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VOL, XXVII. NO 12 GOVERNOR CRAWFORD. An esfe mod correspondent writes a letter to the prize com mittee of the Press that after some search she has not found any record of a duel fought by Governor Crawford, of Georgia. She finds that Win. H.-Crawford fought two duels, and that James Jackson also killed op ponents on the so-called “field of honor,” but no record is made of George W. Crawford. Our correspondent will proba bly find no trace of the inci dent in print. It is a fact, however, that George W. Craw ford killed a man in a duel and was so much overcome by tlie result of the meeting that his ' friends declare he was never the sane al .tward. He supported the family of his dead antago liist as long as lie lived. George W. Crawford lived in Richmond county, about ten miles above Augusta. He served with Toombs and Stephens in the general assembly and was twice governor of the state. Ho was appointed secretary of war by President Zachary Tay • lor, and after the death cf the latter made a tour abroad. He presided over the state sover eignty convention in Milledge ville, January 1(1, 1801.—Sa vannah Press. HE WALKS ON THE WATER. Americas people are interest in the performance of one Rob ert Cook, who will astonish the world by walking on the sur face of the Ohio river from Pitts burg to Cincinnati. Cook was reared here and is well remem bered, though it is said that Cook is his ‘stage name’ only The New York Journal has the following mention of ‘Prof.’ Cook’s exploit: “Bob Cook, of Boston, who was born in Americas, Ga., doesn’t claim to be amphibious, but he will walk on the water from Pittsburg to Cincinnati “The distance is about 400 miles nnd a little hilly in spots, s ' some people say. A wager of SI,OOO lias been made that he can’t accomplish this feat within fifteen days. “Cook was in the city yester day on his way to New Orleans, where lie will go into training on the surface of Luke Ponehar train. “The shoes he v/ears aro the real water shoes, four feet long, six inches wide and six inclns deep. There are fins on either side ond on the bottom. When he takes a step with the other foot the fins on the shoe re maining still as" opened and form resistance to the water, preventing him from slipping tackwark “Cook will be folic wed down the Ohio by a launch and a press boat. He »ays he will wjn.”-Ainericus Times-Record er. MAN VKRSI S DOG. In the Superior court recent ]y, Judge William H. Folton. Jr., commented in vigorous language on a n mar!* m ide by counsel, in saying that if tin* I person on wtiom the attack was piftde had been killed no great j harm would have been done. ‘•lt is unfortunately too close to the truth,” said the Judge, earnestly and emphatically, “that the present state of the pubiic mind justifies that as sertion. I am pot. at all sure in the light of recent events, that punishment is not more certain to bo imposed for the killing of a dog than for the killing of a man. ” While this may he in some measure an exaggoratioon of t|>e situation in Georgia today, the exaggeration is qo slight as to justify grave concern on the part of law-abiding citizens There is no doubt of the tael I that punishment is not Dieted I out to man-slayers with that certainty a''U promptitude which compel respect for hu man life on the part of hot tempered and over-hasty men. Encouragement is to be found however, in the fact that men like Judge he 1 top, who are in position to do much t u * ar ‘l (! bringing about thts necessary peforios, are alive to the gravity pf theif responsibilities and in dicate a determination to meet them with vigor uud courage. L'tteiunces such us is quoted above give promise of the dawn ing of a better day in this re spect. —Macon Telegraph. SOMETHING*TO KNOW. It may bp worth something know that yery best medicine B«>r rest >ribg the tired opt npr ■’voiis system to a hmlthy vigor is Electric Hitters. This medi cine i* purely vegetable, acts by giving tone to the i e-vc centn s in the stomach, gently stimu lates the Liver and Kidmy, gnd aids those organs in throw” ink tjff impurities in tl|e blood, j}| ctrio Hitters iiopro\«* the