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^^Bfeaj|fc. ' >. > -^ * Denoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, DomeUie jr?moHKM^AII(tH 9*d tM Current JV?tc? of the Day. . ^jttB VOL. XXII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., 8QUTH jjj^^^AyFfi^AY, JANUARY, 2,1891. NUMBER 1. J H&L , There are about 78,000 persona In United States. There are, Pfi^^Johg to thc^Hminal class, BSPhP-SSc^ 150,fR^?cr'jninals, or one for every 400 inhabitants. W JJuring the last twelve months actual settlers have taken up aome 19,000,000 acres of land in the United States, or nearly 30,000 square miles. When, says the Ohioego Tribune, wo can increase onr actively agricultural area in one year to an extent nearly equal to the wholo of Scotland, and havo the fact passed over -with a mere paragraph of commeet, it may no longer be doubted that wo are a .great nation inhabiting a great country. Uruguay is nnoth^VVuth Jhmorican eowntry which iq J <l< 'n^? ^ancial trouble. The intoiot*j^..a its debt amounts ^^^tc^R^OlKljOOO^ot i jjvin t is compelled ' to borrow money to meet the interest alone. Investors who were pinched in the Argentine catastrophe will take caro not to get involved in Uruguay speculations,ad vises the Prairie Farmer, if they do not wish to meet with another similar disaster to their pocket books. It is a curious reflection on the intolU gence of mankind that while animals . easily learn our language, wo mako no r advance at all in learning theirs. One cannot help hoping that some future generation of men may bo sufficiently kind and patient and large-hearted to believe that what these dependent creatures have to aay to us may sometimes be as important as yhat we have to say to ^ ^ktbem, and to act accordingly. ' The Piers, of Milwaukee, are a family *-" of lawyers. The husband and father, the mother and three daughters are all " "^lawyers. Kate, the eldest daughter, a * beautiful brunette, has appeared before the Wisconsin Hupreme Court. She proved by her straightforward argument and citation of authorities, admits tho Detroit Free Pre**, that ahe has not m'aL' taken her vocation. Sho is associated with her mother, tho two making the W"'' a ?; ? u.u.. JtriaH bos always been considered a brain food, but until how the oyster has occupied no especial place in thit category. A change, however, will be efi.. fected. ave? *sabiogtnn Star, should J" ' Mr. Bradley T. Johnson's proposition bo accepted. Mr. Johnsou proposes that 10,000 acres of oyster farming land in the Chesapeake be given by the Stato to .Johns Hopkins University for scientific . cultivation, the proceeds go to education in Mar j land. The Russiaus eclipse all other nation in the magnitude of their scale of bell founding. An immenso bell, weighing over one hundred tons, was founded in Moscow in the early part of the eight^ %i eenth century. It was twenty yards in IL V circumference, and twenty-three iuchei -? thick. During a fire in the s-une year n weighing eleven tons was broken H^HK^^and for nearly a century the bell PWw excavated, andlnow forms the dome of f Phapel which has boon built beneath it. *.The San Francisco OfironieU soys thai ?4 when Stanley first told the horribh story of Jameson buying a slave gir b and turning her over to cannibals in or der that he might have n subject fo Sketches the civilized world refused t< believe the tale^Now, however, evl denco has come in from many quarteri yr '* to confirm this story of a white man' degeneracy, and there seems no escap front the conolosion that one of th moat refined men in the Emin relit party sank to the level of the slave hunting Arabs." .1 !f.v * .' .'.t'l ij. I' , i., ,?= The example of the heirs of a rich Ai trian is worthy of imitation in this cou try, remarks the San Francisco Chronic * They have given $15,000 out of t estate to found a school of housekeepi for girls. If free schools of cooking we i established in all American cities, t people who gather statistics at the end ? J the first quarter of the next century was note a marked decrease in dyspepsia a nervousness and a considerable gain s physical stamina among tne^unerT i people. _____________ Itie natural, declares the Ban Fi Cisco Chronicle, that every Engllshr ^ who fancies he has a grievance agai Stanley should attack him At this tii B for Stanley has laid bare tin weaki I ,ud crime of two of his English oA I Ok way that most be very humiliating B f tn\yr friends. The British public, wt Is always prating of the superior mo I of Rnglish officers in foreign service, ? had a bitter dom to swallow In these relations of Barttelot's cruelty and v . padty and of Jameson's abnormal pai ^^^^^V^jwnnscathed ftoro out a conflict w ,t FIRH3VE VENTS OF 1891. k &-&&?