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BILL ARF Interesting Essay tic Atlanta C The record is broken. Ont of twen e grand children the first mar . wa.? celebrated yesterday. A 'rand daughter has found a mate and Le off with him.; That is all right. It is according to nature and there is uothiog to cry about when the young folks have chosen wisely and well. There is no goodlior sight in all nature thuD to sec a good looking, healthy youne man, who is making an honest living standing up at tho altar with a Affect, good-tempered, affectionate, in 'u?trious girl and the parents on both sides approving the match. Marriage isa very serious business, and my observation has been that those made among tte well-to-do common peoplo are generally happier than those made in cities among the families of thc rieb. Children rai?ed to work and ffait on themselves make better hus bands and better wives than those raised in luxury. It is mighty hard for a mao to please his wife and keep her in g??d humor if she has been petted by her parent3 and never knew a want and had no useful work to do. She soon takes the ennui or the con niption or the "don't know what I gant" and must go back to ma. A young girl who never deaned up her own room or made any of her awn clothes or helped to nurse her moth er's baby and did nothing but dress I visit and go to the theater will sever raako a good wife. This wife aud mother business is hard work. The mother of six, eight or ten chil dren bas seen Bights. She knows what care is and anxiety and sleepless nights and one of these butterfly wo men can't stand it. One ohild will dry her up and two will about finish her and if it was not for condensed milk the children would perish to death like the calves in Florida, where thc cows don't give enough milk to color the coffee and they have to raise thc calves on the bottle. But our grandchildren are all of good, healthy working stock. We have raised ten of our own and the Lord bas blcesad them in form and feature aud old Agur's prayer has saved them from poverty and riches. I have worked and so has my wife and our children worked and have held their own and are now heping us in our old ago. I won't say what I have done all of these fifty-three years of married life, but my wife has made over a thousand little garments with her own hands before ever a sewing (machine was brought to our town and ~he found time to keep me in plaited osom shirts besides. I bought the rsl machine that came-a Grover & aker, for $125. The next, a Wheeler .Wilson, fer$100, and so on down nd now we have a Home and Farm or $20, whioh is the best we ever had. t is worth mentioning that Howe, he first inventor, could not get his achine introduced in this country .or ten years and had it patented in Dgland and all the URO. they had for t there was to stitch the soles on to oots and shoes. Yes our pretty grand-daughter has ated and married and gone. Julia with is now Mrs. Julian Smith-not ooh change in her name was there nly add?d the letter "D;" We gave im a cordial weloome into our fam ly, for we have heard nothing but oed concerning him and commend ir grand-child to the good people of elma and the good state of Alabama, hich ia our own Georgia's dadghter. here may they rest and live long and rosper. ( I am still sick. Aa the lawlers say, 'I living do languish, and languish gdo live," but I am on the upgrade od my swollen extremities are reduo g their compass and my wife says it ?ll soon bo time to plant sweet peas "d trim up her rose bushes. Two onths from yesterday will be the [ty fourth anniversary of our wed ?og and the children and grand-chil ren have promised to gather at the ?teinal mansion and rejoioe together *er th? Lord's goodness unto us. But I moat atop now, for it tires mo write. My daughter who helps me teaching school and I get tired from riding over to my work. I feel like yiog with Byron What is writ is writ. ?nlu it were worthier-but my vis ions flit ^?s palpablybefore me and the glow *t in my -spirit dwelt* ?flattering faint and low." Well, tho little pamphlet of Gen *' H. R. Jackson's great speech and rt of Dave Webster's at Capon Pring?is now ready. Send to my ?nd, Ed Holland, Atlanta, Ga., d get it. It will be postpaid for 25 Dts. My last book is about ready. QJ to Mr. C. P. Bryd, printer and Wisher, Atlr.nta, Ga., and get that, '?Paid, for $1.20. My wife shy? e first two chapters would be worth S LETTER. on the Marriage Hela >n. ODScitUtioQ. thu money if I hadn't told some stogies on her. BillArp. -~- t m mm - Harms Obis' Health. Corsets and the foroing of girls into social life at too carly an age result in the carly collapse of women and the many cor:r, of nervous .prostration which wreck women's lives, according to Dr. Fenton B. Turok. Tho artifi cial system of education which sur rounds a girl from tho time she can walk is mainly responsible for the utter breakdown of tho system before a woman reaches tho age of 35, says Dr. Turck, and the many stomaoh and intestinal troubles with which women are afflicted are the result of tight lacing and the desire of mothers to dress their daughters for society and I to show them in