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TUE TRAMPING COMMONWEAL. IULI. A 111' LF.CTUHKS ON COXKY. lie Has No l*nttcm-c Willi tlio Ynftu* IkiikI Army?Coiikitkh Ik l.nuuhiii|[ Hci klmly While I lie Country Ik Sulft<riug. Atlanta Constitution. There was a time when every State had n law punishing vagrancy and it said that any man who was found going about in idleness and had no visible means of support should be deemed a vagrant, and on conviction should bo imprisoned and put to labor. 1 don't think that law has evor been repealed in Georgia, but it is a dead letter and 1 reckon it ought to be in these hard times. There are now thousands who are idle and have no means of support visible or invisible. Most of thotn are willing to work, but can't get work to do. Nevertheless this Coxey army is nothing but an army of tramps, an excursion of willing vagrants who would rather plunder than work. We have no patience with them?no consideration for them. If any of them have families, where arc they and who is supporting them while tho head of the hoilSA is hnwl i n ir nonv tli? i.ramtH,. V If h V. V-V/V.U V. J . I, they have no families, why don't they scatter over the West or the South and work for their victuals and clothes on the farms or in the mines or on the railroads rather than to ben or to rob or intimidate for u living? Most of them are like the organ grinder who stops under your window and grinds out his horrid music until the lad}' of the house throws him a nicklo and says : " Please puss on." ' Na, nu," he replies, 1110 pass on for two nickels," and ho grinds away until she throws him another. The good people along tho route of this army are alarmed at their presence and givo them bread and meat to go on. So do the towns and cities. They are looked upon as dangerous and they aro. Governor McKinloy showed tho right pluck when ho scattered the vagrants who stole the train at Mt. Sterling. There has got to ho an example made of somebody, even if it tukesGatliug guns to do it. If this kind of thing is to go on we had better change the republic to a monarchy at once and be done with it. If the people can't govern tho people we will have to have a standing army of half a million men like Germany has and England and France and quarter troops all over the country to preserve the peace and protect private property. These strikers aro not much better, for they won't work themselves nor let anybody else take their places, it is all a spirit of anarchy and violence and lawlessness. There are demagogues who lead them and encourage them and seek to array the | poor against the rich?tho laborer against tho capitalist?aud ride into oflice or power on tho dissensions and sufferings of tho people. Now, with all this devilish spirit on the one hand, there is on the other a reckless, ruinous Congress that sits there and laughs at their own jokes and quarrels and talks and prints their speeches and draws their pay and tramps over the country when they feel like it. A late correspondent says the average daily number of absentees in the House is seventy, and hence it frequently takes several days to get a quorum. The cost'of a session is said to be half a million a day and the people have it to pay. When will this outrage cease V when will they pass a tariff hill ? It docs not matter much what kind of a hill it is so they pass one. Cupitnl is waiting on Congress, and labor is waiting on capital. Millions are lying idle that would be invested in manufactures or in mines or railroads, if it was known what the tariff was. An Ohio man fears to build a woolen mill because he doesn't know whether he can compete with foreign mills or not. Just so with the shoe man anu mo paper nun man anil the clothing man and the nail makers and a hundred other things that the tariff affects. There is just as much money in the land as there ever was, and all the silver hills and bank tax hills will do no good until the tariff hill is passed and the money turned loose and the wheels of industry begin to move. I heard a man say, "there ought to he more money per capita." Well suppose there was. How am I to get my share of it unless 1 work for it, and how am 1 to work unless somebody employs me, and who will employ mo until eongross fixes the tariff ? Hut is it possible that Briee and others are speculating on sugar stock and keeping the tariff on sugar in an uncertain state while they are trading in it? It is openly charged that they are, and that is why the tariff bill can't pass. They want it to trade on. May the good Lord deliver us ! 1 tell you what is the fact? when tho people ruminate over all these things they have a tired fooling akin to despair. 