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"LET YOUl LIGHT 811.IN" iRm & IR WILL FURXISH THE KEROSINE OIL AT 13 CTS. ---PER (iALLON Go and See tlir Wonderful Bargains. FOOT'S OLD STAND. E STA-BIISHED 1865_-7-7777= THE ALLIANCE TAX. What the Farners Pay for Political Instruc tion and Driving Away the Darkness Do the Returni Justify the Outlay. [Greenv.lle News.] It is none of our business as the money does not come out of our pockets and every man has a right to spend his own as be likes, but we are moved to wonder by the great sums of money paid by alliance members in the way of dues and fees. The initiation fee is fifty cents and the dues are a dollar a year. This is not much. The dues are equal to a mill tax on a thousand dol lars worth of property. Yet many of those who pay it cheerfully would pro test vigorously against an increase of their taxes by the same amount. Fur thermore, the members of the Alliance are usually men who comlain much of the army of office holders drawing salaries, fees and expenses from the people. Yet the first practical effect of the alliance is to create a multitude of new officials with salaries and fees. In this State the State president receives $200 a year, the secretary $800, the treas urer $200. The State lecturer is paid $3 a day while on duty. The members of the executive and judiciary committees receive the same. All of these are like wise paid their necessary traveling ex penses and the cost of postage and sta tionery for official correspondence. Offi cers and delegates of the State Alliance are paid $1.50 a day while going to and returning from the State Alliance and in attendance at its meetings, and mile age. Men who complain of the cost of State government and the numbers of office holders, who jealously watch the use of every dollar of public money, create a new State government of their own, a new brigade of office holders and a new tax. In this State we suppose the Al liance men pay from $35,000 to $50,000 a year to support the order. What do they get? What has the order done for them? As we understand, the State and county exchanges are separate from the State Alliance and supported by sepa rate funds. We can see how they can be of practical use to the farmer by sav ing him money in the handling of his goods. We can not see how or where the regular machinery of the order helps the members. Nor do we know .ihere all the money paid in goes to. No doubt it is honestly passed from hand to hand, from sub-Alliance to county Alliance and so on to the State and general organizations. It looks as if there should by this time be a large sum accumulated somewhere for some purpose. Taking the offices, fees, sala ries and allowances as provided for by the State constitution of the order, we can not figure the expenses of the State Alliance at more than $10,040 or $12, 000 a year. If there are 2.5.000 paying members, which is, we suppose, a very low estimate, the income ought to be $2.5,000 a year at the least. Now we would really be glad for such in formatiol' as the obligations of mem bers allow them to give the public. We would like membees who feel that they have received the value of their money and time in practical results from the order during the last year-aside from the operation of the exchanges-to tell us how they received it. There is an army of lecturers abroad being paid salaries and expenses to teach farmers and others politics. Some of them are men who no farmer would y pay twenty-five cents to foi- advice on any subject. Some of them, no doubt, have been failures as farmers, business mnand otherwise. Very few of them have had the experience or sudy or are make thmlaesof men or masters of thought or teachersof political ecor. omy yet their teachings, lectures anid speeches are all an outsider can see thai the Alliance rank and file get for their money. Nor can we see where anything more practical is offered. Alliance men pay their tax and are instructed to work and vote for the sub-treasury and other -demands. In the first place,a - 't ny of them who pay do not * ?demnands. In the second, ' to facts anid figurei diemna*'is a long .ecould select -se oif re-pre ce. ove:rnl4 some thtth r~er shal onesde ad atetabsnes .vn poities. ou hav the majri in hi cuntyndca gti fr t mon n meaure fo lik wrehout big salaried organization and army of lecturers at day wages to tell you how. Demand that the Alliance undertake something it can do and do now to bet Ler your condition-to help you get better result from your farm or to buy your goods cheaper or help your fanii ly. If it can not or will uot do that pull out and keep your money in your pocket. Watterson's Prose Poem. Henry Watterson is one of those happy, eloquent natures Which grow tender and sentimental npon any oc casion. The spirit of the company he is in largerly colors his thoughts and influences his expression. So it hap pens that at a banquet given in Chicago last Thursday night we find Henry