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The People's Joura PICKENS S.C HER PROPOSAL. The late March snows are dissolving the delicate wreaths over the hills the maple buds were already swolling the sky like crimson dots, and the song of the blue-bird heralded the advent of spring over the bleak Berk. shire hills. Ir hIlY Isn't it nice ?" said little Rebecca Hale, as she skipped along the road, "0, look, theri s a dear littleg striped squirrel with a bushy tall and such bright eyes, like black beads. 0, don't you wish we lived out doors always ?" "Becky, don't jump about so," chided the boy, an ancient philosoplher of 10 ears or so. " There : I knew it. You've burst out that hole in our shoe that I sewed up carefully, and one of your mittens is gone. "'But It Isn't cold.' " No, but that's no sign that we never shall have any cold wveather again. Be sides, Aunt Keziah is dcad ." Well, I don't care for that," said the little one, recklerly. "Aunt Kcziah was old and cross, and boxed our cars, and said we were the )laguies of br life." 'Yes,' said Billy, slowy, "but there is no one to take care ofi uS now that AuLt Keziali is deat,. \ou should consider that, Becky." " No one to take care of u, echoed Becky, standing still. ) I y' I didn't think of that." Mrs. H1arewood was frying dough nuts over the great cooikiig-tove in the back kitchen. An imm enze bluei, and white checked apron ensh rotded her spare form and a pocket han'er chief concealed her hi'. .I\ri. Ilare wood was i'ot pretty at her Ihet ;in this, Itmpromptu uniform he w., ;m ly hideous. " Seventeen----eightcen --Ii neteen, said Mrs. Ilarewooti, fishoing the brown curls of paste out of the boiling I ad. "Twenty and four miakes two do/en. Now, Michael, who is it'. And what do they want ?" " It's the two children fromt Aunt K ziah I 'roud foot's," said M chael Harewood, a tall, brown-faeckd nian of :0 or there abouts. " The ld wiman (lied last night." " Well, what of that ' -ahi M r. Harewood, who had gone b34ac , to the table and was cutting uing -trips of dough, and twistil g them into pirais. 'eady for tnie pot (f frizding !arid. " Thoy'lil hur heI I -uppo.e. And after her long sickne!, the dear Knw, nobody'll b eI very :-(ory " But the little <.hiltiren. \What In to becoite of th' si a id 'M ciha. " , send 'CIII o the Ioohoui , of course. Thr ' nothun eice ti bt done, as I know of .napped hone. " To the poorihou'o. I arin T )retty, dehIeate itth in 'ire ai Haie's brother. chudr to t' p house '" " ell, I don't -6e y nOt.' ait Mirs. ilarewood ' 'Thirty-four. C Three iozen tought to I'' JIoiughi. If i'ate had caied to touth ibuitt :;er I lations, Shit iight a .tayed Iohum and ooked after 'elil, ina(d of away with a s'hipt's capiati aid coing t) China, or India, or, iKanie at. or' the Lord kniows. wherec. A\ fer sIx wa: engaged to you. too: .Amd MIaria,'' m'aiud the brotherci, ii 1t a - ighit elevation of hi t eyebrt-ow' . "I t I--a thhlig (if the p'ast; and 1K aite itmd nit forbee, when The left lir n at iv cotun try. that her birothuor'r, inth-onc- wotuld and wvith' .t resiuri'ev . : t ha. chanced, tt all LverL.t. T'he poor iltt. things auc in the sittion' ritmiow And Ipoh)Oe tiie.\ 'e in' i arei cause myi~ husban't i- pout tnrter' said MIrs. hiarewood, drt'pp0Int in e fresh batch of douighu te, tin, ny one(. "Wellihe won't be homeit aftre uon. "I wias iiot thiinkinig if that. .\aiaii sild Michael liarewood. gent ly. ' i'. o.:eurred to nie, that . pehap--iI,. einee'. you hand no0 ch ildren of nyour ow '"That I'd 11ill' yh.L'e with all the1 paulper cild ren of thle neihtorhjood saId Mrts. utro wooid. " No, NI\Lchael Hiar-ewood, you'r~e misttaken theri': I wouldn't have J ilm hi ile 's i oung oneL's in my house afteir the way 1Kute treated you, not if I was to lie paid a doltar a day. And hesides, I ain't matron of the pooa houlse." " Thmen what are they' to do - Mirs. Ilarewood r-hrugge.d her nonuy shoulde Crs. "IL's ino buitsiness of niin." she1 :-aid, Indilferently. '" Nor I ait going to concern myseil(in it." Michael Urewood went tack to the room where the two li ttle orphans were ad mlring a .htuii ffed paiirrot, t a swung fr'omi the ceilin g. "'jhidren,'' sid lhe, ''get on your things. "A in't us to stany hecre '." piteously demanded l3ecky. "~ I'm so tired and hungry .We didn't have any break fast this morning ' " 'lease, Mir. i1arewood," saId