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THlE. P EOPLE'S JUNL - Vol, io.---N() 3. A.PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, FEB4RUARY ,qO.NE OLA AYAR THIU K[IjLING OF ARAD FM "And as for this man Files, we., have somuthing to say about him morrow which will be an eye-o)er to the citizens whom he i hood win This was the closing sentence of V editorial, and as Malcolm penned the lines about his lips grow more d termined, and there was a light in I gray eyes which boded ill for t aforesaid Files. The Hapsburg Arg was for reform, aid the young edilt had thrown himself, heart and so Into Lhe political arena. Haupburg-that is, the better el mont, which, as Is tue case in ma communities, had been a lotharp majority-was slowly awaking. 0< ruption was a festering sore upon ti body politic; decent Lmen kept aw from the primaries and almost fro the polls on election dav. The ci was in the hands of a gang who n only robbed taxpayers, but gave not ing in return. Tn; aver ige propert owner will statnd baing rubbed in taxi if he can only see some return for ti money in public improvements. Finally a few of the most progre sive business men had joined furc bought out the local papr, and looki about for a young nau to run it f( them, believing the paper to be tt entering wedge for the lever whic was to overturn the oud regime. Tat came upon Malcoln, and he was i stalled at the head of the Argus stal Arad iles was the political boss the lowest section of the city. le he been a bar-tender, a real estate aget during the boom, a "contractor" fi several public "Improvements" whic had made him comfortably well-to d and he was something of a lawyc For ten ycars he had been a leader I the politics of the city. Noboc seemed to know much about his ant cedents. His life previous to his a pearance in Hapsburg wis a close book. But Malcolm, when be first saw tb fellow, felt that his ;ac: 'ras familia Files's was a htrikigg countenance one would not easily forget the droo ing yellow moustache, full, rudd cnceks, and the long hair w iicn almoi curled upon his coat collar. He alwa8 wore a broad-rimme.I hat which I cglb ened the cowboy effect of his al pearance. And whcu Malcolm co pared him with the cow-punchers I had seen, he suddenly discovered th niche in his mamo-y into which M Arad Files fitted. A dozen years before, Malcolm, the a mere lad, had vibited his uncle ranch in Montana, and while there tr of the her, amen had killed ano:he There was some provocation for tb deed, but the townsoip just then wi having a spastm of morality, and Lb coroner's jury brought in a verdict ( manslaughter; but the criminal escal ed. It appeared that the murdere had already served a term in prisc somewhere in the east, and bore a ba reputation generally. Wien Malcolm found that Files we one of the hardest fighting opponen of the new movement for reform, h began to trace his back record. H sent a photograph of the man to Mo tana, and several witnesses recognize the face, Malcolm waited until ho ha the aflidavits and facts ranged In the proper sequence, and then prepared 1 spring his mine. The election of city officers was a hand. The party in power was dyin hard, and Arad Files was making sl perhuman efforts to counteract the e feet of the articles wlich appeare day by day in the " Argus." Whe Malcolm wrote the editorial of whic the sentence quoted above was tt close, tl'e article dealing with File peast record was already in type I readiness for the next afternoon paper. Coming as it would so r0 election day, the opposers of the no reform wave could do nothing to coui teract its effect. Malcolm had laid h plans carefully, and as he left t " Argus " oflice that af ternoon, he fe that the success of his party in ti coming election was assured. Hie had to run over to Duquest that night on business, and, being d' layed, was obliged to wait until momi ing before coming back. The fir: train was a through express: frQ Chicago. The coaches were well tle but he linally found a seat besides little, quiet-faced old lady witha ample lunch basket and several bulli packages. .Malcolm had been a motherless-s io~t a homeless- man for years, hi 1,he kind old face under the gray ha and the old-fashioned bonnet was moi ',attractive to him than a young fa( would have been. Le always envit men their mothers. His boyish fe tures must have attracted her, for el turned to him after the train had le Duquesne and asked : " Young man, are you going far< this train ? I'm goin' to get of pretl soon, and I've got enough sandwichi an' doughnuts an' cookies left here fi an army. They're good, too, for made 'em myself." "I can believe that," responded Ma colm with a smile, " and L wIsh I w; going far enough so that I might e joy them ; but I get out two or thr, stations beyond. It has been yea since I had real 'home' cooking." The old lady looked through b glasses at him commiseratingly. '1i you've had to live at hotels, too, ha' you ?" she said. " My son says