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iiiMi ii . mini i ?a?a i n >???? i? ?n? mi 111 ii i mi i ii i i airwui i in PMtMM?? ~ Absoluteey PiJKE Mokes the food more delicious ond wholesome _ RO'Al 0?""'^ PO.VOrR CO.. NE? von?. A BACHELOR'S KNCUMBRANCH l, Faul Particular, weut West lute last autumn, and when 1 returned It wag in company with my encum brance. Imprimis, ray patornal patronymic was not a misnomer. 1 am undeniably ??particular;" 1 was particular from tuy childhood. 1 grew up particular, for those ideas "grow with my growth, and strengthened with my strength.*' 1 would not till the comfortable little country estate .'eft me because a far mor must sometimes wear overalls ; so i arranged i'rimroso cottage as nicely an paint and ?drt'ant furniture could render It, hlrod Dorcas Trim ?o hous ? keeper and Job Tnrifty aa gardener, and wont Ir.to town, entered Into the Commission und brokerage business, and took rooma at E-tsy's hotol. My business waa not wearing j I had a working partner, and my own capital procured me the greater share of the profits and an easy life. I had a sister, but she was married and had u colony of little cucuml.ranees growing up around her, and filling nursery, hull und drawing room with their noise; hence I went less and less to Ellen's as tho encumbrances Increased ; and grew more demonstrative of tho capacity and strength of juvenile lungs. Prim roso cottage was twenty miles from town ; und though pleasant enough for a summer's vacation, when 1 enter tained a party of choice guests, yot of autumns and winters, ujino host ot Easy's hotel had tho profereuco. Iiut for the journey 1 sot out upon last autumn whereof I am about to re late ; for tho story will show you by what unlooked-for means I took to my self an eneumbrrnce for life. A long tlmcjdiad myxoid friend und eollego churn, Dick Avery, been stand ing me letters descriptive of h'.a happy farmer life In Montana. . " Whenever you get tho blues and dyspepsia, or grow sick of business, come out for a month through the, glorious, greut West, and to ray Montana home." This hud been Dick's standing invita tion ever sineo no nad immigrated to ins present home. Providoueo directed me. I bad then dyspepsia and^would go to Montana ! So, with a full pocket, and unencum bered, save by that horrible tyruut whoio throne was my gastronomic re gion, I set my face toward the setting sun. blow glad Dick was to 8'JO me I Li-.i shook my hand so vigorously and ask-id mo.questions in such rapid succession that I could scarcely draw a free breath between answers. Then came Introductions to Irs wife, Mrs. Nelly Avory, whom I never should have, re cognized as tho sunder wife Dick ourrled from tue blast with him; the four children, and a cousin of Mrs. Avory, Miss Gurtrude Bird, a pretty son of young creature with dark blue uyts and a wealth of brown hair. Mies Bird had been West four y . ars toach lng school, and was now getting home sick; so that it was only after much persuasion that she consented to stay a month or. two longer with the A very s. " A bachelor still, Paul," said Dick, while Mrs. Avery und her pretty cous in wore preparing supper. " Why, mao, you ought to have been settled down in life those ten years'. You and I used to bo about of an age, 1 believe, Paul, and I'm getting ?long well to ward my forties. Tnirty-eigbc last1 vpring." ? It was certainly uncalled for?Dick's mentioning aeesjjst then; hut some how Dick Avery was always a blunt kind of a fellow. " I'm happy as a king," he resumed, taking hit? youngest son?a tine fellow whom he had " lie member ed me by," in tho bestowal of bin cognomon?upon his knee. " Nolly's proved a treasure ; wasn't too much of a lino lady to glvo up her Eastern home and accompany me out hero to tho borders ol tho wil derness, and I have mapped out great careers for the young ones." Just then Gertrude Bird came Into the room and summoned us to suppor. Candidly, I don't rjmom^r the time that Dost Easy ever g A up such a tempting meal. And thru my appetlto so conflicted with tho tyrant that had held It In abeyance. Upon ^the whole, lit w.s decidedly pleasant. After supper Dick proposed having some music. "Wr always have a little slug of evenings," said he, "and to-night 1 propose 'Auld Lang Byne.' Come, Gertie." Miss Bird sat down to tho piano and " Auld Lang Syne " was followed by a dozen other melodies ; and then Dick read a chapter in the Bible and wo all retired for the night. And I must say that such calm sleep and quiet dreams never visited me io my handsomely furnlshc; bed-cham ber at Easy's hotel as came to mo there in the plain little bed In which 1 lay down to rest that first night in Mon tana. But I have not time here to rocount all the events of that raonth in Dick Avr.ry'e home. Sufllce It that oacb was a ty pool rest. And all this time the tyrant, dyspeprla, had been growing feebler In his sway, till finally he en tirely abdicated the throno. And then I began to think of coming home, and I then w-v It that my cncumbrancocarae j to me after this wise. " Paul," said Dick, one day, coming to mo with a serious face from a long talk with Gertrude Bird, " how would you like company to tho East? Gor trude Is thoroughly homesick and longs to soe her mother again ; and though we shall loso half the sunshlno of our boms, I cannot urge her to stay an other raonth. Your going back offers mi di a capital chanco for her to travel in company that Gertie's deputed mu to ask you If she'll be any encumbrance, to you. So what was left for mo, Paul Par ticular, bachelor, who had nuver *' tak en cburf'o" of a lady on a journey In all ray life, but to protest to Dick Avery, his wife and to Miss Gertrude Bird that It would afford mu slncercst pleasure to act as escort from Montana to Massachusetts to the last named young lady I And this Is how 1 came by my encumbrance 1 It is ooe thlog to meet a yoang lady ?and that lady as pretty and bewitch ing as Mies Bird at stated hours, day time and evening, and quite another to Und yourself shut up In the same railway car with her ana seated on the same seat with hor for a journey ol three or four days and nights together Ono either gets thoroughly wearied ol o' to love with his companion during ui) this; that is. if he is unmarried and susce ptlhle> Bot I. Paul Particular, who had arrived at tho aye of ?well, Dick has revealed tho matter of my ago for me?might have neun supposed ! to possess