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THE WEEKLY LEDGER]: GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 21, 1896. pttle OLD oii.iy. 'y ana r B °‘*rCrZ‘ ^filling' rj Story Wo “ ,,h Sweat on ni. ll K ^ *Tl>om biV ‘ ,p RTnr Sicken., l,*g ■ U P the, "toned trade tn H'tbl l'hi fo\ •1 ioi Toni A bo h<*lt rise nlso in a land in soak ut. ta ''a in i s i ,ri »S- /ro s j 1 ,.' t ] s " J S ''! ,<I , ">I' " f u «e % S4sj& f ’Pu a;-" \V , V\' v ' dav s (,riv ' > from aiiusoniotlnjosf r 'plit AvJl cl swingin ; broke into bully time and had put us when all merjptray stopped in toijJoiot. jirieked his if J n loud snort. lijJiow blowin strong n/. but I urged the olearin some 10 pf then, white ])eo])le n a sight that Mill my dyin day. The ad out over the m*ooi!s kleep it looked like *o right down on us like a the dam busted. I ,|s ,lo " gof |} )( y r rourin and stompin and r, ' ,l °t o tj i a drove of wild steels " <>ods pnstefi eonebreak. I knowed in ,lfn t'nf m 0 /liat was up and what it jxjt here had been a cloud burst, pout as Me called cm, sorne- ""l ( lost calls ‘•ndtio.i,. , sot places ^'I'nt'H , Yhnt ,1,akps me tell ^Mvlmt , (J() a uom.! tumhor mi? """ »"• Jl, tle old bitten P lior.se ha AIU’ HAS A VISITOR. Prof. Tucker of the United States Labor Department. Comparlnc the 01(1 Method* with the New Kevenuo Offlecr* and the Still* —Too Much Work und Too I.lttle Schooling. lore I pasfci not the rnnldn’f. • — •'''')i ( .| <(> ,. ) , " dl syi the up country, and the river fis We hot/, jj V( , p 0 f*cns up. pin ruunln mad ns a March hare ’.'’thing n Ul f j , .‘' bltlegrayi the sMamp lands. My hair l,Ut> Rot thifip, and a funny sort of hurtln "One of y l«*re ain't horse, C<>1 no tint at F‘>f tin 0,,r tla*-Ilre ns ,' no partieulai Into my throat. I glanced upto- c the sun, and then this little cnl- /lon run through my head quicker is voii u iji . f vou could say sent M ith your '‘’'‘•lith oi»en. is past eight o’clock roM\ Our Mary is jest about flxin off to Will she clear the SM-amp Iw- th'* freshet runs (Iomu to the big rossin ?” k , d-U])-and-git t (1 t he same time het f r S: "’ders f ; , JlliIv< Jtle •' ‘‘‘ii most in gcncri]l/' ,,0f ’ 1 - j on n,,. todotl,c,„, llin y^ 1' O’o necessary fi XU! „ llfs road ei f th '' bite and 21, and I the reins wh “ been dead on his f0it for lo these man/ ha ■‘Sequentially ho don’t /- v ! K ' v fraek nor fling a shoe A r Bn \ U 11 be feds like it r/j"* Hi las r no * °n the place fhat/^’- ro i)ger and better Jot “ I, ' 1 " 0 bq them run f 1 thc /• plows and do fj,,./ gray lv,n f °r the concert/ 1 n< l be "een his best dav/l rn ' v l 11 n <>w on tbe jH-n's/for the rations and tak*hnt you Honorable service. Jl-ens. pn<uigbt ca|| on,. (> ,f/n hand to ‘’it I took my sea * gray has 1 .'oil that tbe Jay he Mins In d his dnv, and/’ of horse l ' . Vo ”d(T t.?n« /ikIom’ in all ’‘‘at ever tjlught him of skirt of fJ/]not hill hut a . quire n brA-ndins shabby \ ear-old,four I started j no at thnf. ivjnps and M-earin ’ 1,1 to holdin jfarand frequent. ..•>< < ollar tolrj*] baby teeth and ’ m tbeii lie / and ronndln up eoinmotieed f/hnd •’ll uroiind. the start, /rood start boise tie.sli,^,,].on Ids form and the. b a d /reneral dab-side,, ’"liM an Ifb (this fold had got stunted In fl'e is nothin like a •’/it comes to handlin liever could git. over units, lie mus always sm ii.\-hack and rut her s makeup. All the same >f the slutT in him M’hieh 'x- im.i 1 , ; ,,,, i ; •ml ,and stayers, and heshoMcd '."in the day and hour of trial. uif and high m it hers, and . incs, and ingli fae.l, and droopin rn imp, and thin Flu st, and long, strong hams, lly li, there Mas muscle on that f/s iiriiis and legs which looked like yg kittens under t he skin, and but the hard road he had traveled ! * no doubts but m hat they Mould «>f i fu^-grown eats by noM. The Weather Was “Tranky.” ut, as I was goin to say, we and the o old gray have had some hard rubs pulled through some mighty dost *es together in our day and