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Wr MAKRY1XG FOR MOXEY. c< MABION HAELAND OX 3IATBLMOXI AL & FORTUNE HUXTJEKS. V Girls Who Have "Married "Well"?The c Folly of Marrying Upon Aothing?Husbands on Allowances from Wives?'Tin- ^ Sin of Marrying for a Fortnne. S Some things which are done by reputa- j. ble people are acknowledged by nobody, ? When Thackeray, with his character- f istic violation of conventional expedien- cy, made Henry Esmond say, with naive i seriousness, of Lady Castleton, "She I had been listening at the door," a howl j of reprobation arose from critics of both sexes, professional and amateur. He ] had lowered the object of his adoration below the average of a common chambermaid?or so it was declared. When ' Mrs. Candor avers unblushingly, "My . eye caught a sentence in the open letter that aroused my curiosity, and I read the whole of it," her bosom friend, although delectated by the scandal revealed by the act, must look shockcd ?.:id L..urmur deprecatingly, or suffer in Vior AKtimation. When Amelia can hut refrain from, whispering to Rvsalie the secret confided to her under a solemn promise of secreoy by Eugenia, she defends the betrayal to her conscience by saying: "It was i)ld me in strictest confidence; but you know, dear, I don't consider that I violate my pledge by hinting it to you, from whom I hide nothing." The queer part of the laboriously acted farce iS that the only person deceived is the sinner herself. Lady Castleton's eavesdropping did not burden her sweet wnite soul. Mrs. Candor says boldly: "Anybody else would have done the same in the same circumstances." If she be shrewd she adds: "The only difference between people with characters and without, is in the amount they confess." Amelia does not avoid betrayed Eugenia's eyes at their next meeting, says her prayers with a heart as single and voice as devout as if Rosalie were not privately convicting her of perjury. So?whoever did marry for money? The thing is so odious, the treachery, cheat?sacrilege?so abominable that no man or woman who cares for reputation, or has even a nominal regard for social decencies, will admit the charge at tlie tribunal of self-consciousness. THE TITLE OF "FOETTIKE-HUNTEIl" is as libelous as that of "coward," and . he who deserves it exerts ingenuity and glozes over circumstantial evidence in introspeotive reflection to clear his soul of the stigma. The heiress of his selection has really no present fortune, as the daughter of a rich father may inherit nothing in the long run. Or, if she hold her wealth in her own right, she would be a prize were she penniless. In that unlucky event he would have controlled his manly affections, as. the whole world knows and says sneeringly behind his back, however he may hoodwink himself. The right of a man to fall in love with a rich girl or the- child j of a wealthy house, is as patent as King i Cophetua's to woo the beggar maid, j Cupid's freaks may as well take one turn i as another. In the teeth of the doughty i assertion, the world continues to siirug significant shoulders. To shrug and sneer and snarl, and yet i become, with parents and friends, acees- j . - sory to the unholy commerce. "Dinna wed for siller's sake. 'Twad j be unco'sinful, ye ken," said a pious j Scotch father to his son. "But see to it I that ye gae where tiller is!" \Ve may feel a twinge of regret, but j we have ceased to be - shocked when we hear the marriage of two ardent youcg ! people spoken of as "a genuine old- j fashioned love match, such as one sel- ; dom hears of in this day." Nor are we righteously indignant at the compassionate smile that accompanies the implied slur. One direct question wiil prove the truth of the assertion. What do we mean when we say that a girl has "married well?" Given a tolerably suitable : age, fair character, health and dispcsi- j tion, the commendation has but one I generally accepted interpretation, as any j candid reader will admit. I heard an eminent theologian use the j words the other day, in answer to con- j gratalations on his daughter's marriage: j "She has, indeed, married magniti- j cently!" he subjoined aside to an inti- | mate friend. "I could ask nothing bet- i ter for her, thank God!" . Meeting the son-in-law subsequently, I che friend saw an uneducated man of | mean stature, ignoble visage, boorish j deportment, and less than mediocre in- j tellect. But he- has inherited the millions of a self-made father, and is cunning enough to turn them over to advantage. Another bridegroom was so repulsive in aspect that one revolted at the contrast with his fair, majestic bride. He wore a wig, and his senile grin would have been less disagreeable had he employed dental skill also; he was squat in ligure; his scanty beard was a grizzled red, his face mettled and freckled into the complexion of a gooseberry roleypoley, and he was thirty years his wife's senior. "We feel very happy about our darling," said the tender mother, with glistening eyes. "She has chosen more judiciously than do most girls of her . age." The father, as well pleased, expressed his satisfaction in different sort. "Not much to look at," he admitted to a crony, "but he has at least ten fchnrisftTid dollars for p.vatv We all say, ana we all mean one thing by such comments, and that is to swell the applause due him?or her?who does good unto himself?or herself. The satisfaction of parents has a basis of natural 1 and praiseworthy regvd for their child's well-being. If they are poor and she has had a hard bringing up they' covet ease and a smoother pathway for her. IX TEE it?EEBKJJj HEART. There is a fierce claim on these as her daughter's right in life, her lawful share of the sunshine and ease and prosperity which are chief among the world's good things. If she has been brought up in affluence there arises an out from home and society against the cruelty of altering her circumstances, the selfishness of ?mn -who would drag her down to the level of the working classes. The inconsiderate swain, who, for love's sake, has proposed the wrong, finds himself in the TPViati TOAAVC WOXUUm V/l ^lUUVUV/k^ TIMVUj (UWi vnwu o sessn years of waiting, he offered the humble home wrung from Fate's tight a fist to the "dearest girl in the world." c "I give yon my word, Copperfield. I j felt a perfect bird of prey toward the ? family." c The parental instinct of providing for the chi ld overpasses the ignorant trans- C ports of the marriage day, and takes a alarm at the iflenace of privation, "con- a trivance," pinching economies ana unpleasant surprises in the shape of debts ? and duns, which are natural attendants upon the early wedded liie of two people " whose fortune?if they ever have one?is a.! to be made and saved by themselves. The folly of marrying upon nothing is 0 so easily demonstrable that the girl of r| the period, albeit a trifle romantic in som6 respects, does not need to have it explained to her. Not even a Traddles a> of our generation dreams of bringing Sophy home as his wife on $1,000 a year, no capital except love and stout heart, tv and no stocks except those taken rashly dc in Faith and Hope. Consequently, the he cumber of marriages in the solid middle m asses decreases jearly; people marry ,ter in life; there are