abilities to oteor cl .ar of both Scylla and Charybdis. The. first day's journey was in no wise different from that of acy good natured, easy man who is encumbered with tho charge of ayoang lady, with her dainty individual wanl6 to attend to. Suro it was that Mies Gertrude Bird'n Urst twelve hours woro com paratively easy ones to her. But when twilight had merged Into evening Gertrude Bird's brown head began to show most unequivocal symp toms of weariness; then began my first positive trouble. Finally the. nod ding fiend settled in its own way ; over aad ovor it dropped towa-d me, till at lust it settled wearily on my eboulder. and Ml-s Gertrude Bird's tnoughts wore, in neither citato lying between Montana and Massachusetts, but in the fairy realms of Dreamland. Not that tho littlo head was a serious oncum branco, because of its weight simply ?O no! but, then, this was a decided^y novel position in which 1, a bachelor, found myself, and it was not until every tired occupant of tho car had climbed into a sleeper that she wak oned. Then Mlts Bird lifted her littlo head and said with a bhisu "Oh I must have slept a little '. And 1 fear 1 must have been an oueumbraaco lOyou, Mr. Parti' oular I" And aguin. in accordance with the dictates of my good nature, I was forced to assure tier that I bad not been in tho least encumbered by the weight of her head; "in fact, 1 thought I must have slopt most of the time my soil." And so it went 00 all that journey, I, Paul Particular, serving as Alias Bird's cavalier by day. Finally wo arrived in Boston when, after seeing Mis- Bird safely on the train bound for X-, 1 took up my quarters at Lasy's Hotel again. Wnen we par'.ed Miss Gertrude repeatedly thanked me for my kindness, ussu'-ing mo tbat she ahomd get on nicely too remnant of too journey, and extending me a cordial iuviiatiun to go out to X-and visit her home and her mother. I do not know ho v it came to pass : 1 do not think when 1 went out to X I bad any tnought beyond Inquiring how Mus Gertrude B.rd bad recover ed from the league of the journey, I am very sure tbat 1 nad no idea of taking to mycolf a lifelong encum brance, and assuming the responsloi litiesof looking after not only shtwls, satchels and baskets, but household fixtures and warurobo generally dur ing all my future. But do not under* ^tand mo tbat 1 implicate MUs Bird with drawing me invo suob a step ; for I solemnly assert horo that I bjiiovc .hat young lady was as surprised u? myself after wo realized that all this has actually came about. Neither Understand me that 1 regret or would recall this event. 1, alone, am to blame. I was at. sister Ellen's tho other day and the llrst thing sbo aaio to me wsj, '? VYny, Paul, what Is all this I hear about you ? You going to be married 1 1 ?in delighted, though 1 always did thinic you were cut out for r. bachelor. But your journey helped you in more ways than your dyspepsia.' 1 submitted to Ellen's congratula tions (-the always did say malicious things) and the children's shoutr and kisses. In fact I am getting qiilto resigned to my prospective fate, it is only once in a while, as in the present instance, when I am in a raro at having lost the last train out to X-, that the wan ing spirit of niy bachelorhood urgci me to pour out into socio sympathizing ear my complaint. But, after all, 1 really don't bellevo that I should con sider that maa my true friend who should offor to condole with me. The die is cast, and I tako homo my future with its attendant joys and sorrows, hoping that the former will be many, and the latter few. I invite you, one and all, roadera. out to Primrose cottage next May, and I, Paul Particular, married man, will Introduce you to my encumbrance. ?It cost the government 13,442 to bury the venerable Senator Morrlll. A "State casket with copper lining " is one of the items, at 1400. The en graved plate cost 110; special red cedar shipping caso, copper plate corners and handles, double size, fUO ; embalmiag and services of undertaker at Washing ton, 950.50; attendancoof undertaker to | Montpeller, $20 ; use of 31 carriages, 9108 50; use of hearse twice, $10; spe cial train service from Washington to SprinKfield, $782 ; 54 fares, Springfield to Montpeller, $2?4 ; 30 fareH Montpell er to Itutland, $117 , 30 faros, Rutland to Troy, $89.04 ; special engine, Troy to Albany $26 ; 30 faros, Troy to Wash ington, $347.40 ; special engine, Woo hawkua to Jersoy City, $15: use of Pullman cars llosporla and Uumbcr, Washington to Montpeller and rsturn, $300; commissary supplies, $78.90. ?M It was In tho English class," says tho Loulsvillo Courier-Journal, " and a new teacher had just been employed. She was from tho North and called all the pupils ' Miss,' at which they mir vollod greatly. On the first day the teacher told her class that uhe would not give a regular lesson, but each girl should write down all the slang she knew and bring that to tho next day's recitation. That was n 'cinch.' Sev eral girls who possessed brothers and the rest who possessed other girls' brothers set them to work. The result was marvollous. When the class was called next day there was not a girl who could not show two closely written pages of slang expressions. The tea cher looked. ' Vory good,' she said. Now translate tho.n into readable En glish.* They h ven't fooled with her since." For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the V/^/f^J^T ??aature ol l/U^f/ZTCUS^ A TALK ABOUT GOOD ROADS. POINTS ABOUT TIIK NEW SOUTH. Prof. Holmes' Valuable AriilresH to the i.'- i .1 ;>.i 1'. i - Lecture Com inaiirli'tt i i'i-r Attention from a Large Audience. The Btate. 