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XT?-'" 1 \ \ SENATOR nAVIPTON'S SOLUTIONHow the ?pfro Problem in the South Should be Met and Settled. ^ "VX,1a XJ a v,%v?Iav? 1 > n r? or? it 0 JjLLciC0r >V dUC jaao CCJJ. CW.tide on the race problem in the July Arena. He declares the confeiring the right of suffrage on the negro was a violation of the constitution, and he quotes General Grar#s message as follows to sustain that position: "A measure which. m<tkes at once four millions of people voters who were heretofore declared,by the highest tribunal in the land, no citizens of the United States, not eligible to be come so, is indeed a measure of grander importance than any one other act of the kind from the foundation of eur free government to the present day."' He also says the Republicans admit that giving the negroes suffrage was a mistake, though they cannot afford to say so in public, because they would lose the negro vote. He also says an overwhelming majority of the people of the country would vote for the abrogation of the negroes right of suffrage if it was submitted" to them, but as it will never be submitted, he ^-1"? r\r*4- 7-.is /lonAvffl tlllMhS liUC UCAC Ucot. tlllllQ w UVJ/VA?. tion of the negroes by their own consent, and with lavish appropriations by the federal government for their help. He asks why the right of suffrage should be given the negro when it is denied the Indian and the Chinese. "The former." says he, "was certainly a citizen of this country until it was wrested from his hands, and the latter can boast a much higher civilization than a negro has ever or will ever attain, and yet in his case the most brutal laws have been enacted, not only to exclude him from citizenship, but to drive him from the country, in violation of solemn treaty stipulation. Such has been the inconsistency of the Republican party, in their senseless advocacy of univi-i sal suffrage, they have not only tiuownwide open the doors leading iu American citixenship, admitting thus the- anarchist, the communist, tue nihilist and ail other scum ?f Eai'opeim nations, but they have injected into our body politic millions of ignorant, uneducated blacks, who have no more comprehension of our system of government than their A;rican forefathers had. And all the cvii resulting from this frightful tibe i';dis on that portion of the country where, but a few years ago, tiiese newly enfranchised voters were Thp rnade against slavery was on the ground that the condition of servitude brought men to the level of beasts, unfitting them to discharge any of the daties of manhood. But when the direful exigencies of the war forced the North to call the colored brother to its aid, to escapse defeat, as a reward for his eminent services, he was clothed with all the attributes of American citizenship, thus giving him the power to take possession of those States in which he had been for centuries a slave. Now, if slavery had debased him to the condition of a beast, he was scarcely fitted to assume rule of grer.t, free ana proud commonwealths; u lie was fitted to do so. then slavery had done more for his race than all the missionaries who had labored for generations in Africa to reseue him from barbarism and savagely. Our friends whose chief political capital is the negro, may choose whichever / hom of this dilemma promises to gore them least. But we must meet the fact that the negro, whether rightfully or wrongfully, is a citizen and a voter, and this fact gives a right and % significance to the race problem whi ch threatens such disaster to the country, and "to all of its most cherished institutions. eer\ 2.1. _ j_: -yjne solution 01 uie qu.es liuu izo.s been alluded to, that of revoking negro citizenship, but it has been dis? missed as impracticable, because our peopb have not the courage to face this issue which would rectify the greatest wrong ever inflicted on a free people. "As this remedy cannot be applied, we must turn to the ^ext best thing,' and in my judgment that would be _ the deportation of the negroes, of course by their consent, to some place where they could work out their own destiny, free from contact wif.h fhe -nr'hif-.p race, and where thev could prove their capacity for selfgovernment, if they possess it. Thousands of them, and many of the best, have expressed a wish to try this experiment, and our government should aid them, not only with a liberal, but ; a lavish hand- Let us help them to establish a nationality for themselves, when they can show to the world that ' the lessons they have learned here have bome good fruit, and that the savage who was brought from Africa is now a civilized, law-abiding, selfsustaining man, fit to take his place among the nations of the earth, and to be recognized in the great family -r ?J 1? A VI CIYJJLizeu peupica. -toj.c.uc ?iative home of the negro, still sends forth her 'Macedonian cry' for