0 V Roman Baths. Every Rowaa in early days bad the use of tbe public batbs on payraent of about balf a farthing. These were not such structures as we call public batbs. but superb buildings liued with Egyp tian granite and Nubian marble. Warm water was poured Into the capacious basins through wide mouths of bright and massive silver. The most mag nificent baths were those of Caracalla, which had seats of marble for more than sixteen hundred people, and those of Diocletian, which had seats for three thousand people. Cremation! Among the ancient Greeks both cre mation of the dead and burial In the earth were practiced, though, it Is un certain which was the more common. The ashes of the dead were sacredly preserved In urns. Among the Jews burial prevailed, as it has since among Christian nations. ' "There's a period In woman's life -when she thinks of nothing but dress." "What period Is that?" "From the cradle to the grave." Largest Dry Dock. There Is now in process of construc tion in England, at the order of the Spanish Government, for the port of Olougapo, in the Philippine Islands, the , largest floating dock of its kind In me world. It is over 450 feet long, 117 feet wide, and SS feet deep. This '3ock, the sides of which are of steel, will icst on six iron pontoons, each fourteen feet deep. Powerful pump ing CEgines will lift a vessel weighing 12,000 tons in two hours. The dock will accommodate a vessel 500 feet long. Chicago Inter Ocean. WRES3. G.l. Ilavln? obtained n, lox of Tkttkbinb of Huntor & Wright, of Louisville, Ga., which I used on a case of Itch In.? piles of fire years' stand ing. I spent $3) for different kinds of reme dies ami tho skill of doctors, ali for no good, until I got tho Tkttcwsb. I am now well. Ac copt thanka." Yotir3, W. R. KlHO. By mall for 50c. in sumps by J. T. Shuptrlne, tarannah, Ga. How's ThU? WeofferOno Hundred Dollars Reward for anvta oof Catarrh tliat cannot bj cured by Hall's Catarrh Cute. , F. J. Ohk.vey & Co., P. ops., Toledo, O. Wo, the unrteridsrned. have known F.J. Che ney lor tho la 1 15 years, and helieve h m per fectly hoimr ble ni nil business transactions nnd financial! v nble to can y out any obliga tion m ue by their nrm. , , Wkst Si 'i'BL'AX.Wholciale Druggists, Toledo, Waldimj. Kt .v.kan fir Marvin, "Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall b Catarrh One isiaken lniernady, net lug dir ctly upon the bliod and mucous sar fncesof th system. Pile-, 75c. pe bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. PrVlnce Bismarck refuse3 to attend any onvellings of statues in Lis honor. 'It an noys mo to see myself stand on a fossilized pedostal," ho says. . To Curo a Cold In Oue Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money it' it fails to cure. 23c rHlng Humbert of Italy, who isa't afraid ol assassins' poniards, or Anarohista' bul lets, or of cholora epidemics either, has aa Insurance of $7,500,000 on his life. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's uso of Dr. Kline's Great Verve Restorer. 2 trial bottle and treatise f reo Dr. 11. II. Kline, Ltd..9JlArchSt.,Phila., Pa. r Ex-Senator PefXer, of Kansas, has sold hl3 newspaper property and retired from the business. Chow Star TobaccoVThe Best. Smoke Sledgo Cigarettes. '"When Lieutenant Peary lec tured in Port land, Mo., Jiis native city, tho other even ing, he received an enthusiastic greeting. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reducing intlatna tion, allays pain,cure3 wind colic, 25c. a bottle. Plso's Cure for Consumption Is an A No. 1 Asthma medicine. W.ll. Williams, Antioch, nis., April ii, layt. Don't Starve .Because Your Stomach Will Not I Digest Food. i Take Ilood's Sarsaparilla and he cured. It will tone aud strengthen your stomach and create an appetite. Then you may 'eat without fear of distress, your food ' will be digested and assimilated, and you will grow strong and healthy. 3 Sarsa- oo w parilla i Is the bet In fact theOno True Blood Purifier. ! Hood's Pills euro ullliver ills. S.'5 cents. S. N. U. No. 43. 