The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, October 16, 1891, Image 4

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* ????????THE HARVEST MOOR. Faded the last faint blush of evening's roe* | And shadows gather in the sleeping vale. Where silent now, the rippling streamlet flows Beneath the mist, that, rising dim and pale. Hovers over it like a silver veil, Hidiug the tears upon the cloeed-up flowers, That seem to weep Jtor the day's vanished Across the hee^en a mallow radiance steals, The mist grows brighter, and the silver stream Reflects the tender Hght which half reveals Earth's loveliness, and, like an infant's xlream. Makes all things beautiful and holy seem; The harvest moon along the autumn sky Holds her fair sway and bids the darkness fly. O'er fallen leaves, o'er hill and vale and plain. O'er ripened fruit and fleldsof golden grain; O'er lover*, lingering in the mystic light, ?> mspennj fon'l words beneath the silent night; O'er the great city in its solemn rest. O'er wealth and poverty, the worst, the best. Her luster falls, and through the listening air Breathes but of peacs and beauty everywhere. Serene and pure she mounts the azure jtStYCP.. ? u ?vw utri ortni mnu J has given. ?All The Year Round. A HCiVCH OF FLOWERS BY EMMA A. OPPER. Ethel Hapgood was pacing the long conservatory paths, gazing idly through the steamy windows. An imaginativo observer might have classed Ethel as a hot-house flower. She whs slender, delicately formed; she had thick yellow' hair, starry blue eye3 and a charming.' Ihco, whose chief color was tho deep red) of her hps. ; Hut Ethel bore great resemblance to her father's father?a sturdy man, who,' working with his owu hands, had laidj the foundations of the present large family possessions?a man of energy,originality, fine qualities. Sometimes Ethel, with all her delicate beauty, looked oddly like him. She did _ note. ?? - . "What would poor mamma think?" she murmured, guiltily. "She has done everything for me. Why am I dissatisfied? What ails me?" And then sho wont ..??? vr?? ICtniCSJJiy 10 I answer the question. "I'm worn out?that is all. I've i danced all winter, and gone to concerts \ and the opera and the theatre, and bowled with two clubs, and? What j is the use in going over it? I've done 1 everything! I've been so popular that mamma lias been perfectly happy. I've had so many favors at every Herman that I got to be a proverb. And Allen Lifford proposed, and mamma was grieved that I didn't take him. And ' Mr. Dinsmore?I shouldn't dare tell mamina how I discouraged him?him and his money. She'd be horrified. Oh, I ' shall never see a man! I should know ' one if I saw one, I'm not nfraid of that. ! He might be a gentleman, too; he might 1 be of a fashionable ser; ne niigm to rich. Those things don't make a man. But if he was manly?if he had spirit and ambition and brightness, and wasn't contented doing absolutely nothing, and ' didn't think hia clothes wero a/I-impor- 8 lant, and never drawled and never bored " ?how I could like him! I shall never," taid Ethel, with solemn emphasis, "never ice him. Well, nnd here we are at West n Bedford for the summer. To 'rest,' tl mamma says. And how I could rest if it wasn't West Bedford! I'd take the dogs w and tramp in the woods and hills all day. n But it's a 'resort,' and the Stanley's are li here, and the. Earacses, and mnmma ia I h planning little teas and dances in this I 1 great country place we've hired, and I t there's a picnic next week, and a dance f at the tinest hotel to-night, and mamma, and I must go. And I shan't get a min- i ute's rest before next seasou sets in. And I shall fc ^et all theso funny notions, a and do as iitt the other gtrtw m? ? without a qualm?dance some more and i f.irt tome more, nnd marry the best catch that otters. Mr. Dinnmorc, perhaps." Ethel laughed, snatched a white pink, tossed her pretty head, and strolled to- 1 ward the door, looking rather less tike her grandfather. 