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CITY COUNCIL.
J W BETA. Mayor.
J.C, CURRY.
11. A. COOK
W. E. HATCHER.
J. L. HCMHF.Y.
COUNTY OFFICER*.
G.D.DAUBF.Y, Ordinary.
O M. OLIVE Clork slid Tnssnrer.
I, L. MAORI. DER Hix riff.
O. HARDY. Tax Collector.
J A. GREEM.Tsx Rreelvrr.
W.H.HALL Coroner.
IL B. HATCHER, Surveyor.
MAHON IC.
Harlem Iznlge,No. 27« F. A. M., meetsM and
4th Satnrdave.
CHURCH ER.
Baptist -Services 4tli Sunday. Dr. L.R.f *r»
w„n Sunday School every Hnnday. Hnponn
tendont- Iter. J. W. Ellington
Mi tlioiliet Every 3rd Sunday. Rev. " 1
Khaekliford, parlor. Habbath School every
Hnnday, H. A Merry, Hold.
Magistrate's Court. 128 tn District, G. M., 4th
Saturday. Return day IS diva before.
W. 11. ItoMvoa, J. I’.
flic Philadelphia Prcw thus portrays
the evils of adulteration: “The most
dangerous adulteration of the day Is to
be found, not in those instances where
the purchaser is cheated in strength or
in quantity, but in the line on which our
• exposure to-day sheds light. A child
sleeps nowadays, in a room whose wall
paper with arsenic pattern renders the
air deadly, and whose window curtains
of lead and arsenic dye load the air w ith
death; the flushed and feverish sufferer
wakes to draw on brown and yellow
stockings, dangerous with picric dyes
puts on a hat whose inner leather lining
has been bleached by a cheap but nox
ious process, hugs a wax doll whose com
plexion has been colored by another solu
ble and dangerous dye, drinks a glass of
milk which impure water has deprived of
a fifth of its natural strength and has
charged with the germs of disease, slips
a bun into the lunch basket in which
chromate of lead has been stirred by the
economical baker, starts for school suck
ing a stick of pistachc candy, which
owes its tint to Scheele's green, is treated
by asc hoolmate to an ice cream colored
by another preparation of arsenic, and
when the unfortunate victim of thes 0
daily dangers, sown thick in the path of
a civilized c hild, succumbs to their mani
fold poisons, tiic parents mourn over the
obscure providence of tiod which remove
from among us the young in all the
opening vigor of childhood. This is no
imaginative sketch. Report and analy
sis could be quoted for each specific*
tion. ”
That the average length of human life
is increasing steadily is demonstrated by
the statistics of the life insurance com
panies, and is Incoming visually evident
in the vigorous old age of so many per
sons more or less publicly known. We
may never be able to sketch the span of
any individual existence to the patriarchs’
length of days, says the Brooklyn
CititcH, but we are climbing the hill
again after crossing the long, low valley
of the intermediate ages, particularly the
several centuries of European history,
when war, vice, disease an 1 ignorance
came near depopulating that portion of
the earth. Our country has been the
slowest and latest to get into line with
transatlantic nations which hid already,
through the diffusion of a wider know
ledge and observance of sanitaiy se.icn. e,
begun to sen-lbly lower their death rate,
l>Ut we are coming to the front, never
thelcss, with many fine examples of
American longevity. It is something to
plume ourselves upon when n veteran
ct.itcsman like Simon Cameron, now in
his ninety first year, h junketing around
England with the animation of a com
mercial traveler, driving one day with
a lot of venerable British fogies, all his
juniors, and running next to the shrines
of Shakespeare. There is something
flattering to our pride, also, in the
spectacle presented by the lively activity
rd Mr. David Dudley Field, w ho has just
Iteen taking part, in his eighty third year,
in the International Congr.-s at London,
which assembled to discuss the long
mooted project of an International code
of laws for the great countries of the
modern civilized world
The Parisian ci-tom of little tables
put outside i if. - on the sidewalk s. ems
to be gradually working its way into
favor 111 New York city. There are
more than half a dozen cases that do it,
nod the authorities don't seem to mind,
provided the tables do not take up too
much of the sidewalk.
A Hard Case.
Nubbs—"Dubbs called me a liar this
morning."
Bubbs “Well, what did you do?"
Nubbs ‘ I haven't done anything
yet.”
Bubbs—‘‘Well, what are vou going to
do?"
Nubbs—“That's just the question.
