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^CLlNKSCALEi KONTEASLE, TEIW. TViat o n e of our Teachers has to say about; this Noted Place. Mooteaqle, July 6tb, 1888. The, Edif?r'.ot; this column has asked us to give_s?^otee)firom Monteagle; and as s^'t^ral others Have seconded his request we will do ao. We left Anderson <Ott Monday at about rive o'clock arid ?eaehed this place on Tuesday, travelling ail flight. :We greatly enjoyed the trip, the prettiest 5 ," are those to be seen just as . we pass the boundary and enter Georgia. Mt. Airy is . a lovely place. "We reached there just at sunset; everything looked so delightfully cool/ , the guesta strolling about the grounds, '- seated on rustic benches, made a beau tlful picture $ while a band on the piazza discoursed sweet music. Everything about the plao?.8Uggeats rest, and if any , ?rf the Andersbniana are' looking for an ideal summer homo, let them go to r'-:&t Airy. We were delayed at Cleve "?: land two hours, and (his caused as to ,. tiaVe to wait nearly five hours in * Chatta? nooga. This, at first) seemed quite a tarisfortune, but just then we remembered Carlisle had advised us to step over there in; order to visit Lookoat Mountain, so, after a short time spent in resting, we Started, oat to see -it. A street car took jia to, 'the foot ?of the mountain. The ? s?^amit is lesched either by goingjup the . "iucUfi&f-ox ptk a rnqpcaw-guagej railroad. ?n^h#i|cjne a car*eaves|4e foot of ; itheTOOuntaln'every ten minutes, and on She narrow-guage every half hour. We entered the coach at the foot of the incline, and in sLs minutes reachetfSun ?ei Point, a distance of 4200 feet the ?bonductor informed us. This, incline was something entirely new to us. The <coach, floor, seats and windows, is inclined to suit the road. Should a per* son attempt to walk up -thV-incline be would have to go on all-fours and have hard work even then, and .as to coming down - on foot/ that is impossible. We " felt aa if we were just swinging in the air as we ascended, and the descent was rather dangerous looking, but it was a delightful experience. The views as you _ ascend are grand: from the summit por? tions of seven States may be seen. Sun? set House is built 'oh a eh el frock just on the verge of a precipice; the balcony projects beyond this rock, -and standing ?a it, one seems ? literally: suspended between Heaven and Earth ; above, only the clouds, and below, a view too grand for descriptions. We- think a painter could find a life-work transferring these glorious views to canvas. All around Chattanooga the Bcenery is beautiful, specially along Missionary Bidge.- t All* .'along, on the dopes of these mountains, . .are . lovely mummet, residences, .peeping >oat from the green trees, making a suc 4 -cession of picturesque scenes. The route from Chattanooga to this point is a won? der in itself; the .seemingly impossible lias been made a reality by human skill. The road, at some points, winds around 4hemountains, then again through tun? nels, then spanning deep gorges, until we Are lost in wonder and ask, "what next?" The first exercise on the programme of :/the Assembly was the "Welcome Meet* :ing"on Tuesday evening. This we were too tired to attend. On Wednesday morning^at nice o'clock, Prof. Payne, jof /ifaahville, gave an interesting lecture on ^^tfcatibrj," after which ^classes were organized in the various schools, viz: Primary" Training, Kindergarten, Elo? cution, Mathematics, English Literature, Hebrew, French, German, Latin, Greek, Botany, Music and Drawing.- We have entered the following classes: Junior French, Senior Latin, English Litera? ture and Mathematics. Later, we will be admitted to Kindergarten work and ^Elocution. This will occupy us from 'eight o'clock to twelve each morning:, '-pSTaxt week we will give you a descrip? tions of the AssemblyGrounds and the .further work in the schools. Lenora ?. Hubbabjd Monteagle, July 9, 1888. We thought in-this article to give a description of the grounds and holidays, but the. difficulty is, where shall;, we begin. So much might be written that would be interesting and yet much must, 'f ' necessity, remain untofd. The da are situated on the highest part of the mount, and embrace, one hundred acres. The entrance is not very attract ive, but once within the gatej, new beauties are seen on every side. There are drives, where the magnificent, chest? nut trees on each side meet overhead, paths through the forest, springs in abundance/brooks spanned by rostic bridges, picturesque cottage?, Jocob's Well of mineral water, and Moses' Bock, from which gnahes forth a stream of the most delightful water we ever drank. In the center of the grounds is the Amphi* theater, where: the large gatherings are held, farther on two buiidings where the different classes meet, and a little to the east the Children's Temple, in which the ' Kindergarten is taugh t.; Social meetings and twilight prayers are held every evening. Monteagle ? may be made either the busiest place imaginable, or the ''most restful. You simply take your choice. If you wish to join the-busy crowd, here is a wide range of work from which yon may choose. After breakfast, the following classes meet from 8 to 8.40: Algebra, Senior French, English Language, Geology, Latin Poetry. From 8.40 to 9.20, Senior German, Jun? ior Drawing, Botany, Latin Prose, Elocu? tion, and later on the Kindergarten. Ia the next period, from 9.20 to 10, Arithmetic, Junior French) Senior Draw? ing, Greek Prose and English Literature. From 10 to 10.40, Hebrew, Junior Ger? man, Primary Training, Rhetoric and Primary Latin. The fifth period, fro 10.40 to 11.20, Geography, /Primary Greek, Geometry and the Shakespeare class. This last mentioned is the most charming of all. It is conducted by Prof. A. P. Bowland, of Southwestern TJaiveraity, Jackson, Tenn. He also has 3'& LANGSTON. charge of all the classea-in- English--Lifc: erature. The classes in Hebrew, French and German are under Prof. ^Magatb, of Emory. College; those of Latin and Greek are taught by Prof. Naff, of Kling College, Bristol, Tenn; Arithmetic and Algebra by Prof. A. D. Wharton, bf Nashville; Botany and Geology.by.Prof. J.I.D. Hinds, of Camberland Univer? sity, i The lectures on Primary work by Prof. Lansi of Macon, Georgia* j are highly enjoyed by every one. Besides these classes from 11.20 to 12, there is a short lecture daily in Children's Temple. Last week we had three most instructive ones by Chancellor Payne, of Vander bllt, on "True Education, "Training" and "Mind-growth." To-day we had a pleasant talk from Prof. Lane on "Les? sons not learned in Books." There are also special classes formed in Ma sic (vocal and instrumental), Painting, Pen? manship and Embroidery. A chorda class also, which is free to all. At 8 p. m. every day there is an entertainment of some kind in the Amphitheater; to night it will be an Education Recital by Prof. Pinkley, of Cincinnati. Should yon wish to join the pleasure seeking crowd, there are excursions almost daily to places of interest near here; hut if you wish only rest, you may swing your hammock Under these grand old trees, and there fanned by these refreshing ' breezes, ^ enjoy complete repose. The cottages are filling up rapidly, newarri vals* on each train. We are pleasantly located at the Mississippi Home, near the center of the grounds. Our State has no home for its teachers here, but these Mississippi teachers have completely adopted me. They are so very warm .hearted and social, we are made to feel perfectly at home in their midst. We -would say to any person coming to Mon teagle, do not stop at any of the village boarding houses or at the Hotel, but come to some of the cottages on the grounds. Should you go to one of the village houses, everything will be repre sented in its worst light, that is, every ?thing connected with the schools or the assembly.. The villagers are trying to convert the place into a fashionable summer resort, and would like very much to see the schools discontinued Consequently, the teacher who falls into their hands, finds a great deal of incon veniences thrown in .the way to prevent his enjoying the schools. Jnst in front of the Mississippi Home is the Wash ville Home, a..little south of it the Shelby County Home, and east of it the Alabama-Home. Thus far we have told yon of the school advantages of Mon tea? gle ; at; some future time we will say something of the social and* religions features. , Lenora 0. Htjbbabd. How to Core It. . The Atlanta Constitution] in reply to a saggestidn of one of its State con ^erap^ries's^gg^tjni'al avcare for the ^a?-ejotton perversity that afnbe farmers of the cotton belt who are out of debt shall cease to raise cotton and turn their attention to the cultivation of grasses and .cereals and the breeding and improve? ment of live stock of all.kinds i^Thia would be a very good" remedy, indeed, if it were practicable ; but in the very nature, of;,things it cannot be applied." Avaatjnajority of the farmers of the South' raise cotton, not because they are in debt, but because it is'a cash crop. It commands ready money at every cross'road'store and at every rail? road station, as well as at the larger markets.- This is the secret of the all .cotton programme." % * v* . ^"There is but one solution for the all cotton problem, and, that is home mar? kets for the diversified - products of the farm. In the North and ;East, agricnl^ ture as it is practiced in'-the South has well-nigh disappeared. In its ^place there are dairy farms, hay farms, stock 'farms, vegetable farrns;'small fruit farms and poultry forms. ' ; - "This desirable state of things has been brought about by tbe development of the industrial resouccea- of those sec - tiqns^by tbe^ buildlingoXf?^es^Jatge and small; '-'AH -m rm9.oj"'ioduBtry have been- ioaterefd/and ?nc9Ujaged', and' the re^ultjs/h^j&qsp vhq ?iil,,th.e land at the North * find:* already arid eager mar? ket for e'very,thing the soil can produce." How long it will take to get this home market in the wide. South the Constitu? tion can very well, determine for us, develop we never so fast. It is true that the building up of active, wealthy cities and toyns, wlttfaTarge number of con? sumers, tends to -introduce the raising of such products .as find ready consumption near at hand. Nevertheless, as. Rome was not bnilt in a day, these aggrega? tions of wealthy consumers do not come merely for the asking. They require time, foresight, energy, enterprise and pluck. But fwnllwtbe gn<* i? pmwing the horse is" starving. This", hunger, j does not prevent any farmer from judi-,1 ciouBly. mak?^BI^ferm. self supporting just so fa^^^^^^fe^^^warrant, and abode?in au.wo^^i ho'me. We have an abiding confidence in the good sense of the farmers in this matter jnst as they beco^bfter|ableto^b^own judg ment?mth^pleaise?t T?e^firet thing to do, then, is to get ont of debt. This done, all the rest will suggest itself or be suggested by the neighbors around. Why should not a man on a farm have as handsome a. home- and one as foil of enjoy^oias;^ dwelterj lnMbJ towns and cities? When we all begin once more to go in the country as of yore to enjoy the good tbinjrs-ofJife, from';that day we shall Have*turned over a new leaf, and our farms will not only be better cared for, bot they will become coveted objects of human desire. Just give us two or three more good crops and we are out of the woods, and'will all begin to see a better day as sorely as the Register registers the troth.? Columbia Register. ? A helping hand at the right mo? ment would save many from ruin. ? Whether from swampy land or stagnant pool, or from the deadly gases of city Sewers; malarial poisons are the same. Ayer's Ague Core, taken accord? ing to directions, is a warranted specific for malarial disorders. -.- ALIEN AND HOSTILE PEOPLE. Vbe Greed and Tyranny of MormorJsm. Drank Wilkerson in the New York Times, The Mormon Church has a firm clutch on the Territory of- Utah, which has an area of 84,970 square' miles. There are many hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land in the Territory. The moun UTn ranges which trend to the northwest through the fair land-are ribbed with veins of precious ore and blackened in Southern Utah by the outcrop of many immense coal seams. And there is iron ore in masses and in veins throughout the mountains. ? Clear, cold water flows in all of the highland streams, which almost without exception, are stocked with trout. The sky seems to be bluer and the stars brighter in Utah than elsewhere The climate is wholly delightful. It is not too warm in the summers,' and the winters are not intensely cold, and the air is ever dry. The scenery in Utah is grand in its utter desolation. The barren treeless mountain ranges, the gray valleys the dead Salt Lake shimmering*in the strong light grow on you, and pressen tly you love them. In this fair and highly desirable Terri tory live about 200,000 Mormons, every one of whom is a bitter and resolute ene my to the Republic, to progress, to edu cation, to intelligence, and to all things which tend to elevate men and to loosen the shackles from their mind?. Outside of the. limits of Salt Lake City and of Ogden Utah is a foreign land, far more foreign than the older portions of the Indian Territory. The American citizen who visits the agricultural portions of Utah, or who enters the small towns, is instantly aware of the fact that be is regarded as a foreigner and an enemy Hostile spirits glare at him through un friendly eyes. Not only has he entered a foreign land, but he has actually passed outside of the protecting folds of his flag. The only result of the attempt to enforce the Edmunds Act has been to intensify the hatred which all Mormons it matters not whether they are polyg amists or monogamists, bear toward the Gentile citizens of the United States To-day the population of Utah is divided into two hostile bodies. One body, the Mormon force, is rich and powerful, and numbers 200,000 resolute people. It has detachments scattered throughout the Territory Wherever grass grows and water flows. The other body consists of about 80,000 Gentiles. They are gathered int/T the Mormon cities and towns, and in : je ...... -?.,?. ? * A?'