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,!or parents ha~ndlest pplod her at th v 'ry "alltosInh font., fo tho namo o veryed upon her, Melltaiblb lopk ins, was nougi to make a spinster of tho lovelicst girl ever born. When sho left school they bore her off to EuropU, where, whilo her livo years of travel gave her inl excellentt knowledge of mon in the complsosite, maI as an indi vidual was entirely unknown to her. ''hen folowed her fat.her s death and inothor's long year' of iIIness, when all the daughter's thoughts and eno!gios were concentrated on the sick room. inally, to comp lete the bands which all her life had been forged to koop hor in single bletssedness, she foutld h1orsolf at :5 w ith a very com fortablo fortune and not a sign of a near relativo with whoI to slaIre it. So that sho hadn't even that, quoe-tionable exeuso of be coining married for the sake of a hiotne. If Melhitab:t had been a poor girl she might have privd a genius, for she could amint :,o elever'ly as to make her rivals dccidedleiy unensy. Ihut now that she found her'l a lto Iely wonmn, with eruely 1hun silver liles over her tell:les and no h,nit : anyI trace of the old-timne diml': N'''r' the t:harp knuckles now showed. )Itr only re lut-cle wras the p ai..t'. One th nug she stoutly rcfilsed to ,lo, Ii,\ c\ c v r, llnd that vas to iake a wLorkshlop of the old fally ho11e. tih at i*tt hit upon the tiny' 1rown eol lae 'n the iext (ailll'et.. N'here- al the i rOll/lnding, towering r !,-II Cvs to'l d in heartless didain' on the tun -.t.'d n" frame ho5.e hi the OWN 'r. a weak -voliced iittll o' d m1nan, had r an. t ltde:, crat,ely in spite of all hi- fl-i:t:a :1 1 c n iigh biors'sel:n and tht ttm;rin eer; o frantic rea: e-t. it .1. '.. The o'd man had ['et n o 1i'.1 one mi:'ningl that . i: 'r w th} .l r , n . 1"1ys try:in1 to wa hl tilL. w'hito chook:. 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Wh Lnrth hie ilut acros the ung atrn.then' han her of th n*,LrLLt, for (If r tmnee mimning tah han' oev '- .i .ih- .~ og a wit-rocked i. hti'c r-v II~) Ira ~ u.~Oe nuu of aut as the we -i tLL est . Linct bome way - iUthe tny win - S d irOl neve fluite fotrgte. the beai &.en hinly y, e,hug dead never travls had~~LL Lo ri d to ie laid aparr t.e iu she i.eetpciyo them thIt w hen h waie mberedi thters.l nessin to her1 ' deret' frie$aienyi hy husband, whenr that rind lau the "Wh ity how~ f unny You've bee,o describon oungoi Gt. bDiant, bus ooreuty blshed a herd of thug ltat. the rfamoui, dignfed hiMi15a tDlo anhdt.,i O actuahly cm tof seft brin Miss~ Hettya grow dpink -, the i] af wheitro little, utild ofrts. Wmar1 odhersl wetit onderb in if gra could at Wostsibletha Mes wHopkeinywiere-ra f.ul, nalm. boy w.Itoish n ev. ABLE LOVED* matron watched the delighted hostose and her big, handsome brother as they quite forgot her over their toa cups and the famous pictures, a suddon now light ,camo into her eyes, and the match-making spirit inhernot in every happily married woman quietly began its dexterous work. Things wont on famously. It was the Major who advised that the collec tion of paintings bo kept for a time and exhibited one day in the week for the bonetit of the orpthans. When Miss Hotty shrinkingly domurred, ht pointed out that the children would hc the gainers in the end, and so she re lented. That winter found the whole neighborhood in the throes of an ox travagant social whirl, for there was an unusual number of pink-and-white debutantes, with the st,ill more unusual accompanimont of handsome, oligible men. 3eforo she know it,, Miss 1op kins found herself in the very mld:t of the mad jollity, even laying aside her all-black gowns for those with hints of violet about, the throat and wrlsts. No tea wts quite perfect without the dear little artist's presence; qyo girl felt quite satislied if sho had not had a elt with Mliss iopkins between the dlances, and even the broadshouldorod, fresh-voiced boys liked to creep into the softly shaded little studio to ac comnpany it-, owner home at dusk. 11er Mond ay afternoons grow famous, and the orphans on tle corner had enoug h now shoes and qil ts and real putddiugs for Sundy dinners to make therm ever hasting"ly grateful to the happy hearts in the tiny brown house on the next street. M iss I lopkins always had the pret tiest girl in town to pour on theso oc cassions and gtnerally srome (tne with