Watterson weeping touchingly over the memory of Gen. Grant and add ing the most exquisite tribute that was offered at the unveiling of the Grant monument. The chandeliers at the Palmer House were very bright on the evening of the banquet of the Army of the Tennessee. Judge Gre sbam, the orator of the day, was there, as was Editor Joseph Medill, James Whitcomb Riley and Henry Watterson. Mr. Watterson was the second speaker. "The War Is Over; Let Us Have Peace," was the toast, and his words aroused a perfect tum ult ol enthusiasm among the men who many a time in years gone by had dodged Confederate bullets. Mr. Wat terson, in his speech, paid thii tribute to Gen. Giant : I came here, primarily, to bow my head and to pay my measure of hom ag3 to the statue that was unveiled to day. The career and the name which that statue commemorates belong to me no less than t you. When I fol lowed him to the grave-proud to ap pear in his obsequies, though as the obscurist of those who bore any official part therein-I felt that I was helping to bury not only a great man, but a true friend. From that day to this the story of the life and death of Gen. Grant has more and more impressed and touched me. I never allowed myself to make his acquaintance until be had quitted the hybite House. The period of his polit ical activity was full of uncouth and partisan contention. It was a kind of civil war. I had my duty -to do, and I did not dare trust myself to the sub. duing influence of what I was sure to follow friendly relations between such a man as he was, and such a man as I knew myself to be. In this I was not mistaken, as the sequel proved. I met him for the first time beneath my own vine and fig tree, and a happy series of accidents, thereafter, gave rne the op portunity to meet him often and to know him well. He was the embodi ment of simplicity, integrity, and courage ; every inch -,general, a sol dier, and a man ; but th a circumstances of his last illness a figure of heroic pro portions for the contemplation of the ages. I recall nothing in history so sublime as the spectacle of that brave spirit, broken in fortune and in health, with the dread hand of the dark angel clutched about his throat, strugglng with every breath to hold the clumsy, unfamiliar weapon with which he sought to wrest from the jaws of death a little something for the support of wife and children when he was gone ! If he had done nothing else, that would have made his exit from the world an immortal epic ! A little while after I came home from the last scene of all I found that a woman's hand had collected the insig. nia I had worn in the magnificent, melancholy pageant-the orders as signing rme to duty and the funeral scarfs and badges-and had grouped and framed them ; unbidden, silent ly, tenderly . and when I reflected that the handt- that did this were those of a loving Southern woman, whose father had fallen on the Confederate side in the battle, I said :"The war indeed is over ; let us have peace!' Gentlemen, soldiers, comrades, the silken fo)lds that twine about us here fo)r all the:ir soft and careless grace, art yet as strong~ as books of steel ! They holdi together a united p)eople and great. naitiona for, re.alizing the truth at laM,- wi th nof wo,unrds to be healed and nio stings of defeat to remember-thie Mouth says to the North, as simply and a. truly as was said 3000 years ago it that far-away meadow upon the mar gin of the mystic sea : "Whither thot goest I will go; and where thou lodg "st I will lodge ; thy people shall be m: people and thy God my God." 'woman's Suffer-age" swhat a witty woman called tha u i' cd of life which all middle-age a d;i through, and during which s h aen;.iy to think they mius't suff'er-tha , ore intended it so. The same lad: i ed : "If you don't believe i: S-woman 's sufT'erage,' there is one ballo Iwhich will eflectuxally' defeat it-Dri Pierce's F'avorite Prescription." Thi is true. not~ only at the period of mid dIe life, but at all ages when wome1 suffer from uterine dliseases, painfu irregularities, infIlamimat ion, u lceratio: or prolaipsus, the "Favorite Prescrij tioni" s' strengthens the weak or di: eased organs and enriches the blood thait years of health and enjoyment ari Sadded to life. The'1~ aproni strings of an America Cmomi r are nmade of India rubber. iI< g boy belongs where he is wanted.-Ol v~er Wen dell Hlolmfles. itSuecess in life is the result of pusi -. and energy. If the blood is imnpu. r and sluggish, both body and mind lac .vigo.. To cleanse and vitalize ti bl>od and imip art new life-to the sy etemn, nothmng else has such a marveloi DEATH OF GEN. W. H. F. LEE. A Brave and Distinguished Confederate Of ficer Gone to His Rest. [Special to News and Courier.1 ALEXANDRIA, VA., October 15. Gen W. 1-1. F. Lee. second sou of Gen. R. E. Lee died, at his home in Ravens worth, Fairfax County this evening, aged 54. On receipt of the intelligence of his death all the bells in the city were tolled. He had faithfully repre sented this district for two terms in Congress and was member-elect of the next House. The cause of his death was heart trouble and dropsy. EFFECT OF TH E NEWS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, October 15.