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' .A'st' v V >» i j ,ifiBilil .... - f . :rl A •*; .i itr. ,.< * • •. r. : i . A liiiiii mmm m “IK FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE AVORLI) WE CAE DO ANYTHING.” : n A ; VOL. II. DA11LIXOTOX, SOUTH ( AltOLIXA, WKDXESDAY, MAIU’II :}(), 1S<)2. ■£JbfP : PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS Adoplrd by Ihf Ponsfrvallve Dfm#- frats at Thrir (onvontion. In Columbia. Last Thursday. This conference is assembled in response to the address: “To Demo crats of Smith Ganelina.” We de clare onr fellowship with all true and honest Democrats of South Carolina, regardless of factional differences, and pledge our faith to the Democratic party of the State as now organized. We decl ire our unalterable convic tion that all conflicte among Demo crats must be conducted inside parly lines; that the Democratic voters of the State constitute the only tribunal to which we will present our griev ances and t lie demands arising from those grievances. To that tribunal wo do now address these declarations and appeals. We have a just pride in our State. Her history is the his tory of the. best and most glorious parts of the life of this Union; her soil is consecrated with blood shed in defence of liberty and right; her peo ple have developed heroes, martyrs and statesmen, and have responded to every demand upon their patriotism, courage and energy. A new emer gency is now here and must be met. Wc must adopt new methods and rely on new sources of wealth and bases of commerce. AA’e must accept the plain lessons of present facts. We are a borrowing people, and onr in terests demand that capital be in vited here for investment, that com petition in lending may lie developed and money cheapened. Our one hope for becoming an independent people with surplus money is to encourage the coming of new population and in vestments in industries which will develop our natural resources and give home markets for the produc tions of our farms. AVc must do this or sec our young men and our farm ers confronted with the hard choice between leaving their native State forever or remaining here in hopeless poverty. To undertake this great and neces sary work with any hojie of success our people must be united in feeling and pnigjose, pur party must lie solidi fied so there will be no possible fear of its failure to control our affairs, we must have a safe and conservative government and safe and conserva tive methods of government. *We submit that the course of the head ot onr present State Administration, laith bebre and since his election, has Ixru in many respects unwise and un just. We believe the tendency of his methods and policy is to destroy the credit of the State, to the injury of the people, by making it impossible to refund our State debt at a reason able rate of interest, such as is given our sister States of the South to in volve us in long and expensive law- selves, if entrusted yith power, to protect the' Creflit .o^ tnc^a* by sacredly meeting every just obliga tion. We pledge ourselves to take no step backward and to respect and obey the will of the people as hereto fore expressed concerning the policy of our State Govern me it. We denounce the proposition to in crease the jkiII tax to $:i a year, lie- canse it Would unjustly put a burden on people not able to lienr it. We pledge ourselves, however, to use every just means lo further develop and improve our public school system the deficiencies of which cannot be overlooked. We pledge ourselves to the most rigid economy in the admin istration of the Government, made more than ever neeessai v by the misfortunes of the people, and FARM READING. Suggestions to the Men Who Gnide the Plow. To begin with, the system of sow ing the same land, in cultivated crops, year after year, is nothing less than a speculation in manures, in which the margin to the farmer is usually small. In .Scotland where lands, no better than ours, rent from $10 to $100 per acre, the farms are usually divided into five “shifts,” and no farmer is allowed to run the same shift in the same crop two years in succession. But foi this rotation, and their more economical methods, they would soon starve out, for it cannot be claimed that thev have inv other advantages over us. the i Through the use of peas we can save impending deficiency in our treasury fully half of our manure expenses be sides getting our land in condition to resulting from the unwise manage ment of the present Administration threatening an increase of taxation next year. We oppose and will labor to change the present system of management.of the Penitentiary, by which convict labor is used to make cotton in com petition with honest farmers and agricultural laborers. It is not