a really good voice or an unu,ually skil ful touch on the violin could be found to make music. Then, too, the pictures thetmselV es could boar re peated visits, for the poor, sweet old man grew very dlear to themt all now 'that he was not there in flesh to troublet them. l'artherniore, it was al11umot as good as going to confession to creel) Itup, stilly and gently, before the last of them all, where Miss 1lop kins always kept a hunch of fre-1h vio lets standing beneath the sweet little canvass, with its live morning-glories and its sleeping tman. And the best thing of It all to little Nliss litctLy was the Mlajor, the tall, courtly MIajo r, who was so attentive to hetr and seemed to enjoy being with her more than any man in all her life had donee. When a woman waits tili she is thirty-six before she loves, the result is going to be terrible in its in tensity. Mrs. VIltmarth saw it and tremiblod, excepting for the fact that her brother really seemed to see no one else but MIiss lletty, except, of course, the girls-all that seaotn's buds -who Ilocked about the Mlajoi becaese he was so dittorent from ordinary men. Miss Hetty know it. and hold her breath. The boys and girls saw it and smilcd gleefully. In fact, everybody seemed to recognize it except the man hi msel f, who went blindly on, heaping poor, iuttet-ing NI iss lietty with comn pl imnts and tmak ing open lovoe to all tbe young girls who gave him his tea and sat in open-eyed ad miration as he trehate.d his tht-illing stories of army lif onI the Western plains. I lot at hlait even the Mlajor know it, anid his great,, manly. innocent heart f-11 like lead. It was one blusteritng evening late in the winter- and that mighty militar-y mao was tramping valiantly along the street en bis8 way to NItrs. WVilmar-th's. But as .he p)assed the little br-own cottage he noticed the i gh t within and, turning up) the un evetn board walk, he rang the old-fash ioned bell bravely; for the pleld lajor had all at once made a mighty resoivo, and when he once decided to do a thing ho never retrea'ted, whether it was to take an enemy's camp or to br'ave a woman. Strange to say, he found Miss Hoetty alone there in the warm, rosy little tr(om, with its queer old china, glisten ing silver, odd pictures and rich russet bound books. The tiny little hstess saw tihe determination in her caller-'s face and sank into her deep chair, knitting her thin, beautifully kept finge-s together in despdrate hope and featr. The Major refused the proffered tee almoest grudily, thrust his hands intc his p)ockets, tried another chair and finalhy strodle across to the tiny low windowv and, with his hack -bravely tur-nedl towardn her, he began: "N1y dear-friend, I-er-I want tc ask you someth ing to-night-I feel that we have known each other well enough for me not to ho afraid now, Nly dear- Miss-Mibs Betty," and he wheeled about, facing her so abruptly that she almost gasped, "tell mec honestly, as though you wore speaking for yourself-toll me, am I too old tt She had becn hoping for it for tmonths, but when it came she felt the little ht-own house reck cruelly. Trhe open lire, against which her great, handsome Major outlined like a magni Iicrnt rock of refuge, swam before her, antd her own voice seemedl miles away when :she finally found courage tc an swer-: "We love with our hearts, Major, andl heatLs niever' grow old." She saw the line, strong face beam, and he camne to her, very close, ii seemed to lien, although she could not have put out her hand and touched him. atnd the soft lamp)light fell on hiA beautiful silver hair like a holy bone diction. I mmedilately her thougliti wecnt hack to that far-ott day of long ago, w hen this same halt' was heavy atnd brown and he had kissed her. Then his voice recalled her to tbc p)resent, anid she hoard him say: "You can uever know how glad you haive made mue by saying that, for thort is nio woman in the world whose opin ion I value mnote. Still in all my doubi this w inter I have often feared that it wouldl be wtrong for me to take unt< me a wife. I have maybe only a vor3 few years yet to live," he added, look ing at her appealingly. And agair sile answered softly: "We may hope that your years maa ho many. Biesiden. on the few yoars will be very dear to-to your wife." r lie was standing back of her chait now, with one hand so near that sh< felit touch on her hair. "Do