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LoA LB EISTABLISHED1 5.---- --'.NE"4ANBERRY. S. .~ THURSDAY, AUGfIUST 7 81 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ P I E$,0AY A ANTI-sUnTEAsUItY. An Effort on the Part or Conservative Members of the Order to Einancipu pate the AlliAnce from the Control of Scheining PoNticlansand De signing Demagogues. HUURRD, ANDoPH(oVNTY ,MO..I August 12, 1891. To the Meinbrs of the Farmers Alli ance and Industrial Union, and of the Farmers and Laborers' Union of the United States: B.oTlIEPts:-This communicati,n is for the purpose of informing you that there will be held in the city of St. Louis, State of 'Missouri, on the third Tuesday (15th day) of September, 1391. a meeting of the Alliance brothers of the United States, who are in accord with the resolutions passed at a meet ing recently held in the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The objects of the Fort Worth meet ing are fully set out in the resolutions adopted by that body hereto appended. The undersigned were elected an ex ecutive committee to make all arrange ments necessary for the convention re ferred to above. We have corresponded with the gei eral managers of a number of railroads, and find that they are willing to give :7reatly reduce ' rates upon their roads to all delegates attending this meeting. A basis of representation will be fixed at three delegates from each and every county in the jurisdiction of the Na tional Alliance. Reduced hotel rates will be secured in the city of St. Louis, and all mem bern of the order are cordially invited to take part in making this manifestation of the farmers of this country a grand success. This meeting, as will be seen from the Fort Worth resolutions, is a protest cn the part of thelovers of the constitu tion of the Alliance against seeing that organization prostituted by a body of men who have no interest in farming and whose love for the organization is limited by the amouut of personal gain they can get out of it. This is an effort on the part of the conservative members and real farmers of our order to emancipate the Farmers' Alliance from the control of scheming politicians and designing demagogues. That we will succeed in this effort we entertain no doubt, We especially ask that all newspapers 4 in the United States will reproduce this 4 communicationN with the tppended reso lutions. Communications addressed to Hon. W. S. McAllister, Canton, Miss.; Hon. Will L. Sargent, Rayner, Tex,; or to U. S. Hall, at Hubbard, Randolph county, Mo., will be promptly ans wered. Yours fraternally, U. S. HALL, Chair., Hubbard, Mo. WV. S. MCA LLISTER, Canton, Miss. WV. L. SARGENT, Ray ner, Texas. Committee. R EsoLUTIONS. We, the anti-subtreasury members of the National Farmers' Allian ce and Industrial Union, recognizing the grave and responsible duties resting upon us as farmers and citizens and memibers of our beloved order, the Farmers' Alli ance, hereby p)resenlt for the careful consideration of our brother Alliance farmers, the following preamble and resolutions: Whereas, the Farmers' Alliance has been organized to the end that its mem bers might become educated in the science of economical government, and that we might become more united in our action, having been divided through the influences of the wvar, while we have ever been united in interest; and Whereas our beloved order, the Far mers' Alliance, was founded for the express purpose as set forth in our con stitution to bring about the above most important results, and that this educa tion and union should be brough t about in a strictly non-p)artisan sense and manner; and Whereas We declare to the world in our constitution that the Alliance would ever advocate "equal rights to all andi pecial favors to none;" and Whereas, We declared to the world through the Alliance that we would make no war upon any of the legiti mate interests of our country;" and Whereas, We were assured when we entered the organization that no one should be ostracised for opinion's sake, and refused admnittance.into or turned! out of the order on account of any be lief he might hold on political ques tions; and Whereas, We felt assured that this organization wol be directed and con trolled by farmers who were honest men, and who would labor to unite the farmers of our common country who were divided by the war;and Whereas. We now fiud that the purposes and objects of the order have been defeated and the organization de flected and turned from its original purpose and intentiou in the following manner and wvavs: 1. By violating the plainest principles and declarations of our constitution, by1 advocating and declaring in favor of the sub-treasury an d land loa.n scheme: and the goverument ownership of rail-1 roads. :2. By debarring persous from memn bership az-d office for opinion's rake. 3. By putting men in important] oflices and keepjing them there, 'vho are known and have p)roved the~mselves to be dishonest, miercenary and corrupt, and have contioned them in such. offilos. 