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V<tl. 5, C "PAItMINO THE RKVKNUK." t t How tlic Taxing I'riviU'jftiH Arc ,] Sold by the Grand Old Party. x St. Louis Republic. This method of farming the revenue is not new. It is virtually the ^ same wluch prevailed in Home after the popular Republic had been over come by the plutocracy which paved the way for the Ktnpire. For a cor tain sum a government favorite might buy the privileges of collect- 4 ing the taxes from a rich province. The favorites were called "farmers , of {lie revenue." Of what they collected a small part went to the treas ury to pay for their privileges; the ! rest thev kept. It is generally ' agreed thfcji the "publicans" mentioned in the gospel were their agents. ^ As they practiced all manner of ex tortion their agents became extremely odious. Immense fortunes were accumulated under this system, and the wealth of the Roman provinces was centralized in a few hands in Rome, as, under the analogous system of this country, the wealth of the United States is drained into the cotters of a few corporations in the northeast. The parallslism between the systems in close. Under the roman a dollar was paid for the privilege of collecting three or four. Thus only a very small part of taxes actually collected went into the public treast T % i i ? ury. unacr our system wnere of tax is levied on an article of consumption the favored corporation is thereby authorized to collect as much from the people by putting up his prices to the extent of the tax against competition. As under the Roman, so under our system, only a very small part of the taxes actually authorized by law and collected reach the public treasury, llut our farmers of the revenue buy their privileges by payments to party campaign funds. In this our system is more : skillful than the Roman. When the party controlling the Roman . Senator needed a campaign fund it was obliged to vote it directly from the treasury. The Republican party accomplishes exactly the same thing without making it a matter of official record. The twine trust can well afford to pay to times $100,000 to have the privilege of collecting from the peo- 1 pic a tax of $15 a ton on all the twine used in the country. Very 1 little of this tax would go into the treasury. It is laid to prevent any ( twine fro)n being sold in this country except' by the twine trust. The ! government gets no revenue from any twine sold by the trust, and con- 1 sequently 5 ta share of the tax would be derived only from the small \ amount which comes in from abroad in spite of the tariff prohibition. Soon all the twine used in the country the trust would be authorized by law to collect a tax of $15 a ton from consumers. On this foundation of tax farming out plutocracy is based, and the plutoorady, is the government: No such government can stand. The insolencjl) of the plutocracy but hastens its downfall. hovel-Headed Talk. Our two Charleston contemporaries came to us yesterday with sound, sensible talk about the situation. The Charleston World classes the people into three divisions. First, 1 lt/\uo ml w\ l\o lo f U a f .-I '.-t i n\/ou rr likj iih'V/ uiu uuyvl'uul UlCUt j with a most hearty hatred. Of these it says: , "Thos j wlio hate him, and there is no dotibt but in some quarters lie { is the most intensely hated South ] Carolinian that ever rose to authority and command, will wait breathlessly for him to reveal himself as they h.fve pictured him, the worst, t man in the State of South Carolina." ? Of the second class, the admirers t of the Governor elect, the World ( says: S "On the other hand, there is no doubt but that thousands through- ^ out this State loot up to him with a devotion which is intense, a trust which is limitless and an admira- ( tion which is beyond all bounds, who glory in his triumph and a^k * for nothing else." J J Of the third c^ass, the World ! most wisely takes cognizance in /the following striking w>rds: J "But there is a tli^d class, and it i ./-IT.' 11^-1. -I CONWAY,! iinbraces many more within it than H he average observer would imagine, iml the members of this class, made ip of people of all classes, upon M vhosc actions South Oaroilua de- A lends, are waiting to judge by his to )\vn works the power for gbod or ai ivil and the purposes of this man, ol a ho, driving like a storm cloud tli hrough the State, has scattered his tl ipponents, overturned all opposition ai tiul politically revolutionized the qi State. T "They are waiting to see how c* I'i 11 mad will use the power and the j 1) uithority which the people have placed in his hands and they will t judge him by ins acts." * h Our contemporary