The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 11, 1896, Image 3
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 4, 1896
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CYCLONE STREAK.
Tho Sago of Rooky Greek
cf tho News."
"Tellin
I- '
'
Plenty of Wildcat 8tiU« and Ererybody
Kin to Everybody El,e—lilack Jack
Changed 111* llreath — Deacon
Joiner"* Callantry.
If you want to see the most lovelSeat
ktrip of country ou the broad bosom of
jf the earth per
haps — if you
would love to live
forever and then
turn to somethin
good to eat, you
will please re
member that
Rocky Creek is
still runnin down
stream and ain’t
gone nowheres.
^ r No doubts you
have likewise also heard tell of
thepi pleasant places Ip regards to
Which I have sometimes spoke—Possum
T’rot, and Huckleberry Ridge, and
Weaver's Woodgarden, and Tucker’s
Mill, and the Panther Creek settlement.
Rut when the crops are laid by and the
fish won’t bite, if you want to take a few
days off and make the time pass quick
and pleasant pack up your duds and
rome with me and wo will go over into
Cyclone fitreak.
Plenty of \Yl!dcnt Stills,
Po far as 1 know, and so for bock U*
the records run, nothin very good ban
ever come out of Cyclone Streak, unless
it inought be a few grout gobs of fun.
It is a wild and rough and reckless
wqjm* of country, with u strange and
penurious people. The woods are full
«•/ wildcat stills, and they make moon-
irtilnc whisky in them parts even unto
the third and fourth generations. It
would seem like everybody is kin to
everybody clee in Cyclone Rtrfnk. It
would seem like the revenue officers
got in there amongst cm and found u
big copper still and two or three barrels
of “white ink," a« Aunty Lucas were
wont to say. They t^r? up the still and
emptied the barrels^^ht there on the
he meantime they hn
illy Rledsoe and two or three
unkins boys runnin the thing
end hours of night—caught em
ct. as it were. So consequential-
spot
In on I
of the
In the
In the
l.v JiTiHy Rledsoe and the Hankins boys
1 now gone to jail in reply to papers
of coinpcllmcnt from the general gov
ernment.
Rut from what they say about It
neither one of the gang kuowod any
thing for certain about the still to start
with. They had started on a camp
lish that night and jest happened to
stumble up on the “d-ng thing"’ ove.r
there in the swamp Under the eircum-
ftrencc-of the surrounding they didn’t
think it was any harm to shove up th'f
chunks and take a drin^c in jittsJjh.
That is the way they sung Uu* song at
first, but (lie revenue ' officers 'yfefe
on the trail, and t|iey Ijet j.li<>
ground so hot upjler the troys |l{! tliey
mid to change tlip time. T* ,e P
pujied pp to running the {?F
that one ro(indj but (hey fqyqru
the tjiing l>elonged to old prinn ptovp
Rankins, i he imcje of the Hankips boys.
j|gw "old jr.an Hteye swears h‘* pevcp
hppru teij of thp poncerp before. To
jppr hini tejj it, hppevordiflgeebpt finp
pi|dea( stil| in all pf his bprP dayn, nml
thpt t.do nged ty. pkl Rpck Ridley,
Bipee writ in the above Lpke Rlcdrot',
o iwcont cousin to Rllly, rul by to tell
pip that old man Bteve Hunklna 1* eow
tulkin through u different hat, .Tb*
nevenue men come down on him lust
Saturday and called on him for the his
tory of that still. Whereas old man
Bteve wept over there In the swamp
and examined the shattered fragments
of the thing ayd then swore by the
llvln and the dead that It was the prop
erty of old Ruck Ridley—the same one
which he had borrowed to make i run
13 years ego this summer.* Neverthe
less, old man Breve had td back up & hiv*'
hi * , , \ i. . ., • T iu at n K v
qlrty inuls and go to jail.
1 i?v tills time things PR* ^vprmlp
cpn^kicriible qyef ther^' ln' fyplonk
pin ak. T aui Joqkip ever^ pay tp hcaf
fl’oip old Ruck Ridley, whiph, pccorfRp
to tire evldepce ip thp cua«, he is the
ipuii which own# the sRH at the presem
wrlRp Rot when you get the pent
paws 1 will bet the best mule op the
place that old man Ruck never owned
,ic* wildcat £tlll. Raley I don’t reckon
he would know one if he was to jiieet
it In the gig road.
