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Effects Of Moderate Drinking on
Health.

Health.
We ask any candid man, does the use
of intoxicating drinks as a beverage do
any good under any circumstances I
could give the views of the ablest and
best physicians on this point and they
all concur in the opinion that the habit
ual use of distilled liquors in any case,
whatever, is wholly unnecessary; that
they neither supported the human body
against the morbid effects of heat or
cold, nor rendered labor more easy or
more productive; that there were many
articles of drink and diet not only safe
and salutary, but in all respects more
favorable for the purposes aforesaid
that q great portion of the most obsti-
nate, painful, and mortal maladies which
afiict the human body, were produced
by distilled liquors; that the use of
them was not only destructive to
health, but tended to degrade us as
intelligent beings; that a very large
proportion of human misery arising from
poverty, disease, and crime were pro-
duced by the use of fermented and
distilled liquors, and that a total and
universal abstinence from all such
liquors, whether in the shape of wine,
beer, cider or spirits, would greatly con-
tribute to the health, happiness and
prosperity of the human family, and
that they might be discontinued entirely
and at ice with safety.
That alcohol should be classed with
other powerful drugs, and that when
prescribed incidentally it should be done
with the most conscientious caution and
with the gravest sense of responsibility,
and that we arc of the opinion that the
use OF alcoholic liquor as a beverage is
productive of a large amount of mental
and physical disease; that it entails dis
eased appetites and enfecbled constitu'
tions upon the offspring, and that it is
the cause or a large percentage OF the
crime and pauperism of our large Cities,
and of the country. Good Iemplar.
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Baseball Statistics.

The amount of wood consumed in one
year in making bats is almost incredible.
1t would make 131,479 hoe handles,
327.3 45 ax-helves; or, converted into
toothpicks, would supply every free.
lunch fend in Chicago, St. Louis and
Cincinnati tor years to come. The loss
to agricultural interests and mechanical
industries by the employment of able.
bodied men in baseball service is enor.
nous, and at the lowest calculation may
be put down at 1913, 470, 345 per mum.
The expenditure of muscular energy in
one holly contested game alone has been
estimated to be sufficient to break two
tons of stone, saw five cords of wood, OF
hoe seven acres of ground. The en-
ployment it directly or indirectly gives
to the trades and professions must not,
however. be overlooked; for, as nine out
of ten baseball players get broken noses.
sustain severe internal injuries, or lose
their teeth, the surgical and dental pro
LESSONS would regretfully look upon its
decline. -Richmon1 BatoN:
A rat gnawing a hole, complained that
while there were so many holes in the
world there were none where he wanted
one. "You have the choice" was the
reply, "to 60 where there is a hole, or
to make one where you want it."
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An Art OF Shad owing.

~"Shadowing," says a Chicago detec-
tive, "is the most difficult and the most
scientific work in my profession. If a
man is we'll Swallowed for two weeks so
much can be discovered concerning mis-
habits, his associates, his inclinations,
secret acts, in short, of his inner life,
that almost a perfect biography of him
IAN be written. Every mar does many
characteristic things when he thinks he
is.alone that he never would do in COM
pany, md the shadow learns a mans true
character by witnessing his natural life.
More people than you imagine have been
Swallowed for the information of both
friends and enemies. Nearly every man
In Chicago prominent in business, poll
hes, or religion has been Swallowed. and
there is somewhere filed away a document
that would make the eyes of the subject
open could he read it.
every nan connected with a bank,
from the president down, is shadowed.
Large business firms get periodical re-
ports on the private lives of trusted en-
ploves. I suppose Marshall Field can
tell any Of the heads of departments in
Ills StOre WuelucT Luey ol1uh OtouoJ VI
mead, smoke cigarettes or opium, play
penny ante in a friends parlor or faro in Il
gambling house.
az know that the head of a well-known
detective agency in Chicago has been
Swallowed BY nearly every other agency,
and they all have his record.
ut is hard work to shadow a man.
You have to get up an hour earlier than
he does in order to get your breakfast
and lay for him at his home. You follow
him to his office, to lunch, on his business
rounds-everywhere. When he is on
the street YOU never take your eyes of
him, and 1 tell you this makes your head
swim. You follow him home to supper,
and down town again in the evening.
You note everybody. he speaks with and
every lady to whom he bows. You must
stay with him till he goes to bed, and
then write out your report before you get
to sleep.
"Men are oftenest Swallowed when
they are in trouble, and they rush here
and there, talk to scores Of men, enter
scores of places, and get up early and 60
to bed late. A good lively subject will
Head the shadow a wild and merry dance,
and two weeks of it will wear a good
man out. D Chicago News.
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n Poison.