h< aw ful hungry for' decent vittles. The here hotel cooks don't, know how cook fit for anybody's stomach. B I'm sorry to waste all this food whi it might, do some cone some good-s save their goIng to that dinging cs My son cent me with my ticket plenty of money to pay for my me. on the train ; hut I learned they ser iiquorc there, so I was bound not patron ize 'e m. I-I though t may be you was going through you cou finish my lunch, an' that would sa you having to go in. I hate to see young man go into a place who there's liquor." Her face flu.hed painfully and h old voice i'?mbled. Malcolm saw th she was deeply moved by her os words, or, rather, by the thoug which pvbmpted them. " Thank you," responded the nov paper man, with feelIng. '"I'm always afraid for young m who don't have any homes and have - travel about," she said. " Liquor's * dreadful curse to this country. An' S many poor w4)men's sona get-led awa -even when they are at hom4 iohiers don't .tnow what their bo5 u :aro doin,'nor Who they go.with. er don't believe any woman ever watche over her boy more-Careful than I di over mine ; but he got led off by be Sassouiata and was a source of gret trouble to'me once. -*I'm so thankfu e he's finally'turned out so *ell. Whb he tells me he's quite prominat, L le politics In his town, an' they talk o runnin' him for the assembly, or somn< ar thing," and her eyes glistened b-bin the spectacles. " I don'ti mind tellin' you. as long a e- you don't know him and probably wil never hear of him anyway," she pur 10 sued, "that ho made a dreadful ba etart. His father was good man, an( 0 kind to his family; but he drank whei y I married .im, and always wouli m drink, though not much. I never se v 6 harm in it myself at first. Not til i see what sort of society it was lead SIng. my boy into did I understand Uis father was dead then, and I didn' know how to manage a great boy lik( Li him; he was 'most a man." She wiped her eyes furtively and continued. le was a spirited boy and liked 38 d gay company. His drinking habit r and his friends .led him to the gam e bling table. And then-and tLe hc h forged his employer's name-ot for i large sum, but it was just ai wicked We-,we saved the money and paid tbh note, but of course he couldn'ts try a Ahomne any longer ; nobody ywbuld trusi d him. 8o he cams West, and it wa It years before I heard from him. HE bad a hard struggle, but I don't know h but 'twas as hard for me, We womei do the waiting, an' waiting is bittei ' ard sometimes. r. "But it's all over now." She smiled n though her cheeks were wet. " Ie' . doing fine. Once,-two y.ears ago-he came home to see me. He's as b'g and d' han'some as his father was. But he couldn't stay in our little town. Th ingi was too dull and slow;. and then, h. was doing so well out hLre.., I couldn't think of breaking up and coming witi him then, either. But he's been so ur gent that here I be at last." , I She laughed a happy litti i laugh , ilo a girl's. In truth she was renew . Ing her youth, and was as happy as a . oung bride on her way to the waiting . groom. Malcolm envied tihis man hie e possession of such a mother, and he e w/.s interestcd in the boy who haJ . gone wrong in his youth, but who had reformed. n .The conductor came to the old lady 's jast then. " The next stop Is yoni e plice, mi'a.n," he said. "The portet r. 'l see to your luggage." 0 She oegan to gather up her severa ,j packages with nurvous haste. Mal e colm got out of the seat that she migl )f have room, and. the obscqulous porte . appeared. The newspaper man knev r oy his manner that somebody has paid n him well for his attentions to the old d lady. The " boy " she was going ti had made the way plain before her ,s and Malcolm wondered who he was. is The train slowed down at Hapsburg e and stopped. The young man wae e kept back for a moment by more eager k- passengers. When he reached the d platform he sa his seat-mate stand. d ina . ptb -..-;rAId.t, Of...iey.pOasessiona r l'oolIegeagerly about at the hurrying o throng. Suddenly she espied a tal figure fi.thh'crowd ; she uttered a little ,t ary'of delight, and dropping her par g cels, met him with,.outstreoted arms. i- 'My boy I" f- " Mother -" - d Malcolm turned away, feeling, some n how, as if he had received a blow ii h the face. The map was Arad Files. e . The elitor. of Athe " Argus" walked B" hfoodily 'u'p t'he street to the office Hsestent, Dahlinger, met him witi aa broad siile. "You've stirred uI r the enemy's camp at last, old man," hi R said... . a- " What's upi ? s " Files himself -was in here -latelas e night and h.ss 6aea lcd agalit." It " What about?" e " Wants to see you. Was vori anxious to know if you'd be back be e fore thulpapersw.pnt to press this after -~ nobm- d'1i l'yna-hp's'a spared'abon." -. NIleolo tapd'hia.p~netl ra'flective at ly oin tho desk. " Bring me the proofs n of that Files article," he said. I, Left alone with the crumpled slipl a he rearl 4he story through. -It was I n great coup-~np doubtyof that. Witi y that recoald :betoe the public the op paoition woulrd'oti-be 1Mft a leg to stant 1- on, it And then between Malcolm and thi Lr printed lines rose the sweet~ :old face e of th .