As everybody khows there are
•stills and stills—plenty of stills over
there in Cyclone* Streak. Rut it
would seem like they don't belong to
anybody in particular. Rllly Bledsoe
and the llankirs boys got caught run-
nln the machinery and cllmbin up
around the producementa thereof, but
they Jest happed to find the “ding
Rung." If it didn't jest naturally grow
Itp there out of the ground, 1 reckon
jfie just cyeUiue pxust of bjowed If in
fhAirsoiut wiiekes tip in tfie hill country
It nifty be that the revenue men thin’.:
they have got a dead ojien-und-shu tease
for the government but they don'tknov*
RjC petite of Cyclope Ktreap. Thi'K
jnay break u /ewklndfe^ ties. and ]jrlng
p|i a general fnpiliy disturjiance, qnd
pjpw ip u whole Iqt of Rpie anti piopey
Rpf fipnljy at last they will OT!
Rjat that, wildcat stIH has hejonped jq
avsrybiMly in Cyclone Streak more or
less, but to nobody for certain.
“But onct upon a time—It.was Christ
mas eve and the weather as cold as
flugius—me and Will Tom Pickens
started to a breakdown dance some-
whores up there in the hill country, and
on the way we had to pass through Cy
clone Streak. Presently we both run
dry and then we drawed straws as to
who would replenish five stock. Will
Tom won and I lose. So I took the bottle
and went down Into a dark and lone
some sway, laid the bottle on a log, cov
ered it with four bits, gave one loud,
keen whoop and left it there. We
waited a little while, and when I went
back down the swamp my money was
gone and the bottle was full of spirits.
“Well, me and Will Tom we bit off two
or three little chunks as we driv on
to the party, and when we got there
by gatlins we had to stay out in the cold
wind two hours in orderment to cool
off and brace up. We didn’t fake any
mere that night. We didn’t need any
more. We had took two or three little
nibbles and they lasted till next mornin.
Rut we passed the bottle around
amongst the boys one time only, and to
my own personal knowledge our bottle
of spirits from Cyclone Streak brnng
on five variegated cases of drunk that
night. And then, by gracious, when we
started off on our return back home
next mornin there was six or seven
drinks left.
“Drivin along way on down there this
side of Deer Creek we met up with Lige
Runnels, and he made out like he was
rnvln cra/.y for a drink. We pulled tho
bottle from Cyclone Streak on him and
the old man bit off a tremendous big
plug of it. Then we driv on, but some
of the Runnels boys told me after that
that old man Lige didn’t show up at
home till about daylight the next morn-
lit, and didn’t look natural and right for
three days.
When we struck Into the old stage
road up there at Hunk Weatherford’s
Bunk he hailed and wanted to know
what was what. Hy this time there was
about four or five drinks in the bottle
and we delivered the goods to Hunk.
As to me and Will Tom, we didn’t need
no more. It com.e to pass that day that
Bunk took one strong nibble at the bot
tle and thm^Ug^FtrnTifnd Ifflde a big,
e l?R no Sf;.-^!^nsequpntially the doctor
vits over there at the Weatherford place
the next day, and by fast and furious
work he brought the family thiough
without a funeral.
That was years and years ago, Rufe,
but I never will live long enough to for
get that Ixjttle of white ink from Cy
clone Streak.”
THE BILL AEP LETTER.! They beg for these places and get them,
. | but why women should not be paid as
Speaks of the Movement to Give
Shop Girls Rest
aji*
mul
The Hard Life of Women Employe* la
Mercantile Hou*e*—Soelal Insincerity—
tteaponalbility of the Employer-
Look on the Height Side.