You see I have been up at the lakes for a
couple of weeks, and while 1 was there I
sent several letters to Dubbs telling him
how many trout I had caught. The
party 1 was with came home this morning
and Dubbs had a talk with them see?'’
Bubbs—“Of course 1 see. ' It’s n
mighty hard case, but under the circum
stances 1 think you had better let the
matter drop."
Nubbs (with a deep sigh)—“l guess
I'll have to."— Boston Cniritr,
REV. DR. TALKAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
SUNDAY SERMON.
Subject Woman's S|htlllc KlirliU.* 1
TfcXt: “ TVre are threescore
tManm't Kong, vi., 8.
So Holomon, by one stroke, wt forth th*
imj* ri»l ' hnr»'-V r of a true < 'hriatian worn*”
Hh<* (m not a mlawb, not hireling hOt a «üb
<N~ilnato, but a au<*n: and in my- text Holo*
mon v<** wixty helping to make up
the royal pageant of Jemis. In a former ner
m<»n I showed you that crown and courtly
ntbo'lantu and inijwrial wardrobe ere not
mv-esKary to mak* fi qttoert; but that grace*
of the liwh and life will give coronation to
xny woman. 1 showed you at tome length
that woman'aposition wa«higher in tbe world
than man'*. and that although ahe had often
been denied the right of auurnge, she always
did vote and always would vote by her infill
rune; and that her uhlef cw-sire ought to be
t hat «h* should have grace rightly to rule in
the dominion which she has already won. I
began an enumeration of non*e of her right*,
and thh morning I resume the subject.
In the first place, woman has the gperial
•nd the superlative right—not again going
ba' kto what I have already >aid woman
haa the special and suiwrlative right of btes»-
ing and comforting tneaick.
What land, what rtre»*t. what hOlufe ha*
not felt the smiting* of dfoeaae' Tens of
thousands of aide lawlr I V, hat shall we do
with them? Shall man. with his rough hand
• n<l rlfimxy foot, go stumbling around the
wick room, trying to Boothe the distracted
hervew and alleviate the |»ains of the tossing
patient ‘ The yottng man roflrge may
jv-'ifT at the idea of being Under maternal in-
but at the first blast of the typhoid
fever bn his cheek he says: “Where Li
mother.' Walt r Scott wrote partly in
satire and partly in compliment when he said:
O w< m in, In our hours of ease.
l iiciTtuin, coy and bird to please ;
Wh«D pain and angateh wring the brow,
A inlniHcring angel thou.
1 think the most pathetic rMtatage iri all the
Bible is the description of tfie lad* who went
out to the harvest field of Shunern and got
mlnstrnefc throwing his hands on his tempi s
and crying out: “ (th. niv bead !my head ! ”
and they said . “ < airy him to his mother.’’
And then the record is " H“. sat on herkiw-s
till noon, and then died.” It is an awful
thing to be ill away from home in a strange
hotel, once ma while men coming in to look
at you, holding their hand over their mouth
for fear they will catch the contagion. How
roughly they turn you in bed. How loudly
they talk. How you long for the ministries
of home. I knew one siiCb who went away
from one of thu brightest of homes for
s -veral weeks bnsin'-ss alrs<mce at the West.
A te'egram <-ame at midnight that he was
on his death ls*d, far away froifi home. By
expies*train the ujfe and daughters went
w» st ward; but they went too late. He feared
not V) die, but he was in agony to live until
his family got there. Tie triud tn briW
the doetor to make hhn live a little
while longer He said: “I am willing to die
but not alone.” But the pulses flutters I, the
eyes closed, and the, heart stopjx* L The ex
press trains m<*t in the midnight; wife and
daughters going westward—lifeless remains
of husband and father coming eastward. (),
it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelming
spectacle! When we arc sick We want
tn Im- bark rtt hbnie. When the
time comes for us to die, we want to
die nt home. The room may h«» ★•'rf
humble, and th<- fa<>e* that look into
ours may l<® vrl y plain; but who cares for
llwit.' Loving hands to bathe the temples.
Ixiving voices to speak good cheer Living
li|)s to read the comforting pfoiiiises of Jesus.
