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ANTI-SUBTIZEASURY.
An Effort on the Part of Con,ervatIvc
Members of tho Order to Emancipa
pate the A]Iauce froim the Control
of Scheming 11ollticlans and De
S141ning Denagogues.
Au;.gst 12, 1891.
To the uiemers of the Farmers Alii
ance and Industrial L7nion, and of
the Farmers an(I Laborers' Union
of the United States:
BRoTIER:-Thi! comrulicati.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
6% Tuesday (15th day) of September, 1891.
a meeting of the Alliance brothers of
W o 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 nLke all arrange
ments necessary for the convention re
ferred to above.
We have corresponded with the gen
eral managers of a number-of railroads,
and find that they are willing to give
Vreatly reduced rates upon their roads
to all delegates attending this meeting.
A basis of rapreseutation 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
bers 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
on the part of the lovers 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 amount 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 efort we
entertain no doubt,
We especially ask that all newspapers
in the United States will reproduce this
communication with the -ppended reso
lutions.
Communications addressed to Hon.
W. S. McAllister, Canton, Miss.; Hon.
Will L. Sargent, Rayner, Tex.; or to
U. S. Hah, :\t Hubbard, Randolph
county, Mo., :11 be promptly ans
wered.
Yours fraternally,
U. S. HALL, Chair., Hubbard, Mo.
W. S. MCALLISTER, Canton, Miss.
WV. L. Sar.GENT, Rayner, Texas.
Committee.
R EsoLUTIONS.
We, the anti-subtreasury members of
the~ National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union, recognizing the grave
and responsible duties resting upon us
as farmers and citizens and members of
our beloved order, the Farmers' Alli
ance, hereby present 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
mer's' 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 brought about
in a strictly non-partisan sense an'd
muanner; and
Whereas We declare to the world in
our constitution that the Alliance
would ever advocate "equal rights to
all and special favors to none;" and
'Whereas, We declared to the world
through the Alliance that we would
miake no war upon any of the legiti
iuate 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 admittance into or turned
out of the order en account of any be
lief he might hold on political q1ues
tions; and
Whereas, We felt assured that this
organization would bedirected 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 wvar; and
Whereas, We nor- find that the
purposes and objects of the order have
been defeated and the organization de
flected and turned from its original
purpose and intention in the following
manner and ways:
1. By violating the plainest principles
and declarations of our const itution, by
advocating and declaring in favor of
the sub-treasury an:d land loan scheme
and the governmewnt ownership of rail
roads.
2. By debarring persons from mem
bership an1d office for opinion's sake.
3. By putting men in important
otlices and keeping them 'there, wvho
are known and have p)rov'ed themselves
to be dishonest, mercenary and corrupt,
and have conitinuedi them in such
offices.
4. By falsely a nd maliciously denoun~
cing the just ard honest chosen repre
elected to serve in public trust, although
the honesty and fidelity of such public
serva,;ts have be,en proved by long and
faithful service.
.5. By trying to direct and turn the
organizations of the farmers and
laborers of our land from one of the
greatest curses of the age-the protec
tive tarifl'systeni-and to commit them
to the national curse of class legisla
tion. r
6. By placing in the highest official
positions of our national and state oi ders
men who are not farmers, not have any 1
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 I
the order, both state and national, t
consorting with the enemies of good r
government against the true interests a
of the people, and corruptly endeavor- t
ing by dishonest methods to fasten upon d
the people the protective tariff and s
railroad combination-two of the evils
that the Alliance was created to put 1
down and destroy.
S. By private individuals in the Alli- i
ance, through corrupt and mercenary
motives, buying up the state and na- I
tional official organs of our order, there- i
by centralizing the power of this orga
nization and that of the millions of
farmers in it for the purpose of the per
sonal aggrandizement and political I
ambition and corrupt ends of these t
men.
9. By changing our order from its C
non-partisan character into a partisan 3
body, by applying partisan politic4a r
tests to membership and office-holding
in e.r order, and by declaring in a
statute passed at Oca.la, December, 1890, a
and by proclamation of our national .
president, that when the majority of
the National Alliance promulgated any
political principle, demand and heresy, b
that every Allianceman must subscribe
to and conform to sue h political prin
ciple; therefore be it
Resolved, That we denounce the sub
treasury and land-loan schemes and
governmental ownership of railroads as
violations of the first principles of good
government, as paternal in their char- S
acter, as centralizing in their tenden
cies, and if enacted into law would
create such a horde of national office
holders as would fasten the clutches of
the party in power upon the throats of
the people so strongly that the voice of
honest, patriotic citizens would no
longer be heard in the control of govern- t
mental affairs.
