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Tbe J For4 FROM 'THI' WAS Those who know him best would never have suspected it. A club man, I a bon vivant, hero of an endless array ofemoro or less exciting love scrapes, gentleman and all around good follow -ho, Charlio Brown, actually in the meshes of love, frightfully, sentimen- 1 tally, desperately in love. , And with whom ? A girl ho con lessed did not care a snap for him - I Mary Chislmon, riob, culturod, travel- I ed, cnical and proud. " k hore, Brown," said Van Tweet, one day in Brown's room, I throwing one leg over the other and looking his friend straight in the eye, 3 "something very serious Is the mat ter. I have quietly studied you for a some time and diagnosed your -case t very carefully. You are in love. Come, now, who is she ? Out with it." Brown tried to look surprised and then ilippant. " Tut tut I" said Van Tweet, "you can't simulate any beguiling nonchal- - ance before me; you can't deceive Tweet. If you are in troub) ar z. affair of the heart, AM x r13OVer aI t fidant. I havenr g . me your cou to worrt,, a thing ilithe ,'rild thit " 101Ajoot. I haven't oven a o think about just now. ILe a m on the ground iloor. Now, the ', love, isn't it?" l3rown swelt his baind over his iore head and stirutehed himself, like t man who is uindergoing a stru1gg( with himself, and then he blurted out: " It's love, damn it all ; just think 01 it !-me-falling in love ! Don't you think trepanning would be good fol me ?" Andl he jumped to his feet an6 towsled his hair like a-tragodian. "Sit down, Brown. It's a mlighit3 good thing you relieved yourself 01 this secret. The fever has imuntC from your heart to your brain. A fun months more of this su)pressing agonl and I don't know but trepanunin-g wouh. have proved the )nly remedy. SU down, L say. "Now, tell mo) ill, a lIfter I amI" iit possession of the facts, as we say ill i newspaper ollico. I'll help yo u to 1h some thinking." It wkas the sime old hypnotic )ower which lie exerted over all men and all women, too, that made Charlie lirow, relinquish all resistance to \'an Tweet ap)peal. " All right," said Brown, after at moment's reflection. '" I trust yoi with ny secret on your )r'omIliso ef silence. I have been, like Taid alus the possessoi- of a ravislhed heart, ever since I met liss Chisholm at the beaci; last seasoni." " Oh, it's Ch isholm, is it ?" said Var Tweet, interru pti nIg him. " I don't kniow whiat Iossessed l t< j fall in love with her," col.-innel Brown: "hut she provoked mie." That's right; the woianl is alway to blaIme," puit in Van 'I'wet. She provoked in by her inferna indifference. There ihe was, the Cou scious center of a lot of follows, all trying to make themselves agreeable, and she only laughed at themi-laugh ing at them as a queen miight a~t at roomful of gibbering pairotS. She thought she was too good for the lot.' "And most likely she was right in her conclusion,'" said V'an Tweet. " What did that concern you ? Did you try to mnake a parrot of yourself, as well ?" ' ry ?" echioedl lr'ow r.. "' ry y Great Scott, I was the worst ,of them all." "' You crouiched at her feet and twalnged at your lyre hiko the resi -you, Brown ?" Van Tu eet, was evi (dently suirprisedh. "Oh, not like the rest,'' said1 lrowni. "'Catchnime bearing any)3 woman's traina. No, I d Id worse, as I am1) about to tell you. First, 1 stiludiouisly avoided her'. Shie mu ast ha ive noet~il it, anid before long she seemed no~t to see mue at all. I knew what that, melant. She wats going to puiiiish ie. by iwe tendingr that there as no511 suich lIpsoni a0 (Charlie Brown,~ on I thais terrestia0l "So I laid mnyself ouit to be ais cootily scornifaul as slhe. Youa ouight to have seenl us. And SoI tingsl wt,'~ oni, unitil one0 day we were all1 iin the surf togeth er, anid it fell Ito my happy1)3 lot to rescue Miss Chiishioh n from drow ninig. "It wast a mior'e serious matter than) I had reasoned. l'xper-t swimmer as she is, she completely lost her sen~ses and she folded her arms arouindl my neck as impulsively ais if we had been old aIcquaIintances. All LIhis ccuirredl under water, or I shouldn't have in id ed it half as much. "Anyhow, I rescuied her, to:;e:: with aout a toni of slt water, wi: made mnc sick for a week, and a. that we were worse eneieih)is I aan0 ever. "I say we," continued lHrown, "' but that Is a little to swieeping. lBy what process I know niot, but from the mo mont 1 held her' in my arms and dragged her 113111 and drip~ping to where heir mothier and brother' could lay hands oni heri, I felt- felt "You're sure she hates you ?", "'Oh. I have no doubt of it,'' said( Brown. "'I called, and that call comn pleted my downfall. I have neCver had the same resp~ect for myself since." '' And you think she hates you ?" "By jove, I tell you sho is getting even with me for being the instru nment of fate to rose'ie her from the waves. Tihat gIrl would a thousand timos rather have died than owe her life to my efforts." .Van Tweet thlought for the briefest of moments, aind then looked up like a physician who has reached a con clusion at his paitient's bedside. "Brown," lie said, " you are either a