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She gautten* Q&vttttttx. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. ?N? DOLLAR A. VLAJt. Every Man a Millionaire. It w happened that t.iere was an equal distribution of wealth, and every ono had $1,000,000?no more and no less. Of course, under the circumstances, there was no incentive to work, unless a man enjoyed working. There wus certainly nothing to induce a man to do any manual labor unless it was or dered by u physlchiu?and, come to think of it, thore was no reason why a physician Bhould continue hiB labors, unless he was a humanitarian. The president of a big manufactur ing concern was desirous of keeping the plans running, and tho directors thought it a good scheme, too. but the factory hands couldn't see it to at way. "I think I'll take a little vacation," Bald one of them. "I've been worklug pretty hard, and 1 need a rest. Aftor awhile I'll start up In business for my self." " But who would you get to work for you V" asked the President. " All tho other men aro inaklug the sumo pious you are." " Uta ! Well, I haven't thought of that," replied tho workman. "Still, 1 don't mind work, and if the proper In ducements aro bfforod, 1 may go back to work myself after a littlo rost." " What would you call proper induce ment V" "Can't say, exactly, without some thought, but I think I might accept 8100 a day. You can't expect a million-1 aire to wok in a factory for any loss." So tho factory was shut down, tempo l'arily, and tho employes wont home. And It bo happened that ono of tho men thought nciwould go down town. ?*nd ho told his wifo ho would run over and catch a car at tho corner. But thoro wore no cars running, and when ho Anally asked some one about it, the man replied: " Why, you don't suppose a million aire is going to drive a street car, do you ? Not much. Most of tho old drivers aro thinking of starting street car linos of their own." "Woll, I can get a cab, anyway," thought tho ox-faetory hand, and ho wont ovor to another corner and woko a cabman up. "A milo and a half," said the lattor, roflectivoly, aftor ho had learned the destination ; u woll, call it $30. I ought not to ho out here anyway, but I have got so usod to slooping on the cab that I don't fool eomfortablo in bed." Now the ex-factory hand didn't pro fioso to bo " gouged " like that, and bo ng a millionaire for tho first timo, ho didn't want to walk, so ho wont home and told his wife that if prices kept in creasing, tho $1,000.000 would probably last thorn a month or two. "Bettor invost It," she said. "Put part of it in a bank, and invest tho rost so that wo will got some revonuo from it." Ho thought that a good idea, und the next dav ho tramped down town to a bank and* found the president and ono or two of tho directors sitting thoro in solitary state. "Can't tako ai deposit," said tho president regretfully. " What's tho matter ?" asked tho ex factory hand. " Matter !" exclaimed tho president. "You don't supposo wo can nlY'ord to hiro millionaire bank clerks, do you ? Some of tho boys intend to go to Europe for a few months, and some aro planning to start banks of their own aftor they Have laid olf awhile." " I believe I'd tako a trip myself if I only knew where I could put some of this money while I am gone," said the ex-factory hand, thoughtfully. " What are you afraid of ?"' asked the presidont. " I might bo robbed." "Robbed !" laughod tho presidont. " Who do you supposo would rob you when everyone has all tho money ho noods ? But how do you expect to travel V" "On a railroad train, of course." Tho presidont laughed again. "That would bo an uniquo experi ence," be said. "Think of travelling on a train with a millionaire for a con ductor, a millionaire for an engineer, a millionaire for a brakeman, and a mil lionaire for a porter. I'd like to tako such a trip us that myself if tho trains were running." M Aren't they ?" " Is tho factory you usod to work in running ?" "No-o." Tho ox-factory hand tramped back homo in a thoughtful mood. Ho had $1,000,000, but some how it didn't seem of much service to him. Sorao of tho shop-keepers who owned their own shops, wore ready to do a little busi ness, but tho employes had all loft, and in some places prices had gone up. In othei's, tho shop-keopor said ho hadn't raised prioos becauso ho was anxious to sell out and oloso up. Ho stopped at ono of tho big department stores to get something for his wifo, and it was closed because thoro were not enough people left to run it. " I'm ono of tho firm." ho said ; " but I don't know when wo shall open again. If you want to got anything in particu lar, y^u 3&n gc ir., and one cT my part' nors, or head of somo department?ono or two of them aro loft?will try to hunt it up for you. Tho rost have all gono. Thoy "va,nt to buy, not soil, from now on. " The closing soonos woro ludicrous, too," ho addod. " Wo began getting noticos immediately aftor tho distribu tion of wealth, although somo of tho clorks agreed to stay a day or two. But when tho ribbon-countor girl put on hor hat and hor cloak and began pricing tho goods in tho cloak depart ment, tho girls quit their work, and pretty soon everybody in tho store was buying and no ono soiling, f stopped into tho broach, lifted prices a little, and made a tidy littlo sum. I think it likely that I can stand it as long as tho rost of thorn." When the ox-factory hand reached homo, ho found his wifo much portur bod. " I thought that wo could afford to keep u sorvant, now that we're rieh," sho said, " but I can't got ono." " Can't got ono I" bo exclaimed. " No ; you can't expect a millionaire's daughter to work in the kitchen for $5 a week. Tho first girl I wont to was looking for work, last week, but to-day she offered