4. By falsely and !maliciously denoun eing the just and honest chosen repre ?lected to serve in public trust, although the honesty and fidelity of such public servants have been proved by long and faithful service. 5. By trying to direct and turn the rganizations of the farmers and laborers of our land from one of the greatest curses of the age-the plotec tive tariff system-and to commIt them to the national curse of class legisla tion. 6. By placing in the highest official positions of our national and state oiders men who are not farmers, not have any interest in farming, but whose only interest and ambition is to keep the farmers in the depressed condition they now are, to the end they may draw their salaries from them, knowing that the depression of the farming class is necessary to keep up an organization of this character. 6. By some of the leading officers of the order, both state and national, consorting with the enemies of good government against the true interests of the people, and corruptly endeavor ing by dishonest methods to fasten upon the people the protective tariff and railroad combination-two of the evils that the Alliance was created to put Iown and destroy. 8. By private individuals in the Alli nce, through corrupt and mercenary motives, buying up the sttte and na tional official organs of our order, there by centralizing the power of this orga aization and that of the millions of rarmers in it for the purpose of the per sonal aggrandizement and political imbition and corrupt ends of these men. 9. By changing our order from its non-partisan character into a partisan body, by applying .partisan political tests to membership and office-holding n our order, and by declaring in a tatute passed at Ocala, December, 1890, id by proclamation of our national president, that when the majority of he National Alliance promulgated any political principle, demand and heresy, hat every Allianceman must subscribe o and conform to such political prin iple; therefore be it Resolved, That we denounce the sub reasury and land-loan schemes and zovernmental ownership of railroads as riolations of the first principles of good overnment, as paternal in their char Lcter, as centralizing in their tenden ies, and if enacted into law would reate such a horde of national office olders as would fasten the clutches of ;he party in power upon the throats of he people so strongly that the voice of jonest, patriotic citizens would no onger be beard in the control of govern nental affairs. We further denounce these measures Ls being a violation of the constitution )f our beloved order. That we denounce C. W. Macune and ais corrupt methods; together with the ets of his tools and henchmen, as yeing a disgrace to the order, and a stench in the nostrials of all honest nen who know of their corruption and illiany, and thus point out to the >rder by continuing such men as this n power they are enabled, by betraying is and our interests, to most effectually ~hain us to the juggernaut cars of nonopoly, We further demand that those men who are not farmers be removed from ;he national and state offices of our >rder, and that none but those who aave their interest in farming be al owed to fill such places, to the end that the legislatures of our government nay know that when the Allianee speaks it is the voice of the farmers and aborers of our land, instead of the wish >f some paid tool of monopoly and ~orruption. We now appeal to all ionest members of the Alliance broughout the United States in behalf >f the poor and oppressed of our land whom these base men have betrayed, n the name of our -.dves and children, who must be relieved. if at all, by the inited action of the farmers of this ountry, in the name of igood 'govern nent, to unite with us in putting down :his common enemy and disgrace of >ur order. To this end we most ear estly recommend that the brother lliancemen of the United States would meet in national convention at t. Louis, on the third Tuesday of September, 1891. DR. WV. B. .\IoRRow, R. (C. BRAGG, T. M. Simrmr, C. C. BELL, DArIm BUIsT, Ri. N. WEISIGER, M. D. BURNEY, D. McCUNNINGIIAM, WILL L. SARGENT, A. F. L ANDEN, U. S. H ALL, WV. S. MC AL LISTER, Comminit tee. A Queer Coincidence, (From the Courier-Journal.] WASIIINGTON, August 16.