appetite, aids digestion and is pronounced by those who tried it as the vtry best blood purifier ami nerve tonic,. Try it. hold for ,V>c. or *1 per bottle at \Vum «i. Son’s Drug Store. The Gwinnett Herald GREELEY’S GEORGIA VISITOR. A SHARP CONVERSATION BETWEEN X.AMAR AND THE HREAT EDITOR. Wallace P. Reed in the Chicago Times-Herald. Among the southerners in Gotham in the fall of 18rif> was Col. Albert Lamar, a brilliant. Georgian, whose editorial work mi the Macon Telegraph some years ago brought him into the front rank of the journalists of that region. Lamar was a representative of the old south. He belonged to a distinguished family, and was proud of his ancestry and his connection. One day the colonel found himself in front of the Tribune office, He smiled as he recalled some humorous description of Editor Greeley, and lie suddenly felt a desire to see the man who had been so bitterly bated and de nounced by his fellow- country men south of the Potomac. •* Why not call on him ? Lamar debated" this question -in his inind for some time. He was a scholar and a gentleman, vitli the blue blood of the Huguenots rioting in his veins, while the editor of the Trihuuo belonged to tin* “lmid-sill” class, Gould he' afford to call on such a man ? The Georgian was not long in making up his mind. He was in New' York to see the sights—to study the freaks and oddities of a strange people, who, by some inexplicable de cree of providence, had con quered their superiors in the luckless land of Dixie. So he entered the Tribune building and sent in his card to the editor. He was speedily admitted, but his .reception soniewhnt disconcerted him. Evidently his name had not impressed the old man who sat scratching away at his desk as if his life depended upon the completion of his work within a given time. The colonel remained stand ing a moment and then, in some embarrassment, be sat down in the nearest chair. The busy man at the desk continued to spin out his mys terious hieroglyphics without looking up or saying a word. The visitor felt that he was in an awkward fix. He was there uninvited, with no mo live beyond the gratification of his idle curiosity. He was in the house of his enemy, and he began to think that he had act ed very unwisely in placing himself in sucti a position. “Confound the old rascal!” lie said to himself. “How am I to accouqt for my visit ? J have no business here, and lie has no time to talk with me.” He was wondering how he could slip out of the room, when Mr. Greejey pusliei) his copy asjije and suddenly wheel ed his chair around so that-he could face his caller. -• “Howdy-do, Mr. Lamar,” lie said briskly, with his keen eyes fastened upon the colonel. “Hnt exeuse me, yoti ary prqhqhly a oolonej.” “They call me by that title at home,” replied Lamar stiff ly- “ Why, certainly,” wus the answer. “I might have known that. What was your regi meut ?” “I hud no regiment,” replied Lamar “In Georgia nearly every prominent man is called colonel, unless lip is a minister, a physician or a judge.” •‘Exactly,” answered the other. “Very sensible custom It must be a delightful country where a man can bo a full fledged colonel without ever giviug his attention to military affairs for even a single hour. Think I’ll fijn dq\yn thpre pext winter and becomp a colonel myself,” This bantering tail* was not pleasant to Lamar and he drew himself up rather haughtily us lie prepared a crushing rebuke. Hill his crusher was never de livered. Hefore lie could open his mouth Greeley addresser] him ugajq. “And sft you are from fieof !gia, colonel ? 1 wonder jf yu belong to that family of La? i mars who have been notorious I for generations as pirates and sla\o-lradui* ? I mean lire La- LAWRENCEVILLE. