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I® . tk« diah<M, tad «b« ft »tew, mend hit Mocking*, mother ated to do. V 'rjtf H — n. rirt Great Britain control and hn fonnd Spantih main and malm tb« kit had »ix gMjpiit night h«r work wat done, wifa teemed drndging alwtjt, jet the only had the one. Bit mother alwar* wae well dreeeed^ hit wife would be to too, If only the would manage at hit mother need to do. ^ Ah, well' the wat not perfect, tho* the tried her beet, ■ r ' Until at length the thought her time bad oome to hare a reet; So when one day he went the tame old rigmarole all through She turned and boxed hit ear*, JuM at hit mother uaed to do. ITS Corrib- little better than a British biacnlt* at lake. . He concluded ae fotiowa: “We bare teen Britiah forces at Corinto. We know the attitnde they ateume la Veaexuela. They are attempting to take land on the Alatkan boundary. They hare juai denounced the ogodut rlrendl and reopened in that way the perilous dispute Of the northern tore tUherlee. It ie not by accident that these erents hare all occurred or all oome to an acute stage within the past C ar. They are aot due te ue, for we re committed no aggreteslon upon anybody. Of ail tbeee difflcultiet which are now open us, the moat im but Tby ! portant It that laroixad ia tha diapute Pope Gregory XIII, acting under . with Venesuela. They fell ut that theadrioe of the attronomer Clariua, 3 this territory It remote and worthless, decreed that the oeatury year, inttead 7f rb n HREF8 MOVSOE DOOTRIIE. A LUCID BXPLAMATIOlf OP TVStBSEUELA gUMTION. THK Senator Lodge Makes a Strong His torical Argument in Defbooe or Our Position. Hoa. Henry Cabot Lodge, (Rep.) Senator from Massachusetts, ad dressed the Senate on the subject of the Monroe doctrine. He said it was not hi* Intention to apeak until the joint resolution introduced br him girlng te tbe declaration made by Mr. Monroe in bit message of December, 1823, the formal sanction of Congress had reoeired the consideration of tbe Committee on Foreign Relations. But sinoe then tbe President bad sent in his message on the Veneauelan difflcultj and Congress without a dis- eentiag roios had authoriaad ths com mission which tha President request ed. This action had led to much wild talk and cries more focal than numer ous from those who beiiere we should nefer do anything, to clash with Eng land’s isterests. This outcry coupled with London’s attempt to frighten Congress by producing a stock panic secoau main- iagain non In *--• t therefore, thought a little oool explana tion would not be out of place. Two cardinal principles, he said, had alway* goferned the United States in their relations with foreign nations. The first was Washington’s neutrality doctrine as laid down In the farewell address. The second was the Monroe doctrine, the history of which he traced in detail. The only attempt hereto fore made by outside powers to break through that doctrine was the joint In- terreation of England. France and Spain la Mexico In 1881. A second case has now arisen, and the tenaaoe of the.Monroe doctrine Is threatened as it was by the Frenol 1881 This second attack upon tbe principle* of the Monroe doctrine comes from Great Britlan and is made under oorer of a boundary dispute with Venesuela. In order to shew the Importance of this controversy which bad now repched a ertah Hffeoting most greenly the honor, the Interests, the rights, and the well-settled policy of tbe United States, he sketched.''brifly,” as he said, but with elaborate details, the history ef the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela and of the negotiations between the two ooun- Mth He continued ns follows : '* It will be observed from this brief outline of the dispute, that no new rights have oome to England or to Venesuela since 1814, L e., since the declaration of Praaldant Monroe. They have the rights qf Spain and Holland, respec tively, nothing more, and nothing less, and are entitled to exactly what those inherited rightq give them. In 1830 a British minister ncknowledffed that Point Barlma belonged to Venesuela and asked the Venesuela government to erect a light house there. In 1840, a Britiah court in Demers declared the territory of the Morooo, far to the east of the Orinoco, to be Veneauelan territory. 