? Nobody knows but mother. —Mary Morrison in Housekeeper. A PARIS NOCTURNE. “The price will do. ” “Monsieur is most kind. " “And—ah—tenoz, madame. This is the fifth, I believe?’’ “No, monsieur,’’ simpered the land lady, slightly drooping her eyes. “But you told me, " began the gentle man with the Bohemian air, Greek nose and shaggy blond curls, “you told me, madame’’ — “Yes, monsieur,” Mme. Toudouche half stammered. “I—l had forgotten. At the fifth there is a room occupied, and monsieur desired this floor, the fourth, to be quite vacant. ” “Yes,’’ loitered the reply With a remarkably white hand, though large and muscular, the gentleman stroked a clear chiseled chin. Suddenly, with this same hand, he made a sweeping gesture: “1 will take all the little suit. But, mind yon, 1 hope for quiet during the week that lam here. I shall rest and drowse most of the time. I shall have no visitors—absolutely none. Frankly, 1 shall be in retreat. An absorbing affair —a matter of business, most wearisome business—will soon engross me, and hence 1 am taking this preparatory term of repose. You are sure I shall not be disturbed. madame —absolutely sure?” “Oh, yes, monsieur, absolutely.” ‘My name is—-er —Duroc—M. Albert Duroc ' “Thank you, monsieur. ” "Please let my luggage be sent up. You have no doubt perceived that it is very small 1 shall ask you for a cup of coffee each morning—good, strong cof fee —a roll and a bit of butter. Pray, let all three be excellent. Stay, madame.” And here M Duroc glanced about him at the shabby but clean apartment. “Perhaps you would prefer that 1 should give you half my promised sum in advance ” He then drew out a purse, and as he did so the old woman’s wrin kled face became one immense labyrinth ine smile After she had gone M. Duroc leaned from one of his high dormer windows and looked at Paris below the slumber ous azure of a perfect autumn afternoon. Yonder was the lie St. Louis, with Notre Dame so near that one could al most make out the grimaces of its ghoulish gargoyles. Ah, dear old Notre Dame, with the adorable sculptures of its main doorway, saints and martyrs all tangled together like roses in a huge wreath! Dear old “other side of the river!” What thrilling memories it evoked 1 There wound the unforgetable and unique Seine, with its little toylike steamboats, bound for Chareuton, foi Suresnes, for numberless ports besides. And the stately fawn colored buildings on either bank, skirting so palatially each curvilinear verge. Ah, the de licious days of boyhood I And to be here once again where he had dwelt -for so many youthful years! What refresh ment after the loud, bustling life of that other Paris, whose boulevards and cases and theaters and salons teemed with a thousand ambitions, rivalries, hates! “1 will dine over here near the Lux embourg, ” meditated M. Duroc, “in a little restaurant which has long ago for gotten my existence. Then I will coma back to my placid refuge and enjoy the first serene sleep of seven others, all oi which, 1 hope, will be equally serene. Ah, what comfort to be hidden away like this! After Monday next my work must begin Meanwhile rest, rest, rest before the leudous task that awaiti me. “ Later M Duroc followed out his in tent He took a stroll through obscure yet familiar streets for nearly an hour after dining and then resought his new lodgings. He was a light sleeper, yet a healthful one. Hardly five minutes aft er blowing out his candle he had fallen into just the suave slumber that he craved. “La-la-la —la lah la-la-la tira, lira, lira —lah—la-la—tira, liraah, lira —iah-r-r-r-r!” Then the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle and thrum, thrum, thrum of a piano; then the woman’s voice and also the piano, both dawning together into awakened concionsness; then a man’s basso voice, repeating every tira-lira, every lah, of the feminine one. By this time M. Duroc was thorough ly awake. He soon lighted a candle and looked at his watch—ten minutes past midnight. The vocal exercises contin ued. Sleep was now impossible. He anathematized his landlady. Why had ■he dared to lie like this? Had she not promised him peace? The detested sounds came, too plainly, from a cham ber just above him. At a quarter past 1 o’clock they ceased. Soon afterward he heard a man’s step descend the stair case, passing his door. The chain of sleep having been thus rudely broken, it was three good hours before he rejoined its disrupted liuka He awoke at about 9 in the morning, full of indignant protest. Finding the landlady below stairs, he poured upon her a torrent of reproaches. Was it for this that she had accepted his advance payment? Had she not assured him that his lodings should be quiet? Of course, all