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Style is No Ruled I You can pay the highest clothes, yet it does not get the style you ought highest priced kiijd? are t ing, most ungraceful clc wearer look as if lie hac to make them fit. Th clothes. Our strong poii moderate price. v fry. ; s Suits and Overcoats L $25.00 You can see minute you try them c from, too?another g Clo \ e ^^H^^^^uemberr II 111 nator C. iiy. Sen- i pi Lv Kohl, florn to I H ft Spain, iu>aril tl K Hi! ! 'I rtr.it jjiy L ) ^VixIR tin Pr< ^ >111- nni h-k, the til,.. lM,l >si as >ur cd. MZi i iy' i Kh- * H tie1 foro K V ' >?- * I W i iij M 11 on 1)A^^| 1 hi^H prev^^B .'' yout^B pinion (i^B - thrro '*'H < reason t ay Prices. kind of prices for your always follow that you to get. Oftentimes the he stiifest, most unyield tlies made ?making the 1 to stand a certain way at can't be said of our ut is lots of style at a between $6.50 and > the style in them m. Plenty to choose ood point. thine Co. W ? ? ? ? ? w ? ... a imru i jrlit of days and days c?nr opponents ] nally yielded t # our claims ami sign- J .1 the treaty, which I have no doubt ' ill he rati lied by congress. Treaty Il *llla l'rf??i?l?*iit* The coininissioti arrived in Wash- j igton Saturday night and immediate' delivered the treaty to President ! [c Kin ley. l??y III Canton. Judge Day and Mrs. Day left Wash- t igtou Saturday night and reached 1 leir Canton home in time to take j liristmas dinner with the family, j hey arrived at 10:ir> o'clock Sunday timing over the Pennsylvania road. ' Judge Day, when asked as to his ! ans for the future, said he expects to i main in Canton and resume thcprec- j re of law in the tirm of which he was i n einher before entering the enhinet 1 President MeKinlev. The work of | ie commission ended when the treaty as deliveretl to the president, and he j >es not expect to visit Washington ! pun in connection with any duties of 1 mt commission. While he talked freely on many j alters connected with his miu T.. i ' ^i'iih'compensation for ' commissioners, or of any sum ap- ! ! >aehing that ainount, was ridiculous j ' 1 preposterous Ti ?- i - ' - - f.i?-suient tlxes j compensation of the commission- i ,und none of them, it is safe to say, 1 epted the duties as a speeulation. jj A ( III1ISTMAS ItlOT. u ci C< !*?*< Iliiltlt* ttetween White* and ([ Itlm-k* In Dallas, Tex. t! speeial from Dallas, Texas, says: rowd of several thousand whites fc c Macks, gathered by the burning a t saloon building, became involved jh race riot Christinas eve, and be- |d the battle was ended two persons ,jr been killed, tive were seriously an nded and a dozen others slightlv H" .. i * 80 red. ,n. i addition one man fell lead on till sidewalk during the tire and a an was fatally injured in jumping "J.'. a window of the burning build- ,u,' UD( a i home industry. Sub- lioi sribe for your home paper, and ,,0< ail upon your neighbor-to follow JJ'1* ' lead. ten '81 BltOOKK IS AT IIA V I \ A. J1,1* ?tro ill Will Al Once %*?iiim> |'o?t of >111- }'lo> linr> (iiivtTiinr nam rotary Alger Tuesday afternoon ed a eublegrain from General w,,?| e aniiouneing his arrival at Ma- lost where he will assume the post of |'k" y governor of Cuba. preparations making by the in a an military eommandcrs in Cu t" prevent dinorder in the trying 'j1, noident to the change of sever- | , are believed by Secretary Alger coin > ample that there is now little " for apprehenaion. DR. TALMAGE. THE GREAT DIVINE'S SUN DAT DISCOURSE. Subject: "Architect* of F?te"?Voung; Men Are the Moltler* of Their Own Dealing, nntl They Are Admonished to Build on the Bight Foundation. ? .1 v ! Text: "Hun, sneak to this yougjf man. * ?Zechnriah II., 4. There was no snow on the beanl of th? propnet 01 tnv text mm no crow* leet nan left their mark near bis eye*. Zeeharlah was a young mau, and in a day dream he ?nw and heard two angels talking about the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. One of these angels desires that youug Zechariah should be well informed about the rebuilding of that city, its circumference and the height of its walls, and ho says to the other angel, "Ituu, speak