Let the good work go on. The shop
girls of Atlanta are now allowed to sit
and rest their weary limbs for a brief
time when not waiting on customers,
and their working time is out at si':
o’clock in the evening. This is a reform
that means much to them, and our
sympathetic people will all thank the
Chamberlin house for starting it. Tho
girls have not demanded it, nor have
they uttered a word of complaint, but
we know that they get tired, very tired,
and sometimes they are sick, and some
of them have work to do when
they get home. Rut they never
strike—no, they had rather suffer
end endure and always look cheery
and try to be happy and content
ed. I have wondered why they did not
organize and choose their lenders and
sometimes get on a strike and walk out
and make demands on their employers
like the men do. No, they will not do
that. It is not their nature, and for that
reason, if no other, those who employ
them should be all the more consider-
ntc. Every shop girl and every shop
woman has nn individual history, and
could tell a tale of sorrow or misfor
tune, and some of them would be in
tensely sad and pathetic, if written and
published. Many of them belong to
that class who have seen better days- -
many are orphana^-some have a wid
owed mother or an invalid sister to sup
port. All are dependent and have no
bright prospects of bettering their con
dition In the years to come. Some of
them are not strong, and often go to
their work with a headache ora heart
ache, but they must not complain—sad
faces or sick faces or very homely ones
not wanted. 1 know four sisters
not understand. My information is
that they are paid about half and the
employer’s excuse is that competition
is very grent and ns others cut rates
they must do so, too, for labor is worth
only what it will bring—and a woman’s
labor can be had cheaper than a mar’s.
That is not a good excuse. It is not to
the interest of the employer to get labor
on such terms. Twenty dollars n mont h
will not keep a young woman in good
health and good clothes and leave any
thing tor a sick mother nr a child, or
for a doctor's bill. A big-henrted, gen
erous man will inquire into the condi
tion of every female employe he has,
and ns far ns possible make it his own
loncern. The}' are, as it were, his
wards for the time, and he cannot es
cape the responsibility.
Before the war there were no shop
girls, but for 30 years this greet
transition has been going on, and now
the south, like the north, is full of work
ing girls. The children and grand
children of those who once were proud
and independent are now forced to be
poLmcs-RELiifrm
Bam Jones Tells of a D. D.
Demooratlo Convention.
IVh«t Became of a Mon-rartlaan Temper
ance Proposition He Wan Delegated to
Present—Alaska Not a Good Coun
try for Grape Growing.
Somebody said religion is religion
ind business is business. 1 reckon if
ihat is ttue it is’equally os true that,
politics is politics and religion is re- ;
Jgion. If either is true, then the logic!
of the situation is you cannot mix
them. There was an episode in one of;
3ur democratic conventions the other
lay when a doctor of divinity was in-!
troduced to the democratic conven
tion, who came as the representative;
3f 300 or 400 respectable men of his
itate, and said:
“Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizen*
3f the State of Tennessee: I thank j'ou
rery much for the courtesy you have
shown me In allowing < me to appear
before you at this busy time, and I shall
hungry and sleepy all at the same
Too tired to eat, too hungry to
and too sick to want anything,
old Tennessee, poor old D. D.I Ni
planks adopted by the convention,
yet the only plank worth adopting
the platform they were requested
Adopt by'the 400 and the dear D.
was left clear out In the cold. I hove
seen the D. D. since the convention,
guess he has backslidden a little, as
la a Methodist D. D., in his feality to
i grand old party that whistled at h:
Rut he said he had heard whistling
fore. I expect he has done some hli
self when he was a boy going by a grave
yard. But they didn’t whistle at
convention for the same reason that
boy whistles when he goes by a gr*’
yard, for the boy going by the gw
yard whistles Jo keep from running,
It is run or whistle with him. But I
suppose the dear brethren of the D,
in convention assembled whistled
let him know where they stood, not hi
they were running. And yet this D.
: and all his kith and kin are wTiti:
and preaching about putting the p>
■ pit into i-olittcs and warning the bw
ren of the danger of so doing. I do ;
is no exception for them. It is daily
food for daily labor. The rich are
growing richer by short cuts and ques
tionable means, all of which in their last
analysis come from the earnings of the
toilers and grind the faces of the poor.