1 She was not the girl the world took i her to be?but nobody would ever know she was not. What could she do? Noth- ' ,n /. ' an/1 I...nation* 1 ? ? > ...rt . n./| in.. mi ?ii i-ii'uriiiun merely i made hci uncomfortable. Good-bye to 1 it! Slio almost stepped on the toes of somebody hastily entering the conservatory, as she would have parsed out. A man, and a young man. A perfect stranger. "I beg your pardon!" he said, in breezy, bright tones; "but I found the proper entrance locked, and I came around here. The florist?can you tell me where to find him?" "Somewhere in the shrubbery," Ethel almost gsi^pef*. "Thank you! I'll hunt him up. I want some flowers, you know said the young man, briskly. Ati! Etlicl was quick of perception. She know the rear door of the conscrva- j tory. It opened on the road, foi the j\ convenience of the gardener and florist, whose cottage was just across from it. j, "Absurd arrangement," Ethel's mother had observed, driving past. "You ^ might take it for a public hot-house." And the interloper?the tall, broadshouldered, bright-faced, agreeable in- r teiloper?had taken it for precisely that. .Ethel looked down, looked up, smiled ? faintly, then looked demurely inscruta- 11 ?ic. 11it givi inenus nan always cic- I clared that she dared, if she chore, do I ' just anything. "I guess 1 can get thena for you," she v laid. Oh!" lie looked pleasantly sur. 8 prised. "You're his daughter?" Ethel nodded vaguely. "Well, I'll he awfully obljged to you. , Roses and ' pinks, please, and valley j lilies ?anything. As Pig and nice a j bunch as you can Hx." Assuredly her mischievous plot had its j drawbacks. To be taken for the r daughter of a country florist! to be or- x dered about like any serving-maid ! She, i Ethel llupgood! Yet, why was it so far c from being disagreeable? Was it that | this man was so o Idly to her taste, with t his hardy young strength, his keen ga/.e, c hit careless, rough country suit?so like ? ' i t* \ a flesh-and blood orubodiment of her late wistful imaginings? ' Very well," she said, gently. "Our f choicest flowers arc beyond the palms \ there." 8he led the way. When a great cactus t leaf threatened to brush her faco ho < pushed it aside, and then they smiled at each other in friendly fashion. s "I'm not long in these parts," he ven- 1 tured- "We're here for the summer, my mother and I. We've rented the Flagg place. You know it?" Oh, yes, Ethel knew the Flagg place! Sbo did not; but she was in the spirit of it now, and enjoying it. 8he felt equal i to any needed mendacity. "Right up among the hills," she ob- i served?every place in West Bedford) ' being right up among the hills. "Yes. Do you know anything aboutj t' ^shooting?" asked the young man, uoxiously. "Is there any?" j "Any amount," Ethel rejoined, with enthusiasm. "Whew, but I'm glad!" he said boyishly. "What's the country without shooting, and fishing, and boating, and all the rest? But then I'm an enthusiast, it crauK, id ue cauuiu. i in aucucieci to outdoor doings us no fellow over was." "It's a healthy taste," Ethel remarked. He had not appeared, and it piqued her a little,to be as greatly struck by her charms as men invariably were; but her \maA iotT He had taken off his soft cap and was absently crumpling it, which showed his dark hair ond tho crinkle in it. "So it is," he agreed, "aud productive of healthy conditions. I can outwalk anybody but professionals, I reckon." Ho laughed. "I wish I could," Ethel said, sincerely. "It's all in getting used to it, you know," he rejoined. "A little every day. Can you row?" "I never learned." She had wanted to but her mother had opposed it. "Oh, but you ought! I contracted that fever at cjllege; but it has served me well. I had a great time down on the river here yesterday. I caught four eels, four old shoes and a mud-turtle." They laughed jovially. I "But I discovered?I vow it?a totally f new kind of water-weed." "You and Thoreau should have trav- 1 eled together." ^(Alt.iuui'iiATAiul Kiinl I h??? J he not a genius?" It did not seeiu to strike him oddly. ! the florist's daughter's having read Thoreau, but he looked at her with ad- 1 miring, brightened eyes. There was a blue lacing in his flannel shirt; his hands were large, strong, * tanned. 