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It Cost Neitrly $10,000,000 Last Year
)- r to Kota tlie P. O. Department, i
Kerr Crajg, Tbird Assistant Postmaster
General, MbU annual report or the past
fiscal yearjshows that postal revenue from
allaonrces Iras $76,988,123, the expenditures
being $36,71)0,173, as excess over receipts of
9,B97,0i4.
The prino
pal items of revenue were: Let-
lor (Jusmo
pally of w
administrai
aid in money (macie up princi-
lances aue trom foreign postal
on), $135,818; box rents, $2,609.-
949; sale of
tostage stamps, stamped envoi-,
:ner wraooers and postal card?.
opes, no'.v
873,477.440
money drier business, $812,033.
tavrli Cannot b? Cured
With loo.'
HJ.icatiens, a-i tliey cannot reach
UM seat ef
C.tW.irli th a blood or
BMHtire'ior
n usense.
nnl in order to cur
It Vcl Tlx'.
fa' irri
reedy 'i t
t.-iKi wuerimi mieam nam
s it taken ..internal. y, and aclsdi-
Ulcnd aiid taucousMirfaee, Hall s
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wi? of jrh ; Le-t i.liyscian8 in 1 his
coaa ryT r
o ira. nd i-j-ii recuinr prescriiH.iofi.
It M PWU)
..of. the Lest tonics known, ccm-
MOM "Vitn
a hcsl bioou Mimiers. i.cting ni
rect.'y on. ti
rawc'jt eur'aci". The pertect
romf rfnt
of thaitvo ingrrdients is what
pro bice
tarr S
wo ider ul results in curing-ca-
for testimonials, lree.
V. I t nr.NTV it o.. i'roi:-.. Toledo. O.
Cold by TJuifctSts, price 75c.
Win Nruure
'Keedsssslftance it may he best to render tt
prompts ,but one should remember to use even
the most perfect rc-melies only when needed.
The beet ad most s:nape and gentle remedy is
the Syrup f Figs manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig ynrp Co,
81ck Ho.
laebe A Positive and Un
failing Cure.
XhVre ar
daily with
(houeands of people who Suffer
ireaaacne. in-se neaaacnes are
mostly of anervous character and are caused
from Indigestion. Relieve indigestion and
our headafchu will disappear. Tyner'a Dys-
repsia Riifedy is a Bpeciflc for all kinds of
eadache. Pleasiint to the taste, easy to
take, effective in its action. It never fails to
cure. Price, 50 cents per bottle. For sale by
all druggists.
' "I nave
Tried
Parker's Olocer Teste'
and be icv
in it.'
says a nntnr, and so will
you when
u know j is revitalizing properties.
Mrs. Wirfelow'sSoothine Svrun for children
teething, softens the gams, reduces inflamma
tion, allaj 3 pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle,
Piso's Cufe is a wonderful Cough medicine.
Mrs. W. Pickebt, Van Siclen and Blake
Aves., Brodklyn, N". Y., Oct. 26, '94.
FITS stopped free by D.;Kl.fXSs' GREAT
KERVi Restorer. No fits after first day's use.
Marvelous lures. Treatise and $2.00 tnaVbot
tle free. Dr. K.Mws Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Just Honfit Uuis It is .Not the Question.
It is enjug to know that Hindercorns takes
out corns, and a great relief it is. 15c. Drug
gists, s
If afflicted with sore eye0 use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eve wkter. Druggists sefl at 25c per bottle
Your Happiness
Dep.-nos upon a
healthy body and
a contented mind
I
Tffiur Health
Is Seriously in danger
urdrss your blood is
ria, red and pure.
Hdod's
Saisaparilla
Isjthe One True Blood Purifier
Pipminently in the Public Eye.
L L i i.
trl1 DiIIa cure 11 liver ills, bill
r.C3il S rlllS ne fr. h-adaehes. 25c
biltooa
0
"TO AVnfD THIS TTHH3
TETTERINE
The ONLrifninlG't and harin!M
rCU 'rf.r.Th' r isf 'jpe of Kczems,
T tier, IT cgSf.rrarugly rough pV ch
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Pois h f 1 om ivy or poi on o.
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Htn.5 or crsii to J, T. ShnptriQ,
S tvacnah. , for one box. If foot
dracxiat U n't keep it.
0
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of
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Titer :c Ja ini.i rjnpor. yco'v cnr BOf nl
mr. . . u eJ. 'i Srnd lor h tndtorueiy illnstrjitea oats-loc:.-
tioiri cheap. . R. K. fare paid to Augusts.
ARE fOff ADtMOCRATI
PreslUentl Year.
V.Jf A tii
- ( HHOSiC
nd aid aucloorikort lu THE CHICAGO
IE. ths Freat democratic newspaper
O: tn'i vest
Uailj -..edition f; per year, iva sub
iesa 15an qn year at tins rate.
scrlyMMrt
lanine !
es tree. THE CHKOHICUC. 1C4-1G6
st.,X,i.iJafc-o. III.
SIWIIVIILLS
CORN AND
FEED MILLS
r j.er Wneo s and Hay Presses.