is entirely T] right. This third class docs em- j L brace many more within it than the 11 irerage observer would imagine, h The vote of this State possibly tc stands at 100,000 whites to 128,000 H colored. In the recent election not over 50,000 of this white vote was " cast. That would leave in this third o< class some 50,000 whites are preparcd to judge Tillman by his acts, and d who if he, with the Legislature be- tl hind him, should give the people of c< the State on the whole a sound, safe fi and conservative rule, will set their j si faces like Hint against any distur- V banco between the people of the ci Stale as useless, harmful and selfish, g But, ou the other hand, should a ai wild and wanton exorcise of power tc be indulged in, calculated to give il the people no lost from selfish and unprincipled agitation, uo may set tl it down that there is power enough ti in this third class to overthrow any 1 administration they may deem hurt- n ful to their best interests.?Colum p hia Register. rJ ? ? ' ti Some Good Rules. ^ In an exchange we find the follow- w ing rules, which were very much en- c< forced ujion us when we were young, u and we do not think they would injure the world to be practiced now p a little more universally: Never exaggerate. Never point at another. Never betray a confidence. 11 Never wantonly frighten others. c' Never neglect to call upon friends, tl Never leave home with unkind A words. t)' Never laugh at the misfortune of ti others. h Never give a promise which you K' do not fulfill. b Never send a present hoping for c< one in return. I); Never speak much of your own f> performances. tc Never fail to be punctual at the ci time appointed. Never make yourself the hero of your own story. P1 Never pick the teeth or clean the bi inn is in company. ? Never fail to give a polite answer w to a civil question. w Never question a servant or a child t-1 Eibout family affairs. di Never present a gift saying it is w :>f no use to yourself. Never read letters that you find d< iddressed to others. tl Never fail, if a gentlemen, of be- w ing polite and civil to ladies. ai Never call attention to the feat- ?1 ares or form of any one present. ''' Never associate with bad compa- ?1 ny; have good company or none. Never look over the shoulder of f' mother who is reading or writing. Never appear to notice a scar, de- 2! forniity or defect in any one present. *c Never refer to a gift you have nade, or a favor you have rendered. ,ft Never arrest the attention of an M acquaintance by a touch; speak to aim. " Allianvr Nlimbers. (]( L. L. Polk, President of the Na- sq ional Farmers' Alliance stated in a tl tpecoli at Col umbos, Ohio, Saturday, dr hero wore 34,000 lodges in this bi country, with a total membership of al 5,000,000. 5( 2 - Jj, When Sir John Horschcl was defending the character of astronomi- ^ ;al science in view of an er?or of learly 4,000,000 miles in estimating he sun's distance the correction .was ihown to apply to an error of ob'serration so small as to be equivalent to he apparent breadth of a human ftll lair at a distance of 125 feet. re Diligence is a fair fortune, and J>(] ndustry a good estate. ^ I "lie True to H. O., Till ! ow London Has Grown Since 1HOO. Wo are too frequently disposed to link of the rapid growth of our merican cities as merely incidental' the settlement of a new country, | ul to regard the European cities as I d and stationary. It is true that ' ieir nuclei are anciut, but aa far as ' ic greater part of their built up' ea is concerned they are almost or lite as new as the American cities, hey, like our own population nitres, have grown unprecedented- 1 in recent decades as the result of lodern transportation and industrial rsteins. Thus London to-day is vi' times as lartre as it was at the pening of the present century, roin 900,000 at that time, the pop-! hit ion of London grow to 1,500 000 i 1830; and by 1855 it had increased > 2,500,000. Since 1855 it has more lian doubled. The present sovereign has wit essed a gain of two hundred per ?nt, or more since she began to >ign. There arc three or four welling houses now for every one lat was visible at the date of her ironation. 1 u the past forty years] "oiii 2,000 to 2,500 miles of new ] reets have been formed in London. Hio, studying the growth of foreign ities, can doubt the continued rowth of our own? Ijundou is not a exception. All the other great nvnsof Kngland have grown up as by magic within this century. The same statement applies to lose of the continent. Paris is five ines as large as it was in the year 800: Herlin has grown much more vpiuly than runs; \ lenna has examled marvellously since 1840. 