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A SEVN-YEAR-OLD'S 'IMPRESSIONS. If there is one thing I hate it is whisky. I am only seven years of age, but I have seen enough of whiskey to make me hate it forever and forever. I can't understand why people will drink it when it is such an awful bad thing and makes them look so wild and terrible. 0, I can remember how my pa used to look when he drank whisky, and I can remember bow scared mother was when he came home drunk. I used to think we were as good as other people, for we had a nice house and had enough to eat, and we all seemed to get along first-rate, except when pa would go to the tavern and get drunk, and then when he came home we would have an awful time. He would strike mother with anything-he could get hold of, and once when I told him he was a bad man to act that way, he took me by one foot and slammed me clean across the room. I was hurt and scared too, and mother she screamed awful, and then she picked me up and ran oat of the house. It was a cold night-yes, awful cold: I can mind that ve-ry well, for when mother took me to Mr. Weston's house they said I was nearly frozen. My leg hurt me awful bad too, and I cried and cried. When Mr. Weston brought the doctor, he said my leg was broken, and he set it, and it hurt pretty bad too, but I tried not to cry, for I knew it made mother feel kind of distressed. ' But I couldn't stop the cry altogether. It would break out sometimes. I tell yQu it is pretty bad to have a broken le. It is bad for a little boy, but I -e on it wouldn't be so bad for a big boy or a man. Ihated my pa after that. What did he break my leg for? 1 asked myself that question a good many times. Wasn't I his own boy? And hadn't he been good to me before? Then why should he rise right up and slam me across-the room and break my leg just because I told him he was a bad man to act so ugly and strike mother? , I talked to mother about it when I was lying with my broken leg, and it hurting pretty bad too, and she said it was whisky that did it. But I told her that if whisky and pa hadn't got together it wouldn't have been done. Whisky in a bottle wouldn't have done it, but whisky in pa is what caused the trouble. I told mother I wondered why people drank whisky when it made them so bad, and caused them to slam boys around imd break their legs. She said they couldn't help it. Milen they commenced they were compelled to go ahead. They b'ght try to stop, but they couldn't. whisky is as bad as that, oughtn't people tt. he very careful? I think they to shut their. mouths and strike nhEnd left when they come near to it. L- never asked mother to explain all about this, for she died soon alter, and I didn't have an opportunity to talk to her, but I suppose that he meant that whiskey would chase a man and get into his mouth and down his throat whether he wanted it or not. If that's the case, whisky is a terrible monster. Mr. Weston is a preacher, and he says it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder, and he says that serpents and adders are snakes. I have been thinking about it a good de.l, and I can't just understand how whisky can get into the shape of snakes, but.that must be the way of it, for how could whisky chase a man and get down his throat, unless it did first get into the shape of a snake; and then run along the -ground and climb up his legs and plumap down his throat? AndlIthink this must be the way of it, because I heard Sammy Weston tell about a drunkard that had snakes in his -boots. I reckon the snakes couldn't climb clear up to the man's mouth and so they got into his boots. If Ihad to have snakes at all, I'd an awfdl sight rather they would get into 'my boots than to get into my mouth and down my throat. And;, speaking of boots, I've got my first pair on now. My pa z ever had money to buy me boots, but he had money to buy s- akes. Now, which is the worst? Snakes, of I said my mother was dead. Yes, she didn't live long after pa broke my leg and drove us out of the house. Mr. Weston says she died of a broken heart. I reckon when people die of brokeu m.earts they cry a good deal. That's the way it was with mother, anyhow. I asked Mr. Weston if he didn't-think *that when my poor mother died of a broken heart, somebody oughtn't to go over and make my pa die of a broken *head. He began it, yon know. Mr. Weston got up and went to look -for good book. I wonder if he