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it* p- *i- i ■v ■ M People: : Circulation in the County LADY GWENDOLEN .EPISODE.! ••••i By ; ROBERT BARR, owrrighvioni. a & MeOhu* Oo. ♦ ■ Ut ««HK Ut MMMrM tad kt iMralnf <U*. M 1mv« to w our old nob-iH-^lo. - . , Kf *|IL words to that sffsct by /fiV unknown poet. The Earl of Btobcross was, oh, so haughty! He was also proud and want about with hla chin in the air. BarW can al ways bo recognised by the altitude of .their china An Ameri can visitor to.England once expressed his regret to me that the notables of the British isles did not go round with large printed labels on their hacks tell ing who they were, so that a stranger would not be compelled to follow the example of Theodore Hook, who, meet ing a distinguished looking tnan on the Btrsnd. west sp to htarind Inquired if be was anybody in particular. The plaintively said, when I re- that the nobility might object to being labeled, that ft be reverting te an old allowed to fall la ancient times the drawing as a not able to a kaigbt cm afl yen had Is do was to | of tbs titled fam- rear IdH. for d your maa at once ft waa hollar to tak a fide atseet or not As a rule. If had any valuables about you ft that If the heuee of I A ol. ae tor my oes castle, nmsiung up .with a »Wro- ration which would capture the gal lery to the effect that— I A hundred unpaid mutton leg* An worth a t houaaud coat a at arms In these circumstances the life of Lady Gwendolen was not an enviable one, and so she took to bicycling. She got a machine* on the installment plan,, and when the Installments went for long unliquidated and the agent sor rowfully took the wheel away for non payment, as was agreed, the Lady Gwendolen got another somewhere else, the maker printing In his cata logue, “Patronised by the Earl of Stob- cfOss and others of the nobility.” Great are the blessings of the credit system when you know how to work * At first she cycled on the smooth rt*dSi£( v )l|e'home.park round Stob- croes-centre. Then, as She became more expert,- she took to the delightfully leafy lanes of the country, and of course when she was 7% miles from home ttys punctured the tire of -the hlnd-Witoel and sat disconsolate on a mossy bank, not knowing what to do with It - There was a repair kit along, but she knew nothing of Its use, think ing it had been put there to balance the wheel or something of that sor^. At this Juncture, or perhaps It would be more accurate to say at this punc ture, there happened along a nice young man who also rode a wheel. * He sprang off on seeing a maiden in dis tress and asked politely If he could be of any assistance. He could, aftd he was. The girl sat there and admired his deft handling of a tire that had un expectedly gone aa limp as a rag. “There." said the young man cheer fully. “It Is all rightihow. my jady ” “Ob. you know who I am."'said*the (ill. flushing slightly. “Yas. my lady, but as It is not likely that you recognise me may I hare the pleasure sf Introducing niyoetfT These board schools In England do ••able a young man to ezpseas himself beautifully. Pretty soon tbetv wty be D more dialect stories writ ten, for which merry let us be truly thankful. "I should he pleased to bare you do So," replied Lady Gwendolen, with dig nity. “that I may know to whom I am taker obligations.” Then- la raa a delight to serve yoo. I am John A. Bigg*, son of the blacksmith la Pod- hWy Goaaet. the rlilage under the Aadow of Ptntirroee castle, as pne might say. although It Js fire miles away We do aycle repairing, an/ If anything erer goes wrung with your wheal we will put It right as cheaply aa any other reliable bouae tn the trad* * "Cbaapneas has no attraction for my (atbet." Mid Lady Gweotiolen. with Same of the hauteur of the gentleman ah* bad meat lotted. **W* hare n*rer baas tn tbs custom of haggling about ,£ulilted' his withered hninis one ovot the other and chuakled. after the atati uer of rlllalns on the melodramatic stage. He steamed open the note and read Itr*—It-was-rWtborrt address or signature aud ran as follows: "1 ’have everything arranged, and I think tljere will be no fear of ^Iscov ery. If you can get away without ere a ting suspicion, meet me io the old nr bor tonight at 9. hnd I will tell yon all.” Resealing the letter, TreveJJick hand ed It to the lady and wntebed her fur tlrely whilo sbe repd, 15110 was visibly agitated by Its contents, the color com Ing and going on her fait checks. Need 1 state .that w^en young Biggs met the Lady Gwendolen In the sum