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r gna. ?iwn fiwm wwi TM>? ?C " ~7 The Press and Banner AKKKVII.l.i:. S. < . | : f?,: BY HUGH WILSON. ;.V- ~ ???? Published every Wednesday at $-.001 a year in advance. r Twelve Pa?'os. ? Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1896. L CONTRIBUTED LOCALS, r .. . ... Wlial "M" Sees nnil Hour* on (lis KoiiimI About City. Mr. Labib B. Jurcidini of Burt. Syria, lectured in t>10 Baptist church last Sunday night to an extroardlnarliy large audience. ills lecture was well delivered and very instructive, and highly entertaining, and fully appreciated by all present. The City Graded School opened last Monday with a full attendance, considerably over that of last session. With the following able corps of teachers we may expect g ratio results: Prof. J. F. Knight, of Florida, 9th and 10th ? grades. Prof Gibson,of Alabama,7(h nndSth grades. Mrs. Caldwell, of Columbia, tith grade. Miss Carrie Sullivan, of Anderson.5th grade. Miss Bessie Edwards, of Abbeville.4thgrade. T" Miss Florence Tempieton, of Abbeville, 3d grade. Mis* Bertie Ilea Ian, of Gooruln, 2nd grade. \f?<* U'lnfitn Pnrk?s f Abbeville lsl grade. Msr. J. M Wallace, musical depart men I. On last Mondav morning the pastors <>1 the fc- different churches met Willi the school, and [ Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, D. ?>., opened the ex S ercies with prayer, alter which Miss hva K-. Klrby rendered an instrumental solo. Next Mr. J.C. KiUgUin a few well chosen words introduced Prof. Knight who made by his well timed address a most tourinable Impres^Eju. - sion upon all present. Mr. Klugh also deK\'. silvered a few remarks appropriate to the ocHl-.' /casloo which were well received b.v all. Mis^ Leona Blake and Miss Healau then favored BgS<? th9 school witn a beautiful duette. Dr. Citftou followed ni his usual happy jovial style toihe ,?kle:ik^t in' all, alter which, Miss Healan rendered a most beautiful instrumental solo. ' Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, 1). D? then pronouncEgpgg, ?d the bendictlou, which closed the prelim '*" luary services of lhe opening exercises of our "" Graded Sellool. Scholars will be graded acJjfrV cording to their stand in grammar and arithBa-' mitlc. The examination began yesterday. Mr. SamiShlver, who has been quite s;ick for some time, returned yesterday from Hot E Springs, Arkansas, much improved. Mr. Cheatham ol Warrenton is clerking for Aug. W. Smith, and will be glade to see his friends. DoD't forget the "Dime Reading" next V'- ? Friday evening at the resideuce of Mrs k George White, for the beuetit of the Long Cane Cemetery Funds. It will be a social event of much pleasure, as a full and varied programme is arranged for the evcuing. Dr. E. L. Wilson Is home again and ready for business. Mr. M. V. Lomax is now making some ol the tlnest piatlno photgrupbs, ever seen In Abbeville. Mr. Lomax It* a fineartist,and Is , up to date in his work, and is here to stay atln-< business is increasing every day. Miss Maud llollingsworth, the pretty daugh!er.of Jud}:e llollingsworth, of Due West, is'visitiug tier cousin Miis Muinmie Taegart. o.,.. itr n n iiMO WukI in the city yesterday. Miss L'pchuroh has assumed the responsihl j position of organist In the Methodist CburCh ] On last Sunday, the music and slngiiig war | especially tine. Mrs. John Cb'.\*8, ol Bradley, Is visiting ^JAf*."Jtrmos A. Howie. j?" Mr. Claud Gambreil v/Bl leave next week ^ for the University o.' Baltimore, where lie will take nis last course, and from whence be will return home h full Hedged M. D. Mr. J. L. Maxwell and family will move to Greenwood next Monday, where Mr. Mhxwell will eng?ge in his regular business. We regret to see such a goood and worthy citizen leave our city, and as they go we wish them success In their new home. Died, in this city on last Thursday, the 17th, f inst., Hli man Tustou the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bradley, aged about eight months. God has transplanted tbis beautiful tlower Into His garden above to await the coming ol father and mother. The following young ladles will leave next week lor the Winthrop Training School at Hock Hill: Miss Marie Gary, Miss Leila McCalla, Mi4s Lily Templeton and Miss Sadie Lee. Miss Eva Klrby. Miss Essie Douglass, Miss Emmaaud Miss Lucy Whiteot this city lefi yesterday for Converse College at Spartanburg. Miss Sophia Elfert has again returned with the tlrm of R. M. Haddon & Co., and Is a favorite with the public generally, all 01 whom acknowledge her skill and exquisle taste as a inullluer. Miss Bell Wicker, while on her way to L . Anderson, is spending a few days with friends I in Abbeville. L Mr. Saddler of Anderson, is visiting friends L in the city. SB Mrs. Julia Winslock aud her charming daughter, Lilian, arrived in the city last Mou" day ou a visit to Mr. G. A. Visauska and" f q i n i 1 v Mrs. G. A. Morrow, of Verdery, and Mrs. J. L. McNeill, of Greenwood, spent last week with Mr. P. L. Morrow and family. The Abbeville Baptist Association convened yesterday in this city In its 27th anfnual meeting. After devotional exercises the regular rontin of business was transacted, after which the followiug olDcers were Heeled : J. II. Wiileman, Moderator; \V. K. Cothrun. Clerk. The following is the regular order ol business before the Association. TUESDAY MOItXINC. Convene at 10 o'clock a. m. Adjourn at 1 o'clock p. m. Convene at 3 o'clock p. in. Adjourn at j o'clock p. in. Convene at S o'clock p. in. Adjourn at will. TI'ESDAY AKTKKXOON. Reports on Temperance. Reports on Home Missions. Night?Introductory sermon by Rev. P. O. S. Curt i?, of Ninety-Six, S. C., followed by report on Orphanage. WHDNESDA V MORN I N(J. Report ou Foreign Missions. Reports oil State Missions. Reports ou Home Missions. r Reports on Kdueatlou and Denominational. Report ou Literature. Missionary Sermon l?y Uev. E. J. Forester, of Greenwood. Four visiting members, and about 75 delegates are present, The exercise will be \ery interesting and ? the publicare cordially Invited to attend alt the meetings day and night. Mr. J. L. McNeil, of Greenwood, is now uluht operator at the (i.. C. A: N. depot. The Gle .