only unjust to the farmers and laborers, but a cause of loss to the State and her taxpayers. The convicts can be liest and most profitably used in pub lic works especially on the public roads. While our farmers aie being urged to reduce their acreage in cot ton liecause it is claimed that onr population has outgrown the capa city of cotton to supiiort it, it is not right that the State should use her cheap labor to add to the supply. We accept and respect the will of the people as expressed in the election of 1890 as meaning the larger par ticipation and stronger and more direct influence of onr agricultural population in the control and man agement of our public affairs. We charge that the present constitution of the State Democratic party is unfair ond undemocratic and con- politics and bossism, destructive of individual rights and local selfgovern ment and evasive of the clearly ex pressed demands of the people for a direct primary for the nomination of State officers. Nevertheless, while it is in existence it is the law and should lie ol>eyed, and we call upon the people to resent the flagrant stand drouth. After cutting a crop of oats, we can seed the land to peas, and make a greater net profit on the vines as hay, than we could on the same land in cotton, besides leaving the stubble to improve thesoil. The pea has the faculty of drawbig its subsistence from a source unavailable to corn and cotton, and returning it to the land in a shape available to any kind of vegetation. Its roots penetrate deep into hard ground, mel low up and subsoil it. Pea vine hay can be easily saved by three differut processes. No. I. Pile alternate layers of pea vines and dry grass hay together. No. 2. Lay off rows through pea field about five feet apart, and sow in corn as for forage. The corn stalks cut and pi'ed with the vines act ns an ab sorbent. No. Use a large stack pole and bore cross holes about three feet apart. Pack the vines up to a set of holes, then put cross sticks through and pack up the next, and so on. Every foot of stubble land should be sown in peas, and the vines, if used for r .'novating, should not be grazed, and should not be plowed in until fully dead. Where land is well prepared and has plenty of humus, enough mois ture can be saved up and stowed away structed in the interest of machine" ^. v pulverizing the mere surface, to ’ast through any drouth. Grass seed always sprout on the surface, and more of it can be killed in one day, before it is rooted, than can be done in ten days afterward. The best plan for saving oats is to cut or otherwise treat them like hay —if for market pack in bales. The farmer should by all means take advantage of the fairs this fall in selecting and investigating labor The ilalanrr Sheet in Life. violation of the party constitution by j s * vi, 'ff implements and macninery. . . ... —A. K. Choate in Southern Farm, the present executive committee, chosen to represent and act for the executive to represent and act for entire party in the interest of the present Administration by the crea tion of unfair rules which deny Dem ocrats the right to express their senti ments by their votes. We disclaim any hostility or ill feeling to any element or faction of our party. We recognize and suits, without proper cause, eating aspect the rights of others to honest up the substance of the taxpayers for the enrichment of attorneys and Court officials; to keep alive discord and strife, which endanger the party, on which the safety of the State, her difference of opinion and ch'im the same right for ourselves. A Preferred Creditor. A good story is going the rounds men, women and children depend, by constantly adding to the .lumber of about a New York merchant who fail the disaffected; to make a servile leg islature and an intimidated judiciary and thereby to pervert what should be the responsible and protecting Government of a free people into an absolute dictatorship, with all power in the hands of one man; to make the ed recently for a large amount, says The Paper Mill. He called alibis creditors' together and offered to settle with them at 10 cents on the dollar, giving them his notes, payable in thirty days. As most of the credi tors had little hopes of getting any- Governor the master and king of the thing, they eagerly accepted the people Instead of lh«r servant. proposition. Due man, however We present to our fellow Demo- stood out for better terms, and all ef- crats for nomination for State offices to get them to agree were fertile, by the next Democratic State Co,,-! Finally the bankrupt took him into vention, or by a direct primary, men ball and said: “Nen you come who represent no factions, bntall the "i 1,n s 'n n ,u 't dcodders, den 1 make Democrats of the State, conservative j preferred