m.er bouse old Trevelllck was listening outside? I think not; yet. fearing there may be any misapprehension, I will state ft and add that he had his ear at a knothole. He beard every palpitating word, for the two, having no suspicion, did not speak in whispers. Little do young people know of the meanness of this world. “Don’t you think we might try It on a tandem?” asked Lady Gwendolen sweetly. “No, no.” said young Biggs eagerly. “I think we should have two bicycles. Then In case of pursuit we could go down different roads and thus bewilder those who follow. We could meet at the market croas In Puddlebury and go. together to ths place of appointment" "Yes; 1 suppose that would-be the better plan" I dislike riding “I ..don’t suppose It will be necessary for ns to separate on the road, l am merely speaklug of what bad best be 'Itnic should our plans be discovered, a most unlikely eventuality, for your fa ther has not the slightest suspicion and may not miss you until It Is too late for him to do anything." Old Peter chuckled offensively and silently as he heard tbit. * “How thoughtful you are! Will It take long, once we reach there?” "Only a few minute*." "And to thlak that an action franght with such consequence*, an action which changes the whole courae of two human live*, orruptr* but • few min nte«! I can hardly believe that we ar* m near to the n-alhurt hm of our fondest b. r~"> When shall t "T 1 shall tie Id the lane with two btcy cl<-« at three hour* after midnight. The Mghtrd iatnpe will guide you. We will ■lito slowly unlee* (here Is pursuit and should resets PiMidW-hury about day light 1 hope you will bate bo dlfDculty in gt-ttlng away from the castl* uo uo trouble about that put on the public.” ' „ “I—I—really don’t know what yoo are talking about,” stammered the earl. r •*Tbe saddle on the public? 1 thought you Mid ft was to be put on a bicycle.” ”0011* so, qtilte so. Gllloolny has paid your daughter £500,000 cash, less my little commission, and be Intends to paM ft on to the public for two mil lions. And he’ll do ft too.” “Then you—you—bars married no body recently, I take itr gasped the earL “Not likely! Tbtjfe Is too mucb mon ey In the cycle buelnees for me to bother about marrying people I send them off to a neighboring minister.” “Will yeu excuse me if I bid yon good morning?” stammered bit lord- ship. “Delighted to have you do so,” re plied the registrar. • •••••• A This brings me to the conclusion of tbe episode 1 set out to relate and all that now remains for me to do Is to marry off every one of my characters, after tbe m aDDer of accomplished story tellers, thus avoiding tbe exam ple set me by tbe money making regis trar. The particulars of the Gwendo len saddle was printed In most of ths leading English papers as reading mat ter, bat paid for as an advertisement by tbe talented Gillooley and swallow ed aa real news by a gullible public, who subscribed the capital of the new company five times over. The Informa tion was cabled to America, and In the New York papers Ix>rd de Beotnre , ! W a ' , ]J oogh, Barbarrybash read that Lady Gwen- Jlng flone in the dark. en , y rtan|fbtor of tte ^ of The M bast to' m •• Te espial a a^-^*** to* sari of aa the i tbe Noah i that Noah rid of g man bowed sod waa * Ha waa well aware of the **rl • prtarlplr*. ha two rod# together aloof th* la a* ard the castle and chatted la tbe M amiable ■■■tie* of the various its of d'ffereot machine* aad wbeo f parted at last the girt impulsively 1 out bar band, aad If be kept It In owa a little longer than waa strictly who shall blame him? Not I. I've doo* It myself. He made bald to ask her If eh* wae accustomed I* cycle often la that kta*. and she an swered la a low vole* that eh* waa But whht Is th* oer of my dwrlllag as u>**e details? I know th* reader has already fathomed my shallow plot. There Is oely on* story to write, ami that has been written over and over aad over again fit HI I am encouraged to proceed because I am dealing with tort and not with fiction This la a nlain ansaamcled record of actual •vMto (all axcept tbs Nash story, which I am not responsible for; t monk wrote that), and aa long aa 1 Stick rigidly to tha truth I don't a bow I can be found fault with. If 1 “Tber* will j* At 3 o'clock tbeor Thus they parted, and Gweodoleo I •oof l.i her own room. Had she aay I qualms about leaving H thus aurrepli- ttousl? ’ I'm sure I don't know I am rc tn petted ft* keep esetetlg to tbs torts uttbla my w» a cognisance I am however, delighted to be able la slate that