The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 09, 1893, Image 1
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I ^VOL. VII.
A'BLOW TO THE FARMICBH.
The Anti-Option Bill Passed by
Tlie Senate.
Naws and f'nurior.
Washington, January 31.?Son
at<>r Mills's credentials for his second
term were presented.
Senator Harris reported haok ftom
the committee epidemic diseases the
wftntse quarantine bill with a substilute,
being the bill passed by the
Senate some weeks ago, with the appropriation
Rection omitted.
Senator Harris's explanation of it*
omission was that under the House
rules a bill or amendment containing
an appropriation would have to
go to the comnuitee and ho wished
to have that delay and obstruction
' avoided. He asked to have the substitute
agreed to now and to have a
conference ordered.
At Senator Mill's request the bill
went over until to morrow.
? The resolution offered yesterday
by Senator Chandler requesting the
President to enter into negotiations
k with the representative of the Provisional
Government of Hawaii was
laid before the Senate and Senator
Chand er explained his motives for
offering it. lie had not intended,
lie said, that it should he acted on
without consideration by the committor*
111* foroiorn I'i.l.i f i.M.a > >w1 I...
.... v x v v? -v? v-i ^ iimvuo nuvi 1IU
hud intended yesterday to move its
reference to that committee. It hud
occurred to him, however, that it
would be wise for Congress to ini
tiute action on 'lie subject. lie
thought it due to the commissioners,
who were now oil their wav to Washington,
that a full and complete
statement should be made to them of
the American policy and that Congress
should be prepared to state
fully and frankly the position of the
United States with reference to
Hawaii to such foreign Governments
as might take an interest in the ques
tion. He moved the reference of the
resolution to the committee on for
eign relations.
Senator Dolph gave it as his opinion
that the time had arrived for a
* well defined aggressive American
? . policy and he pVoccded to read a
long statement of the population,
trade and commerce of the Hawaiian
Islands. Before he concluded the
resolution was laid aside without ac tion
The anti option bill was taken up
and the hours for taking the votes
to day were prolonged as follows*
On tho George substitute from 1 to
3 P. M., and on the bill itself from
2 to 4 P. M ,
At 3:15 tho discussion on tho hill
closed pnd voting began. The first
voto was on the amendment offered
by Senator Vilas to strike out of the
George substitute the words ''option
and futures as herein before defined
are hereby declared to be obstructions
to and restraints upon commerce
among the States and with
foreign countries, ttnd to be illegal
and void." The vote was?yeas 21,
nays 50. So the amendment was de
feated.
The next vote was on the George
substitute, which proposed to declare
the business of options and futures
an obstacle to and restraint upon
commerce, and to be illegal and void.
3L was rejected?yeas 19, nays.51.
~ v The question was then on the passage
of the bill. Explanations of
the reasons why they felt compelled
to vote against the bill were given
by Senators Harris, Berry, Bate,
Vance, Butler and Vest. Several
other amendments were presented
and all tvere rejected, some without
discussion.
The bill was then passed?yeas 40,
nays 29. The following is the vote
in detail.
Vnno_ All ,>1-1
J.VUO (.'Cliatuio DIUUK
bum, Call, Carey, Chandler, Cockrell.
Cullum, Davis, DuBois, F?lkner,
Feltou, Krye, Gallingflr, Gordon,
Hale, Hansbrough, Haw ley,
Higgins, Hinton, lrbv, Kyle, MctySMillaivManderson,
Mitchell, Mor
/gan, Morrill, Peffer, Perkins. Pettigrew,
Proctor, Sherman, Shoup,
Squire, Stockbridge, Teller, Turpie,
Voorhees, Walthall, Washburn and
"Wilson ?40.
Nays?Senators Berry, Blodgett,
Butler, CafTery, Cameron,Coke, Daniel,
Dawes, Dickson, Cibson, Gor
man, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hiscock,
Hoar, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson,
Mill, Palmer, Piatt, Pugh, ifcaneom,
Sawyer, Stewart, Vest, Vilas,
White and. Wolcott?29.