* v. it- C&ref&l Cmnpil&tfoiT or Southern State News. The Year is Very Young, But The Indications are That it Will Develop with Lively Occurrence*. VIRGINIA. Captain Samuel Patterson is the latest and most promising aspirant for the Lynchburg post mastership. Miss Sadie King, of Henry county, and G. R. Thomasson eloped to North Carolina and were married at Salisbury. J. II. Hudson, a prominent citizeu of Big Island, was run over and killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio traiu near that place Friday. The annual output of a Lynchburg barytes manufacturing firm is about 13,000 tons. ^ The Bear Lithia Springs property, at Elkton, Shenandoah county, owned by Messrs. Polk Miller and W. Miles Cary, of Richmond, and W. B. Compton,of Harrisonburg, was sold Monday. The purchasers were prominent New York capitalists. The price paid was al>out $25,000. At Norfolk, Va., James E. Brady shot and instantly killed policeman Calcutt. Brady was drunk, and shot Calcutt bcccause he refused to arrest a negro. Brady was arrested. The fact that Gen. Lee's birthday ha., been made a legal holiday in Virginia recalls an incident that has not been published, involving the use of "Rebel"flags at the unveiling of the Lcc monument in Richmond last spring. A Springfield man who nltendrd the ri'rpnmnim ?'? surprised to see that a certain Ex-Confederate colonel did not use the "Kebel" colors in decorating liis house and grounds. In answer to a request for an explanation the fiery colonel said: "I was a Confederate soldier, but I have no use for the Confederate flag. I'll tell you why. If I had had iny way at the beginning of the war that new flag never would have been adopted. We should have stuck to the Stars aud Stripes, for we had iust as much right to it as the 'Yanks' had. And that's whv I have no use for anything but the old flag." j NORTH CAROLINA. The academy of the Bingham Military School in Orange County was burned last Thursday. Everything whs consumed by the flames except the library, which was saved. The school will continue. The Mecklenburg County Alliance had a big oyster supper in Steel rvm.ir i-?at . week, the proceeas of which are to be used in paying off the debt on their new hail. wVir* n-ac Ho. tailed to inspect the State canals and improvements, bus completed his work ana reports to Governor Fowle that he found the work on tho Ncwbcrne and Beaufort canal only in a fair condition. A syndicate of North Carolinians has just concluded the purchase from the State board of education of 80,000 acres of land in Hyde County, known as "Hyde Park." The price paid was fifty cents per acre. Hyde Park is a line piece of property, well situated and with a large water front. It formerly contained 100,000 acres, but about a fifth has l>ecn disposed of in the past ten or twelve years by the board of education. SOUTH CAROLINA. Governor Tillman's first veto wns that against the Railroad Commission Act. Cabbage planting is the order of the day on Wadmaiuw Island. Some truckers say they do not sec any advantage in it, while others say the "early bird catches the worm." ^^^^Judf?e R. B. Carpenter, formerly of PPHHMke,1* oAjjow of Los Angeles, Calit fornio, has beou elected State Senator from his county. At Rock Rill, Wednesdff, Ed. Hilton shot and killed a young fAi^er by the name of C. C.Williams. The troW^n was 1 occasioned by two much whitkey^\^/ 1 South Carolina's phosphate mines " her largest source of revenue, and the iu r dustry is growing more and more impor tant with the close of every quarter. Thi ' department of agriculture have receivcc the returns of the amount of pjiosphafc I rock mined and removed from'the navi i gable waters of the sta'c during the pas * quarter. During the month of Heptembe 6 19,796.17 tons were removed; in October 0 tR,547.96 tons; and in November, 12,726. ,f 46 ton9. Total for the quarter, 48,070 9? ions. GEORGIA. Thirty-two bales of cotton was burne |g on the depot platfoum at Cartersviili The fire was caused by a spark from a" passing engine. Atlanta had a Christmas tragedy, Wall he er Martin, au eight-year-old tclegraj nrr operator, was instantly killed by Will Small, his friend. It was a case of "didi ,re know it was loaded." he w. T. Harbaum, a well-known citizc of of Macon, bought $!?50 worth of prov ions, put them in a wagon and distribi ed the goods in packages among the pr n<* of the city as a Christmas gift. The 810 in City Provision Company, of the sai city, gave .100 f>nunds of meat, in thr pound packages, to the ladies of the <i ferent churches to distribute among 1 an- ',vv"' The Cedartown Standard celebra' Qftn Christmas by laying the corner atone c nst handsome building, na, BUI and Blook Huff, colored, guarre teai OTer .an ax at the plantation of Dun ran M,,,? ,n ?*> and proceeded to cut off Block fin fto head. noh The Savannah Fire and Marine Im rale ance Company wound up its affairs W nesdey. Trie company was organise! 