1 meet good old-time democrats all ovor the country, and there is no enthusiasm, no confidence, and if there was any other respectable party they would join it. I have heard thbm say they were now willing for tho republicans to take the government and run it, as it would be better than all this wrangling and delay?all this long uncertainty, all this marching to Washington. The democracy haw had tho President and tho House and the Senate for two years and done nothing for relief. How much longer will Congress abuse our patience? Whom shall we trust? Whom shall wo elect to Congress tho next time? The old set are already setting their traps and nutting bait on the triggers. To get oack is tho big thing. There is not enough difference in the two great parties to give the people much concern. ' Tho pending tariff bill, with all its UI11UI1IIUICIII/9, IB IIU WIRT lllitll U1C 1M0* Kinley bill. Its tweedlo-dum and twoedle-dec, but the people want it settled so that capital can go to work. Machine politics ! Why, it is openly charged that right here at home in Georgia, the Stato of Toombs and Stephens and Hen Hill and Johnson and Cobb and Joukinu, whose illustrious examples are still fresh and green ltt our memories, there is a court house ring composed of nearly all the judges and solicitors in the State, and that this ring has a working fund of $10,000 to control the Legislature and nut their slate in office. When I iirst hoard of this I was indignant at the the vile slander, but it keeps on coining, and is openly charged in respectable papers. 1 know of two judges wh(*don't belong to it and 1 am told that they aro to bo left out, and their places given to others who have joined the secret league. Cau these things 1x3 true? Has our judiciary surrendered to tho common corruption ? is everything rotten? Shades of the honored dead who have graced tho bench and bar of Georgia, turn from the scene ! Think of Lumpkin and Warner, and Nisbet and Jackson and Hutchlngn and Bonning making such a combine for office ! What man or creature would have dared to approach them on the subject? Now the remedy is to send our best men to the Legislature?men of , integrity,1 regardless of church or creed or calling or party?men who cannot be pullod around or cor rupted with tempting promises. The Yu/.oo fraud combination was not to l>e compared with tho inlouity of u combiue of judges and solicitors for porpotuatioo of otHco. I saw tlio press gang yesterday: thoughtful men and earnest women. I huw 1 ialstcad and Cockcrlll and nome others who have been lampooning' us lo these many long suffering years and I wondered if they had at last found out that there was something good in Nazareth. 1 wondered at the sweet charity of our people, who gave welcome to them. An editor is a peculiar instutitiou. lie can lampoon and scarify another editor, and call him all the scandalous names in the dictionary and then they meet together ill press conventions and on press excursions aud drink toasts to each other and get loving and mellow and slobber all over one another, and next morning go to fighting as usual. We outsiders ean't do that, it must be 011 the idea that Siluey Smith spoke of when he said <}.< < .. n?.? .!? .,.....-.0 t.1 ? v v? v ? i v vi v uiui ovt vi n ic*111 i;i n an imsweetest tiling in the world. If all tliut these editors huve uccusod one nuothor of be true, then most of them ure lit for the ehuingung. Hut it is uot true, und the people know it, and tuiiku allowance for it and smile. I heard a good one on l'hil Hyrd the other day. l'hil runs The Koine Llustlor with a lively lick and searilies around in such a sweet way that the victim can't get very mad. When Govcriior Northeu returned from the Corbett-M itehell liasco, The Hustler said : " General Northen has returned from the front with his bottle-seared veterans. lie came back safe and sound, save a thumb that he sprained trying to cock a cannon." Mel (iaiumon has a keen sense of the ridiculous and laughed when ho reud it. lie took the paper home and linding his old father, the Confederate colonel, at the dinner table, he read it to him and laughed again, but the old colonel never stepped eating nor smiled nor made a remark. "l'etty good, for l'hil, isn't it, father?" "No, 1 don't see anything smart in it. Governor Northen was trying to do his duty and protect the people from the bud influences of u couple of vagabonds, and as for l'hil Hyrd, if he is fool enough to believe that a cannon has got a cock to it, ho ought to quit running a newspaper. Cocking a cannon ! Who ever heard of such a thing?" And the old warhorse seemed to bo utterly disgusted. Him, AHI\ AN KDITOK'S INTISKltUPTIONS. It is Hard totiet Time for Hverylliing ?The Mutilations Around u Ilusy Man. A largo amount of unfair and snarling criticism would be avoided if peo pie intelligently considered tho limitations that old Father Timo puts on every busy man. There are only six working days in a week, and it is not within the bounds of possibility to do more than a certain amount of work each day. The limits of time and strength are soon reached, and when you come to these limits you must stop, no matter how willing you may bo to go on. You pick up a newspaper, read a leading article or puragruph, and you see at a glanee how the article might be improved by condensation or by a more skillful arrangement of the facts; or in some other way. You notice the paragraph has little point and no: sparkle. You, modest reader, think you could give it both point and sparkle if you tried. Perhaps you could and then again, perhaps you couldn't. Something depends on how much time you would have for the work ; and a good deal more on how much you know about writing paragraphs. Perhaps the man who wrote that paragraph had only a few minutes to do it. Possibly the printers wore yelling at him for copy. Perhaps the mail by which he had to send it was closed before tho ink on the paragraph wusquito dry. If the man who penned tho paragraph had been given a day to work at it tho work would perhaps