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE Ist 1897. mars who came over here from the other side of the sen to se cure liberty for themselves and deny it to others—the Lamars who tried to build up an aris tocracy with slavery for its cor ner stone —the Lamars who stole negroes from Africa and landed them in this country— the Lamars who defied our con stitution and laws—tln* Lamars who caused a Georgia grand jury to indict me because some copies of my paper wore circu lated id that State? Do you belong to that family of slave dealers and rebels ?” It was impossible to interrupt the speaker while lie was pour ing out this torrent of questions and file Georgian was so much surprised that he temporarily lost his self-possession. Astonishment and anger strug gled for supremacy in his mind, and lie was trying to decide whether he should answer or tight or take a dignified depart ure, when the Tribune editor broke into a genial laugh, and a flood of -sunshine seemed .to leap from bis eyes, “Ha, ha! - ” lie laughed. “Took you by surprise, didn’t I ? Well, I guess that you Lamars are among the brainest and bravest of the whole lot. How are you getting on down in Georgia ?” Forgetting his wrath of a moment before, Lamar replied that the people of the entire south were in hard luck and many of them were suffering. “Stop playing poker and drinking so much champagne! ” snapped Greeley sharply. “You fellows must giue up your vices and your extravagant ways and settle down to hard work and hard economy.” By this time the visitor had found his tongue. He was just angry enough to talk eloquent ly and with the proper spirit. For nearly an hour he defend ed his section and explained the sisuaUon as he viewed if, and from'time to time the great editor nodded approvingly or asked a question showing his deep interest in the subject and. his w illingness to hear the other side of the question. When Lamar had finished he rose to lea-, i. still regretting tliat lie had ever seen the in side of the Tribune office. Hut the sunny-faced old man who stood looking at him with a kindly light in his honest eyes was altogether different from the eccentric person who had made himself so disagree able a short time before, “Lamar, 1 like you,” said the philosopher in his hearty way, “and if I can do anything to advance your interests while you are in the city, or at any time, just let me know. 1 would like to help you," The ex-confederate thanked him in a bewildered way, and after a hearty handshake left the office feeling like u limn who was recovering from u crazy dream. “When I reached the street,” said Lamar in relating the story, “I pinched myself to make sure that I was awake. I walked about two miles think ing the matter oyer »ud trying to deoidu whether I had done right in not resenting Greeley’s offensive remarks, ] recalled the many things that I had heard about Ids eccentricities, and I came to the conclusion that he was an exceptional character, aud not to be judged by ordinary rules. I never saw him again, but 1 shall always think of him a man with a big heart and a wise. His rough tongue hurt him m<>re titan it did others, because it made him misi|itdpr«tuQd. There was not tho slightest spite or malice in what he said about the Lamars. It was just ids (Mid way of draw ing me out and sizing me up.” Lamar followed Greeley over the du]k riyer sopip years ago, and no southern journalist has since appeared who can he re garded fts Jd w Pt iU ll l i» the field of work in which he distinguish? ed himself, * The Medical Society of Hern has inaugurated a plan for the suppression of pre§s notions of ! suicides, as it haq been observed i that epidemics of sqicides, so called, come from ‘suggestions' acquired through printed ao coitnts of them; In former times deformed people were frequently thrown into prison to he kept out of sight. | THE MATTER OF NIC EVE; Fifty years ago nerves wen ! not a recognized factor in oi ■ | civilization; now even childrr t know them and acknow led;: ■ ! them as terrible masters. This is true all over the world, in Europe as well as in America, for we can make no claim t" the monopoly of a disease f. r which we invented the name of nervous prostration. Yet we may safely declare that we have always with us a majority of the cases, ns well ns causes, aid have even been forced to make a verb to express the condition of “over-doing. ” A medical authority who lies given much attention to tin subject, finds that a new form of nervous trouble is confined largely to northern Europe and to the northern part c f the Lnited States. He has