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GOOD ADVICE TO SILLY GIRLS. Kural New Yorker. "Girls are fo.o]>! Yes, they are. ] kuoTv, because 1 was one myself once. "llow'd I get over it? I'll tell you. An old woman brought me to my flenses and its because I was so terri bly grateful to her afterward that I dare to - eddie with other folks' affairs sometimes now I am an old woman myself. "You see, I was in love with a young fellow, but I wasn't quite so much in love with bim as I thought 1 was. That'd all that saved me. You krjow, when a tirl ?3 really in love fhe just cau't reason. I wasn't quite so far gone as that. If I had beet), Grandma Stetson's talk wouldu't have doDO nie no good. "Henry-that was the young ?nail's name-had been keeping company with nie for sometime, and he was pleasant and bright, and I liked him ii rs t rate, and finally be made mc think we was awful much in love with each other. So wc engaged, and we kinder planned to be married the next Sep tember-that was in March. "Now Henry was a good enough fel low. Ile was a member of the church aud he didn't have no bad habits, and he'd bad a good education for them days. So far be was all right, but well, he was one of these folks that's always out of a job. He'd got plenty of ability, ho could turn his band to most anything but bc wa'n't over and fond of bis work, and he'd never stick to anything but a little while. His folk supported him, and he let'em, even though they wa'n't really able to do it. Ho tried canvassing, but ho didn't like that. He did bookkeep ing, but he was careless and made mistakes, and lost his job. Ile got a chanoe to work in the postoffice, but that didn't just tait him. The doctor wanted a driver and Henry got the plaoe. but be bad to Immens thc horse and take care of him, and he didn't like that, so he give it up. And that's the way it went. He got lots of good places, but in every one of 'em h'd either not do his work goodenough, or he'd get sick of it or not like it. "AU this fretted me terribly, for I was real ambitious. I wa'n't but 19 then, and I was smart and oapable, if I do say it. There wa'n't so many ways for a girl to earn money in them dayB as there is now, but I managod to find plenty to do, even if the pay was pretty small sometimes. Mother had a big family, and so I helped ber with the work moro than onough to pay my board. There was a strawBhop at the village, and they put out thc work, so I sewed hats and the busy sea son I earned considerable. Then when there wa'n't any of that to do, I'd sew for the neighbors, and a few times I had a chance to take care of sick folks. "Henry used to como in and sit down and watoh me working, and h'd be so pleasant and talk BO entertain ing that I liked real well to have him there. "1 was saving every cont I could to ward getting married, Henry was sup posed to be doing the same, but he wa'n't earning anything, most of the time, and he dressed pretty well-a good deal better than I did. "Weii, things was goiug on this way when Grandma Stetson was took sick and I went to take care of her. She was sick quite a while, and I stayed with her till she got all well. She knew all about my being engaged to Henry, and the day before I wt s go ing home she begun to talk with me about my getting married. She'd asked me a good deal about Henry, and she knew him pretty well, too. "Well," she says, 'I s'pose yon ex peot to be real happy after you are married. You are a good worker, Asenath, and you are strong and heal thy, so maybe you will be happy. I'd kinder like to talk over plans with you. Maybe I oan help you about how to manage.' "She waited a minute, and then she says, 'How do you intend to support your husband?' and she looked at me with her sharp, bright eyes. "I oouldn't think of a thing to say. " 'What !' she oried, "do you mean to say you haven't thought anything about it? Of course if you was going to marry a man that could support you it will be different. Y ou wouldn't have nothing to worry 'bout. You'd have your housework and cooking and sewing to 'tend io, and that would keep you busy, if you did it as it ought to be done. ' But seeing as yon are going to marry someone that won't support you, it makes it harder. You'll have to do your housework and support him, too. Now you want to think