The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, August 27, 1896, Image 4
RUB _LOWE
- "Reub," said I to the old fellow
haif-witted some of the younger men
about the neighborhood said-who was
ily iredVil Ilial on the farm, "1 I novelr
S lavoe to tell you ia socond thuo to do' l
Ibjug. N'oYou' 'e til IniO.It plletiual lilat
sl.utvadl of lookir pleased at this
comphnena:s I had exspected him11 to,
livo'unltIiianvu always long anid sad
ani wea'ilg all ex pression as of vague
toerrior. hewallo longer, sadder and still
Moro torrilicd looking. It was a wiutor.
evening and Io and I and the old house
keeper were sitting about the open
fireplace of the great, roomy kitchen
In that democratic fashion so universal
in Anierican farm life.
11 took his pip from his mouth,
turned it upside down and emptied it
into the ashes by knocking it against
the ehiney piece before he answered.
Yes," said he, then, glancing at
mrs. Simmons and discovering that
she wis sound; asleep and snoring.
Yes, t had a lesson on beiln' punctual
onet that 1 'low will last me a life
time."
"So?" said I, "Was It anything
you wouldn't mind toiling about ?"
Houb put his pipo in his pocket
before he answered :
" 1 dou't mind tellin' you, Mr. 'ern
ley. Men have a sort of understanding
of one another, an' soni streaks that
is pretty inuch alike. I reckon so's't
they know how to sympathize with each
other. But I'd just as leave Miss Sim
mons would go right on sleepin.' She
nor no other woman, I reckon, would
havo very much use for in after
hearin' it.'
This roused my interest and piqued
lily curiosity. I lay back in the big
Shaker rocking-chair and settled my
self into a comfortable position for
listening as I said: "Now, forge ahead,
lI eub."'
He frowned at the tire for so long a
titue before proceeding that I began
to fear he had thought better of it, and
I should lose his story. Presently,
however, he withdrew his gaze and
beutt it upon lime. " There's some
th ings that comes hard to tell. It's like
livin' 'Cim over again: an I wCuld'nt
tell you this to-night if 'twern't, I
fancy, that the jesson may do you some
goud at second hand. I've took notice,
now and then, that you ain't none too
punctual at doin' things on time your
self."
Ite looked at me hard for a minute,
hut as I did not deny the impeach
ient, lie presently continued : " [
want you to know Mr. P-ernley, that I
ain't half-witted, to begin with. I'n
all here ; but sometime somethin'
conies up agin' a feller an' stuns him,
an1' lie never feels like ie used to, to
him iself anly i'ore nor 'pears the sam.e
way to other folks. That's what's
hap)nCed i, an1' it all camne along of
not doin' the thiing that ort to be done,
at L1i h ti Ime V hell I 'd ort to 'a' done it.
" i used to have a farn of lily own
that i to say, it Was partly mine, an'
I was workin' the other half on shares
for the owner. Not a big place like
like this 'erc one if yourn, but a snug
hit o' groulid, with a pretty house or.'t,
all' everything was swingin' along
prosp'rous like: for I wasen't never lazy,
nobody couldn'c never say that about
leub lirownlield. I was always a
wor'kin' like wt nailer. Couldn't rest
anohow. When I'd sot down to the
rIIbl 'd hO a t.attooin' onl the cloth 1r
t" diishes, or' someiith inl-couldn'it keel
a m 'lhmn kin o'folks wears out
cre'dit for' that: I waslL nollde that way
Onflly, aLs I seeC it nlow. I 'ml oneC ' their
ieanit ill thle prayL.~er-bookc, whl~e't sa~ye
they've done that which they ort, nol
andt left undone tha~t which they or't t<
have done.
'uWell, I had the' best little womI alr
for a wife in all my pairt o' tile country,
I use0 to think she naiggedi too miuleth
someitimies, but. the truith oif it was shec
had good reason to nag. Blesis me,
wonder' how us fel lowvs would take
the cver'lastin' procrelastiniatin.' An
my baby'! It was the cutest little
erectur' you ever' seen. A b~oy tot
c-alled 'im Hoeub, after mie. ''1'wam
big Rleub, and little lieub. Ju Lst got
s0 lbe could( talk a little :say 'papa
an' 'mammlra, ani' 'by-by 'Aln' toiddk
everywhere ! Why, that young ur
mlust 'a' tr'udged nigh oni to lirty mile u
day on them study little fat feet o
his'n. Laugh !Why, he'd laugh th<(
cunnlin'es of anfy baby you ever seen
and show them four' flront teeth, twn
in h11s upper61 gumll an' two under'neath
all sawedlon the edges. i used( to tickh
is tees soimetimies to make him 1augh1
just to see hodw ourus'11 they looked-jus
four of 'Cem to bei seen.