In our last dn-adfiil war in -n cast the can
non.; men fashioned the musketry: men cried
to the hosts. “Forward, march! * men hurled
their bnttal ons on the sharp edges of the
enemy, crying: “Charge!charge*’rtlt woman
scrapc-d the lint; wonian administered the
cordialm WHriian watched by the dying
enuch; woman wrote the last message to the
home circle; woman wept at the solitary
burial attended by herself and four men with
a KiNvle. We greeted the general home
with brass bands, and triumphal arches*
and wild huzzas; but the story is tno good tn
Im* written anywhere, save in the chronicles
of heaven* of Mr*. Brntly, who came down
among the Sick in the sw amfis, of the Chicha
hominyiof Annie Ross, in the cdoper shop
hospital; of Margaret BreckinridgH,whOeftmd
to men who Ind lw*en fUr Wr<-ks with their
wounds dnureeetsl -some of them froz *n to
the ground, and when she turned them over
those that had an arm left waved it and filled
the air with their hurrahf’ot Mrs. Hodge,
who came from Chicago w ith blankets and
with pillows, until the men Mbouted: ‘'Tbref
cheers for the Christlad (onimission!
God bh*s the women at home,”
tlien sitting down to take the last
tnessagr: “Tell my wife not to fret
about me, but to meet mein heaven; tell her
to train up the boys w hom we have love I so
well: tell her we shall meet again in the good
land; tell her t<» l»ear my loss like the Chais
tian wife of it Christian soldier;” and of Mrs
Shelton, into whos • fact* the convalescent
s tidier looked and said: “Ydur grapes
and cologne cuted me.” Men did
tin* r work with shot and shell, and carbine,
and howitzer; women <hd their work with
socks, and slip|M*is, and bondages, and wand
drinks, an I Scripture tex**, afld gentle strok
ing* of the hot temples, and stories of that
land wln re they never have any pain. Men
knelt down over th'* w-ounded and said . “On
which side did you tight.'” Women knelt
down nvi-r th-* wounded and said: “Where
are you hurt\\ I at nice thing can I make
for you to eat.' What makes von cry <" To
night w hile we men an* s< und asleep in ouf
beds, tliere will Ik* a light in yonder loft;
there will be groaning dow n that dark alley;
there will Im cries of distress in that cellar.
Men will sleep and women will watch.
Again, woman has a su[M»rlati\e right to
take rare of the poor. There ate hundreds
and thousands or them all over the land.
There is a kind of work that men cannot do
for the poor. Here comes a group of little l»are
toot children to the door of the Dorcas Socie
tv. I'h *y iu*od to lx» clothed and provided for.
U hich of these directors of banks would
know h>»w many yards it would take to make
that httle girladn-ss' Which of these mas
rulin' hands <*-»uld fit a hat to that little
grl s head! Which of the wise men
would know how to tie on a new ]>air of
sii<s*>.' Man M»nu*tinics gives his charity
in a rough wav. and it falls like the fruit
of a tree in the east, which fruit c< in-*s
down so hrnvilv that it br»*aks the skull
o( the man who i.s trying to gather it. But
w.i nan glides so softiy into \hr house of des
titution, an-l finds out all the sorrows of the
pl us-. an<l puts so quietly the donation on the
t dde, that all the family come out on the
front steps ns she departs. oxp.*eiing that
from under her shawl she will thrust out two
wings an I go right up toward heaven, from
who in- she seems to have come down.
’Hi, Christian young woman! if you
would make yourself happy and win
the blessing* of Christ, go out among
the tie.-*!itute. A loaf of bread ora bundle oi
so *ks may make* a homely load to carry, but
th' angels of God will come out to watch,
and the L>rd Almighty will give his mee
s- *uger hosts a charge, sayiug: “Look after
th it woman. Canopy her With your wings
H!i<i shelter her from all harm ; * and while
von arc seated m thohous? of destitution and
suffering, the little ones around the room
will whisper: ‘ Who is she? Ain’t she beau
tiful:” an 1 if you will listen right sharply you
will hear dripping down through the leaky
and rolling over the rotten stairs, the
angel chant that shook R<»thlehviii: “Glory
t<» God in the highest, and on earth
|«aee, good will to men.” Can you tell
me why a Christian woman going down
among the haunts of iniquity on a Christian
*» rand never meets with any indignity ? 1
st«» nl in the chain*! of Helen Chalmers, the
daughter of the ceebrated Dr. Chalmers, in
the ynort abandoned part of the city
of Edinburgh, an I I slid to her as
11 >oke I out ui*on the fearful surround
ings that place: “Do you come hero
n ghts to hold a service.” “O. yes.”
sb- said. “Can it Im? possible that you
never meet with an insult while performing
t ,r!s f.’hri*taln errand l M “ Never,” ehe eaid.
