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BILL ARP Bill Thinks Oilba a ISTe Atlanta G A Ute paper sent me from Fayette county, Missouri, says they are1 run ning all of tho ?ORT68 oufc ?' Fayette ind Howard counties and the whip ping post awaits those who tarry, and that thc race war is on in earnest. This is ba -very bad. Where are the poor creatures1 to go, for itjis awful weather in Missouri, with the ther mometer below zero and blizzards rsg jue around. I wonder what they have been doing to provoke such treat ment. If they movo to another ooun tv how long before they will havo to move again? and it looks like they will perish or freeze before the winter is over. Some towns in Illinois have given them marching orders,; and it looks like they have no friends but the southern people. Wre used to conder why they all^ did not leave here and go up to their deliverers and bask on their bounty, but only a few were fools enough and they would come back if they could. Wo are get ting sorry for the negro. He has no abiding place. They are tenants at will of the landlords. When Russia gave freedom to her serfs a few aores and a cottage were allotted to every family, and this could not be taken away not even for debt. The poor, shiftless laborer has a hard time every where. A friend writes me from Que - nudes, Cuba, that the wealthy Span iards who live in Spain own all the land in Coba, and it is {exempt from all tax, but the laborers who rent it have to pay tax on everything, their shanties, their horses and carts and stock of all kinds and plantation tools, and on what produce is left after pay ing rent, and when they buy anything with Spanish money they are charged 73 cents in the dollar, and when they sell they have to take 68 cents. They are generally no aooount, but can live fairly well ' on the bountiful products of a fertile soil and tho fruits that abound everywhere. My friend says it is a most delightful climate. Be has a wife and five ohildren and never a day's sickness. In a drive around his place you will see $850,000 worth of pineapples growing, and he is now planting 20,000 more plants, and they make good drops from five to to ten years without replating and are worth from 2} to 3 cents apiece. It costs $30 per aore to prepare the land wd $35 more to buy the plants. The sweetest and beat oranges you ever caw grow all over the hills and sell for $2 a thousand. Then there is grape frail and limes and lemons and man js, guavas, planting, figs and grapes. }?ow, I was ruminating why our ne groes didn't go to Cuba, where they would not have to work half the time and where they could mix and mia cegenate with the natives and have social equality to their heart's content. The Cubans are all oolors from nearly white to nearly blaok, and they will mix with any race. One day I saw a ouriouB looking Bpeoimen in the negro oar, and the conduotor didn't know whether to nove him or not, and* BO he asked im: "Are you a white man or a negro," and ha replied: "My fader us a Portugee and my lauder vas a Diger." The conduotor smiled and [et him atay. Go into a oigar factory Tampa and you will see ? fair as ortment of Cubans-four hundred in me long room, ?nd of all shades, sizes md complexions. They have no national or race color. I should think would suit most of our negroes ferj well, for they oould live1 on fruit honey. My friend says he has i 10 feet square and robs the hives t*ery other day in the dry season, nd it is a profitable business. Bat I don't see ?ny good reason for 'fing negroes from one town or aunty to another. It is not playi ng ?ir with the other towns. Chief Ball jeports he is driving them out of At oota. Xt does not seem to concern where they go so thoy leave At ^ta. Why not take up the vaga onda and punish them under the ?grant law and put them to work; not call baok tho whipping post? will oure the negro of small crimes id idleness quieker than anything in world. When they get into" the uiogang they get a whipping-post mo post-and a good whipping be .? hand would keep many a one going there. But the most re Iwkablo. treatise-, on thet negro and ?race traits has just been-written id spoken of by Professor Dowd, of risoonsin university. Such a dc france from a northern souroa is using. He has been down here 1 gone from town to town and stud the negroes' aotual condition, and [dares he is on the down-grade'in QraHty, in health and physical con ?hon ?nd tho race will beoome ex >ct if mme great ohange is not made their cduoation and some radical itrol plaoed over their morals |cy have almost ceased to marry, ' take up and cohabit at pleasure S LETTER Grood Couxtry for the