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' J ' •* r t - CORPORAL McfADDEN’S LEG M K In « By JottO Wlotbrop GrctO. i Oopyri#ht,l#iH,by John Wlnthrop Orwn. | W HEN tlio Sfxtwnth New York innrchoii with («rnnt Into the Wlldern«*«, Cor poral McFadden f>f Com pany B pnt f.'WiO In the bank. The bank was hla shoe—the one on his left foot. In due time -the Confederates were found la line of battle across the line of march, and the Sixteenth was deployed, with a hundred other regi ments, to face them. Skirmishing had only begun when Corporal McFadden had his leg shattered by a bullet. Of course It was the left leg. l{e. was car ried to ( the held Imbpitnl In the rear, and, after * brief examination, the sur geon sn4d: ••Sorry foir you, corpora we must amputate the leg to save ^tr lifer” It was a case In which the victim had nothing to say. When he returned .to consciousness, his left leg had Imen am putated at the knee, and he was lying amoivg a hundred other wounded men. The loss of his money occurred to him at once, and he made the fact known to a comrade who had tiecn shot In the shoulder. “fJo out and find my left leg and that |300, and 1 11'give yju half the money,” said the corporal, and the man agre«sl. It was^easy enough to find the "scrap heap" of legs and arms, but not so easy to Identify a left leg. Ther Yore gau'to doubt the good news. ''Beys,” shouted an Irishman In Com- pany B, "dou'.t ye be afeared of the news. Bure, an army that, ran And McFaddon’s money can smash the Confederate states, and we'll all be go ing home by this time tomorrow T’ Strange Caves Formed by Aalmats. That there are some animals which cannot thrive without salt la well known, hut no very clear demonstra tion of this was forthcoming until M. Pesuxlnges, n French traveler, noticed some remnrknblo caves In tho Orlstndt district of the Transvaal and discover ed, to his surprise, that they had l>oen gradually formed by animals licking the sidt of which their walls were large ly formed." ■- 7 “Eacli of. these grottoes, or eaves," he says, “Is ns large ns an ordinary drawing room, and tho natives assured me that they had-bten entirely hollow ed out by (he antelopes, which nro known In this country ns ‘dwicks.’ Wishing to learn why the animals bus ied themselves In making such exenva- tlona, I examined the caves and found that their wnlls were Impregnated with salt. Its presence being clearly revenled by very characteristic crystallizations. A day or two Inter, as I was hunting, I noticed 14 antelopes rush out of one of these cnVos ns soon ns they heard me nppronehlng." 1 M. Dcsuzlngcs also says that the elks In the Transvaal have a similar habit and may often be seen searching for salt near quarries or deposits of marl. rights and lefts to tbr number of g him drwl. with tha Iwap griming all the I lam. The mr—mgi-r lundr a arlertlon and moored the shoe, but there uaa no money. II# tried again ami agalw hut did not hit It. Then be care Af' ami sean bed no further. Moon sfl.-r he let g<> a aotdh-r «ho tiad beeu slightly wounded In the head came along and looked the "aerap heap'' our and aakl to blmaeir "There are aotne good ah ore here, and It would In a pity to bury them with legs and feet. I'll change mine fur a better pair:" In uierhaullog the rrlh-a he came upon 1 orporwl MrFad.hu ■ left leg He removed the abue ami found It a tit. Then be found a tight one and waa provided for. Grant moved by tIk- 11* nk that night, ami the Coofaderwi.-e did the aamr. The Avid waa left In p<«- areal.xi of the Union force*. Next morning the work of hartal began. While a big hole waa U-Ing dug for the' amputated arms ami lega Corimral Me- Intellects., There nro one story Intellects, two story Intellects nutl three story Intel lects, with skylights. All fact collect ors who have no him beyond these fact.? are one story men. Two story men compare, reason, generalize, using the laftor of the fart collectors ns well ns their own. Throe story men Idealize, Imagine, predict; their best Illumina tion comes from shore through the sky light. There are minds with largo ground floors that can store an Inflnltu amount of knowledge. Borne librarians, for Instance, who know . enough of hooks to help other people without be ing able to make much other use of thetr knowledge, have Intellects of this etis*. .»