'his is a digression; but I shall con nuo it enough further to remark lat an examination of the causes hich have built up these European mtres easily justifies the judgmint lat none of our twenty leading mericun cities has begun to aproach its maximum size. A Wonderful Air Ship. Fred N. Atwood, of Chicago, has lvcnted an air ship, with which he laimshewill be able to travel at ie rate of seventy miles an hour. . company with a capital of $200, 00 has been organized to build and sst it. The ship itself resembles lost of the others built. It is cinr shaped and has a big cabin ung under it. Huge tanks are to mtain hydrogen gas, which is to be' artially used in lifting the ship j 11 t rill ! I 9111 me grounu. i nree engines uru j > be inside the cabin operating sevi big fan wheels. These wheels ?ok like those on windmills in the mntry. Three of these wheels are ropellers. One is hung under the 3W and one under the stern, armged so that they can turn any ay like a rudder. Four huge heels are to be used in elevating ic ship. These are twelve feet in iamoter and have sixteen blades, tch blade ten square feet in surface, hose wheels revolve in huge cylinsrs that open out of the bottom of! ic ship. The idea is to run these' heels 1,000 revolutions a minute, | id thus force a column of air ont : the cylinders, creating a vac urn. lie air rushing back toward the ien cylinder will elevate the ship. Each ship wheel, the inventor esmates, has a lifting power of four ms. The ship itself will weigh but >,000 or 30,000 pounds, and with ' mr wheels, each having the power i lift four tons and with the auxil ry assistance of the hydrogen gas, r. Atwood thinks he can lift his lip. Once elevated, it is an easy ting to propel it. All about the lip is a perfectly smooth plane, a ick having a surface of 100,000 [uaro feet. This alone would scale ic air in an oblique direction, up or )wn, like a kite. The ship will be lilt of aluminum, the lightest met- ' known. It will be 305 feet long, ) feet high and 50 feet wide. The fdrogen gas will be manufactured i board the ship. Steam will he le motive power and luis the fuel. * o ~ llucklcn's Arnica Halve. The Best Salve in the world for uts, Bruises, Sores, Salt Rheum, Bver Sores, Chapped Hands, Chil&in8, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, id postively cures Piles, or no pay quired. It is guaranteed give rfoct satisfaction or money refundi. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Or. K. Norton. % // TVord, Your J J 'or A uvd IV Kali w ay Wlibtlcs. ( An eminent (llasgow aural surgeon, Dr. Thomas Burr, has ooininunicated to the British Medical association some valuable data concerning the injurious elTects of railway whistles upon the hearing. In rail way whistles the arrangement for regulating the pressure of steam passing through from the boiler to ' the whistle is not sufliciently delicate. If the boiler should be under, high pressure the whistle is very much louder ami shriller than when it is under low pressure, so that when a passenger train is leaving a station for a long ruu, and having therefore its boiler under high pressure, the whistle in unnecessarily loud and shrill just when those qualities are least required. Dr. Barr urges upon the attention of the association the adoption of lower pitched whistles, with proper regulators, so as to lessen the present jarring of sensitive ears and nerves. The question of whether a whistle of lower pitch than that usuually employed would bo as efllcient as an acoustic signal is said to have been solved by the introduction on a Scotch railway of a new form of whistle, very much resembling an organ pipe. The steam is forced on the lower edge of a brass tube closd at the up per end, and the sonorous impulses are taken up by the current of air in the tube and immensely re-en forced, the pitch depending upon the length of the tube, as well as upon the force of the blast. The sound resembles very much a steamboat wli lu-iinr litiiil oinl m noli ln\ior in pitch, and thercforo loss painful to the ear than the ordinary railway whistle. Now Orleans Picayune. Smallest Kn^iars lOvor Hind". The smallest engine we have any record of is that made by 1). A. Bntfei of Watcrhury. Conn., says the St. Louis Kepublic. The engine boiler, governor, and pumps all stand on a space of 7-10 of an inch square and are about $ of an inch. The .engine has 148 distinct parts, held together by 52 screws. Three drops of water till the boiler to overflowing , The diameter of the jlindcr is I 29 of an inch; the length of stroke 3 32 *f an inch. The whole engine weighs l*it 3 grains, not including base plate. Levi Taylor, an