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Volume LVII. fFEDERAii Union Established In 1829. |_: Southern Recorder JsiS: [consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., June 14, 1887- Number 4J). 7® ONION & RECORDER, , one dollar and fifty cents a year In TsKSf —i’.^raontlis for aeventy-ilye cents— '•■‘ r * n . c *.i.ri» year if not paid In advance. TV" ‘“irviceVoftloi.. jAmKH M . SmYTBe,areen- f^l^RnKRSL0NIo a N--Rndthe"SOUTHERN ^nnnFR” were consolidated, AuguRt l*t, 1872, helns in its Forty-Third Volume am Rewrderin I ts Fifty-Third Volume. look oxtti Compare tRl. with your purchase! to filch the pockets of another for hi* personal gain. To tlo that is to sub sidize robbery and ought to bring a blush of shame upon the cheek of every honest man in the country. We bring this point to the consideration of our protection friends, for we have esteemed friends among the advo cates of the protective tariff policy. We have a plan of protection, the best that could be adopted to give the utmost prosperity to our manu facturing establishments. As things now stand it would not do to cut down the rates to the proper stan dard. It would be tedious to minute ly specify the changes. The average rate, now, is said to be about forty- four per cent. We must establish the liberty and chance of free trade, by the re-establishment ns rapidly as possible of our commercial marine. During the administrations of Mr. Polk and Mr. Buchanan the tariff was gradually reduced and when Mr. Buchanan’s term of office expired the tariff duty or tax, averaged only 10 per cent. The United States then had as line a Commercial Marine as any nation in the world, and our flag rode in triumph in all the oceans and seas where commerce invited it in trade and exchange of our wonder ful commodities. So prosperous was the Commerce of the United States under the low. tariff* of those years that the tariff ceased to be a living issue. The high tariff .since the war between the states, k«d(cte$Jtfoyed and kept dowrttnwprosiwnly OT the peo ple. Instead of a bold and manly con test for commercial superiority, the protectionists have succeeded in al most totally destroying our commer cial marine. Of all the nations of the eartli the United States should be the most devoted to free trade. As large as all Europe, with perfect free trade From Vickery's Flreslue Visitor. A WOMANLY WOMAN. BY 8. L. HARRIS. A number of gentlemen stood smok- Ing upon the steps of the chief hotel oToftWoYthe many popular watering- resprts lining ths A tlantic coast. At the moment we have selected for their presentation, a groom is leading the bousy before the door A pQwerftil black JWfse equipped Duly noticing the flashing eye, the nervous, restless limbs, and the gen eral air of intractableness that in vested the animal, one of the gentle men removed his cigar from his hand some lips, and, in surprise, turned to his companions. “Do you pave ladies around here who can manage such a brute as that?’’ hc^ekclalmed. “Why, don’t you know?, That is Linn Feniinore’s horse,'’ half a'dozen voices ' hastened to make 'apswer. "Ah, to be„ sip-e, you have 1 just re turned from abroad, and are not pet acquainted with the plaee or its visi tors.” ’’ " 1 , ‘‘.ynd who is Lina Fcniinore?” in- qflrfitha,first speaker, u handsome man in the prime of life, and’with just the suspicion of a despot in hid Yet so generous and attractive was Ralph Robling that women always toop, kindly to and 7 3jssa»sssa&®c , ,'r d ..r; . e l »Ul. C v^uuint** Sc« m»1 ’/ TfMth-M.uk ;.nti tlie full title frwjit of Wi*pi»*V* :tiui oa tj*® iWe etfal iuuI ilpiitturc of J» Hi Zeilln ft ,.T ;n the *;»• vc fac- simile. Remember then bother genuine Simn.oi.h Li ver Regulator- Mareli 29, 1887. 28 cw ly . u “Specimen copy free to anyone ?~° 'u 1 * write to them for it. Besides r ln ’ f l ll 'ties, the piesent high ■-"•1 taxes necessities higher than MORE TARIFF FACTS. We are practicing what may be ‘.(ruled a guerrila warfare against the protective tariff. We do that to have our articles read. To go over thfe ^hole subject, scientifically, would occupy from first to last, more than one hundred and fifty columns of our paper, and they would be unread i y eighty out of a hundred of our readers. The great Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal, of which the very ie and distinguished Henry Watter- ■on is tlie editor in chief, can afford to publish several columns, daily, on subject, and present several to file weekly subscribers, because, out < ! .ts several hundred thousand sub- -enbers many are deeply versed in political economy and science, and nre powerful agents in the distribu tion of wholesome democratic truths on this the most important and lead ing question before the American peo- i ; e. We take occasion, here, to ■ on)mend it to our peoole, npt only ■ or its great ability on riris tariff