“never.” That young w >nian who has her
father by her si ie walking down the street,
an armed p-dic - at each corner, mb not so
well d' h-ndo! a.« that Christian woman who
goen forth on gospi I work into the haunt* of
ini<juity*carrying the Bibles and bread. God,
with the red right arm of bin. wrath omnipo
tent, w -m1 I tear to pieces any one who should
o fe.- indignity; He would smite him with
lightm 14s. and drown him With floods, and
swaiiow him with earthquakes, and damn
him with eternal indignations. Homs one
said: I dislike very ntueb to se- that
Christian woman teaching thoso bad lx?y<?
in the mission school. I am afraid to
have h'-r instruct them.’ 1 “So,” said
another man, lam afraid, too.” Said the
first: “I am afraid they will ueevile language
before they leave th- plac** ” ‘'Ab,” said the
other man, ”1 ant not afraid of that. What
1 am atraid of is that if any ot those boys
sho.jifl ue a bad word in that presence the
other L>ys would tear him to pieces and kill
him on the spot. That woman is L*t shel-
U-r»*l who is - lelterl by the Lord God AJ
ndghty, and you need never fear going any
wnere where Goi tells you to go.
it seems as if the Lord ha I or boned woman
for an especial work in th- solicitation of
charity. Backed up by barrels in which
there h no flour, and by stoies in which
thore is no fir-*, and by wardrobes in which
then- are no clothes, a woman Li irresistible;
on her errand, God says >-oher: “You
go into that bank, or store, or shop, and get
’.he money.” She goes in and gets it. The
man is hod hated, Luc she gets it. She
could not help but get >t. It is de -re-si from
eternity she >h mid get ft. No ne *d <tf your
turning vo ir bark and pretending you don’t
I ear; you do hear. There is no need of your
<*y .n' you are begged to death. There is
no need of your wasting your time,
and you might as well submit first
a; last. You had bettrt* right away
tik • dowrt Voiir check book, mark the
number of the check, fill up the blank, sign
your n line anil hand it to her. There is no
n-*-1 of wasting time. Those poor children
on the back street have b -en hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have some
thing tooase his cough. I meet this delegate
of a relief society coming out of the store of
inch a hArd fisted man, and I say: “Did yoil
get the moneyf’ “Os course,” she says, “I
got the money: that's what I went for. The
Lord told me to go in and g-*t it, and he never
sends me on a fool's errand.”
Again, 1 have to toll you that it is a
woman’s specific right to cornfort under the
'•tn*ss of dire disaster. Sh * is called the
wh.i -i v.-«s 1. but all profane as well as
sacre 1 history attests that when the crisis
com she is b.-tter prejMirod than man to
in **t the emergency. How often you have
< '• > .a worn an who seemed to lie a disciple of
frivolity and indolencc,who, under one stroke
of e ilarnity, changed to a heroine. Oh, what
n great mistake tho.s • business men make
wU > new-r tell their business trodbles totheii*
wives! There comes some great lass to theif
st >:••*. or >orne of their companions in busi
n-isplay them a sad tri *k. and they carry
th b n I n all alon*. H“ is asked in the house
hold again and again: What is the mfitter?
tint lie iM.lieves it a sort of Christian duty
to kvp all that tfoub’e within hia owr!
soul. Oh, your first duty was to tell
■ your wif»- all al>out it. She perhaps might
not hive disentangled your finances or ex
ten b-d your credit but she would have
help'**! you to b;*ar misfortune. You have no
i right to carry on one shoulder that which is
intended for two. There are business men
here who know what I mean. There came
a crisis in your affairs. You struggled
br.tve’y an 1 long, but after a while there
came a day whert you said: “Here I whall
have td stop.*’ and you called In your part
. neis, and yon called in the most prominent
I men in yourenwldy, andydusaid: “Wc have
j gd td.it-jp" Yd 1 left th? store suddenly.
S ou com 1 hardly make up your mind td pass
t h rough the street and over on the ferryboat.
j You frit everybody would be looking at you
and blaming you and denouncing you. YoU
hash- i- l horn . You told ydur wife all about
j tin- affair What did she says Did shd pldy
. the butt-ir.ly' Did she talk about the silks and
the ribbons and the fashions! No. She came
1 up to the emergency. She quailed not under
| the stroke. She help’d you to begin to plan
1 right away She offered to go out of the
• comfortable house into a smaller one, and
| wear the old cloak another winter. She w'as
• one who understood your affairs without
blaming you. YdU looked upon what you
thought was a thin, weak woman's dnil hold-
i mg you up. but w hile yoU looked at that arm
there came int > the feeble nlusclds of it the
I strength df the eternal G<xl. Nd chiding;
I No L ett ng. No Celliiirt you dbdut the IkiaU
I t ul house of her father, from which yod
I Brought her ten. twenty, or thirty years ago.
