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Vvileon "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM'sT AT, BE THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S.' CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. I.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MAY 7, 1S91 VOLUME XXI NUMBER 16 Tho Advance BID YOU EVER But of course you never be fore bought Kerr's Thread at such'a price as this : 10 rHREE SIKH ILS FHREE SfiOOI.S THREE SPOOLS nUR STOCK OF CHIL J clnen's Lace Caps is one of which we afe justly proud. All say they are lovely, and. My! So CHEAP! Come and see them soon. T ADIES' RIBBED VESTS E at 10 els. The best ever sold in Wilson for the money. They are going by the box rap idly. You save money by com ing to us for your Summer Un derwear, try it and see. I HU E GOODS. We car- ry I suppose, much the stock in the town, and larest am sure it will repay.. you to see .wnat we nave. Our JLmbroid ered Robes for $ i .90, sold, I am told, elsewhere for $3.00, takes the cake. Straw T.T i rtC traw. Stiff HJ Stiff. Soft llill -W Soft. Now open and the largest stock of SHOES we ever had. Cash Catches The Bargains. THE STORE, NASH ST., WILSON, X. C. NORTH CAROLINA Wilson County. Thomas Westkav and W. M. Warren vs. Green B.Brantley. Su-'r Court. Notice of Sum mons and War rant of Attach ment. The defendant. Green 15. Brantfy, above named will fake notice that a summons in the above entitled action was issued against said defendant on the 6th day of December. 1S90, by the cierK 01 said superior (tourt, trie action being for the non-payment of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven Dol lars and Sixty Cents; amount paid by plaintiffs to T. J. Hadley upon one note executed to him by said Green B. Brant lay, as principal, and Thomas Westray and W. M. Warren as sureties, which said summons is returnable to the Su perior Court of Wilson county at June term 1891. The .defendant willialso take notice that a warrant of attachment was issued by said Superior Court on the 6th day of December 1S90, against the property of said defendant, which warrant is re turnable to said Superior Court at time above named for return of said sum mons, when and where the defendant is required to appear, and answer or demur to the complaint, or the relief demanded will be granted. This the 7th day of April, 1S91. A. B. deans; C. S. C. F. A. & S. A. Woodard, Att'ys for Plaintiffs. 4-9-6L MILLINERY. Our Buyer -has returned from a trip through the Northern Markets and, as usual, has purchas a full and select line of Mill inery Good s. OF THE LATEST STYLES AND DESIGNS, Which are now arriving. We know that our trade demands the best that can be procured, yet we are confi dent we can please you. The ser vices of Miss Marie O'Neal, an experienced Milliner, of Bal timore, have been secured in addition to our pres ent corps of assistants. E3FYou are respectfully invited to call and examine our stock. Mrs. O. E. Williams & Co., Cor. Nash andTarboro Sts., WILSON, N. C. ets. CASH RACKET HILL ARP'S LETTER. oook 'SHOULD BE UNIFORM IN A IX STATE SCHOOLS. And Southern Authors ami Publishers Given Preference The Ilijih 1'rice of School Iof!vs. Now come let us reason together so many letters come to me ol late about school books that I have been pondering the subject more than ever. If I can use my pen to excite a pub lic interest in the matter, and pro voke our thinkers, both men and women, to a calm and earnest con sideration of what is- best, I shall be happy. The questions that concern us as Georgians and southerners are, what books shall bur children study, and what shall they cost us. Of course, they should not.be sec tarian nor sectional, but they should certainly be in sympathy with our Christian civilization, and they should be as liberal towards South ern sentiment and Southern patriot ism as towards that of our Northern brethren. No historical book should be read in our families or studied in our schools that gives us the cold charity of its silence upon these questions. We demand more than that of ah author or a publisher of Americau history. The South must be recognized as the equal of the North in morals and patriotism, and our great leaders in the late civil war i should stand side by side with theirs. Not long ago there was a canvasser here trying to introduce a history that had grouped the laces of the Northern generals on several pages, and had hut two of ours. A stand ard American' biography has lull steel plate engravings of a score or more of their notable commanders, but gives Stonewall Jackson and the two Johnstons small wood -cuts about the size1 of a 10-cent photo graph. Perhaps their friends couldn't pay for any more room or embellish