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BILL ARP J\.rp Has J Tist Re tur Tc Atlanta C Kiches bring a trouble wheo they come And money leaves a pain when it goes, Hut 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 cnuldent talk the good people out of enough to make; the grandchildren happy. The weather was unpropitious and my old bones were grumbling, but I obeyed thc ma ternal orders and went. Inertia i-* a great invention. The older wo grow the more inertia we 'have. Winn 1 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 I. have totten on the road the harness seems to warm mo up, my inertia is broken and new scenes and people and friends al>-orb my attention. I have just returned from Alabama from a second trip and the welcome h one has settled me down so calm and serene that my inertia bas began to work and I feel liku I could never go away any more. The weather was against me somewhat, but I reckon I sold enough talk to run us through this Christmas. I hope so, for it may cbc the last, and then-what then? There is a wonderful diff?rence be tween the people of big cities and those of little unpretending towns. Hy request I visited Childersburg, a village of a few hundred people, whom I did not iiud too busy to talk to me: especially thc old Confederate veter ans, whoso grizzly beard and settled features always mark them. 1 can tell them a hundred -yards off. And the common people beard him gladly, saycth the scriptures. Just so have 1 found thc yeomanry of our sunny Southland are my most willing hear ers. 1 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 ciety bas but few charms for me. The sweetest jmet who ever wrote a verse said ibat Abou Ben Ahdam was placed high in hcaveu because be loved bis fellow men. That was his ooly credential. In^Childersburg thc 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 ou the lips of a sweet little girl who recited a speech for mc that her aunt had taught her. She was only a little child.- Befor: I left home I had a letter from a cousin io 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 thc depot with open arms.QWhcn 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 j every direction. Thousands of beau tiful dwellings adorn the highlands i that environ the city and hundreds are being built on new streets that are being graded and paved as fast as it is 1 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 tho child is outgrowing the parent. All around this ocntcr the whole face of the earth is dotted with iron plants and their fires aro ever burning. It is a magnificent sight to approach Birmingham by night, and on cither side of every railroad to see tho angry looking flames going up from thous ands of coke ovens and hundreds of smoke stacks. It makes one think of Dante's Inferno and Hades and Pluto and Hell itself. Not very long ago a tramp wandered out among tho ovens before they were fired and laid down to sleep. Daring the night, when tho fires were all aglow, he was found in dangerous proximity and was rudely punobed up, and when asked who he was and where he oamo 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 Ensley, the Southern Pitts burg, where the leviathan steel plants 'S LETTER. ned Prom a Lee turing ?ur. onstitution. are going up. There is a population now of 10,0U(J busy people operating thc furnaces and rolling mills and mining for coal, but thc half has not been told, and I'm afraid to tell what 1 think 1 was told about the plants that are going up aud arc uuder con ! tract to be completed and in operation f by 1st of April next. Hundreds of j handsome cottage?, all neatly finished j and painted, are now ready and hun dreds mon; going up for tb; workmen who are to man these immense steel plants -on.' of which is to be the larg est in the United States, and I was told that by the 1st of April these plants at Kesley will require 20,000 men, and they with their families would make up a population of 100, 000 people. There are a cluster of live furnaces there now that turn out 7f)U tons of pig iron every day, aud these are not the half of them-and the great steel plant is to make 0,000 tons of steel every day. "Mirabile dictu!" Have. I got these figures right? I made some notes on thc back of an envelope aud that's the way they read. I know that thc 20, 000 operatives is right, though anoth er tuan s:>id 20,000. Not long ago I retold a story that a friend told me ab<>ut bis bunting expedition on the l'an Handle region just after the civil war, and how bc and his companion camped in an old cabin one night anti the "-elves came down from the moun tains and besieged them, and how they I shot at them nil night through the j cracks between thc logs and killed hundreds of them, and as fast as they . killed them tho pack of hungry var mints would jump on the dead ones and cut, them ali up-all except the j bair and hones-and bow thc wolves left at daybreak, and after they were all gone these hunters went out to see how many they had killed.