more childless >uples and fewer housekeepers. Oar irlo know this, and onr young men apreciatu it to the full. The former look >r husbands who can support tnem ell; the latter take their choice between g vnical bachelorhood and a hunt for m ich wives. Both sexes "look to it that 0* tiey gae where siiler is." ^ One of the patented-ail-rights secured ayings of unworldly minded moralisers h, s that the man whose riches have bought ^ lis wife, and the woman whose husband v<, ias sought her for her money, are much ^ o be pitied in their splendid misery. ^ These unsophisticated esr ayists, laying S{ o the warped outlines the ride and c? jlummet of sensitive rectitude, assume ^ ;hat suspicion of the truth must lurk in ^ ;he bottom of Sevres coffee cups, and ? ;it, bodkin wise, between the wedded ^ pair on satin sofas and carriage cushions. a They are represented as GAZING THROUGH GUJDED BARS . O at the frank, innocent joys of those who P are chosen and beloved for themselves f? alone, as Adam and Eve might have sought unguarded crevices in Eden's t wali, and made of them wailing places c over what they had forever forfeited. If c the innermost heart lining of Croesus T and Baroness Burdett-Coutts were turn- r ed out to microscopic examination, we 2 might find definite traces of the corrod- 3 ing suspicion aforesaid. The average s millionaire does not dissociate in his most t secret thoughts liis riches from his in- ? dividual personality, Purse pride runs ? through every vein, is assimilated by t every organ. Inconvenient as were the t consequences of Midas' touch to his t daily bread, he doubtless retained in his 1 prayer to be saved from starvation a 1 strain of pride in his unique accomplish- 1 ment. Our Wall street Midas is not 1 chagrined that the beautiful school mis- 1 tress elected to grace his table, carriage 1 and mansion should be won by his mil- 1 lions. He loves her the more intelli- ' gently for her appreciation of what is t himself. Who ever saw an heiress to whom the ' dread of being married for her money 1 was the fretting pea under her fourteen 1 feather beds? The yellow reflection of : virgin gold becomes her as ornaments the bride. She values her possessions as 1 inherent, not extrinsic charms. She ( knows as well as you and I that a rich : girl never lacks for suitors,, and she is grateful to a benignant Providence for 1 making her future sure and bright. One of the vainest women i ever s.newportioned oft her handsome, obsequious 1 lord, month by month?so much for cigars, so much for horses, so much for tailors' bills, so much for sundries?and so far from being ashamed of the onesided copartnership, reminded him of it in playful threatening when others were by in such terms as: "Don't be saucy, my love, or I will stop your allowance!" Or, "Der*,.! dear! what expensive luxuries husbands are! Here's payday agfin." She had her flatterers and court, for she was pretty, flippant, lavish and rich ?and in society! Jler money was but one element of her power, as essentially a part of the woman who had attracted and won her impecunious Adonis as were her conversational gifts and fine eyes. The conscious possession of wealth imparts a sense of mastery that intoxicates steadier brains than hers. ilATKCVlOXIAL ETEICS. Admitting all this, as the candid ob-1 seiver of society's ways of reasoning and j action must, tuere is iiii ugij auuntiai,unj. i of truth, realistic and stubborn, that j tLrasts up a granite shoulder through j sophistical froth and sparkle. Let the j woman who has a prospect of marrying ' well, according to the definition already given, denude her betrothed of the golden fleece draping his moral and mental being; put behind her the visions of "houses and vineyards, gardens and orchards and pools of water" (represented by Saratoga and Baden-Baden), "silver and gold, men singers aud vomen singers," (i. e., the German and French opera), "great possessions of great and small cattle" (thoroughbred horses and poodles), "all the peculiar treasures of kings and of the provinces," and ask herself, as in the honest hour of death, "Would I become this man's wife, 'for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, through good report and evil report, until death do us part,'if he had none of these things? If, in their place, he eould-ofi'er me only a heart foil of love, a pair of hands able and ready to do battle with fortune for my sake, -what . would be the answer of my heart at the altar?" If c>io ancTcpr "\n " with r>v acninst her will, she sins in marrying lum. Wlien she takes the irrevocable vows upon her she perjures herself in the sight of a holy God and pure angels; is sold 1 body and soul, to a life as degrading, as sureiy subversive of modesty andmorali- 1 ty as is that of the beautiful eiave in a ' Turkish market. How the mother can 1 sanction by her blessing the unholy J ceremony parses the comprehension of , clear-eyed, right-minded women, wli&t- ! ever may be said of men's duller perceptions. It makes less difference with them, we are told, this closest union of ^ lives possible in this world, when the j bond is merely one of commercial gain 1 and convenience. Let them settle with : the masculine conscience the ethical : question of wooing, with phrases bor- ' rowed from Love, the women to whom they would never give a second thought 1 were they portionless; the pretense of 5 disinterested devotion maintained y throughout the betrothal; the oath of allegiance to the women they hold by * the hand when these are really addressed * to bonds and securities, to stocks and [ real estate?the horrible wrong done to j the creatures who believe in them as in c TTiin irlifi Tj^fc na sneenlflte. * instead, as to the process by which the t mother -who knows what marriage is? e what heaven and what hell it may be? t works herself up (or down?) to the con- L viction that her child can, in any sense, f be "well oft" in wedding a man because d of advantages that have nothing to do k with his intrinsic self. The girl may err b through partial ignoruncS?her matronly r' adviser never! ? Yet the young maiden who says, "I mean to marry- a rich man, whether I love him or not," breathes upon her purity by* the utterance, however thoughtless it may be. If this be her y steadfast purpose, inculcated by her w elders, acted upon, when opportunity ? offers, by herself, there stands between tl ier and the poor wretch from whose :ouch she draws aside her matronly h robes, as if contact were contamination, b >nly the shadow of a legal lie, the tenu- 11 >us screen of the wifely name. Irr -?* ? tt I n xTi A lilU.V XLAlOtAJtiJ. I ^ Died for >*300,000. f.*' V( New Yokk, February 7.?A trial that is ^ .ttracting considerable attention is the suit ,> if Frederick B. Smith against the Nationai Jenelit Society. He claims a policy for ;10,000 on the life of John Tyier. "The L ase is on trial in Brooklyn. tTyler died In a hotel ia South Xorwalk, w !onn., in November, 1?SG. The insur f-0 nee companies got their be ate together n, nd discovered that they were stuck to ae amount of $300,000. They decided to ght, -nd claimed that Tyler had entered ito a conspiracy with persons whom he * ad persuaded to insure his )ife to a large r mount for their benefit','with the intcn- r _ on, in cxse he found he could not pay his bligations to them in any other way, to )mmit suicide and thus enable them to silize on the insurance policies. t0 Tyler was found dead in a chair in his m? 3tel room, and the insurance companies an e trying to prove that he took poison. an' J " no A girl who weighs one hundred and T^( rpnhr liftimrk !