27th inat. Tue Legislature of South Carolina Last night listened to an enjoyable and much enjoyed common sense talk on tho Bubj ;ot of good roud9. This theme did noiocoupy the entire time, of t'rof. J. A. Holmes, of tho University of North Carolina and state geologist, trat ho referred brh Qy to many latent resource which should ho developed, fos art d und maintained. Ale. Holmes is a native of South Car olina, and though a younir man, is among the foremost ot ttioso who are devoting time and brain to too up building of tlie South in tho develop ment of natural riches. He Is a self madti man, ami tho most forcible illus tration of tho cost of bad roads which be used las- night was i-ake:i from his own lifo, lio recited how wh< .1 a boy Mo bad made three bales ol cotton to aid in obtaining an education. To haul i that cotton from Laurt :is in Nowhurry cost him $lf), and eoummed live days, on account of the horrible road"?as much an expeoeb&s a trip to Now York on tho cart). M.. Holmes began his lecture by re ferring to tho splendid growth of South Carolina in her cotton mill in du?triot-, and illustrated with his atero opticon tho water power of Poizor and of the Oolumbla oa-nah Rapidly run* ning from water posvor to water itself, ho gave good advice about the. sink ing of wells so as to escape typhoid germs. Forestry was beautifully Illustrated and abiy dlSOUb td. Uo showed on the canvas the splendid plno fureets of North Carolina in their virgin state, and deplored the fact that this great, source of revenue was nearly extinct on account of forest tires. Tho loss to North Carolina bad boon $1,000,000 an nually on this account. Soutb .Caro lina's pine forests are not so much ruined. The causes of this devastation are sometimes carelessness and some times cussodness, and iu North Caro lina tho forests have b:en killed, tho seed germs destroyed and the laud made a desert by these tires. Ho ap pealed to the Legislature to throw safe guards a'ound tho pine forosts and also to protect the gum and the cypress in the swamps whoro tho land Is being told to foreign lumbering corporations for a pittance., ?*.T?3?i ?,?Z Uo spoke of the ?ood which tho bu reau of geological survey was effecting in causing diversity of terming in North Carolina, and said that t ho farm ers were not complaining of the cost of this bureau, for it had brought $10, ?iOO.OOO of foreign capital into the state and had helped tho farmers to practice', eoonomy. There is no use, ne said, for South Carolina to try to get appropriations from Congress to help in such work unle.-s the State does something itseif. Our representatives in Congress are crying " paternalism run mud," and tho western and east ern men are saying, "give us appro priations f jr our waste places and wo will do something ourselves." Ho then came to the BUbjeot upon winch he was to address the general assembly by Invitation?good roads. Liu laid lOA n tho proposition that tt.ose people who have not good roads are paying a " mud, sand and hili tax." anil for this they get no benefit. No creature in the animal or vegetable kingdom is benefited by bad roads, not even tadp'des, for they die In dry weather. From letters written to 10,000 farmers, he had been abio to e-jtimate that tho "mud tax " has cost North Ca rolina $10,000,000 yearly, and the cost in South Carolina is half as great. With his Bteroopltoon he showed how in otnor sections of this country hills were graded, and the roads made smooth and firm, In California convict labor is used to prepare the macadam at a cost of about 2f> cents a day, against 75 ennts in North Carolina for free labor. Lie sug Kestsd that a Stato rock crushing plant could be established at or in connection with the South Carolina penitentiary and by convict labor the coit reduced to a minimum. Tho counties JOUld ar range with the railroads for a nominal rat? of transportation. The poorer counties might say that it was very woll for Greenville, Spartanburg An derson, etc., to undertake this work, trat they themselves could not. Frof. Holmen said there was as much com mon sense in that statement as there would be In the plaint of a country merchant that he could not keep his store open because ho was not ablo to do as much businoss as a wholesale store in Columbia. liu advised moderation and common sense iu tho undertaking. Some sec tions do not need as much expense as others. Ho then complimented the roads of Itlchland County leading out of Columbia. Tho county supervisor had accomplished, so easily that he hardly realized tho value of his work, the building of roads that are as easily traveled as those celebrated roads of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and at a cost of $100 per mile, while the. latter had expended $3,000 a mile. He urged the Legislature to advise their people to experiment with sand and clay, mixed to tho proper consistency. Ho could give no formula as to the composition, as clay differs in tho sev eral sections of the State. Hut ordi na.'liy a sand road for a basis, with a suriace of four Inches of clay, is the proper consistency. In the laying of macadam ho urged system. The trabst -ata of larger rock should be carefully paeked, and It is economy to havo heavy rollers. Kach upper stratum should bo packed on carefully. Throughout his talk ho showed the exasperating difficulties and actual ex travagance of t ad roads, and by com parison argued that the perpetual tax for bad roads would bo far groatur than a tax tor perpetual good roads. Several good arguments for wide tire wagons wernadvancod throughout the addross. it may be that an Indivi dual In a community has a hi d time with a brojibtlre vehicle whon too nar row tires out the road and make the broad tire appear at an unnatural dis aovantage. In 15 counties In North Carolina they havo the broad-tire wa gon law and proposo to havo It in the others when tho proposed constitution al amendment Is adopted.a It had struck him forcibly that tho narrow tire would always follow tho hard sur face pueked by tho broad tire. Ho showed that under equal conditions the narrow tire cut nine Inches Into the ground while tho broad tiro sank but two inches and found Itself a sur face. He Illustrated with attractive vlows tho difference In carrying capacity of a wagon ton times laden on hard roads and one with a flimsy load on soft, sticky roads. He claimod that ono of tho items of mud tax was accounted for In the fact that grain could bo shipped here from the Mississippi valley as ohcaply as it oould bo haulod ovor bad country roads to market. At the conclusion of h>a leotur<;, Pro?. Holmes wa* applauded and pub licly thanked. II j answered a number of questions plied him. Tho largo au dienco was wonderfully quiet and very deeply interested throughout the en tire lecture. dksath OP A HUM YltK.YIliji: MAN. IllVOntor of Fire KxtinguiHher in Gou* erat Use Over the Soul 1? by Caiuners and Compressors OF Cotton. The death of Mr. G. W. Taylor, of Helton, S. C, on the 20th Inst., onded the career of a remarkable man. Mr. Taylor nad been in feeble health for some time, but no one realized his con dition, and his death came as a great shook. He died while sitting in his chi.'