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GiLLIARD, Manager fxewl r rexo ted. CVISIXEEXS Eli PASSED. j * " " i Espeeial'y adapted ior muse ucsmu^ . Cf>m:ort, Ease, Home like nittuods. Commercial travellers receive every r?cgp comtnodatiou. ; ^SEr-EATE^. $2 and $2.50 PER DAY. "*63^ f June 2, J*97?tL LEXINGTON f SAVINGS BANK.) fDEFOSITS RECEIVED SUBJECT TO CHECK. m W. P. HOOP, Caslilor. g DIRECTORS: t Allen Jones. W. P. Roof, C. M. Efiid P. Hilton James E. Hendrix. EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD Msgs Deposits of $1 and upwards received and interest at 5 per cent, per annum allowed payable Aprii and October. September 21? tf ?????M"1 X620 3IAIIY STEE' Our Navy in a Nutshell. From theChicego Times H raid. Our present effective fightiog force j consists of four battleships of the j first class, one batteship of the second j class, two armored ciu'sers, 18 cruis- i I ers, 15 gunboats, six double turreted monitors, one ram, cue dynamite ! boat, one dispatch boat, one transport and eight torpedo boats. ; The Iowa weighs nearly 12,000 j tons, and as 20 tons is the average j loud of a freight car and 12 cars is a j good load for a locomotive engine, it j would take 50 locomotives to haul i orr#>?t, ftfppl structure. The powder used is brown and in i cbuDks the size of a caramel. A * charge for the biggest guus weighs 500 pounds and is hoisted to the | breach by a derrick, the powder be- j iug sewed up in burlap bags. Armor plates are tested by firing | steel projectiles weighing from 100 to 1,500 pounds at them from guns i charged with 500 pounds of powder | and at a distance of about a city i block. Our battleships have a speed of j from 15 to 17 knots an hour. ! i Cruisers make 19 to 24 knots, while i the monitors can travel onlv five to I seven knots. The biggest guns in the navy are ! * 49 feet long, big enough for a man : to crawl into; 4 feet in diameter at j their largest part and weigh j > 135,500 pounds or thereabouts. j 1 There are six rear admirals in cc- J i live service. The offices of vice ad- j i miral and admiral are unfilled, so j < there is no head of the navy except- : s ing Secretary Long. j < Barnacles from on the hull of a I ....... j ship, impeding its speea. a six i 1 months' cruise will decrease the j speed of a ship 15 per cent, and it must go into dry dock. Sixty one merchant vessels belong j io the auxiliary navy. These ships j 1 are subsidized and by contract must j be given to the United States on de- j ] mand. i 1 Some of the guns in the navy can ] fire a shot 20 miles, farther. than a man can see, for the guus are aimed j ? and sighted by machinery. I < The amount expended by the navy j department in 1807 was $84,501,510. < This is a larger sum than has been i 1 expended in any year since 1800. Iu a battle the woodwoik and all articles of wood are either stowed be- l low or thrown overboard lest the ! I men be injured by splioters. j j The origin of the navy department j may be said to date from October 13, ! < 1775, when congress authorized the ! j equipment ef two cruisers. j ; The fastest vessels in the navy aie j < the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, j ] each of which can travel 27.5 knots i ; an hour. Battleships cost from 82,500,000 j 1 ) ?3,7">0,G00 and cruisers from $60 \ ; 000 to ?3,000,000. A good tojpedo j boat costs over ?100,000. Battleships are for the heavy woik; cruisers are commerce destroyers: j monitors are useful only for coast de- : fense. The Icdiaua could lie outside i Sindy Hook and throw 1,200 pouud ; ,shots into New York at the rale of j four a minute. Those artists whow smoke in their : pictures of navel battles are wholly j wrong. Smokeless powder is used. All of the cruisers are named in j honor of cities, and the battleships, ! except the Kearsarge, in honor of states. The "grog'' ration was abolished in 1863, and since then the crew has been forbidden to diink while on duty. Marines are the police on board . ship. Originally they were em- j ployed to prevent mutiny among the i sailors. The guns of a battleship j cau carry from 6 to 12 miles, hurling ! a shot weighing half a ton. Only 60 per cont of the enlisted j men are Americans, - and a smaller j ? ~ o i-o r>ntiv? tiorn pti t'tL I C-XV, ^ Projectiles thrown by naval guns j I are shaped much as the bullets shot j ! by the