1 Ethel noticed everything with a strange inward tremor. It was as though her hero had fallen from the skies. "Your flowers?" she murmered. t "I'd forgotten them!" he vowed, f laughing. They're for a young lady, so } luit your own taste, and she'll be suited, [irobably." c "Oh!" Ethel said, faintly. j "Yes: a young lady I've never seen, e jither. But her brother was a classmate v nf mine at college. He's away, but I've 1 Tound since I've been here that his fain- 1 ly is sum nering here. So I thought I'd o a Mma. .Aaivort ln.dnT and I call to-morrow. I 11 "Oh, vea!" Ethel aaaented- 1 She was arranging flowers briskly now. e course! Flowers for his classmite'a s ister. Who was ehc? Slio might bo b ne of a hundred stylish girls. Wc3t si ierlford was full of them. it Ethel frowned. is "She can wear them to the dance to- k ight," she suggested, coolly. "1 know s sere is odj?at the hotel." si "I know there is one," he rejoined, t rith a faint groan. "My mother wishes u le take her to look on. I shall draw the k ne at dancing. I never care to, after a v mig tramping day, as I've made this, s' 've covered ten miles, I fancy. I'm I ulking of a tramp trip in Scotland next b all." c But the florist's daughter was absorbed n n the flowers. "Some sinilax?" she said, with profe3ional iudillerence. ha raannndfll. trying to catch her eye again. ' "And a few white camellias?" she said, not letting him. "1 ani sure it will be exquisite," ho answered. , What was the matter with her? A . Torried look came into his handsome , ?yes, but she was not noticing. I "You mustn't think," he said pre- | lently, "that I am a worthless, idle fellow, j 'adding about for my aimless amuse- | nent. I fear you do. I'm in business t ?stock brokerage?but my mother has nsisted on my taking a year off because ] [ had?I believe, really, it wasn't much , nore than a severe cold?! ,st winter." . Ethel smiled a little. That last state- , neni, mat lie worked, was the last ' ihred of proof she had required to con- ( Irm her growing certainty that he was j ?oh, he wa9?a man?an ideal inani \nd she wished he had not completed lhat proof; for were not these flowers to go to-day to his schoolmate's sister? Was he not going to call on her to-inor- p ?w4 n "I've done my heat," she said, her t imile not very steady. "I hope she'll ( ike it." (i "I'm more than satisfied," he declared, I n his straightforward way. "How much li lo I owe?" | "Oh," Ethel gasped, half laughing, o lalf angry, alt cunfmri, "pay the < a :a>-uner?i mean, pay to-morrow?any- n hing!" c She feltshccouM not he self-controlled ^ auch longer, and she all hut (lew along n he narrow walk to the door, turning for J parting nod then swiftly disappear- tl tig. o He stared after her wide-eye 1 For 1< he first time he saw how graceful sh6 c vas, now iatr-racc'1, an1 crowned by / vhnt a mass of yellow hair! Then ho ook himself and his flowers slowly nvay. Ethel ran to the konse, to an upper oom and to a window. Yes, she could ?eo him plainly as he ? vent. What n stride ho had, nail how t le carriod himself f f^rerf^fK,' aim pile- k ty, energy?that was want she read. t "Yes, he was every inch a man. She * lad beheve<l, in iier foolish pride, that ^ 10 such a one existed, or that none such * vould cross her path. Yet ho had. 1 Ifes, that w??s quite the phrase?he had 1 irossed her path, an 1 woiM not be ikely to recross it. Or. if ho should, here would be his achoolm ite's sister, | >n whom he was to call to-morrow, | ind to whom the flowers would gn. , ? * * ? * The Herkimer House parlors were well illod that evening, and the gathering v.us sclcjand brilliant. Ethel and her mother came late, but hat only added lustre to their triumphal intr^oce. Mrs. liapgood was entirely usod to luch happenings a* tho39 which followed. Mrs. Eimes introduced three young men, Mis. Stanley produced four; they were unwillingly forced to produce others. Ethel was the centro of an eager throng?easily the bright star of the assemblage. She looked uncommonly lovely in white and lavender, with a great bunch of flowers?roses, piuks, camellias. But her eyos had a searching, preoccupied look, which her partners, observing it, were not greatly flattered by. She had dancod the tkir I quadrille, and was standing listlessly at her mother's side, fastening a !oo36 ribboo, when Mrs. Stanlev caine again. beaming. "Mr. Sutherland wants 10 meet you," she said?"'Tiss Hapgood." Ethel gravely introduced him to her mother. But her mother was talking to Colonel Eames, and Mr. Sutherland offered his arm, and they strolled awai ^"Is'your next dance taken?" he saidi dinidlv. 