to this young mau." Do not walk, but run. for the message is urgent and imminent. So every young man needs to have Immediate advice about the dimensions, the height and the olrcnrafereooe of that which, tinder Ood. He is to build?nainelv. His own character and destiny. No slow or laggard pace will do. A. little furthor on, and j counsel will be of no advantage. Swift footed must lie the practical and important suggestions, or they might as well never be made at all. Run nt the pace of live miles the hour, and speak to that young man. Run, before this year of 189H is endod. Run, beforethls century Is closed. Run. before Ills eharaotor la inexorably decided for two worlds, this world and the next. How many of us have found out by long and hitter experienco things that wt ought to have been told before we were I twenty-five years of age. Now I propose I to tell you some things which, if you will J seriously and prayerfully observe, will make you master of the situatlou in which I you are pow placed an?i master or every .situation lu witich you ever will be placed. Ami in ofrder that mv subject may be climacterli/, begin on the outside edge of that advice, which will ho more au<l tr^ro important as the subject unfolds. Now, if you would bo master of the situation, do not expend money before you Ret It. How many yonnR men irretrievably mortgage their future because of resources that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the money either In your hnnd, or in a safety deposit, or in a bank, or in a United Stntes bond before you make purchases, or go into expensive enterprises, or hitch a spanking team to a glittering turnout, or contract for the building of a mansion on the Potomac or the Hudson. Do not depend cn an inheritance from your father or uncle. The old man nmy live on a good deal longer than vou expect, and the day of your enforced oayment may come before the dav of his decease. You cannot depend upon rheumatism or heart failure or senility to do it? work. Longevity is so wonderfully improved that you cannot depend upon people dying when vou think they ought to. They live to bo septuagenarians, or octogenarians, or nonagenarians, or even centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs i go into bankruptcy, or, tempted to j forgery, or misappropriation of trust | funds, or watering of railroad or mining ! stoek. go into the penitentiary. Neither I had you better spread yourself out because i of the llfteea or twenty per cent, you ex' pcet from an investment. Most of the f 1 f, teen or twentv per eent. investments are apt to pay nothing save the privilege of be! ing assessed to meet the obligations of the I company in the utTifirs of whtoN you get involved, better get per co.U. from a government l)ou?l tinui promi*o<i into^u . per cent. rrom a dividend which fill never j he declare.1, or paid onlv once x- twice, so ' fiaym!)ht of dividends 'a Tetter,' front tie* j president and secretary of the company saving that they are vorv sorry. Do not say yon have no chance, hut remember I-aac Newton, the greatest astronomer of his day, once peddling cabbages in the street, and Martin Luther singing on the public square for any pennies that he might pick up. and John Runynn mending kettles, and the lute i Judge Dradiey, of the United, States] Supreme Court, who was the son of a charcoal burner, and Turner, the painter, who was the son of a bar >er, and Lord Olive, who saved India to England, shipped ' by ills father to Madras as a useless boy whom ho wanted to get rid of. and Prideaux, the world renowned scholar and theologian, scouring pots and pans to work his way through college, and the mother of the late William K. Dodge, the philanthropist ami mngnlflceut man, keeping a j thread and needle store, and Peter j Cooper, who worked on small wages in a i glue factory, living to give .f.">00,000 for the i founding of an institute tliat has already j educated thousands of the poor sons and daughters of America, and ttow.Utch, the I scientist, beginning his useful learning and I affluent career by reading the hooks that j had been driven ashore from a shipwreck I at Ha I em. There is, young man, u great j financial or literary or moral or religious j success awaiting you If you only know how j to go up anil take it. Then take it or get | ready to take it. The mightier tie oppo- i sition tho grander the triumph wltWrirtPa f have conquered. Vord or Again, if you would mastar.ttafctio Uymn .jju.iq.