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''Only Man is Vile"?An English
Editor Makes Him Mad.
Last night that same mocking bird
wa9 singing?makiDg sweet music to
comfort his mate who was brooding
upon her nest. This morning he is
singing again and seems supremely
happy as he makes bis little fkghts
upwards and returns to his perch
without a break in the song. There
is tiny wren not far away * hose song
is very shoit, but just as sweet, and
he, too, is comforting his mate.
Down in the pasture that fronts
our grove I see the milch cows grazing
peacefully. Ia our front yard
there is a hydrant and the crystal
walpp is allowed to leak iusfc enough
to keep a basin full and it overflows to
a little gras3 hidden pool where the
pigeons drink and bathe, and where
the jaybirds aDd thrushes and English
sparrows come and sip and go
and never contend. Sometimes the
peacock wants a drink and the-birds
retire from his magnificent presence
and awaits his lordship's pleasure.
A neighbor's parrot has left his cage
and is cawiDg in one cf our tree tops.
A neighbor's chickens are scratching
in the leaves near by. Fleecy clouds
are passing overhead and give us alternate
sun and sbade. I hear the
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^distant whistle of a locomotive and
the tumbling, rumbling sound of the
train a9 it crosses the river bridge. I
see children dressed in their Sunday
clothes goiDg happily to the city hall
to take their part in commencement
exercises. Along our fence the variagated
caBDas lift thtir proud bear's
in peaceful beauty, and not far away
is a row of fljwering peas arrayed in
rainbow colors and exhaling sweet
odors to tne air.
Apple, geranium and lemon verbenas
sweeten the breezes at our window.
Looking northward from the
verandah where I sit, the distant hills
are piled against each other in regu
lar irregularity, while more distant
mountains give a back ground of
cerulean blue to the beautiful picture.
Here I am ruminating?calmly and
serenely happy in a big arm chairHalf
a hundred magnificent oaks
stand like God's sentinels in the
grove before me, lifting their leafy
branches toward the sky in adoration
of the creator. The twining madeira
'vines and Virginia creepers interlance
the trellis at my hand and shelter
me from the sun, while two dear little
grand children are merrily swinging
in the hammock not far away.
There is nothing in sight this morning
but peaco and beauty. Innocence
is in the air, the sky, the fields, the
trees, the birds and flowers and
children?as the good Bishop Heber
wrote:
"Here every pro>p-ct pleases.
l And only man is vile."
Only man; not women or children,
or beast or birds or flowers?only
man is vile. What a contrast to the
view before me is found is the
columns of the morning paper,
which has just been handed me.
How shocking are the big head lines
that toll nf ? sinclft (lav's miserv and
disasteiL When, oh, when, will all
these horrible thing3 cease to be?
Only man is vile. If he was made
in the image of God, why should he
be doing the thiDgs of the devi? The
cost of crime in money is a fearful
sum. The cost of courts and prisons,
and guards, and police; the cost
in loss of time and labor; but this is
nothing compared with the cost in
grief and misery. Here is a letter
that is but a sample cf wbat comes
to me in my daily mail, for the poor
creatures thick I can do something:
''Lebanon, Fia.?My Dear Sir: Will
you please give me the name and address
of eome orphan asylum in Geogia
that would probably take three
poor little orphan gills into their
home.
"Their mother is dead (died of a
broken heart) and the father is in
jail sentenced to be hanged. He is
much distressed about his children,
and begs that you get tbem into
some orphan home. The family are
of no kin to me, but I sympathize
with the poor little orphan girls in
their very sad condition.
"Please answer me very soon and
let me know if they will be shut out
because they live out of your State.
"C. C Gaiues.
"Postmaster at Lebenon."
Now, Mr. Hemphill and Mr. Crumley,
can't you make room for these
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cinldreL' Jiav ice goou ujiu nave
mercy upon them!
What is the world coming 1c? The
old Mosaic law wae: "I will visit the
sins of the fathers upon the children,'
but the new law is: "Suffer little j
children to come unto me, for of such j
is the kingdom of heaven." Some- !
times I sigh like the poet, Ccwper,
and say, "Oh for a heme in some vast j
wilderness," where rumor of oppression
and deciet might never reach
me. JVhen I read of murders and
suicides and burglaries and arson and j
horrible outrages it makes me sad j
and then there is always something |
in the same paper to make me mad? j
some lies and slander or some North- |
ern devilment.