'Yes," she answered. But she never danced it. They went ilowly down_the jog^JdaU^nd sat down ?n<^ bfc *1$^ rerj bright. ] * "I received the flowers," she said,"and1 I'm very grteful. Frank has spoken of] [ on so many times, Mr. Sutherland, that I am glad to know you." He returned her look with his wonted j steadiness. Was he handsomer in evening dress? She didn't know. "You played me an awfully mean rick," he vowed. "It was my fault, of course. But I tell you I was scared, Miss Uapgood, when I caught sight of you ind the flowers twenty minutes ago. I saw it all then. How I'd blurted into a irivate grceu house?yours?like an awkvnnl great booby, and ordered a bouquet if you, and?oh, I trembled ! I assure . ou I shook. I've been all this timegeting up courage to come to you. I was lfraid you'd cut me dead." "Why?" said Ethel, cheerfully. "We !iad rather a pleasant time, didn't we? What could I do? You took me so by simplest course. An<3 It turned out so neatly. I thought I was arruugiug them ror some ungrateful young woraau who vould never appreciate it, but?there's he greatest poetical justice, Mr. Sutherand, in ray being your schoolmate's Ister. I think I performed an impromptu waltz when those flowers came." "You have brought relief to my roubled soul," he said, seriously and iOftly. To Mrs. Stanley, who had introduced hem, Ethel's mother made a long conidence, a few months later. She was n serene good spirits. "It was one of those aflairs," she leclarcd, "that seem foreordained and nevitable. I knew from the lirst. and verybody knew, that Philip Southerland vas in love with Ethel, and Ethel with lira. It seemed almost that they had iked each other before they knew each ither. I can't explain it. I kuow their ilw^on ^??CT^mmediaUi.J_aad. -in^tuijL iad been ^orrying about Ethel vcr since she came out? I was afraid he never would be suited. Such eligile men as would have married her! and lie passed them by without a thought? 1 spite of all my remonstrances, and she i always considerate of me. I never new what was the matter with them; he never mentioned. You know how ilent and thoughtful Ethel is someiines, the dear girl. Perhap3 I was ever wholly in her confidence; I don't now. At nny rate, I feared she never rould marry. Hut Philip Sutherland, ho thinks him perfection! And so do Rich aud well-born, aud accustomed o the best possible society, what more ouui ji iuki i m irec 10 say mac x am inutterably thankful!"?Saturday Night. The Man-Faced Crab. One of the most singular-looking imaturas that_ever walked the earth or "swam the waRrSinitrorntW" em en -? the world-famous man-faced crab of Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in length, yet the head is fitted with a face which is the perfect counterpart of that 1 Chinese coolie; a veritable missing link, vith eyes, nose and mouth all clearly deine'. This curious and uncanny creaure, besides the great likeness it bears o a human being in the inxtter of facial catures.is provided with two legs,which >eem to grow from the top of its head ind hang down over the sides of its face. Uesides these legs, two "feelers," each ibout an inch in length, grow from the 'chin" of the animal, looking for all the vorld like a Colonel's forked beard. 1'hese man-faced crabs fairly swarm in he inland seas of Japan.?St.Louis lie* public. Rice Mills Syndicate. Special dispatch from Atlanta, 6a., ays: A movement i# on foot to buy up 11 the rice mills of the South and throw hem into a pool. The Standard 'Oil .'ompany and English capitalists ?re opposed to ho behind the enterprise, let ween one and two million dollars will c required, and the working capital be .1,000,000. Options have been secured n mills at New Orleans, Savannah, 'harleston and Wilmington. The only nnounccmcn* made when options were sked for was that the syndicate proposd to buy all the mills in the country and >ut in what is known as dutch milling lachinery, which is the kind used in ndia The agent of the syndicate says lie new process will be cheaper than the Id to the planter and the rice will be jwcied so much that importers of forign rice will not be able to undersell American. Town of Tillery Sold. The town of Tillery, N. G., on the loot land Neck branch road, named after r founder and owner, J, It. T illery, has I? ?Wytfy K IA.?J{0 ract of land, to the Carolina LumTW 'ompany, which i? composed of New fork men. for $40,000. This company ins a large lumber plant already in operaion there, and will add extensive imirovcments. Lite developments In electro-photography indicate that it may he possible o take photographs of views located nany miles from ttie camera. 4 A PIJB* FUNERAL v Was the Dead Irish B Buried Avon County, ? 