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FRANKLIN county.
VOL. III. NO. 51.
Singing by the Way.
He sang as the blitto-heavted robbln
Sings In a summer day,
Unmindful that any listener,
To tho music of his lay.
The joy of life and of living
Seemed voiced In the simple strain
That filled the air with such sweetneki
Asthe fields have after rain.
His weary and toil-worn neighbor
Heard, and was glad to hear,
For into bis li f e of labor
• It threw a thrill of cheer.
It lifted his thoughts from sadness,
It charmed away his care.
And the music and Us gladuess
Brought a blessing unaware.
We may all be singers, my brothers.
Of songs to help and cheer.
The strain limy not be lofty;
There may be few to hear.
But into some life the music
Of tbe song we sing may fall,
Brave with its faith in the goodness
Of the God who is over all.
Let the joy of our lives run over
Our lips in a cheerful song.
And the world may have more of sunshine,
And the faint of heart grow strong.
Sing, for the joy of singing,
And sing your cares away,
And share with others the gladness
That comes to you day by day.
— [Ebon E. ltexford.
MISS GRAYSON'S ADVICE
For two whole years Capiain Jurop-
ison had been the idol of the spinsters
of Bunboiougli-by-tlie-Sea. Cheery,
good-natured and good-looking, his
private means were limited, if they
existed at all, and his pay was insuffi¬
cient to enable him to indulge any of
those expensive tastes which lure
young men from the milder delights
of tea and tennis. He neither hunted
in winter nor played polo in summer;
and he was always ready to dance
half the night at the Buuborough balls.
He really was a very nice man indeed;
every one agreed that he would make
a very nice husband for any one of
the young la dies of Buuborough to
whom he might finally determine tq,
offer himself; and for two years he
distributed his favors freely, but with
absolute impartiality.
“There is safety in numbers and the
coward knows it,” said Miss Grayson,
-of the Valley Cottage, to Maud Oak¬
ley, who had been unbosoming her
soul to her. Miss Grayson was the
kindest of elderly ladies where young
people’s love affairs were concerned,
and Aland Oakley had known her
since she (Maud Oakley, not Miss
Grayson) was a baby. “Cowards!”
said Alias Grayson again under her
breath, and Miss Oakley sniffed depre-
catingly. She hiul been talking to
Alias Grayson for an hour and had
told her sympathetic listener a good
deal that was, in the language of Hie
vulgar, “stale news.” Aliss Grayson
was quite aware (all Buuborough
might have told her) that Captain
Jumpisou had quite recently shown a
distinct preference for the Oakley
family, lie dined there whenever lie
was asked and had won General Oak¬
ley’s confidence by delicately express¬
ing unbounded belief in liis stories
— not always an easy task; he
had bean most attentive to old
Mrs. Onkiey during supper time at
several balis, and his visits to Hic-
iioum for 5 o’clock tea had not been
limited by invitations issued to him or
confined to those occasions when Gen¬
eral and Mrs. Oakley were at home;
but there were two Aliss Oakleys, and
to which of them Captain Jmnpison
intended his attentions to be devoted
was a question which Bunborough-by-
the-Sea would have liked to have an¬
swered. It was not strange, however,
that Hie public were puzzled when
Maud Oakley had had to confess to
Miss Grayson that she had no very dis¬
tinct idea whether her sister Geraldine
or herself was preferred by tho man
to whom she had unreservedly lost her
heart, though she admitted she had her
fears. Dr.Coverdale,” , said .
“Geraldine has
Aland, “She would be quite happy
with him.”
“Quite so,” said Alias Grayson. “It
never rains but it pours.
Aland had wondered whetlior it had
ever “poured” with suitors in Aliss
Grayson’s young days, and said noth¬
ing. Coverdaie
• “Can’t we make Dr. pro¬
pose to her?” said Aliss Grayson.
“And Geraldine accept him!”
Maud doubtfully. Miss Grayson
a determined-looking old lady,
even she seemed to consider the
ject impracticable. boohoo with
“Did you ever try
one?” said Miss Grayson.