Hilly, "where are we to go? Nobody wants us ." " 1 want you," said Michael Uar-e wood, his heart giving a great jumpj as he saw Kate's old1 look shining outt of the wistful, uIptulrned face of the child. '" You shall be my little ones henceforward." There was no lack of talk aind gossi1 in tile nlelghborhood when Mi chael llarewood left his brother's house and set up housekeeping for ;hlmself In t little unoccupIed cabIn just on thei verge of the woods, with the Hlale children proteges and companions. M ichmael Hiarewvood was an artist b3 professIon--one of those erratIc, irre gular geniuses who seldom make much money, yet possess natures of genuine gold. He paid little attention to til buz~z of the neighbors, the sarcasms of his sister in-law, and the criticisma of the world in general, but paintog serenely on, disposing of his picturel at ludicrously small prices as fast a they were laid off his easel. " For it isn't as if I could wait ior good. chance," sa.Id he. "'1Thoy mul sell at any figure ; the little peol can't starve." So the three led a strange, ccontr: life. Little Becky swept and duste< and did what she conld. Billy brougl water, weeded the onion beds at made himself generally useful, at MWei'ael Hlarewood did all the L'as When there chanced to he meat enlou for three he eat and was thankft Where there was net he ma le his me off vegetables and told the children was for his health's sake. "Don 't yoa love UncleioM ichat Beoky ?" asked the little boy om ni ht henMohael had tucked the "God boss the little ones!" he mu . mured. " And God bloss Kate, who over she may be !" Kate was nearer than he thought. " Have you heard the news ?" sal the Widow Castleberry .to Mrs. Hari wood. " Kate Hale's come back." " liumph I" was Mrs. Harowood comment. A bad ponny always ro turns. Who does she suppose is goin to run after her now ?" " Ah, but," Bald Widow (astleborr, wagging her bead, " you didn't hoti me through. She's a widow I and she as rich as Croesus !" "No !" said Mrs. Harowood. " I ain't possible !" "But it is, though," said the widov 4,Wears diamonds as big as dowdrol and a black silk dross as will stan alone for richness, and has her maid u genteel as Qaeon of the Cannibal I lands." " Ah, dear, dear !" said Mrs. Hart wood. " Wonders never will ecast Thom children will be brought up ilk a prince and princess now, I SupposO I 'most wish I d taken them myself, a Michael wanted muo to do." 1or once the tonguo of rumor wa correct. Kate Hale, now Mrs. Aldei Armintage, had been, in very truth, lof a wealthy widow, and she had return ed to her rativo land, to adopt ho brother's orphaned children. XKati had been pretty as a girl-as a woman set off by the accession of wealth, shi was royally beautiful. Nor was sho devoid of feeling. When she firs came intothe presence of the artist whose magnanimity had saved he; brother's children from the poorhouse she knelt down and kissed his browi hands with tears. " Kato ! Kate "' he cried, recoiling what are you doing ?" "I can't help it," sobbed Kate. "Yot are so kind, so noble. What would m113 poor little ones have done but for you And when I remomber how I treate( ou--" " We won't recall that, Kate," saik the artist, quietly. "1 But I have growr to love the little ones dearly. I d( not wish to part with them, aithougi I feel that you have the best right t( thetin." lie was standing with one hand ot liecky's golden head. The chilt. glanced eagerly from one to the other "Couldn't Aunt Kato come and livC with ius, Uncle Michael ?" said she with a sudden brightening up of over' feature. The eyes of the elders met NliCelue's sad and kindly-Kate's full of sudden tears. " Ah, my child," said the former, I asked her that question once, a long while ago -and she said 'No.'" " but if you were to ask me again I shiiold ansIwer very differently," cried out K ate. And '.hen she hid her burning face in hit'I hands. " I shall never ask it again," said .%I ic hal l1i arewood, gravely. " ,111I will," said Nlrs. Armitage, !!olor up to him and putting her hands i U . ' I ir lichael, I have tarnu now the I priceless value of what i onlcte rej-eted-you true, noble ve ou--will you repulse ne to iiai'rry Uncle Michael bi I lceky, thoughtfully. 