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iltfifMimttlftfiiti,) til.. ...hlillHI. .. ... "liCV. r TWELFTH YEAR. JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1895. WHOLE NO. 577. I U J Jl o 16 Boilsat Once Hood's Sarsaparllla Purlflos the Blood and Restores Health. Mr. F. W. Slowell Wllmot, S. Pak. " C. I, Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. 1 " About four years ago iny wife was troubled witu sale rnouin, Aiuiougit wo uieu i uriy ..,n.i J . i sprojui over botii of iier haiui sotiiat ihe could vi y i iiiii iv ftfc ty w nu tniioftu ucirat mm l hardly llv nun T 1 1 it i4'iiiaiir qua nmmnnnnad r I US J 100( id'uHiusannrlila and whmiHUe had taken two bottles lir hands were entirely healed and she has not niiiee been troubled. I n December, iys, my nock was oovered with Dona oi a i srrftfiiiftu Nutiim I There were sixteen of teem at once and as soon as they healed otheu would break out. Mr neck Ifnally became covered with ridge, ani Hnnri SariLilirft liWyU. V WUlVtf narlila. and after taklnu four bottles tha bolls had all healed and the sears have disappeared, I recommended Hood's Baisapaillla to all suf- fHrinj from imy disorder of the blood." f.Vf, Hood's Pills act aslly, yet prpmptly an4 efucieutly, on tho liver and bowels. 23o, PH7SICIANS iND SURGEONS. B. S. IdU'.er, it., M, D. V. J. Miller, M. D, BUS. M1LLEIJ, Priyiclanfrid Surgeons Ollloo S'mms S and 6, Onera House Bulld'g, 8 "'irn: 7 toil a. m; 12 to 2 pt m ; 6 toHp. m. ur. n. . .Miner h residence King tnreei. fir. W I Miller's residence Konu Hill. jnly'Ji ':Uf DH, G. M. riSAVIKR, Treats Diueaxes of Ilia EJy, BJar, Nose st Throat, Main Hlreot, Bristol. Tonuussee. Will be lu Johuwii Cilv at Dr. Broylen' office every rtday. decl3'3lt E. A. LONG, M. D., Officeiover Citir-ens Bank, Harr-Burrow Building. . Residence Walnut Street. ATTORNEYS, HOBS IT BURROW, Attorne at Lsitv i i Solicitor in Chancery, Johuton City, Tennessee, Will nrattttoo In the Iaw and Chancery Com of the ComiUe of Washing u, Sullivan, Carter, Johnson ami uuieol. t;iiiecitiiins made any wqere ln if ast Tennessee, TUos. Curtin, Bristol, rear), . P. Bureh. Johnson City, Tenr. CURTIN &BIJRCH, Attorneys at Law and Solicitors in Chancery, Otfi e-Room 4, Hirr-Burrow ltulldlng, jP"Prouip'. attention to al. busiuess. W. W. Faw. ThadA.f'ox JAW & COX, Attorneys at Law and Solicitors in Chancery Special a.t.'Utlou to abstracts and titles. Office r Blrck, Karkotstreet. sept7 '91 tt ; MARTIN I. GUMP, Justice of the Peace and No,ta,ryrioJic, Ofttoo on M.dn Street, over Watauga Bank. awgSQ '01 tt CIU8 11. JENNINGS. Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery OlUoe; Koom 19, third Hoor, Hart Building, W&, CORPOUVl'lO.S TAX AITORNKY.-Wl joiiitNon vxy leun. . cuiie..u.s wato 5NWMt E iand titles. J'W ann MulWH Ul HILniiLIIIll L" I V ( , LI klJ n 'nil null u m. 8. J. Klrkpatdck, John H. Bowman, KIRKIAIKIOK UUWMAfl, t i r Attorneys at Law and Solicitors in Choicer) Johnson City, Tenneee. novlO'93-tf O. T. LEE, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery. Offlie-Uarr Building, M-trketStrejt, Johnson City.Tonuofstie. g&-Ch ;Cuti lrai ti'' specialty. SBp'9-'9;t- J. M.MARTIN, Notary Public and Justice ot thePeaoe. Qmee-Over Gump's Clothing Store. flOpera House steps. JOHNSON CITY RASS RAND Open for Engagements. Address II. D. bUMP, Manager. FLECTE10 TELEFHDKE fi ' I PoM oiitri.eht,nornt,roro7"!tT. Adnpt4 it ! to CilJ, lilutrwor lV.unt-.-f. iIM In !,, Mid tmst Mlior on mrth. Air. i srrnix innUr lri C l' -V pir elni. 1 1 '--' n in a rt-fldi-no mn to ln to 14 -"iiwuMmw. I'air iiiMrimifiiM. no tOT. work I .' (t,-,vh.ro,si distance. l'jmtlft, nwdy for yv- j- in i-ii'i-". yf p t'f V - rimr out of ,vitr. no rwi'airin. last a ul . i -li.tr.n ,irninU1 A tbw? ninWor. Writs w. P. Harriion CA..Cier( 10. ColowbuS, 0. DUUSH CREEK. Rev. W S. Harvey preached at Bell's Sunday Jno. J. A. Burleson was the giiPHt of Aaron Bailey Sundi) ....Mrs. AUie Crouch, of Boone's Creek, was the guoit of Miss L'zzie Burkson Sunday ...The families of J. to. Miller, Jeff Burleson and Mrs. Mclntire wen, to gather whorllebei ries last Thursday. . . J. T. Carr, Eq , attended Sunday School at Atilhicli Sunday, Come again, Mr. Carr; you are quite welcome, (but what on earth is going to happen') That man who said that the Sunday School at Antioch was decreasing while that of Green Meadows was increasing, must remember that Antioch ha not been organized three times in one 6ummer and they can have a secretary's re- pirt... The base ball nine of Bell's crossed bats with the second nine of Johnson Citv on the rounds ot the atter Saturday laRt. The scores stood . , . . ...... ft i?ht to twe..lv in favor of Bell'. Ynn o - - - mav .