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6 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., SEPTEMBER IS, 1895. o* oSy cffstiiau/ c/Jm/y- “ -ff Copyfli&HT ass -«& ^ * Other persons than the m;ili< ions cap tain mi^ht have seen Mim thin/indis creet in the scene tliat met the view of the worthy Mrs. Whitforcl. The room was a small clmmber with • well-stocked bookshelf; and, sittin" In a large armchair, was a singularly handsome young man, reading aloud to ftgirh who reclined on a low chair be side him, listening in wrapt attention. So enthralled was the young* listener, as she sat with lips apart eagerly drink ing in the sonorous accents, that she did not notice the interruption. Not so with the young man. I hero Was no startled Hush on his face as he raised his frank, brown eyes to the in comer, and said pleasantly: “That's fight, Mrs. Whit ford, come and join our studies. We are reading‘Nicholas Nicklcby,’ by Charles Dickens, and. as the scene lies in your loved Yorkshire, you may be somewhat interested. “Nay, nay, Measter tlrey, said the Woman, whose suspicions had been aroused,, notwithstanding her defiant tone to her husband, but who now blushed for her momentary lack of con fidence. “Oi but cooin to tell eo that supper’s welly ready, an'the lass mum lay the cloth. An'it's much obi ignited Oi am to thee vor givin’her thy book- larnin’, Measter Grey. It’s little Oi ever had mysen, an" them as hasna an edication knows host how tovnlly one." Frank Grey smiled as he closed tke book, while the woman and girl slowly left the room, the latter pausing' 1 a mo ment to pour forth in a sweet, low voice her thanks for the treat afforded her. If the front of the house presented a bleak and desolate aspect, the windows of Grey’s room lo'iked on* on a beauti ful landscape of varied scenery. On right and left the rugged hills, crowned with sturdy firs; in the dis tance a long sheeny expanse of lake covered with scrub; and, in the far background, the sun. setting in all the luxurious splendor of the last languish ing days of an Indian sunnier. The young man drew In ; chair to the casement, and sat gazing upon the panorama of beauty that lay before him, thoughtfully watehing the sun go down behind the hill and the shadows of the trees lengthen as the orb of day sank slowly out of view. Suddenly, in the dusk, his attention was attracted to a fig-are the* '•foil prominent in well-d.dined on!'in m the top of one of tic hills—t 'e- form of a stout man, who for some inn'.'stood peering with his ir. > tamed in the direction of the Whit ford h- a* . Presently the fir trees at hi, hack were parted, and anot her per i j an -d the first coiikt. Tlieinamierof i !i ■ two was peculiar. They were apparently engaged in earnest convei atioa. and what struck Grey as most singular was that the stout man again and again pointed at the window of his chamber, though, of course, at that distance it was absurd to suppo ■ they could even be aware of his presen -c there. This continued gesti illation aroused in the breast of the young school master an anxiety hceould not: dispel— a sort of coming-event-; asts-it had.ow- before-it feeling lie could not exp:* s. “Please. Mr. Grey, mother says,” called a pleasant voice, as the door of the room gently opened, “are you ready for supper nowV’ “Come here, lOlsie.” l ayerly request ed the young man. ••( an your bright eyes make out who are those persons on yonder hill?” The girl stood by him, with his hand resting on her shoulder, peering on: into the gloom. Yes, her eyes were very bright, and herfaccwas like the chiseled sweet- i m T a •■■ ■ v /i 1 ..vy- u * rr-r‘" tjijHyv bvA ifll Hr ■" L'V JiM; t V/c,. j- > THE GIHI, STOOD JIY HIM. ness of some beautiful statue, as she Stood motionless beside him. “One of them,” she said at last, “is Wixon—Capt. Wixon.” “And the other?” 