“What I” said Maud.
boohoo, boohoo. „
“Boohoo, and
Aliss Grayson, excitedly; an
ly lady who had selected the
moment to be announced y -
Grayson’s pretty little parlor
nearly turned and I'ed.
very iter
came in, however, and
that Aliss Grayson had go.ne
was continued bv the nnnarentlv
THE ENTERPRISE.
CARNESVILLE FRANKLIN CO., GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28.1892.
becilo laughter with which lior greet,
ing was received.
Maud rose to leave and Miss Gray-
son, who had recovered her presence
ot mind sufficiently to inquire after
her new visitor's husband (Ire had
been dead seven years), accompanied
her to the front door.
“Don’t you understand, you silly
child?” she said, kissing her affection¬
ately on the doorstep. “Cry, cry, cry
your eyes out; not one of the wretches
in a bilker’s dozen of Ihotn caii gland
lears.” And »ho kind old lady re¬
lumed to pacify a justly indignant
widow; while AUss Oakley walked
home, with a light breaking slowly in
on her as she pondered tho somewhat
enigmatical advice she had received.
Meanwhile Captain Jurapison was
striding down the flinty road leading
from tho barracks to Buuborough as
if lie trod on air. He scarcely knew
how he had transferred himself from
uniform to bis newest mufti; but be¬
tween hia beating heart and the tweed
coat which formed its outermost
covering lie could feel the communi¬
cation which had that afternoon
altered the course of his career for¬
ever.
“On Her Majesty’s service” it had
arrived; and “on Her Majesty’s ser¬
vice” it informed him lie was expected
to proceed fortwith to a somewhat
distant portion of her dominions
where, in return for a salary exceed¬
ing his wildest dream 1 !, lie was to
perform duties as to which he still
felt vague. But they probably in¬
cluded the dispensation of substantial
justice witli lavish hand to sundry
swarthy fellow-subjects and the in¬
struction of the male portion of them
in the use of obsolete ’ weapons and
the evolutions of an improved drill.
The climate—well, every rose lias
its thorn, and Government House and
his society would reconcile Geraldine
Oakley to a burs I ing thermometer and
a diet of quinine. She could have her
sister to stay with her if she felt lone¬
ly ; he was quite fond of Maud,though,
of course, she did not care for him;
did she not always retire when lie
came to tea and leave him alone with
her elder sister, and always refuse to
give him more than four dances in one
evening? But Geraldine was different.
Dr. Coverdaie would do very well for
Maud when Geraldine was gone.
There slie was—Maud, not Geraldine
—standing on the top step waiting for
him as lie almost ran up the garden
walk.
“How do you do?” she said shyly,
as she ushered him into the drawing-
room, “I will go and toll Geraldine
you are here?”
He was delighted: could anything
have been more thoughtful? But,
oddly enough, she did not go. She
sat down, on the contrary, and began
fingering a “chair back” nervously.
“It is a flue day,” bIio said, and
then stopped.
“Hang it” he thought; “I meant
to tell Geraldine the news first, but
there’s no harm in beginning with
lie:-.”
So he began, pulling out bis official
letter to show her.
“I have come, Aliss Oakley, to tell
you some news and ask you to cou-
gratulatc me.”
“What! ” she exclaimed, “aro you
engaged to be mar”—
“Oh, no!” he answered, “not ex¬
actly—that is, not yet—in fact, l mean
not exactly.”
And lie got very red, and so, curi¬
ously enough, did she. She looked
very pretty blushing, and with her
lower lip quivering a little. Geraldine
was not *o pretty as Alaud, lie admit¬
ted to himself as ho looked at her.
“No,” he said, “it’s the appoint¬
ment 1 told you (or was it your sis¬
ter?) my uncle was Hying to get for
me—Hie very thing I have been want-
ing.”
And he preceded to paint (he
charms of the new career opening be¬
fore him in glowing colors, He said
nothing about the quinine, When he
came to an end of all Ibc details she
was silling, wilh an expression of
deep interest, looking at him, and he
felt that had she only been Geraldine
that very moment would have anived
_that precise opportunity not always
easy to obtain particularly iu a small
villa. “And so,” lie said, feeling he
must bring bis tale to a conclusion
aud give her an excuse forgoing
fetch her sister—“and so, Aliss Oak¬
ley, I leave Buuborough very soon,
and have come to say good-by.”