1887, with a casn capital of $200,( 1 re" Threatened adverse legislation in Geo boa- was the principal cause of closing up ion business. The company has a surph . $20,000, which will do distributed am the stockholders. The policies wii transferred to the Hartforo Fire Insur hkh Company. KM, TBM1VB88BB. lence The plumber* of Chattanooga den an increase of 20 per ceut, in wages,o a day instead of $2.50. The Brown Manufacturing Co., ar^L buHc'iug a factory in Bristol, Tenn, hrtnuTaetoring medicines. The warehouse and distillery of Stephens & Co., near Cartner's Station. Greene Co., was burned Tuesday night, together with 750 haiictsof whiskey. Loss about $18,000 on whiskey and $'i,000 on house and machinery. Insurance on whiskey, $14,000. Fire supposed to be incendiary. The Government revenue tax on the whiskey destroyed would have amounted to about $28,000. In Blount county, al>out 13 miles from Maysvillc, Friday night, a man named Morton, a prominent citizen of the county, was shot through the right breast and killed. He was sitting by his fireside when some one unknown entered and fired the fatal ball, and escaped. It is said that there is more money in circulation among the farmers of Warren county now than at any time during the last four or five years.?McMiuuvilhStandard. A Chattanooga special soys : Tin plate has been made iu 8t. I.ouis by the Gran: ite Iron Rolling Mills, the sheet to Indipped having been rolled from basic steel made by the Southern Iron Comna liy, of this city. St. Louis men write that they are delighted with the materials. It is excellent for the purpose, and they propose to use it steadily. Tin plate from Chattanooga steel means making the finished article here in due time. A Knoxville dispatch says: There was a decided earthquake shock here Tuesday. Persons in the surrounding country rcIiort that the shock was so severe that louacs were shakcu and dishesrattlcd. In this city persons were roused from their j sleep and much startled. FLORIDA. The orange crop iR turning out fair and good prices realized. Alachua lias hundreds of acres planted in lettuce. A fresh watermelon adorns the window of the DeSotoJeounty court, at Arcadia. Safe-blowers (jot in their work last week at Apalachicola. They secured $1,:J60 from the safe of the Cypress Lumber company, Two convicts, one a murderer and the other a burglar, escaped from the Dunncllon mines last week. They were hunted with bloodhounds, but the dogs lost the scent and treed an innocent colored man. Along the St. John's river, strawberries, cabbages, cauliflowers, celery, and in fact ..11 : (n ~ d nit v <%i icvico m vc^viuuicq uiv iu c? uuui* ishing condition. The Florida Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor is making prepartions for the stute convention of that organization, to be held iuc iotu, IGth, and 17th of January, 1891, at Orlando. New Smyrna is putting her best foot fni'U'onl nnnVill nntitmn Pftnnrrpao (oYlnvn - _ 1 \# A , - ?b ' ' her harbor opened and improved. There is now about twelve feet of water on the bar and from sixteen to twenty feet inside up fo the town. Three years ago there wera sixteen feet on the bar. OTHER STATES. New Orleans is making extensive preparations for the celebration of Mardi Urns, which comes on tho 10th of February. The carnival will be on a grand scale, aud the New Orleans papers nssert the pageants will eclipse in brilliancy any of its predecessors. Representative Lanham, re-elected from me 11 in ivongressional district of Texas, represents ninety-seven counties that a;o said.In exceed in area ten States. One of the counties iu his district is 1,000 miles by rail from his home. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is now at the home of an old family friend, Dr. J. Harvie Dew, New York. Her time has been occupied to some extent in revising tho proofs of her biography of her husband, which is now iu the publisher's hands. The stcaml>oat Lake Washington, plyTiTg-tx>twceh Monroe and points on the bayou d'Arbonne, Louisiana, was burned Friday morning with five hundred bales of cotton. The cargo was valued at $35, 000. The boat wat ?nlAs/v<, with ^ ??r A Novel Logging Bond. Tho followiug might be adopted with 5 success in the South: Mr. Angus Me1 Pherson. of Cumberland county, Nova B Scotia, has built 1J miles of railway into his lumber woods this summer > ami I is now running a train on it. lie has u! r ready taken out about 100 cords of hem lock bark, and is now ready to l>egin t< 1 carry out logs. The rails he used an 1 round spruce poles, properly six incite: L in diameter at the larger end, tnperin< down to half the size, and neatly joiner at the ends. The sleepers arc smal d round poles on which the rails arc spik e. cd. The rolling stock consists of a smal * upright engine, eight horse power, am two flat cars, manufactured by A. Mc k- Pherson A Co., Oxford. The tires of lli >h wheels on engine and cars arc mad lie with a flange on both sides to prevet i't them from leaving or spreading the rail RIIU the wheels have play enough on tl ,n axles to accommodate themselves to ar ' inr?