5 A cablegram from London, say*: ^ Every person in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales who has any connection p with or interest in politics is discussing the three great political events of the t day. They are the death of Charles ^ Stewart Parnell; the demise of the consei viitive leader in the hottse of Com- ^ mons, Right Hon. William Henry Smith, and the great teat of strength now fairly ! commenced at Mauclicstpr, between Lib- .. ernl nnd Conaervative parties in the election of a member; ot Parliament for ^ Northeast Manchester, vacancy having been mnitp in that, tioiie of T.ibemliRm hv " the appointment of me present member, Rt. Hon."Sir James Ferguson, as Postmaster General. I The most imperials, however, of these- ? three all absorbing jolitical questions is the sudden death at h'alsingham Terrace, Brighton, on TuesrUy night, of the great lush leader, -Chides Stewart Parnell. Newspapers of British Isles are full of persona)^iudf^?nses of the "Irish if--?Mail Vavrns him... and contiriul^^B^nnterTte'ws in regard to the future ^visibilities of the Irish 1 party, in which ill differences will now { lie healed. t The doctor's certificate, which his just i been filed, states that Parnell's death c was caused by rheumatic fever, resulting e in excessive temperature and failure of t heort. ' f A committee of Irish "members of Par c iiament took charge of the funeral which v was held at the cemetery in Glssnevan vii- d lage, about three and a half miles north of q Dublin, on Sunday. The body was con- a veyed to London Saturday, arriving there c in time to catch the Irish night mail train, arriving in Dublin on Sunday f morning, and there taken in state to the . city hall, and from there the funeral pro- ? reeded. , Resolutions of regret at the death of Mr. Parnell were passed at Dublin, and ? the lofd mayor and members of the cor- * porations attended the funeral in their ' robes of state. c Most of Ithe stores throughout the lead- f for the memory of the dead leader. Mrs. Parnell is still prostrated with grief, aud though weak and prostrated from long watching and the terrible j s':ock experienced, she positively refuses p to partake of any food or refreshments, l ana will see odIv her daughter. ' ^ THERE WILL "BE NO TRUST, Because the Planter* Came to the ^ Conclusion That it Was G TmnrnrfiroMa to OhalkstonvS. C., (Special. |?A meeting of the planters of sea island cotton was held Thuralay; It was attended by most Of the printers on John's, James, n Ediston and Wndmalaw islands, the area where the Carolina long staple is culti- b vatcd. Aftey o full discussion, it was de- Cl cided that th^^milo combine in order 01 was. ther Tti tut) ulo a cussion it wo^H^l that during the past t( season a new -^PTcty of cotton had ap- n peared, which wss grown from green seed, and was entirely distinct from sea r< island, hutj^hich, nevertheless, had a Q1 staple of frt>ni one to one and a half inches. The opinion was expressed that in a few years the variety would formidab'y compete with sea island. This ends C( the attempt to form a combination against c< the sde of sea island cotton seed, which Vi is purchased here by long-staple cotton d growers of Georgia and Florida for plant- x ing purposes. C( To Form a Cigar Trust. ^ New Yobk.? Representatives of large cigar making firms in this and other cities met to form a trust. It will probably be capitalized at $25,000,000. The meeting is secret, but it is learned that cl the combination will put up the price of ? cigars and at the same time reduce the nf^reiaUer8. The scheme is so far advHuretr v?^ipW_-- rrx^rt7tt>TT> ^ on a business looting January 1st. When 0 the trust gets into operation it will di- w rectlv control 10,000 workmen and an A output of between four billion and five w billion cigars in this country. "A Chip Off the Old Block." Gen. "Kooney" Lee, who is very ill at J Alexandria, Vn., has had a career that would be accounted highly creditable to a man who was not the son of a famous ni father. He had a good war record, coming out of the late war with the rank of ^ major general of cavalry, and he has been three times a member of Congress, being one of the wealthiest farmers in Vir- i ginia. Raveosworth," the estate on ! which he lives, is one of the largest and ! most valuable in the Old Dominion. ! The Blaine Divorce Suit. Siorx FaU?s, S. D . I Special.]