^ ' highland mining camps. Almost liter? ally no Gentile hand guides a plow through Utah's soil. Utah is an exceedingly arid land. In all arid countries, it matters not where they lie, the people who own or control the water actually own the land, and it is impossible to wrest it from them as long as they can hold the life giving water.v Under the various ? national \ and territorial laws which relate to' the own? ership of water that is diverted from its natural channels to be used for mining or irrigation a water code has been crea? ted. Eliminating the legal verbosity from the code there remains c The per? son or association of persons who take water from natural channels for mining or agricultural purposes own the water in fee simple. No person -or association of persons has the right to tap "the stream aboye the head of a ditch already dag to divert sufficient water from the existing ditch to lessen its flow or its head above the discharging orifices. That is the law relating to water rights in the highland mining region and in the arid agricultur? al region. It is evidvent that the people who own the water virtually own the land. The^Morujana have-tapped al jmost everj<Yyinnirjg stream "in - Utah. The Church virtually owns the water which flows in all the valleys. No Gen? tile who may desire to create a home in Utah can legally obtain water to use on his land unless the Church sells it to him or be bores an Artesian well. If he should homestead a quarter section of land and dig an irrigation ditch to obtain water from a near by stream his Mormon neighbors would instantly object in the Courts?tb'at'is, if-the American citizen bad settled in the vicinity of Salt Lake City or Ogden, and the Mormon Church would bear the legal expenses connected with the suit. If the' Gentile had un? wisely settled in the remote agricultural districts he would be driven from his homestead by force, or the crack of a Winchester would settle the diapute once for all, and presently another prospector would be reported as having been killed in the mountains by Indians. The power of the Church of Mormon lies, first, in the blind devotion of its followers ; second, in its commonwealth; which has its origin in the system ?f tith ing. The true, M?rmon - owes no allegiance to the Church1 only.'^He has no respect for any law that has been or that may be enacted by the United States Congress. He looks on the United States aB on a foreign: i land. ' i He regards \\ A men can citizens as a set- of snooping, benighted, ungodly aliens, whose portion Bhouldi rightfully be death. And the Mormons dealt out death to Gentiles as long as it was comparatively safe to' kill.- The Church reeks with Gentile blood. As I write a vision of the Mountain Meadows, where 120 Arkansas emigrants, svere massacred in cold blood by the Mormons, rises before me, and yonder are grouped six bloody spectres?the Aiken party, who were murdered on the California trail. A spectral procession stalks through my brain, and I recognize Yates, Douglass, McNeil, Dr. Robinson, the Margetts, Arnold, Cowdy, Drown, Ber? nard, Porter, Forbes, Lieut. Gunnison, Parrigb, Banks, Walker, Wilson, Smith. Clark?the procession .is too long to admit of listing the names of .all-the bloody victims who wer*-*-ttrdered by command of the high ecclesiastics, who controf the Mormon Church, At present'the leaders of the.Church have quit murdering Gentiles. They desire to have Utah admitted as a State. Then the bloody game could bo safely recommenced. So to day they by Judges and juries and the editorial columns of newspapers, and they spend money lav? ishly at Washington. The system of tithing supplies the sinews of war. There are, as I said, about 200,000 Mormons in ANDERSON, S. O, 1 Utah. One-tenth of all the wealth they create is annually paid across the coun? ters of the tithing houses and into the Church treasury. In other words, such portion of 200,000 people as are able to work, work arduously and continually for the Church. They are virtually the slaves of the Church. The sum of mon? ey annually paid as tithing ia enormous. In addition the tithing is double in many instances. For instance, suppose that a Mormon farmer, assisted by his wives, raises 100 tons of hay and 5,000 bushels of course grain. He. draws 10 tons of hay and 500 bushels of grain to the local tithing house, where it is stacked and garnered. The Mormon farmer then takes stock of the feed he has on hand and decides that he has sufficient to fat? ten 100 steers. He buys the cattle, or goes in debt for them. He feeds them to fatness. When they are sold the Bishop ?and "one of these intelligent grasping men lives in every settlement?claims one tenth of the money received as tith? ing, and he gets it, too. The money paid to the Cburcb as tithing is never accounted for. Another source of profit is the interest paid by poor immigrants who have been assisted by the Chnrcb. For instance; A Mormon Missionary laboring, say in Denmark, finds a poor blacksmith who. has a large family to support. The blacksmith is dissatisfied with his lot. He envies the comparatively rich farmers whose land surround i the village in .which he lives. The missionary tells him that if he becomes a Mormon the Church will give him a better farm than any tbat lies in Denmark, and in addi? tion will pay bis fare cud bile fares of bis family from Denmark to Utah. He cap tnrs tbat mechanic. Tbe family arrives at Salt Lake City in due time. Tbe im? migrant is sent to eorae distant outlaying settlement. A tract of Government land is entered for him. Tbe Chorch builds a house for him and supplies him with tools and work animals. He is taught how to irrigate his land, and ditches are dug for him. When he is started in his new life he is required to