North Carolina Newspapers

A 'J IN-' - Tp CONCORD WEEKLY TIMES jloinost widely circulate Imper I ever published in ill ' C;f arms, .BichmondS . - v wa n, Montgom&jy; Iprtvidson, Randolph, Rt'-.-ilv AnsnninnH . J' : cn 4 Union Counties. garsaariila as a blood purifler aaj build jnr 'vp medicine leads everythfigj ever prowled. It is positively the best. Othen may 'jtafce the name claim. Bui; there's thw rtiuerenee: . ii-opro , '-M . TT... K-Ji -1 iiuij iy an- tiqug-, but by Afert. Not pj What bHt by v.' h Si 1 Hood's 1 par ilia doei SWiff: If Tit bat Cr'!Bpotfiallet in medical history, It totivc!y, perfectly and permanently cures I v. iwa au other medicines tail, That ;. the ' Jkeea ; aMcrimination of the jeepte recognizes its merit and the ieros by Iiood's Sarsaparilla, is ehow-tf ,by-' that l-hey Sarsap.a-. erencsEand elusion of the- fact buy Hood ' q ripainpref tci the ex ' aU others. Hooi's Sarsaparilla ha3 a larger sale than all other blood riders. It-wins con fidence everywhere because the j state ments iu its advertising and testimonials are Verified by all who take it. No other medicine has ever received such praise, or eo ia3?y voluntary testimonials of won derful cores. No other medicine possesses PI id i 1 il i t tlfe peculiar combination, proportionjarid process used in preparing Hpod's Sarsapa rilla, and which give.it merit peculiar to Itself H -This is the Becret of its wonderful power of its wonderful sales, of its won derfuUhold upon the confidence of the pecpI'A This is why It cures Scrofula, Salt iUieum, Catarrh, Rheumatism, all Eainojs, Kidney and Liver troubles, Dys pepsiaThat Tired Feeling, builds jup the cervesicreates an appetite and strengthens the wliole system. Its merit, its sales, its MaSe Hood's Sarsaparilla the One Trna BtoodlTirirler. Sold by all druggists. fL Prepa wKoniy Dyu.L Hood & Co., Lowell, jMass. tioods Pills the best family cathartic and Hvcr etimol&nt. asr to uUa, ?2s J-13 operate. AU druggists. 25 cents. ont Aicena KilU IIKARYJ Mt. Pleasant, is destined to be MT III SCSI . FOB .3i YOlJNa -:- LADIES f IN THE SOUTH. An Able Faculty ::of Nine Teaebers. i tit .r u!i:y reliable School is 1 jo am- 'I'itixu of the management' still vssiuu VyttS tfKVULWVi VI T. FISHER. PrineiDal. 1- r-f cinan, President of the great .v!' W.'' ( '' 'irier-Journal Company, sayst 1r" v'S''-'-rsijnitU,8 Cliill Tohie cured two i:is..,.;. ; hiii-, in mv family after mahy other r, T,K- the leading ' ill's-Mi-s , siiys :M have dru&glst of gooa sale Utr Ur.- :terniH,'a niill Tnnio. Kami ' til ' u r ; w ,,(, yslciaiis of the town prescrUe '' tur rlmnv )hys!cian 'recommen'ds It bigh i , f Mis.-'. Annie MayTJroach, -fordyce, 'If - . i v - - fi imif,rifi v- Mr. Geo. W.'Kirhv. Forest Citr. iiliJ'ERSMITH'S CHILL TONIC :.msiur & Graham Cliinai Grove. :iie MARBLE mil, iuHZK & UTLEY,. I'OPRIETORS. DEALERS IN Headstones, Tablets I St AND ALL KINDS OF cImetery work ,k Tnri.'isled in Jbe best I 7 ' t iiJiiliiiiiteatMitlilf. - . ;'f I'l-t-s . work and jowebt i;'.".'-' iu ,''"teed. See ns before layyjrr fls'.w-heie. Prices : and V.''Kjis fm iJished on y ppliciiion.. m Hincb's Old Stand. fi - - J- S5 ; : . . . ' : ii I. I VyC3t DepotJ Street. r 11 Who caa thick of iom girapte thins to natent? lte 4Cl! '-'v',P?s,: th,7 ma bring yon wealtb. ""1 ltafiw,l" - C-'or their $1,890 prteo off . t.-. S 1 1 w ''unured lurentlona wanted. f VTICK A riS HERE. i i . " - , 1 . , - - ' -r-1 1 .-!- ft I ; hp 4: - - - ' ' 1 " 1 ' 'II I V J JOHN B. SHERR1LL, Editor. Volume Xni. ISIIX ARP'S LETTER. "Fate cannot harm me I have dined today." That is iust the That is iust the way we feel a good dinner, especUUy if we led it-worked for it bodily just after have earned it worked for it bodilv and TVnnfjrl it -Tint. T Kann hn. eav iKiw vrera norof tin j t even the odor of in the !qinmg room would excite their - vuivua appetite. I have heard; others say they had the appetite, but were afraid to in dulge it because of indigestion. Such folks are to be pitied. They have my sympathy. But I sincerely believe that work or physical exejeise is a remedy for both: I suppose that Shakespeare suffered m this way, for he says, "Now, let digestion wait on appetite, and health uu uuLii. certain it is nis aeatn was sudden and premature, for he lived only ufty years.- Milton : understood this trouble, too, for he says that Adam's sleep was sweet, being bred from Dure digestion. That's the secret working m the garden I inherited that trait from the old man Adam, I mean . and I sleep sweetly, too,' after 1 have worked in my garden. - There is no in somnia about me, but Mrs. Arp suffers from it 'sometimes when I amsnoring like a hippopotamus. : 1 was ruminating about the value of a good garden to the family we had an excellent dinner today, and I counted up the cost. We have five in the fam ily, and the dinner cost us only 5 "cents apiece, and there 'was enough left for two or three more. We had a small piece of middling meat, about half a pound, that was boiled with the beans. and there were seven different kinds of vegetables from my garden. The. but ter and buttermilk were homemade. The rice and cornmeal and huckleberries cost a little not much. Everything was well-cooked, and all that was want ed was an appetite and good digestion. 