''We's what you'd call a happy famnil
-that is, if any bodly ever' is reah, down
rilght out-and-out Ilappy in this worlid
Soimetinies I think the mninister's ha:
the right of it when they say 'taint in.
tended we sh'd be so happy here thal
we want to stay onl ever'lastingly
'Trude an' I-htem' name was Ger'trude.
bult I called hert 'Trude-lovedi cact
other laain'ly. Didn't nleithier of ut
ncvor' wantnIobody else, an' we'd a diet
for' each othier any nminnit of the day
but she would nag when there wais
louse hinge to be fixed or' aL brokci
blind to be mended, or Ia weathem'stii
she wvanted put on ; an' I 'lowed I'a
goen' to do it, an' let it run on kindei
keerless-like, an' never did do it, afi
all. An' when she'd taLik about I
awhile, an' ei'ied, an' fussed, an' go
mad over' it anii (:alled me1 aL heartless
fellel', then I'd get my hack upI an' tel
her I 'loiwed to do it when I got goot
aln'. reoady.- We aLways m~ade it uII
afterward an' cr'ied an' kilse(d, an' each
one always took the whole blame of i1
to ourl'Cv'es : an' went an' dlid the yern
- same t~h ig right over agin. Ilumar01
natur' is (11100r like.
"Well, wo bad ani out-door' cister
on the place, that had(1n't 1n0 pum ir~~
it. Use to drlaw thle water' up wih .1
tllin'uct an.1' IL (1l1hes li ne, an' Llhei
kivoe' over' the plance withII al hoan
kiver'. Mlost times I diew the watei
msysel f-whleni I waIs abhoiut1hut 111 .hen
was man1 iy a timeil I waisn't, when 'rudt
had to( d.io) it. Wome~' s backs are ItEsor
b t, I didln ' t, and1( a ftc r we' tI had the
Ii e's sphat over' it, I go t, 1(11 im lr .,tol bhorn.1
! ike anl' said I'd get it when'i I got g'od~
ani' reaidy.
" I r'i~eember, 'twas aL ho1t, dr y S11um
mce', an' the wells anf' elsternls, lots oi
'cm, got dry3 ar'ounld ther'e. Th'lo ne(ighl
boy's usec( to com~eJ over''nI horror.Il ra~Lin
water, aii' it kep' 'Tr'ude pr'etty oss
an' pretty busy, too, aLh k'iveri' up1 thle
OIsternl after' '011 5(i's'I. the baby
shouldn['t fall in. Somehow they di in't
nmone of '011 scoml to thlink 'twas an~y
business o' thces to dlo it,.
"I r'ememiberl 'o' day wh-en I'd
kiverecd It upI mIy?'el f a time or two, -I
got sor'ter 'shamelld o' myself about the
whole thing, aln' I says5 to myself:
'I 'nor "Trude !I don't blame h101 for
fee'~ln' nettledl ovri havi n' no pump11.
Nate BanesI is agoinI' to0 town to-mjor
r- nLI fI'l hay'' 1hm1 binafl Ofna Ont
D HE WOULD,
So I went to the field foelin' 's If I's t
pretty good feller after all, an' think
log how happy 'Trude would be. I
hadn't boon there half an hour, whoi
a woman como runnin' along the pikc
that run parallel with the field, a.
wavin' her sun-bonnot at mie wild like
an' sercamin' at the top of her voice
'Reub ! [toub I Itoub Browntield ! Con
right home !' she said. I liopo you
won't hover fool as I did then. I
seemed to know that very ninit wha
the matter was. It wasn't live minute
before I got there, but I soomed ai
hour a-goin.' My foot felt like there'.
load weights hung to 'em.
" When I come in sight o' the house
there was folks standin' all around it,
an' neighbor women comin' in and out,
Somebody'd soon the doctor a passing
in his buggy, an' stoj)ped him at the
gate. He was wor'kin over little Reut
when I wept in, tryin' to make lii
breathe by inovin' lils arms up1) an
down. But 'twarn't no use. little
Ieub was drowned dead, an' I tha
would a died for him ton times over had
killed my baby by 'lowin' I's goin' to
buy a pump and never a doin' it.
Sowohow I couldn't sens it. I
looked so natural-kinder like he't
laughin', too, an' showin' them tooth.
I looked for 'Trude to hate mo, bit
what do you reckon she did ? She jusi
coio an' lput hor arms 'round mc
before all them peoplo, just like Il'
some poor hurt creotur', an' she patted
me on the shoulder, an' she says:
'There, there, Reub-thore! there
You've got me left, IHoub, poor Roub!
" Well, I don't care to say no more
about that day, Mr. I'ornley, nor the
days that followed it. 'Taln't often I
let myself think about 'em ; I'd go wil]
if I did. 'Trude never blamed'ime, not
she never nagged ie no more," con
tinued he, hoarsely. "She unever com
plained about anything. She just woni
'round with a sort of a heart-breakin
smile, an' was always like an angel t(
me. 'There, there, 1oub,' she'd sa
when she heard me sobbin' in tht
night; 'thoie, there,' kinder soothin
like : an' she'd pat. me on the shouldoi
like l's little Reub himself. But she
didn't stay with mn long after that
There was lung trouble in her famil
an' the doctor said she'd got a sort 0l
shock like. Two years afterward
buried her beside little R~cub."
BIbl ARP ON BABIES.
"Don't Snore; You'll Wake the Baby
-1l1ducation, Ought to b>C Mlixe
With Labor.