thought it was wicked for me to say that. I continued. I said I guessed it would be about right, for he had given mother a broken heart and me a broken leg, and it would only be doing him justice to give him a broken head. Mr. Weston didn't say anything, but continued to look for the book. But I am glad my mother is dead. She sighed so much, and she cried nearly all the time, and Mr. Weston says he be. lieves that she has gone where there is no sighing nor crying, and where God wipes all tears away. I don't reckon pa will ever get io that good place where mother and God are.s When Iget to be abig man, I intend to fght whisky and enakes as long as I live. I don't like people that sell whisky. If I could talk well, wouldn't I give them a blowing up? I,f: nobody had sold pa whisky he couldn't have got drunk. And if he hadn't got drunk, he wouldn't have broken poor mother's heart. And he wouldn't have broken my leg. H. Eliott McBride. THE NEw YORK HEnAL'S FINANCIAL ARTICLE in a recent issue takes i0 '2peful view of matters, and says that .st now the prospect is especially cheering, since the recent rainfalls have done incalcula ble benefit in regions that laid been suf fering from drouth. Th~e tinancialan industrial indications have iewise irn proved. The iron trade is better; higher prices are bid for steel; the demand for woolen goods has improived; many thou sands of striking workmen have returned to their labors; Europe, fearing lest her own crops be late, is buying our bread stuffs at enhanced prices; sterling ex change is very much lower; immigrants in vast numbers assing through Castle Garden on tum. way to develop, new territory in tne W st; bank e*x changes, taking the country as a whole, are very large; and the temper of the people generally is cheerful, and indica tive of confidence in the future. Use Dr. Pierce's. "Pellets" for' couatipa tion. - Washing|ton Notem. Few persons. even among those whu have figured prominently in politictl life. ire better known, or more closely identilied wih the history of the Natiunld Cap'tal. tim is V. V. Coreoran. Washin'gton's aud millionaire and philanthroist, 111(d tit announcement of the fact that he l1.1 -aiered a partial stroke of paralysis cre : a very general Seunsation throughout the eiv. If evi(len(e were i:king as to the cuer;l tfeling( o' anxiety which p. it. iwo-uil be at once suppllied by a re view .f the enornious ple ofc s which wer ,I iP) ul the Larkl tablie inl thlie hai; fMr. Coreoran' rn tae upon the li n' Il v te :: i ceni- of his ihs.Ne:::!y eve-ry pe-rson of note in tue vit ihd :i card there. Among otli- s were tho.e of Screaries B:iyard. Whit ner and Fairchild: the French. Germ: :usi Urazilian Ministt ;s. Ihron and ihr. c-s itosen. Admiral Porter. Juniral John i[. Russell. Medical Director F. L. Harvey and the oicers of the Washington 3Menu ment Association, of which Mr. Corcoran s the president. While there has been a m:-ked improvement in Mr. Corcoran's c1,1ndition Since last Tuestay. and he is now able to sit up a portion of the time. stll the phvsicians represent that his life Is the' alance. Against the unfavorable con ,-tion of his extreme old age. the ra-rencs ot recovery in such cases, :mdl the pr'sibi itV that an alditinnal strtke of paralysis na cone at any time, there are the favor abic circumstances that the patient is en dowed with a remarkable strong constitu tion, and his general health is good. Under the present administration of the postal service the position of postoflice in spector is not as much of a sinecure as in the past. The last session of Congress pro vided that all fourth-class postotlices should be inspected as regularly as the more im pom1nt ones. The examination of fourth ell:s oli-es that have thus far been made. mike a very gratifying exhiuit of the -on n of t service. Out of miore than 1.-0 inspectors rep-or-. less than 10o of of them contain :y suggesions of ineli . 'n or earelessuess in the iaagemeti of 'I oilices. .I-. .Jay Gould accomp.anid by is wife al-! three children arrived in Washingtei on Wenesdav last, the party conming ti the Po-tomac on Mr. Gould's magniticent stean yacht Atlauta. During his stav in thie city -1r. Gould fought very shy of reporters. in fact despite their greatest eitt, not a single reporter succeeded in obtaining an interview with him. There were various rumors current as to the ob ject ' vi his i?,it. and the rooms of the Inter '*'e Comnerce Commission were closely wachted by the newspaper men. ie ii owvever, to realise the expectations of the watchers as he failed to make his ZIP!' ' -:a Ice and alter spending the day in dIriin a bout the city he left for Fortress A Nolpie Federal s.id:rr. Aion-" the orations delivered cn the Fe:d-r Decoration Day, that of General . Griftin. at ladley, Mass., will cause -cm a- .