have been done in first class style, but ho had only a few minutes and that made ull the difToronco in the world. Literary critics, and some critics ii mi iuu i^iuu: iiuiueuiiL 01 any ciose connection with literature, often say that tho writing on most newspapers is poorly done. Without atlirming or denying the truth of that statement, we may well ask how can any ordinary editor do high class literary work and attend to all the other duties that devolve upon him? If an editor had nothing to no except write a column or two each week, ho would be a poor editor indeed if lie could not write them well ; but writing what the public sees is probably not the lifticth part of an average editor's work. Tho editor of a country weekly does something at everything in his ollieo. A writer on a daily has a much better chance, but even he may have to sit down late in tho evening and write a column or two before the paper goes to press. Small wonder if tho work sometimes seeius to lack finish. It ought to be remembered too, that a country editor may havo to write amidst many interruptions, not to say anything about tribulations. When he is getting nicely under way with a leading editorial a neighboring law student may come in and hand him a letter gravely Informing him that a libel suit is looming up in tho vicinity. An angry citizen may appear with a horse whip concealed about his person and mildly ask, " Who wrote that article?" A subscriber may come in and want to discuss cord wood or maple molasses an articles to bo bartered for a year's reading of the paper. Various other matters of business may ir tcrrupt an editor just as the a filet us is beginning to strike him and spoil the best editorial ever begun in that part of the country. Would that editors were the only men who are liable to interruptions ! ?The biggest solitary wavo ever known was that caused by the l'oruvian earthquake of August 111, 1808. in no other instance, we are assured, has it boon known that a well-marked wavo of enormous proportions has been propagated over the largest ocean trivet of the globe by an earthquake whose action has been limited to a relatively small region not situated in thocentro. but on one sldo of the wide area traversed by the wave. At Ariea it was fifty feet high, and enveloped the town carrying two warships nearly a mile beyond the railway to the north of the town. The single sea travelled northward and westward, its height sit 5-lsiri I'diii-n Calif/n.i.lo t.K.u foot. It inundated tho smaller members of tho Sandwich group, <1,300 miles away, and reached Yokohoma, in Japan, in tho early hours of tho morning after taking in Now Zealand on the way. It spent itself finally in the South Atlantic, having traversed nrurly the whole globe. ? ?i ?' What is tho money to he used for that the church Is raising ?" It's to send tho minister away and give the congregation a inuch-iieedod vacation miiiiis on tiik takiff. He SIiiikU I'or an Honest Hill Which I Kedcctus tlie Democratic l'lcdKiti, Washington, May io.?The tariff bill was taken up to-day aftor the debate over tbe Coxey committee. * A long end interesting discussion ' took place on tlio ponding ameudment j to insert in tbe enacting elauso of the bill, the words, "or withdrawn for con- ' sumption," so that it will read that " the duties provided in the act will be > levied, collected and paid upon all articles imported from foreign countries 1 or withdrawn for consumption after ' | the 30th of June, 1894?M * The amendment was attacked on the Kcpublicun side of the chamber as musing a gift of between $.'1,000,000 and ' $1,000,000 to tlio owners of imported goods now in warehouses, and was do- ( funded on the Democratic side as being ! just and equitable and in accordance 1 with existing law. I) iG.? n .1.1 A 1.1..!.O. ............... .1 I - ?..V ilivu IV/M VAMIIIIH'IIUMI ll|HMl j the fact that members of the finance | eominittee on cither wide disagreed 1 with oaelt other as to the amendment ' and taunted the Democrats with infi- 1 dolity to tlieir platform, which had de- 1 I clarod protection in the United States I to i>e unconstitutional and to be a fraud. ' The taunt liud an immediate efleet upon Mills, who took tlie floor as soon ' | as Aldrich had finished his remarks, and in a passionate and excited man- ' | nor, referred to his speeeli several ' weeks ago, in which lie declared him- '< self to lie (as between the MeKinley 1 act and tile Wilson bill), "between the I devil and the deop sea," and said : "A 1 change lias come over the spirit of the situation?not over my spirit. I have not got as much sea room as on that < occasion, i find that the bill pending ! before us is not the Wilson bill, but a ; hill which ought, perhaps, to hear the ' honored name of the Senator from Maryland (Gorman), or of the Senator ' from Ohio (Drice). No man can torture me into the admission that the ; bill pending before this body is in any ' respect an answer to pledges made by ' the Democratic national convention to ' the Democratic people of the United > States. I have said?and I expect to ' say as long as I keep my understand- < ing?that taxation levied on value is I tiie only honest system of taxation; and that tho specific system of taxa- 1 f ii in i ^ i 1 f. . .. * 1 ' 10 11111me*(."it iur me |)ur[H)bc ui con* 1 coaling facta and defrauding the government for tho benefit of favored 1 classes. I stand there to-day and shall ' stand there as long as I live. ' 44 I rise to say that 1 do not intend to 1 vote for a single one of these amend- I ments changing the duties from ad ? valorem to specific. 