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TIE BLUE RIDGE POST. %LUE IUDGE, GEORGIA. AdvertA ug rate* made known on ap¬ plication. _ THE NATIONAL GAMBi The Boston Inflold to now tho strongest In the League. Baltimore has one of the best throwing outfields in tho League. The Bostons bavo made fewer sn' fico hits than any other team In the League. Sexatoh Goshas has joined the “rooters" of O’Bourke's band of Washington slug¬ gers. It would be hard fo find nn Infield thal works more earnestly than tho St. Loult quartet. The young St. Lonis eatoher, Pelts, li rloing as good work as nny catcher In thi League. The ex-kins pitcher, Guy Heel er, is now operating a little independent elub at Oil City, Penn. Just bear in mind that tho third baseman nnd short stop have to bear the brunt of the infield work this year. It Is the height of nil New England bred players' ambition to some day bo a member of the Boston League team. Wako. Connor nnd Davis, of the New Yorks. I»nt right-handed every time they face n left-handed pitcher and do quite well. “Jack" Nei.sok, of old Atlantio nnd Metropolitan fame, to playing n very good gnme of ball, though he to forty-four years of age. Laso, Chicago’s big second Imseman, to too awkward on the field to ever become ns proficient as tils predecessor in tho position —Fred. 1‘foffer. The Philadelphia loam now contains moro ieft-hsnJed batsmen than any other in tbs League —five, n" told, when Clements and Beilly nro playing. Lowr. is playing second base better than any man has ployed It for the Boston Club since the days tlint princo of second base¬ men, John Burdock. Neveh before In tho history of baseball WAS the general public more deeply in for¬ ested In the affairs of the green diamond field than it Is to-day. The demand for pitchers is very great In iho League, nnd there will he every effort to recruit from Ibe college ranks ns soon as the college season to over. Lei.t-haxpeo pitchers are no longer in demand in the big League. Never have ‘here been fewer “southpaws" employed in i than now. Boston, Now York—in fact every club in the League, except Ht, Louis, Cleveland nnd Brooklyn—aro wildly scouring tho country for “winning” pitchers, and thus far their sbaae has been in vain. Stein’s pitching is the sensation of the mason. Tho Brooklyn pitcher’s record has never boon excelled In the same number of ynnn-s. It is more remarkable on account of the increased pitching distance. Attobnet-Genehal Cleveland's Oi.ney is tho only member of Cabinet who has <hown himself to be » “baseball crank.” Ho is sometimes seen at tho Washington hum-hall park taking in tho game irom an obscure jornor of the grand stand. Captain Quinn, of St. Louis, says that ns * result of the increased pitching distance tho batsmen who have l>eeii putting their hits to right field now make it lively for the third baseman. Tho batsman undertho now rules offers at tho twill a moment later, and the force of tho swing turns him around, thus resulting iu tho ball being driven down to third tiaso. The dearth of pitchers Is not caused by tho Increased pitching distance, tint by un natural strains, Ho is compelled by tho rules of the game to pitch with might and main tlmo ranging from 1‘AS Irom to 17 a bulls hour during nnd nhnltto a period ot ono two hours, overstraining tho cor ls and muscles ot his shoulder which soon results iu bis being lauded “on the bench.” t < THE 4 ,AB 0 B m Boston is ngltntfRg early dosing of stores. Connecticut peddlers must now bo licensed. New York Is to havo n co-operative homo association. Socialists are organizing In tho Pennsyl¬ vania coko region. The Cincinnati's rahimet makers’ strike threw out 7500 hands. Chicago marble workers refuse to work on stone imported from Europe. Kansas Citt unions run nn industrial bu¬ reau nnd library association. At Denver, Col., $200,000 will bo spout on n co-operntivo homo scheme. L'nion shoemakers stnrtod a co-opcrativo fm-tory ol in $10,000. Syracuse, N. Y., witb a capitalized stock SriiAccsr. (N. Y.l striking slioemnki rs fulled in their attempt to raise money fora co-operative shop. Federation men favor a labor convention to take action on the proposed Conztitu tlonnl amendments in Now York. •Tapank.se and Chinese aro crowding out the white fishermen In British Columbia and the latter petition tho Government for relic'. Salt Lake (Utah) plumbers refused to work for