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WH Y
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! it ' fills eaoh; . VI p.j m.; glO par 10 post-
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Charlotte-, N. C
rtns'.ness. shcrthan.l ana Typswrmng. th
only Busiiess Cfcllpgo in! the South that you
cin trv rjefore paying the tuttion. Actual
itnaineas nractico from start 19 ttnisn. Send
t jrcatHiogue, j. r.. ni ucu.', rrji;iii.'
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d just ask for the best S
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COTTON MILLS
IN THE SOUTH.
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THE HOME OF THE PLANT
Should Be the Home of the Factory.
One Hundred Cotton Stills In
Process of Erection.
"Before the end of the century tBe cotkott
mills of the 8outh will number 5.000,000
spindles."
Tbi3 bold declaration was made by Mr.
Richard Hr Edmonds, of Baltimore, Jld..
before the meeting of the New England ot
ton manufacAurers at Atlanta last week. 1
Mr. Edmcnds further stated that more
than one hundred cotton mills were now in
process of erection in different parts of the
South. ' -
Perhaps the most important paper read
before the convention was the one prepared
bv Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, of Baltimore.
Md.
Mr. Edmonds reviewed the growth of the "
cotton industry in the South and provea oy i
facts and figures thatthe war between the
States had thrown the South behind Newf
England by mor thaa a hundred yearRi . '
In spite of this misfortune the South would j
yet be wme the treat manufacturing center
of the future, He argued that tho proper f
pla ?e for the cotton mill was in the home o
the cotton plant. ' !
Mr.. Edmonds was frequently interrupted j
with applause as he proo?ed?d. The follow-:
ing is a brief evuopsis of this able paper I 'I
As the South built its first cotton diilll
about the same year in which Samuel Slater
laid the foundation of New England's textile
industry, ft may be of iuterest to briefly look?
into the reasons why the former section until
recently failed to develop its cotton manual
fdctures except to a limited extent, while the;
latter was making such great progress. This .
is essential to a right understanding of the
conditions prevailing at present in the two
sections and will provide an answer to the;
Oft-repeated question ; If the South has the
great advantages for cotton manufacturing
claimed for it, why has it not fully devefif
oped this industry before this? The spin-;
ning and weaving of cotton for domestic?
use, or as it was called in olden time, the
-maicing of 'homespun' goods, was almost'
universal throughout the South."
In this connection Mr. Edmonds explained!
that in addition to cotten the Sooth was n
terested in all lines of industrial develop-?
ment. ! Her progress wa equally as rapid as
that of New England. Washington's father,
was a miner and was interested in the mak
ing of iron furnaces. Jefferson was also en
gaged in the same-industry.
BEFOBE THE WA.
Referring to the cultivation of cotton and
thmarket for that staple before the war,
Mr. Edmondssaid:
"In 1S91 the average New York price for
cotton for the year was 44 cents, and for
forty years, from 1800 to 183?. the Nw York
prices ranged from that figure to 13 centsj
and for the whole period averaged over if
cents a pound. With such profits as these
prices yielded, it would have been contrary
to all economic history if the south had
failed to concentrate all its energy upon the'
extension of cotton production. It could no
be expected that men should fail to grasp;
such money-making opportunities aSCottoI
growing presented for at least t'o gen-rnri
tions, or from 1800 to I860, with' the singl
exception of the decade from 1840 to )85
during which period overproduction an
other causes forced prices to tho lowest ten
year average on record. It is interesting Lt
lo'llow the market turn which this decline i
profits on eotton gave to industrial pursuit
awakening into new life the long dormant iu
dustrlal capabilities of the people of th?
south. In 1850 the south had 2,335 miles of
railroad and the New England and middle
states 4,798 miles; "by 1800 the south had io
creased its mileage to 9,897 miles. quad
I rupling that of 1850, while the New England
! and middle states had increased to 9,510; of
j a gain of only about 100 per cent. In 1850
I tue mileage of the two northern sections e
! ceeded that of the South by 2,463 miles. B
1860 the conditions were reversed, and the
' south led by 387 miles. In that decade the
j so ith spent"f 220,000,000 upon the extensions
i of its railroad system, nearly all of it haying
he l-.rtlf f.O rntnl Tin pfnr i It I - i-.i r i 1 Via
- t-i ivi.m wUUi'.r.:. j' u i iu mij i. mi .".i bUf;
south doubled its capital and output jf
flcrur. sawed and planted lumber, iron
founding, steam engine building, etc., and
in 1890 had $12,000,000 invested in cotton
mills. Nearly-all of its factories of all kinds
were moderate in size, but in number they
aggregate 21,590, and their capital wa3 5175,'
iuu,uw. uut tnis is a digression.
"he wonderful prosperity which cotton
pioductiUr brought about finds an apt
illustratfon in the simple statement that
though the south had onlv one-tnird of the;
country's population and only one-fourth
of its white population, the assessed value
of its property, according to the census of
1860. was o.SOO.OGO.OOO outofatolal of 12
000.000,000 for the entire -country or 44 per
cent." - tl
HOW THE SOUTH WAS RETARDED.