how's the best way to do it. Mother's Ear A WORD IM MOTHER'S OAR I WHEN nu RSI Na Mm inf ANT. AMO IM THO TIM*T* THMT GOMB "fOmm THAT SCOTT'S EMULSION ouppuaa THC EXT fi A OTRKXCTH AMO NOURISHMENT MO flECKJOARS POM Zii?.Sl?ALT 0fr ?OTH Al QT Him AMO CHILD. Send for frc? sample. SCOTT & BOWN?, Ch?mt?U, 409-415 Prarl Street, New Vor h. y>c. and fi.ooj aUdragg?tr. You'll probably have to live in thc village-there's more chancea to ^r-1 work there- unless you keep on with making hats and bonnets. Now, if you live in the village yo? cat) get dif ferent things to do. How'd you like to take in washing? Maybe Henry'd be willing to go and get 'ena and carry 'em home, and that would be a lot of help. Or you could go out scrubbing. Lot? of rich folks have a woman come in once a week to wash floors and ouch. You might do that. Maybe Uenry'd stay at home and keep thc fires going while you was gone. And then Hcnry'll bc hanging around thc store and postoffice, and he'll lind lots of chances for you to get work to do. Or you might take boarders. You are a first rate cook, and there's good money in boarders, mid lot's of work, too. Henry's real agreeable, and ho d make ii pleasant for 'cm. "Well, I didn't know what to say. I felt sort of da/.ed. I'd kinder hud 'an idea that wheu wc was married llenry'd spunk up and get a" job und keep ii. I'd never once thought that I'd have to work as hard after 1 was married and maybe harder, than 1 was work i ti g before. '"I didn't say a word to (?raiidma, but 1 tell you I ?Ii. I a lot thinking, and that night I didn't sleep but precious little. 1 come to my senses fa.-t aller I got. started. "When I went home my mind was made up. 1 felt terribly to think of giving Henry up, but I couldn't bear the idea of the kind of life Grandma had mapped out for mc, either. So I'd studied up a way out of it. I'd have a talk with Henry and tel i him that when he got steady work and was able to support me I'd marry him and not before. It kinder r'ilcd me to think how hard I'd worked, and how he'd just aet round and let me-and hadn't lifted a finger himself. I rea soned that if ho would do as I wanted him to, it would make a man of him and would bo a good deal better for him than it would be to have me sup port him. "I hadn't told anybody when I wae coming homo, but that night Henry'd heard I'd got baok and he come to sec me. "I dreaded to have my talk witb him, but I knew I'd got to, BO I begun soon after he got there. 'Td thought, perhaps, it would make him feel bad, so I put it to hin as delioato as I knew how, but I't neves thought of his gotting mad He walked around tho room wrathful Finally he como and stood in front o me. 'We planned to bo married in Sep tomber,' he says, real stern. 'And' he went on, slow and impressive- . 'we'll be married in September or no at all.' "Well, I was pretty high spiritei when I was young, and what he said and tho way he said it, made my tem nor TB Vp ? o hot in a minute. ? j1-s stood up and looked down on him was a mite taller than he was-and said, very clear, so he couldn't bel but understand, 'it will be never then, and I made a little bow and went ou of the room and left him. Of course I thought my heart wa broke, for a while. I did hope ths he'd see I was in the right of it. waited to hear that he'd gone to wor in earnest. I almost expected that i would make a man of him. "But, good landl You oan't mak something out of nothing, and the* wa'n't the making of a man in him. "So before long I give up all hop? I pretended I didn't care, and by an by I real didn't oare. That's tho wa it works sometimes. You make bi lieve to feel the way yon ought t and pretty soon you'll find you real! do feel that way. "So my heart wa'n't broke that timi And Henry's wa'n't either, for t married another girl inside a year, ac she taken boarders and supports hil in fine style. She seems to enjoy i an i I'm glad she does, and I'm dreai fal glad she's got the job instead i me." Suean Brown Bobbins. Harking; Back to the Onion. Homely remedies for human il seem to be in favor just now. Pe haps beaauBO the very scientific on< have been oaught napping or beeaui medical history reposts itself and v have got round to the time when sue cureB are entitled to their share, of r cognition. There is one, for instano of onion poultices