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ECCENTRIC BEMENYL THE FAMOUS VIOLINIST USED TO HIDE FOR YEARS AT A TIME. The Delishtfal Fairy Story Th nt tho Genina Told ? Little Girl After One <?t Hi? Periodical Retirements From the Haunts of Men. Edouard Remenyi, the famous violin ist, -was an eccentric genius in more ways than one, and many odd stories are told of his peculiarities. He was passionately fond of children and would give to them many hours at rimes when he might have employed himself to greaier profit. One of the eccentricities of his nature was to lose himself about once so often, and when the world had concluded that he was .dead from shipwreck or had been eat en by cannibals he would reappear, unchanged, smiling, fiddling, it was after the story had been current for three years that he and his ship had gone down one stormy night off the Australian coast that he came back ro America and visited old Chicago | friends, among them the very dear ?ones that he held at the Virginia hotel. In this circle of friends was a little girl who Lad grieved over the suppos ed drowning of the fiddler because he Lad once played for her. When he re turned, she was delighted, and at their iirst meeting she begged of Remenyi that he tell her of his adventures, -where he had been, what he had suf fered and how he had escaped. This is the story that he told her: "My little friend," he said, "I was not shipwrecked. I was standing on the deck of my ship with my dear fid <lle under my arm-you know I always keep it there, even when I sleep-and it big wind came up, and I was blown off tlie ship into the air. I thought I j was going" to drop i uto . the ocean and would thereafter have to fiddle for the ?fishes, but the wind was so strong that I was carried right along until I came over Wirrawilla land. You don't know . where that is, but I will tell you that it is in Australia, and my ship was off the coast of the island when I was tak .eii by the wiud. Over Wirrawilla land I went in a great hurry, still hugging my liddle and thinking of you and the .many friends who would wonder what became of me. I blew past Arundel pia in and the Turret mountains and came into a great place of mountains and desert. "The wlutl suddenly stopped, but not *o quick but what I came gently down to earth right among a iot of people who -were black and who were so tali . that I could scarcely see their faces when I looked up. They did not un .de.rsta.iid my language, although I spoke, to them in every tongue I knew, but when I took up my fiddle and .drew the bow across the strings they all smiled, i thought I would try the 'Miller of the Dee' on them, so I gave them a few bars, and they were quite tickled. I was quite sure they would not kill me or eat me tip. Anyway such a little, old. bald headed man as I -am would not make good eating. They made signs to me, and I followed them np Into the mountains until we came to a high place on which there was a throne. -and on this throne sat a black , iran. who. I afterward learned, was 18 "feet and 10 Inches in height. "By the side of this man stood a fid vile which was ten feet high and which had a bow nine feet and eight inch es long. The strings on this fiddle were as thick as your wrist, and the bridge was made of pure ivory-so pnre that Oe sunlight came through lt :n all colors. The big fellow sitting on thc throne was a king, and I was plac .e? before him. Wc could not talk to ?each other, ,but he ?motioned that I . should play on my fiddle, and I did the best I knew how. Xever did any one ?vcr hear me play so sweetly or so well. I Tas very proud of my playing. ? and you know I have a right to think that I am the best fiddler even that'] von ever heart!. When I had done, the j big king said nothing, but he got out j .of his throne and, stooping down, pick- j ?ed me up and put me in it. Then he picked up his bow and struck a chord on his fiddle-the great fiddle so mon strous that its like exists nowhere else. "Ah, I thought I could fiddle! But that fellow. He made the mountains tremble, the clouds stopped moving, U.o sun wiggled in its course, animals made no noise, and all tho land was liiled with music. When ho touched softly, you could hear tuc summer raSn falling on the leaves, smell the flowers in the forest, hear brooks laugh, feel the gentle wind. He was a monstrous Player, and l. Remenyi. knew that 1 W?.S not a tiddler-not as he. "Weli. lie kept me there U years and - ?lays, and we came to understand .each other, and if he didn't enjoy my addling I did his'.md learned many lit tle tricks, which I have brought back with rac and which you shall see in time. When I left him, I told him tba* 1 would come back some day, and will,, but not for many years, 1 fear. :?,any years. But such a fiddle as he >.