>T>r? has thirf.v fhnnsanr? >llars in her own right, no matter how )mely, unattractive or cross-tempered she bu ay be, is worth her weight in gold. lap TRYING TO STOP IT. le Dehorning of Cettle in the Ranches of It the West. (From the Milwaukee Sentinel.) Z Superintendent Whitehead, of the * umane Society, is seeking an efficient ethod of stopping the cruel dehorning cattle, a custom -which is growing in ? is State. ? 4 The professed object of this amputaon is to prevent cattle from inflicting Juries with their horns, but any one ? ho cannot protect himself against a * >w or even a bull without resorting to ^ irgery is apt to be a poor sort of a jock-raiser," said Mr. Whitehead. 2. And, as for that, I have never known I tore pugnacious animals than 'mooly' " ulls. The fact, I believe, is that the reedy cattleman is counting solely on * xe square feet of room he will save by ^ voiding roping his stock." 1 The operation is performed with an rdinary saw. Cut through the quick < ith, the animal's head bleeds profusely ( 3r days, and the pain must be intense. 1 "It is a cruel attempt to convert a ierd of cattle into a flock of sheep." i ontinued Mr. Whitehead. "The origin j if the custom in Wisconsin and Illinois 1 ras the prosecution of a man, Eoff by tame, I think, in Genesee, 111., by the | t ~VUof .Qf ofxi ?hrAA , D.UIIIiUiU QUUJLCtJj Ui linav k/m?wv) m**w ^ears ago last summer. One of the ociety's agents had his attention drawn o this solitary case of dehorning, and vent the spot to investigate. Hoff showed him his cattle, enlarged upon he advantages of the operation and ;reated the inquirer with some considerition until he learned his business, when le summarily ejeited him from the premises. "With no revengeful feeling whatever, I am convinced, the agent laid :he case before the society, and the man cvas prosecuted. Hoff came to Chicago three times to have the case postponed, the last time on the ground that his wife was dangerously ill. It was afterward ascertained that his wife, on the day referred to, had driven him herself to the station. Meantime he had been inducing one farmer after another to try dehorning, and at last implicated so many,.that an impartial jury could not be impanelled, and the society lost the case. Since that time the barbarous custom has extended to Wisconsin, and T -1- ~?xv AHn&A Thft IS, JL UCiltJVCj lai^cxjr puvwwu. ??~ royal veterinary college of Scotland has condemned the practice in the strongest Iangnage, and we have -written for further information on the subject. Our course of action in the matter will largely depend on the reply to our inquiry." >?\V CIVIL SERVICE RULES. The New York Star gives the following statement touchiug the new Civil Service rules: "The new Civil Service rules seem to meet with general approbation. Those who consider themselves the particular champions of the new system express their satisfaction with the specific penalties provided for violation of the laws regarding political pressure and partisan assessments in Government offices. But the execution of these provisions wiil "merely enforce enactments that are already ver}r specific, and, in fact, the rules consist mainly of a condensation of the statutes. As long as these statutory provisions exist, their rigid enforcement can cause no surprise. "Practical men will welcome most of the new matter in the revised rules. The limitations of age are changed so as to abolish the absurd provision that prevented mtot A~ v.virc /".I/I frntn Mmnciinir I puovuo V>Wi -xt/ J ^ UU* * ? lor positions, while the age c>f eligibility is raised to 26 years,-in order thai mere schoolboys may be no longer employed to the exclusion "of citizens of voting age. The standard of eligibility is raised from Go per cent, to 70 for all except veteran soldiers and sailors, and the veterans are favored in many other ways in all competitions. A most important and beneficial change is the one conceding to appointing officers the absolute right to reject nominees of the Civil Service Commission. The former practice in this matter was of questionable constitutionality, and the return to sound methods will go fur to remove the objections of friecds of good government to Civil Service administration. "La the Post Ofliee the age for letter carriers is raised from 1G to 21 years as a minimum, and from So to 40 years for the maximum; and for general employes the minimum is advanced from 16 to Its years, and the 45-year barrier is abolished, as iu other departments. The list of officers exempted from Civil Service classification is made definite, and is increased by the addition of chief clerks and heads of divisions; and in many other ways the tendency of the new departure is to render Civil Service reform more acceptable to the people." Talked With Her Dead"Hu.ib.md. A Xorth Adams, Mass.. special to the New York World says: "Muthei is dead; come at once." was the message telegraphed by Dexter M. Bishop, of Readsboro, Vt., a few days ago. The message had to be contradicted, for Mrs. Lois M. Bishop, aged 86. had not died. After lying unconscious for hours, she revived and today is apparently restored to her former health. Mrs. Bishop says that while she vvas, unconscious she heard a voice say, "M'/iher," and she recognized it as the eok':- of her eldest son. Franklin Sylvester, tvho uied fifty years ago. She also recognized tbe voice of her husband, who died hirty-five years ago. He asked her what she wanted, and if she was coming to him, md she replied. "Yes, William, I havcaeen in great affliction." After having seen and talked with her lead husband and son, the old lady says she doesn't want to live auy longer, but vants to go to them. She has no doubt hat it was heaven where they were, with ill its glories and brightness. Just before ,he was laid on her bed her hands became )urple and the coloring crept nearly up to ler wrists, and then nearly the whole ength of her arms. Her feet became icy :old and the same purple coloring began to how in the body. While this discoloraion was taking place. Mrs. Bishop called ! ach of her three daughters, her son, Dexer, her son-in-law, Truman Greenslet, and r\ f fnn nrrn > rl I ron M nro f hom r> Iti-i. UjULUUUiiUUl^U CAL1V.1 gC,TV/ 1/UtUI (X areweil message. Soon after she was j lead, to all appearances, and the fact of ! er death was communicated to the neigh- 1 ors. The story of her coming to life ' eachcd the village of Iieadsboro, and cu- 1 iosity seekers are coming in forcc to see i er. ( ^ j Why He Voted for Lamar. j Senator Standford, of California, has rritlen the following letter to a constituent. ? . ho asked his reasons for voting for the ^ ontirmation of Mr. Lamar as Justice of I s le United States Supreme Court: y "Your let:er asking my reasons for vot- j ig for Lamar received. I voted for him t ecause I considered him one of the beot a ten in the South for the place. He is, in t ly judgment, a broad, liberal-minded