Widows and orphans whose husbands
and fathers left them stock or bonds In
n great railroad, have lived to see it
wrecked by unscrupulous schemers and
by the time the wreckers had done with
It their stock and their bonds were
wort hless. Daniel Webster got ti fee of
$10,000 for making a sjieech in the Myra
Clark Gaines case, and it was noised by
the press as an enormous fee, but now a
common law yer gets $30,000 for bring
ing the money of a wrecked railroad in
to court. An incorporated company
accumulates n million dollars surplus
and asks the court what to do with it.
There was no fight, no contest, but the
lawyers who took the decree are nwurd-
who are shop'girls at different places. , ed $75,000 for bringing the money into
The el^lnst is only 10. They have neither court. Receivers and lawyers prey upon
'““‘"nr norinoolRr.jJ^bPother, but they the carcasses of corporations like buz-
live together and work by drris upon the carcasses of brutes, and
fort each other by night. ’ 1 W. little is left for creditors or stock-
Some merchants are hard task mas- | holders. Thes^ are that fill
ters; “only a shop girl" is their motto
and their service is worth what it will
bring—that much and no more. They
come their own bread-winners. There ; ®how my appreciation by being very, j know’ whether this D. D. took the pul<
brief and by refraining from any utter-j
vnee that would be the least improper
an such on occasion. In the course!
of a somewhat checkered life I have,
aeen In a great many places, but this
is the first time I ever had to face a
whole convention of unterrified demo-
j trots. [Applause.] You wdll allow me
to say, however, that I feel somewhat
j it home, for first and last I have been
I middling good democrat myself, n
believer in local self-government and a
tariff for revenue only and the free
and unlimited coinage of the right sort
af money.
j “A convention of 300or 400 representa
tive and respectable Tenesseenns met
In this hall on the 30th day of Inst
! month in the interest of a non-partisan
'temperance movement in the state of
Tennessee. That convention did nol,
nominate any candidate for office. It;
ore
He Cliansrcd III* Brcaih.
That brings to mind one day last fall
when Block Jack Wiggins, from Cyclone
Streak, changed his breath on me. We
struck up together in town that day and
nothin would do Black Jack but 1 must
write out a speech for him on free sil
ver at sixteen to one.
But in the main time Black Jack hqd
smoked his old pipe and et jxirch^d., "age? tq the same amount..
goobers and drunk corn whisky till hg ** ’ * l * ° '
didn't know anything for certain qnd
his breath was iretnendius bad.
lip put his arm around my neck qir!
talked so dost and confidential like till
I naturally eouldu't stand it.
“J am 10 hapd« high, I weigh 187
pounds, 1 wear a number leven shoe, my
name is Black Jack Wiggins and I hail
from Cyclone Btreak,” says he with hi^
mouth In three Inches of niy face,
“That perfectly all right with me, Mr,
Wiggins, as tq the size of your shoe and
what you weigh and where you eomo
from,’’ says J, “but for the love of our
common country and the great cause of
free silver at sixteen to one. go and do
something to change your breath—eat
a raw onion if you can’t do no better.’’
And then, long-sufferin reader, what
do you reckon come to pass betw een me
and Black Jack Wiggins, from Cyclone
Btrenk? Dad blame him, he got ft raw'
onion and et it to change his breath,
took another drink, come back ami
locked arms with me and preached free
silver at sixteen to one for three mortal
hours.
One Buttle of Horry Good*.
“Tnlkin about the troubles in Cyclone
Streak.” fays Andy Lucas to me the
other day,” that make* me think of the
time w hen me and Will Toni Rickens got
jiqlt of the onlyesi bottle of rale nql-py
goods I have evef saw. j never did r^ 1
it-ry deep on (he still busipess, yqu
(V jrstand, Uufc. but I don't lur
and tell you that J havp
aged to clumber up arc
of white ink andjrt
in. It Jest naturally n
of the Lucui fuinily-
runnins of the eofn.
tier and'bfeit
The Lady from Cyclone; Streak.
Bu| it was given unto Reacop .loiner
tq bring on thp piost gppcbyyst pop:
tpsionpiept you pver heard tc]l of with
a Ipdy from Cyclone Streak.