You said: “Well, this i.s the happiest day of
my life lam glad I have gotten from under
my burden My wife don’t care—l don’t
care.” At the moment you were utterly ex
hausted, God sent a Pelxirah to meet
th»* host of the Amalekites and scatter then!
like chaff over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in w hich to display their Chris
tian powers. Oh, what grand and glorious
1 things they could do it they only had an op
piirtiinity: My sister, you need not wait for
any such time. A crisis will come in your
affair*. There will be a Thermopylae in
your ow n household, where God will tell you
tn staivl. There are scores and hundreds of
households to-day where as inilch bravery and
courag-* are demrtnd'*d Os wdman ris was ex
, hibitc i bv Grace Darling, or Marie Antoi
nette. or Joan of Are.
Again I remark, it is woman's right to
' bring to us the kingdom of heaven. It is
easier for a woman to ne a Christian than for
i a man. Why? You say she is weaker. No.
J Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings
■ of di\ ine love. She is in vast majority. The
1 fact that s i - can m >re easily become a Chris
! tian, 1 prove by the statement that three-
fourths of th * members of the churches in all
Christendom are women. So G<xl appoints
them to be the chief agencies for bringing
this world back to God. I may stand
hen* and say the soul is immortal. There isa
man who will refute it. I may stand here
au I say we are lost and undone without
('hrist. There is a man who will refute it I
mty stand h *re and say th-‘re will Im* a Judg
m *nt Day after a win!-*. Yonder is some one
who will refute it. But a Christian woman
iu a Christian household, living in the
faith and the <*onsisteney or Christ’s
Gospel n »bo ly can rotate that. The
gr<- ites* serin nis are not preached on cele
brated platforms; they are preached with an
a 1 I.cue * of two or three, and in private home
life. A consistent, consecrated Christian
s.*i vi<s-is an unanswerable demonstration of
Go Is truth \ sailor camo slipping down
the ratlines on * nmht, as though something
h i I hapi>en d and th * sailors cried: “What’s
th * matt *r.'” He said: “My mother’s prayers
h imit me like a ghost.” Home influences,
eonsecrat4?d, Christian home intluencos, ar *
! the mightiest of all influeners upon the soul
! d hen- are men here to day who have main
J taino 1 their integrity, not lx* *ause they were
1 an\ better naturally than som • other people,
but because there were home mflueiws pray
j iug for Ui ni all the time. They got a good
! start. They were launched on the world
I with the benedictions of a Christian mother,
i They may ti n *k Siberian snows, they may
| plunge m African jungles, they may fly to
I the earth s end—they cannot go so far and so
1 fast but the prayers will keep up with them.
1 stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation of their husbands in their
I righthand. On the marriage day you took
an 01th More men and angels that you
would be faithful and kind until death did
you jKirt. and I believe you are going to keep
that oath; but after that parting nt the door
of the grave will it lx* an eternal separation!
Is then» any su h thing as an immortal mar
riage. making the flowers that grow on the
top of the sepulcher brighter than the gar
’auds which at the marriage banquet flooled
the air with aroma? Yes: I stand hero as a
priest of the most high God, to proclaim the
b mns of an immortal union for all those w ho
join hands in th grace of Christ. O woman,
is your hus mn 1. vour father, your son,* away
from God* The Lord daman is their redemp
tion at your hands. There are prayers for
you to off<*r. there are exhortations for you
to give, there are examples for you to s?t;
and I say no w. as Paul said to the Corinthian
wornm. “What knowestth »u. Owoman, but
thou canst save thy husband T
A man was dying: and h° said to his wife:
“Rebecca* you wouldn't let me have family
prayers: and you laughed about all that, and
you got me away into worldlings: and now 1
am going to die, and my fate is eealed, am!
you are the cau<* of my rum!” O woman,
what knowest thou but thou canst destroy
thv husljand? Are there not sortie here who
have kindly influences at home.* Are there
ndt sonie here tfho have wandered far awgy
from God. who can remember the Christian
influences in the early home? Do not de
spise thoee influence, my brother. If you
die without Christ, what will you do
with your mother’s prayers, with your
wife’s * imiK>rtunities. with yOffr sirters
entreaties/ What will you do w ?th
the letters they used to write to you. with
the memory of those days when they attende 1
you so kindly in times of sicknois? Oh, if
there be ju*t on*» strand holding you from
floating off on that dark sen. 1 would just
like this morning to take hold of that ttrand
ami pull you to the Ix-ach! For the sake of
your wife's God.for the sake of your mother's
God, for the sake of your daughter’s God . for
the sake of your sister's God, com* this day
and be saved.