their prettiest Wore thc world. Dr. Turck returned to Chicago yes terday from a clinic held ot Musca tine, Iowa, Wednesday, where he denounced the forcing of young girls into womanhood too quickly. Thirty oases of stomach and intestinal trou bles were brought before the clinic, and Dr. Turok pointed the lesson on tight lacing, which he maintained I brought-about most of the troubles of the female sex. He declared that the false education of the girl was begun by the mothers, and that they were mostly to blame, because they placed the approval of the neighbors before the health of their girls. "The evil in connection with the* education of girls is not confined to citieB," said Dr. Turck yesterday. "I found that the same stomaoh and in testinal troubles, whioharc designated often enough as nervous prostration, are just as prevalent in country towns as in big cities like Chicago. Mothers all over the country want their little girls to look cute and they allow their boys to run around in the open air. Now and then a girl breaks through her environment and becomes a tom boy, tt?e dread of all mothers. The word 'tomboy' should never have been invented. The girls should be out in thc open air and play rough games just as much as tho boys. "The little girl starts with her dolls, whioh keep her in the house. The hoy gets a wagon and goes into the open air and wheels dirt. The little girl is made a show of all the time, because her mother takes a pardon able pride in her appearance. The 1 hoy can have a dirty face and the j mother will say: 'Oh, he isa boy.' The girl is tied to looking pretty, and I she must not soil her frocks. The hoy gains in strength and the girl loses in proper development. "When the girl goes to school her mother fondly wishes her to excel in her studies. The boy is allowed to to play as much as he likes. The I mother takes more interest in helping her girls in their studies than she does her boys, because the latter have been I allowed natural liberties and rebel I against school books'. "Then comes the age of the corset, whioh is laced on a young girl during the most important period of physical I development. The slightest pressure on the thorax at this time will con tract it and bring in its train a series of ills which cause the breakdown of women in country towns as well as in big cities. "Mothers ding to the false educa tion of girls because it seems to be in the fashion. If the parents of a girl are poor the girl is sent into a factory I or a dry goods store, where she loses j much of her nervous strength. If j the parents p., e well-to-do the girlie I forced into society, but does not suo I ourab as early'as the poor girl heoause I she has better food and breathes bet ter air when away from society func tions. "Then the girl marries, bears chil I dren and has> the oare of a household. I The nerves cannot stand the strain. I The stomach has been abused and for I oed out of its uatural plaoe by the use I of the corset. When a woman ooN I lapses it is oalled nervous prostration, but most of the trouble comes from I the art'fioial atmosphere in whioh a I girl lives fron, her early years. I "Physicians earn most of their fees I because mothers will not give their I daughters an equal chance with their I boys to get strong. Lately, however, thero is an inclination to make it un 1 fashionable for women to be weak. I As soon as this idea becomes popular I there Will be less need for doctors and I there will bo fewer cases of nervous I prostration among women. I do not I believe in aurgioal operations where I the stomaoh has refused to perform its j functions. The corset should be I abandoned and tho muscles of the I walls of the stomach should be cxer I ciscd in order to bring them back to tho ordinary performance of th^r IfuDOiions. But tho aid of physicians I would bo unnecessary if mothers bo I gan tho training of their girls as early I as possible."-Chicago Record-Herald. A ROUGH RIDE. The Story Lincoln Told the Man Who ! Asked it Im to Stop the War. Soon after Lincoln issued Iiis call ! for the first 75,000 men a well meaning man called on him and begged him to stop the war. "That's what I'm trying to do," ?aid Lincoln sadly, "''and lying awake nights thinking how to do it." ''But you have called for volun teers." "Yes." , "Well, do you mean that that is irving to stop tho war ?" "Yes." "You arc joking,fMr. Lincoln." "No, I'm in dead earnest. Some things are easier to stop by letting them run awhile and slow down gradually than by jerking them up suddenly, especially if you don't know just what is making them go. Let me toll you a story : "When I was a boy about fifteen, I had to ride a horse- over to a neighboring town. Thc man that owned him gave mo a quarter to take him there and get him shod. Well, I didn't know much about horses except from behind with a ?low dragging after them, to when got on that horse I felt a little awkward. I thought Fd start right, so I cut a switch and rode off brave? ly. ' After I was beginning to get a little sore and tho horse was begin ning to find out the sort of green rider he had on his back something set him going, and he broke into a