--?-?...ranged |n nilnor k-?v r ZK''vl,1? staccato passages 1 If very angry, sing two verses. Ir in a nosi' ! v?'rage, slug three verses. First of an" 1 nad " 11 " 1 hiest thing on earth il to get* 1 . , 11 Jtngles the nerves enlarges m?.. 1 ng"6'Vauv"?man" ''T' "ltU 11 Wlld * - , ...? ?KUH- I t on dropped dead. N'ot only that, but it i t oakes enemies out of friends, and makes! u nemies more virulent, uiul anger Is partial r consummate suicide, (ireat uttorneys, x nder-tandi ng this, have often won their ,{ nu.se by willfully throwing the opposing ounsel into a rage. There is one man you , ' iust muniiKi' or one womun you must eon- je ol in order to please God and muke life a ., iceess, and that is yourself. The hardest realm that you will ever |n iivo to govern is the realm between your .1. alp and heel. The most dangerous cargo fr, ship can carry is dynamite, and the most ,, irilous thing in one's nature is au ex- , osive temper. If Jiour nature is hopeisly irascible and tempestuous, ' then amatizo placidity. If the snip Is oti lire I (' d you cannot extinguish tlie flames, at W( y rate keep down the hntehes. When at f . me injustice indicted upon you or some ult offered or some wrong done, the best . 1.. Ing for you to say is to say nothing, and ! j . 1 best thing for you to write is to write .. , thinu. If the meanness done vou Is uutrable or you mu-t express y< ursolf or * 1, then 1 commend a plan ttiat I have < .. :e or tw.ee successfully adopted. Take . sheet of paper. I?at? it at your n? or office. Then put the wrong- er r's name at the head of t ln? letter h {e, without imc . i i.. vaw ...... C?i (adolicl sulllx of "I) I'.," nii'l hog: , witli no (..1 of courtesy, Ont it 0 >|11 and abrupt . V* r." Thou follow it with a .statement of t|.at wrong ho ha* done you an<l of trio innit ion you have felt. I'ut into It the . ngost terms of execration you can ein- ' ' without being profane. Sign your io to tho roil hot epistle. Fold tt. Kn- ' ' , l> it. Direct it plainly to the man wiio ;'no\ dona you wrong. Carry the letter a t, or two weeka If neetl bo, and then .***. roy it. In lioil'n iiatne destroy it. I !,j ( what Ahralni'ii l.inoo n said to one of ' ' a'>ini t oHiThat cabinet nlfl^or been belied and misrepresented until J ^ fnrv ho wrote a letter of arraignment ( a enemy, and in ter*?\st possible |>hr?..?e- ' ,, v told him wiiaf tie thought of him. ' ahiiiot "ill r read It '.?> Mr. Idocoln fr *' >soil litiii ti w lie liko.l it. Mr. I.in- )1''i", ropliid: It i- kplon II I for sarcasm ! 'l(i 'corn. I never heard nn\thing more complete In that direction. Bat do yon think vou can afford to send it?" That aim and wise and Christian Interrogation of the president stopped the letter, and it was never sent. Young man, before yon get for on in life unless you are an exception among men, you will be wronged, you will be misinterpreted, you will he outraged. All your -ense of justice will be In conflagration. Let me know bow you meet that first great offense, and I will tell you whether your life is to be a triumph or A fajl.ure. You see. equipoise at suoh a yfoa/?,.die*us so many things. It means irqjtt obiitaol. It means a capacity to foresee results.. It means a confidence in your own integrity. It means Is faith in the Lord Ood that He will see you through. Again, if vou would be roaster of the sitntlon put the best interpretation on the character and behavior of others. Do not bo looking for hypocrites In churches, or thieving among domestic servants, or swindlers among business men, or malfeasance in office. There Is much In lifo to make men suspicious of others, and when that characteristic of suspicion becomes dominant a man hns secured his own un- , happiness, and he has become an offence in all circles, religious, commercial and political. The man who moves for a committee of Investigation is genorally a moral derelict. The man who goes with his nostrils inflated trying to discover something malodorus is not a man, but a sleuthhound! The world is full of more people, generous people, people who are doing their best?good husbands, good wives, good fathers, good mothers, good offi 1-^13 ?JI IUD ion, *uuu m'U'i ?