genera- i, and uhile we both live he Mill I corn chops in the troft and fod- in the rack etcry t ime he goes to the Ijle. lit tvas in the spring time, and way ‘It tliere in the 70s, if my count f, wrong, and we Mas farmin then vp on the f’onecub river liottoms. e rains had pome tremendlus heavy 1 frequent. The river m us full to thc in, hut she want sloppln over any speak pf, and travelliji Mas eonsld- ■d pluni safe. ()ur little Mar}’ Mas tlilit but ft spring pullet then, and i had started h‘T to school to one of » Cross girjs over the river a mile and half, or maybe a little liettpr, from ijne, When we got up that mcrnln the sky ns clear as a Isdl, and the sun wn« Inin and the birds siugin and tlieliees liummin. It had then been a dean 21 >nrs since any rain had fell on our nee, and It looked like nothin but fair entiher ahead. And little Mjwry she as most crazy to git back toochool, tyln how she m as now in her A-U Ab*. ini if she missed another day she would live to go foot and spell up, whilst lie other scholars would laugh and oke fun at her. ”1 am awful skittish about lettin our lary off to school this morniii, Jlufua,” ays mother to me after breakfast, and hen she would like to know my private ipinions about the general eireum- ercncc of the surroundings. “Let the little one go to school,” says . “bln* is all wrapped up in her liooks. It :d most break lier heart. ^Tri cion, to go back and spile out and start over.” “lint I am not feclin right easy In rt pards to thf 'v a ter iind.the went her,” inothi r wentoit. “S|M>«iii the river takes u spurt anil pits out of her hanks. And that nint all. It niout rain to-dny for til I know. My corns are hurtln awful lb/ momin, and the. weather Is so pronky, Ituftw." “TIuk aint my time of year for losin," say* I. “Life is too short and nip is too skstrA*. I/d. the little mid to school." * 1 1k m Miohlicr |o\f W. hIh:,,! \ bi A, J JUi ,7 ‘TlVH A ami Terrible Mott. A seeont more, and the little gray had wheeled In his tracks like a top and swap|>ed ends for home. I give him the slack in the reins, dug my spurs loop Into his flanks, and went off on the back trail like he Mas shot out of a enni'on. There mus squo’ly times then, Indies mid gentlemen, mid 1 m us terrible bad rattled, but I leant down on that horse’s neck and talked to him—talked to him like he ua-s folks. “I'ntle them legs, young fellow,” says 1, “and use cm mnv for all they are worth. .No monkey work, no jookeyin mid no foolin now. It Is a long and ter rible heat ahead, but the stakes!—the stakes are worth a hundred men and Ikwhos like you and me! lly gollys we must win this'nice and heat the freshet to the big road cross in if it snaps every nerve and strains every muscle mid | breaks every lione in your body, (lit I out of the woods and go!" As mc shot doM’n through the sM’amp j I took notice of the slims and branches*) and lagoons llllin up with hack water, which the little gray cleared them at a single leap, one by one, and still my spurs mus plowin deep into hisblcedin sides. Hut he was game—dead game-— game to the bone, and never floundered nor flickered nor flinched. Seems to me like he kept, squatfin and gettin closter and cluster to the ground as he went, plungin and tenrin along like a storm on wheels. Pres ently we shot, out from the swamp mid onto the sand ridge, mid 1 knowed that six miles of that awful race was run. Light, alone there the river made a little liend and we gained half a mile by the straight, road. And do you know—sometimes when I look bntk and think about it<—I'M be dog-goned If I don’t believe that horse could tell what was up and what had to he. done as well ns I could, if not some better, cause I was mighty nigh crazy. I was hollerln at the horse and plowin up his flanks with the steel row els of my spurs, feelin like I would choke to death, npd sweat in great drops of perspiration qs big as your fist. When we hove. 1^ sight o^ home anoth er she was out In thy garden pipkin vegetables