1 i y it's ht'L that Aunt li ste !,*aI) . sfter ailt." (1 VIll ANDlMl\ CALEDAltS. h !' '90 't'i Wi Not Hie a Leap Y'ear' ValuabhI'ti loti i,iationi in a ut 'T:e yea r I as a l eap 3year, and Line. Iii. one w11 . i li be~ 1 ci4 eght years ater. Tim i- on account of the In 0'einou0' id-vice for maintiaining, as ne'.ar y a" can he' concordance betwee'n tu '.*e:'C or Gire gor'I ian caliendar~ a nd thar or as tronominicalI calenidar'. erybodyii': k nows that, the time re ud for the eairth to make a revol u Lon around the sun is the true solar Yeari. It is easy to see why men, in thir' or:d inary aifairs, do not give tihe year its exact solar time value, but em ioy the civil calenidar they have devmed. intstead of the solar calendar. The lengthi of the solar year expressed pirlsiely', i, 3Ir5,241221 I days, or a little les. than 1'? iday's. It is obvious that ini thei ointess alfairs of life it would lie very inconvenient, to use a time dijvisioin called a year containing so miany diays and fraction of a day. F~or orin' iary puirp)oses the year must bc counted as so mfany' days. Tho oa di nary year~ is, therefore, counted as 365' dlays, whieb is nearly a fourth of a day shorter than the true year. Oft 'ourse this time dilference be tween the solar and the civil year mus1 he accounted for, sooner or later, and. when it ia convenient so to do, the truc and the artilicial year must be brought into concordance as nearly as possible T'he coniuniion civil year is too short by .2 1221h of a day. in four years thh amolunts to .9i~6l of a day, andl t bJoth in the Juilian and Gregorian cal endars the last of this period o1 fouir years is made a leap year, or it other words a day is added to it, mak, ing 3hh days in that year. llut not a day was requ ired to bring the civi and solar year into concordanee. The mean civil year, thus lixed, is a little too long, and in the course of a periot of i00 years the civil calendar thui gains :3 I136 d~ays. So another balane is struck between the true and artifi cial calendairs by the suppression o the inter-calary days in the years 1700 1800) and i1'uO, which otherwise would b teal) years. T he buppiression of leap yeoa in 1900i( leaves a gap between the tw calendars since the adop~tion of th Gregorian calendar of only about one ninth oif ai day3, which is the balanc on account with which to begin thi next alccumulation of dilTerences fo future aidjustmenat. Blut the additloi of the intercalary day evei y four year and the suppression of that day in th last year' of every three out of fou centuries balances the years so fa that the error amounts to only one da in 3:125 years. The year 2000 will end the cycle four centuries and will be a leap yeal Then opens the next cycle, and in th~ Year 21010, 2200 and 2300 the interce a laYdays will be suppressed, while ti t. 24100 wvill be a leap) year. e i aMbe mentioned that 1900 will I Iceastern ,after all, in those nations c.1e the hgope and Asia which sti %calendars d -The most co and precious lvh d in the world is ,,a contained in . cask named the ,,," i.te ~ 'h men Town Hall col\"s. Thisb flw ii. sheim, of the vintage otsA~ya o al is of the color of old te om yas It wonderful aroTma, though a'rathor ha taste. It is never sold, but is used il, elusively for the sick of llremon, s. to only exceptions having been wheti m small oottie was presented to the E is' peror William I, another to Frederl III, and one to P'rioco Bisma-ck. 'T -noosed money value of this wine 'log beyond credenco ; but at r- A STRANGE EXPtIRIENOI;. An Atlanta Drummer Acteti as Pall Bearer at tho Funeral of a Man lie d Did n't Know. Atlanta Constitution. " I won*, to a funeral the other day and I can't got it out of fhy head. It bothers me, and I am not likely to for g got it." T1rho speaker was a young and popular " Atlantian whose business koeps him in r Savannah most of the titte. lie was 9. hero on a visit, and his friends were greatly interosted In the 8-ory of his experience a a pallbearer. " Yes," continued the young man. " I went to a funeral in an accidental way, and was a pallbearer by chance. d 1I didn't know the doad man, and a the other palibearers didn't know him. It beats anything in my experience. " It happened in this way. I entered a business house to sco some of my customors, and after somo generalI talk, one of the partners asked me if I had anything to do 'or the next hour or so. I told him that I was not busy and was ready for almost anything. " le said that I was thu very man for the