-.lonen Hardware (Company, of Charleston, are now located In Rosenberg's corner store, and have on hand a handsome line of hardware fixed up in city style. Give them a look and be sure and read their rebus sign at the door, and win the oltered prize. Mr. Glen aud family, of the Glen Jones Hardware Co., will ho;ird for the present Willi l)r J. W. W. Marshall. Mr. Jones and wife board with Mr. James A Bowie. Mrs. M. E. Kuss, of Baltimore, has charge ?>i ia|$^Hri rt iiiiuiiicij uvj''ii? IIJV iii* Russ Is au artist in her line, and will show our ladies the neweot designs in hats and bon? neis triuinii d in the very latest style. Mrs. Taggart is greatly disappointed as she will not be ready to make her fall display today, tiy reason of her goods not yet being received. Further notice of her opening will be given probably next Wt'duesday the-'JOlli. Miss Fannieand Miss Susie 1'inckney, with 1heir brother, Hall, after spending a delightful visit with relatives in the city, returned to their home in Anderson yesterday, accompanied by their grandfather. Dr. Marshall. Our merchants are all cleaning and brushing up their stores, preparatory to arranging their stock. Cotton is coining In rapidly and bringing good prices, our cotton buyers make this market lively by their liberal bids. NEW ROAD. . Tlie Opening of a L?n;r >ee?Ie?l Public Komi. County Supervisor John Lyon has advertised ttie letting of llie bridge across Long Cane on tlie new road to Evans Mill. For this progressive step the people ol the respective sections from beglning to ending of the road, are indebted to tlie County Commissioners. It is a road which has been needed for a hundred years, and for tlie lac k of which the city of Abbeville and the people along its route, have sutlered great Inconvenience for all that time. Abbeville has lost much trade from the Verdery section because ol the bad roads between there and this place. Habits of inattention, of mental indolence, of surface or of random thinking, of inexact statements, though they may involve no conscious wickeduess, are the source of widespread and insidious corruption of character. FREE SILVER. Sppt'Ch of n Norlli Carolinian WIki 1 4'litiius lo 1>?> a Parity Willi ISryan. - | Follow Citizens: ? ! am hereto talk i t<? you about tlie free coinage of all I the silver in the universe at the ratio of 16 to 1. This is a revolution and 1 I am leading it. ME and Bryan are the biggest figures in it. The masses i are rising against the classes, and ME and Bryan are at the head of the rising hosts. Bryan is generalis.-imo and I am at a parity with Bryan. Don't get into your proletarian i heads that Bryan is a bigger man than \iio jfo is not. We are at a naritv and f propose to stay at a parity.' And I want you to understand right now, my sansculottie friends, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, j nor depth, nor any other creature 1 shall be able to separate me from my '< mighty parity with William Bryan. 1 I am playing the role, or am trying 1 my best to play the role, of C'amile I Desmoulins in this new revolution. ; He started the French Revolution a hundred years ago, au?i r started tliis one; that is, M JO and Iiryan started it, and we are at a parity but the very first start of it was the letter of mine ] to (lie News anil Observer away back ' in .March last. When Rryan saw that letter lis joined in with the mighty ' movement thus inaugurated, and < right then and there ME and him ' started out at a revolutionary parity. This is a j>reat revolution, it is very l'ke the French Revolution of a hundred years ago. Camille Desmoulins, ; the man who started that revolution, and the man that I am try- I ing my best to look like, though I much fear I am not built altei 1 a fashion ever to feel like him, 1 he found out that the people had been and were being badly treated I by such traitors and deserters and pie-hunters as Dug Carter and Ki 1 (Judger; that the masses had for ages been grossly put upon by the classes ; that the plutocrats had troddeu them down ; that the money power had the whole French Nation by the throat; that there had been some kind of a great and very successful conspiracy 1 to demonetize the people's money, and to discredit the dollar of theii fathers ; that there was not enough money in the country with which to do the business of tlie country, and 1 that what money there was, was loo good ; thai every dollar of it was worth two hufdred cents ; that people win. worked and earned it, could buy too much ftith it; that the man with a wife and children, who worked a day and got a dollar of French money could take it to a store at night, and get too much provisions and other necessaries for that wife and those children ; that the necessaries of life were coming to the people too cheap; U'.m tort clipun Jlllfl lYIPllt mat nwui ?? wo wv ?...*% ??? was too cheap, and corn was too cheap, and cotton goods were too cheap; that woolen clothes were too cheap; that the fanner's supplies were entirely too cheap; that medicines for the sick were too cheap; that the salaries of the clf-rks in the stores went entirely too far in (he 1 purchase of things to live upon; that the preacher's pay for the ministrations of grace bought him too many I of the things necessary for the susten- : anee of his body ; that the working- 1 man was ruined by a dollar of too high purchasing power; that what ; thecouutry needed to restore prosper- 1 ity was a cheaper dollar; also that 1 there were too many tine houses in the country and too many respectable 1 people liviug in them ; that there were 1 too much culture and refinement ! abroad ill the land ; that there were ' too many ladies and gentlemen in the 1 country ; that there were too many 1 people who wore clean clothrs; that 1 there were too many who took a hath ( every clay ; that the whole land was 1 being devastated by hi led shirts, 1 starched collars and laundried culls; ' that there was too much purple and tine liuen, and too much faring sump- ' tuously every day; that there were 1 too many Vauderbilts, and J. I'ierpont Morgans, and Goulds, and Astors, and Rockefellers, and prosper- 1 ous people generally ; that wealth was 1 too easily accumulated by