the while, she knew of these two owls up stairs, these midright cats, with their bass and treble miaulings! And the piano, too—a ramshackle thing at beet! Was this honest dealing? W'as It not shameless deceit?” But the landlady could now afford to rle would remain tor one day more and a night at least If the tira-liras ■gain woke him, as of course they could not fail to do, he would make of these nocturnal nuisances an emphatic re quest to keep silent. This would be wreaking a kind of vengeance on his landlady, for neither would she relish having her duplicity publicly disclosed nor would the fair repute of her inn be thereby enhanced. “Perhaps, after all, though,” mused Duroc, "I shall tleep through the clam ors of tonight. If not, farewell forever to Mme. Toudouche ” At 10 that evening Duroc ascended his staircase with the intention of re tiring. Scarcely had he closed his door when madame’s somewhat plaintive voice caused him to reopen it. “1 am so sorry it has happened, mon sieur. Of course I realized that mon sieur has been perfectly right. 1 have not an idea who she is Apparently, however, she is very poor That touohed my heart.” And Mme. Toudouche made the motion of widiug away a tear. “She says the gentleman is her brother. She pays very little for the room. The piano is her own. She had it brought up herself. And now, M. Duroc, I have come to assure you that you need only command and I will obey.” "Command? Obey, Mme. Toudou che?” “Yes, monsieur it is affreux that you should be kept awake like this. I will tell the young girl when she comes tonight that 1 shall require of her uo further pay and that she must at once cease from these disturbing practices.” "W 7 hat a poor little handful of sous that ‘pay’ must be!” thought Duroc, with irrepressible cynicism. Somehow, after the landlady had de parted and while flinging himself into the only easy chair that his room con tained, a twinge of conscience assailed him. Might he not, after all, be thwart ing some purpose of self support on the part of this girl—just referred to as pos sibly very poor? There might be cogent reasous why she should hold with her brother these weird concerts ‘ * Well, no matter what happens tonight, ”he med itated, “1 will endure it And tomor row, if I have been annoyed as I was last night, I can make a change of quar ters. Meanwhile, the most merciful plan is to see Mme. Toudouche at once and tell her that she must restrain her veto; that it is my earnest wish. ” But soon, as it happened, a drowsi ness overtook him and he fell asleep there in the armchair He was a man in perfect health, but for many past days he had been constitutionally tired by a peculiar pressure of work. Wakening abruptly after what he felt to have been a long and wholly unfore seen nap, he heard the piano banging up stairs and the tira-liras bleußSwith its notes. S Rubbing his eyes, he laugl Si aloud. “It’s hard to be charitable,” he mut tered. “How strange 1 should have fallen asleep like this! I suppose it’s my broken rest of last night. ” He rose, with the immediate design of disrobing All at once the sounds ceased. Theu came another noise—that of voices He opened his door and went out into the hall Up stairs Mme. Toudouche was vehe mently talking “1 meant to wait up for you and tell you. mademoiselle, but 1 was too fatigued and I lost myself in a long doze. Now- I must insist that you stop your singing and playing at this unseemly hour —you and the young man whom you call your brother. ” “He is my brother, Mme. Toudouche, just a 3 I have said. ” “Yes, madame, she is my sister.” " Well, 1 can’t help that. The gentle man down stairs will .not stand it, and he is perfectly right 1” Duroc listened no longer He mount ed briskly the steps leading to the upper hall. There he saw in dimness three figures. “Ah, M. Duroc, ” exclaimed the land lady, “it’s you! Of course you have been distressed again by this wretched business. And slight wonder. ” The light from the near room struck full on a pale, girlish face as “made moiselle” advanced several steps. “Oh, M. Duroc, may I beg you to let ns go on? This young man is my broth er, though madame here has hinted otherwise. I cannot play and sing at home. I had the piano brought here. It’s the only possession of the least value that we now have left. My brother plays in the orchestra at one of the small Montmartre theaters. He would have time to teach me in the day, but 1 have no time then. lam always at the bedside of my poor, sick mother. She takes her sleeping potion at half past 11 every night, and till half past 1 it keeps her quiet. In a week from now, my sister, Who is a shopgirl at the Bon Marche, will lose her position. They •re discharging many