fop dipper. Takin off lier lly bonnet and rpislp hep hapd so, phe looked at pie and the. horse eoniin down the road, npd see pis to jnc like she was say ip tq herself; "flakes ftlive! is he drunk pp yritzy?" Wan by a Scratch. tVould you reckon that horse wanted to stop at home? Nary time onct. He run by the wood lot gate like a rifle shot and went a spllttl* on down the slope towards th© rlvyr. Mother she was wnvln her hands and gesturln and eallin to us ns we dnslied by, but 1 couldn’t say nothin, my fu«? was set to the river and the littlo grayiwus heudin for that pint. Well, we found opr little Mary down there In the swnidp—jest across the bridge. She was taeklu along at her own gait, piekin flow ers and shoot in the butterflies out of th B path a.s she went. I stooped down, eaii| flit her by one ami. nnd lifted her to my saddle boM - , then w heeled the horse atid made for the up land. When we g6t out. on the brow of the hill past high water mark I slowed up, und th/cre. we met mother coinin at full tilt, quarrelin to herself nnd M aul In tokmow what in the-ronnd created world M/ns the matter. I set the little one in/ her arms nnd slid off of the horse tcythe ground; icmnrkin. that there wryait. anything in partieler the matter yfxecptln that a spring fn shet wn^ eoniin down the river like n thnusnii|(1 o’ bricks, nnd I didn't m ant to lose <ifir little Mary in that May. Theiyl got weak nnd trembly In my knees jind set me down by the road to rest im’self a little. Tnrectly l sum' the river/lomiln up and sloppln over nnd slosh in out of her banks. And in less liniey than It takes me to tell it T raw thntf spring freshet rippin nnd ronrin through the tops of the alder bushes nnd] playln hide nnd seek with the corn to/wcl*. Mother lowed she toh| me so, led, wonianlike, when J lie' ilnnger was lP*dd have to vas the This is a great government. We don’t know very much about it until we go behind the scenes—behind the screens, as it were—and see what is go ing on. The doings of congress as w e read them in the pajiers arc very noisy and exciting, but it is mostly routine work and tells us nothing of what is going on in the various departments— scienfilicfund industrial. We used to get the patent office reports that had a world of curious information and ex planatory pictures, but now they seem to have stopped coming. And there were books on agriculture and horti culture and pestiferous insects, und books that told about catt,le and sheep nnd all the diseases to which they were subject. All these used"tp bo distrib uted among the people like garden seeds are distributed, and pretty much for -the same voU > -catehing i purpose, but they cost a big lot. of money, and are now given only to the scientific. The men of science make but little, noise in the world. They care but little for fame or for tune, but they are at work studying nature and solving mysteries nnd less ening the burdens of life, ft does seem to be a dispensation of Providence thftt great, men care so little for money. What they discover or invent soon be comes common property. 1 am not speaking of the small man who takes out a patent on fish hooks or hairpins, hut of great men, like .Tenner and Pas teur. Agassi/., Fulton, Watts, Xewton or Morse. Hut I was ruminating about a visit. I had recently—a visit from Prof, Tucker, the United States agent for the labor department, lie eame to find out about bow the silk business was eon- dueled in (leorgia 50 years ago. So I told him how my father, in 18.T7, got some morns multieaulis cuttings from Washington nnd in two years had sev eral acres of young trees, and then built n house, 40 feet square and two stories high, and filled it with hurdle frames and got some silkworm eggs, and when they hatched the worms soon filled the house and eat up all the mullM’rry leaves and wanted more. We got enough from a neighlor to finish up with, nnd wo boys wore glad enough when the nasty things began to wrap up in their mummy-like