1 n 1841 an English angineer laid out n perfectly arbitrary line running from the mouth of the Orinoco in a southerly direction until it reached the southern boundary of British Guiana. Lord Aberdeen dis avowed this line and proposed another starting at the River Morooo and going further Into the interior; Lord Granville proposed another reaching further to the west; Lord Rosebery another inside the sohumburKk line, but coupled With the free navigation of the Orinoco. In 18U3, he proposed a second line, and meantime Lord Salisbury had extended the British claim while he was secretary for foreign affairs. Every British minis ter offered a different line within which Great Britain would not consent to arbitrate, and every British minis ter has gone beyond his predecessor in making fresh claims to territory beyond the line which be offered about which he would arbitrate. At first sight this seems to denote inconsis tency on tbe part of the Blltish gavero- ment, but in reality their course has been just thegfeverse. There is ap parently just as ‘much support for one line as another when they pass beyond the valley of the Essequlbo. From Schomburgk down every line was en tirely arbitrary, and the constantly growing claims beyond tbe various lines offered was in entire keeping with the policy of the British govern ment. Their object was to get as much new territory as they could if the matter ever came to a settlement, which they have used every artifice to delay.” ' f Asserting his belief that Great Brit ain had no good claim to a foot of land beyond to Essequlbo, Mr. Lodge laid down the principle that if England, with no authority but a disputed claim, seized the territory and declined 'ar bitration upon it, her action does not differ from seizing and holding by righ The seizure of this South territory by England, be aheolqte violation of the Monroe doctrine. At the last session of Congress, said Mr. Lodge, I called the attention of the Senate and of the country, to the manner ia which England had absorb ed tbe islands of tbe Pacific and to the necessity of our controlling the Ha waiian Islands, a necessity which now becomes more pressing with each suc ceeding day. I ask you now to look at the Caribbean Sea. I ask you to note the strong naval station which England ha* established at St. Lucia. Follow a line thence to the westward and you find Trindad the development of which has been strongly pushed of late years, then Jamaica and finally British Hon- daraa. The line faces the South Amerloaa coast. This territory claim ed from Venesuela ia be lag pushed steadily to the westward along that eoaat, and the poiat at .which It aims is the control of the mouth of the Orinoco, oac of the great river systems of South America. The purpose of all ie writtea plainly oa ferred te the ssaeeas wae very slow, yet after a good asany oeatarie* |t| Warns quit# ooosld arable. Ia 1682 * the date of the teresi equinox rad 1 faunn w*k to 11th of March, la- 1 stead of coming oa the 21st as it uad i twalve centuries prsvious. This arror would hava gone oa increasing, and after a sufficient lape* of time we would have had Christmas oelsbrated in summer and the fourth of July ia winter. Oar days would .hava ad vanced with reference to the seasons la the same way as the Mohammedaa’s back, except our change would have been very much slower. The dif ference between the equinoctial year and the on* of the Julian ealandar ia 400 years amounts tel days 2 hours aad 27 minutes. it is remote, perhaps, but it is not worthless, for U it bad been, the Venesuelaa possession of it would be undisturbed. But it matters not but our fore- It because it and tbe Groat Brlt- The tea tax was trivial fathers refused to pay involved a great principle, attempt to collect it cost G ain her North American colonies. The American people believe today just as firmly In the principle of the Monroe Doctrine. They deem it essential to their honor, their safety and their interests as a nation and they are prepared to defend it when it is prepared lied. M Mr. President, who Is responsible for the unhappily strained relations between England and the United States? As I have pointed out, we have not bees the aggressors on any of the points now in dispute, whether In Alaska or Venezuela, r “ What then, has strained our rela tions ? The peremptory refusal to ar bitrate this question of boundary. Who gave that refusal? Great Brit ain. We have appointed a committee, not to abritrate between Great Britain and Venezuela, but to inform us, after careful Investigation, what tho true divisional line, in thoir opinion, should be. Who has drtwft an arbitrary line of boundary and declared that they should not arbitrate to the east of it ? Not the United States, but Great Britain. Ultimatum* are what strain of being leap year, as system, should be only s ble by 400. Thus 1800 leap year,_whil* 1700, 1800 under tbe old so whendivtsi- and 2000 are And 1900 had tended to confuse the Issue. - Ret relations, and thry have oome from whether it is worthless or valuable, ^re not. This adjusts the three days ““ *— -—'’ *—*— * r of tbe time mentioned above, and leaves a discrepancy of onlv 2 hours and 27 minutes for