in^Mious mechanic of Indianoia; Iowa, has con* I .11 structed an engine almost equal to the Waterbury wonder. This pig my was on exhibition at the centennial, at Philadelphia, in 1870. It is built on a 25-oent gold piece the whole outfit weighing but a frac tion over three grains. It must have i been quite a contrast to the enormous Corliss engine when in exhibition m the same building. Taylor's engine, while not as small us that made by the Watorbury meohanic, is a wonder that will be better appreciated when the reader is informed that it would take 440 such engines to weigh one ounce advoirdupois. The Silent 1'astor. The religions paper is a si/rot jhmtor. The editor does not ring the door-bell and wait for some one to ask him in, take his hat, ami to in vite hir.i into the parlor and to a seat. He does not meet each member of the household, shake hands and ask about the health of each, and report how the folks are at home, lie enter's like an invisible spirit, or is received as a bundle from the postman to be opened at pleasure, and examined by each one at any time, morning,.noon or night /Lis communications and instructions are given to the whole family together, or to one or more at a time, in the parlor, the diningroom, the kitchen or the bed-room. When the family have received all he has to commit nicaate and aro so edified and pleased as to desire him to visit some distant friend, he will go to the postoflicc and into the tnail, and visit another family and repeat everything to all that can hear or read. Our silent pastor is not sensitive in regard to the reception and treatment lie meets. lie never hcifrs any criticism, however loud and severe. He knows not whether he is 4cindly or rudely dealt with. He stays where any one puts him nil' ( 'oifjff/'!/." \ O V MM 151 - - ? r and is ready to do his work when : desired. If he is in fellowship with any one and a child erics, or the bread is likely to burn, or the horse is to be fed, or the floor to be swept, or it is necessary to 150 to market, or church, or to the cars, he waits patiently and is ready to again communicate when asked for. What he has to communicate is very interesting and profitable. It litis respect to Christian doctrine anil duty, the criticism and meaning of the Scriptures, church history and Christian work, missions and Sunday-schools, temperance and the Sub bath, literature, education, art, cionee and government, lice and sin, and whatsoever is useful in this life and that which is to conic. Kvory wise head of a family should wot - | come his visits. Whoso shuts him out does his own soul an in jury and denies his family knowledge, culture | and t he bread of life. A Itcuiitil'iil Folly. We have taught our Aniericun hoys that they were cut out for Congress men instead of carpenters, for Presidents instead of painters and plumbers, for bankers instead of blacksmiths? for a career instead of a calling. With these top-lofty no-! tions the American youth would be slow to enter a trade, and then us- j uully in that sullen and indocile | mood which would mukc him undesirable to the master-mechanic. Theodore Roosevelt told the students of Harvard the other day that every young man "should have an ambition to make a name for himself in the world," ami oil.or such exalted and impossible, though quite conventional nonsense. Suppose every Ameri can hoy should set out with that am bition?and an ambition is a sole, dominating purpose ?it would not only he the source of selfish rivalry and endless rascality, but would lead* to inevitable failure in all but one ease in a thousand. If is poor advice that makes every life a failure but the thousandth. How much more true and sensible was Edward Kvcertt Hale in a recent sermon, when ho insisted that "the humblest manual laborer, equally with his brother man whose career abounds with the highest achievements of the intellect, is a fellow-worker with Clod." "To make a name!" Hetter learn to make a broom-handle, a horse shoe or a loaf of bread. The world needs these vastly more than it does names Hut make a name for himself. Aid that shows the selfish, unchristian character of the ambition here included?an ambition that stands in the way of the brotherhood of man, of the self-denial necessary to real usefulness, and it is the baneful folly that has kept so many of our Aniori can youth out of the humble, but happy, useful lives of industry.? fiftinifdi'tly A (fill's Reasoning. There was a girl whoso logical turn of mind was her destruction. She could reason witn Kdelid, but the culinary results which her reasoning brought her were peculiar. Once, when she had been sent to make some drawn butter