-tyr~ hosha Mome so fa e to j*iet1-.c~~)~y oinae to sei d his''ti ph .h' (ulcbehold his do .feat. Suppose that black record shoula e. gach. her ey~s? ..The t.riumph t hpipi~eady gned totashes..2 e:-> n '''her'as a knock at the door. y " Mr. Files: to see you,''s1',"eald thi rj I i1 efat 6dfd'ii." : I Files was inside the office almmesitiin mediately, Hie .stoo:1 .hesitatingla 1-. iear the jloor in a quite .ibek'plieabli hs manner. , a- The man who was noted for rema'id 30 lng cool and unruffild under all clr rs cumistanco ware very palpably nervous Malcolm waved him to-a cbgir?. Pr 3r " What can I do for you,.' 1s 'aked lo " I reckon, Mr. Malcolm, you believi ie you've already done for me,"4aaid thi 'a big ann uneasily. iHe removed hi ce broad bat and passed his hand througl to his long hair. it "You think too highly of my ability, in said the editor, politely. " Wlthou n'. seeing my article, too !" r. "0O, I know about what's in it," sal a File~s calmly. " An' 1 s'pose you've de Is i6 all there. Ordinarily I wouldn' ie care a hang what you could say abou to .me,.but -er-now'I'd give a good dee if rather than have that story appear." Id Malcolm's face hardened. "You'y ro come to the wrong shop to buy any fe a yors, Mr. Files,"- he said. re " I didn't have no intention of ollem ing you money, sir," said FIles. " Bu 3r I'll agree to 'bout anything you say t at keep that thing out of the paper. I'] in agree to step out of the whole business bht I'll throw up my place as leader of th ward-I'll refuse the nomination ; I'r s- sure to get it if my side wins. I" I s'pose," he said, a little sheepist an Ily, "you're wonder ing why I'm doin to jthis. Well, I'll tell you. It won't d a no good. of con,.RA. but I won't leo i quite so like a fool. i-I-my mother's y come on from the E'ist," he blurted s. out. "She don't know much about 's me. God bless her ! If she should I read some of the things I hear you've d got in that story of yours' 'twould break d her heart. I hate liko fury to back out d of a good fight, but 1-I don't want her t to know." | Malcolm ialsed his head and looked , him straight in the eye. "Will you a agree to got out of politics altogeth I er ?" " I'll sign a paper to that eifect an' I you can hold it over me." "I don't want it," said the editor. s " I prefer the hold I've got on you al I ready." le picked up the speaking - tube and whistled up bis foreman. I Putting his lips to the mouthapieco he I said . 1 " Tell Jimson to kill Arad Files. Let I him put the street department roast in . its place." I Files arose and waited a moment to - stealy his voice before speaking. " You're a good fellow, Malcolm. I'm much obilged," he said, and held out his hand. The editor refused to see the hand. I "Not at all," he said briefly. "Good day." THE DALItbNGTON GUARDS. r'he General Assembly Receives the Flag of a Historic Company for Preservatiou Among Precious Me mi1orials. Gov. McSweeney has sent a special massage to the Legislature in trans mitting a letter of the Hon. John -'.oyd, a member of the House of Representa tives from the county of Darlington, and a surviving soldier and oflicer of the Confederate States army, in which the Governor heartily recommends the acceptance by the State of the historic flag, so gracefully and patriotically ten dered, and that it be carefully placed and safely preserved in the receptacle prepared heretofore by the State for such precious memorials of the devo tkon and valor of her sons. Appropriate re.narks were made in the House upon the reception of the special message, including a feeling tribute from Mr. Floyd to the members of the Darlington Guards. In the Senate, a concurrent resolu tion to accept the gift was offered by S.-nator G. W. Brovn, of Darlington, who said that representing the county of Darlington it was a grateful privi lege to recount something of the his tory of the Darlington Guards. He gave these facts : The Darlington Guards organized June 28, 1859, with Frederick F. War ley as captain, a graduate of the State Military academy. He tendered ser vices of the Guards to Gov. Pickens before the Ordinance of Secession was passed. The call reached Warley Jan. 2, 1861, 9, a. m. A . were on board the day followine except one man who, being too far away to receive the sum mons, followed on the next train. The flug was presented on Academy-Greea, by J. A. DArgan and his son, E. K. Dargan, held the flag while the presen I tation speech was being made. The Guards was the first company to reach Charleston. The Richland Rlilas of Columbia, Capt. Miller, arrived 6ix hours later and were escorted-to quar ters by detachment of the Guards. The next day these two companies were formed on opposite sides of the same street and mustered into- service for six months. The Guards