every 400 years. Aocordldd to this calendar it will take some 4,000 years to throw the seasons and days of the month out as much as one day. Four thousand years from now the vernal equinox, according to this, tbe Gregorian calendar, will have fallen back from the 21st of March to the 20th. Moreover, Gregory, to have the seasons fall m they bad twelve cen turies before, ordered the day follow ing October 4th, 1682, to be called the 15th instead of the 6th, restoring the ten days that had been lost. All Catholic countries adopted theGwgo- raln ealandar at once, but Engtlnd being Protestant and Russia Being Greek, did not. With characteristic slowness in adopting anything foreign, England changed the Julian for the Gregorian In 1752. By an Aot of Parliament, the day following September 2d wae to be called September 14th, Instead of tha 3rd. At the same time the year was to begin with the first of January in stead of with the twenty-fifth of March, as it previously had. The modified calendar is known, In English history as the New Style, while the old sys tem Is baited the Old Style. Although Parliament was very cau tions to make the eleven days added work no prejudice to debtors, yet the change caused riot in various parts of England. The people said they were being robbed of eleven days. All the civilized counties now use slth the ox- reption of Russia, which still uses the Julian, and, as a consequence, the lat ter country is twelve days behind the rest of the world. After 190a there will be a dlffei enoe of thirteen days between the calendar of our country and of Russia. W. E. Brkazkale. Great Britlan and not from us. I be lieve that this question will be peace fully settled by the good sense of the representatives of England and the United States, but l am very clear that ssch cottlement can only be reached by action on the part of Congress and of the President which the Gregorian calendar ■hau he aslemperate as It Is firm, and which shall maintain the Monroe Doctrine wherever it justly applies. That doctrine is as Important to us as the balance of power is to Europe, and those who maintain the latter must not attempt to break down the princi ple which guards the integrity of the Americans and protects them from the Interference of foreign power. In the oour*e of Mr. Lodge's histori cal review of the Venezuelan boundary question, he was asked by Mr. Hill whether Venezuela had ever, at any time, refused arbitration. “Never,” Mr.-Lodge replied. “1 refer to that,” Mr. Hill explain ed, “on account of a published Inter view with Mr. Lincoln, is a Chicago newspaper, in which It was stated that Venesuela bad refused arbitration.” “I never met,” Mr. Lodge said, “with any Instance in which Vene suela refused arbitration. 9o far as I am aware, she has sought arbitration constantly. She has rejected one or two of the compromises offered by Great Britain. She rejected one of them because Great Britain insisted upon the free navigation of the Ori noco. I do not think "that Venezuela has ever rejected arbitration. On the contrary, she has always sought It.” —Jmtart U. Irby, senior brother of Senator irby, died at his home la Lau rens, Dee. fl. He was a planter nod 09 years of age. —Eighteen carloads of white people have gone from Wayne, Dublin aad Pender Counties, N. C., to work in the cotton mills at Peiser, 8. C. They were ia two special trains. None of them have ever worked in cotton mllla. —The Supreme Court of the United States holds that i. smooth worn ten- oeat piece is stilt a legal tender, and a common carrier will refuse it at the risk of paying in damages many times as many good dollars as there i la the abraded coin. —Col. J. C. Haskell aad Mias Lou lie Hampton, a niece of General Wad* Hampton, are to be married at Mill wood on Tuesday Morning, the 7th instant, at 8 o’clock. They will leave for tbe North on a bridal tour aad will probably make their fator* home in Now Yor an Ad fbr ApstA The Webster faction of the Repub- ioaas met last week in Columbia, aad issued an address which setsforth their position as a faction aad thoir grievances as«a political organixa- Jon. The address is as follows: We, the executive committee of the nioa York olty. —Jack Bladoa was shot and instant ly killed Christmas week by John Buzxard near Johnston, 8. C. ft seems that the trouble grew out of a political diffloalty last summer. Both were drinking. Bladoa is the man who shot and killed a negro at Spartanburg when he was n dispensary constable while resisting arrest. —The State Supreme Court has decided that it is a court. The issue which was raised as to whether it was a legally constituted court or not until the fourth justice provided under the qew constitution nns been decided, and the court is