sign a note, the face of which equals the total amount the Church has expended on him and his family. He pays from 10 to 15 per cent per annum for the use of the money, and he pays in addition one tenth of all he may raise. He is a profitable invest? ment. Another source from which the Church draws enormous profit is precisely that from which thoughtless people would Bay they derived nothing, and this source is mines. Utah's mines have been very .productive. They have as a whole paid enormous profits to their owners. So prodnctive, and cheaply productive, too, have these mines been that competent mining experts in Utah estimate that they have paid 30 per cent net on their output. That is a large profit. Seventy per cent of the output has been expend? ed to carry on tbe mines. The larger portions of this money bas been paid ont for labor, for food, for timber for mine use, for fuel, and for feed for working animals. Utah's mines have yielded about $100,000,000, and about $70,000,000 have been spent for materials and food and wages, and at least $50,000,000 of this great snm has been paid to Mormons and the Church received its share of the money. Tbe mining operations which are carried on in Utah by Gentiles have lifted the Mormon Church out of poverty and made it rich and powerful. Tbe Gentile merchant who desires to emigrate to tbe West to establish himself in business need not trouble himself to enter Utah. Tbe trade of Utah, except? ing that of tbe Gen'?es, is controlled by the Church. Many years ago Brigham Young created the Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution. This institution was formed as a joint s'.cck company, and Brigham invited the Mormon mer? chants to take stock in it. When Brig? ham Youug invited a Mormon to do a certain thing that Mormon hastened to comply with the invitation; indeed, be considered it to be an imperative com? mand. After all the country shopkeepers had invested in the stock Brigham wrecked tbe concern, and then bought in tbe stock for a few cents on tbe dollar. He could have given Jay Gould points on wrecking valuable properties. When he and a few other Mormon leaders owned all the stock they established branch stores in every town and at every settle? mentinjhe Territory. They nailed to tho front of every store a large sign on which-was painted a picture $f the "All seeing" Eye" and the* words "Holiness unto the Lord," and the letters Z. C. M. I. Then the Saints were counselled to trade exclusively at these stores. When the Saints are earnestly counselled to do a particular thing they do it, and they one and all traded and still trade at the co operative Btores. And outside of the mining camps and tbe cities of Salt Lake and Ogden a Gentile merchant could not do sufficient business to justify him in wearing a hat. Tbe Gentiles who are engaged in selling .:real estate iu Salt Lake City claim-that' tHfe1 political .control of the'city' will speedily pass into the hands of honest Gentiles. The assertion is wholly false. Every intelligent American who has travelled in Utah and who has noticed the spirit and discipline of the Mormon forces knows that tbe Church will hold Salt Lake City as long as the Mormons are allowed to vote. If it should ever be necessary to cast 10,000 Mormon votes to carry tbe election in Salt Lake City they will be cast. The leaders of the Church have only to issue orders to the followers to colonize 10,000 voters in this city and the Church is sufficiently rich to give all these men employment on public works while tbey are gaining legal citizenship. The real estate rustlers never mies a chance to tell a stranger that the Gentiles elected- four councilmen in Salt Lake City last year and tbat they, one and all, prophecy that the Geutiles will elect a majority of tbe board of councilmen in less than three years. They are so earn? estly engaged in prophesying the pros? perity af the ifutqre that they actually forget tq tell the stranger, who may be ! looking rather longingly at the corner lot, tbat last year the Mormon leaders were intent .on making a show of liberality and progress so as to hoodwink Congress into admitting Utah, to Statehood, that DHUESDAY M0RNI1 they asked the Gentiles to nominate four Americans es candidates for the council board, that they ordered the Mormon voters to vote for these candidates, and that they were elected by Mormon votes, many of the Gentiles refusing to vote for mere figureheads. These four Gentiles are conncilmen to-day, and they have abont as much influence with the board as four New York bootblacks have. I tell these facts to the would-be investors in Salt Lake City real estate because I know the real estate agents who do busi? ness in that beautiful town will forget to tell them about them. Real estate rust? lers are so forgetful 1 How about polygamy ? I answer tbat I hold with those Gentiles who live in Utah and who frankly acknowleded tbat the Edmunds Act cannot be enforced. The Mormon women, on whose testimony the burden of proof reBts in all trails for polygamy, habitually perjure themselves to save their husbands from punishment. More than one Mormon wife has set in a witness chair, with a young baby on her knees, and swore that she did not know tbe prisoner, who was her husband, and that she did not know who was the father of the child She held to her breast. If a prominent Mormon, whose polyga? mous life was notorious and conld be proved by Gentile witnesses, is arrested, the Church promptly gives bail in any amount the Court may demand. That particular Morman is Been no more in Salt Lake' City. He mysteriously disap? pears via the underground railroad. He Beekers fuge in the Mormon settlements which lie in remote mountain valleys, or in Southern Utah, far from railroads, and where no Gentile dare follow to arrest him. In no case has tbe hiding place of a prominent Mormon been betrayed by a follower of the Mormon Church. In? stance tbe case of George Q. Cannon, an Englishman, who was Utah's delegate to Congress for many years, and who has been biding from justice for many months. There is a large reward offered for his capture. Tbe Gentiles are abso? lutely certain that he 1b in Utah. Note Gentile knows precisely where he is. And if they did know they would not dare to attempt to arrest him. When Cannon was first arrested his bail was set at about $40,000, which sum the Mormon Church cheerfully forfeited to save him from trial. In truth, I do not believe tbat there are ten Gentiles in Utah who would give two cents each to have poly? gamy as practiced by Mormons sup? pressed. The young Americans who live in Utah do not desire to marry ignorant Mormon women, and