.Julius Cosar was a very great man
He was a Deino'.rat and the leader o
his party when only thirty-three year
old. and held the highest office befor
he was forty. But I don't understani
what made hiim cut a slice out of th,
iniddle of the year and namo it .Jul
And his Gus did the same thing ani
named it August. if they wanted t,
dismeiber the year and add two ior,
months why didn't they take it oil th,
tail end and lap them on to December
I don't like July nor August nolhow. I
seems to me1 they get hot-ter and botte
as tihe years roll on. I can't work ii
my garden. It is so warim that I can
gather the vegetahles nor mow gras
for the cow with any comfort. I swea
all ove'r with perspiration and have t
change my gar'ments every day. WV
don't go to bed until ii o'clock anm
I reckon it will conic all right agai
before lonu. I reckon so. It alwa
does. Whatever is is right.
My wife horrowed the bably agai
last night. Ilver' and anon she ha., t
have a baby to stay over' night an
sleep with her to reiind her of th
good~ old times wheii sihe nursed he
own and fondle:] them and ratted thei
in the restless night. So ~little Cart
line, who is the youngest gra'lndch ild
Iwas left wvith heri to conmfort heri andi
miade both hiappy, for' tie little thin
lov'es its gi'and ma and hai'dly know
which mothoer she belongs to. I got 1
sleep abiout mid night, but my olfacte
rie orespharusorlarynx or throttl
of order and( J sup~poso I was snori n
pre'tty lively wvhen I hieaid a voice call
lng me . "W illiam, WVilliam." Aslee
or awake that uixorian voice alwav~
niakes mne j ump with alacrity. [ ham
toned over' to her cor'ner of the root
to sce what was the matter' and ra
against the center table and a chai
and wvaited tot' oi'dei's. Suddenly sh
whispered :"I just wanted you to tur
over. You snor'e so lotud you will' wak
up the baby. D~on't snore so."
With a subdued feeling I starte
back to mcy bed, but It was awful dlai
and I couldn't find the round table thu
wvas in the middle of tihe room. SlowI
and cautiously I felt my way, wvho
suddenly my nose collided with th
top) of the miantlephiece. This guide
me to imy little ned again and I assun
ed a tired and( recumbent position an.
ruminated on the battle of life. But
mustn't snoi'o was the order. Theil bab
mustn't be disturbed. This~ injunctio
weighed so heavily upon me that I wai
afraid to fall into a deer) sleep and c
getting sonlorouis again, so I slumblere
along and dreamed I was tr'aveling t
heaven eor some haven of rest, and o
every barn and board fence and rock
cliff there was a red lotter' sign like
patent medicine sign and It said
"Don't Snore !IDon't Snore ! D~on
Snore !" andl by andl by we reached
I high mountain and there wVas a yout
> climbing it with a banner and I though
Iit was the Excelsior' chap we used t
see In tihe blue-backed spelling bool<
hbut as the bi'eed~ utnfurled the banne
II saw it was "Don't Snore! Don'
Snore !" .dust then I was awakened b
a gentle sonor'ous olfactory soundl tha
camo from the other corner of th
r'oom and so I venitu red over thtete ati
touched iher' tendetly and1( wh isput'ed
"Don Iit't sniioe you'll wako the bab~y.''
Th'Iisi- bab'y-r'aisinig buisi ness is aboui
the biggest, bus~iiness I kenw of, and th,
most reLsponsjible. I was on ott ut of toi
that, miy moitheri raiise~d, andI my wif
has raised ten, and we have i'aisedl tenm
and it, looks as if sonic of our' poster'it,
anre oni tihe same11 aniestral line. i
therme werec no grantdpani'mtts in our1 famt
iilv, anmd we, li Ihr chaps ha md to roughi
like Cain and A bel dhd. Nowadajs I
takles two parents and thrt'i ort foul
grend par'ents and sever'al aunts and
nurse and a hiaby carriage to rafise) i
child, but that is all ri ghmt if t~he clikl
is lessed0( with such pri vileges.
The dear' little th ing4 oughlt to hav
agood Ltme in in'fancy, for troiublo w il
mmurely come wvhen they got older,. ani
Ii'rejoico tha't thei mod ern children hava
a better time than, we did(. I remnembe
the little brown cradle that we wer'e
all i'ocked in, and~ when ther'e wasn't
baby carriiage in the town. I r'emcm
ber' when the average child had nc
nurse save its miothoer, and she did the
housewor'k and made all the gairments
too, and didn't know she was having i
hamrd timie. Tlhe little chmaps (di'i
haLve thniu' tans uwnshol nor t.._'j.
clothes changed but once or twice a
day and they were set down on the
floor or the ground and given some
home-made playthings, and they, too,
didn't know there was anything better.
Evon the children of wealthy parents
were turned over to the little darkies
and were happy in their keeping. I
remember when Evan Howell, the po
litical dictator, was bobbing around
with the little niggers and got so dirty
playing in the sand you couldn't spot
lim nlor. toll tother front which. But
now his little grandchildren go around
in laces and ribbons and gold buttons
and ride in a $40 baby carriago and
bathe in a %10 bath tub, and Evan
thinks It is all right, and I reckon it is.
Ours come as near doing the same
thing as they can and so do overy body
olsos. It is a beautiful trait in human
nature to improve on your own raising
and to sweoten the hardships of c-hild
hood. But the time will come when
the boys and the girls got big enough
to be useful and then they should be
made to know it. They should be raised
to habits of industry. The girl of ten
years should help her mother in house
work and in nursing the baby. The
boy of ten should begin with tilo hoo
in the gardon and the ax at the wood
pile. The piano is all right, and so is
the pony, but work should be mixed
with pleasure.
