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BILL ARP Bill Makes One 01 Atlanta C A good lady, a neighbor and friend, bought one of my booka and expressed her pleasure at its perusal, but found one fault that did not harmonize with her Hebrew feelings, for she is a Jewess. In two places she found a sportive anecdote that reflected upon some of her people, but they were too good to be suppressed, aud would have been told on Gentiles as well. My respect for the Jews has been too often expressed in my letters to be questioned. It is not mere respect but wonder and admiration. I rejoice with them that the ages of persecu tion have passed, and they can now worship God according to their con science and tlie faith of their fathers. Their ancestors appeared at thc very dawn of creation. They have been broken up and scattered time and again, but have preserved their sacred literature and customs and religion, and have outlived every nation that oppressed them. They have hud VQ king nor ruler nor political head, and have been scattered among all climes and peoples, but have never lost their nationality nor mixed their blood with any other people. They have for cen turies struggled against the Egyptians, Syrians and Romans, and suivived them all. They were in later cen turies prescribed by the Catholics of Spain, the Protestants of Norway, while their persecutors sang the songs of the Psalmists and taught the wis dom of their prophets. Wo rejoice that their deliverance from persecu tion came along with that of our own when we proclaimed religious liberty and civil equality to ali who made America their home. I have long ad mired that people, who have excelled in domestic virtue, in obedience to law, whose children honor and obey their parents. Rarely among them Q *? f All r? A nAnninta AI? nniMiTiil? AW OUI. cides, or divorced men or women. Their names seldom appear on tho dockets of the courts. And yet they , aro patriots when patriota are wanted. Kosciusko had no braver troops than the Polish Jews who followed his ban ner, and if I had to name the most faithful soldier in our Civil War I would name Jonas, of our town of Rome, a Jew who never shirked a duty or avoided a battle or loitered on a marob. We have not forgotten how he came to time after a long day's march from the Chiokahomioy to Rapi den, and when the colonel said, "Mr, Jonas, where is your company?'' the tired soldier came to a salute and said, "I i oh der ko mp'ny." That Jonas was an unole to Israel Jonas, who all Atlanta knows, and who is now prominent in New York commer cial nirnlflt?. With great revenge do I reoall our own Judah F. Benjamin, our . sec retary of war, and on whom Mr. Davis leaned for counsel more than upon any member.of his cabinet. He was a great Englishman or he could not have gone to England and worked his way unaided to the very top of the English bar, and within eight years be appointed queen's counsel over the most learned members of the profes sion. I have not forgotten the per feot loveliness of the Jewess Rebeooa in Scott's story of Ivanhoe. You may find broken vows and separations and elopements in faot and in notion, but not among the Jews. They are in every town and oity are more of an example than a menace to our people and our institutions. Their nameB are found responding to every oharity, and I noticed that the university fund was materially aided by their liberality, and I could not help won dering how muoh our Christian people Mefl?fO?h Timbers of oak keep the old homestead standing through the years. It pays to use the right stuff. " Men of oak " are men ii rugged health, men whose bodies are made of the sound est materials. Childhood is the time to lay the foundation for a sturdy con stitution that will last for years. Scott's Emulsion is the right stuff. Scott's Emulsion stimulates the growing powers of children, helps them build a firm foundation for a sturdy consti tution. . Son?! fof free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemloto. 