1 am reasonably proud of my garden, for it is all my own work. I prepared the ground and dressed it and opened the furrows and planted the seed and cultivated . the plants, and killed the weeds, and it is mv especial pleasure Eo watch everything as it grows, and gather the vegetables and wash them at the back door and call the good wife and children out to see them and listen to their compliments. We have had a long drought, but I. had fortified against it. Every hill was first snaded Out a foot deep and filled with water, and af ter it had soaked into the ground I filled up the hole with a mixture of top soil and barnyard scrapings and sifted ashes and put on somemore water. Every furrow I opened for beans and peas and beets I let water run in.it, and then put the fertilizer in and planted the seed. had eighty holes to dig for tomatoes and forty for squashes, and as many more for cucumbers, and notwithstand ing the drought everything has, grown vigorously. . It is hard work and takes patience to lay the foundation in this way, but it pays. My squash vines cover space" of four feet square to each bill, and my tomato, plants are five feet high, and full of healthy fruit. Well, now to tell the whole truth I have a hydrant in the center of the garden and when the dry, liot weather was at its worst I opened small trenches close by the roots of the plants and turned he water on and let it run slowly and soak m and afterwards covered tne trenches with dry dirt. Thi3, too, is trouble, but it paid well. Some folks 'sprinkle, but that does harm and no good: It bakes the surface and never reaches the roots sprinkle nothing but grass. Where water is plenty and convenient there is no excuse for a poor garden. . It is bet ter to dig deep and fertilize and cultivate a square rod well than to skim over half an acre "nigger fashion" and see it all dry up when the dry drought, as Cobe call3 it, comes. The intensive sys tem is the best for gardens, I know from long experience. It made me sad to see the crops on the railroad between Mari etta and Atlanta the ; other day. Acres and acres of corn not ' six inches , high invisible. It did look like perishing to death in the name of the Lord. . It is a poor couatry, I know, but they could sow it down in peas and gradually im prove it so that a Georgian wouldn't be ashamed for travelers to look out of the car windows as they ride through it. It is astonishing now how much in fluence one good farmer has .over : the neighborhood in which he lives. They are very envious of each other and will fry to keep up with the best.' I hear some say that their Oats crop is a total fa'lure, and wilknotbe fit to cut. I see a few ares of oata m a field hot far from me that will make a good crop. Of course there is something in the land, but there is more in the farming. Deep plowing to begin with is absolute Iy necessary in farming. . I don't mean dqpp, turning, but deep plowing. I knbw a farmer who always follows the tuf n. pjow with a bull tongue in the same furrow, and he makes good crops whether it rains or not. My 'good neighbor. Widow Fields, has no hy drimt in her garden, but she always has the finest garden in the town," and the secret is deep plowing and fertiliz ing, I can .overlook her work from my window, and it excites me to keep in hailing distance, - She has an acre in the highest state of cultivation, and will make more on it than will be made on fifty acres of that land ; below Marietta. Work on the gardens must ; not stop. Keep planting successive crops "every ten days or two weeks, and have a fresh supply. A good, large family can live well on ari acre for five montns in the year. Raise your own strawberries and raspberries and buy wild berries enough for jam and jelly Then, if you have grapes and peaches around, you can live like a prince! and always have some thing nice for company. A few flowers in the garden will help to make it attractive; and my wife wants all the old-fashioned herbs, like sage and mint and. balm and thyme and calamous and camomile. She has horse radish enough for a hotel. . Gardeningis the first work of which we have any history, and it is the most plcasantand healthful of all occupations. If a man is a good gardner he will be a good farmer. As you travel overland through the country you can tell a good farmer by looking at his garden, just as ydu can tell a ood wife and daughter by loooking at the flowers and vines in the front yard. They are a sign of good taste and refinement and good house- I tcsninir and contentment. They save