~t the South. Gerial Griflin was one of New hanip shi s soldiers in the war between the Stats. He was afterwards a lepvablican m!Icr of Congress. The subject of his oration ias "The South of To-Day." The Bos'on 1erald reported his speech in full. and frovmn that journal the following con den m.n is taken: - itd the last ten earGn. Gridii said. we are tal that 1 miles of rail roiad have been built in the South, and more than 8500,000,000 haS been expended , 1 raioads in the Southern States. The ::sse'sI valuaation of property s Lncreased duirthatL t!ime( abll,,50,00.Thr is ".09, 0:) more capital invested in the -in es e alone than there was tcr years a:.:o. The cotton mills have doubl-ei n nrutier and in capacitv in the last four yeais. and cotton oil mills have nearly luiadrnpledl in die same time. The nation is failiar with the great incre':tse of iron production in the Soth and knows that she i~:s the largeost deposits of coal and iron in the world. The iron mines of Northc rn Alabama. General Grit!i n said. which tenl ye.ars ago tmighit have been bought for 8-50.000, to d:y could not be boughlt for $30.000,000P. Tihe city of Blr minaan, to which attention has ofani beenE directed, has grown tip in tha~t time. To si:ow how the iron intere-t of the South is increasing, it is stated that from 1880 to Pi4 ViruiniaI, Alabamna and Tlenncsw.e in creased the product of pig iron :300,000 tons. while in all tihe rest of the Union the prodaet decreased tl,000t pounds." Gen. Griitin has made frequent visits to the Southi andi is familiar with business operatins in this section. lHe bears testi mony to tihe cordial good will of this sec tion for the North. Considering the fatte thait Geni. Griflia was an o-uicer in the Northierni armyv dinning the wvar and .since a Repui!!ean mIemiber of Cong~ress, his state ment onuht to be convincing. The Savannah New thinks that it is such ::d'lresses as that of Gun. Gritlin that make all sections of the country really one. The 1-cople of the Souith are in the Union and thi: meati to stay there. All they ask is that their protestation of loyalty to the government shall be accepted in good faith. Tuttle's Little Tattle. Tw': Pl--W~iELPHIA Thnms thinks that it was not necessary for General Sher man to write a public letter condemning the false attitude in which one arrant demagogue named Tuttle, of Iowa, has apparently placed the Grand Army of that State toward thu President. The Grand Aimiy encampment will be held at St. Louis next fall, and a committee of citizens of that city, embracing men of both p~arties, came to Washington spe ially to urge the President to visit St. Louis at the time the encampment is to be hel, and the President gave a condJi tionlailpromlise to do so. The great mass of the veteran soldiers would have been glad to welcome the President as a guest on suchi an occasion, but one blatant de:2agogue, clothed with a little brief authority, has interviewed himself for the newsp)aper n opsto to receiv ing the Preside-nt, until General Sher man felt called upon to vindicate the Iod'in of the Union against the dis-' gracee 1.to which a baiblng fool would p'l-ge :he. The attempt to degrade the -oae o-- f the country by an open exhibitio of disrespect for the President come-s from one T1uttle, of Iowta, who happe'ns to have climbed his way to the hei *f theu Grand Army of that State. He was ~ sodier and a violent Democrat duringv thte war, and was several times a Democratie candidate for local or State opies. He was the Democratic candi dat for Governor after the war, when the Rc'eublcans proved to their own statation that he: was more of a cotton specula. 