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Columbia Sentinel PUBLISHED EVERY TUTRDAY AND FRIDAY AT HARLEM, GEORGIA. ENTERED AH RBOOND-CLAHS MATTER AT THS PORT OFFICE IN HARLEM. OA. CITY AND COUNTY DIRECTORY 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 PIANO i ORGAN DEPOT OF THE SOUTH || S t* § t; ; o I SEEING Is believing. Behold us Mwe ere Immense! So it is, and all used in our own Musio and Art tnX”»PIAIipS AND ORGMHS in which we lead *ll, and SAYf- buy era ing aua don’t even wilt us one bit. bee cur 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. Wnt«to SOUTHERN BUSIC HOUSE, S.WAWiH.C