her* the vtUala met bis Srst difficulty. The proud eori wae ant at hem* The county court was to session that week at Htvadllng too. ten miles w ret ward frotp the cos tie. while roddlehury was » miles to the east, and ib* earl always attended tbe rouaty court, being usually sum , moned to do so He uaa a punctilious | ‘‘•P ul observer of the laws of hla country and never flouted a writ Old Peter therefore had hla work rut out for him It* mounted a borae and gal lopped for the eori It was long aft er mairtight a ben Peter reached tbe ceonty town, and then there waa much delay tn finding hie lordabtp and to co* vtoclng him that hla daughter had ac tually rUi|ird with the sou of a black •oitth. No fitolw-roao since the days of Noah bad ever ao demeaned herself, the earl maintained, tie saw that If this were Imleed true be could no} to future keep tils chin ao high to the air, ami aa he bad become accustomed to ft Id that pueltloo be bated to change. He was very couaervatlrt anyhow and bad only daughter Btobcross. bad become possessed of $2,500,006. Aa hla lordship was It that moment lu 'begotlation with a stockbroker who would only give $1.- 000.000 with bis girl aud that largely conditional on the aucceaa of the wheat corner. Ixtnl de B—tof Immediately •ailed for home and told Gwendolen that be bad been Id America merely to learn tbe best route rg Klondike, which was quite true. He found what be sought by nton^ylng Gweodoleo at the parish church. John A. Biggs ulti mately wedded the grocer’s daughter. Hannah K prow Is. after the great sad dle company had gone Into liquida tion. Tbe stubborn of<f Earl of Stob- cruaa. who bad been a widower for him to Any' oB# care a bang whether my story la uo popular or not on that account CMd Peter was married already, aa found out to bis rout after tha I bar* related, when hla Irate wife nearly broke hla bead fof being a fool aa to Interfere In bosloeaa that did not concern him and thus -Lady Gwendolen aad tone all chance of getting a share of her aama government is 1 tying to thrust itself on unwilling people in the far. East. The Democratic patty^ >( after it had given liberty to the Texan re public, even by force of arms, saw no disgrace in hauling down its glcrious flag from the rampaiM of the Mont*- zumas; and there mil be no disgrace in the hauling down of that flag from the battlement of Moro Castle when Cuba’s own government is complete, except it be the stigma upon her freedom of action which the Platt amendment en grafted in ith constitution, put there by the Republican party.’.* He spoke feelingly of the |riendli- ness of the Democrats of the North “ in the time of our d<re disaster when property values had shrunken to noth ing, when hope was near gone forever and the Republican party, big and bloated with b!6od and power, sought to wake the Southern States depen dencies and the abode of vultures to prey on and eat out the vitals. “And nowin the high tide of the nation’s progress, because forsooth the Democratic party has been twice de feated because of some differences of opinion aa to certain party policies and because of the use of Republican money conliibuted by the enemies of the liberties of the people, we are in vited to swallow, without even masti cation, all of l he policies of the party of centralized power and to call it pro gressive Democracy. God. save the ms’k I “ Not simply that, but we are asked to remain Democratic aud absorb and assu mlate the beneficent ptinciples of Repablicansm because we live in an electrical age of progieas; and because we are told we shotdd give up our tra ditions, our history, our memories and our past forever. , “ The Democratic party would be dead, the Republican party would be the masters of the situation and the scattered forces of Uie people would be forced into tbe Populistic party, which is now sneered at by some of Us for merly ardent admirers. “ That is what the pa'enta who are behind this movement to invade the South hope for, but your good judg- menL, your patriotic purpose and high regard for doty to the past and tn the nrsaant nPl stamp it out in its inapt- N$ HUN IS SIMNtn T1AN11$ STMACL The stomach is the vital center of the body. It is the organ from which all other organs are fed. A weak stomach means a weak man. There never was a strong man with a weak toomarh. What is called "weak stomach* is in general a dhreft condition of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, which prevents the proper digestion of the food which is taken into the stom