shrouds. Hut my curiosity was excited. What does the United States want to know- all this for? So h<‘ explained by saying that his department is eonlparihg the old with the new—thc primitive meth ods with the modern—and the cost of each, and which was the host and gave more happiness, nnd other economic questions, lie had a leather grip full of samples of the handiwork of thy women of western North Carolina and northeast (leorgia. Kvery little sqi'iare or scrap was pinned to a printed sheet, that gave the name of the weaver and her name nnd residence. There were samples of woolen and cotton and linen and silk, samples of liusey and jeans and counterpanes and quilts and wag on sheets and curtains and table cloths, and some of them were gems of beautiful fabrics, nnd in those moun tain conn ties the hunihle people are still spinning and weaving in the old-fash ioned way and are happy. In many families their handnjenk is piled upon the shelves and clothes presses, await ing the marriage of sons iind daughters, ta whom they were to be given ns bridal presents. Fqpf. Tucker had some, spe cimens of silk sewing thread and flax thread th:;t ytT© made at home. He found good jx’ople up t here who seldom bought anything pm) were aide to give p ptrauger :\ good l>cd and plenty to rat and sincere hospitality. He told me of an did jnan in L’nbun who said he never fell out with the United States until the revenue oflieers began to sneak around bis little still, where lie bad been mt’king | each brandy for.50 years, nnd bad the rcsjx’ct of his Maker and his neighbors, a.ad he told them that the United States wasn’t big enough to stop him, for the right to make it was banded down to him from hir, father and grandfather. He sa'.d they threatened him every lime they came about, hut he kept two pitchforks in the house—one under the front door and tin* other at the head of his ix’d, nnd they dident dare to arrest him. Hut after worrying with them for three years ihin/rs kept getting hotter anil' hotter and his neighbor^; advised him'to quit stilling and he did, for In* w:j.« get ting old and wanted to live •in peace, but it was a bad government that would let a rich man still and not let a jioor man. These big distilleries, said hq,. swindle the government out of move, tax money than all the moonshine stills put. itogetlu T. All they have to do is to bribe the storekeeper. I know.of one over in North,Carolina t,hat sold .1,800 gallons in one year and never paid a dollar tax on it. He told I’rof. Tucker that the revenue men,broke up 40 stills In that region that year, hut to his knowledge there were about. 100 Unit were still running on a snuvJJ.,^eaU’. “The boys sorter like the danger, of it.” said he, “nnd- the informer eatehes it when found out. He generally leaves this part of the country ns soon ns he pockets his bribe. The mountain peo ple are not as honest and honorable ns they used to he, and it all comes of this bribe-taking business. The United States ought to he ashamed of it. w heels and looma u«ed in thla country. Yea, a good many. A good old man died near hero laM year whose family never wore any other clothes m long oa he lived. I knew another man who w as quite well off for a farmer, waa a deneon in the church, nnd aometimes foreman of a grand jury’, who never bought store clothes, and ho always looked well in his home-mode jeans. He tanned leather and made shoes for his family. His socks nnd suspenders and turkey red hamlkr.rchle.fs were all made at home, nnd so was the bed tick ing nnd the feather beds and mattresses, "liaise your girls to work,” said he, “and they will moke, good wives and good mothers. During thc war the women of Columbus, (In., swore off from wearing Yankee goods, but mine do the .mime way In pence.” That is pretty hard on the girls, nnd I should think it would fit them for a convent or to be alsters of charity. I had a tenant once who believed soatrong In working the children that they grew lip vyithout