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I There was private wharf on the ; river's hank, and a wide graveled lane which led Northward to the very front of the great-housef On either side of the lawu was a row of tall sycamore and aspen trees. In tbe spring time the spacious front yard (which was impaled with a strong iron fence, with a massive stone base) was a veritable land or llo wers. Here were mauv boxwood and arborvitae trees, evenly trimmed and systematically arranged on beau tiful curved graveled walk., on the borders of which were many varieties of roses, beds of tulips, lilies, snow drops, big clusters of peonies, beds of : red and purple verbenias, and almost ' every flower and vine indigenous to that soil, which labor and wealth could produce, was there, j Every breeze which wafted its way , o'er the broad bosom of the James caused thu aspen leaves to tremble, ithe snow drops and tulips to bump 1 their beads together in a lazy way, and-bore away from the honey suckle over the broad fields of waving corn I and wheat the sweetest breath of llow i ers. ! It'l'Drc ft nrnnAn nisi 1 1 f . - . (hn unn ' a o n 1 In tlik dauitS nn 11 r ' n (tick ilial nti( i bills, leaving in its wake a broad 1 I .1 1 1 1 , mantle of purine, silver ami jrokl. which was reflected on the waters of the river, the strains of distant music could be heard. A hundred or more of happy slaves were returning from the fields to their quarters nearby, their souls were tilled with music, their weird strains both delighted and caused strange feelings to creep over me. On the distant hill sides were large (locks of sheep and herds' of cattle lazily grazing. Everything indicated thrift on the part of tiie landlord, and that peace, plenty and happiness reigned supremely over the slaves and their owner. There was hardly a Virginian with in the borders of the whole State who did not know, or had not heard, of this aristocratic and historical family of Harrisons and their magnificent estate at Lower Braudon. The family consisted of Col. William Harrison, his accomplished wife, their only son Henry, and twodaugh ters. The elder, Miss Julia, was a perfect blonde, theu about eighteen, beauti ful and accomplished, and, as I thought, if ever an angel had visited this earth, she was that angel. She was one or two years my senior, but I had been so captivated by her sweet, kindly ways, that I told my most intimate friends that if I was only a few years older I would reveal to her tbe secret which had taken root in my heart. The younger daughter, Miss Mary, was a typical Harrison, a brunette, with a beautiful suite of black hair, and gracefully arched eye brows, over a pair of large black eyes. The children of Col". Harrison were just finishing their education at the best colleges in the land, when that spirit of abolitionism, entertained by the people of the North, was rapidly assuming a serious aspect, and finally resulted in the. war between the States. The war had just commenced when Col. Harrison and his son wont to Richmond, where he was commis sioned as Colonel of the Twelfth Vir ginia liegiment. Henry became First Lieutenant of Company D, of tbe same regiment. This regiment was under General Lee's command, and imme diately went to the Potomac River country, where it figured in the first great, "bloody struggles of the war. " George Prentice (the oldest son of Major Prentice, who was a near neighbor of the Harrisons) had for years before this been an extravagant admirer of Miss Julia-s, Col. Harri sou's oldest daughter. Often had this couple strolled in the moonlight along the graveled walks, amidst flowers and vines, and George had told his sweetheart of the secrets which were lurking in his bosom. Like the Harrisons, the Trentices were of a noble birth, and the union was encouraged by their parents. Finally, it was known throughout the community that they wers betrothed. A few days after "the departure of Col. Harrison, George Printice left home for the seat of war, and shortly afterwards was commissioned as Cap tain of Company F, Thirteenth Vir-J o-inia ReEriment. r . 1 1 . U . n n l,nrv in m'rt. The war nao not uccu t-w r.ss before the vicinity in which the Harrisons lived was frequently visited by detachments from both the f eaerai and Confederate armies. It was a beautiful day in January , 1861, when Miss Julia and her sister were seated in their drawing room, which looked out in the direction of the river. They saw a gunboat (fly-ino- the Union flag) take anchor out in the river's channel. Shortly two men boarded a row boat and pulled for Brandon whart. After landing thev walked up the lsne in the direc tion of the house. It was apparent to the young ladies that they were L ail a t-o I na vftl officers. They walked up the broad s met them at stone the doorthey presented their- cards nd rpmiMted to see the lady of the . 