the frugal ' and brainy industrious; that it had 1 become too hard for the people who did not do auything to get a living out 1 of the people worked; tnat un- I der the social, economic aud labor conditions of that day it was really next to impossible for those who id led away their time and dissipated their lives to live in comfort and respectability. And so, Camille Desmoulins, that fellow that I hope aud pray you think I am looking like at this very minute, he jumped upon a table one day, he did, near the Cafe de Foy, jerked out his pistol, ami drawed it on the crowd, attracted thither by a free-lunc(i counter somewhere about the said Cafe, and swore that the supreme hour had come for Frenchmen and for men ; that the time had come for them to choose between swift death and deliverance forever: and he called upon universal Paris, and universal France, to sound a universal call to arms ; aud what he said was tantamount to advising all the people who heard him to go to work and kill all the rich folk in France, and to down such traitors as Dug Carter and Ki Gudger. Aud that was the real beginning of the grand and sublime movement for the free coinage of silver, and that movement has culminated at last in this great revolution that ME andsBryau are leading. And the minds of the people who heard Camille, were intlamed and maddened by liis words of greatness and fiery wrath ; and they answered bis call to arms as with the voice of a million demons crying from the air ; and they rose up like a swelling sea; and they swept the laud like a tidal wave; and the fever of revolution spread like a prairie lire ; and the spirit of anarchy Hashed like lightning from heart to heart, and blared like madness in millions of hungry, bloodshot eyes, and burned red-hot in the brains of desperate men, and lit the darkened souls of despairing thousands with the lurid! flames of hate; and it became a demon of destruction, the incarnation of vengeance for centuries of wrong, a swift-winged angel of retribution ; Nemesis gathered her children to a holocaust of death. And the masses built a great machine to kill the rich people with, and to put an end to such traitors as Dug Carter and Ki Gudger with ; and around that fearful engine of extermination, they danced the dauce of death; aud they drank the ,,< l.nlnlini... uii'im wx uun;ncij us iiiiiiuug wiilf , and they hung people to lamp-posts; \ and they put grass in one fellow's ! tnouth who had said twenty years lie- ! fore that the masses should eat grass ; t and they carried his head around on t a pike with the grass sticking out of r his mouth; and if anybody tried to I remonstrate with them for what they \ were doing, they answered him by s cutting his throat and drinking hfsli blood; and they tore tlie rich man's I babe from its mother's breast andji dashed its brains out upon the streets. I )f Paris; and they baptized France md i'aris with the baptism of blood; < md thousands drank a cup of trembling in horrors of great darkness. And all that was the grand work of ihe mighty masses. And what the masses did in that day is what we masses have got to do in this day. We have got to go to killing the rich men, those who have got more than we masses have cot; and we must hang the Vanderbilts, and Goulds, and the Astors, and the Morgans, and the Hock fellers; and we must take Vanilerbilt's line palace at Hiltmore away from him, and turn it over to the masses for some public use ; it is too line a house for one man to live in ; aud he did not make the money honestly that paid for it. Where did he get that money that lie built that line house with? lie got it from us masses; he robbed us; anil that house ought to be rT ^ _ i long to us masses wnen .uj\, anu isryan elected. The plutocrats and trailers have got to be put down ; there are too many Dug Carters and KiLJudgers in this country, whoare after nothing but Mark Hauua's pie counter, and we masses must see that they Jo not get any of what t hey are after. The fact is, fellow citizens, that is the main vital issue with me in this campaign. I do not care anything very much about silver, you know I was a tjoldbug two years ago, running for the state senate to get to vote for that archijoldbugof North Carolina, Matt Ransom, for the United .Stales Senate, and i)f course if I had not been for thegold standard I would not have been willing to have been made a tool of by the Buncombe County Court House Ring for Rausom's benefit. But there is another phase of this Ramsom question ; and more of that further on in this free silver speech. Now fellow citizens, what do you think of the proposition for tne free coinage of alt the silver in the uni verse ac me rano 01 io 10 i: i uu have doubtless heard of the battle of Waterloo. It was a great battle; thousands fell upon that field of glory. There is where Napoleon's destiny failed him, and his star went down. To those who beheld it, the charge of the Old Guard was a magnificent sight. It was the last act in a world-tragedy. As they came towards where Wellington was standing, with their banners blazing with the glories of Marengo iind Austr&lilz, their war-horses neighing with the breath of battle, iheir hearts thrilling with the memories of mighty achievements, and the voice of their great commander ringing in their ears, they looked 'so awful and terrible that Wellington thought his men were going to run, and he taid to U1UIIJ, Duys, UUll L1UU a\> aj , icuiciuber Old England." And they did remember her, and the Irish Scotch lud sang Bonnie Dundee, and jemembered the blue-eyed lasses of Ben Lothian. Now some of you may know* that this last thought is stolen from Victor Hugo; but then he is dead, and he don't know anything about it, and he ilou't miss his property, and he don't need it, and it is not doing him any good any way aud he dead, aud it makes uo difference, and besides, 1 have added a little word or two to it, which makes it somewhat mine; and then you know the democrats stole their free silver platform from the populist party ; and you know also that Bryan stole that sentence in his Chicago - convention - nomination - gettiugipeech about the crown of thorn and [he cross of gold, from a