mo $10 a week to go to work for her. It looks to mo as if wo were worse off than before. Wo'vo got to do all our own work, and haven't even stroot-cars to ride on." " Novor mind," ho said, soothingly, " wo'll got a carriage and horse." " Whoro'U you koop it ?" shy; asked. " I'll havo a barn built," ho replied. "Who'll you got to build It? Do you oxpocta lotof millionaires todrivo nails for you for $4 or $f> a day ?" " I novor ' ought of that." '* And who %vill you got to tako caro of the horses and drive thorn ?" Tho ox-factory hand lookod troubled, and his wifo continued : " I might us woll toll you that wo aro all out of broad, and thoro's not a loaf loft at tho baker's, and his men have, all quit, so he's not making any more." ?'Well, you'll have to make some yoursoH." " Then you'll have to go and get the flour. Thorn's a place about n vlf a tnilo away, where a roan who owns tho tdiop still has some flour that he is (tolling by tho barrel, but you will have to roll the barrol home yourself. You can't get any one to deliver it. Wo want some coal, too." " But how am I going to get it T* " Well, I understand the man who owns the yards nearest here will sell it to you, and it you buy or rent a wagon and team, load the wagon, and drive the horses yourself, you can get all that we have room for." " Seems to me that we are worse off than we were when we were poor." he grumbled, as he put $10,000 fn hi* pocket, and started out to make tho purchases. On the way lie met an old man with gray hair and whiskers, trudging along and carrying a big carpet-bag. " Can you tell me where I can find u good hotel V" asked the stranger. " I don't believe there are any left open," replied the ox-factory hand. 14 Oh ! I guess they are doing busi ness on the same plan that others I have corao across are." said the stranger. "How's that?" m "Well, the proprieTor is on hand, and he will rent you a room if you will make up your'own bed, and cook your own. meals. I have made up two beds, and cooked five meals, since I loft home, and paid a pretty good sura for the privilege." " Whore did you come from ?" " About thirty miles out In the coun try. I've got a' nice farm out there, but the help all quit, and as I am a rich man now, I thought I'd move into tho city, where I could enjoy life u bit. No train* running, so I had to walk. ?' Well, there must bo something going on. I wonder where I can get a newspaper V ?'Thero hasn't been one published for two or three days. Compositors, pressmen, stereotyper?, reporters, and elorks, 1 understand, aro all planning to start in buslnoss for thenisolves." " I don't see that I'm any bettor off horo than I was on tho farm," said the strangor thoughtfully. When the ex-factory hand got back homo, with a barrel of Hour on top of his load of coul, ho was apparently troublod. " Mary," he said, as he triod to got tho coal dust off his face and hands, '? it scorns to mo mighty funny that tho peoplo who hud money boforo uro about tho only onoa who aro willing to work now. Tho man who owned the coal-yard was willing to givo mo a lift in louding the wagon, tho hoad of tho dry-goods firm was willing to wait on me, and tho man who owned tho grocory store was willing to help get tho Hour on tho wagon. Thoy were ready to work in their line of busi ness.'' "Porhaps," said his wife, "the reason thoy woro rich bofore, was bocuuso thoy woro willing to work when thoy had monoy." Now it struck tho ox-factory hand that thoro might bo somo truth in that, and, after thinking tho matter over, ho wont back and got somo nioro coal and somo moro Hour. Then ho tented a barn a fow doors away, and put his horso in it. Now such a state of affairs could not last very long-. Whothor mlllionairies or not, people had to havo supplies, oven if they had to carry them homo in baskets, and it wasn't a groat while before every ono in tho neighborhood discovered that tho ox-factory hand would not only soli them supplies, but would dolivor them himself, and ho had a great rush of trudo. " Might just as well do this ns to sit in tho alleyway and smoke a pipo all day." ho said. " There's just as much fun in ono thing as another, and, bo sidos, it makas that million of mine get bigger instead of smaller." And so it happened that there were other peoplo in othor localities doing tho same thing. And?well, given two men, ono spending money and tho other earning it, and ovory ono knows what tho result will be. The farmor woke up ono day to tho realization of the fact that his wealth wus fast dwindling away. People who still stuck to their stores had raised prices also. 14 Production has ceased," they said, " and wo aro not particularly anxious to soil. Thoro is no telling when we may want the stuff oursolvos." The farmer scratched his head, thought tho matter over for half a day, and then went out and bought a horse and wagon and started back for his farm. " f reckon," lie said, as ho drove buck, " that there are some folks that aro going to want wheat, and corn, and vegetables awful bad boforo long, and that tho man that's got 'em is going to be a pretty big gun. There's nothing to amuse a follow in tho city now, any how." A few other men got the samo idea. Somo were farmers, and some woro in other linos of business. Of course, thoro wore no omployos, and whon a man did go to work, ho had to work for himself, and do all the work alono, oxcopt in ono or two instancos where partnerships woro formed. Things got started again slowly and in u very primitive way. Ono man who felt timo hanging hoavy on his hands, hi rod a street car and somo horsos to begin making regular trips on one of the stroot car lines. Ho had to look after tho horsos himself, and ho made tho fare fivo cents, a vory reasonable sum in tho