gro. onatitution. and change when they feel like it. He Rays that'out of one hundred fami lies he visited at Durham, N. G., only twenty-nine of the women had hus bands, and the children are almost universally supported by the mothers, while tho fathers spend their time in idleness or have "took up" with some other woman. Ho writes like he had been to Carterville, for in sight of my house is a woman with three sets of children-six in all-by three fath ers, but she has no husband and has never been married. She works hard for those ohildren and stands well in the ohuroh. Her sister ?has four ohil dren and no husband, for he hat, aban doned her. The odored barber who shaved me for years had three wives with children, and ran away with another one and went to Bessemer and there swapped her off. There are no doubt a hundred bastard negro ohildren within our town limits, and as Professor Dowd says, the marriage relation is now almost unknown among the negroes. This degredation of the negro has come along so gradually and insidiously that our people have got ten used to it and no attention is paid to it by courts or grand juries. We hire these very negro women for do mestic servants and many of them are good ones. Their ohildren go to tho public schools and in time the boys get big enough to steal and the girls to follow their mothers' examples. When will all this folly stop? But just now there seems to be a oeseation of politioal hostilities about the negro and the race problem. A kind of reaction has come over the northern mind, and they, too, are get ting tired of the negro. In faot, no body seems concerned about him ex cept a few politicians like Crumpacker, or Stumpsuoker or whatever his name is. But ever and anon there 'comes a thundering sound from Mount Olym pus, where Jupiter Tonans sits en throned in royal dignity. Harkl Jupiter has spoken. Thon shook the hills with thunder riven and louder than the bolts of heaven, we hear a mighty voioe that rolls its echoes from the Atlantic to the Pacific and is borne on electrio currents from Wash ington to Indianola and whispers, "Standby Minnie!" and they stand. Minnie ought to go up there and take refuge in the white house where Jupi ter oould stand by her day and night. Now let that be the G. O. IVs shibo loth and let it roll down tho corridors of time as a watchword-1 hand by Minnie 1" Bill Ar p. Case of Plain Drunk. "Willie, what is a 'plain drunk?' I notice they are mentioned in the newspapers almost every day." "A 'plain drunk?,' Sallie, is the name applied to a workingman when he is arrested for over-indulgonoe in li quor." "Why do you mention "a working man? Do the difference in men make a difference in the style of the of fence?" "Why, sure, Sallie, men of style or wealth only beoome 'intoxicated' un der like conditions, or 'suffer from ex cessive indulgence in alcoholic bevera ges.' There are other differences, too." "And what are they, Willie?" "Why, the 'plain drunk' sleeps in the look-up over night,Nis fined $2 and costs and his name is written in the newspapers. The 'intoxicated' man gives a fictitious name, leaves a few dollars for his 'appearance,' and some friend, perhaps a polioeman, sees that he reaches home safely."-Canton Saturday Roller. - - ? mi Cancer Gored by Blood Balm. ALL SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES CUBED.-Mrs. M. L. Adams, Fred o - nia, Ala., took Botanic Blood Balm whioh effectually cured an eating can cer of the nose and faoe. The sores healed up perfectly. Many doctors had given up her oase as hopeless. Hundreds of oases of oaneer, eating sores, supperaticg swellings, etc., have been oared by Blood Balm. Among others Mrs. B. M. Guerney, Warrior Stand, Ala. Her nose and lip were raw as beef, with offensive discharge from the eating som. Dootors ad vised cutting, but it failed. Blood Balm healed the sores, snd Mrs. Guer ney is as well as ever. Botanic Blood ! Balm also oures eczema, Hobing hu mors, scabs and sosies, bone pains, ulcers, offensive pimples, blood poi son, carbuncles, scrofula, risings and bumps on the skin and all blood trou bles. Druggists, $1 per large bottle. Sample of Botanic Blood Balm free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Go., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and speoial medical advice sent in sealed letter.' It is eertainly worth while investigating auoh a remarkable remedy, as Blood Balm oures the most awful,- worst and most deeg-scated blood diseases. Sold in Anders^ by Orr Gray Drug Co., Wilhite & Wil hite and Evans Pharmacy. - A woman's faoe is her fortune and some man's misfortune. Stop Prating About Insusceptibility lo