religion and civilization, and here the negro of America could find ample field to redeem a continent from barbarism/' A Gruesome Hour. The law of Minnesota, which requires that the execution of a murderer shall take place between midnight and dawn, has just been enforced for the first time in the case of TtT.nr^wv "D/va/II-AV TTTOo ^ono/5/1 IV 1111. till iicui.ia.ti, HUU HUO shortly after midnight at Pine City. The Minnesota lawgivers seem to have desired to add gloom and solemv. nity to a ceremony most gruesome at best, but the hour must be a very inconvenient and untimely one for the murderer himself. Every attentive reader of the accounts of executioners knows that a baby never enjoys balmier and sweeter slumber than a condemned murderer the night befhre he is to be hanged. He also knows that he takes a very excellent <>r?rl Tmrtrfv breakfast in the momino The refreshing sleep and the hearty breakfast are always the features of . the few hours that precede an execution. But under the new law there will be no such enjoyment for the murderer in Minnesota. He will go to bed after supper, be called up in the middle of his sleep, and be hanged on an empty stomach.?Chicago Herald. ?The other day a North Carolina woman started for the haymow to see how a hen was getting along that was sitting on some eggs. On entering the bam the woman was surprised to see the old hen taking hei chicks down herself. She would pici up one in her mouth, fly down with it, lay it down, and continue the process until she carried them all down, thirteen in number. ? Davis Dalton. an American, will attempt to swim across the English channel from Folkestone to Boulogne next month. I ! MAY ROB US ANOTHER WAY1 Republicans May Kush Through an Appor ; tionment Eased on a False Census. j Washington, D. C.. July 10. ?There is a revival of the scheme mentioned ; in the Star some time ago of crowd, iiig an appointment bill through the ; present Congress while the Republi' cans have a safe majority in both Houses. The results of the census ; just completed, or alleged to be completed, '.vill control the basis of representation in the lower house of Congress for the next ten years. A preliminary summary of the results, informally submitted to the Republican bosses, it is said, shows large gains received in the Republican States of the Northwest, while in the Democratic Southern States there is ' made to appeal* a falling off in popu-1 lation which will materially reduce j the basis of representation. Some of flip "Ra-nublioan leaders in the Senate are quietly urging upon their colleagues that by the prompt tabulation of the returns of the eleventh census and the speedy passage of an apportionment bill based thereon, a continuation of the power of the. Republican party in the lower House can be more effectually assured than by the passage of the Lodge Election law. Th?Y argue that the provisions of the force bill are so repugnant to the general sentiment of the communities in which it is proposed to put them in operation that the execution of the law, even if it can be passed by the Senate, it is believed, will be practically impossible. A new apportionment, on the other hand, passed by a Republican House and Senate, and approved by a JttepuDncan President, striking off fifteen or twenty representatives from districts now represedted by Democrats, and adding thirty or forty new members to States deemed reliably Kepublican, it is hoped, will give a steady working majority in the House for ten years to come. The trouble is with the next election. Even the most reckless partisan hardly dare to suggest that the 'new apportionment bill should be made to apply to the elections to take place next November, and for which a large number of nominations have already been made on the present recognized lines. A tentative sug gestion, timely advanced, is that until the Legislatures of the different States have had time to adjust their Congressional districts to the new apportionment, Congress might enact a law maintaining the districts as existing in the present Congress. This, it is thought, might avert threatened losses in Ohio and Iudiana and answer the purpose contemplated by the McComas national gerrymander bill. But this proposition is not supported with sufficient strength to insure its passage by the House and it would surely fail in the Senate. So the plan reverts to the original idea of crowding the new apportionment bill through before the expiration of the fifty-first Congress, whiie all three branches ol tne government are m the hands of the same party, without waiting to take any risks off the next November elections. Superintendent Porter can, of course, be relied upon to facilitate this scheme in every way by hastening the final tabulation and report. On all previous occasions the new apportionment based on the completed census has been made in a leisurely and