any schooling. They dident have any themselves and dident see the need of any.. They had a bright little girl whom they willed Thelby. "What is that child's mune?" I asked the mother, ami she said: “Her name-Is Othello." "Why, that Is n boy’i name,” said I, but she insisted that some men who staid all night at their house snld • It wn#>a purty name for a girl. “What is your l>oy’s name?" snld I, "the one you cull Dee?" "Oh, his name is Drsde- jnony, but we call him Dee for short.” The poor woman had got the names mixed—Othello and Desdctnona. Rome of these rude jieople do actually love to M’ork. They get up before day nnd cook and eat breakfast before sunrise, nnd are off to the field. One of my ten ants told me he was always sorry when Sunday came, for It was o mighty long day to him. Hut the old-fashioned wheel nnd loom were very useful and pleasant things to work with. My wife still loves to tell her children how she used to spin and weave on Saturdays and sometimes M hen she eame from school In the even ings, und how Ailscy—Tip’s mother— was the l>est weaver, and could make ten yards of plain cloth a day, or six yards of jean. Becky was the brag spin ner, nnd my wife m-os taught to spin and Mcave by these family negroes, for they all loved her and M ere good to her, and she Mas good to them. She used to spin au’hlle and weave awhile and then practice awhile on the piano, and it Mas a pleasant mixture of music all round, and she looked mighty pretty In her home-made linsey dressea—she did — that's a fact.—Dili Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. A POOR MAN’S COUNTRY. KIND MUSIC LIKED. The professor said It is imno**”*’ \ tit TO® y M'hcl\ \ Farmer (ireene Not Initiated Into the Mysteries of HcientMc Mode. "1 nluays thought I mois fond of mu- i»ie,” said Farmer (ireene, "but ■inor [.visited Matilda in Hasten I’re had my dpubts alsnit It. ! hadn’t lieen there a day lieforo Matilda she soys to me ’Now. father, we’re goin’ to have u mh- tdcnl, and 1 do hope you’ll epjoy It!’ , " ’Of course I shall,' snys ]. 'You know how fond 1 am of them famous old Scotch songs you used to sing, and how I’m always ready L> Jlne In M hen any- ’xHly strikes up ’Coronation.’ " ‘Well, this will be the best music you ever listened to,* snys Matilda, and my mouth u-rttered to hear It. i "The night of the concert you ought to ha’ seen the folks jxmr in, all silks nnd satins and flowers. Matilda ’More, well, l don’t right know what, but I think ’twos silk‘and Inc©. I* re tty soon r e nil gat,quieted down, nnd then a Herman, Vi’ilh long hair and a great •jushv beard, snt down to the piano and-Vgan to play. Mr, how he did bang them, keys! There wns thunder down hi the bass, and tinklin’cymbals ,np in the treble. ‘‘The lady that sot aside of me whis pered M hen there m ns a minute's stop: ‘Do you distinguish the different mo tives?’ “ ‘My, no,' says I. 1 don't see what anybody's motives could bo for workln* »-o hard to make a noise.’ "Then she smiled' behind her fan, but 1 don't know what at, whether ’twins the music me. “When the piece stopped everybody hummed and whispered to each other how lovely ’twos, nnd a good many told the (irnnan hoiv much obliged they Mere. I didn’t suy a word. "Then a tail M’oinxn, all fixed up with silks nnd furbelows,wnfig n piece that al most made my hrttr stand on end, It went so high, and’had sa ninny ups and downs In lb • iflb* was muster smart; anybody'rank) see that; but somehow 1 couldn't fancy that kind of 'T-iiighi', It ntrlde me uneasy. When she wns climbin' uh-to her high notes I won dered if she'd tVer get there, nnd when she dropped down again lu-nnted tosay: ‘Now you’ve got through It Snfe once, don't fry It again!' \ "Well, pretty sofru Mitllda come Aiiind’to me and Whispered: 'Father, ho\v d''yWn' Ifki iiV "*1'don’t Ann! Winch for It,' soys I. 'It’s a little too'rtiuch like frosted cake when ybu want plain blend* "She laughed, nnd In a minute I heard her 'saylii* to one of the performers: *Mv father s n Mttb old fashioned, you m and would you mind?