fool or else you airo perversely en tertaInIng-I will not even say beguil ing-your heart with an interesting illusion. You know that the girl loves you, or else you are so blind that it would be charitablo1 to hold you non compo)0 montis. Now, don't try to bew ildeor my judg mont with a mass (of petty fancies conjured up just because the girl has too much good sense to fling herself into your arms the lirst time you knock at her door. Vour confounded p ride does not allow you to iaee that shel s just as proud as ou *are;i but ttr ght 18 all on her side, tupda',I yon wilipa on my *planness, for not stripping off thli lan eco un dg iy ton eand going " Pardon ?" exclaimed Brown. '1 ask pardon--I?" anTweet's eyes began to flash angri, -"See here old man," he said,mthis girl is far to good for you and you knowit. Do you stand there and tell me that you love her love her 40 ditraction, to raehness-ior you do and 'yet hold her too oheaply to d's Way. HINGITON POST. lumiliato '/oursolf by asking het what ?-wheither she loves you ?" But Brown insisted that he knsw what he know, smone the side of i ,hair with his list, and declared tli,., !othing could altor his views. She ated him, and wais only vaiting for im to humiliate himself, liko the rest )f her suitors, so that she could --vc aim his quietus, and paNY hilmt off lr aving saved hot life. The noxt morning Miss Chli'-. 'ecoived the following letter by U " My Dear Miss Chisholm- :.. 'ou pardon inc if I avail myseif so if a long standing Invitation to( ,nd may 1 hope to flnd you at ho u. lls evening? Cordiall yours, "4 P. .Lt. V AN T WET, Van Tweet found Miss .l9 - oth cordial and radiant 'e 10a aiti bout the latest Ah 't h"- They t-Ikcd ht .ok of short stories. , icy switched off to discuse nIpCras nIlid the visit of a Pa8isian, staLr, md then Van Tweet, brought Brown on the tapl. " You know Charlio [frown, of courso ?" he began. " 01, very well. 110 favo'rs tMe I0 casionally with a formal call," :e said. " Well, you ought to know him t - tor," said Van Tweet in his peculi w, matter of fact way ; " ho is really a ; markablo character. Of course you read in to-day's Beagle how ho ae quitted himself in that row last night?" "6A row-Mr. Brown ?" asked 1511. Chisholm with a manlifestation of mild surpriso. " Is Mr. Brown in the. habit of engaging in rows ?" Van Tweot produced a copy of tle Ileagle and read : " Shortly past II o'clock last nheit Mr. Charles W. Brown, the well know n clubi) Man, was going home. He he-uLr(I a woman's Voico calling for holp ltl Lit'- corner of Waidon street, a. Verona avenue, Which is rather- d--k .it that hour. tunning in thU dirt-. bion of the crie0 he saw three rullimnms bonding over the pr'ostrato form oM al Old man, and a young lady a shott distamnco away screaming for aissis Lance. " MI. lit own al to the assistancI; 01 the prostrate 1m)an, dealing the Ii' st rulian a blow that s0nt him spr)awImn into the gutter, and giving the seconi a love tap on thIe anglo of the jaw that madc him forgot the (lay of the wek. Ph, thi m-a nIi 0lin1che1d, bltt in a La' ce Mr. Iizrown had thrown tiho follow over 1ls head and was ComIploto mtasUt' o tie siftiatiod. As soon as 11be assaifzant ,-auld gallhor Ilheinsulves Logethelr te iIl, feaV intg Il '. .itir nan ill ads uIt LCd Oossession of thle field. "The fauts developed by ia reporter Af the Buengle show that I r. It. X. \Valkor. the well known wholesale rocer-, had attenaded ono of the .heattres With his daughter, anld lad -ut the Cable aar about throu blocks from his owna rettidenee. .'T-unin'g the corner of Waldon street hue was std dienly set itpion antd ktnoeked (downl by on0 (of threeCi asslian~tts wihto hadt evi dently Splannted to r-ob hima. "NI r. I Irown, in thte struggle with the last of tihe thrtoc naen, wvas woun tded by a knife thrust, lie was able to walk hotma, but bled profuasely, atnd is undtLer- the caro of a siurgoon. At the ime o10(f going to( prless no interview coutld lhe obtaLined iIth AIlt. I Irownt, a Lhe p jhysiciant (fecl ines to sLtate wheathir 1s inJjur ie's are5 seiiu. NIliss Chishiolmi had listened to the accout it iL a lfe face atnd tremb i hing lips, anud whtent Van Tweet, folded upf ftt jpaper* antd tossed if, carelessly (on thle tale), he sawv her eyes lilled it~,h tearits andI her htands ((flsped. "I )h , the p~or fel low,'' sh) e xchiii. -2 itt a symat) beiLtiL ton) (If voice. A (ter- all , Lthoufht, Vant Tweet,, feels onily ai broad 53y mpiathty thbat i 'a' es attnded to any' otheri tta . itnatter- how obscurte. She doesn't , Th'fat, night li-wna was mucha iwoved, andt Vanit Tw'eet waIs admIIitt d I to his room. MInI gl ing it iL tile (1der~t If lodoiormt and earhfiol ic acid Vati I'wvet's olfacetories wvere able to dir tingauish tile scont (If roses that camne fromi an eaanoos bouquet ont a smaltlI tybtl'i near Ltho itnvalid's bedside. Brow in himasel f was In brighat spirits. li held out his hand with a happy smih.. "l'hichootomy scoms to hlave dlone yout SOm~o good. I haven't seen) y'ot int sutch am hivoly state (If imlind sltnto yi I felIf in love ith L Jiss Ch iholm i" su1 m \'an Tweevt, slylfy. " Ys,"' said Browin wvith a stat. Stile