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THE WEEKLTi'LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH 19, ISflC. Political “rixTERg.” Tho Sago of Roclcy Creek Gooa to School. f» “WIiolo ra^fiU>" — How .Jerry Rnllicrfon! Heat the I.Ivin Soekn OfT Gu* Crittenden — “The I’coplo Ain't (ione Nowhere*.” “If it ever does come to p;i?s tl'at yot: nought tjihe iij> .n fool notion and pitch in and run for bf incn wotild do, and from that time on he waK the wildest and inostcrazlcfit Itutherford man to be found anywheres in our end of the docstrlot. The folks in general arc still wonderin how in the thundemtions Dink Ashcraft made that tremend i us suddentfloi), but know- in the circumference of the surroundins like I did, Rufus, everything was plain and natural as a new meet in house to j me.” BILL ABF’S CHAT. Discusses Various Questions ol Public Concern. Exquisite Tortures Inflicted In Civilized Countries—The War Talk Comes in for a Scoring — South ern ImmiRrstlon. E wm % ec’gross, Ru fus,” says Aunt ¥ Nancy Newton to me one day t--: whilst motlier V was out tendin J to the chickens L and lookinafter \\\ the k i t c h c n physic, “come down and see a b o d y . It wouldn’t be no ■yritys Btirprisin if I can give you some pinters as to how to run a winnin "race. ••Wr.v-.tlin with the Roys.” reckon of eour: e you have no doubts h*!trd of how Jerry Rutherford wiped 'ffp the face of the earth with Gns Crit tenden and got elected to congress our dcctstricb” Aunt Nancy went <?n presently. “Vw !1, that is what I rtit in tviitoll vnuaL'iuts Whilst Jerry afnt ns obi, I-.:. I icii her as good lookin tvs yoei. Rufur, y, still at. the same ftm 1 ' be has get ti. re and been there, ymfl if 1 don't (lisinnemher mighty bad J-pu •: • always yueaeliin forth the doc- frir.e that 'the ’nnn which knows the v, tl. r::rn tohlaae the way. Now I'll he j.leg t )r)k if Jerry don’t know the fsx'nv 1 rcc’ccn by tliis time he knows fTsry nan, W( r,an and child—every ere-s roads and ( very fork—every pig r.ml eveiy cow trail in the whole rrlirr dc< ■ ‘riel. "Tmi see, Ih’.fus. the honorable Au- gn«!us f tin,; (I-, n he. bad a heap the ft* r hen Jerry come out. on the Intel-:. A* everyl.ody knows tins Crittenden Pt*s hreu r!: r.din for eongrers every tiff- hr gut l aek from the legislature. Ilf is whal you in ought call a standin Wndidr ie fur most r.ny thing that eomes In reach, 1 tit congress in particlar. So Ui that way he had got the go and had file inrale ira.e!:, ::nd whilst Jerry bent tfi” Hvin ' I "’. o(7 of him when votin fhn* cot ie he had to stay out. mighty htc and git ui) mighty soon and play a Mftlin fast game in orderment to make ♦king*, (".untT his way. "Otis Crittenden can put up a terri- kl* Itigh-flyin sp.i t eii and make a splen diferous show with himself in eom- fflnr, cause you meat recollect that he 1« a strapjjin likely man, but. he cT-.n’l hold a light for Jerry Rut Iter ford when It comes down to wallowin over the woods and wrattlin v i(h the boys that do the votin in a general election.” A Tote I.ost an'* Won. •gTow, jest in orderment to give you n little private notion of haw ensy it is for one man to drop a vote,and another one to come along and pick It up. I will tell you what come to t ass nt onr houne one night, v hich w ill likewise show you what made Dink Ashcraft turn out to be Rich a wild and wooly Rutherford man along towards the toil end of the rrtce. 1 “Dink he was over to c.rtr house ependtn the night with n~, and about frst dusk who should ride np to the horse rack hut Cl us Crittenden. To he certainly we ask him to light and eomo In and make himself at home, ned he want the least bitmeaJly-inouth about doin as he was told. ’'Well, that night y.e had to put Out; sfldtlh Dink in the company room, so they both slept in the same lied together. It looked perfectly all right and agree able at that time, cause Dink was then fettin the grass run away with his crop po be could ride up and down Ihc big road and praeh Gns Crittenden ns the tonlyest man that was fitten to go to congress from our deestrict. Hut 1 took notice the next morning that Dink Want talkin any polities to speak of. He didn’t say much one way or the other, but you could seMhat somethin toad rubbed the hair the wrong way. "floor, as after break