* J ‘*'iVhnt do you suppose hnp|x*ned ♦hen? Why, that woman that sung the trills and warbles stood up, aml<sttlt out any piano playdn* at nil, sungj Hnifk.s nnd Hrnes’ And 'John Ande How she knew what. I liked I could t Jl, but she'sang thp am loved sUee 1 was ^©y, np^V g >t thrdugU the teamWare'at dowj* fit KOOff Sam Jones Spoaks of tho Possi bilities of Success In America. Fset* Count for More Than Theorle*—Oar Law* Make No DlnrrlmlnitMons — No Rrahsrgo lisa Been Upon Oenlaa—Shining Fxanapic*. America Is full of successes nnd full of failures. Sometimes Hiiecess means failure, and sometime* failure nu-nns success. Hut ordinarily mc mean by a successful man the fcllon- who "gets there" M’lth his undertaking, nnd by failure the fellow M ho got left M ith his projeeb I have no patience Mith the young man who sit* donn quietly and puts on a look of injured innocence and snys the world does not appreciate him nnd that nobody can succeed but a fool or a knave. I hove no patience with the, young man who, surveying the fields opened up In this great, country for in dustry and success, sit* quietly doun and snys this is no poor man’s country, class legislation has fenced In the rich and fenced out the poor, and that the lau-s of the. land are all made in thc interest* of the rich and against, the poor. Hut I take the position that the United States is the greatest poor man’s country the sun shines on, notwith standing the false; theories nnd false views promulgated by some and be lieved by so many. The older 1 grou- nnd the more I see of life the less I tie on to theories nnd the, more 1 sit up to fact*. One fact is worth a dozen the ories, nnd one fact will down a dozen theories. Now when we talk class legislation ami say possibilities are being shut off from the poor, whntev' r may be the advanced theories of politicians nnd groM-lers, it Is a fact that there is no such thing in this country as class legislation. A law in favor of one man nnd against another could not live upon the statute books, either national or state, in this free, country an hour. It is a free fight upon nn open field. Law helps no man and hinders no man. After all, law Is simply a rule by which things ought to be done nnd a law it- aelf not harmonious with right is still born an ! never can lx* operative. There lias no law stood upon either state or national statute, books In the, past which have prevented any man from inventing the telephone or telegraph, nnd there never has been an embargo laid upon genius, whether it was in inventing n typewriter, a locomotive engine or a Jew's-harp. Hrains have the right of May through codes of law and the patent office at. Washington. There Is no statute law preventing any man from discovering a gold mine. There is no law, national or state, which sets u limit to the number of bushels of corn to lx* raised ikt acre, or the number of pounds of cot ton or grains of wheat. There is no bnv which limits thought nnd study nnd intellectual growth. There is no law declaring that any firm doing business in Ihe United States shall not exceed $100.(100,000 of business per annum. And when we take a practical, common sense view of the subject., how are our laws operating against one and for another? When we get among farmers they dc- clnro themselves to be the object* against which legislation has done its worst, and proclaim themselves the poor, donn-trodden farmers, nnd as cribe their poverty to the legislation of the land; nnd yet, in spite of this asser tion on their part, I know many farmers to-day In nil sections of this country, whose farm* blossom like the rose. They have thousands of dollars leaned out at interests and prosperity smiles all about them. And then 1 look at the near nelghlxirs of this pms|>ci’ous farm er and see the Iveavy mortgage upon his farm, his jxxir stock, his sorry crops, nnd everything tells of misfortune and ineom|ieteney. Now, are