.r, and there was no one in the room with him when tho end came. A member of tho family had just left him to bring some artlole needed for his comfort, and on returning found him dead. Mr. Taylor, oc "Undo Wash," as everybody allcotlonately culled him. was indeed a moat remarkable man in manv respootd. lie bad the genius of an Edison, and spent bis entire life working out inventions, some of them wonderful, Indeed, and which will bring blessings to posterity loug after his name has been forgotten. Invent ing was bin calling, and that bo fol lowed it well everybody who know him is willing to attest. When ho was at work on some model ho seon.,>-' almost oblivious to everything el=o around mm, but worked at his plan with a de votion born of such zeal that success was invariably bis reward. This seem ed to be all he cared for, for as 60on as one invontion was completed to his satisfaction, ho at once set about soloo other task, and loft the product of his head and hand in the possession of somebody else, who might work it and recoivo tho benefit of what was his, had ho had tho inclination to make money. He was tho inventor of the lire ex tinguisher, which is in goneral usu all over tho South by glnners and com pressors of cottou. T:.is alone haj boon of incalculable benefit not only to the giuner in tho protection it furnish ed him fo" hid machinery, A,?\, but it beuelitod the (armor in that tho gin ner was enabled to do the work at a much lower rate, on uccount of less risk and lower insurance. We sup pose there are few steam gir.s any where that are not titled up with this simple little attachment that will ex tiuguish a flame in tbe gin house al most instantaneously. The gio-whet is another invention of hie. Tho machine is complicated indeed, but has been successfully used all over the country for sev eral years. It used lo rc quire several days of laborious work lor a man to whet his gin, hut with thid machine a uinety-r>aw gin or Unter can be put in a splendid condition in t.hre?i and ote half hours, the machine doing every bit of the work, from the time it touches t.ie first tooth until it bus gummed and filed shttrp tbe last one, ail without beit.g touched by human hands. Tho svhet was invented by him seven yearb ago, but the automatic at tachment wae ono of his recent Inven tions; indeed, he nad just finished it. O.dy a few dayu ago 1k> sat 1 it was com plete to his satisfaction. He invented a car roplacor that is becoming very popular recently, being used now on i-.ome of the big roads in the North. These inventions are his moot useful ories, atui of must interest, possibly, to the people of the South, but there id another of his of which I wish to speak, but of which he was cheated out of. During tho civil war Mr. Taylor, on account of his genius, wan employed in constructing guns for the ute of the Confederacy, and for a loni; time was stationed in Greenville, S. G. Weil? there he Invented what is known as the centre-tire pr.rcusslon cap, which is now uaod for nearly all kinds of gun and plstoi cartridges. He showed the Invention to one of his su perior ollicers, who Ktole it from him and sold it to the government for $500,000. During the war two large guns of English moke were brought to Gharlobton for the defense of tho city and fort hardby. In testing the guna tho largor one wau cracked. No ono seemed to know how to band it so as to make it tit for use. Tho matter was submitted to Mr. Taylor, and ho sub mitted a plan for its repair, which was tried, tho gun was made as good as ovor, and did effective work for a iong while. Mr. Taylor left littlo or no proporty ; others received the fruit of his work. When ho did havo money he was gen erous to a fault. He was a simple, pure-hearted Christian man, who at tended to his own affairs. Unless on grossed with some plan he was always kind and affable, and never said an un kind word of anybody. ? A- tramp is quoted thus In tho Chi cago News : " Yes, wo git into county jails occaslonaMy, but tbe trouble is they don't keep us long enough. A jail Is a humelike place, with plenty to rat, no work and good t reatment. We are generally sentenced for three months, but after about four wooks tho sheriff bieks out three or four ?f us and says : 'Now boys, them Iron bars on that win der Is loodo and it's going to bo a dark night. Hev aomo ambition about you.' An old tramp knows what that means and he is ten miles away before day light. A tendorfoot tiggors to stay on, and next morning tho sheriff comos In and finds him tboro and says: ' What, hain't you got no ambition ? Thon I'll give you soino !' and ho hoots him out into tho yard and sets him to promcn adln' around with a log fastened to his leg." ?Tho Missouri and Kansas Tele phone company, which has a monopoly In Kansas City, Mo., says tho Chicago Record, is short of operators, and the reason of this Is that most of tho girls who havo applied for positions tho prosunt month have not been tall enough. Hereafter a girl who does not measure tiro foet six inches in height will not bo omployed. The com pany has learned that short girls havo short arms, an? girls with short anna can not do the work as woll as those with long arms. ?Solar rainbows aro vory rare, and they depend, tays l'rof. Lewis Swift, on the simultaneous occurrerooof lour distinct ovents. First, it must.?sty in the Mlddlo Btatos?occur during the three winter nu n hs : recond.lt must take place at noon; third, It* must be raining in the North ; and, fourth, the sun must be Bhlnlng in the South. As tho apex of tho bow is low, It also re quires to see it as unobstructed hori zjn. OAfiJTOIlIA. B?rs tha ^ 1 ho Kind You Ham Alwdjrs Bought Signatur? AN ADMINISTRATION PLAN. A CAUCUS MEASURE DEFEATED. sou'.ior MayUciil's Substitute Die* petisary mil Was Summarily Killed. Tho Senate had under consideration the Graydon dispensary bill, of which tho tirst sect ou relating to the com missioner ami his sa ary nad b . n adopted, when Senator May Held moveu as a substitute the bill he had previous ly offered. Senator Sheppard moved to strike out Section 2 of the amendment which constitutes too board of control of the Governor, chairman of the committee ways ami means ami chairman ol com mittee on finances of the Senate. Senator Henderson offered the fol lowing as a substltito lor Senator Sheppard's atmpulmcnt : Strike out Sect'On 2 of substitution and insert: Immediately upon the approval of this Act the Governor shall appoint three men of good moral character, who shall bo known us the directors of the dispensary, whose term of oftioo snail be for two years, unless sooner re moved by the Governor, and who shall receive the same per diem and mileage tu mourners uf the Gejeral Assembly, to bo paid , out of dispensary funds us other bills are paid, which said board shall be charged with the duties hero in after provtdcd anu shall meet withiu tou days after their appointment, qualify by taking the usual oath of ollico and organize as a board. Senator Sheppard thought it best to consider one tolug at a time. The first question is us to whether Section \L shall stand. Let it be considered on its merits and not be complicated with other propositions. Senator U.