This graphic picture of the cotton indus
iry in the South before the war was then coh.i
trasted with the situation which followed'
immediately after the close of that struggle.
Said he : .
'But when the war ended the two section!
bad tc?n widely separated. One swept h
destruction had been thrown back in its car
reef half a ceutury, while the other had been
marveioualy stimulated and pushed forward
half a century as compared with the posi
t ions of th'? two sections in I860, thus crei
ating a great gulf of a hundred years be
tween them. The New England man who
seeks to understand tho south must look at
it in this light, He must see that it is nut
simply a cac where one section stood sti
for a quarter of a century as a result of th
most disastrous war in the' world's historM
Judged fiinaacially, and by its immediat" ef
feet, and the other section advanced by lc.aps
and bounds. The property, tho amiitio
the hopes, the labor system of a whole 10B
tioo were swept away and in the destructtda
v. L'ut hundrcdiof thousands of its ablest anl
most c-nergeti : men-. It is only that th'if
Betii. n may be studied in tha light '.f tho
facts that "they are mentioned. What this
section .has accomplished ha3 been worktid
out under these disadvantages, and uudeiil'
standing this it is. possible to better undeB
stand and appreciate the future of the '-otbf
manufacturing interests of a region wboS
mills are already consuming 1,000,00(1 baltf
a year against 2.000,000 bales for the remain
der o( the country. Our New Englaiif
frieuds can in thl light more ore'arly -tuw
the fort-'oa now at wort for soutlieru lipbuiK
d!ug and decide whether to join their souttt
ern' omi-titors on their own ground ads
se ijr. i lie -ani" advantages which they e
joy .T disregaVd their competition. Porsoijs
aliy.1 am tirmly persuaded that New I'u
gjasid will lind it profitable to take an RCttjp
pa t in the develupmeut of the south s oo
tu mill iiitdre.-t and thus reap some of tile
profits. This section offers to New England
the same opportunity which the world hts
.horded to Gfeat; Britain in a Held for the
mploymeut v?f its surplus capital and ene
,'y to the prolit of all parties interested. "II
nave been informed by ono of the leadirjjr
ottcn manufacturers of New England tbjgt
at least 300,000 new spindles- must annua&
oe added to tbe-mills of that section to offiat
the depreciation from wear and tear. Tbjs
has not been done, I believe, in recent yearn
REVIVAL OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY. I
"At 4he present time the south Is building
about 100 new mills, which, with enlargje-
meats now beiag ma le to existing plants,
wlJlneed for e ;nipmeutover&00,0008pindlei.
At the riikof wearying you 'with stawsticg. it
becomes heeessaty to present some figures
to ehow the actual progress which the soirih
.haa made in this industry. The census of
1880 reported that there were in the south 180
cotton mills with an aggregate capital
omountingto 821,976,000, and having 667
900 spindles., Ry 1890 this had nearly trf
bied. and we had 254 mills. $61,124,000 of caiB-
italand 1.712,000 spindles. No one woujd
have dared in 1890 though to predict tht
the figures of that year would treble in iB
other decada, but this we can now see will
be done . Five years have passed, and the
fcouth has in mills now in operation and
!boe which will be at work within sixtv
das 3,000,000 spindlee. Add to this nuth
bsr 800. OdO for miilSfunder construction aid
by thbend of tho current crop year ibis s
tion would have 3,800.000 spindle? in opeffi
tiun. It wHl tben only require an 'average
incrcasi of 800.000 spindles a vcar to give the
south atotal of 5,0p0.000 spindles by 1900. ''p.
is now safe to prediet a much larger number
ADVANTAGES OF THE SOCTB.
Referring to the s fecial advantages offered
by the south for the operation of cotton
mi. Is, Mr. Edmonds said;
' Probably the mset Important considera
tion in the estimation of mill men is the labor.
The south has an abundant supply of the
very best help from which to secure mill
operatives. In investigation on this point
will convince the most skeptical. A New
England mill owner lately stated that, to say
that New England mill help was in any way
superior to southern was simply to say that
the lower classes of foreigners are superior
to the native Anglo-Saxon Americans. Half
a century ago New England mills were oper
ated by native Americans daughters of the
small farmers in the neighborhood of the
mills: but the ihcomlne of French Canadians
and others drove the American girls out of
the mills. There is no danger of this in the
south.: at least for many years to come. The
supply of possible operatives, eager for the
opportunity to earn a living by working in
cotton mills, is to-day sufficient to equip
three or four times as mauy millsns we have,
provided these mills are not clustered too
cloeely in any one locality. The increase in
the help supply will be almost as great as the
Increase in mills for many years. These
people are capable of acquiring the highest
skill required in cotton manufacturing; they
are; doeiie, not givdn to strikes, and as a
class are anxious to find work and willing to
accept much lower wages than northern
operatives are compelled to Jiave in order to
liv. On this point it roast be remembered
that nature has made it possible to live in the
soutn at a very much lower cost than in the
north, because of the lower cofet of fuel and
cltbef, the cheapness with which food can
be (produced, and the abundance and cheap
ness of building materials. These are per
manent advantages: no possible change of
coaditions can alter them. They forever
guarantee a lower labor cost In the south
than elsewhere.