<id and such a bow and such music. Vm glad thc rest of the world does not know of him. dear, else they would never care to hear me liddle again." Is it true?" asked the little girl, her eyes almost popping ont of her head. "Just as true," said Remenyi, "as that I was shipwrecked, eaten up. barned at the stake or hung."-Chicu g< Times-Herald. fort Crops Ruined )apt. I>. J. Griffith, superintendent oi; the penitentiary, returned from the. State farm yesterday and tells of a bad state of affairs on the bottom lands .>fthe PeSsassure farm. Thc young />rn on :i50 acres has been completely <:<:stroyed by worms, bugs and other pests. He brought back a number of specimens of stalks ruined by the dep redations of the worm. The stalks are . ??ten almost through and the leaves ; re shredded. A few acres ou thc Reid farm have differed in like manner and a number yt neighboring farmers state that their x)ttom lands have been visited by thc pests. The uplands have fared better, ind for this reason Capt. Griffith thinks 'he vermin germinated in the spring -reahets which flooded thc lowlands. /V Wade, July 5. -^ - Worry never cures an evil ; but it sometimes relieves the monotony of zoo m^ch happiness. -? A SINGLE HAIR. It Led to the Arrest and Conviction of ? Postal Thief. "The least thing I ever heard of that pm a man in prison was the clew that took :ue over1* the road between herc and Nev? York about a dozen times iu 1S7P?, when I was au inspector in thc postai service," said an old sleuth the other day to another who had just told a good story. "It was au old case. It had bceu on the books a long while. Four or five good men had taken a try at it, but the fellow was too sly, and he kept taking letters, and we could never take him. The complaints pointed pretty closely to the spot where the trouble was, but wheu we got there we were completely baffled. "I hail myself worked on the job a little aud gone at something else. In all these detective cases it is iu niue times out of ten a mere chance that leads to success. Oue day I happened to take out of a pigeonhole in my desk a bunch of decoy letters that had been sent over the line to catch this sharp rascal, who was robbing Washington people of their remittances to Now York. Somehow I slid my knife through the sealed joints of an en velope, and there, caught in a corner, was a short' black hair. The flap of the envelope looked as if it had not been meddled with. Yet it had been opened, and a dollar bill duly marked had been taken out and the envelope sealed up and put back in the mail. "I took the hair up as carefully as if it had been a diamond I had found. 1 knew that just across Seventh street was a friend of mine, now dead, who had a powerful microscope. I rushed up to his office and asked him to let mo use his instrument a moment. Under the glass the hair seemed to be one from a man's mustache. I looked at it a long while, and so did my friend. We agreed that it was a whiskor, sure enough, and I was confident it was a piece of the thief we wanted to catch. If we had stopped there and gone after him we should have failed again as completely as ever before. To make assurance doubly sure I went to an optician, and he put the hair under the most powerful microscope he had. Al most without hesitation he said: 'This is not a black hair, but a red one dyed black. It is red at the end.' "I looked for myself, and sure enough it was so. I went baok to the office, put my desk in order, got all the data in this case, and that night started over the line to New York once more. We were satisfied the thief worked be tween Philadelphia and New York, so I took it easy until I got to the Dela ware river. Then I got down to busi ness. I saw every man that handled ? through pouches from there on to New 1 York, and I took a mental photograph of every mustache in the service be tween Philadelphia and New York. I looked for black mustaches and for red ones, and I was especially Interested in any that had the least sign of being dyed. At Trenton I found a red mus tache, but I went on to the end of the route still looking for another of that shade. I found none. That chap was my man. I came back home and for a week played toss and catch with him. sending through his hands perhaps 50 decoy letters, some with stamps in them, some with $1 bills and some with money orders. In less than two weeks we had him, and he went over the road for two years and eight-months, and the trouble stopped. "It ail began with my finding tb'.t one little stubby hair in the corner of that envelope."