((Good . good .boo-boo.”
g|l0 jj d 1)0 t bit the precise
wllich had startled Miss
. g . tor . bat t i ie effect on him was
| ^ ^ e ; ectl . ifying .
( , My „ o0 dnes.!” he murmured,
; <4 „ o(> —j l00 b 00 —hoo—o.”
he buried her head in the sofa
j ,
J 10118 a
; For a minute lie said nothing;
i first inarticulate entreaty to her
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
on his lips bofore Iter storm of grief,
so lie bit bis mustache in silence. Then
the front door slammed; Miss
Geraldine Oakley was going out for a
walk, totally unaware of his arrival.
Could ho stop her? He could hardly
open tho wiudow and shout. lie
moved towards the drawing-room
door, but ho had to pass the sofn, and
as he did so tho girl ou it rose, as if
she, too, half dazed, was seeking a
way of escape; and as their hands
met on (lie door handle site sank sob¬
bing into Itis arms.
“Don’t, don't!” site whispered,
hardly articulately, but bo was doing
nothing from which he conld desist,
for lie could scarcoly let her drop on
the floor.
“My goodness,” said Capt. Jumpi-
son again; “will no one come?” But
the house was still, and lie reflected
that perhaps it was as well that no one
should come in at that juncture—at all
events, not without warning; and so
there was another pause broken only
by her sobs. He could see her sister
through the muslin blinds. She was
looking over the garden gate talking
to some one. Would she change her
mind and bring whoever it was in to
tea? If she did, Maud would surely
bear them entering the house and re¬
treat. But Geraldine stood talking at
tho gale. Only the rector wore a high
hat at Bunborougli-by-thc-Sea and Dr.
Coverdaie.
“Click!” went the garden gate as
Geraldine passed into the sunny road-
way.
“Boo-hoo!” It was a very gentle
one this time, from somewhere near
his watch-pocket.
“Click 1” went the garden gate, as it
swung back on its hinges.
And Capt. Juinpison surrendered at
discretion.—[St. James Budget.
The Oldest Known Inscription.
In the palace of the Louvre, Paris,
in that position set apart for Hebrew
antiquities, may be seen the famous
“Pillar of King Mesa.” It is fash-
ioned from pure black basalt; meas¬
ures forty inches in height, twenty-
eight in width and fourteen inches in
thickness. For 2800 years this famous
historical “stela” remained in one po¬
sition in the “country of tiie Moa¬
bites,” on the shores sf the Dead Sea,
at tiie spot, as is supposed, where tho
frontier of their territory joined with
that of the tribe of Reuben. It
bears upon its faces the very oldest in¬
scriptions that have yet been deci¬
phered, chancier*, words and
sentences that were “graved thereon”
at a time contemporaneous with the
Bible, nine hundred years before the
birth of the Savior. One remarkable
thing in connection with this antique
pillar and its history is the fact that it
was not buried in the sands, as most
well-preserved ancient relics have
been, bat remained standing erect in
the full light of Hie day for twenty-
eight centuries. The first nows of the
whereabouts of this ancient pillar was
communicated to M. Clermont-Gau-
ueau, one of the French Consuls at
Jerusalem, in 1870. The great his¬
torical value of the find may be judged
from Hie fact that many of the in¬
scriptions supply facts that iiave been
wholly omitted from Hie biblical ac¬
counts of Hie wars between King Mesa
and Hie Israelites. — [St. Louis Ropub-
lie.
The Fastest of Sailing Ships.
Until the Guion steamer Arizona
was launched the record for the great¬
est number of miles covered from
noon to noon was held by a sailing
ship. This was the Flying Cloud, than
which no faster ship lias ever sailed
Ihc sen. Alany famous ships have
been built in America and sailed un¬
der our flag. Alystic, Connecticut,
once turned out craft remarkable for
their speed, about the last of which
was Hie Twilight. There, too, was
launched the Gamecock, a well-known
tca-elipper, aud probably the last sail¬
ing ship out of Now York possessing
a well-furnished armory. There, too,
probably was built a certain ship
which was owned in Middletown.