It would seem like the lady w as gpip
tq a place sopiew hems up the railroad
op a visit to her kippery, and she hud
wppi from Cyclone Streak over to the
station to take the train. She had a
baby with her, uud likewise u shotgun
which she was tnkin to some of the men
folks o£ the family. /
It also came to pass that Deacbn
Joiner was also over at the station that
day, and if any man loves the w omen
better than the deacon, he w ill have to
eat a few to prove It. So when the train
blowed the deacon he sidled up to the
lady from Cyclone Streak and told her
he would be pleased to take the baby
and the gun and help her on the cars.
The lady was more than w illin. But In
the main time it turned out that the
lady never had seen the railropd Rain
before, upd when it dashed up to the
station she made u break and dashed
off down the road towards Cyelcono
Streak. The deacon he took after her
at full Hjieed, with the baby in one hand
and the shqtgqn ip the other, hollerip'
fit everybody tq stop that lady! Rut the
luejy didn't have any shotguns ppcl
babies to tote and she leff the deacon in
RpR race like he was hitched ton jiost.
Abqut R'ftt- tipift the high sheriff
coinoriilin upt tie road. He saw the lady
runnin and heard her screamin. Be
saw the deacon after her wit h a baby in
one hand and a shotgun In the other.
He arrested the deacon for assault with
fntciiHons of murder, and before he
could git the facts straight the lady wap
t-we miles down the road pnd turnip
the wind for Cyclone Streak. But tho
•heriff then got on his horse and wept
nr*l brought tJu»||iidy back. Rbe took
inpdp
fix the price and keep it there. There
is no promotion in wages. I know one
who kept ». girl down to $20 a month.
She was refined, diligent, conscientious
and popular, and hud been reared a lady
In all respects, but she was only q sdp\p
girl, and out of meager wpgfes pms>
pay for her board and clothing. Xvd
an hour dty she pver lose—but by npd
by she was offered $30 by anothci
h6u§e, arid then, and not till then, did
her employers propose to increase her
Why did !
they npt do it before? I know another I
large, wealthy hopse tlipt kept » young
inpn fpp th r «® years* promising at Ip- j
tervRls tG raise his wages, but it win
only q promise, At lost he quit and
sought other business, and then they
offered him nearly double what he had
beep getting if he would come buck
That is what the prophet calls “‘grind
ing the faces of the poor.” Why wear
poor girl’s life and health away by
feeding her on hope until it turns to de
spair? Only « shop girl! A young lady
who had once been independent was
forced by the common calamity of these
hard times to become n shop girl—and
she told me that the hardest thing to
bear was the stately coldness of her
former friends—the lack of familiar so
cial recognition; when they traded al
the counter they hardly knew her—
they said good morning, but not in
the sweet old way. After Job had lost
bis property, he said: “But now they
that are younger than I hold me In ^Ip-
rlson—whose fathers I woqld have {tig
dalned to se^ w Rh ihe Jogs of piy. flock,*’
\\ tty; liainc tyd »t .. ; y of social lib
ftycprlty. A map pevpr kuo\vp w ho arc
hi* fr'vpde pntil misfortune overtake*
hipi. Thank heaven! there are some
exceptions tq this rule, piifl these shop
girls do sopictinifs find somebody to
jovp them and share their sorrows.
There li nothing more unbecoming to
woman than her disposition to rule
money into her social set and rule pov
erty out. Xo real, well-bn d lady will'
do it. My observation is that this fool
ish vanity is generally indulged in by
the shoddy aristocrats—those who have
nothing el$e *o their credit except
money—those whose fathers got rich
by questionable means. Peachtree is
lined with many pudr, and so are the
fashionable quarters of nil cities. This
folly Is mainly a feminine one; the men
are not glveh to it, no man dares to
snub another because of his poverty,
or his humble origin. With men there
Is no aristocracy except that of intel
lect. If Is related that when Douglas
and Lincoln pi<*t for the first time on
the hustings Dougins, vj’ho was a grant
aristocrat, said he had not had the
honor of an acquaintance with his op^
ponent, and. In fact, had wen him but
once, and that was when he wrh sell
ing Yvhiffky behipd thp bpr ip a cross
roads saloon. When old Abe rose to
reply, he smiled from par to ear, it* he
repiarked; “That’s so, my fellow Htl-
sens, That is the only time J ever saw
Uipi until now. He was on one side of
the bur and I was on the other. He
took a drink and I took the money. We
are about even on thakscore.” What’s
the difference? A nice, sweet, well-
mannered girl or young woman wflo
waits on the customers In a large dry
goods house is op ppe side of the coun
ter pnd a *"iph aristocratic lady Is ou
the oth«*r. One hqd money, the other
had goods and they exchanged—that’s
alb Which is ahead in tire comedy of
life and which will lie ahead when the
play is ended and final judgment isren-
d? With one life is a fa-shiomibic
with the other a struggle fpr
“Give u* this day our daily
is her morning prayer.