-nderson said his substi tute was to eliminate all State ollicers and he saw no reason why it shouldn't bo considered now. Senator Mayfield thought his amend ment should tirst bo voted on and then j amendments could be made. Senator Sheppard s<?ul if it was tho j settled policy of the Senate that no | State officers should bo on.tho board then he had nothing further to say. j No result followed from this prelim- | Inary tkirmish and Senator Manning I addressed the Senate. Lie said he had ' opposed the dispensary at first, because I be thought it unconstitutional and that it would build up a huge political machine in the State, which would bo a fruitful source of fraud and corrup tion. But it is now tue law aod shouid be obeyed. Liis observation has been, j nevertheless, that the law has been benelicial. The habit of drinking has' decreased among young men. Candor I and honesty riquiro toat he should i state tins iu this public way. He would lend every effort to do away with ob jectionable features and improve the law. He said bo had been informed iu.it ibis substitute is the outcome of a caucus or a confertuce that has beeu i held iu the cilice of tho Chief Kxecu- | tive of the State, a conference over ' w hich the Governor presided. He felt j that thii was a matter tho people j should ue informed of. He asked the Senator from Bamberg whether this 1 wus the origin of the bill. Senator Maylis'd, In roply, said ho bad hn days been getting up a bill, i He had consulted with Senators. Hoi bad written out his views, and there j was a meeting of three or four Semi- j tors, and some others, to consider plans for the renovation of tho dispensarv. In connection with thesj Senators his substitute was agreed upon. He did not believe such action ought to injure tue chances of tho bill. He moveu to j lay on the table the amendments of ; Senators Sheppard and Henderson, but ! withdrew the motion. Senator Henderson said he was not connected with any cuueus, but he id hero to try and see that the dispensary is properly and honestly administered. He hui' not talked to a man who did not think the board of control should ' be abolished. That Is the end looked to. The Graydon board has been de feated. Llls own plan proposed that no State officer should be on the board. We have tried electing members of the board. There is no use mincing words. i'olltlcians are elected, aod thoy aro not wanted, but business nirn are; according to tho Mayfield Will thf> commissioner Is to bo elected by the board. That will make him a creature of the board, which is not wanted. Ho said if hie amendment was adopted bo would follow it up by an amendment to Section 3, as follows : " There shall be appointed by the Governor a State liquor commissioner, upon tho approval uf this Act, who shall act as such until the election ol his successor as herein provided, and that hereafter such liquor commissioner shall ho elected by ths people at each general election, and shall hold his other for a period of two years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified." Oue trouble with the present management was that the members had different terms, and this caused constant wrangling. Senator Graydon, referring to Sona tor Manning's remarks, said that his bill was not tho reeuit of a caucus, but was the product of his own brain. His bill has boon dubbed by the newspapers the administration measure. It Is not. The administration had no'.hlng to do with It. He alone Is responsible for it. He thought tho dispensary law tho beet solution of tho liquor question ever evolved anywhere, though ho at first opposed It. Ho went Into a gen eral dofenco of tho system. There Is no reason, he said, why the dispensary cannot be conducted as honestly as the Treasurer's ofllce, or any other Stato ofll-e. Tho Legislature Is competent to elect a commissioner, and there was no need of having another eleetlvo ofllce. In reply to Senator Henderson he *ald ho trusted tho people, but some good man running for the olllco might be defeated by (also charges that ho was being supported by tho whiskey element. He had uo objection to Sena tor Henderson's idea aoout the com position of the board, bat ho was op posed to the Mayfield nondescript sub stitute, which could not stand. Senator Mnylieid said that he could not help smiling whon Senator Gray don said that he was the solo author of tho bill. The vote of tho Sonato yes terday showed that they know that the law which ho praises so highly originated In a caucus. Ho thou re viewed his bill, section by section, ex plaining its provisions, claiming that it made tho system stronger and better. Ho told ii.r t tho chairmen of the com mittees ctuid legally held the. posi tions on tho hoard. Tho chairman ol tho finance committee Is on the sink lug fund. Tho chairman of tho com mltteo on education Is a trustee of Winthrop. Ho citod other Instances and conciudi d that there wore no legal obstacles. Uo referred to the quarrel ing and tho wrangling of the prosent hoard, which had dono much to brea* down (he Institution, lie went Into a detailed explanation of the various plans In his hill. Senator Barnweil thought that if the law Is to bo ohanged the bill of Senator Graydon should be followed. j Ho wii,d oppusoJ to all tho provisions of i tho Mayileld substitute. Ho was glad I that, the whole question could now bo I considered ou Us merits. He reviewed j brifctly tho growth of the sentiment in j favor of Btriot regulation of trie sale of I Intoxicating liquors and referred to legislation in 1882, when liquor could only be sold in towns. Coming down to the dispensary, he s*id he opposed it, becauso li bas cen tralized power engaged in a monopoly and, in a Government like cur?, it \ must be political. The old State bau.? and tho United States hank wore at? taokod for tue samo reason. in bis belief no scheme can be dovlsod whioh will make the law satisfactory to the people, and bo was sorry that the Apuolt bill, which decentralizes the business, has not been reported. He reviewed the formation of various boards. The May Quid bill would practicuily make tue Legislature re sponsible for the dispensary. It was a Uuty which he, for oue, did not want to perform. At best it would be but an experiment, which would not prove satisfactory. All provision in reference to sealed bids will amount to nothing if the directors are to be corrupt any way. If it Is amoral institution you do not want to make any money, and the people will not stano it. Thore i do uao to talk about old bar roomi. Thu drink habit is beiug stamped oat by ttio exigencies of modoru iifo. Toe man who dooa not drink at all La tho ouo who succeeds. Ali these. Inlluenues must bo considered. What suits ono community dooo not suit auotber. In Maine tho prohibition law is despised in tho cities and it is not enforced. What will suit thoj? in the country may not suit loose in the city. No law can bo enforced whcro the people arc not ready for it. Senator Archer said ho had beet: invited to a caucus and he replied that if he was to be bound by its action be wouldn't i{o. lie knew that something must bo done aud ho went with other gentlemen ?od consulted about the bill. What vvttB done was not done secretly. He s .id that there had oeeu all kinds of speeches on thia subject? prohibition, political and olherwiae. tie doubted whether a single vote has been changed, lie never saw an elec tion whore whiakey was not uaeu, yet when tho dispei.sary is mentioned somo people at once raise the cry. " Politics.'' Tho beat* thing Sjuth Carolina could do was to confine thia liquor stencil in ono place. Ho did not want It scattered all over the State, as tho local option people would have it. Senator Ilderlon favored Mr. Hen derson's amenument as to the composi tion of the board, because it would do away with ail doubts as to it* legality. H i said tbe Stat:i board of control muet go. The people will not put up with all the scandal that hud accom panied it. Flo was glad to see a dis position in tbe Senate to clean tbe thing out. Senator GraydOD moved to sti'lko out Senator Mayfield's substitute. The veto wan ns follows : Yeau?Alexander, Barnwell, Boweo, Brown, Connor, Dean, Graydon, Gruber, Bay, Hough, Udertoa, Manning, Mar shall, Sin j) tard, Suudath, Sullivan, Waller?17. Nays?-Aldricb, Appolt, Archer, Biakeney, W. A. Drown, Crossen, D innis, Douglass, Glenn, ilendereou, Livingston, Live. Mauldln, May field, McDerinott, Mower, Barratt, Stanland, Walker, Wallace. Williams? 21. So the Senate refused to table toe substitute. The question then o&mu up on Sena tor Bneppard's amendment to strike out Bectlon 2 He made beief romarks, aaying thut a vote for h.t, amendment aimpiy relieved Uio Governor aud other ollicers from tho duties of tlio board of control. Too vote wa? '0 to 8 In favor of knocking out tuo ?eellon. Tiioao vot ing in tho negative wero Aiu'rich, Archer, W.JA. Brown, Love, Mauhh?, May held, Wallace and Williams. Senator iHendorsou a amendment next came up for consideration, bbiia tor Connor otterou an amendment Co this providing that the directors unall be elected by the General Assembly, vacauclea to ha filled by tho Governor. Senator Sheppard, In view of the importance of the subject, wanted a postponement of tho matter unvil an other time, and tho discussion was ended for the tlmo being. THERE'S TOO MANY SMITHS A GOOD DEAL IH INA NAME. Bill Arp Toll? of Perplexity Growltiu Out of Sanaa Names?Mis Son Trav eled a Iiong Dlatanoo and Found lie Mad Another Man's I'clegraiu. Pleasure, surprise and bewilderment c imbiued gives a curious expression to a man'n features. One of our boys lb a d jctor in Jacksonville, v,,la. Tho other ^ay while visiting a pi> out he receiv ed a telephone message from his wife, " Come homo at onco ; a telegram from your bister llattie says your father la dying and to come at once." Imagine bis feollngs of distress. Hurrying home he found his wife in tears, hla valise packed and he hau only half an hour to make the train. All the long night he grieved and sighed, as he tried to sleep, but could not. Next morning at 10 o'clock ho reached Cartersvlllo and hurrying up to tho paternal mansion mot me and Sattle'* husband driving merrily to the postoffloo. Ho couldent speak. Ho couldout understand. Plea sure, surprise and bewilderment tilled hiB eyes nnd every feature of Mb faco. Ho had travelled 400 miles in haste ex pecting to Und me dead or dying, antl hero 1 was capering around as lively as u young colt in a tarley patch. He couldent stand nor understand, but sat down and said : " There lias been a mistake, but thank the Lord you are well. I never noticed where the tele gram came from nor to what Dr. Smith It. was addressed but supposed thai Sarah know and 1 came at onoo. Let mo go down to the office aud wlro her. Poor girl ! sho will bo bo anxious." In duo time he rccelvod an answer, "Mes sage not for you nor from Carters* Ule." Well, well I How much mental iHttre?? and tiresome travel would have been saved had ho carefully road tho tele gram. Ho was dreadfully mortified at his own blunder, but wo were all grati liod at his unexpected visit, and aa we happened to have turkey for dinner, all went happily and the day was a glad one.. The trouble Is in tho name. Doc lora should be named Galen or Hippo crates or Abornathy or Valentine. Molt or Westmoreland. Hut Smith i860 Com mon and besides tboro Is a eo orod son of Aesculapius in Jacksonville and nol long ago our boy received a telegram that was intended for the colored bro ther, and it said : " It's a boy and Ml* randy is doing wo.l." There ia a good deal In a namo. There was nearly forty dollars to my Hon in this instance, for if his name had boon Vanderbilt or Rockefeller or even Squeczolfantt r, the telegram would not havo miscarried. Tho Smiths, Jones, Browns and John eons ought to stop multiplying the name ami take a new start, hko they do in Mexico- When u couple mate iu Mexico the first thing they do before they marry is to agree upon a family name, 'ftho girl is humble and sub missive, sh j takes his name ; if sho is wealthy or aristocratic and he Is not, he takes her name. II they aro of equal