?The j answer in the famous divorce suit of Marie M4^1* Blaine against James G. Blaine) as served upon Mrs. Blaine today. She asked for a ! decree of divorce and custody of tho child ! and for suitable alimony. Mr. Blaine do- | nies that he deserted her. He pleads j poverty and urges that he has an income ] of but $2,000 a year, which will cease ] after the first if December next. He \ makes a plea fo- the custody of the child, who resembles lis grand father. Killed While Delirious. Winston, V. C.?Professor Dixon, of Yadkinville, passed through tho city Friday with the corpse of Miss Rice, who killed herself instantly Wednesday night, by jumping 'rom her bedroom window while delirious. 8hc had been suffering from typhoid fever hut was convalescent, nnd was considered nearly well. Her remains were taken to Chatham county for f| interment. ? * (J YSBipfre flats la Brasll. ^ VamjJre bats are so destructive to cattle if the Brazilian provinces of Matti Jl JMts apt ">w H> 1 f 4 S Jffment olTcff fSuOO reward for the atIg- Bi gestion or ioy plan which will tend to abate tho pt. In ? "ingle night ss many n twanty of the winged blood- (J suckers attack a single cow, leaving it uheloless on the field.?-Chieago Times. ^ The accumulated savings of the work J ing people of Massachusetts would pay pqe pf 1%f pptional debt. CM fcW.Tw. i I if ILL GO INTO THE CONVENTIONS, iut the Question is as to What They Will Do Afterwards. Raleigh, N C.,[Special to the Atlanta onstitution.l?Marion Butler, president f the Farmers' Alliance, was interviewed f a leading Alliance mao, who is an urnest Democrat. The latter asked utter if any member of Congress from forth Carolina had voted with the Renblicans to bring on the present finabial condition, for which Bntler alleges oth partiesare responsible. Butler?Why, certainly, Senator Matt ansom did. In reply to the question, "Do jou innd to stand by the sub-treasury plan ren to disrupting the Democratic arty!" Butler s^id: "Yes, we stand by it if splits the Democratic party, but we inind to go into the Democratic convenon and offer our platform." To the question :"L?o you intend trying ) make the sub-treasury plan part of the latform?" Butler replied: "Yes, if we have a lajority wc intend to stand by our delands, let the cousequences be as they lay, and I want you to understand that do not apeak for myself alone, but as a officer of the Alliance." A rermtueti Climate. The little seaside town of Hyeros, near Toulon, France, is fast becoming one of ^^nngtpopular health resorts of the MM8lVW?alt?rntueaD. The'vicinUy of he Hyeres archipelago, with their seastiffs and sbell-banKS, and the prospect oward the cloud castles of the Maritime lips attract hundreds of visitors, hut tho ibiof charm of the locality consists in tho iztensive flower-plantations that surround he old burgh with a zone of beauty and ragnance. Thousands of acres are covred with jessamine bushes, thousands rith girasoles ("heliotrope") and roses, lestincd for the essence factories of Poulon, but in the meantime, tilling the tmosphcre with a perfume plainly pereptible at Cape Carnes, twenty miles ast, whenever the night wind comes rom the direction of the flower hills, t counteracts the bilgewater oder of tho Poulon wharves, and there must surely >e some mistake about the popular theory onnecting our summer catarrhs with he effluvia of flowering plants. On the Mediterranean, it relieves respiratory :omplaints, and the Hyeres summer [uests pay a premium for cottages in tho 'ery midst of the rose plantations.?New W.nlh Costa Rica is Coming. Washington, D. C., [Special.]?The atin-American bureau of the World's 'air has received a cablegram from ieut. Scriven, commissioner of South .merica, announcing that Costa Rfea 'ill expend $100,000 on her exhibit at le World's Fair instead of $o0.000, n? riginnlly intended. Costa Hica is not so large as South arolina and only one-half the size of eorgia or North Carolina. The populat ion 200,000. Brothers-In-Law at War. Shelby, N. C.?D. Augustus Beam, a lerchant, attempted to kill Dr. John IcBrayer, United States commissioner, yshootinghim with a pistol. Dr.McBrayrwas not hit, jumping out of the way f the bullet just as Mr. Beam fired. The be'? >ry remarks maae By THOKrayer ttmcering Beam. Directly after the shot Beam was ar> ci ii* TT a- -a aicu uj vucim naiuuiUCK ana DOUna .'er to the court. Egyptian Cotton Crop. A cablegram from Cairo says: Tha )tton Association reports that the recent >ld and foggy weather, which has preailed throughout the cotton growing istricta has seriously affected the crops, he Association taking everything into Dnsideration estimates that the yield of jtton will be about 3,700,000 cantars. Dantar equal to 45 pounds.) San Francisco's cable system is greater jr fifty miles than that of any other ity. THE RECORD f curea accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparllia has iverbeen surpassed In (he history of medicine nd tb? constant st.