were then mustered in and became one of the first enlisted companies in the war be tween the States. Ordered- to Sulli van's Island on the same day they ba came part of the First regimenk, S. C V. infantiry, under Col. Maxcy Gregg. The company furnished forty-even -oinmissioned officers.and three lieu t'enant colonels to the Confederate ser .vice, Warrea, F. F ; Dargan,. A T.; Me -Idtosh, D. G.: The -last namo'd at .the battle of Frederioksburg was i'econ mended to Geon. Lee for promotion. Senator Marshall: " I rise to. ex press gratification that another battle flag-gi Abe Confed.eracy has .been p're sented to the State. I wish every one of:the flags-.could be -placed'alongside those now in the State house so that -but' child reu and the stranger of an other day can see the flags under which our fathers fought. They brigh t en the history'of Our State. The sol diers who fuught and died in that war were hpnored and loved and died in the Ep~iurteance of' their duty. We should gladly r ceive this na~g and place it, .with the othe rs in the ii brary." becnetor Aldrich : " We are asked to receive this old piece of silk, soiled .and rent and tattered, of no value, and . yet it is more precious than all the jewels of the east, for it is the Ilag that floated over as gallant a band of Caro lnians as ever -drew sword in defense of the State, in as righteous a cause as over commanded the sympathies of mankind-once it was resplendent with all the beauty the cunning hands of do. voted women could bestow upon it ;it is a ruin now, but ' a land without ruins is a land without memories.' And what memories cluster around t iat old banner ; how many a weary march does it recall ; how many a des perate assault upon bard fought battle filds does it bring back: and how often .has it been stained with the blood of heroes ? We will receivo it aind gIve it a place of honor when all coming generations may look upon it and take tbeir Inspiration from it, and when they shal lask who wore the D~arling ,ton Guards ? the answer will come in the words of a magnanimous foe-they wore a part of ' that incomparable in fantry who bore upon 4heir bayonets Sthe failing fortunes of the Confederacy Sfor four long and bloody years,' and o Swhom the great war' pr esident of the' Snation spoke, when standing on the battlefield of Gettysburg and contem plating their deeds of valor, exclaim ed : 'I want the union to be restored more than over in order that I may call those men my countrymen.' Let .us accept it, sir, and keep it in honor t of these brave men who fought the good tight andi who kept the faith." B -The Colorado Springs Gazette sug agests that Mr. Rockcfeller's recent I ift of *100,000 to establish a chair of - psybology at the Columibian Univer a lty was made with a view to the inves o I igation 'of the question as to whether Ic corporationns have souls . BILL ARP ON LYMAN ABBOTT. THE B.BDLETHIC ONLY STANDAtD. The Georgia Philosopher on the Higher Cril icism-Moses 11at A buu dant Resources at Han(. A great lawyer whose chief business was to defend criminals was asked the se,!rct of his sucQess, and he replied ; "It is to deny everything and call for the, proof." New England agnosticism and higher criticism of the Scriptures seem to. bave a like maxim. The deeper a man goes into science the more in. clined is he to call for the proof ; es pecially if he has more learning than brains, and has to strain hi6 mind to solve the mysteries of life and na ture. I was ruminating. about this, for I had just read the press dispatches that Rev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded Lenry Ward Beecher, had in a public address in Boston declared that the Book of Genesis was a myth-a legend written before the flood by some un known prophet-and that it wasinipos sible for Moses to have known of the things that transpired 2,000 years be fore he was born, and he asks, " What were his resourcee if they were not le gends and myths?" I know that it does not become me to teach theology or the infallibility of the Scriptures, but it occurs to ime that if Mr. Abbott can undermine the Book of Genesis he will overthrow the whole structure of Biblical authority that has withstood the wear and tear of time for all these centuries. The Bible is the standard of the ages-the headlight of the nations, and it must stand as a whole or fall as a whole. The rever end gentleman professes to telieve in the now testament and part of the old, but if he is really a Christian he must believe as much of the old testament as the Savior and His apostles did. It was Cbrist who said in the parableof Dives and L'zirus, " If they will not believe Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe though one rose from the dead." This is that Moses who pre dicted the coming of the Savior when he was giving the laws to the children of Israel-that Moses to whom Go intrusted the tables of stone that con tained the commandments, and who wrote the most beautiful song in