Pairs were announced between
Senators Carlisle and Paddock,
A id rich and Quay, Bate and Allen,
fctr ''one8 ?' Nevada and Saunders, Pasco
and C<*8ey, Vance and Warren.
The bill is the one passed by the
House of Representatives on June 9,
1891, with varlpns Senate amendments
is thereto.
The 1st section defines the word
'options" to mean a contract or agreej
ment for the right or privilege to deJ
liver at a future time or within a de/
signated period any of the articles
? mentioned in Section 3.
f The 2d section defines "futures"
f to mean a contract or agreement to
'J sell and deliver at ft future time or
IP* within a designated period any of
such artioles when the party so con v
v ' '* " \ .1* ' ' ' ' . :<i f',;?. ' '
coi
tracting was not tho owner of such
articles or had not agreed for the
' right to their future possession. Tho
Act, however, is not to apply to any
contract to supply the National j
Stale or Municipal Government with
any of such articles; nor to contracts
by fanners aiul planters for future
delivery, nor to agreements to p&y or
i deliver part of the products of land
, us compensation for its use or as
compensation for work or labor done
or to be done on same, nor to agree!
ments with farmers or planters to
fnmish such articles for use or con
sumption, provided that such con1
tracts or agreements shall not ho
! made or settled for or any board of
trade or exchange.
1 The 3d section specifies the artic'es
to which the bill is to apply ?8
cotton, (raw or unmanufactured,)
hops, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley,
pork, lard and bacon.
The 4th section imposes special
taxes as follows: Dealers in %<optiotis"
or ''futures" at ?1,0(X) a year
license fee and 6 cents a pound on
out toil. llilliH tinvt lur/l f??> liaonn
, VI "?VV")
and 20 cents a bushel on grain.
Sections 5 to 14 relate to the details
for enforcing the tax, and Section
15 provides that the Act shall
take effect on the 1st of July, 1893.
A Strniglit Hit.
Drunkenness is a criminal disease.
It is a crime. Civil law declares it
a crime. Divorce is granted upon
the grounds of this crime. It is a
crime against nature. It is the perversion
and debauchery of man's
mind and body.
Cardinal Manning says: "This
evil (intemperance) ought not to be
permitted to grow, in order that the
police may be called in to repress it.
Prevention is not only better than
cure, but prevention is a duty.''
Any license system which legalizes
or protects by law the production of
the criminal disease known as drunkenness,
is suicide to the State. I
maintain that the State cannot license
an institution which produces
a criminal disease, which forces and
spreads a criifjinal disease, and I
maintain that- the saloon is such an
institution, and 1 have never seen the
man who disputed it. The saloon
as an institution increases the consumption
of alcoholic poison by from
five to ten times what the normal ap
peine ot even this debauched age
would naturally demand. The sa
loon, in other words, forces upon tbo
market from five to ten times as
much of this poison as the present
debauched appetite would consume
but for the forcing. Men have said
that under prohibition laws any man
can get drunk who wants to. But
the difference is .that while under
prohibition the man who wauts to
can get drunk, under our present
system of license thousands get
drunk who don't want to. It is literally
forced down their throat by
the ever open saloon.
To license such a curse is moral
and patriotic suicide. Such a license
system is a swindle in itself.
You cannot rally to such a system
either the force of heaven or hell.
Such a system suits the devil as a
compromise, which gives him the
beat end of the bargain. I know the
city of Portland, Me., from personal
observation. I have investigated its
darkest corners personally, and I testify
solemnly, before God ahd man,
that if the bett districts of New York
city were a3 clean from drunkenhess
as^he meanest districts in Portland
we would near the millediutij of
temperance.
IIow can any christian man agree
and be satisfied with such a compromise
as license? We can gain
nothing by it. There are two positions
that are consistent?only two.