fast Gus called fbr his horse and lit out for the Flat floods, and we didn’t hardly wait for Mm to git out of sight before we grit •wound Dink and put in naggin nt him % find out what had got up between Mm and his favorite for congress. After Bn long a time lie come out with it like n mr.ii and told us that Gus Crittenden •lept in a gown. Mo Female Garments In ‘'Uls'n." "T wonder in my soul if that is a general fool way with all the candi dates for ofhee,’ Dink went on. talkin sorter half way to himself. ‘If it is, they can jest simply count Dink Ash craft out of the game. 1 don’t take no female garments in mine, if you please, *nd no man that does can git my vote for congress. I don’t make out like I am sproutin any wings as yet. Sonic- timer,, ns you nil know, 1 git blind drunk and play cards, and bet on horse races, and say cuss words, and fnss and fight around amongst my neighbors considerable. Rut when I am dead and gone I want to have it so no livin man can say—and throw it up to my children—that Dink Ashcraft JO ted for a man that slept with a fe- ».le garment on. I will now take it myself and make it my business to nose around till I find out whether or no Jerry Rutherford sler|m in one of ♦hern durn tilings, and if lie dors, that also settles his hash with me hencefor- wnxds and forever.’ ‘Two or three weeks after that Jerry Rutherford cornu around on the cir cuit, and, bless gracious, it so hap- gened that he went to the Ashcraft place and put up for the night. Dink couldn’t give in no good excuse to sleep with Jerry, hut he set up till late bed time, and then watched his man through a crack in the wall, ITe saw Jerry pull off and go to hed with his ‘ prclothes on like the common run “Ry Hook aiul Mcrcrook.” “It is all in the family anyhow, Ru fus, and I don’t mind tellin you that Dink Ashcraft is jest a 1-e-e-tle bit shaky in regards to his church rela tionships and the settlement of his store account. Rut when it comes to politics, and standin by ids friends in limes of trouble, he will do to count on. He showed that by the way In which he stuck to Jerry Rutherford through the heat and burdens of the fight, “Now, in them days, tolerable soon after Dick had made his famous flop, it come to p.as.s that there want more than three or four men In the I'ant her Creek settlement hut what was out and out for Jerry Rutherford. One of the scat- term few was old man Sandy Oowlin, and presently Dink and Jerry they went in together and fixed up a private scheme to pull him around in line. So by hook or mercrook it happened, that Jerry was puttin up at Dink’s house one day, with his horse hitched at the rack, when old man Sandy come along on his return bad: home from a trip to the river country. They hailed him as he rid by and he made out like he was in a monstrous hurry, but he final ly at last got down ami went in. Now presently of course- Jerry lie went down into his saddlebags and come forth with his bottle. He ask old man Sandy to jine him, and the old man was more than willin. They talked along about the weather and the crops and the like of that, till Jerry and the oi l man had changed their breath three or four times without savin a word to Dink. It was Jerry’s whisky, you understand, and lie could treat it out. aceordiu to his own way. Dink he looked mad 'and said nothin and took the slight as best he could t ill Jerry and old man Sandy hn-d nibbled nt the bottle, four or five times, but terectly he got tip and shook his fist at Jerry, and toM him there was the front gate and out yonder was the hig road. “ ‘You can't come right here in my own house. Jerry Rutherford, and fiing your i: tilt:: in my face without It ear in the news from me,’ f ays Dink. ‘If you think you can treat all your whisky away on Sandy Cowlin right here be fore my fact- and never say turky to me, and still git my veto on election day, you are simply hark in up the wrong tree. I would see you dead and buried face down, so when you scratched out you would be at home, first. Your horse is hitched at the rack, and t]i:-. sooner you head him away from my house the better it will be for everybody.’ “Well, of course Jerry be couldn’t do not hin but git. up and go. Rut by thin time, you understand, old man Sandy had bit off several plugs of Jerry’s whisky, and whilst he want no Ruther ford man to start with, lie was now jos. •hent ripe enough to pull. “‘Ret the game stand right, there Jerry,’ says old man Sandy. ‘If Dink wants to quit let him quit, and hy gat- lins where lie takes out ! will come in. When you lose one voter you win an other. Sandy Cowlin aint gone no^ w hcrcs.’ “And old man Randy took Jerry home with him and made him stay all night, and right along t here is where the little private scheme got in its work. When election day rolled in Sandy Cowlin voted for Jerry Rutherford. So did Dink Ashcraft, And old man Sandy couldn’t tell you till this day how the tiling turned out the way it did. A Man Amongst Men. “As I told you in etartin out, Rufus, Jerry Rutherford is a man amongst men end a poiitieioncr from long taw,” that dear, delightful old soul wenton to ray. “He works over all th<‘ ground and works it dost. You will notice he most in generally always cuts his cards r,o as to get mixed up w it h the men that are for the other fellow. ITo went to spend the night with Dink Ashcraft on the grounds that Dink was one of the mainest la-11 weathers in that Reat and dead square agin him, lie has got a mighty way of pit-kin out the men that are on the other side and ean hurt him. Then he will make it his pressin and particlar husim ss to go and see them very men, and talk pleasant to the women, and make much of the children, and break bread with the family. And in Hi at, way he is so nat ural and homelike and sociable till them that aint for him can’t have the heart to do him no harm. “If Jerry finds out a strong leadin man pullln too hard at the wrong end of t he rope h<- don’t mind court In some of the women folks and gettin himself engaged to marry in orderment to bring the old man over on the right side of the fight. Why, they tell me that he is right now engaged to about two-thirds of the young women in the deestrict. They say he went so far with Fannie Jo Wiggins, one of old man Charlie Wiggins'cs daughters, as to'buy her a fine finger ring and settle on the wed- din day. I reckon the rascal would of courted me by this time but for the fact that all the men folks of our fam ily was for him anyhow. “I don’t see how Jerry could marry all the women he has courted if lie wanted to. A man that is forever run- nin around huntin office aint got no business tryiu to raise a family nohow. It aint much proholc. Rufus, that Jer ry and Fannie Joe w ill ever git married when the pinch comes. Rut all the same old man Charlie Wiggins and his six boys nil voted for Jerry, and a man by the name of Rutherford goes to con gress from our deestrict.” No man can save his country till ho knows the Jay of the land. And the js-o- pie ain’t gone nowhores. Rufus Sandehh. A cruel man is the meanest creat ure that the Lord ever made. The story of Hie inquisition with it« racks and wheels and fires and hooks is the most awful istory that was ever written. When I was a boy I read Fox’s "Rook of Martyrs,” and 1 haven’t recovered from it yet. The worst two words in the English language are torture and torment, and they Ivoth come from the same Latin word, that means to twist, to turn, to screw down, to put in agony. Torture is a temporary expedient and has an occasional reet, but torment goes on and on until death comes to relieve the sufferer. I wasn’t ru minating about the torture of human kind, but have just read about how they make “pate de fols gras” and pep sin, and it made me sick. It distressed my wife and my daughters, and though these things concern only geese and prigs they shall not come into our house. Henry Bergh is dead, but where is the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? Where Is the spirit of Uncle Toby, who wouldn’t kill a fly, but put him out of the win dow, and said: “Now go, you little piest; the world is big enough for you and me?” Wliore is the spirit of Cow- per, who says: “I would not enter upon my list of friends the man who needlessly pets foot upon a worm?” 'There is no more beautiful trait in human character than mercy. Mercy to man and beast and bird and iwe-ct. Shakespeare says that “mercy is nobil ity’s true budge.” 1 used to huntnquir- rels and rabbits and bin!