ques- • on, but its diversified excellence as a source of pleasure and instruction -o the people. The proprietors will -mu a specimen copy free to anyone ” Besides high . higher than mines: for instance, tlie tariff duty, ' 1 t!U - on foreign diamonds is only >-n per cent, on luces only thirty-five, <n the poor man’s blankets one mr.cired per cent; gold jewelry (for / .o' ~ r> P er cent; imitation jewel mi, e P oor 40; diamonds, emer- mV ,1 c '’ ^ or ^ le r *ch, 10 per cent; ?,7 lon diamonds, emeralds, &c., r the poor, 40i>ercent; gold watch aing tor the ricli 25; silk watch vn l 11 } s / or the poor, GO per cent; gold keys for the ricli 25, steel watch v' 8 for the poor 45. We might en- , e 011 point but pass it for - er more urgent matters. We lmve ■ re s i 10 wn that the present . 111 order to raise $200,000,000 , T i e use °f the government, puts a * 01 one billion two hundred mil- s .„ f V>P°n the people of tlie United f) a dollar of w hich goes into .. ..'fed States’ treasury. Who ^ inat immense annual sum? Yea; 11 / ets In? Tliere can be but one i j M, 0 n r ‘ M 16 P resent tariff is rightly '‘ft 8 ? fa F 118 th at sum may af- (-s wn 0t P ct;lon to the manufactur- , .at authority is found in the nstnim tor that purpose? That theen^ 6 ^, f a y 6 Congress may tax ■me fo^!h° f fore te ue *« to raise reve only m,i th ! government. That Is the the y eonRt.>'i- Ther i e is llot a word ^e 8s °t 8 t f utlon which authorizes. or in ^v lB «f 8,ngle dol ‘ar by a tariff Purpo^Zi^ e f wa y tor any ot&* of the 8 !L, tfaan meet the ex’peiuef given t5 ^ er " ment - No authority is or anv°nfk rot *°, t tlie manufacturers, than in h, f r ? lass of citizens, other ’orporntm elr r g mf 8 as Individuals or Vnegovpi- 8, , The xvll0le Po we r of ui c itinr n ' llen t will be called into re- gainst fi, to P rot ect every citizen a- Sovernuien,® ncroac hilients of foreign rightsH Upori his safety or ciU nerson cannot bo used to tax ;q anv trnV 1 ’ the benefit of another the belle of the place, and in the best hand at riding, rowing, swimming, and lawn-tennTs of her sex along the coast.” “Good heaven!” exclaimed Robling, mockingly, “lias it so universally eoiue to tiiis, that a girl's personal at home, and her great variety of pro- j v£ d ue and popularity are to be deter- duotions, she possesses the power l mmedby the possession of such ac- to lead the world in commerce, and coinplishments as these.' yet, slie surrenders commercial con-' , hvidentiytravelhasnot hroaden- trol to a little island in the sea that is ! * <1 ,. y0 Pr, 1 , deas , ’TT 1 -. !"- S s ', ,V V, ect ’ °}t l not ns large as tlie state of Georgia, j fallow, laughed his fi iend i reNCott, Some, even of the protectionists, will! g o0 d-natiired^Iv. Although Lina is he surprised to. learn that of tlie little | .’-'f l _^! r !i,' n P that is left in the exports from this ,VI 1 country to otliers nearly all of it, stead of going in American is sent in foreign ships. It; is stated by good authority that our Afnerican people pay annually, one Hundred and thir ty millions of dollars to foreigners for ocean freight. • How art the mighty fallen! When we pay that immense sum for freights that ought to have been earned by American shipmasters and American seamen. Why is this? Probably, because our people are for that in theory and education she is fitted to become one of tlie b^st lit tle house-keepers alive. But you al ways were a little strict in your views upon the privileges to be allowed the' gentler sex.” The rest of tlie group were wander ing off. Robling and the speaker stood alone together, neither of them aware of a slim woman’s form sta tioned in open sight directly behind them in the door. It was a pretty form, graceful, sin- ship-builders, and why is this tlie case’ To protect American ship builders. How many of our people know tin’s? Yet it is the truth. And we nmv add, that a citizen of tlie United States lias to pay the Ameri can builder from seventy ton hundred dollars more than the foreign builder would charge him for a vessel the cap perched upon the chestnut-brown braids, surmounting the proud, ten der, mischievous face, with its wick ed, bright eyes, to tlie little kidded foot, peeping out where the owner had gathered up the trail of her black riding-habit and flung it across her arm. Fatally unconscious of tiiis se ductive apparition in the rear, Rob- *1 U 14141 4>lllll gC Jll 111 1411 ll T V- 004 1 U1V . j, t » • » same size and structure. Besides, the j , T fnroitrn linilf chins nrf> lipH-pr nmi I a > ^ confess there IS no affinity between me and the loud. more durable than tlie American. One or two more short articles will close some of the special facts which we desired to lay before our readers. We hope the people are paying more attention to this tariff matter than they formerly did, especially, as a special effort is being made to indoc trinate