4 *I do not know. A stranger.” The round face of Mrs. Whit ford now appeared in the doorway, and, as idle noticed the familiar attitude, there was a ring of unwonted harshness in her voice: “Elsie, coom t’ supper diree’ly. Duu- na stan’ gawpin’ into th’ gloamin’ i’ that feckless fashion.” The girl started like a wounded fawn, a deep blush spreading itself over lier checks and neck, for probably the woman’s rough tone woke a chord in the breast of the maiden, and for the first time she felt the innocent shame of shocked womanly modesty. But, if Elsie’s cheeks were deeply dyed in blushes, the imperturbable schoolmaster showed no discomposure as he followed them into the dining room. Xt was a most uncomfortable meal. John Whitford was out of sorts and more than half-repentant of bin eonfi- dentlal disclosures to hi# wife; Elsie was IB • RgMB of uncomfortable nurvimii* agreeable, and Grey was wrapt in con jectures as to what that man Wixon and the stranger could have meant by their peculiar conduct, and why they should have made such constant gestural allusion to him self. What did it mean? lie was con- fidedt that he had formed the topic of their conversation. “f»e ye goin’ to the schule-house to night?" Mrs. Whitford asked, unable to retain 1: morose dma<-anor any longer. “Yes,”said the schoolmaster, decisive ly; “that night school for tlie miners must not be neglected. It is the best work I am doing, though I fear it is not appreciated in some quarters.” It was now John Whitford's turn to be disagreeable. “No, sir,” he interrupted, “an’, if you’ll excuse me for saying so. you are on a fool’s errand that is likely to | end with more kicks than ha’pence, i What do a passel o’ rough miners j want wi’ readin’ an’ writin’? You don't educate a cow or it would i be di scontented with a clover field. | I call it Ilyin’ i’ th’ face of I’rovi- : denee to teach sichlike to set at (led- j mice tlieir pastors an’masters. IJeside:;. i the bosses won’t stand it. There's a : hitter foolin’against you already, an’, | mark my words, if you go foolin'uron 11 j mu h more with your night schools an' libevary clubs an’ fal-lais, you'll find Oretown too hot a place to hold you.” “Perhaps so; hut meanwhile 1 will do my duty.” This word duty appealed to the old soldier's best instincts, and in a more modified manner he continued: “Yes. duty’s duty, an' England ex pects every man to do his duty, whi h also I suppose this I'nitcd States of America likewise demands; but, sir, there’s an overdoin’ of even one’s duty. 1 A ship captain asked my captain to send a royal marine to holystone a deck. ‘No, sir,’ says he. ‘The sailors have t heir duty, an’the royal marine, i have their duty; an" the duty of the ma rine ; isn't to do the duty of the sailors.'- j lie was tried by a court-martial and they did their duty an’ acquitted him.” | cry good, but—” “Your duty is to teach the boys an’ ! gals. There's nothin’ in your commis- : sion about drillin'a squad of adults in letters "an liggers, an’ p >t-hooks an’ hangers. So you just stick to your or- ; dors an’ let others do likewise.” “I know you mean well, my friend,” said Grey, wearily; “hut you do not i understand the question. You have ! old world notions. The prosperity of this great land is a . i : ,t ration of the good policy of educating the masses. Might here in this northern peninsula | of Michigan, where crude English | thought is dominant, we are behind the times. Where would the I'nited States have been if such men as Wixon j and the other members of our school- i hoard had been at the head of its af- i fairs?” “Well, I'd mind my own business, if j I was you an’ let—” “Set me the example, Mr. Whitford. Mind your own affairs and jou will not get beyond the depth of your understanding.” With this dignified rebuke the young man left the roam, and Mr.-;. Whiiford . solaced her spouse with the suggestion that those who played with edged tools j often cut their fingers. This night s diool was a sore bone of contention in Oretown. A little more than a year ago the bosses ruled like feudal barons, and now their sway was. threatened by a whipper-snapper of a boy who had eo:*:e among them, nobody knew whence nor cured, and by tin , and other such base moans had alienated the allegiance of their vussels, who were actually be ginning to dare to think for them selves. And thus it came about. There was a barn-like building which had been u: ed us a saloon arid dunce- I house, but had attained such evil repu tation that the by no means fastidious morals of Oretown wore shocked at its gross orgies, and by popular consent it had been closed. The process of ejectment had been in accordance with the custom of the locality. A mob of infuriated women and mischievous boys hud gathered one evening and “cleaned out" the pro prietor, smashing his furniture and fixtures and pouring his liquid poison into the gutter. On this ruin of vice and squalor Frank Grey built his great work of so cial reformation. With his own hands he tidied up the place, mended the window-, put in rough tables and chairs, and boldly an