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. FOB ALL EIUX3 X? ' I . !l II. II II Sl it. II II I ft . 1 1 V!-V r If IV . 1 l J I -It 1 I I - M ' ! I I . I ) i. OSE DOLUS ilD.FlFTY CEITS ; JLl- -J- -Jl- -11 V V -4 V z vi -when paid FOR- "LET ALL THB MDI THOU AIM'ST AT, BE flir COUMTB1 ?, TI OOD'g AWD TBUTHS'." v 0 - - Cash in Advance. '-'."" . ' "'-''' ' ' I ... - - 1 l. ' : : i - - i 1 BILL ARP'S LETTER s :o; s- Mlf 'j HP PRIZES BEH JEW ELS VERY HIGHLY. The Old Matt, Taken A Back Seat it hen Ihe Boys Are at Home The boys haven't come yet. "They wrote that they would ccme a3soqn as their bosses land had their Christmas. One came, but be! lives in!, Atlanta, and we see" him pretty -often, and so there wasn't much fuss made, over him. There is one in New York and one in Cincin natti, and we. are looking for them every day. Two big fat turkeys are io- the coop and there s- a big fat fruit cake hid out somewhere. :- The -Atlanta boy got some his mother cut it for hiiii. She gave me a sliqe a V)oij t as th'1 iwifoiaaB,. aTi.a said 'a little went ; a long ways. That seems to be a pe culiarity about fruit cake. That excites iuy curiosity if a little sroi s'a loug ways I want to know llow iar a big chunk of it will .go-ami I'm going to find out sojie of these days.' Every od thing see ins to be kept for t.iede boys ; I'm of no ,conse 4ueuce compared . wth . them, lias a man not to -j goj off-' and stay a long time before her can get a piece of veal in his own i. oii.se Is no fatted calf to be killed for me ? Am I.teO'Qld to appreciate turkey and frail cake and oyster pie? One , of these boys sent, his mother a I arret of apples", and . she' de clares that they are the best ap ples in the world ; can't buy . any such in Cartersville. I'll -t'iol htr some of these" da.VB. I'll uet some country butter aid pack it in a can, and let it come from the express ofi3.ce with a New York mark on it, just to ee her take a fit over it. "Can't get such butter as this in this market. Victor knows, what .'good. Dutter is I" I'll bet the will say that. Her boys are better than kings or princes. A lady called on her the other day. and'asked her where that handsome son was living now. "I don't know which one you lrtean ." said she. "I have six s'ils, and they 'are all band ome." Well, that's all right,- and according to the scripture. . IE a mother is not proud of her children, she is to be pitied, in deed. The'v are herhope,her life, her joy or her sorrow. - . 1S90 !" Yhemia a meaning in those fUufs. Every time they are written bu a! letter head or . a ledror. a bank check or a uot6 or a hotel register or prin ted oil a newspaper they mean something. The peiib of Chris tians kud. infidels and agnostics and Jews and. Gentiles are. all writing it visible upon the pa per. Every- day, every hour evfcrv ininute, it is being writ ten all over the world, and e v- ery mark establishes a fact a great tact that 1890 years ago there was a birth a notable birth and old Father Time ; began a new count and called it Anno Domini. - What a won derful event it must hve beenJ that closed the" record of the ares and started time on a new cycle-! How in the world, did it happen ? The" Greeks had their calendar and the Romans liiadtheirs. and the Jews had on that was handed down by Moses, but all ot thtm were overshadowed by'he one that . a handfull of Christians set up, j' and for 1890 years , the Anno Domini has given date to every birth and death and event1 in the civilized world. It-seems to me that if I was an,. infidel J would not place these figured at the top of niy letters. : I wculd not dignify the birth of a child tliat way. 1 would rather write fjS94 as thelatepf the creatioD. ' Jiut, no, if I did not credit Mo- .ses and the prophets I couldu't i choose that date, and so I wouhd have no date-no era -to begin . with. The Greeks had "their Olympiads to date from; and the'iRomans'the birth of their ancient city, and the Moham medans the flight of Mahomet but a modern agnostic has noth.. i iug. - If he was an- .American-, Vi suppose he might begin y'witp the declaration, of independ- 1 eace and say January 114. The 1 .lew is De tier , on, tor ne Has a fai,th a faith"as st'rodg as the , ages and his era goes baqk to Moses and the prophets, but even he has to conform to the Anno Domini of the Christian in all 'his .business relations with mankind. If he was to fkte a business letter or make out a bill of goods according to his faith, at would be returned to him for explanations. What a wonderful thing is this date ; ' these four simple .flgnrest'- We 1 write them and re-write them but we seldom ponder on what Ley prove. . -(u Xew Year's night I was talking to the children about f these things and about the long ' i journey we had taken since the last New Year. We have got ten, back to tho same place in the universe and have traveled nearly three hundred million of - -miles. Talk about your cannon hall trains, and your lightning express.. Why, 'we have been - iuuninga schedule of thirtv .thousand miles an hour and . i" ver stopped tor coal or water, 'id never had a jostle nor pu-. .'