-The news of Gen. Lee's death caused pro found regret throughout this city, where he was well known and sincere ly loved. He served on the District committee with Mr. Hemphill, of South Carolina, and was a devoted friend of Col. Elliott, who was his col lege chuln in Harvard. R. M. L. Gen William H F Lee was born at Ar lington,Va.,May 31,-I837. In 1857, while completing his education at Harvard College, was appointed second lieuten ant in the 6th regiment, United States infantry, and in 1858 he accompanied his reg:ment in the expedition to Utah against the Mormons, commanded by Col. Albert Sidney Johnston. He re signed his commission in 1859 and re turned to Virginia, and took charge of his estates in the county of New Kent. In 1861 he raised a company of caval ry and joined the Army of Northern Vir ginia, served in every grade successively from captain to major general of caval ry; was wounded at Brandy Station -in June, 1863; was captured in Hanover County and taken to Fortress Monroe. In 1863 he was transferred to the United States prison at Fort Lafayette, where he was confined till Marah, 1864, when he was transferred to Fortress Monroe and exchanged. He immediately re turned to his command and served throughout the campaign of 1864, sur rendering with Gen. Lee at Appomat tox. After the war he resumed the management of his plantation, on which he continued to reside till 1874, when he removed to Burke Station, near Alexandria, where he died. He represented his Senatorial district in the State Senate for one tercl, de clining a renomination; he had been president of the State Agricultural So ciety, and was extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was elected to the 50th Congress, and was re-elected to the 51st Congress, and again to the 52nd. THE RAILROADS WILL FIGHT. They Will Not Accept the COILOn Rates as Fixed by the Commtission. ISpecial to the Register.] CHARLESTON, S. C., Oct. 1.-It is learned on good authority here that the South Carolina, Richmond and Dan ville and Atlantic Coast Line Rail roads will fight the new cotton rates adopted by the consultation and afe only waiting the decision of the Ri<:h mond and Danville road to file the necessary papers to take the case into court. No official notice has yet been re ceived by the railroad authorities for the Commission. If the Richmond and Dan ville- people go into it the the fight will be a bitter one. It is said that the rate fixed by the Com mission is 20 per cent. lower than be fore. Connecticut's Smallest Baby Dead. NoxRwALl(, Oct. 1.-Connecticut's smallest baby is dead. It passed quietly away last evening arnd was buried this morning in a miniature grave near its home. The midget was a girl, and its parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Baroleo, live in a big tenement on Chapel street. Mr. Baroleo is an Italian, and his wife is a pretty Irish girl. They were mar riedl four years ago. The husband is a shoe dealer and is the proprietor of a prosperous little business on Main street. When his child wvas born it weighed rine ounces only, and on the day of its death, two months later, it weighed less than a pound. The baby's head was smaller than a league base ball, and its legs were so small that an ordinary finger ring could be slipped over its foot and passed up* the leg tc -the thigh. The arms were no larger than pipe stemns. The midlget fed on milk from a spoon, a few drops only being all it required at a tinme. tLand Poor. [Dover Jo4urnal.] .Thousands of farmers are "land poor' and1( will remain so to thre end of their t lives. How absurd it is to pile up -treasures in many more times land than can be prop)erly operated. The wise and happy mien are those operat 1ing small farms to their fullest capa city and enjoying life as they go along, Holding on to a section or two may o1 ,may not be a good thing for one's chil e dren or grandchildren, but it certainl~ keeps moany a man's nose to the grind stone continually. The nomber of acre! n properly worked that will .insure thi r old folks a good, comfortable living i- allowing themf to take a trip or soml sort of recreation once every year o. two and a small surplus over the cosi h of educating their children, is the size -e farm to have. Many men who couk k easily be well to do, however, prefer t< re be always head and ears in deCbt ir order to add more acres to their alread; too large holdings. BtILL ARV-S EETTER~. The Older He Grows the More Money He Wants-Traveling oboervations. [From the Sunny South.] It's just awful to get along without money. It looks like the older I grow the less money-l have and the more it takes to get aloig and keep up with the wants of the family. An old friend told me the other day that