ordinary rifle, j A big battleship has on board an i i electric plant- capable of lighting a ! ; town of 5.000 inhabitants. The boilers of the Iowa have a heating suiface of eight acres and j bold 30 tons of water. Great Britain has 291 torpedoes aod torpedo-boat destroyers. Uncle Sam has only eight. Five hundred and twenty-six men w. 2S r, Solicts a Share of and 40 officers are required to man I the cruiser New York. * ... i Battleships are covered with armor of nickel sled from 5 to 7 inches thick. We have four armored bat!let-hips J ?the Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts I and T< xas. A submaiine torpedo boat to bo known as the Plunger is now under constiuclion. i I At present the total cnlided force of the naval malitia is 3,807 cflieers and ani. Behind tbe heavy armor there is a padding of either corn pith or cocoa I husks. Its costs s">00 everv time one of tbo j big guns on board a ship is tired. The Brooklyn and the New York i are our armored cruisers. Saiiors are paid $:) 5!) to $12 50 per month and board. Au act of congress in lS'j2 abolish- j: ed dogging in tbe navy. Tbe American navy has practically j1 ail been built since 1883. 1 A captain in the navv ranks with j a colonel in the army. The oldest iron vessel istbeilichi- j gau, built in 1814. Five battleships arc now uuderccnstructiou. We Lave the only ram?IbeXatah- j din. The ships are painted lead color. 1 Since the above was published by j 1 the Times Herald the government j has purchased live or six war ships j and ten cruisers; besides there is a ! large number of steamers ready for < duty, pioviding transportation and such service as my be necessary. < Other gun boats aie being: built by the government and the U. S. navy will scon be a formidable one. 1 Wcmea and the Wheel. From the G zettc, Delaware, Ohio. The healtbfulne83 of bicycle riding : j for women is still a disputed ques- j tiou between eminent physicians and j 1 ' he.vtb reformers. j Used iu moderation it surely j creates for women a means of out- i loor exercise, the benefit of which j ill physicians concede. Used to ex- ! cess, like any other pastime, its j ?ftVct is likely to be dangerous. The experience of Miss Bertha j Reed, the seventeen year-old diugh- j ter of Mr. J. It Reed, 335 Lake St, j j Delaware, Ohio, may point a moral ; . For parents who, like Mr. ar.d Mrs. 1 Reed, have experienced some con- J . cern for their daughters who are Fond of wheeling. In the fall of "05 Miss Bertha who had ridden a great ileal, began to fail "in an alarming manner. She grew steadily paler and thinner, and it appeared she was j going into consumption. ILst and! quiet did her absolutely no good. A j \ p physician j f found her j ;WV'$! PlVOry ! r.ate. Think- | iug this may ' have bora ; due to tern- j porarv nerv- -j SHE r.IDF.S WELL. CUSnCSS when ' he examined her, he watched her i * I'll closely, bat ber pulse continued at j that rate for two weeks, lie was j satisfied then, from ber high pulse j and steadily wasting condition that j sbe was suffering from anirmia or a j bloodless condition of tbe body. She j became extremely weak, and could ! not stand tbe least noise tr excite-j incut. In ibis condition of affairs ! they were recommended by an old j friend to get some of that famous | blood medicine D.\ Willi un^>* Pink ; P.ils for Paie People. They did so, i and almost from the first dose Bertha i began to impro-'e. She continued to \ taks tbe pills and was by means of ! those pilis made entirely well, and ! more grateful people than her par- j ents cannot be found in the whole ; State of Ohio. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, have j proved a boon to womankind Acting ; direct'}" on the blood and nerves j they restore the requisite vitality to i all parts of the bod}; creating fuLc | tional regularity and perfect harmony j throughout the nervous system. The | pallor of the cheeks is changed to the ; delicate blush of health? the eyes j brighten; the muscles grow elastic, ! ! ambition is created and good health ! i i returns. I - ?-T Q>>- 1,-Ww :. MOUC^TOI^ Your Valued Patron Catarrh Sis Years. ! ! Grew Ripidly Worse?Doctors Did i X) Good. Mrs- Adam Staatf, Mequon, Wis , J i i a recent letter to Dr. Hartruan, i write*: "I write this litter because j tut my sympathy | for tbesiiftViin^ j }> fide. For s*x j ,Ar. a ears Ifcufiered I v-5b chronic* ca- j lanh- Wbdt7 I i'/v flSSfe&D ever I caught a 1 i-rJ?