j] lan, of a great deal of learning. He was ^ rofessor of law in the University in Misssippi. I think he is a thoroughly con- ^ irted Unionist, and I do not think it wise {( ? reject any one on the ground alone that ley were engaged in the late rebellion. I link that we want to be one people, politiilly and socially. Gen. Grant expressed e idea when he said: 'Let us have peace.' tf "Lamar's loyalty and integrity to the S( nion was passed upon most conclusively k hen both "houses of Congress provided tc r the succession to the Presidency and ti ade him an heir, only a few removes q Din the Presidency. I am reluctant to ti id myself not in harmony with all the g, ;publican Senators, but it was a case, so ?] r as my action was concerned, entirely gj r my own judgment and conscience, and se roted accordingly." tj, ? *? w A. lady seat a luxurious easy-chair back H the factory three times to have the seat c<j ide "a little softer," then "a little harder," x d so on. Finally it suited her exactly, so d she paid for it. The chair seal had ki t been touched. .This is the way our fir >thers fooled pur fathers when their shirts I I not fit. be rhe dog is not much of a pedestrian, t he can make an unlimited number of <s in a very short space. he ??MB???B???? GENERAL NEWS XOTES. em* of ; Interest Gathered from Yarioaa Quarter*. c Gladstone arrived at Dover yesterday ftemoon, and was greeted by an immense rowd. c After tliirteen years' litigation an Albany state has realized 85 cents apiece for the ? eirs. The lawyers got about $11,000 ach. The Crown Prince's "breathing having he- ^ ome difficult, the doctors have successully performed tracheotomy. He is doing veil. American potatoes are scarce in Chicago .nd thousands of sacks are being imported ] rom Rotterdam. A recent assignment was !,500 sacks. t At Adrian, Mich., an epidemic of typhoid ever has broken out in the State Industrial j :Iome for Girls, and thirteen or fourteen ire already sick. The charities of London last year amounted to ?82,000,000. They were devoted chiefly to religious purposes, $5,000,000 being on foreign missions. The gilded dome of the Massachusetts 1 State House is said to be settling, and it is feared that it will be so much weakened : that it will have to be taken down. During the past five years the United , States has each year on an average raised corn enough to give each man, woman and child in the world a full bushel. "What will you give me for my horse, deacon?" "Why, you've only got the frame up, John; when he's done I'll look at him." The Commercial Printing Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., W. T. Burkam, rrowArol monflrrpr rmlishprs plCClUCUO fli-lVA wVUU* c*x r .._ of the Daily Commercial. have failed. Assets are given at $43,928 and liabilities at $25,933. Australia has sent to this country for bees'with which to fertilize clover blossoms and to make possible the growth of that grass in the country. A large shipment of bumble-bees is to be made from Kentucky next summer. Four frame dwellings at Kutztown, Pa., were totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, and John Hopp and his daughter, aged 1?, and a son agei 9 years, were burned to death. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada, will succeed the Earl of Duflerin as Governor General of India at the end of the present year. Lord Stanley, of Preston, will be Lord Landsdowiae's successor. Secretary Fairchild has ordered the New York collector to seize tie yacht Marion for filibustering on the coast of Cuba. The yacht has just returned from a pleasure cruise and it is said that the Secretary is the victim of a joke. A subscriber wants to know how to make a hot-house. Some men have done it simply by forgetting to brush off a little wisp of golden-blonde hair from the coat-slecvc on the side nearest the heart. That was a particularly polite waiter in ? * ** ?? 1. /\ A rQioV* u restaurant, vtuu, ?iicij uc upsci a ui^u ui beef tongue in a customer's lap, said, "Pardon me, sir, but that was an unintentional lapsus lingua." A successful and wealthy retired merchant has often been heard to say that he never was so rich and happy as in his early youth. "For then," in the language of Socrates, "he wanted least, and therefore approached nearer to the gods, who wanted nothing." Miss Lewie M. Boycc, of Plain view, Neb., a school teacher, who lay on the prairie all night during the recent blizzard, with three of her pupils, all of whom died in her arms, has had bcth feet amputated. Her left arm is badly deformed by large pieces of flesh dropping off, but her physician s-iys it will probably not be necessary to amputate it. Sixty shares of Baltimore and Ohio Rail road stock sold in Baltimore yesterday at Oo. This is the lowest figure readied for a number of years and it said to result from the probability that the road may not declare a dividend for several years to come. It is thought that the shares will go still lower. The city council of Spartanburg has appropriated $1,000 for the entertainment of the military encampment provided Spartanburg be selected. This will be heavily increased by private subscription if necessary; A choice camping place will be provided, tents pitched and all arrangements made at the expense of the Morgan Rifles. The Negro Minister to Liberia. 1 The Hon. Cliarles H. J. Taylor, LL.D., United States Minister and Consul General to Liberia, Africa, whose salary :s $5,000 a year, has recently honored us with his views on several points. He says: "I am opposed to a black man's being called colored. Black is the absence of color. If we are anything we are negroes. I am a negro and don't wish any man to call me colored. I was born a slave and commenced, as a bootblack. I lived in Savan nah eighteen years ago, though a native of Alabama. 1 am onty 31 years of age and am tie youngest diplomat in the service. I wish to say that the negro has been moved almust solely by emotion or passion, but he will gradually learn better. Again, the negro is naturally happy, and spends his last five cents as if he were a millionaire. I am afraid that the tendency with my | race is to imitate the vises of whites and shun their virtues. Tell the readers of the Religious Herald to treat the negro fairly and throw him on his own resources. If he can't hoe his own row and tote his own skillet, let him go to the wall. Liberia is the richest country I ever saw, but negroes raised here can't live there. The failure of Liberia does not prove the negro incapable of self-government. The best negroes have not been .sent there. There are only .2,375 voters in all Liberia, and 1,333 of them hold offices." That is what Mr. Cleveland's minister to Liberia tells'us. but he may be mistaken on some points.?xucumona neiif/iout Jiercua. A Beautiful Girl's Sad Fate. Baltimore, February 7.?A pitiful spectacle was presented at the Southern police station this morning when a patrolman led in a beautiful girl, apparently not more than IS years old, and so scantily clad that she had been found nearly frozen to death, huddled in an unused ash cart in an alley. From the wild stare in her black eyes and tier strange actions it was evident that she svas insane. Her black hair hung down her ' back and tlic drizzling rain on if