<?>ernors, good State an<l nationat legislators, good rulers. Does some man growl out. "That has not been my experience, an<l T think just the opposite." Well, my brother, I am sorr\' for your afflictive circumstances, ami that you had an unfortunate ancestry, and that you have kept such bad company and had such discouraging environment. I notice tliataftera man has been making n violent tirade against his fellow men he is on his way down, and if he live long enough he will he nsklng you for a quarter of a dollar to get a drink or a night's lodging. Behave vour?elf well, oh, young man. and von will find life a pleasaut thing to live and the world full of friends and God's benediction everywhere about you. Again, if you would be master of the situation, expeot nothing from good luck, or haphazard, or gaming adventures. In this time, when it is estimated that gambling exchanges money to the amount of fSO,(100,900 a day. this remark may he useful. There come times in inunv a man's life when he hopes to get something for which lie does not give an equivalent, and there are flftv kinds of gatnlding. Stand aloof from all of them. Understand that the gambling spirit is a disease, and the more successful you are the more certain vou nre to go right onto your own ruin. Having made his thousands, why does not the gatnbler stop and make a safe investment of what he lias gained and spend the rest of his life In quiet or less hazardous style of occupation? The reason is he cannot stop. Nothing but death ever cures a confirmed gambler. Dr. Keeley's gold cure rescue* the drunkard, and there are nntitobacco preparations that will arrest the victim of nicotine, ami religion can save anyone except a gainblor. The fact is he is irresponsible. Having got the habit in him he i? no more responsible for keeping on tban a man falling from the roof of a four-story house can stop at the window of the second story. Here and there you may llnd an instance where a gambler has been ro- j ported or reports himself as being con- ^ verted, but in that case t he man was not fully under the heel of the passion. The [ real gninhler is a through passenger to i death and perdition. The only use in ro- j ferriug to him is in the wav of proven- I 'yui. |H<< began by taking chances ?>u a ' pennies for hi* last valuable in a pawn- ! broker's slion. The only man who gam- | bles successfully is the man who loses ' so fearfully at the start that is" is dia- ' gusted and cpiits. Let him win at the | start and win again, and it means farewell to home ami heaven. Most merciless of all habits! Horace Wnlpole says that a man dropped clown at the door of a clubhouse in London an 1 was carried in, and the gamblers began to bet whether he was dead or not, and when it was proposed to bleed him for his reeovery Hie gamblers objected that it would n?Teet the fairness of the bet. What noble mon they must have been! lint more and more ladies are becoming gamblers. They bet at the races and have prizes in social groups which are nothing i but the stakes of gambling. A good way for a lady to get into the gamester's habit is by beginning with "progressive euchre." That opens the door in a fashionable way. In one of our great cities invitations were sent out for such a meeting at the card tables. Tho guests entered and sat down and began. After awhile thec.vcitemcnt ran high, and the lady who was the hostess fainted nn>l fell under tho table. The guests arose, but some one said: "Don't touch tho bell! Let us finish the game. She would ii tvo done -o herself and would wish us if she spoke." The game went on [ for thirty minutes longer, and then a physician was called. After examination of tho to *thein~1 ''To,i?lrri 'md-teign ?<? , or h? 