Lastly, I wish to say that one of the specific
right* of woman Is, through the grace of
Christ, finally to reach Heaven! Miry.
Christ's mother, in Heaven: Elizabeth Fry in
He 1 ven; < 'barldtte Elizabeth in Heaved th.*
mother of Augrtine in Heaven ; the Counter
of Huntingdon—who sold her splendid jewels
t > build chapels—in Heaven; while a great!
many other* who have never been heard of
on earth or known but little, have gone into
the r- s. art 1 p?ace of heaven. W hat a rest!
What a change it wds from the small room,
with no fire andotie window, the gla-ss broken
out. and the aching side, and worn chit
to the “house of many mansions!’’ No
mon* stitching until 12 at night, no more
thrusting of the thumb by the employer
through the work to show it was not done
quite right. Plenty of broad at last
Heaven for aching heads. Heaven for broken
hearts. Heaven for anguish bitten frame-.
No more sitting up until midnight for the
coming of the stagg-ring stops. No more
rough blows across the temples. No more
sharp, keen, bitter curses. Some of you will
have no rest in this world. - It will be toil and
struggle and suffering all the way up. You
will have io stand at your door fighting back
the wolf with your own hand, red w’itn car
nage. But God has a crown for you. 1
want to realize this morning that he is now
making it. and whenever you weep a tear he
s:ts another gem in that crown: whenever
you have a pang of body or
soul, he puts another gem in that
crown, until, after a while, in all th
tiara there will be no room for an
other splendor, and Go-1 will say to his angel:
“The crown is done: let her up that she may
wear it.” And as the Lord of righteousness
puts the crown upon your brow angel will
cry to angel: “Who is she?’ and Christ will
iay: “I will toll you who she is. She is the
orte that dame up’out of great tribulation,
an-l hd 1 her robe Washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb/’ And then God will
spread a banquet, and He will invite all the
principalities of heaven to sit at the feast;
and the tables will blush with the best
clusters from the vineyards of God,
and crimscm with the twelve manner
of fruits from the Tree of Life : an I waters
from the fountains of the rock will flash from
the golden tankards ; and the old harpers of
heaven will sit there, making music with their
harps : and Christ will point you out, amid
the celebrities of heaven, saying : “ She suf
fered with me on earth, now we are going to
be glorified together. And the banqueters,
no longer able to hold their peace, will break
forth with congratulation: “Hail!” hail!”
And there will be handwritings on the wall
not such as struck the Persian nobleman
with horror —but fire-tipped fingers, writing
in blazing capitals Os light, and love, and
victory: ‘‘God hath wiped away all tears
from ail faces!”
The Only Woman Mayor.
Argonia, Kansas, is the only town in
America which ever elected a woman to
the office of Mayor. Nlayor Salter’s
maiden name was Susanna Madora
Kinsey. She was born of parents who
were members of the Society of Friends,
on a farm near Lnmira, Belmont Co., 0.,
in the year 1860. In 1872, when he
was twelve years old she removed with
her patchts to a farm twelve miles west
of Topeka, Kan. In 1878 and 1879 she
attended the Kansas State Industrial
College, Manhattan, where Louis A.
Salter, son of a Lieutenant-Governor of
the State, to whom she was married in
1880; was a fellow-student. Owing to ill
health Miss Kinsey did not gradguate,
but left college for home in the early
part of 1880. When, in 1883, her father’s
family removed to Argonia, she and her
husband went with them. The place
was a settlement of Quakers and its
first Mayor was Oliver Kinsey, her father.
Mrs. Salter and her husband were prom
inent in organizing a Baptist Church,and
to her is largely due the origin of a
flourishing branch of the Women’s
( hristian Temperance Union. Mayor
Salter was elected last spring. Only two
days before election a meeting of the W.