orderly manner by the Congress succeeding the one which controlled the taking of the census. The propriety of this course would seem ap parent to any party less bent on pen petuating its own power, regardless of the meaDS employed.?;New York Star. THE FARMERS' COMMITTEEA Meeting in Columbia to D |scuss the Situation* ^ Columbia, S. C-, July 7.?In re-sponse to some understanding apparently reached by private communication, a number of the leaders of the Tillman movement assembled in this city to-day for a conference. Among those present were Capt. G. W. Shell, Laurens, another of the famous manifest#?or of that part of it which Capt. Till m on does not claim?Col. J. L.M. Irby, of Laurens; T. W. Standland, of Berkeley; Octavus Cohen, of the Charleston World; J. T. Murphy, of Charleston? H. R. Thomas, of Edgefield, and others. Capt." Tillman by reason of the delay of the Augusta train, did not reach here until 7:30 and took the 8:15 train to Camden without coming up town. Tlie number of conferees was increased by tlie arrival of J. A. Sligh and W. D. Hardy, Newberry; A. W. Jones, Abbeville; Dr. "W. B. Bice, Barnwell; 0. W. Buchanan, Fairfiele; TV. H. Timmerman, Edgefield; J. E. Tindal, Clarendon, and H. A. Meetze and J. H. Counts, Lexing ton. The conference first assembled tonight at the Agricultural building' but hastily adjourned on the discovery by a late arriving delegate that a reporter had climbed a tree within a few feet of an open window where the meeting was held. The conference resumed its session at the Grand Central in a room on the second fUor with guards posted to keep at a distance representatives of the press. Capt. Shell presided and the situa"* ? " -i mi tion was tHrorougniy^cuscussea. xne sense of the majority present, it is learned, was in favor of making no nominations at the August convention, but to vote down the proposition of a State primary, and to also elect a ne^ State executive committee of known Tillman tendency. It was also proposed by some to , have the convention take action for the reapportionment of the State at the September convention, taking the , population of the counties by the f* r\AA ? it. ^ i * ? ^ census 01 ioou as me uasis, lusiiciiuui as now. The members of the conference talked -with express the greatest confidence in being able to control both the August and September conveni tionsforthe farmers1 movement? Augusta Chronicle. A Shocking Accident. A dreadful accident occurred near , Chnppells Depot,in Newberry county , lasi Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Dan Holland and a negro woman were driving in a sulky. Thev were endeavoring to get ahead of a rain storm which was coming up, and in crossing a small stream the sulky was t thrown off the bridge, turning it over. . Mrs. Holland's foot caught in the , SiLJLL1 U?J VJL ojuc uj^uuiiivv?cioju.v.) horse, becoming frightened, ran away, killing -Mrs. Holland and seriously . hurting the negro woman. Mrs. . Holland was only 16 years old, and had only been married about two months. ?MB????a?M?? K?PBnm HB ITEMS OF INTEREST. ?Mr. Bluine favors sole government control of Mississippi River improvements. ?A Hungarian paper announces the death of a veteran of "Waterloo, aged 10-~> years, hi his native village, Hatszeg. in Transylvania. ?Colored citizens of Birmingham | Ala., propose to start u banic tiiore. ! owned, officered and patronized by their own race, with a capital of $50.000. , ?The newly appointed woman deputy factory inspectors for the State of New York will receive a salary of Si,000 a year and their expenses. ?Dr. Meredith, a Brooklyn preacher, has established a second readin'groom for workingmen, where no restriction is placed on smoking cigars and pipes. ?A huge tower, eleven stories high, is to be erected at South Kingston, B. I., and dedicated to the advent of modem spiritualism, by Joseph P. Hazzard, a wealthy spiritualist of that place. ?George Eliot made $75,000 by her great novel "Middlemarch." That is much more than Gen. Lew Wallace has yet realized from his very popular "Ben Hur." George Eliot also made ?35,000 by her "Romale/' ?A St. Petersburg doctor is stopped late at night by a policeman, who asks why he is out so late. "To at tend Mr. Popoff, who was taken ill." "Did he have a permit to be taken suddenly ill?" "No." "Then you will have to go to prison."