creditor ” All right men. who will inspire abroad conti- 8«id the kicker, “under thosecircum- dence in the stability and moderation sttt,lces 1 win a g rt ' 0 to a settlement.” of onr State Government while '^be papers were signed and all left guarding at home the rights of the excepting the one who had l>een told people, and holding a just balance be was to be preferred, “\at_are between capital and lalwr for the vailing for?” said the man who good of both, because the two must bud failed. “Why, you said I was work together if we are to prosper be preferred. I am waiting to know what I am to get.” “Veil, I It is said that the world gets value received for all of its acts and doings, and that the law of compensation is so accurately adjusted that the bal ance sheet tallies to the millionth part of a faction. It might be interesting to note the operations of this law as regards drunkenness and other excesses. There is a Scripture text which seems to liear directly ujion this sub ject: “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefor? the heart of the sons of men is fully sel in them to do evil.” To put off the day of accounting, to be fully persuaded in their own minds that because it has not appeared to come it. never nill, is the line of rea soning which the self indulgent sin ner adopts, and feeling secure on thh ground he gives himself up to license of all sorts, and actually revels in wrong-doing. So much for the present evil. The law of compensation dbes not appear as yet; but it is leavening this lump of defiance, and sooner or later will have its perfect work. Some day there is a pain in the head, an “all- gone” feeling that destroys ambition and puts hope out of joint; or then is a slight attack of dizziness, sonic symptoms of apoplexy, or a scarcely perceptible feeling of numbness over one side or in the hand or foot. Tht law is beginning its work. But some way proceedings seem to be stayed; the reconstructive powers of nature rally a little, and enable the victim lo pull himself together and go oi again, often with more recklessness and less reason than ever before. Ot conr.-e, nature finally rebels, and the result is either a mental wreck or a physical burden. And the real reason for all of thi.- breaking down is never given to tin public, if, indeed, it is not carefully concealed by the physician even fron the patient himself. He is often called the best doctor who hunion- the patient’s whims, and, wise man that he is, he allows a certain amount of dissipation,on the theory that a too sudden breaking off is iiot wise. In this way the victim’s conscience is lulled to rest, and be is “kept com fortable,” the friends say, when in reality he is still clinging with the feeble grasp of a dying man to the few vices which his circumstances and surroundings will permit. But the doctor is building better than he Sit U'hfn knows, and is helping to finish the work by permitting these indulgences. The struggle cannot last long, and It seems not to be precisely known ; soon nature feels that she has had when it. became habitual to sit at j enough of such a destroyer of her table. Among the first men it was ^ handiwork, and ipiietly drops him, as customary to recline in a circle or toj not worth looking after any longer. Why People Regan to Eating. place themselves in a half sitting posture about, the repast, whether it was an animal roasted over the fire or a caldron containing food cooked by Iwiling. Seats for kings or nobles were common among the Assyrians, the Egyptians and Hebrews, but per- i sons of inferior rank, and even lords themselves, sprawled on carpets or on theground. The Greeks reclined at their meals, and for the rest of the Better men than he are ready and anxious to till his place in the world, and nature has vidicated her great and unchangeable laws. Well woulditbc for the sons of nicii if they gave heed to these warn ings. But they go alxuit, blinded by ignorance and overwhelming de sire to prove all things which are evil, lives And ibis is the way in which arc wrecked and hearthstones time reclined, sat. or lounged accord- ! are made desolate. ing as they found one posture more agreeable than another or their oc cupations permitted. The Romans followed the same custom, though benches and chairs were probaly more numerous among them. What were the customs in this respect of t he Romans who colonized and whose descendants oc- j copied the countries now called France and Spain we do not precise ly know, but it is reasonable to sup pose that the habitof sitting at meals or elsewjjyjp iy tlg; lyins.e beeanip gC{i- 1111 on ai‘<jbui% oBihe keverity bf the i * ‘'I 1 *' “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, there fore the heart of tin* sons of mea is fully, set in them to do evil.”