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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEF, S. C., NOVEMBER 26, 1896. 3 FRESH AND QUAINT. : prio:> from Everyday Llfo Down on Rocky Croek. Andy I.ti-m and IHov Scrogrrlnn Vlayed a Yallcr-Oog Tri<-:i «;n I'nrlo Miko VVillimns — Elder Newberry mu! Ills Ooctrlue. -lf|L "One tiling 1 brings up another," ns old Aunt Liza Jlaiboru said oncst uj)on a time when she give me a tre- mendius b i g dost of ipecac. \nd so when I saw old in n n Mike Williams, ns he rid by our house one frosty m o r n i n hist week, I couldn’t help from think- in h few stanzas f-. L’b; » ■ C> I • ^ 'Vt/ '• T v V/ '- -1^ 1% In regards to the dim and dusty past. I thought about the time when me and Hlrv Snv: gins and Andy Luens lift up his \oico in the dead hours of night, any say everything in the United States language exceptin his Sunday (school lesson. Along In ttic Christina*. It was a vale mean, yaller dog trick, and if wo had to make the same trip over, as for me, I would a whole lot ruth- er turn round mnl come back before we charted. Mind you, now, that was In the'dead of winter—way along in the Christmas —and cue freezin cold night us boys rid three abreast along the old stage road on our return back from town. Naturally, of course, owln to the fu rious bad weather, we had changed our breath right frequent that day, and consequentially by this time two or three of us was feelin our keepin pow erful. In my day and generation I have traveled that same road a thou- rand thins in oom]iany with the same two fellow citizens. Hut I never saw BW and Andy ride out of town on a eoid winter night, tanked up on “white ink" and “sperits-of-ents-a-fightln’’ to the extent of about six bits in the dol lar, hut what t hey got into some sort of devilment Ixdore they rounded up at home. That night nothin had come to pas's out of (he common run when we got to the Williams place, ridin three abreast in a swingin gallop; but right along there Iilev and Andy pulled in their horses and come to a dead halt all of a suddent. In the maintime you must keeper, remembrance of the fact that the weather was cold enough to freeze the tail off a brass monkey, whilst the frost was on the bosom of the earth like snow on a trash pile. A Vlaln Case of Pnsbcncy. So then and there, right out in the middle of the big road, in front of the Williams place, Blev and Andy they halted and hailed and called forold man Mike. They wanted to see him, and they had 1o roc him right away imme diately, if not sooner. They whooped and they hollered and went on at such a seandlous high rate till I reckoned old man Mil e lowed somebody must be killed or crippled unto death. The truth is they kicked up such a tremendius big excitement out there In the road t ill Ihe old man didn't take time to make his appearment in full dress. lie jumped out of his nice, warm gooRehair bed, sorter Hung his clothes at himself, and come bustinout to the road in his sock feet, with only two or three garments on his hod} - . He wanted to know, in a loud voice, what In the round created world was the mat ter, and who was hurt. 111 ov and Andy they fumbled and fooled around for a long time tryln to make the oli^ man think that somethin awful had come to pass. In the maintlmo, you understand, old man Mike he was standin out there in the cold draft, shiverin and shakin like a leaf in a storm, whilst the win- ten- wind blowed through his whiskers, fore and aft, at the rates of 00 miles a minute. Finally at last Andy he went down into his saddlebags, came forth with his bottle of “white ink,” and went on to say: “We wouldn't do this only in a plain ease of pu -honey. But the weather is most hellatious cold to-night. Uncle Mike, and wo ’lowed it may lx- mought he b>-s! for your general health to git up and come out and take a little thin one with us. and then go to bed right." Well, man sir. unto This blessed day every time 1 think about the trials of that winter night I give thanks that old man Mike didn’t have ids shotgun handy when he found out what was what ami who w as who. Of all the drag- gin and eu sin and vlllifyin you ever heard toll of, we took it then and there. And as we rid olT three abreast in a gallop up the road it did seem to me like the midnight winter air was blue and hot for miles and miles around. The great wonderment to me is that old man Mi).<• didn’t pick his time after that and name his man to ride feet fore most and head ;. funeral procession in the sett! ment. But he never did. I.vt tin- Other I’t'Jlow fret. That has always been the mnincst doctrine pn achcd forth on the earth i.nd union/ t men by Klder Newberry: “Let the otlu r fellow do the frettin.” "Life is too mortal long and time is too ih-etin. Itufe, for a man to wear himself out worrvln and frettin,” the elder has bci n wont totellme. “Let the other fellow do the frettin. No mat ter how much money you owe— whether the price of cotton goes up or down no difference who is elected— take my d n-trlnc and let the other fel low do the frettin.’’ Well, ia la t Monday inornin tho ohh r w u;i nd out by time. The i ! intm v . a! out to fail down which of com I !i<} w ill need the tlreplncc in durin of tin- w inter and he had took the jolt and lit in to fix it. With his n ubbin hue In one linnd and a spade in the othi r ho went under the house to dig around the basement of the chim ney so as t« make it settle down and stand up straight. In the maintime Mises Newberry she bad went out lookin around toseo what the elder was up to and how it was com in on. By some hook or mrr- crook she dropped her fly bonnet out there in the yard and left it w hen she went on out into the garden. The elder he went on diggin and spadin and teurin np the bowels of the earth till presently lie got the chimney clean out of whack and the blame thing let- loose and went down ia one fell clat ter. The fall was so great and suddent like till it rattled the elder for the pres ent, but be soon recovered and come forth to take a look at the ruins. Mises Newberry was out In the gar den by this time, and she viewed the general ruination from afar. But for years and years she had heard the elder preach forth his doctrine: “Let the other fellow do the frettin”—nnd so she thought It mought lx* a good time to practice what he preached. The elder went on fumblin around and talkin low to himself a few minnits, when all of a suddent he discovered the strings of his wife’s fly bonnet, under the wreck ami ruins of the chimney which had fell, and for a little more he would have fainted and fell over in it. Then he put intoea?lin"Winnie—which that, is his wife’smaidenname. Hecalled her loud nnd frequent, but his “Winnie” was not there, hut in the garden inugh- In all over and savin to herself: “Let the other fellow do the frettin.” In that awful and solemneholy mo ment tho elder took up a notion that, his good wife—on-c that had been his side partner through good and bad re ports—was somewheres down under the ruins mashed to death. You couldn’t fool him in regards to them bonnet, strings, which he had bought the check homespun with his first cot ton money. He fell <6 his knees, he did, and prayed n short, fervent prayer, and then he put. out over to the Pick ens place to spread the awful news amongst the neighbors. For the first time in 40 years the cider untied his legs in a. foot race, and naturally burnt the wind and startled the native air as he. went- In little or no itime he was back there with a. crowd of the neighbors, weepin and wnilin and enrryin on seandlous around the ruins of the chimney which had fell. They hud all about give it up that. Mines Neulierry was dead, and the next, question was in regards to how they would remove the ruins and rdoever t he remains, when, by gracious, the old lady—which by this time she had picked a good mess of turn ip greens for dinner—come pacin out of the gar den, hiimnrin some familious old tune to herself and looking ns pleasant as a basket of chips. And if she had riz from the grave nnd come forth oncst. more in the flcoh it wouldn’t of been more suddent and surprisin and joyful like to the elder nnd the neighbors. “Why in all the round discovered, world didn't you toll me where you was at, Winnie?” says the elder. “I lowed it was a good time of year to practice what you, preach,” says she, “and so I let tlie other fellow do the frettin.” SIN AND RELIGION. Arp Mixes OIrcusos and Proachors In Hia Essay. tho lloth Hero to Stay Awlillo—|tohln»on’s HpanRlos mnl l)r. Wilsoii-* ttcriuomi Arc Old I-’rlondn of nartow’n I'liltosoplicr. The Election In Itocky (‘reck. It is ruther late to he givin out news of the general election, but from letters and things which have been sent to me it would seem like everybody wants to know for certain how the eld cat jumped in Hooky Creek. And who is there to tell the news—who but me? Well, ouest upon a time William Au gustus (this) Crittenden was rfmnin a race for the state senate. From nil the general appear men ts I am satis fied that Gus raley did want to win the race. He wanted that job, Gus did, and he wanted it so monstrous bad till I reckon he could taste it. Anyhow, when Gus come down into our settlement to make a speech he found the people powerful bad stirred upon the whisky question. Some w ant ed the whisky laws spiled out, anil some didn't, hut to save his life Gus ouhln’t tell which side belt the strong est hand. So, consequentially, in dur in of Ids speech, when old man Jerry llutheirford riz up and wanted to know how he stood on the whisky question, Gus coughed and spit and cleared his throat .and lifted up his voice and