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BILL ARF Arp Says Democrats Ye Atlanta Cfc ! A paragraph in a New York paper ask ''Is there a charm in the letter X?" aod all's well that N's (ends) well, so Mr. the writer tells us that thc names of ten presidents of the I"nited States ended in N. He might have gone further and said that no presidential candidate whose name ended with N and whose running mate's name ended in N had ever gen erally been laid on the political shelf as back numbers and under the ban. It has boco said that this was the rea son why Roosevelt did not wish to bo nominated. But this is a mistake. Jefferson was a vice president and so were Jackson and Van Buren. But it is astonishing how little is generally known of vice presidents. How soon they are forgotten. Even the best histories of tho United States fail to mention them in any table or order or .ndex. Indeed, the defeated candi dates for president are equally ignored. Who did Taylor run against? Who cid William Henry Harrison? Who Van Buren, who Madison? Who Was J. Q. Adams's vioe president; who Jefferson's and Jackson's, Monroe's and Madison's? You can't find an swers to these in any school history, and I found them only after much re search in Appleton's biographies; and and who ran against Jefferson for his second term? who against Monroe and Taylor and Pierce? Nobody knows hardly. Now here is a table of refer ence that lovers of history may look over and paste in a book for reference: Washington and Adams, Washing ton and Adams, Adams and Jefferson, Jefferson and Burr, Jefferson and George Clinton, Madison and George Clinton, Madison and Elbridge Gerry, Munroe and Daniel Tompkins. Mon roe and Daniel "Tompkins, J. Q. Adams and Calhoun, Jackson and Cal houn, Jackson and Van Buren, Van Buren and R. M. Johnson, Harrison and Tyler, Polk and Dallas, Taylor and Fillmore, Pierce and William R. King, Buchanan and Breckenridge, Lincoln and Hamlin, Lincoln and John son, Grant and Colfax, Grant and Col fas, Hayes and Wheeler, Garfield and Arthur, Cleveland and Hendricks, Harrison and Morton, Cleveland and Stevenson. Jefferson ran against C. C. Pinck ney. Madison ran against Dewitt Clinton. Monroe ran against Rufus King. J. Q. Adsins rsa agata! Jackson. Jackson ran against Clay. Van Buren ran against Harrison. Harrison ran against Van Buren. Polk ran against Clay. Taylor ran against Cass. Pierce ran against Scott. Buchanan ran against Freemoht. Lincoln ran against Breckenridge and Bell. Grant ran against Seymour. Hays ran against "Tilden. Garfield ran against Hanoook. Cleveland ran against Blaine. Harrison ran against Van Buren. Cleveland ran against Harrison. Now pick out those successful can didates whose names, presidents and vice presidents, ended in N. Jefferson and Clinton, Madison and Clinton, Jackson and Calhoun, Jack son and Van Buren, Van Buren ? and R. M. Johnson, Lincoln and Hamlin, Lincoln and Johnson, Harrison and Morton. And now it there is any- oh arm in the letter N, look out for a ground swell that will roll Bryan and Steven eon into office nest November. Look out, I say, and have as much faith as yon do in seeing the new moon ' in a clear sky over ?your right shoulder. Bryan was defeated the last time be cause the name of his runninicg mate ended in L. That's why the wise men wouldent take Hill this time too much L (hell) in it they Baid. Bat all's well that N's (ends) well, so Mr. Shakespeare says. Bryan and Steven son will Bweep the country, for the double N's haye never yet been de feated. And there is another shameful neg lect in our histories. They tell us nothing scarcely of the mothers or wives of the -presidents; uothing cf their children nor who was is the White House. Of oonrse we know about Washington^ mother and his wife, and about Dorothy cr Dolly Madi son who was a widow Todd, and may be was kin to Mrs. Lincoln, for she was a Todd. We know something about General Jackson's wife and about Mrs. E ato n, for there was a scandal about her, and because Mrs. Calhoun and others wouldent visit her >n tho White House, Jackson broke UP his cabinet and took a new ona. We know Iii?! Jefferson had no sons, but that his daughter married a Mr. Eppest and her descendants are quiie numerous.. Ono of her grandsons was fcy classmate in college. We know "omething aboui Mr>. Polk and Har S LETTER. Have the Bulge This sar. institution. rictt Lane, who kept thc White House for Buchanan and about Julia Dent Grant and Miss Folsom, whom Cleve land married, but this is about all. The mother of a great man deserves the highest consideration of the his torian, but they have not had it. With thc few exceptions that I have named our people know nothing of the moth ers, wives or ohildren of the presi dents. How many New England peo ple know who was Daniel Webster's wife or mother? How many Carolin ians know of Calhoun's, how