applied to the oho for pneumonia, whioh has reo^nt been adopted in a New Jersey tov by tho hoalth board in the treatmei of this malady, and with success. ( this application for the oure of "lui fever nearly every anoient farmer i New England oan tell you eomothin And whatever statements he mah are baoked np with aooounts of reoo eries effected by it in his own famil; From the telling of whioh he goes < to say uncomplimentary things aboi the new-fangled things his grandohi dren aro using against, his juigmon Some one should bo good enough tell him that hia views on tho effioa* of onions have rcoently received tl endors erne at of those in au tb or it It will make a good theme, any wa for the summer hoarder who wants s tarta conversation wi tl his farm landlord.--Boston Transcript. Herd of <?oats. Ooo hundred and forty-nine of thc highest priced goats that were cvei brought to this country arrived from South Africa yesterday by thc British steamship Susquehanna. They are of the Angora breed and are said to have cost about $40,000. The goats were purchased in Cape Colony by Mr. C. A. Karly, an Ameri can, who had visited South Africa be fore tbe outbreak of the Boer war. It was due to the fact that he had al ready contracted for them that he was allowed to take them out of the coun try, as directly after thc war the Hritish government placed an embargo on thc exportation of live stock. Mr. Karly ?9 making thc experiment of domesticating these valuable ani mals in this country, and has secured a pla?;?; in New Jersey, where the goats will lie taken after they have undergone the customary quarantine ni thc Stan; quarantine statiou for animais at Lyndhurst, L. I. The goats will be removed today from the steamship, which is anchored ol? Stapleton. This breed of goats was introduced into Cape Colony about 40 years ago. They throve there and largely propa gated, thc climate being specially well suited to the perfect development of the wool. The wool, or mohair, as it is technically termed, is long, fine j>nd heavy, and covers thc whole body and part of tho legs with close-matted ringlets of particularly soft and silky texture. The importer believes that the ani mals will thrive as well here as in South Africa, and, as the breed is pro lific, the kids growing fast and arriv ing early at maturity, be is confident of the outcome of his experiment to domesticate them here. The flesh of the Angora is said to be better eating than that of any other breed, and in Turkey, its native country, is prefer red to mutton. It is its fine quality of wool, however, whioh renderB it so valuable.-New York Herald. ?i-i ? rm A Blue Sum Nigger. Suffering intensely from ugly wounds mada by a negro's teeth up on his right arm, Patrolman T. E. Chambliss, one of the best members of the police department, has just been removed from the oity hospital to his home. Bob Matthews, an un ruly negro, tried to clean out Cotton avenue. Patrolman Chambliss ap parently brought out the negro's fighting proclivities, and the instant the officer touched him he yelled out: "I's a blue-gum nigger, I is; you'd better keep clear of my teef, else you'll wish you ned." With a sprof. 'ike that of a oat, ho was upon the officer, burying his teeth into Chambliss's right arm along the fleshy or musoular section. He soon bored their way through his thiok uniform coat, through his shirt and on into the flesh until the negro's tooth oould be heard gritting against the bones in the officer's arm. All the time the officer was pound ing the negro over the head with his dub, but the licks, hard and fast as they were, made no impression. The wounds were painful, intensely so, from the seoond the negro's teeth be gan tearing the flesh. Not for a breath even was the officer free from pain. He was removed to the oity hospital; where the wounds were cauterised. But still the swelling did not cease. And during all the time Chambliss was suffering intense ly.. Later in the evening his suf fering subsided and he was, at his earnest request, sent to his home. The hospital surgeons wanted him to remain at that institution, bat that ho deolined tn do. For generations, in faot every sinoe the negro became a quantity in the South, ? negro with blue gama has been considered a dan gerous quantity.