<iiii.litv iii the widtli of the rails canst IB- ? it- hy the difference in size of the pol tor wed. ux Mr. MoPlitrson hai gone to no nunc me cssary expense in grading his trnrk. I ee- h:is followed the hills, and says he li IJf. comparatively level track. - The engi the is placed between the two cars he usi so he has no trouble in making up ! train. He expects this engine to (to t >f a work of eight norse and ne can carry his work all winter even if there shoi , be no more snow than there was duri the last two or three seasons. It was I can scarcity of snow in late winters n [Jfi* prompted Mr. MePherson to adopt t lfrt means of getting hia log* out to thn riv It cost aoout $300 to lay his truck, i ?ur- the engine cost $400. What has alrei red- been done shows clearly thut thoplai J in feasible.?Ths Timherniftrr. The Buffalo (N. Y.) Fire Departtr ,lu, haa lately received a novel Are cngi is of which has excited much interest in t long etty. The carriage is constructed II be tirely of papier tnache, all the dlffe ance parts of the body, wheel % poles and rest being finished in the beat poet manner. While the durability >1 powers of resistance possessed by material are folly as greet as tho< ,r " wood, the weight is, of Qpurse, i fes*. rhe Farmers' Alliance Will Commit I ^ the State Legislature to the Sab- I treasury Plan and Instruct V tv 11 Co. <JT The last issue of the Raleigh, N. C., Progressive Farmer contained the follow- I ing correspondence between Mr. Elias I t'arr. President of the State Farmer's Al- | liance, and Senator Vance: ~" PRESIDENT CARR's LETTER. iT November 20, 181)0. ' r IIon. Z. B. Vance, Black Mountain, Buncombe Co. : Dear Sir:?After carefully consider- 81 ing the political situation in our State. 1 n deem it wise to write you and ask the v following question: "If the Legislature instructs you to advocate and vote for the j! Sub-Treasury plan of financial Inform, " will you earry out said instructions in " good faith ?" I hope that you will un- J! dcrstaiul I do_npfc tdfajk W. v9 decree on yourYnr*?w^/in North Carolina, but thefrc nf( precedents * where Unied States Senators " have car- 1 ried out instructions, and also precedents " where they have disregarded them. I v trust that you will give mc an answer at your earliest convenience. Respectfully, Ei.ias Caiir, Pres't N. C. F. S. A. ^ benator vance's reply. v United States 8en ate, ) t Washington, D. C., Dec. 6, '1H). t c Elias Carr, President N. C. Farmers' Al- p liance, Old Sparta, N. C.: t Dear Sir:?In answer to your official communication of the 20th ult., which did not reach mc until 1st isst.. I hare to c say that I recognize the old Democratic doctrine ef the right of the people to instruct their representatives of the fullest * extent to which it has ever been carried in North Carolina. I hold that the will j of the people, clearly and unequivocally expressed, must be obeyed imlcs,> com- j phauce woukW^\pi>i> i- th*W|?TtSf'.>rHTi~ m a moral wrong, in which case* it would * be his duty to resign and give place to a t representative who would obey. Good (1 faith in the observance of instructions and public pledges is absolutely essential to a government based on the popular will. Very respectfully yours, r Z. B- Vance. t an editorial expression. 1 The Progressive Farmer says editorially: Senator Vance agrees to obey the in- ( structions of the legislature, if it "une- . quivocally" directs him to vote for the sub-treasury plan. It is now the duty of the people to meet ' ami indicate to their legislative represen- 1 tutives their will an to whether Senator Vauce shall be instructed to support the "plau" or not. In these meetings there ' should be the freest discussion of the merits and demerits of the "plan," with a view to ascertaining its practicabHifc^ It has been said that m JacPV'j - iu sub-tre&Stwy -win. " if tsr,{. ista, now is the tim^Lv^11??111?^ itself. North Ciroli^^d8,fr1r i?""' fS impregnable in their del special sc enic but are not wedded to nV> gSTT1 to of bringing it about. TfiW ? ol>ey the instructions of thej*1^ P. ' to supporting the sub-trrfj, nce o rt,, will allay all opposition election, which arose from . - ? opposition to tho scherae'unitted- T,?? which the alliances are cot'ower secure alliance have it intheir Vance by for their reforms the suppov? through the issuing instructions to trinket to RCruro legislature, and if they ndr" not be his these instructions that of differfault. A way to the settleV a^'anccmen enccs between Vance and Lfow an ?PIM)ihas been found. There %vise embotunity to make a enrefuf!