MILLS SHOULD BE LOCATED HERE.
Mr. Edmonds insisted that by natural se
lectiof the South was the proper location for
cottoii mills. Said he. in closing :
"Everywhere manufacturing is tending to
the source of raw material, provided the
facilities for production can be secured. In
former years the profits in manufacturing
were sufficiently large to justify the trans
portation of raw material. New England
coald haul its cotton a thousand miles, and
itseoal almost an equal distaace and tlnd a
prefltable market for the production of its
goods. Great Britain could import its cotton
frottu America, operate Its 40,000,000 spindles
and market the product of its mills through
out the world. But with the decreasing
margin of profit in manufacturine. it is in
cotfton, as in ron, timber and other lines of
industry necessary for the mill to seek the
source of supply. In the fullness of time
the South's opportunity has came. Its own
people have demonstrated their unusual
ability in cotton manufacturing. The profits
in thii industry throughout the South have
befu Sufficiently large to turn the attention
of this entire section very largely to this in
dustry. The ablest financiers in the So .th,
the most conservative bankers, the general
men-chants and the farmers are all now in
ve$ting freely in cotton mills. The 3.000,000
spindles which the South now has in opera
tion is scarcely 4 per cent, of tho number of
spindles in the world latest reports giving
t.he total as 85,000,000. although the South
produces over 60 per cent, of the world's
cotton crop. There are abundant reasons,
easily understood by any man who will take
the time to investigate, why the S utu was
Unable after the disastrous losses of the war
to take up industrial pursuits until about
1830. It is mainly during the last five years
that the greatest progress has been made,
and every yeuf is aiding increased momen
tum to this movement."
THE TCTURE OF THE SOUTH.
Looking to Central and South America
and to Asia and Japan, by the cutting of
Nicaraugua canal, for a market for American
cottoii goods, the South's position is impreg
nable. It has every posslo.e advantage that
can be asked for the production of cotton
goods at the lowest possible cost. Its advan
tages for distribution are but little inferior
to these of the north, and whatever disad
vantages it has in this way will be eliminated
under the general progress which is being
made. N one can possibly any longer ques
tion the south's future position in the cotton
manufacturing world. The rapid develop
rasnt of the textile Industry in tho south
does not necessarily involve, its devreasa in
New England or Great Britain. Even should
these hold their present business and con
tinue to operate as manylSpindles as they
doj today, the natural increase which the over
crowing demand? of the world require must
be met by the sonth. It is possible that Chi
na and Japan may become factors in this
industry, but if they do the reduced cost at
wihch they will produce goods will simply
be an additional force to drive the capital in
New England aud British mills to the south
tisthe only place which can hope touvet
competition from mills in Japau and Chu.a,
provided this industry should develop large
ly in those countries.
t TIhe soutn s position is sate. itas only a
question as to whether the mill owners" of
btaer sections shall leave the south to devel
op this industry with its. own capital aud by
its own labor, or join in the work and thus
secure a part of the profits and ail sections
bo mutually benefited by an interchange of
investments."
THE liKAl KORT FRAUDS.
Failure to Convict in two Cases. The
Remaining Cases Removed to
Another County.
A Beaufort special sajs: The jury
returned n verdict of not guilty in the
6ccmid case of forgery against Dr. T.
B. Dtlamar and Levi T. Noe, iu the
insurance frauds. Judge firaham af
ter receiving the verdict said: Gen
tlemen, the Court is not responsible
for your verdict.
The solicitor made a motion to re
move all the other cases from this
county on the grounds that the State
coiuld not get a fair trial because of
prejudice against the insurance com
panies who are prosecuting theso de
fendants. After argument pro and
eon the Judge moved the case to Jones
County Court, which meets next wetk,
and bound over the defendant?. Dr.
T. B. Dt lamar, Dr. L. W. Perkins, J.
C. Delamar, S. D. Dtlamar, Charles
K. Hassc, Levi T. Jfoe, white, jind
David Parker, Stephen J. Turner,
Silas A. Blount. A. B. Wigfall. Wil
liam Fisher and William Turner, col
ored, in various easen of forgery,
fraud and conspiracy in fivo hundred
dollars bond each to appear at Treuion
on Tuesday. The Juuge, in his deci
sion for a removal, said that if with
the testimony furnished by the State
in the two cases tried conviction could
not be had; he was tatistied justice re
quired a removal. The insurance cases
on the civil docket were removed to
Craven County and ere to be tiied iu
the spring term . Court adjourned
sine die. There was n large att ndance
and great interest.
Confederate Veterans.
The North Carolina Confederate
Veterans Association at their meeting
in Raleigh last week elected Peter E.
Hiues, president; Graham Daves, vice
president: C. B. Deuson, secretary.
W C. Strouachiand Denson made re
ports on the Soldiers' Home, at which
102 are on the rolls, 65 present, all fed
and clothed out of the 85,000 appro
priation, which is insufficient. The
condition of the home is better than
ever before. Twenty-six applications
are on file, Secretary Denson wa3
asked to correspond with the various
counties and stimulate the formation
of camps and thus ai 1 the United Con
federate Veteraub, and President Hines
was requested to informally appoint
delegates to the meeting of United
Confederate Veterans at Bichmond
next May. - "Walter Clark was request
ed to continue the work of procuring
histories of regiments.