1 t. th cards house, tae servant in the hands of Mrs. Harrison, who said: "Request iu fi-"" i.v. spats in the front parlor. . ilnmctl 10, Mrs. Harrison shortly presented herself. As she entered the room the men arose and .one of them bowed in a dignified manner, and said: "I presume we have the honor and pleasure to meet Mrs. Harrison. My name is Leversage, Madam, the commauding ollicer of the Federal gunboat you see anchored out in the river. This," he continued, turning to the other man, "is Lieutenant Bradley, the second in command of this boat. Let me first assure you that, although we are enemies to the South, we will do you or yours no violence. The object of our visit today, Madam, is to secure provisions for our men on board." . 'I thank you, sir, very kindly," re plied Mrs. Harrison, -for your con sideration. If you will make out a list of what provisions you wish, I will have my butler to cart them to the wharf for you." The list was made out and handed to the butler. " Just at this moment the two daugh ters of Mrs. Harrison nlered and were formally introduced to the offi cers. Shortly afterwards the ollicers left, and as they walked down the lane Captain Leversage turned to the Lieutenant and said: "Bradley, was not that older daughter the most charming woman you ever saw?" "Really," repliud his companion, "I think both of them were magnificent young women." Soon after this Captain Leversage again called at the Harrison mansion for some pretended reason, byt it was evident that he had lost his heart with Miss Julia. His boat was lying out in the river, awaitifig orders, and these visits con tinued. So it happened that cue day George Prentice (who had gotten a short fur lough) called to see his sweetheart. He was comfortably ensconsed in the drawing room, engaged in conversa tion with her, when a servant an- nnnnnpil I hut tha LrLora ronfoin harl , . ... r ,7 -r"" v 1 im tu srjo mias ti u list. wi . v i t "11 I H . I 4 II k MP I .1T1IUII1 IWI ('fill m v i i- j -ri;tiii. iv j w u mean?11 said young Prentice, angrily. No ladv who is anything to me shall speak to a Yankee officer. Miss Julia keep your seat, I shall see the gentle man myself.11 Prentice buckled on his pistol and saber and went to the front door. "1 see, sir," be said "that you are a Federal ollicer. I am a Confederate ollicer. The young woman, whose presence you desire, cannot speak to the like of you.1' "Sir," said the Captain, "I do not wish to precipitate any trouble be tween us just at this spot, but if you will walk down the laue with me, we will settle this difficulty." They walked hastily away, and when they were some distance down the laue, they faced each other. Hot words ensued. Then sabers were drawn, then a hand to hand fight. Prentice fell to the ground from a terrific blow over the head from the Federal officer's saber. Ho quickly recovered and arose with a drawn pistol. At this moment Leversage looked arouncT and saw coming from in the direction of the house several Confederate cavalry men, riding rapidly in that direction. He turned and ran. in a minute he was in his row boat, and rowed rapid ly in the direction of the gunboat. As he glided over the water Prentice and the cavalrymen fired several-shots ut him from their pistols. For weeks after this affair all was quit at Lower Brandon, but this quietude did not last very long. Oa Sunday, the 8th of March," 18G2, several corps of Lee's army, coming from the direction oT the Potomac, met a formidable force of the enemy under McClellan. The lines of battle were formed, with the Harrison mansion just in be tween. The Federal forces had come up on tbe North bank of the river, from the East. Just behind them, out in the river, were several of their gunboats. Soon the battle began. "Hear the brazen tiumpet's blast. See phalanx, hurry thick and fast. The battle rages ebb and flow. Under its smoke there, blow for blow. "Cannons roaring unceasingly on; Wiih a thousand heroes gone. They did not falter, they did not ftee; They did not bend the servile knee. "Each had the strength of ten, They fought and died like men. The smoke of battle cleared away, There lay in the ly;ht of God's holy day, Heaps oi the true and brave; For liberty their lives they gave." First the rattling of the musketry, then the roaring of tbe cannons was heard, and men fell thick and fast. Shot and shell riddled the Harrison mansion. Just as the two lines of battle were being formed Confederate officers rode up to the house and warned the family and slaves to flee for their lives. Many of the slaves had already gono. Mrs. Harrison and her two daughters soon fallowed them to the swamps in the river bottom. NiTbt came on and the battle still continued in all of its fury. In some way Miss Julia was sepa rated from her mother and sister, and she wandered all alone in the blackness of night in the swamp, going where she did not know. Finally she saw a light in the dis tance," she drew cautiously near, she saw several persons around the light. Thev were Confederates. She approached them more boldly and told them of her situation. They informed her that they were Confed erate marines, and that they were just then engaged in loading some provisions on life boats for their ves sel, which was anchored out in the river nearby, and that they wouia 1m iuediarely steam for Norfolk, and if She WOU1U U&C VJ, .JJ nvuii hcr to that place, out of the way of danger, 'Xx this Miss Julia quickly consent ed. She had friends in Norfolk; and would stay with them until she could hear froqi"nr