-ii nH nfltrttn ,,nrn ).na J " " " r' ' " w " n l - i inat. r.ni. i( ilm harvPkt. Hi.t m- mj.ui ' . . ' you please, but we most know how to . , ... T . . ,, . P'aJ bcse ball . . . In latt week i issue the "Schoolboy" advised Jane to study the geography of her district an(J wher(j BruBh t,liDk8 wbile 8he 58 Btud'1Dg t,ie "School boy" also had better study and find out wbere his part of Brush Creek flows. There are five pronifg of Brush . . Creek. Jane lives on the north prong which rises near, Jeff Burleson's and tlin "Sdhoolbov" lives on thn south prong which rises near Jacoblluftine's and instead of flowing past the Bmts mill, as he said it did, empties into the maiu stream of Brush Creek just opposite John Lyle s. . . .That low d)wn scoundrel who put that addi tion to Jane (the cook's) piece written July 1st, had better keep his little curly bead close. Jane did not write the last three items and all she asks of the one who did do it is to own it Jane did not think there was a person in the surrounding community who vould have been guilty of forging such a piece as that, aud she was bad- lv deceived in rome one when ahe aaw it had been done. Jane would like for them to write in their own name in ste&d of forging their piece. Jane (The Cook). Ep worth League Conference, Tho third annual session of thellolston fipworth LeivgiicConferenoe,of the M, E church, Sauth,Het in this place Tuesday i afternoon at 4 o'clock, with Rev. John C. Orr prealdont In tho chair. About ono nunoroil ueiegatcs woro in attend- anoo. Amona tne visitors were Dr. Sullinjt, of Centenary College, Cleveland Dr. V,nrhouao, of Emory and Henry College, Virginia; Dr. lloaron, of Sullins Collego, Bristol; Rov. C. C. Flshor, of Martha Washington Collego, Virginia; Dr. Lambuth, missionary secretary of the Southern "Methodist church and others. From the first service to the last tho conference was full of euthusi- asm and snlritual nower. Live discus- slonson practical themes of Importance to the young people of the church were had at every service. A religious zeal characterized the spirit of the entire conference, i, HP missionary and con- socrat(on. meeting nd tho sunrlao prayer meeting Mferc specially marked, by aemonsiratiumi or qivme power. Among tho tardea conaiuoreo were; "our Plodgo," "Tho Caunoll," "The League In tho Country," "Our Motto," "The j State Conference," "Our Junior Work," 'Our Course of Study," "Social Enter Ulnmonts," "System of Charity and i - Help," etc It was a success. The It was a success". ataut lf m Bl.. ......nnr.tml van., mn mill' w..-..-- and women enlisted in the good work of making tho world bolter is enough to I arir thn most Kliiirsrlsli blond. Some l - - - - co Itwnntv-two. or more. Dreachers of the Holston Conference were present. Tho next meeting goes to Wytheville, Va. An excursion to Cranberry this morning brings the gathering to the point of separation. "God be with you till we meetagain." Bicycle Races, Tho Tavlor Wheelmen will hold their first annual meotin on their now track at LaTe WataiiMee.Tuesday.Jtily 33,1895. The program consists of twelve events of all classes. Tho prizes aro liberal, Lud tho entries to date aro an assurance of a successful meeting. For Informa tion address Will I). Martin, president Taylor Wheelmen, Johnson City, Tenn. Struck hj an Englue. While walking upon the track of the E. T. & W. N. V-. R. R. this morning with Rev. K. C. Atkins, Col. E. C. Reeves was struck by a switch engine and thrown from the track. Fortunate' Iv. however, no bones wero broken and he sustained but slight injuries. Base Ball. The Joknson City ball club will cross huts with the Bristol nine July 23 on their new grounds at Lake Watausee. The game will be called at 10:00 a. m. Or. Price' Cream Baklnj Powder World's Fair Highest Award, Banner Man to "CliolHe." Dude H ill, Pulaski, Va., June 22 '!