07. Cuns and Rifles from $2 to $50. Ha-1 Seines. Tents, Soortinq Goods of all kinds. Send 3c stamps for 75 paqe Catalogue and save 25 per cent. 490 W. Main St ALEX.LSEMPLE & CO. iquisviilE, M.v fie, W. H. WAKEFIELD, ' Can bs consulted ia bis offlse in I CHARLOTTE, K. O. ; No, 500 North Tryon Street, :On any week day except Wednesday. His practice is limited to dlBoasea ol tbe tYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. FITS A Crtat Romoily Dljr ow red. fiend for a FItEE package . let, It sppnk tor Itself. Postasr 6c. IK. S. JMiliKKV, Chicago, Ills. IvA LUHfcS WHt A?LELS FAILS. tij Best CouKh Syrup. Taster Good. Use in time. sold n nrm-gistw. i yr v v yr v v at K jr- A, A J i f30 ! of scrofula, eczema, boils, sores, eruptions, etc., prove the claims made for Ayer's Sarsaparilla as "the best of blood purifying medicines. And it's cures that count. The story of these cures told by the cured is convincing. We send the book iree. Address Dr. Ayer, Lowell, Mass.' A 4 '4 9 - - - - THE LEASE CASE AT COLU3IOIA. It Came Up On Questions of Contempt and Was Removed to Special Master Craige. The North Carolina lease case was before Jud?e Siraonton at Coluirbia, S. O., on the 2oth. The proceedings were hold upon the certifications of Special Master Craige, of the refusal of a number of witnesses to testify at the hearings had before him. Hon. A. C. Avery, Capt. W. H. Day and Col. Philip W. Ayirett appeared for the Governor and the North Caro lina Railroad and ex-Secretary John O. Carlisle and Mr. F. II. Busbeo for the Southern Railway Company. After a prolonged and bitter argu ment by Col. Avirett in favor of order ing the witnesses to testify, and a brief reply by Messrs. Busbee "and Carlisle, Judge Simonton held that it was impos sible for him to pass upon the questions of contempt and competency unless the recad of the whole case was before him. He thereupon ordered the case to bo remanded to Mr. Craige, who will now hear tho evidence of the Southern Eailway, after which the parties charg ing fraud will bo allowed to offer further evidence, and Judge Simonton will then hear tho case. The defendants, Russell and othors, claim this as a vic tory, while the Southern Railway peo ple" are also reported as very well satis fied. AN OUTRAGEOUS MURDER. A Negro Arrested for Stealing a Mule Shot to Death by a Mob. Jerry Johnson, a negro, was lynched by ft mob near Screven, Oa. Ho was in charge of officers and was being taken to jail at Jessup. A crowd of men rode up to the officers and demanded the prisoner. Tho negro was riddled with bullets. Johnson had been arrested for stealing a mule. Usual Penally for tho Nameless Crime. An unknown negro was killed by lynchers near Blackshear, Ga. His body was riddled with bullets. The negro outraged Miss Bebie Davis, the 17-year-old daughter of Eli Davis, a farmer living seven mile3 north of Elanckheai, while fhe was alone in her home. TOUGALOO UN IVERSITY BURN ED A Negro College in Mississippi De stroyed By Fire. Fire broke out m the dormitory of the Tougaloo Negro University at Tougaloo, Miss. , and despite the he roic work of the students, the buildings wero quickly burned to the ground. The fire was first discovered in the third story and is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. For tunately the students wero all at pra3'er meeting, 60 no one was injured. Forty three students and six teachers lost their entiro personal effects. Tho loss is estimated at 8:0,000. Tho amount ol insurance is not known, as they were all placed from the office of the Mis sionary Association, in New York. BRYAN IN POLITICS FOR LIFE. Whether lie Shall Again Run for Of ficc is Unknown. William Jennings Bryan intends to remain in politics until ho dies. Not long ago it was reported that Mr. Bryan was about to retire. Congressman Gaines, of Tennessee, heard the story and wroto Mr. Bryan about it. Mr. Bryan replied: "The newspaper item is not true. I expect to remain in poli tics all my life. Whether I (shall ever run for office- again, depends on cir cumstances." FELL 105 FEET AND LIVES. Is Only a Little IIurt--A Painter's Experience at Rcidsville. The Edna Cotton Mills, of Beidsvillo, N. C, is having its 12.j-foot smoke stack repainted by a young man named Cole, a professional staek painter of Greensboro. While engaged in this work Cole lost his hold, near the top of the stack, and fell a distance of 