-Washington Star. Odd Methods of Washing. The hardest worked washerwomen iu the world are the Koreans. They have to wash about a dozen dresses for their husbands, and Inasmuch as every man wears pantaloons or drawers so baggy that they come up to his neck like those of a clown, they have plenty to do. The washing is usually done in cold water and often in running streams. The clothes are pounded with paddles until they shine like a shirt front fresh from a Chinese laundry. The Chinese rip their garments apart for every washing, and they iron their clothes by spreading them on a flat board and leaning this up against the house to dry- The sun takes the wrin kles out of dry clothes, and some of them have quite a luster. The Japanese woman does her wash ing out of doors. Her washtub is not more than six inches high and is about as big around as the average dishpan. She sometimes uses Japanese soap, which is full of grease, and works away with her bare feet. The Chinese girls do their washing in much the same way.-Kansas City Journal. An Artificial Silver Mine. In one corner of the melting room all the New Orleans mint is a large iron tank in which the newly east silver bars are dropped, hissing, to cool off. At the end of a hard day's work the surface of the water shows a faint rainbow hued scum, like the metallic luster of stagnant pools, seen near a dyehouse. It comes in part from mi croscopic flakes of silver that have scaled off in the cooling. The water, when changed, rims down a pipe that terminates in thc bottom of a cistern, which contains a layer of mud a couple of feet deep. As the water seeps up and through, the mud acts as a filter and catches the particles of precious silver metal, so in time it becomes an artificial silver mine. Once every quar ter the stuff is scooped out and passed through a reduction process. Thc je suit is a silver brick, worth maybe $30. -New Orleaus Times-Democrat. Her Mean Amusement. "I love to make visits in the morn ing." "Do you?" "Yes. AU the other women are busy cleaning house, and it is so funny to see them try to act glad to see m<\" Detroit Free Press. "1 have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for years and alwavs with good results." says Mr. W. B. Cooper, of Kl Kio, Cal. "For small children we find it especially effect vc." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - Flies seem to kuow that a red nosed man is liable to make something with sugar in it at any moment. - A man is always busy attending iM> his own affairs when there is an un R?d piece of work to bc performed. Starre Fright. "I wish I could discover some practi cal cure for stage fright," remarked a member of ono of the dramatic compa nies now playing in this city. "I have been iu tho business for nearly 20 years, and ono would naturally suppose that anything like mere timidity in fac ing an audience would have worn ofl' too long ago to talk about. But it hasn't, and tho worst of it is that the confounded panic is certain to seize me at some unexpected moment. The most trivial-incident will bring it on. ''For example. I was standing in the wings one night and read r? paragraph in a scrap of newspaper about a man who had lost his memory. It 1 urned out to be au advertisement, but I couldn't get thc story out of my mind, and the first thing I knew I was wondering whether 1 wasn't goiup: to forget my lines. The more I brooded over it the more anxious I became, and at last I worked myself into a really pitiable condition. When tho cue came for my entrance. I was so badly scared that my knees knocked together, and I felt persuaded that I would make a hash of all my longer speeches. Of course ?lie feeling soon wore off. and inside of five minutes there wasn't a vestige of it left, but it was certainly agony while it lasted. "In all my experience I have never encountered a single actor who was entirely immune fiom stage fright, and some of the very best of them have it to an extent that is simply incredible. Why, I have seen big, robust men shed ding tears of pure terror and declaring they would faint if they tried to go on. If some fellow would invent a panacea for the malady he would get richer thar? the Rothschilds before the end of another season."