We further denounce these measures h
as being a violation of the constitution n
of our beloved order. c
That we denounce C. W. Macune and i
his corrupt methods; together with the I
acts of his tools and henchmen, as
being a disgrace tc the order, and ac
stench in the nostrials of all honest
men who know of their corruption and t
villiany, and thus point out to the
order by continuing such men as this t
in power they are enabled, by betraying i
us and onr interests, to most effectually t
chain us to the juggernaut cars of c
monopoly,
We further demand that those men
who are not farmers be removed from t
the national.and state offices of our 1
order, and that none but those who
have their interest in farming be al
lowed to fill such places, to the end
that the legislatures of our government c
may know that when the Allianee e
speaks it is the voice of the farmers and
laborers of our land, instead of the wish g
of some paid tool of monopoly and b
corruption. We now appeal to all a
honest members -of the Alliance t
throughout the United States in behe'fb
of the poor and oppressed of our land ~
whom these base men have betrayed, n
in the nr.me of our wives and children, g,
who euMt t relieved, if at all, by the v
united action of the farmers of this v
country, in the name of ;good 'govern- ~
ment, to unite with us in putting down
this common enemy and disgrace of
our order. To this end we most ear
nestly recommend that the brother
Alliancemen of the United States c
would meet in national convention at t<
St. Louis, on the third Tuesday of h
September, 1891- r4
Da. WV. B. MfoaRow,
R. C.EBRAGG, n
T. M. SMnTH, p
C. C. BELL, b
DAVmD BUIST, ' a
iR. N. WEISIG ER, g
M. D. BU-RNEY, c.
D. MCCUNNINGHIAM3, 0
WILL L. SARGENT, p
J. C. E~ASTERLING, S
A. F.LANDEN, s'
U. S. HALL, u
W.S. McALLIsTER,
Conmmittee. v
a:
A Queer Coincidence,
[From the Courier-Journal.] p
WAsrINGTON, August 16.--A queer et
coincidence is being noted to-day by ai
the employees of the White House in Ir
connection with the death of Mrs. Jas. a1
K. Polk. Yesterday morning's mail o1
brought to the mansion, among other t
packets, a letter addressed to that lady,
"care of the White House.'' It was for- ai
warded without attracting any particu- w
lar notice beyond the comment that it to
was odd that any one should send mail w
matter to Mrs. PolIk her'e, after forty h
years had elapsed since her occupation I
of the President's mansion. But when ti
latter in the day the death of that d:
estimable lady was announced, the al
oddity of the incidtent was doubly im- s
WOMEN AND THE11. DESS.
lengible Vicw, on a Queition Now Bother
Ing the -rains or a C-rtain Set.
[From the New York Sun.]
A great many of intelligent women
elong to Chautauqua a-d other sum
ner schools of learning. Though never
member I have long been an admi
er of them. I have been also in full
all sympathy with the plan %nd scope
f their work. But I think that Chau
auqua irs somewhat exceedcd her
)ounds when she has entered the .rena
f discussion of dress reform.
I confess I am not much surprised to
war women prate of the necessity of a
eform in their dress, when they have
o readily adopted, since last season,
he foolish and untidy fashiQn of trail
ng skirts for the street as well as in
oors. Now, while I do not profess to
>e possessed of any more common sense
han the average daughter of Eve, I
nust say I have a clear conseience and t
record, as they say in the nomencla
ure of the turf, of never allowing my
ress skirts to do the work of street
weeping. I have lived ofttines in
ashionable New York hotels and, when
he same fashion struggled for supremn
cy several years ago I was never guil
y of adopting it. Nor did I thereby t
essen the dignity of my character or t
ny self-respect in thus manifesting my
udependence.
I think there are two reforms needed
D. the fair sex at the present day. One
s perhaps a reform in their dress, but
aramount to that is a reform for
hemselves in the possession of a
:reater modicum of practical, sound
ommon sense. Much is being written
ast now affirming the necessity for a
eform in their dress, a suitable habili
aent for women for business. Nurner- -
us devices have been suggested such as
, divided skirt-mayhap a return of
he old Bloomer costnme-baggy Turk
ih trousers, and a jacket; cr, most
ecent of all, a combination skirt, one
talf trousers, the othe:- !alf a flowing
vidth of material at the back.