many Kentuckians know of Henry Clay's? But the women are at last coming to the front, and will hereafter ocoupy a higher place. We aro impatiently waiting for the coming of the promised volume by Mrs. Sarah Butts, giving the biography of notable southern wo men. A woman ought not to lose her name when she marries. My wife ought to sign her name Octavia Hutch ins Smith instead of Mary Octavia Smith and every woman preserve her father's name in this way. Well I am away down here in Mont gomery County basking in the sun shine of Mount Vernon, an oldtime, unpretending village beautifully situ ated on perhaps the highest plateau in the eounty It is my first visit and I was pleased to be invited here, for to me it is classic and venerated ground. Eighty-two years ago my father taught school here, an old field school, and there are a few people still living who remember the old log schoolhouse. But it has long since passed away and not a patron is alive and so far as I can learn, not one of his pupils is liv ing. All gone. Many a time did he tell us of his experience while teach ing here and how rude buys reboiled | against his discipline, and fora month he had to fight his way, but finally subdued and subjugated them and be came famous with his patrons, for those boys had ran off three teachers before he came and the community re joiced when they got a teacher who was game enough to conquer them. This is a quiet, delightful Tplace to rest. Even the signs of antiquity are pleasing to the eye. Beautiful legis tremias in full bloom ornament the front yard of my hotel. They are not hushes or shrubbery, but are large trees and I reverence them, for they were my mother's favorites away back in my childhood; and there ere still sweet memories clustering around them. I am here right in the midst of flowers and fruits. Oh the fruits that everywhere abound. Indeed, this is a blessed country to live in and be happy, and as for that, l eave not suffered at all nor found any difference between this region and north Geor gia, provided you keep in the shade. The nights are cool and pleassnt. BILL A RP. Give Him a Courteous Greeting. A gallant old, American soldier who at one time was well known in Kansas had many idoiosynorasies, not the least of which was an irrepressible dis like for young lieutenants when first sent out from West Point. The name of this soldier was Gen. Starr, and at the time of which We write he was a major in the Sixth United States Cavalry, though during the civil wor he had been a brigadier general. In 1874 Gen. Starr was in command at Fort Kiley, and one day an orderly esme to his 'quarters with a message that Lient. Morrison, just from West Point, was at the post ready to pay his respeots and report for duty. In response to this message the old gen eral was starting for his office, when his wife, a motherly old soul, plucked bimby the sleeve aad said: "Now, general, promise me that you won't be rough with that young man." "Rough?" said the old man, smil ing amiably upon his matrimonial com panion. "Why, I'll be peaches and oreani unless the young dog riles me." Reaching his office the general was confronted with a dapper little fellow, as spick and span as though he had just come from the hands of his bar ber and tailor, while he' had the half supercilious air that seems in separa-, ble from the first stages of military education. Looking the young lieutenant over for half a moment the old general said with great dignity: . 'How do you do, Mr. Morrison? I am pleased to see you." Then as a flush gradually mount ed over his weather-beaten features, he added: "I am alway glad to see you young men from the Military Academy. You--you-(here the gen eral ended with a rear) you think your selves so d- smart!"-Kama* City. Journal. S. R. Baldwin, Columbus, Ga., writes: I occasionally give a Teethina Powder to keep my teething child's j gums softoned. A Good-Fellow Girl's Lot. The woman of forty-five who owns to her age and could therefore pre sume to give advice to others was talking seriously to the comparatively young woman of thirty. "Don't ever allow yourself to reach that stage of affability," she was say ing, "at which people will call you a good fellow. I know that many a girl likes to have that reputation and men are all likely to be attentive to the sort of girl who is called a good fel low. Sho is generally sure of having a good time. Men will take her out, always be glad to have her in a party, be very attentive to her at dances, and make her seem like a boll*?. All these rewards como to the girl who is a good fellow. But I have rarely heard of a man who wanted to marry her. "Of course some man usually docs marry her, because thc girls who arc good fellowH usually find husbands. But the demand for them as wives is not relatively so great as their popu larity with men. Girls with half the amount