the Psalms of David-that Moses who ap peared in glory on the mount while the Bvior was transfigured-that Mo ses of whomi.Paul said he was faithful as a testimony of thosi things which were to come after. R-fetences are too numerous to quote-all showing that. Moses was the vice-regent of the Almighty, and was a prophet inspired by Uim. No, Mr. Abbott cannot uphold the new testament and pull down the old He must sustain or demolish all. It is the sam 3 old attack of science upon miracles becsuse they cannot be ex plained upon any hypothesis of human reason ; when the truth is that Mr. Ab bott himself is a stupendous miracle, and cannot tell how he thinks or where the power of thought or the faculty of memory is located, nor how he can at will raise his hand or close his eye; nor how he took form and shape in his mo ther's womb. All nature is a miracle; the leaves of the trees, the color of the flowers, the flight of the bird, the infin ite smallness of matter and germs, the infin te magni-tude and boundless extent of the heavens and of space, and in all creation there is nothing that has pride, vanity and self-conceit save man -an agnostic or skeptic or an infidel " The fool (only) has said in his heart, there is no God." Well, now, leaving out the inspira tion that guided Moses when he wrote the Book of Genesis, let us come down to human reason and see whether Mo ses had resources or net. Mr. A bbott is now sixty-five-years old. He the son of R v. Jacob A b bott, who was born in 1803, and Jacob was the son of a R~svolutionary sire. Mr. Lyman Abbott has children and perhaps grandchildren. That would make five generations from his grand sire.' This- Mr. Abbott lived in comn munion with his father forty-four years, and probably was a young man when pie grand father died. Now, if his grand sire and his sire were good, truthful, Christian men, and no doubt they were, how easy it was for Lyman to get a .true account of the Revolutionary war so far .as relates to all the incidents that his grandfather knew of or took part in. And how easy for Lyman to hand it down cotrrectly to his children and grandchildren. No inspiration is needed --nothing but truth and a good memory. This is proel->ely the ease with Moses-only six persons were needed to transmit the account of the creationi from Adam down to Moses. True there were twenty seven genera tions during that long period of years, but they lapped over each other sur prisingly, and it seems to have been a dispensation of providence that they should. The chronology of the Mosaic account is as clear as a bell, and figures doe not lie. Adam lapped over into Lda mecl and lived with him fifty-six years, and Lamechi was Noah's father. Surely L~amnech told Noah all about the creation, or' ho got, it direct from Adam, and he lived with his son Noah 595 years-had plenty of time didn't he ? Noah had a son named Shem, who wont into the ark with him, and I reckon during the long rainfall the old pentleman didn't have much else to .talk about to his children hesides the creation .and (~sin and Abal and Seth and i'noch, and so Shorn knnw it all about, as well as his father. Now, '3hem was another long-lived pattriarch, for lhe lived 502 years after the flood. LUe lived to see Arphaxad, Sarah, Ecer, Poleg, 1lou, Serug, Nahor, Torah, A b raham, Isaaic and Jacob--eleven genter ations. Yes, he lived and communed with Jacob for fifty years, and old1 Noah himself, the preacher of rightsousness, lived until Abraham was sixty years old. Well, of course old ["athter Noah told Father Abrahamn everything that Lamech had told him, and Shem told it, too, and also had fifty years talk with Jacob about it. Is there any trouble about keeping the account straight this far, and this clears up the Mosaic record for atbout 2,000 years. Now, Jacob had a son named Levi, and this simo i evi-the father of the priesthood -was the grandfather of Amram, who wasu the father of Moses. tow easy it was for Levi to transm!t to Amram, his grandson, all that he learned frnm Jacob. Then the record. would read Adam told Lamech, Li mech told Noah, Noah told Abraham, Abraham told Jacob'(and Shem told hIm, too), and Jacob told Levi and LevI told Amram. Lamech, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, I'vi and Amram. The twenty-seven generations are reduced to six men and those six were all men favored of God and in the lineof descent to DAvid and Jesus Christ. Besides these men there were godly women not a few. A Old Mother lvo was there, the last and best part of the creation, and pro bably lived with Adam until his death. Don't you know she loved to meet with her descendants and how she sat in the corner with her knitting and talked to old Mother 1noch and Mother Methu salch and Mother Lamech, who was her g-g-g-g-g-g-g-granddaughter and c how she wept with them over that apple business. d Resources indeed! Could a histo rian have any better or more truthful t God-fearing men and women to learn from ? Young