1 am humiliated ' enough to have to bo drawn nearer and < nearer to tlx* McKinley act in the rates ' of duty in tho amount of robbery in llicted upon the poor working people of 1 the country, who have been starved to ! death under this system of taxation, < without being compelled to bow down I in humiliation, and to take up even the ' badges of protection. The very first change is made from an ad valorem to ' a specific system ; and that runs along ' through the whole bill. We have hud ; to surrender at discretion, at every point, until it is now a question bo- ' twoen the McKinley protection act and 1 the pending bill, with a very little mar- I gin of dilTerenee between the two. 1 ' repeat what I said before, that 1 will 1 vote against these amendments: but 1 that when they aire incorporated in the I bill, I will vote for the bill if it has live ' cents of reduction in it, as a choice be- ? twoen the two. 44 The Democratic party said to the 1 people in INS):!, that protection is a ( fraud, and that tho party was in favor 1 of honest taxation for revenue alone, ' and there is where I stand. 1 want to ' ' make an honest ofi'ort to redeem that plodgo and I do not intend to go back- ' ward. 1 would rather vote to reduce the duties imposed by the Wilson bill. ' Every one of them is high enough. 1 ' would have put more articles on the 1 freo list. 1 would have reduced the 1 cost of production on our manufactures ' so that we could (ako the markets of ' tho world and give employment to the 1 peupio in nonusi wui'K in factories, in- istead of having them walking the v streets and coining to Washington to Jtell tho government of their distress? ' a distress which the protective tariff v has pnt upon them. 1 " You may pile up duties in this bill 1 to any extent you please, and, if it is ' any better than tho McKinloy act, 1 l will vote for it. Hut do not try to 1 make it just as bad as it can bo mndo 1 before I vote for it. I felt it necessary ' to lile this caveat and let Democrats, j who are making this bill, understand > that 1 am not responsible for this measure and that 1 do not intend to 21 assume the responsibility. 1 want the 1 gentlemen who have demanded this * measure to stand up in the open day- 1 light and take tho responsibility for c tho amendments which they have fore- t ed upon this bill." t There was some applause in the gal- N lories at the close of the speech. Of N the two Democratic Senators especially * singled out by Mr. Mills, Gorman was 1 the only one in the chamber, but he 1 simply smiled and was not moved to ' make any remark in reply. Tho pending amendment was then ' agoed to without any further discus- ( sion, and without a division. 1 Co-Ol'kuation ok Faumkrs.?Tho 11 oxeeutivo committee of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Un- ( ion met in Washington on tho loth ( inst. Chairman Marion C. Butler of c North Carolina presided. There was H a long discussion over the proposed 1 formation of a National Farmers' Fx- 1 change to try co-operation on a vast scale. The proposition discussed con- I templates co-operation between 5,000,- i 000 and 8,000,000 farmers for tho pur- I chase and sale of commodities used by agricultural interests. A part of the scheme has in view the fixing of the price of cereals in this country instead of at Liverpool. It is asserted that this can be brought about by the cooperation of all the farmers' organizations in the United States. During the 1 day, a representative of the Chilean government appeared before tho committee and spoko of the desirability of i trade reciprocity between fanners of tins country and Chili in order to oh- <. tain nitrates directly from that conn- < try. llcprcscntativos of sovoral railroads, also hold a conforonco with the t committee, at which their co-opera i tion with the farmers organization for * hotter rates for agricultural freights, and for summer encampments of the 1 Alliance was diseussod. ( ?A temperance reformer of Lowell, \ Mass., named Gardnor, recently origi- < n itod anew kink in temperance work. 1 lie caused it to he announced that he \ would like to hold a temperance meet- \ ing in a liar room. At lirst the saloonkeepers held oil, hut finally one who t was not doing much husinoss offered I the use of his sale on. The result sur- t prised both, the saloon-keeoor and t the reformer, though ifi different ways, t for while the reformer didn't do mucl 1 informing the saloon-keeper did u . land ofllee business, and now Gardner is swamped witli olTers from otlior saloons. s SAM JONKS ON DliUMMKKK. He I<ikcm the I'hlqtiitoiis <'ominri-ciul ' traveler?Ti?e Improvement ol Twenty Year*. There is tin more characteristic huuieter in history or science, or art, Jinn tho drummer. Hois multitude ions, many-sided and ubiquitous. Wherever commerce is known and Liable is curried on the drtnnmor tfues. been on the road almost constantly for fifteen years, my contact with this class of men lias been frequent; and to be candid the more I liavo seen os tho drummer the more I sun see he has a big heart and an intelligent head. Tho drummer of to-day, compared with the drummer of fifteen or twenty