-Boston Journal. A Wise Old Gohhler. A farmer living in Hartford county has for many years very often invited the preachers of a Sunday to take din ner with him, and, of course, as all preachers are very fond of fowls, his wife would have some killed and pre pared for dinner. And. strange to say, but nevertheless true, all his old gob blers and roosters by some means ! could tell a preacher by his looks, and just as soon as a preacher drove up to the house the old gobblers and roosters would call all their families to hide un der the big barn and stay there until the preachers left. But upon one oc casion two preachers drove up, and no turkeys or chickens could be found anywhere. But after dinner oue of the preachers left and the old rooster came out and flopped his wings and told his family that the preachers were gone, but the old gobbler was not satisfied and poked his head out and said, "Doubtful, doubtful, doubtful." That was the first time that I ever knew that any of the dumb creation could count, as the old gobbler was certain that two preachers had driven to the house.-Forest and Stream. LBW? Against Beetrnrs. Begging was a capital offense in England in the days of Henry VIII, when the laws were very severe against beggars, and, under a statute passed In that reign, any one caught i begging for the first time, being nei ther aged nor infirm, was whipped at the cart's tail. If caught a second time, his ear was slit or bored through with a hot iron. If caught a third time, he suffered death ns a felon, un less some honest person having ?10 in goods or 40 shillings in land or some householder approved by the justices would take the offender into his serv ice for two years, euteriug into a bond of ?10. So the law of England remain ed for 00 years. First enacted by Hen ry VIII, it continued uurepealed through the reigns of Edward and Mary- Reconsidered under Elizabeth, the same law was again formally pass ed, the two legislative houses thereby expressing their conviction that it was latter for a man not to live at all than to live the life of a beggar. Where thc Compass Came From. The earliest references to the use of the mariner's compass are to be found in Chinese history, from which we learn how In the sixty-fourth year of the reign of Hoaug-ti (2634 B. C.) the emperor attacked Tchl-yeon on the plains of Tehou-lou and, Unding his army embarrassed by a thick fog raised by the enemy, constructed au instrument for indicating the south, so as to distinguish the four cardinal ; points, and was thus enabled to pursue his adversary and capture him. The power of the loadstone to com municate polarity to iron is said to be for the first time explicitly mentioned In a Chinese dictionary, finished in A. D. 121, where the loadstone is delined as "a stone with which an attraction can be given to the needle." Thc Chinese appear to have once navigated as far as India by the aid of the eampass.-Kansas City Times. Rudyard Kipling's Error. I wrote to Kipling, telling him that a man who could write as he could should go home to England, to Lon don, where fame could be won, but he replied iu a characteristic letter which may be published some day: "You ought to know better at your time o' life than to knock a youngster off his legs in this way. How do you expect any one will be able to hold rae after your letters? "Would you be astonished if 1 toid you than I look forward to not liing but an Indian journalist's career? Why should 1? My home's here, my people are out here, all the friends I know are out here, and all the Interests I have are out here. Why should I go home? Any fool can put up rhymes, and the market is lull of boys who could undersell me as soon as I put ray foot in it."-Literature. Extreme Optimism. 'Tn, what is an extreme optimist?" "Au idiot who fancies he'll lind his wife asleep at 2 a. m."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Nave Always Bought Bears the Signature of < - Knergy sometimes brings success, but success always brings energy. - There is only one sudden death, among women to eight among men. FEMININE ABILITY WASTED. Thc Makins? ?C a (?omi Poker Player Fooling a XciirMijrliteil .Han. "It lins lon:,' boen ;i pet theory o mine 1 luir. woman is naturally :i tet ter poker player than man," said Colo nel King, "and as a. do vol od admirer of both thc Hex and Cue game I feel ? that 1 am qualified ii"> express this ' opinion. I am aware that most poker ! players allege that it is as difficult for ' a woman lo play poker as to throw a stone. 