-A queer :oincidence is being noted to-day by he employees of the WVhite House in sonnection with the death of Mrs. Jas. K. Polk. Yesterday morning's mail >rought to the mansion, among other >ackets, a letter addressed to that lady, 'care of -the White House." It was for warded without attracting any particu ar notice bayond the comment that it was odd that imy one should send mail natter to Mrs.'Volk here, after forty rears had elapsed '' ce her occupation f the President's marn ut when atter in the day the dea that tmable lady was announ the WOMEN AND THEIRt DRESS. Sensible Views on - Question Now Bother ing the Bralns of a Certain Set. [From the New York Sun.] A great many of intelligent women belong to Chautauqua and other sum mer schools of learning. Though never a member I have long been an admi rer of them. I have been alzo in full full sympathy with the plan and scope of their work. But I think that Chau tauqua has somewhat exceeded her bounds when she has entered the arnua of discussion of dress reform. I confess I am not much surprised to bear women prate of the necessity of a reform in their dress, when they have so readily adopted, since last season, the foolish and untidy fashion of trail ing skirts for the street as well as in doors. Now, while I do not profess to be possessed of any more common sense than the average daughter of Eve, I must say I have a clear conscience and a record, as they say in the nomencla ture of the turf, of never allowing my dress skirts to do the work of street sweeping. I have lived ofttimes in fashionable New York hotels and, when the same fashion struggled for suprem acy several years ago I was never guil ty of adopting it. Nor did I thereby lessen the dignity of my character or my self-respect in thus manifesting my independence. I think there are two reforms needed fo. the fair sex at the present day. One is perhaps a reform in their dress, but paramount to that is a reform for themselves in the possession of a greater modicum of practical, sound common sense. Much is being written just now affirming the necessity for a reform in their dress, a suitable habili ment for women for business. Nuner ous devices have been suggested such as a divided skirt-mayhap a return of the old Bloomer costume-baggy Turk ish trousers, and a jacket; or, most recent of all, a combination skirt, one half trousers, the other half a flowing width of material at the back. W'iat I consider is the only reform needed for woman's dress is for a sim ple, neat-fitting dress, ample enough in fulness for ease of gait, the skirt of the dress to escape the ground by a couple of inches, a comfortably fitting corset, short at the hips, and not tightly laced, the neck dressed medium high, and a loose enough fitting sleeve, and high enough at the shoulder to admit of an easy play of the arm and hand for whatever purpose its owner requires of The dress may vary in texture and elegance of embellishment according to the purse and social status of the wearer and the occasion upon which it is worn. With such a dress a woman may be free to promenade Fifty avenue, climb a mountain side, take long walks like our English cousins, or go to busi ness like so many American girls. It will give ease and freedgm to the play of every muscle and make a woman attractive, which is her proper ambi tion. But I confess it is unfortunate to) chronicle the tendency too much f. r business pursuits here in America. We have too many business women. If they were relegated to the domestic circle, woman's natural sphere, our sons and brothers would find an ample field for themFelves and less competi tion. The r.esult would be seen in ear lier marriages. The men could then better afford to marry, and girls would not have to be business women. Of course there must be always ex ceptions to this rule, where w:omen must work to keel) the wolf from the door; but pray, dear good Chautauqua friends, don't think that we are all business women], for Heaven's sake, and must needs done a business suit of trousers like the men! Lct us remem ber that there are morn not in busi ness, and have something to say of the needs of their sex in general. I speak for honest wifehood and motherhood when I say that such talk and the ad vancement of such ideas only lessons man's respect for 'our sex. Unfortunately these are days of wan ing chivalry. Man has less respect for woman than formerly, as he nowadays jostles her elbows in the crowded horse ears and elevators of our great down town business buildings, as she calls erself a "business woman." I for one regret the loss of the word "lady" and "gentleman." Since "men and wo men" have become the fashionable pailance there is less courtesy shown by the two sexes to each other. "Rob a rose of its blush, and its beauty is one." I heard a gentleman, and a lose observer of huma~n nature, say theI other evening while discussing the present tenden~cy among women to un- I sex themselves: "A blushing girl of I weet I0 is at the present day almzost an unknown quantity." The chic and sangfroid of so many oung women is not born of sweetness and purity of heart. I do not wish to be considered an old fogy, far from it, or I am heart and soul with every phase of progress in this nineteenth tentury. But I dlo aflirm that women are too much unsexing themselves try ng to be mannish, and th reby they are losing the respect and admiration >f men in general and of any- one man in particular. I believe marriage to be the proper and laudable ambition of every young woman, But let me say she is not aking the right course whereby to win man's love and respect and make ier the the chosen partner of his life. believe thaf our education is not prac- I ical enough. A cooking class