nounced that he would, without re muneration, teach adults reading, i writin_r nud arithmetic three evenings a week. The local journal gave the powerful aid of the press to the enterprise in this bright paragraph: “The young j man who slings the ruler at the Ward Kchoolhouse is opening a night school for adults. Guess Tie’ll have his lunula full before he’s got through.” The minister refused to cooperate ; with him, the storekeepers laughed at ; him, the bosses treated him with open ridicule. But the class grew—from five to five- nud-twenty; to forty, to a, hundred- till at last he had to close his doors against the crowd of applicants. It was a mutual aid association, those who could rend and write a lilt le help ing those who could not. “No swear ing” and “No tobacco” were the only written rules; while the class kept its own order, and absolute order, too, us, for instance, when Mike Donovan, the rough of t lie place, made a w *ger that he would break up the school one even ing and proceeded to use insulting lan guage to the teacher, u dozen strong hands sent him crasi tng through the window into the street 4»clow, and for ever put a stop to his further pursuit* V whose meetings were discussed sfthpl* questions <if social or political interest. From bad they got to worse, until one Saturday morning—for the Talking club held its meetings on Saturday evenings—it was whispered abroad that the delicate questions as to wheth er it was* right for the miners to pay the bosses’ store one dollar for a forty- cent article, whether the capitalist* could lawfully compel them to take their remuneration in store pay. and whether they wore obliged to give a month’s credit for their labor, would be discussed. With these revolutionary projects confronting them, the uppertendom of Oretown united in one common deter mination to crush the viper they had nourished in their bosoms, the young anarchist who had brought this evil state to pass. CHAPTER III. THi: OUEAT NIGHT SCHOOL OF ORKTOWJT. Mr. Commissioner Eaton, in his elab orate reports from the Washington bureau of education, condescended not to *n Mice the night school of Oretown. Yet here was a great and curious factor in the educational elements of the coun try. Inside the gaunt building were gath ered some hundred miners, chiefly Eng lish and Swedes, with here and there a na ive American. They were formed i i‘. > classes, some spelling in ponder- o j., earnest ness easy words, some wrest- ling manfully with the mysteries of arithmetic, some laboriously poring over the page of a primer, and some compelling their unpliant fingers to guide a pen over the mazy page of a child's copybook, but all strangely and sternly in earnest. Eight or ton teachers were scattered around tin* room. They were miners, who had little learning, or who had themsel ves been pupils of the school. One was exceptional. He was a broad-shouldered, strong, athletic fellow, hotter dressed than the . MM* / { MS S i.; k A TERRIBLE DRINK. Liquor Made From the Gafftu Plant Con* ■ume» the Bone* of Ite Victim*. Captain Cnsson of the British bark Cnpica, while at Astoria, oh his way out to sea from Portland, gave a reporter some interesting facts in regard to the gagus plant and the terrible effects it has on.the natives of the Qanptil island, where it grows. Captain Casson is an authority on matters pertaining to the south sea islands. In speaking of the gagus plant Captain Casson said: “It is a species of cactus, and, as I said, grows only, to my knowledge, on the Gauptil island. The island is a small one, but is well populated by na tives of the Malay race. In the interior this plant grows wild, flourishing espe cially in the red, rocky soil. It looks beantifnl when growing, as you may judge by the bright hues with which it is spotted. Opium is a potent drug, but I am certain that the extract from tho gagus plant is calculated to do more damage to tho human system. The na tives cut the plant in the early spring. After they have gathered a sufficient quantity they pnt it in large bowls and crush it with huge stones. “A grayish sap rnns out freely, and this they collect and drink, after letting it ferment, which it does easily. Within half an hoar after imbibing it the drink er becomes perfectly stupid and lies around like a log. The spell lasts a day or more, dnring which time the natives say they live in paradise. I have known sailors to try it, but never twice. Three years ago I had a man in my crew who was driven crazy by one drink. “The first effect of the liquor is to soften the bones and gradually eat them away. There are natives there, the vic tims of gagus, who arc indeed boneless and nnablo to walk or use their limbs. Then they begin to wither away, until they die in v misery and convulsions. Usually two years will finish the hard est man. The sufferings of the slaves to tho drink are terrible.”