a non-union boss who offered union men a dollar a day more tlinu tho union scale demands. Tn its manufacture a knife is handled by seventy different art Isms from the moment tho blade is forged until the instrument is finished nnd smoothly wrapped up for mar¬ ket. The Criminal Court at Pittsburg. Penn., has noli pressed all the cases against the officials of the Carnegie Company for com¬ plicity In the Homestead trouble last sum¬ mer. • ompi.ainth come from California of lack ot Chinese help in the have buy field and vineyard, ns ninny moved to the cities nnd towns, and others refuse to work while they fem deportation. The differences between the Italian Mosaic Workers’ Union, or New York City, nnd the Helpers’ Union have been adjusted, Tin former organization would not permit help cr« to become mechanics, but have com pro¬ mised by granting tho privilege when u scarcity of mechanics shall exist. The lowest average weekly earnings by female labor in any city in (he Union is at Atlanta, Hn., where it is $-1. New York shows $5.85, while Nan Francisco is iho highest with $6,91. Comparing the price ot living nnd clothing on tne Pacific coast with the East, tho advantage is ou the side of New * 4 f BUT THE ^ Iight Running EH \) "most worn ■dworkI OURABIC, EASIEST aSESi BkMAHACC, THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. Send TKN cents to 28 Union 8q., N. Y., for our prize game, “ Blind Luck,” and win a New Home Sewing Machine. The New Home Sewing Machine Co, ORANPC, MASS. -*?35ESK5»-n lib. fr.iom*.*' FOR SALE BY SOUTHERN HEADQUARTERS, 4$ 1-2 S. Broad §t. Atlanta, Ga. During tfce past fir# years the sui¬ cides in the Austrian army were equal to a fifth of the total mortality of the army during thia period, and more deaths were due to this than to typhoid fever, pneumonia or consumption. Tbo business of colonizing Africa with white people goes on apace. An expedition left England some weeks ago for Mozambique as advanoe party of settlers who are to colonize some 300 square miles of territory between the rivers Zambesi and Sabi. Says the Springfield Union: “Now that the Canadians are refusing United States paper money except at a dis¬ count, Americans visiting Canada should provide themselves with Cana¬ dian money, which can bo purchased hero at a discount. The discount busi¬ ness can bo made to work both ways.” Acoording to Charles D. Kellogg, the General Secretary of the Charity Organization Society, the enormous sum of $0,000,000 is annually spent in New York City in charity. Two and one-quarter million dollars, he esti¬ mates, goes to public institutions, four millions to private ones, and the bal¬ ance is distributed by various religious organizations. The correspondent of tho Cologne (Germany) Gazette, now in this coun¬ try, tells his readers that every Amer¬ ican wears a diamond pin costing $ 1200 . This suggests to tho New York Tribune that it might be very in¬ teresting and perhaps amusing, to read the letters from this country that will bo written by foreign newspaper men during tho World’s Fair. During the football season of 1892-3 in Great Britain there were twenty-six deaths on the field or resulting from football accidents, thirty-nine broken legs, twelve broken arms, twenty-five broken collar bonos, and seventy-fivo other injuries. Football, adds the New Orleans Picayune, is much more gen¬ erally played in England than here, and every villago and hamlet has . its team or teams and Becmingly its killed or injured. Every now and then, according to tho Argonaut, somo thoughtless writer descants upon our coming landlessness. But, in fact, all tho people of tho United States could bo lodged in tho three States of California, Kansas and Nebraska without overcrowding, and without producing a greater density of population than we find in England, or in Italy, or in Japan, or in many of tho provinces of China. The two prov-» iueni-of KiaagHi* Ngan-Htfr^ in v support between them a population rather larger than that of the United States on a territory less than two thirds of the area of California. It is a onrious fact, notes the Boston Herald, that, while tho westward move¬ ment of the population has coverod no less than 9J degrees of longitude (9 degrees 21 minutes, 7 seconds), this movement has run almost on a straight line, the extreme northern and south¬ ern variation embracing less than ono third of a degree