-i a. brake nor greased a wheel. ( nher trains have crossed our track and we have, crossed VOLUME 19. theirs, but there was no danger signal, no Blgn board, no red flag, no watchman. Was there ever an engineer so reckless of human lif e ? Fifteen hundred millions of passengers aboard, and thev aleeD half the time. Did ver mssengers rme so trustingly ? And, what Is more wonderful still, our train has a little fun on the way and every day turns a summersault twen- ty five thousand miles around just for the enjoyment and, health of the passengers. Turns over as it goes, taras at a speed of a thousand- miles an hour and never loses an inch of space or a moment of time. Wouldn't it be big fun if we could stand off away irom the train and see it roll on and lurn as u roiiea and see the passengers all. calm and serene ? It jeama to m mat if 1 was an infidel or an agnostic I would want to get off this train ; a trains without an engineer ; a train that has got oose from somewhere and is running wild at the rate of 500 miles a miuute. Talk about your Pullman sleepers and ves- tibule and dining room cars. Why this train -carries houses and crnrdnna nd frnit trees and everything good to eat. It Id a I T I family train, and the family goes along with their, nabors and the preacher and. the doc tor and the graveyard is carried along, too, so that if anybody dies on the way the train don't have to stop for a funeral, it is well tfcat it don't, h for the passengers are dying at the rate of a hundred a minute, and the train would heyer. get any where if it had to stop - to bury.- the dead. v Then we children got to talk ing about the .centuries away back, when the months ana the years were unsettled, and no body seemed to know how long a year was or howlto divide it V ben the changes of the moon were a bigger thing' than going round .the sun ; when there were only n mcnthB in a year and a year was only 360 - days and so January kept falling back nntil it got to . be summer instead of winter ; when there were no weeks, exeept among the Jews, and the .month was divided by the Greeks and Ro mans into three decades of -ten days each. When Julius ,Cae- sar tried to regulate the cilen- dar and.made the year 365 days and gave a leap year 366.. But thatldid't work exactly right for it made leap year eleven minutes too long, and so, as the centuries rolled on, it was found in 1582 that , old Father Time had "gained twelve days on him self Or on the sit or on some thing else, and Pope Gregory concluded to set the old fellow back a peg or two, and he did. If a pope could make us all twelve days, younger when he pleased to do it he would be a very. popular man, I reckon But the calendar. Is all right now. and the civiliied world has adopted it. It is eleven min utes fast every fear years, but as the year 1900 is not to be a leap, year thje gain will be can celed when that year comes. Leap year used to double the sixth day of Maich : instead of adding a day to February, and so it was called the bis sextile year. It is well for. the child ren to know ; these things, for they are worth knowing. ind now it is a good time to right a wrong. It is la.e but it is never too late to do that. . A year or so ago I wrote about the wonderful power of Bishop Gapers over his hearers, and made mention of what was told to me about old Martin Mar shall , who loaned money at usury,-and was a hard, exacting man ; and he ventured out to hear the. Bishop, and was so overwhelmed'and convicted of sin that be went around among his debtors and restored the usury he had taken, and pub lished a notice in the paper for all to come whom he had hot seen, and so he refunded sever al thousand dollars. I penned it down just as it. was told to me, but not - long -afterwards I it heard, that this story was greatly exaggerated, and . that some of the. old, man's, grand children,, were grieved. I met one of them lately, and in a kind and gentlemanly 'manner he told me bow I had been de ceived, and how the numerous descendants of a good old man were hurt, bat had remained si lent, for they knew that I had no intent to do them wrong. It seemed that there was a foun dation for the story, just enough to build upon. Martin Marshall was one of the best of men, and was honored and respected by all who knew him. He was an humble, devoted Christian, a member ot the church, and for many years sat in his accasto med seat on every Sabbath. He was liberal and kind to the poor as long as he lived, and left be quests to them when he died. Hi negro slaves loved him and were proud to call him "Massa Martin." He was just and ex emplary in all his conduct, but it seems that he did sometimes lend money at usury. Ten per ctnt was his charge, and it was freely and willingly paid. There was no suit, no rupture, no hard feelings, no oppression, When the bishop was illustrating brotherly love, and dwelt upon the Mosaic bw that forbade them exacting usury, except of strangers, his words found a lodgment in Martin Marshall's mind, and he pondered upon it, and concluded that perhaps he had done wrong in charging the extra two per cent on the loans he had made to his brethren, and he did go- round among them quietly and restore it and hence the story. But the amount was only a few hundred dollars .ii , or, OT;t,mah the. "r UUll UlO OIUUUVVJ Va. and so, long after Martin Mar shall's ;death, the story arew and grew until it was' the same a told to me; It does me good now to remove the stain that I unwittingly placed upon Mar tin Marshall's memory. It is a gded trait in our humanity that prompts us to say good things