What I consider is the only reform
Leeded for woman's dress is for a sim
le, neat-fitting dress, aniple enough in
alness for ease of gait, the skirt of the
ress to escape the ground by a couple
f inches, a comfortably fitting corset, -,
hort at the hips, and not tightly t
iced, the neck dressed medium high,
nd a loose enough fitting sleeve, and I
igh enough at the shoulder to admit .
f an easy play of the arm and hand for I
hatever purpose its owner requires of t
The dress may vary in texture and
legance of embellishment according to
he purse and social status of the s
rearer and the occasion upon which it (
i worn. With such a dre.gs a woman t
2ay be free to promenade Fifty avenue,
limb a mountain side, take long walks
ke our English cousins, or go to busi
ess like so many American girls. It
ill give ease and freedom to the play
f every muscle and make a woman
ttractive, which is her proper ambi
ion. But I confess it is unfortunate to
bronicle the tendency too much f, r
usiness pursuits here in America. WVe
ave too many business women. Ifa
ey were relegated to the'domestic I
ircle, woman's natural sphere, our C
:s and brothers would find an ample C
eld for themselves and less competi- e
ion. The result would be seen in ear
er marriages. The men could then a
etter afford to marry, and girls would '
ot have to be business women. T
Of course there must be always ex- 1:
ptions to this rule, where women a~
ust work to keel) the wolf from the t
oor; but pray, dear good Chautauqua 5
iends, don't think that we are all
usiness women, for Heaven's sake, r
od must needs done a business suit of s
rousers like the men! Let us renmem- t
er that there are more not in busi- s
ess, and have something to say or the r
eeds of their sex in general. I speak C
>r honest wifehood and motherhood b
*hen I say that such talk and the ad- d
ancement of such ideas only lessons a
ian's respect for '-ur sex.
Unfortunately these are days of wan- r
mg chivalry. Man has less respect for f:
-oman than formerly, as he nowadays -fi
istes her elbows in tihe crowded horse a
irs and elevators of our great down- i
>wn business buildings, as she calls a
erself a "business woman.'' I for one f
gret the loss of the word "lady" and si
entleman." Since "men and wo- h2
en" have become the fashionable
ulance there is less courtesy shown k
y the two sexes to each other. "Rob t.
rose of its blush, and its beauty is el
me." I heard a gentleman, and a it
ose observer of human nature, say the b,
her evening while discussing the al
resent tendency among women to un- p
x themselves: "A blushing girl of t,
veet 16 is at the present day almost an 01
aknown quantity." 1
The chec and sangfroid of so many
mng women is not born of sweetness Y
2d purity of heart. I do not wish to P
considered au old fogy, far from it,
r I am heart and soul with every
ase of progress in this nineteenth
ntury. Uut I dlo aflirm that women
e too much unsexing themselves try
g to be mannish, and there' y they
e losing the respect and admiiration ~
men in general and of any one manb
particular. at
I believe marriage to be the propert
id laudable ambition of every young a
oan, But let me say she is not
king the right course whereby to
in man's love and respect and make
er the the chosen partner of his-life.
believe that our ed~donfis not prac- Pi
:al enough. A-ffoking class and a be
-essmaking class should be as much bl
iaccessory of every one of our higher ti'
hools and colleges as Latin or mathe- A
If woman understood better nlow to
,stablish and maintain a home by
neans of this practical traiiiug, young
nen could afford to marry on conipara
iuely small salaries. Inasmuch as
is our girls are too extravagant (they
vant to begin where their parents left
)f1) young men instead seek the clubs,
Lnd 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. Ynting
nen frequently go to the bad, and the
;irls are dragged with them, like a
naelstrom.
If we want to preserve the chastity
>f our young people and the peace of
>ur nation, our young people must
narry; and let us stop talking about
irls going to business, and of what
cind of r. dress reform is necessary for
uch a purpose! Let women be clothed
vith purity, and have "the ornament
>f a meek and quiet spirit" of old-fzish
oned Gospel description if they wish
o fulfill their mission in life, and Cbau
auqua may then busy herself with
uore exalted questions of woman's
eeds. CLARA CONANT GILsoN.
The Growth of Southern Cotton MI1s.
It is necessary to compare very often
he statistics of the South's manufac
uring interests with the census figures
>f ISSO, that the maguitude of the pro
,ress made may be more fully appre
:iated. From Dockham's Textile Di
ectory, just published, the Manufac
urers' Record has compiled the statis
ics showing the number of cotton
pindles in the South as compared with
880, as follows:
1891. ISSO.
No. of No. of
Spindles Spindles.