had matted < t and frozen. Her scant calico dress was < covered with sleet and her feet were almost i xire. 2so one knew her. She did not ap- '< :>ear to be a vagrant, but was likely a 1 itranger here. 1 At* times there was a gleam of intdli- t ;ence in her beautiful face and then she t vould talk to those about her. Once she 1 aid ftcr name was iuuggie anu urn ner . v lusband was an arrnj' officer who had a s >ension of $3,000 a yc-ar. It is not believed I hat she is a married woman. The police T re trying to fiDd her friends. She appears o o be refined. Daring her insane wander- <3 ogs she frequenty exclaimed, "Oh, my rain, my brain," and puttiDg her hand to er head seemed trying to force her mind h 3 respond to the questions asked as to her b lentity. r< ? S i Novel Bet. o - 3 A novel bet was lately decided in a res- S lurant in Philadelphia. A gentleman as- b; irted that the majority of men did not now what they were drinking, and offered si > bet that he could confound anyone so m lat he could not tell water from whisky, tl ce of the party accepted the wager and oi ie preparations began. The man was m rst* blindfolded and then a number of P< lasses, containing water, milk, whisky, di terry, claret, Rhine wine and gin, were m it out on the bar. They were handed to fo te blindfolded man one at a time and he fa as told to name the liquor after tasting it. fa e got through the list bravely until he bj .me-to the gin, which he called port wine, sli hen the man started him back, but it was th on very evident that his palate had been ta! locked silly. He called milk water, and I di lally was forced to admit that all the luors tasted ause anu mat jue nau iost 111s t. mi m; "Man wants but little here below." But to gets it below zero too often ^a: BRIC-A-BRAC. OUIi CHOICE. lome boys like the maiden with saucy blue eyes, Or fancy the girl with gold hair; Some chaps like"the lass of diminutive size, Ar m.nVr.n -wifVi a scholarly stare: Some youths are quite partial to tender young dears Or beauties who weightily crash; 3ut men are convinced through the knowledge of years There's naught like the girl with the cash. A game leg?Hindquarter of venison. The telephone operator has a perpetual loller-day. For weighs that are dark commend us ,o the coal scales. The cold wave flag carries a black lozenge n the centre. This is for bronchitis. A sailor is a lightning change math In i twinkling he can turn into a hammock. The mathematician's favorite season is ?ie sum-mer. The milkman's is the spring. Song of the emancipated debtor?"We io not sne3k as we pass by." Thousand-dollar clerks who live at the rate of ten are the ones from whom the safe combination should be kept. A Greek wedding ceremony lasts all day. The duration of the divorce ceremony isn't stated. The coat-tail flirtation is the latest. A wrinkled coat-tail bearing dusty toe-marks means, "I have spoken to your lamer." "That remains to he seen/'is what the young lady remarked "when she left something' on the plate "for manners." The woman who maketh a good pudding in silence is better than she who maketh a tart reply. One hundred and eleven years must elapse before the next row of three figures will stand in line to designate the year. When a fire in a kitchen stoye goes out it often leaves undone those things which it should have done. It is a great honor to be a rear admiral, but, curiqusly enough, we never heer of a rerr general or a rear high private. There is a certain corset factory that turns out two corsets a minute. This is a striking illustration of haste making waist. See that your animals are made comfortable when the mercury is playing about the zero point. Of all dark traits that disfigure the human race, that of wishing to belittle or degrade the charater of another is the lowest. An investigator has come to the conclu 'sion that women have a larger proportion of brown eyes than men. There nothing under the face of the sky that can be quite so stuck up as a sheet of postage stamps when it tries to. "Oh, very beautiful are little girls, And goodly to the signt." So John G. Saxe wrote years ago, And John G. Saxe was right Quite beautiful are little girls, And pleasing to the view; Their rosy cheeks and clustering curls I like to see. Don't you? Yes, very beautiful are little girls, And yet the dullest prig Will willingly agree with me They're prettier when they're big. Wife?0, doctor, Benjamin seems to be wandering in his mind! Doctor (who knows Benjamin)?Don't trouble about that; he can't go far. The age of a tree is determined by the number of its rings, but it is not safe to apply this rale to the bejewelled overripe maidan or the overgrown monopoly. / Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a man is firm in principle or simply obstinate, but the man himself never expresses any doubt. It was the young tailor who said, referring to a rival for the affections of a young lady, that he thought he knew enough to be able to cut him out. When you see two dogs growling and getting ready to fight, remember that it is only a joint debate, and the liveliest dog will get away with the joint. The girls have formed a "kiss trust," and now the boys are talking of prosecuting them under the law which prohits the forestalling of necessaries of life. "Yes." said Smith, "when the United States gives away lands to railroad corporations it sinks to the level of a colporteur." "How is that?" asked Jones. "Because it becomes a tract distributor." "What is your employment?" asked Ms Honor of a prisoner arraigned for vagrancy the other day. "Walking, sir." "Where do you walk?" "Well, that's according to which way the policeman is coming from."' Physician (to patient)?Your case is a very serious one, sir, and I think a consultation had better be held. Patient (too sick to care, for anything)?Very well, doctor; have as many accomplices as you like. A beautiful girl in San Francisco has been sound asleep for seventy-three- days. Well, don't fool with her, boys. These pretty >irls turn out to be mighty wide awake sometimes when their eyes seem to be shut. -"Come and dine with me today, Grindstone," said Kiljordan; "the bill of fare will just suit you. Calves brains is the " "T'lt TTilior/lnn " u14u.. jl 11 v, said Grindstone, "Id order that you mayhave one man at the table who can eat calves' brains without making a cannibal of himself." Take a teaspoonful of English, A modicum of Dutch, Of Italian just a trifle, And ot Gaelic not too much; Some of Russian and Eg; ptian, Add them unto the whole, With just enough to flavor Of the lingo of the Pole. Some Cingalese and Hottentot, A suspicion, too, of French, Of native Scandinavian A pretty thorough drench; Hungarian and Syrian, A pinch of Japanese, With just as much of Ojibbeway And Turkish as you please. Now stir it gently, boil it well, And if you've decent luck The ultimate residuum You'll find is Yolapuk! Decaying Homesteads in the South. A great many of the plantations in difFr-rcnf rwirtc nf fhn South, which were once well known for their size, the magnicence 3f thercsidences-upon them, the hospitality j? their owners, or on account of the promnence of the families which possess them, , ire now falling into ruins- The reason for his is, perhaps, that the land has