105 feet to the roof of the boiler room. There were no bones broken and he seems to be only a little hurt, saying he will get out and finish the work. Convicted of Criminal Assault. Frank, alias Dad Meine, has been convicted at Newport, Ky.,of criminally assaulting Mrs. Wm. Oloason, October Gtb, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Claxton and Greer have previously received the samo sen tence for the samo offence, and all will, no doubt, receive twenty jears each. The defendants belonged to n gang that insulted ladies, and the outrage on Mrs. Oleason wa3 such that lynch ing was averted only by the transfer of tho prisoners to Maysvillo, Ky. ' mi Found Guilty of Immorality. At Danville, Va. , tho Methodist Con" ference committee charged with tho trial of Rev. M. S. Watts, of Middlesex circuit, for immorality, made its report, which finds the accused guilty, and ex pels him from the ministry and mem bership of tho Methodist church. Coun sel for Mr. Watts gave notice of an ap peal to the general conference. Cook (to policeman) "How neatly you carve that goose!" (With a cudden outbmst of jealousy) "You have de ceived me! I am not your first love." F llecrende flatter. r v yf rr A A ,A ,y. j ELEVATING THE NEGRO. The Work That is Being Done in Charleston. OUR WEEKLY RACE GLEANINGS. What Howard Thinks of tho Race Problem in New York City Lynch Law a Menace to Government. The Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier says: "The doors of the Charleston Industrial Institute, located at the corner of Kracke and Bogrd streets, were opened January 1, 1895. This manual and industrial school movement was started by a few intelli gent colored men of this city, who felt and believed that the Negro boys and girls of today are growing up without a knowledge of the trades and unac quainted with skilled manual work. iSince the school was opened four hun dred and thirty-three boys and girls have received instruction in English branches and manual work. The third annual prospectus of the Institute, issued last June, sets forth the present workings and condition of the school thus: 'For a loug time the founders of this Bchool have been deeply impressed with the in creasingly large number of colored boys and girls in this city, who are without the means and facilities for obtaining an industrial education and manual training, and, moreover, thousands of them cannot find even public school accommodations here. When these negro boys and girls should be learning some usful trade and how to do good and Bkilled work with their hands, so that, in time, as men and women, they might make an honorable livelihood, scores of them at all hours of the day may be seen upon the streets and in tho public places of this city, growing up in gross ignorance, idleness and vice. Today the chain gang and jail are crowded with negro youths and thoy are being constantly arrested by the officers of the law for every petty crime and for larger criminal offences. The intellectual, mor al and industrial condition of many of the young generation of the more than thirty thousand colored peoplo of this city is truly sad and alarming. To pro vide a place where a plain English and moral education and the knowledge of industrial work and manual training may be obtained thi3 institution was established by men who seek the eleva tion of the Negro race, and the welfare of this city, in the confident hope that so needful and worthy a movement as this would be sustained by the benevo lent friends of sufferincr humanity. In addition to the elementary English studies instruction has been given dur ing the past year to more than two hun dred children in sewing.domestic work, blacksmithing, wheehvrighting, coach painting and carpentr-. "The great and pressing need of the school is more class rooms for the lar ger boys and girls who wish to enter the school, and better facilities for the many who desire to learn industrial and manual work. The trustees of tbe school have, therefore, concluded and are now takinsr steps to erect a large industrial school building at the corner of Bogard street, in which provision will be made for tho practical instruc tion of several hundred children. This