you think," he pleaded almdsi n a whisper, "that she levee mo?" r i"Do you love her?" camne the reply ,ro wih tuc o c arnery never absont acarne the brave rejoinder;h"bettorl, o sometimoes thn,tha th wol t y come.' tnhhinorlk, 41 "Then" a nd shea .lse .e ye hide the happiness in them, "then I may con fees that she loves you, bettor, far better than she ever bofore thought it possible for anyone to love." The Major sprank from his place be hind her and, seising her hands, cried joyfully: "Oh, my dear Miss Hetty, how dc you know? Has she told you? When: loll me just what she said, so that ] may be the happiest, proudest man or earth." All the light burned out of Mis Betty's face, leaving only the ashes o1 hopeless despair. Then she asked: "She? Who?" "Why, Kittie Harper, of course You surely know that I meant her?" Kittie Harper, the gayest littk black-eyed debutante that had danced that season and the foremost of the flattering coquettes that had practiced their budding blandishments on thc gallant old Major. " es, of course, I know, but you sec I wanted to make you confess," she re 1,lied at last, with a laugh that would have wakond any more sane man. Then she went frantically on in reply tc the unsuspiolous man's eager ques tions. "No, she never really told me-but -but I know when a woman loves." All this time the olated Major was putting on his coat and gloves and at last he asked, with a return of his old time courtliness: "I want to thank you, Miss Hetty, for you have done me the greatest favor woman ever did man. It is old fashioned now, I know, but both of us are old enough to remember, are we not,vwhen a gentleman showed his re spect and homage to a lady by kissing her hands?" Without a word she extended her poor, trembling little hand and ho laid his lips reverently to her cold fingers. But she could keep in no longer, and the startled Major heard first a stilled sigh, then a moan, and Mt last a great, cruel sob rose to her pale, (uivoring lips and Miss lotty had betrayed her self. Major Doano staggered back and his face grow terribly white. "I beg your forgiveness a thousand times, madam," ho said at last in a strange, low 'voice, "I never dreamed until this instant-' But Miss llotty sat bolt upright in her high-backed chair, clutching the carved lion heads on its arms, and raised to him her poor, hurt eyes, wild with desperate appeal. "Will you please go, Major Doane? And as for dreaming-you are rnis taken, for there is nothing for to dream." Then she rose from her deep chair, still holding the lion's heads till her nails bit into the hard polish, and said: "And please tell Kittie that Miss llotty sends her--her-blessing." io closed the door behind him at gently as though there. wore some onc dead in the little brown cottage. The tire in the shallow grate had di,ed to a low, even glow when Mise Ilotty finally stirred from the high backed chair and took from its placc the dear little painting of the dead owner of the house which now shel terud her. Propping it up on the low table in front of her, she set the vie lets beneath and then knelt down be fore it, bending her tired little head tc her quivering hands. The last ember on the tire turned black, the light ic the rosy-shaded lamp burned lowel and l.wor and finally lilckered out The servants up at the big house fell no apprehension at the noni-appearanct of its mistress, as she had told their she would spend the night with friendl further down the block. Th< hours crept on, the storm wrecked thc little bro wn;cottage, and dawn revealed the crooked old steps drifted higi with snow. They found her that morning, with~ the dim light faillIng icily on her t,iny gray face. Just above was the canvar with the other dead eyes and lips, but there was no gleam like the morning glories in the swoot,, pathetic, fragrani loneliness of the violets against whici the silent woman's cheek rested. GRANT AS A F~RIEND. His Treatment of a Conflderate Gen eral After the Surrender.. The late General LaFayette McLawd of Savannah, was an intimate friend o: General Grant. They were at Wesl Point together. When General Grani was president the friends of Genera McLaws advised him to apply for th< Savannah posteflice. One of his friends, telling of it said : Genera M~cLaws hesitated to make the applica tion, but he was ilnally persuaded t< do it. So he took the train and weni north to