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THE? LEDGERY^GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 10, 1890. (* THE HILL COUNTBY. * And the Sage of Rooky Greek Still There. “So at any rato, Hufe, you can nee wherein I have pot the Scripture and the proofs on my side, and I am jest ns gtxxl a man ns old Noah was.” ■•we Talk from Andy Laras—"Jett as | Qaod a Man as Noah Was"—A "Georgy" Wedding—The Valise ! and the Docnments. You understand, friends and fellow- have any hand in the makin of Andy Lucas, nor Blev Scrogplus, nor Bunk Weatherford, nor Mart Mayo, toorany of them fellows. But yet atill at the same time they are here—flat- footed and erect—nil wool, nj'nrd wide and a foot thick, or words to that extent. But at nny rates when they made Andy Lucas they busted the molds and took out and quit. Now, In regard* to th'vgs in general, Andy don’t know anvthing for eertaln, but when It comes to . rses and the like of that he hns already forgot more than the common run » * men over will know. It *)k a whole lot of nerve to do It, but In the post few montha I have swapped horwes and changed saddles «wics‘ with Andy. On the first rattle out of the box you mought call It n dog full or a draw, but the laat time T jest naturally swapped the llvln socks offen him. It was late along In the aummer when times was hard to l*\sr and money hard to git, I had a little hoot to fling in, and the malneat thing with Andy was the lx>ot. Sc I got n eraeker-Jack good horse off of him for ten dollars and flung In a little wob- bledy-legged razor-back, wooden-head ed mule for good measure. "Bens* S»mo Like Folks." "That old horse. Bay Boh, which I swapped to you, Hufe, has got eerse some like folks” coys Andy to me in talkln over the dead and dusty roads. “It’s all over with now, Hufe, and It don’t hurt, nothin for me to tell you the unwashed truth about oncst a year," Andy went, on, waxln warm and confi dential like. “Bay Bob has been n holy terror In his day and generation, Hufe. JTe first run away with John Andrew Milligan's little single-barrel wagon and tore down lf> panels of fence and drug the wagon 200 yards through a new ground full of stumps. Wherene, John Andrew he traded him to Blev Scroggins, which Blev couldn’t learn him nary lick of sense, and he run away and tore Blev’s new buggy Into kindlln wood the first time he hooked him up. Well, Blev then paused the horse to me. I kept the old skate about three weeks, and one hot night In August what do yon reckon, Hufe? Old Hay Bob poked his head in the bnek door and says to my wife, says he: *’ ‘Miss Kitty, a man Is a man and a horse Is most generally always n horse. They sny that I am wild, and they have got the documents to substantiate the ease. But, Miss Kitty. I’ll be dad- blamed if I am as wild as Andy Lucan, the man which I am now lookin to for my corn and fodder. I own the corn, Miss Kitty. I have been wild ami full of devilment, but I can’t come across accord in to the pace which your beloved husband has set, I do now surrender ar.d quit the fight. For ways that are wild and tricks that are hard to hinder, Miss Kitty, your mother’s son-in-law, Andy Lucas, takes the riblxm, the rag and the hush. ITeneeforwards from now on I will l>c as gentle as a oat,' “And after that, Hufe, Bay Boh has been the l>est all around family horse I have ever saw. lie goes all the gnita, works single and double, and will stand anywheres without hitching. I broke him, Hufe, and soon as he found out I was the wildest of the two he give It up and quit. You can trust Bay Bob with jronr old hen and the biddies now." "Jest as Good a* Jfoah.'’ The Inst time little Bunk Weatherford went to town when he come up that night, he was rale, seriously drunk —three sheets In the wind and the other one a flutterin—happy as a sunflower t id mellow as a innypop. And then when I rid over to his house the next followin Sunday and tried my levol Nanidest to show him the difference between the broad and easy road and the straight and narrow path, he come hack at me quotin Scripture free and promlscus to maintain his side of the ease. “I am Jest ns good as Noah, Hufe— Jest as good as old Noah was, which he was one of the chosen few, you under stand, that didn’t go down in tVe big freshet,’’ little Bunk started out to say. “You recollect, Hufe, that Nosh sent forth n tinkle dove various and sundry times in search of dry land, and when the dove didn't return Ixiek to the ark rnd fly up to roost at the npplnted time It stood to renaon that the w*ter had run down and nil was lovely In the vol leys Inflow. Whereas, the old man and the boys lit in, they did, and (lung ojien the doors and turned all the llvln, creepin things out to replenish the rarih oncst more uccordln to what wna writ way back in I,be first setMementof (he country. “And then, Hufe, nccordln to the Reripture, as the old man and the boys went on towards home, down there In the old Staggers lane this side of Mur der Creek, they found atremendlus big gripe vine loaded down with gropes. < onscqiK'iitlully they pitched In and dug a trench In the butt end of the hickory log, and mashed the gra|>cs and innde some wine, which went through • iic fermentation and soon waxed red u fl t:\rg. And presently It came to pii>.; that Noah 1m; climbed up around JUiaerocs drinks, and by now, from the Word pays, everybody kpows Knl the old man got most fecniopslr Citizens, that I didn’t The Valise and the "Doraments.” Jink Bradley and his wife, from somc- oflieres over in Georgy, have been down in the settlement here lately visitin around amongst Jink’s kinnery. And I have been thinkln over and over about the flash game, which Jink played when he went ofC after his bride. Them Bradleys are nil likcly-lookin peo ple, and Jink was pnrticlar slick in his general oppearments. And that was all. lie didn’t have nothin, and he wouldn’t do nothin. But In bruisin around over there In Georgy ho fell in love with a fine young lady. She responded back fervent and agreeable, and they soon made their nrrangementa to conic on across ns man and wife. fio when the time rolled around dost enough Jink heeomeovcrnml got. msand Andy Lucas to fix up as his right-hand men nml go with him over there to that Jcotrgy town after his cousin’s wife. In the main time Jink had made a raise somewheres and showed up with a new suit of storcbonght clothes and n large; ami lovely new valise. But when he put on the clothes he didn’t have noth in in the valise to speak of, and it would seem like he had filled in with some stray papers to make the thing look smooth and full and keep up general appeamments. Goln on over to Georgy the train was slow ntnd we got Into n little game with the “documents” to make the time pas^ pleasant—which Andy had bought him a spank in new* deck for the trip. After the. game Andy put the cards In Jink’s vnlise. Well, It was a town weddin, and a church weddin, and It did look tome like all the hlgtoristorac}* of Georgy wav there to see the sights. Whilst the knot was bein tied—when they eomo to the place where the bridegroom puts the ring on the girl’s finger and says: “1 now do thee with all my earthly goods endow”—soon ns Jinks spoke the words Andy punched me in the ribs with his elbow and said, right out in moetin: “Hufe, dodbinme it, there goes Jink’s valise and my new pack of docu ments!” nrrrs panders. WOULDN’T SHOOT A DOE. 4 A Real Sportsman Always Refuses to Do It. A Utienn who is a fine shot, a fre quent visitor to the Adirondncks and a great lover of the woods, was deep in the wilderness a few days ago. With bimwasn lifelong resident of the woods, who in past years was one of the most successful guides, who now occupies a responsible position ns a protector of deer ami other game. The two were togcihrr when two deer approached, one Just behind the other, and both within ensy range. The Utlcan brought his ride to his shoulder, glanced along the barrel at the deer, and brought his gun down again. “Why dkln’t you shoot?" ho was nskod. “That deer didn’t have any horn*!’’ was (lie reply. The woodsman instantly expended hi* hand with the words: “Shake. It does me good to once in awhile find a man who has a heart and judgment cs well." "I have shot a good number of deer in my lifetime,” added the Utiean, "but 1 have never shot, a doe, and I hope I Khali never be guilty of doing so, for, in m3' eyes, it Is really* n erime, and a heart less one at that. “I think,” added the woodsman, “that if sportsmen—true sportsmen, I mean —who live in the cities and Tillages, could l)e made to see and appreciate cs I do the harm done in a sporting sense by the slaughtering of does they would refrain from killing them, and in a few years rejoice to find deer far more plentiful than now*. There is a law, violated sometimes by brutes, against the killing of fawns, and it would be a good thing, in my* estimation, if it were •xtended to proteet does also, at least for several years. I always feel ashamed of any friends of mine who comes into the woods, shoots a doe and lugs It off exultantly, ns if he had done something to be proud of.’’—Utica Observer. • A SIGNIFICANT CIRCUMSTANCE. An Old-FnflliionM I'lirulc That Didn't Quite Curry Out the Intention. The stump speaker was doing all that h« could to find out, by* i>ei*sonal inter- ' lew, how his candidate stood with the ]>eoplc in that part of the country. A sense of hospitality seemed to make some of them timid about expressing (heir exact views. One man wno was reported to have a great deal of inll li enee was particularly unwilling to say any thing about polities, although iie attended all the meetings and list ened intently. “You have know n the man in whose interests I nm speaking for years, haven’t you?” said the campaigner. “I’ve knowed Mm by* repitation,” was the reply. “\Ye never took truim vlstit- ln,’ nor traded hosse«.” “At the same time you have been in a position to form an opinion of his char acter." “ ’Course; w hen ye put a man up fur ofllce, everyInxly gits a chance tor hev a party good look at him.” "You have watched him while ho was i ofllce." "Yck; close ez I could." "And I'll venture to say you never knew him to lx; guilty of a single un derhanded acts” “We couldn’t go Inter court an’ prove nothin’.” “But there Is no room for suspicion." "Mebbe l ot. But it seems ter me tbet a man'll start out ez keorful an’ up right ez kin be, an’ the fua’ thing ye know, he’s kinder compcrmisin’ weth his conscience.” “But this man is ns honest os tltc|lay is long.” “I won’t dispute that. But l can't icslst callin’ yor ’tention ter the w*y < ithn doya Jos* now keeps n-gittin' abort' er an* shorter."—Washington SUr. AKP HELPS A WIDOW. Search Mado for Companion of an Oregon Indian War Soldier. Philosopher's Mall Is Heavy — Letter Comes Asking the Rnrtow Man to Assist In Finding I onj- *v.*Tj Lost Relatives. Now If there Is any old ooldier living who was In the Indian war in Oregon during the years 1859 and 1800, under command of Gen. Joe Lane, and knew Capt, Geohge \V. Reynolds, in that serv ice, let him please write to his widow, at Mars Hill, Madison county, N. C. Tire poor woman Isentitled ton pension for her husband's service, if she can prove it. It is a long shoot and a nar row chance, but maybe some comrade will sec this. It would rejoice my henrt to see a little of that pension fund coming down this way*. I am not a bureau of information, but roeeivc many letters of inquiry* about antebellum days and families and events, and nm always pleased to an swer them and give the information if I can. Many of them are from old Georgia soldiers who removed west roon after the war, and they* or their widows have heard that (ieorgia is pay ing all her invnlkl soldiers pensions Please let me say to all concerned that there Is no provision for iron-residents in our state pension laws. This seems iuird upon those w ho felt constrained to emigrate, but it is the law, and that settles it. Then thorv are mnaiy letters from aged men who look back to old (loorgia with longing hearts and wish to trace up their kindred. It is a sure s’gn of g**ny hnirw when a man or woman be gins to hunt up their distant kindred or the companions of their youth. Here Is a Mr. John A. Harr's, of Puss Chris tian, Miss., who wants to know about hla father’s relatives—the Harris fam ily, of Appling and Macon—and also nlxuit his mother's kindred—the Bled soes, of Athens e nd Augusta. And hero is Mr. Redwine, of lied wire, La., who wants to know of h s kin of that r nine in Georgia, Alas, my venerable friends. Judge Clark is dead and so is C. C. Jones, the only two men who knew nil about the old families of (leorgin. It would jiorplex even them to ident’fy any lyranch of the Harris family*; for their >r.aino Is legion, but the Bledsoes and Rcdwflnes could no doubt be traced by some oetogeRariirnii still living. These are very unusual names and their kin ship is not po rrmote. I was ruminating about the origin of names, Arglo-Fnxon names, and find it to be a eurion.