and a iressmaking class sho.uld be as nuch I an accessory of every one of our higher i schools and colleges as Latin or mathe .If woman understood better now to stablisli and maintain a home by neans of this practical traiaing, young nen could afford to marry on compara iuely small salaries. Inasmuch as is our girls are too extravagant (they want to begin where their parents left >ff) young men instead seek the clubs, md club life, which we all know en :irely unfits them for the quiet enjoy nent of domestic life. In fact it is isurping the home too much. Young 'rien frequently go to the bad, and the ;irls are dragged with them, like a nacistrom. If we want to preserve the chastity >f our young people and the peace of >ur nation, our young people_ must marry; and let us stop talking about irls going to business, and of what kind of a dress reform is necessary for ucli a purpose! Let women be clothed with purity, and have "the ornament )f a meek and quiet spirit" of old-fash oned Gospel description if they wish :o fulfill their mission in life, arid Chan ,auqua may then busy herself with more exalted questions of woman's needs. CLARA CONANT-GILsoN. The Growth of Southern Cotton Mills. It is necessary to compare very often the statistics of the South's manufac luring interests with the census figures >f 1880, that the magnitude of the pro rress made may be more ful1y appre eiated. From Dockham's Textile Di rectory, just published, the Manufac turers' Record has compiled the statis tics showing the number of cotton pindles in the South as compared with ISSO, as follows: 1801. IS88). No. of No. of Spindles Spindles. labama...............102,519 49,42 rkansas.............. 10,625 2,01.5 Florida...... .......... 1,300 81; Georgia.................484,983 198,656 Kentucky............. 47,287 9,022 Louisiana.............. 61,168 6,096 Aaryland.............175,500 12-5,70G Aississippi......... 57,420 18,568 North Carolina.....423,192 92,385 South Carolina....463,424 82,334 rennessee.............121,911 35,736 rexas................... 86,734 2,648 Virginia............... 91,760 44,340 Total............2,130,823 667,854 Thus, since 1880, the South's cotton manufactureres have more than trebled the number of spindles, showing an in >rease from 667,000 to 2,130,000. Georgia eads in the number of spindles, having 184,9S3, closely followed by South Caro ina with 463,424, North Carolina being third with 423,192. These three States have paid more attention to cotton oaanufacturing than any others, and bave developed a great industry that is Ateadily adding to their prosperity. Dther Southern States should follow their example. The South, which pro :uces the cotton, must manufacture it. The total number of spindles in the United States is 15,497,302, against 14, 157,024 in 1889 and 13,470,981 in 1387. 3ne Practical Experiment in Less Cotton. I Lancaster Ledger.] As will be seen elsewhere the county illiance has passed a resolution not to plant but ten acres to t.he mule, horse >r ox, in cotton another year. This is >ne of the best things our alliance has aver done. It will reduce the acreage >f cotton in this county fully one-half md will incase the area for corn, wheat, oats, rice, sorghum, potatoes, peanuts, etc., by just that much. We ope that every farmer, whether he is mn allianceman or not, will stand by :he resolution. If they do they will son become independent. If there is one who thinks it will not ay, we refer him to Mr. H. J. Thom ion. Mr. T. resolved a few years ago ;at he would quit cotton, only as a surplus crop. He reduced his acreage nore than the alliance proposes to. He >nly plants seven acres to the horse, >ut be lives at home. He is indepen lent. We were at his home a few weeks igo. It looks like living at his house. [50 bushels of wheat, corn and rough 2ess two years old, ten large fat hogs, at cows and yearlings in his pasture, ie fields of corn, potatoes and pinders mmd only seven acres of cotton that ooked like it would make a bale to the tre. He said that he quit cotton with ~ear and trembling, but to-day, in tead of running on a lien for supplies, ae is independent. The alliance has at last struck the rey-note to prosperity. It is better late han never. Devote your time to dis ~ussmng what ro raise and how to raise t. Get the best methods of farming >y experiment and give your brother iliancemen the benefit of your ex yrience. Do your buying and selling o your best advantage. Keep posted > prices and let politics alone. Legis ation will never make the farmer rich. )o this and your order will thrive and -ou'll become independent and pros >erous. voudnt Drink Liquor to save is Life CHATTANOOGA, August 10.