circumstancoa. Ho only made throe round trips a day, but he took in $50 or $f>0 a trip, and carried his monoy home in a sack every night. Then othor people followed his example. It was long boforo any "L." or steam railroad trains woro running, because it required moro - to run them, and things had to roac.i . point wher* one man w??fl willing to enter tho employment of another before any thing could bo dono. That timo camo, however, and gradually ovorything was started again. Of course wagos were higher than thoy woro boforo, and so waa everything olso, and times woro hard?very hard. Thero seemed to be a shortage of nearly ovorything, and a man with only a hundred dollars was poorer than a man with only ten dollars had been under previous con ditions. Of course, whon everything got going again tilings easod up a trifle, and whon a man had a chanco to look around a little ho found that some peo plo wore poor, some woro in moderate circumstances, and some woro rich. In fact, tho conditions wore the same as they had boon boforo tho distribu tion of woalth. "All may bo equal in heaven," said the philosopher, who found that ho had$4.33 left of his $1,000,000, "but on oarth wo can't all bo bosses, and it strikos mo that tho man who works when ho dosen't have to, all other tilings being equal, is tho man who doesn't havo to when ho doesn't want to. provided, of course, that ho is not in a chronic state of not wanting to. Some people aro rich now who woro not boforo and somo are poor who had monoy bofore, but I enn't see that tho rest of us have succeeded in securing any tiling oxcopt a brief vacation." ?The Port Worth Gazette remarks tho sumo tendency among the rural population of Texas-us provailw olae whoro, 1 to. tho leave the country for tho towns, and argues that tho eauso of it is the isolation of country lifo, ,1t advocate? the plan of farmers living in a village, which is in practice in somo parts of ICuropc, and is being tried in tho northwest. All tho farmors of a certain section move to a contral locali ty and establish a village of thoir own. With good roads it is easy for thoni to go to thoir farms every day. Tho plan has many advantages, and if gonorally adopted would do away with the isola tion which is now a groat objeotion to farm life. ?R. M. Dobio, a wealthy commission morohant of Petersburg, Va., com mitted Huicido last weok by blowing out hie brains with a pistol. No causo has been assigned. Ho loaves a wife and four children, and his lifo was in sured for $38,000. ADVICE WITHOUT CHAROK. BIUArp Thinks Young Men Should Injure their Live? ibr the Benefit of Relative*. Atlanta Constitution. If I had my life to live over again I would insure it. I would begin at twenty-one. I would take a life policy for the benefit of my wife or my moth er or my sister or somebody very near and dear to me. If I was poor I would insure for $1,000, for that would take only $9 twice a year. Any young man could pay that much and If he died Koung the thousand dollars would help is mother or bis wife or his sister so much. Fu nor als are expensive nowa days, and a poor man oan't afford to die unless his life Is insured. If a young man who is getting from $50 to $100 salary does not spend anything for whiskey or cigars no could safely take a policy for $3,000 and pay $27 twice a year. If he was twenty-five years old It would cost him only $30 seml-annu ally?not as much as his cigars. If his salary w<\s $150 a month he could afford $10 of it each month for insurance, and that would carry a polioy of $5,000. What a blessing that sum would be to the wife or tho mother or the slater. I know a young man who carries $10,000 for his father and mother. They are old and poor. He supports them out of his earnings, but fears he might die before they do and then they would be helpless, it he outlives them the policy becomes his own. Life insurance is the best savings bank in the world for a young man. Ho get9 it so cheap. Now, here I am, old and poor, ana am carrying only $2,000 on my life and it ooats me $175 a yoar and it is a hard struggle to meet tho premiums. I began only five years ago. Too lato, too lato, but I must hold on until I whip tho fight. I'll whip it sure if I hold on, for old Fathor Timo is backing me. If I had begun at twenty-ono or twonty-flvo the pre miums would have been about $40 and tho dividends would have paid that long beforo this. Heard a man say the other day that ho paid on $10,000, for twenty years and now has a paid up policy and draws dividends on it juBt liko it was stock in a bank. I wish I had done that when I was a young man. Wouldn't it bo glorious if I had such a document for my wife and tho girls. But if a younsr man seriously objects to make monoy by dying for it let him take out an endowment policy for twenty or twenty-five years. It will cost him ubout twice as much, but ho can, if ho lives, walk up to tho cap tain's offico and call for his money and do what he plcasos with it. If ho hap pens to dio beforo hand his wifo or his mother or his sister can draw it for him. Every young man should tako out two policies if ho can, ono for life and ono on tho endowment plan?one for others and ono for himself. It is a comfortable thing for a man of forty five to havo a paid up policy that is drawing dividends. It is still moro comforting for a widow or a sin tor or a child to lnhorit both policios if he should dio boforo he expected to. Insuring one's lifo for the benefit of others is tho most unselfish act that a young man can porforra. No selfiBh or thoughtless young man will do it. It is like looking death squaro in tho face, but few young men will do that. It is tho next thing to gotting roli i: ion. It is a confession of mortality. But death is a fact and if tho young