—San Fran cisco Chronicle. ALCOHOLIC MEDICINES. WMiiit ill! “SIK AND TOM 1UNGIIAM HAS GOT TUB SACK.” rest, but rough and uncouth in his manner. This man, Jack Wilders, was Frank Grey's mainstay, or, as he him self styled it, “the professor’s right bower.” Jack was by profession a “prospect or,who had traveled in the service of the l mipanies every acre of that wild region in search of ore, and having in vested his hard-won wages most advan tageously, now found himself at thirty- five years of age in an independent po sition. Jack was no sybarite. lie was a hard drinker and a rough liver, but down in the depths of his heart was a refining spot that leavened his whole nature— an intense Iqve for his little bright eyed wife and his curly-headed hoy of five years. It was through an accident that befell this latter idol of his affec tion that, to use his own words, he “caught on” to the schoolmaster, One day little Willie Wilders was at tacked by a big angry cur belonging to Wixon, when Gre3*, who happened to be passing, came to the rescue, and saved the child from anything worse than a wound in the leg. While the little .sufferer lay crying on his bed the father, all tenderness, was his constant nurse. He never left the child's couch, save when, gun in hand, he went to Wixon’s 'louse and shot the dog dead on his master’s doorstep. From that day Wilders was Grey’s friend. That was how he came to he vice-principal of the Oretown night school. Usually when tho exercises were over the men departed quietly, hut this night they remained in their seats, and when Grey looked inquiringly, and old greybeard rose and said. “Mr. Grey an’ mates: Me and Tom Bingham has got the sack, an’ for no other reason than because we told Cnpt. Wixon we warn’t goin’ to leave off ’tending this here school, an’ wo wor agoin’ to vote the republican or tho demycratic ticket, just as .ve set our fancies, on ’em.” “There must bo some mistake,” Grey said, rising hurriedly and speaking nervously. “Capt. Wixon cannot have understood our efforts, and as for at tempting to restrain in this free and enlightened country tho liberty of a man’s conscience, his political birth right, his—” But a roar of bantering laughter stayed the speaker’s eloquence. TO RE ( ONTINUED NEXT WEEK. in the fields of literature. » Tin n another grievance. vAR , of t he grievance. of night wh'Hil grew a club—a ha^kiss affair, win re tobacco was allowed, .'^•l coffee and numerous newspapers, a. out of this club sprouted a brunt which bore the deadly liaison of rant' i socialism—at-, least, eo laid Capt. Petti- tfrub wbron/ Thu fit -SHI The Masons of Mississippi have drawn tho lino against liqnor sellers by enact ing the general rnle that, “No Mason, either as principal, agent, employee, or in any other capacity, shall sell intoxi cating liquors to be used as a beverage, and the ixmalty therefor shall ho expul- "iou-” ..... While in Chicago, Mr. Charles 1,. Kaliler, a prominent shoe merchant of Dos Moines, Iowa,had quite a seri ous time of it. lie took sucli a se vere cold I iml lie could hardly talk or navigate, hut the prompt use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured him of his cold so quickly that others at the hotel who hud bad colds fol lowed his example and half a dozen persons ordered it from the nearest drug store. They were profuse In their thanks to Mr. Kahler for tell* » n how to cure fti butt cold no • flw ifito bf w. fl» Itoprt. U INLINE. The Greatest of the Great Dis plays at Louisville. GRAND ARMY PASSES IN REVIEW. Tbelr Action Is Paralyzing and Not Heal ing or Keatorative. The facts, figures and arguments sub mitted at a recent meeting of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical association eas ily lead to the conclusion that there is scarcely a chronic disease in the entire list that is not caused by, or is not made worse by, the use of alcohol in any of its various forms. Tho facts showed that these various diseases result from imperfect nutrition duo to tho effects of alcohol on the nerv ous system rather than