called the illness House Nerves, and believes that those who romai' do much in-doors are tie special victims of the distress ing ailment. The sympton s are low spirits, brooding ov i wrong, real or imaginary, grea irritability and morbid habit <■' mind. Women, of course, funds' the greatest per cent, of tli sufferers—men whose work con fines them to offices are next in number, and the worst patient of thorn all is the woman who inclined to lie delicate, remain in the house for every pnssiii clowd. every change in the tiler ammeter. Such a creature i j really afflicted—she is nlway> imagining the evil that wi I happen to the absent husband and children, conjuring u phantom terrors w hem-ver ikjw departure is to be in i weeping over the spill no I which is irrevocably lust. T poor patient soon begin* -to study herself, her wants, In i symptoms, her loneliness, In t lack of appreciation and eympu thy, until at last she is on : fair road to insanity, rinip'y through loss of her power <> self-control and balance —fn there is no other aliment to b discovered. For the most desperate cas there is positive eti'e, if onl» tlie Woman can be made to de sire it earnestly enough, and i is a strange phase of house nerves that the patients 1 o longer wish to be well, but ail unconsciously, look upon illness as a sort of sacred calling, i> coign of vantage which they are loath to yield. The prescription for the cure consists of a judicious mixture of fresh air and exercise, Tlier is no help in drug or doctor, while tonics and pills only mak matters worse. The c uise spran; from a definite cau-o—lack o air and exercise—ajid tl e com plete cure must lie i i tile direc tion of a removal of the cause. —The American. ON lIIS DIGNITY. The young king of Spain stands on his dignity and mak> - his small companions know tli difference between a reigning sovereign and a subject- While staying at St. Seba?- tian lie was accustomed to bathe and swim and play w ith a cer tain young count, and every thiug„went on well until oi e day, when playing al fives, tl e count lost Ids temper and gaw the king's bull an angrv bit back. In doing so it struck (In king. Ho did not say a word, but liis face flushed, and the ye was a look in hje abnormally large eyes that the count had never seen before. Instead of gp do gizing the count grew defiant, and the same thing ecu it. <1 again- pivked up bi hat, and bowing stifily he said. “Count, 1 cannot huve for my friend any one who is so rus . as to lose his temper at play The countess, deeply distress ed at w hat had occurred, sought ail interview with the qliye Wlien she was ushered into In r presence, she found, thy king was there, and not tilling to tell her minion befo.re him, beg. n to speak on other subjects, hi j the king guessed why she had dome, and, after greeting her It said, “I am sorry to lose the so oiety of your son, but a ki g lias Ids dignity io keep lip, and bad manners are worwe than 1 std play.”—;Hh]ladelnhia lad* ger. —■ " ■ —— A machine is being invent' d {Hut is quurrauteed to take UK) pictures a minute. I’ho Philadelphia judge whir resigned to tukeq more lucra tive cierliship in his court was CHRIST’S SENTENCE. TRANSLATION OK PONTIUS PILATE'S VERDICT FROM THE ITERREW. from the New ’lork Herald. One of the most curious doc uments in existence—namely, the sentence which was passed upon Jesus Christ by I’ontius I’ilare—has just been brought to light Uy the Maiquis de Tro goff-Cauvaux. The history of this document is interesting. It is reproduced fmm a brass plate which was discovered in the Villa d’ Aquila, in Naples, in 1720. The French commission ers of arts were making excava tions in Naples in that year, md they found this plate in an antique vase of marble. When they left Naples the plate was removed to the sarcristy of the Chartreux monastery, near by, where it tvas enolosed in a box >f ebony. There it has remain *d ever since, ns the monks re peated that it be left with them. Owing to their many loyal services, their request was granted. A copy of the plate, however, was taken by the French com missioners of arts, and the words thereon, which are in Hebrew, were duly translated