oIper-ation ona my3 hteart fhats 1w t n auc h good inl Lhat ('onnec('tion. "- Youi'fl get over y'our woundl ti I amol a~s y'ou'll get over yoaur love for dIiss Clhisholmi,'' gravely retnartked an Tweuvet. " \Vhon a man of sense mtete comes to' tile concluasion that a voman~t dloesnl't love him i the recovery~ ".Yes," si rw t ocae Indo f uretme haihlness. '. uh wasna't worthy (If you)." Y ou thuought, she was too good( for tme,' said Blrownt in a toalo of ee . "So I d id," said Van Tweet "' I then ,i've sounded hot' andt footmd s Lo'tio 'tn love youa. Oni the w hole, y ott'd be'ttetr Live hera up and let mle tr'y imy fucek. I've takena r'ather IL fancy to lherI !nytel f, and1( 1 think f 'ma not afltogotheri ind(iflerent to lher." "lDo if yo(u wvant to lhe laughed atL li ko the rest of the fol lows,"' r-epl ieu trown., li pointetd to the liowers. Aren't, they r'efr'eshing ?" he asked. "Very beautiful," said Van Twcet. From yourt landlady, I sitppose y" "No !" Baid litown. '' lorom M ins Jbisholm."' tGot out !" he oelaimued. '"The age if mairac'les Is ovor." "Vain," saidl Br'own, "'if this Infernnel round~ dloesn't pitt mno hor1s do combat 'll mnarr'y Miss CIhisholmn In si ' naonths. .Just roadl th is: 'My Osyn-I have learned of your njur-y, and mny hatit is praossed with anmeloss agony lest somethaing serious hould ensue. It has promp>ted me to aL iuiek decision, a decijiion Icould have fivon you many months ago if you had )ut spoken. F"or my sak6 got woni, my ucro and deliverer I I shall await with trembling and tear neows from tour bedside, nows thmat ou are out of Jaoxa aud shall pray for you night Van Tweet glancede at tho sistna Lure and folded up the letter witIout a trace of emotion. "Woman,".he said solemnly, "thgv name is mystery. How did it happen at" Brown smiled as he had not smiled In months. "I. had left her house but a few memento before the sorim mnage oconrred in Waldon sk~eet," he began. "I called to be very formal. Somehow your words kept ding-dong ing through my head. I said to my seof to be a moral coward and tromble because a woman may turn you down is almost us bad as to run when your manhood is assaulted. It was a ard light, but I made it. And-" "She acceopted you ?" asked Van 'weet. " No; she was not to be had so cheaply ; but I left her with a strong impression that I had won a victory. I le f t her with her decision in abeyance. The letter tells the rest." Van Tweet congratulated Brown, but thoro was a cloud on his brow as he took his departure. "I thought I know something about human nature," he muttered, " but when it comes to tolling what a wo man means i'm still in my swaddling clothes." Isn't that the way the world wags ? BILL ARP IN FLORIDA, Ho Fincs a Few Orangeu and Many Rare Birds-An Old Castie Gone to Ruin. I had lo9A io I y jtance anuid 1uontown to see what the great frecze of hast winter had done to the oranges. I found that, most of the crop had boon gathered and marketed, but the boats still take on a few moro boxes every day. The crop was not a full one, but brougo ht about live times as much por box as it did the year before. Thu fruit, wats never finer in sizo or more luxurious in flavor. Oue orange was given me that measured 18 inches in circumforence, and it was not puiTy or or overly thick in the rind. The grow cirs realized about $2.75 por box, and t,,oso that have been hold back are now bringing $3. As a rule the best groves colong to residents. Non-residents got discouraged last year at 50 cents a box and quit fortilizing and quit paying a mAan to look after their property. Con iequently, you wili see many groves .hat have been practically abandoned, iit right alongside you will see a grovC ml pr'fet, andl vigorousend ition. "An IratIgo grovo." said SheriIf Watson, 'requires as much uiiring as a baby, butt it will reward you if you eare fm it." The clever sh, rIff took mo out t ,ee tho I oyal I l'al In I nursoles that, are con(lucted I)y Mr. Iteasoier and son. l'he young man was kind and courte med and I woidered at his enthu1siasm As hxe xplainLe(I everyth ing and dis. :(oursed of the beautiful tropical plants. and talked botany and floriculture, anuch of which was all Greek to Ine. Lie gavo m1e clippinogs of CoIoCe and tea and rubher 11a( camiphor and cInnamon md other OxotiCs, andI showed m or dor's from the norti and west antI from -Lcross the water. I f I was a young man I would pursue this bus1ies for one coeason if for no other. I have observed thmat, all florists ar'c onthusiasts about tlheir calling. They lovo it and are app Loy. Iok at Ar. Ierckians, of Augusta-whatI a nole, earn'st, man wo is. .Just lhinkl howtl much ploasilr. Ais fruits and lloweI's havo given tie' people, especial 13' the wives and daLugh '.ers aLI over this Southland of ours. 1Low inltOIsely h s11tudi(s nature an11d ilow xt.nLesively lie diltiuses k1ow ledge over' his adopted country ! lie has cci thbr tioe nor inclination for poli ties. lIo hankers after no olle, he has n0 (uarrtes with mtuankitid, but, is hap cy in communing with n .atur and na tur'o's Godl. I would rather know what be knows than to bo learned. In any other priofession. Husides all this, hor' ticulturi' is a proli table busin'ess and lbrings it~s sure rewards. These Reas oneors began oni a small seatlo and fr'om year' to year' have on lar'ged thei r lat anId no1w are Ii n'tmially3 independent. I looked lin to the de pot at I3mradentown Lad saw boxes of thteir trees nnd planitis wvaitLing for the boat, and some of them .werie miai'ked to) Nebhraska ianttd Al ichi gan. 