St. Paul made a mistake, or else the translators did, for it was the lack of money that was the root of all evil and not the love of it, and he said also that the best bond to bind the family together was for the old man to have a healthy bank account. A surplus that could be drawn upon when the children were in need. I don't admit the truth of either proposition, but I do say that money is a good thing to have in the family, and I wish that everybody had a surplus that was honestly earned. I would risk our preacher on that, I wish his saiary was $2,000 instead of,1, 000. About this time of the year my wife, like a prudent woman, begins to men tion incidentally along the wants of the family and how the beds need re furnishing, for the sheets are about worn out, and will be obliged to have some new blankets and the girls must have some winter garments and the whole family will ijeed shoes, and she winds up by saying "and you need undershirts and socks a decent suit of winter clothing. You look right shabby and it don't become you. At your time of life you ought to dress more like a gentleman. You have worn those pan ts until they ara right slick and they have drawn up and are baggy at the knees. I was right ashamed of you last Sun d-ty."7 "I can't keep up with my expenses," said I, "I owe some money, and they are dunning me pretty hard. I don't know how we iWll get along this winter unless something turns up. But I am hopeful and trusting in Providence, for He has never failed us yet." The next mail brought me letters from Arkansas, inviting me to visit Pine Bluff and a fair at Warren and offering me $300, and as Mrs. Arp perused them she said, "Well, William, that is all right. You say money is so tight here you had better accept the offer and go where it is loose, but you must take care of yourself. You know that you can't stand what you used to." So in due time I took the train for Chattanooga, and it is really a plea sure, a luxury, to ride on Mr. Thomas's road. From there I took a sleeper fox Memphis over the Memphis and Char. leston railroad, and was agreeably sur prised to find how much that road ha been improved since I last travelle over it. We made the 300 miles ir eleven hours, and thai is fast enougl for anybody. At Memphis I took th( Little Rock train for Brinkley and Pine Bluff. We left the depot at 7 o'clocl p. in., and soon stopped at the river t< wait for the ferryboat. And we dih wait, for the boat was bringing a circus across, and we never got off until o'clock. It took us another hour t< cross, for the river was very low, and they had to dodge the sandbars. An< when the locomotive backed down t< pull us up from the boat it carried uj the first three cars very well; but wher it backed down to take up the passen ger cars and had pulled us up abou half way an alarm was given that thi headblock of the sleeper was pulling out, and just such a rumpus was neve heard. "All hands to the breaks somebody cried, and the engine comn menced backing, backing, backing, an< before we knew it we were all on th boat again. But I tell you it was alarm ing, especially to the sleeper, for if tha headblock had have pulled out tha car wvould have never stopped untili run through the ferry boat and into th river. Well, it took another hour to repai the headblock and make the connet tions secure, and at last, about 11 o'clock wegot off, and then such a road.I is just a sin for any State to allow suce a track to be used. The cars actugll: jump off of the very trestle. You ca feel the jump and they sway sideway like an oscillating engine and mov along with the double wabbles. Strang to say, these trains hardly ever jum the track, and I can't explain it unles it is as a man said, the track is straigi: and the wheels have got used to tb bumps and hollows. We were due:e Pine Bluff at 1 o'clock, but never g< there until day-light, and it was a lon andI miserable night. "Sorrow ei dureth for a night, but joy comethi the morning," and so I went to be thankful and relieved and slept for few hours. The Truelock hotel is good one, and( I enjoyed it, and when I was ready for breakfast I too my seat in a luxurious dining roor and was presented with a giltedge bi of fare, and I picked out a poterhous steak and break'ast bacon, and sat sages, and cream toast, anId eggs a Truelock, and potatoes a la somethin: else, and coflee, etc. Thinks I to mn' self, I'll take a liberal variety and e: what I like best. I never noticed 11 little figures away off on the miargii I thought I was in a hotel, I dic Well I partook of the well cooke Iviands, and the polite and attenti' waiter stood by and fanned me like was a prince. When I had finished I laid a slip of paper by my plate and saw $1.25 marked on it in plain, lari figures. Then I glanced at the gil edge card and saw the little figures a< jncent to every thing I had ordered., at I considered myself the injured perso I never said anythlin g-nc a word Sbut with lordlyv mien I walked