'r tha-n -old ir. He corntinued o sea~ poitical honiors as a Democrat untl mo, wh1en' Le hadu succeeded in an *lcion to the Legislamtre; but many par o. oei~icial casapp)oinments ias a Demcra 1::.1 then wearied him of po iial hin and i. ntdde-nly turned upl as aL Repu-lican anid quite m;radical as he h'ad I--en in support of Democraey. Coro rmeiNa' on the election of Chan dieri to - -ce United States Senate, the Doston er cald says "B:ut v:o shall say that 'Bill' Chia dhr i-s ot a fair representative of the palyi vs- hic -eleets ai Keifer for Speaker, accepts - ahone and Ri ddleberger as its Sounern aliits, -nd puts forward as its aional -tandard-bearer .a man so spirched that in almost any civilized country i" thle world he could not remain in nnhlic lif&" rtem of Interest azhered fro %arloum (uarterm. Mr. Blaine has arrived1 at Southampton. The yellow fever at Key West, Fh., is n the dilecase. Russia has decided to ilcrease (des on olIon, varns and Starch. The examtination of' witiesses hn the larpe tr:d ha'.: b n t h The Crown Prince :.d Prince'ss of Ger aanv have arrived at Norwood. 31eG,!Ynn sav3 thakt <lres-mrl t'.l0\l'owne!t' witi tweny'-'tive pe: c'ent. o01. Acn (' mic( f ra bie 'V :mI atle il reported in Calhoun coui. l-'or S.1 r .pi<a Chareb. in tI!n, 'sgu. by fire on TIhursday. f.u6 Counilellsville ke(0 irt)r still hold out '4st the striikers. notwiti-tafnding the u-render of (arnegzie Grilliths. MIarshall %: Co.. brokers of inr:apolis, e.'ve suspended. They acted .s Xer shaw A:o' egns Ftmperor William is recovering from the of intluen'za fromt whi*ch he has been i-ri''" for the past few days. Turnbil's white lend fac!ory in Newt or, k of Brooklvn. was butrned .1ondy I zh' I s i. . 0 . Tiere were, I. wvo ne as.s of vellow fever h Rey West ye.terday. OneI patient was fischarged from the hoshial. President I. F. Coe, cf the Southern Fe n(de College at Lagrange, Ga., died stid kcnly on Sunday night of apcplexy. Charles I. Keep, a New York reporter. lied on Thursday, leaving a hialf million -Ilirs, mostly garnered in _"all street. D.. 31eGl yn is going to send to the '-ope a petition for his pardon without re 'e tance, sined by~ iiO.m i people'. The host;le Indins are still on the war a:a. The chif the Avr ii Apaches sy here will be a, bi1 Id"n, ar 1a.:o Joet' a hali-breed . who~ "hot tnd i Ved Walter jl(ynes at Sie'!y \i., on h'. ith _1iny. was lnche on .dyluav : . Les It. KeeTe is sa'id to hIavie made a orm 1ne or two an the past two ' twee n ('.iifornit ningm ,toc-ks. Late Field has quit runing down the NV lIlrons to their faces :.oi left Salt Lake hit. for the Pacilie coaSt. iEllionaire Flood's San Francisco palace md ground- are now enICIOSed. by a bronze ler.:e which eest exactly 6:40,00. Th New IIampshire Legb-;h:ure in joint :]eeled Senator for Senator Pike's unex ai.. term. Tj': D State Dnocratie i-xecutive Com Mit -c of Vrginia has decided to c-ll a l:L.' Co-anvention for the 4th of August, at TVie :ld aunual commfienmicent of Salem, N. ,Femi-de Academy closed Thursday iglt. Forty-four young lolies were grad A'i epidemtiic of ilux is razing in Bedford tou::ty, Va.: a number of deaths have oc -and Scely a .fLaily in a larie' area has 1pd e disease. G r n oillei:d returns show that con seript-n- -iim isn ; reached 11t ih num ber.d prosecutions ior emigration with mut ut.,rmin;ion 1923 TE Earl of Aberdeen, who v.:i Lord Lcie mut oa Ireland nder G;ladstone's Im oi- -r:to-n, was given a notable recep ti .n I~n S."m Frane1"iScO. """'":"' aI ::elOO (il )Brh-n savs hec w. ill aeither ner-c't no -r ::' :e :ie seat in Pailanent t ; nin hv 1: b e'n e'eted "until after consuhing I'eceo Conkiinz keep, a record of his daily P es Ial exreIses. and its pages show '.(pid -. -i5 for str et car fare in the last x ee moonths. Joh"L I ullvan has n-.' ccene eleven mont ihout. 'tronlZ drink. and, cr inaoteI~tford Tom,.~ acts the part of a "eiman in every resp2 :t. Cra Leec isi on trial in Springileld. Mo., for ti :: urder of the wi fe of her pairamur. liIr moth er, :dso implicated, is Ema "-a'ae 1intMiurn Peck. Alaibamna's favor' ite ;' '. s reparig his second volume for puli. . I Iis ''Cap and Beib, foiud a re'dy ile throughout the entire South. Tfhe bactkbone'd of the great strike was brokencI by the Uuingarian strikers at tihe Sterlinai and .Iimntown worhs of Schoon maker & Co., returning to work at the ol!d wane . A few years ago it was thought imiprop~er for a woman to he a foreign missionary unlese she 'were a missionary's wife. Now thecre are 2,400 unmiarriedl womiea in t he Wila iiradley, an old colored man, while a' emptig to cross the Columbia and Grecen ille rilroadl at Hoenen Path last w~eek was struck by the west-bound freight tz'in [nd die'd of his injuries. Senrn Hu"- awle'y has been the orator at a h-lt d. z'n public celebrations within a foirt nght, ad the Blaine men are apprehensive 1ha h means to captture the Connecticut deega 4 tin for Sherman. Eliz-: ethI Garrett. the umrried sister of the presOident of the Unltimore and Ohio, is sai'd 'o have the neat little -num of $20. 