tlon of these working girls
one at best, but kind words
wages soften it do
the jieople with distf
and paralyze industry and intlm!
capital. I knew a lady, and she is
ting near me now, whose father left her
$1(5,000 of stock in a railroad In Ala- |
bamn. It was good stock and had good
prospects, but the schemers got it into
court and had a Receiver appointed anj
ty was wrecked and “he lost everything
bpi the certificate, Whop she comes
across it now amogng her archives I heap
her humming that sweet old song)
“This world k pH a fleeting show,” But
let the wprkipg gifk cheer up and al
ways look on the bright side. If they
cjip’t get piarricd let. them look around
and see how much misery marriage
brings—how few women are happily
mated. Encourage a cheerful disposi
tion, and if you can’t be happy, be n*i
happy as you can. Trust in the Lord
and do good. It is not all of life to live
ncr all of death to die. There are many |
bb-ssings that cost us nothing. I never
pass my neighbor Mrs. Field’s front
yard, that is radiant with beautiful
flowers, but what I think how cheap
they are to me. It is a good idea tc
sometimes think of that poor little boy ;
whose mother covered him with straw i
one bitter night and put an old window .
shutter on the straw to hold it down.
“Mother,’’ said he, “it isn’t every little :
boy that has a shutter to hold down his
had no opinion whatever to express in
regard to the tariff, currency, or any
jthcr opinion. It did not array itself
in any way, shape or manner against
any political organization, and it
dulged in no threats of any sort as to:
ivhnt it proposed to do. Having only
view, it absolutely ignored
exclu-
SB uo SJwtb that thing, and that
one Thing was the passage of a local op- 4
Don law for incorporated towns in tho
state of Tennessee, and appointed me
to wait on this convention and ask you
to inc, -oornte into your platform a
promise to give us such a law. IVe
jo not ask you (whistle from the nudl
9»co)— That is all right, 1 have heard
whistling before. (President culls for
order) I can make myself heard, I,
think. I have been accustomed to,
preach at camp-meetings during my;
time. We do not ask you to make any i
announcement in regard to prohibition.
We know the democrats of Tennessee
too well for that. A majority of then
arc in the condition of the old North’
Carolinian w-ho said that n little of it
for mechanical uses tastes mighty well.’
We do not ask you to make any deliv
erance in favor of temi>ersince, but we
do come and ask you as a party that!
is always against centralization and in
favor of self-government to give us a
law in Tennessee that will enable every
community to determine for itself,
whether it shall lx* subject to the con
tinued doininancy cf the saloons or not
If this is not democracy, then I don't
know what democracy Is.”
When the D. I). had concluded a mem
ber of the convention moved that the re*
pit with him to the convention,
he was cither out of his pulpit that day
or else he had his pulpit in a bad
place. I hftd as soon go to Alaska fop
grapes, or to the mo6». for cheese,
to hell lor water as to go to B'Jei
crntlc convention for temperance
Intion. I don’t think our D. D. wa*
I bad man. I think his trouble could 1
, located above the eyes. I have been a
democrat a little of my life and a pro-
! hlbitionlst ever since I was a Christian,
but I never saw the day since I was ten .!
years ok! that four hundred rc-spectablo
gentleman could hire me to play the
fool In that way. I am some rort
a fool, but I am not all sorts of a fc
( I don’t go to a goat’s house for
nor to a desert for water, nor to (
, for pineapples. I find out whored
grows and stays, and go there
Whenever free silver and free llq®
both are dominant measures of a o
vention they will whistle down an
j gine, much less a D. D.
j,' Hut the D. D. said he had no views'
In* express on the financial question, ex
cept that he wanted all the money
sight, or words to that effect. But <
dear D. D. needs the sympathy of
brethren. He ought to be rewarded!
straw-is it?” And there Is some com, | of the D j,. ^ fom>tl to the
rsian proverb that says: , sonunStt4 , e on platfonn> | Th! „ w08 <!Ur .