409-4te Pear! Street, Now York. 60o. and $1.00i all druggist** S LETTER p Two Corrections. onstitutioo. would have given to aid some great Jewish school or charity. I would like to write more about these Hebrews, for, as St. Paul said to the Homans, "with them vas com mitted the oracle? of God." But I am not well to day, and must defer to a more propitious season. In my last letter I made a mistake that must be corrected. I said that there were but ten mouths until Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar put in two more and named them July and August. Somehow I have had that impression all my mature life, and, strange to say, I was corrcetcd a few days ago by my good friend Gassctt, a mulatto merchant of our town, who ia well educated aud a student of ancient history. Ho wrote me a respectful jotter and said that Numa, a Roman emperor, who reigned two hundred and fifty years beforo the Caesars, put in January and February for thc two months, and tho Caesars only changed the names ot Quintiles and Sestiles (thc fifth and sixth) to July and August. So I make tho correc tion with pleasure and give the credit to friend G assoit. BILL ARP. Large Connection. An amusing story is told of Robert Simson, who was professor of mathe matics at the university of Glasgow and as eccentric in some ways as he was brilliant in others. Ho always oounted his steps on the street and al lowed nothing to interfere with this valuable practice. If any one spoke to him during the process, he repeated the number of the last step taken and stopped short until ho could resume his count and walk on. Ono day he was accosted by a man who knew him by sight but had never been told of the profep^or's habit of counting steps. "I beg your pardon, professor," ho said, at which the mathematioan halt ed, murmuring "Five hundred and seventy-three." "May I have a word with you?" asked the man. "Most happy-573." "Oh, no; merely one question." "Well-573." "You are too kind; but, knowing your acquaintance with the late Dr. B., may I venture to ask whether I am right in saying that he left ?500 to each of his nieces?" "Preoisely-573." "And there were four nieoea, were there not?" "Exactly-573." The man stared at the professor, and then, muttering, "Five hundred and seventy-three-hs must bo crazy!" he made a hasty bow and started away. "No, no," cried the professor, tak ing a step as he spoke; "not 573 nieocs -four-574!" Verifying Suspicions. A broker was telling the other day of how a young thing, reoently mar ried to a oolleague of his on the ex change, discovered that her hubby had been indulging a little too freely in the cup that cheers. At first she held her breath, she was that frightened. Then followed a long period of suspense, wherein doubt upon doubt accumulated. Finally sho determined to find out beyond all possible doubt whether her suspicions were well founded. To a dear friend she confided the source of her trouble; and from tho friend she learned tu at it had always been said thate man even slightly intoxicated cannot pronounce words of any length. Whereupon the young wife decided that that would bo a good plan to try. When next the friend met tho young wife she was in a state of great agita tion. When asked if the suspicions had been verified, the young girl burst into tears and said that they had. "I handed him this list," she said, ?.etween sobs, fishing from her hag a paper which she gave to her friend, and whioh oontained the following words: "Phthisis, photochromy, hypoohon driasis, parachronism, phenakisto soope, plesiosaurus, antimomianism, pseudaesthesia." "And," she coutinued, while her friend read the list, "he missed nearly half of them." . - m m v - "For gracious sakes, what was that I hit my shins against coming through the parlor in the dark?" "Oh, I guesB that was the easy chair, Hiram." "Well, if that's the easy chair, I don't want to run up against the hard one." - The more relatives he b*.? Sy mar riage the* .harder t is for au cdinary man to understand the point view o? s Mormon. ('.m (lilli J'i'iiUiUf 1 oui m-I vial (olluuV Washington, April 20.