*, and felt proud when I brought home a good lot of game, hut I know now that it was all wrong. What right had I to kill t he happy, innocent creatures that God had made? Rut just to read what is going on at fitrasburg in the production of pate de fois gras is enough to horrify any body. A peasant there io wealthy ac cording to his number of geeae and their livers are prepared for tho appetites of the rich hy torture and Uwmeatof the most exquisite kind. Rofowr ever a young goose lies laid an egg I hi feet ere nailed by the h>r*'. to a plani a*d th« plank set before o fire. Do eyefl are burned out and there the bird stays and steams for sis mersthe until its liver is distended and the diseased fat enlarges from 10 to DO per cent. The children of peasants ram down food in its throat three times a dny until it is full up to the guzzle, end they seem to enjoy the. fun of listening to the eroak- ings of pain that the jioor bird mnkee. Not a drop of water is allowed to slack its burning thirst, and this treatment goes on for weeks and months until the liver is all right—for the fpicurcs and gourmands, who fancy this food at three and four dollars a ean. All I want to know about a man now is whether he cats goose liver or not. These tortured, tormented, harm less, suffering birds are raised by the tens of thousands at Strasburg. It Is the great industry and siqiports the major part of the population. The pate de fois gras is exported to this country and other countries that claim a Christian civilization. Now, although Henry Bergh is dead, why can we not limit thin business to some extent by putting an embargo upon its importation to this country? Are we a nation of brutes and barbarians? I reckon we are, for it. seems that the production of pepsin is nearly jus enu-1, and now pepsin is the most popular remedy for indigestion. Indigestion is the great national mal ady, and pepsin is supposed to be a rem edy for it. Its production comes from Chicago. Young healthy pigs arc placed in separate stalls and fed liberal ly until they are fat and round and tbo gastric juices in full vigor. All of a sudden the feeding is stopped and star vation is the next step in order. This goes on for a week until ti e pig is not only ravenous, but desperately rabid for something to cat. The gastric juices from every part of the animal flow to the stomach in search of some thing to feed upon. Then the last process comes, which is to place just outside the stall a pan of hot, steaming potato mash, just enough for the pig to smell and get the aggravatlngodor, hut not near enough to eat, and this stimu lates the desire of the poor hungry ani mal and causes every vein and tissue to send its hungry juices to the stomach in anticipat ion of n feast. The pig gets the. odor and nothing more, and Just then the knife is thrust into its heart Jind the. stomach quickly opened and the gastric Juice taken out and put into cans and bottled for the invalids who have been gorging themselves with “pate de foi gras,” or for the sickly in- funis whose milk docs not agree with them. What, is the world coming to? Is such cruelty the price of human life? It did not use to be. Geese are not of much consequence, hut. a gjuidor never has but one mate and will stand hy her nest and guard It while she sits on her eggs, and when she leaves them for food he will escort, her to the grass and escort her back with a dignity that is impressive. I have great respect for geese. Rut Just now we. are talking about war as though it were a sport, a frolic and the killing off of a few thousand people and leaving mothers and wives boreal d and helpless was of little con- Kc<iUf|f % We do not even ox press the pltyH Stonewall Jackson felt when justIBprc the battle he prayed and said: “Lord help their souls—now give them”---well, that was Stonewall’# way. There are nearly a million pen sioners now, and we don’t want any mo p e. There nre vacant chairs enough in our household. There arc three in ours, and nobody ever thinks of them POMW the HoAWk Ifc wbota they word dear. I thought VHP w*To to have arbi tration about thps6 national distur bances. There arc but three classes of people who want war,and t hey are all a heartless set. These are the pro fessional soldiers—the West Pointers °.nd regulars, whose profession is to tight, and who seek glory and promo tion