years ago, makes one think favorably >f the doctrine of evolution, at least in some of its phases. There is an immense difference, morally, at least, between tho drummer of to-day and tho drummer of twenty yours ago. l'ho profane, whiskey drinking, beerwaking gambling drummer is an oxueption. Tlie rule is that the drummer is a bright, upright, intelligent, mortal man. Some of the best men 1 know in America belong to the T. P. A. Tho characteristic drummer, with liis fund of jokes, with his good humor, with his tact and talent, is a very interesting man. Take him at the hotels, >n the railroad trains, on the streets, aihIeven when lie is pushing his trailic. everywhere you find illustrations of pluck and vim and enterprise and getup-and-get. They are ubiquitous. On every train, in every hotel, on every street corner, at every religious service, and nlmost everywhere else, you will find it least one drummer. If he lie religiously inclined, he shows it. If conviviality dominates him, he shows it by his associations. To keep cheerful and pleasant, and yet follow the hard life that these men lo, must be a task indeed. Almost always on the road, with the inconvenience of travel on night trains, stopping at all classes of hotels, from the Flash house up to the Fifth Avenue, Irinking all kinds of water, eating all kinds of grub, exposed to all kinds of weather, and worst of all, away from homo and loved ones, their life is indeced a hard one. Tho thousands of homesick drummers whom 1 meet hear testimony to their devotion to their wives and their love for thoit children. God has made men so that there is no weaning of a true man away from his home. Old Irummers have told me that they have been on the road twenty years, and yet 3aeh successive year their abscnco from home and loved ones grows more painful and unendurable. This is a wiso stroke of Providence?this instinct wo call love for home. If this xmld be obliterated, then we would be put wandering tribes of men, and jvery other man would be a tramp. In this particular, 1 have sutlered i > ..mi iiiu n?i;i uruiuiiirr bile IIOl'1'OI'S ?f homesickness and the longings for issociations with loved ones at home, l'he bright oasis in their lives is when ?he three months' trip is over and for v week or ten days they enjoy the comimny and surroundings of homo, and die sweet noble wife and the prattle d the children. Thousands of these nen, amidst all their hardships and irivitations, bear love and loyalty to lome and wife and children as saered is the memories which connect us with the love of a sainted mother or i sainted wife. Some of the best Jhristian men 1 know today are eomnereial travelers. Their life is a lenedietion in the world of commerce. Lly life, example und conversation they itand for a clean and upright manmod. 1 love tho drummer because he is a icarty fellow, and be luus a big heart, li* charities are many, his sympathies ire profound. When tho record is nude up of the all'airs of men, it will >o seen then, as it never will be known icfore, how many deeds of charity and low many rivers of sympathy, have tone forth from tho lives of these men vhorovor they have found objects of sharity and needs for their sympathy. Phoy area generous set of fellows, and vithal impressionable as they listen to he things preached, and movable mdor the influences of truth. It has joeli my privilege to preach to ten housaud drummers, no doubt, and nany letters have 1 received from hem, thanking me for the good they md received and for the reformation of ife which had come to them under the ' nlluonco of my meetings. I am glad it is true that the vulgar uul the wicked drummer is fast being etired to the rear or switched oil" on a lido track, where his life is less intlu- 1 sntial and his power for evil is abridg :d. When tho drummer, with Ins ( gripsack in ono hand and his Bible in 1 lie other, shall go forth pushing his vares and pushing the cross of Christ 1 vith equal vigor, then it is we will ( ,ako the world for God. These men, 1 nmifying this country from ocean to iccan, in every city and hamlet, can 1 >o a power for good equaled hy no , orce, scarcely, 1 knnw among man, and 1 verily predict the day when the :ommereial world with its army of Irummers will give to Christianity one >f its most potent forces and active ' igencios. The drummer is not only a student >f human nature, hut he is a line judge ( if it. Thrown in connection with all ilasses of men, if an apt scholar, he < oon becomes an export in divining the diaractor and understanding his cus- ] omer. Abovo all things tho drummer should ! )0 an honest men. lie should he a < nan of tho highest sense of integrity, ie should be a pure man in his per- 1 innal life. With honesty, integrity ' md purity and his leading charactoris- I ics, lie wiii rellect honor upon his proession, and, with industry coupled to heso noble qualities, he will he elTec,ivo on the road, and do much business < or those who employ his time. It is lot necessary for him to drink. It will i uin him to gamble. It will side- 1 rack him to he dishonest.. The drumnor who has come to stay is the man vlio honors his profot-sion by all the liialities which honor a man in any I ither profession. The drummer knows the best towns, /ho best business men in each town, md above all, the best hotels, for .vhen bis business is over ho wants a quaro meal and a comfortable bed. withal this is a healthy life. The Irummcrs are all fat and sleek, and I tnow of no life more healthy and invigorating to tho physical man. If a Irummer is sober and keeps good lours and gets all the sleep he can, he vill generally live to be a hundred mars old. It is always with pleasure to me hat 1 stand up before a large body of raveling men and talk to them about he things that belong to the soul and ' hat affect character and destiny. 