'friSiff i?; : lite ??L- HIHl sw"hrs and is disso- 1 treat or ^snon i"rm to w,?lk tho i it h<?r at vonr ? van log with vou, . hat Sir lir.mil m... t.. . t " |>? rend > the chaLknv^- ?ut ii <? n>n <>a his n risf, as they >1 i<l in ilnvs of falconry, hen with huwks or falcons they wont " >rth to bring down partridges or grouso si pigeons, uud being very thirsty came to stream struggling from a rock, and, r>?- . using tho falcon from iiis wrist, ho took e bugle which he carried, and, s'opping In o inouthpiooo of his buglo with a tuft of re oss, lie put tills externpuri/. i l <*up uudor (i( e water which came down drop bv drop >m file rock until the cup was full, and in imi lifted it to drink, when tho falcon ho d released with sudden swoop dashed > cup from his hand, By the same jcwss he lliled tho cup again and was y>ft j?it to drink whoa the falcon by another tin oop dashed down tho cup. Enraged at s insolence and violence of the liird, ho iul, "X will wring thv neck If thou doest tannin." But, having (llled the cup a cr rd time and trying todrink a third time, sj1( falcon dashed it down. Then Sir Brusii ' it a is list struck the bird, which Hut- s*n d uud looked lovingly and reproach- the y at him and dropped dead. T.ieu Sir ryt sil, looking up to the top of tue rock : ince dripped the water, saw a great . c n serpeut coiled font ? - ,.wio IOIU, the sllfl >111 from his mouth dropping into that his 11 wliioli Sir JJra?ll hud ti I tori his cup. . n exclaimed thu knight, "SVlutt a kind g it whs for thu falcon to dash down '>'ir poisoned cup, and what it sad tiling rate I killed him, and what a narrow Wns pa I had!" So now there are no more tlnly waters that refresh than waters me poison. This moment th'To are t'.iou- I n? Is of young rner, unwittingly and not ami viiitc wliut they do, taking into their e cup of eartliiy joy that which is n ly because it drips from the jaws niii'i lat Old serpent, tile d"Yil, and the illlf of God's spirit in kindly warning i,n71( i'S down the cup, lint again It Is lllleii again daslie.l down and again tilled J<>'' 1 igmii daslied down. Why not turn I'l and sinke \ air third at the "dear, thin it. perennial I untain I int breaks llio flock >> Ajfcs, a ton Itain so wide so ii? p tliat ail the inliatdtaiits of let' and all tii ar:n|e> o. Sieaveu "my l-'itc, down and till their chalices? I j((j Bill K WEEKLY LETTER. PAT MADE HAPPY BY A RELEASE FROM THE CHAlXGANil. WAS WILLIAM'S-CHRISTMAS GIFT. Bartow Mnn Worked Diligently In Behalf of the Unfortunate and Wi? Sucreanful. Put Bank* is just n common man? typical of a laige class that form tlio laboring yeomanry of this mountain country. He is a combination man? half horse and half alligator?half Irish ami half Anglo-Saxon?and works when he is obliged to, and frolics when he can. Pat does not drink nor gamble, but is very social in his nature, and dearly loves to staud around and talk with the boys. He is an unskilled laborer, and jobs it arouud, but does not like solitary confinement, and hence does not like to pick cotton for a living, but works well in a brick yard or at anything where he can talk to the boys. The Irish predominates in his nature, for he is quick to resent and enjoys a fight when he thinks he is imposed on. Last June Pat had been working faithfully for John Hilburn in a brick yard, and made a good hand, but one Saturday there was to be a baseball game in the suburbs of our town, and Pot told Hilburn he wasent feeling very well, and would like to take n (lay off". Hilburn wasent crowded with work, and as he liked Pat, he gave him the day and Pat went to see lie jubilee. He wasent one of the nine, but it seems that there was a missing man, and Pat was invited to take his place. A strange man by the name of Weaver, from Atlnnta, was the pitcher, and while Pat was at the bat Weaver pitched a foul and Pat complained of it, and they had words and used language very disrespectful, and finally got together. Pat him a murderous blow with the bat and knocked him to his knees, and Weaver was tnken from the field "liors dn combat," or words to that effect. Now, it appears that Weaver, who was a bull-dosing youth from the prent city, had some kinfolks arouml here who felt aggrieved, and they had Pal arrested and hound over to court for assault and battery. But Weaver wasn't as much hurt as he thought lie was, and was up and about the next day. At the July term of our court Pat was arraigned and tried and found guilty. The witnesses were stocked oti Pat and his lawyer didn't know it. Even the judge was surprised, and 1.'