Vaccination. Chief Medical Iospeotor of the Chi cago Health department, Di. Spauld ing, forcibly calls attention to the false impression concerning insuscept ibility to vacoinatioo held hy many persons, and even by some medical men. They argne that because a ?child has had six or seven attempts at vac cination without its "taking," the child is insusceptible, and often ask permission for such a ohild to go to school without the required certificate. It should be dearly understood that no one is unsusceptible to vaccina tion any more than to smallpox. "One successful vaccination oan be scoured in every person; to this, there is no exception." Recently a reputable physician wrote me that he and two other physicians had vaccinated his little child seven times without result, and asked tho Chicago Health Depart ment for permission to enter the girl at sohool without certificate, as ho be lieved she waa not susceptible. Tho Department advised him to try again with-vacciuo lymph furnished by the department. He did BO and has since written that the child has a typical vaccination, whioh insures her im munity from smallpox. If this eighth trial had not been made tho story would have gone out that it was a case of insusceptibility-a condition that does not exist-and if she had been subsequently attacked with small pox it would be olaimed that she had been vaccinated, and the case cited by the anti-vacoiniats as proof of the inu tility of vaooination as a preventative of smallpox. "A striking and hideous illustration of the evils of teaching insusceptibil ity to vaooination was famished dur ing the week in the neighboring town of Hammond, in which a cashier in the bank was Btrioken with smallpox in its worse form. He died on the seventh day of the attaok with hem morrhagio smallpox. He had had four attempts at vaooination, and because !it did not take,' was told he was in susceptible to vaccination-a bit of medioal advioe that cost him bis life at the age of 33-an utterly needless loss of a lifo useful toa community and a prioeless value to his family. Stop prating about insusceptibility to vaooination. Petrified the Englisnman, Too. "Colonel Tom Oohiltree once upset Lord Lonsdale when tho latter wae entertained in New York on his way home from an expedition to Alaska," said a man who saw the inn. "At a dinner given in his honoi Lord Lonsdale told many thrilling stories, aad an audible 'oh!' went around the table when he finished tell ing of a petrified forest in Africa, in whioh he found a number of petrified Hons and elephants. As the English* man lapied into silence and the ap plause sank to an eoho all looked to Col Oohiltree to defend his nationality and beat this petrified lion story. " 'Texas,' said the colonel after i pause, 'has its petrified forests; but although they oontain no p?trifie lions, they are remarkable for havinj petrified birds flying over them.' " 'Nonsense!' said Lord Lonsdale 'That is impossible. Suoh a phenome non is contrary to the laws of gravita tion.' "Ah, that's easily explained,' re sponded Colonel Oohiltree quickly 'The laws of gravitation down there ar petrified too.' " Some Get Rich, Others Remain Poor Andrew Carnegie is reported t have said that some years ago he want ed to oross a' mountain in Penney! vania and a youngster offered to tek him over for 50 cents. Mr. Carnegi thought the prioe was too great, bo after long argument, paid it, "not b< cause the trip was worth it," as tb story goes, "but because I had to gc on the otherside of tho mountain. Mr. Carnegie adds: "I predicted thi the boy would some day make a fo: tune and he has. His name was Cha les M. Sob warb." That reminds me of a story. Yeai ago a young man owned the only woo yard in a prairie towu out wes He had a goodly store on har when heavy snows came and blocl ed tho roads. For weeks no woe could be hauled to the town, y< the young . man won t on selling i his regular prioe of $2.75 a cord. . friend said to him that heoould get ( as easily, heoanso the people mui have wood. The young man said 1 knew it, but that he was making a fal living profit. So he oontinued to sc his wood at the same old prioe. Ever, body predicted that ho would alwa; be poor, and he is, God bless hil Never mind his name; yon woulds know it if you heard it; but it ie synonym of human love and tend sympathy throughout all that praii country.