j. S. Nowlin, NJ. d., in the Nashville
(Tenn.) Cumberland Presbyterian, writes
"Alcohol is poison to the body. 1t
Injuries the mind, and transmits its banc.
full influence to the progeny of its lover.
No Il at this day who has looked into
the effects of alcohol denies that it is a
poison-slow, certainly, but neverthe-
less sure. The peculiar direction the
poison may take depends upon the
amount, the rapidity with which it is
introduced, the length of time it is kept
UP, and the susceptibility Of the person.
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A FAIRY FANCY

A dainty, tiny fairy queen
Came to me last night in a dream,
And told me Of garden fair,
And Of q red rose blooming there. (:
Then told I to the fairy queen
OF a sweet girl that I had seen,
With laughing eyes and waving hair,
And rosy-cheeked and young and fair.
".Why, I know" cried the fairy queen,
The lovely girl that you have seen;
Her bright cheek is my garden fair,
My own red rose is blooming there!"
-Malrin Reuilo, in Courier Journ1
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RELIGIOUS READING.
MY Prayer.
What IS my prayer tonight? A meek, sub.

What is my prayer tonight? A meek, SUBJ
missive heart is what I crave,
A heart from pride set free, from passion clean,
A life true, constant, brave, wherein is seen
Likeness to Him who came our lives to save;
But dare I ask1 Obedience price is suffering.
And I have joys and treasures which I cannot
lose,
My heart so closely holds them. Can I bid
Thee choose Z
For me, and wait thy will, anfaltering?
And I would see tho shining OF thy face,
But shall I find it in a servants place3
My pride rebels, my human heart is weak
To take upon its elf the life I seek;
One only thing I ask, for this alone I pray,
Lord. make mo willing to, be holy' willing to
obey. Selected.
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great sound. It is the closing Of the book Of
Judgment. The Judge ascends the stairs be-
hind the throne. The hall Of the last assize
is cleared and shut. The high court Of eter-
nifty adjourned forever"
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The total number of cattle sent out
from Ireland last year vas about s34: 900
head, some 700, 600 of which went to
ENGLAND, and the rest to Scotland.
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Butternut wood is largely used for
making shoes to wear in brewerles and
other damp places.
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Less than one-third of the earth and
debris that covered Pompeii so long re-
mains in place.
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There are only eleven theatres in the
entire State of Virginia.
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"What others did I can do" was the
mental exclamation of an unconverted
man on reading a tract published by
the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
and given to him by his pastor. The
tract is entitled "IWish I Were q
Christian" He said, "others had be-
come Christians, and by the grace Of
God what others did 1 a do" He
began Immediately to pray, and to
pray for a revival. Early in the fol-
lowing winter a work of grace was
experienced, and he and his son were
among the first to confess Christ. He
set up the family altar, to the joy Of
his wife, and the good of his children,
ascribing his conversion, under God,
to that tract. This occurred in a con
gregation in the PresDytery of West
Virginia. The pastor had received
tracts from the Board for free distri-
button, and this was one of the many
good results. The tract was given at
the funeral of a prominent elder Of
the church, whose place in the elder.
ship will soon be filled, it is expected,
by him who received the tract, and
who, through its influence, was con-
verified.
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from the PRAYER I learned in infancy at my
mothers knee until my last hour l had Cos
pal advantages; but for some reason did not
make the Christian choice, and 1 am here
and another chance Strange says the
other, Il had but one gospel calm Madagas-
car, and I accepted it, AMI I do not need
another chance why are you here? says
one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one
who had great brain aud silvery tongue and
%sceptres Of influence. The latter responds;
sOh, I knew more than my fellows. 1 mas
tered libraries and had learned titles from
colleges, and my name was a synonym 1or
e!oluence and power. And yet [ neglected
nv soul, and I am here waiting for a
new trial. Strange, says the one of the feeble
earthly capacity, Il knew but little of worldly
knowledge, but I knew Christ and made him
my partner, and I have no need of another
chance Now the ground trembles with the
approaching chariot The great folding doors
Of the hall swing open. Stand back! cry
the celestial ushers. Stand back ami let the
Judge Of quick and dead pass through He
takes the throne, and, looking over the
throng Of nations, he says: Come to the
Judgment, the last judgment, the only judy
ment!' BY ono flash OF tine throne all the
history of each one flames forth to tho vision
of himself and all Others. 'Divide!' says the
Judge to the assembly. Divide! echo the
walls. sDivide!' cry the guards angelic.
And now the immortals separate, rushing
this way and that, and after a while there IS
a great aisle between them and q great vac
uum widening and widening, and the Judge,
turning to the throng on one side, says: he
that is righteous let him be righteous still,
and he that is holy let him be holy STILL and
then turning toward tho throng on tho oppo-
site side, he says: He that is unjust let him
BIO unjust STILL and then lifting one hand
toward each group he declares, If the tree
fall toward the south or toward the north,
in the place where the tree falleth there It
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failed in the bushes of the soul pay the debts
of their spiritual insolventS Can O million
wrongs make one right?
"Poneropolis was a city where King Philip
Of Thracia put all the bad people of his king
school at Poneropolis 1 do not think the par
ents from other cities would have sent their
children there. Instead of amendment in the
other world all the associations, now that the
good are evolved, will be degenerating and
down. You would not want to send q mant to
q cholera or yellow-fever hospital for his
health, and the great lazlretto of the next
world, containing the diseased and plague
struck. will be a poor place for moral recov-
cry. If tho surrou 1dings in this world were
crowded Of temptation. the surroundings in
the next world after tho righteous have
passed up and on will be q thousand per cent.
more crowded Of temptation. The Count Of
Chat,aubriand md, his little son sleep ut
night at the top OF q castle turret. where the
winds howled and where s~pectres were said
to haunt the place, and while the mother and
sisters almost died with fright the son tells
us that the process gave him nerves that could
not tremble end a courage that never fall
tered. But I don't think that the towers of
arkness and the spectral world swept by
Sirocco AMI Euroclydon will ever fit one for
the land of eternal sunshine. I wonder what
is the curriculum of that college of In
ferno, where, after proper preparation by the
sins Of this life, the candidate enters, passing
on from the freshman class of depravity to
sophomore of abandonment, and from sopho-
more to Junior, and from junior to senior,
and day of graduation comes, and with
diploma signed by Satan, the president,
and other PROFESSIONAL demoniacs, attest
ing that the candidate has been
long enough under their drill, he passes
up to enter heaven. Pandemonium a pre-.
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a QUESTION.
WLen Won arc old and | am old