relatives. She stepped into a life boat, was row ed bv steauv sailors, soon sne j OUnd herself aboard the Confederate J10 j ix.,i - gunboat menmouu, in commas HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1901. This boat was soon off on her trip to Norfolk. She -glided )on rapidly through tbe night, and reached Hamp ton Roads on the morning of the 9th of March, 1862. Tbe second naval battle of Hampton Roads was just in its height. The Richmond drew nigh and opened fire on the Federal iron-clad Monitor and their gunboat Yankee. This terrific battle lasted for hours. The Richmond had her life boats shat tered, a part of her rigging was gone, finally a shell pierced her hull, she began to sink just as Captain Paul got a life preserver well strapped around Miss Julia. Down -the Richmond went to the bottom. Miss Julia, being a good swimmer, succeeded in keeping her head above water. When the battle was over tbe Federal gunboat Yankee steamed to position near where the Richmond went down, when one of her sailors called out. "A woman overboard!" The commanding officer gave orders to stop. In a moment two sailors leaped into tbe water and Miss Julia was rescued, and was taken on board more dead than alive. She was laid on a bed in tbe First Lieutenant's sleeping apartments, and made as comfortable as the situation would allow. An hour later Captain Leversage re ceived orders that tbe Yankee (which was in no way injured in the engage ment) should, without delay, report at Fort Pickens, Joff the Florida coast. In a few hours the Yankee had passed Cape Henry and Cape Charles, and was well out on the broad bosom of the Atlantic, on her way to Fort Pickens. It was late in the afternoon when Miss Julia was conscious of her sur roundings. In the hurrv to get his boat off on her long journey. Captain Leversage bad forgotten that a wo man had been taken on board, and when one of his men told him that the young woman whom they had rescued wished to speak with him, he seemed much surprised. "Confound it," he replied, "I have brought that woman out on the high seas, I should have left her at Fortress Monroe." He walked rapidly to where Miss Julia was. In approaching her he said: "Ah, can -this be Miss Harri son?" She assured him that she was the same Miss Harrison he bad met at Lower Brandon, and how it happened that she so strangely fell into his hands. "But," said she, "where is your boat going?" 'I regret very much to inform you that this boat is hound for Fort Pickens, Florida, and your presence on her is due to the fact that you were overlooked this morning in the excitement we had in getting off on this trip. I beg that you pardon me for not leaving you at Fortress Mon roe, as I fully intended to do. You can have the assurance, however, that you shall be placed in the hands of your menus so soon as 11 comes in my power. In a few days 'the Yankee arrived safely at Fort Pickens, where orders were awaiting her commander to station her near the mouth of Pensa cola Bay. The boat had just arrived at her post, now arrangements were being made to place Miss Julia on shore in the hands of her friends. Six steady SrTamen were ordered to man a life boat, who were placed in charge of the First Lieutenant. The young lady was carefully lowered over into the life boat. W hen everything was ready, Captain Leversage said : "Lieu-, tenant, you are commanded to take this fair young ladv under your special charge, be careful and tender with her, raise a flag 01 truce, row up the Bay to tbe City of Pensacola and place her in the care of the Mayor of that town, then return to your boat." Captain Leversage's orders were carried out to a letter. In a few days Miss Julia was sent by the Mayor and sympathizing friends on her way to old Virginia, A we?k afterwards she found herself at Raleigh, N. C, here she Iound friends of her father's, and determined to remain until she could hear some tidings of the whereabouts of her mother and sister. She wrote numer ous letters, but no response was re ceived. So she decided to remain in definitely in Raleigh. She had been here lor some months hen she heard of the seven days' fight around Richmond, and that George Prentice, her old sweetheart, had been killed. Our heroine remained in Raleigh for some years, at least until she beard of the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. She then boarded tbe train and went to Richmond in search of her parents. No one in Richmond knew of their whereabouts. Finally she decided to take a steamer and go down to her old home at Lower Brandon, perhaps she could learu something of them in that vicinity. In a few hours the young lady was on tbe steamer. Late in the after noon the steamer came alongside of Brandon wharf. Miss Julia went ashore andwalked up the lane to her old deserted home. What a change! Not a soul could be seen. The once stately mansion was now a wreck. The windows were out, the doors gone. The walls had been pierced by many shells. The surroundings' were equally as gloomy and desolate. She walked around the old home in an aimless way. Finally she became so over come she sat on the. broad stone steps and wept. While she sat with her hands over her face, weeping