gravy and the result was not forthcoming, her j mistress went out to see what she was doing. She found the girl try 1 ing to melt down some uncooked pie crust, having argued that as pie crust was made of butter and flour, she bad only to melt down the pie crust to get drawn butter gravy.? Boston Transcript. kovo and Business. Ethel?Did Harry seem very much put out when you told him you didn't love him well enough to marry j him? A V.. .1. I tr "mjco-'jlWi MIC Wi ll lO. 110 IIH'l'l' "| ly said, "Well, business is business," I and left 1 lie house. Munsey's Weekly' ? Truth Adhere always rigidly and undoviatingly to truth; but while you ex press what is true, express it in a pleasing manner. Truth is the pic ture, the manner is the frame that displays it to advantage. If a man blonds his angry passions with his search after truth, become his superior by suppressing yours, and at- ' tend only to the justness and force of his reasoning. Truth, conveyed 1 in austere and acrimonious language o u 17*, lcsoo. seldom litis a salutary effect, sitico we reject the truth because we tiro pro- ^ judiccd against tin* mode of commitnioat ion. The liotirt must ho,.won heforo the v intellect can ho informed. A man nuiy hot ay the cause of truth hy his uurousonuhlo zeal, as he dostroys j its salutary effoc's hy the acrimonv | of his mannor. Whoever would ho ,, ii successful instructor must first. bo- 8 con 10 a mild and alToctionato fr'end. |A*/" \ '?/ /, l.iJiji)'. . TI10 Iileal I'anii ly. d The lirst great essentials of t li?? ideal I101110 and the ideal family are 8 constant lovo, oonlidonoo, devotion, " unselfishness, willingness to spend (' and be spent in the services of one ' another. The ideal home is one v where the children shall say, -'When 1 we marry and have homes of onr ' own, we wish to lovo and bo as onr ( father and mother love each other. ' It is where the sons are taught res- ' poet for all women, by the deference 11 and kindness of their father to their ' mother; it is where daughters learn !l from their mother's patient exam pie how beautiful a thing wifely and :1 motherly affection is, learn the beau- s ty of daily, unselfish devotion to the 1 good of all. It is one where the at ' mosphere of love and kindness is so all pervading, that it softens every privation, ennobles every humble 1 duty, ami stimulates constantly all ^ noble and unsellish aims. ~ j 1 In the friendships formed between . lwkvsi.'iml ?rirla (I m ri 111 r I 110 vvIhhiI n<tt> '"J e> r?" > (lie boy is usually a year <>r ao older than the girl, girls of from 10 to 15 , boit>g as a rule a Irillo brighter than boys of the same age, ami ltav- % ing more inclination and time to ; 1 study, and consequently being put ( into clussfs with boys about a year ( older than themselves. About the | age of 15 or 10 the average girl be- j gins to mature socially at a rapid gait, and at 18 she is the equal ? generally more than the equal?of a man of 21.?New York Ledger. Salt is Good. "Salt is good." It is the language of inspiration, as well as of therap- i eutics. In all the range of the household materia niedioa there is no 1 remedy half so valuable as common i salt, both because of its real cura- 1 live properties and of its immediate < availability. And moreover, it has i this advantage over more pretentious f remedies,"that seldom in ease of over 1 win or misniunagcincni can n ue i; made to do mischief. If it doscn't i heal it won't kill, at any rati;. Here 1 a&! some of the things it is good for: < Heated dry and applied to the outer surface over the seat of inflani- | I ination or congestion, it will give almost instant relief, while applications of a strong, hot solution of salt, j in water or vinegar, act like magic , upon toothache, earache, neuralgic headache and all that brood of distressing ills. For catarrhal affections and sore , throat a spray of warm water and salt j is almost a specific, and is one of the | standard prescriptions of the "nose I and throat" specialists. For hay ' fever and those other slighter forms . ( of nasal sensitiveness that induce a f constant sneezing there is no ly ' more quickly palliative and ' often curative than the vapor of heated salt and alcohol. I'ut bath in a tin vessel and heat over a Maine. When there is a good ' showing of vapor place the vessel underneath a covering that envelops the head as well and inhale the vapor through both nose and throat, j, For influenza and ordinnrv cold.4 treatment is also excellent.?Now j York Kvening Snn. ! | A Wonder Worker. f Mr. Fruitk Huffman, a yong man ( of Burlington, Ohio, states that he 1 had been under, the care of two I prominent physicians, and used their 1 treatment until lu* was not aide to ' get mound. They pronounced his i case to he Consumption and incur- f able. He was persuaded to try Dr. f King's New Discovers for Consump-j < tion, Coughs and Colds and at that r time was not able to walk across the s street without resting. He found i before he had used half of a dollar I bottle, that ho was much better, he continued to use it and is to-day en \ joying good health. If you have j any Throat, Hung, or Chest Trouble i try it. We guarantee satisfaction, c Trial bottle free at 1 Dr. K. Norton's Drugstore. i No. 18. A IM STIC m.LLi:. A li?