'l'htuirt lm is antd ferns anid aca eias go to llOstoni and( New Yoi'k, where t-hey ar'o wanted for funerals an td fetes ad we'dd ings. T1hey enn get, $50 for the leaves of a sinigle ptlant. In comn ty with . uidge Cortnwiell II visitedl Aanatee, which is only three mileIs from I radleitown and is I Iho old est toiwn (li Lbhe river. llThe co~unltry between tu Lwo is LIhick ly settled and is ot'namnented with or'attge groves anid date pal mts xnd o1t' tr'opical tr'ees. A t the beautiful htotmo of Nit'. Adams, of H ost,, I saw tmor'e beauti ful bit'd I' an I have ever seen in all my lIfe. 'I te vor'anda was full of cages-largeo cages, six feet sq uar'e and si x foet ig 1, and in them bQ htad pirs (of most everty fancy kind to) be found in the world. Stt'rnge to) say the'y wet'o a happy faim ily from the tdnicst linnots to the pare quets. In othier cages he han r'abbits and guinea pigs, andl ther'e were doves and( ( tuailIs and( pilgeons andi phasants fr'om Southb Atmer'ica andu Hlonolulut and~ the Islos of the sea. llo has been a great tr..s lor' and has brought tr'eas mres fr'c .: . ver'y coutry. I never saw at any E. . such beauttifutl fowls, nor so manyt) of tlotm as those that, grace his gr'outnds. Ther'e was only cne thIng lacking to muake is home comlleto, and tat was childrieni-litLtle glirls atd bloys to brighILtn utp . the p'ictur e. Not. far away fr'om Mlanatco is thb 01(1 eas tIe, thit uinlg walls of a otnce stately mansion that was built. of concrete away back In the -los. Spacious halls and spacious rooms upi stait's and down, broad verandas without Ilcoors andi win dlows without sash, wild or'ango tr'oos anid palmettos crowd inig the walls and a w i lderneiss anitost IitmpIenoti-able umroutnd. Sutroly this must ho the place where llood wr'oto "'The Hlauntedi llouse"'-"O'uir all there hung a shad :1w andl a feari." Mr. IBraden, for whom the town anid a rivet- is tnamed, lIved In it liko a princo'tntil the Indians drove himt ftroml it. Feor a 'ong time lhe and hiis fain ily', andt his slavyes succossful ly ueetnded it by Ii ring & rem every wIn dcov, iut they' carr'tied oIT eotrythIing lie hadl outsidle, and he was foced to ttbandon his beautiful and costly home stead. ilow little do wo know of the hirave dloods, the sulferi ngs amnd per1I Is of the pionceors oIf Florida ! if tr-ad I L~ion is to h)o holieved, ther'e is niot a eounty or township in all this t'egion, from, l'ensacol a to Chl 'otte harbor, that is not conisocrated by the 1)lood (of .heoeat'ly settler-s. It took thirty mii hoxis of imoney and twenty thousand 4oldiloxs fIrtst and last to suhan 'n i,t000 I ldians, utndei' the lend of Osecla and >Lhor- chiefs. H'it i must leave fair' Iloridau for a dine and go homte to comufort the 'let er half of tile fatmily. IL is hard on mis 11d peoplo to have to mrun aftetr the lidr'on, but it won't lxast mfuchl long n--our time is almost out, our jour moys will soon be ended, and we will lave to trust them to the keeping of a aront who doeth all things well. BIL~L ARP'. Elow to Cura All 8kln. Diseases. Simly ppl "WAYNEiS .OQNT. ET" No internal medicine re quired. Cures totter, oozoms,.itch, all eruptions oni the face, hands,.nose, &9. leaving the skin clear whitoe. abnd healthy. Its great ibeafing and cura tive powe are possessed by ho other remedy. Ask your druggist for SWAYNme's OIumnT1umT NICHOLAS VAN PATTON, Was he a Dreamer or a Prophet-A Strange and Unique Character. Major Wn. Hoy in The Spartan. In my short sketch of the early cot ton manufactures in the up country, I stated that I would give my recolloo t'on' of Nicholas Van Patton, who gave Up cotton manufacturing and attempted to invent perpetual motion, working at it about half a century. Mr. Van Patton came to the shoal on 1Enoreo that now bears his name just sixty-fiveyears ago. Ho brought capital with him and had the reputation of being a trained machinist, and general report said he had no superior in the mechanic arts. Before putting his mochinroy in motion he looked about. with regard to getting a helpmate in his affairs and came near being successful. He had centered his affections on a handsome young lady well off, but politics, unfortu nately for him, sprung up-union and nullification-and when he thought he had nothing to do but set the day, competition sprang up in the person of a dashing young widower of, QIN same .f:Ith'wf, , nded, and his poftics appears to have propondorated and the widower bore off the prize. Lie laughed at his own defeat and see ing his rival in public company he ap proached him and pointod him out as he fellow that had three wives and had cut him out to got the fourth one. His rival afterwards had the fifth wife. For sometime to come he appeared to have discarded all thoughts of mat rimony and devoted