the fact that their political enemies, tbe Mormon men, actually marry a dozen of these unat? tractive females bo as to secure high rank in tbe Church amuses them. That is the measure of their interest in polygamy. But every Gentile who lives in Utah and who believes in free speech, free thought, and eqnal rights under our National Constitution, earnestly desires to see' ?Utah pass out of the political clutch of the Mormon Church. The continuance of Mormon rule menaces tbeir material welfare. The Gentiles demand that the Territory be controlled by American citi? zens and that their rights under tbe Constitution ara acknowledged before Utah is admitted to Statehood. And they are reasonable and just in tbeir demands. Make it Bight. There are few persons who are not con? scious of having wronged their fellow men. They may dispute it or deny it; but they know that it is true, neverthe less. The question then arises, What should be done ? There are many who know the wrong, bnt will not admit it; there are others still who both know and 'admit tbe wrong doing, but, who take no steps towards repairing the mischief they have wrought or undoing the wrong which tbey have done. Strictly speak? ing, tbe wrong act done can never be undone; the wrong word said connot be unsaid; but'no man who has been guilty of wrong should rest satisfied until he has ? done bis utmost to make suitable repara? tion. If be has wronged bis neighbor pecuniarily, let him make restitution, not in scrimped and scanty' measure, but liberally, heartily and ungrudgingly. Let him resture fonr fold. If he has said wrong things, let him promptly and openly recall them. Let bis apologies be as^distinct and hearty as his accusa? tions have been. Let him in a manly and Christian way, so for as in him as lies, remove all occasion of grievance. Let bim see to it that the false impres? sions he has given be corrected, that the Blenders he has uttered be recalled. Thus, and thns only, can he win back the love he has forfeited, and hope to receive the blessing of the Lord whom he has offend? ed.-? Christian Standard. The Best Snake Story Yet. While at a neighbor's a few days ago Mr. George W. Fisher of Independence, Kan., heard a racket out in the kitchen, and, going out to investigate the cause, found that a large rattlesnake had crawled into the kitchen and was fastened in tbe handle of a jug in the following manner: There were some eggs and a jug on the floor when the snake crawled into tbe house, and it swallowed one of the eggs, and as tbe jug was lying on its side had crawled through the handle as far as the egg he had swallowed would admit, and, finding another egg convenient as he crawled through the handle of the jug, swallowed tbat egg also, and as the egg was too large to pass through the handle of the jug, Mr. Snake was fastened so he could neither move forward nor back? ward, there being an egg inside of him on either side of the jug handle.?Kansas City Times. ? Last fall a bug flew into the ear of Henry Bolton, of Frederick township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, ren? dering him entirely deaf on tbat side. A few days ago the bug dropped out and his hearing almost immediately returned. ? Bodily health and vigor may be maintained as easily in the heat of sum? mer, as in tbe winter months, if tbe blood is purified and vitalized with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Every person who has used this remedy has been greatly benefitted. Take it this month., $G, JULY 19, 1888. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. How Your Uncle William Arp Spent the Day. Atlanta Constitution. The 4th of July is a big thing. We had forgot ton that it was so big and it is a good sign that our people are waking up to it again. The first rebellion gave it birth and we were proud of it but the last was such a failure and brought so much trouble that rebellions were at a discount and we quit celebrating?we hung our harps on the willows and, like the Jewish captives, refused to sing the Lord's song in a strange land, but we are all harmonizing now and it is a good sign to see our people celebrating the same old Fourth. The first rebellion was against the old man and the boys whip? ped him but When the boys got to fighting one another with no ocean between it was a different thing. Their first decla? ration of independence, that great seces? sion document, was conceived at Williamsburg, Va., in the old Raleigh tavern, but it had to go over to Philadel? phia to be born, because there was a big bell there I reckon. Williamsburg was the seat of government of the Virginia colony, and the declaration was read there on the 1st of June, by Thomas Jefferson to the house of burgesses, and a more solemn scene was never witnessed. There was no hilarity, no gush, or enthusiasm. The whole thing was like a funeral. Love for the fatherlands and fear of her power were mingled with a burning sense of her tryanny and oppres? sion. The older members dreaded to cut the cords that bound them, and had the declaration been left to a quiet vote it never would have carried; but when Patrick Henry closed bis immortal speech, the house rose up-as one man, and with quivering emotion endorsed bis closing sentiment?Give me liberty or give me death. History says that one of the delegates said an hour afterwards that he would give five hundred pounds to recall bis vote. It was a. terrible trial, and reminds us of the solemn passage of the ordinance of seccession in 1861. John Adams and Patrick Henry were the orators and carried the day by storm. There was no resisting their patriotic eloquence. It was like a great tidal wave and overwhelmed everything. The like of it h?d never been heard before, and Daniel Webster paid would never be heard again. Let the young men of this age read that history and will do them good. In soul-stirring emotions it sur? passes all the romances ever written. It is far more sublime than Burke's im? peachment of Warren Hastings, for the cause was greater and the men were greater. The old independence bell was rung until ic cracked, and strong men met upon the street and wept. Well, now, what was this all about ? Nothing very much outside of principle. We would not call i t a very great oppres? sion now. The biggest thing was a little tax on tea?a sort of tariff that did not protect. Nobody drank tea but the New England yankees. The stamp act had been repealed two years before. But all the Southerners from Maryland down were just as mad about that tax as if it had been on whiskey. There was no whiskey here, but New England rum was all the same thing to them. Everybody was fighting mad?even the citizens