fallop. He got going so fast that had to take both hands to the bridle, so I tucked my switch under my arm, grabbed the rein in both fists and yanked. Ho gave a leap and went harder than ever. I yank ed, and ho ran, and the harder I pulled the more unmanageable he got. After a milo or two of pretty uncomfortable going I found that thc end of the switch under my arm struck him in the flank every time I pulled. Now, I don't know enough about this war yet to feel sure that I ought to yank back. Birt I hope if I let it run long enough to look carefully all round me I can make it slow down in reasonable time." Youth's Companion. How Water Freezes. It used to puzzle all thinking peo ple why ponds and rivers do not freeze beyond a certain depth. This depends on a most curio as fact namely, that water is at its heaviest when it reaches 40 degrees P.-that is, 8 degrees above freezing point. On a frosty night as each top layer of water falls to 40 degrees it sinks to the bottom; therefore the whole pond has to drop to 40 degrees be fore any of it can freeze. At last it is all cooled to this point, and then ice begins to form. But ice is a very bad conductor of heat. Therefore it shuts off the freezing air from the big body of comparatively warm water under neath. The thicker it gets the more perfectly does it act as a greatcoat, and that is why even the Arctic ocean never freezes beyond a few feet in thickness.-Marine Journal. The Maid and the Title. Once upon a time there was a fair young girl who had many suitors, but she received them all with equal graciousness and waited for her af I fections to dictate which should be I the especially favored one. 1 Finally she heard that a rich un cle of one of her wooers had died, leaving him a clear and unincum hered title to many acres of very 1 valuable land. When next she met the young man, she showed quite plainly that her affections had be gun to dictate. The result was that they were married when the next June came around. Moral.-Titles are attractive even in America.-New York Herald. About Cutting the Finger Nalia. There aro several well known say ings with regard to the paring of the finger nails, and among them are the following: Cut them on Monday, cut them for health; cut them on Tuesday, cut them for wealth; cut them on Wednesday, cut them for a letter; cut them on Thursday for some thing better; cut them on Friday, you cut for a wife; cut them on Sat urday, cut for long life; cut them on Sunday, you cut them for evil, for all of that week you'll be ruled by the devil. Some Russian Customs. In Russia a child ten years of age cannot go away from home to school without a passport, nor can com mon s rvants and peasants go away from where they live without one. A gentleman residing in Moscow or St. Petersburg cannot receive the visit of a friend who remains many hours without notifyinqr, the police. The porters of all houses are com pelled to make returns of the ar rival and departure of strangers, and for every one of the above passport? a charge is icadc of some kind. - The b inner **le of po?-tatr?% s'nmps by the Chicago office WHS \" u local mail order hnopo-1,000,000 .-?tamps for $25,000-the largest individual order ever entered. - A Kansas dentist recently sent to a Chicago refining estab'ishmcnt a earpet whioh had been on his < ffieo fboor for several years, and whio'i he believed contained parti?les of gold dropped whilo ho was filling teeth. It "panned out" $24.75. V. BOSE 4 For Pure Foods omi 'Medicines. Tho Savannah board of trade has gone actively to the support of the ponding bill in congress to punish adulterations of foods, medicines and chemicals. They say truly that tho nefarious adulteration habit has grown to such proportions that no man uow kuows what he is buying in the way of foods or medicines, no matter what price hu is willing ?o pay for purity. State statutes havo proved insuffi cient to bar out such fraudulent and deceitful goods and the right of con gress to regulate interstate commerce is now appealed to for relief. Thc bill does not interfere with internal State trade, or with the police power of thc several States, but as Congress man Richardson, the Democratic lead er of the house, said, in urging its passage, "it is simply a necessary measure to prevent fraud aud deceit in tho manufacture aud sale of articles of daily necessity to the health and lifo of thc people." Any legislation proper for congress to enact that will prevcut thc swind ling of the people with adulterated foods and drugs is legislation worthy of commendation. The rapacity of those who endanger health and lifo is of the meanest sort and deserves pro hibition and penalty, and the people will gladly hail relief from that spe cies of wholesale plunder.