-. i ''MUler Banner Man I am in Iwvi very deep decpewately no, don't yiti kuow. Uwufly, miuu is an extremely hopeless case. I have cudeavorcd in everwy conceivable way to attwact the .air one, but the turns the cola shoulder 'o me, everwy time. The late lamented Shakespwcare said of fwcniiiles: 'Biiv her wife's gift: Dwunib jewels of a kind Do more than wnnls Move a womau's iiiiml.' "I have twyed her wife's gifts but even they doa 1 8eem to "PI 10 n,y caBe - Lsn 1 J'ou 'elP n,e- Tltase d don't ytn know. Your dear friend, ' Chollie." war Lnome:i wouiu nave an swertd your very kind letter sooner, but 1 llave Dten very hm7 worming my early black wax calamus. I have alfl0 been thinning the punctuation i. ..4 r marks out of a twenty acre roasting ear patch, and at the same time drink- inc a species of roctbeer which crows :i i : n i i. v n W,IU 1U vrawnsn vaiiey. r iuj ... i,a ii,u, .: l am glad to hear that you are in love at last, confound you. I always pity the man, married or single, who is tcQ much o ft hog tQ ,ov 80raebody IwuldratLerbeinlovethantobea pig in clover with my tail curled up ln bw knot. It makes young men dream dreams and old men see visions, . i :j4i. j .. ., aDd middle aged men, if they are widowers, well.it makes them perfect dam lools "Tis love that make the word go round, And breaka the costly sofa down, 'Tis love that makes two people one So slick you can't tell how jt'g done, 'Tis love that makes the lamp burn dim 'Tis love that makes the girls so slim; 'Tis love that makes you hold her hand, And dream you are iu Bulah Land, 'Tis love that makes you stay so late And hang upon the garden gate. 'Twas love that made the golden rule, And turned old Adam to a fool. 'Tis love that makes two people mnsh Their torpid livers into hash, 'Tis love that makes you puff and blow; 'Tis love that makes the roosters crow, And turns your cake to dongh. xou lurtner remark tnat yours .s f. "hopeless case." I wish it understood right now that I am gettiug tired of eaiin noPeiess Cft6es- ""7 'an l you apply to me for relief before you got so desperate. My reputation as a love doctor is at stake, and I can't af ford to take a man on his last legs and try to oure him. I can't do anything for a man when he has reached that Btage where he is attacked with weak trembles and needle-toed shoes, would rather treat a genuine cane of hydrophobia any time. If people w.nt me to treat them in cases of love they must apply before their livers are all covered with corns and their shoe soles ate all torn of!. Of course this applies to men only. You also say that you "have cn aeavorea in every conceivable way to attract the fair one, but she turns I u - .1. . 1 l.t Ule C01U every ume. Now, that gets your uncle Mine, I never knew before or behind that a girl had a cold and a warm shoulder Blast my picture if I don't find out The next time I get an opportunity I will apply a thermometer and see If there is any differenc I want to know it. I'll take the hot shoulder every titne m min0 iw cone cold 8houder9 and ooM feet In a fit of temporary insanity I once undertook to put my arm around the back of a chair in which a female child of nature hai staked offa claim. I didn't know she had "squalled" there, but anyway , .... i ," ,n""" luum uu"' " ,UU'B Uon and a white dress, and pretty i - soon toe man who run things around there served a writ of ejectment upon me. That is what vou term turning i m a the cold shoulder on a fellow. I sup pose, in my ignorance, i ihougnt tne old man had turned a cold number nine on me. I hardly know what to say to you if you have tried in every way to at tract the fair one. Have you tried giavitation? Philosophers say it at tracts worlds, and it might rope in the "g'1'' yu are lkering fter. Or you might eiplode a few sticks of dynamite onder her window and thus get her attention. If this should fail, your last and only chance would be to fire the house and then rescue her front the flames. The average girl likes to be rescued from some peril, ad she generally makes a hero of the man who does the rescuing act. She generally niakes him carry the slop to the swine in the dewy eve, too. An