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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S, C. BILL ARP. THE GEORGIA CRACKER. Atlanta Constitution. Not-to go back in history further than my own time and recollections, let me venture upon sumo unoccupied territory and tell how Cherokee, Georgia, became the home of that much maligned and misunderstood individual known as the Georgia cracker. I have lived long in his region and am close akin to him. There is really but little difference be tween tho Georgia cracker and the Alabama and Tennessee cracker. They Lave all had the same origin, and until the Appalachian range was opened up to tho rest of mankind by railroads and the achoolhouse these crackers had ways and usages and a language peculiarly their own. It will be remembered that until 1835 the Cherokoe Indians owned aud occupied this region of Georgia?the portion lying west of tho Chattahoochee and north of the Tallapoosa rivers. They were the most peaceable and civilized of all the tribes, but they were not subject to Georgia laws, and had many conflicts and disturbances with their white nabors. It seemed to be manifested destiny that they should go. "Go west, red man," was the white man's fiat. They went at Iia V?QtrAn/if and oil fl\oir I Lit? JSU1I1W VM tuu V/l|V?v MMV? M.? VMW.. beautiful country was suddenly, opened to the ingress of whomsoever might come. Georgia had it surveyed and divided into lots of forty and 160 acres, and then made a lottery and gave every man and widow and orphau child a chance in the drawing. But the cracker dident wait for the drawing. The rude, untamed and restless people from the mountain borders of Georgia and the Carolinas flocked hither to pursue their wild and fascinating occupation of hunting and fishing for a livelihood. They came separately, but soon assimilated and shared a common interest. There are suoh spirits in every community. There are some right here now who would rather tro ud to Cohutta mountains on a | bear hunt than go to Now York or Paris for pleasure. I almost would myself, and remember the earnest cravings of my youth to go west and find a wilderness, and with my companious live in a hut and kill deer and turkeys, and sometimes a bear and a panther. But for my town raising and old lield school education, I too would have made a very respectable cracker. This was the class of young men and middle aged men that iirst settled among these historic hills and valleys and climbed these mountains and fished in these streams. By andjjy the fortunate owners of these lands received their certificates and many "c aamaa fwAm oil norfcj nf fhfi SitfifA UI U1UU1 ^auio liVlii an v? to Iook up their lots and aeo bow much gold or how much bottom land there was upon them, but gold was the principal attraction. The Indians had found gold and washed it out of the creeks and branches and traded it to the white man in small parcels, and it was bejioved that evory stream was lined with golden sand. This proved an illusion, and so the squatters were not disturbed or else they bought their titles for a song and then sang "sweet home" of their own. They built their cabins and cleared their lands and raised their scrub cattle, and with their old-fashioned rifles kept the family /vamn "Yf or? TT OOtMord OAlllH road aud write, but in their day there was but little to read. No nowspapcrs and but few books were found by the huntor's friends. Their children grew up the same way, but what they lacked in culture they made up* in rough experiences and hair breadth escapes and firoside talk, and in the sports that were either improvised or inherited. Pony races, gander pullings, shooting matchcs, coon hunting and quiltings had more attractions than books. How they got to using such twisted languages as you'uns and we'uns and Inguns and mout and gwine and all sick is not known, nor was such talk universal. When such idioms began in a family they descended and spread out among the kindred, but it wab not contagious. I know one family now of very extensive connections who have folk-lore of their own, and it can be traced back to the old ancestor who died half a century ago. But these corruptions of lnnguago are by no means peouliar to the cracker, for the English cockneys and the genuine yankee have an idiom quite as eccentric, though they do not realize it and would not admit it. The Georgia cracker was a merry hearted, unconcerned, independent creature, and all he asked was to be let alone by the laws and the outside world. The justice court of his beat was quite enough for him. He had far more respect for the old spectacled 'squire than for the highest court in the nation. From this home-mado tribunal he never appealed until tho young lawyers began to figure in it, and seduced him into the mystories of the law and the wonderful performance of tho writ of ''Sashoray." Nevertheless thoy looked upon lawyers its suspects and parasites, and their descendants have the same