Everything connected with this vessel
was carried out in defiance of all su¬
perstitions concerning Friday. Her
keel was laid on a Friday, she was
launched on a Friday, named Friday,
commanded by a man named Friday,
and sailed on a Friday—and was never
after heard from. A fitting and proper
eud.—[New York Post.
What Peter the Great Liked to Eat.
Peter Hie Great disliked to have
many attendants round him while he
a i e —“listening lackeys,” as he called
them. He loved a dinner composed
as follows: A soup with four cab¬
bages in it, gruel, pig, with sour
cream for sauce; cold roast meat,
with pickled cucumbers or salad;
lemons and lamprey; salt meat, ham
and Limburg elieese. — [Chicago
Times,
“THE HOLY CITY.”
A Description of Mecca, Its
Streets and Buildings.
Vast Numbers of Pilgrims
Visit It Annually.
Mecca, tiie city to which Moham¬
medan worshipers make annual 1>H*
grimago in vast numbers, is described
by Charles Dudley Warner in Har¬
per's Magazine. Wo quote from the
article as follows'.
Mecca, sometimes called Om-el-Ko¬
ra (the mother of towns), lies in a
narrow sandy valley ruuning liorlli
and soutii, nmong barren hills from
two hundred to live hundred feet hi
height, about forty-six miles from tiie
Bed Sea port of Jcdda. lu Burck*
iiardt’s time tho (own, including Hie
suburbs, occupied tiie broader part of
tiie little valley, extended up the
slopes, was not more titan three thou¬
sand five hundred paces iu length, and
had an cs imated stationary popula¬
tion of thirty'-throe thousand; the per¬
manent residents are probably now
about forty-five thousand.
It is described by BurcUhardt as a
handsouio town, Hie streets broader
than usual in Oriental cities. The
houses are built of gray stone, many
of them three slorics high, with win¬
dows opening on the street; many
windows project from the wall and
have elaborately carved anil gaudily
painted frame work. The houses are
built, as usual in tho East, about
courts, with terraces protected by
parapets, and most of them are con¬
structed for tho accommodation of
lodgers, so that tiie pilgrims can have
convenient access to their separate
apartments. The town, in fact, is
greatly modified to ministor to the
great influx of strangers in the annual
Hadji. Ordinary houses have apart
meats for them, tho streets are broad
to give room for the crowd of pil¬
grims, and tho innovation of outer
windows is to give the visitors a
chance to see tiie procession.
Tiie cily lies open on all sides; it
has few trees, and no fine buildings
except the great mosque. It is not
well supplied with water, and in Hie
height of Hie pilgrimage this fluid be¬
comes scarce and dear. The wells are
brackish, and there are few cisterns
for collecting rain-water. It is true
that the flow of the holy well Zem-
zem in Hie mosque is copious enough
to supply the town, but there is a
prejudice against using the water for
common purposes, and besides, it is
heavy and bad for digestion. The
best water is brought in an aqueduct
from the vicinity of Arafat, six or
seven hours distant, but (lie conduit is
in bad repair and uncienncd, and tins
supply often gels low. Tiie streets
are unpaved, and as the country is
subject to heavy rains, alternating
witli scorching heat, they are always
either excessively muddy or intolera¬
bly dusty.
The fervent heat of the town is al¬
ways contrasted with tiie coolness of
Hie elevated city of Medina. Moham¬
med said Hint lie who had endured tiie
cold of Medina and tiie heat of Mecca
merited the reward of paradise. Sud¬
den and copious storms of rain fre¬
quently deluge Mecca; sometimes the
whole town is submerged, bouses are
swept away and lives losl, and water
has stood in Hie mosque enclosure as
high as Hie black stone iu Hie Ivaaba.
Although Burckliardt says lie enjoyed
his stay there and was very comforta¬
ble (the Hadj that year was in No¬
vember), his experience is not that of
most pilgrims.—[Harper’s Magazine.
Telegraph Lines in (lie Tropics.