Free whiskey or prohibition. All
else between this is a lie and a humbug
in its last analysis. If the sale
and use of alcoholic stimulants is
right, then persecution of the liquor
traffic by taxation and license is one
of the crimes of tho age. If it is
wrong, then it Is wrong, and the saloon
is the breeding den of crime
and disease, and the state has no
right to legalize it.
Against ti c institution built upon
this poison, against tho social cus toms
which flourish in its hotbeds of
corruption, 1 hurl the curse of the
living God. / tcill not compromise.
I know the God of righteousness
and of truth will damn it at last to
the lowest hell. I arraign it, therefore,
and i in peach it and indict it, in
the natrfo of all the batchered dead
of the past and the desolation of the
present. I refuse to strike hands
with its friends in any compromise
short of ultimate death.?Thomas
K; Dixon, Sermons in New York.
If yon desire a luxuriant growth
of healthy hair or natural color, nature's
crowning- ornament of both
1 sexes, use only Hall's Vegetable Si
cilian Hair Henewer
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'Be True to
fWAY. S. C., T
Groat Tliinkors on the Snhhath
Daniel Webster; "The Sabbat!
is the bulwark of our liberty, be
dause it is the bulwark of morality.'
Macau ley, the historian: "If Sun
day had not been observed as a da^
of rest during the Inst three centuriei
I have not the slightest doubt thai
we should have been at this motnem
a poorer and less civilized peoph
than we are.''
Adam Smith, the greut politic*
economist: "The Sabbath as a po
litical institution is of inestimable
value, independently of its claim tc
divine authority."
Blackstone, the great jurist: "A
corruption of morals usually follow*
the profanation of the Sabbath."
Kx-attorney General Dales: "11
the Sunday laws be neglected am
despised the laws of person and ol
property will soon share thoir fate
and be equally disregarded."
Judge McLean, who for man}
yenrs adorned the Supreme Court ol
the United States: "Where there is
no Christian Sabbath there is nc
Christian morality, and without thit
free institutions cannot be sustained."
Benjamin Franklin: "What art
laws without morals?"
Mirabeau: "God is as necessary a'
liberty, to the French people."
Do Toqueville: "Despotism may
govern without faith, but liber!)
* * * France must have youi
Sabbath or she is ruined."
Karl Russell: "There is no neces
sity in the nature of things that na
tiouB should die. History points tc
no people which, while strong in
faith, in reverence, in truthfulness
in chastity, in frugality, in the virtues
of the temple and the heartl
has sunk in atrophy and decline
We may decide, therefore, that si
long as moral energy fails not the
life of the nation will not fail."
Prof. Goldwin Smith: "Without
religious sanctions men have nevei
been able to live under a govern
ment of law.''
Geo. Bancroft, pur greatest histo
rian: "Certainly our great unitec
commonwealth is the child c-f chris
tianity; it may with ecptai truth be
asserted thut modem civilization
sprang into life with our religion
and faith in its princ:ples is the life
boat on which humanity has at divers
times escaped the most threaten
ing perils."
Hallam: "A holiday Sunday if
the ally of despotism."
Dr. Bauer, court preacher at Berlin,
at a recent gathering of Luther
una in ttiof niftr aoi/l?
u * ? viit V va WJ | QUIU iUUI III' li'l*
ther declared the doctrine of justification
by faith to be the doctrine of
a standing or falling church. I cannot
regard the sanctificntion of the
Sabbath as any less a ground piller
of the church of our whole social
life.''
Judge Noah Davis: "There can
be no liberty without law; there can
be no personal liberty except in obedience
to law."
"Sunday," says Itylph Waldo Emerson,
"is the core of our civilization,
dedicated to thought and reverence,
it invites' to the nobles solitude, the
best society, the loftiest knowledge
of truth and duty."
Let us get tho opinion of the two
eloquent Congressmen of to-day.