- and interesting study. For instance, it fc< possible that the original Bled.-oe w as wounded in a fight or by accident and hi d so much that it gave him a name. It is probable the Redwine ancestor had a vineyard and made wine of that color or maybe did not have a vineyard but was much given to looking upon the wine when it was rod. ItBcems that the common jx:;;- ple didn’t need but one name until long after the Christian era. The Homans, howerer, began a syrtem to honor and distinguish distinguished people. They adopted a pre-nomen—a nomen and a cognomen — ns Publicus Cornelius Sciplo. Publicus was ids Christian name, ns we call It, and no doubt the Ixiys called him Pid>.Cornelius, his fam ily name and Seipio w as his most nota ble characteristic, for he was good to his blind old father and led him about with a staff, and seipio means a staff. I have great respect for Seipio. Horace was called Horateus Flaccus because tie had very large ears, and Flaccus means flop-cared. It was not till the Klcvrnth century that family names were handed down to succeeding gen erations, and this custom was adopted because of a law requiring births and marriages and deaths to be registered In the parish books. As late as the Enghteenth century many families in England had no surnames, and thechi!- dren were given nicknames, as Nosy, Soaker, Rucker, Snaggletooth, Cockeye, Jumper, Bowlegs, Hedtop, etc. As people multiplied, new methods had to be devised to distinguish them. Prefixes and affixes were resorted to. The word son was added to dlstingul.'h the father from the children, as John, Johnson, Will, Wilson, Tom, Tonison. The word Fitz was a prefix to Norman names and came from fils or film, a son. Vitch in the Russian language has the same meaning, and so has von or van in German, and Mac in Scotch and Irish, ns MacDonald, the koi> of Donald. O is an Irish prefix and means grandson, ns O’Connor, O’Bnrr, O'liallnrnn, etc. De or Due is the French prefix for son and Ap means the same in Welsh. Those affixes and prefixes will classify a great number of names, for from Jon came Johnson, Johnston and Johnstone. Th? Smith family name had a jx;culiar ori gin. The old Anglo-Saxons were ever on the lookout for invasions of the island, and hence they kept u large force of men on the hills near the coast to look out for the Invaders and to smite them w hen they came. These men hail hut a single name, ns John or Jack or Will, hut they w ere known ns John the Rmlter, or Jack the Smiter, or Will the Kmiter, which wne soon abridged to John Hinlter and t hen to Job i Smith- er, and finally to John Smith. A smith In a smltcr—a goldsmith (unites gold, a hlnck/unith smites iron. And so all the soliHers on the highland became .Smithsby*nnme.and were go<xl,[>ntrk>tlo fighting stock. Hurrah for the Smiths —including John, The Jones family are of Welsh extraction, and no doubt had a similar origin, for the original name was Jonc, and the S wax added for a plural. But names were r4.ill scarcer t han jx‘o- ple, and so they had to resort tooeeupa- tions to distinguish them; lienee came the honest iinincs of Farmer, Carpenter, Mason, Baker,Gardener,Tanner,Weaver, 'faylor, Draper, Cooper, Miller, Porter, Joiner, Sadler, Brewer, Barber, Turner, Plumber, Tlirnsber, Carter, Currier, Granger, Cook, Bridgemun, Bowman, etc. Scores of others could he added that indicate tradcH itml occupations. Not long after, os the people multi plied, they were mwned for the places where they lived or some natural ob ject near by, ns Hill, Dale, Forest, Wood, Grove, Fountain, Lake, Pool, Rivers, Brooks, Branch, Bush, Grubb, Tree, Stone, Banks, Shore, Bench, Birch, Water, Wall, Cliff, Peak, Reoy, Rain, Rainwater, Timberlake, Rice, Wheat, Corn, Allcorn, etc. i They even appropriated the