1 can reeall two women who could bluff mc tu a standstill .and nev er wink au eyelid. Men tire not in it when it comes to bluffing with a wo man. It is natural in lier and acquired in us. Let me tell you about my friend, Mrs. Smith. "She would make a crackajack poker player if she would ouly try tho name. She illustrates what I have said about bluffing, because she is an innocent lit tle thing, hardly 20 years old, and she hasn't had time to acquire anything except a husband. I knew her father when he was in my regiment, and I have kept track of her ever since she was 5 years ol 1. Her father was our surgcou major, and a fine fellow, with a leaning toward botany and such things. In recent years he has grown I nearsighted. He will do anything for his daughter, and she works him beau tifully. He and I were dining with the Smiths after their marriage last win I ter, and th? major said: " 'My dear, that fern which you have on the table is a disgrace. Why don't j you get something really good?' j " 'Can't afford it just now,' said Mrs. I Smith suggestively. ! "'Well, I will get. it for you.' said j the major. i "Mrs. Smith then told of a beautiful j fern which she had seen at Blank's hothouse to be sold for SI-. I don't i know anything about those things, but I when she described tho fern to the ma I jor he said it was just what she should i I have, and he gave her the money to buy it. When he dined with the Smiths again, the fern was in the center of the table, and the major peered at it through his glasses and told her that she had a bargain. Before ho loft the table Mrs. Smith put a tablespoonful of water on the fern, and the major poured on a little more from his glass, j " 'Not too much water, you know, and the fern will thrive,' he said. "Every night when we dined at the Smiths the major took delight in pour ing a little water on his fern, as he called it. and one night last week he said casually: " 'It is odd that that fern hasn't grown since you got it. It looks healthy, and it should have thrown out a new leaf or two.' " 'Oh, it has grown a lot,' said Mrs. Smith, and if I had not caught a sus picion of a smile on her husband's face I would not have noticed the remark. It set me thinking. I don't know any thing about ferns, but I have pretty good eyes. I looked closely at this one, and as we left the table I felt of it. When I had an opportunity, I said to Mrs. Smith: " 'I've tailed your bluff.' " 'What bluff, colonel?' she said, look ing as if she had never heard the word before. . "'The fejn.' said I. 'Ifs artificial, and it isn't a good make believe, either. Letting your poor old father put water ou it. too! What are you going to do about itV "She showed her baud at this call. The artificial fern cost her $1. and with the other $11 she bought gloves. " "Don't give me away.' she saith 'aud . father xviii nut know the diff?rence.' '* 'What will you do to persuade him that it is growing'/' " 'WI buy a little larger one in a few weeks.' "Wc dined there last night again, and as Mrs. Smith and the major each generously put a little water on this ar tificial fern I thought to myself 'What a great poker pli-jer that girl might become!' I hate *o see such ability wasted on fooling a nearsighted man, but perhaps Mrs. Smith wouldn't bo as interesting if she did play poker. How ever, she illustrates my theory, and there are others."-New York Sun. Prompt Agreement. "Only a fool would agree with a wo man!" he asserted angrilj'. "Precisely!" she replied.-Chicago Post. - An immense whiskey trust, which will control ^5 per cent, of the output in the United States, with a working capital of *11?.'),00?,000, has been or ganized in New York. A Wife Says: u Wc have four children. With the firil three I suffered almost unbearable pains from 12 to 14 hours, and had to be placed under the influence of chloroform. I used three bottles of Mother's Friend before our lasl child came, which is a strong, fat and healthy bo? doing tay housework up to within two hours of birth, and suf fered but a few hard pains. Tili? lini ment is thc grand est remedy ever made." Mother's Friend will do for every woman what it did for thi Minnesota mother uho writes the above let ter. Not to use it during pregnancy is a mistake to be paid for in pain and suffering? Mother's Friend equips the patient with a strong body and clear intellect, which na turn are imparted to the child. It relaxes the muscles and allows them to expand. Il relieves morning sickness and nervousness? It puts nil the organs concerned ia perfect condition for the final hour, so that the actual labor is short and practically painless. Dan ger of rising; or hard breasts is altogether avoided, and recovery is merely a matter ol a few divs. Druggist* sell Mother's Friend for $1 ? bottle. The Brad de M ;tcv?ulator Co., Atlanta, Ga? Sead fer oar frc? lltustratsd book. New Methods in Advertising. Hallway companies arc adopt ing new and unique methods of advertising, as is demonstrated by the publication in the Four Track Series of