Uabama...............102,519 49,432 1
rkansas.............. 10,625 2,015 1
lorida...... ........... 1,300 816
'eorgia.................484,983 198,656
)entucky............. 47,287 9,022
ouisiana.............. 61,168 6,09G
ilaryland.............175,500 125,700
4ississippi....... 57,420 18,568
orth Carolina.....423,192 92,385
outh Carolina.....463,424 82,334
.'ennessee.............121,911 35,73G
'exas................... 86,734 2,648
"irginia............... 91,760 44,340
Total............2,130,823 667,854
Thus, since 1880, the South's cotton
nanufactureres have more than trebled
he number of spindles, showing an in
rease from 667,000 to 2,130,000. Georgia
eads in the number of spindles, having
84,9S3, closely followed by South Caro
ina with 403,424, North Carolina being i
bird with 423,192. These three States
iave paid more attention to cotton t
nanufacturing than any others, and t
ave developed a great industry that is
teadily adding to their prosperity.
)ther Southern States should follow
heir example. The South, which pro- s
luces the cotton, must manufacture it. c
7he total number of spindles in the E
;nited States is 15,497,302, against 14,- c
57,024 in 1889 and 13,470,981 in 187.
nePractical Experiment in Les Cotton.
I Lancaster Ledger.]
As will be seen elsewhere the county
liance has passed a resolution not to
lant but ten acres to the mule, horse I
r ox, in cotton another year. This is
ne of the best things our alliance has
ver done. It will reduce the acreage
f cotton in this county fully one-half
nd will increcase the area for corn,
rheat, oats, rice, sorghum, potatoes,
eanuts, etc., by just that much. We
ope that every farmer, whether he is
n allianceman or not, will stand by i
be resolution. If they do they will
oon become independent.
If there is one who thinks it will not
ay, we refer him to Mr. H. J. Thom
on. Mr. T. resolved a few years ago ~
bat he would quit cotton, only as a
rplus crop. He reduced his acreage r
aore than the alliance proposes to. He
nly plants seven acres to the horse, b
ut he lives at home. He is indepen
ent. We were at his home a few weeks
go. It looks like living at his house.
>1) bushels of wheat, corn and rough- 1
ess two years old, ten large fa',. hogs,
t cows and yearlings in his pasture,
ne fields of corn, potatoes and pinders
ud only seven acres of cotton that
>oked like it would make a bale to the ci
ere. He said that he quit cotton with p
aar and trembling, but to-day, in- n
ead of running on a lien for supplies, h
e :i independent.
The alliance has at last struck the si
ey-note to prosperity. It is better late
an never. Devote your time to dis- C
ssmng wuat ro raise and how to raise
C
.Get the best methods of farming
y experiment and give your brother
liancemen the benefit of your ex- is
rience. Do your buying and selling C(
>your best advantage. Keep posted gi
i prices and let politics alone. Legis- p
tion will never make the farmer rich.
o this and your order will thrive and c~
>u'll become independent and pros
~rous- t
ta
oudn't Drink Liquor to Save His Life
CHATTANOOGA, August 10.-Henry
illard, a business man of this city
ed suddenly of heart failure. Accord
g to the story told by his relatives he
id always been a hard drinker, and
>ot ten days since swore off. He could
>t be induced to taper off, and when
id that his life depended upon taking
ialcoholic stimulant, he refused to g:
eld and died firm.
A perfect complexion, free from
mnple or blemish, is very rarely seen,
cause few people have perfect:y pure p1
ood. And yet, all disfiguring erup- w
~ns are easily removed by the use of ni
yer's Sarsaparilla. Try it, and stur-t
LINTLESS COTTON.
rhe New Discovery Will Cluse Fortilizer T1
Factories and Revolutionize the
Country.
[.partanburg Herald, 21-it.1
Mr. H. T. Ferguson, of Woodirt'was t!
n the city yesterdy and he brcught a p:
-taff of his celebrated lintless cotton P
.vhich has attracted somuch attention.
rhis stalk contained about 300 bolls, J.
ach filled completely with large plump Of
zeed. When ripe the seed are perfectly tl
back, resembling much in appearance h
le seed of sea island cottou. 0]
Lintless cotton has has come to stay. D3
[t is not a freak, but an entirely new fl(
variety, which comes true to the seed
wery year. Mr. Ferguson has taken aT
nuch pains to get the variety perfect P"
tnd this year he will have enough seed W
to plant the entire State. - in
The estimated yield with moderate g1
ultivation on ordinary land is 400 h<
>ushels to the acre. It is as easily Sa
,athered as the ordinary cotton, but Si:
nust he gathered just as the bolls 01
rack, else the seed will drop out of the to
>oli. ri
Mr. Ferguson is confident that lint- th
ess cotton will revolutionize this coun
ry. Four hundred bushels of seed to at
he acre is equal to several sacks of
uano as a fertilizers and the cost of 3
-aising the four hundred bushels is
1othing compared with the cost of com- th
nercial fertizers. 0t
Mr. Ferguson is constantly receiving d
etters of inquiry regarding the new
>lant and expects a large sale of seed. N
i-e says the yield of oil is about one re
hird more than ordinay seed. pr
He had on exhibition also a stalk of at
otton which he grafted on a per.wim- PI
non bush. The leaves of the plant
)ear somewhat of a resemblance to the w:
eaf of the persimmon, but yields no lu
ruit. While it is curious and a fact in
iot generaily known that cotton could ri
e grafted, the discovery is without of
)ractical benefit.