ment. I say perhaps advisedlv, be cause a lew months ago I received quite a flattering letter from some New York publishers, enclosing me a prospectus and sample pages of a great work on American biography that they were.1 preparing, and that would embrace; over 20,000 notable men and women, one of whom they said I was which, and they desired me to send them at once my nativity and pedigree and alma mater and civil and military career in general, and some scraps from my pen, and say whom I married, and how many children and sd forth, and they paid some fine compliments, and said I certainly deserved a place in their forthcoming volumes. It swelled me up smartly, and I strutted around the house, and told my wife I was getting famous, and she looked at me and said: 'Well, that is a little better than to be infamous." Nevertheless, I wrote up some thing just like it has some other fel low writing it, and sent it on, and in a few days I received a letter thank ing me for my promptness, and sug gesting that a man of my eminence in the literary, world ought by all means to have my picture in the book that it was due to my family and friends that my likeness should go down to posterity with my charm ing biographical sketch, and that.the likeness of 6,000 notable men and women would appear in the ten vol umes, and that it would take a very great outlay to prepare them, and if I would send on my photograph and a check for $60 Well, I dident read any more. I ieit awfully ashamed lor strutting around, but as I never told Mrs. Arp about sending on my autobiographv. 1 said nothing. jabout the photo nor the $60. Good gracious. Sixty thousand laces at $60 a face, and they count on every one buying a set of the books at So each, and thisntakes $540,000 to start on, and all of it a speculation uoon human vanity. But about the school books. How is that no two public schools in the state use the same books. It seems to me that a text book for our schools ought to be like a text book in law or medicine. There should be accepted standards and their use should be uniform throughout the state. Certainly there should be more uniformity than there is now Our people moved to and fro and our schools change their teachers and the whole business ' of teaching and learning gets into confusion and adds to the expense. The great publishing house of Appleton and Lfppincott and Ivison Blakeman & Co., send out their canvassers, and they are nice men and good talkers, and they .have pretty generally ousted our southern authors and paralyzed their ambition, and every now and then a book slips in that ought not to be in. Now, it occurs to me that our state school commissioner, Professor Brad well ought to call a convention of our best teachers--the solid men like Slaton and Lynes and Neely and Hunter and Bizien and Brainard and Robeson and Graham and others and instruct them to choose a series of books for our schools. The teach ers are. the best judges. What do we old fogies know about modern school books. We have here in Car tersville a school board of sixteen members, and not one of us is as ca pable as Professor Robeson to select a text book. When this convention meets let it be" understood that our Southern authprs are to be especially Tonic acts directly on these vital or lavored. Let us open wide the door ' gans. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils to encourage our best talent to com- and gives a good complexion. Sold 101 luoc iionors. now many of our schools are now using Holme's series of Southern text books, or Maury's geographies, or Venable's mathematics, or Gildersleeve or Bingham's Latin and Greek, or San ford's or Ficklin's arithmetic, or Der ry or Miss Field's histories, or Miss Bowen's astronomy, or Leconti's ge ology? All of these books are by Southern authors, and are good. Miss Rutherford, of the Lucy Cobb, has had recently issued from the Constitution press in Atlanta a most admirable book on English authors, a book that I have carefully exam ined and enjoyed, and it ought to be in every Southern school. And yet there are people among us who aftect everything that comes from the North, and neglect everything, that is made or done at home. Let us be gin to furnish our own authors and publishers, and give them the prefer ence always. I received the other (fay a little book called "Factor and Product," by Mr. Ingalls, ofThomas ville, which is the best starter for stu dents in arithmetic I have ever seen. It lays the foundation of the science of figures in such a simple way that building up the superstructure will come easy to -those who are not quick in comprehension. But now about the cost of these books. I paid today $1.35 for a book on English literature published in