re sponded hack: “When it comes to that pint, fellow citizens, I must he plain-spoken and honest, and E pledge you my word that 1 am perfectly all right on the whisky question.” So, in regards to the last general election, I must tell you the naked, unwashed truth. The election went right in the Itocky Creek settlement, RUFU8 SANDERS. Tho Dlvlsiutis of flcr Tlmo. Young Klinger—Can I see your sister, Rodney? Little Rodney—I guess so, hut I don’t s’pose you’ll enjoy it very much. She’s meditatin’ now. “What do you mean?” “IN by, oince she’s got engaged to Mr. Huggins her time is divided into three parts—one for prinking, one for spoon ing and one for maidenly meditation. NYhen she’s having the first spasm she’s too savage to talk to, during the second she’s too silly and during the last she’s too darned stupid.”—N. Y.-World. Roots, I.cnvm and Molftturo. Roots draw enormous quantities of moisture, from the soil, nnd by thi* means it is discharged through thcleavea into the atmosphere. For example, the common sunflower has been proven to exhale an ounce of water each hour, and a large oak tree, estimated to have 700,000 leaves, exhales 700 tons of water during the seven months it carries its foliage. Most Valuable Fur. The most valuable of fur is that of the sea otter. Uye thousand dollars lias been paid for a single skin of thia animal not more than two yards long by three-quarters of u yard wide.—Cm- ciuaati Kn(purer. I didn't go to tho circus, but. 1 took some of the. grandchildren nnd turned them over to a friend. They had never seen one and were happy. Now they have something to talk about for u month. NVhat a revelatioo it is to the youthful mind. I remember it well. My father took me. to one. when I was seven years old, and it still seems like Hint was the liest one. Away back in those days menageries and circuses were not combined. They did not travel together nor come at the same time. When old John Robinson first started out he didn’t have any animals. The menagerie was orthodox; the circus was heterodox. Christians could go to the one and sinners to the other. But by and by the circus was attached to the menagerie and together they caught all kinds and colors. It is like a Sunday excursion train to a tabernacle meeting. The devil knows how to mix up frolic nnd fun with prayers and ser mons. Yesterday I traveled with a score or two of preachers and ciders who were going to Alliens to attend the synod. They were bright, and genial and hud on their best clothes. They are good eoni)Kiny. They wear a subdued Christian hilarity nnd have ft fund of orthodox anecdotes to tell each other on the way. About four times a year the preachers go somewhere to a re ligious convention, and each one is ex pected to bring with him a fresh sup ply of wit and incident—some pepper and salt fo add zest to the religious feast. In the old solemn times of Dr. Wilson nnd Dr. Patterson and fa ther, say, wit and humor were under the ban. If they wore not. sin thoy were on the verge of it. Sidney Smith was considered almost a heretic nnd bis clerical wit as un-Calvinistie, if not. something worse. I grew up under the solemnities of old school Presbyterians nnd had a good time on Sundays, listen ing and nodding assent to Dr. Wilson's sermons on predestination nnd original sin. If the good old doctor was living now he would attack Dr. Robins and his book with all the accumulated weapons of a century of study and then seek to knock him down with Calvin's institutes. But our modern clergy are more like human beings; more like human na ture; more like ourselves. They are not so austere, and solemn. They are social and some of the younger ones will go n-fishing or play ball and the older ones tell anecdotes and smile quite audibly. We were talking about the circus yesterday and one of them told how ho attended a synod once at Thomasvillc, nnd It was circus day and there was a grand street pageant with music and banners, and all the animals were on dress parade. Tho synod was in session, and as the in spiring strains of the martial music fell upon the synod’s ears a lay brother couldn't subdue In's feelings. He rose forward timidly and said: “Mr. Moderator, it will be impossible for us to transnet-ony business until that music passes by, for we can’t hear anything t hat is read or spoken. I move you, sir, that wc take a recess for ten minutes.” Whereupon an old Calvlnistic preach er bounced him and squelched him with indignant sarcasm: “Recess, indeed! Recess for a circus to pass by; recess because the. devil with his satellites is in sinfi 1 proces sion at onr doors. No, sir. We will talk louder nnd draw nearer, but no re cess.” Nearer and nearer came the band, and when the lion gave no unearthly Iwwl preachers and laymen began to tiptoe out until there was nobody left save the moderator