to its action upon muscular or fibrous tissues; al though its action upon these is always more or less destructive. While it is admitted that sometimes alcoholic medicine or beverages have a soothing and quieting inflncucc on irri table nerves, it is conceded that it is a paralyzing ami not a healing or restora tive influence. As a medicine these may be used in emergencies, but they arc not belter than other medicines for this pur pose. If tho facts relating to alcohol in its various forms prove anything, it is that it aggravates more ills than it soothes, causes more suffering than it prevents, and is responsible for more diseases than it euros. The one general conclusion to which we arc led by these facts is that the nervous disorders so prevalent in this country arc largely dno to the excessive use of alcoholic beverages. The Horrors of Opium. Opium is silent, but energetic. It makes a complete slave of a man. The horrors of Dante’s and Milton’s hell be come pleasures in comparison with the tortures endured by him who is in vas salage to tho poppy drug. Tho opinu) fiend does not reel along tho streets, nor abuse his wife and children nor steal nor kill; his torments are within and usually diiected against himself. But the drug makes life a burden by day and a terror by night. It unnerves the man and unfits him for the discharge of all life’s duties. The way of opium leads down to hell, and cloud and thick darkness beset him who walks along it I have no heart to portray tho infinite suffering of such a man or woman. Nor would you understand it if I did. Lot me rest the mutter in tho simple state ment that of all possible conditions upon earth that of the opium habitue is un deniably tho worst.—William Rosser Cobbo. Poverty and Drunkenness. Nothing short of willful ignorance | can account for blinking the fact that poverty is perhaps tho chief procuring cause of the brutal drinking habits with which whole areas of population arc sodden throughout the English speaking world. That declaration of holy writ, which was not a perversion but a state ment of fact, is ominously true in the present condition of things, “Let him drink and forget his poverty and re member his misery no more. * ’—Frances E. Willard. TPrapons of Destruction. The two largest taxpayers in tho world, it is said, are Krupp, the makei of big gnus, who pays |200,000 a year, and Mnriuesco-Bragidir, a Roumanian brewer, who pays #140,000 a year. Both are engaged in making weapons of de struction.—New York Voice. With ths Mercury Koglstsrlaff 00 and en thusiasm Runnlnff as lllfh, th# Whole City rnrnsd Out—ths Kx-Johnnla Kelts Shout and Cheer the Old Union Veter, nns Until They Are Hoarse. Louisville, Sept. 13.—After all the demonstrations of the week, the big parad-3 was the event of the Twenty- ninth national encampment of the Gh A. R., as it has been of all former en campments. The air w’as full of patri otic music and the streets were carni vals of richness in designs, and profu sion of the red, white and bine. Along miles of bunting, and amid hundreds of thousands of cheering citizens the comrades once more marched on south ern soil. No contrast could be greater than that of the reception of the gate way of the south to the opposition at its portals 34 years ago. The veterans themselves were the most interesting of the many notable features of the parade, atthongh every thing that money or ingennity could .command in the way of warlike designs were added to the procession. The vet erans had spent two days and nights in campfires and renuions, in hunting up bnuKiuutei and comrades, and in talk ing over old experiences in the war, but they say they never “feel like old times” t:ll they get in line. And they formed a long,strong line of “Yankees” in marching through Kentucky, while thousands of “Johnnies” grew hoarse in cheering them along the way. At sunrise the only olonds were from the salute of 40 guns and the weather even was for psace. The departments began forming at an early hoar under the special orders to have the proces sion move promptly at 10:30 a. m. At 9:30 another salute was fired for the first graud division to form. At 10 a m. tho guns indicated that the es cort was moving to the head of the col umn and at 10:30 the salute signalled all of the ten grand divisions to move. The procession moved on time to the moment to the great satisfaction of hundreds of thousands suffering along the lino of march, as well as those in