up) like a gentleman. But I shall always think that the landlord ought to let the guest know in some way that he lodges you rnd that the other felwr feeds you. I knew there was one way to get even with him, and that was to do without dinner, which I did. I like Pine Bluff, though I didn't see the pine nor the bluff. The pine has been cut down and the bluff caved in, but it is a delightful little city of 12,00) or 15,000 people, mostly black and mu latto. The town is well laid off and solidly built up, and the streets paved and thesuburban residences spacious and home like. New and handsome houses are going up all the time. The streets are crowded with wagons loaded with cotton and the negroes throng the sidewalks and laugh and joke and spend their money free. A fine-look ing mulatto named Wiley Jones owns all the street car lines and is said to be worth a quarter of a million, and says he would give it all to be a white man. He is highly esteemed by the white people, and lends all his influence to keep peace between the races. This county sends three negroes to the legis lature. Pine Bluff handles more cot ton and does more business for its size than any city in the west; everybody seems to be prosperous and their busi ness increasing. I wanted to see Mr. Howell, one of the eight brothers who were raised near Rome, and who are now running eight compresses at differ ent points tnd have made fortunes. His place of business was pointed out to me, but when I called for Mr. How ell a good-natured gentleman said his name was Howell, but he was. not the man I was looking for-"You wish to see the Georgia Howell, but I am bet ter stock than he is, I am from South Carolina." Most everybody here is from Georgia, or South Carolins, or Alabama. The native-born citizens are very scarce and very young. Now if a man can stand the negroes, and face the conflict that may come, Piue Bluff is a good place for a young man to come and settle down to busi ness, but some thoughtful citizen told me that there could be no general pros perity until they got rid of the negro. Their rich lands would never bring-a fair return until a white population cultivated them. It is all cotton, and for miles along the railroads you see nothing but immense cotton fields and negro shanties. On these farms there ought to be raised cattle and sheep, and hogs, and fruit, and there ought to be little tbraving villages with churches and schoolhouses; but there is nothing but miles of cotton and that is badly mixed wi. weeds and grass, for the negroes don't give it but one plowing. I have heard that Pine Blufl is sick1 but I saw no signs of it among her peo ple. I never stood up before a more i healthy looking audience nor a more cultured one. And now I am here in Warren, which is not far from the Louisiana line. It is just 100 miles from Pine Bluff and it took us just thirteen hours to make the trip on one of Jay Gould's roads. It took us seven hours to make thirty-eight miles of it and that is the fastest and the only train he has on it. IBut for good company, who were used to this style of railroads, I should have been desperately mad. As it is, I could with great satisfaction, have Jay Gould tied in that car and made to ride mn it every day for a month. Arkansas needs a railroad comnmissiin badly. Gould Sdoes exactly as he pleases out here, and Scares no more for the comfort of these rpeople than he does for a drove of hogs. Warren is in a different county. -Only about one-third of the population are negroes, and they give no trouble. BThe exhibits at the fair show that -white folks run the machine, and are improving their stock and emulating each other in raising corn and oats and potatoes and hay and fruits of all kinds. The country is filled up with good, old-fashioned, su bstantial people, rwho still believe in a God and a Provi. dence; and in virtue and temperance and a judgment to come. t ~BILL, Aar. A delightfully dainty kind of-farm ing, more elegantly rethestic than grow ing lilies in Bermuda and almost as profitable as raising checks and bani enotes, is that of Mr. Timothy Hopkins pof Menlo Part, California. In a grove of giant oaks Mr. Hopkins has a five tacre patch of violets of the rarest and emost beautifu1 varieties-double whites ~double blues, sky blue, and one variet) ,which is blue with a faint dot of red or one of the petals. The violets are Splanted in rows two feet apart, an under the cool shade and in the lea dmould soil they attain perfection. Fog six months a year the grower ships at aaverage of fifty bunches of violets dail) to San Francisco, and thbe returns ar< not far from the same number of (101 nlars. Both Saint and sinner. ~It troubles the sinner and troubles the asaint, It's a troublesome, trying and nast2 g compllaint, -Don't think it icurable ; I tell youi itain't. Excuse the gram mar ; it's the trl* I'm after, whether gramatically or uu ~gramastically told. The truth is, tha 1catarrh can be cured. The proprietor; dof