* p??**J? and do his lighting on the Spaniards. Pat didn't have much time to reflect, and accepted the condition. The recruiting ollicer took him down to < irillin and Pat was duly enrolled. A iew iiays after he got there a train came along with sick anil wounded soldiers from Culm. Tliev were an uwful hard lot, and as l'at looked at them lie became horrified, and that night he departed those coasts and walked all the way hack to Cartersville?over a hundred miles. Ho said lie was willing to fight anybody who imposed on him, but he had notliin' agin the Spaniards and didn't think that country was healthy. And so Weaver's friends got the sheriff after him again and brought him up before his honor and he was sentenced to the ehningang for twelve months?not so mneh for the tight, hut because of his desertion from the armv. Poor Put had no friends and was forced to acquiesce in the hardships of the law. For five months lie worked in the county ehaiiigaiigjuijJ o^U. gjrhg: But there is a pitiful sequel to this story. Pat has a wife and three children? wo boys,.aged five and seven, and an iifant child at its mother's breast. He in* on nged father who was a soldier 11 the regulnr army before the civil vnr, and a mother who io bed-ridden ind bns not walked a step in woven ears. All these co: stitute Pat's faniIv. and it is hard work to keep the olf from the door, and since Pat's liprisonment they have suffered iffered from hunger and cold. Tin v ave shelter in John Hilhurn's little insc. but John is poor himself and is, they say. twelve or thirteen ehildn nearly all of a six. , ami all lie ran > for Pat's family is to let them stay his house and pay no rent. The o little hoys can't pick more than venty-five pounds of cotton, and that ys about :?0 cents a day. This is e only income of the family. How ' that for novertv. ?>v ?' ' j > ?< nrfii; Well, now that poor wife ami mothis a l>rave little woman, ami when u came to our house ami tohl her >ry to my wife ami daughters, ami water glistening in her great big s, and she asked for work ami said i was ashamed to beg, and when i talked about I'at and said he ha I failing, but was always good to and the children and helped to se his good old mother, the tears le in my wife's eyes, and after she gone our little grandchild asked if I couldn't do something for T'nt. to >ver said anything, but T sat Mill Oi looked into our comfortable lire bo ruminated My folks bad already wii !o up a bundle of food and cloth- '"u and placing a half-dollar in her he 1 told her to cheer up and the n.a- ,lSl vould see what ho could do. bu liut mt'/dil me, and as my wife * ks that I can do anything she hifj Is me to do, I went down town af- tini dinner to sec the judge .Judge tak , a just and humane man. When ft'n d him the little story, he said: not "Well, major, do you draw up a petition for Pat'a pardou and I will sign it. He has been punished enough. Get liim out and make a Christmas gift of him to his wife and ehildren. I fear it will not be a very good one, but if they want him, they should have him. Pat'a offense did not involve nmlice aforethought or moral turpitude, and there are worse men at liberty. Yes, I will cheerfully sign a petition for his pardon." And so I drew it up nnd he signed it and Colonel Maddox, the solicitor, signed it, and so did the clerk aud the sheriff and I took the train next morn j ing and went down and interviewed j the governor and his heart was touched and he said: "Tuke this to the hoard of pardons and if you talk to them like you have to me they will grant this pardon at once and theu bring it to me and I will sign it and yon can take Pat home with yon and make your Christmas gift." But, alas! The hoard did not meet that day. Only General Evans