see the president. General Grant had left Washington and was a' Long Branch. He wasedirected to th< cottage where the president was stop) ping. The ox-Confederate had sorm misgivings as to the manner in whict Grant would greet him. They had noi met in years, and the former cadet war now president of the United States and one of the great fIgures in the world', history. General M cLaws wondered i1 his successes had swelled Grant's head As he approached the cottage ho sau the president sitting on the verandi with his feet on the rail. The presi dent was smoking one of those cigart which finally killed him, Grant looe at his visitor rather curiously as he aid vanced. The president had left Wash ington to get away from the ofillc seekers, and it was well known that h< did not want to be disturbed in his re treat. But when the Georgian reached the steps the p resident called out 'Hello, Mac I Where did you comc from ? I am truly glad to see you. I came over here to escapoe from the 0011. 0 seekers. Pull up a chair and tell mc how you have been getting along.' Trho greeting was so cordial, doa'pitc the remark about the of11ee seekers, that General McLaws found it an easy matter -to brina up the Savannah post. ollice, anid announced his application for appointment as' postmaster. Gen eral Grant said that he should have it and thaat he could rest perfectly easy on that score. Then they talk ed about their boyhood days and the war and their experiences. In some respects the two tron were alike. Neither had the face' v for accumulating money. General McLaws confessed that he did not have it, and addressqd the question seriously to the president : 'Can you toll me, General, how to make money?' 'My dear Mac, I have not the slIghtest Iidea in the world,' replied the presi dent. Grant never could save money. [Ie had no busines3s instincts or facul ties. Before the civil war he had as hard a time as any man in America. And after he left the presidency he was an easy ''e:tim for schemers, whc used him in swindling schemes, which he thought were honest until their dis honesty was exposed. When General McL4awd returned to Savannah he re ceived hIs appointment as postmaster.' -The man who can analyze his re ligion never has very much. -You can't always tell a man't roenipin by the out of his garment. LYNCHING AS A PREVENTIVE OF CRIME. NEGRO FIENDS MAKE LIFlI A PIlItIL ON FARMS. Bill Arp Justines the Lynching of Men for Outrages Upon Women Every Parent and Husband is an Avenger of this Crime. I had not intended to write anything more upon lynch law, but recent utter ances from the press and the pulpit provoke me to say that the people of Georgia do rot deserve the conaenna tion of friends or foes for their consent to lynchings when the crime is one that is nameless. Our pool-le are as humane and law-abiding to-day as they wore thirty, forty or fifty years ago, and the records of the courts prove it. In 1861 there were 210 white convicts in the penitentiary ; now there are but 1913, and we have a greater population. There is 50 per cent less of felonies in New York or Massachusotts, according to population. Of course, I mean among the whites. Now set that down. An Ohio paper has recently investi gated the record of that nameless crime for the past ton years in that State and gives the figures which show 324 cases, and the regro criminals out number the whites six to one in pro portion to population. In Georgia they outnumber the whites sixty to one and it is because of our scattered and un protected population in the rural dis tricts. Bofore the war that crime was unknown and almost unheard of in the South. I never heard of a case in north Georgia. In 1852 I had occasion to visit Cedar BlufT in A labaia and my companion. Judge Underwood, stopped the horse to show me a pile of stones that was hoeped up around a dead and blasted tree. "Those stones," said he, "mark the place whore a negro bruto was burned two years ago and also mark the place whore ho committed the crime and then murdered his vic tim." That was the only case that came to my knowledge. During the war, when in hundreds of famnilie5 the only protectors of women and children were negroes, not a deed of violence or a betrayal of trust was heard of from the i'otomac to the Rtio G rande ; and General Henry Lt. .1 ackson eloquently said of them, ''they deserve a monu ment that would