other way, but one that carries with it many dangers, is to put on your full dress suit and kill a polecat at short range. Then go to some gathering where our jewel io, and she is almost certain to notice you more or less. Tboee who have tried it say that in this way a mart will be looked at miie than the president of United States. There is still another thing I might advise you to try, but u is useless for you have none of it. It is com mon senge. Girls can be easily won Hive Paints, Oils, Window Glass, Machine Oils, Brushes, Tinware and Hardware Cheap at the with good, common sense and noth ing else. If I was starting out to wn a dozen that is all I would take with me. I might take an extra shirt. If you can't win the affections of woman, try your nana on a "yaller hound n.' -" IlannerMan," in l'ulaski News-Review. What Dresses to Take on a Vislu How much luggage you must take when going on a visit depends on the leugtli, of the visit and the number of engagements it will include, As rule, iu our chargeable climate you will need, iu going away from home something thick and something thin A trunk is a great comfort, though one can manage with a large bag or a telescope, while a man's suit case lends itself finely to the folding of a girl's gown. With two or three pretty shirtwaists and a nice skirt, a simple dress for evenings, and a warm stuff costume of serge or a flannel for cool or rainy mornings, a girl will be supplied for every needful requirement. One's own dainty home wardrobe is suffici ent for a visit, a;d if the sailor hat be trim, the rhoes and gloves in order.and the girl carry herself gracefully, no body will think a second time about her dress. As soon as possible after a journey ay aside your traveling .dress, and make a tresh toilette before joining the family. Try to ancertain the family habits, and conlorm to them. Fnrniture at Wholesale Trices. We represent the largest manu facturers of household furniture in the world, and sell to anybody at factory prices. All shipments direct from the Chicago factory. Out large furniture catalogue mailed to any address on re ceipt of six cents in stamps to pay postage. Our special baby carriage catalogue, showing sixty three new style?, mailed free. American Furai tare Agency, Retail Profit Smashers, Galena, Kansas. Ramon's Liver Piil removes the bile. The Tonic Pellet tones tip the system. 1. , , , . ... wuniuiucuiuriuat-crieci ireaunent. 25c, Elm Lone Women, cheery single woman has her The work in her home as long as that blessing is spared to her, and when she is left without near and dear ones she liods that she can be a coiofott to others and do good service in various helpful ways social, personal and charitable. Mothers soon learn that she is one of tlieir faithful aids, and proud of the title of Parents' Assistant. Little children love her, as she enters into their amuscmentp and sympa thizes with their small griefs, frolick- tig as merrily as the gayes sprite among them, and always ready to ind up the wounded heart or the cut finger. Young men and maidens con fide their preUy secrets to her discre tion, and older people enjoy the deli cate attentions which she delighta o bestow. Should work be a stern necessity of this spinster's life, she must often find herself overweigheJ with cares and anxieties ; but, to her credit be it said, there is almost never the inclination to indulge in vain and useless repinings. Thus the real lone woman is not the one who persistent ly and cheerfully conquers the diffi culties of a solitary life, meeting its trials with a disarming smile, and guarding herself against falling iuto that ineffably dreary state which io meant by the designation ; nor is it she who, debarred from all activity by 11 health, possesses in perfection the rare art of self-effacement, and who tranquilly and deftly ills '""-ilf to her "uerpetual maidenhood." Bee Hive Drug Store. Marvelous Kesults. From a letter written by Rev. J. Gnndei tnan, of Dimondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this extract: "I have no t'esitation in recommend- ing Dr. King's New Discovery, as the results were almoBt marvelous iu the case Oi my wife. While I was pastor of the Baptist church at Rives Junction she was brought down with l neu mon in succeeding La Grippe, his home three graces, and the coun degrees on sentimental or other inauf J ernble paroxysms of coughinu would .... , : 4 i. ....i-.j u j t... .wt. t I . ,i . - -.i i'.t . .j- , last hours with little interruption and itseemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recommended l)r. rving's New Discovery : it was quick iu its work and highly satisfactory in results." Trial bottles free at Mc- Farlana & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size, 5Uc. and $1.00. 