hands there now that the dull season has begun to set in. But I have been positively promised a place in the chorus of the new opera at tho Comique, provided I can only learn how to use my voice a little better than I use it now. My sister, you see, mon sieur, will then become my mother’s nurse, and the money that she can no longer earn I will eafa instead. At least this is my hope, for it seems too hard that the whole burden of our fam ily maintenance should fall upon poor Aehille here. Look at him, monsieur. Achille is not strong. See how pale and thin ho is and only just 19! But he has marked musical talent, and he is help ing mo a great deal. Oh, pray do not have us turned away! It lias cost so much for us to get our piano up here and pay the rent of the room —so much, I mean, for us in our forlorn poverty!” The girl’s lips quivered with entreaty as she paused. Her eyes, large and black, were quite tearless, but they burned with a keen, dry shine. “And what is this new opera, ” asked Duroc gently, “in the chorus of which you hope to obtain a position?” “Does not monsieur know?” here politely asked Achille, whose slender frame was as dim to Duroc as the lat ter’s taller and burlier one was dim to him. It is ‘Fiordelisa, by the celebrat ed composer M. Albert Charantelle. Ho is the writer of live or six other works, all of which have been great successes here in Paris. It is said that ‘Fiordelisa’ will eclipse them all. M. Albert Gbarantelle is a strange gentle mun in certain ways, though greatly beloved, I am told, by a wide circle of friends. For instance, when he has thoroughly completed an opera, and everything is ready for the first rehears al, he has an odd way of disappearing from the world for a week or more and nobody cun find his whereabouts. They say that he lias uow disappeared like this. It is to gain rest, complete rest, or so I have been informed, before the great labor shall begin of putting the opera on Mu- stage But punctually on the maruinftof rehearsal he will appear at the Opera Comique and take up his baton antu drill the singers and the tne stillness As it continued It seemed to blossom even more than to sound. You might have fancied it some gar land woven from flowers of music by the hands of Invisible spirits The poor little ill tuned piano seemed to its lis teners an instrument of diapason divine Entranced, intoxicated, the young girl felt her brother’s hand clutch her own. “It is he, Gilberte, ” gasped Achille. "It is M Albert Charantelle himself! I once heard him play at a cqpcert, and some one near me said, ‘lf he had not chosen to be a great composer, he w ould have been the greatest of pianists!’ ” “Mon Dieu!” faltered the young girl, and Mme. Toudouche, enveloped in an extremely unbecoming wrapper, gave a whinny of consternation. Here the music slowly ceased in a ripple of tinkling arpeggios. With his hands dropping away from tho keys, M. Albert Charantelle turned toward the young girl. "My dear mademoiselle, you must accept from me a louis tonight for the sake of your poor mother” — “Oh, monsieur!" cried Gilberte, bursting into sobs. “And at 10 ’clock, juste a l’heure, next Monday morning, present yourself with this card at the stage entrance of the Opera Comique. Then you shall see what you shall sea From your tira liras I feel already quite convinced that you will do excellently well in at least one or two of the choruses of ‘Fior delisa. ’ ” Gilberte passionately kissed the card. "Oh, Achille, you are right! It is he— it is the real M. Charantelle himself I Ah, what a wonderful stroke of good luok!” _ “And now, ” said the gentleman, run ning one hand through his short glossy curls while he fixed the gaze of his brilliant, tawny brown eyes first on Achille and then on his sister, “I havs to beg a favor of yon both. Please give ms a few quiet nights from now until Monday next. Will you not kindly grant me this favor?” Achille broke in to a laugh at what struck him as the delicate satire of these words, but Gil berte wiped her eyes, from which the grateful tears had uot yet ceased to flow.