the New York Central Hoad, of what is now becoming widely known and somewhat famous, "A message to Garcia." by Filbert Hubbard, of the i'hillistine Magazine*, vhich itself is a peculiar and interesting publication as relating io magaziucs of the present day. This article is attracting widespread attention, and bas been answered by a writer in "The Mirror," published at St. Louis, under date of June 15.1890, entitled "A Message to Hubbard," which gives thc other side of the American employe. The Southern Railway, the leading Southern system,spreading from Wash ington to the Mississippi Uiver, and grid-ironing the South, and the only line to '"The Land of thcSky7' section of western North Carolina, has also issued a publication out of the ordi nary, in the shape of an attractive booklet entitled ''A Night on Mount Mitchell," by Henry Litchfield West, one of thc leading editorial writers of the Washington Post, a paper widely and favorably known for the ability displayed in its editorial and political columns. This story is a description of an ascension to the very top of Mount Mitchell, which is the highest mountain peak cast of the Rocky Mountains, and 401) feet higher than Mount Washington, upon which has been erected a monument to Professor Mitchell, after whom the mountain is named. Thc story is replete with interest, and thrilling in detailing a trip which may bc taken by any traveler for health i or pleasure, and reminds one of Tal madge's description of Lookout Moun tain, when he stood upon its heights and delivered the following oration, which is reproduced for its graphic description of a location famous in American history : "Thc carriage wound its way up, up, up. Standing there on the tip-tip rock, I saw live States of thc Union. Scenes stupendous and overwhelming. One almost is disposed to take off his hat in the presence of what seems to j bc thc grandest prospect of this con tinent. There is Missionary Ridge, the beach against which the red bil lows of Federal and Confederate cour age surged and broke. There are the blue mountains of North and South Carolina. With strain of vision, there is Kentucky, there is Virginia. At our feet, Chattanooga and Chicka mauga. thc pronunciation of which proper names will thrill ages to come with thoughts of valor and despera tion and agony. Looking each way, and any way, from the top of that mountain, earthworks, earthworks j the beautiful Tennessee winding along j through the valley, curling and coil ing around, making letter "S" after j letter "S," as if that letter stood for ' shame, that brothers should have gone into massacre with each other, while God and nations looked on. I have stood on Mount Washington, and on thc Sierra Nevadas, and on the Alps, but I never saw so far as from the top of Lookout Mountain." Copies of this booklet and other interesting publications on ''The Land ? of the Sky" section and "Lookout Mountain'' may be obtained from W. j A. Turk, General Passenger Agent. ? Southern Railway, Washington. D.C." j Mountain Lion's Feelings. "People who imagioe that animals haven't got feelings don't know what they are talking about," said the Yel lowstone Park guide as he sat cleaning his rifle. "I wa's?jjttinga trail around one of the spoutin' springs one day. and, gettin'warmed up, ' I threw my j coat over thc end of a log. B-yjind ! by 1 went off to hunt for a drink of - water, and it was perhaps half an hour before I returned to my work. "When ? came up it was to sec a j whalin' big mountain Hoe creepin' ; along to spring on thc coat. Tt was over thc log in a way to make it look like a man stoopin' down, and thc lion was nicely deceived. He skulked up i to within eighteen feel of thc log. : crouched flat for a moment and laid ; back his ears, and then he made two i jumps of it. Greased lightnin' wasn't in it with that critter. It was like a big hall of fur shot from a cannon, and as he flew he uttered a screech which i brought my hair on end. If that coat had been a man lie wouldn't have had time to say gum. The lion lit down on it with claws and teeth ready for business, and in five seconds thc gar ment was cut into carpet rags. "Then he realized the cheat, and you never saw a human bein' look so foolish. His tail went down to thc earth, the fire died out of his eyes, and he'd have given $40 for some one to kick him up hill. His chagrin was SJ plain that I laughed right out, and that broke his heart. He looked at me and whimpered like a puppy, and when I asked if his mother knew he was out he fetched a sort of sob in his throat and sneaked off like a dog caught killing sheep. If I could have j run