going ahead with its business. The court has promised to file an opinion dealing with the Issue at length In all its phases. —The Anderson graded school open ed New Year's morming under quite auspicious circumstances. The trus tees and the ministers of the olty were present. Mr. G. E. Prince addressed the school and introduced Prof. Mon- orief, th*^ superintendent, who then' took charge. Three hundred aad fifty two pupils were enrolled, five being in the ninth grade, seveteea in the eighth. It is thought the number of pupils w^ll reach four hundred by the dose ol the week.. —Governor Evans has received re quests from county superviaorsfor infor mation relative to the opening of the books for the registration of voters. ▲ LEAF YEAR MI88IN0 LAST OHANCH FOB BIGHT YEARS. Profbesor Wiothrop now territory In the Americas by right of conquest. American rted, was an i Braaaeale Gives Horn, Facts About the History of endar and How tbe One In Use Came to be Adopted. Columbia Register. Rock Hill, 8. C., Dec. 31.—The year 18U6 Is the last leap year we shall nave for eight years. Perhaps it will be of Interest to some of the readers of The Register to known the reason of this. 1 attempt to give them in a condensed form the principal events in the development of our calendar. It must be remembered that even in prehistoric times men were work ing on it, and, that It has not reached Its nearly perfect condition until quite recently. Our present mode of reckon ing time wae Introduced In England in 1762. The natural divisions of time are the day, the lunar month, and the year,, i. e., the time between two suc cessive vernal equinoxes. It will be seen at once bow difficult it will be to co-ordinate the month and the year when we consider that the month has 29 davs 12 hours 44 minutes and 2,08 seconds, and that the year has 306 days, 5 hours 48 minutes and 45 seconds. This gives us 12,309 months In a year. Now if we take 12 months we have the rear too short by nearly 11 davs. The effect of such a count would, be to make anv date, for ex ample New Year, back by about eleven days every year, and consequently, we would have, after the lapse of a few years, the first of January coming in midsummer. The Mohammedans have just such a calendar. Any date with them goes through all the 1 reasons in about thirty-two years. Previous to the time of Julius Cnosar, the Romans used substantially the same system as the Mohammedans bow use, the priesthood and magis trates adding davs in. an Irregular manner so as to keep the mibths in the proper seasons. Dates got into such a hopeless con fusion that Julius Caesar, Vith the help of the astronomer, Soeiy»DaC saw there was no way out of the con fusion but to form a new calendar,, and that It was useless to try to' make the month a divisor oi the year. This new calendar, which was called the Julia#, made the year 3^5 1-4 days. Three years were given 365, while the fourth was given 366 days. This extra day was added by counting twice the sixth day before the calends, or first, of March, hence the name bissextile for leap year. Julius perpetuated hla glory by call- ;h month, as It was then, uly.” Augustus, his successor, not to bo outdone, stole a day from February and added it to the following month, calling the month August. HU month had to be as bug as Justus's. The Julian Calendar, ae It U called, was, by far, the beet one that had been used. Its fault Is that It mad* the- year leeger by about 11 1-4 min utes than the equinoctial year, which governs the eeaaeae According to thU mode of reckoning time, though the dUpleoement of the months as re- Th* South During the Year — Richard N. Ed mounds, editor of the Manufacturers’ Record, in a general review of the business of the South during the past year and the prospects for the future, says : " The year just ended has been one which for all times to oome will be noted in the reoor ds ef Southern pro gress as one of the most important rlods In the business history of the uth. Looking back over 1896, we can see that for the South It has been a year of marvellous achievement. When the general business depression, which has existed through out tue world for several years. U taken Into account it will be realized that the South achieved wonderful things dur ing 1896. It was free from speculative activity and a year in which there was no hurrah or booming business seen in any part of the South ; but in all this great territory there has been a solid, substantial foundation laid for greater growth than was ever before seen in the South, if not any other part of the country.” He attributes a great proportion of this prosperity to the Atlanta Exposition, of which he says that Its Influence will be felt for yeara to oome, and that its effect on the fu ture of tbe South cannot be measured in figures. South’s Carolina s Prosperity.