doctor bills, for half the diseases come from diseased minds mental misery i XTii- ,7, lluiaiuf f ?TerS 88 & ! mdIgestwn. . I have noticed that the pcuiuo wiiu axe luuat uuigeni la. sutu ! occupations are the least concerned 'about -P0118 and silver -and gold and the next presidential election, s The farm and the home absorb them, are a bigger thing than the spoils of office. The average politician wants something for nothing. As Cobe says, "He is just sidewiping around hunting the orthog raphy of an office," and when he gets it the first lesson he learns is bow to log-roll. Ha will vote for anybody's bill if they will vote for his.. You tickle me and I will tickle you, is the motto, ana trey call it a compromise of con flicting interests. Congress has at last voted every member a private secretary with a $1,200 salary. Merciful heavens! Wh3n will this thing stop ! Now let them apply ' for a receiver and sell out the concern. . - But I am off the subject, and will get in a bad frame of mind and have a fit of indigestion; and so I wilLquit and go to my garden, where I am always calm and serene. . Bill Arp. Why not Keep More Hens ? a; marvellous thing that It -is a; marvellous thing that this great country with millions of acres of land producing only wild grass or brush, aoes not produce tne. eggs which are required by 'our population. In the year ending June 30, 1895, we import ed no less than 2,676,576 dozens of eggs of sheus, with an average earning, at the import price, of the value of $321,774. This great total of 32.118,- 912 eggs could just as easily have been produced at home. Assuming that a hen, on the average, produces 150 eggS per year, we have here the product of 214,926 $1.45 per hen. Now, it is a well established fact that even if every thing is bought, a hen can be fed for a year for $1.00 whilst upon the farm it is certain that one can be kept for very much less than this probably a safe average would be 50 cents per-ycar. At 50 cents per year, the profit on -keeping the hens required to produce the eggs we thus imported would be about $214, 000. Surely the farmers of America ought not to lose money at this rate every year when, at so little cost and trouble, they could .earn it. Every year this item of imported eees crows larger. Last year, we paid $100,000 more than in the previous year. We would urge Southern farmers to look into this mat ter. They are so located- that they can keep hens for less than the farmers of any other section, and market the pro- duce at les3 cost. A Groat Brute. A story is told in the New York Jour nal of a man who recently committed suicide, but who, before doing so, drew out of the savings bank the' sum of $3, 500 which Lelonged to- his . wife - and children, and burned the money to ashes. ' This sum had been accumu lated by hard work and was put in the bank for safe keepng. As soon as the man, whose name was Stephen Griech- einer, had accomplished this cruel act of destruction he took his own life. On the afternoon of the same day he was discovered by his wife. Under neath the body was a $100 bill and a letter. The letter was writtten to the suicide by Lawyer Isaac Goldenhora. counsel for his wife, who had sought legal aid to compel , her, husband to treat her. more fairly concerning money matters. On the envelope Griecheiner had written: "Use this $100 to bury me." McKinleT'a Position. St. Locis, June 3. Perry Health, formerly managing editor of.the Cincin nati Commercial-Gazette who will be the chief McKinley spokesman until the arrival of Marcus A'. Hanna Tues day evening, said tonight: V'Tnere are not to exceed four States which will insisfcon an unequivocal de claration for the gold standard. These States are New York, Maine, Massa chusetts and probably New Jersey. In the same way there are about a half dozen silver States which will demand a 16 to 1 declaration. "In a great majority of States the one issue in the campaign is protection. You cannot tala tae currency question to Republicans in Ohio, Indiana or Il linois. This is the great issue, and whatever the Republican convention adopts as its platform will be the Mc Kinley platform.". Did Yon Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles ? If not, get a bottle now and get relief . , This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and core of all Female Com plaints, exerting, a wonderful direct in fluence m giving strength and tone to the organs, Hf you Loas of Appetite, Constipation,. Headache, , Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Ex citable,; Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy sptlls, Electric Bitters is the med icine vou need. Health and strength are guaranteed by its rise. Large bot tles only fifty ceut3 at P. P. Fetzer's Drug Store. - Will Not Support Russell. The Outlook, published at - Raleigh, by Rev. H. W. R. Leak, colored, does not let up on . Judge Russell. It was bitterly opposed to his nomination and is equally antagonistic to his election. It has, . among other editorial squibs this week,' the following; "We believe that the Republican party could win with three tickets in the field if we were united, but as we stand now. divided as we are, we havn't a ghost of a chance. ; "Instead of getting better it will get worse, and all this talk about falling in line is all bosh.. The people did not want Rpssell and they will have redress at the polls.'' .