of attention that the good fel low gets are going to be married first. Men don't want for wives the women who are companions. They want wo men who appeal to their affections, not to their sense of what is agreeable socially. I have seen good-fellow girls who waited for years to marry, even when they had more men around them than the other type of woman who was married at the end of her first year out. "Don't get the reputation of being a good fellow, whatever men may think of you. I don't mean not to he fast. I do not take that into consider ation at all, because that is vulgar, in the first place, and the cock tail-drink ing, loud talking type bas nt mg whatever in common with that sort of girl I meant when I spoke of her as a good fellow. The type I meant has nothing in common with the girl who is rapid. She can be as good form, as well bred, and as modest as the most shrinking type of intensely feminine woman. "The popularity of a girl who is called a good fellow can usually be explained. ? hcv?d a m?u say ino other day that he would always rather be with a woman than a man. If he goes out to dinner, he prefers to be with a woman, and if he goes, to the theater feminine society is more agreeable to him. He confesses frankly that the principal reason for this preference is his ability to do as he wants to, when his companions are women, whereas he would he com pelled to do as the rest of the party wanted if he were not with women. If he goes to dinner with a woman, he selects tho restaurants that he pre fers and orders what he cares to eat. A man may do that adroitly, eves while pretending to consult a woman's taste most assiduously. If he goes to the theater, he selects the play he likes, in the majority of oases, and the woman has to like it, too. "Now the good fellow is likely tc find a good many admirers among men of this class, who want a woman com panion merely because they have things more their own wsy than ii they go not with men. But it is not worth'while, for the sake of any pleas ure to be got out of it, for a girl to ac quire the reputation of being a go oe fellow. ? It is '.ikely to interfere wit! some of her more important aspira lions for the future, and you knots matrimony and a good husband will compensate a girl for missing a great deal in the way of a good time befen the wedding."-iVeto York ?K?. A Remedy for Cattle Choked. Take a fine-cut chewing tobaooo, enough to make a ball tho sise of i hen's egg. Dampen it with molassei so it adheres olosely ; elevate the ani mal's head, pull out the tongue, ant crowd the ball as far down the tb roa as possible. In 15 minutes it wil cause sickness and vomiting, relaxinj the musoles. Potatoes, or whatevei may be choking, it will be thrown up It is an almost absolute certain ty tba the tobaooo will cause the relaxing o: the muscles and consequent throwing up of the contents of the stomach and a cure is just as certain as a re taxation. The lacing of moistenei tobaooo upon a person's stomach witl lockjaw, relaxed them and saved th patient. . ItP must not bo kept on s long, however, as to oause deathl; sickness.-G. J. HINNBUECIIER. . During the civil war, aa well as ii our late war with Spain, diarrhoea wa one of the most troublesome disease ino army had io contend with. Xi ? many instances it h?osme chronic an the old soldiers still suffer from il Mr.. David Taylor, of Wind Ridge Greene Co., Pa., is one of these. H uses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera an Diarrhoea Remedy, and says he neve found anything that would give hil such quiok relief. It is for sale b Hill-Orr Drug Co. - If the average woman tried a the time to look as pleasant at h< -husband as she does at the photo graph er, she would die of nervot prostration irr two weeks. The soothing and healing properti< of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, it pleasant taste and prompt and perm: neut eurea, have mado it a great f vorito with the pnoplo every where. For eale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. Tornadoes are Costly. "The physical features of hurricanes are well understood," says Prof. Bigelow, of the Weather Bureau. "The approach of a hurricane is usual ly indicated by a long swell on the ocean, whioh forewarn* the observer by two or three days. A faint riso in the barometer occurs before the grad ual fall, which becomes very pronounc ed in the ocnter; tine wisps of cirrus clouds are first seen, which surround the center to a distance of 200 miles; thc air is calm and sultry, but this is gradually supplanted by a gentle breeze, and later the wind increases to a gale, ] the clouds beoomo matted, tho sea ! rough, rain falls, and thc winds are gusty and dangerous as the vortex core comes in. Here is thc indescrib able tempest, dealing destruction, impressing the imagination with its wild exhibition of the force of nature, tho