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VOL. II.
DA11LIXOTOX, SOUTH ( AltOLIXA, WKDXESDAY, MAIU’II :}(), 1S<)2.
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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^“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.
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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-
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