Governor Northern made a great
speech in Boston and I am glad it
has been printed in pamphlet form,
and if I was the.State I would order
enough of them to give a copy to
every child in the State that could
read, and I would make every negro
school teacher in the State read a
page aloud every day to his pupils
until he had read it all, and if he
didn't read it to them, and read it
well and tell them that it was the
truth, I would turn him out?dcgon
him, confound him?I am tired paying
money to educate negroes to hate
people. I don't believe there is a negro
teacher in the State who tries to
train the negro children in these
things. Nor do I believe that the
negro preachers are any better. A
most excellent Christian lady of our
town asked her colored maid the
other day if her preacher ever preached
anything about these horrible
crimes that are now shocking the
good people of this State, and she
said, "No, maam; he never says any
thing about it." The unwilling fact
is that the negroes do not think it
very much of a crime. And they
believe the other side just as the
Yankees do.
Ida Wells made big money out of
her lies years ago, and now she and
her partners have got up another spec
ulalion on the Sam Hose case, and
have had hundreds of thousands of
pamphlets printed that contained
that lying detective story, and are
selling them all over the North. They
don't care a cent if it does cause
mere lyncning.
And this thiDg has got all over
England. A friend of mine who
lives near London, sent me a late
copy of the London Chronicle, a paper
as influential as the Times, and
the editor copied a batch of lies from
the last United States Howard association
report which says that slavery
has been virtually re-established in the
Southern States, especially in Georgia
and Florida, and that all the horrible
pictures in '-Uncle Tom's Cabin"
hfivp hpen rovivprl
That the illegitimate children born
in the convict camps are kept in perpetual
slavery, and that the female
convicts are outraged by the camp
officers at pleasure, and that a girl of
seventeen, who ran away to avoid it,
was caught by the blood hounds and
stripped and flogged amid j^ers. The
report says there were 28G lynchings
of negroe3 last year, and forty seven
up to April of this year, of whom all
were negroes but eight. Of all
these, thirty-two were accused (?) of
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Mr. II. E. Thompson, of Milledgeville,
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murder, sixteen of assaults on white I
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women, fourteen for defending themselves,
two for impudence and thirty- j
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The editor then savs that the fu- <
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ture of the colored race is the gravest j
problem that America has to face,
certainly as grave as the extension of
her empire over Cuba and the Philippines,
and that the United States is
paying a heavy debt for the sins of
her fathers. The Howard association
appeals to humanity to avert the
solution by national disaster, and j
says that the negro trouble has become
so great that it is feared the j
difficulty cannot be settled but with j
blood. Well, now let's pause awhile
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?I must go out ioto my garden and !
let my choler down?I will pick tho i
beans for dinner; I will throw rocks
at ray neighbor's chickens; I will hire
a cussin' man. Of all the fools on
earth an English fool is the biggest.
Whose fathers i3 that fool editor
talking about? Eugland never freed
her own slaves until 1845, but that I
editor doesent know they had any. j
Our Southern fathers never imported j
any; they bought them from the Yan- j
kees. Traders from England and ;
Massachusetts, who kept up the slave j
trade in partnership until 1857. The j
last slaver bought was an American j
vessel with a mixed crew on the j
coast of Madagascar.
A man told me he heard a Chicago j
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drummer say, not long ago, mat an- \
ether drummer told him that he heard j
of a Boston banker who wrote to a
Chicago broker and asked him if he
didn't want to put some more money
in New England rum to ship, to
Africa. I c-spect they are at it yet.
Why it wa9 a very respectable business
both in England and Massachu
setts just as long as they could find
a market for the slaves. John Newton,
the poet, the sweetest of all com- j
posers of hymns, the man who wrote j
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me,"
was a slave trader, and made big j
money out of it. One thing is certain,
New England rum is still made
in Boston from Cuba molasses in
large quantities, and I would like to
know where they ship it to and what j
for. South America is still buying j
slaves from somebody. But, pshaw, '
we are all brethren now and sectional j
lines are blotted out! Just so, let us ]
have peace. How sweet and pleas- j
ant it i3 for brethren to dwell together !
in unity?I'm loving everybody now i
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and old mother Julia Ward Howe by
proxy, if I can find the proxy. Maybe
Joe Wheeler will take the job.