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
HE AND HIS FOLKS y&KVTtilE,
EXPOSITION.
J
my Spent a Day at tl
and
Enjoyed It Immensely.
The world' fair Jtara jrrod show. We d d
not -co i , my wflT and t but ome of the
fnmih- did and the talk and tell of it lasted six
mon hs. It was the grea eat show that ever
was on eir h. Bit it was too bin a show for a
dajioraweek. My folks say they never got
throush with it aud had t hurry over what
they did see. The faiuat Atlanta is big enough
for me big enough for my time and my com
preh nsioc. My wpe and I hare been and it
has renewed her youth and now she has some
thing eis3 to talk about beside-) the mtaiouary
meeiinfg and the Rran 'children and the flow
ore ihat I avent put in the pit. Yes. I took her
owu last We Ineada'-. It took riuht smart of
pieparat.oa, r f coure, for s'le had an idea
tnat the pcoplo would all expeet her and ob
serve her outip, an 1 he ha creat re-pect for
public occasions nd for herself, too, and so her
paraphi ma ia had to be revised and remodeled.
Sh? knows' how poo I am and said it would
OBt too much f .r herto co, but I tld her she
should go if it broke me and all ear friends and
relations. These maternal ancestors, who, for
thirty aud fory years, haro srved the Lord
and their country iu the infmtry service and
toiled day and night m rddng cnildren, nurs
ing and sewing and caring for offspring
slnTrs to ''esiiny aud the curse than was put on
Mother Eve never wi hut a little chdd that
was t 0 young and helpl ss to take care of itself
never with a day or a night that a free from
anxiety, tl-ey should have a good time in their last
dajs it there is a good time for anybody in this
sublunary world. They are like the heroes
who came from the war. They are like Paul,
who said, ' I havefonsrhta good fight." Bnt
Paul wc.uld have known a little more a' -out
fighting if he had been a family man and bad
to &et up in he night when he was almost
dead for sleep and walk the floor in his night
gown with a teething ehild in h arms and
sinking, ' Huh my dear; be still and slum
ber," or
''Oh, whero ahall test be found,
Best for tha weary souL"
Paul bud a ban! tine, but be never gradu
tcd in tho fighting business. Re was too smart
to uler the iufanrry service.
Mr wife was almost afraid to Under lake the
expodnonalraid ue would get tired and
worn-out tramping around, but lik all mothers
she lets th younget child persuade her. The
older one have scattcrel and gone and some of
them we fear are weaned, but the younsest of
all i he ttock is here and she is not weaned. She
was twenty-one yesterdav and is married and
ha- a Ciiild of her owe, bu she is not weaned.
Oh, no; t-he is still our comfort and brings us
sunshine evry day. Jnat think rf if. Ten
living children an l the youngest has passed her
twenty-one. The oldest is 0 ean out or sight.
He is almost as old as I am and has sons who
bavo graduated andgon- towork. One of th m,
wl.o has my name and my bir hday, is an elec
trician at the exposi t 'U. Be escorted us round
an l when we weru aswe I to register our nams
in a bo. k, I wrote mine in full and he took the
pen and Just wr de "ditto." and we went on.
We got safely into tho grounds, my wifsand
I and onr youngest d ughter, who was celebra
ting her birthday, and began the grand rounds
about 9 o'clock in ihu morning- We stopped
long nongh to take a ir " ere view or the
si: nation to look at the panorama an 1 to locite
the particular buildings. 1 was tbe chapcrin.
for I had been there tieTnre, and so I p in ea
out everything b fore we bgan the peru&l.
There is the goven ment building;" said I. 'T
wish you cmld spend half a day there. That
Su tbaonian exhibit is just magh ficnt. There
is he woman's luild ug; there is 'he liberal
arts; there is the agricultural building an3
there is the machinery; over there L the Mid
way. In ev. ry church, you know, the dcrd has
a pulpit at the rear end and the Midwav is his
pnlpi' here." ?
In du time we started on the grand rounds.
I hud 'wo shawfe and a basket of lunch and
so e other traps to carry, but that was t 1
right for a while. I will carry anyihiag 11
such occasions I carried thoseparaphenyilia
un il 1 o'c ock, when w- got to a place he-c
w oouUI cat tip th.- lunch and leave tho Bhmvlj
and the etc-tera. We took it in bv slow de
grees. Some: mea I was in the had like a pilo' ;
eome im e I was be ind like a shepherd dog.