radical up in Massachusetts, and that radical is ;ilive, and knows all about it; aud if the Democrats can afford to steal from the 1'opuiists; ana it itsryan, wun whom 1 have already proven to you I *111 at a parity, can afford to steal from i live Massachusetts radical, I do not see why i may not be permitted to steal fioiu a dead French radical. Hut to return to the battle of Waterloo; none of Wellington's men ran away; they stood like a Uibraltar-wall ; they Irove them back; they slew thousuuls of them, and by remembering Did Ireland, and the hlueeyed lasse* if lieu Lothian, they won the field. A.tid what I mean by this is, I don't want any of you democratic mastes to run away when you see those traitors Dug Carter and Ki Gudger coming. You just stand your ground and remember nothing but that they are traitors and deserters and pie-hunters, itid that Mark Hanna has bought them up. Now give me your careful attention md I will proceed with this great argument for the free coinage of all the ( silver in the universe at the ratio of 10 tn 1 'Phprp i<< nrift nrime fit ft. that I want you to get a hold of in this great ,-ontest, and that is, that Dug Carter mil ivi Uudger have sold their principles for a mess of pottage; aud Richmond Pearson used to be for si 1- i ver too, and he is a mighty bad tratt- | jr! and anybody who says that any- ( ;>ody hollered for Jeff Davis at the i Jpera House the night ME aud Ki jludger spoke there is a liar and a i raitor. Pearson is an awful man. By the way, fellow citizens, did Pearson ever tell any of you about my ( ipologizing to him some time before his campaign begau for my attacks i >u him in the campign of 1894? Of jourse nobody is foolish enough to i suppose that 1 meant to be bound by my such an apology as that: a pri- I ^ate apology for a public offense you i mow does not count for anything. I old him that I never intended to say i mything hard about him again, and i [ suppose he thought I meant it all in ] jood faith, but I guess he knows by i his time what my apology meaut. I I old Dug C-arter away back in last i January that 1 did not have any crit- l cism to make of hi.nor his course in ? iolitics ; that I did not class him with j raitors aud deserters at all by any | ueans; that I was his true friend, i md that 1 did not want any mere I iiiiereijee c?i political opinion 10 in- | erfere in the slightest degree with our < elations of personal friendship towards each other; and Dug was weak :nou>;h to drink it aU in, and to tnagiue that my words of friendship raine from a friendly heart, but. I ;uess he knows now what kind of a leart they came from. I lulled him o sleep with gentle words in order hat he might feel all the more keenly he rudeness of the blow with which i vas to awaken him. 1 know he would lot have been any more surprised il lis own brother, who diHers with him u politics just as I do, had made the ittacks upon him that I have made; nit then a man should not be too allired confident about his friends in )olitic*s. lie is very liable to be inisaken. Now let's see what else can be urg>d in favor of the free coinage of all he silver in the universe at the ration. >f 10 to 1. Anybody who says that helj ver heard me say that I wasgoiug to I rote lor Ransom for the United States | senate if I had been elected to the i State Senate in 1894 is a liar. 1 never i old any living man that 1 was going I o vote for Jtansoni. Of course 1 was I unning with that underslandinging, t )ut then I am not responsible for s vliat Hansom and his friends undertood. It is even irue that I would f. iot have been nominated if it bad not I leen well understood that Hansom's > :<>1 lar was around my neck and that, ( lis name was writen in my fore-head.Il y in m rr t i I know there was not a man, woman or child in the senatorial district who did not distinctly understand that I wus running as a candidate pledged to Ransom ; but I was not responsible for the understandings of men, women and children. I know some diabolical goldbug conspirator and base and cowardly enemy of mine in this audience is saying to himself, "but Mr. Rag, you are responsible to your conscience and your God for the treachery meditated in your own false heart." My reply to that is that God and conscience don't count for anything in politics. If I was fooling Ransom and bis friends in 1864 or con templated fooling mem, it just proves that I was smarter than they were, and are you going to condemn a man for being smart ? What more can be said for tbe free coinage of all the silver in Ihe universe at the ratio of 1G to 1? Why, the men who went into the confederate army and afterwards went over and fought on the other side are traitors and deserters. They started out as democrats aud went and joined the republican party; they are traitors and 1 deserters. It has been very different with me. I started out a Republican and afterwards went and joined the democratic party. A man who does that is a gentleman. It is only tbe fellow who leaves the democratic party and joins the republican party that is a traitor aod deserter. You see I voted for Blaine aud when be went down in defeat, I deserted him and his cause aud went ov?r and joined the Cleveland forces. It would have been very different if I had voted for Cleveland, and after he and his cause had gone down, had gone over and jDined the victorious Blaine forces. In that case .you are bound to see that I would have been a very bad traitor; but as it was I acted the part of a patriot and a true man. D m't it strike you that way ? I don't see how it could possibly be made to appear otherwise. You know, fellow citizens, that I was a powerful Cleveland man in 1S88, 1892 and 1894. I know there are people who think that my subsequent course proves that I was after pie afl that time, but they are mistaken. Of course I would like to have an office if I could get it, but then I am not particularly hunting an office and I don't kuow of any particular office that is hunting me. Fellow citizens, there be some who say that I went off in 1880 on the Henry ijeorge mua-iax craze jusi ime 1 have gone ofl' now on this craze for the free coinage of universal silver. Well, that is true ; I