—New York Ledger. A si Thf Aged Pedestrian. ini't time ago onr attention was WOl’LD “PULVERIZE RUSSIA.’* I’nfinislied Music. A Remarkable Declaration of the I sat alone at the organ, Emperor of Germany. A cablegram of Thursday says: l»n A St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Standard recounts under re serve the startling story in connec tion with the surprising speech made by the emperor of Germany at the recent bampiet at Brandenburg. The Standard's correspondent says that a gentleman who was present at the Brandenburg bampiet, when Emperor William made his memorable speech, remarked to the emperor: “Yoiit majesty should not forget Russia.” To this remark Emperor William is said to have retorted: “I will pul verize Russia”. When the Russian minister at Berlin, was apprised ot this utterance, and upon investigation found that what he had heard was true, be immediately aeipiaiuted De Giers, the Russian minister of foreign affairs with the facts mi the case, who repeated the remarks of Emperor William to the czar. The czar then summoned to his presence the Ger man ambassador at St. Petersburg, and after recounting to him the state ment made by De Giers, said: “Tell your emperor that wh*n he wants to begin pulverizing, I will throw 500,- 000 men across the frontier with the g ■•cutest pleasure.” The Persian Shah's Treasury. At the close of a troubled day, When the sunset’s crimson embers On the western altar lay. I was weary with vain endeavor, Aly heart was ill at ease, And I sought to soothe my sadness With the voice of the sweet-toned keys. My hands were weak and trembling, -My lingers all unskilled To render the grand old anthem With which my soul and worries, 1 bad dreamed of that glorious strain, And 1 longed to hear the organ Repeat it to me again. It fell from my untaught'fingers Discordant and incomplete, I knew not how to express it, Or to make the discord swiet; Bo I toiled with patient labor Till the last bright gleams were gone, And the evening’s purple shadows Were gathering one by one. Then a master stood beside me, And touched the noisy keys, Audio! the discord vanished And melted in perfect peace. 1 heard the great organ pealing My tune that I could not play, The strains of the glorious anthem That had filled my soul all day. Down through the dim cathedral The tide of music swept, And tlm.ngh the shadow y arches The lingering echoes crept; And I stood in the purple twilight And heard my tune again, ,Not my feeble, untaught rendering, But the master's perfect strain. A Botanical Monster. Sir Henry Drummond Wolf ob tained permission for Mrs. Bishop, he authoress, to visit the Persian >lnil \s “Museum,” or treasure house She says of it “The proportions of I he mom an perfect. The floor is of fine tiles of exquisite coloring, arranged us mosaic. A table is Overlaid with beaten gold, ind ehairs in rows are treated in the same fashion. Glass cases round the room and on costlv tablescoulaiii tin fabulous treasures of the Shall aim ■natiy of the crown jewels. “Possibly the accumulated splen dors of pearls, diamonds, ruhie.-, emeralds, sapphires, basins and ves- st Is of solid gold, ancient armor Hash ing with precious stones, shields stud ded with diamonds and rubies, scabbards and sword hilts incrusted with costly gems, helmets red with rubies, golden rays and vessels thick with diamonds, crowns of jewels, chains, ornaments (masculine solely) of every description, jeweled coats of mail, dating back to the reign of Shall Ismael, exquisite enamels of great antiquity, all in a profusion not to be described, have no counterpart •m earth. They are a dream of splen dor not to be forgotten. “Among the extraordinarily lavish uses of gold and gems is a golden globe, twenty inches in diameter, turning on a frame of solid gold. The stand and meridian are of solid gold set with rubies. The equator and elliptic are of large diamonds. The countries are chiefly outlined in rubies, but Persia is in diamonds. The ocean is represented by emeralds. As if all this were not enough, huge gold coins, each worth 8lt;r>. are heaped round its base.”—Galginani’s Messenger. Remarkablr Colored Family. called to two men walking down Main street, whose ages aggregated 184 years. This markable coincidence until the is mentioned that one of them was R. W. Andrews, who will be; On Colonel Tom Lathem’s farm in Meriwether County” lives a colored man who is the father of seventeen children, fifteen of whom are living. i Of course the father has to hustle to ! feed so many mouths and the way he ihies it is a lesson to every farmer. 102 years old on .Inly 4th next is not a verv re- 11,6 fi,n,il .V « bushel of potatoes fuel * he family is fed by living at home. They run a three-horse farm and make all their provisions and thirty bales of cotton besides. Thev | .