ach, and ao reduces the nutrition of the body. When all food is taken away the body starves. When th* food «ten u only dig—ted and assimilated in part it only nourishes the body in part, *id 9° the body is partly starved. And this starvation is felt in every organ of the xxly dependent on the blood which is mart* from food. The great variety of the cure? per formed by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is due to its remarkable power to heal diseases of the stomach and allied organs. It cures through the stomach diseases seemingly remote, but which have their origin in a diseased condition of the stomach and the other ins ' of digestion and - nutrition, eak * heart, lungs, kidneys and weak- > of other organs is cured with the cure of the weak stomach. Mr. Thomas A. Swmrts, Bos toj, Sub-Station C, Columbus, Ohio, writes: «I was taken venr sick with serere headache, then crunja in tkfc stomach, sod food would not dif*st, then and lirer trouble, aad my back got u could scarcely get »round The more I the worse I ^jCuatil six yean passed I come so poorly I could only walk la the by the aid of a chair, and I *c* so thin I had iUn *> te tt*. thinking that I not be cured Then one of mr neighbors said Take Dr Pierce’s Ooldea Mescal piscorerr and make a new maa eat of yaunelf.* The nns bottle helped me eo 1 thought I would get another, and afterl had utkeucLiht bottlss I we# weighed and (bund I had gained twenty-seven (syriba in shout six weeks I Vs re done mote hard work la the past eleven months than I did in two yean hetort?and I am as stout and healthy to-day. I think, as I ever was.* Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellet* ■ constipation. a policy was opened up which portends a grave and terrible disaster to the na tion. These people were in revolt a|ainst Spain and abould have been s’ded to liberty. But we were on the creel of victory, and the Republican pony fore saw naw fields for monopolies. By tbe treaty of I‘ana, that policy *f plunder ~ D be a of the cooeUtotion. This shall be the rallying cry of the Democrats io 1904. Aa to the ship subsidy proposition, Mr. Henderson said that oor expoit trade has become immense because of the Industry of tbe people and the d«rv velopment of resources. “Air. Mark Hanna, tbe king bee of tbe grand old party, promised his campaign friends a ship subsidy dose aa a solace for their aid aud comfort. Two hundred and thirty-five millions of the people’s hon est earnings to be paid oat at an annu ity of nine millions per year to aid ex isting lines ; and it is said Ibis was to r'd in tbe establishment of our mer chant marine to cvrry our trade to the ce v co'o : '’v and tie world. Our new apostles KU us to take this dose also into our political anatomy ; that it would do us good. * *'■ “We needed no ship subsidy from 1850 to 1860, when Democrats practi cally and successfully administered the nationa’ government, and we need none now.- Th*s is a Grecian horse painted with Hanna slime.” He then spoke disdainfully of ibe proposal to reorganize the Democratic party. The ps\iy sboald not be deserted just on account of two defeats. In concluding, Senator Henderson referred to the fact that the conven tion of 1896 eliminated the negro from politics in this Stala. From Wasb’ng- tin erne warning that the Souih’s rep- le'entation in Congress would be re duced. On the heels of this is the ad monition that there should be two white parties in this Slate ; that more freedom of speech must be indulged. “Lst It come,” he iiud, “but let ft one m the right.way—as Republicans and Democrats. Aad when it co nes it means a fight over the negro. When the whites divid) and one party is backed by the patronage of the powers at Washington, it mean* a new regis tration will be demanded ; and the en tile reconsideration of the old ques tions will be brought forward. Are you ready for it ? if so, pitch in.” He concluded with a beautiful pero ration, in wh’ch be pledged bis fidelity to the party under which he had served from 1870 to this time. DEMOCRACY AND REPUBLIC I NI8M. tarritorisl sion beyond ths WesfR.I hctotspbrr and gove.