“Blessed are they who have but little, ! ^ unttnhlim L, y> nnd ,o.nethw car-
request
pilttco on platform somewhere so
that It was never heard cf ttgaln.
This same D. 1). has for years Wen
parading h'mself as a ilrmocratJc
preacher. This makes his |>osition be
fore *hl* democratic brethren pitiful
when he sttinds Wfore the democratic
fort in a I’mlnn proverb thnt “J'j j Jvmmlttee on plntfonn.*
r TT nrelieyjl, 0 hnve butltile, M unaI , h „ ou ,| . 01t „, h ,„ K
or they .hn , uot be envle<l."-Ii.ll Arp. |e(| , hl , „ „ J , , n ,. , ’ conl .
In Atlanta ConRRtvtlon,
STARS and distances.
feme WellnKuewu Astronomical Facta ol
Interest.
in all the heavens, with the excep
tion of passing meteors or meteorites,
not one body owupie« u position closei 1 rnob that booted and yelled and whis-
to earth than the moon, which is some ( tied ami howled in the state capitol
e ta,000 miles away. Very' far, of course, 1 where He was making his request n r (cr
side by side with any earthly distances, 1 telling the grcnC democratic eonven-
but a mere fraction side by side with | lion: “I feel at home, for first and lust
other astronomical distances. Next to J have Wen a middling good democrat
the moon, our nearest occasional neigh- , myself.” Middling gocxl Cotton means
bor is Venus, and then Mars. Roth ' way above the ordinary. This mid-
Venus and Mars, however, arc often ' dling good democratic I). 1). came ns (ty*.
further away from us than the sun, 1 representative of 300 or 400 ^*nre>eatu-
which remains always at somewhere
about the same distance,, roughly at
from 00,000,000 to 93,000,000 miles.
This dividing space Wtwceri sun and
live and respectably TyRncwenna In
requesting hli} pflfly to put a local op
tion plank ip thelf platform. They'
whistled at him and raised such n con-
earth Is of great importance In think- | fusion that the chairman had to come to
lug about the stars, and it should W ' the rescue ami call for order. Th
he was ns smart asj
He
way by
any’ well-regulat
honor, and pull a*
or Wat the drui
not written theaST
the old brother said
way of parenthesis, but In
nil parties Interested well, and with!
I wish you good-night.
8am P. Jones.
MOCCASIN'S STIFLING ODOR.
Hasardoua Encounter of a Maine Mas
with m Virginia Reptile.
“When I was a young fellow,” says a
now aged Maine man, “I went into
soutWrn Virginia for u time. I hara
lived in Maine and Massachusetts, ami
consequently had no fear of snakes.
I luul formed n habit of picking up byr
the tail such snakes as came across my; '
path and of giving them a quick snap to^
break- their necks. Boon after T went
to the south, in the road one day I sat
n small snake, a couple of feet k
j>erhaj>s, and of a yellowish color, wi
gling across the path. Without thiol
ing of harm I jumped for him, put j
foot on his neck, and, catching hh
by the tail, swung him to give
snap. Some people were near
they yelled to me like wUd,jn$
that snake.
“1 stopped n moment, while 1
wriggled, and then I snapped
due and ancient form. Mark the
suit. In less'thon ten minutes I
came drowsy and insensible, and re-i
1 mained so for several hours, in spite.
' of the efforts of those who had warne<| j
! me to rouse my dormant senses. I dk
not know that the snake bit mo us i
way, and do not now W(Wxo he
• The ■ a!r._ bail a suffoctttlwg.