of the dead; Sometimes we sneer at the epitaphs upon the tombstones, and mockingly in quire where are all the bad men buried, but it is right. When we cannot speak well of tht dead it becomes us to be silent. He has appealed - his case to God. Bill Abp. TEE REPUBLICAN CATSPAW. mm . . . m now manons ii0i9 &oram tiaspir to the Gates of Heaven The Hitched Him Outside While he Entered- : V Yes, he is in hard luck. I Whatever happens he is 1 to get the butt end of it. He 1b the -only--perpetual hewer of wbod, who is : always crowded away from the fire; never gets a drink. .Yet, as patient as a camel, he goes on voting the Republican ticket from year to year; and if one of his race takes a notion to protest be is straightway bounced for a trai tor, and driven out with .staves and stones, lucky if he escapes with his life. How long, oh, Lord, how long ? It is none of our funeral. We know that. But it does stick in our gizzard to see the col ored brother so set upon. It was bad' enough to be ignored by the Administration. That however, was to be expected. Mr. Harrison is an aristocrat. He hates a poor man one de gree less than he hates a nigger But there was a hope that Con- greys, tne nepuDiican congress, would, when it met, do some thing to make things even, now, what do we see ? We see 11 the black contested election cases in the House, except one, put down ac .the foot of the calendar, where they' will nev er be .reached, and that one exception placed sixth on the list of seventeen not by the Republicans, but by the Demo crats. ' '.''.". r It is just as Abraml Jasper said in his speech to the color ed pic-nic at fehantytown, in the late Virginia campaign. "Feller freeman." bays he "irnil all lrnnro ma I : T B.FA Abram Jasper,, a Republican from way back. When there have been any work to do, I has dene it. When there have been any- votin' to do, I has voted, early and often. When there have been any fightin to do, I has been the thick of it. 1 are above proof, old line, and tax paid, And I has seed many changes, too. I has seed the Republican up. I has seed the Democrats up. But I is yit to see the nigger np. 'Tother night I had a dream. I dreamt that-1 died aud went to heaven. When I got to de pearly gates, ole Salt Peter, he says; "Who's dar?" "Abram Jasper," says I "Is you mounted, or is yuu fa-foot ?" says he. - "I is a-foot," says I "Well, you caint git in here," says he. "Nobody's 'lowed in 'cept them as comes mounted,' says he. 1 - r . : "Dat's hard on ,me,'f says I arter comin' all this distance. But he neber says nothin' more, and so I started back, and 'bout half way down de hill who does I meet but Gen'l Wllom Mahone, - Whar is you gwine Gen'l?" says I. . , , , "I is gwine to heaven," says he. .- "Why GenT taint no use, I I'se just been .up dar an' no body's alowed to git in cept dey comes mounted, ancl yon's a-foot"." .1 "Abram 1 tell yori what let's f do. You is a likely lad. Sup pose you git down on all fours, an' I'll mount and ride you, and dat way we kin both git in?" "GenT" says I "do you think you could work it?" "I know I kin," says he. ''So down I gits on all fonrs and de GenT gits a straddle, an' we ambles up de hill agin; an' prances up to de gate,! an' ole Salt Peter, he says: "Who's dar?" "GenT Mahone of Virginey," says he. "Is you mounted or Is you a-foot. "Ii mounted," says de Gen. "Ail right" says Peter, "all right, says he'; just hitch your horse outside, an' come right in." . . And so it ges. Shunned by the Republicans in this: world, the colored brother will be, if they have their way, shut out from heaven itself in the world to come. How long, oh' . i j i Lord, now long. WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY. 16. 1890. FOR THE FARM. MA.TTMBS OFIXTBBE8T TO TILLEBS OP THE SOIL. OriffUtat, Bormwd, Stolen ana Communicated Article on Farmiff. We learn that ft great m any of our farmers have burned in extensive preparations for tobacco crop.-asnvme Argonaut. . Wm. Finch, of eastern Cabar rus, recently killed a hog that weighed 675 pounds. It was thie rears old and was of the Rflrkfthira brsed. Concord Standard- We sky that farming and planting Intelligently conduct ed here, and baeked with suf ficient capital to insure the best result, will yield a larger per cent, upon the money invested than anywhere else. Nashville Argonaut. The Kansas farmer sits by the ekeeffal light of his corn fire, with eorn at 11 cents per bathel aid ttanka his Creator for the bleesinga of a high pro tective, tariff which gave him a home market. Wilmington Star. Vr CTonrv OoAfrar. a tenant 0n lln. S. J. Biohardion'B place, naar Waxhaw. ran a on6 horse farm last year and raised 18, 286 poinds of 'seed cotton, which made fonrteeu good bales of cotton, and In addition ha raisafl 125 bushels of com. Thla flrat-rata for an "off year. Monroe Enquirer. We leant that Colonel Clark of Cleveland, raised three crops on a piece of eround last year He gathered a erop of early notatoes. plants the ground in corn, got a fine crop of roa st luff ears, and the volunteer potatoes that came up produc ml a. tivd tron eanallr as fine as the , first. Salisbury Truth The people and farmers of RArti.4ild a meeting to see what eoald be done in these hard timei.