1 uive preached to six hundred or eight < nindred drumers gathered in a bulbing, and have always found them re- i peetful, attentive and responsive. 1 May God bless these men of hard- ' hips and privation wherever they I may bo, and phicld thom in the hour of temptation, and guide tliem succors* fully to tho bavon of rout, is tho prayer of 0110 who is intorestod in thorn and who lias boon benevolent in all of bis thoughts concerning thorn. | Sam r. .ionks. ItCljKilON IN Til 10 A lt>l Y. On lloth Kbit's in i ho iuiic War There Weil! I'lnyiiiK Hamls. There arc hundreds, possibly thousands, ol men in tho west who re mo in her tho famous Iowa " praying regiment. " Composed, almost without exception, of religious men, tho devotional oxoroiso was, in their eainp, as regular as tho drill. Kvory evening, when the circumstances would permit, the (iill'orcnt companies ussomblod around their oamplircs, sane their hymns, and sang them well, prayed lone and loudly, and seemed to enjoy their religion, even under the most !l(l Vfl'kH (html It inniJ iiikit no !%???? . *51.. ? v? w.ii-, j mow ?o i?v;il I 111 V iltt tho soldiers of rogiments that wore distinguishcd for piety did the regular curd-playIng and irregular whisky drinking with which they beguild the time. The men of " Hie pious regiment " were just us much noted for their bravery us for their piety. When their turn came they fought just us hard us they prayed, and rarely were they driven buck. They enjoyed the respect HT all tho other soldiers in the army, for, although their imitators were not numerous, the evident sincerity which they manifested impressed every beholder, and it not unfrequently happened that the men who strolled carelessly into their camp to witness the services were profoundly impressed by them, and, sometimes, it occurred that even those hardy ones who went to jest? though the amusement was by no means safe, for thw Iowa men were as clever with their fists as with their guns remained for a better purpose, verifying the lino of Coldsmith: " Fools who came to scolT, remained to pray." One of tin1 most remarkable features of the civil war was the wonderful rovivul that broke out in the Confederate army during the second year, and spread from regiment to regiment, until there were conversions in nearly every force in the field. Tho work of the preachers who went into the business of supplying the spiritual wants of the Confederates was greatly ham .1 I .1 \ I- ' I'J Minwus urunuuUKii, liUO 111 OH l serious of which was drunkenness. Home-made whisky was astonishingly ahundaut. As soon as it was discovered that there was money in making whisky, thousands of stills were put into operation. I u one Virginia county 111,000 bushels of grain were made into whisky during the lirst year. In one district in South Carolina 150distilories wore in constant operation day and night. One writer estimates that (54,000 gallons of the worst sort of ardent spirits were daily made and sold to the Confederate army. The lield was unpromising enough, but the chaplains weut to work, secured a loan from the Ih-ilish and Foreign Biblw Society of CO,000 worth of iiiblos and began an earnest crusade. At lirst the work seemed to drag, but in the summer of 1863, after the fall of Vieksbui'ff and the grout defeat at Cettysburg, the revival took a mighty start, and moved on from that time without interruption. Incredible dillicultics attended the work, and religious services were sometimes held amid strange surroundings. One chaplain, writing in his diary at the time the buttle of Chanccllorsville win beginning, said : "In the midst of all these changes and lighting, we manage to keep up our religious services. 1 preached one Sabbath, at the time when our batteries were being assaulted, amidst the most hideous thundering of'artillery and musketry. The congregation was large, serious and attentive. While passing along the road that night during the maneuvers that proceeded the battle, 1 heard singing and prayer. It was a company of Christian soldiers that had met in the darkness. The work went on not only in the camps and along the road that night, but even in the trenches along the edge of battle. A soldier, writing from Fredericksburg, said that one of the most interesting meetings ho ever attended was in the trenches at that place. It began with some of tho buttallion singing. One by one the differ eni regiments collected round and joined in. Soon it was turned into prayer meeting, und there wore several conversions. As the fact bocamo daily more apparent that the cause was lost, the enthusiasm increased and a religious fervor seemed to possess the men. The meetings went ou constantly, singing and praying were heard in all parts of the Confederate camps. An " army church " was formed with a constitution and articles of faith so broad as to admit believers of every shade. Until the surrender the