regardless of who or v\ hat they arc fighting for. Then thc'*e are the manu facturers, who make army supplies and expect to get rich like they did in the last, civil Avar. And last, but not least, are the thousands of restless, heartless, unprosperous people who say they can’t be worsted but may be bettered by a Avar. People talk about the canker of n calm Avorld and a long peace, and one noted AA-ritcr says that, every country ought to have a Avar at least, once in 40 years so as to kill off its worthless popu lation. This is cold, hard and heart less philosophy. If we could pick out the vagabonds and place them to the front it might do, but. avc can’t. In the last Avar avc lost f ho flower of our youth, and It is always so. The vagabonds and skulkers and dodgers escape. It is generally a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight. Rut now It is about time that the G. A. R.’s Avero rescinding their action de clining to play with the boys in gray next July in New York. When the AA'ar with old John Bull was imminent our northern brethren were very lov ing, and Invited ns to come over, and ro we fixed up for a loving reunion of patriots In New York next rummer, and the programme was all made out by Editor Dana. Rut the. clouds of war dispersed and onr brethren concluded they wouldn’t need ns, and broke up the meeting. lint now, there is another Avar imminent, and maybe they will call us again. IV« mighty hard to keep friendly with sneh neighbors. Not long :*go I wars riding overland through the country wnd eonsrtefi three double fences In a trip erf ten miles. The neighbors wnnlda’t areigbbnr. They were at outs, and each bsilt his own fence. One err the other wss n mean man. One line fence is enough be tween neighbors, and when yon see two it’s a bad sign. Bnt f reckon we can stand it if they «e.n. If war floes come on onr bots will hare to do right smart of the ^ghtlng, and then the pension money win flrwp down this w»y, and mnyho fbart's what in fhe merttev. T7e are tfinA tv rrw that seme of tbtM nawahy In efrehlatefl flown here slreeffh^. Thvrt, Pihryrrifl sKf!oi*r*t i* aw srreml* thrr* is ss ten sr sens table so it to ruflTVn. ft*rr fi.O'A prrpTe— fhrailleM of prwm£*■.*■ A ssldiers hare dr-rypod down spra m wiPhn-nt r.-wr- llmng a. i CONCERNING FACTIONS. Sam Jonos Grows Eloquent in tho Oauso of Christian Unity. Prejudice ntid Solftehncss Are :\t tho Uottom of All the Troubles lu Polltleal, IteliglourinnU Social Life. hjft ewfl rva btrUTVing a eibf in oter pise | rrv.iih. Th»hr jteneira mrerr, it Is raid, arm tent e ho imarly .YROfiO.OOn a yetfr, and ffrdr swrr.rnflrs keep com ing. They ere esifl t® be good, imltm- trlcen is wind and limb, awfl wed jo fly «*rn see fr-ra Hie eut- rld<> where the pe-r-ir e. bn'inevs e irrmr. in, hut aev?rtJie1c*a they ere drr.wltijr the Jtxesry, mfl eer folks ere bound to ■ get sen-.e of JR ffix thouer.Tid tnorc ere ■ on the r.*.v, end Iieforn long they will own the eoun fry he vot ing the dem- ! ccratic ticket, flo let them eomo. 1 ! repeat it, sir, let them come, as 1’a‘riek Henry said. They have retllcd in the : best, portion of Georgia. We didn’t ! know it nnt il reerr.fly. The pine wood*; i have for half n century l eer under tho ; ban. 'The few people whore', ihd there i were considered half-fed, talloAv-faeed, I long-legged crackers, who raised a fcAv - poor cattle and razor-backed hog'', and i lived on ’Inters and hard-shell rcli- ! gion. Rnt .ell that wide belt from Lin- ! coin through Putnam and Mce.r.ten and ! Irwin and Sumter and Randolpfli, and I on westward into Alabama, isknoAvn to j be a most fruitful and productive rc- i gion, and the climate perfectly delight ful. It Is. like a fairy talc to i ad Avhnt i the Iasi, ten years have developed in ] lliat, bolt erf country that is underlaid ! with a clay subsoil and overdnesed 1 with plfi* farest*. In recent yer.rr, 1 1 have been watching the fruit indu: trier; i of Marshallville rmd Cyrlorrt to and Tif- ; ton and C'uChbert with amazement and i delight, and my information in that the adjacent country ir, equally productive and delightful. The Georgia Southern railroad splits this region right in the middle, nr.d along ha line ban been planted within ten yearn, by actual count, 712,CbO fruit trees, eoveri;:'- orchards