-Akanta Constitution. Took Half Quantity, As an illustration of tho nature of Southern ' Wgaoes, Rev. D. J. San- j dera, the negro president of Biddle University, of Charlotte, N. C., related the following incident to somo mem bers of the Presbyterian general as sembly at a recent meeting. Thc story is reported by the New York Times: "Negroes are great lovers of pomp and ceremony, of titles and decora tions, and the members of a largo, but ignorant negro congregation in North Carolina conceived the notion that it would add very much to their influ ence as a church if their pastor could append tho initials D. D. to his name. "One of the brethren learned that a certain institution iu the North would confer such a degree for a price. Ho wrote, and got a letter from this insti tution, stating that $50 would scsuro the desired honor. "Meanwhile tho members of the congregation went to work to raise this $50, but their utmost efforts failed to secure more than $25. "The committeemen put their heads together, and it was finally decided to send the money, with this message, to the Northern institution: " 'Please send our pastor one 'D,' as we are not able to pay for tho other at this time.' " Is Consumption Curable? Philadelphia, Jan. 6.-Dr. L. P. Flick, president of tho Free Hospital for Poor Consumptives here, tonight announced that Henry Phipps, of New "Sfork, formerly '? partner of Andrew Carnegie, had contributed $300,000 for the establishment of an institution in thia iiiyVf or tho treatment and study of consumption. The institution is to be known as "The Henry Phipps in stitute, for the study, and the treat ment and prevention of tuberculosis." It will be so endowed as to derive an income of about$40,000 to $50,000 an nually. Dr. Flick will bo director general of tho institution. He has al ready selected several members of the staff. Mr. P.hipps and Dr. Fliok re cently returned from Europe where they spent some time investigating the methods of treating consumption. Dr. Fliok said tonight ho would intro duce the Fisen treatment now in opera tion at Copenhagen which is a new method of treating disease by sunlight and electric light. All foi ?I igy ?-Single and Di %?Q ^ carefully selec R ! F L iE S-Cartridge AMMUNITK POCKET CUTLER CARVING SETS i Cooking Meat by Cold. "Cooking moat by oold instead of by beat," said a wholesale butcher up town, "is the odd experiment that uiy iirtu has recently been trying. I sup pose you are aware that the effect of intense cold is much like that of lire. You know that, if your liogi'r is fro zen, thc injured tissues take on pre cisely thc hame condition that they would if the linger had hoon roasted. Well, that is the basis wo went to work on. our motive being the idea that, with our ice making plant and all, it would be cheaper in our canning department to freeze our meat than to cook it. So far in our experiments wo have had good success. Wo huve submitted the meat to a temperature of minus 33 degrees Fahrenheit, and then have packed it in cans, lt has shown all the appearance of half cooked meat: it has been impossible to tell the frozen and thc half-conked brands apart. So far. loo, it has kept well, But whether it will keep as well and as long as the meat treated with lire we do not yet know, as our experiments have not continued a suf ficient length of time. Wo will save about an eighth of a cont a pound on tinned meats if we succeed in substi tuting cold for heat in their prepara tion.'' Thoroughbreds Improving. We constantly hear that our thor oughbreds are deteriorating and that the race horse of to-day is inferior to his ancestors. This statement is made Iv two classes of men; ooo which has grown too old to seo any good in what ever exists, the othor a class who on ly know the oldest horses by tradition and see every thing magnified by the purple distance of time. 1 might add a third group-those who are forevei lamenting thc "the want of class" in i our great races, but this amounts merely to an affectation of blase and hardly merits notice, as it is insin cere. Comparing the horses of to-day wit! those of thirty or forty years ago, ] should say the superiority was all it favor of thc former. In old times horses ran seldom-often not mon than five or six races in a year-oftei less. The races were over longer dis tance? but they were specially pre pared for them, and as handicaps wert few the best horse had a pretty casj time. Besides, the number of horse: was small. The returns of 1880 show ed GIO foals. In 1000 as many ai 3,920 were reported to the Jockcj Club. A good horse of to-day run! from fifteen to thirty raees in a season meeting a large number of competitor and is asked to concede weight, and ii kept in training fully nine mouths ol thc year. If time is any criterion there is no comparison between th< horses of to-day and those of forme: years.-From Outing. -? Cures Blood and Skin Diseases, Itching Humors, Eczema, Scrofula, Etc. Send no money-simply write anc try Botanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. A personal trial of Blood Balm is better than a thousand print ed testimonials, so don't hesitate tc write for a free sample. If you suffer from ulcers, eczema scrofula, Blood Poison, cancer, eating sores, itching skin, pimples, boils bone pains, swellings, rheumatism catarrh, or any blood or skin discaso we advise you to take Botanic Blooc Balm (B. B. B.) Especially recom mended for old, obstinate, deep-scatec cases of malignant blood or Bkin dis eases, beoause Botanic Blood Bain (B. B. 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