Sometimes I think there is too much
schooling and colloging going on in
this generation, and too little work.
The curriculum of out' public schools is
now nino long years, say fromn eight to
seventeen, and then comucs throo or
four more of college and no work in all
that time, no habits of industry, noth
ing but books, books. There is hardly
a sweet girl graduate in the State who
can make her own dresses. She goes
to the milliner and keeps her poor' old
father on a strain. Perhaps the collogo
boy takes an honor and gets his name
in the apetrs and then, of course, he
must study law and dabble in politics,
and depend on the mana for a support.
Those kind of nice, smart, good-for
nothing boys are in every city and
town and village. They know nothing
of the practical concerns of life. They
couldn't plan a house nor run a saw
mill nor an ice factory nor a brickyard
nor oven a little farm. They know
nothing of horticulture or the science
of growing flowers and evergreens.
They couldn't hang a door or itake a
gato latch ot' put up a roller window
curtain. But they know a little Latin
and Greek and some geometr'y, and
perhaps can toll you whether tite del
uge came before or after the flood, and
they can play baseball and football and
dance the gerinan and wear tanned
shoes and bollybands to perfection, but
they are good boys and so smart and
havo such nice manners and winning
ways that their mothers aro proud of
themn, but their old fathers are serious
and perplexed. College life is v<.ry
fascinating both to boys and girls, but
to most of them it is a waste of precious
time. Education should be mixed with
labo'. it should be hard to get, not
easy. 31r,mi Aum.
WIlE TIltES FOR SALE.
Ar raniiy' emteinls Ma(le I*'o a FullI Sup
ply-Comlipmrative Cost oi" Wire and(i
Iloop Ties.
r Col. 1). 1. Dtncan, manager of the
State Allianco Exchange, has returned
t from New York. lie was eminently
s successful in his mission, which wits
t to secure a sufficient supply of wire
[ ties to enable the Souther' farmers
e to defeat the Cotton Tie Trust. Con
Ll cornitng his visit to Gotham he said:
t"I hav. arrantred with a large w Iir
n tnanufacturar to miakes us wire Lies.
s T1he ties will be madelof No. Ii anneal
,ed steel wit'e. Thirty ties will be p~ut,
in a bundle, (the samte number as is
o0 inwput, ini the huand Ic of llat hoop tics.)
LI| These ties will weigh about Ii -I lbs. to
e the tic and will cost 90) cents por bun
r die delivered in Colutmbia. Th'le rate
n of freight is 3i7 cents por hiundred to
-Columbia. It is a little more thaii
,that to some other points, which wil!
t add a cent cor such a miatter' to thte cost
Ipert b)undle to these p)oinlts of shlipinfent,
sfrom the factory.
a " Now as to the comnpar'ative cost of
.the w ire and hoop cotton ties aL bundle
of wire tics, thirty tics, weighs 17 .
t, lbs. and cost 90t cents, or- $210 per'
hundred p)ounds ;a btundle of thiirty
-hoop ties weighs fot'ty-live nounds and
[) cost $1.45, or' $3.2l per hundm'ed pounds.
s You see we have 81 cents por' hund red
-pounds in favor- of the wire ties.
,, " The reason I fixed upon the large
awh'n was to get the undoubtecd sti'ength,
r- because the wire mlanufacturors said
e that in p~ulling tI e cotton out of the
a hold of a ship, the smaller wire might
e give way, but this No. 1i they would
guarantee would hold, and thon we get
the weight. Cotton hoop ties aftei'
this season will nove be over $1 per
bundle again, for the wire tie has
come to stay.
"The ties wvill have a compiete loop
on one end and the other end in bail
Sing wvill be r'un through the 1loo), bent
-back and the end put undet' the wire
around the bale. In compressing it
will only be necessar'y to pull the wire
through the loop and run the end
under thle wiiro and the work is done,
and tihe manufacturoers say it will hold
any kind of pi'essure cor handling.
"The factory is now at, work on IL
carIoa~d and wvill be readcy to ship in
a few days. I hope to have a car load
het'e next week.
Stt deir'e to say to the farmers of the
. taothat I have let no woirk or ox
(, pense stand in the way of getting this
business in such a shtape as would en
able them to pr'oteet themselves against
those who thought they had thenm in
aL corner-. Send us your order's fcir
wti'e ttes and in a fwv (lays we can have
all orders illed.''
Orders for' sever'al hundred bundles
ofvire ties have already been placed
with thne .Exchange and many more
will colme in1 dur'ing the next few datys,
inow thitt Colonel IDuncan has cmplet
. ed all arrangements to suplply the deC
mandi. I f the sale of thtese tics is sLuf
l iciontly large, thle price of thmi will
tundoubitedly dm'op a litt~e.
wo uii gt i n of your reniri live. ni a ill i-orl
I ite tfor lik t i hl arrt I lE tl i aan1 tuu (11 Ing
1seo ieat.ig t. Iro n vs a I iiitil i 1t. Iv r oeis
lttti'i was ion clet 'l I be Iin anioust'Oi
helpi hin thouts t ott ubl at Weli(i soel eing (115
iir3n1, wriltii I oig. slenid.A. AI etis
w-t i not wiltl eeat, bu iot w 3hatr we
vit hat p el us stngha. Youtn isrot
wihlf the toad, ut wha whne tf'surbht'
that maktes s withte l ti, ano what
wet te ndo, buatt wt wgdos thsllat mvery
usd wusl. i ino a6 few fairon wises
bave ntL s-og lestrhugnge, an da ked.ti
vtarI amnyn nteh.ies a hyddwl
In the St Louis Cyclone.