-Henry Dillard, a business man of this city lied suddenly of heart failure. Accord ug to the story told by his relatives he ad always been a hard drinker, and .bout ten dayssinceswore off. He could ot be induced to taper off, and when old that his life depended upon taking ,n alcoholic stimulant, he refused to 'eld arid died firm. A perfect complexion, free from simple or blemish, is very rarely seen, ecause few people have perfect'y pure lood. And yet, all disfiguring erup ions are easily removed by the use of tyer's Sarsaparla. Try it, and sur:~ LINTLESS COTTON. The New Discovery Will Close Fertilizer Factories and Revolutionize the Country. [Spartanburg Herald, 21st.] Mr. H. T. Ferguson, of Woodru.1 was in the city yesterd;y and he brought a staff of his celebrated lintless cotton which has attracted so much attention. This stalk contained about 300 bolls, each filled completely with large plump seed. When ripe the seed are perfectly black, resembling much in appearance the seed of sea island cottou. Liutless cotton has has come to stay. It is not a freak, but an entirely new variety, which comes true to the seed every year. Mr. F-rguson has taken much pains to get the variety perfect and this year he will have enough seed to plant the entire State. The estimated yield with moderate cultivation on ordinary land is '400 bushels to the acre. It is as easily gathered as the ordinary cotton, but must be gathered just as the bolls crack, else the seed will drop out of the boll. Mr. Ferguson is confident that lint less cotton will revolutionize this coun try. Four hundred bushels of seed to the acre is equal to several sacks of guano as a fertilizers and the cost of raising the four hundred bushels is nothing compared with the cost of com mercial fertizers. Mr. Ferguson is constantly receiving letters of inquiry regarding the new plant and expects a-large sale of seed. He says the yield of oil is about one third more than ordinay seed. He had on exhibition also a stalk of cotton which he grafted on a periim mon bush. The leaves of the plant bear somewhat of a resemblance to the leaf of the persimmon, but yields no fruit. While it is curious and a fact not generaily known that cotton could be grafted, the discovery is without practical beneflit. PRAYEI FOR INGALLS, And a Story of a Kansas Girl Who Never Saw a Saloon Until She Went to Chicago. [From the Chicago Herald.] According to the Rev. D. J. Holmes, pastor of the Lincoln Street Metho dist Church, the only way for the Re publican party to save itself from de struction is to make prohibition the main plank in its platform. From his pulpit the other night Mr. Holmes thundred against the "evils of the rum traffic." "What is the cause of the decadence of the Republican party in New York, Michigan, Massachsetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois ? This decadence, this loss of power, is due to the abandonment of great moral issues. The rank and file of the party believe in and want to stick to the great moral issues that have a patriotic bearing. But the leaders what .of them? Well, let us pray for them ; many of them need our pray ers." Every head wr,s here bent in prayer. When the paster gazed on the up turned faces again, "John J. Ingalls-" he began. "Pray for hini !" a man with a soul ful voice uttered. Heads were bowed once nmore. The minister resumed : "Joln J. Ingaila was a classmate of mine arid I iave always regarded him as a friend, but it would have been more seemly for him to make merry at his other's grave than to joke as he did in Wisconsin, a few days ago, at the alleged failure of prohibition in Kansas. John J. Ingalls's joke was not founded oa fact. A granddaughter of mine visited me from Kansas last week and she lifted her hands in hor ror when she saw a saloon on Madi son street. It was was the first one she1 had ever seen." LAND LOAN COMPANIEs. The Comptroller-General Says the Foreign Com pany Must Pay Taxes. [Columbia Record, 10th.] Comptroller-General Ellerbe has dis covered that foreign Land Loan com panies and associations have never made any returns in this State yet, and he is after them. The following circular was issued and sent to the connty auditors to-day: EXECUTIVE DEPARrTMENT, OFFICE OF COMiPTROLLER GENERAL, COLUMBIA, S. C., August 19, 1S91. Oircular No. II. Mr. - --, Auditor County, DE AR SIR: The Comptroller-General is informed that Foreign Land Loan companies and associations doing busi- a ness in this State have made no returnsi for taxation, any mortgage or other property. Auditors are hereby instructed to as certain from Oftice of Rtegister of Mesne t conveyance or association, and amounts so invested by such companies and en ter them as required by law upon their tax duplicates. Auditors will send this t office duplicates of all such returns as r are thus entered upon their duplicates. I Respectfully, W. H. ELLERPBE, Conmpt. Gen. In Luck. (From Truth.] "'Barrows was always lucky." "What's happened now?" 1 "You know that f500P watch the boys 1 gave him?" t "Yes." "He succeeded in~ selling it the other a day for $14." Few children can be induced to take ~ physic without a struggle, and no n wonder-most drugs are extremely t< nauseating. Ayer's Pills, on the co- ti trary, being sugar-coated, are eagerly swallowed by tbe little ones, and are, S therefore, the favorite family medicine. te GOV.. NORTHE'N SAT UPO'N Che Georgia Alliance Refuses to Listen to Him and Endorses Livingston. ATLANTA, August 19.