into French. Another copy of the plate came into the possession of M. Demon, and when his curiosities were sold wns bought by Lord Howard for 2,890 f. The an tique vase of white marble, in which the plate was orgitially kept, is now in the Chapel of Caserta. Here follows a translation of the words on the plate: “Sentence rendered by Pon ius l’ilate, governor regent of Lower Galilee, to the effect that lesus of Nazareth shall suffer the punishment of the cross. “In the year 17 of the Em pire of Tiberius Caesar, and the 2o day of the month of March, in the Inly city of Jerusalem- Anll as and Caiaphas being priests and gQprificors of the people of God, Pontius Pilate governor of Lower Galilee, seat 'd oil the presidential seat of ihe Praetorium. “Condemns Jesus of Nazareth to die on a cross between two iliieves in consequence of the following weighty and notorious testimony on the part of the people: “First—Jesus is a seducer. “Second—He is seditious. “Third—He is an enemy of the law. •‘Fourth —He falsely calls himself the aon of God. “Fifth—He falsely calls him self King of Israel. “He entered into the temple, followed by a multitude bearing palms iu their hau ls. “I’ontius Pilate orders the first Centurion Guiriher Corne lias to lead him to the place of punishment. “Warns all persons, whether poor or rich, not to prevent the death of Jesus. “The witnesses who have signed tho sentence against Jesus are: “First—Daniel Tobani, u Pharisee, ‘ ‘ Hecoud—J oan lies /i »roba bel. “Third —Taphael Tobani. “Fourth —Capet, a public man. “Jesus w ill leave the city of Jerusalem by the Stiunean gate.” The words of this sentence fill the entire plate, except a small portion on one side, and there appear these words) “A similar plate hus been sent to each tribe.” Evidently, then, there were at one time several copies of this sentence in existence, but what bus become of them no one knows. THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS LIFE. Mr. G. Gaillouytto, Druggist, Heaversville, 111. says: “To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and tried all the physi ciana for null s about, but of no uvu l and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King’s New Discovery iu my store 1 sent for a bottle and be gan its use aud from the .first dose began to get better, and after q*ing throe bottles was ap uud abtait again. ]t is woith its weight iq gold, We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial at Wimufe Son’s Drug Store. —— „ Win# botUrs aftj host cleaned with chartfail, broken iu small pieces, and a little ebarcuut left ill buttles UjKfflgm -.1 IW-. wffl effect tin Ila mivVs?; A WON DE REEL SIGN. A writer says, in regard to the Prussia of fifty years ago, j that it had a state lottery, and lin every town, large or small, was a collector appointed to sell tickets, says the Youth's Companion, One day a sc-r --vant girl came to the collector in Hagen, and asked if she oould buy No. 23. He did not have it in his pos session. but, as the girl seemed very much in earnest, and re fused to he put off with any other, he tried to obtnin it from some of other collectors in town, and finally succeeded. The drawing took place, and Hagen rose to a state of fever ish excitement when it wns known that this girl had be come a winner of a large sum of money. She found herself, for a time the chief object of interest in the town. She was, of course, asked how she dime to fix upon No. 23. Thereupon she gave this simple and lucid explanation: “I dreamed one night No. 7> and t lie second night 1 dreamed No. 7, and a third night again. So I thought ‘Three tiniesseven makes twenty-three,’. and 1 bought that number.” SHE TOOK THE HINT. A private soldier’s washing at a home station is usually done by the married soldiers’ wives, who are expected to sew on ni:s sing buttons autl do genera! re pairs, says Scottish Nights. Pat McGinnis had a good deal of trouble with his laun dress. Sunday after Sunday had his shirt come back with the eollnr button off -or else hanging by a thread. • He had spoken, to her 011 the subject, and she bad promised to see to it; I nit still the buttons were always missing. On