of latitude (18 min¬ utes, 56 seconds). To put tho contrast moro distinctly, we may say that, whilo tho western movement for the century aggregates 606 miles, the extreme northern and southern variation is a little under twenty-two miles, und the finishing point of the line is only somo six miles south of the starting point. Tho Boston Herald states that poor Jjaby Ruth Cleveland has been bo pes¬ tered by kodak fiends and curious sight-seers, when taking her walks iu the rear of the Whittf House on fair days, that tho President lias had to or¬ der tho gates of the White House grounds to bo closed between the hours of 2 and 4, in order that »ho may take the air undisturbed. It seems that tho sightseers, who aro mostly women, not content with staring at the baby, in¬ sisted upon kissing her, whilo some of them, taking advantage of the tempo¬ rary distraction of the nurse, gave tho baby candy or opened her mouth to look at her teeth, or danced her up and down in their arms. One audacious woman actually tried to surreptitiously snip off a lock of her hair with a tiny pair of scissors. Tho great Columbian World’s Fair has already cost about $20,000,000, calculates the New York World. For twenty-one months its creation has em¬ ployed a wholo army of laborers, ma¬ sons, plumbers, carpenters, black¬ smiths, builders, engineers, architects, artists, decorators—enough to build a city and to people it. There are nearly seven hundred acres in the grounds and there are 400 buildings there, some of them vast palaces sueh ns no Emperor every dreamed of building, and ono which covers more than thirty acres of land. More than sixty thou¬ sand exhibitors have taken place, nnd every Nation under the sun which has aught of interest in human progress to show is rejiresentod there. The citi¬ zens nnd corporation of Chicago have contributed $11,000,000 outright and have lout $5,000,000 more to make the enterprise a success worthy of tho g.'ei hi ess nnd glory of our time and com Iry. It is estimated that the total outlay, including that of the exhibitors, will exceed $100,000,000, / .SO LITTLB. Hereafter, when I sleep beneath the grass In yonder churchyard plot, And what I was, or might have been, Is then that whioh is not, If you should come in kindliness to stand there by the spot, And sometimes think of me t As if I were not better than you thought, but that I were leas bad, I know In that dark, dismal grave of mine I should be glad Through all eternity. —W. J. bampton, In New York Sun. II SUMAJH." *• BY STANLEY GIBSON. ENDEBSGN, “what’s the meaning ‘Sumajh,’ of ft eh? Early this morning I was wandering, about a mile out on the 1 Kistapore < road, just on / | the edge of the jungle, v O U ; mm, 1 know, and ran across some ten s or a dozen natives i n 1 a ring around a poor wretch of a leper. Ugh I he’s the first I’ve seen and he mado me feel bad, I can tell you; I don’t want to see any more. ” “Hah!” broke in Henderson; “and how do yon know the man was a leper, if you had never seen one before, eh?” “Oh, he was a leper right enough— there was a horrible grayish scaley look npon him, and he was bloated anil his arms were only stumps and—” “That’s enough—I pass,” said Henderson with a shudder. “Well, this leper seemed to be ask¬ ing a great favor of the other fellows —imploring them to do something, you know—and they didn’t want to; and the poor chappie turned from ono to the other and moaned and cried; and well, upon my word, Henderson, what with his pitiful appearance, I felt— well—I couldn’t see quite straight for a little while. And look here; I thought lepers weren’t allowed to come HQAr anybody ?” “Hm,” Henderson’s face assumed a puzzling expression, half-pitying, half stem, as he rose from the camp chair Sn which he was lolling. Placing his hands on my shoulders and looking into my eyes, he went on: “So you want to know the meaning of that word, do you? Let’s see; how long have you been grilling in this devil’s kitchen, eh?” “Nearly five weeks,” replied I, sur¬ prised at the peculiar hardness of his voice; for for myself, Henderson, big I brother had already all seen was to the children of the cantonment. “So; five weeks.” His voice as¬ sumed a satirical tona “Five weeks —and you don’t know the language yet! You’re very slow for a competition wal¬ lah. And what did you understand of the conversation between your leper and his friends, -eh?" lihat, “Why,” “I learned said I, good bridling bit of up the seme- lan¬ a guage before I came out, and I know as much of it now, I’ll, guarantee, tho averago man doca after he’s been here a couple of years.” “Modest,” dryly ejaculated Hender¬ son, waiting for an answer to his ques¬ tion. “Oh, I understood it all right enough except that blessed word ‘sumajh.’ It was wrapped up in very figurative lan¬ guage-calling and the earth his mother the sun his father, and all that sort of stuff, you know. He wanted them to do ’sumajh’ for him; but it seemed as if they were half afraid to do what¬ ever it means. In the end, though, they gave way, and the poor chap was wonderfully pleased, for he held his wasted arms to the sky and invoked blessings on them, and then crouched down and kissed the earth; and finally burst out into a sort of song that didn’t go very far before it faded away into a dismal croak that was painful to listen to. I couldn’t stand it any longer, and came away.” “So; that’s all you know about it, is it? Well, youngster, take my advice and it’s good, too—don’t poke your nose into the natives’ business. Let them alone as much as you can. Culti¬ vate a convenient memory when you’re reading the regulations about them. Bomember, that the men who make most of those rules don’t have to keep them; and between you and me, their knowledge of tho theory of govern¬ ment is only excelled by their ignor¬ ance of tho praotice of it. As for that word you’re so curious about, forget it, and don’t hear it again—under¬ stand?” With that he went out abruptly. I was greatly perplexed. Half the night I pondered over Henderson’s strange conduct, and wondered why on earth ho should refuse to tell me the meaning of a simple word. I did not care to ask any one elec, for fear Of its getting to Henderson’s ears. Although I was on pretty familiar terms with him, he was my chief, and in addition I had already bocomo much attached to him. Tho next morning, I tackled him again. He “Henderson—that word?” turned and gazed at me with half olosod eyes and said deliberately and coldly: "Tho keenness of your curi¬ osity would do infinite credit to a corporal's wife." Ho cleared hiB throat and said testily; “Picnic, picnie; that’s what tho word moans; he wanted them to treat him to a picnio in the jungle; and you say they consented. And’’—he turned on me quite fiercely —“why shouldn’t they? And look here, my boy, if you say ono word about it to any one else in the canton¬ ment, I’ll make it warm for you. ” I was hurt and angry and gave Hen¬ derson a wide berth for the rest of the day. In the evening I strolled down the Kistapore road. It was against the regulations, for the jungle ran right up to tho road and at night there was a certain amount of danger to be feared from the wild beasts that occasionally explored the road, almost up to tho cantonment. But in my brief experi¬ ence I had seen the spirit, if not the letter of one or two of the regulations, ignored and I wanted to be alone, to think out the meaning of Henderson’s strange words and manner. It was almost the last of the few briej iuwcute i4 UyiJig&t, ivJieiU'ewg still some eouptattf my^tce. miles from home? 1, quickened -The night was falling as only those can understand who have witnessed a nightfall on the edge of the j toggle, No need to tell them how the Ttiar] kneas drops like a heavy blanket nor of the startling transformation of the tangled under¬ wood and the gigantic grasses, which suddenly become strange monsters en¬ dowed with lifJJ moving to and fro, now with smoothly, strange fing<9tss; now jerkily, pointing uttering now husky cries of hate, now jibbering idiot-like. And~the wild animals in the thickness of the interior, how they howl and shriek and cry' and moan— roars of defiance, screams of pain, trumpetings of victory l All made more intense by being subdued, as if the vegetation were unwilling to let the outside world know of the scenes en¬ acted in that fearsome place. I confess I started to run, holding my revolver at tke full cook. But my steps were suddenly arrested by the magical appearance, directly in my path, of several lights. I pulled up sharply, and stood stock-still. The lights advanced, keeping time with the thnmping of my heart. At last I could dimly descry a body of twenty or thir¬ ty natives, several of whom carried torches, which they must hove just lighted. I