1 BeS Hiye for Sll06S. Cold Dishes tor Hot Waather. Potted Salmon. Split, fccale and clean the salmon, but do net wash ; rub with salt, and drain off the moie- ture; season with pounded mace, cloves, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Cut the silmon into small pieces, lay them in a pan, and cover with melted butter. Bake, drain from the fat, put the pieces into pots and cover with clarified butter. Salmatrundi. Wash and onen tWO pickled herrings; remove the meat from tho bones, being careful riot to break Urn skin, and keenintr the head. tail, and fins on it: mince the fish . , o - J with the breast of a chicken, the yolks of two hard boiled eggs, an onion, a boned anchovy, a little grated ham or tongue; season with oil, vinegar, red pepper, and salt; fill up the herring BkinB so that they may look plump, and shape carefully. Gainish with narslev. and serve with mustard. . Salmon Jelly. Break the salmon into Hakes; season with allspice, nut- meg, salt and pepper; fill a mould with alternate layers of the salmon and aspice jelly. Turn out on a flat dish, and garnish with lettuce leaves and hard boiled eggs. Bee Hive for slides. Electric Bitters. Electric Bittrs is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed in the Spring, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative counties, anu uuiean inure ivuiu is felt. A prompt use of this medicine tion of sentiment it is my opinion that has often averted long and perhaps t . . i i : i : l f i : -n I ami uiiiuuo icvcrs. xio uieuioiuts win act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con atipation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. Only fifty cents per bottle at McFarland & Co.': Drug Store. 1 BeeHive Drug Store. Salesmen Wauled. Goml wages to sell our Nursery Stock. Apply for terms. We will have for Spring and Fall, 189"), an immense stock of Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Apricot, Cherry, Grape, etc. AUo small fruits, shade and ornamental trees, roses, etc. We make a specialty of wholesaling to large planters direct. We will sell to responsible parties and take note payable in six, twelve and eighteen months. Write us tor wholesale prices. Ad dress: Southern Nursery Co. Win Chester, lenn. wi oiit 3aoy carriages at wholesale prices. Catalouga showing sixty-three new style Iree. American Furniture Agency, Galena, Kansas. VVOUDS OF WISDOM. Patience is the key of content. Mohammed. ' Command is anxiety ; obedience, eaBe. Puley. Merry !arks are plowmen's clocks Shakes-peare. , After victory strap the helmet tighter. Japanese. Minds which never rest are BUbject to many digressions. Joulert. The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. Chunks. Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. 1 'lido. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Chopin, I have g oat hope of a wicked man, slendsr hopv jf a mean man. -Beecher, The pursuit even of the best things ought to be calm and tranquil. Cicero. Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good. Mny.Nevkei: . There are some people who give with the air of refusal. Queen Christiana. The shortest way to do many things ia to do only ono thing at once. Smiles. The New Baby. Politics does not enter into the con gratulations of the nation to President and Mrs. Cleveland. It is a spontane ous tribute to the most wonderful, the most beautiful, the dearest object nature sends to earth, the new baby. For the young mother, whose gracious pre8encb has so admirably adofned the national capital, every American heart feels kindlv and everv American motner in the land wishes her happi . . , . . ne88 m "er m,e8' "Pft8ure- laPa Cleveland is