-Gov. Northen xent tp the State Alliance to-day, al ;hough he was not a member of that party, and attempted to overthrow President Livingston. The first move was a motion by the F. G. Gibson. The chair ruledhim out >f order, and Gov. Northen had to take :he floor. "Mr. President," said he, "I :iold that the gentleman is not out of )rder. I know something of parlia nentary law, and he is entitled to the loor." The answer came amid cheers: "I tm satisfied that you are well versed in >arliamentary law and you know as ,vell as I do that the gt ntleman is not: n order until the Convention is reor ;anized." The, Governor attempted to iold the floor and President Livingston aid sharply: "Let me suggest to you, iir, that you are not entitled to a seat )n this floor. You are not a delegate o the convention and you have no ight to interrupt the proceedings at ;his time." The Governor remained standing, tud the President said: "Mr. Northen, you must either take rour seat or leave the convention." This raised an uproar, and many of he members stood crying: "Put him )ut." "Throw him out of the win low." In the afternoon session Gibson and Northen were on hand again with a -esolution that, before the body should yroceed to the election of a President, Ld investigation should be made of ?re.-'dent Livingston's character. With a mighty shout the resolution was laid on the table, and then a reso Loion declaring confidence in Col. :..v ngston's integrity and honor was car -ied through by every vote but one, that >f Mr. Gibson. The result of this day's work has been o make Livingston the undoubted po itical boss of Georgia. Holding the wey to the situation in both the Alli mee and Democratic organizations, he !an do so as he pleases for for at least a 7ear to come. Why He Kept Them Near Him. Hal Reid, the celebrated stoi-y teller, ives the following account of a ser non he heard in a Kentucky sanctua y from tb i lips of an eloquent colored Baptist divine. who was known in that icinity as B.'other Jason. Mr. Reid nakes the report under ot th, and the arrative is worthy of more or less cre lence. Brother Jason seeing that he .as with his people, talked thus : "Brer's an' sistren, I gotter grate, ;ood news disser mawnin.' I dun 2adder dream las' nite. Yasser, I had Iream dat I dun gotter hebben. [Sister Dilsey in the amen corner, 'Praise Jord.'] "Yasser, I dun hadder dream dat I In got to hebben, an' whenst I got lar I witnessed many sights. I look ay ober in de norf, an' I see way ober n de norf all de Methodists, in de iorf way off from de throne. 'Glory,' rom the congregation.] "Yassir ! an' I look way ober to de ist, an' see all de Pres-but-erians ober n de east, way off from de throne." "Ain't I glad we's Baptis,' " voices in he multitude.]. "Yasser ! an' I look way down yon er to de souf', and see all de Camel te, down in the soul' way off from de ,hrone. ["DeBabtis'! Babtis'!!lBabtis' !!! he congregation.] "Yas, sir, an' I look way ober to le west' an' I see all de Calf-licks way ber in ther west, way off fro'n de brone, an' I look at de throne, and hatter do you reckon I see on de rone? Nuffin, brers and sister, nuffin mt Babtis, desser covered wid Babtis'. "Glory ! amen!1 bress Gord!" from a levout sister.j "Yasser ! An' I ax do Lawd wy he ab all de Babtis' on de throne, and i Lawd say : ["What ? Brer, What?" 'om the congregation.J "He say, de Babtis' such unreliable askals he hab to keep 'em wha' he kin, ;it his hans on 'em." ] TIMSMED) TO SUIT HIs TAsTE. Vhy an Old Confederate Soldier Was Lib eral In His Charity. Col. Sterritt, in the Galveston News.] Speaking of the Grand Army, I heard story a few days ago worth repeating. s it was told me it runs in this wise: Et one of the encampments of the irand Army of the Republic there was man sitting on the sidewalk appeal g to all who passed for alms. His legs nd arms had been shot off and he was 'lind. On his cap he htd an appeal in be words: 'Pity a blind and crippled etern." He explained to all where e lost his limbs and his eyes. One of be old veterans would give him a1 ickel, another a dime, and now then I e would get a quarter. Finally a man topped in front of him, and after hear g his story said : "Here is a five dd1-( ir bill." The tears came from the sight- I ass eyes of the beggar, and he saidI Who are you that are so generous? '.il me your name, that I may remem er and bless it." The man replied that was uuneessary to give his name, as be money could be enjoyed as well a ithout it. The blind man insisted, r nd finally the donor of the bill said :u Well, if you must know, I am an old 'onfederate soldier; and if you want to now why I give you the amount of p oney which pleases you so much, I ' " 1 you I give it to you because you are e first Yankee soldier I have ever ir en who was trimmed up to suit my os ste. nCe TALKEP TO DEATH. Her usband Sees that the Fact is Plainly Set Forth on Her Gravestone. [Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean.] CENTRALA, L1., Aug. 7.