('. T. U. was called at which a candidate
for Mayor and five Councilmen were
named. Early on election day morning
an anti-I’rohibitionist, thinking it a joke,
ordered some tickets to lie printed with
the five Councilmen on it as named by
the women’s meeting, but substituting
Mrs. Salter's name for that of their can
didate for Mayor. Her friends set to
work and accomplished what had been
proposed as a joke. Mrs. Salter's salary
is $ I a year.
The Mayor of Argonia is about five
feet three and a half idches in height.
She is thin and of an active tempera
ment. Her eyes are gray and her crimped
hair of a blonde shade. The cares of
office have induced her to engage the
services of a domestic, but otherwise her
arrangements at home are as they were
before her election. She learned dress
making while at college and makes her
own and her children’s clothing Mrs.
Salter was busy at the washtub when her
consent was gained to serve as Mayor.—
Detroit free Prert.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
There have been 267 Popes of tha
Church of Rome.
Bread was first made with yeast by the
English about 1650.
Athelstan, in 928. first established
Uniform coin England.
Shakspeare's life and works have
called forth comment to the extent of
10,000 varied volumes.
The Chinese inoculated for smallpox
100 B. C. Dr. Jennner made the first
experiment in vaccination in May, 1796.
The highest silver deposit in the world
is on King Solomon's mountain, in Colo
rado, fourteen thousand feet above tha
Pacific Ocean.
At feasts, three centuries ago. every
guest brought his knife, and s whetstone
was placed behind the door, upon tvbieh
he sharpened his knife as he entered.
Smoothing-irons are of late invention.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth and
James I. very large stones, inscribed with
texts of scripture, were used for the pur-
pose.
The admitted history of China began
in 1122 B. C., and the Chinese claim ;
twenty-two dynasties of emperors, two
of them, Hia and Chang, before the age
of Samuel.
It is estimated that 600 insects a day
are destroyed by a pair of wrens. They
have been observed to leave their nests
and return with insects from forty to
sixty times an hour.
The soil for house plants should re
ceive attention, as medical men have
found that malarial fever is propagated
among occupants of rooms containing
pots of malarious earth.
Turnpike roads were first established
in England during the reign of Queen
Anne, and were so called from poles or
bars swung on a staple, and turned cither
way when dues were paid.
In 1564 a Dutchman named William
Booner brought the First coach into
England, and, it is said, the sight of it
put both horses and men into amazement.
Some said it was a crab shell, "brought
out of China, and some imagined it to
be one of. the pagan temples in which
the cannibals adored the devil.
In the early age of Rome women were
prohibited from using wine, and hence
their near relations were allowed to sa
lute them with a kiss, in order that they
might ascertain by the sense of smell if
they had been drinking it. They were
so fond of it, however, that Romulus,
the first King, made a law that a hus
band might kill his wife for drinking.
Under a Palm Tree.
Ina desert on one of the South Pacific
Islands are about a dozen cocoanut trees,
and five miles distant is the ocean. Af
ter a hot ride through the blazing sun a
cool breeze from the ocean set in, and I
began to feel the soft touch of slumber,
and all at once I heard a faint musical
tinkling as if troops of fairies were
coming to greet us as they used to do
the enchanted Princes in the olden days.
I tried to locate the melodious sounds.
In all directions there was nothing but
hot, glowing sand. I looked up —there
Was nothing but the beautiful tropical
sky and the tremulous atmosphere. Still
louder sounded the music; it was all
around us; it filled the air. I gazed to
ward the ocean, and there, apparently a
short distance away, was a beautiful lake,
with its waves dashing upon moss-cov
ere'd stones. Ka Pule had fallen asleep,
and, gazing at the lake and listening to
the music in the air. I rested my head
against the rough bark of a tree. As I
did so I heard the distinct gurgle of a
brook. I could plainly hear the water
splashing over the glistening stones and
dying away in quiet eddies. I was more
and more' bewildered, and at length
awoke Ka Pule. I told him what I had
heard, and directed his attention to the
lake. He explained that the seeming
lake was a mirage; that the sounds of
gurgling waters came from an under
ground stream, and that the music was
caused by the stirring of the flinty sands
by the wind.— Stockton (Cal.) Mail.
Like Poor FireWbrk*.
“Maria,” said Podgkins, who has a
family of grown-up daughters,, “our
girls seem like poor fireworks.”
“Like poor fireworks, John? How?”
“They fail to go off.”