was a humble disciple of that great economist; I wrote letters in support of his theories; I wanted to relieve everything of taxes but the land-owner; I wanted houses relieved of taxes; I wanted the rich man's horses and carriages relieved of taxes! I wanted money relieved of taxes! I wanted the bondholders to pay no taxes on their bonds; I did not want Vauderbilt to pay any taxes on his fine palace at Biltmore that I am now in favor of us masses taking away from him : I did not want the railroads to pay any taxes on anything but what land they might own : I did not want them 10 pay a cent of taxes on ttieir rails auu cross lies; i am uoi want them to pay a cent of taxes on their cars and locomotives; I did not want them to pay a cent of (axes on their franchises; I did not want the banks, that we masses are now making war on, to pay a cent of taxes on their money, or bank property; I did not want any body to pay any marriage license tax ; I did not waut anything taxed but land ; I wanted laud and land alone to bear all the burden of the revenue necessary to pay the expenses of the government, municipal, county, state and national; I did not want any lax levied upon whiskey and tobacco; I did not want any tariff taxes upon things imported into this country to sell to our people, to us masses : I did not want any income tax ; of course we masses are now fighting for an income tax, but then I did not want it. I wa9 with Henry George then, and to tell you the truth, fellow citizens, I am still in favor of Henry George with all my heart and soul; and if I had my way, nothing in this world would ever pay another cent of taxes of any kind but land. That is all the kind of a tax r in oti/1 tHof to oil fho IrinH nf L UCIICVC 1 il) auu lUUi iu Mil vuv W. , a tux I would have if I could only have my way. Well, somebody in this audience may want to know why I ceased to openly espouse the economic doctrines of Henry George, and why I quit writing letters for the newspapers in ] support of his proposed system of laud ' taxation. I will tell you why: Some time about the beginning of the year 1887 Dug Carter showed me a picture in a funny paper; it wasa lepresenta- ( tion of Siegfried the Brave, a hero of , Scandinavian mythology in thedepths of a primeval forest at war with wild animals; the ravenous beasts were flee- , ingfrom before his grand, heroic face; Cirover Cleveland was Siegfried the Brave, and from before the power of | his majestic presence the wild yahoos of political chaos and social disorder ( were tucking their tails, cowering and , Heeingaway; with an uplifted sword , lie was preparing to sever the head of that great dragon Protection; in that , picture I saw Henry George, my own beloved Henry, my mighty Gamaliel, ( my incarnation of all Utopian dream- j nig, luy nigut^i laiscu DCCI ui tuwuwtnic philossphy, and he was represent2d iu the form of a groundhog disappearing in a hole in the ground, and there was nothing sticking ont of that liole but a (ail, and upon that tail was wriiten the name of my great hero aud teacher, and when I looked at it,. I laid "good-bye, Henry"; I saw them mil there that the mau who followed Jiat tail was a lost politician : I saw that Siegfried Cleveland was the man to follow, aud I left Blaine with all his protection principles, ou account of which I had voted for him : I left groundhog George with his tail stickng out of the laud on which he wantid to put all the burden of taxation ; uid I laid low uutil the year 1888, and then I lifted up my great and mighty /oiee for the re-election of Siegfried j Cleveland the Brave; and I strove t with all my might to help him sever j he head of that great dragon Protec- j .ion. ^ Fellow citizens, let me give you this t urther thought about the independent t ree coinage of all the silver iu the iuiverse at the ratio of Hi to 1. It is a i ;onvincerThose fellows, calling i hemselves national democrats, who t lave held another convention and put'c >ut another ticket, are bolters, and j )Ught not lo be followed. They are i he worst of all traitors. It. is true 1 : jj Aas going to bolt myself if the Chica- t jo Convention had declared for the t fold standard. I was not going to be 1 jound to stand a minute on Hansom's j t ilatform after it became manifest to \ nv mind Hint, he was not iroiuir to be ] e ii position to do me any good, and I a iiiow you do not blame me for that, r t would have been a very unwise man j o have stood ou the deek whence it r| eenied that all but me had fled. fNow, fellow cilizeus, what other a ;reat and grand thing can I say for the y ree coinage of the silver of the universe at the ratio of 10 to 1 ? Dug 'arter wrote a letter to Pritichard a ittle over a year ago for free silver. \ o aaggfc mnr have not the letter here to read it to you, but then I know it was free silver because it was against the gold standard, and whatever is against the gold standard is bound to be for free silver. Now he has gone off pie-hunting, and he won't stick to that letter, and he's a traitor, and he's a deserter, and he won't stick to one opiuiou for two days at a time. I know there are some people who think that I have beer, pretty tolerable shifty in changing my own mind from time to time; but then, fellow citizens, I have always changed at the right time and in the right way. If 1 had not seen that ground-hog's tail sticking out of that hole in the land that Heury George wanted to bear all burden of taxation, I would have desisted from ray advocacy of tbe single land-tax ; but who could follow a cause represented by nothing in the world but a ground-hog's tail? Who would rally around a standard like that? When I marshal myself under a flag it has got to be something that looks better than the tail of a ground hog ; and besides its got to be waving from some battlement, aud not stuck on to a wook-chuck aud disappearing in the unknown depths of insufficiently taxed land! Notv, fellow citizens, I hope I have made the silver question plain to you. If I have not, f will refer you to George Justice. He is better up on it than I am. He has been btudying that question while I have been studying the questiou of Dug Carter and Ki GJudger. They