awaited their coming not without trepidation, for I could not imagine what tAy were abont. Just before reaching me, however, they turned quickly pfcoes into the jungle. They were not five distant from me when they left - the road, and I felt some surprise at their not having seen mo. By a sudden overpowering im¬ pulse of curiosity I started to follow them, in Ttrder to learn the meaning of their With as little noise as possible I swung round, step¬ ping almost in their footsteps I had little difficulty jn doing sq, for they followed what seemed to be a beaten track. For somo hundreds of yards the strange procession went slowly on. (Suddenly I heard a, strange noise that thrilled me through and through. There was something about it, too, that seemed familiar; but my brain was excited and refused to recall the sound. It wSs a kind of moan, half human, half animal. As the natives 1 and I drew nearer it took the character of a chant; and,then it flashed on me that I had heard the sound before; it was the lepeite voice 1 The poor wretch was crooning a dismal hymn or invocation, jus$ as he had done when soliciting his relatives to do what I was to my great satisfaction, about to find out. His low, weak voice rang out stangely clear.. . i -*. •- > “Ohei, Ohei.” Mother, my mother. Thou only art merciful. Thou only. Ohei, Ohei, Brethren, my brethren, lead me to my mother; she only will welcome, she^only will give peace. Ohei, Ohei The voice died away in a moan that mingled with and seemed to rise again in the soft wliist-ling of the long grasses, as they quivered with the breath of the wvind that presaged the coming rains. . I shivered. The party having now arrived at a space tangle-wood Tyhich and had been abruptly cleared stopped of the ii$L> grass, ward nn dimmed I a dared. ring. I Then pressed I for¬ as near an saw, in the centre ok the ring, a large cav¬ ity, perhaps four feet deep, with the earth banked ujk rafcged on either side. The torch-bearers themselves at the head and foot (<t the hole, which, now that it was in the light, I saw to be of oblong shape, shelving somewhat at the end nearer to me. The other na¬ tives stood at the sides, four with tom¬ toms and two with little pots of burn¬ ing incense. The the leper limped out, from the jungle seemingly, nml crouched at tho shelving end of the hole. I had expected him to appear on the scene, yet when he did bo, I could not help giving a bit of a start. Not one of the natives looked at the leper, noT did he seem to see them. As soon, however, as he approached, the whole of the na¬ tives set up a cry—subdued and dismal beyond description. The burden of it was something like this: “To Thee who art all knowledge, all power, all love, all hate. To Thee, known only of Thy¬ self. To Thee who art Life and Death. To Thee we bring our brother. He seeks Thee where Thou art. He comes to Thee. He comes to Thee. ” Their voices and the noise of the tom-toms died down; and as they faded away the leper, who had been beating time by nodding his head, crawled down the slope and squatted down at the deep end of the hole. In a shrill, quavering voice that sounded strangely piercing on the electrically charged air he took up the refrain. “Ohei, Ohei. Fire of the Light¬ nings, I come. - Cloudless brightness of the sky, I come. Winged Messenger of the Mountains, I come. Ohei I oome!” Then, amid more chanting and tom¬ tom beating, two of the natives handed the leper some liquid in a small bowl and some food. After drinking a little of the liquid and citing a little of the food, he cast the remainder into the hole in front of him, accompanying the action with subdued but intense cries. But now several of the natives re¬ tired for a moment, returning with largo flat pieces of wood. With these they started throwing earth into the hole. Tho leper did not move. They wore alive going to bury 'he poor wretoh I The though^ic all its hideous¬ ness flashed through my brain. For the instant I went as cold as ice and was unable to raise a finger. Only for a the moment though; and then, acting for second time that night on the im¬ pulse of the moment, I dashed forward, my revolver still in my hand, to do— what, I could not tell. But before I had gone two steps I found myself seized, disarmed, gagged and pinioned. I struggled, or, rathor, attempted to struggle, for I could neither move nor utter the slightest