Senator Reagan, of Texas: "You
may search the English charter and
whatever there is in Xhere is in the
Constitution of the United States
concerning the rights of man, and all
the bills of rights of the several
States, and you will not find a single
sentence in which there is any protection
;or that which is injurious to
flia o/\oi^
vi?w iiiiuivovo ui oui/inijr,
The brilliant John Randolph
Tucker, of Virginia, says: "Break
down the fence of Christianity and
liberty, and law, and civilization will
perish with it. 1 wish to testify mj
belief that the institutional custom
of our fathers in remembering the
Sabbath day to keep it holy us the
conservator of their Christian religion
is the foundation of our political system,
and the only hope of American
freedom, progress and glory."
Let all ponder these golden
thoughts of the good and great.?
American Sabbath Union.
.You can never tell what a slight
cold may lead to; it is best, therefore
to give yourself the benefit of the
doubt, and cure it as soon as possibh
with Aver's Cherry Peotoral. A
day's delay, sometimes an hour's dt*
lay, may result in serious consequences
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Your Word, Your Work, juul \
11 U i&BD A Y FE1
IIEALK1) BY HI5It FAITH. '
i . i
. A Paralytic For Eighteen Years 1
, Leaves Her Bed aii<l Walk-. (
Tho (Columbia journal. ^
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
The prayer of Mrs, Aon Eliza
J Tutt was for strength that she [
( ! II
might take up her bed ami walk.
1 For eighteen years sho has been a ,
* helpless paralytic, given up as in- t
curable bv tho doctors, but during 1
I ' r>
all the long and dreary years of suf- j
' foriug and helplessness she kept the N
' faith. Like the Psalmist, she wait i
* ed patiently on the Lord, and now J
lie has heard her cries.
k A Journal reporter to day proeur
} ed the particulars of this, perhaps
the most remarkable instance of i
F
[ faith cure that has been known in e
' this section. The lady who has been 11
F fi
' thus happily visited by Providence is
1 Mrs. Ami Eliza Tutt, the wife of Mr.
William 11. Tutt, tho well known ^
r printer,, who lives at 2G1 North
: Marion street, two doors from Lutn- ?
J bor street. The reporter called upon c
' Mrs. Tntt and secured frotn her the
5 story of tho marvellous cure.
Mrs. Tutt's parents were Mr. J. (L ()
- Forbes and Mrs, Sarah Forbes, ami t
she was born in Charleston. She is t
; <11 years of age and has several chil
dren.
01 VKN n? BY TAB DOTTOltS. g
Mrs. Tutt was paralyzed in Octo- u
l?er, 1875. Her physician at that s
ime was tho late Dr. 11. W. Gibbes, 1
' and when he was about to leave for
' the North for his health, on the v
> journey from which ho returned to s
1 sloop forever, she procured the ser>
vices of Dr. Taylor, who attended
her for six years. I
1 After tho Becond stroke Mrs. Tutt ,
was confined to her bed. and for a t
> year she could not move herself and '
' had to be lifted and fed like a little 1
child.
k J.n 1881 Dr. 'Taylor gave up the r
: case as incurable, and Dr. Talley
was called in. For. three years he J
treated her, witlt no result except to '
relieve the pain temporarily. By
I this time she was paralyzed all over |
her body. I
> wanted to thy mesmerise.
> Dr. Robert Lynch was called in to c
') see if sho could ho mesmerized, but ?
she said that she did not believe in t
this and the idea was given up. She ?
was then told by the physicians that
she
. o
? OOULI) NKVKU WAI.K AOAIN. a
The effect of such an announce*
' meat was enough to depress the
spirits of any human being, but Mrs. ^
' Tutt says that she realized that "we
walk by faith, not by sight," and H
she pnt her trust in the Almighty ii
jmd prayod continually to the end "
' that she might bo spared for some
' wise purpose.