of the city of brotherly love. They went to fighting, and they whipped the fight, and it was glory, and we are all proud of it; but if they hadn't whipped it and had been forced back under old Johnny Bull it would have been treason, and there would have been more amendments made to the English constitution than you could tote on a stick. When these rebels made a constitution after the war was over, Patrick Henry and old Ben Harri? son refused to sign it for a long time because it did not secure the rights of the States as strong as'tbey wanted. At the last they signed under protest, and the historian says that Henry never recover? ed from his fears that some day the States would lose their separate indepen? dence. I heard an old whig say not long ago that Jefferson was more of a demagogue than a statesmen, and that the declaration of independence was no extraordinary document, and most any smart school boy could write a more grammatical composi I tion. "For instance," said he, "take tbe ! first sentence, wherein he says (a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.' Now what kind of respect is that; who ever heard of an indecent respect. Why diden't he say 'respect for the opinions of mankind.' What made him put in that useless and inappropriate adjec? tive." I heard another man say that Jefferson didn't compose veiy much of that decla? ration, no how, but got it from old Mecklenburg, in North Carolina, where secession had its birth two months before. That is what a tar-heel told me. I wsb talking to a Scotch Presbyterian yesterday, and he said that Jefferson got the general hang of the thing from the confession of faith. Well, it don't matter. It is a lively old documeut, and is still good reading on tbe Fourth of July, or ^any other day. Last Wednesday I ran over to Talla poosa to see how those imported yanks were getting along and how they were going to celebrate the day. Tbey did it np in stile. They hoisted a flag pole 110 feet high and floated a splendid streamer of stars and stripes from the masthead. Gay bunting adorned the stores and ho? tels and dwellings. Five thousand peo? ple filled tbe streets. A regiment of men marched arm in arm in pairs?a rebel on one side and a yank on the other, just as they did at Gettysburg. Splendid music filled the air and tbe Star Spangled Ban? ner alternated wiih Dixie and everbody shouted and cheered for both. Patriotic songs were sung by a choir or fifty trained singers. Then came the reading of the declaration, and lastly tbe orators were on hand and distinguished themselves and made the turkey bumps rise on the spinal columns of every patriot son and daughter. Colonel Hansom, the great apostle of protection, made a splendid speech, as he always does, and he captured the au? dience, especially the yanks by his wit and his wisdom. George Adair never fails and General Young was in his glory. I didn't catch all of George's thrilling speech for I was too remote, bat he told me himself tbat he made a splendid one. He began with Bonaparte's great speech to his array in Egypt. ''Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from tbe heights of those pyramids." Bat there are no useless pyramids here to mark tbe tyranny of kings or tbe downfall of a- mighty nation. There are no soldiers here and no forty centuries either. But only about forty weeks are looking down upon us from theTallapoo sa hills?bills that are nature's peaceful monuments and tbat are to day smiling down their smiles upon this exoilerating scene. Tell me ye winged winds That round my pathway play, Blow ye onary spot Like our own Tallapoo?say. And the winds said, nay. In doe time he got warmed up to his work and pat in lively on Marco Bozaris. Strike for the green of your sires. 8trike for you altars and your fires. But don't strike for higher wages in Tallapoosa town until we get tbe brick block and tbe glass works done. He closed with liberty or death and shook his ambosial locks and gave the nod for dinner and everybody shouted Amen. Then came a bountiful multitudinous repast, and after a reasonable rest tbe afternoon was devoted to fun aod frolic, and tbe night to an open air platform dance, at which the yankee girls paired with tbe Georgia boys and the Georgia girls with tbe yankee boys, and they are mixing up splendid, and before anybody knows it will be mating and hormonizing the sections. Tallapoosa is emphatically a yankee town, and the New York Herald or any other Herald can't smother it nor stop its progress. The people keep on coming and buying and building. The air and the water and climate are delightful, and these are enough to charm the Northern people who are blizzard sick and long for a more temperate region. They are not only content with their new home but are delighted, ftnd every man who comes and locates writes back and brings some of bis more timid nabors. ITere is a thriving population of 3,000 people living in a brand new town tbat a year ago had only 600 souls. These people have come from tbe extreme north, from Maine to Minnesola, and all of them have some means, and -ore putting their money in some enterprise. A large plant of glass work is nearly completed and there are varions small industries established. An immense^wagon factory is projected. Tbeir iron furnace is on tbe way. They have market gardens that can't be surpassed. A down east Connecticut yankee came out the last of February and bought fifteen acres of the poorest, whitest, gravlie3t land I ever saw, and after taking up two hundred and seventy-four stumps, has made it rich, and now sells every day as fine potatoes and onions and other vegetables as ever grew. He wears a bell crowned far hat and is the very personification of old Brother Jonathan as we see him, in the pictures. He is as lively and as happy as a jaybird. Three yankee girls are here teaching school, and I'll bet tbat some of our widowers will marry them before the year closes. Away back before the war, when yankee girls used to come South and teach school, our widow? ers married them as fast as they came. They^were smart, self reliant and econo? mical, and that is the kind of a wife a widower wants. There is a large saw mill plant and a big planing mill that were brought from Michigan by Micbigandera. They are grading streets and boulevards, just like they do in Atlanta or any other preten? tious town. There is not a drone in that bee gum. Everybody works. If one o^ our home made mechanic goes there to work he soon learns'to take a livelier., lick, for he has got to keep up with tbe yanks or quit. These people have come to stay and our people are giving them a warm welcome. They will help us in many