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BILL ARP _A.rp Has J"nst Hetiarr To Atlanta Cc Riches bring a trouble when they come And money leaves a pain when it goes, 1 But everybody now should have a little sum, To brighten up the year at its close. And so my.wife-thoughtful wo man-told me that I had better start out and see if I couldent talk toe good people out of enough to make the grandchildren happy. Tho weather ? was unpropitious and my old bones were grumbling, but I obeyed the ma ternal orders and went. Inertia is a great invention. The older we grow the more inertia we have. When I have stayed at home a few months, I want to keep on staying there and it nearly kills me to rouse up and go away for even a week. After J. have gotten on the road the harness seems to warm me up, my inertia is broken and new scenes and people and friends ^ absorb my attention. v X have just returned from Alabama from a second trip and the welcome h-?me has settled.me down so calm and serene that my inertia has begau to work and I feel like I could never go away any more. The weather was against me somewhat, but I reckon I sold enough talk to ruo us through this Christmas. I hope so, for itmayobe the last, and then-what then? There is a wonderful difference be tween the people of big cities and those of little unpretending towns. By request I visited Childersburg, a village of a few hundred people, whom I did not find too busy to talk to me; especially the old Confederate veter ans, whose grizzly beard and settled features always mark them. I can ! tell them a hundred -yards oft'. Aud j the common people heard him gladly, j . sayeth the scriptures. Just so have j I found thc yeomanry of our suuny j Southland arc my most willing hear- j ers. I love them and love to talk to . them, for they have neither policy nor hypocrisy. I am glad myself to belong to the middle class and to mingle with them. Aristocratic so- j ctety has but few charms for me. The sweetest poet who ever wrote a verse said that Abou Ben Ah dam was placed high in heaven because he loved his fellow men. That was his only credential. In.Childersburg the good people gathered at the Academy that cost nothing. Jn fact not anything cost anything, and I was most hospitably entertained and left with a kiss on the lips of a sweet little girl who recited a speech for me that her aunt had taught her. She was only a little child.- Befor; I left home I had a letter from a cousin in Birmingham cordially inviting me to his house, and said he would meet me at the depot with a brass band. Also another letter from a lady friend, a widow, who said I must come to her house and she would meet me at the depot with open arms.QWhen my wife read them I asked her where I had better go, and she replied with peculiar em phasis, "go to Fred's." Birmingham is a wonderful city and a very beautiful one. A large, clear, well arranged depot receives you. Broad, well paved streets aud side walks delight you, and magnificent commercial blocks astonish you. Everything has been planned on a grand scale and everybody is busy with trade and industries that seem to be increasing and spreading out in every direction. Thousands of beau tiful dwellings adorn the highlands that environ thc city and hundreds are being built on new streets that are being graded and paved as fast as it is possible. There are Churches that cost over $100,000 each. Money, money, money! It is there by the million and keeps on coming from all points of the country for investment. Wealthy merchants from other cities have planted branch houses there and the child is outgrowing the parent. All around this center the whole face of the earth is dotted with iron plants and their fires are ever burning. It is a magnificent sight to approach Birmingham by night, and ou either side of every railroad to see the angry looking flames going up from thous ands of coke ovens and hundreds of smoke stacks. It makes oue think of Dante's Inferno and Hades and Pluto and Heli itself. Not very long ago a tramp wandered out among the ovens before they were fired and laid dowu to sleep. During the night, when the fires were all aglow, he was found in dangerous proximity and was rudely punched up, and wheu asked who he was and where he came from, said: "I was in Birmingham yesterday and I reckon I got drunk and I suppose I an in hell now-just as I've been ex pecting-no water about here is there?" I visited Bosley, the Southern Pitts burg, where the leviathan steel plants S LETTER. led From a Lecturing ur. institution. are going up. There is a population now of 10,000 busy people operating the furnaces and rolling mills and mining for coal, but the half has not been told, and I'm afraid to tell what I think I was told about the plants that are going up and are under con tract to be completed and in operation by 1st of April nest. Hundreds of handsome cottages, all neatly finished :>nd painted, are now ready and hun dreds moro going up for th j workmen who are to man these immense steel plants-one of which is tobe the larg est in the United States, and I was told that by thc 1st of April these plants at Ensley will require 26,000 men, and they with their families would make up a population of 100, 000 people. There are a cluster of five furnaces there now that turn out 750 tons of pig iron every day, and these are not the half of them-and the great steel plant is to make 6,000 tous of steel every day. "Mirabile dictu!" Have I got these figures vight? I made some notes on the back of an envelope and that's the way they read. I know that the 26, 000 operatives is right, though anoth er uian si?id 20,000. Not long ago I retold a story that a friend told me about his hunting expedition on the Pan Handle region just after the civil j war, and how he and his companion camped iu an old cabin one night and the ?