‘Capt. Andrews paid this office u ! raise sugar cane and make their own l,.,t *yrup and sugar. '1 hey even raise longest and bravest struggle against visit a few days ago, and stated tl oral on at‘<jbu|ffc oftjtic keverity climate and ^he different architec tural conditions in which the people lived. It was certainly more natural - i " * **“■' i ssrrs; * t I'm - make this trip on foot, as he has Lips to Boston, New Or- So I think, perchance, the Master, At the close of life’s weary day, Will take from our trembling fingers The liinc that weeannot play; lie will hear through the jariug dis cord The strain, although half express ed lie will blend it in perfect music, And add to it all the rest. —Minnie F. Kinnev. A list of wonderful trees would be sadly incomplete were a ddscription of that botanical, monster, the “Can nibal tree,” of Australia omitted. This blood-thirsty denizen of the an tipodean wilds grows side by side with the famous “Stinging tree.” It grows upward, in the form of,a gigantic pineapple, and seldom reaches a height exceeding ten or eleven feet. Its height has no control over its diameter, as the reader will readily imagine when told that one but eight feet high is often five feet through at the base. The leaves, which are ot a dark olive green, resemble broad planks. They arc frequently :ten to fifteen feet in length '.mil twenty inches thick near the base. These thick, board-like leaves all put out from the top of the trunk and bang down to the ground, forming a kind of umbrella around the stem. I'pou the apex of the cone, around which all these immense leaves con centrate, are two concave figures, much resembling dinner-plates strung one above the other on a stick. These plates are constantly tilled with a sickening, intoxicating honey. A bird may Uy and light upon tlieedge of these plates, or a man or an aniiiial may walk up the monster leans to indulge in stolen sweets, hut death is the sure penalty of such rashness. I'lie instant the honey receptacle is touched, even though by the feet ot a bird no larger than a crow, that in stant the huge drooping leaves close like a trap and squeeze the life out of the meddler. After a time the leaves again slowly unfold and the maiigled form of the man, beast oi bird rolls to the ground and nature sets the trap for another victim.—8t. Louis Republic, Bud H onus in the Corn. Indian t orn, Noiliing short of famine would cure the absurd prejudice of the Kiiro]H.-uus against Indian corn as a food-staple—but that will do it. If corn-meal were scarce and dear in this country it. would pass into the list of luxuries. It is so at our h dels now—corn muffins being served stingily, and the supply is always ex hausted before the breakfast is finish ed. Indian corn is a cereal of char acter and principles. It is the noblest of them all in the growth of the plant and in icsthetic qualities. Nothing in the world is handsomer than the young plants in clean rows of a .li'ine morning, each one of them holding a goblet of dew in its bosom. There is dignity in the rustle of the blades in the breeze, the softest and freshest sheen in its silk, a martial air ia its plumes, and such sweetness and freshness in its newly filled ■lilky grains as is found nowhere else in nature. If .liinoon Olympus eon Id bare had a roasting-ear hot from the cauldron, willi little rivers of butter flowing down the channels of the grains, she would have bitten it. so deeply as to grease her imperial cheeks. Corn pone in all the ele ments of dietectie greatness is as much above w heat, oats or rye bread, as a twelve-foot corn stalk is above a two-foot wheat stalk. They have plenty »f corn lands in southern Eu rope, half of Eunice, all of the Ibeeri- an peninsula, Italy, Turkey and southern Russia. All of Africa, ex cepting the desert of Sahara, is good for it, and half of Asia. As they are so fond of fighting over there it might be well for them to know that Indian corn is the food of warriors and victors. Our battle of King’s Mountain was won by men who sub sisted on parched corn glued into cakes with maple syrup, during the whole of that campnicn. The North American Indians have made the rice. They economise in every way. life to be largely passed in rooms open to I he weather orin the open! :<Qh air, than in buildings;<fatnp and cold | l ,rt ’' l,m,i q-j e f in winter, where ysiitact with the leans and elsewhere, but will go in a and make progress. We favor the speedy adjustment of ?WJW to be avoi , letl . | buggy as Fido, who is eleven years old, instance, doing their own black- smithing, etc. Every edge is made to cut. An evidence of the father’s good management is shown in thel overwhelming cumbers for the main tenance of their rights, of any