his entire energy to building up his factories, merchant mill and saw mill. Carding wool and spinning all followed in rapid succes sion. - He actually built a double row of cottages over a quarter mile. long for prospective operatives to live in. Its an old and true saying, Mr. Editor, to lot well enough alone. Fow men of his day and time appeared to be so well advanced on the road to complete success. H1 appeared all at once to drop all interest in his machinery and turned all his attention to discover perpetual motion and bont all his on orgy to that end. His numerous im provements, one by one, went down for the want of his porsonal atkndanco. le peddled, or sold his cottages ab best he could. Some bought them for Kitchons, lumber or store houses. Some of them traveled miles. Mr. Van Patton thought sometimes that tri umplhant success was almost in sight, that a bright future wat almost in his grasp, but lie never realized them. .Knowing that I was no mechanic, ho at different times showed me parts of his machinery that he thought would lead him to success. One main moth machine he made. I never saw anything like it. oi could sot it to moving and would show different fom-nis. in one of thoso forms It slight ly resembled an Oriental saddle and about double the size. Th is linmmense %oncorn was made out of pur.- brass and ats polishod as it it camo from i(hlliold or London. Tho number of th ings or joints could bo but described by the namne of legion. None of these tbhingb were more than four or live inches long and it would require close inspection to sen tho joinls. The bot ton of it was 11at. The only time it would appear to assum the shape of a saddle would be when the side would fly ulp, the top) of each uldo would be about the height of a man a little under medium height. About two feet from the bottom there wore five pieces of brass, I will call them punches not knowing the proper name. . lhor-o were two in each side. I can't state their length pirecisely, but they were fastened to the joints. The five ends all pointed inwards. When the machino was standinig in the position I amt attemp~ting .to describe, the bot lom ap~peared to be about two focot widle. IWtght on the bottom lay two brass balls not attached to any par-t of the machino.. Their weight wvas said to he fifty pounds each. TIheir r-ound ness was said to be perfect. E'ver-y time tihe machine was put in motion the punchers were to punch the balls to the other- side, theoro to meet the opposi81to pulncheirs and~ be punched back It was r-epor-tedl that when this machine r-efused to (1o what he ini tended, ho took a sledge haimm-r iand smashed it. A bout th is time Mir. Van Patton madle another- advance towai-ds mnatrmi mony 'and was in a fair way to uieet with success.. lb selected a lady at Spartanbui-g weal off and highly r sp~ected. Nothing Iwas to do but set tihe day and call on the parson. I Io mnade hotr aware of his peccunlar-y miat teors, and that lhe was in debt nine thousand dollar-s. Ho was doomed to another- disapplointmoent. lHe then mnariedo a dlaughter of one of his ten ants, a clover- woman. She prceded himt to the tihe gr-ave. Ho evoer aftc Ward( r-emainoda single. UJnfor-tunately for- Mir. Van P'atton, when his perpetu al motion failed, he thought hc could invent a machine that would make onie hor-se do the work of twenty. lie spent year-s at that and failed. Mr. Van Patton and Dri. J. P'. Hiarro-tt, of Abbevilie, a bcientist, wero lifetime fiends. The Doctor- once sent Mr-. Van Patton a message by me. that when lie completed his machiue he claimed that the first use to make of it was that they were to take ab tip to the mioon. I dlolvered tihe message to him in p)ublic. Some of the cr-owd made light of it. That anger-ed him. Mr-. Van P'atton, layinug aside his no tions about perpetual motion, would rnank high as an intelligent man. Is thr-oe business trips to lNngland added much to his information. His third trip he was in the employ of Genoiral Green's gran~lchildrecn to put up a factory near- Nashville, Tenni. He was siomeotimuos censurtedl for his i-oligious viows, being called a Univr-sialist, but he remedlied that biy joining the Bap) tists. M r. Van Patton was lb native of Now Yor-k State. lie wais of respectable par-entage. I have seen a letter that was written to his father by General Washington. If lie had been as selfish as some men ai-e, lie would have puIt the letter on the mnarket. The late Hon. Simpson Bobo sa1w t he lette- and urged him to make a pi-esent of it to Wolford College. Ho permitted the letter to go to the College for inspe tion and it was unlfortumnately lost. He had resided in dlifer-ent places, Lowell, Mass., Utica, Now York, and Bot-den town, Now .Jersoy. At Bor-dontown lhe became fanmiliar- wIth Josep)h Bona parte, ox-King of Spain. Hie said that when the ox-King would wish to go over to Philadelphia on a shopping expedition, ho would take twenty eight carrieges along with him and had nobody to ride in them but his daughter ,and, . himself, twonty-aeven of them being empty with the excep tion of the drivers. Some of his neigh bors thought that such yarns as that had a~ touch