—Edgar F’awoett in Collier’s Weekly D 1 (Tailed Light. The superiority of diffused light ovef that which is direct is now generally insisted upon by scientific experts, the fact being urged that, while the lattel wearies the eyes and predisposes to shortsightedness, the former is, like sunlight, soft and soothing. The prin ciple involved in lighting a room by this method is certainly sufficiently simple and practicable for its general adoption, consisting, that is, in having reflected upon the ceilings and walls the required luminous rays, which thus fall softly on the desk or worktable. All that is necessary to secure this re sult is to place a reflector not above the source of light, but below it, by which arrangement all the rays are reflected toward the ceiling In some of the pub lic assembly places and institutions of France unique methods are resorted to in carrying out this plan, as at the school of St Cyr, where a conical re flector, painted entirely white, is placed under the arc lights, while at the ly ceum in Aix a parabolic reflector is used, which is bronzed on the lower and silvered on the upper part A great light is thus obtained, far more than If direct THE VOLUNTEER STATE. Tennessee’s Prowess In All Our Country’s Wars. In the revolutionary war, in 1812, in the Creek and Seminole wars and in the conflict with Mex ico, Tennessee earned the reputa tion and sobriquet ot the Volun teer State. In the revolution her pioneers left their feeble and un protected settlements on the Hol ston, Watauga and Nolachucky to pour themselves a torrent of death on the invaders of the Carohnas. At the commencement of the war of 1812, before any requisi tion from the government, 2,500 Tennesseeans volunteered; and this uumbe" was increased to 28,000 before its close. Tennes see fought the Creek war almost unaided, and furnished the heroes who won the bloody field of Chai nlet t.e before the gates of New Or leans. It was Tennessee valor and in the person of the gallant Gaines that won the victorv for the American arms at Fort Erie, which first checked the invasion of the east. In the Mexican war Tennessee’s quota was 2,800, and 80,000 volunteers responded to the call. In fact from the revo lution to the great civil conflict Tennessee took a leading part in every war. When the war be tween the states came Tennessee furnished 200,000 men to the con federacy and 85,000 volunteers to the union; thirty-nine general officers to the confederates and eight to the federalists. To the southern navy she gave a Maury, the pathfinder of the seas, and to the northern a Farragut. The claim that Tennessee furnished more soldiers to the civil war than any other state will hardly be disputed. Four hundred and eight battles and skirmishes were fought within her limits, a record sur passing that of any other state except Virginia; and Tennessee’s soil holds “the dreamless dust” of more heroes that died in the con flict between the states than does the soil of any other state. Noh all is peace and fraternity. Should the restored uuiou call for sold iers, regiment after regiment would enlist as fast as men could write their names, peers of the vitorious Tenth Legionaries of Home or the invincible Ironsides of Cromwell. —Walter P. Brown low in The Illustrated American. The University of Missouri re; OVER THE STATE. The Monroe cotton mills will be doubled in size. • Baldwin couuty will have a pro hibition election on Nov. 17. Col. Frank A. Irwin pf Cedar town is a candidate for congress. There is another movement on foot among the Atlanta negroes to imigrate to Africa. Four negroes are to be tried for murder at the next term of Troup county superior court. Charles Z. Blalock, a member of the law firm of Culberson & Bla lock of Atlanta, died Friday from an attack of appendicitis. A republican meeting was held at Gainesville recently at which H. P. Farrow was unanimously in dorsed for the postmastership of Gainesville. At a recent meeting of the Au gusta presbytery in Sparta, the pulpit of the Second Presbyterian church at Augusta was declared va cant. Rev. B. M. Shive, the pas tor, recently received a call to a church iu Memphis, and notified his congregation that he had ten dered his resignation to the pres bytery. |The Union Trust Company and other creditors of the Kirkpatrick Hardware Company of Atlanta filed a petition Thursday to place the Kirkpatrick Hardware Compa ny in the handsof a receiver. The Kirkpatrick Hardware Company sold out its slock of goods Oct. 31, 1896, to John M. Lofton, and then proceeded to wind up its business. Information has reached Baxley that Dr. Ed Overstreet, a promi nent physician in his section of the country, while intoxicated near Surrency, Thursday, killed a ne gro minister by the name of Mc- Cabe, who was sleeping. A friend called him to go, and the doctor hearing it remarked, “No, he can’t go,” shot him five or six times, in stantly killing him. Prof. J . P . Campbell of Athens has gone to Thomasville to inspect a large number of fruit trees at the nurseries there. Under the law it is necessary that all trees that are shipped out of tho state be in spected by the state entomologist before shipped and that he certify that they are free from insects or disease. Prof. Campbell has a great deal of this work to do each year. The November term of the Sump ter supei ixuc, court