as though her heart would break, Captain Leversage walked up the lane from the direction of the river. He drew nigh and friaced his hand on her shoulder. She ooked up in a startled way. "Ah," said she, "this is Captain Leverage, I am so glad to see you." "Do not Veep, Miss Harrison, I know you are in search of your parents. I left them all well and ' hardy in Richmond only a few hours since. Your mother and sister nave 1 just returned from Southwest Vir- ginia, where they have been some years in the past. Your father has returned from the army, and they all can be found at the Monumental Hotel. "I heard in Richmond that you had gone to Brandon, and I followed you in the next boat to give you this in formation." Miss Julia was so happy that she shed tears of joy and thanked Captain Leversage a hundred times for his kindness. They returned to Richmond, the young lady was turned over to her parents, who received her joyfully. If you ever travel by steamer from Richmond to Fortress Monroe, after you La e passed Lower Brandan for a half mile, look over to your left, to the North side of the James and you will see a beautiful home. This is the homl of Captain James Leversage who wedded the oldest daughter of Col. William Harrison. L. II. LEWIS. Dallas, Texas. Lewis Ockerman, Goshen, Ind: "De Witt's Little Early Risers never bend me double like other pills, but do their work thorough ly and make me feel like a boy." Certain, thorough, gentle. W. W. Parker. THINGS THAT WERE NOT DONE- Washington Post. In his testimony on Monday Capt. Cook, who commanded the Brooklyn in 1898, proposed a sentiment which we fear will not commend itself to Sampson and his henchmen. Reply ing to one of Assistant Hanna's more or less impertinent interrogatories, Capt. Cook, with admirable self-restraint, remarked: "That is all con jecture. What we did was successful, and what we didn't do has not any thing to do with it." This is an epigram that will pass into history along with Dewey's "You may fire when you are ready, Grid ley." It is one of the immortal utter ances of men who do things. Cora pared with the peevish speculations of cloistered critics and doctrinaires, it is as a mountain to a dunghill, so far as concerns tbe actual affairs of life. Nations take little note of de tails, and they are right. Nobody cares whether the Nelsons, the Wash ingtons, the Napoleons, tbe Grants got drunk, gambled, wore dirty shirts or squinted. The important question is whether they accomplished the task to which destiny assigned them. Posterity has nothing to do with their personal characteristics, their eccentricities, or their afflictions. There was a duty to discharge, a con summation to be achieved did the man in the case prove equal to the oc casion? That is the only matter with which the world concerns itself. The cavilers are passed over as though they were so many brickbats on the roadway. We can understand, however, that Sampson and his following are des perately solicitous as to the things that were not done. Sampson, for example, tried to bottle up the Span ish fleet and make a fight impossble. Even before he left Key West he sent a Macedonian cry for safety: "Sink the Eagle in the channel!" Then, as soon as he reached the scene, he call ed for volunteers to sink the Merri mae. It was done or he thought it was done and he at last breathed free. He was as safe there as at Key West or so he fondly dreamed and he silenced the Spanish batteries every day. Again, after the Cervera sortie and the destruction of tbe Spanish vessels by the fleet under Schley's actual command, and when finally the Spanish army capitulated to Gen. Shafter, Sampson tried to take possession of the vessels in San tiago harbor, and sent prize crews for that purpose. Not content with the reflected glory of an engagement he did not see or the eclat of a surrender to which he contributed absolutely nothing, he reached for the prize money there might be in it reached with an energy he bad not exhibited before. He did not get it is that the explanation of the bitterness? but he reached. Capt. Cook is right enough, as re gards Schley, when he says: "What we did was successful; what we didn't do is of no consequence whatever." But what of Sampson? His entire field is occupied with things he didn't do. Stepped Into Live Coals. "When a child I burned mv foot fright fully," writes W. H. Eads, of Joifesville, Va., "which caused horrible leg sores for 30 years, but Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured me after everything else failed." In fallible for burns, scalds, cuts, sores, bruises and piles. Sold by Melville Dorsey. Only 25c. Protect The Birds. The Progressive Farmer prints the following which is worthy the atten tion of some grown people as well as small boys: It had escaped our notice, but a reliable exchange reports that "The 1901 General Assembly al North Carolina made it a misdemeanor to kill or destroy the nest of mockiDg birds or blue birds, also made it unlawlul to kill, shoot, trap, or net partridges, quail, robins, lark or wild turkey between March 19th and November 15th in each year. It is unlawful for any person to have quail in his possession, either dead or alive, between