-Because of the prevalence of the weevil iu Cuba tbe outlook for raising cmtou eua large seale io the island ia exceeding ly gloomy, according to E. A. Sch wartz, custodian of the Cole?ptera in the national museum, who has just returned to Washington from an ex tensive tour of the island, where he went to inspect the ravages of the boll weevil in the cotton there. Mr. Schwartz's conclusions deal a death blow to the attractive offers of land agents claiming to have valuable cot ton lands for sale in Cuba at more high prices. There are two kinds of cotton raised in Cuba, "kidney" cotton, the seeds of which are so closely attached to the cotton that it cannot be ginned and is, thereforo, of no une f ?r com mercial purposes. The other kind while its seeds are freer is not of great value. Thc natives transplant these cotton plants, whiah grow as high as small trees to the front of their huts and use tho cotton as they need it. It is on kidney cotton that thc weevil thrives, thc other kind being less capable of injury from tho insect. Mr. Schwartz claims that he found thc weevil all through the country in great abundance on all kinds of cot ton, though especially tho kidney va riety. Eduardo Ferrer, .of Cayamas, a pro gressive and wealthy Cuban planter, has undertaken experiments looking to the eradication of tho weevil, but with little Bucoess so far. One sug gestion to this end is the stamping out of all tho kidney eotton in the is land in the hope that the weovil can not exist on the other kind of cotton, but this drastic policy will not be adopted until every other means has been tried. Speaking of the matter to-day Mr. Sohwartz said : "Cotton from vari ous seotions of the United States and other countries will be planted, in cluding sea island ootton, and careful note will be taken of the zbility of each of the different varieties to with stand the ravages of the weevil, and of the comparative amount of damage nono ak?n fV?n \s[Anmr COttOH ?S prAS ent and when it is rooted out. it is hoped that by this means a cotton will bo found which will not bo seriously affected by the insect whon thc vicini ty is not contaminated by the weevil breeding kidney ootlon. "There is much difference of opin ion over the proper season to plant cotton, whether at the beginning or the end of the rainy season, and this question must be answered by careful experimenting before eotton can be corio an important orop in Cuba. The time of planting will bear a relation not only to the productiveness but may be a factor in enabling the ootton to resist the weevil. "Cuba has an abundance of land whioh is admirably Baited to the grow ing of ootton and in all parts of the island they are discussing the possi bility of tho introduction, but the na tives have neither the money nor the inclination to experiment. Aiuerioan land speculators are finding many dupes in ?he United States who be lieve that it will be an easy thing to start a ootton plantation in the favor able climate and soil of Cuba. Those who have been approaohed. with this Boheme should investigate most care fully before spending their money. "The insect fauna of Cuba is very rioh and plants there are as subjeot to insect enemies as they are in the Uni ted States. Oranges grow luxuriantly in Cuba, but the ioseots whioh have brought suob destruction among the orange groves of California and Flori da are equally abundant in Cuba ,and ruin thousands of trees. One of the most serious inseot pests of the island io tho outang ant. These ants Ure in large colonies and raise hills sever al feet above the ground. When they select a tree for attaok it is practically doomed." Mr. Sohwartz was sent down by the department of agriculture in tho hope that he might find some effeotive means for stopping the onset of the boll weevil. It is estimated that this' weevil is coming into thi Southern States through Texas at tho rate of 75 miles a year and that within 18 or 20 years it will have infected the ootton fields of the South unless something is done in the meantime to eradioate it. Agents have been sent" by the depart* ment into Mei.ico in the effort to find by experiment some meana of eradica tion. Among the sohemes suggested is the burning of the ootton fields eaoh year after the crop has been gathered, but this bas not proved a Buce?se. Few oabjeots are reoeiving more attention from the department at this time, and it ia a matter of keen regret that Mr. Schwartz's mission to Cuba was unsuccessful. The depart ment is determined to leave no stone unturned in an effort to discover some remedy for an evil which if allowed to go unchecked threatens destruction to the South'? great orop. -? . , u? m mi '-? - When a woman tries to figure ont Iv.-h P. c she has done with the monthly allowance whioh her husband makes her she seldom gets any farther than I lae dollar she loot him. How Y? ung Mfii Evado II .ehelur Tax. A new and lucrative &V11 for wo turu H ww k hj> been opeu?.-d in tbe Argentine Repuolie, by which tb? fuir daughters of tbul favored lund ?rc e?u??cu. i?