of,. Manohausen in them, but from a half oentury'e acquaintance with-hita, I think he was perfeotly re liable de. to anybhing he saw or hohrd. His sons made flue soldiers in the Con federate war. One of them was dread fully wounded. At one time when he thought that he was on the sure eoad to success and that unlimited mean would be at his disposal, he would bu, up all the lands from his shoal to Eno roe Jim Anderson's bridge, and moaki at the head of the shoal 35 feet, whiol joined to the natural fall 55 feet an< the volume of water three times a as strong as it Is at Pelham, using th< water on both sides of the river severa times, he would have the greates manufacturing establishment in th< world. But all his calculations wor< doomed to disappointment. Hii wealthy rqlations at the North offere to place him in easy circumstances, I he would go back to the North. H< made choice of remaining near wher< the hones of his wife and ohildroe rested. They gave him some sligh assbiance, but they should have beer more liberal. THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE, A MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE The Gospel Temperance Unign is Rostrict the Dis ti# s and Liquor Sol -or C .M fina Purposes Only. The following memorial in regard t the bill recently introduced in th General Assembly, looking to th amendment of the dispensary law s as to do away with the use of liquor a a beveragej and the profit feature o the present system, has been placed o the desks of the mnibers: The memorial of the Gospel Tom perance Union oi South Carolina, re spectfully presents to the General As vsmbly of South Carolina that it is ai organization composed of citizens o the State, having for its object th, suppression of the liquor trallc. I pursuance of this object the executiv< committee of fihis organizatiun hav had prepared a bill to amend cortali sections of the existing dispensar; law, which Is now before both house of the General Assembly for your con sideration. These amendments propose to ollin Inato any profit further than necessar to enforce the samo; and furthei aliminato the dispensing of intoxicat ing liquors as a beverage, so that The shall be sold only for medicinal,mochan ical, scientific and sacramental uses. Tnese amendments represent th< wishes of the Gospel Temporano Union of South Carolina and the Chrie tian sentiment of the State. We make this appeal for their adop tion for the reasons following: I. These amendments are such a will put the dispensary law in lastin favor with the best and most law abid ing people of our State. 11. The law, as amended, will hav the hearty support in its onforcemen of the conscientious citizens and lover ,f sobriety. 111. It will allay the discontento, prohibitionists and others If intoxicat ing liquors are no longer sold as i beverage, as there are many whc think the State has no right to sell II as a boverage. I V. If such amendments ar. adopted its will unite the good people Of the State in giving t'ier moral support tr tho enforcement of the law, the illici sales will necessarily be decreased, Such changes will in no wise afTect th< provisions of the act regarding Its on torcement, all such provisions remain iug in full eYect. V. 'The sale of liquors will then b much or more under the control of the State than it could possibly be other wise, inasmuch as good or better mei could be secured to act as ollicers I the dispensary, and no church coul refuse to keep a member In good stand log who held such an oclico, which il not the case now. V[. As the act now stands we find the State with a law under which mi consistent church member can accept an oflico, and an institution of th< State upon01 which he can not invokt God's blessing. VII. The law, in its present shape, Is particularly objectionable because it provides that the State shall dc that which the church has said cannot be done wit hout sin. VIlI. It humiliates, debases and de stroys puLblic conscience in receiving for edouation hush-mlioney-thme price of the etern~al ruia0 of inmmortal souls: such money as the Scribes and Pharia sees who purchased the Saviour's blood refused to receive when return Cod to them by Judas 1scariot, IX. It is further objectionable be cause it gives the gloss of resp~ectabili ty to a traflie that undormiines society, demoralizes its victimns, impoverishes its citizens and becomnes resp~onsile for a great majority of the crimos and the constant infraction of the laws of the State. X. The sale of intoxicating liquore as a beverago, by individuals or by the State, never being right, no g(:Jxl mar can consistently do other' than p'rotest against any legal approval of the same. X I. TIhe dis.pensary law makes every citizen a stockholder, sharing in the prolits if there ha any, and in the lia bilities, which are certain. See Hiab akkuk 2:12, 15, "' Woe to himi that givet~h his neighbor drink, that p~ut toth thy bottle to himi, and muakoth huim dIrunkon also. Woe to hium that buildet~h a town with blood and estab lisheth a city by iniquity." This be lng true, the State has covered with shame all of her citizens, instead of protecting them fromt