Dr. Sage's C'atarrh Remedy offe $500 for an incurable case of Catarrh ii the Head. TimE SYMP~ToMS OF CATARRH., iHeadache, obstruction of nose, dis charges falling into the throat, some times profuse, watery and acrid, a others, thick, tenacious, mucus, puru - lent, bloody, putrid and offensive; eve - weak, ringing in the ears, deafness id offensive breath, smell and taste im paired, and general debility. Only: 'few of these symptoms likely to b - resent at once. Dr. Sage's Renmed; to can-the worst cases. Only 50 cente 11 Sold by druggists, everywhere. AFTER 99 YEARS. A Spartanburg Lady Heir to $5O,0o0-That is the Report and It May Prove True. [Spartanburg Herald, 1tth.] Yesterday it was reported on the streets that Mrs. Carrie I leming, of this city, widow of the late Rev. W. H. Fleming, had, by the death of a revela tive in the North, fallen heir to half a million dollars. The Herald has gath ered the following facts in regard to the matter: Just ninety-nine years ago, a wealthy resident in New York city named Ed wards, a near relative of Mrs. Carrie Fleming, of this city, died. At the time of his death for some reason he desired that none of his immediate fani ily shouid share in his estate, so he cou tracted that at his death all the prop erty he owned in New York city, con sisting of twenty-five acres of land, much of it already improved along Broadway and Wall streets, should not be sold but leased for a term of ninety nine years. This was done and it is said the record of the transaction is completed. Mr. Charley Hoke, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Fleming, is equally iuterested, and is now is New York pushing inv(-s tigations. Their attorney, Judge Wyck liffe, of Walhalla, is also in New York, and as thp lease will expire this year, they will take steps at once to recover the property. Mrs. Fleming was a Miss Martin, of Greenville, and it is through her father's relath 3 that she is connected with Ed wards. It is estimated that in the event this claim is established the share of each of their heirs will amount to something over half a mil lion. A BADGE FOR THE BABY. The Vanderbilt Association's Present to Little Miss Cleveland. [Special to Register.] CHARLESTON, S. C., Oct. 15.-The Vanderbilt Benevolent Association of Charleston has sent to ex-President Cleveland a very handsome souvenir badge of the association for his little daughter Ruth. When the baby was born the association passed a resolu tion of congratulation and directed that a souvenir badge be especially pre pared and forwarded in the name of the association to Miss Cleveland in compliment to herself and as a mark of our high regard for her honored parents. The badge is of gold and of the finest workmanship. On the ob verse it contains the monogram of the association and on the reverse side it says "Ruth, October 3d, 1891." The Engrossing Clerks to be Hanled crer the Coal. [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, October 12.-It may or may not be good news (according to the application thereof) that the en grossing department of the Legislature will .be reorganized this session. The depa!.ment is under the control of the Attorney General and he proposes to take a hand in the appointment or endorsement of the clerical force, the limitation of the extra force and, in general, to secure more work under the existing rules. It is not to be inferred from this statement that any violeice will be done to the appointment or recommendations of the solicitors, or that clerks will be summarily dismissed, but they can be on the qui vive for something tolerably interesting and in which they will be the "subject matter of official discussion,', so to speak. Words of Commendation. [Edgefield Advertiser.1 Prof. D. B. Busby, A. M., President of the Emory High Schol, writing to us on t. matter of business, has the following to say anent the Butler-Wat son debate at Batesburg: "I am pleased with the position of our two papers at the County seat on the Butler-WVatson and kindred sub jects. Men of proven efficiency like Senator Butler, whose services have always in peace and war been at the call of the country, deserve something Ibetter than seems to have been showr at B3atesbutrg. In these perilous times, the highest hopes of the country seem Ito me to consist in a strict adherence t< Democratic principles, to which the fundamental principle, of the sub treasury scheme are evidently diam;etri cally opposed. Very truly yours, r D. B. BUSBY. In Memoriam. He came with a poem, and dire intent, An up the sanctum stairs he went; Hope and a smaile on his face were blended. assend wlhih ner the this H le bearded the editor in his lair, A nd began a reading h is poem fair ; SBut the editor stop'd him before he had ended - -4Yankee BlIade. CFalling of the hair is the result of in action of the glands or roots of the hair -or a morbid state of the scalp. 