raud*, they make up a new name ?a kind of mixture of both family names. For instance, Mr. Brown and M Jones would be wedded as Mr. and Mrs. Brojon. My wlfeaud I would have been Mr. and Mrs. Uutoharp, for she was a Hutobios. and then our Aescub appCOU boo would have been Dr. Uutoh arp or maybe Dr. Keoly, after his wife, and have saved that long ride and forty dollars. Hut all's well that ends well) and we are still calm and serene. Ooe of our little grandchildren! a three-your-old, tinnkt; it mighty smart and gr 'at fun to call me as I pass and say, " Hello, major! Hello, Bill Arp ! Hello, grandpa !" There is a good deal In a name. I like big strong named like Webster, Caiboan, Washington, Macon, Lamar, Mclutosh, Bayard, Buchanan, Gould* ing, etc., but it must be a serious con sideration for a pretty girl with a pret ty euphonious nam i to swap it oil for a disagreeable or peculiar one. I knew a Miss Gouldlng to marry a Mr. Tur nipsecd, and I always thought she must have loved him tuitrhtv hard. Chnrk.s Lamb tel.s a btory about an Bugibh girl wlio was courted by a wealthy gcntlomun who was good anJ handsome and hud every virtue, but his uatau was Bogt II ssh. Sho loved him, but she couldont hear 10 think of being called Mrs. BogtQesh uL.d she refused him fur three ycur.^ and would have kept on refusing, but he went bo fo:-o parliament and had his name changed to Bacon. Tnat is how the name Bacon originated, and I reckon our Senator came from that stock ? and it is good stock. So 1 havo oume pretty m:ar reading my epitaph again for there was a news paper man around when our doctor left Jacksonville and they are given to anticipating bad news?and if he heard I was dying, of course he could put. it in that I was dead next morning, im porters, are death on bad news. When the original Bill Arpdied in Texas it went all over the country that it was me and 1 had to retire from tho hold (or a time and wait until the people learned better?for wherever I w..nt J was a bUspcct and pronounced a fraud ; but I read my epitaphs and was satis fied. Mr. Ward, of Birmingham, in troduced me to un audlouced not long ago and said a lecturer or a writer of humorous sketches was of no consequence until he took anotiicr name?that Charles P. Brown was unknown until he took tho name of Artemus Ward ; that Henry Sh*w was nobody until ho wrote over the signature of Josh Billing.- ; that Sam uel Clemen.^ was never heard of until he became Mark Twain ; and so Fran cis B. Harte bi came Bret Harte und Dickens became Buz; and Melville Landen became. Eli Perkins ; and Al fred Townsend became Cath ; and Shlllubor was Mrs. Partingtou; and Goodrich vas Peter Parley : and Locke was Petrolouin V. Nssby ; and John Fro..tor was Fuck: and Maurice Thomp son was Doestioks; and George Barrls was Sut L ivcngood : and Ben Franklin was Poor Richard ; aud so forth and so on, and last of ah hero is our friend, I $ i 11 Arp, who ha:.1 to discard a good old honest name and assume one that was never hoard of In the heavens above nor tho earth benoatb, nor in the waters under too earth. Snakospoare ??ays iluit a ro-.o by any other name would smell as sweet, but these auth ors, whether wi^e or witty, are afraid to risk their thoughts without a now christening. Now, 1 was ruminating about what Christian Science would do with such a case us our son comim,' up h-.ire lUO miles with a belief that 1 was dead or dying?could tho telenco havo told him better. 1 am not disposed to make sport of the science as Mark Twain did, but 1 cannot understand how. we can manufacture faith to order, and sometimes it has to he manufactured so quickly that it must strain the ma chinery powerfully. 1 was mending a little table yesterday for our grand child and the nail slipped and the ham mer came down on my thumband made a blood blister before 1 had time to thi::k it dldent hurt me according to Christian Science, but was only im aginary. I toll you it did hurt bad and 1 don't believe tho science would have preventod it. Maybe blood blisters are excepted, they ought to be, and so ought stump ?<! toesr.ro burns and all other .'ery sud den things that don't give faith time u work. Bill Ahp. AN EXPERIMENT IN JOURNALISM Author of "In Ills Steps" Will Have Absolute Control el the Daily Capi tal for One Week and Will Run It on the ltuln ol " What Woulil Jesus Do?"?Nothing Will be Published Ezoept Matter Approved by the Preacher Editor. Rev. Cbatlee W. Sheldon, of Topoka. Kansas, tho author of "In His Steps," Is to be given an opportunity to publish a newspaper that shall realize his con ception of what a Christian daily ought to be. The Daily Capital has an nounced that on March 13th its presses, franchises and the entire editorial and business management of the paper sviii be transferred to Mr. Sheldon. For six days ho will be its absolute owner. Unhampered, he will direct its course, edit its news columns, control its ad vertising. In every way his authority is to bo supreme. Tlio Sheldon edition is to be a paper that will bo unique. Guarding Its col umns, as the llaming sword guarded Eden, will be tho question, "What Would Jesus Do?" That is tho chal lenge overy piece of news, every edi torial, evciy advertisement will h^ve to meet. Tho suggestion for this experiment took form In a question with which Mr. Sheldon startled the great Christian Endeavor convention in Detroit last J uly. Ho asko.1: "In this day, when philanthropy mu nificently endows our institutions of learning, is there hero a man who, re OOgOlzing tho potency of tho public press to make or mar civilization, will give ?l.OOO.?Ot) to establish a daily Christian newspaper?" That question went at onco from the Christian End avorors to the world. It provoked an unondlng amount of dis cussion, both friendly and critical. But in its travels tho query fallod to lind the mas with tho million dollars. Uoro, In Sheldon's homo town, Interest in tho discussion has boon unusually keen. At last an unfettered opportu nity to make tho experiment has eo me. * la u double-leaded editorial The Capital, announcing tho Sheldon edi tion. ?ays : "Wo can offer our readers no Inti mation as to tho actual contents of Ti e Capital under Mr. Sheldon's manage ment. Wo do not know. Its aim, however, is to bo as dotinlte and single tid a ray of light, [t la to be Cnrisilau from UHt"j lino to the foot, of tho lust page in every Issue. Not sc.