and the old man. T n due time, the music died away in the distance and the delegatee tiptoed Lack to their places. A layman whom everybody loved then told how one of these old-time, solemn preachers squelched all the hilarity out of him. Said he: “I was born with u lively sense of the ridiculous, and sometimes have hard work to restrain my rifciblos. One day our good old preacher asked me to ride out with him to see a. man who was partially paralyzed and was likely to die impenitent unless it was the Lord’s will that he should bo saved. So we visited him and after the usual prelimi naries the old preacher said: “ ‘My friend, would it please you for me to read a chapter from the Holy Scriptures and have a prayer in your behalf?’ “ ‘Well, I don’t mind. I m willin’ to oblige you if it will do you any good,’ said he. “The manner and tone in which ho said it excited me, but I bit my lip and suppressed any unseemly emotions. So the chapter was read, and the old preacher said, in solemn ac cent: ‘My impenitent friend, did you ever hear that chapter read before?’ ‘Not exactly,’ said he, ‘but it appears to me that Tor» Garner writ something sorter like it in a letter from Texas once.’ That nearly upset me, and the old preacher noticed it. After the prayer we said good-by and got into the Buggy. For half a mile the old man never said a word; neither did I. Sud denly he gave a side look toward me and slowly said: ‘Brother Williamson, are you right sure that you have in your heart the evidences of being a Chris tian?’ I replied with great humility that sometimes I did, and sometimes I had my doubts, and I tried to quiet his alarm about me. ‘Brother William son,’ he continued, ‘your conduct to day was unseemly nnd unchristian, and the other day, as I passed you on the oidewalk and you were talking to some hilarious friends, I heard you use some very unscriptural language..’ “This surprised and perplexed me. and 1 asked him what it was that I raid. 'You said “Confound it!"* he re plied. 'Hereaftsr you should not call dow n a curse ora malediction upon any thing, hut lot your communication be yea yea and nay nay.* " Some of the preachers then dirctissed the doubtful propriety of such words and the use of slang, when I was re minded of the way in which Boh Taylor reproved a man, and so I told thejn how a rough countryman was intro duced to Tnylor, and after looking him over nnd up and down he said: “Well, - Bob. it seems to me I have seen you Rome where l>efore, but I don't know where in the hell It was." "What part of hell do you live in?" asked Tnylor, without a smile or u change of coun tenance. “How is politics with you?" inquired a Roman friend. “All calm nnd serene,” said I. “A is- we going to have liettcr times?’’ said he. “Yre, of course." said I. "We always do after a presidential eieetion, but how long It will last re mains to he seen. NYe will now have a fair test for several years of a gold standard and a high protective tariff, and all’s well that ends well.” “The day before election,’’ said he, “one of the most vahied members of my church said to me that tlie nation was in great peril—greater peril than it had been since the war; that he trem bled to think of tlie momentous re sults that might ensue in ease Bryan was elected. Repudiation, anarchy and ruin would follo.w in its wake. I lis tened to him with profound attention, for he earnestly believed what he said. A few minutes afterward I met another valued member of my church, nnd lie soid: ’I toll yon, my friend nnd brother, we are going to whip this fight. Provi dence is on onr side, and will not let Bryan he defeated. I sincerely believe that he lias l>ecn raised up to save the country, and If he Is not elected there will he a revolution. Tlie downtrodden people will not stand the oppressions of the plutocracy any longer.’ I told a friend of these alarming and diverging views of two good men. and lie said it reminded him of the old negro preach er who said: ‘Ah. my bred’rin', dar am but two roads to trubel—one am de broad rood dat lends to destruction, nnd de odor am de nnrrer road dnt loads to do debil; now what you gwine to do—which road yon take?’ An old darky exclaimed: *P>le.sR de Lawd, I takes to de woods!’ ’’ Well. I was sorry to port eompany wlth the preachers, for they are always to Ixi enjoyed. They are in good health nnd good humor, and are clean in Ixxly and in. mind. They arc the best class of people, and their example and moral ity and Christian faith is the host safe guard of our government. They have gone to Athens, and Ixith the synod and the circus open there to-day. The grand procession will pass their church, and I reckon they will take a recess —I reckon they will, for it is no sin- to look at tlie animals in the street, is it?