fast enough to have caught him by thc tail he wouldn't have even looked back. Ile kucw he had made a fool of himself, and he wanted togo off and hide andjhare a long think." L'a reliable. The author of "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" .ells a story of the Civil war, when ;he days dragged gloomily in anticipa tion of news from the front and when rrief was likely to overtake any who lad boys in the ranks. He says : One night the postmaster was read ng aloud the names of the killed at Gettysburg, and he ran down to the lame of a youth he knev. The boy's bather sat there on a nail keg, chew ,ng a straw. The postmaster, for his sake, tried to shuffle over the name md hurry to the next. ''Hi!-' said the father., "'Wha-wbat'.s that yon said ?" There was nothing to do but face the issue, and the postmaster repeated frith a forced calmness : "Killed-Snyder, Hiram."' The boy's father stood up with a jerk.. Then he sat down. Then he stood up again, staggered to the door ind fumbled for the latch like a blind man. "God help him !" said the postmas ter, wiping his eyes with his red hind kerchief. "He's gone to tell the old woman." The minister preached a funeral ser mon for the boy, and on the little pyramid that marked the family lot io the burying ground they carved the inscription : "Killed in honorable battle, Hiram Snyder, aged 10." Not long afterward strange, yellow bearded men in faded blue began to arrive. Great welcomes were given them, aud many a big gathering was held in their honor. At one such gathering a ghost appeared-a lank, saffron ghost, ragged as a scarecrow, wearing the cape of a cavalryman's overcoat, with no coat beneath. The apparition was a youth of about 20, with a downy beard all over his face and a countenance well mellowed with coal soot, as he had ridden-sev eral days on the top of a freight car near the engine. The ghost was Hi ram Snyder. We forgave him the shock of sur prise he had caused us-all except the minister who had preached his funeral sermon. Years afterward I heard the minister remark in a solemn and ag grieved tone : "Hiram Snyder is a man who can not be relied upon." - - ? tm An Age of Falsehood. ATLANTA, GA., July 15.-Bishop Morrison spoke from the pulpit of the First Methodist church to-day to the Freemasons of Atlanta. In the course of his sermon the bishop said : "It has seemed to me of late that the pres ent is an age of insincerity, an age of falsehood and the status of society and of our business life will bear me out. Thousands of men will not tell the truth unless they know they can j make something by it. The moral de cay of the present agc is due to this disregard for truth. Lies are put up in packages, sent out in barrels and hung on hooks. Men are justifying themselves with the fact that their acts arc common. "That embalmed beef sent to Cuba is no worse than we get to-day. I be lieve that thc large death list in this country which is daily growing great er, is due directly to the dishonest adulterations of the food which goes in the homes of our country. The whole commercial world is honeycomb ed with untruthfulness, and the inor dinate love of money which has taken hold of our people is at the bottom of it. "There arc men in Atlanta to-day who have been running to money so long that while their wealth is five times as great as formerly their repu tation aud their influence for good in thc community is more than five times as small as it was before." Sheriff" Kills His Deputy. r?u.i MUJA, S. (.'., July !).-At the jail door in Union yesterday Sheriff J. G. I .ong, who has held that office for many years, fired both barrels of a shotgun ?it J. G. Gallman, his deputy sheriff and life-long friend. One load of buck shot entered the side and the other took effect in the throat, both teari] big holes and producing instant des There, had never been any qua? between thc men; they had been frit? long before Gallman became depii but it seems that the deputy had li| drinking, and when Sheriff Long as! him what he was going to do, answo that it was none of his business. Ij made some sharp response, and G? man drew his pistol. The sheriff, was standing in his door, stepped and got a shotgun from* the cori) Coming to thc door again, with weapon ready, lie tired both barrel quick succession at closo range. It is said the deputy had a dango temper. A coroner'? jury returned a vc of justifiable homicide. HeWitt's Little Early Risers hc^i permanently. They lend gentle asi ance to nature, causing no pair! weakness, permanently curing cqj pation and liver ailments. 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