March 1st and Novem ber 10th of each year. Penalty for the violation of this act is that suen person shall pay a fine af $10 for each offense, to be recovered before a Justice 01 the Peace (one-half of which shall go to the in former) and -also be guilty of a misde meanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding 20 or imprisoned not exceeding 29 days. This act went into force on tbe 4th day ot last March. This is an excellent law, and we hope that it will be enforced. Every year in sect peste are becoming more numerous and destructive, and the farmers must protect their bird friends, or suffer from their insect enemies. Enforce this bird law. INDIQESTION, resulting from weakness of the stomach, is relieved by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great stom ach tonic and cure for DYSPEPSIA. Against Social Equality. Press Comments on the White House Dinner Incident The Foolish Freak of the Rough Rider President De plored and Denounced. A SA.D STOKY FOR OClt COUNTRY. God set up the barrier between the races. No President of this or any other country can break it down. A dinner given by one man to another in the home and privacy of his family means that the guest or his son may woo and win the host's daughter. When the one man is a white man and the other black it means that there is but one more step to mis- cegenration a sinful and wilful break ing of God's plain law. the news item which came from Washington and was printed in yes terday's Telegraph told a sad story for our country. We shall hear more of this. Macon Telegraph. OFFENDS SOUTHERN PEOPLE. President Roosevelt has made a serious mistake, and committed a grave offense against tbe Southern people. It is not so much in his having a well behaved and well educated negro like Booker Washington at his dinner table with bis family, but it is the baneful effect his position as Presi dent it will have on certain vicious negroes who seek social equality. The example is a bad one. No good can come to it from the country, or to the negro race. President Roose velt has made a senseless blunder, and without reason. rRome Tribune. HAP WASHINGTON DECLINED HE WOULD HAVE PROVEN HIS SINCERITY. Mr. J. F. Jordan, writnig from Greensboro to the Charlotte Observer of the Roosevelt-Washington dining incident, says: "It seems not to have occurred to many people that Booker T. Wash ington was the man who lost his op portunity. Had he declined the President's invitation to dinner "he would have proven the sincerity of the professed desire for the elevation of his race and peaceful relations of both races. Instead, if the unneces sary episode proved anything, it showed that Washington is like all other negroes, earnestly lonsinsr for tbe equality of the races, which in my humble judgment, none of them will ever live to see." THE DINING AT WASHINGTON. It will be some time before discus sion of the event of last Wednesday evening at the WThite House ceases, and as for its being forgotten, it will never be. The Richmond Dispatch truly says that "the dread of the pub lic has been that Mr. Roosevelt would be a dashing, splashing, sensational President, and here they have proof that bis elevation to the Presidency has not cured him of his well known tendencies in that direction. Senator Bruce and Fred Douglass," it con tinues, "went to the White House in their official capacities, and were present at public receptions, but the Washington correspondents, who have bren ransacking the records, have not been able to diecover that any other negro than Booker Washington ever dined with the President and his family." North Carolina Republicans some years ago sought to make politi cal capital by the allegation that Mr. Cleveland, while President, had Fred Douglass to dinner at the White House. It was not true and they knew it. It has remained for Presi dent Roosevelt to establish a new record and The Dispatch says that "he could have done nothing worse to estrange bis Southern friends and by sensible, conservative Northern men his act must be regarded as a silly piece of bravado. That dining will undo all the good done by the appointment of Judge Jones, a Democrat, to a Federal judgeship in Alabama. And its effect may be vast ly more far-reaching." Charlotte Ob server. A BLUNDER WORSE THAN CRIME. The Commercial Appeal has always stood up for the rights of the negrw, and expects to continue to do so. But the color line must be drawn, and drawn firmly, when tbe social aspect of the matter is considered. President Roosevelt has committed a blunder that is worse than a crime, and no atonement or future act of his can remove tbe self-imprinted stigma. Memphis Commercial Appeal. AN ABSURD ACT. When Mr. Roosevelt, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, or at least while he is Chief Magistrate of this nation, invites a negro to dine at the White House the home not of Mr. Roosevelt the private citizen, but of Mr. Roosevelt the President he m stantly presents in concrete form the question of racial social equality, and in presenting it he attempts to throw the weight, the dignity and the authority of bis high official position on the affirmative side of that ques tion. It is absurd in him to imagine that his private acts either will be or can be disassociated from his official character. New Orleans Times-Demo crat. HAS ALIENATED MILLIONS OK HIS FEL LOW COUNTRYMEN. The President must understand that he has alienated from him some millions of his fellow countrymen who were disposed to think well of him and to rejoice at any success that he might achieve as Chief Magistrate of the nation. Memphis Scimitar. A USELESS AFFRONT. His next move would apparently show that he is intending to make a campaign in favor of social equality His inviting this negro to dine at the White House is a most radical de ! parture and one which goes far be- yona anvimng uone oy nis preucv.es . 