will not be a leDgthy one so far as civil busi ness is concerned, less than thirty new cases having been entered up on the docket and these involving small amounts. The criminal docket is heavy as usual, however, and this will serve to keep the court busy until after the holidays. There are already thirty-five pris oners in jail awaiting trial. Profs. W. H. Bocock and C. M. Suellingare representing the state university at the meeting of the association of colleges and public schools now in session at Knox ville, Tenn. Among the important matters to be considered will be the report of the committee on the requirements for entrance into the different classes of Greek. Of this committee, Prof. Bocock of the University of Georgia is chairman. Raft Watson, colored, was shot with a load of buckshot from am bush at Dearing, near Thomson, Monday night and instantly killed. George Hobbs, colored, was arrest ed and jailed as the murderer. It is thought that Hobbs intended to kill a negro named Marlin, who was with Watson, with whom Hobbs had had a quarrel about his wife. Hobbs denies the killing but there is a strong case against him. Dahlonega Nugget: The suit of Bigbee vs. Summerour-Spriggs over the rich gold mine, which was guarded with the gun and bayonet came to an end last week. The ju ry was out all night without reach ing a verdict and a settlement was agreed upou the next morning. Mr. Bigbee pays the cost, takes charge of the mine and the colored man interested allowed the pro ceeds of a certain amount of ore he had taken out. Madison Madisonian : Mr. W. D. Thomas, of Savannah, was in the city Friday on business of im pc rtance to our citizens. He pro poses to build Madison a system of water works to be operated in con nection with our electric light sys tem. He proposes to operate both at a ci st to our city of about $4,000 annually. He proposes to lay piping over the town and build a stand fipe if the city will agree to pay the $4,000 annually. The city continued obstinate, were sent to jail. Their sentences were SIOO or thirty days’ imprisonment each. The police have been requested to subpoena before the recorder 200 persons who, it is.alleged, have vi olated the ordinance. The case of Frank K. Russak, ex ecutor ol the last will and testa ment of Benjamin Russak, against William Wolf was tried at Macon Friday, and the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for $20,000 principle, $1,286.19 interest, and $2,128.61 attorneys fees and costs. This was a suit brought for the re covery of $20,000 loaned by the late Beujamiue Russak to the firm of Wolf & Happ some years ago for the erection of their large building. The building will be sold at public outcry. Dairen Timber Gazette: During the last month there was shipped from Darien, coastwise and foreign 2,429,825 feet of hewn and sawn timber and lumber. During the month ending on the 31st ultimo, there was measured at the public boom in Darien 750,000 feet of square, scab and sawn timber. This does not include the sawn timber and lumber which came in during the month and was carried direct to the private booms. Du ring the week there was shipped from the port of Darien, coastwise and foreign, 1,842,248 feet of tim ber and lumber. No Flaws in His Story. A half dozen travelling men were seated in the little station waiting for the east bound train, says the Ohio State Journal. First would come a blinding flash of lightning and then a deafening peal of thunder. A fearful storm was raging. “This is a scary night to be on the road,” remarked the soap drummer. “I see where you are .right,” said the cigar man. “As I remem ber,” he continued, “it was just such a night as this when the train struck a bad place four miles east of here, and the next instant was off the bridge. I was the only passenger on the train to escape with his life.” “When was that?” was asked. “Latter part of August, 94. “I fail to recall that wreck,’” said one of the crowd. “So do I,” said another. “How many did you say was killed ?” asked the soap drummer. “Didn’t say anybody was killed,” remarked the cigar man. “You didn’t, eh ? You said you were the only passenger who es caped with his life.” “Certainly; that is easily ac counted for,” explained the cigar man, looking innocent. “I was the only passenger on the train.” “Aha! that’s your game, is it?” said the soap drummer. “Hold on here,” said the only one in the crowd who had not spoken up to this time, as he hustled up in front of the cigar man, “you said you struck a bad place on the road.” “We did, but got over it all right. ” “But you said you run off the bridge ?” “That’s all right. We ran off it after we had crossed it. That story is all right, boys. You can’t pick a