of lil.OOO acres. The land <h - voted to mHour, is nine;) more, and besides this the groAvcrs raire corn and cotton and sugar rare and potatoes and ground pens enough lonintnin all family expenses—a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and It. is a foscinnfng feast to tho eye to travel over t his line, of road and take notes of the It- anti- ful improvements that meet the eye at every station. Mr. Sparks l.uilded Aviser than lie kneAv Avhen ho avixs build ing this road through a region that CAcrybody said was desolate and al ways would be. Dame Nature is ever unlocking her treasures, and she lias only recently unlocked the pine avoous to our southern friends. But Georgia, Is not ihe only rlalc that has been found by the refugees from the long Avinters and snoAv clad fields of the icy north. We sec by the papers that tho heglra has begun from all over that frozen country, and that Alabama and Mis- cSssippl nre rapidly filling up Avith prosperous immigrante. It is the rweliing tide that has but just begun to overflow the south, and every letter that a settler Avriti s back to his Avlntry home Avill bring ten more, for these people arc surprised to find that we arc kind and hospitable, and that the bar barians of the south have moved away. —Dill Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. Filling a New Want, "This in positively the latest Avrinkle,” mused Mies rasneigh, applying n small quantity of complexion putty to a new place on her cheek.—Chicago Tribune. City Folk* In tbo Country. “What aemvll cow that is.” I "Tliftt’a io; 1 suppose It’s the hind that given condensed milk.”—N. Y. World. The political, religious and social Avorlds each have their factions. In the Iavo great political parties of our country avc have the different fac tions inimical — unfriendly toAvards each other, tlr.t perhaps do more to bring destruction and defeat to tho party th:;n could possibbly be done by all the efforts of the opposing paa t^- turned loose upon them. The republican party to-day has ito high tariff and iU low tariff factions, which have gone to seed in the advo cacy of McKinley and Reed. The dem ocratic party has its tAvo factions—ono championing gold buggery and tho other silvcr-diggery. Mr. Cleveland leads one faction and the Avorld, flesh and the devil seem to be leading Um» other. Each city has its political rings, cliques and factions. We have our mu nicipal factions also in our politics, and our country factions, and these fac tions arc but tho beginning of the end of these parties. Self-interests, self ish ends, unpatriotic motives enter into politics and break up the whole bi*l- ness into factions. I Avish it Avere true that factions were confined to politics, but in the church avc have factions Avhich divide off and make issues in the conventions, and conferences and synods. Generally it is true in the church as it is in poli tics. Self-interest and selfish ends make the issue that splits and divides the parties at interest. Rome are of Paul, some of Apollus, and of Cephas, and so on. Rut where factions do the most harm is in churc h organisations. There is scarcely a church of any pro fession in our land that is not split up Into factions and cliques—the rule or ruin element has gotten in its work— eelfishness and egotism and arrogance lias assert'd itrelf, and Avhile the rank and file of the church may not take much interest in the Avnrfaro, yet the church is paralyzed and the pn. tor crippled when he sees his church di vided up into factions and clique: an tagonistic tewards each other. Re ligion is love, unity, hnyp'arss. con course and harmony. It scorns that of nil places under the cm the church ought to he the brotherhood where lave, kindness and unity prevail, but a religious rosv with these church fac tious is intenninahl" and everlasting ly hurtful to the church. Then we have our social factions. God has created us social beings, and in the social Avorld avc divide up in fac tions and cliques and classes aa ithout much reference to the balance of the world outside of our elan or gang. Y*'e groAV more and more out of sympathy Avith each other as tho groAVth of these circles proceeds. It is :.I rolutcly put ting men further apart every day. Then avc have our family factions, a family