■ Your groat working lawyer has two spmioua stories. His mind Is clear bc- nrnse hla mehtal floors are large, and he has room to arrange his Ugnights •o that Im- ran get at tflem facts b*-- k»w, |irtnrtpt«-* ahrtve and all In ordered •erW (Niels are often narrow below, Im-aimble of ch-ar statemenl and with •mall power of conacrutlrc rt-aaonlng, t>ut fuN of light. If MMiM-ttmes rather i-nreof furniture In the attlra.—Holme* newllatrr In Jaw*a. You moat know that a Japanewe den tist never om-w anything but hla fingers when extracting a tooth. They have mi surgical Inatrument* Thla la how they are able to work: A numlier of h«4e* are bond tu a plank of wood kml (■-ga Inserted- In them. The plank la laid on the floor, and tha novice pulls them out with the Anger and thumb af hla right hand. Ily thla practice atn ngth and dexterity -an- ac|ulrv.t. Thru an oak log with oak pega la tried, and the young man la kept on thla for a year. The third j car la put In by operating on a aiab of marble which contain* EDUCATING THB NEGRO ▲ PAILURH. numlw-rlcM la-g* of tlw After thl* he I* qtMlt tMDdncw* A t Im .rough grah a patient with hli yank out live nr six teeth hatMl without even stoppl aerins lnt|swall>|c, but pra harvlewt wnoiL i*| tn go Inin worknuin wdl k ft haml a fid u Ith the right ng to rent. It lice and long rill m any one to a. Ihlwa* In* (*■ *ee Ihrosah. "Now,” sakl the n-nebt-r, "we come to tran»i«tent subjects. ^Hlvr ua an In atam c. Mlaa Hophle.” ' A |sine of glas*” * "Very gond. Now anotherf* "A-a keyhole, air.” "He's crasy," replied tho sergeant -»Here 1 # a whole uagoH itmirdT I k-g* all looking alike, and bow are we tu pick out hia?*' No effort waa made to do ao. Aft.-r an hour or ao the last limb was tossed Into the pit, and the men began sTiou b- Ing lt» the dirt As they worked awny the sergeant suddenly said: "Here, now, but you've .overlooked that leg In the bushes. You, Smith, haul K out and dump It in.” "But there’s something Inside the sock," said Smith. “Hold easy, now, till I see what It Is.” ' v With his knife the soldier ripped up the* sock, and there was the corporal’s greenback* Only three of the pany. aaw the jnoney. They winked at each other and pocketed the find aud Inter on made a divide. That closed the In cident for several weeks. Corporal McFadden waa scut to a hospital In Waahlngton and soon rallied. The sol- fliers who had gobbled his money went to the front, and one day before Peters burg femlth was mortally wounded. To ease his conscience he told about the “divide,” and a chaplain wrote down his confession. IM Tlw TTiT A Utlli Talker/ rather dlstluguNhcl mnn had i- '-vTST^BT about-a certain hraru-li of rlwil* -a iHHl'tl Uiik-m *Tn space of two hours an.) a half, gave s preliminary “flemf Is-canne he want ed to say something, but tlw- lx.re war ed him dowu with a suave "One mo , If yon ph ase!" What the gnggi>d wanted to say and eventually did say w as that his caller's lecture, though Interesting, wfls ncrfcctly familiar to him. * "You are. In.fact.” be concluded, “dis coursing oh my own special subjtect” Buch a statement should have, dis concerted a mnn who had talked with one even flow for the space of 150 min utes. but not at nil! With the placid [ confidence of the thorough paced bore Lhe sweetly remarked; “Ah, well, you see how copiously 1 .'an tglk on that subjectl Next time 1 call youaliall see that 1 can be quite hs fluent on another branch of knowl edge.” It Haa Done No Gootf and it it Not the Remedy Needed Now, • Atlanta Constitution. - A neighbor tajd to me, “ Major, what is all this racket about—this rum pus—this swimporium about the nig- get? Have thfl)ubroke loose? Have they tiz again? You remember how they generally went to the corn field or the cotton patch.. I’ve been readiu’ The New York Journal and it looks like something must .have happen.d out in Mississippi or somewhere, and the bishoj s aud college folks aid Yan kee women arc mightiy bothered about ’em.” Well, it w amusing to read these stale platitudes and theories about the negro.. A few of them are sensible-, some