Home Council
We take pleasure in calling your
attention to a remedy 7 so long needed
in carrying children safely’ through
the critical stage of teething. It is an !
incalculable blessing to mother and
child. If you are disturbed at night
with a sick, fretful, teething child, use
Pitts’ Carminative, it will give instant
relief, and regulate the bowels, and
make teething safe and easy. It will
cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea. Pitts
Carminative is an instant relief for
colic of infants. It will promote di
gestion, give tone and energy to the
stomach and bowels. The sick, puny,
suffering child will soon become the
fat and frolicing joy of the household.
It is very pleasant to the taste and
only costs 25 cents jer bottle. Sold
by druggists.
For sale at Holliday's Ding Store
and Peeples Drug Store,Harlem,Ga..
and by W J. Heggie, of Grovetown.
BWfIEB OF Mil ?s'®l
JA Having secured the Agency for the celebrated
4|Burnham Water Wheel
For Georgia and South Carolina, I am prepared to offer
inducements to parties wishing to put in water wheels.
am also prepared to do'any kind of Mill Work, new or re
pair.
Correspondence solicited.
CMAB r. MMSABf.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
DODGE’S C.C. C.C.
Certain Wen CWeia he,
Eight years of careful experiment and pain»-
taking research have resulted in the diaenven
of an infallible specific for the cur? and pi
vention of that most fatal and dreadec epemv
of the feathered tribe—Cholera. After the
fullest and fairest tests possible, iu which co Wry
claim for the remedy was fully substantiate J'
the remedy Was placed upon the market, anti
everywhere a single trial has been all that was
required to prove it a complete s icces- Th®
directions for its use are plain and simple, and
the cost of the remedy so small that th. saving
erf a single fowl will repay tin expense, lu
effect is almost magical. If the remedy m
given as direetijd, the course of the disease
stopped at once. Given occasionally a- a pre
xennve, there need be no fear of Cholera
which annually kills more fowls than allothe?
diseases combined. It ie true to name, a Cer
tain Core for Chicken Cholera. No p. ultrr
raiserar farmer can afford to lie without it.
will do all that is claimed for it. Read th c ( u |.
lowing testimonial :
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Dzpabtmxnt of Aaiuct LTnrr.
Atlanta, Ga„ March Iff. 18x7
To the Public : The high character of the
testimonials produced by Mr. Dodge, together
with his well known reputation fur truth and
veracity, afford convincing evidence of the
high value of the Chicken Cholera Cure he is
now offering uppn the market. If I were en
gaged in the business, I would procure a but
tie of his medicine, little doubting the •xr.crsn
that would attend its administration.
Yours trulv,
J. T.’ HENDERSON, . ,
ComT of Agrictdtiue.
Price 25c. Per Package.
Manufactured Exclusively by
n. r DODCX:
No. 62 Frazier Street, - • - - AUmu<v. Gta
For Sale by all Druggists.
SINGLE PACKAGE BY MAIL 30 CE.Vff«
Also breeder of the best variety of thoi ugh■"
bred Chickens, of which the following ar. .
names and prices of eggs for setting, i hick. -
in trios and breeding pens for sale after So
tember let, 1887 :
Langshansl2.oo per setting of 13.
Plvmouth Rocks 2.00 per setting of 13.
White Face Black
Spanish 2.00 per sotting of 13.
Houdans 2.00 per sitting of 18,
Wyandotte 2.00 per setting of 13.
Silver 8. Hamburgs... 2 00 per setting of 13.
Ajner’n Dominique2.oo per sotting of 13
White Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 13.
Black Leghorns 1.50 per setting of 13
Brown Leghornsl.so per setting of 13.
Game 3.00 per setting of 13.
C. C. C. C. for sale by G. M.
Reed, Harlem, Ga, and W. J
Heggie, Grovetown, Ga.
THE GREAT
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tnX”»PIAIipS AND ORGMHS
in which we lead *ll, and SAYf- buy era
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GRAND SUMMER SALE
PIANOS SB to* 10 Monthly.
ORGANS S 3 to $5 Monthly.
BETTER YET!
A SPECIAL '
SPOT CASH PRICES, with credit
until Nov. 1. No Monthly Pay
ments. No Interest. Buy in June,
July, August, or September, an J
pay when crops come in.
Writ* for Oirrultr*.
REMEMBER
Lowest Prloss known.
Easiest Tsrms possible.
Finest Instruments
Fine Stools snd Covsrst
All Freight Paid.
Fifteen Days’ Trial.
Fun Guarantee.
-X Square Dealing Always,
Money Saved.
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