Sunday he got out of pa tience when a missing button had made him late fur church parade. “Rad luck to the woman!” he exclaimed. “Begurru, I'll give her a hint this time, any how!” He then took the lid of a tin blacking box, about three inches in diameter, drilled two ho!es in it with a fork and sewed it on the shirt, which be sent t<> lie washed. When his washing came buck he found his laun dress lmd taken the hint. She had made a buttonhole to fit it! HOW TO LOSE A CFSTOM ER. A possible costumer in the millinery department, was ex amining a hut very attentively when the ambitious salesgirl ap proached, says the New York Press. “That hat is a bargain,” sin said persuasively, “reduced from $lO. It is just the thing to suit your style.” The customer nodded, but said nothing, and the girl per sisted. “My friends think 1 have excellent taste in such matters, and L should be glad to suggest any little alteration that may be needed iu the trim ining. The hat will look lovely on you.” “I uni looking for a hat for my daughter, who is just seven* teen," said the customer, quiet ly. * The sales girl hastened to make amends. “Oh,"said she, “better take the hat, I localise it is n bargain. It will look just as well on a young face.’' Then she wondered why an angry woman bounced out ot the store. THE CYNIC. Thank a man for an unexpec tod favor, ai d then watch. The man who attends parties, or who is in love, should givt one half of his salary hack to his employer. Ministers’ wives are to be pitied. They can’t tell their husbands what good inert their ministers are. No mine wants to Is* a woman logger than it would tuke to show his wife that he ('an im prove on her method*. A funeral w a family reveals a great many surprising kin* shins that no number of parties and receptions had eyes made public. Aland all a man gets in this life is his hoard and clothes. If you have good hoard and clothes, you are a succuxs.—At chison Globe, BtU'KUi.VH AiiXG A HAI.VK rite I'l V rvqye iu (lie world fur Cuts, liruUes. nu.ys, Sat Kliuala, f ever sort's, Ten er,t;tu W .tilaiid (or.*a and alt Mu« mmLS&JZ 1.00 PER ANNUM, IN /&&*NC r ' missionary col umn. I This column is devoted Nt" the missionary cause, and igu<L fieri by the \V . I. M. Societal I Lftwrenceville auxiliary. |] V MISSIONARY i u^kss It is fixed. “I will'.'*" * ;lre the decree.” It is definite. “I lh>. heathen for thine a nr"," It e V or -'Npaiidniufl '■ - -11 pro| .iii-i 11- \ - lh " ankh’s,” ‘.'to tli.. Wg| •O' i 111 m," that “caimeSH passed over. ” It is to be universal. Go an “disciple all the nations.” .w whole world full of believing sons and daughters. It i- irresistible. “All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore,” Jt is with Christ's presence. “Lo, I am with you all the days.” It is inspiring. When duty’s brow is sunlit with hope, tin feet and heart take wings.—Dr. Herrick Johnson, in Mission field. china’s TKEMINO MILLIONS. “Yes, over three hundred millions. Would you like to see them pass, thirty each min ute? Then you must stand there never tiring, never sleep, ng, closely watching night and day, week after week, month after month for more than twenty years, and then you will have seen the people in that .one country only. “Only lien then Chinese!” Rut “only heathen Chinese” have sins and pains and sorrows, and hearts lo feel them, too, the same as you. “Heathen Chinese” are brothers ami sisters whom Je sus bids you love. Even “hea then Chinese” have souls to be saved or lost, and I suppose it was for “heathen Chinese” ns much as for you that the Sav iour shed His hlood. Can it make any difference to God whether you are respectable Americans or only “heathen Chinese?” People are people, men are men, souls are souls, wherever they are. Oh! it is a cruel shame, a disgrace to the Clpirch of Christ, that we are almost at the close of the nine- tecntli century and millions of our follow men have never heard of Jesus yet —redeemed, hut they don’t know it. To preach the gospel to the heathen I is it the Amusement «r is it the j business of the Church of | Christ? Is it true that the marvels at our un faithfqlnets? Does .Satan won j derat his own