-. . . , Perfect Wisdom. Would give us ierfect health. Be cause men and women are not perfectly wise, they must take medicine to keep themselves perfectly healthy. Pure, rich blood is the basis of good health. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the One True Blood Purifier. It gives good health because it builds upon the true founda tion pure blood. IBS TXJST a3ST2D .5 ITE---I 2TT." CONCORD, 3ST. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 18,1896. POPULIST-REPUBLICAN DEAL. RnsEell to Be Hauled Down and Guthrie Fat Up In HIa Place. v C Wash. Cor. Charlotte Observer. , - - Washington, June 10. -Without re vealing any confidence I am able spe cifically to confirm, with important ad ditions, information recently received. Butler and the other Populists have ar ranged a-programme with the Eepubli- cans, or a pari pi tnera, anout as fol lows; Guthrie to take Russell's place as head of the joint ticket; vacancies in the Republican State ticket to be filled to suit the Populists, and possibly other changes to be made; the Republicans to support the Teller electoral ticket to .-be nominated by the Silver party at St. Louis. W One of the McKinley delegates, st least, from North Carolina .will walk oat of the convention." It is said by a man who says he knows the programme that nearly all the Republicans are ex pected to : vote this mongrel concern, thus abdicating Republicanism but en tertaining lively hopes of spoils to come when Teller iA President. The latter event is expected- either by a landslide this fall or coercion of Democrats into voting for Teller in the present Congress if the election goes into the House of Representatives through- failure of the people to elect in November. . The schemers, Butler and Russell, who made the arrangement last week, rely on a solid negro vote except a few educated Ones. They , also rely on the gold Democrats voting for McKinley in preference to the regular Democratic nominee. This roseate schedule was Butler's, into which Pritchard and Rus sell are forced by the silver Democratic boom. It is the second or reserved card of the foxy Sampsonian, played after his preferred move of absorbing the sil ver Democracy had failed. Butler is mad with the true Democrats. He would rather associate with Democrats than with Republicans but is bound to accept Republican companionship if Democratic companionship is spurned. Seeing what the Democrats are going to do at Raleigh and Chicago, he turns to his former allies. They, fearing like Butler fears, the silver movement in the Democratic -party, are willing to hush their reproaches and rush with tears of reconciliation into the arms of "Mary Ann." Mutaok flla Man. There is a good deal of natural satis faction in seeing a liar confounded in the midst of his lies. The Harlem Life represents the owner of some property m the outskirts .of a Western "boom city" conversing with a stranger. The stranger says: ' ' "Yes, those three corner-lots of yours are fine property, sir." "Fine property 1" answers the owner; 'why, man, there's nothing like 'em Lwest of . the Illinois River. Two year from now they'll be in the heart of the city, tnd people will fairly howl for 'em They traghtto come under the" head ,f jewelrynot real estate. If you want to buy that property, stranger, you've got to kuy it by the inch." ?. m "I'm not buying property this .morn ing," said the stranger. "1 m the new tax assessor." : The citizen was ready to faint. ( Case of Miataken Identity. " Washington Star. ' He had not been pracing dentistry very long but he was doing his best. His business did not suffer through any lack of soothing assurances in his pub lic announcements. "The man who had just had a tooth pulled arose from the chair, holding his jaw with both, hands while tears trickled down his cheeks. "I won't insihute that you are a lineal descendant of Ananias of anything of that kind," he said. But your an nouncement, 'teeth extracted without pain, is, to say the least, misleading." "I guess, was the apologetic answer ' 'that it must be a case of m istaken identity." ' - . . ' " I don't quite follow you." - " When I pull a tooth I'm the man who doesn't suffer the pain." Husbands to Barn. The'Eoglish actors who come over they their here are intensely English when first arrive, but they soon show appreciation of American colloquialisms by appropriating them. A gentleman of this city, says the St. Louis Republic, relates that some time ago, in the New York Club, he met Fred, Wright, Jr., the comedian. Some one was ; telling about a woman who had just married her third husband. "By the way' the gentleman asked, "where is her rst husband buried?" j. "He was cremated," was the answer. "And the second?"' , " Also cremated."