\Iwii mtl?0,11 1 t } !i&- \i fill would have a se j I lift vere sp< li of i sickness. I used ! d'fie rent catarrh medicines and tbe J doctors did all they could, but I he j relief was only temporary. Iu i> cna- | ber, 1807, my condition become vny } bad. I could not speak aloud: J and J n terrible cough. >>:o?u.-e <xoectora ! tiou and frequently spit blood: night sweats and extreme emaciation. I was sure I must die c f consumption. Ike catarrh seemed to have spread ail over my body: my head, throat, | coso, bladder and womb. At this j time I received a book concerning | Pe-ru-na. I immediately wrote to } Dr. H'lrtman, who prescribed Pe ni- ! , na and M^n-a-lia. I followed his i directions strictly. I began to improve with the first bottle, and dur- j ing tbe time that I took the rrwdi cines I gained twenty pounds. I feel ! as well now as anyone could possi- : ; bly feel. I am sure I would have ! i been dead long ago had it not been j ( for Dr. Hartman's advice and rnedi- j i cine." i Every woman should have a copy ] of Dr. Kallmann latest book entitled , ' Health and Beauty.'' SeLt free by The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing j Company, G.lumbup, Ohio. ! ( | i A Good Arswor. j | A clergyman was once accosted by i doctor, a professed deist, who asked J him: i ! ' Do you follow preaching to save j ' souls?" "Yes." j ! "Did you ever see a soul?" "No." j ] "Did you ever hear a soul?" "Did you ever taste a a soul?" "No." I 1 i "Did you ever feel a soul?" "Yes." "Well," said the doctor, "there are j 1 four or five senses against cue upon j ! ' . I- .1. A 1 1... 1 *' ! me quesiron wueiuer mere ?ea?uui. i The clergyman then asked: "Ave j 1 you a doctor of medicine'?'' "Yes." ( "Did you ever see a pain?" 4.V . " .iO. j "Did you ever hear a pair:?" "Did ycu ever taste a pair.'?" "No." t "Did your ever smell a pain?" "No." "Did you ever feel a pain?" "Yes." "Well, then," said the clergyman, ; "there are also four of the sec.-ns ? against one upon the question whether j there be a pain. And yet, sir, you j knew that there is a pain, and I know ; ! that there is a soul." j At. surprising druggist i I There arG few men move wide i awake and enterprising than J. K. j Kaufmann, who spare 1:0 pains to j secure the best of everything in their { line for their many custouieis. They j now have the valuable agency for Dr. j King's New Discovery for Consump- | lion, Coughs and Cold-. This is j the wonderful remedy that is pro j duciug such a furor all over the ! 'country by its many stal l ling cures, j It absolutely cures Asthma, Bron- I cbitis, Hoarseness and all laiVclions 1 of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, j Call ut above drug store and get a j tri.d bottle free or a regular size for i ^ , , \ i>d cents and Si.00. Guaranteed lo : I cure or price refunded. j An adept at bicycling ought to j make a good wheelwright. i There's nothing certain about luck, ! except it's bound to change. * " * j Children like ir, it saves their lives, j AYe mean One Minute Cough Cure, j f,.. ..rMi.rJlC 1 LUC llllUlilUiy i VIJUCU^V lUi \UUjj" 7 j colds, croup, bronchitis, giippe. an 1 all throat and lung troubles. J. E. 1 Kaufuiann. r, ~Z5., ago. Prompt and Charlcstcn SarTsor - j i i _ c< _t_ to i>e rroieciea uy ouu mmmc Mines and Torpedoes Evening !'o,t. Tue lading of mines and torpedoes in the channel and approaches of the channel to Charleston is to be begun ator.ee. An eftieial announcement to this effect was made today. The work will he begun iu a feudays and rushed speedy to completion. A special force of expert engineers will come to Charleston for the purpose. Between now and thearri val of the engineers in the city, Ma jor Ruffner and his corps of engi reeis will collect the mateiiul neces s'arv and arrange for the speedy laying of the < xplosives. TiiA foHou-inrr i fficial announcement mv *w..v . v wis made at the engineer's depnitliicn t: "In order to ailuy any feeling of apprehension about the proper de fense of Csajleston, it is officially announced that ihe hijingof torpedoes iu the channel will be begun at onco "Au officer of engineers, skilled in the torpedo service, and a detachment of soldiers, accumstomed to the band ling and placing of the sub marine mines, have been ordered