- They resolved that with close; eoonomy and hard work they could go though 1890 without absolute suffering: asked the , merchants to riva all the aid possible; and advise the p-ople to raise their own supplies and live cheaper .Hard times I in the cotton counties is inducing the farm ers to diversify their crops, The Tarboro Southerner says that the tobacco acreage will be increased many fold this year. A well nown tobacco farmer of another county wrote the following to Mr. O. C Farrar: "I know your county wall, and Ub eaoabil'ties for pioduclng the finest types of tobacco are not fully developed vet. Your whitish gray soils can be far more profitably utilized producing tobacco than cotton." HARD TIMES FOR, THE GOAT. The poatmaster at Pink Hill Mr. W. A. Jones, told us batur daT that his neighbor, Mr. R Wi MeGowan, is stall-feeding a g oat, getting Mr. Wm. Goat fat for the table. Hard times will develOD all the food resources of : the people Kin ston Free Press. j 6CUCX of pocket Moxiy Farmers in many parts. of the West are devoting more atten tion to poultry and the profits from tils source, and la many cases, keep their homes sup piled with numerous useful rticles. The poultry yard is certainly worthy of attention from all raising is sensibly pursued. farmers. Poultry profitable, if it is aad . methodically It is a branch of .which requires, but farming little hard work and space while it earries with it much enjoyment. I know of nothing eauallv profitable wmcn can take its place. In running farmk either large or small, to leave out poultry would seem to me. to omit one of its best features, and, also,, cut off steady supply of ready money for household purposes which would soon be missed. H Brown in Farmer and Seotish Chief. WHEAT-GROWING IN NORTH CARO LIXA. We frequently hear It assert ed, "there ie no money in grow ! ing wheat in this or that sec tion, and it is useless to a tempt it," and to many farm era I admit the assertion to be largely true. Bat the fault is not so much in the locality or soil as probably in sometmng else.' What one -has accom plished, others may with prop er management ; and if wheat can be grown, to profit by one, another may, in the same sec tion, under, similar; circum stances. ; ' Ldeut. Gov. 'Holt, of this State, has probably beaten the record as to wheat-growing upon this continent this side of the Rocky Mountains. . Upon, 1 80 acres, the ,- past season, he gathered over 46 bushels of wheat per acre. Col. Holt in formed me that the crop was made without the application of any fertilizer whatever, but he continued : "I sow no land that is not clover-sod." If 25 or 30 bushels of wheat can jbe grown on land that is clover sod without the appreciation of manures, will it hot pay, jto seed land.to clover tor the pur- pose ot growing wheat, since the crop taken from land seed ed to clover amply remuner ates for the trouble and expense incidental to seeding.5 1 Lieut. Gov. Holt has proved himself to be a' successful planter as well as a succesBf ill manufacturer. " Agricultural Bulletiu. . SOW GRAIN. We cannot urge too often too: much the importance sowing all uuoccupiea lanas with winter grains. Where is too late to sow oats, sow bar ley, rye or wheat. When one is looking chiefly to the im provement of the land, rye is the grain to sow. It is naraier than any other; it is deeper rooted than the others, and ' it will make more joot and stem than any other. In every par ticular it ia a good recuperat ing crop a winter recuperating crop. We are tery anxious to ed cate our farmers up to the point of sowinj? rye to improve laud, just as e they plant .peas or the same purpose, in a country like ours, where the land has been-deprived of its humus by long-continued cot ton culture, we are not sure but rye would help it . more than peas for rye checks leachirig in the winter, and checks wash ing, in atlditiOD to supplying humus to the . soil, xhere is little or. no leaching in sum mer when peas are growing.and they contribute nothing to the stoppage of washing. .-.Never theless, the pea has its value as a recuperating crop, and ' ve would not decry it. We would urge the general and free use Of .both peaes 'and rye. One doe its work in the. summer the other in the . winter and spring, iney are noi antag onistic, bat co-operative, After cotton and corn are gathered, there is no obstac in sowing the land tney occu pied in rye. The stock; is not occuDied bv other work, and the hands are not basy. II washes have staftea in cotton or corn fields from defective laying off the rows, how is a good time to stop them by sow ing down the land and plowing down, the beds. Lett until spring, they will get deeper and deeper. Sow grain along the washes decidedly thickor, stronger and apply manure heavier also, to get a .thicker, stronger growth ' - This is also an excellent time to lay off and establish the border terraces, both because one has the leisure to attend to it, and because if the borders are made nbw and rye sown on them they will become Quite firm and strong by spring. Each successive year's experi ence strengthens our faith in terracing as the best ineansl of preseryiug land from washing. If 'it did' nothing more than secure? horizontal rows and level culture (which it doesj) it would be of inestimable value, Had terracing been practiced when the country was cleared, there would now be no gullied fields or galled spots to meet or displease the eye. W. L. J., in Atlanta Constitution. u r Cancer of the