man would stop and think, he would take a business vlow of it and leavo tho religion out of tho question. Let him ponder upon the fact that not half of the men at twenty-five live to be fifty?that half his life is already gone, that the chances uro against him, that he will leavo somebody behind him who has been dopondont upon him and may suffer without him. Thon if ho is a reasonable man ho must admit that ho ought to Insure his lifo, whilo it costs so little, and not wait until it costs so much. Why not? For forty-four years 1 havo insured my houso and furnituro and no firo yet. Tho insurance com pany has got all that money for good and yet I havo taken comfort all that time. I havo slept hotter at home and folt better when abroad in knowing that if a firo did come and destroy my dwelling tho loss , would bo mado good. That firo may never come, but hero is a caso whore death is sure to como? a death which in most cases of man hood deprives tho family of ono of its pillars?perhaps its chief support, and yet how fow of tho young married men uro carrying a policy for tho wifo and children. Thoy aro lust going it blind. It looks like defying iato for a young man whoso only income is hie wages to live a day without a policy. He can't afford to. Even the rich in sure their lives as an investment. In fact if I could mako tho laws I would requiro every young man to tako a policy for at least $1,000 whon ho ap plies for a marriage license. If ho couldn't raise $18 or $20 to protect tho girl ho loved for one year ho iB not fit ton to have hor nor fltton to get fitten. If ho begun with a policy ho would bo very apt to koop on. The ordinary should be prohibited from issuing a liconso unless tho policy was producod and approved by him. A young mar ried man has no right to dio and leavo a widow and one or two children help less. A policy of ono or two thousand dollars would bo a good document to court on. Every man should pay his own funeral oxponsos and not dio a pauper. There is a family pride about such things and tho pa routs of tho widow will sacrifice overything for tho loved ono. Tho doctor's bills, tho drug bill, tho burial case, the burial ioo, tho car riages, tho hcarso and tho mourning all cost money. A fow months ago a young man of our town died away from homo. His lifo was devoted to his mother and his sisters, but It was not insured and tho express charges and other expenses havo boon a grievous burden. How easily ho could havo carried a policy of $1,000, out of which be could havo boon buried and loft a good sum for his widowed mother. I wonder how many of thoso travel ing young men carry a policy for their mother or their sisters. Filial lovo is a sweot and blessed thing and tho oc casional visits of tho boys to their homos is a com fort and joy, but whon death comes untimely and unoxpoctod tho bereaved ones can't livo on sor row. I was ruminating about all this because ono of our boys has sent homo a duplicate of a policy that ho has taken out for tho bonoflt of his sisters. Ho will keep it alivo as long ns ho lives. Ho will do moro. Ho will look after and protect thorn whon tho pa rents havo passed away. That is a parent's groat concern?what will bo como of tho girls?the unmarried ones ?when wo ai*o dcud. Will thoy havo to livo in penury or accept a home v Ith kindred?a homo perhaps where they are not wantod and where tho feolh.u of dopendonco is over boforo thorn ? And so 1 thought I would write a lot tor and oncourage young mon who lovo tholr sistors to carry a roasonablo policy for their bonoflt. I know many girls who havo been to the world's fair on a brother's bounty and that is all right, but it will bo still hotter to tako a lifo polioy for thoir benefit and koop tho premium punctually paid. Twontv fivo yoars ago I carried one in tho old Knlokorlxiekor for the bonoflt of my wifo, but tho company failed and I quit in disgust. But thoy don't fall now. Thoro aro plonty of good companies solid as a rock and thoro is no excuse. Stop, young man?stop and think and l know that you will agree with mo. Let us all tako caro of the girls, car ried or unmarried, if they are needy or dependent. Bill Arp. -?-Judgo Coponhavon, of Baltimore, waa instantly killed while hunting at Grand Lako, Mo., on the Penobscot river. Ho was usiug his rifie as a cane., when it discbarchod, the bullet passing through his head. THE GOTHENBURG SYSTEM. How the Julquor Traffic U Controlled In Sweden and Norway. >*. T. Evening Pott. The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Carroll D. Wright, has Just issued as his fifth special report the results of a full Inquiry made into the method of conducting the liquor traffic in several eitle? of Sweden and Norway, known, from the place of its chief develop ment, as the Gothenburg system. Various accounts for this system have been given from time to time, and it has been hailed by many of our own somewhat wearied temperance reform ers a9 the panacea of whioh they have been waiting. But never before has so exhaustive an investigation been made into the subject, and the com fdete history of Scandinavian liquor awB given in this report, togeth er with the full statistical exhibits relating to consumption of liquors, arrests for drunkenness and crime eonneoted with drinking, pauperism, savings banks, oto.. made it an in dlspen able document for all who would approu ;h the matter Intelligently. The Gothenburg system may be de scribed, in brief, as a plan to deprive liquor selling of the mercenary motive. All the licenses to sell liquor in a particular city are given over to a singlo corporation, which limits itself to a firofit of six per cent, on the capital nvested, turning over all surplus profits?amounting in 1692 to nearly $200,000 in the