here, and will be here iu a few days. uIn the meantime, all the preliminary work, collection of materials and preparation for rapid placing of the mines themselves will be done at once. An ample supply of dyuamite is already on band, and nearly all material of every kind. "What is lacking bu3 been ordered by telegraph " The local department has not been informed a3 to the personality of the officers who are comiDg here to lay the explosives. The officers are ex peeted in the next few days and their names will not be known until they put in their appearance. The Evening Post told some time j igo of the anival of the torpedo and -ub marine shells or encasements. There are over a hundred torpedoes and mines ready to be laid, just as soon as the engineers and experts arrives here. The harbor was platted j fur torpedoes and mines during Captain Abbott's administration and consequently much time, which would otherwise be lost, will be saved. The laying of the torpedoes will make Charleston all the more secure against the Spanish fleet. The eight mortars for the battery, shipped from Sandy Hook several Jays ago will arrive in the next day cr two. The mortars will be put io place immediately upon their arrival on the island. April Wisdom, Be sure that your bleed is purr, your appitite good, your digestion perfect. To purify your blood and build up | your health, take Hood's fSarsapa- 1 i ii!a. This medicine bus accomplished remarkable cures of all blood diseases. It is One True Blood Puiifler. Hood's Sarsaparilla has power to make you well by purifying and enriching your blood, giving you an appetite, and nerve, mental and digestive strength. 25 Watsr Curs f:r Indigestion. ' AVo must give special attention to the outside of the body as well as the inside," writes Airs. S. T. Rjrer on 'AY hat to eat when you have indigestion/ in the March Ladies' Home Journal. "The skin must be bathed every morning with tepid water, fol lowed by a brisk rub. ThisTs eqaully as important as correct diet. A good rule is to use water freely inside and and cut. At least two quarts of wafer daily should be taken; half a pint the first thing in the morning and the last at night, a cupful of warm i c u r%r\A thn rn. VTJIStT Ut-iore faUU UJ 1-ai auu hjvmaioing quantity divided and taken after each meal." A little boy asked for a bottle of "get up in the morning as fast as you ran," the druggist recognized a household name for "DeWitt's Little { Early Risers," and gave bim a bottle of those famous little pills for consti - pat ion, sick headache, liver and stomI ach troubles. J. E. Kaufmann. r ? - - -r - SuO-IEIEB, c Polite Attention. BMMWMMoaanwwrww * ** > n r.Royal makes the food pure, * wholesome and delicious. I fill r|ij : pii^ MIUfflFES i ruwy^ | Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POA'SBR CO., NTA YORK. Ill II [ III I IHII II BMI IF THEY BUT COULD. How often v.*e hear discontented o:t< s tall: Of grand opportunities !< -t And how, l.y the wavo - f rondcinnaHelaek. They've ever been ru;l.J? >!% ?< ?< ,!. Tlioy'U tell in a sort of di nsolatc v.ry Of laboring always in vaki And how they would handle the conttact if they Could live their lives ever again. The man who has failed in bis businessaffairs, j 1 The prisoner locked in his eel!, j The wedded or.es battling wi.It family tatvs, ' , All have the same story to toil. Wherever wo go that disconsolate c:v We h< ar in a pitiful strrir, "You'd fee matters diiTcicnt with me if I i Could live my life over Again! ' | i Wc should never weep over milk t2;::t is I spilled, i But liustlc around for some mere. We cannot recall opportunit ies killed If or chances blown off from our ri:o:c. i This word of advice is the best wc can give: j Don't over tho past sit and breed, i j But tackle the future, determined to livo j ' The balance of life as you should. ?Denver Post. . ! 1 The I wo-year old son of W. L 1 Furga*on, of BjUop. Miss, had j whooDin*? couah. "Aft<r several i I r-? *._? physicians had prescribed for himr without giving relief,'' writes Mr. 1 Fiugason, "I persuaded my wife to t "v a 25 cent bottle of Chamberlain's } Cough R-rnedy. The first tio-e had j 'be desired effect, and iu forty-eight j hoyys he was entirely free from nil t cough. I cousiper your remedy the i best in the market, especially for i children and recommend it ail times." 