- They' j never fourni a single wolf, but the 1 ground for three acres around thc , cabin was covered three feet deep in ! bair. That's what 1 thought he said j and I retold it that way. Not long j after this a mutual friend told mc j that my hunter friend was hurt at me 1 for exaggerating the story, for bc dc . claretl that ho told me that the ground ; was covered two and a half feet deep i in hair, and I had, without any pro I vocation, added a half foot to it. And I so to keep the peace I agreed to take j off that'half foot and have ever since ! done so when I repeated the hunter's j story. It is a sore temptation to us ! all to make a story alittlo 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 J men molding them from the fiery fur naces. The men had on large blue spectacles and visors, for it is awful to look upon thc dazzling heat that glows from the caldron of liquid steel. These caldrons were not tapped from thc 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 huge molds were arranged perpendicular on a little train of cars that waa moved slowly by electricity, and as fast as 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. Tte huge leviathans all around me made mo dizzy and I begged my friends to let mc go home, foi- my amazement was 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 to a pair of spectacles. What a wonderful thiog is the brain of a man. I could tell more about Ensley, but I remember that during j thc civibwar, when Confederate money ! had flooded thc South and everybody had A hat full or a bag fall, I asked a treasury official hov much had been issued, and he looked dazed for a mo ment and said it was either 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 Ensley as one of its suburbs, its pet, its cub, but Ensley is already putting on Pittsburg airs and talks of taking in Birmingham within the year and calling herself the "Greater Ensley," for the parent city has only 75,000 people. I was going to write about Tusca loosa, that sits high on the banks of the Black Warrior, the Athens of Alabama, the home of the university and the colleges, the alma mater of culture and refinement, and d/uid 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 thc Stilnian in stitute, where negro students are studying theology and preparing for the white man's methods of minister ial service, and to tell about thc two negroes from Africa who are there, and who are thc genuine sons of negro princes, whom the missionaries have converted to Christianity. Hut this letter is already too long and so I will suspend. Hil.I, ARI?. ._- mom A Helled ion on the Judge. In an address bei'ore the Virginia State Har association, Janies I*. Har rison, of the Danville bar, told this story of an eminent judge in Virginia, who sat on thc bench with his feet up before him, showing his soles':to coun sel and audience: "Thc defense had offered a little negro as a witness for their client, and the commonwealth's attorney challenged the witness as too young to testify. ''When the pickaninny had bceu sworn on the Holy Evangelists, he was asked by the commonwealth's at torney what he had done. " 'I swoad,' he said. " 'And what will happen to you now if you tell a lie,' the lawyer roar ed. 'My mammy, she'll whip mc.' " 'is that all?" insinuated thc de fendant's attorney. "Xo, sah. De debbie, he'll get me.' "And the? thu judge took his feet down, and leaning over thc bench with menancing finger, said: " 'Yes, and I'll get you too, sir!' "When, quick as a flash, came the boy's readjr reply: " 'Bo?s, 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 the animal's attention to the vessel and put a short stick io his mouth. The intelligent and courageous animal at once understood his meaning, sprang into the sea and fought his way through the aDgry waves toward the vessel. He could not, however, get close enough to deliver that with which he was charged, but the crew understood what waa meant and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood and threw it toward him. The dog at once dropped hie own piece of wood and immediately seized that which had been thrown to him, and then with a degree of strength aud d? termination scarcely credible-for he was again and a?ain lost under thc waves-he dragged it through the surge and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formed with thc jssel and every soul on board was rescued. My son haa 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 thia testimonial hoping some ODO similarly afflicted may read it and be benefited.-THOMAS C. BOW ER, Glencoe, O. For sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. - When a farmer's stock seem9 to be all of one mould, and that a good one, there are dealers rcdy to take them as a lot, and at the owner's price. 