of them a delusion, ami some art- almost idiotic. With most of thefn education stems to be the panacea for everything and some of them want kindergarten schools for the babies and separate schools for the mothers to learn physiology. Home of the North ern female antiquities Wbnt soeial equality and hint at miscegenation as tho coming remedy, Borne say that separation is the only solution arid the negro must go, and some say that every dollar spent on their education widens the gulf between the races. One very sensible writer says stop tbeir voting and stop paying taxes for their educa tiou. Take them all together and they don't harmonize on any'plan, though a large majority with Dr. Curry in the lead, are for education—more educa tion. Well, it is possible for even so great aud good a man as Dr. Curry to be mistaken. He aud Bishop Candle: aid some others on that line have made a life long business of educating' youug people, and are naturally dis posed to magnify lia importance, hul it seems to me when we try an expert merit for thirty years, and spend over one hundred millions of dollars on it, and tha negroes got worse instead ol better, H is time to halt and try some other method. These negroes arc a new gcucraUou sod know nothing of slavery. The Northern idea seems to be tbarilflM in the same negroes we had bflflaH the war, amkMiat tbeydnve ricentlv emerged frotlftiavcry and semi-baibar* ism, and inuel be educated into good riuartieLip. This ia a mistake. The old time negroes had a very good edu- not in book learning; but by contact and ansi nation with llu ir masters and their masters' families amt neighbors. Education is not all gotun from books. It comes through the ear as well as through the eye. Our old time slaves were better educated for usefulness and happiness than are the college graduates of to-day. They bail more common sense and far tuore morally. We had among ihvtucar- i* uters, tuasuM* Machimith”, tanners, shoemakers, tinuers, wagon makers, I winters, papurers, railroaders, and w< had good farmers and gtuners aud mil lers and h<*Uers. Among the women ue had weavers, <aid*r*, spinners, team«lreMr*, rham t-crmaid*, butler makers, cooks and uursea and they were all educated in their bust new. 1 owned a cari-cutcr who could plan and build a llrst class house and make a hand*-one munlel sod run a modern stairca**-. I owned another who grew up from infancy with my children, and who routd |t*int and iwper and cook ami put down car* |k-u and <to other useful things, and he wes my faithful bodyguard during the war and is still devoted to my family. Education why, the children taught Tip to read, and that was ew- otik'h for him, and he was always happy and contented. Ue had the daily lienelit of example ami precept. Why is It that we have now over 4,tKlO con victs ami did not have one then? All this mauldin philanthropy has comc frfim the idea that our negroes were savages until freedom came, when the truth ia they wete belter fed and N hern States. mmkm tn haveevci puinsm imfi| AM‘ Washington city to live write* to me THB BAPTIST New York I’resi that she cannot get a reliable or trustworthy negro servant, SPATE CONVENTION. preacher, was la trod seed, and addressed the eon vent ion. Bonle haa been a mis- alonary to Africa and ia now under ap and says; “Have all ihe goodnegroes . w « polatment to return, which he will do gone down Mouth to Booker Washing- T “« A ““““ Floreace soon. He says that after axumsivj trav- become of idl Waa Attend d by Three HnnO “ d o» h «r old oountries hit observation is that the South la the best place for the American negro; that the white people^are working oat the negro they have worn out my patience. The „ „ . . r _ 7 lasl one I engaged carae next morning C » rolln » met ** P J lo 1 rence on Tuead V at 10 o’clock wearing a white tulle hat ni * ht - Dec - 3rd - ftnd ln th ® •bwoa® of gone lon’e school? What has that faithful, dog-like eervice the Southcruers tell us about? I have tried a whole procession of them, and dred Delegates and a pink satin h.xhce 1” ( tbe former president, Rev- W. D. Rice, But we still find them willing and Bio meeting was called to order by the useful at my house, and patriarchs like ’ s. crelary, Rev. C P. Krvin, of Wellford. my wife aud myself who have to keep 1 open house for our numerous offHpnug and kindred and friends can hardly get along without them. 1 can still black my shoes and go to market and tho postoflke and work in the'garden, and 1 don’t mind making one lire in the morning, if I feel well enough to get up, but there are numerous little things I don’t like to have to do. Old Uncle Tom is chopping wood for me now, and my wife has just sent him a cup of coffee and some biscuit to help out his dintier. She has gnat regard for these old, humble, good-natured negroes. 