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PRAYEU FOR INGALLS, lit
-- ke
Lnd a Story of a Kansas Girl Who Never AU
Saw a Saloon Until She 1E;NiWf a
ChicagoL
[Fron the Chicago Herald.]
According to the Rev. D. J. Holmes,
)astor of the Lincoln Street Metho
list Church, the only way for the Re
;ublican party to save itself from de- gi
truction is to make prohibition the M
nain plank in its platform. From his ry
>ulpit the other night Mr. Holmes B
hundred against the "evils of the rum
rafflic." in
"What is the cause of the decadence n
f the Republican party in New York, d
1fichigan, Massachsetts, Pennsylvania,
nd Illinois? This decadence, this loss
f power, is due to the abandonment of
reat moral issues. The rank and file dr
f thte party believe in and want to r
tick to the great moral issues that have Gi
,patriotic bearing. But the leaders
vhat .of them ? Well, let us pray for Idu.
hem ; many of thenm need our pray- da~
rs.",
Every head was here bent in prayer. i
Vhen the paster gazed on the up
urned faces again, "John J1. Ingalls-" frc
ie began.
"Pray for him !" a man with a soul
l voice uttered. e
Heads were bowed once more. The
ainister resumed : th
"John J. Ingalls was a classmate of
nine and I have always regarded him
s a friend, but it would have been de
aore seemly for him to make merry at itE
1i mother's grave than to joke as he th
.id in Wisconsin, a few days ago, at th
be alleged failure of prohibition in
Eansas. JoLn J. Ingalls's joke was de
ot founded on fact. A granddaughter oh
f mine visited me from Kansas last th
'eek and she lifted her hands in hor- wI
or when she saw a saloon on Madi. th
>n stroet. It was was the first one slie bu
ad ever seen."
de
LAND LOAN COM!PAN[Es.
-...._ha
he Comptroller-General Says the Foreign de
Company Must Pay Taxes. , frc
[Columbia Record, 19th.] ras~
Comptroller-General Ellerbe has dis- git
>vered that foreign Land Loan com
anies and associations have never
ide any returns in this State yet, and
e is after them. W
The following circular was issued and
'nt to the connty auditors to-day:
EXECUTIVE DEPARrM3ENT, [
FFICE OF CoMP'ROLLER GENERAL,k
COLUM1BIA, S. C., August 19, 1891. asi
ircular No. HI. As
Mr.---, Auditor County, At
DEAR SIR: The Compt roller-General
informed that Foreign Land Loan .Gr
>mpanies and associations doing busi-| a nr
ss in this State have made no returns ing
r taxation, any mortgage or other am
~operty.
Auditors are hereby instructed to as- bh
rtainl from Office of Register of Mesne the
neyance or association, and amounts vet
invested by such companies and en- he
r them as required by law upon their
x duplicates. Auditors will send this the
ice duplicates of all such returns as nic
e thus entered upon their duplicates, he
Respectfully, sto
W. H. E LLE RIE, Compt. Gen.
ing
In Luck. lar
less
[From Truth.]"
"Barrows wvas always lucky." T
"What's happened now ?" ber~
"You know that $500' watch the boys 1E M
.ye him?"th
"Y es."' wit]
"He succeeded ini seiiing it the other anc
v for 814." "
Cor
Few children can be induced to take kno
ysic without a struggle, and no moi
>nder-most drugs are extremely tell
~useating. Ayer's Pills, on the con- the
ry, being sugar-coated, are eagerly
rallowed by the little ones, and are, seer
erefore, the favorite family medicine. ,taste
CoV. XORTHEN SAT UPON.
te Georgia Alilance Refuses to Listen to
Him and Endorses Livingston.
ATLANTA, August 19.-Gov. Northen
ent to the State Alliance to-day, al
iough he was not a member of that
irty, and attempted to overthrow
resident Livingston.
The first move was a motion by the
G. Gibson. The chair ruled him out
order, and Gov. Northen had to take
ie floor. "Mr. President," said he, "I
>ld that the gentleman is not.out of
der. I know something of parlia
entary law, and he is entitled to the
>or."