enthusiasm continued, and the results i>f the great army revivals wore seen in the added membership and increased interest of the various denominations after peace again blessed the land. " PINK NOT." The Answer of ft Confederate Maiden lo Her Soldier hover. After two days of hard riding and dodging of Yankee cavalry, Captain Frank Hnrrott was very near his ideal of l'aradiso. That is to say, lie was in the parlor of Colonel Helton's mansion, kneeling beside a recking chair in which was seated fair Mistress Mario Sulton. A solitary tallow-dip was the only witness of the scene. lie opened his lips to tell her the love that had impelled him to take that foolhardy ride, when the door was Hung hastily open. His servant rushed in crying, *'l)o Yankees is comin'! l(un, Nlaiis Frank! Fo' Gawd's sake! Use done got de bosses at the back do'." With a fleroo oath, Captain Frank sprang to his feet. Pausing, he stooped suddenly and kissed Marie, then, without a word dashed through the hall, leaped on his horse and rode for his life. A squad of Yankees turned tho corner of the house in time to witness his flight, and, tiring a volley after him, they gave chase. As tho millets hummed around him. the cimfuin onlv h*?nt ? i " ? ~ ~ *?r "N *'w u little lower in the saddle and urged his horse to greater speed. (Josely pursued at lirst, he linaliy distanced his pursaora and denuded to cut across tho country and ioin his regiment. Fortunately, ho fell 111 with his con puny the next night. In spite of the fact tfiat ho was glad to bo with his men again, he was unhappy, for ho was uncertain how his suit hud prospered. Mario was looking toward tho door when he stole that kiss, and afterwards poor Frank groaned in bitterness of spirit. There wore weeks of hard lighting on hand : he could not apply for leave. As for a letter?here he groaned itgain. It was in tho last days of tho I Confederacy and the voice of Greenback was scarce in the land. Captuin Frank had not a cent in tho world and, 1 us ho know, could neither bey; nor borrow u bit of paper. Ho was alio oat in despair, when an idcu struck him w iili an exclamation of delight, ho hastened U? an adjacent wood-piio and procured a pine chip, lie smoothed it oil ami wrote on one aide of the chip iu pencil ' 1 " and on the other side "tlieo''- I piyo for thee ! Ho called his man /.eph ami gave him the chip, with orders to take it to Miss Sol ton and bring her answer.! Zeph concealed it in his clothes, prom- i ised to return in threo daya and vanished in the woods. Tlin o days pus-- , ed, four, live, still Zoph did not return. On the night of tho iifth clay, Fra k returned late to his tent, trouble l about bis man's safety and worn out with the duties of the day. In front of the tent be found a limp, draggled specimen of the genus homo, class j i." i.? ? ..it i,i>niw|ui, cnmcning over the IIr*- nursing a wounded arm?/,<:ph ! Tlio poor man arose and muttering something about " dat Yankee bullet," handed a curiously shaped pack aye to his master. It was wrapped in a piece of bag- . ging that was fastened with a thorn. 1 With trembling lingers the captain seized it, toroolf the strange wrapping i and revealed?her answer ! A pine knot!?Southern Magazine. I IK WAS I'lM i'A 11. Tlio I'idelityN <>(' an Old Ihirkey in Kl a very Tl mes. A group of gentlemen, mostly from Dixie, wore discussing certain phases of the institution of slavery as it existed in their region, at one of the down town hotels. Tlio faithfulness of the black man to his master was heartily attested by those present, nearly all of whom had owned slaves. "There never was a more loyal subject than the old-time plantation darky," said Maj. George Grillln, of Columbus, On., "The percentage of slaves who tried to gain their freedom by running away was very small, which was the host proof of their contented lot. My father had emigrated from South Carolina to Georgia, bringing with him about thirty negroes, in themselves constituting a respectable fortune. Me was tii:?uy planter, and with the aid of his colored vassals his worldly possessions increased rapidly. Among the number was a great, strapping fellow, named Dan, who from tho fact of his ability to do about twice the work of an average hand, and also for his good disposition, was a primo favorite on the place. Dan was really tho pet of the family: ho could shuck more corn and pick more cotton than any of his colleagues, and whibhal was as amiable as a child. ciimnuip 1 i \i. 111^ II u I 'till '1*11/ I11H cabin and walked up to the 'big houso' as tlio servants styled the residence of their owner, lie found my father seated on the veranda, smoking his pipe and coming up to him said, * Mars George, I've got a favor to ax of you.' " 'What is it, Dun ?" " 'You know I've a twin brother baek in Souf Carolina, dat 1 ain't seed in eleven years. 1 want you to let me go on a little visit to see liueben, for 1 thinks a heap of dat. boy." "Well, the upshot of it was, that the necessary consent was given. There was no railroad closer than Atlanta, hut Dan thought little of walking that distance. When the day eaino for him to start he was the happiest mortal on earth. Father gave him a nico suit of clothes and ldenty of poeket money, lie was to he back in six weeks. Sonus of our neighbors prophesied that we had seen the last of Dan, but not so, 1 recollect the ' night when he came down the road whistling a merry tune, lie hud enjoyed a great time with his brother, and the six weeks was up to a day."