' smell, on odor thrq^l offl
I think, anj Vcv«rthing that
me. Ttyf. snake, I was told, wo
mojrquota, one of the most venoinot!
the whole t ribe of crawlers. Since i
day snapping snakes has afforded
no fun.”--Lewiston Journal.
ing aboi
clearly impressed upon theinipd-. Next
to the sun in point of iieafpess come the
more distant ptypet*—Jupiter, which
is aWut five tlinen for from the sun
ns our earth is; Saturn, nearly twice
as far as Jupiter; Uranus, nearly twice
ns far as Saturn; and Neptune, nearly
three times us fur iu» Saturn. AH thesy
planets belong to our sun, ail are pu’MB
hers oi his family, all are part of the
Hilar system. Tho six** of the solar sys
tem as a whole, consisting thus of the
sun and his planets, including our^arth,
may be fairly well grasped by anyone
taking the trouble to master two sim
ple facts. They are these: That our
earth is roughly about 92,000,000 mile*
a\v ay from the sun, and that Neptune,
the outmost planet of the solar system,
is nearly 30 times as far distant from the
sun us our earth is, — Chambers’ Jour
nal
KiubarrsMiueat* of EnglUh.
“I’m too well educated for the bicycle
business,” the young man said, sadly.
“What’s the matter?”
“I lost a customer to-day because 1
Insisted on her making it clear to me
whether she was after a ‘nineteen-
pound lady’s wheel or a Indy’s nineteen-
pound wheel.’ "—Washington Star.
Ill* Trouble.
Friend—You play the cornet excel
lently; did you have much trouble in
learning it?
Rloyer—I laid a good deal of trouble
(he resem r and call for order. They
whistled at the 1). I). and spat on his
rf quest, and the committee on platform
brought in 19 planks covering every
thing from silver coinage tq Clay
Evan’s “cow pony store,” apd yet there
was not even a mi pur ity report on the
I) . D.’s request hum his 400.
“Into the Jaws of hell marched the
jrnllnut 4C0,” and yet the dear dpetor
remains a democrat. Be flattered his
brother democrats by telling them that
they were the daddy of tin* four-mile
law. He was a little mistaken about
that, however. The old wholesale
liquor dealers were the daddy of the
four-mile law and the democrats its
champions. Thus they bring the liquor
business into the cities where the
wholesale liquor dealer* can handle it
hotter and concentrate their force*,
thereby shutting out the little lrre*pon-
•ible crosr-road* liquor dealer*. If the
dear D. D- thinks that the four-mile law
fa any state is nn evidence of the tem
perance sentiment of his dear old
whisky-soaked party he is n* Innocent
or. he is pitiful. Just think of it, a
J) . I), introduced by the president of
the convention, the representative of
a previous convention composed of 400
representative and respectable dele
gates, non-partisan democrats who did
not fight anything! Representing In
his ministerial robes the great cuuso
of tenijierance and think of his^own
brethren whistling at bi n and spitting
DU hi* request! Oh, the times, the
times! Sometimea £ get sick, tired,
BOWS
They No
TO THE FRONT,
Buck
Longer Adm-u the
Woiucji's Neeks.
The bow which erstwhile spread,
loops across the buck of milady’s col
has v ha aged Its position. Nowadays
occupies ull the available space be!
her chin, it is planted firmly in fn
and extends far out on to the should
In the back the collars are unod
The collars are of various mate)
j They have one feature in po:
namely, that they are not like I
they accompany. On frocks of
they are of satin ribbon, and they
like magnified double “bow”^ cnM
They do not have ends, but are of
loops on each side of a knot, whi
fustenwi down with a buckle.
On frocks of silk, chiffon and nje<
selino de sole are used. The
these are very large. Indeed. A c«
of yards of the filmy stuff are tied I
a great butterfly bow beneath the <
The buckles worn withJhcse are d<
jeweled affairs, while those which
company the satin collars ore
ones of silv er or gold.
Another novelty in collars Is
Medici or Eliw'jethnn niff, wt
the back rises up to mret^he ii£h\ whiloJ
it dwindles to u tiny IneeJffH | n ’
Rather heavy vuricttymf •hice are
for these rutWin order to give them the
necessary *Uffue**. fcilvrn then
need "ire to hold them
tlie back.—N. Y. Jouruul T
Getting a Rent,
“What make* Reopcuk look so]
to-day?”
“His wife has sue]
»k a word.