to be congratulated on possessing a jewels for the crown of bir nil iniKo io lu uo uiiKiniuiaieu uc- ' , . , . , cau8e t"6 new baby is like every olh- er new baby, and with mamma is the idol of the household. The advent of a new baby Bends a thrill of delight through the home of the very poor as well as the home of the comfortably well off and the wealthy. All men and women of all conditions in life receive the tiny one wjtn open armB an(j loving hearts, Every hand is extended to help and protect, and every prayer carries the hope that all will be well. The marvel of a new life loses none of its vivid at- tractiveness. It was a wonder to the wise men who gathered about the manger, and it is a wonder today, a blessing, a treasure beyond price, and an idol firmly planted upon the thnne of eternal affection. I luaJ mo vicvciauu new unujr, ij nr.... ri.,i.,,i ... i,u.. l .i n.jl.il .-r 1 T - f . einer wun ww,w J08e')U jeu8r 80n' hve l0Dg and Pr08Per-" Chica- 0 Record, BG HiV6 for Sll06S. Bnckleu's Arnica Salve. Thn Voaf eolirA in iha nrorltl to. Huta BruaeSf Sore8t TJicer8, Salt Rheum Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all bkin Lrup- tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay requirea, u is guaranteed to give id r. .i .r..i .n,......r,,nj i lciiuui BuwaiuuLiuu, ui uiyucv iviunucu. price 25 cents per box. For sale br McFarland & Co. Bee Hive for shoes. Bob Taylor for Governor. Nashville, July 5.- Senator W. J. Whitthorne came up today from Maury county, where he took part in iVio TiViii nf .liilv f olohrntinn fipn-1 ator Whitthorne said the celebration really turned ont to be an ovation to Bob Taylor : "I never saw anything like it he v,A. "I have lately been , . . . ,i::-; ftround tbr0USh 1M,U7 and aJJniniDg bod Taylor will be nominated for I J Governor next time by acclamation, and if be is nominated I believe further that he will be easily elected." "Rpft TTiVfi DmStOre. - o Change of Name. All concerned will please take no- tir-Athatl have chanced the manner o apcHiDg my name from "Kleink necht" to "Cliness" and govern them selves accordingly. Resp'y, 574 4t G. W. Cmskss. Bee Hive for shoes. i fminorotin )-To employ an energet o aeiS!.JKe L.' WANTED- ladv or eentleman Caen COUUVJ. o . J ou.w 1 o.i... tnnnns,nnil and a commission. Address wita stamp. Chan. A. Robinson & Co., Olive bt., St. Louis, Jio. Ramon's Relief cures Sick-Headache, Neuralgia, Cramps, Cholera Morbus, jjiarrncea, ccc 25c. ior large doiuc. I.ITEKAltY SOT IIS. The Rciinr n( Jlerinrn it still pursuing Its 'audnlile yihm for making Aiisttii'inu nnliliis more inti-llinible to the American public in 11 e July number Hi: J. Tinhc Kynn lius an in terestinjr article on "The 1'olilical Leaders of New South Wii'cs " Of these I.fnilers, sir llemy l'nm-s, ut the ripe nge of eighty, is the most picturesque figure; thru comes the new i'rem ier, At. G. 11. Keid, with his associate in the Kovernment. wlioare rapidly sketched in the or der of political prominence" The sum of im pressions furnished by a reading of Mr. Ryan's srtie e is that in the matter of statesmanship New South Wales is not yet reduced to the pov-vrty-stricken condition of the Tinted Mates Senate. Huriirr'K HVr.; will soon begin the publica tion of a number of articles by Julian Ralph who. during his recent tour iu the West, iiives tifiated with his characteristic r.enl and discre tion such subjects ns Civilization in the Indian Territory ( education in the W est, and the pe culuarities of Mini icipalGoverninen till Western Cities, Commencing with the August number, Jlomr. mid Omnlrij, New York', enters upon the llth year of its publication. Its mnnagt-nieiit murks this period iu it existence by uuiiouncinfr a re duction in price to la cents n copy, nd$l.co a year by subscription. The wonder is, how can they do it? Asa popular monthly magazine, one for the homes of common every-day people, Hnmc. 