occasion, and taking me by the arm escorted mo to a carriage in front, of the store and got in with me. " After riding a little distance we 3 stopped and another man got in and was Introduced to me. We rodo on 3 soveral squares and then picked up 3 another man, and finally a fourth man t joined us. " They were all nice young men, and very pleasant compan3, but I began to wonder why we were in the carriage and whore we wore going. " In the meantime we continued our journey, without any explanation from anybody. At last I brought the matter up. I told my friend who had invited me to accompany him that I had plenty of time and was at his service, but had some curiosity about our- trip. Where were wa going and for what purpmse ? " My friend langhed and maid that it wasall right. We were on our way to a funeral and were to act as pallhear ers. "'This was unexpected, but I ac copted the situation, of course, and very naturally asked the name of the I person whoso funeral we were to at- t tend. " My question seemed to surpriso the man who was responsible for my pre. ence there. 11 looked very thought ful and scratched his head. " ie had to give it lp, and explained I that he had never heard the dead I man's name. The hcad of the ir i had ri quested him to attend the fun oral as a pallboarer, a mark of respect i to one of the former customers of the house. " Ilie Intimated that the other ;all- I bears might be able to give tLe desired i in(ormation. I a "1 But they were In the same fix. 1 Their business associates had tent t them to the funeral. " They knew nothing beyond the fact i that they were to go to a certain hoisc , on a certain street, and then proceelI C to the cemetery, acting as pallbearers. t " We felt somewhat ratt Ied. W as the man young or old ? Had we ever seen him Did he icave a family ' r How did he (lie ? These and other p questions bothered us, but we could i learn nothing at that time. " The carriage stopped at a boardi in0 house, and we entered the place l ik lng as we though t respectable pallea ers ought to look. "We looked sad b~ecaumse we fel t sadi.t WVe felt sorry for. thoet corps an' d .<--, for ourselves, andl as we gaz.'d in e n another's faces we did not put on any o airs or manifest any unseeiy pride. '"The fact is, we felt, Ike a s-et of u duminmies. There we were. th-- p:a.- u baars at a funeral, and not one of umn v knew the dead man's name ' "The undertaker was there wi jth his assistant. Two (of the boarderap peared in the role of moouner-. T1'he . e were all, with the excepltion of the. pa ll- t bearers and the minister. t " We did(1n't, k now the mou rne rs nor u the minister, and they showed no in terest in us. . "The in i ister talked in low ton's ' to th'e undertaiker, mimdc a few remiarks d over tihe colli ', and then we took~ it e o.:t to the hearse. "it was hard work, squ/ 'g th rough narrow doors and tu rn irgr cor-\ ners, hnt in the ennrse ot time we sue ceeded in getti ny~out of the house, and l the collin wi~as placed in the hear- e. e "' Then we four bund led ourselves into the carriage, and the two mnourmn ers entered another carriage. T1he minister rodle with themi. I "Our little procession slowly made its way to the cemetery, a dis',ance of three or four miles, and there the ser- . vices were brief and simple,. "The minIster had very little 'to s~ay, . and when he was through lhe sidt something to the undertaker, who told 2 us that we could return to the city. "' We pallbearers got into our~ ear riago and gave the order to drive on. The diriver did not obey. We yelled at him again, but he made no response. 8 "One of our party got out and re ported that the dIriver applearedl to b~e asleep.We suggested h role meabures, and the fellow was punched with anC umbrella. " It was no use. lie did( not mlove. The undertaker caine along and asked what was the trouble. We told him andl his eagle eye d iscovered the truthI -of tbe situation. Our drniver was Sdrunk! . "The undertaker said that be would 3 fix him, and he did. He sel/zed the r driver andl hurled hiu to the groundl. * Then ho took his place~ and drove us a back to town, leavIng the driver at, -the cemetery to sleep off his booze. "The carrIage left, us at various ' places in the city, andl I did( not fin d P out the dead man's namo until next ri morning, when I readl an account of the a funeral in the p~aper. ''" The noor fellow was all right-a r poo citizen, thoroughly respectable, r and all that. lie sim ply did not pos5 Ysess the wealth or the qlualities which draw a crowd to a funeral, and he had no relatives in Savannah. '- I have hcen th~inuking about, it, ever 0 since, andl it makes mc blue, though I -don't know why it should. The manm 0 will sleep) just as well as other men -whose funerals were on a grand scale. 