1 dou’t believe Unde Tom would steal, for he says it was whip, ped out of him when he was a boy. Pity it isn’t the rule now to whip them and save them from the chaingang. What a den of negro burglars and thieves there must be in Atlanta, judg ing from the daily business of the re corder's court. 1 reckon it is as bad in the other crlier, but we don’t hear of it. Bishop (Jailor says the Tennessee peo ple have tried education long enough and the people will no longer be over ridden with a horde oft rilling, illiterate and immoral negroes. Mississippi de clares that although the negroes out number the whites, they pay only 10 per cent of the poll tax and get hack IM) per cent for their own education, aud that it has got to he Btop|>cd. If a negro won’t pay a dollar a year for the education of his children,' they don't deserve ii, and the people have determined to quit spending half a mil lion a year u|mhi them. Georgia seems determined to do the same Thing ami people will hit say amen. Ia>t them have the taxes they pay and no more Education is too cb^ap anyhow. Noth in/ i* prized that ctwU nothing, (i d Col >ncl Howard, whom every lHMJv*?h this cotuinun t/ loved and hou ed, was one of Uie best scholars an the Ih-i-1 i>ad man 1 ever met, mid h fold | me that he never hail but a few rr jibs' schooling and he prixod hi* ed ation alt th for he •lay and stmlv candle by night. , tins is tnoti more nccause he got was poor a id hail to * y the !i The convention sermon waa preached by Dr. C. U. Brown, of Bhmter, from the text, “Let not your heart be troubled,’’ etc. - The election of officers followed the sermon, and, while the ballots were being counted the address of welcome v as delivered by F. P, Covington, M. D., a member of the Florence Baptist church, v bich was one of the happiest addresses of the kind ever mad#to this body A snort response was made by L M Roper, of Spartanburg The tellers announced that Rev. D W. Key, D. D , of Greenville, was elected I resident of the convention. Dr. C. P. Ervin and Ref V.*I Masters ■v ere elected secretary and assistant f> crelary of the convention Rev. Rufus Ford and Hon. Joel E Brunson were elected vice presidents, nud Col Zimmerman Davis, treasurer. The devotional exercises on Wednes d.iy morning were conducted by Her- Vernon I’Anson. of C duinbia, and after l!io minutes were read a number of promiuent visitors from other States vicre welcomed.* The committee on time and p'ace of n-ixt meeting and preacher for conven lion sermon was rppoieted by the chair: I. C. Ezell;Simeon Hyde, B M. Fore mau. : on preaching i ig : Pastor W. B. O iver a Florence church. Dr. C C. Brown, president of the 1 isrd of aged ministers relief fund, read 1 is rep r*. This b ard is aiding 31 bmuflcisrios, giving Ibeai about ♦•iio per quarter The report was placed in t ie hands of a committee of five to re port Inter A very comprehensive historical, h asocial and statist leal report of the I oard of ininUlerial education was sab 1 lilted Rev. W J Lso^loo, I) I> , • kairman of the board This hoard Is 1. diag sixteen miuisterial stadcnls at Furman nuiversily flisy will need Pi iiaish up this srseion fl.iUO This re* |-orl was referred to a r.