building will cost about ft-l.OOO, a larse part of which amount has been already contributed by friends here and else where. Mr. H. P. Hanson, an educated, prominent and practical business man of Boston, has been placed in charge of the school, and would be glad to have friends call and see the work and help it." Tho following is William H. How ard's opinion of the race problem in New York city: "After reading the different articles on tho Negro in New York, we are forced to the conclusion that we are upon a vast stago of which New York is the theatre. Here it is the Negro is thrown violently against the forces of civilization such as exist nowhere else in this country. Here it is a man can rub shoulders with all nations, thereby having a chance to measure himseif by other standards than his own. Then, is it any wondor that the Negro should at first become intoxicated and digress a little from the straight line of rectitude taught in the South? "The negro has been kept down and when he comes North and has made some money, he wishes to enjoy hini seff some. It is too much to expect him to settle down and become au an gel. Give him time to take his bear iugs. In a generation from now he will have opened his eyes to all this folly, and who doubts that he will givo a good account of himself? "If some white man had not discov ered 'that party,' whoso poetical words are read on two hemispheres, where would he be? We love to hear people talktosoino purpose, besides showing how nicely they can write the English language. The history of the jews in many re spects is the history of the Necro race in America repeated. As a race we hold a solitary and isolate position in this country. We are citizens in writ ten law but sojourners and foreigners in interpreted and applied law. The gods of human prejudice may conspire to chain us down, but we mean to snap the chain of injustice with ono hand and with the other unite our future as American citizens with that of other races. The pross and ballot will write our political worth when the fight of 1900 is over, and the pulpit will echo in glorious strains "We have fought a good fight. "National ,-Afro-American Independent. We harp a great deal about the Negro being a part of this government, but tbe other follows don't think so. They dis criminate against him in free school facilities, upon railroads and in hotels, deny him representation upon juries, and fail to keep and protect him in his contracts for labor and lynch him for imaginary offenses. There is something wrong somewhere and it is either in the government or the Negro. Will some good brother "rise up" in meeting and tell us who is rip:ht, the government or the Negro? The Standard. Build up our race enterprises. Spend some of your money with those of the race who show by their efforts that they are trying to earn an honest living by doing an honest, legitimate business". The Eecorder. Lynch law is a menace to this gov ernment. Jfthe union is to 6tand it cannot stand on a rickety basis. If this awful evil is not soon blotted out fare well to America. The Informer. Cuba has a population of 1,C00,000 Of these 600,000 are of Negro blood and coolies and 1,000,000 are of the Spanish race, born on the island or in Spain. THE MARKETS. NEW TOBK COTTON INTrOT&ES. New York. gotton quiet, Middling upland, 5 13-16; Middling Gulf 61-18. Futures closed quiet Open- Clos ing, ing. November 5 ti8 5 61 December 5 68 5 64 January 5 74 5 69 February 5 73 5 73 March 5 84 5 80 April 5 87 5 81 May 5 93 5 90 June 5 99 5 9C July. 6 03 6 00 August 6 07 6 07 September 6 07 0 07 October LIYEBPOOIi COTrOJT MAEKJET. Liverpool. Middling d. Futures closed quiet. November 3 12 b November and December 3 10 b December and January. 3 09 J s January and February 3 09 J s February and March 3 10 s March and April 310$ s April and May..-....; May and June 3 13 s June and July 3 14 s July and August 3 15 J 8 August and September 3 16 b September and October OTHER COTTOX MARKETS. Charleston. Cotton quiet; middling, 5 3-16. Wilmington. Cotton steady; mid dling 5. Savannah. Cotton steady; middling 5 3-10. Norfolk. Cotton quiet; middling Memphis. Cotton steady; middling 04. Augusta. Cotton firm; middling G 7-16. Baltimore. Cotton nominal; mid ling 5. Isew Orleans. Cotton quiet and easy; middling 5 J. Columbia Strict low middling 5; good middling 5. CHARLOTTE COTTON M AH SET. Strict good middling 5 4.! Good middling 5 Middling 5 5-16 Tinges -t 4&5I Stains A Market easy. BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET. Baltimore. Flour dull; family 4. 