0 'But it seems to me that, the liv ing neglect the (lead in these busy heai t, 1less times. 1Funorals are losing their old solemnity and impressi veness. They areoconducted with a busi nessilike b urrya and clatter, and ver~y few seem a0 to tako any interest in them. o. "I don't object to beIng a pallbearer, e. but I prefer to have some notico, and 3I would be better satIsfied on such a occasions if 1 know the (lead mxan's rd name, oven If I know nothIng else1 ~. about him. e " It was a gloomy, depressing expe a riee and I don't want to go through -~ it again." he --Carolus Duran is next year to paint, is a life slzo nortrait of Gen. Miles to be I It hung in University Hall at Hiar vard, m- from which college Ocn. Miles received Bl LL. n. der.. TIlH 0.1SlN OF " IX)lXI." A 1 Now Vorsion of h Word and its Derivation-.1 Newv Orileans Batik Was the0 CauseP41 of its U0o11na,0-o. A correspllondent of The Now Orleans ct Timle-Domocrat, in an interestir.g 1 ArLicle, trac(ts the ritva(tion of the It word " )jxie " t it notts issued I)y I Lh0 ( ti/zns' I Bank of Iouisi ania, says i rlo Bankers' Joitynal. hi The original bongy, _ Dixie land," m was composed in I o by )aniel I)oca- in Lur Em'nuett, as a ''waikaround" for [3ryant's minstreis, then Iorform ing in Mechanic.s' hall, Now York. Mr. Ilnmett's Cxpic es were vartie(, and part o) his life, h ad been spent With the Circus. ille had fti-uently beard the performir., make the re mark, "I wish 1 wa: in, i," it, soon is the northern ui n .I hega'% tO be Aoo severe for the tint f which they rollowed. This exprejo-ioln slggested Aho song " D)Ixic I Ai'LI It malde a bit at n with the phly Ltoing public of N..-r York, ami. was I)eCdily spreald w -0! parts of the Anion by numuC han .o of Wander ng nillstorolI, Wh 1 a10 and ianCed to t. III the fall of U-1 Mrs. John Wood ti aIng it in New <>ieans, in J oh "ttw B"rougham's burle ie of "l'o. ahontas,'' c and ere a week had ipa-is.ed th whole ti iLY had taken it, to, nid th darky on il h etreet corner and tie bankor in his ti )liCo) were both hunmning it content- k dly. A Now U.Aan-, pilisher saw Ossibilitika in tile n u iiC, and wtithout 0 ,he authority of the comuposer iad tbe to kir liIII'Ionize.d and rearrangud, issu- b ng it with worts t Inmbodying the W it'olg Southern fccPng 1ben existing in ft Le chief city in L.ouiar.a. IV Thie word " - l)ixie"' was brought into 'ational Prominence and usago by , ,hese dOnis, IIdi, 110 dou bt, ~epotUated " )y the wart solg, the air of which is O-day dear to iVery Southern rI. There k :3an be denytig this statoment,, but 1be general imprion cOnCerll, tile b )rigin of tile word " ).xie " existing o Outside of the Sthi, and in many a arts of It. is In correct. Naturally the I olllarit-y of tie work created interest- n oncerning its origin. Thu fact that " ie terNI was used to indicate thel tates south of thbe Masonl-).xon lie as led t tthe gonera iil aCeVeIaInce of hie statement, publicly mado 1oue 'ears ago that " D)xie " sprang fram n Jixon. Tile arguiient, wais based nainly on the alleged similarity of the k wo words, Dixie and Dixon, and d minted out that the o. xprelision "ixie to saInd " gradually grew Out of " ixon's u and," a term which, by the way, was ever in ure. As a result, tile real oot of the word has never before been 01U niade known. il1 It is f ten dallicuilt to traco such a 1 vord back to its first usage and firmly T stablish its origin. hut the arguments t n th ., Ire sent insLance. howove', are tI 'l tonluive anid l lonvincing, and ' 0avie i) V00o111 fior reona011111)10 doubt A it, tll' term " DIxie Land" spr'ang I roml tHI. tenl dolar. no , Dix,"o Iss LI 1.11 (:iti/. IS' i tink of L'ulsiana, b Lci td ,uch n u111pr cedented cir- 1 ulatmin folr It 11 Almr of years previOIs 11 the v-ar. o C. W. Cainuk, telle4r of the Citi- C :n' B mtk of Lousiaua, % as ilstru- h .1ntiaI ll aieving for that bank tile r'e$tigeu Of a1 lI-gIer circulation than 1y otiler banic of the South, if not of he I, ntry. The maneillrt in Which he lot.t. of Ih- hak were brought, I y in 1 in l ite -teIamoat tu01 to Ino tu. r fri0,.1 h.l checks to the nai t'.0y weriP tet n rahy. palid by cheek( t n wmei onle IIt ntl.rou bais oi-r at anlr'ngi wonl'-t of New U.'leans. 