them into tlie belief that pro tection, as it is called, is good for man j masculine young lady of the day—a | young lady, for instance, who could : manage such a beast as that, which i I admit is about as much as I should care to do. To me there is nothing so ' attractive as a womanly woman-one ! possessing the old-fashioned graces of our grand mothers.'' During tlie last moment tlie flush ufacturers farmers, laborers and all ^d deepened in the pretty girl's „«■ ?! i i cheeks, and her bright eves sparkled classesof the people. ’dangerously. Then, tightening her Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, one of Lee's sturdiest fighters, ex pressed in his address views in regard to “The Old South” which can hard ly prove agreeable to Senator Sher man, Cable and other pundits who grasp upon the pearl handle of her riding-wliip, she sped past the two men, ran down the steps to her horse, and hud vaulted lightly into the sad dle, and was dashing away before they had scarcely realized her recent presence. Then Dick Prescott turn would have the world believe that i ed to his friend, everything valuable in Southern char- I “That was Lina Fenimore herself, acter has been produced since 1805. i She must have heard all that we said,” The leading men and the incorrupt!- he exclaimed, aghast. ble men in the field of national poli tics before the civil war, the^ Gen eral contends, were very largely South ern men. The war demonstrated again their prowess and patriotism. General Hill evidently forgets noth ing that concerns the honor of liis As Robling’s eyes followed the lithe, straight figure of Lina, who sat on her horse like a centaur, his counte nance expressed the deep vexation he felt at this awkward situation. Mean while, I.ina’s pretty cheeks were growing hotter and hotter with anger. That must have been the wonder- people and can appreciate what is j . “That must have been the wonder- good in the present without thinking ful Ralph Robling, over whom all the it necessary to malign the past Augusta Chronicle. The Augusta Evening Mews says: Pleasant Stovall has thrown more style into the Athens Banner than was ever dreamed of. Such has been the influence of his immaculate pres ence that Larry Gantt is now called the “dude of tlie Georgia Press.” Mr. Stovall merits the compliment. We have heretofore been pleased to express our sense of hi» ability as a writer in the columns of the Union- Recorder. It iji hinted that Secretary Lamar ■will be offered the position on the Su preme Court Bench. 1 Jlr. pamaMs too SS'LtSfffiSUi [Mr. Lamar has ae Cleveland and Ms through to the end. lent Cleve- f. Indeed, v to see Mr. ministration The Ladies’ Memorial Association of Athens are preparing to raise the money for the Cobb monument. Jt Is proposed to erect a monument to i Gens. Howell and T. R- R ; Cobb at , some suitable place in that city. It Bas Stood the Test Of the severest trials for more than a Quarter of a century, and Is a certain cure for all diseases peculiar to woman, regulat ing the monthlies thoroughly. Write The Sradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. world is going wild,” she muttered, after she had brought her mettled beast down to the proper gait. “Hor rid wretch! I only hope he will get enough of his namby-pamby sort of girls—of his womanly woman. As for me, I’ll have nothing to do with him.” That evening at the ball, Lina was introduced to the lion of the day— Robling—and experienced a malicious pleasure in witnessing the embarass- ment which the gentleman could not wholly conceal. “I must apologize for my uninten tional rudeness of this morning. I fear you overheard my remarks to Mr. Presdofit,” he said, as soon as they were alob?. • r I' - ■ “Ob, dear, it doesn't in the least signify,” said Lina, half contemptu ously, her little head rather jh the air. “Although for the sake of tpe rest of my sisterhood—the loud young ladies—I must say that I don’t see why we haven’t as much right to try to save our lives by learning to swim and row, and handle a fiery horse, as a man.” As Lina delivered herself thus, Rob ling stared at her as broadly as his politeness would permit. He had been accustomed to having his atten tions accepted with more apprecia tion bv the ladies he deigned to hon or with them. The beautiful, indif ferent, half-scornful face into which he was looking, aroused in him an altogether new sensation. He stared at her for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders, while a half-smile strug gled about his lips, which his sweep ing blonde moustache but partially concealed. He was thinking that this unconventional attitude was du ly to be expected in a “masouline” J ’oung lady, and Lina was not slow n thus interpreting it. “The inconsistency of man is some thing beautiful,” she continued, with a scornful smile. “They prate of the weak lungs and slim waists