/ ??ru ?yyd lueouietf. ib a huoi?ee? rtquiriog no capital, and ll the work can .be done at home, bat one which ia' confined, io the nature of things, to widows and maidens. The women who engage ia thi6 easy and luorative calling are known as "professional lady rejectors," and their business is giving muoh eonoern to the Argentine authorities. It all came about by the passage of the law taxing bachelors io the Ar gentine. As the law was thought to bear too h aid upon young men who really tried to get married and could not do so from the faot that nobody would have them, a clause was insert ed by which a usa was exempt from the tax if he could provo that he had proposed and been rejeoted. They are not so slow in those Latin-Anicri* can countries as we people up north imagine. Tho professional lady re jector at once made her appearance on the scene. The fair daughter of the South who chooses the "rejector" business in preference to typewriting or becoming a saleslady doeB not hang out a sign nor send around cards engraved with "Carmencita Suarez, Professional Lady Rejector. Office Hours: 2 to 10," but she causes it tobe known that she is in the business and will warrant a rejection every time. Fora certain stated sum she will cousent to be woed by any eligible bachelor tax dodger for a reasonable length of time. He can take her to the theater, buy her ices, and pay for her. bouquets and bonbons until the ,expiration of the time limit, when he asks her tobe his, and, according to the contract, she promises to be a sister to him. But her work is not yet over, for when tim tax on bachelors is due and Jose goes to the alcaide to swear off his taxes, Carmencita has to go with him to make oath that he has propos ed to her ond beon rejeoted. This seems an easy and pleasant way of making one's living; but the girls engaged i i the butanes? say that it really is one requiting the greatest Belf-contiol, and frequently causes the greatest agony of spirit, to the practi tioner, especially if she has a large and wealthy clientele. Fora spinster whose chances for matrimony are on the wane, or a buxom widow who longs to be consoled, to resist the temptation to violate her contract and say "yes"' when some nioe young man with a nice fortune proposes, requires phenomenal business integrity and is a severe wrench to the feelings. It readily will be seen that it is not every woman who oao succeed in the calling of lady rejector. She must have the faoulty of convincing men that her rejection is oertain, or they will not trust her and she cannot get business. The young girl just entering the profession has a hard time of it; it is only the old reliable lady rejec tors who are abre to accumulate for tunes. _. - Some people are so bright that they have to shade their eyes every time they look at themselves in the mirror. , - When we get more of a thing than we want it's generally, the thing wo didn't want at all. Thoroughly eradicates dis ?accu of Uri starts tho Kidneys late healthy action THta DONK, vet RHEUM AND ANY OTHER DISEASE C Do not bs discouraged If other remedie mads ita reputation by curing all? injure the organ Gentlemen-Som? six years ago X be case ot muscular rhenmatlom. At tim? bein* baggage master on Southern IL KO not work. My Buffering waa Intense, Ph; relief, hov ,/ar. Tried a number of ad Benefit. X-i nally I itloA "BUKOUAOTDB,' oeUenfc health fer tb v>ee years. I can otee nae " BHacHAOn>x," ?*>r lt ls hy far the fa Price ?i.00 i-Tcpaid expretj Bobbitt Chemical Co. amatol.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ? FOR SALE BY SV TRUTHS ABO HAVING trouble with your Coffee taste ? Can't get n uniformly good ? should cease. Osa ce I know the kind y ? - - OW ?... ?JW ..U.U. Wit White Star Coffee, and right Coffee sa sfaotion. The Caffeea'are un thoir righ names. No substitute* a?lo in Caos fo r grades from 25o to 40o a pi Coffees her -abouts. A. A. Gr de, 4^0 a pound, an extT ? fees of the very highest grade, fine flav Coffee oritio The Coffee* in it are neve oost. Th OHO who want a So. 1 Coffee r No. 1 Grade, Mocha ai d Java, 35 Smooth, rich fragrant, wie drinking q surpassed," many folks claim. Gennie other sorta masquerading under assume No. 2 Grade 30o-No; 8. 