such dishonor as a true mother would her children. Xil. The pr sent, law antagonizet the church, and good society, makem criminals and law-breakers of her citi zons, as no man filled with liquor is any longer a law-abiding citizon, but Is a fit subject for arrest for drunken ness, if not for disorderly conduct, and for crimes he is very liahle to commit. XIII. These amend m&,nts suggested are not political or' partlsan ini thoir nature; they are the doemandls made by the great Christian church of our State, which can not be silent without sin, andl whiich, in the name of her communicants andl by her Gospel Tem erance Union appeals for deliverance from the unholy alliance into which she, as a part of 1,he State's citizonship, has beon forced to participate. XIV. This app~eal Is also made by the Gospel Temperance Union in tho name of the 4100 ministers of the gospel who have written the executive com nittoo that it Is their wish to have said amendments made(1 to the present, thw. XV. Lastly, gentlemen, we urge i pon you In the name of our God andl four fallon and helpless brothers rictimized by strong drink,with brokon vills, unable to take advantage of a Kooley oua'e,'anxlous to be delivered ; Ind then we invoke you, in the name their broken-hearted and impoverish 3d famillos1 to grant our appeal, thus removing 'the most prolific sources of misery and erime and the gt'entest hindranca to the pr'~.gress of the cause of Christ," doing what we thin.c is right, and falling to do which would be wrong, and forever tarnish the good name of our Stato and ix Pr haps forever, the greatest. imaginb~ eurso with the divine sentence 01 "woes" upon the citizens thereof. D. L. BoozER, President. T. 3. LA MOTTEm, Secretary. "The Common Peoplo," y As Abraham Lincoln called them, do - not care to argue al0ont their alli( nts. 3 What they want is a Luudiutuu that i will cure them. The simple, honest 1 statomont, "I know that Hood's 9 a-ir-saparilla cure-d me," is the best 3 airgument in favor of this medicine, I and this is what many thousands t voluntarily say. Our peoplo are growing more and more in the habit of loking to Dr. M0. Norton for the latest and best of every thing in the drug line. le sells Chat berlain's Cough Remedy, famous for 3Its eurosof bad colds, croup and whoop-, ing cough. When in need of such a medicincogivo this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with the result. -Two brothers named Hart wgg arrested for bouncing a fa As the judge ne.ntoneed t1I - I vo years apiece aI sai t atIba'o his mind that tktuimgg ia ago, " Two souls with but a sing.v I lought; two Harts that U beat as one." -It is said that there are two words, o and two only, In our language, which u contain all the vowels in their order. n They are-" abstoimiously " and "face o tiously." s -Thore is a time in cvory man's life f whon he thinks there is nothing sweet s or under the sun than sCJUom body's daughter. -By not doing without the things we don't need, wo sometimes have to do without the things vliat we do need. --There arr Itwo classes of peuiole in 3 this world-those who maku fouls of a themsolves and those whodon't need to. L -One of the latest inventions is a a thro-cornered nail that will drive casily, and will not split the wood. Epilepsy 20 Years. v Cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine. r A few yoIrs ago, Mr. L. W. Gallaher, was an exteisivo, successful expert manu facturer of lumber products. Attacked with epilepsy, lie was obliged to give up his bus! iess. The attacks camo upon hun most In 3 opportunely. Oi time falling from a carri ago, at atother down stairs, aind often In the street. Oncl he fell down a shaft, in the mill, his injuries nearly proving fatal. Mr. Gallaher writes f rom Milwaukee, Feb. 10.'5. 3 r "There are none more miserable than epi leptics. For 20 years I suffered with epilep tic fits, having as high as flvo in one night. I - tried any number of physicians, paying to one alone, a fee of G00 and havo done 3 little for years biut search for something to 3 help me, and have taken all thme loading - r medlies, but, received no benefit. A year ago my son, Ulhas. S. Gallaher, druggist at 191 1 Reed St., MIlwaukee, gave me D~r. Miles' I Restorative Nervino, and I tried It with - ;atifying results. Have had but two fits * ao I began taking it. I am better now in every wvay than I have been in 20 years." [ D~r. Miles' Remedula care. old by driuggists on a positive guaira:t co t hat the first .ottio will buenefit or price~ refun~ded. Hlookc on the llcart, an Norves, free. Addrless, Dr. Miles Medical Co., Ellkhart, Ind. Dr. Miles' Reme a Restore Heoalh A $25 Cooking Stove Wrra A courrXUTU OUrWrr 10n Delivered to your railroad depot, all freight charges paid. Read this description carefully. This splendid Cooking Stove is No. 8; has four 8 inch pot holes; 16x16 inch oven; 18 inch fire box, 24 inches high; 21x25 inch topj nice smooth casting. I have had this stove made for my trade, after my own idea, combining all the good points of all mediuvm priced stoves, and leaving out the objectionable features. Beyond all doubt the best No. 8' Cooking 8tove made, for the