-Brooklyn Eagte. Baantba ?Ita Kiwi You Haw Always B&j --Idle boasting is the smoke a true courage the fire. - A manisn't always braod-mind because his head is level. Honey liad Hives. "Mr. Depew," said u gentleman, speaking recently of the senator from New York, according to the Minneapo lis Journal, "pays a compliment as gracefully as any man and one would never expect to .' JO him fail to rise to the ooossion. lt was, therefore, a matter of considerable surprise to mo when sta dinner where the senator was a guest I observed that he allowed to pass several excellent opportunir ties to compliment a charming young lady of the company. Afterwards he commented upon the omission to Mr. Depew himself. " 'You observed tho lady?' ho ask ed. " 'Yes,' I answered. " 'You noticed that she might be extremely sensitive?' he went on. 11'YeB,'I replied, though truth to tell, I hadn't considered the lady's disposition at all. " Well,' said Mr. Depew, slowly, 'I once told a sensitivo girl that I thought her as sweet as honey, and the result was disastrous. "How^so?' I questioned, though I ought to have known botter. "The senator answered me in a whis per. 'Next day the lady had hives.' " Gin For Personal Cse. Soon after Senator Tillman's dispen sary law went into effect in South Car olina the United States oourt deoided that liquors brought into the State for personal use could not be seized by the constables. Naturally every ship ment was marked "for personal use," and respecting the Federal authority, the officers would not seize it. A few days after the announcement of the court's ruling, a machinery establish ment in Charleston loaded a cotton gin for the interior, and it went out on a big truck. Five miles from the oity the truok b :oke down, and the cotton machiue was left on the road until another team could be provided. Be fore it was moved a man drove by. Takiug a pasteboard box from his bug gy he tore off a wide strip and wrote this inscription, leaving it on the ma chino: "This gin is for personal use." It was not seized. A Live Wire Fence. The Scientific American gives the following account of an acoidont which overtook a herd of cows during a thun der storm last fall in Plainfield, 111: "It would seem that the unfortunate creatures had drifted towtcd a wire fence, wh?n the lightning foll upon a tree standing about thirty feet from the fence, causing the death of twen ty-eight of them. As there are no signs whatever on the fence of tho di rect effect of lightning, it must be supposed that the cows killed fell vic tims to the so-called return stroke. It is weil known that persons standing near a conduotor occasionally relive a more or loss severo shook when the lightning strikes some neighboring ob ject. This is readily explained if we remember that just before the light ning occurs such aoonductor must have been at a high eleotrio potential, which is suddenly reduoed enormously by tho lightning discharge. A per son standing near Buoh a conductor, and not adequately insulated, partici pates in this sudden change, and the effect is ovidently the same as if he received a powerful disoharge. Fatal oases of this kind bave been noted fairly frequently, but it is very doubt ful if such extensive loss of life has ever been recorded before as the result of the phenomenon, and wc are not surprised to hear the oldest ?ritiera of the distriot assert that they never heard of so many oows being killed at a time. Fortunately no humen life was lost, and, happily for the owners, the oows were all insured and no diffi culty arose about the payment. The men who removed the hide3 from the dead oows remarked that dark streaks could be seen under the skins." A Hint to Croakers. "What a noisy world thia isl" croaked an old frog as ho squatted on the margin of the pool. "Do you hear those geese, how they soream and hiss? What do 'hey do that for?" "Qh, just to amuse themselves," answered a little field mouse. "Presently we shall have the owls hooting. What is that for?" "It's tho musio they like best," Baid the mouao. "And thoao grasshoppers-they can't go home without grinding and ohirping. Why da they do that?" "Oh, they are so happy they ean't help it," said the mouse. "You'll find an exonse for all; I believe you don't understand musio BO you like the hideous noises." "Well, my friend, to be honest with you," said the mouse, "I do not great ly admire any of thom^but they are Bweetin my ears compared with the oonstant croaking of a frog." - An old painting representing the apostles recently oame to light in Bel gium, where it was bought for $10. It proved to bo a genuine Albert Durer, worth $200,000, which was stole from tho 'royal gallery at Munich somo years ago. BUDS AND FLOWERS OF HOWE LIFE. Paine'c Celery Ocmpouuu Hakes and Keeps the Children Well and Strong. Mothers Make It tho Home Medicine For Che little Ones. The children, God bless them, are the buds ?nd flowers ot our homes. Without their