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More Troops "Wanted.
Commander Ford's Opinion of the
Fiiippino Campaign.
Baltimore Sun. June 52.
Commander John D. Ford, fleet
engineer of the Asiatic station, reuched
his home 1,522 West Lanvale St,
cn Saturday morning before noon,
after an absence of a year and a half,
most of which period he spent on
board the cruiser Baltimore in the
bay of Manila.
Commander Ford was the only
Baltimore officer on board the Baltimore
duriDg the battle of Manila and
since. His return on the array transport
Zelandia, having left Manila on
May 9, probably completes his last
voyage in the service of his country
and he expects to bo retired in a
short time.
When I leff, said Mr. Ford yesterday,
we held not quite as much
ground as was ours duriDg the first
part of August last year, and our
lines were restricted to the suburbs
of Manila. The troops did push out
into the country, but could not hold i
the ground they made by raids and
were obliged to fall back. It is impossible
to conquer the people or to
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gam tne lsianas witQout moi u somifi a j
out there, and but if we bend our
energies to doing it, we can beat them
and take the island. It.would mean
great loss of life and considerable
time, but it could be done. As it is
now it is all we can do to hold our
own. The insurgents are constantly
encoaching and though, a9 I have
said, raids are made, the natives
driven back and the lines thrown out,
we can't hold the ground because we
have not enough men.
The line is always active and there
is no relief. Men spend months in
the trenches subjected to great mental
and physical strain and never knowing
at what moment they will be assailed.
The lines of the natives are
often not a block away from our own,
and the rule is when you see a head
exposed to shoot it. The natives are
always on the defensive. They make
no advances of their own, but wait
and shoot wben they can, do all the
damage to us they know how and
when we sally out they are driven
back int6 places where it i3 impossible
to follow, so strong is their
number, so impregnable the country.
The Filipinos pictured in the sensational
papers are Dot the men we
are fighting. They are entirely dis
tinct and separate. The fellows we I
deal with out there are not ignorant j
savages, fighting with bows aDd ar- j
rows, but an intelligent, liberty loving j
people, full of courage and determination.
The idea that the Filppino is
an uncivilized being is a mistaken
one- Originally the natives of those
islands sprang from Japanese stcck j
and are identically the same race,
with a change in language and customs.
There was a time when the
feudal system prevailed in Manila,
but no vestige now remains and the
savagery of the people is found only
in the very lowest class of "negritos"
or "little niggers,' as the Filppinos
are called.
I have pictures taken hero, which
I brought home, of native women
who would be handsome anywhere,
and of good looking, brainy meD.
They have the intellect and the
stamina to govern themselves and
have done it for 300 years, although
under the rule of Spain. They were
the clerks, and bookkeepers, the as
sessors and managed me enure machinery
of government. Their courage
is undoubted, and they light to
the death, having among them a
supeistition that if you arc killed
ycu do not really die, but in three
days re-appear somewhere else.
"As for their condition now, as far
as I can see, they are stronger, more
determined and more skillful in the
art of war than when the lighting
out there started, and as days go bv
they increase in strength and knowledge,
having nine or eleven millions
of people to draw from. They are
armed with Hausers?the be:,t rilio
in the world?and are far bcttcr
marksmen than the Spaniards. At
first they shot high and missed, but
now they have caught on and aim
low with deadly ifleet. They have
a good oovernment now, which they
are operating successfully, and preserve
law and order. They certainly
don't think theirs is a hopeles3 fight
and I don't think anyone the does
who knows anything about it.
^'Wbat tbpv are fighting for now
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is absolute and entire liberty. They
dou'i want us there cr over them,
and in the course of time might
wear out cur patience eutirely. Ad
i excellent postal aud telegraph system
! is iu existence, which we wish very
I much we could get hold of. While
I they fight for entire freedom, all they j
I ask is a chance for life, liberty aud '
j they care uot whether it be a repub- j
{ lie of their own or some form devised
! for them by the great United States
! of America. I see nothing promising
in the struggle now* or any hope
of speedy success on our part, unless
monr mnro trnnns pro sent nut.
