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BILL A RI Bill Will Not Leotu Exhs Atlanta ( Tis home where the heart is, and the most of mine is hero. The epicure filled Iiis stomach with choicest f<hi-J and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day," and so I have filled my heart with the sweets arid comforts of home, and feel d?liant of human misery. Kate cannot harm me. for my hjmc is my castle where, as Blackstonc says, "the king of England dare not enter uninvited." Hut an old man did enter not long ago and said he came to stay a few days if it was convenient. I saw his baggage on the iron seat in the veranda. lie said, ' I travel free and iodge free and mix with none but the best people, and eo I have come to abide with you for a few days. I hope it is conven ient." Well, it wascnt convenient, for my wife was at Rome and my daughters away, and I had never heard of him, and so I told him it was not convenient. He seemed surprised and asked me if I was a Virginian. I told him no, I was a Georgian, and he said that Virginians seemed to be scarce in this region and he feared that old Virginia hospitality had not reached here; that Bishop Nelson had entertained him in Atlanta, and he had found a welcome among all Vir ginians. "What arc you going to do with me?" he asked. "I am lame and can't walk; I was told you had a carriage and would drive me anywhere I wished to go." "No, sir, I have neither carriage nor buggy, but I will go down town and get a vehicle and take you anywhere you wish to go." Then he said Brother Healer told him that if I would not take him, there was a poor widow across town who would, and ho would speak to her. So I took him there and left him, and will pay his bill if Brother Bealer dident. There are religious tramps as well as sinner tramps, and they arc not angels unawares. I was down in the wiregraBS region for nearly two weeks, and have most pleasant memo ries of my new found friends, but the last day was the beat. I wan on my journey home and couoted the mile stones as we speeded along. Happy faoes and loving kisses greeted me when I came, and here I am going to S LETTER re Until Victuals A^rc lusted. 'unstitittiot . rest un?l my larder gets low and my : wife insists that I had better make another venture. And now let the procession proceed. Let the war go on. It is noue of my begetting; it might have stopped at Santiago, hut our yankec brethren seem to love the nigger afar off ami have bought 8,000, 000 at two dollars und a half a head, which was cheap enough if Spain could have delivered the goods. Hut they have cost ten times that now and are still in the woods. \Y*c used to advertise our runaways aud say "Ten dollars reward ?Runaway from the subscriber my hoy Dick, 2"> years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, black complex ion and very flat no.se. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to tnc or his lodgment in the nearest jail." Why not try that on Aguin aldo and the other runaways? Hut if they catch them I don't know what they arc going to do with them; they wouldent let Aguinaldo set up a bar ber shop in Manila no more than they would in Roston or Chicago. Profes ser Council, who is presidcut of the colored agricultural college in Ala bama, understands this. lie is the smartest and best leader of his race, and when he spcakes or writes to the public always says the right thing. I have respect for him. Hut this awful muddle with China, whic'i was precipitated by our aggres sion upon the Philippines, seems to have no end in sight. Rev. Dr. Ilal deruian, of New York, say that he demonstrated a year ago from scrip tural prophecy that the present year would find all the nations at war, and there would be a mighty struggle be tween Russia and China, and that Russia would eventually gain the su premacy, but that for a time the hordes from China will break in an awful avalanche upon the western nations and the greed, the rapacity, the Christless, Godless selfishness of European nations will get its reward, and there will be a terrible balance sheet against those Christian nations who have poisoned China with opium and made them look upon all Chris tians as rapacious foreign devils. He says that the Chinese are fight ling for their homes aud institutions aud know that the Christian nation! are seeking to rob them, and that thcii ! missionaries arc backed by guns auc swords and Godless soldiers ready t( kill and slay. This infuriates them and they look upon any white man ai a devil who should be slain. He