are traitors and deserters, and are after Mark Hauna's nie-counter. and I would really and truly rather have forty gold standards than for either of those traitors to get any of that pie. In conclusion, fellow citizen?, what do you think of the free coinage of all the silver In the universe at the ratio of 10 to 1 ? From the great argument [ have made in your presence, don't .you think it a good thing to have, and haven't I proved it to you most conclusively by showing you what traitors and deserters Lug Carter and KiGudgerare? Now I want you all to go to the polls on the 3rd, day of next November, and roll up a grand, overwhelming majority for the whole democratic ticket, ME free silve aud Bryan. (Long coutinued applause, and much commotion among the jackam mles.) The of Temptation. Among the excuses which persons give for not becoming Christians is the fear that th^y will not be able to bold out. The standard of Christian living either seems to them totf high and difficult, or con'ldence in their resolution to measure up to it is too weak. They say they do not want to make an attemptpnly to fail; to Legin only to give up. so leanui are mey mac lemptatiou will be too much for them, the allurements of sin too stroug, that they think it better to live on iu sin. That it certainly consistent; but it is not rational or manly. It is not rational to refuse to battle against temptations because you feel that you will succumb to some of them ; it is not manly to flee when duty says fight. Armies have been cut to pieces when they might have saved themselves by flight. But honor was dearer than life, and they accepted death. They could not win ; they scorned to surrender; they could and would die. They did not have to give up, and they did not. No man or woman has to yield to temptation ; no matter how seductive or how strong or how sudden it may be. A teacher who observed a boy se crelly breaking a rule of the sohooftaid to him: "Jt is a great temptatiou, I know, but you don't have to yield to it." There is no "must" attached to the choice of sin. The "must" is on the other side. The law of God, which is the law of Iii?ht and the law of Light says "Thou shalt not," "My son, if sinner* entice thee, consent thou not. You must resist. There is no "must" in surrender. That 19 wholly unnecessary; it is defiance of authority and violation of law. God understands perfectly our perverted nature. Christ was in ull points tempted as we are, yet without sin. He knows how fiercely we are assailed, und how many of us lose courage and surrender. He doe* not command us to resist without kuowing what we can resist. There is 110 such thing as being driven into sin." No man begins to sin without consent of his will. He eoes voluntarily iuto sin. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of' God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tenjDteth no man ; but each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. That is the way temptation comes, through our own lust, and this is the way it develops : Then the lust when it hath conceived beareth sin, and sin when it is full grown bringetb forth death. This is the Scripture, and the Scripture gives abundant assurance that no man who puts his trust in God is abandoned. God is faithful, who will not 3uff'er you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may also be able to endure it. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly DUt of temptation. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, be is able to succor them that are tempted. The Lord does not promise, it will be noticed, to deliver the ungodly in temptation. We are expressly told that he will keep him under punishment. All sin has its penalties; and those who surrender to it must bear Hi? nil? ,.c ?l? Liiuye peuaiuett. xne v?uy ui iue ua.uajressor is hard If it is bard to overcome temptation, it is harder to be jvercome by it. It is one or the other, nevitable; overcome, i>r be overcome. The mail who chooses to give full play :o bis wicked desires abandons control it the outset, and allows his bark to be Jrlven hither and thither with theceraiuty of shipwreck at the final out;ome. He does not have to do so ; here are sails and rudder and chart. He can keep off* the rocks and out of he maelstroms, if lie will. The secret s in the will. Get the will right and teep it right, and God would send lemons of augels, if necessary, to mke hose who trust iui him victors over emptation* Those who weakly surrender gain lothing whatever by their excuse. It s just as much their duty to -resist emptation as though they had lommitted their way into God. They s all the difference in the world >etween them and the godly. The unjo:Jly become workers of iniqity while he godly are workers of righteousness, >eloved of God, and lu-irs of the vingdom. .lust as much is required he workers of iniquity as those who vork righteousness; ami I hey do not scape any penal lies pronounced on iccount of their llimsy excuses. All oust watch and pray lest they enter 11 to temptation. That we must do. ['here is no other must. There is no Scripture which says some must obey ,nd some must yield. Nobody has to 'ield.?Independent. It is a trreat point of wisdom to liud iut one's own folly. Do RlrdN Rpbsoii. In the spring of 1894 1 put up two high poles in my yard ; on the top of these I placed two boxes, each containing two compartments. One of these poles was intended for my oJd associates | the purple martins (P purpurea,) who generally arrived between the middle and last week of Apiil, to sojourn with us until the fall reminds them of their autumn migration southward. The other pole was for the occupation of my little friends, the wrens (T. aedon),who arrived a little earlier than i their above neighbors. The wrens, two pairs, duly arrived, and after carefully inspecting every knot-hole and crevice to be found in | or about the outhouses and barn, finally selected the box appointed for them which allhouh a new one fo them occupied the place of an old one, which had been taken down the previous winter, and in which they had nested for some years. They rapidly commenced work and soon numerous stick* adorned their