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"The problem can be solved, however,
and ^-believe that if a proposal j
was made to the Datives to lay down |
their arms upon the promise that j
the United States would annex the J
islands, treat them as Americans and
make their country a territory of
; ours, the rebellion?if such it can be '
| called, for we had no claim on them
; ?would melt away like a block of
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j ice before the sun. A good, level J
I headed governor could be appointed j
vand given full veto power, while the [
rest of the government could be in j
the hands of the natives. Tbey !
could be called together and elect !
their own legislature and leaders, !
operate thc-ir own politics and man- j
age their own affairs. I believe
firmly they would accept thi3 proposal
and surrender, as they realize j
the possibility in event they establish
a republic of their own, of Ger- I
many coming along and taking an i
island here, France an island there, j
and England three or four islands j
somewhere els9. No proposals of i
this kind have, however, been made !
to the Filipinos.
'"'The chief thorn in the side of the !
islanders is the Spanish priests, and
when he is taken out cf the country
much of the trouble will dissolve itself.
Not that I mean their religion,
should be taken away from them and
efforts made to teach them another
kind, because that would leave them
with none at all. They are all Catholics
and J. know of no people wLo
more strictly live up to the requirements
of their religious belief, but
the Spanish priests have created
m jst of the trouble for the natives.
There is now a good chance to send
them out, as they are Spanish otiicials
and should go with the rest of
the Spanish institutions. What they
want is their own priests?native
priests?and not a change in religion.
Their ideas are well expressed
along this line by tho clause in the
proclamation issued by the government
on July 1. It reads: 'There
shall be general religions toleration,
but measures shall be taken for the
abolition and expulsion of tho religious
communities, who with an iron
band have hitherto demoralized the
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what they want?to get rid of the
! Spanish priests, aud in their place
j have piiests of their own race and
I country."
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$50,000,000 for Cornstalks. |
New York Commercial.
Steps are beiDg taken to form a !
cornstalk combine with a capital of j
?50,000,000. Its promoters say that i
if they are successful in carrying cut !
their ideas, 250,000,000 tens of cornstalk
that are burned or left to rot
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will prove to be as valuable as coal, ;
or about $G per ton.
W. R. Tate, representing a syndicate
of Sc. Louis, Chicago and
Cleveland capitalists, is now in the
city, preparing the way for a meeting
of the promoters of the combine,
which is to be held at the WaldorfAstoria
on August 15, when the;
scheme of financing and the details j <
of organization will be perfected. 1
While ho was reticent when seen ^
yesterday, he intimated that the {
combine would not have for its ob- '
jecl the stilling of competition, but
8 mpl'y the development of the cornstalk
as a commercial commodity
and the creation of markets -for its \
several products.
Mr. Tate has been in communication
in the last few days with several
well-known promoters of this city,
and from one of these the purposes
of the new trust, along with some
interesting figures, were secured.
Over 250,000,G00~tons of cornstalks
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are grown in the United States
every year, the acreage averaging
80,000,000 and the yield about three
tr?no fn Hip aere Of i.his immense
amount, two-thirds, or about 100,000,000
tons, has heretofore been regarded
as sheer waste and litter,
less than one-thiid of^the total
weight of the stalks being serviceable
as fodder for cattle. This waste
matter has been a-serious trouble to
farmers for a long time, not because
of an understood loss of revenue
by it, but simply because of the
necessity of getting rid of it, by
burning or otherwise, in order to
free the soil of an encumbrance.
Science has demonstrated now that
this so-called waste has value all its
own, and reckoned at its present
market price it is now known that
the farmers of the country have been
throwing away or bumiog up and
otherwise destroying $900,000,000
a year for two decades at least, or
$18,000,000. It is a safe estimate
that twice that enormous sum has
been allowed to go to waste in cornstalks
in this country alone in the
present century.
A company organized a few years
ago by Mark W. Marsden, of Phila
delpbin, which ha3 two factories, V
one in Itackford, 111, and another in
Owensboro, Ky., has been successfully
manufacturing six different j
products from cornstalks. These j
are celluioso, which is used for the <
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lining of battle ships, serving as an |
automatic leak stopper, the value of j
which is well known: a first class i
cardboard, a splendid paper, an un- j
equalled foundation for dynamite, a j
patent cattle food and a glue.