She Was one in whom faith had ^
become a passionate intuition. She e
felt like Michael Drayton when he
wrote:
"Now, if Thou wouldst, when all have
Siven 1dm over, 11
euth to life Thou mighst him yet h
^recover." b
PAT IK NO K AND IMtAYKH. t;
Mrs. Tutt said that the late Itev. a
Mr. Oliver, the well-known faith S(
i cure minister, called on her and told a
, her that Christ could heal right then ^
and that she must get right up and
walk at once. She told him that sho 8
1 did not believe in that kind of a
cure. She had been trusting in the ?
f.ord.ever since she could remember, 8
bat If is time had not come then. "I
have got to lie here and do His will,' 1
1 said she, ' and if I am faithful when 8
1 Ilis time comes, lie will either put "
me on my feeror take me to heaven." v
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THH BI11LK IIKK OUIDK.
, (?\V hnn f li A*f /1 ^ * f * * ' *'
it ?> fic.jr iuhi hid mm 1. w jlliu 1;
, not get well.'' said. Mrs. Tutt to the v
( reporter, "I never wavered. I can j
bring my friends to witness that 1 1
always felt that I was to be made 8
1 whole again for some good work. (i
"I read the Scriptures all the r
time. The Bible has been my great'
est comforter, and but for it I would r
have given up. In all my distress I t
1 tried to lemembor what the Psalmist ^
' said: "Let not your heart he trou- H
1 hied. Ye that believe in God, bo- t
1 lieve also in my Father." H
"For eight years I have been us \
1 ing a roller chair, and I never dur- (
irg that time, until recontly, set out t
1 of it, except when I was placed in \
' bed. t
kbvtcai.kd is a drkam, i
"Monday night before lust I had 1
' a dream. I thought that 1 was 1
? walking. The next morning t spoke j
> to Patsy ^ the nurse, about it, and '
* told ber not to be frightened if the 1
L pood Master should suddenly give i
' me the nse of my limns.
"That afternoon I lay down and
again I dreamed that J was walking.
r<?nr Country."
SIujXIiY 9, 1 8
L'uesday morning, I wtw sitting be
'ore the lire in my roller chair inerti
atiug, niul I thought 1 heard the
Joort Shepherd saying to me: 'Arise,
oke your chair and walk.'
TllK PAHA LYTIC WALKS.
"There was a chair close by me?
he same one you are sitting in ?
iart 1 got up, caught hold of it and
>egan to walk, something I hart not j
lone for eighteen years, and some |
hing that tho doctors told mo 1 ;
icver would rt?> again on earth. By ,
uishing tho chair in front of me
tul steadying myself 1 managed to
valk into the next room. Patsy was
(i mere; notwithstanding my warnn<?
to hor, shu was almost frightenl
out of her wits. I told hor not
o bo afraid, that the Good One had
lomtnenced to work on me.
4<Sitico then I have suffered no
>ain, not even in my hack. I walkd
about the house a little each day
md have been getting- stronger and
itronger.'
THK UlCt'OUTKU KKES IlEU WAI.K.
The reporter asked Mrs. Tutt to
et him see her stand up by herself,
fter she had assured him she would
lot suffer thereby. All during tho
onvorsation sho had moved hor
lands and limhs about like a person
>ho was convalescent, and from her
ppenranco and general demeanor
no would not havo suspected that
hero were any symptoms of paralysis
hero.
Mrs. Tutt arose without any aplarent
trouble, though sho was ji 1 itle
awkward, and had fb steady herelf
by catching hold of the railing
iow and tlion. The reporter later
aw her walk into the house from the
torch.
Mrs. Tutt says that she followed
lie Scriptural injunction to pray always
though slto could not kneel to do
o. <kMy pray01 to God," said she,
has been that lie would send His
lealing power and restyre the use of
ny limbs to nio that I might set my
louse in c rder and that I might live
ic.irer the cross. Ito has been bet*
er to me than I deserved. It has
teen the prayers of my friends and
ny own prayers that have made the
treat Master begin his work on mo
aid start me on the road to complete
eoovery."
"My faith is getting stronger and
n all my trials I am trusting
n the Lord, and I hope that my
riends will pray more and more for
ne until 1 get entirely well as I know
shall. Satan has tried mo sorely,
mt T thank God that my faith in
lis wondrous healing power has nevr
Hugged.
