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EXCURSIONS SOUTH.

Lotter Bates to Atlanta via Pennsylvania litnes.

Three forms of excursion tickets to Atlanta account the Cotton States Exposition are for sale via Pennsylvania Lines. One ticket is good returning twenty days from date of sale, another is good for return trip until Jan. 7, 1896, and a third good returning ten days. Twenty day tickets and those good to return until Jan. 7 may be obtained any time during the exposition. The ten day tickets will be sold only on Oct. 26, Nov. 5, 15, and 25, and Dec. 5 and 16, at special low rates. The fare is exceptionally cheap. For details apply to nearest ticket agent of Pennsylvania Lines. d&wtf

The Historic Route.

The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the model railroad of the Sourh in equipment, roadway and service is also the greatest in historical interest,] more than fifty famous battlefields.! and five national cemeteries being located on] the various lines of this system. This is the preferred route to Atlanta for the Cotton State and International exposition, open from September 18, to December 31,1895, for which rery low excursion rates have been made. Through sleeping car service from St. Louis to Atlanta via Evansville, Nashville and Chattanooga. This is the route of the famous '"Dixie Flyer" through sleeping car line which runs the yeftr round between Nashville and Jacksonville, Fla. For] further information address R. C. Cowardin, Western Passenger Agent, Railway Exchange Building, St. Louis, Missouri, or

W. L. DANLET, G. P. & T. A., Nashville, Tenn.

A Yellowstone Park Trip

Will do more to over come that feeling of lassitude or laziness which ever you "i prefer to call it than all the medicine in the apothecary's shop. Get out of the !?•., harness for awhile take a lay off and {go to the park and become renewed in body and mind. See the geysers play, hear the paint pots pop, the cataracts roar, climb about the canyon walls, catch trout in the Yellowstone lake, take on anew life.

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NEXT Tuesday elections will BE held in the followihg States: Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia. Watch out for a Republican sweep in about eleven of them.

EVERY business man can become successful by proper advertising. It never yet failed an experienced master. Given good merchantjwho keeps fair goods at fair prices, who misrepresents nothing and treats his customersjfairly, who has daily space in a bright newspaper of approved circulation, and who has the knowledge and experience to use that space, there is nothing] that can prevent him increasing his business up to the possible limit imposed by territorial conditions.

DuRiNG'the firet nine months of this year our imports of dutiable^ goods were $110,468,966 greater than than during the corresponding months of 1894. The bulk of these goods was such as can be made in our own factories. Instead, they were mftde in foreign factories. Work, that should have been done bv American labor, was done by foreign labor. Wages that should have been paid to Americans, were paid to foreigners. Assuming that only half the value of these goods represents their labor cose, then American labor has lost upwards of $55,000,000 in nine months of this year.

Cheap Excursions to the West. Bountiful harvests are reported fr&m i\ll aevtiom of the west and morth-wfefc, and an exceptionally favorable opportunity for home-seekers and those desiring a ehanga tfj location is offered by tfae series of low-rate excursion* which hare bee* arranged by the North-Western Lino. Tickets for these excursions, with favorable time limits, will bo iold 6n August Sbth, September 10th and 24th to points in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan North-western Iowa, Western Mlhneaota, Sovth Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and a large number of other points. For full'information apply to agents of connecting lines, or address A. H. Waggoner, -T. P. •. 7 Jaokoon Place, Indianapolis, Ind.

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What Was He Made For?

By JOHN HABBEBTOff.

[Oopjfright, 1896, by the Author.]

Such VWUB the question which ©very right hoarted inhabitant of New Rochester had asked himself about Sam Minney many times during the twenty odd years ffc'hich had elapsed since New Rochester was first settled. In Rochester proper, from which the colonists of the new town had labored through several hundred miles of wilderness, it had boen the common impression that Sam was made to be either a preacher, a lawyer or a member of eongress. Both his parents were intellectual, and their only child had inherited their talents so completely that when he was 4 years of age he occasionally stood upon a table in the minister's parlor and read aloud "Paradise Lost" with evident feeling and appreciation, although greatly to tbe disgust erf many larger boys, who had been dragged away from their favorite sports to behold this model for Rochester youth. As he grew in years and intelligence, and bis parents were too poor to complete his education, some wealthy parsons supplied the money which enabled Sam to graduate, at 19, from an eastern oollege.