New York, that ought to be sold for 75 cents. Iam sure that it can be published for 50 cents, but I would have rather paid $1.50 for Miss Rutherford's. I do not know the price of hers, as it has not yet been presented or adopted in our schools, but I do not think it will exceed $1. The trouble is that our publishers have no eruarrantv of sale or adop- guarranty tion, and nave to taKe tneir cnances. If the convention of teachers should say to the Constitution Tublishing Company, "We have critically ex amined Miss Rutherford's book, and are pleased with it. If we de termine to adopt it, or recommend it, what will you charge for another edition?" then the publishers would have something equal to a guaranty, and would make the price a little above cost. Cheap books are what we want. The cost of our school books is awful, and the profits all go North. Here are 1 100,000 children and youths going to school, or to college in Georgia, and the cost of their school books will average $5 annually. Half a million of dollars a year are $5,000,600 in ten years, and at least half of it is profit to Northern publishers. Why should not the state publish her own books, or encourage some competent man to do it? Why not let out the contract like she does' for her laws and her supreme court reports? I saw a very nicely printed book the other day i .ia . . 1 a book of 400 pages, nicely bound and printed on the best of paper that the publisher told me cost him o cents a copy. His price was $1, and the poor author got 10 cents of it as a royalty. And yet the publisher takes a great risk in publishing at all for sometimes the books die on his hands, and nobody but the poor author sympathizes with him. rhis is enough lood for thought. Maybe our coming legislature will take hold of the matter, and give Professor Bradwell some aid and en couragement in this direction. The people ask for some relief and they are entitled to it. If Georgia has S25.000 to waste on a big military frolic surely she can take hold of our educational interests. Bill Art. Don't Feel Weel. And yet you are not sick enough to consult a doctor, or you relrain from so doing for fear you will alarm yourself and friends we will tell you just what you need. It is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will lilt you out of that uncertain uncomfortable, danger ous condition, into a state of good health confidence and cheerfulness. You've no idea how potent this pe culiar medicine is in cases like yours. "That boy's going to be a police man when he grows up." "How do you know?" "He's never to be found when wanted, and it takes an hour to wake him up." Guaranteed Cure For I.a Grippe We authorize our advertised dur gist to sell you Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are -afflicted with La Grippe and will use this remedy according to direc tions, giving it a fair trial, and exper j ience no benefit, you may return the bottle and have your money relunded. "We make this offer, because of the wonderful success of Dr. King's New Discovery during last season s epidem ic. Have heard of no case in which it failed. Try it. Trial bottles free at A. W. Rowland's Drugstore. Large size 50c. and $1.00. Mother think of the Battle that is being waged by worms against the life of your child. There is no night of rest for them; they fight to kill. Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will anni hilate them. Only 25 cents a bottle. Good hooks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthly con dition of all the vital organs. If the Liver be inactive, you have a Bilious Look, if your stomach be disordered you have a Dvspeptic Look and if I your Kidneys be ; affected you have a 1 Pinched Look. Secure good health ; and you will have good looks. Elec- trio Ritfers is tho o-rpnt nltprotiVo onH at A. V. Rowland's Drugstore, 50c per bottle. The crow's enitaoh Removed for Caws. SPEAKERSHIP ST. AN EXPERIENCEIJ TURFMAN IK SCRTBES THK WAITrXCJ HOUSE. Washington Watching tin- Fight Betw een Mills anil Crisp The Result of Col. Jones' Attack Upon the Georgian' Lines A Flush Movement Derelopetl In Iowa A Ruck of Candidates Round ing the Turn The Wailing Horse Forging Ahead Dangers Awaiting the Favorites A Good Pedigree, Magnifi cent Bottom, and .Speed at the Prick of the Spur. Washington, April 25. The contest for the Speakership still at tracts attention. It waxes in inten sity. The sky remains overcast. There are flashes of liyhtnirg if, Missouri and mutterings of thunder in Georgia. The friends- of Roger Q. Mills have assumed an? offensive attitude. Headed by Col. Jones of St. Louis they are assaulting the record of Charles F. Crisp. The unexpected attack has-called Crisp'., friends to arms. With Clark Howell