opinion still. The old 'squiro was "i'o-nent" then, and looked upon the sashoray as an insult to his judicial capacity. Somotimcs ho would let two young limbs of the law argue a caso beforo him for half an hour, and then quietly remark, "Gentlemen, I judgmenticatcd this caso last night at homo," and would prccecd with his docket. That old squiro nnd tho preacher were quite enough to pilot these people through life and across the dark river. A few years after they had settled down as tho successors to tho Indians a class of more substantial citizens began to look in upon this beautiful country. They purchased the valley lands and the river bottoms, and soon the forests began r< to fall beforo the ax of the pioneers, n Some of tbcm brought slaves with them li and erected sawmills and framed houses b with glass windows to live in, and the a school master came along, but the crack- a ers were in the majority and lived along B' in tho same old primitive way. As late a as 1847 thcv had gander pullings, and one ti that I witnessed that summer lasted two n hours and the original Bill Arp was tho f< victor. 1 could have seen more of them, I but I did not care to just for tbo same si reason that a kind-hearted man does not I wish to see but ono hanging. n Ono Saturday morning when we arriv- "v at Blue Gizzard courtground, the clans ii had gathered in unusual forco. As pre- ti llminary to tho more important contest v that was soon to como off, some of tbo o boys were shooting at a picce of whito n paper that was pinned to a distant tree, o Some were gathered around the spring, t Some were trying old mother Tutten's v fresh cider and ginger cakes that she of- a fered from the hindgate of her little wag- e on, and some were sampling the corn b ?*U?i- WAS bnnf in O fI1CT thft V Wiuaitjr mat woo v. jmD ... little log courthouse hard by. We soon r perceived the central and most attractive fi spot to be a small tree with a linib forking e about ten feet from its base. A long, 'i slender, springy pole was resting in the li fork with the large end pressed to the 1< ground and fastened with stobs crossed v on either side and driven firmly in the b clay. This incline raised the long end of b the pole quiet high in the air, and to that ? end was looped a plow line, and to the lower end of the line another loop was 1 slipped over the crimson feet of a venera- r ble gander and left him swinging, head D downwards, just high enough for a horse- b man to reach it easily as ho rode under- 0 neath. The doomed bird gave an occa- a sional squawK, and with wing* half tl open and neck half bent, looked on with ? unquestioned alarm upon the people. D The feathers had been stripped from its neck and a thick coat of grease put on. e The unaergrowtn uaa oeen removeu huu * a running path for the horsemen cleared s of all obstructions. The tournament be- ti gan at 11 o'clock. Twenty sovereigns, " mounted on their plow nags, ranged U themselves at one end of the path and & awaited the call of their names by the old p 'squire, who had them written on a fly- d leaf in the back of his docket. No man was allowed to ride until ho bad planked g up a dollar. The old squire had contrib- tl uted the gander just out of good feeling b to the boys, he said, and he was nomina- 1< ted as treasurer and umpire and carried s the bag, and on his decision the whole v sum was to be awarded the victor. He p had adjourned his court for two hours to a see the fun and keep down any distur- q bauce of the neace. Eight "whippers" v were mustered in, four on each side of the 1 running course. They were all armed r with good long switches or hickorys, and U their willing duty was to see to it that no tl man's nog moved toward the gander with d less alacrity than a gal lop. "Now, boys," said he," "not a lope that would keep a t< nag a-lopin' half an hour in the shade of li a tree, but a right lively gallop, and if the A critter slows up any, you must peartin c him up a little, especially as he's a-nighin' tl toward the gander." a The boys were true sovereigns. They ii were not knights. They wore arrayed in n their home-made pants and home-mado v shirts and home-knit galluses. Their b shoes were made at the tannery and tlieir n hats at the hattery. Coats and vests wore si not on their regalia. All the naborhood ' ??? linif DnonfaJnro tnnlnillniy manV n women, some with infants at the breast, t and some with sons in the tournament. o The gathoring people exchanged salu- v tations and smiles and gave the family li news and gradually drew near the place b wliere-the anserian struggle was impend- tl ing. v The old squire had participated in some ii old-fashined musters in his day,' and so, c when everything was ready, he stood on e a log, and, raising .his right hand, ex- d claimed'Tention, company! In tho ti proceedings we are about to proceed with ?tl it are expected that eveTy man will con- d duct his behavior accordin' to what's fair o and honest?no man are to take any disadvantage