respective compartments, when suddenly a pair of English sparrows (P. domesticus) put appearance, and driving away its occupants, took forcible possession of both comparments. The wrens retreated and disappeared, but in the short time of ten minutes returned with re-enforcements, consistingof aboutsevenor eight other wrens, who, after a sharp couHict, drove the it truders fr- tn the field. Tboppairows, in about fifteen minutes, also returned, they in their turn having picked up ten recruits, and vigorously attacked and put to flight the whole army of wrens. While attentively watching the battle, aud considering it about time tor my interference, I noticed a wren slip over my bird-house, enter one of the , compartments of the martin box, whi<?h was uDon a much higher Dole. and distant about ten yards from their pole, upon whose box the victorious . sparrows were chippering and showing i every sign of victory. The wren toon stole away and disi appeared, and one of the female mar, tins came out of its compartments, and . was soon joined by the other female ; . in a few minutes tbe male martins arrived very closely together, and uttering a few notes, nil four charged the sparrows, and in a minute or two had . completely routed the aggressors who uever returned, the martins returned to their box, and soon the four wrens came back, and settled down happily. 1 thought this was a clear case of 1 bird sense and bird language on the 1 wrens' part; for they, fiuding they could not hold theirown, had appealed to their neighboring wrens fi>at?but where they found them so quickly I could not say, for I only knew of one ne.->t, about two hundred yards distant " r ? - ?- 4 Urs.. ?aisooi snrewu poncy, wiitu mm iur 1 enemy was reenforced, in appealing for he.'p to their powerful neighbors. f The martius attacked the sparrows in a similar way that bee martins employ in fighting hawks -or other 1 birds who approach their nesls-The Museum. t Smmhlim "I wish it would stop raining," said a cross little voice, for the fourth or fifth time. "I want to go out aud play, ; and Fido does, too." "I once read a story," said Willie's ' mamma, "about a little boy who was called Sunshiue, because he was al* ' wavs happy and contented." 1 "How cun a fellow be happy when he can't go out, aud don't know what to play?" And the cross little boy threw himself down on the floor beside Fido. 1 "You might play you were my Sun," said Willie's mamma, with a twinkle in her eye, "and fill the room with sunshine for Fido and me." "Why, mamma," said Willie, In astooidlimeut. "how can 1 play I am 1 your son when I really am, and?" ' and then he saw what his mamma i meant. "Fido," whispered Willie, "that is one of mamma's jokes. She thinks we are cross. I will have to tell you 1 about S-u-n and S-o-n. You don't go to school, so you don't know that S-o-n spells me, and S-u-n spells the sun up in the skies. Suppose we do play Sun, 1 Fido; it will be such a funny game." "Mamma, said Willie, "I'm going to piay Suu, and I'm going behind the | screen and play it is a cloud. No Fido, you can't come with me. You must go way down on the earth and stay i with mamma, for I'm playing I'm the < Sun. Now, you see, Fido, if I were < the Moon you could stay, for the Man i in the Moon has a dog." Fido was quite sure if he could not I stay with his little master, be did not like the new game; but he was a good < dog, so he went and lay down by Wil- I lie's mamma. i And then the Sun burst forth from i behind the clouds?and such a happy 1 Suu as it was?aud mamma clapped < her hands, and Fido barked with de- ' I 4. MAin ?nnn<l/l Ah t H Q O/i II. i UIJU (11C lain iaj'pi.u uii ..... dow and wanted to come in wliere ev- ] erybody was so merry and gay." I ' J'm your S-O-N now, mamma," < shouted a happy little voice, "so look 1 out for a bear hug." i Do you think 1 am going to tell you how Willie hugged his mamma? Not i at all! for your mamma wants your < kind of a hug, aud not Willie's.?Wary i H. Fisk. 1 I , Fui till liar? How It Should Be Treated. ' I This is something every person should know. First of all, loosen ( every tight thing from around the neck I or abdomen ; tnut is, uufasleu the col- i lar from aiound the neck, aud if the | j patient is a lady, cut her stay-lace*, if r she wears sta,ys. aiiow wie pemuu an t the fresh air possible, do not crowd i around, and, if in a crowded place | carry ihe patient out or to the open window. A fainting person should al- f ways be laid flat d .wn on the back, 'j and it greatly aids recovery if the head i cau pe put lower than the body, so t that blood goes readily to the brain, r The main cause of fainting is that the s brain is deprived of blood, and if the t head is laid low, the brain can gel its share again, and so resume its working, t Cold water sprinkled over the face, r smelling sails or burning feathers held s to'the nose, and fanning tlie face, all v help to restore consciousness. In an ordinary case, the person may be allowed to sit up, when conscious and 1: after a little rest resume her way. ? The custom of giving brandy or oth- 'I er spirits to a person who has fainted h is a mischievous oue ; allow the person a 10 come to, then let her slowly drink a r cupful of cold water, and no liaim is a done. Persons subject to these attacks j must keep out of close, hot and unven- J j| tilated places. They should not lake j n Turkish baths, nor even hot baths, j u j In place of the latter, tney may have j () a sponge ail over with hot water, lea j,, and cotlee must not be drunk by those I j, subject to fainting attacks ; n muies, li must not wear cornets. Men must not ]j u?e tobacco in any form, nor drink in- i toxicants, if subjected to these attacks, (j Heavy aud indigestible foods must be f, avoided, as must heavy work.?New t> York ledger. j, A Prayer Meeting Wllh Pnpn. Emma was a little Christian. She dearly loved to go to the church prayer meeting. Of course she did ; was it not her prayer meeting as much as any other church member's, aud did uot the pastor expect the-children to speak and pray if they wished tfi, just as much as the older people? One evening it was so rainy that papa said his little girl must not go to the meeting. 