*8 in the P,uas dimfeot of alliance nrinciplFou8ht before of reform which will he lb the new congress. SIR J0HN~ MgKjinoeroly lIlc people The Irish '^'irtT.'kr.nnv, Ireland, [Cablegram.]? The result of the election hold Mona&y to till the scat for North Kilkenny iti the House of Commons made vacant by the death of Mr. Marura. was announced. The polling resulted in a victory for the anti-Pnrnelites, their candidate. Sir John | Pope Hcnncsxy, being returned; Ilcnnessy, 2.502: Scully, 1,856; majority for Hennessy, 1,146. > Mr. Scully, the defeated Parncllite, ' has tiled a petition praying that acertifi* rate of re-election be not granted to Hen( nessv, the successful candidate of the anI ti-Parnellltes. I Mr. Scully's petition is bliscd upon the allegation that undue pressure was brought II tobcarby the priests upon the illiterate d voters of^he oonstituco*v^4j/>pccial com' plaint is made of the action of the clergy >e in connection with the canvnss of CastlcI? coiner, during which Mr. Pnrncll and his 't friends are alleged to have been a <sauHs. ed by a mob led by priests. |? Can It Be True P ;d The Scientific American says: In our cs country, three-fourths of the nation's illiteracy is in the .South. Forty per cent. < - of the whole population of the South caDlo not read the New Testament. Of the 2,ias 000,000 illiterate voters in our country, no 1WO,000 arc in the South. Thenegrt es, population, now about 8,000,000, increas his es at the rate of .100 per day. he Among the more than 2,000,000 moun on tain whites in the South, one-half canno ild read. Of the 50,0 0 Indian children, lea ug than 15,000 are in school. The Chines the in America are few, hut they represen hat one-third of the population of tue globe his ^ er. A Whale's law. >?d Some ?rfe 'pi*) v,n Tfie town of Boothbay ? " for th?^Othor day anc ? 'My hart |tJfy Twenty mei tent 00 ParyMhore and ii|on the beach oe, -t Jr priae provfcrt to be not th hat air but the upper jaw of a whalt en- It was thirteen feet Ion* from the b<r rent in fmnt to either end joint, and neve the and a half feet across from end to en<i lible ?Chicago Timet. and thii St. Louis, Mo., has a Drees Suit Clnl 10 of the members of which pat $5 a mont nucb and decide by lot irhp shall purchase dress salt out of t)# funds. - mm.- ' fc^EPA fPTM K N'T. New York City Divine on the Alliance. be Moral Import of the Movement Reviewed and Thoroughly Ex plained From a Baptist Pulpit. Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., pastor of the Vcnty-third street Baptist church, Now ork city, was greeted Sunduy morning y the usual crowded house. The sermon ras the beginning of a now series, on the abject,' "What is Religion?" The serum was preceded by the following reicw of current events: The real sensation of the year 1890 is he advent of the National Farmers' Aliancc and Industrial Union. It is no lushroom growth. It is here to stay. It i the resistless movement of millions unf opprwwiphy of centuries. Its nuoIxB powtr iVwicim, economic, religious nd political. The advent of these emlattled hosts is the most pregnant event >f this generation. It is the beginning >f A REVOLUTION hat will shake this continent and move he world. The first time thev gathered around the >allot-bo.\ was the 4th day of last No'cmlicr. They polled between two and hree million votes, elected the Governors if three States, seut forty men to Congress and scared the life out of hundreds hey did not send. What is THE MORAL MEANING if this great movement ? 1. It is the protest of the patient bur len bearers of the world, who have toilid through weary years, struggliug boicath the wrongs of economic and politial superstitions. In America the farmers lave literally become the beasts of burlen of the nation. Their business has >een to feed over 95,000,000 people, together with the hosts of the old world, vith the products of the year's work, and hen through the winter eke out a miserible existence wrestling with their MOHTOAGKB, CYCLONES AND FLOODS. While they are doing this, we laugh uid grow fa*, daucc and make merry in he city and bet how much they will uake next year, buy and sell their crops ifty times before they are plautcd am! diargoold "hay seeders" with our losses. The question is whether these men, the freest of the free, the authors of this country's liberty, shall assert, their rights and obtain justice, or degenerate into the condition of tenants and serfs. The condition of labor in all other industries liave undergone marvelous development and changes in the nast hundred years. The farmer works unaer the same stern conditions, perishing in theinidstof boundless prosperity, for others. He has determined to effect a chango in these conditions, and -^a^-Tbtg the . ?i as masses?of the farmer as a farmer. I' vacans the assertion of the manhood ol the yeomen of the nation. This is real education. The accent of our education has hitherto been to get on, "to rise." Wc have been taught to climb out of the hum ble sphere in which we were born into some so-called higher sphere. The smith learns to despise his anvil, and the clodhopper to look with contempt upon the plow. They raise to "higher" things. 