toav—part of t! ■ home taking sides Avith this one and the other Avith that, one, and a Avound is made Avhich Avill scarcely ever heal. Noav, Avhat is the ill a of sensible peo' l > as they look on the processions moving as they arc? In ::!1 these factions in Jill the circles of life there nre people—some of the best in cadi faction—can they be harmon ized? I knoAv they can and ought to be—in the church,and social mid family life. Of course sjicrifices must he made, pride must be Avoundi d, and a great many tilings done Avhich it Avould bo Aviso to do, except Avhen it comes to ji compromise of character or principle. Rut there is generally no principle in volved.but prejudice and selfishness arc the very basis on which it amis begun and these Iavo things form the two structural pillars ti nt hold up the superstructure—prejudice and selfish ness. Neither of these, I am sure, ought to have places in the church. And still u church has been split up by some prominent member kicking ji yel low dog out of the church during the services, Avhieli unfortunately belonged to some other prominent member of the church, and the whole church final ly Avreckcd over n yclloAv dog. Some times it shirts from the go.-sip of the Avonicn, sometimes it starts from a sermon preached by tho pastor, but no matter Avhorc it starts it is un- seriptural and un-Christ-like to have the church split up in these factions and brethren divided against them selves. These family factions are more fre quently found in homes Avherc step- luothcrs have been introduced—they arc hardest to manage of all. I be lieve. hoAvover, there are more good stepmothers than there are good step children; but I have knoAvn homes Avreeked and lives ruined by these home factions. I am glad that it is true that those factions form only a minority in all the circles of life. The great, rjink and file of both church and state seem to move along Avithout taking much part in these factional strifes and party divisions, and this is the hope of the Avorld. and forms a Irosis for better things. The devil comes to engej Jer and perpetuate strife and these strife* are but to produce divisions, and di visions Avcaken and emaciate the body. And no party, or church, or society can do its best work or accomplish the best, results until harmony and peace pre vail. Really the only basis on Avhich happiness nt last can rest is the Golden Rule: Do unto others ns you would have them do unto you. Love to God and man ay ill heal nil our factions, unite all onr hearts and prepare us for our In st work and our highest enjoyments hereafter. I.et him whose eyes run over this ar ticle never head a faction or never fojloAv in the procession of one. Be true to your If and true to the right, | and let the dogs bark and figlib—it is their nature to. If factions Avithkfl party lines and church organizatlomr could be reconciled—and Avith a heart and a aa i11 we could join hands in tho championship of onr principles, wo won hi soon Avhip the fight. Like the Methodist delegate to the general conference Avhen ho nrn*e ami said: “Brethren, I Avnnt all the Methodists to unite. Noav avc have tho M. E's and the A. M. E’s, and the (’. M. E's. Let all ns Methodists unite to gether, then avc. Avill have nobody ter 14, r ht but the devil and the LuptisL” Sam I*. Jones. CAUSES Or THE WAR OF 1812, War with Kiusia and thu Klgli* of S«ar<'h. War av»3 formally declared by Rus sia «u November 7, and England reJ torwU by orders in council issued oid tne lath and 20th of the same month, Avhich declared that every continental! port closed to her Hag avos thereafter 1 iu a state of blockade. Every neutral' state, friend or foe, amis notified thtitJ ska A\*uld exercise the right of search, to tkii fullest extent; that all ncutriffi •hips must put into English harbors! baf#ra proceeding to their destination! •i.d pay a duty in case of transporta tion of their cargoes. An exception* ay*-; made in the case of the United Rt»cs, they being graciously permitted to have direct eommereijil intercourse with Sweden, but ayith Sweden only.' '1 his, of course, mt ant that, neutral •laU s must either carry on England’s trade uuder their own dags or disap pear from the sea. r l his measure aa ;us in nit, r contempt} of international law, even as