success? He* '< long shall he be allowed to tri- J uinpli? How long shall he lie *up|s>Bed to keep these uiiiliou jin his dwu possession? Many |of usaimplv iguor** the Isard's parting message “Go to every! I creature,” bat we expect Him jto smile on us all the same. ; , Who will ponder these things?” I—Selected. Dr. MacGregor met, in the great Scotch oitv, a little girl carrying in her arms a baby so large that she fairly staggered under the weight. “Baby is heavy, isn't In* dear?" said the d'ictor. “No,” replied the girl, “he isn’t heavy; he’s my brother." The missionary burden is gone when the human brother hood is recalled.—Ex. . “I'eoph* are not yet done with saying that it takes j£fi,ooo to convert a Jew, That is far tdo cheap an estimate, for it costs the bleod of the Lord of glory to purchase salvation for even one sinner. Itut even if there were Ollty one Jew brought to Christ lor every spent on Jewish missions, would that Im an argument against Jewish missions? No, Jewish mis-' sions rests entirely on the com mand of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a faithful church must still carry the gu*|*d to the Jews even if not a single Jew j accents it." Burim.^ P-aluis, iii Burmese, wlii(jqj | n; ,j been jell behind >tn#el or S 'e hSnisid iM r . pm tl|l t|| Sg % -iniiary npp^|» s ,»i vatioS3HniffH| 1 >■ i-1 j fir-ingUaimnif iujnH . ami he santf '" v ' " - I have waUtjad'BlSfff w I ne»‘ tiui^pn^Hn ms TlU)£BLi?*.' t # 1 } ' a more for ft- t tun* had a s<>re feeling Ml ntp*fc[ upper part id' It is thro*s. v".‘ ■’f rip ••*.,*!i-t n'ul stntetf his catßpSPl* ’ld ■in inent specialist in d In, thi'nat by meßfl H I'nwtlv ii"itrili apparittns4 a!Lj&tA t"ld Mr Spounawiora ho riff* •rtia • U.i at trouble, i rat' dby -yinpi nrnsof 1 lh wrote n prescription an.IJ 1 hand'd it In him. * * ' ;j Tin' hill was |25. ' sfliH Mr. Spounamore paid K and ’ wait tn a druti store to hayo th% M prescription filled. r This costs him ■t-Vmore. /jfl <>ii Ins way home he pnsseirtpPMj dent ist's office. * 8 (thcvmjf a hasty impulse, he 1 went into it. fl ‘1 w ish you would see if there * m is anything the matter rjth my c mouth,” he said to the dentist, ' The dentist made an cxamU nation. “You have a had wischc*' tooth,” he said ■ “Pull it out.” jf It was pulled out. The expense was 50 cents. \ When Mr. Spoonamore got home lie found that his. throat trouble was entirely gom* But he still has his S3O bottle of medicine, which may come bandy if he ever really has or ganic threat trouble complica ted with symptomsof toiieilitis.’ —Chicago Tribune. NEATLY CAUGHT. ii* A builder iu a small town 1 was walking down a street in which he wa- having some build ing j erected, wben he observed one of the men standing on the seafkddixig with his hands iif tux (socket smoking a pipe. He •ait gently up the ladder, and *teppmg in front of him said: "\ » I've caught you. We will hare i*o more of this. Here's yoar four daya' pay lit being Friday }, and you can con sider yourself discharged.” The man pocketed the money and went away, rather quickly. Just then the foreman came up, and the builder told him what he had dune. “Why,” raid the foreman, "that ma:i wasn’t working for us He was only asking for a job.”—London Tit-bits. ITEMS OF INTEREST. * Concord, Ky., has two female paper hangers who arc doing a iiig business. The report is current that Russia will soon abolish the im port duty on agricultural ma chinery. Liverpool intends to join forces with Edinburgh iu con nection wit h the proposed Stev enson memorial. The French Society Aslrnno mique was founded ten years ago and now has a membership of 1,800. It is said that one English •-oiiHiii netted s:tnO.on lasi year out of iiii|H>rinnt bicycle cases with wliiei. be bad to deal. The lakes at the Denver city park will he stoeked with carp, |>erch and bullheads ntul the public will lx> allowed to angle for them. The Woman’s Christian Tern* jsifanee l niou of Battle Creek is iu a quandary. It has re ceived a bequest of money in id property from a notorious sa loon keeper'who has just died. ~ A l*n|ps'- -it KreetlfWuk Ind. „ »*Uitp and joined u. U&MjWj The Supreme cidfiL 1 ® ’ - Jps • ■ d ■ Jfi