After he graduated, however, Sam did not at once begin to give practical evidences of the ability wjiich he was supposed to possess. In fact, he developed no special ability at all, except as a connoisseur in smoking tobacco. The ministers all liked him, for he enabled them to recall their own college days, but the other oitizens began to remark to each other that Sam Minney wasn't doing much. At last, after reoeiving several hints on the subject of unused talents, Sam became clerk in a store. All his customers liked him exceedingly, perhaps because he was too good natured to stand out against an ordinarily vigorous beating down. His peculiar sort of ability gained Sam an early release from the thraldom of the counter, but no lawyer stood ready to seize him as a student and prospective partner. Not even a Rochester editor seemed anxious to secure Sam as an assistant. "He ought to go west," was the final decision of Rochester. He needed something to stir him up, and in the west he could get it. So Sam joined a party of colonists who were to leave Rochester for the far west—i. e., Indiana. As every other man was obliged to designate his occupation Sam called himself & land surveyor and actually traded away ft great many books for a secondhand theodolite. Experience proved that he had reasoned rightly, for his services were not required more than an hour in a week during the first year of the colony, while the sohoolmaster who was employed by the people in the following year proved as capable a surveyor as Sam and a great deal more trustworthy in point of time.

What Sam did after that it is doubtful whether he himself could tell. He seemed to get a sudden start in the world when a new and well to do storekeeper employed him as private tutor to his half dozen large children. We say advisedly that this employment gave him a sudden start, for it enabled him to obtain a much needed suit of clothes on credit, an achievement which would shortly before have been impossible. The merchant's children made considerable progress, but hardly in the direction contemplated by their parents. The boys learned more college songs than mathematics, while the oldest daughter found Sam so agreeable that she exhibited symptoms of falling in love with him.

For along time after Sam's discharge by the merchant his only business efforts consisted in running in debt for his board. As $1 per week was the price ef board at New Rochester ht those days his transactions in this tf^e wore not large, but he could conscientiously say that in this respect at least ho did his best. But, after receiving notices to gait from every one at New Rochester who ever took boarders, Sam conceived a desire to visit the sunny south, in which land he understood existence might be maintained without labon. Be oasbarked for New Orleans on a flatboat, or rather he became one of the crew of such a boat, and for five weeks told jokes in the little cabin and grumbled when he was called on duty. After ho parted from his mates at New Orleans the citizens of New Rochester heard no more of him for a /ear, when suddenly he reappeared just after an upward bound steamer had left New Rochester. His clothing was not overneat, and the shoulders of his coat were rubbed through in the manner peculiar to the "roustabout" (deckhand). He brought no baggage ashore with him and made no secret of the fact that he had been very hard up and had learned to work.

But the good hearted storekeeper who employed Sam immediately on hearing the ex-surveyor's story soon found that his new olork had forgotten the excellent habit he had learned, but had not been so successful with certain other acquired accomplishments. He had learned to drink, and he parted with not a fragment of his knowledge on this subject He had learned to make palatable beverages from raw materials, and he freely imparted his knowledge to the customers of the single liquor seller who had crept into New Rochester. He had profited so liberally by the free lunch attachment to the southern barrooms that he suggested the idea of free lunches to the liquor dealer, and the experiment resulted so profitably that the grateful barkeeper made Sam welcome whenever he called. Later, when Sam's patronage seemed rather expensive, the vender of poisons remembered that Sam had never been suspected of theft, ao he employed him as berkeeyefc was already se far gone that he could not understand why, after his taking this new position, the nondrlnking inhabitants abased to reoogniae him reyetfuHy. But ho had hi• a*r*Me, ak Aragb A»