names of animals, birds, etc., as Lion, Lamb, Hog, Colt, Fow l, Bull, Bullock, Bearer, Bear, Buck, Door, Swan, Hawks, Dove, Crane, ] Bird, Herring, Bass, Trout, Salmon. And next the fruits and flowers, ns Apple, Orange, Lemon, Plum, Cherry, Berry, Haws, Coffee, Turnip and Turnipsccd. Col. Turnipsecd was colonel of the Ninth (leorgin regiment. Of flowers and treo«, there is Rntie, Vio let, Primrose, Chestnut and Holly. Then they had to encroach on the nobility and clergy, and no we have King, Queen, Prince, Bari, Lord, Duke, Knight, Page, Stewart, Chnmbeiflnin, Pope, Bishop, Priest, Abbot, Prior, Dea con and Bailey. And on the heavenly bodies and heav enly things and precious stones, as Run, Moon, Star, Cloud, Wind, finlo. Sky, Angel, Diamond, Penil, Gokl, Glass, Jewell, etc. And on parts of the body, an Head, Heart, Board, BnJr, Arms, Legg, Foot, Shinn, Pack, IIIpp, Hand, etc. And on colors, as White, Black, Brown, Green, Redd, Blue, Gray, Hoar and Violet. Rome wore named on account of per- fonnl peculiarities—as Ix»iig, Longfel low, Rtring-fidlow. Rkort, Small, Strong. Meek, Light foot. Good, Best, Bliss, Wise, Witt, Wisdom, Fite and Kitten. But there are enough for the-young folkfl to build on to and make u very good catalogue of name*. Charlea Lamb rays that the original oumc of Bacon was IJogflesh, who was a very wealthy and clever gentleman, but h!s gtrl wouldn't nmrry him I'ceanse she couldn’t Ix'ur to beoalletl Mrs. llogfleah. It would le nwTol. Ami so he applied to parliament ami had hianame changed to Bacon. lie couldn’tgive up the w hole hog. but t<K>k it cured. Many names '■. ere abridged ex* changed from eircum- stanees. John at the Mixw was changed to At more, and At the Wood to Atw<xxl and Peter at the Sevan (flaks to Peter Snooks. Will th« tailor, had a aign of a ]x*noock over hiu sho(v, and got to be called Will TV acock. Anselm, the pawn broker, Ixid n sign of a red shield, which in the Jewish language was Rothschild, and *0 he and his brothers war*' called Rothsuhilds, and Ivecnme the’richest men in the world. The old story of the firm of I. Kctchum «£,* U. Cheatham may have never exinfrri, but Ixffore the war there wax a firm in Rome of WUx* S: Goodman, and close by was a Wit and :i Wisdom. There is a Route ar.d a Fite In Curt era vlllo., and sonve ye;u*s ago there was a FIttea. The poet asks whnt’H In a nmne? There is a good deal, and If I was a pretty girl, and lind a pretty nmne. I wouldn’t clisrr» It for a Hogg ora Sheepehanhs.— Bill Arp. in Atlanta ConstituKon. MUTILATION OF CAPTIYES. Rarttarltlre rsarlteeil Hy Xenettk IXI IHil- ian rrtsoners *f War. Many people wondered at the time why a defeat such as waa administered to the Italian troops In Abyssinia l»y Khik Meixfli-k should here r.roustd so much excitement In Itsiy. They r.lso marveled at the rejxirta that Italinn.v were leaving theS- country by* thou sands for fear that they would be wnt to fight the Abysslnians. Could the Ital ians "be indeed so pusillanimous, so wanting in the Instinct of devotion to country? The explanation In received through the medium of foreign medical journals, and it justifies the wrath, at leaKt, of the populace, against the men who ordered the soldiers Into such un speakable danger, compared with which death is a happy evert. It is known that the empress of Ab yssinia kills healthy children in order that, their blood may Kerr' aa a super stitious remedy for her ills. But It was not known until now that her hus band, tbe king, alao a professor of Christianity, practiced horrible mutila tion of every man taken in battle. It was a mutilation which mr.de the aol- diers afraid to take the chance* of war. The deliberate crippling of the wounded and the captives by cutting off their feet, hands, arms, legs, or noses are rot terrifying In comparison with the otl*er barbarity. A well- known maker of artificial litnba in Rome has been sent to Africa by the king of Italy to provide with loga or nrma soldiers whose limbs were cut off and who afterward e*enp*'d. The Italian soldiers, rnthiT than their native allies, seem to have suffered .special indignities. A tribe of King Mnxflik’a subject.