25o. Bo priced Coffees ?re desired. Honest Coi grade sorts and ?pienso most palates, ft C. FRANK Bi j Toe Retired Borgt ur. "You'd think now. vmldn't you," 84i<J 'thc retired burglar, 'mat a utan in wy business, if anybody, would tod bia tool* before briuging them into ! use, and so take no ohanees with them? You would, sure; but tbs best men neglect this, sometimes, aqd I did once, and came to grief. ? "Tho lip of my old jimmy had got chipped, acd rather than hare it drawn out and retempered I had had a new one made. I had beeo doing pretty well aloog about then and I felt that I could afford it, to say nothing to the common sense of haviog only the best tool to work with. "That new jimmy was a beauty to look at, and well-balanced and good under the hand, fino and perfect in every way, apparently, and I sever tested it. I tried it on a safe I knew of that seemed to be just waiting for somebody to just come along and oraok it. "Thia safe stood at the top landing of a pair of stairs that lcd up to the second story of a two-story detached building that was used for a factory of some sort, and that stood OD the same lot with the house of the owner in a small country town. I suppose they put it out there so they could tumble it down stairs handy in case of fire. "It didn't seem muoh of a safe, lt was a loose-jointed, sort of ramshackle looking old safe compared with what they build now-a-days, but it didn't turn out as easy as I thought it was going to. "It stood with its door toward the office room on that second floor, and with the hinged edge of the door back from, sod the opening edge toward the top of the stairs; so I had to stand with my heels right on the edge of the top step of the stairs to get at it. I wedged the door out a little, to get it started away from the door frame, and then I got my new jimmy in and began prying. j "But the old safe, as I was paying, turned out to be tougher than I had expected, and the first thing I knew there was a crack and a break, not in the safe door but in the handle of my new jimmy-a flaw in the steel-and 4J fro rmt\ t rt 19 *? O T nraO nn ? V\ r\ *? ? f\*r\ -O --- 'K step and leaning out over the stairs at the moment, away I went. "It was plumb daylight when I came to, and then I was in ou a work bench on'the first floor of this little factory, with a doctor bending over me on one side, and the owner of the faetory on the other. The owner had found me senseless at the bottom of the stairs, and there I had lain till he picked me up. "Be did his first duty, to mo, by sending for the doctor, and later he did his duty to the community. It was easy to do that with the handle of my broken jimmy beside mo at the foot of the stairs, the part that matched it, sticking in the safe, and my old bulls eye standing on the top of the strong box. "It was some years af ter that before I got o chanco to use another jimmy, at all; but I never repeated. the mis take I made with that one.;- New York Sun. - Generally one who h SB a good opinion of himself heeds it. -,The only thing that slanderers hate more than the truth is the adage that every story has two sides. ie and Settle Adds from the tratan, , cursa t AUK WELL Or ?TISM, AUBED BW ttSPUnC BLOOD. ? have failed. RHEUMACIDE 2?s ?gtd*incurable cate?. Dees'not LS of digestion. GOLBBBOBO, N. C., AUff. SS, IBM. na to have aolatloa. and also a antonio i ? could not work at all Coy boaaau .v Vor dara and waaia at a timo I oauM ratolaaa treated mo, without paraajuat vertisad remedie? without pcrmaneat I It did tho work, and I htsro hadas ?rrully aay that ail rheumatics should aatremedy. H.A. LOKA* - , . <-: i. of from your Druggist. . Baltimore, rid?, 13.3 *A* ASS PHARMACY. UT COFFEES. , are you ? . Can't find the sort to yonr Try BOLT and your Coffee trouble Dur palate approves I oau give you just Coffee-making, you are bound to have beatable, pure, genuine, and cold under wed here. White Stor Coffee* are put Duod. I am exclusive agent for th?se ne blend of rare, rieb and costly Cof or, delicious in the cup and suits the r sold by some dealers beoause of their eoognise its betterhess at once. o a pound. Another palate pleaser. lua?ities hard toV-surpr-?s. "Gae't. be io Mocha and Java, and not Bio or d names for profits sake. th good aud popular where, medium lees at honest prices. Blends of high louey saved if you like thom. DLT, The Cash Grocer. Az& All ?fee Y&mv l&ov?k? ?>S?^?