-m-nittce of five k* follows:- C r. Burts. J U Wharton f> M Dew. N G. Wright KJwm Harper. ^ The coinmilltc <>f five on age-I minis | t-ts board art. K S A illltas, T I* • and deacons of :ht k by f a tallow 1 AV hetlirr is my e for intinid 1 it 1 d< .1. ne wrtm xy t but for one lime - ■xy or hen rodoxy, olMaly is re»|>on»i If. I have some principles shout the negro re to ■uuulAiii. I would lyu* h ilc who assaulte«l a white wo- mM see him m*s*eeied. **r ml niya hanl,| bole. J. A Me»«>B, II K G Fountain, A Bmilh The Connie II •■sell orph^nam re >rt wm read I y PitsitK-nl \ T Jam! n There krv la the orplieuAgw ||A idr a. The lor me thi« year bu • 11 fid .Ml tsi severs) hnedred dollars • >ve thsl -d say pre-vi jf«*r The i*»rl wss referred to the folio wing mmittc-r T M Ga'phie, C A Joeea W Keys, J B Black. M W Acker problem under God. His farther said that the nsgro Is being bettered in pro portion as they turn to the white people for aid and sympathy. in the matter of ministerial education Rov 0 E Burts read the report, which has spoken to by Rev. W. J. Langston, chairman of the board. The speaker said he coaid wonder which one Idas in the world has produced the largest re suits It may be that of preaching the gospel by thh mouth of man. Col. J. H Wharton made a rattling speech, peril nt-nt and interesting, and immediately made a contribution in cash to ministe rial education. 'W I WEKI 17S IM. Finer wtigfet t» « Y ' can Mils. There are people who say that ived from benefit dertv Liverpool has the biggest warehouse in the world. It is built beside the docks, and is intended to house . the importa of tobacco which form so im portant a part of Liverpool’s trade. The warehouse is 7251-2 feet in length, 1(15 feet wide and 124 feet ten inches high. The ground area . is 13,300 square yards and. the area of the several floors 174,098 square yards. There hi present in bond in Liverpool some 93,000 hogsheads of tobacco, weighing 50,000 tons which is equal, roughly estimated to a custom duty of 118,000,000. * v The Twenty-third United States in funtry ha* arrived at New York, from Manila. When the boys left America it was by way of San Francisco. They catue hick through Suez canal, thus making circdit of the world. Ira iwn an* 1 ni UArt«i red. If '••ard u -f laialstwit m 1 vdscatioa , res 1 his ft-port. wkieb wav r ■ferrad to the com l‘Ai flu* 1 ke It it ni* wl of it -n-tu« i oa report 0 1 tkc b -ard of miats i»llf mm kin 1 Wl th ui m* utt*l t rrlal • ■lacalioa • H r arl Pul 11*1111 }Mir»u«‘*l ] Tae repot! of the Stale CiecwUv* lli:| it (|i irt ,| | Lite 1 .4lt|l»« «4 I >• >«rd. i o*e of the | rentes! wor k* of the K vtrti the Um e&cU 1 mw Mflifue •* m ves tlon, was bIhbiUc-I Ii y It * T h«*n le m l the brut of if. Bsi ley. U H corrcepuwti bag awefe Im f.> a man t. Ii .1 ll rVfrJ i»r tn m. I bangml, I this be 1 rt l Would | piichfo ki ihe Wolf his 11 *k. honiit lairs JKisaioli slot cool. A fat ti rut Iter of tli tankU a iiiiil m as lift- lasts, (•rule first let I It Ur ri s| H 11 his horm In | forgotlrn lh«- «• wnlry sn-l every day that I was away fr«»in Imkhc. The cilizrn* w'i«»r wive* acd dauglt- lera are- |>re>lrfli*l hy day and by uighl know nothing about the »ha«lowy fear that follow* lti<*e who live in U ecuuu- iry and have no protection against Ihe brutes. This fiar is the grwMrst im- |K*liineni to the country *< liords and ihr controlling reason that causes every |iros|ierous farmer lo rent out hi* farm aud move to town. It was Una that my tflfai Goldsmith, Jr . ts—wrat *4 the — Fur insalting Queen Wilbetmini, I’rince Henry wax challenged by two members sf his wile’s suite. He fought them and wounded both The prince is accused of drunkenness and neglecting bit wife. —A. N Freeland, alias Foater, who recently married Miaa Eliza Herrman Wicker, daughter of a New York mil llonalrn. took hia wife’s valuables and tied Brothera accused him of being an an imppstor. - Senators Morgan and Perktna have introduced bills looking lo the early construction of an iathmian canal Tb- rethmiaa commission has refftwted ia f*v<»r of ike Nicaragua route • Senators Hoar, Vest and MeComa* have introdnced bills aimed at anarch Ids Senator Hoar proposes to make «veil an attempt oa a rresldaat’a life paalababla by death - Secretary of Treasary Gigs bat sub mit lad kia annual report lie argea tbs retiremeal of tks greenback* sad tkr eaactmeat of awra liberal haakiag laws — Preeidanl Konervclt baa sent tn Mm Senate the Hay l‘aaactfote ires'y re latisg to the istknnsa canal It abfo gates tkc Claytoa Balwcr coatsatioa —Th* Brit■■ 1 skip Neisoa taracd tarila <-(f the Oregon •••ast sad wsat •Iran with all bead* Thera were twenty elghf pera-at oath* Ssisoa. — Booker Waakiegios Iks a* gro eda • at >r. was refused my-mm-xlui taa at * hra* of tha la sfllag bote la of ttpriagflald. i-r or a hu»l victim n4vrr ■ling* to tha quirk a# ion If llie ultleer gel* th him keep him, but I hav for lha officer who run g« t him first. 