-olves came down from the moun tains and besieged them, and how they shot at them all night through thc j cracks between the logs and killed hundreds of them, aud as fast as they killed them the pack of hungry var miuts would jump ou the dead ones and cat them all up-all except the hair and bones-and how the wolves left at daybreak, and after they were I al! gone these hunters went out to see J how many they had killed: They never found a single wolf, but the 1 ground for three acres around the , cabin was covered three feet deep in J hair. That's what I thought he said j and I retold li that way. Not long j after this a mutual friend told me I that my hunter friend was hurt at me I for exaggerating the story, for he de ' clared that he told me that the ground was covert ? two and a half feet deep in hair, and I had, without any pro vocation, added a half foot to it. And so to keep the peace I agreed to take ; off that'hal? foot and have ever since ! done so when I repeated the hunter's story. . It is a sore temptation to us all to make a story a li ttl': bigger when we retell it and we ought to be very careful on that line. And so I feel very cautious about retailing the mag nitude of things at Ensley. But my eyes did not deceive me and I saw solid steel billets that weighed 6,000 pounds each piled up aud cross piled like great logs of wood, and I saw the men molding them from the fiery fur naces. The men had ou large blue spectacles and visors, for it in awful to look upon thc dazzling heat that glows from the caldron of liquid steel. These caldrons were not tapped from the bottom, but were turned up at an angle of 45 degrees, so that they would overflow like water from a wash bowl, and let the top of the lava run into the upright molds. These hug? molds were arranged perpendicular on a little train of cars that was moved slowly by electricity, and as fast as j one was filled another took its place. ' Oh it was grand and fearful. These caldrons were lifted up and careened by great rams that looked like im mense cannon. But I forbear. The huge leviathans all around me made me dizzy and I begged my friends to let me go home, fo? my amazement v/as tired. Now just to think of the wire department, where one of these great billets was reheated and started through the great rollers and was squeezed smaller and smaller as it went on through hundreds of them till it was reduced to wire-steel wire of all sizes, even down to silver steel wire that was small enough to make the bows tu a pair nf spectacles. What a wonderful thing is the brain of a man. I could tell more about Paisley, but I remember that during the civil.war, when Confederate money had flooded thc South and everybody had a hat full or a bag full, I asked a treasury official ho* much had been issued, and he looked dazed for a mo ment and said it was cither three hun dred million or three hundred thous and million, he wasn't certain which. And so I will take off the half foot. Birmingham has been accustomed to speak of Ansley as one of its suburbs, its pet, its cub, but Ensley is already putting ou Pittsburg airs and talks of taking in Birmingham within thc year and calling herself the "Greater Ensley," for the parent city has only 75,000 people. 1 was going to write about Tusca loosa, that sits high on thc banks of the Black Warrior, the Athens of Alabama, the home of the university j and the colleges, the alma mater of culture and refinement, and druid city, the historic capital of the State up to 1844. I was going to relate something about the destruction of its beautiful university building by the federal army, and their reconstruction on a far more magnificent scale. I wished to say something about its splendid organization, its learned and efficient faculty, its museum, the largest in all the South, and its mag nificent library. I wished to make favorable mention of the Stilman in stitute, where negro students are studying theology and preparing for the white man's methods of minister ial service, and to tell about the two negroes from Africa who are there, and who are the genuine sons of negro princes, whom the missionaries have converted to Christianity. But this letter is already too long und so I will suspend. BILL ARP. -m o m A Reflection on the Judge. In an address before thc Virginia j State Bar association, James P. Har rison, of the Danville bar, told this story of an eminent judge in Virginia, who sat on the