The answer came amid cheers: "I
n satisfied that you are well versed in
Lrliamentary 'aw and you know as
ell as I do that the gentleman is not
. order until the Convention is reor
tnized." The Governor attempted to
>ld the floor and President Livingston
id sharply: "Let me suggest to you,
r, that you are not entitled to a seat
this floor. You are not a delegate
the convention and you have no
5ht to interrupt the proceedings at
is time."
The Governor remained standing,
id the President said:
"Mr. Northen, you must either take
iur seat or leave the convention."
This raised an uproar, and many of
e members stood crying: "Put him
it." "Throw him out of the win
In the afternoon session Gibsun and
orthen were on hand again with a
solution that, before the body should
'oceed t 'he election of a President,
id investigation should be made of
-esident Livingston's character.
With a mighty shout the resolution
is laid on the table, and then a reso
oion declaring confidence in Col. Liv
gston's integrity and honor was car
d through by every vote but one, that
Mr. Gibson.
The result of this day's work has been
make Livingston the undoubtedT.p)-,
ical boss of Georgia. Holding the
y to the situation in both the Alli
ce and Democratic organizations, he
n do so as he pleases for for at least a
ar to come.
Why He iept Them Near Him.
Hal Reid, the celebrated story teller,
ves the following account of a ser
n he heard in a Kentucky sanctua
from the lips of an eloquent colored
tptist divine, who was known in that
%inity as Brother Jason. Mr. Reid
Dkes the report under oath, and the
,rrative is worthy of more or less cre
nee. Brother Jason seeing that he
is with his people, talked thus :
"Brer's an' sist.en, I gotter grate,
od news disser mawnin.' I dun
.dder dream las' nite. Yasser, I had
earn dat I dun gotter hebben. [Sister
Isey in the amen corner, 'Praise
>rd.']
'Yasser, I dun hadder dream dat I
n got to hebben, an' whenst I got
r I witnessed many sights. I look
t ober in de norf, an' I see way ober
de norf all de Methodists, in de
rf way off from de throne. I 'Glory,'
>m the congregation.]
"Yassir ! an' I look way ober to dE
t, an' see all de Pres-but-erians ober
de east, way off from de throne."
Ain't I glad we's Baptis,' " voices in
i multitude.]
'Yasser ! an' I look way down yon
r to de souf, and see all de Camel
s, down in the souf way off from de
rone. L"DeBabtis'! Babtis' !!Babtis'!!!
e congregation.1
'Yas, sir, an' I look way ober to
west' an' I see all de Calf-licks way
er in ther west, way off from de
cone, an' I look at de throne, and
iatter do you reckon I see on de
rone? Nuffin, brers and sister, nuffin
t Babtis, desser covered wid Blabtis'.
3ory ! amen ! bress Gord!" from a
rout sister.]
'Yasser ! An' I ax de Lawd wy he
b all de Babtis' on de throne, and
Lawd say : ["What ? Brer, WVhat?"
m the congregation.J
'He say, de Babtis' such unreliable
kale he hab to keep 'em wha' he kin
his hans on 'em."
TRUIMED TO sUITHIIS TAsTE.
y an "7ld Confederate Soldier Was Lib
eral in His Charity.
>. Sterritt, in the Galveston News.]
ipeaking of the Grand Army, I heard
tory a few days ago worth repeating.
i was told me it runs in this wise:
one of the encampments of the
md Army of the Republic there was
ian sitting on the sidewalk appeal
to all who passed for alms. His legs
arms had been shot off and he was
id. On his cap he had an appeal in
words: "Pity a blind and crippled
eran." He explained to all where
ost his limbs and his eyes. One of
old veterans would give him a
kel, another a dime, and now then
would get a quarter. Finally a man
>ped in front of him, and after hear
his story said: "Here is a five dol
bill." The tears came from the sight
eyes of the beggar, and he said
ho are you that are so generous?
I me your name, that I may remem
and bless it." The man replied that
rs unnecessary to give his name, as
money could be enjoyed as well
bout it. The blind man insisted,
finally the donor of the bill said:
eli, if you must know, I am an old
federate soldier; and if you want to
w why I give you the amount of I
iey which pleases you so much, I
you I give it to you because you are
first Yankee soldier I have ever
who was trimmed up to suit my c
TALKED TO DEATH.
Her Husband Sees that the Fact is Plainly
Set Forth on Her Gravestone.
[Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean.)
CENTRALIA, Ill., Aug. 7.-Undertak
ers and tombstone men often meet with
strange experiences. This is well illus
trated by an incident that occured re
cently 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
ment and intimated to the business
manager that he wanted a tombstone
for his wife. Manager Leffel, with one
eye to business and the other adjusted t
to a proper expression of sympathy in
his patron's bereavement, proceeded to
show him the large array of designs in
his establishment.