roach the stars." How is it now ? Nearly 3,009 colored convicts in the chaingangs and less than 200 whites, and the nameless crime is committed by negroes some where every day in the year. What is the cause of this alarming degeneracy of the nogro ? I heard a preacher say the other day that lynching for this crime or any other was the evidence of a depravei and lawless public senti ment. Ho is mistaken. It is rather the evidence of minds charged, per haps overcharged, with love and re spect for wives and daughters, and no man who has neither is a fit juror .) try the case. He is incapahe of ut. derstanding or appreciating the com mon peril that, like a shadow, hangs over the farmer's hom.., be it ever :o humble. 'arental love is nearly all that these people have to give to their children and they give that and cher ish them and will defend them as a tigress defends her whelps. What is the majesty of Lhe law worth to a man whose child has fallen victim to a brute ? What is it to his neighbor who all these years has been from time to time alpprehelnding a similar v'isita tion ? What does a young man, wheth er preacher or,editor or lawyer, know about it ? Jean ingelow (Go,d bless her sweet memory !) makes the old lisher man to say : "I feel for.mariners on stormy nights and feel for wives that watch ashore." Who knows the Perils of the deep like fisherman ? Somne of those learned judges and latwyers and preachers of Atlanta he given vent to langoage that is bitter and malIg nant against lynchings for any crime, but it is to ho noted that they have long lived In call of the police by night and by day and within brick walns and with neighbors at hand on every side. What can they know of the peril of the farmer whose wife visits a neighbor, or whose children have to go a mile away to school. Perhaps some 'nquirlng mind will ask what do I know about it ? Twenty years ago I mov ad from the city t' th'e country and farmed thero for ton years, and all that time the ap)preh -rain grew stronger andI strongecr, for there were negroes all around moc on the farms, and more negroes not far away working in the mInes. I never ex pressed my fears, not even to my wife; but when our boys all lefta the farm for other avocations, and I had to be away most of the time, my wife became alarmed, and I immediately left the farm and moved to town for security. So did every neIghbor that I had, and our school was broken up and the whole settlement abandoned and turned ever to negro tenants. The school hou so was a mile away, and I used to look with parental eagerness for the first appearance of the children's hats as they rose Into view over the distant hill. UntIl then I ne ,er realized the common peril that environs the country people. I have a poor opInion of oin ions unless they come from these who are competent to judge. "Great men are not always wise," saith the Scrip tures. The nearer the press is to the people, the country people, the more ready it Is to aplologizo., or even to jus tify, the speedy execution of this class of criminals. The p)roachers and the press may fulminate and the governor proclaim, but I cannot help rejoicing at every capture and every execution. The law's delay has nothing to do withi It. It is the spontaneous outburst of emotions long felit and long smothered, and these emotions are based upon love-love for home and wife and chil dren, love and resp)ect for the wives and daughters of the neIghbors. Lynching negroes for this crime is no evidence of law'.essnoss among our p)oo pie. The crime stands out by it3olf as an atrocity for which no law is ade quate and no remedy has yet been found. Why it should be on the in crease in defiance of lyinchings we can not tell. It may be that sinee the wrn northern philanthropy, su pplemnentet by southern o(llce-scokers, haive so ox al ted hIs consequence andi his desire for social equality that his fear of pun ishment has been allayed. lhut ccrta4hn it is that the race has not yet been greatly intimidated by lynchings, and they are considered m-rtrtyrs by most of their preachors and teachers and editors. How many mere outrages there would be if these lynchings should stop) we can only conjecture. Bishop Tlurner proposed a day of fast ing and prayer for the deliverance of hi epofrom these horrible lynch inags, but nota word about the outrages that provoke them. B3ut it is curious