-Maoon, Ga., Special to Atlanta Constitution. San Houston's Indian Wife. Gen. Sam Houston lived at Fort i Gibson, where he married his Chero kee wife, Talihina Rogers, said to have been the most beautiful woman in the tribe, whose remains are to be trans ferred to the United States national cemetery at Fort Gibson. Houston lived for a time aoross the Grand river from the oin fort, on the farm owned by Gip Scott. The house in whioh he lived has long since disappeared, but two pear trees whioh the "Liberator of Texas" planted are still standing as monuments to this great roan's stay among the Cherokees. His last residence in the Cherokee nation was at Wilson's Rook, on the Arkansas river, about 15 miles above Fort Smith, from which he started on horseback for Texas to lead the pa triot army to vio tory. His beautiful Cherokee wife did not long survive his departure, and died a few years later, and 1 was buried in a beautiful grove near a cedar tree, on an emi nence overlooking the Arkansas river, where, after a repose of over 60 years, her remains are to be removed to the United States national eemetery at Fort Gibson, to be marked bj . suita ble monument bearing the inscription: "Sacred to tho Memory o? Talihina, Cherokee Wife of Gen, Sam Houston, Liberator of Texas." To Investigate Capitol. Columbia, S. C., .Jun?- 13.-A United .Stat?.-? Government expert engineer, neut at tho request ol Governor D. C. Hoy ward, will iu vestigato and report tj'.o condition of the Statt- House. Ten da>s ago Charles C. Wilson, a leading architect of this city, reported that the supports of the State House ?lome were wholly insufticieut. The ligures he gave made inevitable the inference that there is actual danger of the sup ports giving away and the dome crash ing from its position on the roof through the building to the ground. Want Honest Goods. So many complaints have been re ceived about the inferior grade ot fer tilizers sold in .South Carolina that thy board ot trustees of Clemson College ha? decided to begin a vigorous prose cution in order to protect the farmers troiu any swindling. A resolution looking to thiB end wa? adopted at the recent meeting of the hoard, and the secretary of the fertilizer committee wa? instructed to proceed at once to prosecute all manufacturers who have sold goods which do not come up to tho standard marked on the Racks. The manufactured product must he just as it. is guaranteed. lt is said that much trouble has been caused by "wild cat concerns, which ship latge quantities ot fertilizers into the State. While it may not amount to much at first, the planters will stiller in the end, as they will not be able to raise tho crops which could be expect ed from honest goods.-Spartan burg Journal. ^ . - The Divorced And Married. Some statistician has been busy with the census figures and comes forward with the showing that there are 27, 770,101 married persons in the United States, and only 198,911 divorced per sons-seven-tenths of one per cent, of divorced persons, as compared with those living in the marital state. Thi6 is not calculated to cause any serious alarm over the dangers threat ening the American home. The sta tistics furnished include divoroes granted for all oauses. The opponents of divoroe all admit that there ara many causes for which divoroee are justly granted. The deserted wife, the wife Whose husband has been con victed of felony, and those wemen who find life intolerable with drunken and abusive husband.^ are generally admitted to be eatitled to divoroe de crees. Elim?nalo those who have been divorced for good and sufficient oausrs, and the percentage of divorced persons, oompared with the married, would be reduced to a point hardly worthy of consideration. The statis tics furnished, it is true, do not in clude divorced persons who have re married, but even including that num ber, the figures would not be suffi ciently impressive to constitute a national peril. The present agitation can not be otherwise than wholesome, however, inducing courts to be more careful in granting decrees and in causing a greater degree of respect for the marriage vows. Much good has already been accomplished and the social tone materially improved. -Washington PoBt. - Many a man who takes himself seriously is regarded as a huge joke by others. A woman thinks her husband is be Ld than she wants him to think she thinks he is. ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. R. DIRECT ROUTE TO THE ST. 100IS EXPOSITION. Two Trains daily. Through Bleeping Cara from Geor gia, Florida and Tennessee. Route of the lamoua Dixie Flyer, arriving at St. Louis in the morning. Season tickets with limita Decem ber 15th, aixty days, fifteen days and ten dava. Low rate coach excursion! in June. For rates from your city, also for book showing hotels, boarding houses, quoting their rates, write to FRED, D. MILLER, Traveling Passenger Agent, No. 1 Brown Building, Atlanta, Ga. WESTERN & A - A3 Nashville, Chattano ST. LOUIS and all poinl Three Solid Trains Daily, with V to St. Louis, without change. Only through car service, Atlanta Close connections made at Atlant? Central of Georgia Railway and the Sc Foi map folders or other informati Thoa. R. Jones, T, F; A., N Chas. E. Harman, Geq. Pas H. Smith;.Traffic Majxg Kisses of Various Kinds. Tu steal a kiss is Datural; to buy a kiss is a stupidity; two girls who kiss is a loss of time; uot to kiss at all is insignificance; .wo men who kiss is quite ridiculos s; to kiss the hand or the tips of .he fingers is droll; to kiss one's siater is proper; to kies one's wife it au obligation; kissing a child is oft regret for not being permitt ' he moth er; to kiss an ugly p .llantry: to kiss an old, +'a shows great dovotednet young, blushing widow . .rm; to kiBS one's waiting maid ery dangerous; to kiss one's affianced is a premedita tion and a right; an old, rich aunt it is hypocrisy, a young cuok io the bloom of age is delicious, dainty; to kiss a neighbor's wife is doubtless very good, but quite wroog; kissing three girls the same day is an extrava gant . a girl whose father is watch ing her, it may make oce jump over thc fence, to kiss a mother-in-law is a sacrifice; an old maid, ii is po liteness; linaliy, a kiss to one's moth er is the purest, the sweetest of all kisses. Mister Chance. Mister Chance is a man every wo man wants to avoid. Mister Chance is a person with whom intimate and prolonged acquaintance means noth ing less thao being a failure in life, or very near it, anyway, according to tho popular standard of failure. Think of the woman who always misses her chance! The tow-headed h/>y from the backwoods, who afterward became the governor of the State, was her first sweetheart, but she was too dense to see his brilliant future (in fact no body suspeotod ic), aod BO oho mjsBed ber chance to ?c?upy this mansion. She was not generous or imaginative enough to see any pldaiure in jollying the ragged miser she knew and when he died he left his fortune to her washerwoman (he did not have an;,) and she missed ber chance there. She failed to arrive ai almost every point in life where she might have made connection. All the best things at { the bargain sales were gone when she got there; she had a boil on her noso when the leap year dance came off; when the right man came along she was engaged in a flirtation with the wrong man, and so she always missed her chance. You, of course, know the lady whose name is -connected with that of Mister Chance; she is a Miss-Fit.-Quitman Free Press. TO SAY Whether or not you shall add to the dignity of your home by installing a good PI?N0; We merely suggest that you call on us when you are out seeking sugges tions aa to whet make you should buy. That's all. Respectfully, TIME C. A. REED Music House, ANDERSON, a a TLANTIC H. R., ID ona & St. Louis Ry. o-; v bs West and Northwest. 'ullman PalaceJSleeping Cara, Atlanta1 - s ? -,-." "? : 'i . to Chicago, without change, with the Seaboard Air line Rail way ?uthern Railway trains, on write to o. 1 Nprth Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. a. Agent. er. SMKIH LIKE A SPONGE Some of the most stubborn diseases enter ?n?o the system through the pores cf the rkin. Like a sponge, it absorbs poisons of various J kinds, which are taken up by the little blood? vessels beneath the surface of the body, and emptied into the great current of the blood. The juices of poison oak and other noxious wild plants percolate through the skin like water through a sponge, am taken into the circulation, breaking out afresh each season, and linger ing on for years unless antidoted and driven out of the