* called Galina, seem to have surpassed nil the others in their cruelty, closely resembling tih" Amer ican IndlniiK In their most sarngo days, in their way of torturing their pris- ers. A M’ries of pictures of the 'round ed In the hospitals, published in the Brltich Medical Journal, show saeliar- actcr of injuries never recorded in mil itary surgical history Ixffore. Many of the victims survive. Some of the officers mivcd their ow*o lires by bring able to onume the na tives by singing, or painting pictures, nr decorating their hou«cs. A large nundxT of the army surgeons worn taken priaoners or lost their lives.—N. Y. Press. A Woman of Letters. , 'She (tore n T gown with a V shaped j nr-k.” "That's right. She is a woman of left , tern. Did »he look well?" “She 1. oked liken J."—Day City Chut, Than •lunile l.itiighc«t, “Jamie." called his mother, sharply, “you’ve been loafing all day. Satan al ways finds some work for Idle honda to do. Take this bosket and bring In some kindling*.”—Christian Advocate. 1 IS THERE IMPROVEMENT? ; Cam Jones Thinks Thoro Fas Boon Slnoo tho EiooLon. — Rntlnoft* Is Convulosrln'T—lilTorntrs I.ot- tlnf Matters Take Their Own C ourse for a Time—Industrial Inter ests Arc Mutual. From the day* of McKinley's election up to the present time lias there been improvement in trade, in business, in S manufacturing, in confidence? I am sure the question can be answered in th« affirmative. I have not been one of thooc w ho thought that this country | would pick up and move off like a boy j on hla bicycle or like Nancy Banks on the race track. We have Ix’cn sick nix’d s long time. We are weak and cmoci- ! sled, but if I nm any horse doctor at j m11 the patient is convalescing. We are l walking around the room a little, and I i think the patient w ill be out in the yard ; In a few days. f rrtulnly there is Improvement in con fidence. A large majority of the poo- ; pie of this country believe that there will be improvement. Their faith brings confidence. After all. faith is eontidenee. The question is oft re- |x*flted: Do you see any change? Is there any change in conditions and atti tudes? I have been glad to see the spirit of the press. All the goldbug psperx assert that times are improving —that conditions are bettered, and a great many free silver papers are ad mining candidly that things look let ter ami the times look brighter. Brad- street’s and Dun’s reports linvc n roseate color they have not had. Manufactories ure starting up; there have been more than six per cent, advances in railroad stocks and bonds, and so on. Tt does •xem to me that if with one cry the people would now say that the issues have ixy-n settled, at least for the time being, and that if Mr. McKinley would give the people of the country the as surance that there would he no call for sn extra session of congress to tinker with tho tariff that we would soon he wei! and hearty. Money would circu late. business improve, manufactories start up and you would see a demand created for nil the surplus which has accumulated In various lines for the post few years. I am mire there can be no Improve ment If |xirt of the people are sulking nnd still predicting the awful events that the campaign orators predicted lie fore the election. Lombard and Wall riroetK may own this country, but the goods have not l>ecn delivered yet. Tho tenants are still In chargeof their farms, th# board of d i roe tors and officers are Mill In charge of the bonks, the mer chants still in charge of their stork of goods, and the manufacturers still act like they own their own plants. All these things ore ours for aw hile longer, and the country arts like every fellow is going to hold on. I we no reason for the masses abusing tli# banks. 