1 have no ten years we lived in lb I lie apprehension I ft-l • y aau Measu •rta lul missb of them ia If# tierU #4]«M | ttlCtAlliVf# he report w** fart- d to X an < ref* I -V. M Harati sad Louts Bn The eaatr*l c -ni'u m va a Miaai-icart • m-- rep<«rt through liev t ti«ve collected F-,tvV eat referred to a « in L M K-ipcr, Win 11 A J M Li i*t-> w board Ha ra sll-ias •rrapted towns There 9#l* cbvrriH** taaa of II.St Jh? to a commit!ac Th->mas mM. K T 7 1 L tbs W. Hied the tell rt lire at *w< •rsvil .Yod now the Nortfnrn pre** i- Iof (ur *la4ea—our own-hoys got mostlgloaiing over the prewp«cl of re-diicirig of the whippings and the tu gn*. -> ^n-i | up in fear of it. .It is not the lack of ed'iculioft that |Increases crime aud tills our prison*,! for it is recorded that 47 per cent of I ihe convicts can read and write. What I is wanted is good moral training and ihe fear of puiushfncnt for crime. I he negroes get neue of this from their <>ur representation, because the negro has tieeii dinfraucbiaed. “ I .el them do it,” says-Bishop ( Jailor—wo munt control the negro nr the South will he ruined by them. After it in done wil. we have. |ieacc—or will the Republican party and the (J. A. R’s. (grab all RepuMicuns), hunt for something else id feed upon? \Vell, Mordtcai is sill Th* Doctor'V^as There, The sheriff of a cortalp town, says the London Globe, very rich, but rather mean, consulted a clever local doctor who had made diseases of the eye his When the other two' , | special study concerning his sight After a cafeful examination the doc tor said a cataract was forming and there would havg to be an operation. “Expensive?" asked the sheriff. “Twenty guineas,” was the answer. - 1 “Must think It over." said the sheriff, no parents or their teachers or preachers, sitting at the (.ate, hut it was Human while ia slavery their race trail <d who was hanged. ^ Bili. Am*, stealing hltle.lhlngs was curbed and re-1 I\ ST—T” have just read Bisho) strained, but it has come back in full Kelly’s reply to the symposium urn force and now all of this generation heartily indorse every word of it. He will steal with but few exceptions. VV’e undcrs'at ds the negro and knows what have not had but one domestic servaut he is writing about. Aud I have rent in twenty-live years who would not j Professor Council's earnest pleading steal, or, .as they call it, take hltle | for the negro girls who are nursing the things on the sly. Wc expect them to IHlle white children sll over the sunny steal aud arc never disappointed. It South. He hegi Ihe mothers of these is just as much a race trait iu the negro children to train these nurses in good as it is in the Arabs or the posterity of morals and virtuous conduct um! save Ishmacl. It is to the crl-drt of the tie- them from shame aud disgrace. His gro that he will not cheat you nor be-1 letter is admirable, ami so arc all hia tray ypUr confidence. It is to the dis-j writings and speeches. I have great men were called up, they denied the story. A surgeoa and a staff officer be came Interested with the chaplain on one side, and the captain of Company B, the colonel of the Sixteenth and others took up the other side. Curious ly enough, tho soldier who stolo Me- Fadden’s shoe came fonvard and ac knowledged It, but It was a long time before the money could be traced. By this time colonels, brigadiers and major generals had become Interested, and Corporal McFadden's name was a household word In the Army of the Po tomac. At length the guilty private broke down and confeaaed. He got off with three months In a military prison, while the sergeant was drummed out of the army: Between them they had to mak£ good the $300, and the boys of life Sixteenth chipped In as much more, and so the soldier who lost his log and hla shoe and his bank deposit didn’t come out ao badly after