system. Dye Poisoning among the employes of dye houses, and from wear? ing colored under-clothing and hosiery, is of frequent occurrence and dangerous to health, causing boils and sores and POISON OAK AND ITS EFFECTS. ?Hipr ^rnntinn? Over Hf teen years ag*o I was poiiaoned with Pol* omer erupuwns. eon Oak. I tried remedy after remedy without Workers In lead, DraSS getting- relief. Sores broke out over my body and nnd other metals ars often on my tongue, affecting* the lining of my mouth* ana omer met?is, urs OUCH Finftlly> about a year ago my doctor told me to poisoned by the chemicals try B. S. S., which I did. After taking threo .inri '?rifU MC,PA in nolish- bottles all the Borea disappeared, and I have not) ana acias usea in poiibii bothered since, and lieelmuch indobtedto mg, and thc dust and ni- your valuable medicine for ??> prompt and com inp- qenlinp- uncr. t^e *Mn< Pleto ? cure. I am certain that S. S. 8. will do ed! mgs settling upon "..e s&m, thatlB clalmed for it in blood diseases, and which find their way Danville, Ky. CON. O'BEYAN. through the pores into the blood, followed by inflammation, swelling and the most obstinate sores,. Blood Poison, the vilest of all human diseases, is often con? tracted through shaking the hand or handling the clothing or other arti? cles used by one infected with this dangerous poicon. The deadly virus finding its way through the pores of the/ skin,contaminates the blood and produces I fearful ulcers, eruptions and blotches.- J The diseases that enter the system bj absorption or through the pores are as deep-seated and dangeroys as any brought on by internal causes, and cannot be reachea by washes, salves, soaps or other external remedies. The blood must be purified and a healthy circulation established before getting permanently rid of the disease. S. S. S: acts upon the blood, ridding \V of the original poison and restoring it to a healthy, normal condition,,*/ S. S. S. is guaranteed entirely vegetable, an unrivaled blood pun? fier and the best of all tonics. With all impurities removed from the blood, the sores and eruptions disappear from the 6kin. Write us should you desire medical advice or any information about your case ; thi?jwuj cost yon nothing. m? SWSFT &PEGSFSG OOe, ATUU9YA,??^ Special attention is invited tc a new ?himnent of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES Which we have just received, and which includes the very latest pattern* both coal or wood, adapted to the requirements of this market. If you require anything in the ?tove or Hange line we solicit an oppor tunity to explain the merits of THE ACORN. We a!?o carry a complete and up-too'ateTine of TINWARE, WOOD ENWARE and HOUSE FURNISHINGS. Guttering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring executed on short notice Yours truly, ARCHER & NORRIS. AFTER THIS DATE We Will Not Retail Fertilizers And Acid Phosphate to Any One. We do this for the reason that we are represented here by. Merchants, and it will be much better for all of the retail business to paea through then? or lids, thereby saving a lot of confusion. We therefore respectfully'ark om* friends to call on OSBORNE & PEARSON? OR DEAN &. RATLIFFEt Or any other one of our representatives here or any adjacent town. We are represented at every Town in the up-country, and hope to merit your., con? inned liberal patronage. OUR GOODS ARE FIRST CLASS HI EVERY RESPECT And the revolts show that there I? nene superior in quality. atom nuntin mm. ti. We are selling Armour's &nane and Acid, and haW a few more oars of our contract left. If you want high grade Blood Ammonlated Goods see us AT ONCE. v VAN WYEE BROS* NOW IS THE TIME For Overhauling Carriages v and Buggies so as to have them ready for so vice in pretty weather. We have a Hoc lot of material and pion iy ?oed, reliable help, aad will do our best to please , with repairs on *11 vehicle*. PAUIvEL S?'EPHENa, Notice to Creditors, ..AXI< Parsons navio* demands against tito Estate? of C. E. Johnson, deceased, ?ra hereby notified' to present them. p^f?ri?: P?Wn? to; to? undersigned within tho time prsacrlbed by ?aw, and thoso indebted to make payment. thu moat hasting ealvo m the world. CITf UITSPRSALE. ^SOTAaTO ea and'near M?rth Item J^wlautsa? walk Court noone. Apgr.t? J. P. OUnxsealea, intelUgoac*?