— Tbe News and Cuurier has been peg ging away for many years urging the farmers of this State to diversify their crops and live at home, i^ast year it offered special prizes for the biggest hogs raised in South Carolina and the most hog produced in the space of three hundred days. These offers gave a .great impetus to hog raising in the State, and reports published by The News and Courier setting forth the financial and industrial condition of the State show that more hogs have been raised than in any year sinoe the war. Laurens County with 35,000 pop ulation reports one hog per capita. The condition of the State has not been so enoouraging nor orosperity so general for fifteen years. Nearly every county has mrfile its own supplies. There have been few if any commercial failures. The merchants report their collections have never been so good. Not only have the farmers paid their debts for 1896, but in hundreds of cases have wiped out qld scores. The manu facturing interests were never in a more flourishing condition. The banks report large deposits and the whole tone of the report is jubilant. He says that there is no use for anyof the supervisors to open their b» U until after the Legislatwr? arrangements for the new registration, when the supervisors will be advLeu wuat action they are to take. It i*oi no use to carry on the registration under the present law. —It is understood that among other things discussed at the meeting of vbf Wlntbrop executive committee on Thursday night was the amount the Legislature would be asked to appro priate for its support. Thsre is ajback debt of some 820,000 besides some buildiiding debts yet to be liquidated, which, with the amount necessary for one year’s maintenance, will run the total up to about 170,000. After this the annual appropriation will neces sarily be smaller, —Garvin Allen, a young man in the employ of J. O. Beach, grocer, Augusta, Ga., met death in a myste rious manner at 0 danpd four miles beyond Hamburg, in South Carolina Allen and James P. Gaddis, graduates of the Georgetown law school, Wa*n ington, D. C n and recent arrivals in the city, upon the invitation of Bob Wilson, got into a hack and went to the dance at the place mentioned Allen was shot to death during tne ress of the dance; by whom it is nown. Wilson is supposed to be the murder, but haf escaped. , —Tbe liquor business seems to have been on a great boom during the holi days. Commissioner Mlxson says that the State dispensary bottled ant shipped to the several county dispen sanes during the month of December 19,285 cases of liquor, exelnelvo of beer. When it i^ considered that these cases averaged four gallons each, the amount of liquor shipped out can be easily estimated. The com missioner has deposited a check with the Slate Treasurer for 949,860.30, which represents the cash received from sales for Christmas week alone —It seems that two species of native birds are becoming q uite rare in this State—the showy red bird and the mockingbird. The Indianapolis NeOs says : " The threatened extermina tion of these birds is said to be due to the demand for them in the North, and, in the case of the red bird, the in troduction of the English sparrow is to blame. The mocking bird, how ever, is quite capable of holding his own against the saucy but pugnacious foreigner. Next to singing, there is nothing a mocking bird loves so much as fighting.” , progn not kr Republican party of South Car- sead greetings te our party of the aatloo aad our fellow Republicans of South Carol)— First: th* Wa congratulate this nation >lendld victories achieved nr of all that fa the State oa th* splendid victories achieved at w- iLi tBebaUotbox In Novessberlast. lion la having ^vertlrawn Mt* Denso- 0 * r ^°* t * eratio party, the aid is progressiva aad useful fa the of North Carolina, Maryland, tacky aad West Virginia, and thereby breaking the “ Solid South ” which hod been heretofore cemented by fraud, corruption aad violence at the ballot-box. We ooagratalate the nation upon having restored to th* leadership of oar party ii the lower bonne of Con- s that matchless and patriotic statesman, Hoa. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. W* pledge our faith to the princi ples of the party of Lincoln, Sumter aad Grant, and renew our pledge to the principles laid down in the plat form of the. Republican party at the national cobveation of 1892. Ia the last general election we made a strong finht for the election of Re publican Congressmen, in six of the ■even districts in the State, but under the operation of th* Infamous registra tion law, thousands of Republicans were illegally prevented from voting. Under instruction of this committee the rejeotion of these voters, through this- Infamous and unconstitutional registration law, was made the basis of contests in four of the districts of the State. -The Republiban contest ants in th* first, third, sixth and seventh districts are on every ground of justice and equity entitled to their •eats. The seating of these contestant# would strengthen and encourage the Republican W* urge upon every etMsea a pea able but firm rsoletanos to every croachmeut upon his rights ef oltlzaa- ehip, whether it oome* from these la high place* or those ia lew places, for, Indeed, there is no one la this govers- ilgher than of oltlsen, and no [ht higher than the right# of citlxen- aot allow yourselves to be dis couraged by delays aad annoyances, bat go to th* place* of registration and peaceably and patiently wait, bat per sistently and manfully demand your oertlfioate, nod exhaast ail lawful to get it, aad teach and every cltisea who now has a registration certificate is advised and admonished thin committee of the Union Repub- to preserve aad retain said ' registration and permit no person or person* under any provo cation or for any cause to take away or destroy said oertlfioate of registration. Let every citizen keep his certificate by all means, for there la no law to compel him to surrender his old cer tificate to any person or persons in th* State of South Carolina. Under the constitution recently adopted it is Intended that the Legis lature shall pass laws providing for a new registration in each county of the State; after the Legislature shall have passed the new registration laws for the State your committee will issue another address to each and every county chairman of the Union Repub lican party of the State directing the voters how they shall aot and what mast be done by each and every one of them to secure their certificates of registration and their right to vote. We call the attention of the people of Xha'hation to the gross violation of tbe Spirit and letter of the constitu tion of the United States by the late constitutional convention of South Carolina by its acts ef discrimination against the citizens of the State la relation to their righto to vote in th* public elections of the State and that In this new constitution all male citi- Df.MitosMsdtoaIOo.,1 K« daocfct*r Matt test sptiag with St. Vitas < i nweit— her satire right and asarly paraljssd- ,1*4.1 party of South Carolina and be but tardy justice to those who, under difficulties and discouragements, which can not be fully appreciated by our friends in the North, nave endeav ored to bold up the banner of Republi canism in South Carolina. A Net* new coudition is now upon us. sens, Including Union soldiers, are re quired to pay a poll tax till he is sixty J ean old, while a Confederate soldier i exempt from paying poll he arMves at the age of fifty. The platform of the Union Republi can party and its prlciples are broad enough for all patriotic citizens to stand on, and we earnestly invite all citizens whatever may have been their past political affiliations to unite with us In advocating the principles and in wrestling the administration of the State government from the control of tbe Democratic party and in placing this State in the Republican coiumu in -.eces-ries now arise. New laws. ^ 1B ^ V, W 5 , 11 ™? f 01 . 11111 ,? ln Thomas E. Miller, E. J. Dickerson, George A. Reed, P. Simpkins, B. F. Means, A. C. Merrick. alcian aad he prescribed Ur. tire Nerrlae. She took three bottles hefere „ 8 gaw any certain signs °f ImproTssseat, bat after that ehe began to Improve Tesy fast and I now think the Is entirely etaed. • - She bf* ntna bottles of the Nereiaa, but bo other medicine of any kind. "Knox, Ind., Jan. I, "to. H. W. Hoevnrfmm Physicians prescribe Dr. Ullee' Remedies because they are known to be the result of the long practice add experience of oaeof the brightest, members of their profeeslom. and are carefully compounded by expert- > •need chemists. In exact accordance with Dr. MHee' prescriptions, as need In his practice. On sale at all druggists. Write for Dr. Miles' Booh on the Heart and Reeve* Dr. Miles Medical Oa, Elkhart. lad. It. Bln' Irntfa Mm MBt We Desire era State* and In erder to de se la the quickest time, hare cooeludedto make some eery liberal offers In bed | room suites te secure at least ena customer at erery poet-o<B«m In tbe next «0 day* Please road tola advertisement carefully and send at once for one of eur special offers. Our grout offer Nat consists ef eoe gelid Oak Bedroom Suite with large j dresser with toxSt bevel mirror, are now be .learned. Wickedly and fraud ulently as was this new constitution thrust upon the people of the