Hashes of lightning, the torrents of rain, the cooler air, all thc clements in an uproar, which indicate the close approach of the center. In the midst of this turmoil there is a sudden pause, thc winds almost cease, the sky ! clears; but the waves rage in great turbulance. This is tho eye of thc storm, the core of the vortex, and it is perhaps twenty miles in diameter, or one-thirtieth of the wholo hurri cane. The respite is brief and is soon followed by the abrupt rencwcl of thc violent wind and rain, but now com ing from the opposite direotion, and the storm passes off with the several features following each other in the reverse order. "Cyclones or general storms may be 1,000 miles in diameter. Hurricanes operate on a path averaging 600 to 800 miles wide. Tornadoes are very much smaller. They may be only a mile wide at tho top and but a few feet at the bottom, but they are muoh more dangerous than either a cyoloneora hurricane. They form in all parts of the temperate zone-at sea they are waterspouts, and on the desert they ate sand storms. Sometimes a whole family of tornadoes will bo born at once from the same cloud. As many as fifteen tubes have been observed at ono time. In winter months they _1 _ .__ o._?__ t.- * -- uuvui \>u? y IU uur vxun ULULCB, uni lu summer they occur in the North, in Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. The average is twenty five a year. They are simple examples of vortex motion. A mass of air rotating at a low level runs into a vor tex, and a tube is projected down ward. The velocity of the lower end of the tube may reaoh 200 miles an hour and it is the partial vacuum caused by the whirl and tho sudden inrush of the outside air that causes the diBastrouss explosive effects. Tornadoes wrecked $31,000,000 worth of property in this country during the years from 1889 to 1896. Twenty three million dollars of this amount was destroyed by three whirls alone. The Louisville tornado, Maroh 27, 1890, destroyed property worth $3, 000,000. The St. Louis tornado, May 27,1896, caused a loss of $13,000,000. A tornado swept from Cedar Keys to Washington, D. C., September 29, 1896, which caused a loss of $7,000, 000,"-Theodore Walters, in Ains lee's, j__, _ - An operation was recently per formed at a hospital in Trenton, N. J., for the removal of a tumor from the oheek of Landsford Bergen, the five year-old son of Edward Bergen, of Yardley, Penn. The swelling was about the size of a hickory nut and was situated under the right eye. It begun shout two years ago, when the child complained of an itohing and burning sensation there. When the tumor was removed the doctors found a grain of wheat sprouting under it. Kndol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and allows dyspeptics to eat plenty of nourishing food while the stomach troubles are being radically oured by the medicinal agents it con tains. Pleasant to take and gives quiok relief. Evans' Pharmacy. - Ifyouaroa gentleman you will never find it necessary to say so._ plilj "El ?BSBBB"'' Hp -A- half centnrs ?SrSSH . Mr Seventy-five tl BS lylJBj n. Unequalled In BM ?Wff Bfc. A peerless, per "H*j,aJirfi BBBHHB Every Inatrun The name "EMERSON" on a PIANO a guarantee that it is Standard. Friend?, remember that yon can buy from me at about one-half other dealers e A full line of ORGANS. Time given South Main Street. FRUST JAR' Fl Now is the time to buy yo in p There being a big crop of fruit al higher later in the season. I have a 1 Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly I have a let of Decorated goods i ning out of stock at very low* prices. .?"? Bring rae your Bags and Bi Your patroling Tammany's Thirst. Five miles of bottled drinks! That is tho supply'iwhich tho Tam many delegates to the National Demo cratic Convention took with them from New York. Wine, beer, ale, brandy, cocktails, whiskey and opollinaris constituted the bulk of supplies with which thc thirsty braves stocked their two spe cial trains which left New York Sun day, July 1-one over the Pennsyl vania and tho other over thc New York Central. For that dusty, torrid trip "fizz" was of more importance than food. The 6upply was so plentiful that if each "f tho four hundred men on thc trains had kept a straw in his mouth all the way there would havo becu lit tle danger of a drought. Besides, provision had been made to replenish broken lines along the route-Tam many's coaling stations, they called them. Herc is a list of the liquid supplies: 20,000 bottles of beer, 1,000 bottles of ale, 1,000 quart bottles of cham pagne, 1,000 -pint bottles of cham pagne, 804 bottles of assorted cock tails, 720 bottles of rye whiskey, 57G bottles of Scotch whiskey, 570 bottles of Rhino and Moselle wines, 432 bot tles of brandy, 3,000 bottles of mineral water. The Sunday World statistics crank has been having a lot of fun juggling with these