and so.nc what amus ing to road the different counts in this general bill of indictment against the people who resort to violence. S3ome assert vehemently that there is a d'3 foot in the law's maohlnery, and some say not. One preacher says that 98 por1 cent of those indictod ecano.I) One more would comeo equare up to Juden Dooly's estimate when he said : "Gon. tlemon of the jury, I charge you that the ninety-nine guilty ones have al ready escaped." One learned lawyot says that Ryder would certainly have been tried and convicted in September, and doubtless been speedily executed. Another says he would have been soni to the asylum as a lunatic. Judge Blookley says the law needs no reform ing-that it is right now. The Bar as sociation have resolved that it does need reforming. One preacher quotes scripture that says "The land must not be deilled with blood," but does not give the context that says "innocent blood," and the further context that says "Deliver him unto the hand of the avenger of blood that he may die, and thino eye shalt not pity him." Life for life, hand for hand, etc. "Let them stone him with stones," etc. It seems like a burlesque for any preacher to go to the old Mosaio law for a text against summary punishment of heinous crimes. The avenger of blood was on the warpath all the time and even the man who unwittingly killed his neigh bor, not bating him beforehand, had to fly for his life to the city of refuge lest the avenger of blood overtake him, and being hot shall slay him. Yes, being hot shall slay him. Those avengers of blood must have been blood-thirsty fol lows indeed. It was an awful code of law, but the children of Israel were an awful race to deal with. I wonder what the boys of this generation would say to a law like this: "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or his mother, then shall his father lay hold on him and bring him to the elders and say this, our son, will not obey our voice. And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones that ho die. And Israel shall hear and fear ?' What a horrible death was that I And yet it was a common and a fre quent punish mont. If I was a proacher I wouldn't, go to the Old 'Tostamont for a text against lynching. I wouldn't even quoto Cain, whom the Lord marked, for it foems very certain that if the Lord had not interforod the pewoplo would havo lynched him. Josephus says that the Lord protected himt be cause of his oiloring and becauso he entreated and said : "Is my sin too great to be forgiven?" To my mind the sum of the whole matter is that neither the law's delay nor its uncertainty has anything to do with the impulses and emotions that control men when they putsue and overtake and identify and execute a negro for his crime against helpless in nocence. Every parent and husband and brother in the neighborhood imme diately becomes an avenger of blood. If the brute has already been caught by the otli.ers of the law and securely placed in prison. than let him stay there and meet his doom accord ing to law. I would not take any pris oner away from an bonest and faithful sheri1-unless perhaps the victim was one of my family, nor even then unless it could be done without shedding the blood of oti,eers or friends. -'or all other crimes the laws we have are good enough for all goo(, citizens, and 1 feel no great eoncern for the bad. I suppose that at least half the lawyers carry concealed weapons, but they don't carry them for me. Certain it is I vane no advice on this subject from press or putpit, from judges or law yers, and especially from young un married moo or those who live in rock built cities. I had rather hear and heed the voice of the women of this Southern land, the mothers and dlaugh ters who alone are the victims when peril comcs. if it comes at all. Wha, do they sa y -' BILL ARP. Ti Vm:1.0 Sys'hi-M.