of fash ionable women, and now that athlet ics have become popular for ladies, and we are given an opportunity for physical development, they sneer at that. All, here comes Mr. Rossendale! Excuse me; I am engaged to him for this waltz.” And Robling was left alone, with the unusuul sensation of having been snubbed and neglected by a pretty woman. “Little Virago,” he muttered. “Yet by George, she doesn't argue badly. I nevei looked at the subject in that light?” * * * * * * * Two months passed, and long before the expiration of that time the friends of both hod discovered that between Robling and Lina a strong and unac countable feud existed. About that time Lina was driving alone one day along a country lane, whan she saw before her Robling’s trap, drawn by hip thoroughbred tandem, behind which were seated himself and one of the seaside belles, who was Lina’s ex act opposite. It chanced that at the instant she caught sight of them one of the hors es took fright, shied violently and at the next moment the team was sweep ing down the road at a fearful pace. But there would have been no actual danger hud Robling’s companion be haved like a rational being. Instead, she began screaming violently, which increased the horses’ fright, attempt ed to spring from the carriage, and in preventing her, and thus dividing his attention, Robling for a time lost all control over his tandem. At last, by rhnning them into a strong fence, they were stopped. Springing out, he-took the trembling creatures by the head—they were still too much frightened to be trusted- while in the defaced and damaged carriage reclined a young lady in the last stage of hysterics, and whose ev ery cry threatened to again start off the still panic-stricken animals. Here, indeed, was a predicament, and all brought about by a woman’s folly. I hope iny hero will be par doned for swearing roundly, and it was ;J,,.his juncture that Lina came up. springing out of hei carriage, she promptly tied her own horse to u tree, anil joined the two who had thus been brought to grief. “Stop that noise this instant, - ’ she said, in a low, authoritative voice to the limp, but still shrieking pile of silk anil lace in Holding's carriage. “Don’t you sec that you are fright ening the horses?” Then she passed on to Robling, and a wicked gleam came into her eyes. “Now if you did not detest unwo manly women, 1 might be of assis tance to you," she murmured, with a low laugh. The color swept up into his tanned visage. It is hard to be laughed at, and by a person whom you fain would believe you scorn; But almost in stantly Lina's malicious amusement sunk out of sight, and see said, quiet- ly: “Give the horses to me, and assist Flora out. I will take her back to the hotel." Robling hesitated an instant, glanc ed once at the sinewy white hands gripping his horses’ bridles, and feel ing that they were safe, strode on to the carriage, and with hands that might have been gentler, assisted out the gasping and demoralized Flora, The expression of Robling’s coun tenance as, some time later, lie drove back to the hotel, attested to the ex istence of conflicting emotions in. his bosom. A key to them might have been secured in the words that at last broke from his lips. “Is she always to get the better of me?” he exclaimed, bitterly. “Well, she has taught me one thing—that all sensible women are not masculine. Is that all that she has taught me? Pshaw!” he burst forth, with a harsh laugh. “I must be in my dotage. I will cut the whole business, and leave the place in the morning. But to night she shall give me an hour alone in her society. I will grant inyself this fojly for once.” ’ His teeth were set; his eyes had a strange light in them, as, in the ev ening, he approached Lina with an invitation for her to take a sail with him. . Astounded by this attention—for, an if by mutual consent, they hud hitherto sedulously avoided one an other—that strange, indefinable ex- pnasion his countenance itfpre yet forbade the girl to refuse; atd so, si lently,' the two sought tho Inlet, em barked in Robling’s dainty little craft and sped away over the moonlit tea. Little was said. Returning, a sudden squall capsized the boat. After the first shock of feeling the rapacious waters engulf her, Lina re covered her presence of mind, and struck out pluckily for the shore, which was at no great distance. Af ter a pretty fair contest with the waves, she reached her goal, and looked about to see how it fared with her escort, expecting to see him close behind her. To her horror, she beheld Robling still some distance from shore, and evidently utterly unable to save him self. With a face white us death, she Hung herself again into the water, swam to his side, and with tlie slight aid that he wa* able to render, suc ceeded in pulllhg him ashore. On Ithe bench, as she stood like a beam mermaid in her dipping garmei