40 4.65; winter wheat patents, 4.855.00; spring wheats straights, 4.805.00. Wheat Dull; spot and monih, 97&97 December 97J97; May 94; bid; steamer No. 2, Bed 02&921; Southern wheat by sample 9298; on grade 92J97i. Corn Steady; spot and month and December 3283; November, or De cember new or old 32i32; steamer mixed 30j30j; Southern white corn 33036; do yellow 3234. Oats Very firm; No 2 white 2929i; No. 2 mixed 2G26. Bye Steady; No." 2 nearby C353J; No. "2 western 54. Hay Quiet; choice timothy 13.00 asked. RICE. Charleston The rice market is firm. The quotations are: Prime 5 5J 5 4J Good 4 Fair 4 NAVAL STORES. New York Turpentine firm at 32 32. Rosin steady; strained common to good 1.401.45. Charleston Turpentine firm, at 29; Eosm firm; quotations unchanged. Savannah Turpentine firm at 29i bid ; Rosin firm; A, B, C and D, 1.15; E, and F, 1.20; G. 1.80; H, and I, 1.35; K, 1.50; M, 1.70; N, 1.75; win dow glass, 2.40; water white, 2.80. Wilmington Turpentine firm at 29i30. Rosin steady at 1.19(1.20. Crude turpentine firm at 1.401.90. Tar steady at 1.05. COTTON SEEP OIL. New York Cotton seed oil steady; prime prime summer yellow 21; prime crude 18181; prime eummer yellow, 2022J. COXTES. New York. Coffee options opened steady at 15 points decline arid ruled generally weak but more active under liquidation, following unfavorable ca bles, expected beavs Brazilian ship ments and slack spot demand and closed steady at 10 to 20 points not loss or at the lowest point of the season. Sales 32, 500 bags, including December 5.10 5. 15; spot Rio nominal; No. 7 invoice Gj;No. 7 jobbers 6J, mild dull; Cor dova 8 J to 14.00. SUGAR. New York. Raw, fair; refining, 3 5-16; centrifugal 96 test 8; refined firm; powdered 5. MONET MARKET. New York. Money oh call steady at 12 per cent., last loan at 2 per ct. Prime mercantile paper 4$ per ot. Ster ling exchange steady with actual busi ness inbankers' bills at 485485i for dem and, and at 482 482i for sixty days. Posted rates 488 and 486. Commer cial bills 482. Silver certificates 5859. Bar silver 58. Mexican dollars 455. Government bonds strong. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds strong. The Musical Blacksmith. "I was walking along a hot, dusty street In Rt-dwood City the other day," remarked a tourist, "when I stopped to rest In the shade of the village smithy. The smith was a giant in stature, and, with the sleeves of his red flannel shirt rolled up to his brawny shoulder and his big leather apron on, he was as pic turesque a son of Vulcan as I ever saw. "I watched him blowing his wheezy old bellows, and then as he commenced fashioning a horseshoe he broke out Into song. It was 'The Armorer's Song,' from Robin Hood, that made the sooty rafters ring. " 'Let hammer on anvil ring, ring, ring,' he eang, as he struck the white hot iron blow after blow that made the fiery sparks fly. Then followed the fa miliar 'Cling, clang, cling, clang.' "I have beard Cowles sing that a doz en times, and I have heard ambitious amateurs sing it all over tbe world, but that song never stirred me as It did when I heard that blacksmith's mighty voice singing it over his anvil. I will never forget It as long as I live." The singer was big Bill McDonald, the second bass In Grace Church choir. San Francisco Tost. Masks. We may mask for a season the Inner man, we may still the heart's Jtrug-lo so effectually that the world hears it not, but by and by nature as serts herself, and all the world know what we have felt and thought and Jone. for with a legible hand does God Almighty write in each face a life's hlstoiy. Rev. H. M. Cook, Baptist, Chi :ajo, 111, E An Ex-Sheriff of Wilkes Conceals 20 Barrels Whiskey, But is Found. A STATE TEXTILE SCHOOL. A New and Interesting Case--71 Rail, ways and Branches In tbe State Other N. C. Squibs. In the arrangement of documents now in progress