-turluu or uonomlaatlonal, but Christian, its whole pel ley will be dictated by '.ho question, 'What Would Jesus Dor1 "Aa to the rC6tllt8 from the. object lesson which this Shoidon edition will atTord we would not venture a predic tion. They are ?uro to be many ; they may bo revolut ionary. A world that is readlug millions of copies of 'In Hid Situs' every year, and even now taking them by the thousand every day from scores of press s. may bo a world that is waiting (or a dally papir mod eled aft'.r that remarkable hook. If It is, the world will got .vhat tine world wants. "Tbc Capital weicotuoa ihe Sheldon Idea and the knight who, 'without (ear and without roi roach,' boars it to the list., of trial liefere t'io world. !a his search for the prull of a purer jour nalism may this sir Galahad of 1000 gain nib quest ! lltght heartily we wish Mm Godspeed." As to what Mi. Sheldon's Christian, dally will give t.) its readers ami what it will without from them no one id de* lioitely informed. Mr. Sheldon him self says; that he is busy working out the details of his journalistic plans, but that bo is not in a position to give spe oltic information as to what ..hey will he. He is in daily conference with tho entire roportorlal and telegraphic news stall o.* The Capital in order that it may be trained to bandle news as Mr. Snoldoo thinks it should bo hnud Icd. Sotuo light may possibly bo thrown on Ibis remarkable newspaper venture by tho experience of "Edward Nor man," as it is, narrated in a dramatic chapter of' in His Steps." The morn ing after "Nor.nan'' had taken a pledge in good faith to do everything after asking "Whut Would Jesus Do ?" be is represented as coming to bisohioe and beginning his work, when "Clark," the managing editor, Qrod this query at him : ''Here's th'ii ; ress report of yoslor nay's priz ?? Q^htat tue K ssort. It. will make three columns and a half, i sUp poso it all goes in ?" "Yes?no. Let mo see it." "Norman" took the typewritten mat ter just a> it came from the telegraph editor and ran over it carefully. Then be laid the sheets down on his desk and did some hard thinking. "We won't run this today," said he ?nally. "Hut?but that's unheard of." said the managing editor in astonishment. "All the other papers will print it. What will our subscribes Bay ?" "Norman'' did not speak for a min ute, then he said abruptly : " 'Clark, it Christ were editing a daily paper do you honestly think Ho would print three columns and a half of prize light In it ?' "Clark gasped In astonishment, l-'in ally he replied : " 'No, I don't 6Upp08Q be would.' " 'Well, that is ray only reason for shutting this account out Of Tho News. I have decided not to do a thing in con nection with thO paper lor u whole year that I honestly ij.. ICVO Jesus would not do." "Clark could not havo looked more amazed if the chief had suddenly gone crazy." In Sheldon's Christian Dally will tho priz; light, the horse race and every other sort, of snorting event be com pletely it.; nored ? What, too, will bo the policy of tho now manager with reference to tobac co, liquor and in fact to all hinds of ad vertising v Tbe questions that will bo aimed at the Christian Daily will as suredly be legion. What Its answer to them will be will not be divulged till it comes, from tho press. As if appreciative of some of the se rious business dlllioultioa to bo mot it seems to bo Mr. Sheldon s view that a Christian daily paper should bo an en dowed Institution. That was behind his question asking a million dollars i\t Detroit last summer. "13dward Norman," moreover, in "In His Steps'' tin ally gets his paper on the basis of a strong endowment, and the author says of it: "The News created a new force in journalism that In time was re cognized as one of the real (actors of the nation, moulding Its principles and actually shaping its policy, a daily Illustration of tho might Of a Christian press, and the ?rst o! scries of such papers begun and cui. icd on by other disciples who hud also taken the pledge." 1 his policy of endowment seems to eliminate the idea of such a paper be coming a paying venture. With re ference to this particular Sheldon ed ition that is now to actually take form, not in a book, but in real life, it is in teresting to note that if the receipts exceed tho expenses involved in the cxporiment, a large portion of thorn, in accordaree with Mr. Sheldon's view:; and wishes, will be devoted to Christ ian and pbilanthopio work. WHY DR. HATHAWAY CURES. a result of Reason** for His RUrvelous Su His New, Tree Hook. .jjiQ | Dr. Hathaway' "I i roatnionl is mi nt. It is the twenty years of experl Cnco in the most exten sive practlco of any specialist in his linn in the world. II?' was grad uated from ono of the host medical colleges in tho country und perfect ed his medical ami surgi cal education by oxton si\c hospital practice. K.trly In his professional carer ho made discov eries which placed dim at tho head ol his profes sion as a specialist in treating \\ hat ategenerally known as private diseases of men and women. This system of treatment ho has more and more perfected each year until today his cures are so Invariable as to he (hi: marvel of the medical profession. linjoylng U10 largosl practice of any specialist in the world ho still maintains a systoin of nomi nal fees which makes it possible for ail to obtain hi irviccs. Dr. Ilathawny treats and cures Loss of Vitality, Varlcocolo, strlcturo, Mood I'ol onlng In its dif ferent stages, lihciim.Ulsin, Weak Hack, Nerv ousness, all manner of Urinary Complaints, Ulcers, Sores and Skin Diseases, Itrlghls Diseaso and all forms ol Kidney l roubles. Ills treatment for lindortoncd men restores lost vitality and makes the pat lent a strong, weil, \ Igorous m in. Dr. Hnthaway's success in the treatment .<f Varlcocolo and Stricture wit liout tho old of knifo or cautery Is phenomenal. Tho patient Is treated hy this method at his own homo without pain or loss of time from \nv Iness. This Is positively tho only treatment which eures w it In nil an operation. Dr. Hathaway calls th<> particular attention of sufferers from Varlcocolo and Stricture to pages ?k, ati, no and :n of his now hook, entitled, ".Manliness, Vigor, Health," a copy of Which will bo sent free on application. Write today for free look and .symptom blank, mentioning your complaint. J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D. Dr. Hathaway A: Co., aSHHoiitii llrontl sir. et, Atlanta, a*. HSNTION XIIIS l'APJtli W1IBN WitiTlNO.