bench with his feet up before him, showing his soles^to coun sel and audience: "The defense had offered a little j negro as a wituess for their client, and the commonwealth's attorney challenged the witness as too young to testify. "When the pickaninny had been sworn on the Holy Evangelists, he was asked by the commonwealth's at torney what he had done. " 'I s woad,' he said. " 'And what will happen to you now if you tell a lie,' the lawyer roar ed. " 'My mammy, she'll whip me.' " 'Is that all?' insinuated the de fendant's attorney. "No, sah. De debbie, he'll get me.' "And then the judge took his feet down, and leaning over the bench with menancing finger, said: " 'Yes, and I'll get you too, sir!' "When, quick as a flash, came the boy's ready reply: " 'Boss, dat air jist whut I done said.' A Wise Newfoundland Dog. Some years ago a vessel was driven on thc beach of Lydd, in Kent, Eng land. The sea was rolling furiously. Eight poor fellows were crying for help, but a boat could not be got off, through the storm, to their assistance, and they were in constant peril, for any moment the ship was in danger of sinking. At length a gentleman came along the beach accompanied by his Newfoundland dog. He directed thc animal's attention to the vessel and put a short stick in his mouth. The intelligent and courageous animal at once understood his meaning, sprang into the sea and fought his way through the angry waves toward thc vessel. He could not, however, get close enough to deliver that with which he was charged, but the crew understood what was meant and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood and threw it toward him. The dog at once dropped his own piece of wood and immediately seized that .fhich had been thrown to him, and then with a degree of strength and de termination scarcely credible-for he was again and again lost under thc waves-he dragged it through the surge and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formed with the vessel and every soul on board was rescued. My son has been troubled for many years with chronic diarrhoea. Some time ago I persuaded him to take some of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After using two bottles of the 25-cent size he was cured. I give this testimonial hoping some one similarly afflicted may read it and be benefited.-THOMAS C. BOW ER. Glencoe, 0. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. - When a farmer's stock seems to be all of one mould, and that a good one, there are dealers ready to take them as a lot, and at the owner's price. A first-class animal is sure to bring a good figure; but he who has all first-class animals usually obtains thc top of the market. Mr. J. Sheer, Sedalia, Mo., saved his child's life by One Minute Cough Cure. Doctors had given her up tc die with croup. It's an infallible cure for coughs, colds, grippe, pneu monia, bronchitis and throat and lung troubles. Relieves at once. Evans Pharmacy. -- Slumber not in thc tents of youi fathers. Thc world is advancing. Advance with it. Mrs. R. Churchill, Berlin, Vt., says "Our baby was covered with running sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salv< cured her." A specific for piles ant skin diseases. Beware of worthies! counterfeits, liva ns Pharmacy. - If men could only see thc loath somcness of their evil deeds thc: would shudder at thc sight of them. - God never made a law withou also making a penalty for its violation llheumacide \\* a throughout, per manent, constitional cure for rheu inatism. The acids in the blood whicl cause t ie disease are throughly erad icated. It also thc best blood pureficr laxative and tonic. Evans Pharmacy When Washington Died. Et took three days for the news of "Washington's death at Mount Vernon to reach Philadelphia. He died on Saturday night at ll o'clock, Decem ber 14,1799, and the information was not received in Philadelphia until Tuesday evening, December 17. News was brought by a traveler from Balti more, who had passed through Alex andria, two days before, and had heard the sad intelligence on his way. Congress was in session at the time, in the beautiful old hall at Sixth and Chestnut streets. John Marshall, then member of Congress from Virgin ia, and not yet the Chief Justice of the United States;, announced the dis tressing event to Congress on Wed nesday morning, December 18. Both houses immediately adjourned. New York did not get the news un til December 19, and Boston not until four days later. In the fact the hon ored first president was already in his j grave before any of the mourning cere- ! monials, in even the nearest modern ! cities, could be arranged. MRS. ADAMS' LEVEE. Mrs. Adams, the wife of our second | president, postponed her levee for one j week and then requested the ladies to j come in white gowns, trimmed with black "ribands," and wearing black gloves. The Cincinnati society wore mourning for six months, and Presi dent John Adams recommended to all citizens that they wear a band of crepe on the left arm for thirty days. AT MOUNT VERNON. Washington was buried on Decem ber 18, the same Wednesday afternoon ! on which the solemn announcement of