1 The 25 :iud 50 cents sizes for sale by J. E Kaufmann. ? French OClcialiia. ? It is undeniable that Franco main- ( tains out of state, county or local funds i a larger number of officials and func- i i tiouaries than auy ether country in tlio ? world. It has been well said that in ? France their ramo is not legion, but ] multitude. When one counts up all the ! ablcbodicd citizens who arc employed j and paid by the state, the departments ! or the communes, and adds those whose 1 military service withdraws them from 1 civil pursuits, cue is startled to find j what an enormous amount of productive energy is abstracted and how few men are left to live their own lives and thus contribute to the national growth in wealth and numbers. Officialism is not the only scro that is eating into the French nation. The causes of the ills it suffers from are multiple and complex. They are not all new; some indeed arc extremely eld. ! But at the present time officialism, although it covers itself with tho mask of conservatism, must Lt> looked upon as j the most active agent of social decomI position. Conservative it appears ta Le I in tha senso that it tends to keep down I ail initiative spirit and all indcpend| ence of character and forms a sort of : nation within a nation, with interests i j of its own and a rented aversion to . changes of any kind as dangerous to its I existence. Confined in rho employment J to which heelings, the official is always ! I the ally of the government of the day : j when he is not its slave, or, in reality, ! its absolute master. Ili- salary is generally mediocre, and his stylo of life narrow and shabby, but he feels tiiat it is surer than any other as long as the taxpayers' money conies in. ? Nineteenth Ccntnry. A Convenient Custom. j In Holland hills nro often paid j | through the medium of the postofneo. ; | It enables a man living, say, in Hotter- j j dam to get a small bill collected in any ; provincial town without the often ps | pensive and tedious interference cf a ; banker or agent. For that purpose, ho i hands his bill to the* nearest postoffioe, I says tho Loudon Evening News. It is I sent to tho placo where the money is to i be collected. After the collection a draft -- -* - >" fiio iiv nfrioa j j.-j lurv. iiiu'ju in:v, ..v, .v ' whore he deposited the hiil and where he gets his cash and the Li i 1 duly receipted, ; on payment of a small commission, I which is payable in advance. Uar^Ii. ! "I don't quite see why that very do- 1 ' cedent author is the recipient of so { j much attention," said the eld fashioned j lady. i "That is very easily explained," re! plied Miss Cayenne. "There is a natural j j curiosity to see a person who ccnld put j I such things into cold type without be- I | lug ashamed."?Washington Star. I - ^ i ' The farmer, the mechanic and the ! i hiovelp rider are liable to nnexpeeud j cuts and bruises. DcWut's V?'it<k ' i Hazel Salve.is the best thinrj to kerp | i on hand. Ir heals is quickly, and i! a well known cure for piles. J. E j Kaufmann. COLUMBIA, S. C., 0<-tr>b^r 13?tf. WEALTH IN MINE DEBRIS. An Old Prospector Buys Abont S250,000 Worth For 810,300. There are somo men in this world who have to toil for a mere apology cf a living?and then tbcro are others. One of theso latter, is .Mr. Lncoof Cargo Mnchacho. Luce's experience reads liko a romance. For 20 years ho had knocked about the coast, on the, desert, in tho mountains, prospecting and mining, aud had finally, by hard work and the closest economy, managed to scrape together a few hundred dollars. One day on the shores of the Colorado, some 20 miles north of Yuma, he met an old Mexican who told him of a deserted mine some ten miles back from iun river aim seven nines norm in Hedges. Luce's interest was aroused, and he visited that mine, to find there au abandoned 2U stamp mill which had ponuded away for many years and finally shut down. He then learned the story. The mill was on leased ground. I The lessee had mined the property on , shares and had done fairly well,although the ore was not entirely freo milling. ( One day the vein "pinched out." The mining man was sure ho had simply j lost the lead and that it was there all right, tut the owners refused to pot up i a cent to help him find it again, and, , tired of living in the desert," ho threw up tho whole business and left. Luce examined