I am very dooile on sii'-h occasion. Sometimes
I wo-il l sit down fomewbere aud waii till they
g t dene looking. I had no trouble a"yhcre
c-ic pt at ti-e dheriej. The crowd was vuy
thick there and mo t of them were aiggeis and
wLiie folks i.nd the passway is narrow. n
tlemen," taid 1, "please don't crowd thi lad r
he s my wife, but they paid no more at
tention to me than if I wa a ommon man and
I reckon I am. If I could h ive called lack
twenty y ar.1? I would have kno ked ne fellow
rod and taught him some m mfiers. Tnose
flh aie j ist beuutilul but I hvve seen elneps
head down at Clear Water Jat ike them. I
have fteu thcui all aromm a palmetto post
Bucking the barnacles and th y wcie so tlrck
yi'tt could r ot -e through them. Thev woulden'
1:0 i e :i hook wi h the most tempting ba't on!
it. i.iti t coma taKe a grata or a gigpole and
strike it down amongst them and kill half a
doz-n at a stroke. It look us an hour to cc
thr -Uiihthe government building and we did
net see it all to oir satisfaction That alouc
is a giea show. Our paternal government ha
betngtx)d to us aud the sinithsotiitn institu
tion carried out the will of that noble English
man wno left a million dollar for the diffu ion
of know, edge among men. The Dreface to the
ca alogue says they would have sent us much
mors if we had had room for it. since Smithi
ton died many other pldlantbropists have leal
money to that great ins iuvion. Lot of money
in various'Ums, from 85,000 up to a quarter of
a million. Say what you please nhout the
north rn people, they are the ;. nates, people;
on earth to make big fortunes and then die x'ndj
leavj them to i-ome charity or eome beneficent!
cause. Just think how Urn Smithsonian inati-1
lution haa crown. They hnve now a libra'-y oi
87.000 volnm s on eci n'i' c subjects- A im sc-unij
cf 30.00J hioioii-al collections of coins andj
medals. 1,219 musical indrunieuts, 3..V10 specij
mens of po'tery and porcelains. l,jSf chemical
products, 3,300 texiil-, specimens if
cthnologv. Which means all sorts of things nsedj
and invented bv bsi'biircus naticn-: 3J.OO0 sTiec4
imeni of aboiigiaal lottery, some of whichj !
came from the Indian mounds 111 licrg' ; 13,-J j
000 mammal". 73.fkn) birds, 58,000 bads' eucJ !
tn 1 nest-i. 34. COO 1 ptUes. 125.v"i0 fl-b- n. 510 t.fJ
mollusks. 610,(0 insects, 520,000 marine ani-j
insla, 113,000 fossil plants, 252.00.) modetd
plants, 25,0 0 minerals 03,000 Krologica! epec
miens and a zcologica! park of 162 acres withj
all the wild American animal. Jt is twice ?(
arge as the lirgest ai-inal psrk in the world
Orer five million people hav visited that insti
tu io ' in the last twelve . pari.
Kow. iastcoti'emplatewhii- a wonderful ins i
tution that is and it is all outs'. N t manv o
us down here can see it all. but it is a big ihing
lor us to see apart. It expands and broaden
us to look up- n these things. Of course I mead
intellectually, for otherwise my wife and I art)
Droaa enougn. in fact, our broadness in
crferes with onr alacr ty and I had to sit don q
every half hour while niv folks pursued theiil
waude.ings. Next we p. rused the Plant svs,
tern and saw Florida in all her clory. His
building looks like an Egyptian pvrcmid and
is covered with pebble phosphate. Next we
visited tho art building, where all th fine
paintings are. I c uidcnt tell a fine painting
from a common one, but I did like the bud
fight and tho old woman reading her Bible bjf
candle h.ht. My wife w nt iu'o raptures over
some others, but they made no impression on
me. I wish I was smarter more cultured and
more esthetic I saw a painiing in New York
one that cost &. T. Stuart $60,000 ;nd 1
wouldent have given a hundred dollars for it.
I can get np more internal inspiration from a
v.ew from Lookout moiuvain or a sunset scene
at Clear Water than from all the paintings in
the world.
By acd bv we got to the Costa Bica building
where onr Florida n ece is quen of tbe realm,
and there ne got coffee and hot waffles and
spread our lunch and had a good time. It is
the pleasantest place to rest that is upon the
crounde. Clra Mrer is at your feet and the
view all around you is charming. There wci
h-ard the exquWte music of Gilmore's band!
and woadereo. if tbre c uld be any sweeter
music 1 1 heaven. Fom there we journeyed to
the agricultural and manufactures and lileiai
arts buildinvs, and by bs time my wife was
t red and surrendered npon the steps. She had
-:i e cu.h or one d-'V ( i sal she wish d
slio was at h me. The mind ha to bav - time
to digest thing" Jut like the body. We urged
her 0 go up to the Midway end shoo- the
c ntes and ride on the acemo railway, but no,
-he said she had she enough and teen enongljn
and would wait tor some other time to see the
est. '-Won't you take a boat tide on Clara
tfeer?" Bat on, the coll pse bad come. We
w-ent back to Costa Bica and sat down and lst
t- ned to more music and saw the electric lights
turned on and were bappy- By heir-past 7
o'clock we were back to the city and I feasted
them at Dorand'a hospitable table up U wind
ng stair.-. What a delightful effect good oyt
ers and b efsteak and dt-Peiou coffee do hare
upon both ni'.nd and body. We th cot back
home at 10 o'clock that night and there
ligh's in the ni' dow for as ' d even the little
4ri had kept awake to see if grandma came and
how she hk fl th- fair. She bad already been
there on the, children" - dav and was ed to go
again and show her grandma tonnd, but she
oonldent.