men, boware how yoi di become infatuated or infected with this modern idea of higher criticism. For 2,500 years the authenticity of the Old Testament has been studied by the most learned men of tie ages. an l'aul says, " Unto the Jews were com nitted the oracles of God. What if some do not believe; shall their unbc ,tel make the faith of God without of feet V God forbid; yea lot God be true, but every man a liar." Two hundred and eighty-five yeare before Christ seventy learned men compiled the sa- e cred canon and it has remained un changed till this day. But ever and anon some carping and cynical mind strains itself to find a liaw and calls it ,, higher criticism. Just like Seward and Giddings and other fanatics did when they armed John Brown and declared that there was a higher law than the constitution. k Young man, stand by the faith of the ages, the faith of your fathers and atd be not wise in your own conceit, i for Solomon saith, "There is more hope of a fool than of him." n I have recently visited the good old a city of Columbus and received Its hos- a pitality and benedictions. It is just my 1 age, and through all these years has moved steadily and surely forward manufacturing with serenity and dig- a nity the character its cultured men d and women gave it in the beginning. i How broadly beautiful it was laid out; how beautiful is its shade; how green a the grass on its public grounds ; how c beautiful the river that girdles it. Not for a single year has there been any re trograde in the manners or morals of its people. Considering its clImate, so ciety and prosperity I do not know a city that I had rather live in. It is al ready large enough for moral safety, for Jeffs rson spoke a truth when he said that great citIes were pestilential to good health and good morals. Of course, we favor the increase of an in dustrial population that keep the wheels and spindles turning and the wolf from the door and the beggar from the streets and if every city cared for its operatives in the mills as Colum bus does, there would be no objectles sons of misery to be carried before the legislature. I vielted the young men's club rooms of the Eagle and Bhenix mills. Yes, club rooms for factory boys 1 where they can spend their ovenings t and read and write and bathe and ex exercise instead of going to the saloon@. The beautiful library has 2,000 volumes of standard books and the reading tables are furnished with the best news paper and magazine literature. I can not enumerate the pleasant and attrac- I tive features of these rooms. They are alI free or nearly so to the factory boys who become members. Colonel Ganby Jordan is the big-hearted promoter of this attachment to the mills and the mill owners pay all the expenses. Sad but sweet memories came ever me as I recalled the halcyon days when the Holts, Gouldings, RI !dds, Hlowards, Thorntons and Warrens lived here, and I went to school and to college with their sons. These boys are all dead gave two, and I am reminded of my loneliness. I recall other leading citi zens who walked the streets and pre served the standard of honor and in tegrity. Such men as Seaborn Jones and Benning and Crawford and Chappel and Bethune and Bozeman and Lomax. Shakespeare says, " The evil that men do lives after them ; the good is oft in terred with their bones." I would re verse that expression, for good deeds and their influence last longer thanl evIl ones and nowhere has the succes sion of gnod citizi nsipli proved it mort p~alpably than ini Columnbus. There hi, still wealth without ostentation and hospitality without a strain. Not a shyster among her lawyers nor a qjuack among her preachers. N t a fancy preacher among her clergy, nor a venal partisan among her editors. i'or tunate city ; happy popIle ILL~r Aur. -The State dIspensary has gotten out a comp jle statement by months showing the sales of lIquors to dispen sers in this State. Thue stateoment ia in teresting in showing the way in which llcquor drinking is being "discouraged" by the (1 ispensary system. it shows that during the year 1899 there was sold by the State to the county dispensers $1, 444,715.82 worth of liquors. This re presents the psice "to dispensers" and does not inlcludel the pirofits paid to local dispensers by consumers. The total sup~plies furnished the disprnsaries in Dacomber last amount-d to $211,103 32 without the profits. Then the beer dispensairies sold in the seven months they wore in operation $89,0(1.95 worth of stuff, making the total for the year on the basis indicated as to the regular dispensaries $1,518,777 77. The beer dlispensar-ies' best month's busines was July,when they sold $17,083 41 worth of beer. There are new in the State 95 regular dispensaries and 25 boor dis lpensmarics. -The Roanokoe News prints the fol lowing fervent prayer which a colored minister madec in behalf o'f a fellow minister : "0O, Lord, gib himthcecyc ob de eagle dat he may spy out sin a far off. Lay his hands on de