of ary other man nor of the gander. Thar he are hangin' without a c friend. Tote fair, boys, tote fair; and put t: him out of misery as quick as you ken, t in reason. Jack Pullum?three paces to t the front?now?ready?aim?charge" C As Jack stuck his heels in his pony's c flank the crowd shouted: "Charge 'em, t Jack, Charge 'em!" But Jack's crittor a wasent used to charging. He rebelled at c the go and tho "whippers in" had to come ( to his support. He dashed in and out of t! tho path wildly, but finally took the bit t in his teeth and started down the line on t a desperate run for freedom amid the a shouts and cheers of the multitude. He fc Bteered well uutil he suddenly eyed the 0 great white bird just ahead of him. He i stopped as if on the brink of a precipice, e but Jack went on. That capped the cli- c max of tumultuous hilarity. The like of ? that was what they came for. Jack tl caught on his hands and feet, and was 1 soon remounted and took another start, v and his nag behaved better, but still did h not come in reach of tho gander, and ho d lost his chance until the second grand a round. "We'uns hain't got no geese at f our house," said he, "and my animal t< never seed one afore, as I knows on." tl "Samuel Nwillin, to tho front," called thesquiro. "Ready, aim, charge." Sam's crittor was more tradable, and Sam got a n fair hold, but tho groaso was too slicic for P him, and as he slipped his hold the poor p bird swang to and fro and flapped his a wings loud and long at tho torrible y squeeze and the more torrible elongation " of his a'sophagus. Sam was congratula- y ted on his effort. He wiped his fingers on Sl a pine top and paid: "Yea, I'll bo dad- s< burned if I wouldent have got him, but h tho dingd thing was so all-fired slickery, s I was in hopes that Jack Pullum would a: havo got the fust grab and sleeked offen o some of it." ci "Rube Underwood"?to the' front? Rjiriv?aim?eharee. Rubo had a biz louth and was frecklo faced and red caded, and rode a fleo bitten gray that had eon taught to danco and prance around, nd to go sideways?'"jest to show smart,1' s tho boys said?and it took the animal omo time to be convinced that danger nd prancing wasn't in order at this paricular time. A walloping lick just as ho eared tho goal caused him tomakoa 3arful leap right under the bird, and as tube had to use both hands to hold bin cat tho gander's hoad collided square in lube's face and some swore got in his nouth and "eflfen ho had jest shet it he rould havo had tho prize." He retired a gocd order and awaited his second urn One by one tho riders camo as they rero callod. Ono after another got some f tho groaso and wiped it on their horsos' aano, but the muscles of the gander woro Id and tough, and every one of the wenty had gone his round and failed, rheu the squire called a halt and ordered nother greasing. It was evident, howver, that some damage had been done tho *?s -** *- '? "? nnrl Vita ITU, lur XIIB WlUgO llUUg UIUUJJJ UllU uig oice was failing him. Thero %vas a laceation of sinews going on, and but for the resh greasing the sport would have soon nded. "'Tention, company," said Ihe jquire. "The proceedings will take a ittle recess. Boys, you can light aud aok at 3 our saddles, and ef you want rater you can go to the spring and get it, iut don't wait long, for my old gander are anging there without a friend and asufsrin'." The tournament was soon resumed, till Arp was the tenth man of the second ound. He was the tenth of the first, and nany predicted then that he would reak that gander's neck or the plow line r the pole, for his grip was like a vise nd his agility notorious, but somehow be gander ducked at the critical moment nd Bill grabbed his head instead ol his eck and made a miscaniage. As .Bill's turn came again uie crowu jaculated: "Now, watch him, boys." Can't he ride, though?" "See how he ots on his critter."# "Blamed if he ain't irred to his nag." "Look at his eye." No whippers for him." "He's a gwine a carry the gander's head a half a uiile fore he stops." "Farewell, goose, I'll reach your funeral." "Good by, ganer." And sure enough Bill got the right ;rip this time and in a trice had given tie neck a double and something bad to reak as the pole and the line swiftly folawed his motion. For a moment it eemed uncertain what would break or /hat had broken, for the strained tendons opped like a whip as Bill's nag went on t full speed. For a littlo while the uivering, headless body swung backwards and forwards, and was then at res!, 'hen came the shouts and the wild hurah. Bill was game, and so was his crit3r, and as they came round to the front tie crowd gathered round to see tne ganer's bead that he held high in his hand -the warm blood trickling from the arirles. After the jubilee was over Bill ivited the nineteen and the squire to old lother Tutten's wagon, and having purhased her stock of cakes and cider and lie jug In the courthouse ho "gin 'em all treat." There was not a tight nor a fuss 11 