sayt that while this impending and destrue tive war is ordained of God and fore told by His prophets, yet the sin of il lies at the doors of Christian nations. Offenses must needs come, but woe unto those by whom they come. The love of money is still the root of all evil. "Trade will follow the ?ag" ifi j the shiholeth of commerce, and if the j flag has to be stained with blood it j does not matter. These arc my convictions, and heuce ! I can't work up any enthusiasm nor any revenge. In 1841 Kngland took Hong Kong. In 1848 Kngland made China pay $20,000,000 because she destroyed 20,000 chests of opium that had been stored there by Knglish merchants. In 1858 Russia grabbed all the Amoor country, containing 000,000 square miles, and when the United Slates grabbed the Philippines the suspicious Chinaman said, "The Christians are coming; they want more." No, it is none of ray war. The blood of it is on somebody's hands. I see that General Gordon is going up yonder on another mission of peace?trying to mix up the blue and the gray aud make a compromise color that will satisfy both sides. Ho can't do it, but maybe he enjoys the fun of trying. Here and there you will find a good-hearted, clever f?deral pension er, but most of the clever ones come down here and stay. The malignant ones don't come; they arc afraid to come. That is all right; let them stay there; wc had rather livo with the nogrocd than mean yankees. Here is an Ohio paper (The Monroe Chroni cle) that was sent me last week?a marked copy?that is mad because our people talk about building a Confed erate memorial at Richmond, and says it ought not to bo allowed, and that our loyalty to the union is all a pre tense, and that Biii ?rp, a noted rcbol and writer, shows no lovo for a re stored union. He says that such a memorial is an insult to the nation and makes treason honorable and loyalty odious; every Confederate monument is a bloody shirt, and the Republican party ought to die, and die eternally, if it ever allows the return of those rebel flags which aroan insult to the union dead and to our disabled veterans. He denounced our rebel songs and rebel tributes to treason; and there is a lot more of such stuff, I and it is in keeping with General s Shaw's utterances in Atlanta about r what we shall teach our children. I Old as I am, I can lick that fellow in > three minutes by the clock, and as he , has singled me but, it would do me t good to maul some grace into his I malignant soul. I am afraid we will have to whip them again. But 1 am not going to let every fool up there : make me mad?I havent got time?I'd rather work in the garden or play with ? the grandchildren, thoy keep me ! amused, and I can love them without I a strain. Last night I had to play I Trimbletoe with them, and had to be : the elephant and let them ride home , on my back. How far away that sounds?"Catches his hens and putB them in pens, some lays eggs and some lays none; wire, briar, limber lock, three geese in the flook," etc. One of these little girls, not yet four years old, disobeyed her mother yes terday and was promised a whipping. "Mary Lou, this is the second time you have opened the ice chest and turned over the cream. I told you that if you did it again I would whip you. Now come along in the other room." She is a good child, loving and smart, but willful. "Mam ma, peas don't vip me hard." Her older sister, Caroline, had followed along out of sympathy. Mary Lou saw her and said, "Now, Talline, you go back; me don vant you to see mamma vip mc and hear me quy. It's none of your pisness; it's just my pisncss. You go back, Talline," and she laid herself across her mother's lap ready for her bisoess. The moth er couldn't stand that; she relented and kissed her child, and the little thing promised again. And so goes on in every loving family?promising and repenting? from childhood to old age, we sin in haste and repent at leisure. May the Lord forgive us all and bless the children, is my prayer. Bill Arp. - m A Mother Tells H?w She Saved Her Little Daughter's Life. I am the mother of eight children, and have had a great deal of experi ence with medicines. Last summer my little daughter had the dysentery in its worst form. We thought sue would die. I tried everything I could think of, but nothing seemed to do her any good. I saw by an advertise ment in our paper that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was highly recommended and sent and got a bottle at onoe. It proved to be one of tho very best medicines we ever had in the house. It