*uuientai coioniutlSn, which when pushed to Its finality means’ram pant imperialism; and second, ft ad vocates Congressional at ulum in i» , e management of such colonies with out regard to the hwuatioo of the great coastilntion. In its domeuic policy it he-bor* and upholds the rankest mooopol* in the end com petition tn trade of in ut Ith ns indue- ■the A Clear Cut View of the Differ ence* Be. ween tbe Parties la tbe United it-t- . Iloa. D. 8. Henderson, of Aiken, wbo spoke at the mass meeting in Umou last weak, has dafined tha dlf- I fnreacea between the Dsmcrmu aad ns in th*s country, aa fol lows Mr. Henderson said in opening that iasntrt an. brought about by happening of events; nations a*e Initiated or dr- stray ed by issues, and it is tbe duty of ever/ citixen to take an active part in such events. ".As a people, as a nation,” be said, M wa occupy ibe greatest country of tha eaiih. Born •mid the pesos of hbeny; Utterly of cooscicnce, liberty of speech, and lib- er.y of religion, she has been baptised in the water* of adveraiiy and is now marcHog up the slopes of apparent proepeuty and power.” Toe people compose the government and meet decide the iaeuee. A'l t ons of the nature of 'he American Courts 91 A b ‘M* 1 the waters subrtdad, .the reri bill and seined all tbe bis band* (or feet) on brought suit against Noah, but tbe 1st tor bad aalMffut of the Jurisdiction of tha courts. Tha monk wbo wrote tbe Stobcroes chronicles venturto n ami pun at this point, spelling the word - ‘‘Jew-risdlctlon,” and explain tug thus the aati-Semltic attitude *t tbe Btob- croes family. Whether the first earl hated the Jews or not. ths wventeenUi Mil had a great liking for them, mort gaged the manor to them and blew In the money resulting therefrom with neatness and dispatch. Having nothing else to blow In, be blew out bin-well, tM corqner’s Jury said It was hls ’ Jhrains, but those wbo knew the Mven- teenth earl maintained that he had none, ao there Is a historical discrep ancy somewhere, probably In the sari's A Be that ao It may, the family has been poor and mortgaged np to the hilt ever since, bat their pride never lessened in the slightest dsgree, which brings this biographical resume to tbe middle of tbe week-be fore last and to Archibald, fortjrtbbd sari of Stobcross, and hls only daugh ter, the Lady Gwendolen. Difficult as it, would be for ua to to love the fortv-tblrd earl of* Stobc ootent to ▼•0 the truth and say he which I fuse te do, the case of Ledy Gwondo- forth The earl being poor, the an over in the United with lists «f railway owners t see mucb about tbe name of Biggs myself. • although be was a floe, stalwart young fallow, deeply read In clippings stolen from the American comic papers and consequently possessing such a vast fund of Intormatluu tbatilt was an edn- cation to Itself for any lady ln‘the land do talk with him. But the reader wbo thlnfce everything Is going smoothly irem now on Is much mistaken. Neither of the young people ga.ve a thought to the preud earl who paced the battle ments with hls chin In the alj- and who waa so anlitermry that he didn't even tak»4n a Sunday paper. The wily read- ,ur who keqpq hi* e y* on that haughty •arl will run the best chance of galnlnr the guinea prise offered for a hoIuUod •f the “Stobcross Mystery.” The two young people met often In 4h*t leafy lane, and talked most al>- aorbtngly of—let us say of bicycles aad the component parts thereof. And the arrogant earl kept hls nose so i>er- pendlcular that he saw nothing of what was passing under his chin, as C e might remark. But was there ne to enlighten him? Reader, you ve guessed It. No account of a grim castle can be written without taking account of the surly servitor—the me nial whortr forefathers have faithfully albved and spied for the baronial boose with which they have been con nected ail through the centuries. Peter Tfevellick, the crabbed man of all work about the oastle, had a sus picion of what was going forward, and he stealthily watched the young pair. For a long time be was baffled,' be cause he was 76 years old and no ter on the cycle, and as most of conferences took place In the entloned leafy lane on their espionage was not without Its TreveUiek. the better to hlS.sinister purpose, fawned on ig man and pretended to be bis actually winning bis confidence, youth, youth! When will you discretion? Haven’t you read dims novels to know that servitors are ever to be die- man gave Trevsl- Lady Gwendolen. tft rived there about daylight, fully ex peettug to dud Gwendolen In her room, and then he told himself be would make It lively for old Peter, wbo had thus unncceamrlly disturbed hls rest. He even confided tills resolve to Peter, but the latter tiad a confident air that troubled hls lordslijp. Bure enough, the castle was empty! The bird had flown! Madly the earl gnlloiHd to Puddlebury. He called first, raging, on the Established clergyman of the place, but