A suitable stone was soon found, and
here the work began. His patron of
I positive countenance had more to do
with the inscription than with the style 1
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 1
that was. The undertaker tried in vain 1
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
years. Finally the tall, lank patron
said:
"Give me your pencil and I'll tell you
what I want." And here it is:
Kiss me and I will go to sl.iep.
S
ALICE,
First and last wife of 1
Thomas Philipt. t
Talked to death byfriends.
No date of birth, no date-ofdeath is
given. The age m.nitted. Thomas z
had but two purposes in his mind-one 9
-Was to let the world know that he -'
would never marry again and the other Y
was to let it know that his wife had t
been talked to death by the neighbors. s
"There ,cow, I want it just as I write e
it; nothing more and nothing less. I u
propose to pay for just what I want." t
Being assured that his wants would i
be strictly compileu with, he paid for t
the monument and, giving directions
where to place it, departed with the sat
isfied air of a man who felt that he had b
got even with somebody. 7
This stone is an actual fact, and stands t
to-day in a cemetary near Boulder, in i
Clinton County, Illinois.
Jones' Private Argument.
d
That air same Jones which lived in
Jones,
He had this p'int abouL nim;
He'd swear, with a hundred sighs and t]
groans, n
That farmers must stop gittin' loans,
And get along withbout 'em;
That bankers, warehousemen and sich t.
Was fattenin' on the planterg
And Tennessee was rotten-rich
A raisin' meat and corn, all which
Draw'd money to Atlanta. t
01
And th' only thing (says he) to do g
Is, eat no meat that's boughten, h
But tare up every I 0 U,
And plant all corn, and swear for true el
To quit a-raisin' cotton. it
it
Thus sprouted Jones (whar folks couldt
hear,
At court and other gatherin's), tl
And thus kept sproutin' many a year, tJ
Proclaimin' loudly far and near
Sich fiddlesticks and hatherins.
But one all-fired sweatin' day, h
ft happened I was hoein' o
My lower corn field, which it lay ii
Along the road that runs my way,
Whar I can see what's goin'. 0
And after 12 o'clock had cum d
I felt a kinker. faggin',t
And laid myself un'neath a plum t
To let my dinner settle some,
When 'long cum Jones's waggin. it
And Jones was settin' in it so,
A readin' of a paper,
His mules was goin' powerful slow,
For he had tied the lines into
Thue staple of the scraper. [
The mules they stopped about a rod
From me, and went to feedin' of
'Longside the road upon the sod; I
But Jones (which he had took a nod) b;
Not knownin' kept a readin'..
And p resently says Jones: "Hit's true; le
That Clisby's* head is level. y
Thar's one thing farmers all must do di
To keep themselves from goin' tew If
Bankruptcy and the devil!
pa
"M.'re corn! More corn! Must plant by
less ground, t
And mustn't eat what's boughten! t
Next year they'll do it; reas'nin's O4
sound! b
(And cotton will fetch 'bout a dollar a p1
pound,s
Therefore I'll plant all cottod!)"
-- -SIDNEY LANIER. In
*At that time editor of the Macon ac<
Telegraiph. pe:
- e an
skewered and Cured. in
"First I was skewered and then I to
was cured," says Jones, and he laughs
deartily over is~ little joke. Well, let
Jim laugh. Let laugh who wins. He sel
wvas skewered through and through by ovi
iyspepsia and its attendant train of m<
lis. He was cured by Dr. Pierce's the
3olden Medical Discovery. Do you
'eel dull, languid, low-spi:ted ; ex- an
>erience a sense of fullness or bloating gaa
ifter eating, tongue coated, hitter or ov,
>ad taste in the mouth, irregular ap- th4
>etite, dizziness, frequent headaches,
iervous prostration or exhaustion, hot sul
lushes alternating with chilly sensa
ions, sharp, biting transient pains here
mnd there, cold feet, drowsiness after
neals, wakefulness. or disturbed and
mnrefreshing sleep, constant and indes- are
'ribable feeling of dread, or of impend- Pie
og calamity ?' ti
These are symptoms of Bilious Dys- pil
~epsia, or Torpid Liver, associated tas
rith Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. Dr. an<
'ierce's Golden Medical Discovery nat
vill subdue the cause, if taken accord- bes
ng to directions, for a reasonable length stij
f time, or money paid for it will be ease
baeey efnded. eve
.Uv. Dr. 13. 3[. Palmer an the Louisiana
Lottery.