11 .4- tI.0e. o Cied l inn vtio and) 441t a 5av'inug i time and1. 11abr: to the eollectoirs, . -ho in the li4a-t 1iad boon obliged to 1 toont te:) oeak at the particular 1 ank u1)1) ne ue it watS drav' n. vl In thi:, way t~be steambhoat meon ba- g 4.me of 0 realt -erice to h the banik, as 14. malij >r. part of tl .e soum of the ir 0s1 ee en1s was carried out of thle city tL i) e jtii'sbure throuIght the k1essipp-ifi 11 al Cy, ini pa\ ielnt,1 fouel, w haif- Il tiat dueO-, stort, wage:4.-, Iport charlges, dI to. Th'insar.- upon11 thloutands t.f t. ollr0 Per talken ? ut of thbe city oinitson tbe .\l ss $s i' Mli- ortIi and4. ' aha-,bi, Ter no 10 e, .\: kan)1S andi led, Ii Iing11) till pliei of 1 K7 the batnk b ithlstol~l a tw dayt 1. run upon 110 it and himt ouit witilh ying co~lrs, wt- ile shedi it.- credit so firmlly that oneO of at ,s notes.0 Was as glod as. a national bank tt unh' lhnk of Lou~.iia aind I aa Bainque w oC loy'.nls die ia LoAuisianiO. T1he do- pa om inations of the( notesi in English and k 'encil wereo as fol lows : iye, cinq ; y en, di1 x ;twenty, vingt ; fifty, ci1qu- m111 111. ; oneo 11und red. coent, one thouisan.d, m1 ailili. it, will be reaidily seen that, the 01 'renchl names110 of anly detnoi1nation but, pi Cln, .VI'erle)~ft. unp inunahle, and no0 0on0 d ttem pted it ;btut the ton, 4 di x,"' ti eemed.4. to attract, the oye and to moot .. pullIic demaiid. As a result11, the ten- - ollar notes of the Citizens' bank were eldom, if ever, recferred to in any ther way than as "idixe.") And, be Ides, it was the mnost naturial way In 1 he world to4. Identify this p~artillar iotO. T1hie denomi111na4tlin, too, was a :onvenient size for thle steamifbot 'lin o mieet tileii obiligations withb, not too arge~ or- tioo smll ; antI (If the many ,hlousanltds of doll1 ars takeii out of tile liy every wet k( by tile riveir boats, a argo propor~ltion wa lin "l di xes." In loseqtuence, these nlotes hiatd it much0 airgeri ci rcu Iation Lthan1 any othe r no (tes ssuied b~y the bank, and0( ore long tie expression1)1, 'A I) ixi t note," or a ntot~ sstietd frm thle '" Di xie( an k"' was v'ery commion amon114101g thei lar.1ge numbe1 .r )f pteople everywhere10 v 1 who re fami liar with the our rency. Thllis was the most naltuiraltin g in the worldi for ltho word '" 1)ix " is proinoot,110 on)1 thbu front (If the oif the nott-, and so muclh so on the back Lthat the obser-ver, in a has'ty glance, wotild 04oo ntiIng else. A coilmon1)1, lmo ust uIn iversal , expres-' Sion) used bly the stamiboait men0, when01 leavingt from the "up11 river' " couLntry for New Orl'ears5, to answer~i to in tuirits as 1to . tlhei r destinailtionl, was: Wi're going1) Soth a4fter iXIS,'' or goinig to. "' Dixie landi.' G radui ual ly, thu Stth 1' i'n cou1ntry ilo gato hoI1 knoIwni aloing the river- port1's as "'1)1x Ic land,'" heeantlse so) muich mli~oey111 cam fromi it. l''rt th)I)is be ginning the word hais gr'own toLI geineral usage, and today it is syno~nymous with the South e veirywher-e. has jult beeni un ished at a gtin faictor'y in VIenna. it wvill cost, mor~e thban $:7,500. The ow ner 18 a rich Southi Afr-ican diamonld king and mine11 ownert, who wil1l'resent the macinoir to1 is wIfe onl her1 next birthday. At the last Vienna E'xposli~on It wits aldmird by rmillonair'e wasI so stiuk with) the Oxqulisito becauty oIf the whicol that he bought It,, and had it, Inlaid w ith prc. elits 81.01)0 mind ,namontis 1)n every WOMAN TO TiE RESCUE. Often the Wotld has thrilled at the story that wotdet-ful heroine, Grace Darling, tose strong hanids and plucky spirit res ed so many peiishing sOils from watery aves. lint there are hundreds of other -roines that the world knows nothing pout. Wolnelt ill eve y day life carry the tital itudenis of wifelod and mother iid, added to ail the cares of a busy itsekeeper, with a courage and cheerful. .ss that Grace Darlitig herself might ad ite. They coifort ttheir husbands in ites of trobtile and sickness; nurse and itch over their eltildien, and inl fact rcs i tie whole fatily from a sea of ditlicul :s, which otherwise would overwhelt