When the crash eano and the roof
fell, burying them beneath its heavy
and sutfocating weight, Meg sought to
throw herself across the little cradle
where Johnny was lying asleep. She
nly succeeded in reaching it with her
lingers, however, and although sie
nerved herself with a strong effort to
believe the little thing was not hurt
the sudden gasp whiOh came from
the hoa struck a chill to her heart.
Meg herself was badly injured, but
she never thought of anything but the
baby. She raised herself, crouching
on all fours as she was, and sought to
lift a part of the hetavy beam which
seemed to be slowly deadening all her
faculties. After a timo she noticed
that the cradle had formed a sort of
a nook next the wall, and for an hour
sihe wrestled to crawl the two feet
which intervened between her and the
clear spaco.
As ste at last dragged her body from
beneath the beam sho must have
fainted for a moment. Sh came to in
a moment; however, and immediately
groped with both her bleeding hands
over and over the cradle. Where was
the baby'? Soon in the darkness a
vivid flash of lightning Illumined the
place and she saw that Johnny was
right next to her, where he had been
tumbled when tie cradic turned under
the cruel weight of the timbers.
Mog tenuerly lifted the little form.
She know quito well that the baby was
dead. She did not caress it with any
vain hope of bringing it to life again.
She only held its face close to her face
and crouched In the corner thero, say
ing many inarticulate words to it. She
murmured the vague and Intangible
nothings to her child that all women
possess within their hearts for chil
dren.
Meg sat there in the darkness ; she
found she could sit quite comfortably
by leaning her head forward over the
baby. She had forgotten the pain In
her logs, and It was too dark to notice
hor bleeding hands.
Tho jagged lightning camte at in
tervals and lighted up the desolate
scene, showing the west wall open to
the air, the roof open to the sky and
the little picture of Johnny in his em
broidored dress when he was christen
ed and the wreath of paper roses still
hanging around it. The bureau, with
the top drawer Open and one of John
ny's little socks hanging over the edge,
attracteod Meg's eyes during one of the
long lashca of the blue light. She
remembered she was just about to take
the little sock and mend it when tile
storm cato.
The night grew colder and Meg be
came aware that her garments were
soaked through to the skin. Involun
tarily she sought to cover the baby
with her arms and apron. The baby
would iever need to be covered again.
Meg felt this, but it did not seem to
cause her the agony of grief she had
always thought she would feel when
her child died.
She commlniuned with Iel'S131f as to the
strangeness of her feeling; she p)e-r
feetly realizued that he was dead, she
knew that the storm had ruined her
)oo1' home, she could hea' tile hoarse
shouts of ,the men below in the saloon
on the Corner ; she even realized that
she herself was dangerously wounded.
She nevertheless sat there, and p
ently she began to croon gently to the
baby inl her lap.
lie was born a year ago come lFri
day. A year ago. Meg looked back
at the advent through a mnazo of almost
unpel)rsonail unlcertainty. Was it
year. y' Then it must, have been in
Septembher that she was married to
.John. ItL seemed to stretch back intu
the limbo of another life that Septem
ber. Aleg still sat hugging the baby.
and soon her cegs begran to secnd sharp
darting pains through her entire body.
The agony of the first sharp palin
brought herto a suc'den swift sense of
her position. She winced as in in
ert asing volume111 the pain r'an fr'om
her k nees up to her thighs. Suddenly
she screamed, a mad agonizing scercam
that rent the dhizzled air Ii ko the cry
of a wounded bird.
Meg had not sceamed because she
was frightened and feared to (lie there
with her child's dead body in her arms
and her ch id's dead face pressedI to
heri bosom; she only cried, 1poor woman,
because heri legs being broken and held
as in a vise by the beams of tihe roof,
had been wrenched when she had
mtoved to ease her head. M~eg remain
ed shuddering violently. Hecr broken
legs held by the beam, her back bent
double in the corner, her wounded
arms gathering the baby to her bosom.
When John returned hiome that
evening from the factory where 1h0,
too, had been injured by falling tim
ber's and fly ing masonry, lie shuddered
as lie looked up at the two windows on
the second floor. He saw the corner
saloon cr'owded with w ild-cyedi men.
Trho place was lighted with smoky
lamps and many tallow candles. A
womian teoled out and1 hurched against
him. Th'le sniell of her' por-son and the
hot odors from the saloon sickened
him strangely.
He looked up at the dlarkoined win
dows, he saw them all broken, he knew
the root was oil, he fe-lt that a last
great wieight and ho. 'or' hadl fal len
upon his liife, lie stood( ther'e, and in
his ears and on his sinking iheart, Meg's
cry rcsounoded. As he climblled up l thle
narrow sidle staircase he i'c mem~libered
afterwards how tiiling the wvound On
his arm seemed3( to himn. Hie reach-d
the second( Iloor andi in the darkness
lhe listened shivering andl tremilbling.
"Meg !" lie cr'ied, "' Medf !" andi fr'om
the corner where she was limpelsoned
h~e hoard the faint whisper of a wvo
man's voice. It was only a dimi whisper
he heard, but it guided him to the
place.