found that placid old gentleman had married uo one for weeks. Then crashing on the perturbed noblejnan’s distracted brain came the thought that the blacksmith's son was sure to be a Dissenter and ha'd doubt less been married by one of the numer ous ministers orithat faith. He visited In turn all the reverend gentlemen in Puddlebury, but without hearing of the fugitives. There was now left only the registrar. The last of the cloth on whom hepcnllcd had suggested this offl-' elaj u as It had never occurred to the earl that a daughter of his would de scend to a civil marriage. The earl called upon the registrar In a tow ering rage. , “I am the Earl of Stobcross, and 1 have come”— > • “Oh, yes, my lord; about the little af fair I was honored In carrying out for your daughter. Lady Gwendolen„Qu!te so, quite so. I am delighted to be able to assure your lordship that there was not a hitch In the proceedings, and ev erything went off exactly as arranged, and I am sure I most heartily Congrat ulate your lordship,” said tbe official volubly. "Congratulate! On * blacksmith’s son 1 You—you”— “A blacksmith’s son certainly, and 1 doubt if she could have had a better partner. Sbe bad tbe Ideas, and be had the mechanical ability. Experts say that the bicycle saddle tbey have In vented Is Just fhs thing that tbe public have long been waiting for and waiting for in vain. I do a little business In a financial way, and the young man was good enough to Intrust tbe arrange ments to me. I succeeded In Intereet tag tbe great company promotor. GU- in tbe Invention after we alt over I ne aeciarauun tbe constitution “were begotten in the revolt of libertyvagainsl tue royal im perial istic colonization idea. “ Tbe constitution was a grant of power from tbe people; what was noi therein granted to the government thereby formed wain reset ved absolute ly to tbe people. - “ Every line, every syllable of this magna charter of the people was evolv ed from a t,iuggle of debate between cenlraliz 1 government on tbe one band and a government of the people on the other. “ The dust of battle which vindicat ed tbe liberty principles of the constitu tion bad scarcely rolled away when Hamilton, aud bis followers espoused tbe cause of a central’zed government; and Jefferson and his followers the cause of a Democracy pure and sim ple.” Continuing, Mr. Henderson said that this light bad come down to the present and is now waged. He went on to say that the Demccratic par-.y is bending all its energies for the preser vation of popular gov&mnent and a strict construction of the constitution. The Democratic party has borne de feat heroically; it has stood success with equanimity. It has been Ibe great conservator of the business in terests of the country, Remanding com petition, so that labor and .industry can be compensated. It has stood for the extension and protection'of commerce - by the making of better goods at cheaiier prices, and it advocates today the promotion of that commerce The Democratic party haz stood for the .defending of American territory from encroachments of foreign world powers; it has gone further, and “has stood for the peaceful acquisition of American territory, for the preserva tion of American lib rty ar d tbe de velopment o' American enterprise and progress, but It pever has, and I pray God it never will, lend its aid and sanc tion* to tbe *cqrriit ; o.i of foreign terri tory for-plunder and pelf.” He told of the “Louisiana pqrchaee” under tbe direction of Jefferson io 1803. The written com met guaranteed the foil right of statehood of the com ponent parts of thatemtofy. Tbene- •hape of trus.s structiop of striking at tha vary arteitM trial I If a and home Using ■■■as of the people. A* to ths protective tariff, Mr. Hen- dereoo declared that tbe Republican party, not content to wring frets ihl P*°1 de only enough to pay the • tpenees of government, bee protected fsvured claeere which support ibe ■achmatione and plane of that patty. It ie a robber tariff which oppresses and t) raaoixee thoe* wbo really need protection. In regard tn the ship subsidy, be de clared it a proposal to great ** bonotiee or subsidies to ship lines under the pretension that ft is to aid tha build ing up of our merchant manne, when ft is well known and anderstoud that such favoritism is only to pay off paa pArt/dabts aod if inaugurated as th« policy will lend tn destroy the eaer giee of our people and tLsir tndividu •lily, by causing them to look to tin paterae Item of government, instead ot relying on their owu