his death was made in Philadelphia. The funeral took place between 3 and j 4 o'clock. The oak bier which carried him to his grave may still bc seen in thc Alexandria museum. Thc solem- j nity of that funeral with its long lines of the clergy and the Free Masons, surrounding thc family vault, thc infantry, cavalry and artillery posted on the banks of thc Potomac river, are eloquently described rn a Georgetown newspaper of December 20. This also notes the minute guns fired from a private sloop in the Poto mac river. A troop of cavalry led thc procession, and the general's favorite horse followed the coffiu, led by two negro grooms. The sun was now set ting as the elevcu pieces of artillery were discharged. \ i "Alas! the sun of glory was set for ever. No! The name of Washington, the American president and general, will triumph over death; thc uncloud ed brightness of his glory wtii illumi nati! future ages." IN THE QUAKER CITY, t Philadelphia wisely set her solemn commemoration of the sad event for thc duy after Christmas, Dccernber26. Being then thc national capital, the ceremonies of Philadelphia were con sidered more imposing than those held elsewhere. Bells were tolled and six teen guns were fired at daybreak. From that time to sunset one gun boomed out every hour. In the pro- j cession military companies marched with reversed arms, flags were draped with crepe; a white horse decked with trappings of crepe, stepped proudly before thc bier. The pall-bearers were that always loyal and most devo ted friend of Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Navy Stoddard and James McHenry, Secre tary of War and many others. Then came members of Congress and clergy men marching two and two. Tho jargest Church in the city, thc German Lutheran, at Fourth and Cherry streets, was the scene of the ceremony. The site of that Church is now occupied by s solid tall build ing; but it was in that same Church that the real funeral ceremonies were held over Benjamin Franklin, as be ing the largest gathering place in the city. From that old place of worship, on December 2b'. 171)9, went out the splendid phrase from thc lips of Col. Henry Lee. This phrase which we all inherit, well described Washington as "First iu War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Country men." IN NEW YORK. Tammany Hall made an immense J?HF?.HAYES Sells HYNDS' Home-m Honest Work, Ho THE I a repost thoa Factory and Tannery World. The only combined 8hoo ] A Solid, First-clap*, A No. If you want cheap, shoddy, paper shoi but if you want tho bent Shr>e.s at popular i Tho priceH range fr-mi Fifty cents tu F They aro the cheapest beduino they aro tl Tanned Leather, "Soft, Elastic and .'-'trong, what you want Try ono pair and you wi $4 00 and $5.00 Shoe THE PLACE FOR BICYCLES. SU Have your repairs done by t and guarantee it. THOMS!)* display at the New York obsequies, held on December 31. The exercises were held in St. Paul's Church, Gov ernor Morris, at that time United States Senator-elect, was tho orator, and Bishop Samuel Pr?vost, consecra ted in England in 178G, as the first Episcopal bishop of New York, read the service. In the process:.on the thirteen sachems of Tammany, repre senting the thirteen original States, wore bucktai'ls in their hats, a nd crepe bands. In the procession the custo mary empty bier of these obsequies held a golden funeral urn. No carts, carriages nor riders allowed in the streets over which the procession moved. f IN BOSTON. The Boston ceremonies, acid on Christmas morning, were especially masonic. Sixteen hundred assembled in the State house. The funeral urn, carried instead of thc usual bier, bore thi3 inscription: "Sacred to thc Mem ory of Brothel George Washington, raised to the All Perfect Lodge, Dec ember 14, 1799. Hipe in Years and Full of Glory." A LOCK OF WASHINGTON'S HAIR. A masonic dirge was also sung in the old South Church, where address es .vere made. The grand lodge still holds a lock of Washington's hair' to be preserved in a golden urn, to be kept with the jew els and regalia of thc lodge. Again in the old South Church, on February 8, 1S0O, Fisher Am-2s gave a eulogy of George Washington. Har vard College held its special exercises in thc Cambridge Meeting House, where addresses were made by two members of the senior class, one of them being Washington Alston. Philadelphia Record. ? mm m> ? mm . Constipation leads to liver trouble, and torpid liver to Bright's disease. Prickly Ash Bitters is a certain cure at any stage of thc disorder. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - "Wc cannot pick out thc Lord's own by looking over thc church reg ister. - Augels weep on the day a young man begins to spend more money than he cnn make. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA,' LA. GRIFFE, i Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists. Credit only to those who pay,but for fear your mem ory is a little shaky will remind you we need our money. Let us put on Heavy Wagon Wheels for you. PAUL E. STEPHENS. Notice to Creditors. ALL persone having demands against the Estate of John P. 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