? Washington 1 'ost. A Sensible Farmer.?Mr. Henry Keller, who lives in the outskirts of Yorkvillo, is a thrifty small farmer, who has worked hard, secured pecuniary independence, and who can give many of his brother farmers somo valuable points on profitable farming. " I never did raise much cotton," lie said, to a representative of The Knquiror tho other day. " 1 don't like to farm just for tho sake of handling the money. Why, one year, one of my neighbors raised thirty bales of cotton, and when settling-up time came, he was unable to pay all his debts. I only raised threo bales, paid all my debts, and had one bale left. Nobody can make money raising cotton if they expect to buy anything else that thev could raise themselves." ? ? ?" Thoro's some folks that make farming pay," said my driver, pointing to a plaeo we passed. 44 I low?" I demanded, thinking to hear of some now plan. ' They work," he replied. ?Hev. J. It. Tho>'nwell has acceptod the invitation to preach the baccalaureate sermon before the Thornwoll Orphanage Seminary at the common ,'emonton tho 1st of July. i TRY IT 1?Hold the eduro of a common visit- , intC card to lino so that no nhariow will fall ! on cither bUIo ; then hold your iioho to tho cord j and you will see how easy It la for tho man to swallow ouo of Dr. l'ieroo's l'lossant i'otlots. ^ ITS EASILY S\ZAIjLOWKD ?ono of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellots. These littlo Pellets aro as effective as the best liver pills, and aro easier to get down and moro agreeable in their action besides. Tho fact Is, Dr. Pierce's sugarcoated Pellets aro better in almost every respect. They act in a mild, easy and natural way. An absolute curs for Constipation, Dizziness, Indigestion, Sour Stomach. Sick nod Bilious Headaches. For Nervous Disorders arising from weak stomach, and all derangements of tho liver, stomach and bowels, they aro guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money is returned. Why aro they not the cheapest pill for you to buy f J The stepping-stone to Consumption ? is Catarrh. It don't pay to let it go, when the makers of Dr. Sage's Remedy will give $500 if they can't effect a permanent aire of your Catarrh. A VKTLKAN'5 VEKMIT. The War is Over. A Well-known Soldier, Correspondent and Journalist Makes a Disclosure. Indiana contributed her thousands of brave soldiers to the war, and no state bears a bet error ?rd in that respect than It doeB. In literature It Is rapidly acquiring an enviable place In war and literater? Holomon Yewell, well known as a writer as "Sol," has won an honorable posit Ion. During the late war ho was a member nf < o. M, 2d. N. Y. Cavalry and of the 13th Indiana Infantry Volunteers. 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Among people over lifty, danger of <li?:t1.1i Irnm ItiMivt- II fti'O uiiilflim exertion us in running for u train, is by no means confined to such us have obvious heart-disease. Many hearts, .. while showing no symptoms of disease, ft* are unlit to stand a sudden strain, and for such, a run to catch a train, and %tVt" especially a run uphill, is sufficient to produce a dilatation which may shirt a long or even fatal illlness, or may causo immediate death. It is interesting to observe how frequently catustrope occurs after the otl'ort is over. While the race is in full swing there is plenty of room in the systematic circulation, and thus, although the heart works hard it does not work against a great resistance. When, however, the exertion is over, things are very different. Suddenly, when the object of ambition is secured, the contracting lung pours into tho left side of tho heart the excess of blood which it had contained, and the arterial tension inert-uses in consequence of tho lessened demand for bio ul by the tissues. Tho heart, then, with more blood to propel and a greater resistance to overeomo, is strained to the utmost, and if its tissues are weak, the result is often fatal. Kunner.- who have been on tho verge of this condition agree in saying that the sense of palpitation and suffocation comes on after violent exertion ceases, that it is aggravated by sitting still, and that it is host relieved by movement and continued deep respiration. His Mkmouy Was Good.?"And you pretend to say," remarked a lawyer to a witness, " that you can remember the exact words that this man said to you ten years ago?" " I do-' " Well, if my memory serves me, I mot you at Saratoga about tive years ago, and I should like to know if vou can swear to any expression which I then made." " I can." " Now, Mr. J., I want you to remember that you are under oath. Now under oath, you swear that you can quote with great accuracy a remark 1 made l.o vnii ul ?? __ _ j w?. >?v K/u> uvvgU) uvo yuui'8 ago ?" " I can." "Well, what was it?" " You mot mo in t he hotol corridor, and yon shook hands with mo." " Naturally 1 did." "And you said to mo: "Lot's go and take something.'" Tho crior of the court had to call silence for ton minutes, and tho lawyer confessed that tho witness had a remarkable memory. ?Among somo old papers in an Arkansas probate court was found a doctor's account for medical attendance during the last illness of tho deceased. 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