been ' vorked so long Without being fertilized hat it has become poor, or it may be that hose into whose possession it has passed acked the energy and skill which are re- 1 [uired to make it pay under the present 3 ystem of labor. One of these famous old < >lacc-s, in Liberty county, in this State, < vas lately sold to a colored man for $2,500, ( mly part of the purchase price being re- i [uired at once. It is known as Laurel i riew, and is within two miles of tie his- j Dric town of Sunbury. It was once the ome of the gifted John Elliott, and a very f eautiful home it was. John Elliott once r ^presented Georgia in the United States enate, in 1820 to 1S26. The plantation Dntains 2,800 acres. It was purchased uring the war of secession by Linton tephens, and was sold to the present owner y his heirs. The district in which the plantation is b tuated was noted,- from the first settle- I fifotnnntil flic omanmnstiiMi nf ^ L.CH 0 Vi bUW VAUbt* l/iiv \y *. | u ic slaves, for the intelligercc and wealth C " its citizens. It is now, however, alObt whollv abandoned to the colored jople. Its great plantations have been vicied into small farms, and the superb anions, once the homes of men noted 131 r wealth and culture, and of women 0 mous for beauty and refinement, and ni Ding into decay, and are being replaced rf r cabins and huts, whose chimneys of P' :cks and mud tell more plainly than words ? e marvellous change for worse which has *?,< ke place in the once rich and prosperous ~ strict.?Satannah JS'eics. rz "Hubby, dear, don't you think I would ake a good actress?" "No doubt of it,' ev y dear," replied the brute; "all they have I ct do is to paint and pad and talk, and you ed a do that." I nc ' -3 Ia the Ozark Region. "I wish that some of you fellows who i like to talk about the srort you have hunting here in the cold east could just pack up your traps about now and go back with me to a country that a chap 1 can live in with pleasure and comfort i while the gales and snow and frost of 1 this Atlantic climate are getting their J work in to the best kind of advantage," * said "Chij)" Macguire, of Springfield, t Mo., at the Morton House the other ' night "Game is aiwavs . plenty in ( " o>aiil 'no ''lint- this I * jear it seems to have outdone itself in j abundance. I came over the old Kan- , sas City, Fart Scott and Gulf Rai'road ] last week, and although that was early 1 in the season for the birds to be making 1 themselves conspicuous, I'll bet that 1 ] counted a hundred flocks of wild tur- I keys, and there wasn't a flock out of ] which I couldn't have shot one or more of the splendid birds from my window 1 in the car. The railroad in one place ! runs on trestles over a swamp for : several miles, and in the extensive ; ponds and bayous of that wild stretch . of country thousands upon thousands of . wild ducks and .geese of all varieties were feeding, some of the water being covered for acres with the fowl, until j their groups looked like islands in the lakes. These fowl seemed to be so used to the noise of the trains that I did not see one move its position through being startled by the cars in all that distance. "The day before I left Springlield I sew a bushwhacker come into town with a mule-team load of deer carcasses of the linest kind. I bought one simply to obtain the magnificent head and antr lers, and all I paid for the whole business was .'53.25. There were at least two hundred pounds of the best venison included in the purchase. You could not get that head and those horns here for less than $lo. Among tne otoer large game reported plenty and waiting for the hunter is bear. This gentle creature more particularly affects .the jungles and swamps of northern Arkansas, and if an unsuspecting sportsman is going into these parts he will have to keep his eye skinned to find thoroughfares unobstructed by bruin. The lynx, and now and then that relic of the days when the country belonged to two-legged as weL as four-footed savages, the American panther, still hold as land tenilre in thai garden spot of the southwest, and, I am told, greet visitors after the manner of their kind. 1 never daily with game of this kind, but 1 know men who do, and what they say may be depended on. "I went out for a rabbit hunt a few days beforo I left home, and I got tired of tripping over them. That is no exaggeration, for I give you my word that they jumped out from every bunch of brush and leaves that lay in our path. Alter Digging au i couiu carry jl weui to shooting quail for a friend who was with me to back home. These birds actually paid no attention to the gun at all, but the flocks I shot into kept right on feeding as if nothing had happened, and rather objected to my picking up the ones I had shot We speak of gray and black squirrels out there as you might refer to sparrows here, for they take possession of towns and villages in about the same way. "The beauty of it all is that the later the season grows the better rue weather gets, and any of you fellows can come out there New Year's and strike it right, and spend the remainder of the winter in clover. You won't be apt to ; see much snow. The Ozark region is | the greatest country I know of, and the water out there is immense. If you want to have a good hunt come out and see me, and leave all your medicine at home."?A7". Y. Sun. Gen. Belknap's Peculiar Toe. A party of old soldiers stood on the platform of the panorama of Bull Run the other dav, discussing an anecdote I told recently of the idiosyncrasies of Stonewall Jackson, and a famous exconfederate remarked: "I saw a good deal of Gen. Jackson before and during the war, and noticed his peculiarities as every one else did. I have heard him assert that his right leg was hollow and his left leg solid. He used to imagine that he could feel his blood passing down the cavity, and if it had been any other man I would have said that he was crazy." "I'm the other man," responded Gen. Belknap, who stood by, "for I never take a glass of Burgundy without feeling it run down inside my leg to my great toe." "And I know a man," observed another. "who cannot take even so much as a glass of beer without 'feeling a numbness in his arm from his wrist to bis elbow." "Sam Randall," said a third, "always has a swelling of his ankles whenever he takes wine of any sort, but that's gout, of course." "And I know a great many men," continued a fourth, "who cannot take a drink of whisky without feeling it in both legs, but I never thought there was anything strauge about it ?Cor. Chicago News. The Birthplace of Abraham. Not far from Aleppo is situated the little town of Orfah (the ancient Ur of the Chaldees) which is of great h istorical interest, ii; having been the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham. There are few Jews in the place, but the Arabs still point out a small building lying outside the town which they declare to be the house wherein Abraham first saw the light, and which they thereforo term Belt el Chalil (the house of the friend of god). It is most improbable that the actual house should have stood xx T :i J:_ - LVl CllUasaUUC" U1 UUL tliU UUliUiDg in question is of great antiquity. By its present ownar, an Arab peasant, as well as by the Arabs generally, it is : held in