city of Gothenburg?to certain designated public charities. The men actually in charge of the saloons receive a fixed salary, which is in no way dopendeut upon the amount of sales; Indeod, large salos aro dis tinctly discouraged by many of the regulations. The price for drinks has been raised several times, not for groator profit, but for lessoning tho drinking habit, and oncouraging tho use of fermented instead of distilled liquors. In all the drinking-placeB placards aro conspicuously posted sotting forth tho handsome sum a working man could accumulato if ho would put the price of his daily dram into a savings bank. Tho com pany also maintains reading-rooma in connection with tho saloons, aud in various othor ways. Buch as Sunday and early-evening closing, limits the opportunities and temptations to drink. At tho cloBOof tho report, Dr. Gould, who was charged with proparlng it, makcB a cautiouB summary of tho advantages and disadvantages of the system, as developed in its oporation during nearly thirty yearB in Gothen burg. Tho advantages appear to pro ponderate ; on tho whole tho greatest of thorn being a diminution of drunkon noBs along with tho inducements to drink, and, what most of all strikes an Amorican, the comploto breaking off of the liquor traffic from all connection with politics. Yot, as Dr. Gould Judiciously observes, it would bo hasty to infer that a like succobb would attend the system in this country. Local con ditions count for almost ovorything in Buch matters, and the ono local condi tion which probably counts for most is tho comparatively' high character of the mou engaged in tho business in the cities of Sweden and Norway, and particularly of tho public officers who havo power to regulate tho systom. A List or Products.?The Seattle Free Press gives the following as a few of tho many remarkable things which tho State of Washington has produced : An applo woighing two pounds and four ounces. Ono strawbery ten inches in circum ference. A bunch of grapes weighing six pounds. An onion woighing four pounds and ono ounce. A potato woighing eight pounds and four ounces. A radish weighing nine and a half1 pounds. A beet woighing thirty pounds. A pumpkin weighing ninety three pounds. A watermelon weighing sixty-four pounds. A cabbage weighing fifty-throe pounds. A squash weighing 120 pounds. Timothy seven feet eight inches high. Clover fivo feet high. Alfalfa from a yield of twolvo tons per aero. Cornstalks fourteen feet high. A hill of potatoes that yielded forty-! throe pounds. Slxty-sovon pounds of potatoes from two pounds planted. Hops from a yield of 9,592 pounds per aero. Wheat from a yield of sixty-eight bushels per acre. Oats from a yiold of 125 bushela per aero. A blackberry bush showing twenty one foot growth this year. A branch from a prune tree thirty throo inchoalong with forty-six pounds of fruit on it. A lump of coal woighing 16,8(50 pounds. A plank fifty inches wide, thirty inchos thick and eighty-two feet long and not a knot on it. ?Bill Wado, a notorious desperado, rodo into tho town of Wobb, Miss, armed with a Winchester, a braco of revolvers and a butcher knife. He soon cleared tho streets, with tho ex ception of J. M. Evans, a quiet citizen, who was sitting in front of his storo. Wado opened fire on Evans, but tho lattor refused to bo bluffed and return ed the fire with such unerring aim that whon tho smoke clearod away Wado was found with six bullot holes through his heart. Evans is soriotiBly but not fatally wounded. ?Tho citizens of Jacksonville, Pia., havo voted to bond tho city for $1,000, 000 for public improvements. 1 DANGER I T ICs a Sign of Danger, when pimples, blotches and eruptions appear on ths skin, no matter bow slight. It warns you that your blood isn't pure. Heed the warning while there, is yot time; clear up your sys tom and purify the blood by taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery. It rouses overy organ into natural action, purifies and enriches the blood and through it oleansea and invigorates the whole system. It attacks all scrofulous, skin and scalp diseases in the right way ?by purifying the blood. Tho diseases that it cures come from a torpid liver, or from impure blood. Lor everything of this nature, it is tho only guaranteed remedy. In Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Biliousness: all Bronchial, Throat, and Lung Affeotions, even Consumption (or Lung-scrofula) in its earlier stages?if it ever fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. Toe markus of Dr. Sago's Ca tarrh Remedy will pay you $500 if they can't give you a complete and permanent cure. s| Highest of ?11 in Leavening Power.?-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder /VBSOU/TELY PURE Arrest of ? Millionaire.?A dis f&tch from San Francisco, dated Oct. "th, says that "Charles L. Fair, the tho young millionaire, who married a woman known as Maude Nelson a few days ago, left here with his brido on an* overland train last night for a | European tour. Previous to starting Fair transferred all his property to his wifo and made a will leaving her everything ho possessed. When the train upon which Fair and his bride took passage reached Port Costa, a | deputy sheriff entered tho train and : took forcible possession of Fair and re moved him from tho train. His brido, who was not disturbed, left tho train of her own accord. Tho charge on which the young man was arrested is said to be insanity. Ho was brought to San Francisco. 