00000 ai),'t her command. a:md tis is in (creah:'r rapidly every day. At . meetig of the Board of TIruistees of NeierryCollege the degree of lDoctor of Divi4.vwas c-,nferred onl tihe lie. Ed war'd T. H-rn. of C'harlest:n. and the dec "ree of '.ite'r of Arts on: John A. Chap man. 04 Newb4eriyV. The ear in the Newv York coffee ex chan"ge was broken yesterdiay and the price w.ent downi narly-] :j per c-eat. A proile 'nd the filu''re of several prom' aent flirms res-ulte. The amaotont invm iee in these failures is pu.t at .:,0. . TLe 'Si-remte ourt of Georgia tias sus tie~d the dcecision in the conltested Dixon w ill es. Thle decisio akes~. c Amandaa Dxnformecrly of Sparta, now 'resident of Au'ust, ti e richest negress in the' v-orld, the e't:.i' being valued at :3:35,0 0. C ark K. Willifo.rd. an old citia (If An 'r.a cou nty. left home " Fr'idayt las tuin, erch was maide f' r hain'.' ahs dead~ 1v v -as found in the wvoods :ibout a mile f"rn'''l ownt house. Hec died 'f 1o pley. Acdele''aton from North Carolina, head e'd by M'ena'tor' ltansomil and \'anee and lepr' seniv H enderson, v::dted on the P res- ien and askded a maodhieiti' ni of the Excetivie ordecr consolidating ititeriial rev einie distriets, so thait the cilatricts ii that Gecner .id !osS'r .-an wrote his- lett'er' :d--he w r is~ 0vr ad. I am i'lwl .1oI tvi ed~ ai di.,' he outh s rih t'la ':a It wa before the wa. in !!eva'i, i'e '"'nin ' 'ou not p3'-e.' tie his e into ''avry if l-'"''e. to th funds of th mc it )Lrotatc e il.ir't'., therAe. ia iitrt h ehres wou liketol 'r~ muc 'r be 'ern. lii: Ithde isd :better that aUnaliteinate -eiitor and tant, awith ths mbiibln tdrin h'is t hat nrbtendd hir ei ers onth URIC-A-BRAC. A wOMAN'S N.\Y. No, Impudence, you shan't have one: How many times must I refuse? s Away I say: Or else you'll sure my friendship lose. I cannot bear such forward fun, So. quick, begone: If not, I'll run: Whv. now I'll have to be severe-- T N -. not a kiss to you l'll give- t Take care I swear il tell pipa sure as I live: I evcr saw a man so queer: Bu' are you certain no one's near. Al ways in use-The letter s. A clean shirt is not a bad bosom friend. f What causes the flowers to shoot is that they all carry pistils. ever judge a man by his salary. Never judge his salary by his airs. A slow match-Sparking but never pop ing the question. In Southern Califormia the pomegranate grows as it does in Italy or the Holy Land. ltussia believes in underground wires. It is opposed to Poles. A carpenter is not necessarily a prophet because he augurs well. A pig was never known to wash, but a great many people have seen the pig iron. It is a fact worth remembering that it does not take half so long to make a wound as to heal one. it is not the change of scene that cures so many traveling invalids. It is absence from the doctor. A camel sometimes lives to the age of 100 years. No wonder he has a hump upon his back. The horse-hair snake found in water is found to I e a parasite inhabiting beetles, grass-hoppers. etc. "Goin' into politics?' said the merchant to the dentist. "Expect to take the stump occa;ionally," was the reply. A QUESTION OF PRONUNCIATION. I is but a step-oh Down to the dep-oh. The way is quite steep-oh That leads to the deep-oh. I slipped on a grape-oh Just by the day-poh. In a store near the dee-pot I bought this small tea-pot. 'erhaps, to end the agitation, - We'd better henceforth call it station. It is claimed by some medical men that sm -king weakens the eyesight. Maybe it does. but just see how it strengthens the breath. The man who intends to camp out next month should begin to prepare for it by sIeeping in the back yard and eating raw meats. Friend-You don't mean to say that you understand French, Tommy! Tommy-U 2 es. I do: for when pa and ma speak French : ta know Fi to have powder. "Vhat pains a father more than the cry of his infant child?" asks some one. We don't know, unless it is the cry of his in fant twins. A recent article is entitled "A Poet on an ditor." We cannot exactly understand this. but perhaps he grabbed him while his ba:vk wias turracd. It is now stated that George Washington ued to -o fusi-g occasionally*. This en titrelv nisets the assertion that he couldn't te!l lie. A Qelerated 1.hysician boasting at dinner 'hat -e cured his own hams, a guest ob .srv "i -Doctor. I am glad to hear that you i ave cured somethinz." The newspaper astronomer who says I hat -re nare only four thousand stars visible to the rakecd eye has never tried roller skating on th - back of his head. "Te r'chest man in Oregon began busi ness-iby tinning Calf skins," say an ex ch~o:. Th is is the first time we ever h-ar of" a chool-teacher getting rich. The 'l.