'whic] m a benredi by Halles Hair Renewer SAM JONES AND A JUDGE A Georgia Grand Jury Hastens to Say Ho Judge Maddox Is a Good Man. [New York Sun.] ROME, Ga., Oct. ll.-The Rev. Sam Jones of the team Sam Jones and Sam A] Small has met the Grand Jury of this fa county, and the verdict seems to be in that he was worsted. A month ago gr they conducted a series of meetings . here. Jones surpassed the record in his th denunciation of the morals of the peo- he ple. He boldly declared.that gambling "r was universal; that perjury was the a: rule; that officers were criminally neli- ad gent of duty; that debauchery reigned supreme in all circles. The result was is the formation of a Law and Order Club da by the admirers of the two evangelists, to whose purpose was to wipe out the M sinful character of the city. Two weeks he Ater court convened. In his charge to ca the Grand Jury Judge Maddox created a sensation by saying: ai "It h-- ueeu charged by two minis- fol ters of the Goe'pel that certain specific tg crimes were openly committed here, m: and as a consequence a Law and Order Club has been organized. So long as an this court exists there is no need o1 pl, such a club. You, gentlemen of the 14 Grand Jury, are the only Law and bij Order Club necessary. It is your duty go to investigate these enarges. You can pl, have those men who make the charges du brought before you, and they will be hs compelled to prove what they charge to or to stand convicted of slandering the ," people." da The Grand Jury at once summoned en Messrs. Jones and Small to appear be fore them and substantiate their re- be markable statements. Small has been b in Massachusets campaigning for the gi Prohibition candidate for Governor, th but Jones responded on Thursday. He gi spent an hour with the Grand Jury- hs The Court House was surrounded by a ac thousand.people awaiting the exit of h( the preacher, who invited the reporters cu to meet him so that he might tell what tu had occurred. He launched into an st abusive criticism of Judge Maddox, in timating that his punishment upon , offenders did not come up to the mark, nI and that he had let off certain young b men lightly for obvious reasons. Judge er Maddox heard of the remarks, and said sa the intimation that he had protected st the men referred to was absolutely and wilfully false. The culminaticn came last night. On the adjournment of court the Grand Jury wished "to express their admira tion for Judge Maddox as a man and sc as a Judge, upright, honest, and con- 9 scientions in all his official acts." When o: the foreman had finished reading their ve report Judge Maddox said: "It grieves I me, gentlemen of the jury, to feel called it upV--"tice a ma.tter that has tran- a spireJ4 1,zmnity recently in I o regard to me. I hav - pig thei bench for five years. It has been re-|s ported in the newspapers that I have :fi violated the oath of my office by making o the fines too light upon certain young men of Rome'-charged with gambling, re and it has been insinuated that I have done this because they were men of sa means, or, as they had been called, 'fat rabbits.' " G Here Judge Maddox related the cir cumstances of the trial of the young v men in question, and then he continued: "I am publicily accused of having vio- si lated my oath. It has come to a pretty pass in this community when no man's r character is worth anything to him in defence against the utterances of cer tain parties. Another Grand Jury holds a session nex.t week, and those parties who freely charge that these young : men were criminals and cut-throats will have another opportunity to make out their cases." L.The Grand Jury asked that they might retire. In a few minutes they ~ came back with this: "We, the Grand Jury, having learned with regret that severe criticism has been made on the act of his Honor, Judge Maddox, in -reference to certain fines imposed on parties who pleaded guilty to gaming, contrary to law, hereby endorse him fully in this nr.'ter and believe that his fine was just and right according to the light before hin.." Col. Assmann Resigns. [Lexington Dispatch.] As the resignation of the office of Clerk of Court by Col. Wmn. J. Ass man, is a matter of public interest, and unjust rumors have gained circulation, it is but proper to say, that, from what we can ascertain, his liabilities, both yrivate and ofiicial, are amply covered by collaterals, and his bondsmen are also secured. Col. Assmann has held the office for nineteen years and has leen a most efu1cient and courteous official, and we regret that he has seen proper to tender his resignation. Trifles. [From the Hebrew Standard.] A Parisian wit once defined experi ence as a comb that one became pos sessed of after having lost one's hair. Blinkers-Hello, Winkers. I hear you married a w6man with an inde .pendent fortnne. Wingaers-No-o; I married a fortune with an independent woman. People who are constantly saying "what is due to society" often forget altogether whbat is due to themselves, to say nothing of what is due to tb' butcher and baker. He-I wish you would sing that dear old song, "Back ward, Turn Back ward. O Time, in Thy Flight." Sweet Girl-I might wake mother up by 'singing ; but I will turn the clock back if that will do. ELIGIBLE TO THE ALLIANCE4 r Father was a "Month" Farmer, but Miss Hanna is True Blue. [New York Herald.] LINCOLN, Kan., Oct. 11.