—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. ROPES GROW IN THE OCEAN. ELECTION LAWS. Sam Jonoa Spoaka for a Froo Bal lot and a Fa r c ou;it. A Curious Morlno riant w!th a Stem Three Hundred Feet Eon*. The largest marine plant .ir.d proba bly one of the highest plants known on this globe, is a gigantic seaweed, the norcoeystis, the stem of which has been found to grow as much ns .100 feet long. It was first discovered not far from the Alaskan coast, hut has since been found floating in various parts of the Pacific ocean, along the American and Asiatic shores. This seaweed grows in a very curious manner. Large quantities of it are found at a little distance from shore, and nt depths not exceeding 100 feet. On loamy bottom large thickets of this plant take root, and a stem of the. thickness of ordinary cord grows upward. At its top there is a pear- shaped balloon, which grows with the stem, and when it reaches the surface of the water it often measures six feet and more in length, with a diameter of four feet six inches. This Iwlloon has, of course, an upward tendency, and keeps the stems growing until it floats on the surface of the water. From the top of this balloon nlnrgc tuftof strong, thick, spade-like leaves grow out, which ordinarily are not more than two feet long, and which grow nnd split until from the balloon a rose-like growth of from 50 to 05 feet In diameter covers the water. This gigantic weed grows in such quantities that near the shore large meadow-like islands are formed, which impede navigation. The natives of the Aleutian islands make manifold usage of this plant. From their strong dried stems they make ropes 250 fret and more long, while balloons of this weed furnish them with large vessels after thy,- are dried, the smaller ones being used in their boats to hail out water. The long leaves, after being dried, are cut into narrow strips and used for wickerwork, the making of baskets nnd similar furniture. — St. Louis Republic. Ilrariarlica from An Eye. Dr. R. NYeir Mitchell attributes many headaches to disorders in the refractive and accommodative apparatus of the eye. It is becoming the custom to go to the oculist when a stubborn head ache asserts itself. In some, instances the brain symptom is often the most prominent, and sometimes the only prominent, indication In the eye. There may be no pain or fatigue in the organ itself, and the strain in it may only show itself by ache in the brow or back of the head. Long-continued trouble in the eye may be the unsuspected cause of insomnia, vertigo, nausea and gen eral ill-health. In many eases the trouble in the eye becomes suddenly mischievous, owing to some sudden failure of the health, or to increased sensitiveness of tlie brain from moral or mental causes. ('urioit* liiilian Itultrrfiies. In India there is a species of butterfly in which the male hn.s tlie left wing yellow nnd the right one red. The colors of the female are vice versa. Th« Elections and the I’rtMlurta—DUfran- i-hlnlng tlia Ignorant Voter — Dlf- frrenca Hetween a I'ollllelan and a Htateninan. For months this great country, both national and state, has been in tho agony of political excitement, and r.ow the election is over and soon the legis latures of the various states not already in session will convene. The candi dates begged end implored and con jured tho people for the'.r votes. Now- in return what will the officials do for tin? people? Every official owes a debt to his constituency that he can only pay by the most faithful service, by unswerving loyalty t«» right and princi ple, by the championship of all wise and good measures, and by u vigilant, watchful cure lest some hill or meas ure which is not to the liest interest of tlio nwrals, peace and good order of his eooiiminity lx* not detected and defeated. 1 cannot be charged with the work of spite or opposition now to any candidate. Offices have been meted out from Mr. McKinley down to the little constables. I shall not discuss men but measures. livery legislature in every state in this union ought to settle first and fore most the question of a decent, right eous election law. The frauds of the past ought never to be repeated in the future. Unless by wise leg.station nnd faithful enforcement of law those , frauds nnd rascalities at. the polls and with the ballot boxes shall be stopped j there will be riots and bloodshed, nnd j a thousand people will he killed around the polling precincts. A bad thing con go just so far and no farther. 1 take the jxisition as an humble, private citizen ! of this country that any man in the ! legislature or out of the legislature is in favor of a free l>allot. and a fair count, and nobody but n dishonest, dir ty scoundrel would countenance fraud in polities or anywhere else, and he who fights in the legislatures of this country the adopt ion nnd passage of the best possible election laws for his state either got into the legislative halls by fiaud and rascality, or else he is nfraid he can’t get back again without the use of Ixith at the polls. The Australian ballot ought to he adopted by every state in this union. There are less chances for fraud when the Australian ballot is used than any other method with which I am acquainted. 