4 iTUnn T u h it 11 linirn f sv KntfA n rtvn ?<ah jl ucu x ouau nave it/ uavc a jjiojci meeting riglit here with you, papa," exclaimed Emma. "Wou't that be fine?" Papa did not answer, for be was not a Christian, and he did not see how lie could help his little daughter much in her meeting. Emma rau into the parlor for the large Bible. On returning she placed it in her papa's lap. saying : "You can be the minister and read , the chapter. Choo*e a nice long one, please." But I must read my newspaper now," replied papa. "Oh, the paper can wait," said Emma, "and it really won't seem like Tuesday night if I don't have some kind of prayer meeting to go to. So, papa, do please let's have oue. You always let me have everything else X wftn t," "Do I," laughed papa. "Well, if reading the Bible is having a prayer meeting I will certainly do that." After papa had read a chapter, Emma taid : "How beauliful those words are, and they are all true. How good God is to give us the Bible. Now let us kneel and have aseason of prayer. Will you pray tirst papa, or shall I ?" "But?but, really, darling, I think I must go out to the stable and see after the horse," said papa, who dared not confess to his child that be did not no ra Irk nru ir nr! ( It Kam VU> V iU piuj TT I HI utl "Just wait, please, until our prayer meeting is over," returned Emma. "Perhaps it will be best for me to pray first. You will kneel, won't you, papa, while I pray?" "Ob, yes," answered papa. Then he aud Emma kneeled, and Emma offered this little prayer : "Dear Jesus, I am going to pray to thee because thou canst tell God just what I pray, and he will answer thia prayer all the sooner because he is thy Father. I waut you to bless me and make me a better child. Bless papa and make him a Christian, for he will be so much happier and safer when he is a Christian. Amen." Rising from her knees, Emma said: " [ think you will have to be a Christian, now, papa, for I a?ked God to make you one, aud he is always so good about answering my prayers." "I wish that 1 might be a child of God," answered papa, the tears rolling down his cheeks. "I have felt that I ' should be a Chriftiau ever since I have seen what a beautiful little Christian you have tried to be." "Oh, I am so glad," exclaimed Emma. "Won't you give your heart to Jesus right now ?'? "But it is such a hard, wicked heart," answered papa, witbasigh. . "And that is just why Jesus wants it," pleaded Emma, "so that he cau make it a new clean heart." "But I shall have a chance to become a Christian some other time," replied f.apa. "I am not quite ready now." "But .Tesm is ready," returned Emma, "and he doe? it all. He is not like people. He never has to be ready for us to ?ft) this or that. Won't you give yourself to Jesus-this very moment?" The father could hold out no longer, _ it \7..~ J.-II T su lie uiiswcicii, iro, uuruijg. jl will try to be like my own little girl, and like a child of'God. But some oue will have to pray for me. I feel too weak to pray for myself." So father and child kneeled, aud after Emma had prayed, the father felt stronger and offered a prayer for pardob. When the prayers were finished the hearts of boih were filled with the love of God, and it would be hard to say which was the happier. Whenever you boys aud girls cannot attend church, why can't you have a prayer meeting at home, as did Emma."?Alice May Douglass, in Christian Work. Household Peril*. There aro three volatile liquids used in families which are particularly dangerous, and must be employed, if at all, with special care. As regards ammonia, or water of ammonia, it is a very powerful agent, especially the strongest kinds sold by druggists. An accident in its use has recently come under our notice, in which a young lady lost her life from taking a few drops through mistake. Benzine, ether and strong ammonia constitute this class of agents. The two first named liquids are employed in cleaning gloves aud other wearing ipparel, aud in removing oil stains from carpets, curtains, etc. The liquids are highly volatile and flash iuto yapor as soon as the cork of the phial containing them is removed. Their vapors are very combustible, and will iuu ?^1/mwt rliuKinpuu frnm trrnitwrl name a-u iwi.R ? candies or gas flumes, and consequently they should never be used in the evening, when the house is lighted. Explosions of a very dangerous nalur* will occur if the vapor of these liquids is permitted to escape into the room in considerable quantities. Iu riew of the great hazard in handling hese liquids, cautious housekeepers .vill not allow theui to be brought into ;heir dwelliugs aud their action is cornjQendable. Breathing the gas, under certain cir:umstances, causes serious harm to the ungs and membranes of the mouth ind nose. It is unobjectionable if pro>er care is used in its employment. The phials holding it should be kept ipart from others containing the medcines, etc., and rubber stoppers to the jbials should be used. O.xatic acid is considerably employed or cleansing brass and copper utensils. l'his substance is highly poisonous and nust be kept and used with great cauion. In crystnline structure it clrsely esembles sulphate of magnesia or Ej>om salts, ami therefore frequent misakes are made and lives are lost. Every drug or chemical compound hat izoes into families among inexpe ienced parsons, should be kept in a afe place, labeled property and used nth gieat care. Do not Hluir the work horses with lay; give them a good grain ration, nil the heaviest feeding at night, "ake oil' ihe harness and rest the torses at noon at least an hour or more nd you will accomplish more than brushing and overtiring both yourself ml your horses. To develop the pullets into goad Jayng liens, an exclusive -diet oT-rmn oust be avoided. They need boue . nd muscle, but to get enough of this w ~ ut of corn, they must eat an excessive uantily of it, and this will produce i) much fat. The cautiou must be eeded when the pullets have only a imited run and but little pasture. In liese circumstances with the corn ra ion, green grass, clover, green corn >dder aud vegetables, with milk and ut bone, or meat meal must bef-uplied to secure a healthy development. ?