the property and dis- , covered that there was a small mountain of tailings, the accumulation of years, piled up behind tho mill. He tested ] these tailings with cyanide. Then ho measured tho pile roughly and estimated that tbero was over 100,000 tons of the 1 stuff there. That night ho wrote to the | president of the company in New York , city, offering him 10 cents peh: ton for the tailings cu a basis of 100,000 tons, f The president read tho letter, looked ( surprised, aud called tho directors to- j gether. They read tho letter, looked wise, tapped their foreheads signifi- t cantly aud laughed to each other. ] "This poor fellow Luce should bo called 'goose,' " said cno. "Desert's proved too much for him? i nrnhahlv none daft." observed another, t Not cno of them thought those tailiug3 were worth anything, and they 1 bad almost entirely forgotten that old 1 mine cut on tbo Colorado desert. But ( they answered the letter, telling Luce to go ahead. . 1 This was in April of last year. On t receipt of the letter Lace immediately ?rected a cyanide plant costing him ' ibout $100 of his own and his friends' money. Then bo hired 15 Mexicans and Indians and began work on those tailugs. The other day somo representalives cf the mine company were retnrn- li ng from San Francisco, and, passing j ihrough the desert, thought they would risit tho mine. 3 "How aro yen?" said Luce. "Glad t :o see you. By the way, we might as . veil fix up our little account now as at my time." And so saying he threw the k istonisbed Goihamites a check for $10,- p j00. Then he explained that in the nine nontbs he had been running the cyatide plant ho bad cleaned up $45,000 t iud tb.-.t there was plenty of tailings in c light to net him $200,000 within three rears.?San Diego Sun. "When you come to town call and ^ :ay your subsciiption. 1701 MAI> SI (Near Post C O ZL. TT ZB THE CHEAPEST AM) I! o o o u 0~ $'2,50 PER PAIR ! 15!) i'.liH ALL WOOL ITUAKETS. 11 0 0 0 o ~ 50 IViccs SO inch Suiting 15c fur 10c ' 2) r? 3G iucb Hemiet'a 20c fur 15c , 20 j.s -10 inch ail wool 40 for 25c 25 i'a Silk End Suiting 40 inch for 25c ! I, 54-inch LADIES' CLOTH, i 25 ps 54 in Ladies' Clotb, 4 yards will make a dress, 50c goods for 25c BLACK COODS. 10 ps 36 in all wool Henrietta loc 10 ps 40-inck all wool Henrietta 20c 10 ps 46-inch all wool Henrietta 25c 31LKS? SILKS. 20 ps Satin Brocade Silk Keduced j from 1.25 to 75. 25 ps Fancy Silk only 25c 20 ps Satin Duchess 50 c October 13 ?tf. A Safe Leader. ;| In our reference two weeks ago to .Mr. Bryan to which our esteemed c >rrespondent, Annette, refer, we bave .only to say that we do not regard Mr. Bryan as in error, bnfc because of his wisdom, patriotism and love of country we deem him a safe leader even if his free silver creed should prove by practical demonstration not to give the relief which many statesmen and financiers believe the adoption of the lfi to 1 theory would secure. As for ou:| selves, we are frank to admit that we are neither a statesman nor a financier, but we desire the election of ? Mr. Bryan because we have faith in honesty, wisdom and patriotism. We cannot believe s?.ieh n man * i hough he might possibly be wrong in some things, would be a dangerous leader. ; The Best Liniment.?"Chamber- * Iain's* Pain Balm is the finest on earth," wiite Edwards Sc Puiker, of Plains, Ga. This is the verdict of all who use it. For ibeumatisir, lame back, sprains, swellings and the numerous slight ailments and accidents common to every household, this liniment has no (qual. With it in the house, a great deal of pain md suffering may be avoided. For sale by J. E. Kaufmanu. STUA TUT? ..J J . J ? H Ab 4940*1 UUU JUALVL AOSKbStl tffcBfl. __ ' J B>b Taylor. It ougbt to be the universal law ;hat cone but fat men and bald beaded teen should be the heads of raniilies, because they are always ?ood natured, contented and easily nanaged. There is more music in a 'at man's laugh than there is in a thousand orchestras or brass bands. Pat sides and bald heads are the ijmbols of music, innocence and neek submission. 0, ladies, listen 0 the words of wisdom! Cultivate he society of fat men aod bald y 1 aded men, for "of such is the kingbin of heaveD.'" And the fat wo in. God bless their sober sides? hey are the "things of beauty and a oy forever." 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