'I hoy become lawyers, and doctors, and preachers, and bankers, railroad men and politicians. We now have fully eight million men in this country educated to be Presidents of the United States. We only need about a dozen Presidents in a hundred years?an awful waste of raw mate rial. The farmers arc learning and teaching to their children, iu their organization, that the work of the farm is as sacred, as in life. Women, too, are admitted to the order. Well they may. There are more farmers' wives in the insane asylums ol America than any other class. They have actually recognized the fact that WOMEN IS A HUMAN UEINO. A reporter once asked an old farmer ii the West what ho thought about the ques tion "Is marriage a failure ?" He replied "what marriage ? Well, let's see. There1 Lucindy gits up in the mornin', kindle the tire, milks sjx cows, starts four chil drcn oil to school, tends to three others skims twenty pans o' milk, feeds the liens likewise the hogs, looks after some motli erles.s sheep, gits breakfast, washes u the dishes,gits dinner, etc.,?wliv, 11101 do you think I could hire anybody to <l all that for what she gits ? Not mucl It's a great success, sir." Ah, these p, tient, sndfacid, weary millions of womei The pathos of their lives! They have ci tcrea this organization with cheeks flushc with hone, manv of them for the fir time iu life. May God lead and blei them. 8. This movement means GO-OrKRATION AW AOAIN8T COMPBTITIO: It is in this principle of socialism tli the order has its strongest foumlatio They are pledged to co-operate with cai other in the production of econoni goods, and not only ^o, but toco-opera in the distribution of these goods. T ' Alliance stores of supplies arc a pron ncnt feature of their woik. These stoi contain the germ idea of the great i dustrial co-operative soc/etics of woi . ingiuen in Great Britain. They are nsse Jug in life the principle, that it is bet /or men to fight for each other tli I againtt one another. 'I hey are leanp i fhe secret of associated power?that ini ion there is strength. It is in the light ibis fact that we solve the apparent p dox, that while they cry out agai f?-fypjjte and monopolies, in the sn I breath they demand that the governm press Its functions to the very vcrg< ritate socialism. These cries are not ' consistent. .They arc the assertion of I " dameotal principles. They rccog' the important fact that government is w something separate from the people, ? when normally administered, is sin * the people governing themselves - th is not a power to be forced, but a p< | to be utilized for the happiness of all l? I 4. The organization means brothe.rh h I It is a fraternal and benevolent order I principles of love and fraternity, wii I the worjd, universal as the rose. iUKV' ~ ' The fifth and sixth articles in their St. Louis Declaration of purposes, A SECOND DECLARATION OF INDEPEN DBNCK. read thus: "5. To constantly strive to secure entire harmony and good will of all mankind and brotherly love anioDg ourselves. "i?. To suppress personal, local, sectional and national prejudices, all un healthful rivalry, and all selfish ambition." An ideal ns high as Heaven?an echo of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. They have determined to ''bear one another's Imrdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." They pledge themselves to alleviate suffering and pain, to care for the widow.-, and educate the orpl^ns of their dead. This is climbing the heights of life. This is pure religion, undefitcd. They have gone into politics not because they arc- a political organization. They have licen FORCED TO OO INTO POLITICS, because? their principles were social, economic au<l religious. All social and economic; questions have become political questions, and all political questions are religious the political arena is where all the great questions of to-day aud to-nior sow must he fought and settled. Let no man deceive himself l?v believing that this organization is but a passing episode in politics. Remember its foundation is not piimarily political, but social and economic. It is the? embodiment of grand moral idea?it is the movement of a revolution. It will not go backward. May (lod give its leaders wisdom. QOTTON PICKED BY MACHINERY Steel Fingers Doing the Work