the utmost veneratior?the ; more so since: it is feared that wi .hin a ' few years it w ill fall to -the ground.? Jewish Chronicle. ( A Delicious Dish. Gen. E. P. Alexander, president of the i Georgia Central Railroad, tells the ] Atlanta Constitution that the most de- 1 licions dish for lunch can be prepared as follows: i Take a nice fresh shad and cut it up is if to fry it, put into an earthen jarpack closely with sufficient salt an3 ilispice to season to taste, and then pour jver it vinegar enough to cover contents )f jar. Set the jar in a pot of water, so is to be submerged to within an inch of ;he top, and boil until the vinegar in the ar comes to a boiL Cook slowly. The r had absorbs the vinegar gradually, and ^ t dissolves all the bones in the fish. It aakes a delightful dish for a lunch, and t is to be eaten cold. Will keep for two creeks. g m 6: Seven Indian Territory murderers have p: een sentenced by Judge Parker, in the ti rnited States Court to be hanged on Fri- b ay, April 27. Five are negroes, one is a s< 'iierokce Indian, and one is white. j ir _r^j> c< w Tom Woolfolk, who killed nine mem- is srs of his family, and who was convicted P [ murder at the last term of court, was er ot Iiangecl jt'riaay, as jqis semes ce cii icted that lie should be. A writ of su2rsedas has been granted upon motion for new trial in his ease, and execution has _ ?en postponed in order that the Supreme q ourt may review and decidc the question ? .ised. g In is cowardice to wish to get rid of J erything which we do not like. Sick- & ;ss and sorrow only exist to further man's lucation in this world. They will not be DE :eded in the future. THE BRUTAL WHITE CAPS. L Man Who Went Against Their Wishes Is W hipped Nearly to Death. Eya>-svllle, _ Ixd., Feb. 5.?A report las reached this city of a dastardly outrage by White Caps, committed on Friday lin-Vi* timt "Wflrpnon TTr>W:ird fionntv. Ind. [n that locality reside Thomas Williams md wife, "who were subjected last year to jreat indignities, so it is said, at the hands >f the White Caps. At the time Williams claimed to have recognized among his assailants a prominent young man, Thomas Courtney, Jr., the son of one of the leading physicians of the county. He immeliately sought the arrest of young Courtney, who, fearing trouble, left for parts anknown. Nothing further was heard of Ihe young man, though it transpires that tie had located with his father at Fort Scott, Kansas, and a telegram from that point yesterday announced that he had been arrested upon a requisition from the Governor of Indiana and was back in Crawford county. This news seemed to have enraged the friends of the young leader and they determined to wreakjtlieir 7engeance on Williams, who was supposed to have encompassed the arrest of Courtney. Reports received state that they went to ilis house last night at a late hour and demanded admittance, which was refused, when they broke down the door just as Williams fired three shots into thecrowd from his revolver. It is not known if any one was hurt, but it seemed to infuriate the masked men, who proceeded to tie Mrs. Williams to the bedstead and took Williams into me yara, mnere nc was Wound to a tree. They then told him that they had come for his writL j and sworn statement exonerating Courtney from all participation in the crime charged against him and that his refusal would result in his being put out of the way. Though thus intimated, he refused to do it, and their leader ordered that he should be flogged until lie agreed to sign the statement. j Hev was therefore stripped and bound closely to the tree, with his face turned inward. The lash was applied vigorously, bringing the blood for some moments, when the head of the poor man was noticed to fall backward, and it was ascertained that he had fainted. At that moment the sound of approaching horsemen caused the miscreants to decamp. Williams was cut down and the usual remedies applied, but he failed to regain consciousness, and at last accounts was reported in a dying condition. The White Caps made good their escape. The wife states tha* during the parley with her husband in the yard, and while she was fastened to the bed; one of the miscreants would have subjected her to grosser indiguities had he not been prevented by a companion. The outrage is said to have aroused that section of country, where a very strong feeling has sprung ud affainst the repeated crimes of the "WTiite Caps. Progress in the State. The Baltimore Manufacturer# Record of this week contains the following statement of new enterprises in this State for the past week: Charleston.?C. J. Huguenin, "W. M. Bird, W. E. Huger, W. A. Rousche and others have incorporated the Palmer Manufacturing Co., capital stock 200,000, to manufacture rice, oil and turpentine barrels. The company will absorb the Standard Manufacturing Co., and will enlarge the factory at Charleston and operate the fac tories at Savannah, Ga., and Hawkinsville, Ga. Charleston.?The Young Men's Christian Association contemplate building a large hall. Darlington.?Geo. J. Cunningham has contracted to bore an artesian welt; machinery now on hand. Enoree.?The Enoree Manufacturing Company will, it is said, begin work at once on their cotton mill previously reported. Fork Shoals.?The Fork Shoals Mills will probably put in about 500 spindles during the year. Greenville ?The school trustees have selected a site for one of the schools previously reported. A site for the other will soon be selected. Lancaster.?$50,000 has been subscribed towards a new mill. It is proposed to raise ?100,000. . Redback?A cotton factory is projr-ctcd. Rock Hill.?The Southern Loan & In vestment Company, capital stock $150/00 has been chartered with W. L. iiod-iy as nroci/^ont Walterboro.? J. A. Papot has purchased machinery to build a saw mill ana woodworking factory. It is said that women are not naturally financiers. This is just about as true as the statement that all crows are white Hand a five-dollar bill to the fair occupant of a bazaar at a church fair, and see ho v much change you get back. O no, women are not financiers! 0 no! "I began with nothing," boasted a mil lionaire^who had made his money in crooked ways. "And that * the condition in which you have left those who dealt with you," was the blunt response cf a bystander. For the blood, use B. B. B. For scrofula, use B. B. B. For cat^-rrh, use B. B. B. For rheumatism, use B. B. B. For kidney troubles, use B. B. B. For skin diseases, use B. B. B. For eruptions, use B. B. B. For all blood poisons, use B. B. B. Ask your neighbor who has used B. B. B. of its merits. Get our book free filled with certificates of wonderful cures. DIAL ENGINE WORKS. A COMPANY HAS BEEN FOBMED that are now operating these works, manufacturing the Celebrated TOZER PATENT AGRICULTURAL AND STATIONARY ENGINES, noted for their great durability, simplicity and jconomy in fuel. Excellent wSrkmanshio and rledxm. Return. Tubulor Boilers a -specialty. Uso Saw Mill Shafting and boxes. Slost convenient shop in the State for laving yonr repairs done. All work guaranteed. Foundry work n Iron and Brass. Write us for estimates. W. P. LESTER, Superintendent. THOENWELL McMASTER, Business Manager. JHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. The current session of this Institute loses January 21st, 188S, when the pring Session begins, which ends June fch, 1888. The present session is one of the most : rosperous in the history of the Insti- , ite. There is room for only a few more oarding pupils. The health of the >hool, the accommodations of its board- 1 rr A> { nrm-nf ibr. fkf lfc )rps of teachers are unsurpassed anyhere in the South. -The first of January a very convenient time for entering. " upilsare charged only frora date of j ttrance. Eev. War. S. ATKINSON, Principal, Charlotte, N. C. [ iHQWTases. wAurCA^gS. ^ :SKS^0FF!