1 know that some men calling themselves legis lators w ill say that it works hardships iqion the illiterate; that it is not right to disfranchise a man because he in ignorant. There are many things which don’t seem right to us, but they are wise and good. It does not look like it is a hard ship for a railroad to discharge an en gineer who has faithfully served the company 20 or .10 years, :uid yet he can not read nnd write. But that is done, nevertheless, for the protection of the traveling public and for the safest and most efficient movement of trains. It looks hard to discharge a locomotive engineer or conductor because they arc color blind, but nevertheless it is done in the interest of the traveling public and of the road which discharges them. It looks a little hard to some women that they cannot vote when they know they have more Renso, more morals and more education than half the gang wlw run to the polls with their Imllots. The greatest good to the greatest number is a safe rule. I sympathize with the unfortunate, but I love tlie honor of my state and the perpetuity of its noble institutions more than I sympathize with the fellow who hn.s grown up In a country where books were ten cents apiece and kerosene oil ten cents a gal lon as ignorant as a mule. To corrupt the ballot is to undermine the very mud sills of our institutions. To stuff a ballot or perpetrate eieetion frauds is the greatest crime a man can commit against this country. It ought to be made treason to buy or sell a vote, to tamper with the ballot box or be guilty of election frauds. It looks like politi cians themselves would grow sick ami tired of the methods so frequently used all over this country. I know there are extremes to which we can go. I read the. deliverances of a man n few days ago who said that in the south we were constantly menaced with the color vote. He said the Anglo-Saxon race must stay on top. and there were three, ways in w hich to deal with the negro in polities. One was to move him out of this country, another to disfranchise him, and the other to kill him. I am sure we w ill never move the brother in black from the south. NYe had as well talk about moving the fertile plains of the west and rehabilitating the red hills and gully-washed fields of South Carolina and Georgia with them. We cannot disfranchise him by any rule which does not apply to the white man. Nobody but a murderer wants to kill him. The Australian ballot is the best and the easiest solution of the trouble. With the Australian ballot we can have honest elections—maybe notnltogether honest, any more than we have full pro tection to life by the laws against mur der and homicide; but we eliminate from politics largely the ignorant that don’t, know and the rascals that can be bought and sold like steers or mules in the market. Lot nil the legislatures pass the Australian ballot law. Lot them make buying or selling a vote a felony punishable not only by impris onment in the penitentiary of the state, but with it the everlasting disfran chisement of the guilty party. Virtue and intelligence must domin- ite over vice nnd ignorance if this gov ernment is to he perpetuated asagovern ment by the people mid for the people. An ignorant man is almost ^ivnrinbly a man of dei-p-seafod prejudices; and prejudice and vice may not be far apart. Here is one citizen who Ls in favor of virtue and intelligence ruling thiscoun- try whether it disfranchises him or not. If they could have better officials nnd purer elect if ns by diafrauehlalng me, I hen I soy patriotism would make me submit, in the mad riiR.h of polities, In the proi-d for office nnd power, many have lost sight of purity of honor and manhood. I hnjro no respect for any man who would go Into office w lien he knew fraud got him in there. He is a.