?Detroit Free Press. ?Dr. W. Gilmore Thompson, of New York, has made several successful experiments in transplanting brain tissue from the head of one dog to that of another, and from cats to dogs heads. He is now considering flio rvro 1 i f.v nf iron sr>1 fin lino' human brains in the same way. ?Augusta is having a warm fight over the confirmation of Postmaster Denning. He is opposed on several grounds, including physical disability and a charge that he once "raised" and approved a bill against the city and collected on it several hundred drollars more than was due him. ?In the Louisiana parishes so far heard from the census shows the white increase of population to have been greater since 18S0 than the /-wo/1 inm-oooo onr? fn nn py tent that if the paiishes yet to be heard from turn out as expected Louisiana will be "white'' by 16,651 majority. ?During the fiscal year just closed, the pension office issued 151,651 certificates. The number issued during the preceding year was 145,292. Of the number issued during the past year, 66,637 were original pensions, which is an increase of nearly 15,000 as compared with the number issued during the preceding year. ?A special to the Chattanooga Times says it has been found that the collapse of the Briscoe building in Knoxville was caused by a cave under the building. The centre support dropped into a cave of unknown depth, not yet explored, but a stone dropped into it can be heard to hit the bottom "away down." ?A curious fashion has come into vogue in Paris. In all the cemeteries metal boxes with a slit in the lid are placed on the tombstones to receive the cards or visitors. The relatives of the deceased are thus enabled to see who among the living still cherish the memory of their departed friends. ?It is stated that a German artillery officer has succeeded in making a new explosive from carbolic acid that a shell filled with this material possesses a power hitherto unobtained. Experiments made with these shells thrown from mortars have all, it is stated, proved highly successful. ?During a dispute over a calf at Camas Prairie, Oregon, recently Ed Rinehardt hit Helm McConnell on the head with a heavy plug of tobacco. 'In order to prevent a suit charging him with assault with a deadly weapon, Rinehardt paid ?10, besides giving over the calf and the plug of tobacco. ?There are only five States in the Union in which a schoolmaster can dow legally flog a pupil. In all other States a pupil menaced with corporal pumsnment can arm nimseju wiou any secret weapon and use it as he best can. Massachusetts teachers flog an average of two boys per day per capita. ?The guests in an up-town restaurant were considerably shocked and then amused the other night to see a well-dressed woman pour water from a tumbler into a napkin and deliberately wash her face and hands. She didn't seem at all disturbed by "* i -i r the snictermg, ana paia ner dill as indifferently as if it had been for a Turkish bath.?New York "World ?During the eleven months ending May 31st, the European immigrants arriving in the United States numbered a fraction over 400,000?more than equal to the number of inhabitants ?f any one of the twelve States of the Union. Nearly one-half came from Great Britain and Ireland, the others from the continent?Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Holland, etc. Sam Jones on Public Men. Rev. Sain Jones addressed an immense audience at the prohibition camp grounds near Moundsvilie, West Virginia, on Sunday, touching up quite a number of national characters in the course of his remarks. Of United States Senator Matthew Quay, of Pennslyvan:a,hesaid: "Talk about wickedness. Look at Matt. Quay. There you find it personified. Unless he repents he'll go where the fire dieth not/' ? " "? ' 1 " A. T> -J i. Turning ms attention to jrresiuem, Harrison, Mr..Jones said: ''He's small. I saw a picture of him under his grandfather's hat a few days ago. They might Tiave put the whole Harrison family under the hat and still have had lots of room." The Rev. Mr. Jones eulogized exPresident Grover Cleveland in picturesque language, saying at one time: "There's a man -with a backbone as big as that pillar there. If he hadn't so much spine he might have been President still." ?Two girls of the same age and nearly the same name were placed in a French institution for the care of friendless children ten years ago. Some time ago one of them was taken out by her supposed mother, onvpn a handsome dowry and married. The other girl now comes forward with offers of proof that she is the real daughter, and she claims the dowry, if not the husband, of her substitute. T?I??? ?WW? MP?Ml T LODGE AND HEMPHii.LPen Pictures of the Leaders in t>u V.Wc tions Bill Contest. There is a striking contrast be- j tween Mr. Lodge, the leader of the | Republican forces m the conios: over : the federal election bill, ana -;iv. | Hemphill. who by virtue of his posi- j tion on the committee on the election of President and Vice-President, is at the head of the opposition. 