-Undertak ers and tombstone men often meet with strange expe:iences. This is well illus trate,d by an incident that occured re uently at the marble works of Frazer & Leffel of this city. A tall, lank man, with a tall, narrow head and a positive expression on a well-cut countenance, entered the aforementioned establish neut and i:timated to the business manager that he wanted a tombstone for his wife. Manager Leffel, with one aye to business and the other adjusted to a proper expression of sympathy in his patron's bereavement, proceeded to show hn the large array of designs in his establishment. A suitable stone was soon found, and bere the work began. His patron of positive countenance had more to do with the inscription than with the style of stone. It must be just so. He must have cut on it just what he wanted and as he wanted it. He was willing to pay his money for what he wanted, but didn't want any assistance to say what that was. The undertaker tried in vain to suit him, but to no avail. He could not catch the spirit of his dream. There was something in this case that out reached the rigid experience of many ,ears. Finally the tall, lank patron said: "Give me your pencil and I'll tell y )u what I want." And here it is: Kiss me and I will go to sleep. ALICE, First ar d last wife of Thomas Philip2. Talked to death byjfriends. No aLof birth, no date of death is given. The age is omitted. Thomas bad but two purposes in his mind-one was to let the world know that he would never marry again and the other was to let it know that his wife had been talked to death by the neighbors. "There now, I want it just as I write it; nothing more and nothing less. I propose to pay for just what I want." Being assured that his wants would be strictly compiled with, he paid for the monument and, giving directions where to place it, departed with the sat-. isfied air of a man who felt that he had got even with somebody. This stone is an actual fact, ands to-day in a cemetary near Boulder, in Clinton County, Illinois. Jones' Private Argument. That air same Jones which lived in Jones, He had this p'int about him; He'd swear, with a hundred sighs and groans, yhat farmers must stop gittin' loans, And get along withbout 'em; That bankers, warehousemen and sich Was fattenin' on the planter, And Tennessee was rotten-rich A raisin' meat and corn, all which Draw'd money to Atlanta. And th' only thing (says he) to do Is, eat no meat that's boughten, But tare up every I1O U, And plant all corn, and swear for true To quit a-raisin' cotton. rhus sprouted Jones (whar folks could hear, At court and other gatherin's), Anid thus kept sproutin' many a year, Proclaimin' loudly far and near Sich fiddlesticks and batherins. But one all-fired sweatin' day, It happened I was hoein' SIy lower corn field, which it lay Along the road that runs my way, Whar I can see what's goin'. A nd after 12 o'dock had cam I felt a kinker faggin', Ad laid myself un'neath a plum ro let my dinner settle some, Whcn 'long cam Jones's waggin. Ad Jones was sett in' in it so, A readin' of a paper, Ris mules was goin' powerful slow, F'or he had tied the lines into The staple of the scraper. Che mules they stopped about a rod From me, and went to feedin' Longside the road upon the sod; But Jones (which he had took a nod) Not knownin' kept a readin'. Ad presently says Jones: "Hit's true; That Ciisby's* head is level. Char's one thing farm'ers all must do Co keep themselves from goin' tew Bankruptcy and the devil! 'More corn! More corn! Must plant less ground, And mustn't eat what's boughten! %ext year they'll do it; reas'nin's sound! And cotton will fetch ibout a dollar a pound, Therefore I'll plant all cottod!)" -- -IDNEY LANIEic. *At that time editor of the Macon Lelegraph. skewered and Cured. "First I was skewered and then I was cured," says Jones, and he laughs eagily over his little joke. Well, let urn laugh. Let laugh who wins. He vas skewered th]rough and throughi by< lyspepsia and its attendant train of Ils. He was cured by Dr. Pierce's rolden MIedical Discovery. Do you eel. dull, languid, low-spirited ; ex >erieuce a sense of fullness or bloating fter eat i:g, tongue coated, bitter or< >ad taste in the mouth, irregular ap- t itite, dizziness, frequent headaches, ervous prostration or exhaustion, hot lushes alternating with chilly sensa ions, sharp, biting transient pains here nud there, cold feet, drowsiness after 2eals, wakefulness. cr disturbed and nrefreshing sleep, constant and indes-a ribable feeling of dread, or of impend ig calamity ? t These are symptoms of Bilious Dys- E epsia, or Torpid Liver, associated t ith Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Dr. a ierce's Golden Tiedical Discovery I ill subdue the cause, if taken accord- h g to directions, for a reasonable length 5 f time, or money paid for it will be e 1erfnull refunded. e Rev. Dr. B. Br. Palmer on the Louisiana Lottery. Following are extracts from the