ways. If they have not got the iron for tbeir furnace they just step over to Bartow and buy it and by and by they will be selling to Bartows their wagons and wheelbarrows and glass and all sorts of contrivances. I wish that more of these yanks would leave tbat blizzard country and come down to this blessed land where they can spend the rest of their days in comfort. If they want to break up the solid South and have a national brotherhood that is the-way to do it. Blll Akp. A Cure for Laziness. A late reverend gentleman who resided in Yorkshire, and was as well known for his eccentricity as his talents, one day sent his son, a lazy lad about twelve years of age, to catch his horse. The lad went sauntering along with a grain of corn in one hand and a bridle in the other, dragging the reins along the ground. "Thomas," said the father, calling after him in a solemn tone of voice, ' come here, I want to say a word to you before you go." The lad returned and the parson proceeded : '*You know, Thomas, that I gave you a great deal cf counsel. You know that I have taught you, before closing your eyes, to say, 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' etc., besides a good many other things in tbe way of explanation and advice. But this is the last oppor? tunity I may ever have of speaking to you. I couldn't let it pass without giving you my parting charge. Be a good boy aod always say that pretty prayer before going to sleep. I fear I shall never see you again." As he said this in a very sad and solemn manner the poor boy be? gan to be frightened, and burst into tears with this exclamation; "You'll never sac me again pa?" "No; for I will probably die before you get back with the horse." This quickened Thomas' ideas, and gathering up tbe reins, he ran and caught the horse in less time than be had ever done before.?London Queen. ? Shiloh's Vitalizer is what you need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Diz? ziness, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 ceuts per bottle. For sale by Hill Bros. ? For lame back, side or chest, use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents, For sale by Hill Bros. VOLUM] The Husbandman. John Smith is a neighbor of mine but no relation. He is a good farmer, but Well, I will let him tell his own story. He came to me the other day and said: "I want you to advise me what to do. We are having awful times over at my house. The boys are falling into bad habits. The girls are gadding about all the time. My wife is as cross as a bear. She Rays it is all my fault that the chil? dren don't do better, and that I have nobody but myself to blame. But you know that I have always been a Bober, hard-working man. I have made a good living for my family, and I can't see why things tarn out so. What do you think I ought to do?" ?'Shall I tell you just what I think?" "Yes." "Well, John, my opinion is that if you had been as good a husbandman indoors as you are out of doors, your family would be in as good condition as your farm is. You know that the Bible calls the farmer a husbandman, and we speak of farming as husbandry. And I take it, the idea is that a mau ought to care for and culti? vate bis land just as he does his home. But if you had treated your farm as you have treated your home, it would be all overgrown with weeds and thistles." "What do you mean by cultivating my home? I understand about cultivating land. But that is a very different thiog t from cultivating people." ! "I am not sure of that. Let us look at the matter. Soon after you bought your farm you married your wife. In becom? ing a husband, your assumed in regard to ber the duties of a husbandman. She expects you to study her capabilities and her wants as you studied your fields. Your idea when you looked on your land was, how ton I make it most productive and yet keep it in good heart? If you saw the crops beginning to grow light, you summer fallowed, or changed the seed. But did you study your wife in that way? Did you ever think that she needed encouragement? Did you ever see how she was dropping from the monot? ony of her daily toils and cares, to try to give her a change ? Did you ever say, 'Come, Sarab, we will take a journey to the Mountains or to the seashore and rest awhile.' I tell you, John, people need summer fallowing as well as land. And if they don't get it now and then, their spirits grow worn and weary, and the crop of eomfort for them, and for those who are dependent on them, will be light. Nay, in spite of themselves, they will get to be irritable. You say that your wife is cross. Don't you see why ? She loved you and thought that you loved her. But after you married her, how did you treat her ? Did you cultivate her, or did you neglect her? Don't you act just as if she had nothing to expect of you but to keep the family supplied with provis? ions, and to eat your meals when she had prepared them ? And didn't you some? times grumble even when she wanted money for things necessary to the comfort of the family ? And didn't you complain of her cooking, when she was doing the best she could to please you ? Now, just remember how much more careful you were of your land than of ycnr wife I how much more time you spent in trying to mellow it and smooth it, and to find seeds I adapted to it, than you spent in trying to make her happy, and you will see why you have such a harvest of thistles, when you might have bad wheat and fruit and flowers! "And then about the children. You are the best man I know of to handle horses. I have often wondered at your patience with your colts. You never seem to get tired of training and petting them. You are so kind to them, and yet so firm with them, that by the time they are old enough to work, they will ^do anything you want them to. That pair of bay geldiogs that you drive is the finest in the country, and it is because you have taken such pains in breaking them. Now, if you had done as well by your children as you have done by your colts, they would be just as nice girls and boys, But while you petted colts, you repelled your children. I have seen lit? tle Johnny come to you while you were in a corral trying to*gentle the horses and you would order him away harshly and then turn and speak as softly and caressingly to the beast as a mother talks to her babies. You knew that if you had spoken to the horses as you spoke to Johnny, you would have spoiled them. Is it any wonder, then, that you have spoiled Johnny. "I tell, you John, your wife is right. You have nobody but yourself to blame. You have been a good land farmer, but a shiftless and careless house farmer, you have been a firstrate husbandman, but a very