When lie had raised the beam and
taken her and the baby up In his arms,
Meg said softly. "' Y~ou're not hurt, atre
you, John 'Y" She attempllted to cover'
the baby's face, before lie could( 5ee it.,
h1; ', n,.r h anda~ refun d t.o (obPy her wit..
.Johni had n0 need to look in thte ehil.d's
fa 3e; what he saw in his wi fo's had0
sufliced. lie bent double under' the
iinamccuistotmed w iighit as5 1he imae his
wvay dow-n the stairs. lie touched htis
lips to Mleg's in the darkness. It was
0one of those ats which God has allow
ed to take the lace~u of words.
Saturday the roof and the wvall were
repai redI and Sutndiiy morning a lIttle
wiep of whito mu tslin and r'ibbons were
seen IIluttering from the second story
wind(ow.
Thme New~ Hook Spoon [Fr-e toi All.
I ri-in Iih le ChIirist ian Stanituaid liht Miss
A. M. I'ri tz.. St tien A. St. ILoots, Mo., wonit
nive-nE-ganit p'hitfed hocok spoon1 to aniyoiie
it on itO o soiII i usefl that I I htowed ft (t my
friendfs, and matie01 $2.00) fin two ho01 n, tab- ing
or1ders for ihe 8wp Oln. TPhi hoiok spnoon Is ia
h~ousehlobit ntecessi ty, i canno t sltip into~ thet
(lI sh or1 cook mg ve-ssel, beiing hld itn thei jihreei
by3 a hook on I lhe bac(-k. The spoonl lii som -41
lthing that1 hou~isi'eepers haive- nt~le-d l 'et.
since sp~5ons were Ii rst ivenlteid. A Iyon 3' an .~
0e sainib, liploon b '~ sienintg ien 2 00en1
i.' , in .sFit.' hzits is ai slenid way~
IJ 1 . UVo.y at . i atiy m1. ..,.,.....
THE BATRE OF THE STANDARDS.
TUNI0 TWO I*LANS OF J11METiAIISM.
Uan t1ie Uniteld States Maintain thir
.tatio of'Sixteen to One-Sounrethinig
worth Iloatliig.
01he followiig article was written by
Ml r. Flenuig, of Kentucky, wh was one of
Ml r. Clevelanrd's electors in the caipaign
of 1881, arid it is worthy of perusal by any
one without regard 'to political bias.1
In view of the declaration of the
Chicago convention in favor of the
"free and unlinited" coinage of silver,
at the ratio of 1 to 1, the question,
"Can the United States (independently
of the concerted action of IEurope)
establiih and maintain the parity be
twoon gold and silver at the ratio
numed ? " is of increasing interest.
Eastern politicians and capitalists
for the most part answer this quostion
In the negative. The Southern and
Western Democracy have answered in
the ailirmative. B1oth answers being
)resuinably influenced by personal
Intorost, an unprejudiced investigation
may elucidato the probable truth.
The consensus of impartial scientific
opinion may be said to have resulted
in agrement upon the following prop,
ositions :
1. Since 18713 gold has risen In value
100 per cent., and silver and all other
commodities have fallen 50 por cent.
2. Under the gold standard gold
must continue to approciato and other
commoditiCs depreciate.
:1. Those conditions benefit the hold
ors of realized riches, and persons with
fixed incomes, and tend to hard timos,
the Impoverishment of the many and
the bankruptcy of the debtor class.
4. Hence a return to the bimetallic
standard is desirable, if feasible.
The only plans suggested to such re
turn are :
l'irst-The Whitney plan of Interna
tional agrocmnt. This includes Eng
land. Is it probable that England will
consent to such agreement ? She de
monctized silver in 1816, and has since
steadfastly adhered to that policy.
Tbe London NEconomist In 1883 said :
"England being the chi.-f creditor of
the world, it is to her interest to keep
the volume of money as small as possi
ble inl couitrice fr'oil wh ich debts are
due, in order to got inoro of their pro
ducts inll m A, of interest due to her.
citizens." In I8(;( Sir Robert N. Pow
leir, ex-Lord M.yor of London, a memiii
ber of Parliament and a banker, said :
"The effect of .o.3 depreciation of .,il
ver must finally be the ruin of the
wheat and cotton industries of Ameri
ca and the development of India as
the chief wheat and cotton exporter of
the world." I n 1872 the London Daily
News s.ai(l : "or Great Britian, prc
eminently the creditor among all na
tions, to adopt it would be midsummer
madness, indeed. * * * i3imetallism
would shake to its foundations the
financial fame and su premuacy of Great
Britain." in a late speech Mr. Gfad
stone said of England : "It is the
great creditor nation of the world, and
it is incircasiinly tih great creditor
country of the world." In that speech
Mir. Gladstone estimated the holdingrs
of Great Britaini beyond thu limits of
her kingdomi at $10,000,0U0,000, and ad
in Englandi making ia present of $500,
000,000 to the world. William Henry
Greenifell, chairman of the Bimetallie
League of England. declares that if we
wait for England to show the way we
will "wait forever."
Since it is the interest of the creditor
class to maintain the gold standard,
anid that class controls the policy of
iEngland, bi metal lismn by international
agreemeflnt may be dismissed as out of
thre qjuestion.