of Atlanta in command, they are re pelling the assault. Mr. Crisp has been accused of being lukewarm in the cause of tariff reform. The ac cusation was well timed. It dropped into Georgia like a bolt from a clear sky, and exploded a can of dynamite. The leading Farmers' Alliance Dem ocrat in the Congressional delegation from that State, assuming the charge to be true, promptly shot off" his mouth. He struck right -and left, hitting the Atlanta Constituticn on the nose and the Augusta Chronicle under the ear. He wound up by jumping upon Crisp with both Free- Trade leet, and by transferring his support to Mills. Thereupon Crisp unlimbered his tongue. He denied the accusation, and held up h is record to corroborate the denial. It was a blow from the shoulder. To those who had served with him in the House the denial was unnec essary. Mills was the Democratic leader of the Committee on Ways and Means that reported the tariff bill, and as such lead the debate on the floor of the House. Precedent required him to head all. assaults upon the enemy, and to appear upon the skirmish line morning, noon and night. The Speaker always recog nized him, to the exclusion of others of his party. . Crisp was not a mem ber of the Ways and Means. He was on service in an entirely differ ent part of the Congressional field of action. He was the Democratic leader in the Committee on Elec tions. -At that part of the front he headed all assauhs and was over oa the skirmish line. Mills never made a speech upon an election case while Crisp was on the committee. Crisp made more than one carefully pre pared address upon the tariff, while Mills was a member of the Ways and Means. And they were in the line of tariff reform full as much as the utterances of William C. P. Breckcnridge or William M. Sprin ger. To accuse him of being luke warm is unjust.. You might, with much better grace, but with equal injustice, accuse Mr. Mills ot being lukewarm to the cause of Democracy in the House because he took no ac tive part in contested election cases. Mr. Crisp's speech upon the Mc.Kin ley bill was made on the third day of the fight. It was described in the Sun s Washington letter, under date of May 30, 1890: ' "Then the Empire State of the South sounded a bugle blast. It came from the lips of Charles Fred- crick Crisp, ot Americus. It was crisp in tone and logic and was de livered with an emphasis that told upon those who heard it. It- at tracted all the more attention, be cause Mr. Crisp is regarded by many as the heir to the speakership. Crisp closed with this poetical quota tion, which drew great applause:" "Be these juggling fiends no more be lieved. That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope," Meantime Col. Jones pays no at tention to the protests of Mr. Crisp. The Georgia newspapers are filled with extracts from his great tariff re form speech, but not a line appears in the St. Louis Republic. It simply reiterates the charges, utterly ignor ing the denial. It advocates Mr. Mills' election upon a free trade issue alone, being even undmindful of the claims of the Missouri candidate, William Henry Hatch, of Hannibal. Its assaults upon Crisp have hardiy been repelled by the Georgia news papers when a flank movement is developed. It comes from Iowa. Democratic editors there are scoring the Georgian for his vote on the Original Package bill. They charge him with being a prohibitionist. They say that by the election of Boies the Iowa Democrats had fairly bottled the Republicans. The bottle had been sealed by an unforeseen decis ion of the United States Supreme Court. It upset the prohibitory law of the State. Congress was asked to break the seal by the passage of the Original Package bill. The Re publicans had strength enough to pass it in the House without Demo cratic aid, yet several Democrats, in cluding Mr. Crisp, for it. This,how ever, is naraiy a lair indication 01 thpir spntimpnts nn nrnhihitinn. The question of State s rights was in- volved, and it undoubtedly account- ed for ' more than one Democratic r ... . himself. Certainly none of his Con gressional association has ever sus- J L l. . I'll I lull UlUI'V. , oected bim of nrohibirion orociivi ! ties. It is asserted, however, that took' an active prohibition part in their local fight in Georgia. All this while Mr. Crisp remains in Americus, listening to the mutter ings of the storm, practicing law and trying to stop the leak in "his roof. His competitor, the genial Mills, is at Bastrop or some other town in Texas, also watching the play of the elements. A few of Crisp's' friends evidently looked for him to disclaim any sympathy with the assaults upon the Georgian's tariff-reform record. He may have halloed "haw" or "gee" to Col, Jones ; but if so the Colonel has not heard it. Indeed, the strong est snap of the whip sometimes fails to bring him to. Meantime there are interesting' newspaper reports concerning Mills. They come trom the Southwest, and they give color to the assertion that the great Texan wants the Speakership simply as a stepping stone to the United Spates Se.iate. A telegram from Texas credits him with saying that unless he succeeds Reagan in the Senate his career in Congress is ended. This means that he will refuse a re nomination in 1892. Reagan's term expires Mach 4, 1S93. II. THE WAITING It is a horse race, nag and the Georgia away in the lead, with a didates in the rear, horses in front are going rate of speed, with a 110RS1:. The Texas stallion are ruck of can Thc blooded at a terrific prospect of 1 1 - 1 .1 , r,,, oreaiting eacn otner down, ine are throwing up a cloud ol dust in their efforts to reach the goal. Hut they are as yet far from the home stretch, and the ruck is worth watch ing. It is not always safe to bet on the favorites, and especially when the odds are long. Many a turfman is living who has seen many a horse dash from the ruck, overhaul the fa vorites, and win the prize. The bat tle is not always to the strong, nor is the race always to the swift. The horse that goes the fastest at the start soonest loses his wind. There are good horses in the ruck in the race for the Speakership. Most of them are steady goers, and can respond to either the whip or the spur at critical moments. One of them is already striding slowly away from his fellows. His speed arid bot tom have been tested in many a po litical heat. He is of good blood and ot excellent Democratic lineage. He is Benton McMillin; He comes from the old Balle Peyton district in Tennessee. Grass cannot grow un der his fret. As active as a cricket, he is ever in motion. Since the ad journment of Congress, the click of '.is hoofs has been heard jn New En gland, New York and elsewhere. There, is no false modesty about bim. He is a pronounced candidate for Speaker. No one doubts that he is thoroughly qualified for the office. He. has served twelve years in the House. Although only 45 years old. he has held eleven commissions from the State of Tennessee. When a boy he was red-headed and freckled. Some of the hair and a few of the freckles remain untouched by time. It may interest carping Republican critics to learn that he was never in the Confederate army. Me was too young to enter the service when the war broke out. Mr. McMillin was born in Monroe county, Ky., September nth, 1845. He is of Scotch-Irish- ancestry, and preserves all the characteristics of that race. His parents were God fearing people, members o! the Campbelite church. Receiving a collegiate education, Benton stud ied law, and began to practise li s profession in Celina, Tenn., in 1-871. Three years afterward he became a member of the Legislature. He has been a State Commissioner, a Presi dential elector on the Tilden ticket, and a Judge of the Circuit Court. Benton McMillin is tall and brawny. ' He has keen gray eyes, and the seamed forehead of a thinker. His features are regular. He wears an auburn moustache, but no whiskers. He tries to hide his baldness from himself by dragging the auburn hair fringing his ears over his bump of benevolence. A brilliant conversa tionalist, he is extremely social. In manner he is open and hearty, i le has not a particle ot anectauon. Upon the floor ot the House he is a power. His voice is sonorous, but at times turgid. It can be heard above all other voices when the House is in the most extreme confusion. His short speeches are his best. He can say as much in a few words as any man in the House. A close student, he is well equipped for discussion upon almost any topic. He is as quick and as keen at repartee as was the late Sunset Cox. hi the parlia mentary field he has no superior. Never does he loscThis head. Even if stung to the quick, he remains cool and collected. His excessive modes ty kept him in the background dur ing his first term in Congress. Like Roscoe Conkling, he sat with folded arms, and listened to the great men claiming all the time allowed for de bate by virtue of their terms ot ser vice. Their greatness impressed him with its smallness ; yet he tailed to open his head. It was evident that he was regarded as a Yahoo from the backwoods of Tennessee, sent to Congress because he was a good jumper and an excellent marks man. For four years he served at . -i- v......, .. dering where he would stand m the j- r- t .1. r. ; succeeding congress, -m ine wui ui 1 year he asserted himself. Meeting Phil Thompson, of Kentucky, in the cloak room one day he said : - fTO BE CONTINUED.) - ' ForSale. One second-hand