^ ? PQrnmJ.. , Bbwn?itfwi dote* pot egme anfl gowf?h winte, *?me sJwuvs; in ?act sosss roffe-mora dtirla? tS /!vafe&^383 Spring end Summer than at any other ????m, ^^^|^ irx?j^ /^ySffy^^ ie liable to come ot any time, Wintert Sam!? Vj^L^^V^Ogr Rheumatism, because it attachs different r:tr<* S TWp6^Ar^SF"* the body, and is euddea or alow in its action, & liz V& ,^?rfi various names anea as acot? and chronic, innacult? tom&wJfia^Xiffl articular, inflammatory,mcreurial and sciatic, bat it ia BK*5^^^** theaamapld acW blood that canses all. Somet? constant sufferers, while others have only occasional spelts of Rheumatism bnt either kind IS wearing: upon toe constitution, and in time product stiff ness in the muscles and joints, and sometimes the acids thrown off ^ the blood settle upon the valves of the * heart and ends suddenly and fatally. Portland, ina., Jan. IO, loo?. It wont do to let 'Rheumatism **** **tmio? fot ?non. It isa dangerous disease, and JT*" HSit^n JESS"*1"1* you can never tell where it is going; to t^^jf^^^t^ * Strike. Home remedies, plasters, Uni- reika of ^ wonderful effecu ? menta and such tbmgs as produce e. 8. 8., X concluded to try it, *3 counter-irritation, are soothing and 04a hspby to say that I waa onti?5 1 may relieve the pain temporarily, but oared, and am able to work as v/oij the polluted, acid blood cannot be os X ever did. reached by external applications. * cheerfully recssamonrfB. 8.8. to Rheumatism must be treated ***** through the blood, and no remedy %?2lL EL?t?ii? t^wUi.C0,u . - 1 . , , .. j ,. g tmuo tno treatment, as Der dir AA. - A to2F0?8?dl ZI0T?* ??yasJPff tiona, tboy will lind a ?ennan? as S. S. S. It attacks the disease in curo. Xi; W. sass? the blood, neutralizes the acids, and removes all irritating poisons' and effete matter from the system. S. S. S. strengthens and enriches the thin acid blood, and, as it circa. :I tates through the body, the corroding, gnawing poisons and acid deposits are dislodged and washed out of the muscles and joints, and the sufferer ^BBSnw tmmny, .j"*T"*** *8 happily relieved from th?/discom?orts jfTtrranTS ffjawuj ?f?pm*3k and misery of Rheumatism. RCj^J* IL%^^ ?k^?to^ S. S. S. is a purely vegetable remedy ^^fc^V ^?a*^^ ^oe3 not contain Q^y Potash or minerai llhw^fcl fc*aw_ZB 1 Lil ?* any kind, and can be taken with ^?^t?Y sa*?ty ?y ?^ ancl young. ^^mtm^. ^?'?'^ ^!Nins^ ? Rheumatic sufferers wjho write us about their case will receive valuable aid and helpful advice from oar physicians, for which no charge is made. We will mail free our special book on Rheumatism, which is the result of years o* practical,exp?rience ia treating this disease. It contains much interesting informationv about all i Wndsof Rheumatism. jm&mnomDG?m 1 200,000 Pounds of Towers & Sullivan' Mfg. Co's. Celebrated Steel Plows. 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Mistakes.Vwill sometimes oeaur,, and if at any, t?me se found that a customer, was' dissatisfiedi'we did not jost until-we had made I'.. satisfied. This policy, rigidiv adhered to, has maup us friends, true and Umr ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that we h?ve the confi dence of the people of this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods this season than we have ever had,'and we pledge you our word that we have never sold Furniture at as eloso a margin of profit aa we are doing now. This ii proven hy tho faot }hatwe are selling Furniture not only all .over Anderson County but in every Town in the Piedmont seotion. Come and see'ur. You? parents saved money hy buying, from us, and you and your children oan sav? money by buying here; too. We oarry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line. G. F. TOLLY & 8?W| Depot Street The O?d Reliable Furniture Dealer*} Made in the world, and no Iowa! prices. Abs-dutely the highest grad6! that can be found/and. the surprise ? how can such high grade Piano9 bj] had so reasonable t Well, it's th* way: Pianos are being sold at too - great a profit. I save you from 25 ti 40 per cent in tho cost, lam my off? book-keeper, salesman and collect? -the whom ''Show." Seel Jj worked-over, second-hand repoesssej stookv I do not sell that kind? If yoi qjje alright jour cr?dit is good with mflj wor)$ ta *he "Carpentry" Deckbar lst.\ i M. L. WILLIS. The besj Heed Will move to In-the 3 oiric* ?ENTI8T. OFFICEr-Froat Koo MS ever Fan] ero and Merchants Bank? The opposite cu fc Illustrates Opj tinuoua Oona Teotb, . Tho W'S from Pia? of tht^^lnd*