Second--The other' planl is for thre
United States to go it alone.
T1he pr'opositioni is that the U~nited
States shll establish the dual stand
art] by its own dccice'. independent of
LEuropen action.
Can thris be done? Such cx perimen t
is at one new andi~ old. I t is old be
cause we had free coinage of bo0th
imetals uip to 1873. It is new because
heretofore the coinage of the two
metals has b~een established upion a
ratio apriminatirng the commercial
value of the metals.
Alr. Hamilton was olpo3ed to ''at
taiching the unit of value to either
metal for the reason that to do so
would dlestroy the oflice arnd character
of one of thenm as money, andi reduce it
to the situation of mer'e merchandise,"
and he hreld that ''to annul the use of
either of the metals as money is to)
ab~ridlge the quantity of circulating
medlium arnd is liable to all objections
which arise fr'om a comparison of the
benefits of a full withr the evils of a
scant cir'culating medium." In this
view Mr. .Jeff'er'son concuirrod, saying
that " the unit must stand upon both
metals."
it, was found that the commiercial
ratio was 15 to I, and Congress by
r'esolution Ju mly 6, 178~>, declared that
tire money unit should be a dollar, rand
b~y resolution of August 8, 1780, fixed
that (d0)lar' at 3711 gr'ainrs of Iiine
silver and 211 gi'ains of pure gold,
which wer'e though t to r'especti vely'
r'epresent the commer'cial value of the
metals to be coined.
A t that time both metals were ini
urniver'sal use a' prirmary money.
The commercial v'alue of silver' arid
gold bullion, Il .e other commod(ities,
is eontrolled by the law of supply and
demand, andir n soon irs the Unmi ted
States andii the E~ur'opean nrations closed
threir mints to silver the decr'eased de
mandit lessened the price of silvor' bi
lion, wvhile the incr'eased demand for
gold threi'eby incr'eased the pico. of
go)ld. '::hus the two muetamls parted
cormpany in vahire as wvellI as in money
use.
it will hiar'dly be questioned that in
ternation al fireo coinage would( rer'tor'e
silver to par with gold. In smuch case
gold, nio lorngei' hav ig tire monopoly,
but berig ini cormpo~titioni withi silver,
would fail in pr'ice arid silve' would
rise until par'ity was r'eaced(.
it will also be conceded] th at tire
parity would be mintai nedl with fr'oo
coinage by tihe UJn ited States alone art
a ratio of :i0 to I. TIhis is what is
imeaunt by some wh'len threy say, "' I ut a
doillair's wothti of silver' in a silver dol
lar.''
' The fallacy of the contention for
taai{in g tire pre'sen t Climmer~iciali~'~ vlues
ams the basis of thre cina ge ratio is
that it leaves out of considor'ationr the
i ncrecased miarket pr'ice of silvoriii that,
w~ouild comoe fr'oim its inrireasedl uis
caurs'd b~y its r'estoratin tr) miintage.
Coild it be deli nitely ascer'tainud in
aidvance what olfect freeccoinage would
pr'oduc lioni the priace, the ratio could
now be fixed accordingly, and thre prmob.
1em would be solved. Thaut there would
be a rise in silver ty restoring that
metal to free coinage ini Our mind is is
clear. ft is equailIly clear that there
would h)0 a corr'iespondIig fadll in the
pr'ice of gold. Whbether gold would
frill aind sliver rise uh il tire prit y be
tween them werem' per'ranerntly restr
ed dependi~s uponi the question Whether
the demrand for' silver money would
('i ual the sunnilv.
It ecoms plear thon that (roe coinage
by the United States would for thle
time being restore tho parity in this
country, for no one would tako lejsI
than $1.29 an ouneo for silver bulloln
when by sending it to the mints he
could got that price in legal tondjer
money.
UII)D hlOT RlEV10LdATIONS.
Mill Creek Co.'s Secretary Says Conm
missioner Mixsonl Soujgt Coninais
sions1 onl Whiskey Pullreliaised, atld
That. tho Distilling Comiatiy Set
tile I)ispensary Up ii i3 iness.
To the Mlitor of The State:
In your isso of the 7thl n8t. you pub
lish a letter fromt CollmIn issioler Mix
son. E0very word he says ill that letter
about my offering him a rebate d irectly
or indirectly of any anount or in u
shape, or- at any time j, is hsolutely
false from beginning to endi.
11o further states thttt "wlien i.
Traxler was comiiissionlcr le t (lico,
(-red that the Mill Creek com1paly wals
being paid interest after :,0 da, "nd
each :0 days calling for Inore or hige
Interest." Th is statement is t.! o ft.
All the goods we sold Cornui-sioner
Traxler were sold on tillittys (m fOi,.
miionths titie, and intorest was elartgr:tl
after the niautrity of each in vojee at. G
por cent. per aninow, and so stateil on
cach invoice. I cannot inaderstAand how
a sano mai can make such a stat-elnent,
over his own signature, when he knows
the evidence to prove himli. a fal.sitir
is on file in the otlice of thu State i
pensary.