"When lie gives me full control
?f my limbs and restores my strength
o me, 1 am resolved, by Ilis help, to
ro out and work more faithfully."
Mrs. Tutt has been a member of
lie Marion Street Methodist Church
vor since she was twelve years of
ge.
She Wont Lay ill the Nest.
My boy has a hen of good breed,
urge size, in fine condition, who
*ys an egg every day. But she has
it unaccountable aversion to deposing
this egg in the well arranged
iest that he has prepared in the neat,
O'/v linnRn luiilf. mi nnftviou fn* a.?i/l
w? j ?/? w was |/v?t |/vau *.*/* o?m
en and her follows. She will hunt
he yard over to find an opon door
o some other building, or utilize an
mpty box 01 an old barrol, or sail
ver the fence to got into the house
r do anythingels? sho can to securo
place for the egg rather than to
3uve it where ample provision has
eer. made for its reception and safey.
And so, though one of the best
nd most, prolific hens I have ever
aen, she is one of the most unprofitble,
just because by this habit her
ggs are lost. Sometimes they are
aft under a pile of rubbish, and aio
poiled when discovered. Again,
hey are broken by the rolling lumps
f coal, or stepped on before seen, or
pirite:! away by unknown hands,
itray dogs eat them, and bad boys
ireak them, old John tho horse,
mashes them, and ourjloss is all the
noro tantalizing because the result
vholly of her failure to lay in the
lest. We have some people very
nuch like this old hen. They wont
ny in the nest. Though able and
villing to do much, with fine capacties
and opportunities, their labor is
ost because of their strange propenity
to go by their own rules, or
lisregard others' rules , or follow no
ules.
"<) 111* work is hirwlm-ml nr?f-. ti\ u.iv
narred, at this pcint to a greater ex,ent
than many suppose. One
(00(1 brother who disburses thousands,
thinks he knows much better
,han we do where to place his money
i0.as to secure the best results, and
tonee, turning away from tho wellsonsidered
appeals that are issued by
is in behalf of case3 which wo have
round after the closest investigation
,0 be meritorious, he answers a den&nd
from a plausible brother whose
plans are ever immature, and nearly
* ways chimerical. Having tried us
md failed becauso we diacovered how
impraoticablo he was, he resorts tc
this method of paivate personal <tp<
peal, and the well-disposed, but unweaey,
old brother finds out when toe
late that his money would have done
mnoh more good to have gone
198,
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through the regular channel** which j
ktho church has provided.
Let the eggs I?o found in the nest! ,
Another good brother, gifted in the ,
use of his pen, but averse to that .
sort of painstaking effort that is so
needful in training his people to j
help themselves to avoid the worry (
and odium of a thorough and systo ,,
nuitic canvass of his own charge, f
mnvo n iiuiiiiu^ nuuiiiiiu <>i iuu km - ' |
portunce .of Inn llcltl?not 11 whit
more important than fifty others in j
his Conference and depicts its wants j ,
in colors that makes one feel that it *
is a sin not to help him, forgetting (
or not knowing that a hundred oth j
or charges in the Connection arc f
worse off than his charge. Then ,
aomo kind, hut uncautious editor *
prints Ilia piece ana speaks well of (
him and his cause, and our people j
respond with tons and lives and twos ,
and ones until about one-fourth the j
need sum is raised and then rospon
ses cease, and the whole project
fails I
If this case had been referred to
the Church Kxtcnsion Hoard, tho j
careful inquiries which it always ,
institutes would have elicited all the (
facts, and its importance,as compared
with a hundred others, would j
have been learned. Then tho systeinatic
methods of the Hoard ,would
have secured tho title and comple- j
tion of tho house before the money (
was paid, and the Church would not
have suffered loss. To provide
u.w.K n i.j
ugu.uou JMOI OUI.I1 ?i"> idi"J UIH' iii.it *
named, a law was inserted in the l)is- |
cipline many yours ago, and for the (
very end of meeting such demands
was our Cnurch Extension work in- .
stitntcd. The.so sporadic appeals |
divert attention from tho work at t
large, and tho sums given in response
to them are usually deducted from
the regular contributions for the (
yearIt
is always safer to put the egg j
in the nost.