peo ple, civilized or savage, in the history oft lie race. The human alembic distills over the Indian corn into elo quence, poetry, philosophy, politics, has lived on the place statesmanship. It is the food of the -Atlanta (Ga.) Herald. I greatest, most enlightened—well, let Lr 1)1 the matters now pending in the -thing? Why yon praml** tol — -1™--*^ that he Courts between the State ami various;—‘he mea preferred creditor if I wimt is possible at present on he was younger. The Captain himself twenty > ears, corporations on a common sense and ' u,n M •''in 11 tie icst. And so railroads was demonstrated j is hale and heartv and savs that he 'iiif«ess-like basis, sotlmtall may! you arc; I make you preferred. ' tell K||r|| u | mvo n<) | R .,imti, m 'iii under- Tl »' '"h’ <’ f of thunder! ject over to the bird-of freedom. He bear a just share of taxation, all you nowyo.iget nottings. Dcodders; lie farmed storms has been studied by Herr . i, wcitflfinHStKgWXfpofihds, araWn ! taking lie trip on foot. rights may be clearly understood, all Wttid tlll, ' t )' ,la . V8 bi “ forc |“ey know it , by onc of the ^t^ylarj.jvMSCHgWf t year, plowing himself, and madei Bchronrock from the record of 197 interests may be guarded and enter- aiul den dc .v 8 et “ ott,M 8- ’ tocowptiives, mado the rnn from New a g.xwl c^».( j {I’Jy <«ftain belongs 8lu ' h storms in Russia in 1888. The prises for the good of the State and — — j Yorkrto .Bnffiil^ jjHstapcei <iLA3fuiturthe oW school of planters,'Mongj velocity is found to have, varied from may be encouraged without I£ voll ket . p poultry in pens and j m j| eg j,j lA^tiJiillei i^Hii^tat Mljij rkjngsWp.hfl'cottoid^V^f-:" 1 ' 1 ? “V honr » with * "' eil " ''WodemaTid’ of the next General i y8rd * throw in al1 the vegetable and speed of only a little less than a mile and is not a believer -in all cotton'. • of miles tin'hour in the hot sca- Assembly inch legislation as will give! F ai 'd°ii truck yon can spare, reduced a minute, maiiijwtted,!*);;, More Atyjin,,tie plaiUd'tfo doittiilf linjbfiVaf.^ soe;niyt increasing to 32 miles an ns a reasonable and equitable system to eatable size. Raw potatoes, onions, i seven consecutive hoWs,' knd Was a ’miter Watchman * ’ “ .... - .... •imt ^“Tlfl^iska’s work of completing and opening of I I'emember that meat of some kind is suggestion of w hat may be possible Uttnwu College. W« pledge 1 (jla-tly m funite. hour in the cold season. It was least ‘ ’I 1 Mi* tlldflirty Miming, increasing to a contribution to the maximum, between 3 and 10 o’clock starving Rusiuns was seventy-five P. M. * Ttte’storms traveled most carload* of corn. Missouri millers quickly from southwest, west ami gun! tlut'iy tffu'UI J j has winged his w ay across a thousand miles square of contield.— Ex. The iron manufactures of Binning-, ham have been reducing wagesowing to the low price of iron. The work men instead of striking and hurting themselves and their employers, had the good sense to conut the cost of making iron, and wisely concluded to take the lowered wages and go ahead. It is increased when the pi'iuo ui iivu "ill wiuiiuU it. I wish to give to the farmers ol my county my experiments on keep ing the bud worms from killing tin corn. 1 have been trying for several years to find a remedy for them, and I think i have found it at last. I have been trying it for live or six years, and I have not had any trouble with bud worms killing my young corn in the spring. My remedy is, just before planting, to sun tinril it is perfectly dry and then plant it. Last year I tried it to my satisfaction. I bad a piece of bottom land—about two acres—which I planted all the same day, and for about half of it I sunned the corn, and for the other half I did not sun it. Of the bait that I sunned I do not believe I lost a stalk by the bud worms, and of the half that I did not sun 1 came very near not eettina' a stand at all .1. R. Wii.so.y. Almond, Ala. Loving Words. Loving words will cost but little. Journeying up the bill of life; But they make *lie weak and weary Stronger, braver for the strife. Do you count them only trifles? What to earth are sun and rain? Never was a kind word wasted; Never one was said in vain. When the cares of life arc many, And its burdens heavy grow For the ones who walk beside you, If you love them, tell them so. What you count of little value Has an almost magic power, And beneath that cheering sunshine Hearts will blossom like a (lower. So. as up life's bill wc journey, Lei us scatter all the way Kindly words, to he as sunshine In the dark and cloudy day. Grudge no loving word, my brother, As along through life you go. To the ones who journey with you; If you love them, tell them so. The Editor WilMlavc His Little Joke. A young man at the risk of hi> life saved a beautiful