speech of Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, de livered at a public meeting of the An ti-Lottery League of Louisiana, held in the Grand Opera House, in New Orleans. "I lay the indictment againsz the Lottery Company of Louisiana that it is essentially an immoral institution, whose business and avowed aim is to propagate gambling throughout the country. This being not simply a nui sance, but even a crime, no Legisla ture, as the creature of the people, nor even the people themselves in conven tion assembled, have the power to legit imate it, either by Legislative enact ment upon the one hand or by funda mental charter upon the other. In other words. I lay the indictment against the Louisiana Lottery Com pany that its continued existence is incompatible, not only with the safety, but with the being of the State." * * * * * "Indeed. sir, if the worst should come to the worst in this present cam paign, I for one could wish that all the Z technicalities being swept away, there might be some method by which the question could be carried up to Su preme Court of the United States, whether it is competent to aiy State in the Union to commit suicide. And if that venerable Court should return an answer, which I think they would not for a moment consider as possible, I would then, 'for my part, make the appeal to the virtue and common sense of the masses of our people, that the very instinct of self-preservation may stamp out of existence an institu tion which is fatal to the liberties and to the life of the commonwealth. * * * * * "Suppose there should be an organi zation effected in this city for Thug gery-aud, by the way, we have had some little experience of that of late, when all the machinery of human jus tice proving inadequate to defend the safety and life of the cummonwealth, extra legal measures were necessitated, under the instinct of self-preservation, to stamp out the existence of the Mafia in our midst. Now, Sir, Iput the Lot tery upon the same moral plane." * * * * * Let me illustrate this so that it shall be understood by all present to-night. That Company issues, if ou 1 a i g $500,000. It 000 of that and deposit own locker as its portion of the der. It then takes the other half, the $250,000, and divides it into twenty five shares of $10,000 each and puts those into the wheel, and the 500 men may take their chances as to which of $10,000 each and puts those into the wheel, and the 500Omen may take their chances as to which of them shall get these twenty-five prizes. * * * * Now, Sir, let the Lottery exist five and twenty years. If on.!y twenty-five men out of the five hundred succeed in gaining what the Lottery promises, how long will it take to transfer the entire wealth of the State of Louisiana into the hands of one out of twenty of its citizens? What will be the condi- - tion of things when one-twentieth of the population own everything upon the soil, and let me ask, sir, how long is any community going to stand that sort of a thing? When 'the country - has been led straight up to the verge of the precipice, do you suppose that, like a herd of bufabloes, all the people 7 of this State are going to ?iap that precipice into the boilIng and hissing depths below ? No, Sir, they must and they will recoil, and if this Lottery cannot be destroyed by forms of law, it must unquestionably, be destroyed by actnal revolution." AGood Way to'Reit. [From a Lecture by Dr. J. H. Kellogg.] When a person is in health, change of occupation is the best kind of ret If your legs are tired you can rest them by using your arms ; if your arms are tired you can rest them by using yourp legs ; if one part of your brain is tired you can rest it by taking up a totally different line of mental work. Dif ferent sets off muscles and different ~ parts of the brain become congested by prolonged use, and a change draws the blood elsewhere and allows the over-wearied parts to become refreshed by the oxygen which a fresh blood sup ply brings in. If a man works con stantly at brain work without indulg ing in muscle work, the waste matter accumulates in the brain and is not permitted opportunity for oxygenation wd removal. Intervals of deep breath ing are exceedingly restful, especially to the brain-worker. Work is healthful, and it is very seldom that people break down from >ver-work. They break down much nore frequently from lack of care of ;he physical machine and from table mnd othe. excesses. The digestive or rans frequet t from >vertaxed, while it is very ; t he brain or the muscles fail as the re ult of any direct strain. "Certain hard words made into pills Simply to swell the doctor bills."s re not what constitute Dr. Pieree's "leasant Purgative Pellets. They are iny, sugar-coated, purely vegetable ills as pleasant as confectionery to the aste, and acting upon the stomah nd liver gently but effectually sudas aturally as Nature herself. 11torsIek eadache, indigestion, biliopjess, con tipation, and all the resulting dis ases, no laxative equale to them has