saved my little daughter's life. I am anxious for ev ery mother to know what an excellent medicine it is. Had I known it at first it would have saved me a great deal of anxiety and my little daughter much suffering.?Yours truly, Mrs. Geo. F. Bnrdiek, Liberty, R. I. For I sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. . Disadvantages of Beauty. Tbc plain girl's dissertation of the disadvantages of good looks is inter esting from any point of view. Unfortunately I cannot speak from experience. I say unfortunately, be cause there is no woman in the world who would not welcome a score of dis advantages for the sake of being pretty, and I am only one of many. Still, one must be grateful for small mercies. A plain woman has many hardships to contend with. She has sc little encouragement for trying to make her self look attractive, she his so many pangs of regret when she looks at her self in the glass, and so few triumphs over her prettier sister; yet the latter is not without her penalties for her good looks. Perhaps the greatest is the danger of being treated as a doll, of being singled out from others merely be cause she is pretty, and that is the poorest compliment that can ever be paid a woman. To bo petted and courted because nature happens to en dow one with features of the right shape and oolors in the right plaoe may be considered a triumph by some, but to earn love and admiration and know they are not excited by personal beauty is indeed a greater one. Very few pretty girls can rest assured of this. "I am glad I am not pretty," said a pleasant-faced girl the other day. "You may think it is 'sour grapes' but it is not. I am glad, because when apy one does me a little kind ness or gives me a little present, I think to myself: 'They do this beoause they are fond of me,' and I value it a thousand times more than the pretty girl values her jewels and her compli ments. - Another penalty of good looks is unsolicited attention and admiration. The pretty girl is condemned to be stared at whenever she is abroad, and to be the object of sly nudges and au dible remarks. A blooming complex ion is often libeled by the expressive remark, "made up," and a- pretty set of teeth denounced as false. But even this is not so embarrassing as the persistent stare of ill-breeding. As to the plain girl?why, she can walk or ride where she will with the great est freedom; she may dress as she pleases and, better still, enjoy the ad vantages of self-possession so often denied her pretty friend. Again, the latter has a reputation to keep as a beauty. She must dress to show her good points off to the beat advantage, for she has other pretty girls to rival her. "All her money is spent in the adornment of her person, in the purchase of laces and feathers and ribbons?things that the plain girl would never dream of buying. This occupies her time? and, alas! her mind. It is no wonder that the pretty girl has no time for intellectual pursuits, that ahe prefers the light, frivolous conversation of her admirers, and grows shallow, vain and stupid in consequence. But perhaps the greatest trial the recognized beauty has to contend with is in the endeavor to keep her charms intact. A little sunburn terrifies her, an illness may destroy her beauty for ever. Independent of accidents, a^c ?a dreaded surety?looms in the dis tance like a nightmare. She lives in daily fear of departing charms and the daily hope of preserving them. ''Don't, for goodness' sake, wish you were pretty!" said a handsome brunette in reply to the envious re marks of a discontented young friend. "My looks are the worry of my life. Such a lot is expected of you. These are the sort of remarks I overhear: 'Dear me, is that really the beautiful Miss Smith people rave about? Well, I don't think muoh of her!' 'No, dear, she is going off terribly,' says another dear friend. 'Getting old, you know. Why, she must be quite eight and twenty.' That's nothing to what I have to put up with." Yet, despite all this, the plain girl will not regard herself in tbe glass with any more resignation. She would be williog to put up with any suoh in convenience for the sake of a pink and white complexion and a Grecian nose. Such is the nature of woman. She must be always striving for what she cannot gain, and is never by any chance content with that she cannot lose.?London Answers. During tho civil war, as well as in our late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. In many instances it became chronic and the old soldiers still suffer from it. Mr. David Taylor, of Wind Ridge, Greene Co.. Pa:, is one of these. Sc uses Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and says he never found anything that would give him such quick relief. It is for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? One hundred dollars' worth of nuggets in virgin gold in a box have for many years been awaiting a claim ant at the dead letter office in Wash ington. Does anybody know who the rightful owner is? Fortify the body to resist malarial germs by putting the system in per fect order. Prickly Ash Bitters is a wonderful system regulator. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. Home-Made Tobacco. An old Missourian from one of the brush districts of Saline County was a witness in the Circuit Court in Mar shall last week, the Iudex says. While waiting in an anteroom he pulled from his pockets a chunk of fcobacoo six inches long, two inches in diameter and perfectly round and smooth, and as hard almost as fiint. Aftar he had cut off a ehew -a man who had watch ed him asked him what it was. "Ter* baker!" he answered. "Yes, I know, but what kind is it?" "My own kind." "Where do you buy it?'' "Don't buy it. It's homespun ter baker. I made it myself." In response to a great deal of ques tioning the old man told his story how the roll of tobacco was made. "Fust and fo'most," he said, "you must hare good upland home grown leaf terbaker and cure it in the sun. Then you stem it, takin' out all the stalks. When you're ready in the fall to make up your year's supply of chawin' ter baker, you saT off a hiokory log and bore a hole in one end about a foot deed with a two-inch auger. You have your leaf soaked in honey and peaohbrandy; or if you haven't any peach brandy apple brandy will do. You put your soaked terbarker leaves into the two-inch atsger hole in the hickory log and ram it down tight and keep puttin' in the leaf and rammin' it down till the hole is needy full. Then you take a hiokory plug made to fi* the hole and drive it ? as tight as you can with a maul. This mashes the terbaker into a solid chunk. Then you put the green hiokory log on the fire and let it burn slow till it is heat ed all through and the sap begins to sizzle out of the ends. You take the log off then and put it out of doors to cool over night. The next morn ing you spiit the log open and, there's your chuoh of chawin' terbarker that ! will keep as bard as leather in any ! climate, but it's the sweetest chaw in J the world. There never v/as no stare terbaker to hold a candle to it for a sweet, juiuy,. ?astiu chew. Several tobacco-ehewers standbg around sampled the old man's home m^e plug, aad declared that it was the best they had ever tasted. "In the old days that's the way the fust settlers in-Missouri made theirohawin' terbaker," the old man said. Counterfeiters of DeWitt's Witoh Hazel Salve couldn't sell their worth less salves on their own merits, so they put them in boxes and wrappers like DeWitt's. Look out for them. Take only DeWitt's Witoh Hazel Salve for piles and skin diseases. Evans' Pharmacy. .- v. RULES FOR HEALTH. When When When When When When ttti M UBU When When When When When When When When you are Bilious, - - - you are Costive, you are Brain Weary, - you feel Drowsy, - - - - you feel Tired, - - - - you feel Dizzy,. you uavo Headache, - your Breath is Bad, * - your Appetite is Poor, you have Heartburn, - - your Energy is Failino, - your Digestion is Weak, - your Back Aches. - - - Food Gives You Distress, Hot Weather Effects You, take take take take take take take take take take take take take tr ke take Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Asn Prickly Ash Prickly Asn Prickcy Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Prickly Ash Bitters. Bittkr8. Bitters. Bitters. Bitters. Bitters. 1SITTERS. Bitters. Bitters. Bittsrb. Bitters. Bitters. itters. itters. itters. 1st. It Purifies the Blood. 2d. It Regulates the Liver. 3d. It Cleanses the Bowels. 4th. It Corrects Errors of Biet. For increasing the capacity of th? body for werk? PBZGKLY ASH BITTBES is a golden remedy. It not only removes obstructions to healthy functional pracasaea. hnt p^s SNAP, TIHE and i?to t??? pojr?ivu man and promotes mental strength and activity. In short, it supplies to the body and brain that admirable quality expressively described as GINGER. Every worker needs this remedy to safeguard his health ; a bottle of TEICBXY ASH BITSHSBS kept at home for immediate use when dull spells appear, will quickly remove disorder and maintain strength and energy.