3Ir. Lodge has more contradictory traits of character thanjiny man I know of m tne House. ?ic is a curious coin-1 bination of liberal reformer and dema- j gogue: of broad intelligence and bit- j ter partisanship. In his character as j partisan he is admired by his col- j leagues and has a considerable following. As a reformer he hasscarcely any following in the House and is sneered at by those who are his associates and admirers in his other character. His associates are of two classes. Those who follow his lead j on the federal election question call i him a political dude when he talks j civil service reform. Wlieri he ap-1 pears as a reformer of political math- i ods he is superb but ineffective, but I in party intrigue he will go further ! than some of his less intellectual and ! less enlightened associates. He is | clever however, in the assumption of | hierh motive in his partisan action, i and is too shrewd to use denunciation | instead of argument. The best presentation of his side of the Federal election question that lias been made, and the best that can be made, was that which was . made in his opening argument. He is not an orator ana never lises to the point of eloquence. His speeches are finished literary productions, and lie delivers them with an appearance of earnestness. Hs is a fair representative of the intelligent but bigoted young Republicans of New England, still retaining the strain of Puritan blood. Mr. Hemphill is a good representative of the progressive young men of the South. If Mr. Reed, hi a ? -J? :l? .1, spirit oi ma/giiuuiuiiLv, uuu su utr i signed it, he could not have done better for the Democrats than he did in | the appointment of Mr. Hemphill to j the head of the minority committee : which was to consider this bill. He j is not a fire eater. He is calm, dis- \ passionate, logical and a good lawyer, j It would be much easier to throw i Mr. Reed, Mr. Lodge or any other j cold-blooded Ne\y Englander into a I passion than to provoke an indiscretion on the part of this young South Carolinian. He is fan- and frank. His speech is slow and somewhat halting at first. There is never anything in his manner to provoke antagonism; he never forgets to be courteous to his opponent, however bitter that oppenent may be. He is not as graceful a writer as is Mr. JUUU^C, JJUO IJLUl>J uwt U*J VjUAAit/ | as well rounded, lie does not attempt j as much effect with his voice, but as j he advances with his argument, feel-1 ing what he says, as he did on open- j ing the case for the South in this dis-1 cussion, he becomes eloquent without effort and without knowing it. There is a frank earnestness in what he says which impressess his hearers. His voice, his maimer and his speech arc- ! peal for fair play, and give promise of fair play in return. His speeches are the work of a lawyer rather than a litterary man, but he is a scholarly and as able as is the young statesman from Massachusetts. The contrast between the two men is such as to make them suitable antagonists. AAlllrl ! V.XUULCX OJ.V.4.^ J.IL4. V V MVWi 1V|^V | sented by any one who could present the case at opening better than the men selected An expression of arrogance is stamped on Mr. Lodge's face, and one naturally expects some bitterness in his speech. But he is never discourteous either in language or man- j ner. He maintain* an air of superi- j ority, however, which is sometimes offensive. Mr. Hemphill is extremely ! modest and is one of the most amiable j l*v 4-1-w N XT n A r\ I HXCil lxi ULK? JLLUUSC. JL/ UJ.XJL.1^ LJLLv' W^U-U 01* ten years I liave kno-\vn him I have' never seen him lose his temper in debate. THE VETO OFTHE LOTTERY IBiLL. " . I What Gov.XiclioIIs Predicts as tlie Result of j the Passage of the Bill, Governor Nicholls,?of Louisiana, | in his recent veto of the lottery bill, said: l say to this general assembly in all earnestness that should this measure be passed we will enter upon a period of strife such as has never been seen before in Louisiana, and should this contemplated corporation ever be formed, we shall enter j lmnn n/nprn, nf prvmTntinn nnfl drera dation,beside -which the era of Reconstruction will appeal* as one of boner and happiness. And let me say that should this measure be adopted and carried out. in my opinion no good will ever come of the money which we will receive as the price of your honor and our liberty. Extravagance, profiigacy and corruption will assuredly follow the receipt as night follows uay. I feel thoroughly satisfied that tlie fact of the adoption of the measure will be that while the six-mill taxes will be kept there will be an immediate falling off in the Legislative appropriations for charitable and other" purposes for which this money will have been directed to be applied, and a wondrous corresponding increase of the application of the general fund to the payment of the interest bearing debt. At the end of twenty-five years there will be the same claim of poverty in Louisiana and the same claim on its behalf for the continued existence of the lottery. So far as a claim for necessity of the present meas ure is sough to be predicated upon the assumed condition of the poverty of Louisiana, I, as .its governor, pronounce it totally without justification or warrant. Some other motive for this measure must be found than that her people are unable honorably to carry out the duties of Statehood. Knowing this measure as I do, as one dishonoring and degrading Louisiana, it has met, as it will continue to meet, my most determined opposition. A Man's Simple Rights. Miss Park wood: "Do you know Sir, I could sue jou for breach of promise?" Findly Place: '"Oh, I guess not. "Why, sii% did you not ask me to marry you?" "Yes." "And I consented?" "Yes." *iTtr-n \\ tTJLU : "Well, I didn't promise, did I? You were the one that did that. I presume I have the right to ask you a civil question, have I not. without running the risk of being dragged into Court?" 