The reason this man Mixson is so hit
ter against me is because I would not
employ his agent and pay[ him a comil
mission. Shortly after ie was appoiit
od commissioner, but before the busi.
ness of the dispensary was transforced
to him, he gave his atgent a letter of
introduction to me. This agent tiid
he could got inc thbe busines of the
State dispensary and wanted a commis
sion of $1 a barrel.on N. $2 a barrel oft
XX and $3 a ibarrel on XXX whiskey.
and wanted this on all we sold the
State. I to!d him the Mill Creek Dis
tilling company furnished the capital
to make the dispensary a success an
that institution owed us more than
*92,000 at one time, ani the hooks in
the ollice of the d ispelisa'V would p rove
it, and I thouglit the mana .11 iit, of
the tiispensary would be cold-blooedi
and ui ngratcfil if tibey Idid nIot "ie s
a portion of their business without oto
having to "put up'' for it.
We did not get the bu:,ines. Now I
leave the readers of your pp1 r t
judge for themselves.
G1-:0. 11 U10 0-:1,
Secretary Iill Creek Distillig Co.
Cincinnati, Aug. I8, 1896.
Gray Hair Made Dark.
1 ,s w in ymtar papetr titltenlient t hit t Zulu
Villier %ouild restore all tiy lutir it nittio1.
olor inl three, weeks. As I was very griiy
Weit for it sail plimiltekige, 11141 ii less ith n
thre'ie Weeks tiiy hair wits perl 11tyr toreal It
11iii1tral Itoll or. My w!i's uir i a light rel,
Ani liby ii Zulu \' uie r, 1 -r Ih ir iz n1 ow :1
be ti ill a uih rn. A Ny .nl can t .1 aip-.
-aThklige of Zlima V oilfr hj s i .11 1 ids wo im
stm s to W iIbl sn in -w teao- ret. l La in .
tild es i nf a aetrae from h.01 Iri iietir
volor inltrl weekls Ihe wt-. ill I,.[ IIwa you11
t . aU it nl ot IN 1 1 r e S e s h Ir t I Iit I
nill eolmi. bl ,it w Ill '[ip 11h4. hatir kli:k~liv <)11:
wilnrm littely a tn i i n- f the tt it itir ton
i1s 114e,. arc you t keo )rik, mon il it 11hr
nof fo y mot h t-s et Ih w Will Iiit
you staips. Aaut
-TAe climat of Silly MiIatinde:. is (
Iost tc4uable ill Great Britainl. ;I
range., on an averag fromll. 10l dl
to 6i0 degrees. Oi thie Collest dhay it i.
warmi( iand1 ii on the' hoties da t14 lisA AooL
i~There45 areh only tiree 'sos i n Setillyit.
--Cforpmonhl iei-npn, uteinine
th hanc tossa a, honey.ugtic
decoatioeo maeltheLegrin o oneyr<hy fo
atends~eiim gallahtrd dat te ties mo
C haink ti sny, spliendid Lr arwo..ei in
exprielfoieingbsr~s ctiAnyone m ace..
wha eclre wtht o ry.andiver. ;thei
teoplhe fneor nin fir the WashU e an.
made tahemrn that. otir se waso thrl
0113?reas yd he whrk o pertpi ing from
svaings let ref u se tie thwe 1inite,
ht Aes o Dandy ingsr I' ellh-r!~
b1sitnei )(tun ilr oig s plendI id.I You41)01 sell y
Itmpteinb titi l rllil lons i ii hundrei of Ast i
Washer' 1(4.tell it i onu A,.11 P it. I i lur .' 114. Illull
- n4IiCrporanb Zimeran a veterI ail of I-';
consp111icut segllan at the % 1 batt o
Champ s in,iiii has11 jusi t bee aeeIl n1 L
Par11isig for Ise ll. 5ig'l 011 contrbant inahS.
Heildecalared tha.t,1411 4i heal re1cive1 5111h1e1
P,inathes3 lit nolthigo fromit the %%woin who35 11
madte themi ~ r$14 adtat. teirale as theA14:1
onl ment. hdofkeigfo
dut totll Qhesabuit) hie o, ni
asm1h oe its somi r relr'ad aboup~t, btI
th diper' can be lu s ed as a ui t ar 1( i ller;4 a
10h'ti . dipper; a.4( lie si ner; a I' uill ; a
an* i nti~b'I menstire:.. Thse No.it diner l utf
tut'es~ ma es te. th pe suc a. necssary irli
ele t1kl ~i isls t. nearlyit tllery4 houI e,
s ituh, for hep V'~,o ll I ge~t a sump15 le i
p bndingas to tid. w o cen' ' It I tamp r tlo (lpr
ostwl, tc, tt W.i 114.lird 4 l'e'., Stton A
it bug P .,and theya'vt 144 i ll t um) ou.'ip.
per alld you~ cango riht to ork.ll An on
enwn i e CIAor $ 414' h Iy II tulywhe .r . A 'iAu1.:
C waou rn A cotriiI .4r. ot-- r . ran,
. F.1X
S4eitvred i our. railroa dpt, Oall
r. Ryarl says that there Is no fric
ton betwelell Snator Gormnatt and hIun
So f. I'e lin14 atM a t and-- 11 'A1
sllie I'1.11- at tho( 810"Y theA,
chttlin-unu J.oues Ieft New Yilt iii bad
I per b) causu the campaig I head
uIsltad had bea l ioate d at Clicago
l1t8ulra u Waxd! tigtoi, or that Mrs.
1 19 t-i t Of 6 lif bfore i m. If
NI 4~' it MuA ind lot. llry-u, he4. will
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