eiii. Such a wife and mother, though e has no gold inedals to show for it, is inl e true sense of the word the noblest ind of a hetoine. Mati y wolen liihave within thieni the spirit ieroisul with oul the physical capacity carry it out. They long to le a comfort id help to their husbands an4 children it are cotistantly weighed down by some eakiess or disease which saps their vital rees, Itaving then wretched and power ss to fulfill their higlest alibitiot. " I wth, inly4 oi f sclieol whetl I icarried" iad a1. haildsotlie votintI etxiku wtiiian tt tn qeeaticintaee. "I ha lt-et sttlying liard, I a- lull of, :bihition, --1 waited to be iccoiu ishiel. I w nite- to he a litsiciant. a linguist t<l i socitty wotin all at once. Then I fell in ve antt heeone a wife aine mnother. "ly miistaeke was I t-ied to accotiplight too tch amld ditin't take care of iy lielth atil I roke dotin. I t1ight have heeit saved world's so 1ferincg if I hied hee nioce tareful aid used little cottion sense. I linted to tell iIt titother >w itiserable I felt before I 111erict-itI. I thoulght te woteld jlst pool ! plioll ! at ni. I il11ik others 1uciletstand lore aliont SieI troutbles ew-a-lays thn:i they used to. I would never low a datighter of cine to marry, being no rotiger thin c I wIs then. My iusibndie was so kind ail consiiterate I <ln't ntit t be coitplai tiig all tile timne. Ile sisteell lile elector coneticig to see me-a real tol c letl doctor too. lie rave cite teilicite for y diigestio 1tt insi itlly iitAachie #%it sontething 1tli city liceirt ittiont. I St ut-ieow Cotill niot !ur to tell tiiim what the real trotlle wat. I new he woiuld ilisist oIt lilt cxatittiiltioii nittl I readed it s0. " My itarried sister toht lite I oigit to write r. Pierce oIi' iteT1 c Ilo. hit felt so goilty to do at twithonit tellinig iy Itsaiil. lilt she wrote r lite a i received a kiuct, sensible letter tell g ite hoeew to give icayself sictmple trecitietit at tie. This lild ped.t itie; anil itect site got ite tree bottits of l)r. Piece's Favorite l'reserip ii atn i begani to take it. l'rettv soottn liy hiits. tid saii 'soiteliiig is uloiig y'on good stre: oi're cver so iii tnh strocnger ndti brighter.' lieu I h:dt to tell himic everything. " First tie trowted a little'atiil sitook his liead - it he jtivt ;Icgliel andt saitid ' weil tie itproof ot le padilit' is icc tile enticig ! if this little otilltic is ii'tide well artitl stroncg hv anti/odt.i 'rescriptiotect 'no ainter wiat his it:ite 1-;. doel ess lii it i ether lit lives ii itilo () ci lit 'ext <lt-.' Atid I ma i:tele lt-i et v -0 adictrig td ele'l 1yN thits retitiieit, as I ice-ver had iteelt -6)1re ill lity lift.'. Titis is a trite exeiitietee; it is ocie of iottsatids whiclh sitws that a pitysicialn k D-). l'ierce -wIo has devoted a life-tite Sspecial ptactice to teitaticig ailticcits pe. tlia te woitec cai presc ihbt- for them by ail ji'-t is e.ffectively as if the patiett as ic li-is olic, acif a thitsand timnes ire etferltively tlatt the average doctor hose attetitiott is intecly givet tue gcneral actitee. Tle ,thov is otit a fairy stot y. It ik itt ie stoy tf toe.- pet1stcti. It is the stol y of ot.is of wotiteci. It is a ctitiiptsite ctute ini whicht one can trice face bet-htind eeI l-iewithI sitfferincg, chmannieledt b~y at s. It is a story as Itrue as tihe parable ih. jit e l igal Stin, whiichi was t tt thle tet vtif Olte vuetitig lu1au butt thec stot y ofl te tyvpe whliich repIeats itself gettatat it t ir c ,- '-iti.itit ;t'iel is as' ceoti:1tioi to li. ie as ttt Agit, to A icica as to Ataierica. lI it youttr sttvy? Yocur story either it1 -lit le' or in part) Thelire's hope fti yett. he' e's helIp for you. Dr. Pierce's -'.ve tritt re scriptioncc has cured so tity cases whercr Ie wa.s a daily httt deitttnde witich the eaik andt wveary botdyv stagge reed ten to the rave. that it can hec recociintndetd with thc titst assueraince ini every case oif fetualc is c Ier. A cure rarely fails to result frotn the tsciccitioits utse if the '" Favorite Ptre. regillat it's, eli-place ceiecitc, accd tite'inet istdters ini genl i, all yit-Id ciu ick ly te le aictionel of thiis rieal acid tad ical rent ly. . As the disease is heualed the: 'vup >ts pass away; paid iti the side, dif. icul reathiing, Ileoatinug specks before the eyes, ausea, wveariniess and tuelncholy. -The ppietite retirns, the blood is