4 I THE S0\'C3 OF AL'LD LANC SYNE. No Music half So Sweet as the Memory oj : Those Teoilrr Lines. The mothers c- to-day do not sing ! a.s the mothers did i:: i:;:ig sjrne." said j1 a man whose business cares have uevei !1 overcome ami crowded out the soul of i poetry and the memory of a happy boy- j hood. "You seldom hear a woman i singing about the house now." "So it is. The modern mother does not sing as our dear jld-fashioned - t i *.*.! ? mothers used to s:hit. ^ne mis nine time to herself, and if she didn't have the advantages of a musical education she says she cannot sing. Then, too. the songs of to-day are not like and never will be like those old songs. They do not touch the heart and give the heart's feeling utterance through the lips. There are beautiful songs set to music, of course, and wonderful voices sing them on the stage and in the drawing-room, but how seldom it is we hear a song that thrills and charms us and brings the "pearls of feeling" to our eyes. A voice pteases us uuu we ueui uuim; luc satisfaction of having heard, an artist oi artists, but we will forget the singer and the song: long before we forget one word or note of the one who sang "Bonnie Doon"' and "Annie Laurie." There are those of us who will nevei forget the summer evenings, the ripple of the brook in the distance, the stir ol the woodbine leaves around the window, the sweet fragrance of the "birkv from the neighboring wood, when the mother sang "Aftou Water1'and rocked her baby to sleep. And then there were other songs that stirred our childish hearts, "The Soldier's Dream": Our tuples sung truce, for the night eloud haC lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; When thousands had sunk to the ground overpowered. The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. Reposing that night on my pallet of straw, ' By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain. In the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw. And thrice ere the morning I dreamed it again. Our childish imagination could picture the soldier, always haudsome, in his uniform lying down on the field of battle to sleep under the stars, the pine knots' blaze scaring away the prowling wolves, and he dreaming of hearing his "own mountain goats bleating aloof," and of hearing "the sweet song that the corn reapers sung." There was another song, old, very old: "On the Lake Where Drooped the Willow," the story of a girl who died in autumn. And: "I'll Hang My Harp on the Willow Tree," which later-day Bacon-Shakspeareans tell us was dedicated to her Majesty, Victoria. There was "Jeannette and Jeanot," "Old Kentucky Home," and "Suwanee River," and to-day we cannot listen to O, take me to my kind old mother. There let mo live and d! \ whether sung in soft, weird tones of a jubilee singer, the pathetic ones of little Kavanagh or the every-day street Arab, without a rush of tender feeling. There was another song, a regular bed-time song in its wooiug sweetness. When winter comes the -woods is my home, In summer I sing: in the meadows. How we likeel to hear about the little bird that hid itself away in the brush in the winter, and in the springtime its plaintiff "cuckoo/1 "cuckoo." was the sure harbinger of south winds and warm showers. And last and best of all was that song of "Clari, the Maid of Milan": 'Mid pleasures and palaces though wo may roiirn, < Beit ever so humble, there's no place like home. Xo, there is no place like home, and in? ^.I ^1,1 mere are no songs ui\e uids? uj. mc uju time, and there is no music half so sweet as the memory of those tender notes.?Buffalo News. A High-Priced Artist. In r-a elegantly appointed studio, not a hundred miles from Hartford, sat one of our noted artists in thought. He was earnestly contemplating a design for a cathedral window, and a look of annoyance flashed across his facs as the door suddenly fiuug open to admit the figure of a lady. The look vanished instantly, however, as the artist advance to meet his visitor. "Are you Mr. ?" asked the lady shortly, yet casting a furtive glance at her muddy boots, buried deep in the pile of the beautiful Persian rug. "I am, madam." Tr .li ? A-m _ * _ "I . !i.u ^ _ wen,' continue'.! tne iauy, witu nu air of importance, "I have brought you