the whole "proceedinsos." In a few ainutes thereafter the voico of the bailiff ras heard crying "Oh yes, oh yes?tho onorablo court of tho 335th district are ow met kordin' to adjournment. Ood ave tho State and tho honorable Court." These rough, rude people wero the rieinal Georgia crackers. They consti uted a large proportion of tbe population f Cherokee half a century ago. They /ere generally poor, hut they enjoyed ife more than money. They were socialo and they-were kind. When one of Lieir number was sick they nursed him? rhen he died they dug n grave and bur;d him, and that was the end of the hapter. Thertf was no tombstone, no pitapb, no obituary. Their class is fast isappearing from our midst. Civilizaion has encroached upon them, and now heir children and their children's chilren have assimilated with a higher grade f humanity. Bill Arp. J. E. Neal. Chairman Ohio State Demoratic Committee, has written an iuvitaion to Governor Tillman requesting him o go to Columbus and make a speech to he "Buckeyes" on October 6th?"the Jovernors' Meeting" day. The Demoratic Governors of the country have >een invited to bo present on that day nd make speeches in behalf of the Denocracy of Ohio. In his invitation Chairman Neal says: "By the nominaion of the Hon. William McKinley, Jr., be Republicans have squarely endorsed ho tariff law of which he is the author, nd thus they have made the great issue efore the people that of tariff reform." iovernor Tillman could not accept the notation because of official duties. He xpressed the opinion in his reply that if iov. Campbell was victorious in this ight for the Governorship he would be lie Dext President of the United States, 'he outlook for the'Democracy of the fhole country is bright, and success is overing over tbo Democratic banners, espite the attempt now being made by few ambitious zealots to draw strength rom tho ranks of the Democratic party 3 give life to a useless and dangerous iiird party. * In the old slave days there was a godless laster who owned an old darkey named 'omp. Pomp was a local exhorter of route, and his master loved to tease him bout it. One day he said: "Pomp, do ou believe in tbe doctrine of election ?" Yes, massa," was tbe reply, "I alius did." Well," persisted the master, "do you link I am one of tbe elect?" Tbe negro iratched bis bead. His caution and his mse of the decencies of the case prevented im from blurting out tbe reply which uggested itself. Bo he fenced with it and lowered : "Wal, masea, I never heered fany man's bein' elected who wasn't a indidate." From the Anderson Intelligencer. A Baslnesn Trip Capped off With a Little Plensnre. ^ -- t rri? i'jDITOKS i.MiiUU/r.nUftn. AUC xiiyu nuu poor meet together"?that is the . way they do at Grant's Fark io Atlanta on Sunday, till I went out to this pleasant ground last ijjt Sunday and it is well worth the dime you have to pay to ride there and back on the cec "Dummy." The Park is beautifully laid ma off in drives and walks, and in addition p. to that they have a fine collection of ani- * " mala, such aa boar, deer, lions, camels, izr and one elephant, besides many other smaller animals and fowls. If we never went away from home we Ta would soon be so ignorant people would ?0* take us for "green horns." I thought we had a little of everything in the world poi here, but if you will go out and look ac; around a little you will find that we haven't got anything much except the w0 best country to live in in the world. . mu Atlanta is a growing city?in fact, it is growing too much, for I see hundreds of -r1 people there that ought to bo in the coun- 50 try on the farm, where they could make a tq living for themselves and help to support the balance of the world ; but they won't 36 do it, they had rather stay in town and ] live on half rations (which I have no doubt a ereat many of them do) than to be cot out in the country where they would be to free. Our next stop was five hours in Rome. Pri This is a beautiful city, situated in the she fork of two rivers, one of which is navigable several miles above Rome. They nave some very handsome and magnifi- pa; cent baildiags in Rome, but they have a raj hotel where you can get the least to eat for the most money of any place I ever stop* cor ped at. You get ten cents worth of some- the thing to eat and sixty-five cents worth of finery to look at, all for seventy-five cents. 