- : ; "By Jove,'1 observed little Mr. Wright, "that woman has husbands to bum." ' Condensed Testimony. Chas R. Hood, Broker and Manufac turer's Agent, Columbus,' Ohio, certifies that Dr. King's New Discovery has rioJ equal as a Cough remeey. J, D. Brown, Prop. St Jamei Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; testifies that he was cured of a cough of two year's standing, caused by La Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass., says that he has used and recommended it and never knew it to fail, and and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hem ming, 212, E. 25th St., Chicago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of croup, because it instantly relieves. Free trial bottles at P. B. Fetzer's Drug Store. ; "Inconsistent men in the . Church?" No doubt there-'are; but what, of it? You belong to society, which includes these same men of one faith and another practice. You find them in the same political party with your consistent self. They are citizens of the United States, as you are proud to l?e They are resi dents with you of the town, or city of whose advantages you are 'wont to boast. Their presence does not drive you from any of these relationships; why should it keep you from the Church where you ought to be, in duty to your God and to yourself ? United Presby terian. - - Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, per fectly harmless, always reliable and beneficial. , t -.-i:-.zr: - z . CURIOUS MEETING. Teteraaa- Meet After Thirty Years j Identify Themselves. and Chicago Times-Herald. j J. H. Wyman, of Chicago, went to Newport Nws recently, and while wait ing for a ferryboat a stranger, a man about Wy man's age, came-up and shared his seat. They were waiting for the same boat. " ' "You were in the Union army," said the stranger, glancing at a button on Wyman's . lapel. "Where did you "1 was in the Frst Wisconsin heavy artillery and put in a good share of the time guarding the bridge over " the Greene river m Kentucky " answered tne northerner. Viou did I I twice helrjed to blow up that bridge and was there when the tmrd attempt, which you fellows stopped, was made. It was a black' night ' In winter when we went un the third time. There were only a few of us, but enough to do the work if it were done quickly ana we couia pass -through the .Federal pickets. We reached a point 1.000 yards south of where we thought your picKet line was, and I was sent forward aione to locate xne line ana nnd some place through which we could nass. walked along freely until I thought ought to take some care, and then I dropped to my hands and knees and went mat way lor awnue, it was so dark I could see absolutely nothing, All at one I struck a dry bush and snapped a stick under my knee at the same time. Then a rifle shot came from a picket at a point not 20 yards away, and my right arm was broken by the ball. The fellow had fired at the noise iand made a good shot. It alarmed the guard, and" our third at tetnpt to blow up the bridge -was a fail ure. Were you there ?" i"Yes," said Wyman. "lam the man who shot you. I never saw you, but I heard the moving of the bush and the breaking of the twig. After I shot vou walked straight to the right for about ten yards, and then ran back for your command." 'That I did exactly," jsaid the south erner. " f'We found your tracks in the sand the next day. I did not know I hit yoti. I am glad I did not kill you, and I'm mighty glad to see you." Ihen they shook hands and toook un the journey together. WUl It be Stevenson T Special Dispatch the Baltimore San. Washington, .June 3. The silver Democrats in Congress -consider the ac tion of the conventions in Kentucky and Virginia will eive some shape to the Democratic silver campaign which up to the present time has been carried ou! without ny particular thought con cerning candidates. It is held that the declarations of these conventions both being for silver; will probably start " a boom for some candidate that will have a tendency to crystallize the sentiment of the silver wing of the party. There is a strong feeling among southern men in favor of Vice-President Stevenson, and the prediction is made that as soon as one State convention declares in favor of his nomination others will follow the example set them. At the same-time Mr. Stevenson's silence upon the money question is having the effect of antago nizing the extreme silver men, who in sist that there must be no doubt con cerning the views of the man who is to become the leader. ' Many who are as ardent in their