iudifferent husband and father. And you are reaping just what you sow? ed. Now, my advice is to do just as you would if you had a field that had been neglected until it was covered with un? derbrush and thistles. Clear the land and begin to cultivate it. Take an inter? est in your wife and children, and it may not be too late for you to secure a happy home. Be kind to your boys and girls, and yet firm with them, as you are with your horses, and they will learn to love you and obey you." I write out the substance of this con? versation because I am afraid that there are a good many such John Smiths in the world. Men who have homes ought to know how to husband them. Hus band is defined by Webster. "To use in the manner bests suited to the greatest effects." Every head of the family has a grand opportunity. What noble men and women have gone forth from the well cultivated homes of Chistendom to bless their country and the world ! All our homes should be the nurseries of plants of righteousness. But to have a good nursery one must devote time and thought and toil to it. It won't grow and flourish of itself, uncared for. Neither will a home.?Herald and Pres? byter. ? Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It cures Consumption. For sale by Hill Bros. 2 ? Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron? chitis immediately relieved by Shiloh's Cure. For sale by Hill Bros, E XXIV.- -NO. 2. All Sorts ol Paragraphs. ? A planter in Brooksville, Fla., cleared $10,000 off a cabbage patch of 100 acres. ? Tbe man who is good natored all ?. day does more for tbe race than he who . wins a battle. ? More than a 'million men are em? ployed by tbe various railway lines in tbe United States. ? A 6-year-old daughter of Joseph Davis, of Wayne County, W. Va., weighs 230 pounds. ? There are about 300,000 children in the United States, under 12 years old, whose lives are insured. ? There is a lady in Port Huron who*. has had her coffin made and is now hav? ing her tombstone prepared. ? It has been discovered that the ffea uses only one eye at a time, and that be dies the hardest of any insect in nature. ? The town of Liberty, Texap, proudly claims that sixteen inches of rain fell there lately in the course of thirty-fix- * boors. - ? An enterprising physician in Aus-? tralia advertises: "I will pay half the funeral expenses in cases where I am not successful." ? A man who is looking for something ' to do rarely finds anything, bat if be is willing to do anything be^can always find something. ? David Ashley, of Platville, Se* braska, has just died of hydrophobia^* from the bite of a rabid dog received . twelve years ago. ? Frances Cleveland Edwards, the first girl baby born at Thermalito, Cal.r has been presented with a corner lot by tbe town authorities. ? Thousands of people are trying the various' anti fat remedies during tbe present hot spell. The best anti-fiit remedy is to let it alone, ? The New York Star predicts tb:?t Cleveland and Thurman will be elected by the largest majority ever given a Presidential ticket in the United State?* ? Burlington, New Jersey, is the champion town for widows. There ? one block tbat gives shelter to thirty one of these attractive but dangerous crea-_ tares. ? At Berwyn, Pennsylvania, light? ning lifted John Higgins and the lawn ? ' mower he was using two feet in the air, and then dropped tbem without injury to either. ? The watermeloo crop of Florida sold North this year will amount to over $50,000. From this basis it ought to be easy for the doctors to figure oat their profits. ? A check fourteen years old was cashed the other day at the Allerjton, Pa., bank. The holder said it bad been all that time in the forgotten pocket of an unused vest. *' ? In Brazil some of the Senators hold their term for life. One of them has not shown himself in the senate for forty years, and there is now due him a back '\ salary of $900,000. ? An Alaska Indian, sentenced to prison for ninety-nine years for murder, I wants to know if the government is going to keep him alive long enough to j serve the whole term. ? Cotton caterpillars have appeared in five counties of Southern. Arkansas. ?: This is tbeir earliest coming since 1878, in which year they shortened tbe crop | in the Mississippi Valley. ? Caterpillers have so overrun the County of Kent tbat the fruit farmers, j whose products are all eaten up, are coL-J lecting them and selling them at $20 s. sack as food for pheasants. ? Tbe number of immigrants wbo arrived at Castle Garden iryMay^of this | year, was 73,770. The numberlor first five months this year is 187,139, against 166,090 in tbe same Ihne last year. ? There is a man in New York who j eats glass, carpet tacks and live frogs, j and he says that this abnormal desire to turn his stomach into a junk shop was j brought about wholly by the excessive^ use of cigarettes. J ? An English writer has discovered tbat the devil is eleven thousand years old. But the old boy seems to be in a pretty fair state of preservation, and stillj continues to put in bis work with neat? ness and dispatch. * ? There is a man living in Atlanta Ga., 81 years old, who has never taken chew of tobacco nor smoked a cigar,! nevsr was drunk, never swore, and nevtt j married. And yet he probably thinks tbat "he knows it all" notwithstanding. ? A gentleman who is a close observer informs us tbat he accidentally came across a curiosity a few days ago. While examing some rocks in Fishing creek he was surprised to find tbe well-defined imprint of a man's foot upon a rock as hard as adamant. He says it was as per- j feet a fac simile of the human foot as he ever saw. When and by whom is wosj made, are queries too hard -to be soTvj ?Lincolnion, Ga., News. ? M. Jo vis, a French aeronaut, isi to be building an air ship, in which.) proposes to attempt to cross the Atls from New York this fall. It is to called tbe "Atlantic," and will be fee high, with a cubic measurement nearly 100,000 feet. It will weigh 4,6 pounds aod will carry the same weif of passengers and freight. M. Jovi thinks he can make seventy miles an hoar in it, and expects to land in Nor? way or Sweden, or else in Ireland, in three and a half days after starting, Tne cost of the enterprise is fix&Uttjj about $40,000. ?[ > The Best Method. The most agreeable as well as the me effective method of dispelling He Colds, and Fevers, or cleansing the i tern is by taking a few doses of pleasant California liquid fruit Syrup of Figs. It acts gentlyj " tively, strengthening the ol which it acts, so tbat regular bal be formed. Manufactured only by California Fig Syrup Company, Francisco, Cal. 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