the laws the land all made in the Interest of r of these farmers and against the Don’t lx»th of these men operate the same law, under the same sm under the same showers, unde; seasons of hot nnd cold ? Or isu ply a common sense stateme settles this question u hen we Is more In the man than the land? Some farmers grow land, while others grow land.. It Is just ns true hi world. Two men begin same time, on thc sa same town. One p rich; the other grow In fortune nnd in credit, until 11 Is sold out by the sheriff and bo by creditors. Does the law opera' one of them ami against the other? the ellmnte affect one differently the other? Isn’t the difference in organic; and can one merchant sny law Is ngninst him, and the other sny Is for me ? fio M-e may take the lawyer In his" profession. In my own town I knew one young man who chose the law ns his profewsion, followed diligently, has amassed at this time a considerable fortune, clients hove multiplied, busi ness J^^iperessed until he is on one side/ 1 *' '^hcr of almost every cns*> cg« '•irt. I know of another f V. about the. some time, •It her money nor cll- Tnklng thin view of thc situntion, does statute law define the limits and fix the Ixmiids of human effort, and hu man success? When we look bark over the history of America for the past hundred years M’e. M ill find that in every phase of American life the jxior boy has headed the, procession. In the realm of polities, no man for a hundred years has climlxMl higher than the un gainly, illiterate Illinois rail-splitter, and M’e all admit that Abraham Lin coln’s name has been cut on t he tablet of fame right under the name of George Washington. The prince of manufac turers to-day in America mo* the son of a uidoMcd mother, uhose Mages at first Mere one dollar a week as an office boy. Wc all admit that Carnegie, of Pittsburgh, is the prince of manufac turers in America. In the realm of finances. Mho can measure arms Mith the little wizard, Jay Gould? Sur rounded by poverty, even after he Mil* groM’n, it is said he peddled rnt traps around the state of nI'm- York. No man Mas ever stronger on Wall street than Jny Gould. In tho realm of railroads and steamships, M’ho is the peer of Com modore Vanderbilt? And yet his jxw- erty in his younger days ground him In thc dust. Who elimlx’d higher in liter ature. than the learned blacksmith M hose Mife taught him his letters after he Mas married; and yet he died the master of more languages than any man Ix’fore him. Even in the social Morld Ward McAllister, a man u ilhout prestige or money or blood, el imbed up until he bossed the Four Hundred of Xeu’ York and the society of America. A country boy in Xeu’ York state by the name of Lelnnd Stanford, m hose fa ther set him free at the age of 19 M’lth nothing but a “God bless you, my boy,” to start ndth him, this lad earned first $1,000 contracting with a railroad, M’cnt off to college, took It. all out of his pocket and put it into liis head, nnd then crossed the Kooky mountains und the Sierra Nevada* and laid the founda tion for his fortune; and living and dy ing, Lelnnd Stanford left the richest en- doMed college the u-orld ever sow to ed ucate American Ixiys. More than half a dozen boys have grown up in homes of poverty and occupied the u hitc house of America and the high office of presi dent. These are simply facts in American life, and I set them over against all theories and declare that this is the greatest poor man’s country God’s sun shines on to-day. To every young man in America I say to-day: "If youunnt to be a man and succeed, pitch in. This is the country for you.” To every young man M ho don’t m ant to sticeee I say: "Keep your seat, young ir You have got plenty of compor around you.” , Then let’s be up and <lolf>}_ With a heart for any fate, Kememliering that g-b-u-t don’t spell g-o-i-t. Saii P, Jonks. ANCIENT BUILDINGS. Myatorytotho l.curncd Men Who Ilav* Studied Thrill. 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