iron he safe, fire-proof. Call at this office. HE STAYED. AM) SO WILL. YOLK BOY, FATHER, YOU TREAT HIM RIGHT. IF A Story That is Not All a siory in Many' Households Your Own Boy is the Best Help You Can Get Why No Try To Keep Him With You? The following story is true as life itself. It is the experience of many boys. It has a genuine ring to it. It is readable. Its worth the sub scription price of the Advance.: Editor. The work of the farm house was over for the day the children with the exception of the eldest soil who had gone to the village were in bed, and in the big comfortable kitchen Farmer Harewood, his wife, and his Wife's sister, Mrs. Lucas, were sitting around a center-table. The former was. reading a paper, his wife was put tin 1 patch on the knee of little Harry's diminutive knickerbockers, and Mrs. Lucas, was crocheting a hood of blue and white zephyr for a small neice. There was a silence in the kitchen save for the' snapping of the lire in stove, the ticking ol the big, eight-day elock in the corner and the rustle of the farmer's newsoaoer. and when Mrs. Haij-ewopd sighed deeply, both her sister and husband looked up in surprise. "What's the matter, Sarah ?" asked the latter. "That sigh was the loud est I ever heard you give. Has' any thing gone wrong r though you had a big mind." 1 ou look as oad on your "I have," answered the wife. "And it is a load which you must share, Eli : I have borne . it alone as long as I can bear it. There is great trouble in store for us, husband George is going to leave the farm." The newspaper fell to the floor, and for a moment the farmer looked at his wife, too much surprised to utter a word. "Going to leave the farm !" he re plied at last, "Sarah, you must be dreaming." "Mrs. Harewood shook her head sadly. " "I wish I were," she said. "No, Eli, it is true. George has made up his mind to leave us. . I have noticed for months past that he seemed dis satisfied and restless, and since you sold Vixen he has grumbled a great deal about the work and the dullness of his life. And to-day I heard him say to Jasper Flint that he would not be here a month from now ; that, he had enough of farm life, and intend ed to lea'c ; and if we refused our consent to it he would run away, and take his chances." "We'll see about that," said the farmer angrily. "Consent to it! I rather think not ! I won't consider it for a moment. What would he be worth a year from now if I let him go? He'd fall in with all sorts of rascals in the city, and get us all into trouble. Besides, I need him here. It'll be ten years at least before Har- ry can take 1ns place, and he s got stay if I "have t: tie him down." i you ma ce want voice to stay, Eli ?" of his sister ir ' asked th gentle i-iaw. t the city fever 11 lies trot the city lever on mm ail the talking in the world wouldn't do any good," rejoined the farmer-. "He wouldn't listen to a word." "Don't talk. Don't let him ever suspe t that you are aware of his de sire to leave you. Try a new plan, Eli, a plan I heve been thinking ol all day." T )Lm I know of is to him my mind freely, without beating about the bush and the sooner its done tne neuei done the ,-Xow, Eli, don't be above taking a woman's advice. Let me tell 1 you have how to deal with George. seen his dissatisfaction, and recog nized the cause. I have overheard him talking to Jasper Flint more than once, and only yesterday I heard him say that if he went to the city what he earned wquld hp- his own, but that here he worked from dawn to dark and was no better off at the end of the year than at the beginning. He said that Tom Blythe, who is in a grocery store in the city, gets $12 a week, and Tom is only seventeen. Now, if you want George to stay on the farm, give him an interest m it,. Eli. I le is eighteen years has worked faithfully for old, and you ever ever since he could talk .olain. He has had his food and lodging, and two suits -of clothes .a year, to be sure, but all he actually owns is that Collie dog which is always at his heels. You even sold the only horse you had that was fit for the saddle. And George was extraordi narily fond of Vixen." "It seemed a pity to keep a horse that no one but George ever rode," said the .farmer, "and she was too light for work. I'm a poor man, Hester, and can't afford playthings for my children." . "You can better afford to keep an extra horse than to have your son leave you, Eli. Whom could you get who would take the interest in the work that George has? You have thought it , only right that Georee should do his share toward running the farm, and have consider ed your duty done in giving him a home. You are disposed to think him unerateful because he wants to 1 . - . 