If these products and others that j
the cornstalk may in the future be i
capable of yielding that the proposed
combine intends to handle. Whether
or not the Marsden Company will i
enter the combine is not known, but j
according to Mr. Tate the success of j
the scheme does not depend upon '
the securing of the Marsden patents, j
he intimating that the promoters of |
the trust control their own process.
Mr. Marsden has a contract with j
the Government for cellulose at $410 j
par ton, and it is figured that he j
can manufacture one ton of celluiose j
from 15 ton3 of stalks, or 8100, j
worth of celluiose from 890 worth of j
stalks, not counting his by products, j
Ground cornstalks, cooked and :
sweetened with molasses and pressed j
, into bricks, is regarded as one of the j
I most nutritive cattle foods yet placed j
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! stalks are already recognized as ex- i
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It is the dust of cellulose that is !
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mite. l>y reason of its powers of
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absorption and retention of nitroglycerine,
it is declared to be immensely
superior to sea island cottoD,
which heretofore has been the
chief base for high explosives. The
glue manufactured from cornstalks
finds a ready market with jewellers
and aitists.
Mr. Tate will leave for "Washington
in a few days to lo ;k after several
patents for which he is negotiating.
As far as could be learned,
the trust will erect five factories in
the Northwest and Southern corn
belts, and immediately upon organization
will begin operation.
Rotted the Grave.
A startling incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
Bubject, is narrated by him as follows:
"I was in a most dreadful
condition. My skin was almost yellow,
eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and sides,
no appetite?gradually growing
? ?? i i _ j mi ?i :
weaaer atiy uy uay. a. met* pujaicians
had given me up. Fortunately
a friend advised trying 'Electric
Bitters;' and to my great joy and
surprise, the first bottle made a decided
improvement. I continued
their use for three weeks, and am
now a well man. I know they saved
nay life, and robbed the grave of another
victim." No one should fail to
try them. Only 50 cts , guaranteed,
at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store.
Discussing the Dispensary.
The temperance society of the arst
Congregational church, "Washington,
D. C., held a symposium one night
this week upon the "dispensary system
of treating the liquor problem."
The Post reports that among the
good points of the dispensary system
were mentioned the overthrow of the
political influence of the saloon, the
cessation of treating, the seperaticn
from the places where liquor is sold
from launches and games, the publicity
obtained through requiring
every purchaser to sign his name,
the prohibition of drinking on the
premises, and the fact the dispensa?<??
?rtlrtc/i/l /-\r> CJ11n/Iavq Vinlidnvs
I ICO (UC UU ijhuuujv, ~ ,
and at night/'
Bad management keeps more people
iu poor circumstances than any
other one cause. To be successful
one must look ahead and plan ahead
so that when a favorable opportunity
presents itself he is ready to take
advantage of it. A little forethought
will also save much expense and valuable
time. A prudent and careful
man will keep a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy in the house, the shiftless
fellow will wait until necessity compels
it and then ruin his best horse
going for a doctor and have a big
doctor bill to pay, besides: one pays
out 25 cents, the other is out a hundred
dollars and then wonders why
his neighbor is getting richer while
he is getting poorer. For sale by
J. E Kaufmanu.
TJnitsd States in Population.
The population of the United
States has reached the round number
of TG,000,000, according to theTreasury
estimate for Judc 1. Since
the last census was taken in 1000
t'oere has been an increase of lib1,
millions, and if tbe Treasury estimates
are correct tbe censuscf 18'JO,
to be taken a year from now, will
show almost 78 million inhabitants
in this country, or twice tbe population
in 1870. In ten years the in
crease in population bus been about
equal to tbe entire number of people
in tbe country in 1810. The rapid
growth of tbe United States in population
has been one of the marvels
of tbe worlds history, and it is g<_inor
nn r.nu: at a rate that most ner
" *
sons fail to appreciate. Doubling
every thirty year?, as it Las been doing
ever since the first census was
taken, the United State?, if the present
rate of growth is maintained,
will have 200 millions of people within
the lifetime of many persons now
in voung manhood.