efforts to extend theu trade.” Such doctrines are and can only be considered Republican no matter by whom promulgated. Bat let those who come ou. end avow such ideas an nounce themselves openly m Rcpabli- own lind that n. «1 budding up. There are idle people here‘to be employe* ■itbcut training up untamed people with our capitsl. Instead of spendir money in such a venture, why not pd minister these funds for tbe education of the ma&ses at home ? Dewey added glory to the American Hag, but wh he took charge of tbe Philippine arch ipelogo instead of obeying the order “to find and destroy the Spanish fleet to satisfy their cupidity. As to the dismemberme^} i f China, *hn country : Beetle ndak <>l that tonitot/ ; nil tbal I ft should sank for is free and open trade, i It will require so imaense standing army for these foreign possessions, bat (his gives the administration more of fices for its supporteis. It will also require military airaogameots with other powers, aud tins will ercnloally land to wsrtiks embroilment, lie con- tinned : “To popularize this propaganda for grand and gain, tha wUy managers at i daatiny ami n fate in which they my relicioo must take a part I “The religion of (he meek and lowly Naaareoe, aa given us in the new dis pensation of God’s Ha relation, wes never intended to be prorogated and extended with the Bible in one hand and a Mauser nfle la the other.” He declared that the Congraasinnsl absolutism, “Dartsred by the patif la power ami advocated by its ptmps, ff not throttled by the Amencnn people, will destroy every vestige of liberty left. ’’ He ettm tha Foreter act, “heltired in the latermt of <be Repub- 1km party and passed, placing protec tire duuee on tire prod acre of I’nerto Rica. The majority of the supreme ooui l of the U ailed States has declared th** tire power of Coog.WM in its plac ing of tariff duties on its crlooies ie unlimited ; end thru tire bridle is taken off the horse aod he Is turned, loose from tire atoll free to roam where be may. The power of the English par-' liament ie given to Congress In Itq management of these kingly require ments and the consutution restrains 1 istHcttr ** My hair came out by the haad- ful, and tbe gray hairs becsn to creep in. I tried Ayer’s Hair vigor, sad it stopped the hair from corn- leg out aod restored the color.”— Mrs. M. D. Grey, No. Salem, Maas. There's a pleasure in offering such a prepara tion as Ayer’s Hair vigor. It gives to all who use it such satisfaction. The hair becomes thicker, longer, softer, and more glossy. And you feel so secure in using such an old and reliable prepara tion. nMasres*. tf r**r SismM ——« mart* m*s m *** swWt **4 »• *ifl •• ■sir THE YOPNOBLOOD LUMBEH COMPANY Orvrrs aa i AUtiUSTA. 04. Waass. Nostn An* K. C sUdor** Hard FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING AND MMMBMMHgatfiflyyMiaiUu IN GEORGIA PINIL . The Hero and Heroine • s in our next Serul SWEET REVENGE are shown in this picture worse than that ol kinga and empe- rors.” Mr. Henderson then paid his re spects to the Inula, "tbo*e mammoth monopolies which engulf tbe aggregate capful of smaller corporation* with the object and effect of sliding competi tion and destroying the op[>ortuniUes of business and livelihood of thousands of men aod families. They sboald not be fostered, but oaglft to meet the out raged opprobrium of all right thinking people.” He declared tbjit our State laws against tide* are ineffective because conflicting with interstate commerce law. If tiie United States statute call ed the Sherman anti-trnat act is not found Aficacious enough to destroy this evil, let the party in power frame a constitutional amendment broad enough to rootCfe the evil and submit it to the people under tbe machinery I orr**|>onf Motion. ■***■*■■* .erurtrtl.. PUAnmikin SCBOOl*’ SHORTHAND kctujLBuvnestT s^iirfrt/VT*L Ca. Chvp Bosfd MsiTuaTiows sicuato. mAnky to loan On farming lands. Easy payments. No commissions chanted. Borrower pays ac tual coat of perfecting loan. Intereet 7 par cent, up, according io security. j NO. B. PALMEK <fc SON. OolnmMa. N G F lfUTlONS! POSITIONS!! NO OBJBCT More call* than we can possibly fill. Guar snteeof poeitlona backed by r - Courses unexcelled. Bnter any time. Oatalorue Tree Addrute. COLUMBIA HUSINErtS COLLBOB Columbia. 8. C GREENVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE, GREENVILLE. S. C. I rvrofirtn Beautiful. Near the Blue Ridge. Unsurpassed Healthfulness. Moun- LUCullUIl. tain water. 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