When you are old and am old,
And passions fires are burned to embers,
Aud life is a tale that's told,
And only worth what love remembers
If we should meet-two quiet folk
And change opinions of the weather,
Could word or look again provoke
The heart and eyes to speak together
The heart benumbeds with so much ache,
The eyes bedmmed with 80 much cry
ing,
Do buds long blighted ever break,
And green the yiue already dying?
What hand of skill shall draw the line
'Twixt sordid love and holier passion? ?
What art shall fix the untailug sign,
Aud bring it's reading into fashion
What Is the meaning Of it all,
The chastening woe, the vanished
sweetness,
If dark obliyions nigl shall fall
Forever on its iDcompleteness
When you are dead and am dead,
Cur faces lost, our names unspokon,
Shall then the mystcrYIbe read
Can heaven bind what carth has broken:
In clearer light and fairer dag,
With finer sense tho impulse proving,
Unfrttered Of th's hinderng clay,
Oh what must be the joy Of loving
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WORK FOR SoUTHER WOMEN
Labor Tor the purpose of self
support was almost unknown
among the white women of the
South under the regime OF slavery.
But with the new era of freedom,
inaugurated and accompanied as it
was with great destruction and loss
of property, the hard necessity of
"doing something for living" fell
upon thousands of women in that
section who had never before un-
dertaken directly to earn dollar.
Labor having been dignified by
freedom, and made "respectable"
by custom, many women OF the
South have been led, as their sis
ters at the North long since were,
to work without the stress of actu-
al necessity, because work con-
tributes to their independence, and
even 10 their pleasure. With this
change in the social aud Industrial
situation, public attention at the
South has been directed, by the
press and by essayists and lectu-
rers, to the discovery aud develop
ment of suitable and remunerative
employ yments for women. The eli.
mate of that favored section opens
many occupations to women (hat
are in measure closed to them in
the North and their love of ont
door life leads them to choose such
avOcations az flower gardening,
fruit growing, bee keeping, dairy
ing, poultry raising aud the like,
rather than the really harder and
more eonfning work in offices and
shops. A capable and energetic
woman can direct the work of many
suitable Out-OfdoOr occupations
with much greater pleasure and
profit. aud with less loss of nervous
force, than result from school teach
ing, writing, clerking or other Of
the emplOyments usually chosen by
her sex. The new South will yet
prove to be an inviting field for
self-supporting women. = Boston
Herald.
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THE TIRED EDITOR TAKES A