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Notices in the local column 5 cents per
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Address
Q. M. HASMAN, Editor and Publisher.
H077 to Enjoy Life.
I car not speak too highly of Ramon's
Liv-r Pills & Tonic Pellets. After trying
a great many remedies and finding no relief
I was told to try Ramon's Liver Pills
and Tonic Pellets, and after the first dose I
f.*lt better, though I kept np the use as
directed and now I can eat anything I
want to and am not bothered with that
soreness and fullness in the stomach. I
can safely recommeud them to all sufferers *
from Indigestion and Liver complaint.?
J. P. Nash. Bills, Ark. For sale by G. M.
Harman and J. E Kaufmann,
In Justice to Solicitor Thurmond
Waterce Messenger.
WTA rtAiUo A /HorvAOi^An kt* onm/i
TV C UUlll/O u uioyucuiuu KJJ OUUiC w
criticise Solicitor Thurmond for his
management of the Crawford case,
that he was not zealous enough, and
that he did not really care for a conviction.
Here where the ca?e was
tried, no such feeling exists so far as
o V"
we know, and we are satisfied that
any auch criticism does Mr. Thurmond
injustice. He certainly impressed
us with his earnestness in
this case, and we unhesitatingly say
we believe he did his whole duty.
We feel that this statement is due
Mr. Thurmond in view of some of
the criticisms we have noticed.
That Throbbing Headache.
Would quickly leave you, if you
used Dr. King's New Life Pills.
Thousands ot Suiterers nave provea
their matchless merit for Sick and
Nervous Headaches. They make
pure blood and strong nerves and
build up your health. Eisy to take.
Try them. Only 25 cents. Money
back if not oured. Sold by J. E.
IvaufmanD, Druggiet. . ..
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"Silver Dick" Bland Dead.
y
Congressman Richard P. Bland
died at his home near Lebanon, Mo.,
last Thursday. Mr. Bland had served
about twenty-five years in Congress,
and was one of the most unique
characters in American politics. He
was commonly known as "Silver
Dick" Bland, and was frequently
called the father of the silver cause.
He was a typical farmer, in dress, in
manners, and in his general habits,
easily approached, and cordial. At
the last Democratic National Convention
in Chicago, he was a prominent
candidate for the nomination of
President, and after the nomination
of Mr. Brayn could have been nominated
for Vice President, but would
not allow his' name to be used.
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Two Stills Captured.
Result of a Riid Made in Lexing- /
ton County Last Night.
Columbia EveniDg R?cord, 22nd.
Chief Constable Bahr was in the
city today fresh from a raid in Lexington
county. His attention is directed
to the breaking up of illicit
stills, and a great many have been
destroyed in Orangeburg, Aiken and
Lexington counties. Last night he
ne
UUU UIB lUltC vo^iuivu v.rw. ?
was a copper still of 100 gallons capacity
and the other a wooden still
lined with copper of 150 gallons capacity.
They are said to be the
property of Jtffcoat and Pink Harley,
against whom indictments have
already been found in the United
States court.
^VICTORY.
Your medicine
has helped ine so
"inch 'hat I can
- work and never
feci tired out. When I first began to use
your medicine I couldn't,sweep my own
room, run the sewing machine or lift
anything.notevenachair. Itevcnhurt
nic to ride or walk any distance. Now
I can do all this, and I believe more,
?- o* - * ?* 1
ami never joci meeneeisor u. 1 icei
so proud of the way it lias brought me
out that I tell it far and near I can
heartily recommend }'0iir medicine to
any woman suffering1 from female disease
I know from experience that
your medicine will do just what you
say it will. I thank you, Doctor, a
thousand times for your treatment. I ,
shall recommend your medicine wherever
I go. I know what it has done for
me ami 1 know it will do tlie same for
others I feel that there are thousands
of other women who would, after using
nc I /li?l thankful.
I am so glad I got your treatment.
This month is the first time in my life
that I can remember of having my
| menses without pain. Why, I can't do
! anything but recommend Pe-ru-na.?
Miss Emma L Iiolden, WUberforee, 0.
The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus.
().. will mail Dr. Ilartman's special
l?oo!v for women, free on application, to
women only. A11 druggists sell Pe-ru-na.
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