44 Young Fair is the only son of ex Senator James G. Fair, of Nevada. The young man bus taken tho Keeloy cure twice, but it has had no apparent effeot on him. Charles inherited $000, 000 from his mother and on the death of his brother $500,000 moro reverted to him. Under tho conditions of his mother's will, Fair receives an income from tho money loft him and will not secure tho principal until ho is .'10 years old. Recently, it is said, he threatened to raise money by pledging j his share of Sonator Fair's estate, which ho would receive whon his I fathor died. Sonator Fair is worth I many millions of dollars, being one of the richest inon on tho Pacific coast, and Charles is his only son. Sonator j Fair, whon nskod about tho proposed j marriage, said ho knew nothing about | tho woman and said his Bon was en tirely beyond his control." The Cause op our Woes.?Tho groat troublo in tho South is tho dis Eosition to raise a few commodities and uy nearly ovorything olso from tho North. The cry for hog and hominy is tho cry for wisdom. Wo havo in tho South a8oil whero all that is nocessnry i to man can bo oasily raised, but wo do not utilizo it. Wo scorn details too ; much. Wo nogloct tho littlo things and strike for tho big, and most of tho . timo wo miss fire. An old faruior wri ting to tho Amoricus Timo6-Recordor sums up tho situation in tho following wise way : Thoro is so much boing said in t ho country about hard times and tho scarcity of money, and as ovorybody has a cause and knows a roraody, I thought I would write to toll your roadors what I think is tho causo. Tho j troublo is we buy moro than wo pro duce. Thoro is too much flour and bacon shipped horo ovory yoar. Tho things wo ought to make at homo we are buying. Wo lot our timber rot and buy our {)low stocks, singletrees, ax handles, ioo hand los und fencing. Wo throw away our ashes and buy soap and axlo groaso. Wo givo away our beof hides and buy hame strings tin hoc strings. Wo lot our manuru go to waste and buy guano. Wo buy garden sood in the spring and cabbago in tho winter. Wo lot our lands grow up in woods and buy our brooms. Wo build school houses and hire teachers and send our children off to bo educated. Wo Bond a 15-cont boy out with a $20 gun and a $5 dog to kill birds. Wo raise dogs and buy wool. ?Tho Appomattox table upon which Grant and Lee signed tho papers for tho surrender; two minie balls that met poiut to point and woldod together on tho Petersburg battlefield ; original manuscript of Gen. Lee's farewell ad dress to his army ; tho bod upon which Lincoln diod; tho stove, gooso and shears usod by President Andrew Johnson when a tailor ; original manu script of Grant's terms for tho Burron dor of Vioksburg ; coat worn by Wash* ington at his second inauguration ; chair in w' 'ch John Hancook sat when ho signed the Declaration of Iudopon dence ; Bible nud gavel used in the Confederate Congress, and tho groat chain that Gon. Putnam stretched across tho Hudson River in 1770 to keep the British fleet from passing up tho river, aro the ton most valuable ex hibits in Libby prison, according to Mr. Gunther, of Chicago. ?Talking of Robt. E. Loo tho other day a Southern Congressman said that ho was tho subject of two of the finest phrases of oulogy ho had over road or hoard. Ono which ho quoted was Bon. Hill's oration whon ho said in his climax that Loo was " Uko Csesar without his ambition, Napoleon with out his selfishness, and Washington without his reward "?the last elauso summing up tho whole Southern feeing toward Loo. Tho other quota tion was from a panogyric on Loo, de livered by Col. Riohard Wintersmith, of Kentucky, at a dinner party, whon ho said of Loo that in " going to hoaven, ho roliovod Washington of bin eternal lonoliness." ?Tho groatost bridgo builder in tho world is tho spider. Thoro is a point on tho Morrimac River, not far from tho Missouri Paeilic bridge, whoro a large spider mado a bridgo clear across, a distanco of over 200 foot. Ho first sont out a flyor, a sort of kito string, which was carried across tho stroam by tho breeze and lodged in a t roe opposite. It was then braced by guys to other branches, and thus fifty foot above tho water was a perfect sus pension bridgo. In comparison with this insoct work tho Niagara and Brook lyn bridges uro trifling. ?44 Yos, sub," said tho Mujab, talk ing to a Chicago reporter. 14 It is true that wo do hiing a worthless niggah down ouah way once in a while. But you Nawthun folks seem to ovorlook complotely tho groat numbah of them that wo pubmit to livo until thoy dio of old age or sieknoss. Millions of them, sub. And whon you tako into con sideration the hot bloodod and im pulsive character of our people, I think wo deserve a great deal of credit for our clemency. Wo arc ploased to announce that Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C, our enterprising druggists, have secured tho agency for tho Japanese Pile Cure; a most wonderful discovery for tho ("uro of Pilo? of ovory kind, which thoy will soli with n writon guai anteo to refund tho monoj if it does not cure. It Is said to bo a .'.peolflo for that terri ble nud dairgorous disease. Get a free sample and try it. ?Mme. Carnot, tho wifo of tho presi dont of Franco, has tho reputation of hoing tho bost dressed woman in that country of woll dressed women. She is a grandmother, but thoro aro times when she doos not look over 25 years of age. She is a pronounced brunetto, with not a silver nair or wrinkle, and has the eyes of youth. Notice. Bo modern. Don't harass the system with noxious drugs. Monterey cures Malaria, Nervousness, Indigestion and Bowol Complaints. It is simple, pleas ant to taste and loaves no bad effects. till Ferkln? on Oetttiijr. to Florida. There was a blizzard up north and the New Engl?nder was in a hurry to snuff tho roaes ut Charleston aud Savannah and see the alligators and pick oranges in Florida. " I've studied those guido books tiil I'm blind," he said. "I wiaii some old traveler would tell mo in a word how to go South easy." " I'll