price. Fitted with 2 pots, 2 pot covers, 2 skellets, 2 griddles, S baking pans 8 joInts of pipe,,1 elbow, 1 collar, i lif ter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 iron tea kettle, 1 shovel. We want to make customers and friends in every part of the South, for the purpose of introducing our business to new peoplo, and to renew our acquaint ance wIth old friends. We will ship this splendid Cooking Stove and the above described ware to any depot, all freight charges paid, for only $i2OO when the cash comes with the order. This stove is a good one, well made, and will give entire satisfaction. Our illustrated catalogue of Furniture Stoves and Baby Carriages maile4 free. Address . L&- F. P..2 l.ITT, 848 BROAD Sramar, AUSUSTA, GA. ARlE vOU SATISPIEgy? Is any be.dy saIisfied? Ves-- some people a good imany of 'em--those who bhy from - s, for inance. we have the knasckeo pieas lng them~g, anid there's no troubl~e about it, either; no troule to them,, nmone to us. AUGUSTA LUMI3eg CO., DOORS, SASH, BL.NDS, LUMBF3R, &c. " Buy of the Maker." AUGUSTA, CA. Tbr' When Ac t II ik slouider i n two - Just ak youi t:,o e u $trial order-and'then, our business Hou n ethods and thd quality of our T&IkIng gifoii'"..ge.,nor..,mati. 000RS, SASH, BLiNDS, LUMBBR, &c. "u/e*Ae*ate" AUGUSTA.08,. 8OUTHERN RAiLwia. PIEDMONT AIR LINE. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. .Ves. IFt M o No Northbound. No.38 No 3 * Jan. 5, 1 896. Daily [Dally Daily E Sun Ly. Atlanta,C. T. 1200n 1115 p 7 bO a 43p e Atliaga,E.T. 100 p 1213 a S50a 686p ;A 'ro.s.............. 1256a 938a 628p Be Iuford ................... 1016a 708p S(Gainsyillo.. 225p 201a 104a 743p Lula.................. 2 23 a 11 o4 ak 12 p 40 Corn'olla ........ ........ 11 26 a . " it. Airy..... ........ 260 a il3o a .. - Tuccoa............. 815 a 113a . Wostmliutor ........ 3 50 a 127 p. " neneca............... 4074 124.p. c Contral,....... f 45 p 4 33 a 120 p ... " Greenvillo ... 5801) 619a 2 10 p ... " Spartanburg. 6 18 p 6 18 a 3 22 p . ' (laintoys .......... 63 t 4 101 p. lilacksbrg 068p ?0 a 4301p. King's M:......... 732a 50 Wp ....... " Jastonia... ....... 7 53 a 5 21 .. . Ar. Charltto 8 20 p 83314 6 20 p 12anvio. 12 00a 1 L pi .. Ar. itichmxond.... 6 00 a 6 40 1) Go a . Ar. Wahiington . 6 42 a 1) 40 p " Jialtituo. P IR 805 a 1126 . o 'hf 'tiolphia. 10 26 a 3 o a............. " NewYouk.... 1253n 620a............. VeS. Fet Mi Southbound. No. 37 Nu.3J No. 11 iKo.1 Daily Daily 'nily E sun Lv. N. Y., PIt R . 430 p 1215 n . ..... Philadelphia. 056 p 30a ........... Baltimore.... 920p 8 22 a ...... ' Washington. 10 43 p 11 15 a ........... Lv. ltiholuoud... 200a 1265p 200a .. Ly. Danville...... 660a P 100a. i Charlotte .... 9 85 a 66p 12Qp. e4 Gaston'.a. ... V% p I ..... l Kig's Mt ............ ...-- p ' Blakos burg.. 10 49 a 10a 980p. Suatilnoys..... ........1223a 2 top " Spartanburg. 11 37 a Ii 69 a 8151). " o reenvillo.... 12 28 p 150 a 4 40 p. Central ...... 116 4a t. S Senuon..............30 a905p Wesiminster .............0 a, p oCCoa.............. 360a lop1. B it. Airy. ..............lop ... Cornolia................ 45 . ' Lula ................. 41a 2p " CtinesiVll.. 8 31P 4(9% 36 720& , liuford....................S07p 748a Norcross..... ... ........f 42 p 827a A r. ALIanta, 1.0T. 4551) 6D)a 1-30p 930a ET 3j60i y 1 0 a....... 10 5512t)f 20p. 83..... "AL it. 1H. -L p. in. ... noun. 1 'N" .ight. No1. 37 and 38-Washingto2 and 2outwestr Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleepers between N~w York and New Orleat h, via Waab. Ingbon, Atlanta anti M*on tgomery, and also be. Swoon New York aud Munapbiv, via Vashjngtojj, Atlanta and Ilirnoingharn. J)liIng care. Mos. S& and 38-United Sta! oe Fast mail. pull. man slleinig care between Atlas .ta, Now ()r. loans and New York. Nos. 11 and 12. Pullman aleepin4 aar between Richhmond, Danville and Graenb G72 W. H. GREEN, J. ll. CULP, Gen'1 Supt., Traffico M'g'r, Washington, D. 0. Was.li.igton, D. f W. B. RYDER. Superintendent, C)harlote Not 0aoin a 1-3 p93 W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK Gen.l Pass. Ag- As-h t f.a hl Pw. At Washington, Mm.p0. Atiaht , SOUTHERN RAILWAY %^J No8-and 30--Unitced t IsFsti. Pun. Lma oopn car.b.twee.A.. ..taNoO loan a N Yor.n. . .2a Nos. i1 ad 1..Fu..man.....p .. car betee Richond Davlle and Greens08 Gen'l1o Sut. Tafl M'dr Washeeington,.. .Wa........10toD.i North1100olina Washington, D.00 Atldte C~.~iuondsedShdl.Efc JaV~tANUARY; 5:.., 186 S STATIONS. 7F)4LM B.C ar n. a-............'... i 0aA " a .......... ... ,... .. 1" 2 6 a * a1riy....... .'........ 181 Ar. ...,.., ....Pa . .... .. 3 2a } s .......... .S.-.............0 28 94 94auren .. Pp. art. ........ a Q0 p - net-2 p ....:... ..sv l....... 1 0 o reewlood L.................... 1 501025 ArA drsn ............sle l,. ... 8 45a p A r G oe i .... ......... .... . . .. 4 a p rAtla....,,----... ........... divisin, aotb TniATI. N82 .a.,61 .a (.eiued ivited-.....--........... 1:89 a'as :8 n. s. -l~ . ................ 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It sots tholutel pure Maes the ski sft a vlhety Jri 0 andretrsheos m. lex oIs a uxury forte ah fortinfat. , MR.~. WINSOW'