8U) Next we go to Trion Factory, on the qui Chattooga River, directly on the C. R. <k f C. R. R. This is only a factory town, but Ier it is oue of business and bustle. They vet run some 23,000 spindles and about 600 fer looms, 1 think, and make sheetings, shirtings, drills and cotton rope. These mills pre are located in a beautiful valley, west of the Taylor's ridge, and have for their Presi- . dent Mr. A. 8. Hamilton, of Rome, who Ior is as clever a business man as you might doi wish to meet, and are run by our clever . and genial friend, Mr. Z. T. McKinney, ?j late assistant Superintendent of Piedmont, tit) Under his superintendency the Trion i Mills are making a most superior quality of goods. as well "as a handsome profit for Qui his employers gtt, Through the courtesy of Mr. McKinney . we took a pleasure trip from this place to Chattanooga aDd Lookout Mountain, dor In company with him we left Trion at 5 r o'clock, and arrived in Chattanooga about dark Tuesday, 8th inat. We talk about it. our little corn patches making corn, but our corn fields here are no more than roasting ear patohes along side of the corn If fields of North Georgia and around Chat- ^er tanooga, Tenn. We spend the night in 1 t the city and had the pleasure of seeing the cyclorama?a painting of the battle of At- ma lanta?which is one of the greatest works eet of art that it has ever been our good for- f tune to look at. Just think of an oil paint- 1* c ing which took five tons of paint (ten }(" thousand pounds) to paint it, and several thousand square feet of canvass to paint it cor on, and you will have some idea what the this painting is. Any old soldier will readily recognize the different scenes here depicted on this canva9, which looks as twc natural as life and death itself. Next morning we get on the electric c?r for Lookout Mountain, for 1 am anxious Tb I DM fho nlnr>a where I had once been rm during Ibe struggle for Southern fodependence. At the foot of the mountain we mount the car on the incline railway, Hfci which takes us to the Lookout Hotel on the raountaiD. I tell you this is riding up n<n hill, for we go nearly straight from the liki foot of the mountain to the top, and if the rope that draws the car up was to break it " is uncertain when and where you would 1 stop. In going up we go by the house we once went by going on picket. All"of the Jenkins brigade boys know this house QUI where they bad the rock basin in the yard ?bi for a spring, the water coming through res from near the top of the mountain re(l it. When we get through looking tur down on Chattanooga and the Tennessee , river winding through the valley below, we continue our journey around the me mountain on tbe narrow-euage railroad to ^ Sunset Rock and Natural Bridg?. Then we embark on the broad-guage road for niu tbe valley. This road runs twice around U8e tbe mountain in making tbe descent- On , arriving in the valley I now want to see our old campground. I tell ray friend Ea Zack I know that must be the place, for there is the big white oak treta we got acorns from when rations were short. I low know Dick Scott, John Whitt and all of the old Company D, Hampton Legion boys, remember these white oak trees. I ma then go to the spring and get aariQK 01 bi,i water, and tell Zack It baa been twenty- fi . eight years since I drank at tbls spring. "el You have no idea bow my memory run back to the old war days. Here I bid farewell to my old comrades to go home on furlough, and it was forever to some of tbem. There was Drayton Bennett, John 1 Mauldin, Colbert Matti:on, Tom Loving, Thos. J- Dickson, Johu Warren, Berry on Williams, Duff Rogers and several more \ of the brave boys that I never saw again. ., Some of them were killed'at Will's Val- lda ley, some at Campbell's Station, some at we; Knoxville and some at Dandridge?all R before I got back to the Regiment at M*t ristown. These were certainly sad rec?l- ma lections to me. Thejre is the same old <i house where Col. (afterwards Gen.) Gary had his headquarters, but no tent in the his yard. So to get away from these scenes the of our war history we turn our backs on ,. them and mount the electric car for the flDI city. If any of my old .comrades want to wo see some acorns from the big tree akthe spring just come up and I will show them wa to you. ] Chattanooga is a live, pushing, business .. City of about 00,000 inhabitants, which has tD spread out until if reaches all over the ate; Lookout Mountain fronting the river. We ^ now bid adieu to our friend Zack and start for home, after spending two days gei and nights most pleasantly with him and wa his genial wife and family. . Corn again?I thought I saw corn on ' the C. R. & C. Road, but it was nothing be to what they have along the W. & A. , Road. No wonder Bill Arp brags on * Georgia, for he lives right in the heart of reli the State, so to speak. Now, William, you are 'making plenty of corn, and I hope you and the Alliance won't make us I pay so much for it another year as you did UQ( this year. , Mr. Editor, when jou get time to take w another pleasure trip, don't go to Ashe- ? ville, go to Chattanooga and Lookout aQ( Mountain and you will not regret it. Go to the Pallace Hotel for your bed, and to he the Ohio Restaurant, No. 18 West Ninth 8he Street, A. Burkett, Proprietor, and I as- sure you that you will get the most to eat Ior for twenty-five cents that you ever saw Ail before. I reckon he Is a yankee, but bo has been there long enough to become a good Southern man, and I suppose a Democrat. Anyhow, ho is a good, clever stil man. W. F. L. ofl ?