>ing toast was pronounced at a rn- 's di(lnner, andl was received with rt -appo'ause: "The ladies-their eves Liie the (nly tlame against which there At Washington every one takes his after ncon walk on the avenue as religiously as -e -a t~ o -hurch on Sunday, and actuated largely by tue same motive-to see other Says- a philosopher, "N thoroughly oc eupiedi man was ever miserable." Probably ti philosopher never spent a forenoon -mong is friends trying to borrow a five dollatr note. Wiestrn horses are not so hardy nor so erv'ic-able as Canadian horses, owing to te genera use in the West of corn instead o outs nd peas which are fed to horses in At correspondent asks if the sharps in miatc d.o not virtually include the flats. We d- n't know how it is in music, but ill t he unnmusical turmoil of every-day life tihe sharps always fake in the tlats. Don't spend your money for a motto of " Sive my lambs." until you have cleaned out your back yard and disinfected the vu--ls-- and 'ewers. Cholera dIoesn't care a cont'ietal for mottoes. Pr of. Proctor says that "without water theres canb no volcano." "That (hic) may be 1L." said old B3easiy; "'and without whse there dhie) would be fewer erup toinsat hiomeu. -Thiy didn't pick that st uff soion euough, dId th y, ma-mma?" asked a little boy as heC pasedl a gr'cery where several cakes of L imburgeor were takinz -' breathing spell 3tj s.L II. 3MeCall, of 3Mollard Creek. N. C. h-os recently given birth to her third pair of twins. She has been married 14 y or mt d ni n this time-bhas presented her huwband ith 1:. cl hildre-n, of whom 21 still Mrs. Ba-scom savs she does not see what they want to make so much fuss about wheat her prominenat Americans have coats of-arm or noit. She s:ays if it was coats withoiit arms it wouitld lie something to talk :ilbout. -i ay bo., "- eroaned an old darkey whto h::d broken his leg, andI was being bundted rather unceremoniously into an ambanc'te. "y-' may not blieve it, but it hus c -lhvrI man jess as much ter git his le'rok as -it do a white mann." "Ilinv - tove plate, a thick one, riveted in my ~ ht. lie saidt sadly to the tinsmith. "adha'.e this jacke-t lincid with sheet-iron, double thic'kness in tile back, and put-" "Gre-' Scott: 3r. 5--, have you gone rz': --No: lEm to umpire a game of base b.:l t-orow. i m going to make "Now.- yo tell ma- I iiave a fair miemoi-y. a .:reat capac-iy for learning languages, a I:. 'ump of "ener-aton. aiid a well de ved -had - -eue'allvy" "You have," liid the prenolo-it. "is there anything, au th --an unde r examinatlion, in the exb:-r~e c il i joy, "that my bead needs t- make~ it absolte ly perfect?" "Yes." "W-\\hati is i, pay?" "Wshuing:" *.o iotu> ii:ss corr. 1-lo-k atthee dolefully, dear old dress-coat, aor numbered, i feat-, are thy days Or ra er -thy nlightS-andi~ no more canst Sun wans of the w.altzers' wild maz.e. Th pres'serI 's t skill cannot make thee a l ouih1t C'larmenit again.] : -ar' air our follies a smile, aond a tear for hours too bright far to remnaini. .If all so-called remedies have failed. Dr. The Piedmont Exposition. This exposition which will open in At tnta on the 10th of October promileso urpass in magnitude and grandeur li! otton exhibit held there some ve:. :;. 'he Piedmont section of the Solih wii e ally represtnted and the Exporillo:, wili ol( for two weeks. The main fe :: n 01 f the occasion may he briely st:aeiC 01 llows: President Cleveland and .:: sembers of his cabinet will e1' here. This fact is arivertid ith a , . aission. The premium lisi cover n . I le 'here is also over $)10,1J0) in n-ing pur-. nd 200 of the linest r s in th ill be there. There i :. i ili rizes. There will be an ec grand review by the 1r,, . T yrotechnIc di.-play is gua:r::ea Lt ( e , nest ever seen in America c.