'tint Comitrtt has no superior and few equals. Iu illustrations it is a revelation. The change in pi ice decided uhii w ill no doubt meet popular appioval and nit increased clientele, which is deserved. " 'O, will he paint me the way I wstit, As bonny as a gil lie Or will tic paint me an ugly tyke; And be d d ro Mr Nerli ' Hut still and on und which ever it is, lie is a canty Kerlie. The Lord protect the back a tut neck Of honest Mr. Nerli." This, one of the last verses ever written by Robert I.ouis Stevenson is in reference to the portrait of himself, which is given totliepublic with ks irse for the first time in tliejiify Ow iiuiiuililaH. The lines might have come from the pen of Hums, rind are inimitable in their way. The portrait was declared by Stevenson himself to lie the best ever painted ofliim. In this same number of Tc I VwinojioVmi Rudyard Kipling tells nu Indian story, to which ttenir ingtoii udds charming illustrations; Mrs.ltiirton Harrison intkt-x a serious study of New York society in "The Mvtb of the Four Hundred ' and Kate Douglas Wigniu contributes a story of one of the most delightful of Welsh retreats. The (fatmojxHilitii was with this number reduced to ten cents per copy, and as a consequence, notwithstanding its large edition it was ' out of print'1 on the third day of publication. Not Or. Cleveland, President Cleveland's letter declin- ing the decree of LL. D., tendered him by Wilberforce University, has come to light. It is a polite but plain and m..i., . - BBU8'U' euer,anu evinces-cummenoa. ble good judgment. In these days, when there is so much conferring of uv.icui, ciuiiuud uv iijaiiiLubiifiia ui ihk'1 . , , ...... standing and such an indiscriminate disposal of such honors by colleges that aro colleges only in name, those honorary titles have become nearly as meaningless as military titles. There are many thousands of captaius and colonels and cenerala who never mus- tered or sniflld. the smell of gunpow- oer on a battle held, and there is a host of '-professors" and "doctors" who are self-titled or bavo had empty hon- ors thrust upon them. A degree that has been earned at college is an honor much to be esteemed and so ia the honorary degree which is properly conferred by a college or university of established reputation upon a citizen who has rendered suchdistinguished service aud evinced such splendid ca pabilitiea as will justify the learned body in paying a deserved compliment to bis attainments. But the loose ex ercise of the privilege and the distri bution of "honors" for purposes other than the simple recognition of com- maiding merit have tended to make tne. Honorary tiegree a questionaoie distinction. Wo are having too many "doctors" whose easily noted modioc rity ill comports with their high sounding titles. Titles have become so common iu this republic of ours, people often can not kuow whether they aro dcacrved or not, and one sometimes feels inclined to inquire of the ''doctor" what institution is be- bind his title just as one sometimes feels like asking tho "Colonel" what regiment he had tho honor to com mand upon tbo field of action. But we have digressed a little from the subject of President Cleveland's letter. 'As a successful and distin- Ua'M Besman he could doubtless accept' witiiuub iear oi criticism me honorary degree of LL. D., despite the fact that he is not a graduate from any college for men of exceptional ability and learning are not confined to college graduates but he Iras some decided Views of his own upon the ubject aud has thus expressed them in bis letter to the President of Wil berforce University : Mh Dear Sir : Your letter of Mav 21 has remained unaswered thus lone 1 r - i:i.. : . 1 : . from which I have iust recovered. T am very niUoh Kratilied by the action of the faculty oi yotir university in ex- pressing-uir uemre vo corner upon me the degree of Doctor of Laws. I must, however, be entirely frank with you, for I have ideas, or, perhaps, prej udices, on this subject, from which I find it impossible to escape. I vn not. a graduate from any college I wish I were. I da not think I am eutitled to a college degree, and a few years ago 1 rcsistea, in tne wee ot mucn per- suasion, tho bestowal of such a degree Harvard University. In these circumstances I am constrained , fo-nltV A nprmitmo . jSJZ. . 7"":.- - " , ZV ' V"iB V"5 lucu .i.iv,.j i 1 iu.j i',it xvn nuu fcucy majfeel sure that I wilr'takethe will for the deed," and be as much grati. fled by the action they have already 1 taken a it the degree were actually conierreo. ias:mu imnner,