Bat we will all go again before it closes, stay
a week. Bee Asp in At lanta Constitutloa.
BIO FIRJfi IN AUGUSTA.
; :
A Planing Mill and 44 Tcnnament
Houses Destroyed.
One of the largest fires in the history of
Augusta, so far as extent of territory is con
cerned, visited that city Friday afternoon.
It started id the stables of tha lumber and
planing mill of Jesse Thompson & Co . and
consumed this piant in a few minutes. It
was located oa the outskirts of the city aud
on one side was a great stretch of small
frame houses. A very high wind was blow
ing in the direction of theso houses and great
burning embers were carried high in the air,
setting fire to houses two. and three blocks
away, while those much nearer temporarily
escaped destruction, they were doomed,
however, for the wind was so fierce aud the
neighborhood so inflammable that it was at
no time under the control of the lire depart
ment, and the lire was not extinguished un
til it had spent Itself. The embers of forty -four
houses are all that remain in the burned
district, whkh stretches along several
squares. Several hundred people are home
less. Tho iotul value of- the property de
stroyed is fully ?75,000. oa rhich insurant
is only about $25,000 or UO,000.
riie Sew Orleans Cotton Exchange
Statement.
The New Orleans cotton exchange state
ment from September 1st to October 25th, iu
elusive:
Port receipts. 1,349.258 bales a-ainst 1,
755.628 last year, 1.8j5.403 year before last
and 1,266. io for the same time in 1392:
overland to mills ani Canada, 129.013 against
188.783, 87;59 aud 126,736; interior stock in
excess of September 1st. 284.136 against 210,
034. 197.560, 163.211; SoutUQrn mill takings.
159,267 against 115,827, 127,582 and 124,770;
crop Drought Into sight during 53 days to
date. 1.921,674 against 2,300,222, 1,768,409
and 1.681,32; crop brought into sight for the
week. 415.205 against 520,806 for the seven
days enued October 25th last year". 429,553
and 3o3,043; crop brought into sight for the
first 25 uavs of October. 1.337.092 against
1,629,685. "1,263.160 and 1,145,044.
Comparisons in these reports are made up
to the corresponding date l3st year, year
before and in 1892,aad not to the close of the
corresponding week. Comparisons by weeks
would take in 56 days of the season last year
57 year before last and
58 in 1892, against
oniy 55 days tuis year.
DROUGHT IN OHIO.
Causes Serious Loss Tobacco Almost
a Total Failure.
The continued drought has caused serious
loss throughout Scioto and adjoining Ohio
counties. The tobacco crop is almost a-total
failure and fall wheat is iu bad shape, a great
deal of it having .been killed alter sprouting.
Water sells at 25 cents per barrel at West
Union and 40 cents at Winchester. A num
ber of furnaces and brick works in Seioto,
Lawrence and Ja-'ksou couuth's have been
compelled to shut down,
i Cattle are being - dd at the first place of
fered, owi'.K' to : -an'ity of feel as the
rirv anu corn ciop have been almost a total
ft, dure in many lo :iliti.
SAVED BY A STAB.
now a ror s wonAi's death was
PREVKXTED.
Given Up by Sevoral Fhraicliana Kead an
Account in the Waatiina:ton Star of
a New M-Hicine It Save4
Her Life.
From rAe Star, Washington, 7JL O.
Mr. . ti. Vlolland, who resides about
jjree miles from Vienna, Va. , is oae ot the
e.t known and most prosperous farmers ta
Urfax County, and the helpless condition
u his daughter. Miss Birdie, now just bud
Ung into womanhood, for four years pre
ious to the beginning of the use by her la
annnry Inst of Dr. Williams's Pink Pills for
.'ale People, was the subject of general aom-
nent and regret among all who war ac-
puainted with the family.
"I have ho objection whatever," ald th
roung lady, "to telling what Dr. WUHamn'
Pink Til's have done for me since I began
'aking them at the first o' the nreeent vr.
j V'-arly five years ago (we then lived ta
j Washington City) I w&? tnkn with the grip.
; Vly parents at onee jrummoned the bet
I -nedical aid and although the physlolan did
I ill in his power to cure me I gradually grew
: Torse. Faring that I waa going to dW. a
! rf-eond physician wa summoned In eonmil
:ation. A tittle after thii I became somewhat
better, but the Improvement lid not last
long. Then I had a relane and following
rhis wn perhaps. If possible, worse than I
had oeon ta tho first instance.
"I crrew; better and again beeame worse
I several tinges ''ming a long period and my
) parpnt5. nswll n myself, arrired at the con
- elusion that I nutt soon die. As a last re
sort we dviided to remove to this farm, hop
! ing that th c'r.ans'e would do mo good, and
j wo thon left the oity. At this time I eould
not. walk without assistance. I was affeoted
j with the most dis:wrroeabie tinkling sense
tions in ray feet and hands. My whole eys
i tern was in disorder and I was thoroughly
j run dowii. ;
I ''As soon as we got into our new home a
i physician of the neighborhood was sent for
1 and he and another doctor, who eaoeeeded
him in the care of my case, prescribed for
me for a long time, but noth'ng seemed to
dc m any good, and my parents and myself
despaired that I should ever be well again.