in the office of the State Au ditor all the letters are grouped accord ing to years. Those from men promi nent in the war of tho Revolution havo been specially arranged in a group. There are autograph letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Bre vard, Abner Nash, Harrington, Jethro Sumner, Gates, Jo. Martin, Blount, Caswell, Ilewes, Rowan and many others. There is a letter from Cosmo di Medici, who was in the State military service. The North Carolinians, in tho war returns, made his name Cosimo do Modeachy, and so it appears in the printed lidts. The Supreme Court has given Ben Groves, of Wake "county, a new trial. He was tried for murder in the first de gree and found guilty in the second degree The Supreme Court now says that the case goes back and that he must be tried for murder as originally charged. Ilia counsel raised the point that the verdict in the court below stands as an acquittal of murder in tho first degree, and they will raise the Federal question as to whether another trial for murder in the first degree would not put him in jeopardy twice. It is a new and interesting question. Of the seventy-one railways and branches in this State fifteen are in tho Southern system, fourteen in tho At lantic Coast Line, twelvo in the Sea board Line and thirty are miscella neous. The road with the least mileage in the State is the Danvillo and West ern, which has only three-quarters of a mile; the longest the Capo Fear and Yadkin Yalley, with 331 miles; the next longest the Carolina Central, with 204 miles. Tho revenue officers shipped 1,000 gallons on moonshine brandy from tho "State of Wilkes" to Winston a few days ago. It belonged to ex-Sheriff Greenwood, of Wilke3. The brandy was in barrels and found buried in Mr. Greenwood's watermelon patch. It is said that a crop of melons was raised on the land 6inco the stuff was buried. The officers found twenty barrels. Charlotte Observer. The loading of the "rolling exposi tion" car is in progress in Raleigh un der the supervision of T. K. Bruner. The horticultural exhibit, specially preparrd by Herbert Brimley, is superb, and the agricultural exhibit is the pick of all the fairs held this year in the State. Not many articles will be taken from the State museum, Mr. 3runer says; in fact, only duplicates or tripli cates. Promoters of the plan for the estab lishment of a State textile school in Ra leigh in connection with the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical College, say that letters are pouring in from mill owners, expressing hearty sympathy with and interest in this new movement. Some say they will Bend children to such school and some say they will give its graduates positions. ' Sells Bros., extensive manufacturers of soaps at Fhilsd ;lphia, seeing the ref erences to the fine talo in this State, paid a visit to Raleigh to see the speci mens. They say only the Italian talc approaches the North Carolina produc tion in fineness. They will now go to the mines to arrange for securing large quantities of the best. They consume 60,000 pounds of it monthly. ' The attorney general saj-s that the last revenue act subjects all legacies and inheritances to taxation, whether they are in the direct lino or collateral, and tlm tax on succession ai plies to all property which may bo or is bequeathed or devised or attempted to be transmit ted by one person or persons to auothcr person or persons. The Secretary of State decides, as acting insurance commissioner, that a Washington, D. C, firm cannot write an insurance policy on the life of a man in North Carolina; that it is unlawful to solicit such "overhead" insurance. Yet if agents living outside of the State thus violate tho law there appears to bo no way of getting at them. Governor Ellerbe, of South Caro lina, requests Governor Russell to appoint delegates from this State to the cotton growers' convention, to be held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 14th one from each district and two at large. -- The railway map of North Carolina, corrected up to October 1st of this year, by Henry Clay Brown, secretary of the railway commission, has beon isBned. It is shown that there are railways in all the counties 6ave