sound. I gave my¬ self up for lost. I expected nothing but death, and I remember doing what I had not done for years: I offered up a prayer-incoherent and vague; but never was prayer more fervent. Con¬ trary to my expectation I was only dragged back several paoes and tied hand and foot to what I suppose was a small tree. My captors had bound me with my back towards the leper, appa¬ rently determined that I should see nothing more of what was going on. However, by screwing my neok round I could just catch sight of the wretched creature in the pit that I now felt cer¬ tain was to be his grave. The horrible sight, fascinated me. I jaad no thought ioi anything elfifi. my own perilous situation caused me no more fear or anxiety. The natives, still singing that sad, monoto¬ nous refrain, were now quiokly throw¬ ing the earth round the leper. Quicker and quicker they shovelled, louder and louder they sang: “Obei, Ohei, thy wish is thine—is thine.” The four beating the tom-toms threw them down and joined in. The earth mounted higher and higher round the doomed man. It reached his breast; he waved his poor stumps of arms towards the sky; he patted the earth with them, as if he were fondling a loved one. It reached his shoulders—he bent and kissed it passionately. Oh, that scene!—the natives casting in the earth with frenzied energy; the torch-bearers standing like bronze statues, their torches throwing a red glare on the leper’s head, now fast dis¬ appearing as if sinking in a pool of blood. Then the earth crept up to his month, his nostrils. * * * With a convulsive effort I shut my eyeB. In another moment the noise of the shoveling and singing ceased. My eyes involuntarily opened, just in time to see the torch-bearers thrusting their torohes in the earth heaped up over the grave; they gave an angry splutter and then went out. For an instant there was utter darkness and silence. Then came the crowning horror. A vivid flash of lightning lit up the soene. It seemed to hang over the spot. And while the natives were thus en¬ veloped with the ghastly hue of death, I heard—I vow I heard—muffled and faint as the shriek of a gagged man, the cry of the leper—the echo of a Voice—the Echo of a Life I Louder and louder that terrible it roared like a cataract, like a thousand peals of thunder; it became a thing— tangible, palpable—filling tho uni¬ verse, pressing on my brain—crushing it —till at last something snapped and I knew no more. Three weeks afterward i woke up. I was lying on a bed in my quarters. Henderson was bending ovef me; he raised his hand to prevent my speak¬ ing, “Yes, saying, with a queer little touch smile: yes—keep quiet ; a of jungle fever, my boy, that’s all— n triflo heady; you’ll bo all right again in a jiffy.” That “jiffy” was nearly three months. —ChambeTs’s Journal. Monpy May be Too Sale. “I have no doubt that many a fam¬ ily now struggling along under the belief that the father died and left nothing would be well off could they go to the safe deposit vault where the head of the house kept his valuables, open the door of his particular eom partment and carry away its con¬ tents." TJte speaker was a man who is con¬ nected with an establishment of the kind mentioned. He evidently knew what he was talking about. The safe deposit vaults are a mod¬ ern institution. Iu them a man, by the payment of $6 or upward annu¬ ally, can keep his money, jewelry and papers safe from fire and burglary. Armed guards further protect his prop¬ erty, but even without their presence no gang’of burglars could work quick¬ ly enough to despoil the vaults, built, as they are, of steel and granite into the very backbones of immense build¬ ings. “But the very care of the tenant ie the doom of his nearest kin,” said the interested gentleman; “he doesn’t ex¬ pect to the die suddenly, hut that mode seems should most general nowadays. No man have his affairs sq secret that his loved ones suffer the rest of their lives by what he considered his forethought. “A recent case occurs to me. A young man with apparently many years before him, suddenly went in¬ sane. He was fond of jewelry, but one night a would-be thief Bnatehed a very valuable scarf-pin the young man wore. After that, though he foiled the high¬ way robber, he would not wear his dia¬ monds, but put them in his safe, under the care of the deposit vaults. ‘ ‘Had he not told me of the incident nobodly would ever have known what became of tho diamonds. No man puts his name and address in his safe, and the company only knows him person¬ ally and not his relatives.” Even savings banks have been able to build handsome edifices with the uncalled-for money deposited by men or women who have disappeared. Take many thousand accounts, and a cer¬ tain percentage of them will never bo oallcd for. They are advertised, but very little results from the advertise¬ ments, and the bank is the winner. The amounts thus lost to sight ag¬ gregate many hundreds of thousands of dollars. There is a grim fatality about the “safety” of a vault,—Non York Journal. 