-When the liance swept the State of Kansas the mers of this district placed in nom &tion and elected to the office of Con essman a preacher and farmer, Mr. Lker. It was asserted by many of a new Congressman's enemies that was what is technically known as a aouth farmer" and his aspirations as armer's candidate brought out much verse criticism from the opposition. While it is liossible that Mr. Baker not an active farmer there'dan be no ubt about his daughter being eligible a seat among the Alliance people. iss Hannah is nov runninga farm of r own near the town and has been ring for it for several years. She located and entered it herself, d has done all the hard work on it the last four years. She is but 'enty-four years old, yet she takes a in's part and does a man's work. She has a woman hired to d in the heaviest season of work em )ys a man to assist in cultivating the ) acres which she has brought to a gh state of excellence. Miss Baker es to theffeld in a man's gart and )ughs and sows, attending.to all the ties usually followed by a man, and s made'money ever since she began do the work. She has never been mpelled to borrow a dollar, - and to y owns the farm, debt free, with an ormous crop on it. She li~d the farm well stocked at the ginning from a sum of money she s been saving since she was a little rl.~ She raised chickens and sold em during her girlhood and reli 3usly put the money away until she Ld enough to give her a good start, id then she took the farm and made r start. She now has140acres under Itivation and 20 acres in a wood pas re, on which be has some very good ock. She was unfortunate enough last eek to be bitten by a rattlesnake while oughing a new piece of ground, but r prompt attention she soon recov ed, and is now at work again and ys it will take more than a snake to op her from working. 'by He Wanted His Perlimmous broom. [From the Alabama Soldier.] With the immortal Stonewall Jack on, straggling, especially during a for ard march, was an unpardonable frence; but there was one instance in hich it was promptly condoned. uring one of the forced marches, along i the summer of '62, through the pine ad 'simmons regions, he stopi.d to DnsUlt with some general officers un il the whole command had passed 5detance. Riirin or -ont, be discovered a private of his Id brigade up a simmon tree. "What are you doing so far in the ear?" cried the GeneraL. "I am eating 'simmons." said the >ldier. "Why, they're not ripe," said the leneral, with some sarcasm. "I know it," said the'soldier. "I rant 'em green." "Why do you eat green 'simmons?" tid old Blue Light. "To draw my stomach up to fit my Ltions," said old Web Foot. The Life I'd choose. f I to choose the life that I Would like to lead were free, 'll tell you what, my girls and boys, My choice would surely be; sot that of lady rich and proud, Who but for pleasure cares, Vho dwells in stately mansion and The rarest jewels wears, Vith many servants at her call And all that gold can buy hat's not the life I'd choose, my girls, Oh, no, my boys, not I. . for that of one by genius set Above the work-day crowd, )f whose great gift, whate'er it be The whole wide world is proud; tround whose brow a wreath is twin ed, The laurel wreath of fame, knd who, wherever she may go,I Is met with loud acclaim, Vhile with each other eager throngs To do her honor 'vie rhat's not the life I'd choose, my girls, Oh! no, my boys, notlI. 'or, to my mind, a dreary thing Is idle, costly mirth, knd splendid dress and jewels seem To me of little worth. and laurel crown, I fear me much, May be most bravel,y worn, And yet hide, 'mid its shining leaves, To wound the brow, a thorn. and then both wealth and fame must ' bear The public ever nigh, s,o neither would I have, my girls, Oh! no, my boya, not I. A country life for me, my girls, On some old farm, my boys, Where many trees make pleasant shade, Far from the city's noise; Where I might watch the sowers sow, While birds sang loud and sweet [n early spring the fresh plowed fields With oats and corn and wheat, And soon thereafter leaflets 'green Above the mold des.ry Db! that's the life I'd choose, my girls', Indeed, my boys, would I. Where I might hear the low of kine, The hum of busy bees, The whirr of insect wings, the sweet Feint whispers of the breeze, And see the fruit on tree and vine Grow riper day by day, And smell the honeyed clover tufts ,. And fragrant new-mown hay. Beneath my feet the grass-green earth, O'erhead the vast blue sky Oh! that's the life I'd choose, my girls Indee~d, my boys, could I. -MfARGARET ETINGE. Bring us your cotton to be ginned, we do the unloading at tf Oil liill Ginneryl