flaw in it. ” The Georgia Penitentiary. Some interesting figures are presented by the principal keeper of the penitentiary in his annual report just issued. Of the 2,800 convicts, Fulton contributed 2748 —and the mill is still grinding, Judge Candler be ing on deck with a full head of water —Chatham 147 and Bibb 109. Dawson, Echols, Fayette, Har ralson, Lumpkin, Murray and White only have one each, and Gilmer, Pickens and Towns none. There are 899 serving life sen tences, 190 were sent up for twen ty years, 103 for fifteen years, 862 for ten years, 335 for five years and 12 for one year. The average sentence is a fraction over eight years. The ages range from fourteen to seventy-two. 4 Burglary seems to be the most popular pastime with this class of gentry, 780 having been committed for this offense, while murder comes second with 878. Tkere is one each of the follow ing avocations: Actor, printer, policeman, railroad conductor, bookbinder, news reporter, doctor, cab maker, civil engineer and two preachers. There are three news boys, 868 farmers and 975 labor ers; 157 are married and 1,278 single; 871 read and write, 218 read only, and 1,146 are wholly il- EDITORIAL BREVITIES. Kansas has 886,000 children of school age. Great Britain is spending some thing like £78,000 in agricultural education. Great Britain is strengthening Gihralter by constructing a huge protected harbor and dockyard. In London 206 firms, employing 15,500 men have conceded the eight hours demand. The secretary of the interior has reversed the decision of his predecessor that “marble was h£„ * a mineral.” Some folks in Hiawatha, Kan., nang a piece of raw beef over the bed at night for the mosquitos to feed on. Since dairy instruction has been introduced into Ireland, Irish but ter is beginning to recover the position it has lost. The Oldtown, Me., woolen mill is running part of the card and spinning rooms until 11 p. m., re suming work again at 8 a. m. A Lewiston, Idaho, company has gone into the business of pol ishing opals. The Lewiston gems, it is said, command the highest price, * ,n \Vr * John Stollar, a Nebraska faGTU““ er who went into debt for eighty acres of land, has raised enough wheat on the farm this year to clear the debt. The city of Duluth, Minn., is in such hard financial straits that it has had to close up five of the fire stations and dismiss a third of its police force. Benjamin Bissell, of Ballstou Spa, N. Y., thinks he holds the record. He has voted for eighteen presidential candidates, not one of whom was elected. The land of morning calm, an cient Korea, opened two more of its ports to the world October 7th. Chipampo and Nulpo are on the coasts of two rich provinces. A “health evangelist” who is talking in the west says that in his opinion many cases of alleged total depravity are only cases of.' total indigestion. A new ordinance in Chicago re quires that all fruit, berries and vegetables shall have the quanti ty marked on each package, so it can -ba .clearly read by the pur chaser. ' * When dead bodies are entered as cargo on a ship they are often recorded on the invoices as statu ary. or natural history specimens, to allay the superstitions fears of the crew. A happy little maideq of 111., is the proud possessor of six teen five-leaf clovers, twenty-six tour-leaf clovers and two six-leaf clovers, all of which she found in one morning. One large agency inLondou em ploys women for bailiffs, putting them in charge where the victim of distraint is a woman or an el derly person who is not likely to make trouble for the custodian. There are now cieties in the United which membership depends on scent from ancestors who distin- ’ guished themselves by coming to ' America at an early date, or Ip* J being participants in American! wars prior to 18G1. 1 The University of has voted to confer the | doctor of queen of RonmaTiTa, whose peril name is Carmen SylVa, and a utation from the university facul- i ty will take the diploma to the queen at Buda-Pesth. The trolley cars in Des Moine#,/ lowa, are fitted with letter boxes/4 and they are required whenever a citizen deposit a letter. As the poßtoilice an official removqM the mail from the box. I The British troops in India havjj received orders to carry 20 rouni fa of ball ammunition at church rades. This practice was tinned only a few years back, its renovation can duly be loufll upon a- a i ,i i a u at' h and cha> mouse. B i(lsn. The B 1 v married the woman ?■ a'VU-ed the seller of steal. watch and chain, and the went t<> a magistrate o'eusi r's arrest on a efl bigamy. M 'i cral” soap is the ‘“BliffBI id sir kind of e .el i- parts W \ e ■ w hen taken from tlfl Her exposure * e , - light cr Ut - llv kron ’wall W NO 4.