toll you," 1 said ; " I've be>.n there a thousand times." '?Well, how?" "Why, just throw thatguide book away. Thero isn't, and uever has been, nor never will bo, but ono great straight coa9t line to Florida, Havana, New Orleans, Galveston und Mexico." " What's that V" " Why, tho 'Atlantic Coast Lino.' Now, you just go into any ticket office in Now York or Boston and ask for that coast line tiekot. Then pin it onto your coat collar, jump into the Pennsylvania road and you n be in St. Augustine picking oranges or at Turn pa. Florida, walking onto a Havana steamer in twenty-four hours." " What will 1 seo on tho way V "Why you'll slide through Washing ton and see Arlington Heights. Alex andria, Fredoricksburg, where Hook er and Burnsido tried to cross the Rappahannock. You'll glide through Richmond, seo Petersburg and tho Wildornoss fortifications. You'll soo Goldaboro and bo within a fow miles of Apparaatox and then drop down to Wilmington on tho ocean. On you'll go sniffing tho ocean breezes all the way to Charleston with its palmottoos, and Savannah with its beautiful live oaks and hanging moss. You are in the tropics from Wilmington down to Jacksonville, Palatka and St. August ine, or around on tho Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans and Galveston." " And no troublo ut all." " Not a bit. You step into tho Pull man at Jorsoy City and walk out of it in Florida. The Coast Line is a great system. All roads wait for it and you can't get left. It don't run up on tho storilo red hills, but down through tho green everglades. It is the Sea Island cotton line, the rico and tho palmetto lino. It is the antipodes, and that is what tho livo Yankee is looking after." " Does the Coast Lino make timo ?" "Why, it destroys time. It kills it dead: Trains on time? Well, whon tho Atlantic Coast train pulls into Jacksonville over tho Plant system, you will sco tho mayor and common council standing there waiting to set their watches by tho train, and if the train is flvo minutes lat<> tho whole State of Florida waits for it." ?Dr. W. B. Shumakor, a prominent citizen of Ackerman, Miss., was shot five times and iustantly killed by W. H. Hollin, against whom he had pre ferred charges of keeping a "blind tiger." All diseasos of tho skin cured and lost complexion restored by Johnson's Ori ental Soap. Sold by Carpenter Bros., Greenville. S. C. .? i ^ ?-?-? a* ? ?Ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has grown so weak that ho can scarcely hold his head up, and is almost blind. j Johnson's Magnetic Oil kills all pains ; whether internal or external. Sold at I Carpenter Bros., Greenville, 8. C. Japaneso Liver Pellets are small, but I great in thoir efi'ects : no griping : 50 doses 25 cts. Sold at Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. JOHNSON'8 MAGNETIC OIL! Instant Killer of Pain. Internal and External. Curot RHEUMATISM. NKUKAL oia, Lauio llnck. Sprain*. nruUen, Swellings, Stiff Jointa. C?LI0 and CRAMPS Instantly. CholornM~r. !bu?, Croup.Uiptherla, SirFe Throat, _(HEADACHE, as it by ma<rtO. IE HORSE BRAND, tho most Powerful and PenetrAttugLInlmontfor Man or DoantIn oxUtenoo. Large $1 uizo 76c., COo. < Ize 4Uc. JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. Medicated end Toilet. TheOront Skin Curo nnd Pace Bonutlfler. LncJlua will find It Uio um.a dellcnte and highly perfumed Toilet Hoap on the rnnrket. It ia absolutely pur?, Makes the Bkln BOft and velvety and restores the lost com ploxionj Is a luxury for the Bfith for Infanta. It ntnys Itching, oleiinsnd tho scalp anil promotes tho growth of hull-. Price '?k> for sale by Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S C Hm?nterey. 1760. THS MONK'S REMEDY, 1845, A TONIC. NERVINE, BLOOI. PURI FI ER Like Cures Like.?The Poison of tho Swamp has its Antidote in tho Swamp. For Malaria, Nervousness, Indiges tion, Dysentery and Bowel Complaint, ask your dealer for MONTEREY. If he ?iocs not keep it. we will send you a large bottle, express propaid, on re ceipt of $1.00. MONTEREY CO., Florence. S. C, Props, and M'f'ra. F. W. WAGENER ?fc CO.. Charleston, S. C, Stato Agonts. "PHE LAURENS BAR. H. Y. SIMPSON. C. I>. BARKBDALK SIMPSON & BARKSDAL?, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA Special at tent inn given to tho Investi gation of titles and collection of claims. n. W. BALL. L. \V. B1MKINS. W. W. V.M.I, BALL, SIIHKINS Ai BALL, Attorneys ai Law? Lauhenr, South Carolina. Wdl practica in all State and United stair* Court. Special attention given collections. J. T. JOIINHON. W. U. KIOl- KV. JOHNSON A RICIIKY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OrnoK -Floming's Coruer, Northwoit side of Public Square. LAURENS, - SOUTH CAROLINA. W. H. MARTIN, Attorney Rt Law, Laurens, - South Carolina. Will praotleo In nil C"Urt* or this State. Atlontlon givnu to collections. ?FOR SALE BY -WHO ARE WHITENBR 8l M&BTIN? They are our Fashionable Hair Cutters and Shavers. Hen-Delia Motel -THE FRESHEST Groceries, Fruits, Canned Goods, and CONFECTONS ^ AT ^ aaaaiaaaaaaauaaaaaaaaairaaaB iKennedy Bros1 DBBBBBEDBaaaosanaBBfaBEFirccc Wc have a supply ot seed rye. You had better purchase before it is all disposed of at kennedy's. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE. Is Life Worth Liv.ngV That Depends On THE LIVER. For more ills icsull from an Un healthy Liver than any other cause. When you arc Bilious TAKE LIVER-AID. When you arc Constipated TAKE LIVER-AID. When you leel Dizzy TAKE LIVER-AID. When you have Dyspepsia TAKE LIVER-AID. When you have no Appetite TAKE LIVER-All). When your Skin is Sallow TAKE LIVER-A ID. When you arc Out ot Sorts TAKE LIVER-AID. No Paix?No Gripes in Livrr Aid. A graduated medicine glass goes free with each bottle. LIVER-AID Cost nly 50 et*. And It Cures You. All of the above Manufactured by -THE HuWARD & WILLST DRUG COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA And Sold ny H. MARTIN and B. F, POSEY, Agents. I.AUKENS, S. C. ?SPECIALISTS (Itegulur Ortiduaites.) A\r the leading mid moat successfulspeclr.llst* and ??'ill five you help. Young and mid dle aged men. ItemarkaMe ra mm* nave follow, ed our treatment Many yeuri ot varied mni.s ful experience In the use of cura tive method* thai we nloneownhii.V control for nil dll orderi?of men ?ho have weak, undo iveloped or d is teased organs, or Jwho are suffering ?from error? of youth and exec* ir who are ncrvoui Fand Impotent, Jthe scorn of ttn-lr petlOWl and the contempt of their frlcpua and com? panl'ins. lead* us to rnaranttio to all patient*. If they ran possibly be restored, our own exclusive) treatment will afford n eure. womesi Don't yon want to got cured of that wonUncss with a treatment that yon can use at home without Instruments/ Our wonderful treat ment hae cured others. Why not you? Try It. CATATtRn, and diseases of tho Skin. Blood, Bean, Liver and Kidneys. eYPlIII.ISi-Tho most rapid, aafo and effectlro remedy. A complete Ciii-u Oiiiiruntc'd. ? KTW THflVAHEH of nil kinds cured whero many other* Uuvo failed. WNATrnAi. msriiAKOKs promptly tared In ft fi \v day*. Quick, ?uio und safe, Th.'a Includes Gleet nn I Gonorlxca. TRUTH AND FACTS. We have cured cases of Chronic Dlaeflfte* that have failed to get cured at tho hauda of other apodal hta and medical Inatltutee, ??i rT,,",',rfUrn'tlintthrir 1h hop,! for Von. c >nmit do other, at you may waats valuable time. Obtain our treatment nl once. lie ware of free and cheap treatments. We Hive the best and most scientific treatment at modcrav firlces?as low as cm he done for aale and ak'Ului reatment. 1 km; consultation at tho Ott) cor by mall. Thorough examination and careful dire net*. A borne treatment can hngiven In aninjonty of cases. Send for Symptom Illank No. 1 for >len no. 3 for Women > no. 8 for Skin Diseases, ah coir Iponu.-nco answered promptly. Business atrlctl) i Bdentlal, Knllro treatmentatnt frco from onsen . don. Roief to our patients, hunks and bualnca* m> i. Addrcaaor call on OR. HATHAWAY & CO 1>4 South Broad Street. ATLANTA, Q' YVm'mI W< rkillg M nlinr-ry. Brink ? -I i ho I'.irn I Slave " Gin nl it u " Grain Tie Oftliloiz " s?\v Mill Klee HulliiiK ? K NO I N K M AND BOIL Ii Ii s. Suite AuAncy lor V-llmit ?V Mm h' Kn Riti6H and 1{<>:>. < v. Saw mid UriMl M Iis; Brewtfrs' Brlek MseliMW'i'v, I) >u< le Sorew C'HUHi I'm *?<<-?, Thou-as' Direct AotirtR 8<''KU? (hu lulu : ih S- ? d Col Ulli K itvi?t??r*i5 II<ill ?v i Mii'inus' Gins; Knirli lien Uif?. Ilnl er?*; 11 H. SlMiill .V <"??'- Won-1 \V ?mi ;; M llin ery, l*l ? ? c?, Hund Siw>, Moul-iei s, Mor tis, r-5 IV'tioiu rs' . "Ii ; . -lie.' comnlote equipment I'nr S i h, ivoi .1 \V iu<>n Factories; l> Lom i, I' uimtloii s mv Mill-, varlaM" i<- <i BELTING, l?TTTIN?LS AND MACI1IN EUV SUP*'LI BS. &T~ Wi n. me l<?i ? .. ? s. \'. BA DHAM, MariHifor, i ?? luiiihl?, s 0. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE noTViVp. Do you woar them? When next In need try a pair. Best In the world. $2.50 $2.00 FOR LADIES #2.00 )*l.75 * for b0v8 If you want afino DRESS SHOE, marlo In tho latest styles, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoo. They fit equal to custini maJoand look and wear as well. If you wish to ccommko In your footwear, do so by purchasing W. L. Doughs Shoes. Naino and price stamped on tho bottom, look fcr it when you buy. XV. tu DOUGLAS, llrocktoi, Mans. Sold by 1) [GilMOND & DAX I LIA'. It. |{. i t'O. SAMUl'X Sl?K<*CRK. F. VV. HUIDEKOl'KU AND RE1U13N FOSTElt, H-eeiVcit.. Columbia Si D'-wl>ydb' l>i vl-i ??. i!<ini|).|is< (l Si'i.'iliili n ? lie ?! Aug. 13, is:?'; Traine run bj .'i n M.-ridiiin I T.iu.. . . : B,tw.!< n ? olumbiu, Si necaw .1 Widnnlla Dili-.. " D.vnr". ; N... II. S I'ATIONS. I No. V2 I it -jon.* Lv Columbia i A' i 'ftpm Vi oSiiiii . \ :??;<>?... j 3 :.i?tn? ? 12 ispm I'oniiU i i :: 14pm 1*2 3ft|-rn ITo^i't-iltj . 2.ft5pm 12 .">'?. in N ?'? <> ri y , 2 3(lpui Vi .ii,.ii. 11. l' ict 2 Kftpm 1 BU;.i>. ( tiu|>|>4 Ih l ftr.pm 2 is mi Nin ij six . i 32pm 2'Iii ii. tii'mmiwood. i-r-.put 3 O'l.'ll. I : i tl|<?'*.. I " '??>',>? 11 :!<lpin 1 t;Pi l?ptn 1 8 35,??. ..Hunt? I'nili I - > ;.p-ri ;: iiApn \i it- It- ii . l.v II 4ftara 4 oopn Ia ... ii-lti.li A i 1140am ?I 21; i| I.V All Ii iu I Al 'IlSniQ ?i ft * li , ?? IV . Il Mill " I" iti.on f. : n . V r . ? ni OH . IA 10 i e.mi fi hi' l.\ .. ? !?? - n A i 1? "mm U05|ittj|Ar VVahiuUij Ia '?'?"iiini Hctw ? en Ander-on, u. If 1 ?? Dr. en villu. J>. i. '>..'!>." 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Lv 2 3ft pm ;i 4n }im| \r AIiIh ? ?' Ar 2 20 f?m Trains leav< Orin .** i'.I??? *. (', A. ,fc C. DIvIkI?ii, Norilllioiii I, :i nT n. in., 2.20 p. in , :> OS p. in. I \ - ? i ll'uli il l.lmliod). Soutlilionlid, 3 07 n. m., 4.42 !>. i..., 12.28 p. , in. ( Vi Milnili il Limit< 0 )? i i hi s \t'H\ < ? pHt ti- i'tn i;, A ?v ('. Di vlalon, Northbound, 1.43 a in. ft.Oft p m, 0.12 p m ( V- ?I? ;iW i' Llmiieii); rloutb iKitiroL l.ftfl ii ii . 8flu p in. il."7 a m ( ViHiilmliil Lliiii'w/)! Wo'stltiMinn, vv. N. i'. Division, lift 1 in ni.d 2<)fl p m, lor llcndoraonvlllc. Al H'Vlllc. Hot Snrlrttfu. Tr.iiii* |f*av P ,??< ;) A. ft U. Dlvlalon. Norllilx-und, 11.30 it. m., 2.1ft p. in.; South Ivourtd, 2 32 -. m., 'i <>2 p. e>. I vv. A.TtKK />. II. llAKDWIOIC, 1 (1< :i. I'U98. .'-:-l . } A89, USIli l'a??h. Agt, Wnxiiii .'? >!,, D. 4'. Atlanta, Da. V. B. MOBKII SOI. I1AA8. Oen'l Supt.. TmfllO MVr, Oolmnlilii, S. C Wunidiinion, D.U. \V. 11. UaavN, Ginprsl Manaaor, \v??h _Inio .p. D. <;?_ II. .1. ItAVSNWOKVH. L. W I'aiiki'.K HAYKSWORTH & PARKER, ATTOUM VS AT LAW, G01 Main St - ? Greenville, S.C