v'italized, and Ie which was hierieto~fore a mere existence ecomes a hearty, happy condition. -1t is said the ohpositionl to railroad t!hding in China grows out of super itious objection to the road crossing c graves of dead Chinameni. This It garded as a sacrilege, and, it 18 be aved by the Chinamnen, interferet ith the peaceful rest of their de hrted. Then the statement of a wel -own misslinary that during all the sars he bt d spent in China he hat iver at any time been whero he wac >t in sight either of a live Chinamar a Chinaman's grave shows the dens< )pullation of the country, and th( filulty of finding a railroad routi at will not be above Chinese graves "May good diges ion wait on appetite mnd health on both." Thaet sen tttet ftiltn Shakespeare is ii eniin et enedict ofl the body. lIn this a in so inatty other tigs lthe inituition of his ini g hity U lto have lath ouned the facts ,which scietice dliscovered. Secice lens disease ini ally part (if thce bodty is al ~ itmost alwatys by wecakcteas ~, ~. anid failuare of ,the digestive nitnd assicenila - live organs. U Ii (1e r these conditiones the / ~stomachel, livei andi~ blood. utcakinig glatids fail ii their aphpoinit S eed work. TheItim the syrcmptonus if disease appear, ofleti int orgacns appar titly I teete ft tn thei real caucse. Vitality it loweired. 'Thlere is at dhill atid ahuaggiali ecing (ufteen accotipaniiedl by headache, 'he leanit ticav seelti aiTIeeted. Thtere tita) te lack cof mitldition anid ettergy with nteta rresoilution. With such nytuiptoitus as thies delay is dlacigerouts." Sich a colIdit ion ffords~ the favorite startinig poitit for coni titupiltioni. It is useless to "' doctor "e for tit< *ylipttuts. 'The rctneday Itat reaches th< ante mitst reach thle caltse of disease. T1h< ~reatest Iluedicite for all diseases of th<t tottneah acnd othier digestive antd tittritiv< erganls is Dr. P'Ierce's Goldein Medical Dis overy. It restores the apptetite', re-esttabt ishies a soucid digestiont, peirges ouit th< >iliouis poistts wvhich itnfect the lhoode car -ies off waste andit hticiilds lil soun att<~i iealthty tisattes. 'Thie " Discovery "is tnot itiiulatit. It conitaints neo alcohol or whcisky sIo other titedicinte liais ao great a record o1 attres, thterefore accept no subhstitite. nr. Piere's Pelletn curre contatinn s t eroodand ula ting tmmchs And Buof Prometee stion,Cheefd QpDIu , Or nor A wj . NOT NAR38t OTIG. ApefectftmnY fronsp tion, Sourftufch,Diarv WormsConvutsionsYeverish uess andLos~S OF SEEER lbainitle Siinature ot EXACT COPY OF WHAWFEB, THE HONEST WIlTE OAA HOME-MAD =WA6 MADE A GREENVILLE C( Are the Cheap Special Prices for Call and G. W. SIRRINE, Supt. - SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 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"P'9. im.n%ooni. "N" night. Oheosapeako ILiio Steanmora ini daily se'rvioe letwoon Norfolk andl Ilaltimore. Nos. 137 and 38-D aily. Washington an1 South gestern1 Vestibule- I.1mied. Through uilman lltoinf g ars~1 hotvween Now York and Now Or enna, y ai Wasin1gton, A' lanta and Montgom nry and also het ween Now York and Memphi, 1a'Yashington,Atlanta and Iiirmingham,. 430 slogant~ Pi. SiLLAN Ll110tAlLY 0J81RVA r'o N7 ('ARSt h)0 woon Atlanta an I' wYork. P'irat.3in s t horoug finaro eoachebs beenl Wash ngton and1( AtlantIa. D)ining cars serveallmeals1. et wceen Groeensboro and 1rfolkc. (oQ9 meet ion at. No~folk for OLD POINT COFR. Nos. 835 and 11-United Statee Fast Mail .un solid between Washington and Niew Or eanls, via Sou1thern Railway, A. & W. P. 3. 11. mid 1.. & N. R. 1U., beoin composed of baggage ar aind concos, thmroui ~w itihout change tot mas50 ori of all (classos. Pulilman drawing Com lloping cars hot woen New York ano flew Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery and >Otweou Charlotto and1( Hirmdgin . .41o >uillmnan Drawving Rloomt HuiTot teepn OrS >et wVoon A tlanta anud Asheville, N. 0.,lng WVahington each TuesOIday and F'riday, a Olurisit sleeping car will ruin throug between ~'n hington and San Francisco without change. [lining ears servo all meals onroute. Nos. 11,83, 814 and 12--Pullman aleping cars etweena fhlohmondl and (Oharlot te. a Danville, (louthb)oulnd Noas 11 and 813, northboand Nos. 34 and1 12 !RANK1 .GANNON .TM.U Third v-P. & Geon. Iigr., Trad10M'~ Washington, D. 0. Washng ,n W.A. TURK, 8. H. Rl1D1~. Ia't asa. Aut'.. A atan aa.f6..