advo cacy oi free silver as Mr. Robertson declare that Stevenson will be the strongest candidate in the South the convention ! can nominate. The very fact that he has been a conservative man, they argue, will strengthen him. His nomination, it is claimed, would have a tendency to reassure the sound money men of that section of the coun try and would make an extensive division of the Democratic .vote less probable. . i . Bntler'a Views.' : i A special from New York' to the Richmond Star of Saturday says: Sen ator Marion Butler, of -North Carolina, who came over from Washington with other Congressmen on Friday and put up at the Waldrof , explained the situa tion in regard to silver yesterday, while Senator Tillman listened approvingly. "The gold men don't want to control the Chicago convention said Senator Butler. They think the easiest way to give silver a black eye, is to have the Silver men -control. The silver men will run the convention with the help ahd connivance of the gold men, and the gold men will keep possession of the party machinery. r "If it should be a square fight to a finish the-silver men would win and the gold men would bolt I - expect a different situation. - The. gold men will direct the machinery and put up v a candidate who will prevent the silver jBdeh from uniting. If the silver men uo not unite euectuauy so as to mase a victory certain, it will - bo the fault of the silver Democrats who will be hood winked with or without their knowledge, in the Chicago convention." i Jay Gould may have been a tight fisted money getter, but a portion of his wealth has fallen into generous h&nds. The gift of $100,000 by Helen Gould to the St. Louis sufferers shows that some of her father's money is being put to an exielient use. It is.a com mom thing for! wealthy fathers to accumulate for children to spend, but it is not often thit the accumulations are spent for pure charity in so liberal a spirit as this. Whatever people may think about jay Gould and the manner in which he ac quired his enormous wealth,' there will be but one opinion about the generous manner in which his daughter is ad ministering a liberal portion of her share of it. Philadephia Times. Pure blood is the safeguard of health. Keep the blood pure with Hood's Sar saparilla if you would always be well. . Monday at Philadelphia, British Con sul Clipperton revoked the registration papers of the filibustering steamer Ber muda. The Bermuda will now be una ble to leave port until Bhe '.is registered by some government and can go to sea flying the flag of some nation. A ...... - ' : - . . - ASOTHEB TERRIBLE CYCLONE. Wyeth City, Alabama,-Visited by a Terrimc , - Wind-Storm. . Chattanooga, June 9.The pKtur esque little town" of Wyeth City, J Ala bama, on the Tennessee river,1 was almost completely swept from he face of the earth this morning by a cyclone wuicn sirucK mere about 11 o'clock xne town was completely wrecked.! At i u o'clock hard and threatening clouds hovered over the village of 300 inhabi tants, xne clouds appeared ftoM the southwest, and 1 suddenly wind com menced to blow at a high rate. Without any warning it swooped down on the town, and in less than five piin utes fifteen business ; houses and 'resi dences were demolished to kindling. Of five ot the structareS nothine could be found but small pieces of kindling wood. Trees as large as two feet in di ameter were cut like weeds! and Itwisted to pieces. The path of thccyclon waa nV.n a a I- 1 1 . J U , 1 It . . wui uuo uuuureu yams wiue ana xoiai devastation followed it. " j F "Had the cyclone struck the town ari hour later fully fifty people would have been killed or wounded, as at that Jime the operators at the Wyeth City basket factory would have been at dinner. The cyclone escaped the plant, j Im mediately after the funnel-shapedi cy clone passed off 'the work of rescuing its ictims was commenced, and at? this time it is known .that Edward Longiand an unknown colored woman were kIed. Twenty-five people were BeriousLv in- jured and six of them are reporte dy ing. '- A Mrs. Ricketts and a toan named Bundby are among those fatally hurt. A 10-year-old lad was found half a mile away in a dying condition . The cyclone lasted five minutes land ssed towards : the northwest, i JOne hundred people are searching for dead, wounded and missing. ii A Sermon Kit for the Times, j j ; Good men are apt to go wrong 'in a year or political tumult and turbulefoce. But it is as much the duty of a Chris tian (and more) to set an example'; of patience, forgiveness and charity )n a Presidential year as in any other. Harsh and bitter words will be spoken. Slan der and falsehood will Stalk a brpad. Passion and prejudice and every evU within us will be appealed to; , dema gogues and wire pullers and brassy poli- A - ... . - uiaa.ua wiu narangue me people oi every neighborhood, with threadbare and! de- crepid wit and thin and