a commission. I want you to clesign the toe of this slipper for me. The design itself is to be embroidered in the shape of a slipper. It is for the City Mission fair and I must have it immediately. Can't you do it while ) waitr" "Pardon rue, madam,11 courteously repliecMhe artist, "your kindness iu giving me the commission is fully appreciated, "but as I have not the honor of knowing you I must ask you to pay me in advance." "Oh, certainly," responded the lady, with great readiness, drawing out a well-lilled purse. "How much will it ne?" "Four hundred and seventy-five dollars, madam." "What!" screamed his visitor. "Four hundred and seventy-five dollars." calmly responded the gentleman. "What do you mean?" demanded the lady, growing more and more astonished. "Just what I sav, madam," quietly ~ v. 4-U~ r* J. wT ausnuifu tut; urusu x uuuk. vut have made some mistake. The commission you have pleased to bring me is entirely out of my line. If you will visit one of the places for fancy stamping. in Pratt or Trumble street you will succeed in getting your work done to your entire satisfaction, I have no | doubt." The ladj- gave a final glance around I the studio, luled with European, curios of every description arid adorned with artistic -works, from the magnificent picture in oils, covering half the wall, to a dainty, delicious little landscape, which iu its very delicacy was a marvel, and, with another look at her muddy ! shoe and a parting. "Well, I don't believe you are the kind of artist I am looking for," (to which the gentleman courteously replied: "I am afraid not, madam'1) she sailed out of the room, remarking to herself?as she savacrelv punched the elevator annunciator, and glared at two conllieting shades of red, which were mentally swearing at each other about her dress?"I thought artists were always ready for work, and g!ad to get it, too.11?Hartford Courdul. Tennyson N. Twiggs?"Would if make any difference if I should read this poem to you, or leave it here for you to read?" the Editor?"Yes, I think it : would. If you leave it you'll go out of the door: but if you read it you may go out of the "window."- -Lippincolts . Magazine. Father?"My son, you must not dispute with your mother in that way." Boy?"But she's in the wrong." Father?"That makes no difference, i n i ttLLU JUL1 JUII^UL U2> WCII IUIUU, LUJ VUklU, once for all, that when a laxly says a thing is so it is so, even if it isn't so."? Pick-Mc~Up. A Sunday-school teacher was gtving a lessjn in Ruth. She wanted to Ibring out the kindness of Boaz in commanding the reapers to drop large han.dfuls of wheat. "Now, children/' she said, "Boaz did another nice thing for liuth; can you tell me what it was?" "Married her." said one of the bo^s.? Christian Register. k 4 Homicide in Lancaster Count;*. e Oil Wednesday afternoon last as Mr. J. E. Kemiinstfon and Mr. H. B. i -.r tu i VI JL lilt ViCCA JL L/>> LioULijy ?C1C J returning to their homes from Ker- ? 4iaw the}- became involved :a cliffi- ? culty. in which the latter was struck i by the former in tbe mouth. Tl:? < matter ended there, and on the fol- i lowing day Mr. Keimington went into t Mr. Massey's yard and hallooed. Mr. \ Massey, who was at the dinner table, < went out to where he was, and soon the two were heard passing loud < words, by inmates of the house. Mr. i W. J. Blakeney, wlio was at the din- ] ner table. jumped up and ran to the j door just as Kennington said; '"If are not satisfied. I can satisfy you:" i at which Massey drew liis pistol and j fired twice at Kennington. one ball , taking effect in his body about two ] and a half inches to the left of his j navel. At this Mr. Kennington ran , off and Mr. Massey walked back into his house. "IlTi* TTA<nr?ir?nflA"n ttohj O cfTA_ iUl? xlv^j i ,i iiju^ cv.u ii ao w oivui j j. v f bust man, about 35 years old, and leaves a wife and five or sis small children. Mr. Massev is about the same age, and has a wife and four small children. He came to town and surrendered to the Sheriff on Monday.?I ancaster Ledger. Another Convention Called. The tenants, hirelings and laborers of every vocation, also those that sympathize with them and desire the betterment of their condition, and who look upon ' Tillmanism" as the synonym of a landed aristocracy organized to oppress and deprive them of their lights as freemen, are hereby called to meet at their various county seats on Monday, August 4th, 1890, and to elect delegates to double the number of the members they have in the General Assembly of the State to a convention of laborers and freemen, to be held in the city of Columbia, S. C., on August 27th, 1890, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the betterment of their condition, and, if i found practicable, to nominate a State ticket, from Governor down, subject to the Democratic State Convention. Many Voters. Born With Teeth. Yesterday morning Mrs. Carl Kimble, cf No. 44 Kin del avenue, gave birth to twins. Tiie doctors who were in attendance at the birth of the babes noticed that they were exceptionally large and well develop ed. Greatly to their surprise upon examining one of the twins it was discovered that it posessedtwo large lower front teeth, which are at least an eighth of an inch in length and perfectly formed. The teeth are of a pearly whiteness and look as natural as those of a child six or eight years old. This is a rare occurrence, and a similar one has never teen recorded before. There have been .