gospel plow. Tie his tongue on the line of truth. Nail his, ear on de gospel pole. Bow his head down between his knees and his knees way down in some lone some, dark ard narrow valley where prayer is much wanted to be made. Noint him with de geroseno ieo of sal vation and sot him on lire." GA I'A iti'S FA ITHLFSS WI '. V Great Morrow In Ilh Lifo Of The British General. The war in the Transvaal hat Prought to the surface a story which, out for the present promnience of Jcut. Gun. Willialu Gatacre, of the Iritish army, would probably have. eon permitted to slee) where I'. was uried in Ireland sevoral years ago, o3 the facts are being related in einh . ld among scores of l.nglish-born iuilles in L'is Angeles, Santa Monica nd elsewhoro In Southern UGhfornia tiey have recalled what at one Limo early culminated in a high-life agedy in Dublin. Somo years ago G n. Gatacre, then Alonel of the Conuaulit, tangers, was ,ationed with his regi'nent in Dublin. is wife was a mos. brilliant and ashing woman, in the Dublin garri >n at the Line was a handsoiuo cap On, Murphy by name, with an Irish edigree extending back secveral hun red years, and possessing a fortune hich, with other accomplistiments, ado him a social lion. Capt. Murphy as a typical British guardstuan, tail id straight, an athlete and a thorouyh ian of the world. [Lu and the wife of on. Gatacre were thrown much to other-so much, in fact., that people ugan to talk. Tile husband was loath ) believe that all was not just as it biould be until the evidence became of ach a ipronounced character that Col astacre finally taxed ile wife for at xplanation. The lady is said to have boldly do lared her love for Mut phy. Her hus and sent for the handsome captain to hom he laid down one of two altorna ives. Either Capt. Murphy must, forth ith resign his army comniission and lear out of thu county, taking Mrs atacre with him, or he would be ililed. Col. Gatacro added, in a sor, f incidental fashion, that if he evee acountered Capt. Murphy anywhere i the British empire his lfe would ot be worth the snuff of a candle. apt. Murphy accepted the conditions ad sought to 1I 30 with Gatareo's wife a far as possible. The couple went to outhern California. Col. Gatacre, because of ride novel Jught divorce, and the facts, as the re here related, as such things usually o, followed Capt. Murphy and tb idy to Los Angeles. The couplle livet t one of the hotels for several monti nd tried hard to break into the oft uuntry peopie's set. They were nubbed, however, right and left, and hen Capt. Murphy purchasold a range orchard near Duarte. Tier lie couplo lived in solitude and pro umably happy, until early laist year ihen the lady died.' She was alfecte< vith some sort of pulmonary coml, ilaint. Her remains were embalie, ind sort to lNnglard. Capt. Murph ollowed a short time later. Wori 'eached Los Angeles lately that Capt durphy has marriedi and settled dlowl in his Irish estate. tie still owns t1 )uarte orange orclalrd, purcha< ,ars age. Gon. Gatacro, as soon at his wife anki ier lover had left Ireland, exchangco ato a regiment for colonial service am) ras sent to India. lie said wi-en h ft England that never again woul c serve anywhere in the mother coun ry. TJie~l21iNa ic I ltbS.-The'ph ic equirements in girls who are giver ositions in the telephone exclhane kre almost as stringent as those in isted upon I-n men enlisttig in th .rmy, says the l'hiladephla Call. T, occone a " hello " girl the applicar nust not be more than 30 years old r.o ess than live feet six inches tail. lie ilght must be good, her healing : ',lenet,, and her voice soft., her- peret'l ,ion quick and her temper atngeli With all the qualillceations a gi may secure a positlon aniswerving tim alls of telephone subscribers, an:I wvi b~e enabled to earn from $1.10 to $1 5p lay. Every girl's eli-ht antid hi arir' is tested and her helglht is nlicat-nI before she is hired. T1all, slim girl with long arms are preferred for- wv'r in the switchboards. iFat, short, gilr )ccupy too much room and are n< bi~be to reach all of the sIx feet, of spat llotted to each operator. With ri rard to nationalIty, 1. Is said that gir if Irish parentage make the beu porator s. WHY HE CURESI r'he (Greatest S8poiailist of th Tmi Imoi (Give Every Untso lIi4 I'irrsonaml A Iteil ,1o. D00r .otdoctor rs*ll~, havie a ctinu numbeIlr of1 stock4 r4.ln44les. wh~~I lehti-y u441, Iathaway's ni11cases1 wiiilh reema ai au1 4imi,i Met*d i" "t 1)r.1lai14wa'si 4,Inino: -ehd vierycasm~ewoiiithaismos 4*~ntcarefunl diagnos(l~ed anld the* lexni* Iver cas41.4 e is t r sepn at~ely unc.i anadicine arol h l4.In it iiered wh'ic at.i4I 4) t llhawl,4ay' airson by n t %*1 'leula r m e n1ti I trate ini he -inee1 w; 44vent for 14a44no4 cnril4n r I,. I llinay i' a e sloe word hoe treaseial;*c' di1*1 >f his own-a niyatem staminlie out ye'n' aan1 wini. Every Oas -pr110ved and4* i*4on laed 4,4 coia Specially du*ring. th ta 4iars mor Treated. pra'l eneeyndr hr v pey a si.1 - ;hiAcounttry. Dr. I