^ FURNmiRE AND FIXTURES, * Ask for Illustrated Pamphlet* & 717W fifTAUr /1A01P /1A MVM* W?*VH VV?| U\*QUlAUS2i f f / ? CURES A3,2. HUJiOKs, from a common Elotcli, or Ernption.. to the worst Scroiula. Salt-rlxcn Jfij " Fever - sores," Sealy or Koagk Skin, in short, all diseases caused by baa blood are conquered by this powerful, purifvinjr, and invigorating medicine. Great" ' Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its be- , X nizn influence. Especially has it manifested its potency i:i curinvr Tetter, Rose liasliKoils, CarbnncJ.es, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hipjoint Disease, T3Tiite Swellings, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Send ton cents in stamps for a large treatise, with colored, plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a treatise on Scrofulous Affections. ?T?IE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." , Thoroughly cleanse it l>y using: Dr. Pierce'o Golden Ittedical Disco very, and good digestio?:, a fair skin, buoyant spiro its. and vital strength, will be established. CONSUMPTION, d which Is Scrofula of S2ie Eungs, is ar~ rested and cured by this remedy, if taken be- tsSSs foro the last stages of the disease are reached. From its marvelous power over tins uxriuiy fatal disease, when first offering: this now V| celebrated remedy to the public. Dr. Ptercs w thought seriously of calling it his "Coii= sumption Cure," but abandoned tha'; name as too limited for a medicine which, from its wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing; anti-bilious, pcetorai. ::t:d nutritive properties, is unequakd, not only :>s a remedy for consumption, but for di Clirouic JDiSo eases of the Liver, Blood, anil Lungs. v* If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or ycllowisb-brown spots on face or body, frequent headache or dizziness, bad taste in mouth, internal beat or chilis, al'ei natins: with hot tlusbes, low spirits and gloo.^y forebodings, irregular appetite, and coated tongue, you are suffering from Xndixestioii, Ryspcpsia. and Torpid ^ Liver, or '"Siiiousness." In jnany cases only part of these symptoms are experienced. As a remedy for all such casee, < ? - - ? - > ? r?:?_ Dr. Pierccs txoiucu iuc&iv<u ? covery ie unsurpassed. For Weak Lai:^< Spittinflf of Blood, Shortness o? Brcatb. Bron. cliitis, .istimia. Severe Conghs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. . Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or SIX , BOTTLES for $5.00. Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce's book on Consumption.* Address, "World's Dispensary inedical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. ?hS REWARD is offered by the proprietors J IMr ' of Dr. Sabre's Catarrh Kemedy ii? \ *or a case catarrh which i IS' they cannot cure. If you r^-Jr ~ *sr have a discharge from the nose, offensive or otherwise, partial loss of smell, taste, or hearing, weak eyes, dull pain or pressure in head, you have Catarrh. Thousands of cases terminate in consumption. Dr. Sage's Catakrk Remedy cures the -worst cases of "Catarrh* "Cold in the Head," and Catarrhal Headache. CO cents. 1 PEIYATE BGAKDING. ON THE FIRST OF OCTOBER, the undersigned opened a [FIRST CLASS BOARDING HOUSE d i in Charleston, for the accommodation both Transient ana Permanent Boarders. The Building, located on the northeast V corner of Wentworth and Glebe streets, is conveniently near the business portion ~ AgS of King street, yet free from the noise fl of the thoroughfares. It is within easj ? H reach from the Academy of Music anc v .fl from Churches of all the different de nominations. The house has been thoroughly paired, and fitted up in good style new furniture and fixtures. Terms reasonable. For further information address Mas. E. E. HASELL, or Miss S. S. EDWARDS, Ltf Charleston, S: C. :fwi"DO WEARS I THE sr. T. STANDARD $3.00 cS!L3em PANTS . Bet it takes soothing more than low pricw to make oor goods sell aafast as weanmake theaup. Wocalycseall wool cloth of the laUstdcsifnund pattersa.lt iavery strong kj FIJKST, as to led: It ia ?na and cnyteUIinr.0 Not coazuo, because of*ho w:r7i t:zht tvrist of the itcoL 2s ?-a?? wears Ixtco leather. * ' "'a X EXT,a? to our low ?&F\ ? a price** That couies from oor * ' J handling such cnonnocs quaati| tiea&ad a&kingsnch icsaII profits. j \V*? arc now taking the entxn pro/\W&f \ ( ducts of three rnills, and that v *A I hiicn our dfTTund, ^ 7>;jj | Xeir lork Styles, U; / gj?y> g AVOID mTATOES. i' jngji/j ^Alrra^nth^eai I 1 I X/* 3TEX.T, vra make t A/. goods only to order, I a ' and by car scientific measure* I | *. Eist Siankscaa fit yoa as well I U z* 1,000 miie. .iway as we can at OCT A \1 J ' store. We send oor S Vg5,. poods to PBntomeri <iSwV?. V j?v, Doth by mail an<l ex^ press, as buyer's op- V snm X" EXT, by scsdlsjf ?fcr cents in stamps yon will receive by remrn mall a package of twenty samples of cloth for Par.tii, Suits, and J| Overcoats, and if voa mention this pipcr.Ctt-lnch jkH Tapo Mea*ure free. Also fell sctofzneassm- JB meat blanks. Try thj and convince yourse! ? JH ATTT? nTT (Pi TOTrTfT? Wo never wt- nl j Bl/UJA Utl m JLXJXJ ?mltacyoaato boM JE BE 6orry to dealt tri'ics, lor weaiwayaiave aadaiwjB xrill-B 9H 63 refund money for ut cansa. H $9 KEPEEEX'CES.-American Esprets Co^Xer 11 fa York City, with whora we do ka ?aonnocs bmiBca*. m Sena for ttaaiples and Call at out JEg . M Store! Act now* and begin to savo One-Half? gj tbeco5tofyourclotii2glbrthet?Iaaceofyeurli&. Call H 1 W.Y. STANDARD PANT CO., 68 Unlver- | S $^armM-<swb-. ' ISA LINIMENTPERFECTW RARMLESS.AHD SHOULD BE USED A EEMMQiuHS.BLFCRL CONFINEMENT. 'send for book TO MOTHERS i BBADHEIB"'RESULIsrDa CO c?T ATLAMTA.GA. Jf X JU JU fc>. ' The justly celebrated SOUTHERN VEGETABLE PILL having been used as a Household remedy for the past half century, in all the Southern and Western -v. States, for the cure of Dyspepsia, Bil- \ iousness, Malaria ard all diseases of the LIVER, have, by their Jfl WONDERFUL CUBES, S gained the supremacy over all other v PILLS on the market. After one trial I you will join the cry for "GILDER'S PILLS" with the ten million people of fl the United States who are now using fchem. J If your merchant has not got them, send 25 cents in stamos to i G. BAEEET'T & CO.. J AUGUSTA. G\. B PITTS CAKMISJlTIVE! I for evfakt8 asd 8 rEETHING CHILDREN. - I An instant relief for colic of infants. w "tires Dysentery, Diarrhoea, . jK&kta_ nfantnm" or any diseases of tEfe stomach"^ . ndbowels. Makes the critical period f Teething safe and easy. Is a safe and "fl >lsasant tonic. For sale by all druggists, nd for wholesale by Eowabd, Wfflrar fl ; Co., Augusta, Ga, ' yy? r "' -. > . j-vSiS