> Declined to Itc Wooed With 1 *it?*It fork Miss Kate ('ummings, who li\oa >'i 11 i Iter parents oil a farm, in Win obftgo, Wis, .'mi heat any man in ho county moving liny. .She wears tools ami a waterproof, with a felt ml and linsey wool soy dress, and, noun ted on the mowing machine, he is as handsome as a Hebe. Kate ins had u great ? manv admirers, and he admirers have had a great many lillicult es to overcome. One of tliein had the audacity to wear out a warrant for her arrest 11 the (diarge of assault with niali ions intent. Kufus Sloan was hird hy Mr. Ciinimings for harvest vork, and while turning the new iio'vii hay ho fell in love with Kate. ^ Overy time she came around on her hariot, pushing her sickle a little urthcr into the standing grain, linns would take his hat oil' and throw i handful of kisses at her. The voung ady did not like this performance md told him so. Then Knfns asked her to pull up, is he had something to say to her, die drew the horses in, pushed her ed liair liehind her ears, and w ith ire in her blue gray eyes, said, W'oll?" Then 1 {11 f(is planted his pitchfork n the stubble for a rest, told her ho >vanted a wife, and offered her the position. She curled up her nose, vrinkled her brow w ith scorn, and mswered: "Von? Hah!" This was too much for Itufus, ivho juhhed her in the side with his i?itclifork* Kate screamed; the holies started. In his excitement the rate swain crofc on the sick In viit<? ih<; mower. The 1:i?Iy saw her advantage, seized the lines, jiiul chased the fleeing lover al 1 over I he Held, scream ing thai she would mow him, down ind cut his ugly legs off. Lilt 1 <* Love Lost. This i.s how 21 parson took leave of his parishioners in a town in the far west: "Dearly beloved, our parting does not seem hard to me for three reasons ?you do not love me, you do not love each other and the Lord does lot love you. If you loved me you would have paid me for my services luring the past two years. Vou do not love each other otherwise I diould have more marriages to celchi ate, and the Lord does not love poll, for otherwise he would call more of you to him, and I should have, more funeral services to con.luck" His parishioners did not press their pastor to stay.?Vanity I'aii Lloetrie Iti iters. This IVIIIriK i<i til .f'/iiii i II (t j " n known ami so popular us to need no special mention. All who have used Klectrie Hitters sing the sauie song ?f praise.?A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do dl that is claimed, Klectrie Hitters will cure all diseases of the Liver md Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Hoi Is, Salt Rheum and other affections caused by impure blood.?W ill I rive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure ail Malarial Fevers.?Kor cure of Headache, Coo dipation and Indigestion try Klectrie ILtt? rs -Kntire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Price oo ds. and $1.000 per bottle at Dr. K. Norton's I>rugstore. Old Nursery Favorites. rt.er<3 was Tom, the Son of tlio Plfor, Jack Sprat, and Merry King Cole, And the Three Wine Men of Cotham, Who went tn sea in a howl; I'lio woman wlu> rode on a broomstick, And swept the cobwebbod sky, And the boy who sat in the Corner, . Rating Ins Christmas pie. These were some of the old favortes, but they have been supplanted jy the "Pansy" and "Chatterbox" stories, "Little Lord Fauutleroy," md "Five Little Peppers." The )ld fashioned oil Is and nhysios have icen superceded, and wisely, too, bv Pierce's Purgative Pellets, a mild, 1 arm less and effective cathartic. L'hey arc pleasant to take?so gentle n their action that the most dole:ate child can take them, yet so effective that they will cure the most distinate cases of constipation, atomich, liver and bowel troubles. They ihould be in every nursery. As a jcntle laxative, only one for a dose. The literature on dross during the | Mi i" years, would form an Impos- i ng collection. Kqually curious and ^ in posing also would be the collection >f all the empty bottles used in the ast ten years for Dr. Pull's Cough MTU p.