Following are extracts from the
;peech of Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, de
ivered at a public meeting of the An
i-Lottery League of Louisiana, held
n the Grand Oera 'e W
)rleans.
"I lay the indictment against the
Lottery Company of Louisiana that it
s essentially an immoral institution,
vhose business and avowed aim is to
,ropagate gambling throughout the
,ountry. This being not simply a nui
ance, but .ven a crime, no Legisla
ure, as the creature of the people, nor
.ven the people themselves in conven
ion assembl.d, have the power to legit
mate it, either by Legislative enact
nent upon the one hand or by funda
nental charter upon the other. In
ther words. I lay the indictment
gainst the Louisiana Lottery Com
any that its continued existence is
neompatible, not only with the safety,
)ut with the being of the State."
"Indeed, sir, if the worst should
ome to the worst in this present cam- - -C
)aign, I for one could wish that all the
echnicalities being swept away, there
night be some method by which the
[uestion could be carried up to Su
reme Court of the United States,
vhether it is competent to any State
a the Union to 3ommit suicide. And
f that venerable Court should return
n answer, which I think they wonId
tot for a moment consideras possible,
would then, for my part, make the
ppeal to the virtue and common
ense of the masses of our people, that
he very instinct of self-pres
nay stamp out of exister :e"an institu
ion which is e liberties and
D thejfer- e commonwealth.
"Suppose there should be an organi
ation effected in this city for Thug
ery-aud, by the way, we have had
>me little experience,of that of late;
ehen all the machinery of human jus
ice proving inadequate to defend the
ifety and life of the cummonwealth,
xtra legal measures were necessitated,
nder the instinct of self-preservation,
stamp out the existence of .ie Mafia
iour midst. Now, Sir, Iput the Lot
.ry upon tL- same moral plane."
* * * * *
Let me illustrate this so that it shall
e understood by all present to-night.
'hat Company issues, if you please, a'
Eousand tickets of $500 a piece, creat
ig thus within its vaults a fund of
500,000. It has first got to take $250,
)0 of that and deposit it safely in its
wn locker as its portion of the plun
er. It then takes the other half, the
250,000, and divides it into twenty
ye shares of $10,000 each and puts
.ose into the wheel, and the 500 men
iay take their chances as to which of
[0,000 each and puts those into the
~heel, and the 500 men may take
ieir chances as to which of them shall
:t these twenty-five prizes. * * * *
Fow, Sir, let the Lottery exist five and
"enty years. If only twenty-five men
it of the five hundred succeed in
lining what the Lottery promises,
ow long will it take to transfer the
~tire wealth of the State of Lol!siara
ito the hands of one out of twenty of
citizens? What will be the condi-2
on of things when one-twentieth of
ie population own everything upon
ie soil, and let me ask, sir, how long
any community going to stand that
)rt of a thing ? When the country
as been led straight up to the verge
the precipice, do you suppose that,
ke a herd of buffaloes, all the people
this State are going to leap ths.t
ecipice into the boillng and hissing
pths below ? No, Sir, they must and .
ey will recoil, and if ti otr
~nnot be destroyed byfomoflw
must unquestionably, b etoe
actnal revolution:"
A Good Way to Reait.
'rom a Lecture by Dr. J. H. Kellogg.]
When a person is in health, change
occupation is the best kind of rest.
'your legs are tired you can rest themi
using your arms ; if your arms are
~ed you can rest them by using you.e
2s; if one part of your brain is tired
u can rest it by taking up a totally
iferent line of mental work. f-.
:ent sets of muscles and different
rts of the brain become congested
prolonged use, and a change draws
eblood elsewhere and allows the
er-wearied parts to become refreshed
the oxygen which a fresh blood sup..
brings in. If a man works con
intly at brain work without indulg
in muscle work, the waste matter
lumulates in the brain aixd is not
rmitted opportunity for oxygenation
d removal. Intervals of deep breath
are exceedingly restful, especially
the brain-worker.
~Vork is healthful, and it is very
dom that people break down from
er-work. They break down much
~re frequently from lack of care of
physical machine and from table
I other excesses. The digestive or
is frequently give out from being
~rtaxed, while it is very seldom that
brain or the muscles fail as the re
t of any direct strain.
'Certain hard words made into pills,
;imply to swell the doctor bills."
not what constitute Dr. Pieree's
asant Purgative Peilets. They are
y, sugar-coated, purely vegetable
Is as pleasant as confectionery to the
e, and acting upon the stomach
liver gently but effectually, ad1as
urally as Nature herself. For sick
dache, indigestion, billounes,con
ation, and all the reut Mis
-s. no laxtive equal t a
r een diseovered. ~ "
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