1 am fortunately or unfor tunately a director of a bank. I know* our bonk and nearly every bank in the south is straining every nerve to help it# customers. They are borrowing money to lend to their customers, and thcr* Is scarcely* a bank in the south that is not loaded to the guards with paper It hn# discounted. I nm sure 1 have no disposition to abuse banks and tankers. They* have kept me out of many a hole and lent me money when the fellows who abused the banks h;u! none to lend me. Generally w hen you hear a fellow* abusing banks he is a fel low who cither ha-s no credit nt the txMik or has abused his credit there. In either cose it Is the whine of n sycophant. Banks don’t go around knocking fellows down and Inking from them what they have got. Banks are run by men just like farms arc run by men, and stores arc run by* men, and sawmills are run by* men; and the cashier of a bank is usually as clever a fellow as you will find, doing all he ran for those who deserve to have some thing done for them. Sometimes men get set in their ways 'gainst different things and couldn’t give a reason why they arc so set igalnst them. The average fellow* in t his country seems to have a spite nt the railroads. With such men every rail road Is a monopoly, a grindlngcorpora- tion, a soulless, merciless concern, fiailroads arc run by men just like every thing else Is run by men. The ofliccrs >f the railroad do not only* serve the patrons of the road, but they* serve the stockholders of the rqad. The stock holders want a little dividend on their ■dock (and It has taon precious little they have been getting for awhile, loo); and the public on the other hand is everlastingly clamoring for reduced rates. I njn glad we have got railroads. They are a great convenience and a frent blessing to any* country; and if a fellow don’t like the w ay* they do he can salk, or haul his goods in a wagon. I found out long ago that If you will take the fellow who is “cussing" the rail roads and make him president of a rail road he will Jnmpclonr over on the other dde with Ixitli feet with one bound and rejoice In the fact that he hn# the drop >n the universe now. These interests are nil mutual—the railroads, the manufactories, the mer chants, the farmers, the bankers, all ire mutual Interests. If we would make them mutual and each help the other ,ind push forward and stop this ever- tostlng fighting and abusing each other this country would get a move on her right now*. The Brynnltes say that Mark Hnnna’a tarrel elected McKinley—that Lomtard j »nd Wall streets own the country, that ■ the railroads have subsidized legisla tion and that the middlemen hnv#' robbed the farmers until the country iw ruined. Have we not laws against robbery and bribery Does tb« av erage fellow sit down quietly and let inybotly who comes along pick up his •tuff and go off with it without a pro test until the fellow is clean gone with it? Let'e stop all this sort of doing *n4 talking, and let’s make n long pull 1 and a strong pull and a pull altogether, knowing that nil the Interest# of thi# country are mutual, and determined that whatever tatides trs each man will net so that others v/ill have confidence In him. 1 don’t think this country will be on a boom this year, though I see where pome towns are try ing to start a boom. As well may a man try to start a cy clone. M lien the cyclone gets ready it will start itself, and all you will.have to do w ill he to keep out of the way of it. I believe if all will acquiesce and take bold with courage and confidence in 12 months from to-day this whole . country* will be strained at every nerve 1 to keep up with the demands made upon 1 the various lines of business and manu- ! factoring interests of this country. If von can’t push in the procession get out on the roadside and sit down on j a stump end sow* wood and say* nothing and let the procession move on unhin dered by you. The fact of the business Is, we have got to do something; we have got to get a move on us, or thedny and date of liquidation is not far in the future. It. is better to work with hope and heart than to liquidate out with assets going at half price and the resi due of the debts still'hanging over you. Me nn* a common brotherhood, and we should cooperate w IMi each other in good cheer and comfort. Let the growlers lx* relegated to The rear; k’fc the procession move on unhindered and untampered with. Don’t growl; don t listen to growlers. But wherever von hear words of hope and cheer gath er up those words and re-utter them. A cheerful heart, a w illing hand and an industrious hand can do us no harm whatever else may be said of them. A good conscience and an honest en deavor will help much in the movement. 