of Human Fingers in the Field. The essential feature is 330 fingers oi spindles projecting through aud from a hollow rvlinrler TH?a/? llnm. ??w.. iue>v,?' iut ivi? inches long, and have at tho end uf a brush or tip of fine wife, and set in four grpoves radially is horse hair, clipped so it projects from the finders about ouc?wclfth of an inch, the tip und hairs on the side being the means of getting the cotton from the bolls. The fingers 01 spindles are given a whirling motion by n system of cog gear enclosed within tin cylinder. Moving forward, the cyliudei revolves, the fiugers copic in coutact witli tIre cotton, the whirling motion of tin fingers entangles the cotton lint, and iti; picked, then carried upward and back ward until cleaned from the fingers hi brushes, ami thrown into receptacles hold ing sixty pounds of seed cotton. The revolutions arc so timid that tin fingers which project at the spokes of wheel strike the plant without a raking motion, forThat would damage the plant No injury comes to the loaf or boll fror running the machine over the plant. With a width" of four feet, length seve feet, and height of five and a half fee ' wmaWUTUl Road, aud saw the Campbell machine i operation. '1 he rows were 185 yards long, an i were gone over twice, the result bein the cotton was cleanly picked out of tl bolls, the machine being as thorough this respect as the fingers of the colon num. No injury to foliage, bolls or brand es, of the plant, was noted. In the morning when the cotton wi slightly - damp, u gathering from one ro made by the machine weighed a litt more than thirty pounds; the wash knocked on the ground by the machim > was picked up by hand and weighed li\ ounces. In the afternoon, witJi 1 he cottc perfectly dry, the cotton picked weigho over "'N pounds, auil the waste picked u weighed nearly thicc and one-In |)OUlKl-. 'I ho time made was about five pounds i minute or 300 pounds an hour. Allowiti i time, liberally, fur emptying the roce| i tacles, stopping for repairs, meals, aud i i on, the machine could easily work h r hours a day and would gather 3,000 pouui i at a total expense of not more than $3 p day, makiug the total cost of the picku for each bale .5(. At present pvii the cost is fully $10 ?Waco, Texas, D t IMPORTED NEWS. f 8 3 The Cablegraph Brings Tidings Groat Interest. '? I Chang, the famous Chinese giant, become a naturalized British subject, t 1( an earnest religious worker, lo Professor Koch and his assistants h i. completed their arrangements for the j i- paraiion uud distribution of the curat i! lymph. 11_ The Queen has an immense cellai wine at Windsor and supplies are rcgu ly sent, from the Castle to Osborne i 83 Balmoral. Cham|uignc and claret are wines in most constant use, but there splendid collection of cabinet HI M wines, some extraordinary old sheri J William IV. drank uo other win* great quantity of port, including ne u.' all the best vintages, aud some of the c. est imperial Tokay in the world. lt< Last week three wild boars were l,p in the Queen's Swine Garden, in W ,j. sor's Great Park, of which two wcr f.;, her Majesty and the other was sent t< Prince of wnler. who nonr was k- served at the royal table at Christmas i"K the reign of George IV. ler 'I he rumor that a plot to overthrov an Argentine Republican Government t ng ed, and that several persons had Irce m- rested, has been confirmed. The of however, is not an important one, an ar- public is not excited, ust T|1C Czarcwitch has arrived at Bo mc on his tour of the East I'pon lai ent the C'zarewitch was received with e of pomp and ceremony by the British , in- military, and naval authorities, inn- Professor Kn? h has been made ai arze f.i arv citizen of Berlin. He is the not man to enjoy that distinction. 11 but leagues are Prince Bismarck, Count iply kc, and Dr. Ilenrv Schlicmann. nt it >wer A large fish dealer in one of t ood. markets says that during the seas with a common thing for the fish der 1c as have as many as fourteen different 1 of fish on thfir stalls. SEABOARD AIR LINE SYSTEM ^ A Great Railroad Company Rapidly ^ Extending its Lines. The Seaboard Air Lino system, which \ now extends from Norfolk, Va.. to Ab- 1 boville, 8. ('., and which by October 1, 1891, will be .running through trains between Portsmouth and Atlnnta, Ga., is composed of the following roads: Miles. Seaboard A Ronnokc, 80 Roanoke A Tar River, 30 Raleigh A Gaston, 07 Louishurg Branch, 10 Durham A Northern, 44 Raleigh A Augusta, 08 # Pittsboro Branch, 10 Carthage Branch, 11 Gibson Branch, 10 Carolina Central, 207 Georgia, Carolina A Northern, 268 .