1 ic.ave you now that every year maites ! h;s services more valuable. But the : DOy is ambitious, and is not satisfied to travel in a circle. He wants to - " make some headway. And it is only ! natural." The farmer leaned his head. on hand, a loox. of deep thought on grave, weather-beaten face. His ! gerftle sister-in-law's plain speaking : ; had given rise to thoughts which had ; j never before entered his mind, j "I believe you're more than half' j right, Hester," he said at last. "I'll : think it all over to-night, and make up my mind what to do. I'd be ! last here without George, and he shan t leave the farm if I can it." help "Force won't keep him, Eli, re member that," and Mrs. Lucas, feel ing that she had said enough, folded 1 1 , . , 0 up ner worK, anu taKing up a from a shelf by the stovt , went stairs to her pwn room. mp ; up-1 Just at daybreak she v as aroused from a sound sleep by ti e sound of horses' hoofs in the yard, and look ing out of the window sh saw Eli trotting away on old Roan. nere can lie he go ng at hour?" When she went down stairs o'clock George was standing by 1 1.1.1. t . 0 J this I at 6 j the Kueueu muie, navmg just come m ; with two full pails of milk. His face! i wore a discontented, unhappy look, and he merely noddt d in return for his aunt's cherry "Good morning." A few minutes later his father en tered, but George, who had gone to one of the windows, . id was looking out dejectedly, did not even glance up. "1 ou were out earl -, Eli,' Mrs. Lucas. "I heard yourich at daybreak." "Yes, I went to Pine Ridge said away on a matter of business." "That's where yon sold Vixen, papa, isn't it," asked little Harry, and Mrs. Lucas saw a quiver pass over George's face as the child spoke. "Yes, my boy, I sold Vixen to Lawyer Stanley. George," turning to his son, "I've made up my mind to part with that fifty-acre lot by the river. What do you think of that ?" "Of course you are to get a good price for it, sir," said the young man indifferently. "It's the best piece of land you have." "But I haven't sold it. I am go ing to give it away." "Give it away!" repeated George, roused out of his indifference and staring at his father as if he thought he had not heard aright. "Yes, deed it over, every inch of it, to someone I think a great deal of, and who deserves it," laying his hand on his son's shoulder, and his voice breaking a little. "Iam going togivcittomy son, Goorge Hare wood, to have and to hold as he sees fit, without question or advice." "To me! You intend to give that fifty acres to me, father !" "Yes, my boy, and with my whole heart. You've been a good son, George, and I only wish I were able to do more for you. But I am not a rich man, as you know, and I have your mother and the three little ones to provide for, too. Still, 1 want you to have a start, and this fifty-acre lot will yield you a handsome profit. ou can have three days a week to call your own, and that vviU eyou choose a chance to work an to break that pair of bought the other da; you can have them lor This -this seems t stai n mere i ifiei r :e. 1 ii von 1 lg oxen 1 a Bagley, trouble." inch, sir," wi't L-nnv- -1 1 l K HO, 1 how to thamoybu." "Too much! Then 1 don't know what you'll say to this," and the fir mer took his son by the arm and led him anotlv on the porcn. present for you 1 t 1 here s ny boy "Vixen! 1 lie word came irom fjeorge s lips wi i . 1 th a long sigh ol joy, and witn side of th one bound he was at the black mare he had thought never to see again. ; arms about her neck. ' rather have Vixen thai in this world !" And he buried h's I. tv creature's mane, arid no nau ooin , 1 1 1 . L Oh father I'c anythm e in the pret in soite ot trs eighteen -ears, ian rly b kc- down an' sobbed. That ended Georrres desire to leave the farm, 1 le was never again heard to mention "the subject, and he grumbled no more about the hare work and the monotony of his lite but in everv way tried to show his appreciation of his father's kindness In fact Eli Harewood was wont tc sav occasionally in confidence to h wife, that he had reason to bless his sister-in-law for her good advice, anc that he owed it stalwart arm to to her tnat he had lean on in advancing vears. But George never knew to what he owed the change in his fortunes.. There is danger in impure 1 There is safety in taking Hood' saparilla, the great blood purifiei doses one dollar. lood. s Sar- -. KO Dr. writes: L. A. 'Wm. Guild, Atlanta, Ga. Sealock, living on my place, had an ugly running ulcer on his arm which ordinary remedies failed to control. As a last resort I placed him oh a use of B. B. B. and the ulcer'began to heal at once, and eftected an entire cure. It is a reme dy well worthy of confidence." 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