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GA National Mutual Insurance Co. WORLD BUILDING, PARK ROW, MEW YORK Offers Life Insurance on the most lib¬ eral and progressive terms and entire¬ ly devoid of the unnecessary and arbi¬ trary rules and requirements that are eurrent among insurance companies generally. THE ADJUSTED RATE PLAN, s original with this Company and is an entirely new feature in lite insur* ance. It enables the Company to pro¬ vide insurance to peisous who are FIRST CLASS RISKS AT LOWER RATES than auy eqnally sound Institution that places all its risks at one rate, wholly igaonng the importance of charging each policy holder a premi- risk urn equltably proportioned to tho assumed. This is the MOST EQUITABLE SYSTEM OF LIFE INSURANCE ever offered to the public, as the rata charged is directly In proportion to the risk assumed rather than but an equal safely rate for all. While none those insurable are accepted the Merit of the Risk Establishes the Rate of Premium. The principle is similar to that ap¬ plied to fire insurance, the premiums with the being regulated of the risk. in accordance The Adjusted Rate nature Plan avoids also the Unreasonable and Purely Arbitrary Technicalities * which have so long worked injustice to applicants and agents, and while n does not contemplate in any sense the acceptance of an applicant the not fact safely that large insurable, number it recognizes of risks usually declined a can be safely insured at an increased premium. It is A WISE, JUST AND COMMON SENSE SYSTEM. and unquestionably the fairest and most equitable one known, and cannot fail to impress any being thoughtful, un¬ prejudiced of life man as the correct system insuranee. This company is doing its principal business iu the State of New York— its home State, Its growing populari¬ ty with the public is best evidenced by the large amount of insurance writ¬ ten. During the present year since adopting the Adjusted Rate Plan its business has increased four hundred per cent over that ol last year. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY IS CONSERVATIVE. Its Expenses are Moderate, Its Policies are most Liberal, Its Payments are Prompt. N W. Blobs, President. J. F. Moese, G. F. Pottek, Vice Pre* idents. W. G. Lord, D. E. Anthony, Secretary C ounsel. DOUGLAS & SIBLEY, General Agents. 401 Equitable Building, Atlanta, Ga. 1 [St. Louis Southwestern By.] — — nn ^pp.i- !■* ! m i ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. THE ONLY LINE with through car service from MEMPHIS to TEXAS NO CHANGE OF CARS to Ft WORTH, WACO or interme-. diate points. TWO DAILY TRAINS carrying Through Coaches and Pullman Sleepers, connecting with through trains to all points in the Great Southwest. All lines connect with and have tickets oa sale via The Cotton Belt Route, Ask your nearest Ticket Agent for maps, time tables, and write to any of the follow¬ ing for all information you may desire con¬ cerning a trip to the Great Southwest S. G. Match, S. G. Warner, Dist.Pass’r Agt., Disf.P. &T. Agt., Louisville, Ky Memphis, Tenn W.G. An sms. *> H.H. Sutton, Trav. Pass’r Agt., Trav. Pass’r Agt. Nashville, Tenn. Chattanooga, Tenn W. B. Dodridge, E, W. LaBeaum* Gen’l Manager. G, P. & T. Agt. ST. LOUIS, MO. THERE’S MUSIC IN THE AIR When that cheap, unreliable sewing machine does not work. We can’t blame you for getting out of patience, for they would try the patience of a Job. But w« would suggest, as a panacea for your wounded feelings, that you get a Light Running, Easy Sewing, Dura¬ ble and Elegantly Finished WHITE SEWING MACHINE. L Es2llG B ii J Then life will take on a roseate hue, and happiness and contentment will be yours. Try theWhite. 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