with eyes that for the first time w)ere downcast before him, he went tip’ to her, and looked passionately into her face. . • U “You have had a noble revenge,” he said, unsteadily, “I have condemn ed your athletlo exercises, and sneer ed at yonr amusements, when by them, in the end, you are enabled to save iny life, as I should have drown ed soon; for the boat, flung suddehlv against me when I thought I was all safe, lias broken my arm, I think. At lenst, in a moment I found myself powerless. Words are useless in such a case as this. The only way I can show my gratitude Is by confessing that which for weeks has been slow ly dawning upon me—that I bave been wrong, a conceited, prejudiced fool. 1 have been colder and severer in the past than I would have bejen, because, long ago, I saw that I was growing to love you. You, whd I knew Boomed and disliked me—ddt, perhaps, without a cause. There, now, you know all; forgive and for get me, and in the future——” • Suddenly he paused, his face-whiten ed, and he elbmiaA it the girl rag ly, blinded-: .fhr • moment with pain of his injared arm. And what had ootne Oveff the “inascul girl?” She flung her arms about hiin as though she feared he would drop to pieces then and there, (as though his inagnifioetit strength could long fail him,) and called wildly upon him to live for her sake! From out his brief paroxysm of suf fering, her sweet voice anil broken words of love called Robling, and re gardless of shattered bones, in his great surprise and ecstacy, he drew her to his bosom. "I loved you from the first, and that made me hate you the more,” sobheil this logical young lady, clear ly, some time later, in reply to her lover’s enraptured question. “But you abused me, and sneered nt me, and called me names, and were alto gether horrid, and you ought to be ashamed of yoursel ” “I am, my darling, my pearl of great price, my womanly womanl” interr upted Robling, fervently; and that last sentence sealed their future peace and happiness. Southern Prosperity. The Manufacturers’ Record does not agree with Secretary Lamar in the view ihe latter entertains as to South ern agricultural and industrial growth. Mr. Lamar, it will bo remembered, seriously questions the growth which, it is claimed, the South lias made. In the first place, it will not do to measure the South of 1887 by the standard of the census of 1880. ’Dur ing tlie seven years referred to, activ ity, in almost every department of business, was four-fold greater than during the decade 1870-'80. The growtli in population, between ’70 and '80, was as follows: Alabama | 20.0, Florida 43.5, Georgia 80.2, Louis iana 29.3, North Carolina 30.0, South | Carolina 41.0, Texas 94.4, Mississippi l 30.0 Tennessee 22.5, Virginia 23.4, West Virginia 39.9. In the same period, Northern States gained in population as follows: Con necticut 15.8, Maine 3.5, Massachu setts 22.3, New Hampshire 9.0, New York 15.9, Pennsylvania 21.0. Vermont .5, New Jersey 24.8, Ohio 19.9, Indi ana 17.7, Illinois 21.1. The Record gives some interesting figures, showing the growth of the South in farm values ’70-'80 as fol lows: Alabama, $11,000,000: Floridu, $11,000,000; Georgia, $17,000,000; North Carolina, $58,000,000; South Carolina, $24,000,000, Texas, $110,000,000; Missis sippi, $11,000,000; West Virginia, $32,- 000,000, Here is a marked gain com pared with the growth made by the Norther States. This increase in farm values South assumes unusual im portance. . Connecticut fell off $3,000,- 000; Maine fell off $500,OoO; Massachu setts gained $30,000,000; New Hamp shire fell off $5,000,000; New York fell off $210,000,000; Pennsylvania fell off $68,000,000; Vermont fell off $20,000,- 000; New Jersey fell off $02,000,000; Ohio gained $73,000,000; Indiana gain-1 ed $1,900,000.. What a remarkable man is.Jefferson j Davis! He has lived to witness the ] death of nearly all of his contempora- i ries under the old government, and I has seen a large majority of his tra- ducers consigned to the grave, and yet he lives on and pot only does not lag superfluous' on the stage, but re tains to a vrbUflerful degree the brill iant ahd .vigorous InWUect ^hich has characterised Wh rt*bA)rkahIe career. Whenever st ; Ur6pb* ttccrifiOU oners he is heard foub, and Whkm he bos but in his blow he retires gfcaceWlly until another is ifiade upon him. His latest speech to the Southern bbv» was to the effeetthkt wearenow in the Union, and the next time it is broken the attempt must be made froinjan- other quarter. A sentiment whiioh has been crystalized in the Southern heart, and strange as it may appear, yet it is a fact that the strongest friends of the American Union today are found in the Southern States. Ben Per’ey Poore, the deceased journalist and correspondent, at one time edited the Athens Whig, in this State. The present Banner-Watch man is the out-growth of Poore’s ■ Whig. Washington Letter. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, June 5, 1887. Editor Union-Rkcordkr! Laborers are at work in one of the Court yards of the Treasury build iog excavating for the new vault for which Congress appropriated $97,840, This will be the largest single money vault known, n is tone large enough to hold one fhun dred million silver dollars, and its full capacity will doubtless be tested by the constant accumulation fron. an unnual production of not less than twenty-four millions of dollars. The structure is to be entirely uii dergrouml; nothing D to appear on the surface to indicate the depositon of so much wealth. The vault will he lined twith (an iron case, and will be divided into sixteen compartments separated by iron lattice partitions. There are to bo no dark corners in thjs. building; tlie open latice work is adapted so that the eye can range through all the compartments at one glance. The entrance will be through the siib-basement of the Treasury building, which is at all times thor oughly gqftrded, aud a dozen differ have only the seoret of one aombina tlon lock. All the knoSvn checks and securities will be applied, atid by means of clockwork and electricity there will be some of the locks which will open at certain hohrs of 1 the day only to the Treasurer of the United States. The silver dollars in their new habi tation will be piled up in canvas bags holding $1,000 each, one on top of the other, as is now done in the existing vaults. The recent deaths, so close together, of two prominent journalists, reminds one of the deep swathes that has so lately been cut Into the profession of journalism. It is hut a "brief period since Adams of the Washington Star, and Billy Copeland of the New York Journal of Commerce, were taken almost with pencil in hp.nd, so sudden ly the summons caine; arid all these mentioned were not only connected by the bonds of fellowship inoident to a common brotherhood, but were more Intimately, associated by ties of of closest friendship. Aprotuinent politician and member of Congress now in the city, says that for nine months in the year Washing ton is the prettiest and pleasantest E lace in the country, anil only ueeds etter hotel accommodations’ and u large hall suitable for Convention-, to make it the very place for the next and succeeding National Conventions. As the physical beauties of Wash ington are already beginning to be appreciated by the country, a glance at the efforts being made In the direc tion of moral cleanliness and beauty in the Nation’s Capital would not be amiss. The Women’s Christian Temper ance Union has becomea power in the land, and by means of their steady adherence to well-devised plans of uc- tion, and of a persistence strikingly il lustrative of their courage in attempts to ameliorate the condition of their fellow-beings;—the women of this city have at last succeeded in entirely closing the bar-rooms here on Sunday, not only in name but in fact. They are also now engaged in an endeavor to suppress the exhibition of ques tionable picflires used in advertising, which while they attract the eye and thus serve their purpose, also exert a more baleful influence in leading the imagination of our youth into evil channels. A Probation Agency, for the benefit of first offenders, lias been recently established, whereby unfortunate youth who have been brought before the Police court may be afforded an opportunity of bettering themselves, thus withholding from them the stig ma of conviction of crime, and sen tence to associate with old criminals, and endeavoring to procure honest employment for those in need. A Women’s Refuge is in successful operation, also, where any may liuil a welcoming smile and helpful hand. We have cause for congratulation, that there is so much of good in hu manity, and that we live in an age of charitableness for the sinner as well as of reprobation for the sin. A Family Blessing. Simmons Liver Regulator, tlie fa vorite home remedy, is entirely veg etable, and is the purest and best family medicine that is compounded. No error to be feared in administer ing; no Injury from exposure after taking; no loss of time. It is the best preventive medicine and safe to take no matter what the sickness may prove to be, and, in any oriMdAry dis ease, will effect a speedy oUre.’ De mand the Genuiue, having' ’the Z stamp on Wrapper. 1 ' ■ It is thought that “successful straw berry culture demands a thorough cleaning after bearing, and careful culture during the remainder of the summer. Old strawberry beds are not profitable. To weed and culti vate an old, neglected bed is a thank less task and much more laborious than the preparing and planting of a few more now ones. Although some varieties will continue to bear for four or five years, yet it proves seldom profitable to take off more than two crops from the same plant*”