The only business to which Sam devoted himself with any earnestness was that of catching sawlogs. About twice a year White river woijld be suddenly filled by a freshet, and then, with the driftwood, fence rails and other wood which the waters found on the bank, would be an occasional fine log which had been cut for the sawmill, but which the cutter had been unable to get to his raft. These were claimed by whoever could find them adrift, and they brought $1 each at any mill on the river. The catching of these logs was work which exactly suited Sam. It consisted in sitting in a skiff behind a point where there was dead water and looking up the surface of the stream. When a log appeared in sight, he rowed into the stream, drove into the log a spike fastened by a rope to the stern of the boat and towed it to shore. The active exertion required per diem to catoh several logs did not consume an hour. The time thus left for smoking, drinking and reflection was considerable. Then the same freshets were the signal and the only means for the start of many flatboats for the south, and it was a poor boat which, on being boarded, could not supply comfort to a thirsty man.

As Sam was leg catching during a spring freshet he saw coming down the river a very queer looking little craft, which seemed to be manned by only a single very small person. The rapid current soon brought the craft near enough for him to see that it was a small bridge, made of two logs and several planks, and that the occupant was a little girl, who was crying piteously, and when she saw Sam she held out her hands appealingly. Sam had her in his arms in. an instant and exclaimed: "Where did ydu come from, little dear?" "Way off to Raysville," she sobbed, "and I want to go back to mamma." "Well, don't cry," said Sam. "Raysville is only two miles up the river, and I'll take you home in the skiff right away after I've towed the bridge ashore. How did you get afloat?" "Why, papa caught the bridge," she fiaid, "and 'twas tied near to the fence Where the river was overflowed, and I

'She held out her hands appealingly. was playing house on it, find then the next thing I knew it was broke loose and floating off again, and papa'U be awful sorry to lose the bridge, too, 'cause be said it was worth 6 bits." "Well, he shall have the bridge again If he'll oome after it, said Sam, "bat he shall have his little girl first."

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At last Sam became too much of a drunkard to mix liquors correctly, sq he loati his professional position. But Bayne, his late employer, was not a man to go back on his friends, so he let Sam sleep on the bar at night, fed him with his own hired man and woman and occasionally gave him castoff olothing, in return for which kindness Sam took down and put up the shutters, made the fire, chopped wood and made himself incidentally useful in other ways. His principal occupation, however, consisted in rambling about aimlessly and chatting in a desultory manner to whoever would listen to him.

All the ministers tried their hand* on Sam, and he cordially agreed with every proposition they advanced. Once, in the midst of an earnest sermon by the Methodist pastor, the subject being, "Our Home In Heaven," poor Sam burst out crying, and his conversion, which took place soon after, was the precursor of a mighty revival. But the brethren were so busy in rejoicing over the reclaiming of Sam's soul that they forgot all about the needs of his body, until one of that peculiar class of benevolent people who must be satan's especial darlings offered him his board in return for a steady job of wood chopping. The new doctor took it upon himself to visit some of the fbithful and ray that Sam's system could not meet the demands made upon it, and that he must return to his cups if something were not done for him, but the new doctor, besides being a sort of an interloper, was not a religious man and could not be expected to understand the things of the Spirit. So his prophecy was permitted to be fulfilled.

After this relapse Sam went to the dogs. To be sure, the New Rochester dogs never laoked food. Sam hung about sugar camps, loggers' huts, soap boilings and other places where small services would earn a full meal and abed of leaves. Sam appeared at every temperance meeting and always signed the pledge, and no one who looked into his eyes when he did it could ever aocuse him of insincerity. A curious citizen once gave Sam a quarter to publicly put himself under the fingers of a lecturing phrenologist, and the lecturer said something about congenital lack of vitality and imperfect nourishment in early years. For a few moments all good people in the audience thought that something should be done for Sam. Then they wondered what it should be.

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and opposite a portion of the bank which was overflowed. To tow the bridge against the current would be an impossibility, so Sam pulled toward the shore with all his might, desirous of tying the bridge to some one of the trees on the bank. But the trees, when he reached them, proved to be all large sycamores or oottonwoods, about which Sam could not easily put his arms and rope.