was there and there was some roil tape in the way and I did not get Pat out and have got to go hack again and my wife is disappointed. Nevertheless, I will get him unfettered and unstriped before this is read by your readers and will mnke poverty smile once more. See if T don't. The tear-eyed wife and the children shall he happy at Christmas,even tho* Pat isent much account, as the uahors say. His wife never mnde a complaint against, him, hut apologized for him and said:."Pat is mighty good to help around with his mother and children." One rainy night I saw Bill Arp's wife in Rome, uve nines irom Her hqme, hunting around for lier husband and as she went from one saloon to another she inquired in a timid humble voice: "la my William in here?" When she found 1 him sho led him home and bathed his ' face and put him to bed. She said to 1 me once: "My William is a mighty 1 good little man, but you know he has 1 liis failings." Oh! them blessed, fuith1 ful, patient, long-suffering women. ' What would men do without them,and 1 what would become of the children? Pat's wife said that the.two little 1 boys made enough picking cotton to keep them in br.ead and wood, but the weather had beeu awful hard on them 1 and their secoud-hand clothes were all to pieces from the briers anil eockle1 burs and she had patched them and patched them till there was nothing left to patch. She is a comely woman and her face was clean and her hair brushed and her common clothes were put on in a woman-like manner. John ' Ililhurn says: "Major, she is a good woman ami is always at work at soinothing and never complains. She never ' had to beg before, and she wouldn't do ' it now if she could get work. And Pat will work, too, when he can get it, but ' none of us can got it regular these hard ' M hile I was ruminating I couldent help thinking about the difference between that woman's home and ours so far as concerns the comforts of life. A\ hat a difference between licr children and those of our married daughters and those ot our nahors who arc already feasting upon Christinas and wear good, warm clothes and sleep iu good beds and are lutppy all the day. My own happy childhood is a blessed memory to me and it grieves me to hear of little innocent children suffering for the necessaries and comforts of lite. T thought of Tom Hood's pleadings for the poor? "A leaky roof, a naked lloor, A table a broken eltnir: A wall so blank, mv shadow I thank, For sometimes falling there. "And these are Adam's heirs. Though doomed by diaii of birth To dress so mean and eat the lean Instead of the fat of the earth. "To iret Stleh hotel.I.. As holiest labor cam ? ?h!u crust by the grace of Ood Ami little thanks to man. "Oh! mou witli sisters <h nr: Oh! men with mothers and wivos. Look in at the iloor of tho sulTcring |?oor, Anil brighten up their lives," TjATK.h?A* telegram from Atlanta says that "Pat has been pardoned and will lie homo to spend Christmas with his family." Tt is possible for poor loU-s f,) |)(> li.sppy sometimes.?Bii.r. Am? in Astontn Coustitntion. SI'OT COTTON MAithKT. Official closing quotations for spot cotton Tuesday: Atlanta? Steady; middling, 5; 5 7-10c. Liverpool?Steady: middling,33-!12d. New York?Stead; middling 0 7-8. New Orleans?Quiet; middling i) U-K5c. Savannah?Quiet and easy; middling "? 1-1 tie. (ial voston?Holiday. Norfolk?Dull; middling, fije. Mobile?Dull; middling, 5 !l-16c. Memphis?Dull; middling, figc. Augusta?Steady; middling, f? Je. Charleston?Dull and nominal. Houston?Dull; middling, f? :i-8c. St.IiOitis?Quiet; middling,~> :t-8e. HOOKS NOT DESTROYED. ttorno.v for StamtHril Oil Co. Say* no KmorilH Have Keen Itiirncil m Heporteil. A Chiengo dispatch says: According Attorney Tolles, ot the Standard il legal department, none of the siks of the company which aro mted for examination under Ohio preme court's reeont order have en destroyed. lie says that only idess records or hooks have been j rued. twing to the non-appearance of ;h Standard Oil officials, whoso tesio?y is wanted, no dopositioua wero en before Notary Mason Monday, 1 it is probable that the hearing will. I?? ' * ~ lor several .lay*.