-k Total, ^ 981 / # "13 All those roads arc in full operation * except the last named, over which trains now run as far south as Abbeville, 8* C. The grade from Abbeville to Athens, Ga., is finished and ready for the tics, and a very material portion of the work between the latter place and Atlanta is finished. The country between Portsmouth and Monroe, North Carolina, which latter is the starting point of the Georgia, Carolina A Northern, has been greatly benefitted by this system, as have Sanford, Henderson, Kittrcll, Raleigh and many other towns. Southern Pines, which a few* years since was a pine forest, has a village of nearly 150 houses and several health resort hotels. The principal products of the country bordering the trunk lino / I wt ftTCP Xnrfnlk sind Ifnnrnn nr<? nlno and cak lumber, bright lonf tobacco, cotton. corn, wheat, oats and hay, peaches, grapes and small truck of many kinds. Leaving Monroe, the first place of im- i portance in South Carolina, is Chester, a J town of much business activity and of considerable wealth, and in which, of late years, a number of flourishing manufuctolics have have been started. Next in order is Clinton, a sizeable town ami tho t ading place of many well-to do fnrmers. 1 Between these two cities several new villages have been started at convenient pots on the line, where stores and dwelI ling houses arc going up rapidly, and from all of which many bales of cotton i have been shipped this season. Greenwood, the next town, is in the midst, of a >' very rich farm country, which continues to some distance below Abbeville. Tho natural resources of the entire region that p will be traversed by this railroad between II Monroe and Atlanta are great enough to ? assure a heavy freight busiucss in both directions as soon as the road shall be u completed. ijr some favorable legislii^u lie would he enabled to restore the credit of his kingin dom and make a loan. >{j There can be no doubt of it that the |j. potentate is in a had way financially. It is related that when he resolved to come to this city and had accepted the invitnw tion to take passage on the cruiser Char!,. leston as the guest of Admiral Brown, he found that he was short of funds and was g" unable to make a loan. In tjiis financial ('. crisis he went to the royal treasury and ,, rifled it of its entire contents, which ng,'l gregated $103.50, a sura entirely iuadctiuntc to tlu* royal needs; but not to be II disappointed in his desire to come to Sao Francisco, lie went with his suite aboard the Charleston and set sail. IS, The second day out a poker game was started, and among the players were the up King. Admiral Brown, the captain, the ?n flag lieutenant and one or two of the naval officers. In a few hours the contents ,.r of the royal tn asury had found their way i,r into the pockets of the naval officers, and ,T. the King was a financial wreck. Admiral itrown whs iimiortuned for a small loan ' I of the tlug lieutenant a little later contributed $2 ."iO. The captain paid a tribute of $1. ami the result was that when the Golden Gate was reached every offiof cer on board had in his possession from one to three 1 O U's bearing the Kingly signature. So runs the tale, and it is said ihnt has even the waiters at the hotel have contri,n(' buted in the way of small loans to meet the expense of the royal visit. nvc ,ro"' Incredible Crnoltjr. IVC . During the Guatemala-Salvador war j several young American telegraph operaln'r tors in Guatemala wore engaged in cnj deavoring to keep Up rommuHluitlow (|1(. 4hc wire with the army. One of these. js a told mc that one day when ho and sotno! Puc of his colleagues were riding with San-; y chcz, the leader of the late revolution,; 3?a they passed a Held in which some peons' arly were working. Sanchez looked at thorn,, tin and said in a careless way: "I wonder how my nerves are to-day?" He then shot unslung his Winchester from his saddle,! ind- took aim and bowled over ono of the e for peons. The others ran for their lives.. ?the Sanchez again drew a bead and knocked! first over another man. Then, apparently dur- satisfied that his nerve was all right, he put back his riflo and rode along. It is u v the also said of him that during the war a xist drummer hoy, about sixteen, who had 1 n nr luu.Amo iinmnairk and wanted to return Sh'h homo, broke down and began crying. ,^1(' Ho blubbered around Sanchez's tent and asked his chief for permission to go mba\ home. idi'-g "Yes, you may go homo," said Sanmuch chez, and without more ado he drew hia ' civic. revolver and shot the boy dead. On one occasion, when his artillery n lion surrounded in battle, the only esfourth cape was up an almost impassable billIis col side. Sanchez ordered his men to scale. ? t Molt with their guns. Ho stayed behind ^5 and as a man began to stragglo Sanchez shot him dead. He escaped with his' he citj guns. on it it Sanchez is only twenty-seven years, tiers t< old, but is one of the moat determined I kiudi men ever heard of-?Chicago tfcuu