State, •tiK more wickedly and fraudulently Is the purpose of the promoters of thU scheme to enforoe It. To enforce it not with the view of preserving white supremacy as is falsely proclaimed, but with the purpose of stifling the will of the people in the exercise of the functions of citizenship, the selec tion of their public aervanto, to pre serve the close corporation which now parcels out the offices In the State and perpetuate themselves ia power and place. Soon th* books of registration will be open in every county in the State, and every citizen twenty-one years of age and upwards must register, and those who nave been registered must be registered in order to vote hereafter in the public elections in this State, whether Federal, State or municipal. We urge upon every citizen the'lmoor- taace of possessing himself witn a copy of the new constitution and care fully studying it in erder to know the new requirements and meet them. cannot say ma of dyspepsia, 1 majority of th adapted to itq i It will not cure everything. It is not claimed that it will cure but one complaint, that Is, dyspepsia. We cannot say that It will core every case but it will cure a large them. Such cases as are use will derive Immedi ate benefit. One small bottle will be sufficient to test it. The Shaker Digestive Cordial for emaciated or whose food does them good because it is not digested. The Cordial contains an artificially-digested food and Is a di gester of food happily combined. Read one of the little bopks which yopr druggist is now giving away and learn ! of thU wonderful remedy. , A really palatable Castor Oil can | now be had under tbe name of Laxol. i i —If Adam is accountable for “con-; •equeatlal damages,” he will have a roagh time of it. ine a*axer especially- adapted elderly people who but Rule or no goo full f drawer, one S-feet Bedstead 1 width. This suite of furniture Is worth In any furniture store not lees than |to. Do not think for onoe that It Us llttlscheapsul*?. torwesseuro you It U not, but a large, full-rise I suite equal te anyth mg on the market-1 In order to start the sale of tkeae f suites and to keep our men busy and | Introduce our business in your neigh borhood. we agree to ship one suite enly to eeoh shipping point In South for $15, when the cash ooi with the order. ThU advertisement will possibly appear twice In thU pe- I per. therefore if yeu are Interested, cut this out and send with $16 and the suite will be shipped to you. If It U | not Just as represented you may , fct CHIP MTpftflBfl < your $15 will be refunded to you. Our I catalogue containing many illustra tions of rare bargains and souse fur nishing goods will be seat to yeu up-1 on application. Tbe suite above described U a I. lal bargain and does not appear In the 'eetalegue, therefore It u uselese te write for Illustrations of this suit* and while you are delaying writing | ome one else may get thribargain. We assure you that we toll not ship I but one suite In your neighborhood at this price. After one suite baa been I shipped in tbe neighborhood th< price will go to at least $S0. 1_. F. PADGETT Ml BROAD 8T M AUGUSTA. OA. ing the “Ju A Strong Approval. -Dr. Wm. P. Jacobs,' editor of Our Monthly, and one of the most capable and intelligent men in the States, makes the follow ing comment upon the work of the constitutional convention: “ The const!tution recently adopted by the convention was in many respects moot admirable one,' far superior to the one for so many years the organic law of the Btate. There are many, points pf interest, among which are the' following: Divorce for any cause is prohibited ; prize-fighting is forbidden, gamblers are not allowed to hold office, lynch-law receives lie death blow holding the county where it is commit ted responsible (or it| nc atheist can hold office; a three mill tax is imposed for the support of schools; property held, by churohes, colleges, and charita ble Institutions except real estate Is non-taxablo, and all real estate occupi ed by the Institutions; aid to sec tarian institutions Is strictly for bidden. Suffrage is limited by an edu cational or property qualification. In these and many other points tbe con stitution Is a success. The State Is to be eongratulated oa the ability with —A Richmoud (Va.) dispatch to the Washington Post says: “The wide spread discussion of the Monroe doc trine in connection with the Venezue lan matter hqs caused unusual public In terest In the tomb of the author of that declaration. This has recalled the fact of the removal by some relic hunter of a plate on the tomb of President Mon roe. It was of bronze and about 12 by 18 inches. It is possible that tbe thief thought the plate was silver, and there fore of considerable value. Monroe’s