1 , 1 1 j sors in that direction. It is a useless affront to a feeling which, whether rightlv or wrongly is immaterial, is deep-seated and permanent in the hearts of a Tery large section of the American poople. While it bitterly offends these, bis act will have no good effect whatsoever, and really appears to have been without purpose or care for results. It eertainly and effectually destroys any hope that he might have had of securiug adhesions to his new found allies in the South. Nashville News. PLACED HIMSELF OUT OF TOUCH WITH WHITE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. The cheers for Roosevelt which fol lowed his appointmentof Ex-Governor Jones, of Alabama, to a Federal judgeship have been suddenly stilled in the South by the news frocfl Wash ington that the President had enter tained at dinner at the While House Booker T. Washington, tbe negro president of the negro university at Tuskegee, Ala. The conclusion to be drawn from this incident is that Mr. Roosevelt recognizes the social equal ity of the negro. This is something tbe white people of the South can never be made to do. It is plain as anything can be that the President has placed himself out of touch with them, and it can be set down as a fact that the attempt to build up a white Republican party in the South will be a conspicuous failure. Mr. Roosevelt is the only President of the United States who ever sat down in private to a dinner with a negro as hit guest. New Orleans Stales. IT WAS A MISTAKE. While encouraging tbe people in the hope that the negro is to be largely eliminated from office in the South, President Roosevelt throws the fat in the tire by giving counten ance to the negro's claim for social equality by having one to dine at the White "House with himself, Mrs. Roosevelt and children. We concede the fact that he could not have had a more decent negro. President Booker Washington is the representative man of his race, a useful citizen and n able leader of his people. But he represents the negro race, and between his people and tbe whites there can be no social equality. This is not imply loeal Southern prejudice, but is an ineradicable racial fact. Augusta Chronicle. HIS TASTE DEPLORED, HIS WISDOM DIS TRUSTED. We do not like Mr. Roosevelt's negropbilism at all, and are sorry to see him seeking opportunities to in dulge In it. He is reported to have rejoiced that negro children were go ing to school with bis children at Oyster Bay. But then, it may be said, too, that ho has more reasons than the average white man to be fond of negroes, since it was a negro regiment that saved the Rough Riders from decimation at San Juan Hill. And but tor San Juan Hill it ! quite unlikely that Mr. Roosevelt would be President today. With our long matured views on the subject of social intercourse be tween blacks and whites, tbe least we can 6ay now is that we depiora me President's taste and we distrust his wisdom. Richmond Dispatch. "I had long suffered from indigestion, ' writes G. A. LePeis, Cedar City, Mo. "Like others I tried many preparations but never found anything that done me good until 1 took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure; One bottle cured me. A friend who suffered similarly put on the use of Kodol Dyspepsia (Jure. He is gaining fast and will soon be able to work. Before he used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure indigestion had made 1dm a total wreck." W. W. Parker. Qualifications of an Editor. The Hartford City Times gives the following as some of the qualifications one must possess in order to be a suc cessful editor: "To run a newspaper all a fellow has to do is tu be able to write poems, discuss the tariff and. the money question, umpire a base-ball game, report a wedding, saw wood, beat a lawyer, describe a fire so that the readers will shed their wraps, make a dollar do the work of ten, shine at a soiree, address horticultur al societies, measure calico, abuse the iquor habit, test whiskey, subscribe to charily, go without meals, attack free silver, defend bimetallism, sneer at .snobbery, wear diamonds, invent advertisements, overlook scandal, praise babies, delight pumpkin raisers, minister to tbe afflicted. heal tbe disgruntled, tight to a finish, publish doctor's resolutions de nouncing a lawyer, set type, mold opinions, sweep the omce, speak ta prayer-meeting", and everything. A Typical South African Store. O. R. Larson, of Bar Villa, Sunday itiver. 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