-The foo sys tem in the consular service has been restored. During the ad min istration of Prouident Cleveland, Secretary Olnoy issued an order prohibiting consuls fretn receiving fees. This was a great hardship to many consuls e,pecially the offices in London and LIverpool. The salary of the consul general at London only pays $5,000 a year, whereas under the fee system it paid nearer $650,000. The same thing is true re garding the Liverpool consulate and in proportion all the consulates where there is much business carried on with this country. When the presIdent appointed his cousin, Williamn McKinley Osborno, to London, tihe latter delined it at fIrst. but later accepted It with the under standing that the fee system would be restored. " Jimmy" Boyle, McKinley's former p)rivate secretary, is consul to Liverpool. The p)ressure to have the fee system restored comes mainly from these two ollices. i'rosident McKinley alppointed W. WV. Rockhill assistant secretary of state. A. A. Adee and Thomas Crider, second and third as sistants, to submit a report as to thu advisability of re roking the order of M r. Olney. Rockh ill reported ad versely but the other two recommended that the fees be restored. Hence it will be done and " Cousin Osborno'' andl " Jimmny"" Boyle will be the chief bene flciarios. a) 'The young muarried couple who are crown ed wit hgood health are really a kintg and qucem. They ate possessed of an armor thtat entalls them to withtstand all the hardlshtips atnd mtisfortunes of life. Accidents aside they wvill live long, happy lives of tmutuial hlpfumlness, and they will be blessed with amiable, hecalthy chil dren. They will sit together in the twilight of old age atnd look back wvithotut regret over a mnutually happy, help fuml, useful, successful companionship. There are thousands of yountg cotiples every day who start wedded life with bit otne drawback.one or the other, or both, sutffer frotn il-health. There can be no true wedlded htappliness thtat is overshandowed by the black cl oud-of physical suffering. The natt who conttemtplates tmatrituony, and re alizes thtat thtroutgh overwork or worry ot neglect, lhe is suffering from Ill - health, shiouldi take the proper steps to rettnedy it before he assumes thle respottsib)ilties of a husband. Dr. Ierce's Golden Medical Dis covery is the b)est of all tnedicines for tmen who have tneglected their health. It makes tihe appetite keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active, and the blood .pure and rich wvith life-giving elemments. It is the gre~at blood-maker and flesh-builder. it nv igor ates and gives virility, strengthi and vigor. N~o woman should wed while she s uniers from weakness and disease in a wotmanly way. These are the muost disastrous of dis ordlers from which a woman catn sitffer. They break downa her general health. Thiey unfit her for wilfehiood amid inotherhmood?. Tmey make her a weak, sickly, nervous in.~ valid. g Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrilit ion, cures all weakness and disease of the deli. cate and important organts that bear the hur denis of wiPfchood and muotherhood, It tranisformti weak, sufferinig, fretful inv~alhids into healthy, happy wives amid miothers. thmedicines ar sold at all good med. ec tree W1HEN MONEY IS .CLOSIE You want to save doctor bills then for you want the Best, surest and Quickest Remedy for all pains, such as lRheumatism, Neuralgia Headache, Toothache, Cuts, Bruises, Burlge, Sprains, Stilt Joints, etc. Rice's Goose Grease Liniment cures all these at once. It also relieves Croup, Colds, Coughs and Pains in chest and sides at once. Always sold under a guarantee by all druggists and general stores. Made by Goose Grease Liniment Co., Greensboro, N. U. OUTHERN RAILWA". .eeue4 Schedule in UEoe$ NOV. 18, 1698. OTATION& . e . Nzl............."" 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No~'E&' Lv Atlantia.............7 50pm*1200Onn LV A thens-..............10 42pm 3 16pm Elberton.... ..........2 33am 4 l5pm A bbeville ..-..--........1 40am 5.15pm On Pianos, Organs an drive our business thlese ha Prices. We dIon't sit down of money like the 01(1 fossil on when they won't pa'y th( want to purchase a Piano o us5 arnd we will sell you. V and best selected stock of I some of the best makes on t to sell them. We guarani than any other reliable deah time purchasers are easy. ( required and we make Spot Cash Buyers we will s Organ checaper from us thai buinfess. W'e kCeep) consta of small ins'trumrenlts, cons Mandolins, A utoharps, Violi par1ts, strings and( suppjlies SeNwingr Maucines at ridicu want one, just intimate it,'an. low you can buy one. Our E vocal and instrumental, is kej of the p)opular and up-to-date lime. Yours tr ALEXANDER IGREENVIL Uroonwood.............. 2 OOam 641pm Clinton ............ 3 l3am 084pm Ar Colunbia C N & L Ri. 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