"On- day during the latter part of Decem
ber l?t. my father in reading The Star
noticed that some wonderful cures had been
male oy the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
He c t'led my attention to the published eer
tincates and we were both of the opinion
that Th Skiv would not print such certifl
cates even ns an advertisement unless they
were genuine, and my father the next day
w,nt to "Washington where be procured half
a dozen boxes of the pills. I began to fel
something better before 1 had finished tak
ing ono bos. and by the time I had use! the
six boxes was a comparatively well girl. I
then went out carriage riding, but unfortun
ately the axle broke throwing me out, and
th horse ; attached to u buggy which was
following, stepped on mv head before I ooul l
either get out of the way or be assisted to
rigo. 1 was badly hurt and a doctor had to
be cftlld in to sew up the wound. Tho doc
tor alio gave me a mild tonic, but I did not
relinquish for a ony the ue of Dr Williams'
Pink Tills whl h I am etill using end I am
now enjoying the beat of health and can walk
any distance I desire without suffering any
fatigue."
Hr. Yiolland who was present daring the
interview said he could endorse all that his
daughter had said, and that he had hear I
the Pink Pills are good also for Bheamatisn-,
with which he is a sufferer and for which he
intends to begin using them at ouea,
The foregoing is but one of many wonder
ful cures that have been credited to Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Dis
eases which heretofore have been suppose I
to be ineurab!e,suoh as locomotor ataxia and
paralysis succamb to this wonderful medi
cine as rea illy as the most trifling ailments.
In many cases the reported cures have been
investigated by the leading newspapers and
verified In every possible manner, and ia no
case has the least semblance of fraud been
discovered. Their fame has spread to the
far ends of Civilization and there is hardly a
drug store in this country or abroad where
thev cannot be found.
Dr. Williams' Pink PI lis contain, in a con
densed form, all th elements e nary to
give new lite and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an an
failing speeiflo for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, 8t. Titus'
dance, 6 datia, neuralgia, rfauraetim,
nervous headache, the after affect of la
grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sal
low complexions, all forms of wnakaeai
eit her ia male or female. Pink Pills are soi l
by all dealers, or will be sent poet paid 00
receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes
for $2.50, by addressing Dr. WilttaaM' Med!
sine Oosapeay, gihsjsssfidjt S. L
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
The Horse Uemembored the tion?.
Eleven years ago a horse was pur
chased for the fire engine Poiilan V,
Wo. 2, on Mon joy rliU, This horse
was called "Old Tom,' ahMt help- i
draw the engine for six years and was
then disnnspil of. It has been elraw-
inc an ashcart of late years, and iu4
other day went by the engine houe.
Engineer Lonng, who knew the horse
well, fell into contexsition with th
driver, and told him that he hadu't a
doubt that if the old horse was put in
- -
nil stall and the gong was sonn le i h
would rush for bis place in front u
the engine just as he used to do. Th
driver doubted this, and they 'egret
to try it. The old horse, now fifteen
years old, was put in his stall, wher -he
hadn't been for five year?. At the
first sound of the gong he started for
bis place under the harness in front o
the engine. He tried to go quickly,
bnt made a sorry exhibition of nimbi
ness ocmpared with his former habi .
Portland (Me.) Press.
The Greatest fledlcal Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY'S
Medical Discovery,
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY MASS.',
Has discovered in one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from tho worst Scrofula
down to a common piaiie.
He bas trie-d it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor). He has now in
his possession over two hundred certifi
cates of its value, all within twenty miles
of Boston. Bend postal card for baok.
A bf nellt is always experienced from the
first bottle, and a perfect care is warranted
when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are affected it causes
hooting pains, like needles passing
through them the same with tha Liver
or Bowels. This is cause I by the ducts
being stopped, and always disappears in a
week after taking it Read the label.
Ii the stomach is foul or bilious it will
cause squeamish feelings at first
No ?hange of diet ever necessary, iat
the best you can get, and enough of it
Dose, one tahlespoonful in water at bed
time. Sold by all Druggists.
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in 1780) has ted
many misleading
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mm
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Chocolates on this continent. No chemicals are
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Consumers should ask for, and be sure that
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successful fight, for the Councillor
nomination in the Second Slasfyhusr-tts
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English clergymen's salaries are not
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Crockford'a clerical directory for this
year statements of the actual raiuo of
8633 benefices out of-13,213 in Eng
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worth $500 a year or less, 2748 more
ftinnn ,lT leaa. 4219 loss than &2UD0.
Hr&Jles than$300d, 173 less than $4000
forty4hree only $dUUO or less, andr
twenty-three more than $5000, six be
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the ease of the othet 48i7 benefices i--for
nearly 30 JO less thau $1500. and
for a thousand more less than $2500.
In addition to this income, however,,
the incumbent has the use, of a house,
and in the country at least of a garV.
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