Nose- "Mv latber bad cancer and my husband died of cancer. In a Ininp'appeured on my ooae 1875 and fiom its appearance aud growth - 1 became alarmed. rapid that I too. had cancer. I co.isnlted my phjsicau about it,and"be gave me an ointment to put on it aud when this did not relieve? me, he then burnt. it qnt, but the would not heal. It gradually longer and worse, aud 1 fully place grew made my mind up that I must also die of cancer.. Friends preyalled on me to try Swift's Specific (S S. Af This I finally consented to do taking a tew bottles was eu rirely cured .Swift's Specific S S. S cured me when doctors and all medicienes failed." Mrs. M. T. Mabeen , Woodbury Hall Couuty Texas Four Tears on Crntehsg. For fifteen years I was afflicted with rheumatism, four years of whicj I was compelled to go on cruches, Words are inadequate to express the suffering I endured duriug tuat time. During jtbese n tteen years ot exlstance (it was Sot living). I tried every known remedy without receiving I any benefit. I finally began ontgwift's Specific (S. S. S ), which from the first gave 'me relief, and fp-day I. am enjoying the best of health, and atn a well ma if. . T caoli(ly believe that S. S. S. is the best blood purifier on the market today. J. D. Taylor, Cuba, Mo, Treatise on Blood and Skin ID is eases mailed free. SWIT'S SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta Ga. To Motners. For upwards of fifty years "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing STRrr'i has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething with never-failing safety and suc cessr It soothes the child, softena tfe gums, allays all pain, regulates the bowels, cures wind cohc and is the best remedy for diarrhoea, "Mrs .Winslow's Soothing Syrup" is for tale by druggist in every part of the world. rice 25 cents a bottle, HOME CHAT. y. THOUGHT FBOM OUR exchanges; Comm nta on current Events and Expression of Opinions. - j . ?HB FOBCB OF HABIT. Carnegie baa taken the grippe. He has always had a taking . way with him. Raleigh News and Ob server. "' . ' : .,..-(' BOODLB SENATORS. There are 4f Republican .Sena tors and tbey are not meuof brains bat of large wealth. Shades, of Webster, Calhoua aud Clay ! Wil mington Messenger. : - . N' GOOD TO BIS EXPECTED; ly , Nothing good and honorable, may be expected of this .tat Speaker (Reed). His adipose-tissue is all tilled with bile, aud it would kill bim it he were not a Radical.- He is already conducting his leader ship of bis party from the Chair of the Speaker ; a aost disgraceful performance Wilmingtoa Messen ger. , 1 LET US BE HONEST. The Register is getting' tired of seeing erery traveling opera and theatrical troupe, &e., spoken of in the most complimentary terms, re gardless of merit. Where praise is meritoo, let it be bestoweu, bat in discriminate pufflag ia disgastiug, aud no self-respectiDg newspaper sboald indulge in it. Monroe Reg ister, j JIM IS STILL IN THE RING. : Mr. James G-" Blaine has not abandoned the hope of becoming President, by a good deal. It is said that be has become very re served and difficult of ' approach lately, but for all that be keeps his eyes opeu. and if any one imagines that James G. is asleep because be doesn't cavort as much in public as was bis wont in former days, they will find. themselves roryuiuch mis taken, Wilmingto- .;ir. STIFFEN LNO DIET; One ot our young men. Hearing he would be too late to go with her to church, left home without supper Returning late at Digbr, he called for tood and ' was told i hat - theie was some bat term ilk in the side board, but he got bold of the starch aud 'swallowed two glaoefalln before discovering the mistake. He had too keep in the shade next day to keep from getting too stiff for any use. Burlington News. WANT TO COME HOME. There is no end to tha number of letteis being received ' here and east ot ueie irom negroes who nave gone South with the exodus move meuc Tbey tell various t.nd dole ful stories, bat all wind unwi,tliTc send money for me to -come home on." Some of them say they are treated like dogs, and reports say that some of them are beaten by their mastecs.j Ancl still they con tinue to emigrate. Rale gh News and Observer, ON THE JUST AND THE UNJUST, It certainly! does look like this nation is being punished for its sin Floods cut off the corn 'crop last year and frost the cotton, aud as a consequence of the warm winter the fly is in the young wheat and much of the freshly butchered meat has spoiled, It is true that consid erably less than a majority of the people ot the country elected Her ri ou but the misery of the business is that God's judgments often fal hs does bis rain : alike upon tbe inst and tbe unjust Statesville Landmark. I po;d Old Times- But there was evils in them daystoo.' There was a system of kidnapping in them times, A maa in them days who was low enough o pell his vote got something 'worth talking erboutfor it. A month before tbe election come off these low fellows would be taken charge of by one party.br the other, the first that caught 'em, a: iea sign ana "waterea" strong, it was the business Qf one party to steal these fellows from the other party, and strict guard was Kept over them. They were usu illy kept in some hall at the county seat, and all. their wants cared for till their votes were cast Many er time the democrats would feed and "water" a hal full of 'em 'for a month, and the night before the election the whigs; would g'et. ladders up to the windows aud steal 'em out aud vote 'em. the next day, but it took er mighty peart whig to out steal a demo crat, ana mat s wnat maae me smile when old Hays got er way "with 'em. Progressive Farmer.. ; Bicklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bcuises, Sores. Ulcers, Salts Eheam, Fever, Sores, Tetter, Chap ped Hands, Chilblains -Corns and all Skins Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed te give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cent8per box. $500 or a Cure. For many years the manufactur er's of Dr, Sage's Catarrh Remedy who are thoroughly responsible financially, as any one can easily sscerta'n by enquiry, have offered. tbrongh nearlyevery uewspaner in in the land, a standing rewaid'of 1500 for a case of chronic nasal catarrh, no matter bow bail, or of bow long standing, which thej can not enre. The remedy is mild and soothing, cleansing, antiseptic, and healing. Sold by all druggist at 50 cents. narr DEPEND 017 YOTC SELF. So Tour Duty and Friends von ; will , iiave Fight your own battles. Hoe your own row. Ask no favors of anyone, and you will succeed a thousand times better than one who is always beseeching some one's Influence and pat rouage. No one will help yori a you help yourself, because no one is so heartily interested in your affairs. The first step will be such a long one, per Jhaps; but, carving your way "up the mountain, yon make each one lead to another, and stand firm while yon (chop still an other . out. Men who have iuade fortunes are . not those who have had five or six .thous and dollars given . them to start with,but boys who have started fair with a well earned dollar or two. Men who acquire fame have never been, thrust into populari ty by puffs begged or paid for or given in public spirit. They have outstretched their own hands and touched the public heart. Men who with love do their own wooing; and I never knew a man to fail so signally as one who induced his affec tionate grandmother to speak a good word for him. Whether you work for fame, for love, for money, or. for anything else work with bur ' hands, and heart and brain. Say "I will," and some day you will conquer. Never let any man have to say, "I have dragged yen up." " Too many triends sometimes hurt a man more than none at all. Wilmington Messenger. ' Perfunctory Kissing- . Heaven preserve me.however, from the perfunctory kiss cf two women. There is some thing about a kiss of this kind that is as dismal as the desert of Sahara. There ia not even one oasis in it to mark the dreary waste. It is worse than melody measured out, with yard-stick or poetry doled out by the quart. There is no . in spiration about it none what ever Of any kind. What a dull, sodden affair is the face of a pretty girl! How the same face becomes illuminated with the fire of the soul when it is kissed by -well, perhaps this is getting to be an over-delicate matter, and something qught to be left to the- imagination of the reader. "JIojMrrthere is no rhapsody'in the' kiss ex- anged by two girls or two women. , it is as uninviting as he fields in winter. Detroit Free Press. 1 Senatorial. Gall Bladder' Ingalls, the satiric and vln- egarish, is after poor little Ben ny Harrison" and 'even "grand fathers hat" cannot shield him from, the venomous chat of the Kansas Senator. Here is his latest: , " ' "Gen. Benjamin Harrison de serves more thanks from the Democrats than from his own party. The " measure of Gen." Harrison has been taken ; a stuffy,- common place. HOosier is .visible, but nothing more. As brilliant as a blue book, as inspiring as fire-damp as com manding as an old cow. Gen. Harrison toddles along his nar-- row path of politics with ' no more majesty than Baby Mc Kee, his most trusted adviser displays from the dizzy height of Cheap'- John Wauamaker'a velocipedes." ,. - ,''".'' ' a Costly Error- well known Australian writer a very bad' penman in mentioning the name of a certain lady in an article, said she was renowned for her gra clousness ana charity. For charity' the compositor read 'chastity.' The author, on see ing the proof, recognised at once that there was an error; but utfable to remember the word he had used in the place of 'chastity,' marked the proof with what is called a 'query' ? -to refer the printer to his MS. When the article appear ed the writer who had intend ed to pay a pretty compliment to the lady was .supprised to read that she was 'renowned for gracionsness and chastity(?).' Verdict for plaintiff 2,500 sterling, with cost. Loye- Centuries of civilization have succeeded in remoulding every other passion known to man; they have been pruned . and trained and nailed up against the ' wall of custom. Love alone has remained defiant and and indomitable, swaying us now with the same remorseless strength as in the days of savagery,- the one free-growing natural thing that civilisation with its religious and its social codes has left us. The Full Extent cf the Law- "He threatened to throw half a pie at me." " "He did ? And what did yon do?" "Had him bound over to keep the piece " .. NUMBER 51 MONTE PETE. THE i STRANG E TUBNS ' F ORTUITY'S WHEEL. o'rl An Incident ojErontier Life in r the Early days of tlie West, . The reputatiou which the small town ot Ogalalee r on the Union jf acinc rauroau, , bore some years ago was not calculated to induce quiet and law-abiding citizens to go there in search of home com torts. It was known as a town where the big herds of cattle were driven irom. Kansas and Texas. It was known - as i a place towards which the homesick hearts oi tbe cowboy turned with longing, but it was neverknown as a peaceful town, " : ."'