1 have no patience with the fellow who stands nrouml and says: “I told you so." or “Didn’t I tell you?” If he was my patient and I was iiis doctor I would be tempted to use rough on rats. SAM P. JONES. HIS ONE REQUEST. Do Wanted n Hinder of Roof Itnt Wasn t SaMsIlod with One. Not long after the close of the war of the rebellion the government ap pointed nn agent to look after the in terest of the Moqui Indians of Arizona, and sent him to visit them in their pueblos. The agent stopped on his way nt the nearest military* station, and ob tained an escort of soldiers under com mand of nn oifiecir, to accompany* him to his destination. The party reached the neighborhood of the most castcrlv pueblo one cold, w inter day, late in tbe year, and climbed up hilxiriouxi v along side of a great bleak fiat topped moun tain to the village on the summit. The Indians received the agent and his es cort with great kindness and conducted them to shelter in a part of the building' occupied by the “govenador,” or head chief. The first day on the “mesa,” as the flat-topped mountain was called, was K]x>nt in speech making, shak ing hands and smoking, the In dians grunting approval of every thing that was said and '’one by the agent and their own people. The pow wow came to nn end at last with a speech by* the agent, in which he invited the Indians to n^et him on the foHow- ing day to receive presents which tho great father had sent for distribution among them. A couple of hundred In dians gathered alx>ut the “cava” of the govenador on the following day. While the presentation was in prog- less, an old, gray-headed Indian forced Ids wry through the crowd into tho presence of the officer who had f.e- eompanied the agent. lie immediately introduced himself as He-wan-i toh-e, th e rabbit hunter, and in tremulous tones besought the officer for an audience. The interpreter, who stood near by, hastened to translate the mer,sage of the old man, and supplemented it by saying that the Indian was a youth when the first, census of the New Mex ican and Arizona. Pueblo Indians was taken by tbe Spanish Franciscan fa thers in ITOfi, and that it was believed tho old man was now more than 100 years old. When the interpreter had concluded, the officer inclined his head towards the old Indian to listen to what he had to sny. There was but little, however, to listen to for some time except the monotonous con ventional professions of friendship commonly indulged in by Indians when they desire to obtain some unusual favors. The old irtan g<H» down to the subject In hand after awhile end told a pathetic story of a visit lie had made many long years be fore to a military post, where he had been given all the fresh beef he could rat. The memory of the feast had! never left him, he said, asleep or awake, 'nd he longed for another indulgence of a similar kind. Iiis ix’ople, he; asserted, had no beef cattle, andi but few of them had ever em- joyed the great privilege of fill-j ing themselves with beef as he had, and could not, therefore, sympathize with’ him in Iiis present desire. He reminded the officer that ho had but a short time to live, and assured him that if he could only obtain one single meal of beef, he would go to his home and lie down on his bed satisfied with life and its pleas ures and ready to close his career. The old fellow got his beef eventually from the oflicer’s monger store and went his way rejoicing, toentnndtodle. The story would have been a very* pret ty one, and would have enabled a pa thetic ending If the sequel had followed the lines suggested by tho old man, but, quite on the contrary, it had no such, eonclusion. The old beggar made his appearance on tho following day and, made tho same appeal ns before, but, Ihe supply of beef in the offieer’H mess :hcst having become exhausted, He- wan-ltch-e lo«l his temper and finally took his departure from the officer’s, presence, breathing maledictions ns bo: went against the hard-hearted white man who had no compassion u|X5nthe poor, suffering red man, and would not listen to his simple and reasonable re quest for tho gift of a few pounds of beef from hi# abundant store*.—Chi cago Military Gazette.