l atisiv-ay'aeal a Irte if r*nu Excls ue o1hi riiiul* ryet ren treaet r*'et Exol44sivoyr t ram eleir hinit prl-r th ~4 1 treatme~nt worb*1 ask n ing for lihe 4crivlg jVIee LiAinRr.11nthn1wa1y'*meth41l~ er I reentrulen4tbe berre4 It wi44r to* alloew noneb h~esrhle hhneselfth k14 Inowiledei if hm~i rnm~i~*eil ,a he ii 4 i *4 too ~ w elel wa reof tuoIje 44 cho wichl maiy hl n o by414 e thne uneekilltful usede of an' 44yst4ein ne4ver mital* hrow.m efn Diced and Skint Sr. I lnigwa se I rennuent41I io [D11 eIl)i' tme t0i8-~ eerer llior. ofleu, lrite' theO lood4* that tho e a i44n1 pe'IlIr'441nety 441rin o epntey dlrliven frezrn the te m anall-4eII444 I tht i'atln*u dministe4411ring* 11oisoryrus444 or durlo tt i dIroIp. ires treatmenlIt oft va4rlep Varle000le and tanid Striferur te 44 4*ale 'do r Strictufre. "i~lI "411 4e 'eliltrlI, *1 r cie I of nmI. cason reults . ina prfo ndl permanent 541ro. NO 0i'dallon 4*1 ii '.<pred * ln, aillonit. Thle ('xpopenl4 of th14is trin4111ent 44 4nuch'I Di. h4an that of 4a ope4ra3t(*Inor ho4*'pitidl or inst1iu rrralme*nt, tandiij botih lento~ and4 *4ure, resltoring5 th *rgaitns to a oonllittn of pe4rfeIet norl health,. Kidney tenrt Q1Otunhna o 414'Sr*I~l D|seases. ronIron to' suecljt Kidne~y Irbe Irn 44 voryone who send., hdim i name awladr FR EE. afrendy e4xhaus4tlel 14 the I nrli 414no*4] 1040,000 halt for' al 1limited time a tiop~y r hIs book wIll bo Alont fron4 to1 anyone31* who14 1emi. 14i n0S hta ir*nao andi addr13essi lto Dr. 1jintha4wa.1 losltt Dr. linthaeway mak414e4 n4( cha*rf' FREE. fornltaIIi4eftionaael-Ienatotthec J. NEWTON HATHAWAY M. D. Dr. IMatlilaway & C'o., 1242South Blroa~i fitreet, Ailnini, (Oa MENTION Tirrn l'ia 1~'liwn uv wur-ernO O T A S H gives color, flavor and firmness to all fruits. No good fruit canl be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to 1o% of Potash will give bes;t results on all fruits. Write for our plipIhlets, which ought to b)(e in every farmer's library. hey are Selt iree. (lRMAN KAI.l WORKS, 9 Nassati St , New York. AN ANSWEAMt 'P') A ,ti S10N.-Ho .vias a tendI'loot and ituy took him for a r'eVenihorn 11. lI"very nie w aiorrivat i11 mp1, tlhe'y told him11, had to givo the others tome pumzze ti-itstion. If thoy "old nL anwVer it lie was en titled to at drink, but if he could no', an-W(r it himself, ie would have to statd treat, il roumd. Aft-r at brief silence the y.)uth asked : " hlow Is that, wlinti a chipmunk mankCs a hole there is no di't at the moutih of tle hoic ?" The foreman replied, " Ah, ha, 1 eluiess you1 have it Itluestion that you cannot answer yoursulf Oih, no,' said the youtl, " I can an Swer it, ' " Well1, thouj," Said thle foreman, " how is li, ?" " Why ,' a'aaid tht .ut, " the chip mnittak hu-gins at he botton to dig his hole." " I 'ins at, the httomn ; hlow does ie get th-tro to leg in ?" said the foro 1'at iS a (ueiStion Of yoir owli ask ing," said the yotuth. ...... ..no . Toot Su u.:W i) vOR U1m.-An old w hita vasi)ter stood 'it oforot tle court as t witmas. Phe ltwyer for the defen lant, tritd to votit " h1im. Y-m1 are l-''ulrilck Ni iller ?" "Yes." Are \ aoi' loo Predrick Miller who vas siatenuctd under iltigating cir kn.us1t"ta(cs, for robbery ?" " No, I ti not that Ni ier.'" " YOU arM prhp tibe iller~ Who0 was S'entetced !o two yearn imprison mone;it for theft ? ' No, I aim naot that Miller either." Were yout ever. in prison ?" " Y s- - twice.' "Hlow long thle first timlo ?" A whole afternloon - A1 afttern.1oon ! And the second itmI? You must, maaake it truthful -itateminents, for you are sworn. If you wore in prison for so short a timo, what did you lot?" " I only whitewashed a cell ready for ia latwyer who had cheated his l luts.'" The lawyer did not ask any moro <questions oil that sulbje ct. Do Yitt Need Ala 1lle(ctric BeIt? Fm'r the past (vin years. lir. J . Newton a II\ilahaway is recanized as tle great - il (is f al1 our specialisis, has been perfect Ing~ ati electt( belt, suijtle to atse tan hisa pritance, onte whtich lhe couhi ftaranisha as a ptarita ofais, iytaem of traioat men it and t whichl itt) atatttaaitts that lie lase perfectedi stala a i haela wi ch lhe he to bai the only a Iaaaa tate Iet miadec. it s haght. htandsomei , yt o reat ptaoe, ali witha necw allttacmets, d wi he ak1he t a ait abl o r every Case,. lie is prepaared t o Itarnisha tisi Ielt 1.o all patienatsMi'( whooee it uaml whoa itaply to himr totr treattmnt, at a maerely nomintaitl chtarge. \\' rile to rt. llatway Iato-da, tellinag all >t ahlo.. a yaour caeaa al lie will wtri to yout abott c athe belt, anal if yout deirue the bealt will be sini a . I . 1). fo r inspt~uaiotn. Addresa D~r. l ltatwayv & C.o.,'EM. 3otah road street, CAST OR IA For Infanits and Childreni. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bearsi the Signature of L 4 2 7 ii a. ursl of Me'- n ais - i rotWer tspcil riesi <lnig oor tr toewh p pyebite sylosad qulity Your fo qaedaing IWttairst, or above tI~iLdis att'~ Iinir nmharA (Dtnan11ag