all. On the day Lee surrendered, aud while we having a lively skirmish, a,staff r rod* dp and ordered os to credit ol Jews ami Gentiles that they I respect for him. will cheat you or deceive you if they | can “honorably.” But the most alarming trait amortg the negroes is their utter disregard for | | chastity and their conjugal obligations. B. A. An aged resident of Caroline Couny, Md., was haled in cour t the other day to stand triid for the alleged larceny A large majority of the negro women I of nine eggs Extra jurors had Id be are harlots and their children aie Has- summoned, and it cost the county lards. This lack of womanly virtue is hf-’-iO to try the case. Counsel for the no drawback on their social ^standing defendant (who was'73 years old) said by appointment to be operated on by 0 lor their church membership. If a wo J that he had known his client as an celebrated London specialist, 124 mile* I man belongs to the Daughters of Zion honest and upright man for forty awny. Now, It so happened that the I and pays her mile to the preacher she years, and that it was incredible .that Specialist waa IU and had to telegraph I is one of ^thc saints. A negro is never | ho should steal eggs. Ho argued for a substitute. j turned out of church. They nev< r Judge of the ■borlff’g surprise when, | suffer from remorse or the stings of Three tnbmlis after the sheriff went furthermore that the Stale had not , 0 _ shown that tho eggs were sound, and jggjfloor of the operating room being ] conscience. They feat ghosts ami j nine rotten eggs would have no value at all . The jury returned a verdict f-‘not guilty.” opened, he found himself face to face with his own local doctor. It was too late to retreat, however, and the operation was performed. “Your fee?" asked the sheriff. "Forty guineas," was the quiet an swer. ’ -i—. graveyards, but not hell or the- devil Their religion is a compound of emo- jion and suiicratition. Neither the j til MTir the gallows gives them much con- cern, for they spend their time in eat ing and sleeping, and then go straight* to Jesus. They sre a curious and interesting race of people. Imitative as monkt'y-, they readily fall into all the vices aud follies of the white folks(MV* si] smoke cigarettes The «ram« hr xt jabniil HtMiiwn* —11 i— mar ——p The general programme of the Southern Educational Association, which meets in Columbia, S,' IL T De cember 2i>, has been issued'. Address* a wiirbe delivered by many prominent Souther n educators. -> C1**4 F*rm*t!oa. A cloud la produced by the cooling of a rising current o’f vapor laden air or by the meeting of two bodies of air of different temperature. A given .tol- ume of air, or, more strictly, a alvsn. contains air or not I shoes and tho gnLwiar spectacles and {rural free delivery inutea w«l only take up a WlUl*tliNL. »do. A lady who haa recently gone to ere. . ? A Western post s jeer Ii m follows Uh. M A Goan -rs, A McA llllmsu I* !> M * ra The hoar for tbs special t r Jar hieing I arrived the s|>cc al subject wss Home vHaninn*. which report wss read by Krv J. 8 Jordan, and spoken to by Dr K C McConnc'l, secretary of the Home Mis don board Us spoke mainly of renalls from oslnsion work. There are more ehea d<>ae faithfully, than we cm tabu late. Tins is iaataBCOd i ia^'uhs ewd-u sad western ettlrr 'flat Th ' s me'et'her plncce results sre mo*e easily seen. In Oklahoma the work for the Lord is tiriogiog forih immediate and abuaJaat frui ■ In Texas the conditions me such that home mission efforts will pro dura quicker results Misn the same money sad labor spent anywhere else The mission fields in the mountain dis tricls are giving the greatest results iu- men—great men, to preach and teach There wss anotb r special order for the honr of 1 o’clock, the Southern Bap list Theological Seminary, and Prof. A T Robertson, representing the seminary, addressed the body on " The Joys of the Ministry ” Thursday’s i-rocrkdinos ” Religious exercises, opening the morn ing session, were condhcted by Rev. W M Jones'. The report of the committee to whom was referred the report on the Orphan age was submitted by Rev. T. M. Gal phin. Tho report moutioned the death of Mrs. Jamison, wife of the