figures. The average beer bottle is ten inches tall. The Tam many delegates took with them 10,606 feet of beer-a little more than three miles of the amber fluid. An ale bot tle is about eleven inches tall, so the supply included 016 feet of ale. A quart bottle of champagne is thirteen inches tall and a pint bottle about eleven inches. That is just p.boul five teilet, of drinks, all of the best brands, xor when Tammany goes on au excursion noth ing hut the best "goes." There be ing about four hundred men in the parties, that means that about sixty five feet of drinks was allotted to each man-about twelve times his height. The main building of Tammany Hall in New York is about eighty-five A_lt T* .L- V ...1.. -iL icon vati. xi mu uuiviGD \tinuii tua Tammany delegates took with them were placed ono on top of the other the column would bc 304 times as high as Tammany Hall. The beer bottles alone would make seven rows, seven rows deep and four times as high as the Tammany build ing. The ale bottles would make three rows three and two-thirds times as high as the hail. The Scotch whis key would make two rows three and a half times as high; thc rye whiskey two rows four and a half times as high; the brandy two rows two and a half times as high; the quart bottles of chum pague three rows four and a fourth times as high, the pint bottles of champagne three rows three and two-thirds times as high, the Rhine and Moselle wine two rows four times aa high, and the mineral waters seven row.-New York World. Bones From Buena Vista. HOUSTON, TEXAS, July 22.-Col. I J. W. Scully, of the quater master's department, U. S. A., has gone to Mexico to disinter and bring back for burial in the San Antonion Govern ment cemetery the bones of Amerioan soldiers who fell in the battle of Bu ena Vista, fought near Saltillo, Mex ico, in 1846, between tho Americans, under Gen. Zachary Taylor, and the Mexicans, under Santa Anna. The remains of about seven hundred Americans lie where they were bu ried on the battlefield, but a new rail road will go squarely across this spot and this has caused the Americrn Gov erdment to aot. LOST-Many golden opportunit?s have been lost by those who suffer rheumatism. By taking Rheumacide now they will he permanently and Sositively oured. Sold in Anderson y Evans Pharmacy. merson." r of successful PIANO BUILDING, lousand delighted customers, tone, touch and durability, foot PIANO. lent sold undera positive guarantee, ls like the trade mark on Eoglish Silvor an r of the leading SEWING MACHINES isk. M. L. WILLIS. 9 I RUIT JARS ! ar Jars before they advance rice. 1 over the country, Jars will be much big lot of them on hand at a low price Traps, and all other summer goods, n odd pieces at a bargain. I am run seswax. je solicited, JOHN T. BUKRISS. DO YOU FEEL PRICKLY * ASH BITTERS SEMEVBS RfW IrlVlGO?^RTES. BILIOUS. DROWSY, LOW SPIRITED, BODY AND BRAIN WEARY? It cleanses thc liver and bowels, strengthens the kidneys and aids digestion, thus thc system is regulated and thc body fortific? to resist disease. VALUABLE REMEDY TO KEEP IH THE HOUSE SOLO BY ALI. DRUGGISTS. l'rlcc?i.oo Vcr Bottle. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. Fruit Jars, To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder, To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put on your old Jars. Tartaric .A-cid, To make Cherry and Blackberry Acid. Sticky ly Paper, To catch the flies while working with your fruit - ALL AT - HILL-ORR DRUG CO. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VANDIVER VAN DIVER BROS. We are strictly in it on HIAVY GROCERIES, Such as FLOUR, CORN, BRAN, MOLASSES, COFFEE, SUGAR and TOBACCO. We buj all of the above for Spot Cash, which puts us in posi tion to take care of your interest as well as any firm in this County, and pos sibly better than some. We can do you more good than anybody on SHOES. Strictly wholesale prices to Merchants on the celebrated Schnapps and "Blue Jay'* TOBACCO. Big Stock DRY GOODS, SHOES and HATS, bought before the recent big advance. Come and get your share at old prices. Yours for buBiness, VANDIVER BROS, GARDEN SEED. Buist and Ferry's. Remember when you go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. G PAYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. s_ ? -a & 0 S O Sd m g g ?S ?S o gg.* % ?S ?Sag 2 8- s '5 1 ?f ?2 : M w 8 a w S 00 9 CLABENCK OsnORNR. R?TMSnOF. OfiHOP.SK. Stoves, Stoves! Iron King Stoves, Elmo Stoves, Liberty Stoves, Peerless Iron King Stoves, And other good makes Stoves and Ranges. A big line of TINWARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY and CHI NAWARE. Also, anything in the line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods-such as Buck eta, Trays, Rolling Pins, Sifters, Ac Thanking our friends and customers for their past patronage and wish ing for continuance of same Yours truly, OSBORNE & OSBORNE.