line. Tho thermometer stood at 9tt and the enthusiasm was equally high. Picked Kentucky horses were mount ed by the committee on parade and re view, and they innde a chivalrous sight An equal number of the citizens' aides rod ’ fine horses. Colonel Cohen was frequently cheered, as were the car riages of tho governors, bat when the white caps of the escorting Columbia post of Chicago loomed np the multi tudes on the platforms and along the streets opened Vie ohorns of cheers for Commander Lawler and kept np the cheerings as the posts of the different departments passed the stands and street intersections. The lino o: march was from Shelby and Broadway, west on Broadway to Fourth street; north on Fourth street to Jefferson; then west ou Jefferson to Eighth street; north on Eighth street to Market, and east on Market to First street, and there disbanded. The right of the column passed the reviewing stand in front of the court house at 11 a. m. When the right of the co^nmn reached Fifth and Jefferson streets a halt was made; the whole of the escort wheeled into line, facing south, and allowed the commander in chief and his staff, as also the invited gaests in carriages, to pass by and take their seats ou the reviewing stand, when the whole column passed in re view. Quite a number of veterans became exhausted and had to retire from the ranks. Six were so prostrated by heat that they w .re taken in ambulances to tho hospital, but none are considered sorionsly prostrated. BLESSED BY SATOLLI. The Methutlliit Bratliran Do Not Llko Ih-lr Pita tor's Keealvlng It. Chicago, Sept. 13.—Rev. Herbert C. Leonard, pa_ or of the leading Method ist chnrch at Hyde Park, attended, by invitation, a faction at the Convent of the Saorod Hoart, over which Mgr. Sa- tolli presided. A lady who was present afterwards :-aid to a reporter that the papal delegate had blessed Rov. Leon ard in the name of the pope. The pas tor is said to have admitted the trnth of the report, claiming that he was proud to receive the blessing. When the story was printed three stewards of Rov. Leonard's ohnroh called upon him and asked for an expla nation. Tho pastor said that he had gone to the convent out of pure curios ity to see a great man, ana that Mgr. Satolli had simply blessed the whole congregation. The explanation was soaroely satis factory and they will investigate the matter farther. Drowned While Snlllnr Toy Tnohte. Providence, Sept. 18 —Bernard Fay, the 6 year-old son of Thomas Fay, went to Hospital pond to sail his toy boats, whioh he hnd named Defender ani Valkyrie. In the excitement attending a race he was superintending the boy fell into the water nnd was drowned. mother’s Relief. Makks Lamok and Uhildhiktii F.aky. A Companion and friend of mother hood during pregnancy and and con finement; that dangerous and painful ordeal through which all mothers must pass, restoring the mother to licalth, form and happiness, nnd promoting the vigorous development of the child. Hold by druggists—#I per bottle, or #2.50 for J hotlles. Rond us the price nnd we will send medicine by express. , Mother's Relief Co., St., Atlanta, DA m lata bj w. & flap*. The American people drank last year about 0,000,000,000 glasses of whisky. That is about 100 for every man, woman and ehlld in the country A Prominent Minister. Rev. T. R. Kendall, pastor Grace M. K. Church, AI laid a (la., says: “1 take pleasure in testifying to the great virtue of King’s Royal Germe- tuer in relieving night sweats result ing from tho debilitatinginfliu ueo of malaria. In a severe ordeal through which my family passed from fids Oppressive ufNielion, I found Germe- tuer to lie an imtmdiidu epoeide. Have also found it a speedy toide to tho digestion, ami a most grateful and refreshing remedy in the heated season when suffering from relaxation and general debility.'' New QUOTED THE BIBLE. A Pr«aeh«r In town Shows Why Womsn Sltoul l Not Wear ItlcNOin^rs* Watkuloo, Sept. 12.—Rev. G. E. Boott, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church of this city, preached a sermon agaiust the wearing of bloom- ®es- He took as his toxt the passage from the Mosaic law, “The woman shall not Wear that which pertaineth unto a man, for all such are an abomi nation unto the Lord. He thought this law was given them because God, looking down through the ages, saw the new woman “dressed ia men's clothes, with abbreviated trous ers, scant in cloth and tied with a string to the infinite disgust of men.’’ He asserted there was not a woman who wore bloomers who did not grow less modest every time she put them on. He said that when he saw a woman pa rading the streets dressed as a man his respect for her was gone. He thought the women who assumed men’s dress should bj divided into two classes—old maids, whoso last hope of marriago had fla 1, and married women, whoso husbands felt that they had made an awful mistake on their wedding day. Many Waterloo women wear bloom ers and ride wheels. DEMOCRATS MEET. Th» IVniMj'lv.tnl in< In Convention to So. lect Cniiili'liites For Judge*' 1*1,ice*. WilliAMsi’ORT, Sopt. 12.—The Demo cratic state convention to select can didates for state treasurer and the six candidates for the sup *rior courtships mot here. Tho unusual conditions sur rounding tho contest for judicial places on the tickets made tho convention more than ordinarily interesting. The convention was called to order at 11:15 o’clock by State Chairman Wright, and the proceedings begun with the reading of the call for the convention. Ex Deputy Attorney General Strana- ban o; Mercer, was chosen temporary chairman. Mr. Stranahan on taking the chair congratulated the convention upon the large attendance of delegates and spec tators from all over the srati and the intelligence and enthusiasm of tho gurh'-ring as well as the good feeling manifested. A Ft the appointment of commit'ees cn reso utions, credentials and perma Kent orgairzation, tho convention, at 13:10 p. m., took a recess dozcA #1. pAHolgr. vat *0)6 Di-it*h Mny Ki-ftiilt From n Joka. Bridgeport. Conn., Sept. 12.—As a result of a practical joke, John Snake and Henry M. Dawson are serioasly sick with typhoid fever. They are both members of Company K, Fourth Regiment Connecticut national guard. Dur ng the encampment at Ninullo both m in were carried from their teuta atn., U and seated in a tub of ioe water. Next day both were taken ilL Till! ••Hjrrr” Flaw. Ald.iny, Sept. 12—The New Vork Central “flyer,” which left the Grand Central station, New York city, at 5:40.3) a m., arrived at Albany at 7:54:55 a. m., covering the 143 miles in 134 minutes and 25 seconds. Stopped at Albany changing engines one minute. North CnrollnV* Cropt. Raleigh, Sept. 12 —The weekly weather crop bulletin, for the week ending Saturday, says tho reports correspondents indicate generally very favorable week for work and f« ripening crons. Ono Million, On* linn Irml Tlioua:ind New York, Sept 12—Nesslage A Fuller will ship $100,000 in gold by the next steamer, and Crossman & Bra have engaged $1,000,000 at the sab* treasury for shipment by the sams steamer. Hoyt Gone to Kill Inrilans. Plainfield, N. J., Sept. 12.—Chris topher Sellable reported to the polios that two of his sons, aged 6 and 11 years respectively, have disappeartd. He thinks that they have gone to kill Indians. The Last of the Veterans. Asheville, N. C., Sopt. 12 —J. M. Is rael, the last survivor of tho Mexioaii war in tho vicinity of Asheville, has just died, aged 75 Narcotics Produce Craving. There are virtues in many narcotics; they usually afford temporary relief, but there is a universal law of compensa tion. Narcotics of all kinds demand pay ment for tho ease or pleasure they afford. They compel the dancer to pay the fid dler. For every exaltation there is a de pression. When a narcotic is first token, there is a stimulation of a most pleasur able nature, which is followed by ne penthe, sleep and dreams. Following these there is a brief season of conscious restfulness, and then comes the dread ed compensation — depressed spirits, pains and aches, simulated or real, and there is a disposition to return to the drug. This depression is inevitable, and each taking tends to a fastening of the habit. Narcotics create this craving much more quickly than alcohol does, and herein is their greater danger.—W. R. Cobbe. Temperance Briefs. America has 240,000 saloons sad 5,000,000 Christian workers. Until a year ago it had been ct ary to servo pnuck at Harvard rsg meucenicut celebrations. At that m all distilled liquors were forbidden the class spreads and the same restric tion enforced this year promises to to- come permanent. The annual report of the SooUWl Baptist Total Abstinence society statlfi that more than 90 per cent of the Bs*-' tist ministers in Hoot laud are total an- Stainers nud tho theological are without exception shstainera. from tho MOTKCTION ■ pneumonia, diphtheria •pldMUtA la gltoh b? Hood's fffll. httOfePUM