president It paid high tribute to the markel efficiency of President Jamison and urges the construction of a mechanical building at as early a day as possible Dr. D. M Ramsey emphasized tho need of skilled laborers. He told of Colgate, the great soap manufacturer, who went to New York when a boy to find some thing to do Having le&rndd to make soap at his father’s country home he went to work at it in New York add made a great fortune and a great name. Ai the close of Dr. Ramsay’s speech a number of members gave their names to go home and work for the mechanical building 'R-v A Thomas, D.D.. offered a resolution of sympathy with the former president of khe convention; Rev. W. D. Ric<*, D.D., who is at his home sick and that the resolutions be commnnicatod to him by the secretary of the conven tion. The special order for Ihe hour of II ’ clock was the publication board of the Southern Baptist convention, Nashville, > Tcnn Dr J M Frost,, weretary of the board, addressed the convention on the work j State miyions came up for considera tion. Dr A J S Thomas read the roport of the committee of fire to which Dr. Bai ey’s report of the work referred. The report specially commends the wise eff -rts of the board to preach the gospel In all the deeMtate places in the State and to preach it as Baptists believe K, in mB* / Coughed “ I had x for axaay years. It deprived use 0# sleep sad I grew very this. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and waa quickly Cured. 4 K. N. Mann, FallMltta,Teaa. Sixty y^ars of cures and such testimony as the above have taught ua what Aycr’a Cherry Pectoral will do., We know It’s the great est cough remedy ever made. And you will sr ere s cure in every dr oj> m: Be. Me . II AS Sr*|fMx. If k* Mf* taka It, rt. if a* t«ii> r** *«» to toko N. tkoa 4o* t toko H II* 1 Loot* m wttk Mm. Wo mro wtitlnx J. C. AYAH UU.. L*«*l>. the from the nee' o# put-up medicines is imaginary. It is not the case with Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion, which makes weak women strong and pick women well. A woman may imagine she’s weak, or may fancy «ie s sick, but her imagination can't add forty pounds to her weight. The positiye proof of the curative power at " Favorite Prescription " is found in the restoration of health which is recorded in face and form, of strength which can be tested, and weight which cart be registered in pounds and ounce* The general health of women Is so intlmatdy connected with the local health of the womanly organs that when these are diseased the whole body suffers loos. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre scription cures womanly disease* It establishes regularity, stops weakening drains, heals Inflammation and ulcera tion and cures female weaknes* "I am very glsd to l«t other poor •olfcrer* know whet Dr Pierce'* medicines haw done hr use,” writes Un. Bdwtn I 0*r4ner, of Beechwood, Norfolk Co., Mass. fBox to ) " You know I wrot* to you Ust summer. I read what ” sa “ In Jnne and three ne a yesr th* easiest children. your m< thought I would try ... _.. blessing to ms and my ism and took sis bottles of your rials of* Pellets.* I toik your UMdk when 1 hod s ten-pound (drl. I Itod time 1 ever hud with any of iyy thn iy of my three children I hare been very well Anc*T took row medi cine. I took three bottle* of ‘ Herortt* PyescripJ tlon, 1 three at ‘ Ootdcu kGdic*] Discover,-.' i three rials of 1 Pellets.' 1 h*d no appetite i and I no eppetite and could not eat much without it oiasreesing me before 1 took your * Pmeorlte Prescriptlo*' S*d I only weighed 13s pounds. Now ! weigh 175.” Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent frr* on receip* of ar ooe- cent stomps to pay expense of mailir oa/y. Address Dr. R. V. Pisses, bio. N. Y. nailing B, buf- THE YOUNGBLOOD LUMBEK COMPANY ACGUBTA. ga. Ovricu ajid Woax* Noaru Acsostx 8.0 Door* 8**h Blinds Heed AH C isnUon givsu proutp at rpiewn Wagener llanlvkiirr iNoeuaasusu lo (IT. Pu^psuhsisiL , iAIm.iisale aud Retail Duolcrv IB Aims, Ammunition. Agiicul* tural ImptemenU anJ Hardwaic* tN svsry kiim! and floatre|dk*i, Mead I* atsl fur 1‘rico*. King Mraet, Chorirwloo, 8. (’. 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