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The acids in the blood which cause t ie disease are throughly erad icated. It also the best blood purefier, laxative and tonio. Evans Pharmacy. When Washington Died. lt took three days for the news of j Washington's death at Mount Vernon J to reach Philadelphia. He died on Saturday night at ll o'clock, Decem ber 14, 179U, 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 bad heard the sad intelligence on his way. Congress was in session at the time, in thc beautiful old ball at Sixth and Chestnut streets. .lohn 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- j nesday morning. December IS. Both ' houses immediately adjourned. New York did not get the news un til December I'd, and lloston not until 1 four days later. In the fact the hon ored tirst president was already in his grave before any of the mourning cere monials, in even the nearest modern cities, could bc arranged. MUS. ADAMS' LEVEE Mrs. Adams, the wife of eur second president, postponed ber levee for one . week and then requested the ladies to j come iii white gowns, trimmed with ! black "ribands." and wearing black I gloves. The Cincinnati society wore ? mourning for six mouths, and Presi- j dent .lohn Adams recommended to all citizens that they wear a band of crepe ou thc left ann for thirty days. AT MOl'NT VERNON. Washington was buried on Decem : ber IS, tho same Wednesday afternoon ? on which the solemn announcement ! of bis death was made in Philadelphia, j The funeral took place between >l and ; 4 o'clock. Thc oak bier which carried him to bis grave may still bc seen in 1 thc Alexandria museum. The solem . nity of that funeral with its long lint's of the clergy and the Free Masons, surrounding thc family vault, the j infantry, cavalry and artillery posted on thc banks of thc Potomac river, are ! eloquently described in a Georgetown newspaper of December 20. This also notes thc minute guns fired from a private sloop in thc Poto mac river. A troup of cavalry led thc procession, and thc general's favorite horse followed the coffin, led by two negri) grooms. The sun was now set ting as thc eleven pieces of artillery were discharged. 1 . Alas! the sun of glory was set for ever. No! Thc name of Washington, the American president and general, will triumph over death: the uncloud ed brightness of bis glory wiil illumi nate future ages." IN THE QUAK EU CITY. Philadelphia wisely set her solemn commemoration of thc sad event for thc day after Christmas, December20, Beiug then the 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 cession military companies marched with reversed arms, flags were draped with crepe; a white horse decked with trappings of crepe, stepped proudly before the bier. The pall-bearers were that always loyal and most devo ted friend of Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of thc Navy Stoddard and James McHenry, Secre tary of War and many others. Then came members of Congress and clergy men marching two and two. The largest Church in thc city, the German Lutheran, at Fourth and Cherry st eets, was the scene of the ceremony. The site of that Church is now occupied by s solid tall build ing; but it w?s 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 20, 17i>9, wont out tho 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 JOHN A. HAYES Sells HYNDS' Home-m; Honest Work, Hoi THE largest Bhoe Factory and Tannery f World. The only combined Shoe F A Solid, First-clas?? A No. If yon want cheap, Hhoddy, paper ?hooi but if you want the bett Shoes at popular p Tho prices range from Fifty cents to Fr They ar? the cheapest beeaune they are th? Tanm-d Leather, "Soft, Elastic and fftrong.' what you want. Try one pair and you will $4 00 and $5.00 Shoes THE PLACE FOR BICYCLES. SU J Have your repairs done by th and guarantee it. display at thc New York obsequies, held on December 31. Thc exercises were held in St. Paul's Church, Gov ernor Morris, at that time United States Senator-elect, was the orator, and Bishop Samuel Pr?vost, consecra ted in England in 1 ?St?, as thc first Episcopal bishop of New York, read the service, lti the procession thc thirteen sachems of Tammany, repre senting thc thirteen original States, wore bucktarls iii their hats, and crepe bands. In the procession thc 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. IN ItOSTOX. The Boston ceremonies, held on Christmas morning, were especially ? masonic. Sixteen hundred assembled in thc State house. The funeral urn. carried instead of thc usual bier, li ire this inscription: "'Sacred to the Mem orv ol' Brother George Washington, raised to thc All Perfect Lodge, D< c ember l-l, 171'!*. Bi pe in Years and Full of (?lory." A LOCK or WASHINGTON'S ll A lit. A masonic dirge was also sung in thc 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 bc kept with thc jew els and regalia of the lodge. Again in the old South Church, on February S. 1800, Fisher Ames gave a eulogy of George Washington. Har vard College held its special exercises in the Cambridge Meeting House, where addresses were made by two members of the Senior class, one of them bciug Washington Alston. /'/,,'/<?!< tf,/,;,t AYrorif. Constipation leads to liver trouble, and torpid liver to Wright's disease. Prickly Ash Bitters i- a certain cure at any stage of thc disorder. Sohl by F.vans Pharmacy. - Wc cannot pick out the Lord's own by l >ukiiig over thc church reg ister. - Angels weep on thc ?lay a young mau begins to spend more money than ht.4 can m a kt . II KAUAI UK, NEUUALQIA?1 LA GRIPPE. Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists. 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