Talk Is Not Always Cheap.
Without degenerating into across- '
grained, sour-visaged, crabbed and |
altogether unpleasant fellow a retail
merohant may, to his own advantage,
refrain from becoming excessively
sociable. Sociability is one thing,
garrulousness another. A. man may
be polite, suave, urbane, courteous
and considerate, without being lo
quacious. Too much "talkeo, tulkee,'
us the celestial would say, leads to
the disclosure of business secrets,
the possession of which by outsiders
bodes no good to the merchant or his
business. Too much sociability, as 1
sociability goes, loads to too much
talk. Therefore the cautious merchant
refrains front becoming excessively
sociable, remarks the Farm
Implement news, lie passes the 1
j time of day with his neighbor, discusses
the political situation with the
traveling men, and the crops with ,
I IaJci miof Atwntm l.iit vvlw.i* t lw. ?>>-. >
alio v>uotuiiiuio) muv n n\ ii ijhj l^uil Vt'?*
nation lags, ho lags with it.
The talkative man boasts of his ,
achievements in business deals, how
he secured such an excellent bargain ,
with so and so, and why i>o is mak* |
ing so much tnorc money tha i his j
I rival across the way. With him conversation
never lags, for when the
weather, the crops and politics are ,
threadbare there is always his business
affairs to fall back on, After
awhile everybody knows something (
about his business that should be ,
known by nobody except himself, i
He loses caste with his customers,
who, under other circumstances
would regard him as a man of function
and feel Mattered to be counted ,
among his customers. Encouraged
by past successes, persons, whose
most promising feature is their curiosity,
wurrn new secrets from the
apparently willing talker.
Tongues were made to talk with,
but a wise Creator appointed the
brain as guardian. Sometimes the
guardian fails to look after the word
and the tongue becomes its own
master. The talking habit crows
w O
steadily unless checked by strong resolution,
and now is the time, Mr.
Garrulous, to make yours. If you
must tell your business affairs to
somebody, find a man who can neith er
talk or write, or retire to tho subbasement
two or threo times a day
and talk to yourself. Hut curb ytyur
voice even then, for the ''very walls!
have ears."
There are no very terrible secrets
about a legitimate business; nothing
that would disgrace the merchant or
even reduce his standing in the community
wore they known; but to be
continually harping on one's business
affairs is, to sj^y the least, illadvised,
and cannot hut reaulgin the i
disclosure of facts to Alii siilmvs \vlir?l
might otherwise never hear of them,
ami who on becoming possessed of the
information, use it to the business
man's disadvantage. There are peo
pie in every community who make a
specialty of poking their noses into
other people's business. Dealers
should not drag these nasal organs
into their affairs by telling facts
i which should be kept "sub-rosa."~Kx.
>1 ?v
I Society church members run hotels
with bar-rooms attached, and pray
> "thy kingdom come." They are as
> much whiskey dealer*, as-the keeper
> of the largest saloon to b-% found:
NO. 30.
<J?ui. Orant CuiiKht Tlioni.
"(ion. (irant.once interfered in a
moat unwarranted and arbitrary
winner with a poker ^ame that was
paying tne a big profit," said Andrew
Oannor, one of the vets who were
Ighting tlio war over again, ^to a
frlobn-Jh mocrat. writer. "It was
shortly after the battlo of Sliiloli,
?nd we confeds were feeling pretty
juuly down in the mouth.
"1 was on the picket line one
jright moonlight night, antl tho
finks hud u post only u f?nv hunI
red yards away. We shot each
)thor until wo got tired of the sport,
;her. we swapped newspapers, coffee
md tobacco. A date-devil young
Yankee corporal walked right into
>ur post, sat down on a log as tinconcerned
as you please, and asked 113
f we know how to play poker. Did
ivo? We rather thought we did.