Suddenly, while making a violent effort to throw the end of a rope around one of the trees, his boat careened so much that both the occupants were thrown into the water. The child screamed, but Sam seiaed her in an instant and was delighted to find that the water was only waist deep. But in the (meantime the bridge and boat were both moving away with the current, and, as is always the case with drift in a freshet, moving toward the center of the river. "This is a bad fix to be in," remarked Sam, holding the child above water, "but I'll wade to where there's diy ground, and then we'll find some house where we can dry ourselves."

Twas old Bretzger's barn," said she promptly. "It burned way up to the sky and made my face warm way off on the fence, as far as from here across the river." "Did it roar and crackle and look red and comfortable T" asked Sam. "Yes, indeed!" said the child. Sam shifted her from one shoulder to the other again, and once more gave vent to several calls, but no one responded. There was dead silence for a little while, and then the child remarked: "It's kinder lonesome here. Why don't you say something?" "I—I'm kind o' sleepy," said Sam, straightening himself a little. "Why, it's early in the morning," exclaimed the child. "The idea of being sleepy!" "I guess I was up very late last night," said Sam in explanation. "Aren't you glad I caught the bridge and kept you from floating way down the river—nobody knows how far?" "Oh, ain't I!" replied the little girL "Then oouldn't you give me a kiss?" asked the rescuer. "I'll give you a thousand," said the ohild impetuously as Sam lifted her off his shoulder and in front at him carefully, holding her so high that her feet should not get wet "Why, how bine you look!" she exclaimed as she saw his face. "It's the reflection of the water makes one look that way," explained Sam, pressing her tightly to his breast and kissing her many times. "But you think I'm good for something, don't you?" "You're gooder than anybody in the world but my papa,'' replied the child. "That's a darling," said Sam, putting her back on his shoulder. Then he took from his pocksi a long piece of a "trotline," a heavy fishing line made to hold 40 or 50 hooks a yard apart, ahd managed to throw the end around the tree by which he stood and catch it •gain. "Now hold tight to iny head," said he. "I want to ugp both hands a moment Why didn't I think of this line when the skiff floated off? I might have

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But Sam did not find it easy to reach dry ground. Behind him the top of a small oanebrake showed above water, indicating that the ground there was lower than that on which he stood. He moved cautiously down stream, but was stopped by what seemed to be a small ditch or hollow running at right angles with the river. Then he retraced his steps and moved toward the little point beyond which he always established his lookout, but a thicket of young cottonwoods, eight or ten feet high, barred his way. "I'll tell you what we'll have to do," said he. "I'll stand in front of the trees and put you up on my shoulders and we'll hail the first flatboat that comes along. There's been two gone by already this morning, and there will be plenty more "Let's climb a tree," suggested the child, "and then you won't be in the water. I can climb as good as Brother Ben."

Sam looked about him. Probably the weight of a healthy child even so small as this one was a severe tax upon his feeble body, already chilled by the water. "There's no tree small enough to climb," said he. "'Twould take two men to reach around any one of them." "Then let's hello," said the little girl "That's the way folks do when they want the ferryman to come over." "That's a first rate notion," exclaimed Sam, and he at once delivered several vigorous and prolonged howls. Then the little girl gave vent to some shrill shrieks, but no one answered. Sam began to tr-emble and bend under the weight of the child, and the child, perceiving his uneasiness, exclaimed: "I wish the water wasn't so deep, so I could stand up in ft and not hurt you," said she. "Oh, you don't hurt," said he. "Can you sing?" "Oh, yes—lots of things," answered the child promptly. "What do you like the best—'Tommy Green' or 'Happy Land?' "Well, whichever is liveliest," replied Sam, shifting the child to the other shoulder, while she sang "Tommy Green" with the best spirit a soaked child oonld command. "Tha-at sounds che-ery," said Sam. "Why, how funny you talk!" said she. "What makes you say things so shakylike?" "Oh, I just felt cold for a minute," replied Sam very hastily. "Wouldn't it be nice if we could warm the water somehow?" "To think of warming all the water in a big river," said she. "How funny!'' 'Tis nonsensical, isn't it?" Sam admitted. "Well,'twould be nice if somebody was making soap and we were standing by the fire, wouldn't it? What was the biggest fire you ever saw?"