- the ? Mra. McGriffin, of McGregor, Tex- ly as, who gave birth to triplets ten months inv ago, broke the record on Tuesday, 8th inat, with a quartette. All soven are boys, and are doing well. ' yui ? Ray Lloyd's mother spanked him at in I Salina, Pa. Some raps were exploded lor and his clothing was burned off. sug A few Hints for Farmers. ? Dne of the main questions for farmers figure out is (hat which reUtcs to ferzera another year Last spring during ) Coosaw trial, pboBphate rock advai.i about one dollar a ton. The price* .ins about as it was theu. Can Mi** idraont farmers afford to buyfertirn at the present prices, when cotton, r only money crop, is seven cents? ke a (Air fertilizer, Bold .on lime at >.00 a ton. It would require jnda of cottoa to pay for a ton. If d is used, 257 pounds of lint cotton uld be required to pay the bill. How icb can you afford to use at that price ? trr.ii should attemDt to dav in corn At cents from the heap, it would require bushels to pay for a ton of guaon, or to pay for a ton of acid. [t will take about one-s9venth of the ton crop raised in Spartanburg county pay the guano bills this year. The ce paid for guano on a cotton farm >uld never be in excess of the value of ton seed raised. If a farmer should j $50.00 for a commercial fertilizer and se 500 bushels of cotton seed he would e out ahead, for the seed replaced <>n i land would be worth more than the mo. The farmei should study this jstion carefully dtod buy only so much tilizer as he can u*e with profit. A y large crop raised with commercial tilizera is worth nothing if all the >fits are required to pay the bills in i fall. The very best plan is to boy cash. The buying is more judiciously -i ? .i -e il. ___ i. J le, ana id me jaii ui me jrww uu? w : forced to sell his cotton to meet fer* zer bills. ^ands can be improved only by ma- ' ring in some way. There is no nse to empt farming without keeping np the tility of the soil. How can this be te? The work must be gradual, mmercial fertilizers alone will not do A wise farmer will sell nothing that i easily be converted into mannre. he has an abundance of bay and fodhe will buy some extra cattle and them convert his surplus forage into nure. He will then sell bis cattle and pay for his hay and keep it, too. That me instance of "eating pie and having at the same time. Every acre of n land should be planted in peas and vines left on the land. A field sowed red clover and allowed to remain ) years will pay well as a fertilizer, n if a load of hay Ih never cut from it. -'j| e marked improvement in succeeding ^ pa may be seen for aeveral years. 08e plants that have long tap-roots i the clover and pea, are the best relator of the soil. Surface feeders, ' tf 0 crab grass and moat weeds, are the >rt-st. Che old Scotchman was nearly right en a neighbor asked him what he mared his crops with, and bis reply was, rains." The farmer must study the uirements of bis own soil. He must n bis farm iuto an experiment station til be learns what are the best com rcial fertilizers for bim and what are ? I best green crops fur manui#. tie st understand what kind of plows to i and ihe best time for preparing and i methods of cultivating his land, ch year's work should be better than i last. Not a single field should bealred to deteriorate Gullies and washes iuld be unknown. Stability and peruency should appear in every fence ilt, in all the buildings and in every d.?Spartanburg Spartan. It Made Angels Weep. . m -if V sad and pitiful sight was witne*i?ed Pryor street this morning. ffhile Mr. John Goodwin, Dr. Hoiy and a representative of the Journal re standing at the corner of Pryor and inter streets an old lady and a young n passed. The young man was drunk. Around waist was his mother's arm, that arm it bad nurtured and protected aud elded him from his infancy, and which uld still protect him when be was Iking under the shadows of sin. .'ndifferent to the gaze of the people >y passed, the woman was too weak to ady herself against the swaying of the lwart youth at her side, as he stag* ed from side to side in his drunken lk. [t was as sad a spectacle as is likely to ever seen on the public streets. But the arm of the aged mother never axed its hold, although at times she s nearly thrown upon the pavement. Jp the streets she went, guidiDg the certain steps of her boy as she did en be toddled by her side. ihe guided him safely home, perhaps, 1 maybe it is the last heartache that will give her, and never again will i be called upon to support his reeling m upon the puttie thoroughfares.? 'anta Journal, September 3. - Governor Pattison, of Pensylvania, 1 monopolizes the unique distinction jeiog the only governor of any state in union who has been kissed by a lovewoman to win a wager. Why this idious discrimination. - There may be corners in wheat, but i won't disturb the serenity of the ing man who, with his best girl, sits ihe Sunday twilight glow of the par* and imagines he has a corner in ar.