girl from drowning. Her grateful fat her seized the resellrer of In’s daughter by the hand, and in a voice trembling with emotion said: “Noble yon*h, to you I am indebted for everything tliat makes life dear to me. Which re ward will you take—$200,000, or the hand of my daughter?” “I’ll take the daughter,” replied the heroic rescuer, thinking thereby to get loth the girl and the money. “You have well chosen,” replied the grateful father. “I could not have given you the $200,000 just yet, anyhow, as I have not laid up that, amount, being only a poor editor, but my daughter is yours for life. Take her and he happy. God bless you my children.” —Texas Siftings. How many people would remain dumb were it forbidden them to speak gwtl of tltvuwlvw iuul ill Vi vtlwtf no. Sriss«rgra|)li$, rr Majorities must rule, hut they arc not always right. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. It isn’t necessary. There is a newspaper published in the Sioux language in North Dakota. If you want to make ahoy work without knowing it, get him a safety bicycle. The Atlantic .ocean is said to be higher than the 1‘acific by exactly six and one-half feet. At the next presidential election it is estimated that 11,500,000 men will have the right u vote. Even the millionaires of (he coun try!: arii lii.-covering' that “charity covers a iniiiiitmlc of sins.” 1 he Kansas Republicans have shown no desire to kill the fatted calf to feed prodigal son Ingalls. A inaii being requested to define bard drinking, said "it was sitting on a rock and shipping cold vater.” It always makes a thief feel like patting himself on the head to he told that be looks like an honest man. It won’t do any good to look as solemn as an owl in church if you ale in the Li.Lit of skinning people in business. Bome one describes a fanatic as a fellow who takes a burning interest i the same subject we don’t care anything about. An irishman, writing a sketch of his life, says lie early ran away from bis father, because liedi.-covered lit was only his uncle. A close thinker says that the rer. son why many people know com paratively noiliing, is that they nr. - er ean bear to be to'd anything. There is a woman in Bonham, Tc - as, who does a g< od business m sewii _ iiittons on Men’s wearing apparel doing the work on thcstivets. We in list look down wards as Wt If f as upwards in liiiniau life. Tliou>;b many may have passed you in the ace, there are many you have left !c- hiud. A physician has just discover d that a dislocation of the neck is i.iU fatal. This will bring very lii le consolation to the man about to t e hanged. '• ,s: A coroner’s jury in Illinois brou; lit in the verdict recently? “We l.nd that the deceased came to his dcilh by 1 icing found dead in his bed.” Senator Hill travels like a Dr o- erat—boys his ticket and rides ip the cars provided for ordinary passing its, and wears socks and twogalluse . Opinions differ as to whether day Gould’s giving a church $10,000 was a conscience contribution or an at tempt to open the way for the un loading of a block of “snide” sleek on some of its wealthy members. Ten years ago the man whov.onld have talked of shipping pig iron to Fennsylvania at'a profit would have been in danger of getting intoan in sane ayslum. Now the Southern furnaces are daily shipping pig iron to I’euusylvania, and making it pay too. And meanwhile the West con tinues to furnish the South pig meat. Talk of war with England may do to scarce silly people, hut the fact remains that England could not af ford to go to war with us, if we could afford to give her cause which we cannot. She has too much at stake elsewhere, and several other nations would be punching her in the loins if she should undcitnkc to play a skin game with Uncle Sam. I i! n<S • ; to . nji - It c i ill vili : M1 VJ 1 The Poetry of the Farm. [From an Oration by Col. Ingrixdl.J It is no advan'age to live in a city where poverty degrades and failure brings despar. The fields are lovelier than paved streets and the great forests of oaks and elms arc more poetic than steeples and chimneys. In the country is the idea of home. There you see the rising and setting sun; you become acquainted with the stars and clouds. The constellations are your friends. You hear the rain on the roof and listen to the rhyth mic sighing of tlic winds. You are thrilled by the resurrection' called spring touched and 'saddened by autumn—the grace and poetry of. death. Every, field is. a * picture,; H landscape, every landscape a poem; every flower a tender thought; and every forest 4 fairy , land. In ..the country you preserve your identity— your 1 personality. There you armau aggregation of atoms, but in the city you are only an atom of an aggrega- tiwj, • 1 *i r^TTTc r> a rvYNJTAIMft FT AWS AND OTHER