then un derstood, jind amis a high-handed out rage against neutral powers, in par- ticultir against the United States. It was treating the ocean exactly jih Na poleon had treJited tho lands of Eu rope. Rut it ami:' ji powerful weapon, for if successfully enforced it would destroy Napoleon's continental system) entirely. Accordingly, in pursuance' of his policy that lire must be fought with fire, the emperor fulminated ia leturu the terrible Milan decree of De cember 17, 1307. It declared that liny vessels Avhich obeyed the orders of tha English admiralty or suffered itself to b* searched was and ayou 1:1 be regarded! as an English ship. It amis essential, therefore, that any cal ion desiring ex emption from the enactments of tho Berlin and Milan decrees on the ono baud and of the English orders in coun cil on the other must make itself re- rpee ted hy force of arms. The Amern e-ms must cither accept the humiliat ing te rms of England or enter tho Fli nch system ami seek in a maritime war to capture the continental mar kets for themselves. Napoleon intended to force them, iiito the latter course, but he was ig norant of American affairs. Jefferson was at the time in his second term as’ president of the United State*. The democratic party, of w hich he Avas the leader, w as vastly more concerned with agricultural than Avith commercial in terests. They Avere nfi’aid to increasct the public debt, eared little for tlvet prosperity of Ninv England commerce, and, seeking to avoid the dilemma nr- ninged for them by England and i'runoe, pas id the notorious embargo forbidding all foreign commerce Avhat- Boevcr. American ships must avyid foreign Avaters, Avhich, like the land, had become t he arena of a bloody duel in which the United Stipes Avere not interested, as the demoei-ats fondly be lieve d. Exports to England fell inn s ingle year from $40,(;te),(>00 to $9,000,- 0!)0.« In oilier A\ords, the embargo, though causing great distress, could not be perfectly enforced, since the eastern merchant* continued their hu miliating submission to England for the sake of iheir lucrative speculation*. At the same time farmers were sud denly awakened to the fact that in the? end they suffered as much under tho prohibition as the traders. In the re sulting agitations Jefferson closed hio public career Avithout eclat. Madisom wisely secured a modification of tho embargo by the non-intervention act, which opened all foreign commcrco except that Avith England and France. I bit the merchants of New England Avere rebellious and dissatisfied even with tliis. The federalists Avanted a navy and a place in the European sys tem; in other words, a fair share of tho Avorld’a carrying trade for the Bca- farers of the Atlantic coast. Matters drifted on in general discontent and mutual recrimination until 1S10. Na poleon in that year shrewdly - an nouneed that he had abandoned hio policy, but for all that he actually con tinued to enforce it. This empty pre tense of friendship embroiled tho United States still further Avitli Eng- iand, and in the end led to the second AMir for independence.—Prof. W. M. Sloane, in Century. An Orator's Little Ituie. At a public dinner there was on tho table in frontof Edward Everettanorna mented dish, Avith two miniature silk American flags stuck into the viand. X waiter removed it from the table to thd sideboard that it might be earn'd. A** soon jus Mr. Everett missed the dish fie* seemed seriously annoyed and Avhls- ix*red to another waiter to replace ft? A gentleman sitting near noticed thid little, by scene ami Avas surprised thotl the great man should appear annoyed at 1 ho disappearance of the dish and de lighted at its reappearance. When thrt orator made his speech in response to a national toast the mystery was ex plained. For as he Avamied with his theme—the greatness of the republic- lie spoke of the emotions excited by the Hag of the union, Avhose folds they be held gracefully festooned around tho Avails. Suddenly, as if moved by tho impulse of the moment, he seized tho two little lings from tin* di. h nnd Avavcif them, one in each hand, above his head, nnd the company applauded tho octe—» Detroit Free Press. —In the Rook of Kzi kivl a fabric is mentioned by the name oi silk as wtll- know u in Assyria, and Ralston.