The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 21, 1896, Image 3
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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
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pout as Me called cm, sorne-
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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
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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.
For centuries past the ingenuity of
learned men lias been exercised on the
Noraghe of Sardinia, but to this
they have been no inure abletodis^i
the origin of these famous
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