eight. The report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics will show that there aro in this State 21 cities and towns electrical ly lighted; 8 telephone companies; 13 telephone exchanges; 6 electrio railway systems, and 75 isolated electrio light ing plants. At Monroe a good deal of talk is be ing indulged in in regard to the dis pensary which is to be opened there Jan. 1st. Some say it will not open. Tho Attorney General says, regard ing the tax upon dealers in horses or mules, that "the payment of the $25 State license entitles them to sell in every county in the State, upon 'pay ment in each of tho $10 county tax." It seems that there are to be no more indictments of delinquent tax-payers until the case agreed from Johnston county is settled by the Supreme Court The State board of health has com pleted an analysis of water used in each city in this State. A charter is granted by the secretary of State to the Keater Manufacturing Company of Middle .Fork, Forsyth county, to make machinery and do casting. Winston men are the corpora tors. A local temperance organization has been formed in Raleigh and the purpose is to use its full strength in an anti-saloon fight next year. Two State officials are members. The Durham Sun says Col. J. S. Carrhas sold from his Occconeechee farm twenty-six hogs that weighed a total of 7.600 BOuadB. H IIIIEES No. 203. Thl quarter-sawed oalc wrltlop deck 19 pol ished like rlano. It bas a 9-inch beveled . plate glass la top and a deep drawer belovf. Ar tiulo ' French iegi alsoflnlfrhed In mahogany. $3.99 Is our epjo lal price-for tala 110 desk. jiSjf (Mall orders filled promptly.) T7e will mail nrfyone, frco of all charges, our dct H2 pnre Ppecial Cata logue, containing Furniture, Draperies, Lamps. Stoves Crockery, Wlrroii, Pictures. DeJdlnr, Refrigerator. Baly Carring-a. etc Tuls la tbe most com plete book over pullhed, and we pay all postage. Our lltbojrraphod Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets in colors, is also yours for tho asking. If carpet eawp'.ej aro wanted, mail us 8c. li stamps. There U no rsanon why you should pay your local dealer CO per cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to tho money-saTOis. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. G3S!S5KX!CSZ2S3SE33EESESBnCC " ' Tobacco and Cotton. The Savannah News says: "The planters of South Carolina, Georgiaand Florida are not suffering because of the current low prices of cotton to the ei tent that they would in all probability have suffered u few years ago with the same price for the reason that they are now diversifying their crops and raisiog their provisions. They are, however, heavy losers through tho fact that more cotton is being produced than the world wants, or the ability of speculators to depress the prices of ihe staple until the crop is all out of tho hands of the pro ducers, as the case may be. But what ever may bo the cause "of the low price of cotton, it is evident that there must bo still further diversification of crops. Cotton must be given less attention and acreage, and other crops more of each. Tobacco seems to be one of the most promising money crops for this section. After the disaster to tho Florida orange groves many of the grove-owners turned their attention to vegetable, grain and to bacco crops, and today they are more prosperous than they were before their orange trees were destroyed. The orange trees aro now growing "again, and the indications are that it will not be a great whilo before the fruit will bo as great a source of revenue in Florida s ever before. Rut the planters will not give up their vegetables, grain and to bacco and again depend altogether upon oranges. The orange crop will be some what in tbe uature of an extra source of income. There is considerable tobacco grown in South Carolina and more in Florida. Georgia produces but little. The climate and soil of this State, bow ever, are well adapted to the cultivation of the tobacco plant. Tobacco crowing in the State would not be an'experi nient Before cotton became the great crop, tobacco was grown on the Georgia seacoast and for a hundred miles in land." 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