prattle and hearty laughter, our homes would be desolate. They should ever bc carefully tended in childhood and youth, if we expect 'j them to ripen into perfect men and women. ' In the home and ot school, the children have their times of ill health and suffering. We often note thc pallid and bloodless checks, heavy eyes, nervous movements, and twitch ings of limbs and muscles. They complain of headache, drowsiness, weariness, dyspepsia, anti indigestion. All such symptoms and ail ments mean that thc seeds of disease will have a fast and finn liol J, unless proper measures are taken to restore a perfect condition of health. Thousands of wise and prudent parents have made their children happy, healthy, and vigor ous by Riving them nature's medicine, Taine's Celery Compound. In many severe anti com plicated cases, Taine's Celery Compound has restored health when the little ones weie given up by physicians. If your dear ones ate n<>t as hearty, strong, and rugged as they should be, try the health giving virtues of Paine's Celery' Compound. It makes and keeps the children well. ? The house ls made bright and cozy with J DIAMOND DYES fl Pillow and table covers, curtains, I portieres,afghans, tidies, and chair 1 coverings, may ba dyed beautiful H end artlstio colors. ? Direction book und 45 dyed ?ruaplet (rec. ?? DIAMOND DYES, Burlington, Vt. Pneumonia Contagions. It not frequently happens that peo pie who take the best caro of them selves are sometimes attacked by that dread disease, pneumonia, and they are at a loss to account for it. It is a fact not generally known that pneumonia is highly contagious, and there is tho greatest danger in coming in oontact with the micro-organism in the sputa of those supering from this disease. It is important, therefore, that tho same caro should bo taken in handling pneumonia patients that would bo taken with the consumptives.* A writer in American Medicino brings out some strong points about tho contagious character of pneumonia which it would bo well for all to un derstand. He assorts that pneumonia is far more contagious even than tuberculosis, and he produces figures to show that the morality from pneu monia is in somo cities far greater than tho morality from consumption. This writer quotes from tho bulletin of the Chicago health department, which says that in the last two years tho deaths from pneumonia in that oity have been one eighth of all, and 46 per cent more than all other con tagious and infections diseases com bined. It is further asserted that the great spread of this disease is due mainly to the carelessness of patients and their friends who ignore the contagiousness of pneumonia, as well as to profes sional negligence. Ali the Difference. The school board officer was inclined to be angry when he recently made a oall at the home of a pupil whoso ab sence had extended over a week. "Why hasn't your boy attended?" he inquired of the lad's mother, a genial-looking woman. "Why" she said "he's paBt his 13th year, an' me and his feytber-r think he's after-r having sohoolin' enough, sor." "Schooling enough?" repeated the officer. "Why I did not finish my education till I was 231" "Be that so?" asked the mother in amazement. Then, reassuringly, after a moment's hesitation, she said, "but that boy of ours has br-rains!" Touching Editorial Appeal. Bring us taters, sweet or Irish, bring us chickens, young or old, briug UB eggs, or pork, or sorghum, bring us silver, bring us gold, bring us copper, bring us greenbacks, bring us fodder, bring us corn or hay, bring us fruit of all descriptions, bring us corn meal, any day. Bring us beans, or oats, or pumpkins; bring UB butter, lard or flour, or anything that's good to stay our hunger e'en an hour. For the lar der's getting empty, and the cash is running low, and our paper bills must soon bo, for tho paper's got to go. Our store bills must be settled, and the kids must go to school, and our trou sers seem more threadbare, as the weather 'gins to cool. So bring us anything you have to eat, or trade, or wear, or pay a bill, or go on trade, or help to put us square. Wo need your kind assistance to help us pull through anti! railroad 'gins to build, for till then we feel quito blue. The times are dull, and we aro short and need a little raise, soc?me to our assistance and you'll receive the praise. So pay for advertising, subscriptions and the like, and keep the enterprise from want and going on a strike. We'll raise our voice and howl for you and sing your praises long, if you'll only hustle in the grub and bring it good and strong.-Dodd City (Ark) Appeal. 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