Mad wo any greenbacks? A few.
"Then wo pulled out a deck of
jards and wo sat down to play.
Pretty soon another yank came, then
mother, until there were six of them,
mil we all joined in and played a
ivido open game, forgetting that tho
jruel war was not over. Duck came
ny way, and 1 soon had everybody
3111 the yankee corporal broke. The
est were squatted around, blue and
jtuy, w atching the game, when there
mine that ugly ic-l-ick ick-ick' so funiliar
to the soldier's ear.
"We looked up and there stood a
r'unkco sergeant with four nten, their
rmskets cooked. "Members of the
l-'ortyninth, consider yours-Ives tinier
arrest,'said the sergeant. 'O,
jome now, sergeant,' tho corporal
:>eguu, when a horseman reined up
>ehind the guard, and he concluded:
'Gen. Grunt, by hokey.' Tho blue
joats got up looking like a lot
>t whipped school hoys, and saluted
their commander, who eye 1 them as
-ternly as a sphinx. They filed in
front of the guard and started for
camp.
"When their backs wero turned
>11 him, (<rant removed the cigar
from his mouth, and with a cynical
smile asked the Confederate nearest
hint: ''Who's ahead?"
(), we're ahead," replied the defender
o the stars and bars. Those
chumps you've brought down here
can't play poker a little hit. lint
they can fight, General,' I remarked.
i lave to sometimes,' said Grant
dryly, and rode away."
The Mannish (iirl.
Trout Truth: She begins innocently
enough. Site has a troop of
brothers, perhaps, and is drawn into
their sports in spite of herself. She
catches their contempt of girls; cuts
off her hair like Maggie Tulliver;
takes pleasure in a riding habit and
its odd accou tor men t s. Horses and
dogs nre her favorite companions.
So she falls out of sympathy with
Inr sex. She loses its delicacy;
she is reckless of its conventions.
That is always the peril of the mannish
girl. But the fact that a woman
in body, she tries to lie a man
in mind, exposes her to tho animad
vorsiuus ui uiu riuiiui.
As slic minglds with the world,
sho feeds a kind of vanity by being
mannish.
To talk slang, to smoke cigarettes,
to rule to hounds, commend iter, in
a measure, to her male companions.
They take her yachting when they
leave her companions at home. Thoy
love to chat with her in a box at the
horse show. They even propose a
surreptitious visit to the Arion ball.
But they rarely marry her.
That is when sho maidenly girl
has her full revenge. When it comes
to taking a wife?a wile who shall
adorn h:s table; a wife who shall entertain
his friends?a man seldom
thinks of the mannish girl. lie
knows that the arts by which she attracted
him will bo just unattractive
toothers. He knows that the lack
of refinement, which has a kind of
zeal in the girl of twenty, will turn
to hopeless vulgarity in a matron of
forty.
Then what is the end of the mannish
girl? Kternal spinterhood or
the divorce court. ^ If no man will
have her sho gets more acidualated
month by month. * Iler mind turns
to bitterness. She has nothing but
ill to say of her neighbors. She purveys
wretched gossip for the social
columns of the newspapers, and
whon )L woman dons that slm Ima Hot.
the tonfbatone on her career nrul on
her reputation.
Ooori Looks.
Uood looks arc more than skin
deep, depending upon a healthy condition
of all the vital organs. If
the Liver bo inactive, \ on have a
Hi lions Look, if your stomach he
disordered yon have a Dyspeptic
Look and if your Kidneys be affected
you have a Pinched Look. Secure
good health and you will have good
looks. Electric bitters, is the great
alterative and Tonic acts directly on
i these vital organs. Cures Pimples, 'V' *
i Blotches, Boils and gives a good
I complexion. Sold at E. Norton's
j Drugstore, 50o. per bottle. ,
I
ManJ&.salvation is a comet. Cod's
| an eternal sun."