*. am of letter* from people bo were almost In despair, but were cure I by Hood's Sarsaparllia very gratify in (. B>oat?e of theo we ur?e all ho suffer from S rofuln, sale Rheum, or any other (vase caused by Imoure blood or low state o? the strm, to try Hood's Har^aparlUi. N. B.?If you decldo to lake Hood's Farsapsrllla do >t be Induced to buy an> oilier. Hand'. PIII?_Ir.?l...-.i. ?.. - ? ? - ? - 'I ? ??- uir Ii?rr, Ir^iiinm inn iwel*. F.ITect ve, b ut gentle. Price 23c. "'MOTHERS' FWEN^' . | i Makes Child BlrfhEaty. Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, [ Endorsed by the Leading Physicians. ' ! Rooh to "MotH+ra"mailed. WRICK. BRADFIKLD REGULATOR GO. ' ATLANTA, OA. l?OLD BY ALL DRUQQIBTD. j | DONALD KENNEDY If Inhin, Miss,, says Kennedy's Medical Discovery ires Horrid Old Boree, DeepBated Ulc*r8ofjd/J. v ears' yinViTtgC 'luwaia' rmiiorff, nuu rery disease of the skin, exspt Thunder Humor, and fencer that has taken root. Vice, $1.50. Sold by every hruggist in the United States nd Canada. % * Ail Oddity In Painting. The provincial eities of F ranee are just now being entertained by a remarkable artist, one who displays wonderful skill in her own peculiar style of painting. 1 With plates of various colored sand before her, she takes thp sand in her right band and causes it to fall in beautiful designs upon a table. A bunch of grapes is deftly pictured with violet sand, a leaf with green sand and relief and shadows with sand of the colore to suit. When this has been'admired by those artistically inclined, it is brushed away ana is soon replaced oy a bouquet ot roses or some other object, all done with grealf dexterity and delicacy. Even the finest lines sre drawn with streams of Band, alt rs distinct as though mado with an artist's brush. According to the most recent census returns London has a population of 4,600,000, Pans of 2,450,000, Berlin of 1,674,485 and St. Petersburg of 1,000,000. CmumsMIS. All claims not oonststent with the high char, meter of Syrup of Figs are purposely avoided by the California Ft* Syrup Company. It acts gently on thektdnejn, liver and bowels,cleansing the system effectually, but it is not a cureall and makes no pretensions that every bottle will not snbstsntts*a. Rboardiro the reoent experiments in New York State es entirely successful, Germany Is kbout to introduce "electrocution." Hall's Catarrh Ourejsa liquld and Is taken internally. Bold oy urugglsts, TOO. Thb German Bundesrath is preparing a bill for the suppression of Tice in which the Emperor is greatly interested. FIts stopped free by Dr. Kioa'a Omar Nkhve Rkstorkr. No nta sifter drat day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 12 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 881 Arch St.. PhUa.. Pa. ? : w . _ From Fatl Scrofula is a blood poison whii It is a taint """ which must be AFFLIC eradicated from the system be- Mrs. N. Rttche fore a cure can '?'arirtt a miracle in my < be made. Swift's la, which afflicu c_?_;a_ c c throat and noso, Specific, S. S. WM bo sore tht S., drives out the fo?o When 1 b< , .? . tion but com me v?r?? tnrougn entirely welL". the pores of the skin and thus relieves i BOOKS ON BLOOD AND THE SWIFT 3F -ELY'S CREAMBA CPumk'") Allays I'aln ? thn Hores, Kntorei Tm ^GlTesKrtleiMonl Apply into th* KootriU. ? 50c. l)rugjfuiU or br maU. KL Tuft's Fills The first dose often twtonUlie* tho invalid, liTingnlaitlcHj'dl'iiiInd, bonjanfjrofltody, 1__ Yri^^JTq~jTi>aquoB1p|^ TnT^ "August Flower" I liad been troubled five months with Dyspepsia. The doctors told me it was chronic. I had a fullness after eating and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. I suffered frequently from a Water Brasli of clear matter. Sometimes a deathly Sickness at the Stomach would overtake me. Then again I would have the terrible pains of Wind Colic. At such times I would try to belch and could not. I was working then for Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor. Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny city, Pn., it^wUoy.e employ I had been for seven years. Finally I used August Flower, and after using just one bottle for two weeks, was entirely relieved of all the trouble. I can now eat things I dared not touch before. I would like to refer you to Vf - t ...1 T 1?1 aui . i?tv i xv. 111 y , iui ? IIWI11 x vvui KCUj who knows all about my condition, and from whom I bought the medicine. I live with my wife and family at 39 James St., Allegheny City,Pa. Signed, John I). Cox. ? G. G. ORF.EN Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A. Pxivsiorra - ijm <ui mldieui M disabled, a lr? for Increase. 21 year* experience. Write for Laws. A.W. McOobmick Hows. WaBHIN?TON. D. o A ClKCINNATI. Ol fV A JL JUVTVT^nnKHTlVTi711 [CIIHKIIlllllnWil Ki IfliUiiililikllla Colds jf Coug] ^ Consi HOARSENESS AND ALL AFFECTI TAYLOR'S CHER! SWEET GUM IS THE BEST I Ask your rirngiciftt or morrliunt I -DISO H KEMEDY FOB OAT |H A Cheapest. Relief ? BB Cold tn the Heart it ha* no equal. BHR3P7Cr3r? ot whleh a BB nostrils. Price, flOc. Sold by dr HI AddWM, ? Rti . Tn . y ^ It goes back ? all the money you've spent for it?if there's neither benefit nor cure. That's what ought to be said of evert/ medicine. It would be? if the medicine were good enough. But it is said of only one medicine of it.a Icinrl?? Dr. Piprnft'd Golden Medical Discovery. It's the guaranteed blood-purifier. Not only in. March, April and May, when the sarsaparillas claim to do good, but in every season and in every ease it cures all diseases arising from a torpid liver or from impure blood. For all Scrofulous, Skin and Scalp Diseases, Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Biliousness, it is a positive remedy. Nothing else is as cheap, no matter how many hundred doses are offered for a dollar. With this, yon pay only for the good you get. And nothing else is " just as good." It may bo " better" ? for the dealer ; but yon arc the one that's to be helped. _____ | ier to Son. ch descends from parent to % child. TEO FROM CHILDHOOD. y, of Maeker, Ind., says: "Justice oomiat 8. 8. 8. has worked littlo short of sasc, in curing me of aggravated Scrofujd me from childhood. It attacked my and threatened my lungs. My throat kt I was comnellml to ?? i(nni?* jgan 8. B. 8. I was in a wretched condlmeed to improve at once, and am now w the blood of the poison. > SKIN DISEASES FREE, gOmg CO., Atlant>. Q% LM-ciMniM tko Ku^|vrjjir?v| kuu Inflammation. X- - - ? w i r IIAIITAII All A HOME READING CIRIHIUIAUyUA f I.E. Am.Tl. in Year. Writ. to Chnuianqtm Offlcc. Drawer IW, Buffalo. N Y. MIIQIfl CHEAPEST IIIUVHI T|c ptTR t'O , Drawer "07, Chicaoo, Hit. "RiTm niniknr,?If M Pr. J. U. DVK. iMllior, BnffsOn. *. T. . J PENSION WA8HINOTON, . U. C. "jSjjESST tr a v eTTn 6Sffi HULil I 0 WANTED toBKLXlhi JSr2?Z&? IVt.Hl.O'S CHAMPION, Ik* JYflBQRI Greatest Hand Corn BhelUr oa Itrtk, rj^RRSV^JJ, The ocljr Khrllor that will nub com Y '/Sr mi"! tersmte the cob. ttwlll It buk. els nor hour. Price 93.M. Itlckel . IPlated, \V*n..nl?d. The Improved la I ? a - II H lust out,and la the finest on record. SMI B J i~? H .'.we-, n.i month for agenta. Sena W mL ]A.''^S>for terms. A//i?in<rCTen sottet'ed. KING COTTON Buy or sell yoir Cotton /Km m 5-Ton Cotton 8cale. W H" 11 NOT CHEAPEST BUT BEST. Bfe I I For term* address mflll ifyomBfl or binghamtoit, w W BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 1 ^KiliK VENTILATED x x x CLOTHIMP X X INTER-AIR-SPACE X X Q Adapted to all climates and variation* of torn-** perature. Bold by Loading merchants {BjRpolpal cities. Illustrated cataloguo mailed fro&nspplh cat'on to Harder-fold Fabric Ce.. Trsf, W. Y. M MONEY IN OUIOftENdT R M a. For 25c. a lOO-page boot*, saporlsaoa M of a practical poultry mlse. during ^ Kr i year a. It teacbes too" to rtsteol fT and cure d Iseases; to .'sto (ur e?gi et?*lJ''VMlJNI and for rulieulng; abt-fc Cowls at save for breeding, do., Cto. Address t HOOK PUD. HOUSB, 184 Leonard at, St. T. City. __ [ ? N U 4^ ~~~ oroagk. Fine Ileal Instruction. Ontastasssted to p?IGam. Catalogue free. Write to imimmmmmai LOUISVILLE, KYa f tis, imntinn. ^sti y. |W w-? w -.^"7 | ONS OF THE THROAT AND LUNGS, 1KEE REMEDY OF MID MULLEIN CNOWN REMEDY or It, ANI) TAKE XO SUBSTITUTE. | ReoCMoea Diahohd Brahd j\ .a m. % s_JI* ? J * r mub f tie re was ABB1I? Bert. WP Hate. A cure Is certain. For V small partkle la applied to the^^W^ ugglsta or sent by mall. It! Haxbi/tuo, Warren, pa MB mr j