THE TIRED EDITOR TAKES A
REsT.-Last week the tired editor,
after labOring hard in the vineyard,
concluded that he would go out
among Ihe brethren. While down
in the Dry Fork neighborhood We
preached at EbeneZer, and accom-
panied Brother Sam Hayfoot home
to dinner. There we're several of
the brethren present, and among
them we we're pleased to notice old
Brother Shopwell He is an old
servant of the old, and had the
smallpox kept out of the way we
think that his countenanee would
have escaped great wrong. Sis
ter Hayioot, kind reader, knows
how to get up good dinner. She
has our idea of cooking cabbage,
for, like us she thinks that they
should be boiled until all their
6rittlenesS melts iuto the evcrlast-
ing pot. After having served the
inner man we again assembled in
tue sitting room, and where Sister
Stoveall favored us with a hymn
and IS cents, for which she wanted
six mouths subscription. One
dollar would have struck us with
little more warmth, but in these
days of sin and hard times halt
loaf is much better than "a Boston
cracker. Brother Smithield, IL
good old soul as ever lived, dc
clares that he will take the paper
when he sells his red steer. Gentle
reader, do you know of any one
who wants to buy a steer.-ArkaH-
salp WeekIU.
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A FAMOUS ORPHAN GIRL.-Onc

A FAMOUS ORPHAN GIRL.-Once
upon time a little orphan girl
lived With an ill-tempered old wO-
man named Sarah, imam almshouse
in Stockholm. JOhanne, as the
lassie was named. used to make
bair plaits, and whenever Sarah
took them to market to sell them,
she would lock the door aud keep
poor JOhanne peisoner till she
came back. But Johanne was u
was a good little girl, aud tried to
forget her troubles by working
as hard as she could.
However, one fine day she lcOuld
not help crying assbe thoughtofh her
loneliness, but noticing the cat as
neglected as herself, she drled up
her tears, took it mp in her lap, and
nursed it till it fell asleep.
Then she opened the window TO
let in the summer breeze, and be.
gan to sing with lighter heart as
she worked at her plaits. Aud as
she sang, her beautiful voice at
lady, who stopped her
that she might IisteU.
The neIghbOIs told her abOnt
JOhanne, and the lady placed her
in school. Then she was cutered
as pupil elsewhere, aud in course
OF time. under the name of Jenny
Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale,~
became tho famonSe singer of her
day-Liftle Foll-8 Maoazine.
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STATE DIRECTORY.

Governor-R Robert Lowry
cutcnant- -Govoruor-G u. Stands.
Treasurer W. l.. Hemingway.
Secretary of State--ll &. Myers
AUDITORS. Gwiu.
Attorney General-T. c. Catchings.
Sup't of Edncation-,I. A. Smith.
Librarian-Mrs. NJ. Moraucy.
Sup't Penitentiary- j. Aoegiston.
Sup't Insane Asy ylum-Dr. T. C. Mitchell
Sup't Deaf and Dumb lustitute--R.
Duybihs.
Supt Blind Institute-Dr. W. S. Lang
Icy.
R,venuc Ageut--Wirt Adams.
Land COmmissioner-li. ID. Cameron.
SUPREME COURT.
Chief Justice. A, r. Campbell
Associate Justices-James N. Arnold,
Tim +. Cooper.
Clerk Oliver Clifton.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONS ErS.
john NJ. Sto ae, president; w. i Au-
gustus. w. A. Melville, members; c. c.
Campbell clerk.
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Societies