. . ' , . . '...,'. For several months at a time Ogalalee would-remain a quiet lit tle frontier village; ' Then one day a big herd of cattle would be dri en into the pens near the railroad. The cowboys would be paid off and Ogalalee would put on its most festive appearance. The Bound of pistols would be heard in the streets and everybody was happy. When, as occasionally happened, several herds arrived at the same time, tbe fun increased in proportion; and tbe few citizens who thought more'of their lives than they did in secnr: iug a share of the cewboy's dollars' generally made it convenient to visit some neighboring Mwd for awhile.. ' J When I fouud that business re- quired me to visit Ogalalee and pass a. few days, then I praved devoutly that I. might find the village in its : dormant state aud not crowded with cowboys tall of oaa wnisBey, armed with pistols and looking for an oppr rtunity to use them as the acme of felicity. ' l arrived, and even l.efore I left the cars, I reabzed that my prayers 1 badsbeeu quite useless. 1 saw at a glaifce'tbat the town was being painted -a deep vermilho'i color and iot a moment 1 halt determined to remain on tbe train aud pe taken toc Laramie City. After ssecond's tliougbt, however, I concluded that my business was too urgent to (be delayed for auy fancied danger,, and I alighted half reluctantly on the platform." As I watched the red light on tbe last car rapidly dis appearing in tbe darkness, a - feel ing of terror came over me, and I felt, that if I lived to get ' oat of Ogalalee no power should ever' bring me.wtst of the Missouri river again. The town was too busily engag ed with the Cowbovs to nav anv at- tention to a stray visitor. I there fore, took my grin in my hand and went in search of a hotel. There was not much choice, as every place along main street seemed to be crowded with half-drnnken men. all of whom appeared greatly ex cited over some event which had recently occurred. "Finally I chose resting place, and before :I bad time to register I was, told that I had just arrived in time to take part in a first-class lynching. I pretended to be glad, but I was ubt. I was told that the night before. while some cowboys were playing Mexican monte, in a saloon at the end of the main street, a difficulty arose between the dealer, who was Known as Monte Fete, nd the players. A few hot wbuU passed, then the revolvers flashed "in the dim light of the oil lamps and the loud reports echoed from the , door of tbe low, one-story tavern. As' tne crowd rushed into, tbe street Pete and his assistant gambler scooa in toe center of the; room with their emoking revolvers in their bands and on the floor lay tee oouies oi two dead cowboys. ooon the news of, the shooting spread through the town and the triends and companions of the deaq men gathered in force and returned to tbe saloon to seek vengeance on ihe men who, had done the killing! , They found the place closed and barricaded and the two bodies lying in tne roai wnere they bad been thrown. A volley was fired at the saloon, out the only answer was derisive laugh from the inside and a warning shouted through a.ehink in the heavy board shatter that tbe first man who came ner the door would be killed. All that night the crowd remain- ou out siue me piace firing some- times and devising means' to drive ine two men from their refuare. When daylight came it was evident tbat nothing could be done until uam. as me gamoiers could see any one approaching from either side, and the person making the at tempt jwouiir be.killed. 'i iras informed that an attempt to dislodge the men was about to be made, and 1 was invited to take if r i . ... tniv. juj remaai was met wun so many. scowls that I immediately altered my mina and accepted the invitation, determined in my mind however, to remain in the back ground as much as possible, mi -A m. i . . alio Hireet ouisiae tne hotel was rapidly filliug with men.; Some wcio uu tun seuacit ana some were on foot, bearing lorches, and . all were wild with excitement, and ueterminea to araw tbe men who naa ruuruerea their companions from their hiding place and ezecnte what they deemed justice on them. With wild yells the crowd moved down the street and halted in front ot the beleagered bouse. For moment they were quiet; as a mau on norseoack rodej. forward demanded an unconditional and sur rentier. His only answer was snot so wen aimed tbat be reeled in nis saddle aud fell to the ground wnuenis frightened pony dashed down tne street. A great shout arose as the cowboys saw their leader fall and from that moment tne fate of the gamblers settled, ' ' , ' wnue tbe crowd-m front and behind the house w ere firing at the aoors ana windows t noticed sever ai aart shadows appear at the sides. Each shadow was carrying something. Cautiously crawling aioug me grouna tney approached nearer and nearer the beleaguered building. For, a few minutes they lingered, then they stole back and joined their