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"Not—exactly," said Sam hesitatingly, though he did not explain. He tied the line tightly around his body, so that he was fastened against the tree, with his face toward the river. Then he bent his head forward and said: "See if you can sit on my back now, with one foot over each of mv shoulders."

The little girl wriggled about a little, and then exclaimed: "Oh, yes it's just like a ohair, with the big tree for a back. It's awful comfortable!" "Well, when I go to sleep," said Sam, "you can sit there without my holding you. Do you see?" "Yes," replied thechild, "but Idon't want you to go to sleep. I'll be so lonesome. "Oh, no! You can keep a lookout for boats," said Sam. "Have you got a handkerchief?" "No." "Then wave my hat and hello if you see a bout. Do you understand?"

Yes I understand." Two or three moments passed in silence, which the child broke by asking: "What are you whispering about?" "I was thinking about the only friend I've got left, and I was whispering just what I'd say if I saw him," said Sam, not over loud. "Do you ever say prayers?" "Oh, yes every night and morning." "Can't you say a little prayer for me? I don't like to go to sleep without pray-

J^iank you," said Sam hoarsely. ing, and the Lord might hear two people better than ona Do you ever tell lies?" "No—not never at alL "Then you ask the Lord to let me wake up in the right place." "When the boat comes, you mean?" "Yes, and ask him to let the ferryman take we where my mother is."

The child was silent for a moment Then She said: "Dear Lord, let the man that's been so good to me wake up in the right place when the boat comes and be took right to where his mother is and let her ltfve Hrim awful much for taking me off the bridge. And I'll be a real good girl if ypu will. For Christ's sake. Amen!" 'iJiank you," said Sam hoarsely, reaching up a wet hand and clasping the ehild's little fingers. "Now sing 'Happy Land.' And don't—forget—to wave—the hat and—hello."

The child began to sing, and Sam's head dropped. It fell lower and lower, until, when the song was finished, the singer had a good broad seat. "Don't it hurt you to lean over so?" she asked. But she received no response.

Oa the same morning, as the cook, for the day, of the flatboat Rough and Rea^y was taking a doomed chicken from a coop on deck, he heard a shrill scream, and, looking up, saw a little girl sitting upon something where the bank should be. He hastily called up one of the crew, took the boat's skiff and rowed off to the child. She was glad enough to be released from her position and begged the men to wake up fhe dear good man who had taken her off the bridge. "Who tied him that way?" demanded the old man who was the cook's companion. "He di4 himself," said the child. "He said ho was so sleepy, and he tied himself so's not to fall in the water and drown us both. And then he went to sleep*" "I hope," said the old man, who was a Methodist class leader, "that he fell asleep in Jesus, for he'll never wake again in this world. flatboat was worked ashore at the next town, and the dead man was soon identified. It was proposed by some of the residents to leave the remains, under suitable guard, in a barn not far from the river until the coroner should arrivp, but when the wife of the owner of t£e barn heard how Sam came to lose his life she caused him to bo laid upon the best bed in her house, and she, with her own Irads, threw a snowy spread over the dead man. The coroner soon canae, With all New Rochester at his hedlfc jwd after the crowd came Bosier's hearse, with Bosier himself, the well to do cabinet maker, driving. The coroner's jury rendered the only verdiot which was possible under the circumstances, and then Sam was escorted back to New Rochester by a procession which would have done his soul good to see could he have sat up in the hearse and looked through its glass sides, Everybody at New Rochester went to the funeral. There was some objection made to the appearance of Bayne, the liquor dealer, 1% the church, but when he reminded the faithful that he had been the only person in the town who had heeb goaetically kind to Sam the objeoir tors Wtifce silenced. As for the Pfcesbyteitttta jfestor who preached the funeral teittfttt, he was so moved by Sam's conduct that he twisted the passage, "Who gave himself a ransom," intoa text ap{froprttfte to the occasion, and he spent #o attach time in calling attention to Dam's heroism that he wbs unable to fovpa men against Sam's roiabos ittf lif -iCyf®5 ,T s, •M, ,.j

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