watery rhetoric; neighbor, and mend against neighbor, but the wise man who can not be swept Off his feet by the passian i of the hour will go on serenely about his business, holding his tongue, and doing his own thinking: and when the time comes, eo and deposit his ballot, guided by his own reason and unmoved by the fren zied appeals of ignoramuses, whoiare shrieking only for the spoils of office. Such a man will pass through the fiery trials of the year with a clean concience and a pure heart, and will not spead the next year in vain regrets.; Let Chris tians remember, ever, that mixing among swine will leave mud on - our garments. V "; '. "vc't . : f - 'Lynching'.. ... ' Borrowing the principle from the laws of China, which hold not only a crim inal's family but his village responsible for his crime, the Legislature of Ohio has enacted a law making counties liable for damages to the relatives of a person lynched ; within their borders. a person is seriously injured by a mob he may recover lrom rive hundred to .one thousand dollars, and one who is per manently disabled may ' recover i five thousand dollars. The relatives offone killed by mob violence may recoverfive thousand dollars. The money in each case is to be raised by a special county tax. -:k ' .. in Sydney Smith, when he lost mdney by two or three of our states repudiating their bonds, wrote of them as "men who preier any loan oi infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, how ever light." But this new plan off dis couraging lynching riot only makes; the habit infamous but expensive, 'lien will not be apt to encourage the pastime, when they know that they must help to pay for it from their own pockets. A The View That Prevailed in Kentucky, Washington Post. 'X-r' The silver question as it is understood in some parts of Kentucky, is graphic ally illustrated by .a letter which one of the statesmen at the capital received from a correspondent in that State, li It appears from ; this epistolary evidence that a controversy was being wagsd xe tween a sound money man and a silver champion. The gold man thought he had the best of the argument. ' He ask ed his adversary why he thought that tbe free coinage of silver would make times better. 1 . "Simply because it would put more money in circulation"' said the white metal crank. t J "But how will it put more money in circulation?" demanded tbe gold man. "How?" asked the iilver man with a smile of contempt at his opponent, "how? Why, you blamed fool, if you can take one god dollar to the treasury and get 16 silver dollars for it, won't that increase the circulation." . Lived Like a Fanper, Died Rich. Phlladephia Times. .v." Miss Elilabeth B. Cook, of Bridge port, a little hamlet in Fayettte county, Penn., always lived as though she were a pauper. Recently she. died without medical attention Or ' friends present, and the exact circumstances of tbe death are not known.";. She ; was found lving upou the floor some time after her death Dr. H, J. English was made adminis trator, and he got a firm of attorneys to look around and see what her few effects amounted to. Theinventroy of thees tate shows that she Was the owner of over $22,000 of bank stock. She also had over $28,000 in . cash on deposit, and was the holder ot 10 shares of stock in the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charles ton railroad company. Nearly $2,500 in gold coin and $100 in Bilver coin and bank notes were found sealed up tight in an old fruit can in her home after her death . The property will go to nephews, nieces, and grandnephews and grandnieces. ' - - ' a yav vf Advance. Number 51. A PROPHET OF WOE. Atlanta Journal. Lieutenant Totten, of the United States army, who achieved some repu tation as an interpreter of Bible prophe cies, has convinced himself that this wicked world of ours is very near a crisis, which will severely try its power of re sistance for endurancerby encountering the 'Combined forces of all the other planets of our solar system. In this in stance he does not rely upon Biblo prophecies, but upon unusual perturba tions (such as frequent earthquakes and cyclones) ana the approaching perihe lia of the exterior planets, that is the coincidence of their positions , on the sun opposite the earth. He says: "Twice in the Christian 'era three of the greater planets exterior to the earth have been in conincident perihelia 'in the sixth and sixteenth centuries. Tbev were famous eras of plagues, pestilence ana perturbation among men, and now iui luu mat uuio-n thn hintnry nf rrtqn all of the planets, exterior as well as in terior, superior as well as inferior, are approaching a coincident period of omiuious and I cannot but believe ma lific influence. It will culminate only at the very end of its centuiy? arfd may extend well over into the next. At that time all of the planets will be in line, conjunction,' tugging together at