GULF LODGE KNIGHTS or Honor No.
2is4-Meets on first and fourth Saturday
u ehts of each month. w. ID. Bragg, D.;
Ira w. Broome. V. D.; +. 4. Hendon, A.
d.. J. X. Mcleod, r.; 4. w. Morrill,, +.
R.; G. J. Anderson, G.. Jos. Schoffler, G.;
z. b. Smith, S. Medical Examiners-Drs.
w. ID. Bragg and J. X. Mcleod.
PAscAGoULA LODGE A. L. AND A. VI.
No. 2O2 meets thhd Saturday night IN
each mouth. I. A. Coulsou, W. NJ. /;
w. Watkins. s. W.; JILL. Dautzler J. w;
A. Blumer, Treas; G. i. Wood, See'y /;
j. X. Mcleod. S. D.; II. G. Dempf, J. d.;
G.. L. Howe, S. and I.
II. l.. HOWE X. A. CHAPTER No. 1S5---
Meets second Saturday night in each
month. T. A. CoulsOn, II. P; J. W.
Morris. King.
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OI Saturday morning a reving
maniac rushed up and down Chest
nut street, in Philadelphia, creating
CONSERVATION among the pedes-
trians OF that busy thOroughfare.
81 am on fire,T he shouted. al am
a brand suatched from a burning,
seething hell. Don't you know me I
Ian O'DOnovan Mazziui Dolgofski,
Polish Italian Irishman. My
father WAS n sunbeam and my
mother a snowflake, and | glinted
from an emerald in the North sea.
l am the electric light OF eternity
aud death shadows my CLEANS. In
an hour l will be in London aud st.
Petersburg, aud you'll see. Here,
you see this taking bean out OF
his pocket ! This is VeSusius. l
feed on lava, and when l explode
the earth shall raa 10 aelted bfiiH-
stone. Ny fingers are daggers
tipped with poison, my mouth is a
oaunOn aud my tongue a bomb.
Tue fnse is lighted aud the circuit
established. In two minutes there
will be war. Mrs. Dudley has one
end Of the string, the Mahdi auoth-
er and ROSSa auOther.S
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Postoliee ana sIaIIs.

Posrofice open from am. TO g pm.
every day.
on Sundays open from to 10a.m. and
from 1 to 2 PIN.
Letters for register will be received
during The week from am. till $3.50 p m.
No letters registered on Sundays, nor after
hours on week days.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF NAILS.
IRON ScroHiOit---Auives at -:35 an. al d
Ills pm. Departs at 9:l5 am. ard
3;4s pm.
Loakosuiue RoHte---ATives on Wedr es-
DAYS aud Saturdays at 6 pm. Depi IT'S
on Mondays Esd Thursdays at 6 am.
Z. CAsrANERA. +. n.
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Chancery Court Seventh Dist.
LII ~ 1 ,-rrc. IL 1 No I,l.n....Il..r

jackson county frst MnndaYOi Mhifh ana oep-
temher. continuing six days.
Harrison county second Monday in March and
September continuing six days.
Hancock county third Monday IN Alareh and
September, continuing six days.
Greene county, second Monday a AlIl and DC
tober continuing six days.
Marion county, fourth Monday in March amt
Septemher continuing six days
Perry county first Monday Gfter the fourth Mon
dnv in March and September continuing six days,
Wayne county fourth Monday after the fourth
Monday Of March and September continuing six
days
Clarke county, first Monday in May and Soyom-
Der, continuing six days.
Lauderdale county, third Monday Of May and
November continuing twelve days.
Kpmper county, second Monday in May and No
vomher. continuing siN days
Monthly riles of Chancary Court on second Aen-
dav In each month.
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Job Printing.
Cita ion VOtice.

The State of l-issis ippi, jackson County.
To Robert Z Patt rson:
You ave heroby commanded to appear
before the Chancerv Court Of Jackzon
county. IN said State, on the
First Monday in March, 1885,
to defend the suii in said Court Of Clara
Patterson, wherein vou are defendant.
w. Il. DENNY, Clerk.
]. G. Heideiberr Solicitor for CnHrlsiuHrts
February s, les. 49it
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A SAD MIsTAKE.-aBuckle my
shoe, Egbert, dear" said q Chicago
belle to ber near sighted 6anoe.
Egbert went down on his knee
like a true knight, but, as be had
lost bis eyeglass, his vision was a.
little uncertain.
as this your tOOt darling r ho
inquired.
"1on bet" she said.
"AE, pavilion, III tboughf u
was the lounge
Eseert Is 0ow dlseugased.