~?ses where there was one tooth when a single child was bom but never before when there were twins. ?Cincinnati Enquirer. Drinks for Warm Weather; "Lemonade and buttermilk are as good as anything drinkable that you can find for this weather," said a physician. "They both are great things tc quench thirst. They both 'act as a pleasant tonic to the stomach and they have a stimulating quality. But they should not be drunk ice-cold? That is, bits of ice should not be in the goblet. Let them be as cold as tiie ice chest or remgerator can make them, but not more than that. When you pour down your throat a pint or so of fluid that is fresh from the ice temporary paralysis of the stomach follows. If a man happens to be very hot, such a thing not infrequently is as fatal as lightning." Weakness. How many suffer from weakness! And what a distressful ailment it is. Always praying for strength and yet feeling oneself growing weaker and weaker. There is great virtue in B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) as a strengthening as well as a healing medicine. Try it as a tonic and see how much better you will feel. It will improve both appetite and digestion. It is an excellent remedy to use while convalescing. It aids a natural and rapid recovery. In cases where an invalid has remained long in bed and bed sores or other ulcers break out. this remedv will afford quick relief. W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "I had a long spell of typhoid fever, which at last seemed to settle in my right leg, which swelled, up enormously. An ulcer also appeared 1. ' -7. A /iny\-fnl A-P WHICH U-LbUlicULgeu a cu.jvj.uj. Ui a day. I then gave B. B. B. a trial and it cured me/' Tommy Knew "What he "Wanted. Clarence (courting Miss Alice, observes that her little toddler brother has been staring at him from the parlor doorway full five minutes:) ""^Yhy are you looking at me so, Tommy?" Tommy: "Waitin' for you to propose to Mice.'' Alice: "Oh, Tommy, how came you to say such a thing?" i Tommy: ''Cause ma said if he j } nronosed vou'd flinsr vourse]f right | | at torn, and I want ter s^e you." Didn't Know it Was Loaded. Brown: "Here's that old pistol that liasn't been charged for twenty years." Mrs Brown (who reads the papers:) "Take it right out in the yard, my deai*, and fire it off." 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Cure your Corns by using Abbott's East Indian Com Paint for Corns, -Bunions and Warts. It is great. Abbott's East Indian Com Paint is j a quick cure for Corns, Bunions and "Warts. -t J _ ( I V t Another Serious Race Riot in Georgia Gedtfix. July 10.?A fatal race j. . ^ .4. ^;n iUli UCCU1TCU iiO OtlU C> JLilJJLL IUVJJLU. liL J layette county at three o'clock this ifteiuoon. Four negroes were killed ma six mounded, two of whom are *' eported dying. Eight whites were >hot. but it is thought only one of .hem fatally, making eighteen in th ill killed and wounded. Peter Grif* ' 1 "J - v - ?J.* J .1 aCsltr 121 (Willie; is I'epoiieu uaiigciuuay shot. r A darkey selling wine on the oc- v, iasion became engaged hi a war of .vords with a white man about the purchase of some wine which resulted n a negro getting cut. From this the quarrel was taken .ip by the others until Griffin became nvolved with a negro who* had a gun Dut. but did not care to use, it. "Wil- 1 [iains, another negro, told him that if he wouldn't shoot the scoun clrel, to give liim the gun and ne would slioot him. He took the gun and emptied its contents into Griffin's chest and bowels. He was immediately shot through the neck and died in a few minutes. Shooting then became general. After emptying their weapons a demand s was made of a merchant for more J ammunition. He refused to sell, but the infuriated rioters ran through and helped themselves to all he had. There were 500 people on the ground* It is a aiystery that the shooting was not more fatal in its ^effects?Macon Telegraph. ipmo's : fem/lie* : (regulator '^pitufigui; pAlP>r- ' ^'SUPHrreG^ ' ' /v\ r. r>3 S T R U AT ION OR MONTHLY TICKNESS \r WEN OUK\MS Cnf.NGt GutftT TOH1SWS\Jt ? tKMGVriUBE WOUiffi JSOOK T O" V> OMAN "jWJLEDfpee BRADFIELD REGULATOR CD. ATLANTA GA. oOia L 7 ALL SRUuZLZTZ. CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. The building is cow modernized and : ? 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