Jhe suu, while the earth, upon the opposite side of the sun, will he subjected to their united action. I speak in general terms and upon premises that have been broadly published in standard journals. From the physical standpoint alone this condition of affairs cannot but result in wide-spread disaster, expressed in all the terms that- nature knows, cyclouesj earthquakes, tidal waves, etc., and among men, such an unbalancing of the normal condition as will try to their deepest foundations the institutions up on which the false system of modern society, liyes and moves and has its being." - 9 That the other planets especially the inferior ones have some influence on our earth s meteorolosv. has the the credence of many scientists. But in the positions assigned to them by Lieutenant Totten, the exterior planets will be in their very farthest possible dis tance lrom the earth, and, ltis reason able to suppose, exerting their best in fluence upon our " planet. They would then necessarily affect each other much more than they would the earth, and the interior planets (Mercury and Venus) would also be more greatly per turbed. Are we to believe that a gen eral . planetary catastrophe is to be the result of the. marshalling of the heav enly bodies on one side of the sun ? When we consider that the sun alone, not only on account of its nearer prox imity, hut also because of its greater energy and size (exceeding that of all the exterior planets) must exert a great er influence upon our earth, for good or evil, than all these subiects Of its power ope tSaflhe apprehended aphelion or conjunction is an event in the orderly providence of a beneficent Creator and Regulator, and not designed as a de stroyer of worldsbr a Bcourge of mankind . Tom met an old friend, who was for merly a prosperous young lumberman up in Northern Minnesota, but whose bad habits of drinking brought him to a pretty "hard-up" condition, although ter. ' "How are you? asked Tom "rretty well, tuauK you, but l nave just seen a doctor to have him examine my throat." "What's the matter?" "Well, the doctor couldn t give me my encouragement. At least he could not find what I want to find." "What did you expect him to find? "I asked him to look down my throat for the saw mill and farm that had gone down there in drink." "And did he see anything of it?" "No; but he advised me if ever I got another mill to run it by water." The-Philadelphia Times says : "Every dollar in the savings banks represent ah expenditures of 100 cents worth cf labor measured in gold value. I the government should authorize the free coinage of silver, and thus establish si. ver monometallism, every dollar in the savings banks would shrink to 50 cents worth of gold value. In other words, every deposit would be cut in' half a eold dollar worth 100 cent3 would be paid for with a silver dollar worth 50 cents. It is monstrous fraud which the advocates1 of cheap money ins sjt shall be perpetrated by the congreEB sad president to be elected November next." THE old mm wf;o toots out at the world with clear and healthy eyes cannot help feeling gTeat gratification at the thought that his ' children and. his children's children have Inherited from him no weakness nor tendency to disease. The healthy old man is tbe man who has throughout his life kept his digestion good and his blood pure. Once in a while you find such a man who has never taken any medicine. That -man has lived a perfectly aatural life.1 Not one in a thousand does do if Sometimes very slight indiscretions or carclessuessi jave the way for serious sickness. The germ theory of disease is well authenticated, and germs are every where. This need make no difference to the perfectly healthy man. Germs go through the healthy body -without' effect. They are hurried along rapidly and thrown off before they hare time to develop or increase. Let them once find lodgment or let them find a weak spot, they will develop by the million and the blood will be fuU of them. Instead of rich, life-giving properties, the blood will be a sluggish, putrid tide of impurity. In stead of giving; strength to the tissues, it will force upon them unwholesome and innutritions matter, and the man will lose flesh. The more flesh he leses and the weaker he becomes, the more suscepUble he is to disease. His trouble will become complicated and serious consequences will follow. Dr. Pierce' Golden Medical Dis covery is the only medicine that absolutely and infallibly cures all blood diseases, and almost all diseases are blood -diseases. It isn't a medicine for some one particular so-called disease. It is a medicine for the whole body. It forces out all the germs of disease, replaces impurities with rich, red blood, feeds the tissues and makes strong, healthy flesh, . v m BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OP jLLIi ketds . 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