%c1ia :t pening of the Brooklyn bridge, an( ost $9,000 for three Uight', oC eatures will be Niagara Falls in 1ire wor k I living wall of light, G0 feet high aud 15 eet long. Atlanta spends 5.0 .000 rounds and buildings. The buildiing:, xcel in beauty and size those of the con'x xposition. Every day will be full of spoz i Lud amusement for the crowd. lic ra. oads will give reduced rat eetaid ound trip tickets. at perhap') a ee - aile. Arrangements for rc::chm; I rounds are perfect. Both the milr: nd street cars run into the rroiunds. 'I I" ,xposition will undoubtedly b,- the b how ever held in the South and wil iake S n exhibit of the riches of the PiThcno-I I egion never before equa1llal. ! Fair Play Asked For. Under the heading "Give \'irgidaj Fai ?lay," the Richmond Slate of Yo.nda vening enters into a long and exhaulive, Lnalysis of the debt question, with 1 -w f showing that the people of thie Oti Dl-j ninion are fully justitied in refusing -n I, onger to "tamper with impo-ibiliti.~ 1.proposition was made to LLhI bd bond .o pay them $7:.552 intest ec<ry x. )n a capital of $2:.27,70. h r< atives of the bond holders denanI irtetr o the amount of $534,542 annu l rincipal of $32,384,453. As an acl iace of the latter proposition would i c -essitate an increase of taxation cru" t he impoverished agricultural secosro he State, or further cripple the p F! chools, in which, as it 15. only 71 per cena. f the children of school age are cro. I he people cnn never agree to it. Theyi annot be made to believe that a s::en- CC hich to many of their dearest interests would mean ruin can resnablybe x pected of them, even to pay the publicin iebtedness that hangs around teeir nlt ike a millstone. It is a situation that er itles them to the sympathies of the country. d if they are forced into repuditio ::t ast, the event, though to be deplored. N% ill 2ot be without its many mitigating cir um t tances. Base Ball Prolir-. The Boston Herald has been liguring onl ;he profits of base ball. The 1krald r-ke Boston as a good example by which t,: lustrate the profitableness of this new a isiness: There will be about 6: ganies of i jase ball played in the League As. ociation luring the season, of which about 20 haia dready been played. The attendate: .hem has averaged fully 4,(OO ireople. Thi . it 50 cents a ticket, yields coasiderabl nore than $2,000 a game, for there are re served seats, to the amount of 1, " i, :umber, at 25 and 50 cents each. the mer >f which are generally sold, and there 7ire )erguisites of the grounds which bring i noney. It is a low estimate to set dIov. ", he receipts of the season at :.AI25,9W. Uut >f this are to 1.c inken. perhaps, 6c.h0 ,or salaries of players, -UO for ground !xpenscs and a considerablc sun fi: thea ost of transporting the )layers from one ,ty to another. It will be liberal to call his altogether $50,000. The profits, there ore, that the Seson of live mITonth 1 epresent will be 05,000. T'he Vacant Jumiieeship.( A Washington dispatch to the Cincin aati En'yirer says: Here is sonme inside in Formation in regard to the vacancy on the Lnited States Supreme Bench. It concs, From a thoroughly reliable sotirce. There -tre only two points settled upon by thre E President with regard to the appointmlent e -intends to make to iill the exriaig ancy. H~e has decided that the posaic nust go to a representative Southern man, md, secondly, that he must not be more han 55 years of age. It is the -desire (If ir. Cleveland that the man wvhom he ap points shall be a vigorous man, and one who will be good for at least fifteen or wenty years' service upon the: Supreme Bench. Beyond this the President has not ivcn the question or the qualitications of mny of those heretofore named in conm ion with the appointment the least co::.si ~ration. He wants the man whom he sha-!I select to be a Democrat who will last fo ifteen years or more after hie has Mitreld rom the Presidential oflice. A Definition. "What is the difference between ani ned ent and a surprise'' asked Mrs. Spel'r. 4 breakfast. "All accidents are surpnrie. aut not all surprises are accidents, replieci Nr. Spelter. "If I were to tip over the amp. it wvould be an accident. If you were to say nothing about it, it would be0 a urprise." "I see." said Mrs. b ,I dange usly. "And if you were to comec h1me . ron the club sober, would t hat be both :n ccident and a surprise?" "No. my d' ar: hat would not be un acciden't. It woub'l >nlv be an incident.' THE PEE DEE INDEX thinks that "it will be difficult to fmnd any one to re lace Dr. McBryde. If possible -the tate