-> mean ns the corrupt gang who put him in, ns a rule. Most men have a moral conscience, but few men have a political conscience. “Anything to beat Grant” has been translated to read “anything lo beat my opponent and get the office for myself.” It is a notorious saying now that good men do not seek for office, eo much; that they are not willing to ,-nter into the dirty scramble for it. It is a sad day when virtue mid manhood Jure not enter a race because the un scrupulous rascal can pull his wire*and work his heelers and defeat an oppon ent who Is his superiorin every sense. I know we have goed men in every legislature in this union. I know if they will fight for the right with the tire less energy nnd indefatigable effort with which the evil men in the legisla tores engineer their rchrmrs nnd push their ballots they will conquer; fo r r : ghf is might. Right has never loch fl battle where It had a champion equal to the emergency. And at last this differentiates a statesman from a politician. Clay was a statesman. He could rise to an emergency for the right. Abraham Lincoln was a states man. lie met every emergency when right met wrong in his career. To be a law-maker and a law-breaker both at the same time is the acme of meanness and the last retreat of a rascal. There are not enough of the ex-members of the legislatures of this country in the peni tentiary. I dare believe. NYhen I look over the pages of history and see how men who champion the right loved their country more than they loved their own official positions I see what a Ix-ncd otion they wore to their day and generation, and I feel their influence for o-ood though they may have been dead a thousand years. Their lives were a blessing and their death a public calamity. And then when I look over the same pages of history and see how lit tleness nnd meanness has had its re ward in perfidy here and in damnation hereafter, I say it pays to do right Ik- cause it is right. It is bankruptcy for l>oth worlds to do wrong. Congress Bself needs more moral character nnd more moral backbone, livery legisla ture in the United States needs more moral backbone and less jaek-nssieal jaw-bone. NYhen men go into office through fraud nnd rascality and then while the legislature is in session the liquor dealers of the oapitol city keep their rooms at tho hotel or hoarding- houses supplied with a variety of wines and whisky and cigars, that sort of a little inscnl is rcadv for anv dirtv work •V * * man or devil wants done; and I don’t see what the devil himself could do with such fellows unless perchance he has a r.oap factory in hell; and then I don't see what he could have to deodorize their carcasses with. All hail to every pure, upright man in congress or in the legislntim of any state! If there lx* any other sort in the legislatures or congress the devil will get them, but thank God he won’t get much. BAM P. JONES. BUILT HIS OWN CHURCH. "MS A Clergyman Wlio Developed Into a Car- ^ pen* or. On the slant of the unfinirhed roof, with his toes on one beam, his knoes on another, a hammer in his hand and a fix-penny nail in his mouth, is an odd situation in which to find a clergyman. Yet that Is how I found Rev. Henry Victor Morgan, pastor of the First Christian church of Alameda, He w as wearing a carpenter's apron with the iwlmts full of nails; Ins shirt sleeves were rolled up and his coat was cnirfuJly folded across a saw- buck under a tree. The roof he was clinging to is the roof of a church at the corner of San Joee and Park avenues, Alameda. It is a church to house his flock, and lie is spending his vacation building it. An uncommon way of spending vaca tion—hut it is the way of an uncom mon men. “NYe had to have a church,” ho ex plained, with deprecating modesty, ae he backed down the ladder to have a chat with me, “and ns I am pretty handy with tools and fond of manual labor 1 t hought it would do me just aa much good to put in my vacation build ing a church as it would togo mountain climbing or something of that sort. NYhen money is os scarce as it now it is easier to lalx>r than it is to raise the funds to pay the laborers. The mem bers of the congregation are taking a lively interest in the building, and here are some of them working with me,” and he [jointed out Klder Bovyer in a pair of overalls and a populist straw hat ( hoisting boards to the ridge of the roof, nnd Brothers Brown nnd Thompson sawing and hammering away eagerly; as boys with a brand new chest of tools. "\Ve expect to have it ready to hold services in early this fall. When tho building is finished there will be no debt hanging over it. Everything is paid for as we go along. To be sure wc had to raise the money to buy buikling materials ns we needed Diem, but wo have not bought a foot of lumber un less the money was in sight to pay for it. The building”—it is a large, airy redw ood structure over 50 feet long and 30 wide—“will servo as a church until we can put up a better one, then it will be moved to the back of the lot and used as a Sunday-school room.”—San Francisco Enquirer. Origin*! Constituent* of tho Globe. M. Moissan states in the Annalcs do Clinic et de Physique that most of tho stable compounds known to science dis appear in the electric furnace. Tho only exceptions are the perfectly crys tallized borides, silicides, and carbides discovered by him. These, ho, thinks probable, are the original constituent* of the globe, and must still exist in some of the stars. '13 M j »