tomb is in the northwestern part of Hollywood cemetery, near the grave of President .Tyler, and within a few rods of the last resting place of Jeffer son Davis, the chief executive of the Southern Confederacy. —Mr. W. J. Richardson, of Ninety Six, who has be^h feeding a pig to take the first prize*)! the News and Courrar, reports that it was weighed by a com mittee and tipped the beam at 591 pounds. Will he get the prize t —One of th4 cu curiosities of this age of Iron ia a line of railroad, 38 miles long, in construction in Florida, whose s are all wooden, “ and secured with wooden pins. r . —it has been discovered bjr'K Cali fornia fruit-grower that when fruit is packed in powdered borax it resists decay for months. —Reflect upon your present bless ings, of whjch every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Love's yeuag dream—A little sigh- abtlitv with i a g, little crying, a little dying, and a Its ■MBiff -eery great deni of lying.— —— —An excellent remedy for a cough j is an oM fashioned one, mads of ot.e i pint of the best cider vinegar, one pint j of Porte Rico molasses, one pint of tbe beet tar. Simmer together four or fire hours, aad when oool remove tko tar from th* ton. The does ie oa* teas poon ful. - —An eccentric New York gentleman has had his house, painted Black, as a token of grief for th* loss of his wife. PE 9^Ue«t: 4 la Or* . . . i L- n«s» toe— wh«al J. r.. 11 ‘.fa unMti«(>c- H. W. 11K«; each •*« I „ ... ku * u -1 V ^ CO., been decided, as I ha* pre, to attack Fort Fiihef _ day and in my jot fl jfesr.as. .\ Superior To All Sarsaparlllas. Down in-Georgia, over ifty yean ago, a marvelous medicine was discovered. It' > a* P. P. F., " ‘~ ‘ ~ * • * Is new knewn growing with the years. Per Rheumatism, Blood {Ltppman's Great Remedy}, and its fame aad reputation has 1 Per Rheumatism, Blood Poiabning, Pain in the aide, wrists, shoulders, beck and joint* Dyspepsia, Malaria, Scrofula, and all Blood and Skin Diseases, it has never been equalled. Pain ia subjugated, Health Renewed, Appetite restored and sleepless nights a—Vr Its wonderful influence. ^ . P. P. P. i* n wonderfbl tonic and strengthencr. Weak women should always take P. P. P. It builds them up. It has the universal commendation of medical aaea throughout the country, because we publish the formula on every bottle, and one trial will convince vn* meet skeptical that it is a genuine health restorer. * - • . . Read The Truth And Be Convinced. A Wen darful Our*. I was a martyr to ymie: tri«S all me muscular rhromaliHB for thirty kedtetnes and doctor* frith no per- maacai rcJUf. I was adrtnd to t»h« P. P. p„ sod brier* 1 had Sniahed two hoMIca my pata •uhsidcd so 1 wm ahl* to woi>k. I feal better thaa 1 hava for y*a»* aad am confident of * complete rroovery. J. 8. BUPXISS. Newaaaville, Fla. cellcat thiag. We baadle a boat oae deeaa hotUtei week. •ra. J. M. A X. T. RICHARDSON. Piedaroat. flb C Testimony from the Mayor. I saffered with Rheumatism for fifteea year* tried an tko to-callrd epectfic* but to no purpose. My Cr maa mtmmm ** r - r - r • 1 feel like a W. K. WILDER. Mayor of Albany. • Pram Two Well-known Physicians. We ara havinf a kiy *ale for your P. P. p., aad ~1 to a yaaknaay come, aad ind K aa ea- Hat Springs Surpassed. A bottle of P. P. p., has dune me mere seed tt three eu-ntht’treatment et tbs Hot Seriax* Are. JAMES M. NEWTOJf, Aberdeee, Brewa C*, C Pimples, fiorea and Kruptlene 4 I take treat plearere la teMifyia*‘to Ike talltie* §t (he popular medicine for ~ sTi aefv qua known as P. P. P*. 7 roffered for tevaral years an unrightly and dimyn-cable enipttoa oa mp I After taicinz three bottle, tu accordance with 4 tioaa, I am entirely cured. Bavanrel «. Capt. J. a. JOHNSTON, - •fJriuMtoaec* • P. P. P., {Lippmem's •e Atlantic te the Pacific. —Is ^ the source of all Uie, C* The store letters are taken from many tec* Cnmf Remedy,) U n medicine whose virtues‘are kn "P, P. P. begin# it# work by purifying the bi V V art does not seas* until n perfect and entire cure is c' - \ Th* mortifyinf eruption* that disfigure the^complexi. Teeta thereugh aecemplishmeot# of the daily tasks, sleepiest, nu.Ms, less © Irritability of dispesitwa, all mean a derangement of the # klaad, whisk ena aad L “'d feeling that f b a dispesitieu, all menu a derangement of the system ^ bleed, whiek ena aad will to eured by p, p. p, P. Ormi i* «>K«d«d with kind UfJWM IAVANHAHj r that pro- if appetite consequent from 'were more mindful of the trenches than of the 'their homes, iirs had a hut at the hpad k facing the fortiffyMion, ip tain dismounted his i, Osar, who could get • wvintcucu i physician# and the people [lively aad n* $i a bottle, BixtotUM fr*)*. always served y< “I do replied t wi. ITU* 0 "****-' ... •> t \..