comrades. A moment JOIt WOISK SEND YOUB OBDEE3 . i r-TO THIS 0PP.ICE later and a red glow appeared at the sides of the building.. The. dense hlanlr RmniTH nf hnminv oil rose and fnrmorl an imnptifit.rahlA cloud above the retreat 6f . the gambler. Great tongues, of flame illuminated the night and suddenly the building .burst into a blaze. Still the. two wen remained behind their shelter. Aa the flames rent tbe boarding the two wen could be ' seen "running up and down seeking some means j of extinguishing the fire. Finally they could stand the beat uo more, and half burned half suffocated they dashed frOai .the building into the awaiting armiof their foes. - I - i A cheer of tfiumnh greeted them. Quickly their bands were tied behind their backs and a rope was passed abouti the neck of 4ach. They- were led to-jtrre outskirts of ' the town where a huge tree spread a limb across the road. The now. boys gave the two gamblers a few minnS: to prepare for death ;and the youuger of the two was .led under the tree aud the rone wore round bis neck was thrown over tbe limb, the crowd seited hold p, it and a moment later I turned my eyes away from the straggling, twitch.ng figure suspended in the atr. Fop several minntes the at. - tention of the cowboys was riveted on the dying gambler. Then they turned to mete out the same justice to Monte Pete. As tbev ftDbroach." ed him, the man's body seemed to swell with ait almost superhuman effort and be-burst the bonds that held.him. With a single spring he reached a horse tied to a sage bush near him. A second later he waa: . in the saddle and flying across Ihe prairie before a storm of bullets, utooK several minutes for the cowboys to recover from .their s sur prise and to get into their saddles.' Madly they rode after their escaped prisoner, but" the next morning when the suu" was high , they rode back again mpty handed. In the darkness of the night and confusion Monte Pete had escaped. A year after that nigiit, in.one.of ( the new towns of poloraiio, I came face to face with a inan whose4 whole appearauce seemed strangely familiar to ;e. 1 asked who he. was, and I learned t was one of the city's founders, a man highly" re spected and of reputed wealth. : I tried to recollect where 1 had seen that face before. Suddenly the dark night and the pcene nnder the big tree in Ogalalee -appeared J before me agrin, and I knew the respected citizen was Moute Pete ! ' . Convincing Proof- - ..... ' 1 , In many instances ' it ' has been proven that BB. B.(liotanio Bldod Balm),,made by Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., will cure blood poison . in its worse phase, even when all other treatment fails. i A. P. Brunson, Atlanta, Ga- writes : "I bad 24 ruumug ulcers on one leg aud C on the of her, and leit greatly prostrated. ; 1 believe I actually swallowed a . barrel of medicine, in vain efforts to cure tbe disease. With little hope I finally acted on the urgent advice i of a Iriend, and got a Iwttlo of B. i is. 15. 1 experienced a change, and my dispondency was somewhat dispelled. 'I kept using it until I had, taken sixteen bottle aud an have other horrors of. blood in disappeared, and at n, sound and well again, aft. ; I am a ex .8 oi penenipe of twenty v torture." i Robert h Ward, Maxev, Ga.. writes: VMy. disease ' was i pro nounced a tertiary fown of blood poison. j My face, hefid and (should ers were a mass of corrnntion, and finally the disease began eating my skull bones. My bones ached, . my kidneys were deranged. T Jost flesh and strength, and life became a burden. All said I must surely die, but-nevertheless, when I bad. nsed ten bottles of U.B.U.I was pro nounced well. Hundreds of scars can now be seen on me. I have bow been -well over . twelve months." .. . . Women's Sphnre,- - -. - . f r Wm. Y. Sneed, editor xl . the Pall Mall Gazette, was asked if women Would probably do important work on tire news paper of the futufe. He aiiwer- ed: . "Women in the future will take a more important "part in everything. In the lower call ings of life, whtre there is the carrying o heavy weights and that sort .of thing to "be done we see very little difference be tween the sexes in Europe. It J is only in the higher callinga," where there is better pay, that the difference Gomes in and women are barred out"v It should not be no. Miss Lakestreets. "lief used him ( . Why, I. thought he owned the largest abattoir in the city." , . Miss Moperne "He does, but he actually offered me a marriage certificate without, a single divorce coupon attached, and I knew I never could ba happy with one whose ideas were so old styled and conser vative. Judge. - 1 TJncle'James: ' "Well. Bobby are. you gaining any prizes at school now-a-days ?" Bobby : 'No, sir; the other fellows get them alL" "But you will. keep on trying of courjse?;' Bobby : "What's the use ? The other fellows keep on' trying too." . Boston Saturday Gazette. . The papers .say that Mr. Wm, Graham, a utenographer, of Car- tersvnle, Ga., , and. Miss Annie, aged 17, daughter of-ltev. Sam Jones were married at Chatta nooga, Tenn. Christmas night, -and ihat "the parents, were oppos ed to the match." In toe light of. this event Mr. Jones subsequent denunciations of parents who do not make their children obey them as low-down, dirty tcauudrels,' . trifling, fiop-eared hounds, &e.," wiU 1 be more picturesque than even.