of South Carolina should keep him t the head of her famous college. The nan who succeeds him must come with Sreputation silready made. No exiperi- . nental marn at this juncture should be and lessens "be pain, but it greatly diminmshes the danger to life of botn naother and child, and leaves the motlher In a condition more favorabie to speedy recovery, and less llat~e to Flooding, Convulsions, and other alarming symptoms. Its eiceacy in this respect entities it to be called TBg 3IoTHERi's FRIEND, and to rank as one of thre li'e..savmng remedies of thme nineteenth century. We cannot publish cerificates con cern ng this renmedy without wound - ing the delIcacy of the writers. we have hundre:1s on fie. Send for onr book, "To Mothers,-' malted tree BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co., Ailanti, Ga. PITTS CARIMINATIVE! FoR INFANTS AAD CEETHING CH ILD ~ E N. An instant relief for colic of infas.t ures Dysentery, Diarrhcea, Cholera :nfantum or any diseases of the stomach nd bowels. Mlakes the critical period f Teething safe and easy. Is a safe and leasalt tonic. For sale by all druggists, md for wholesale by HowARD, WILLET Co., Augsta, Ga f- -. o1s. .-. nisl -'' rLr 2 LI i ID r woni.h N he drugg I II t fn tO 1. s t ' . ...11 e fo orelCil ki c1; on' 011 I e A Ov.Iov. f ew., ,: 10 C :as a . w 1? /L :AL . ,:, j i i, (II th I:;..: :. 11r . a; rr! 2 n -r il 0 1. - !, a .:n -. o. -: )oi v. : o: . trCa s '. 2. , 1 no d 1:.b 41? eo ne ~a uny.-'m. ri o1 e: cr no e of .'. .'.r 1-.t ZRZ -p-,~s mn of as ow ' (U U'K t 1.. v I t . . 2*C2I2. . : '. Sp:r6:.-t it e gr '' ''I. Itviilaur o> re v :ad for !I;.. inI.in.J d ai I wt us I n a -rf? . . -on, T um:E -, > id 9-'y om : ts j2I;.rr - c . tt i c efu mb :i ? iMl. 1 . ..:h Ad-I -o: ierulard 3ii epo r ve U or ::0:;3 . ire , .UA!TLN A - . PuzPALLAS, e'aa-3 :.A - IN&L.&, O,,A :.a Ait: df1 a M Ne-s v ind n' w o ew100-1:u E 4 si b:.:1 4'-. : i:: a . 1a d : to rn -i n Goo]) -r A. ': m : 'dG -' p.U ir.n, rtJaL , i: 4 'i2 - ill Plac. :2 :ei : l -i: L.-..r&O. . sJ , .VA WN l12CD cl ' - - .A UAC -E , .xs leti. Vt M. .'K12 a - - p, 1 At I'de C .n,.Uhm.:...&L a m ...........- * . - .. . ' - ' x~ o. z.i u U-ca n A fl - o. h, or EruPtion, o a.Salt-rheum, e.caly or Rough I .es caused by bad 1y I this powerful. puri r :in :::e(Iicine. Great - yheal under its be -is it manifested eer, Rose Hash, -ore Eyes, Scrof - .. *tvclings, Hip - - WhiteSwellings !0, - e e , ami Enlarged in 6tamps for a - -I plates. on Skin - 'iw- amoun lit for a treatise THE SLO 3S THE LIFE."s ai.ise it bi using Dr. Pierce's 'n .edicl Di scoveryand good -:al ,icnzt!;, will beestabliebed]. CONSUMTION, '' - a oE the Lungs, is ar *..::-,..:.1 med. if taken be .1 T hdisease are reached. - -- . r over this terribly - . Is: ring this now -i;lie. Dr. PIErnCE it his "Con. - It abandoned that -. ; niteine which, -n oI tonic, or - --cleansing, St.iive proper - ited for ;ronxic big SLungs. f.. v Yly dbilitated, have - lowish-brown spots - -t headac1e or dzzi 1 a :.(p ; 'th, internal heat or -io hht tlishes. low spirits irr-glar appetite, suffering from . ::nd Torpid - -- . c." In many mtoms are expe ior all such cases, - .-*den Mledical Din. Suitting of Ii reath, i ron. -: n!, cre Coughs, and tieeient remedy. r .:1.00, or SIX n :1 - for Dr. Pierce's ori IN D ;i. ay Medical Asso ltio1n, ; 2 an intt, Mtarll N. Y. $500 RIEWARD i:- o:Tered by the proprietors -Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy t rens- of c aarrh whic t.. u:nn't (lire. If you - ht'. :: scharge frmin the - r otherwisV . partial lse, of or ii -vea. Vttk eyes, dull pai I. you have Catarrh. Thou 'a. e:wS temfin:re i:n consmnption. r.r:;sCuti'AiiitilEMETr.y cures the worst 0.3 f Catn r-h, "Cold in the Head,'1 Lai Catarrhal Hecadache. 50 cents. 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Freqiuent attemnpts at counterfeit ing only addI to the popularit y of the original. Do rnot exprine:t--Jet the Or.IGINAL AND BE.ST. (Dr. HARTER's LIVER PILLS Cure Constlpation.Li-:er Comelaint and Sick Headache. Samn' Dose and Dlream Booki mailecd on receipt of two cenlts in postage. TH E DR. HART ER MEDICINE COMPANY. St. Louis, Mo . u'Pa~. by En'gineers, Mechanicsand all e dramas '" Farmers. A verfeciteelgntu anaIRC'?G, entfor IalIread En IY 't~iiq eering finding heigts MM.of wateriaL el g t .'NEl sinff moeuntangs,& double extention target rd 6e anteed. Ask $7.00 I cinin N' sn re.C. ~si~~,TN ADK CATED ~e