The business of telegraphing has its
difficulties and is prolific of exaspera¬
tions in this town and country, with
dead wires anil live wires, crosses and
tangles, cyclones and blizzards, and
auroras ami “bugs.” Telegraphic
communication anywhere is subject to
interruption from a hundred and one
causes, and few people who kick
about the service are aware of the
difficulties to be overcome in main¬
taining a perfect electrical circuit.
But in the tropics the maintenance of
a telegraph line in good working
order is a constant up-hill fight against
all manner of interrupting enemies
that linemen and operators iu tills
latitude uever dream of.
Iu Brazil (lie wires get tangled up
with the cable-like web of au im¬
mense spider, which, dripping with
dew or rain, makes cross connections,
short circuits, and grounds almost
daily. Ants often destroy the poles
in a few weeks. Monkeys swing on
the wires and break them, and iu the
forests creepers anil rope-like withes
overgrow the poles and wires every
few weeks. AU this is more or less
true of all Central and South America.
In Cuba there is on orchid <hat in-
crusts tho wire and causes leakage, lu
the West Indian Islands the .John
Crows, or turkey be .ai ds, make life
miserable for the telegraph and tele¬
phone people. These big, heavy birds,
tho only scavengers, are around in
groat numbers. They roost on I lie
wires or fly up against them, and in¬
variably break thorn short olf. In one
large town I ho lelophono lines that
ran by the public market had (o be
put underground because (lie huz/.ards
congregated thero in great numbers,
rested on tho wires, and broke them
utmost nightly. Oil the pampas of
Argentina the herds of practically
wild cattlo rub and butt against tiie
polos, and frequently break them
down.
For some years it was altogether
impossible to maintain a lino of tele¬
graph through Persia for more than a
few days at a time; tho natives regu¬
larly destroyed il as a device of the
evil one. Finally the Shall issues an
edict making tho loss of an ear (ho
penalty for a first offonco of destroy*
ing (lie telegraph lines, tho loss of a
hand for tho second, and death, by
being bttrieod to the neck in the sand
beside tho telegraph line, the penalty
for a third offence. Otto-cared men
were common in Persia for several
years, for the Shalt was determined to
introduce civilizing influences. — [Now
York Sun.
The Interior of Greenland.
Greenland, a great continental is¬
land, lying between the northern lands
of Europe and America, and uncon¬
nected with either, is almost 1400
miles in length and 700 in breadth,
witli an aroa of 820,000 square miles.
Its interior is covered by a vast ice¬
cap, many hundred feet in tliicknoss—
iu some places not less than 8000 feot.
From this inland ice groat projections
extond down the valloysand mountain
gorges toward the sea. Those aro
glaciers and are really ice rivers, and
aro in slow but constant motion.
As they are pushed onward into tho
sea,or into tho deep fjords which indent
tho coast, great fragments of them
break off and float away south as ice¬
bergs on the Arctic current, and be-
como the terror of mariners in tho
North Atlantic. When tho explorer
climbs tho slope of these projections or
glaciers, he finds himself on the lmr.l
glittering ice of tiie interior at an ele¬
vation of 2000 or 3000 feet above tho
sea level. The “great and terrible
wilderness” of ice extends in all direc¬
tions ns far as the eye can rcucli. In
winter and early spring a thick coat¬
ing of snow covers it, whicli the heal
of summer only partially molts. No
signs of u living tiling is here; noth¬
ing to break tho monotony, but here
and there Hie surface is torn by crevas¬
ses, into whose awful depths tho
streams from the melting snow plunge
with sullen roar. Sucli is the interior
of Greenland.—[New York Tribune.
London’s Splendid Police System.
“Nothing of all I saw in Europe,”
said Air. If. W. Crawford to Hie Gin-
ciiniati Times-Star, “impressed mo
more Ilian Hie splendid police system
of London. The street in front of the
Bank of England is crowded as you
never see a street crowded here, but
the multitudes pass without interrupt¬
ion or entanglement. Tiie police
stand in Hie midst of tiie crowd of
vehicles and are supreme iu authority.
If an officer tells a cabby to stop, lie
stops. If lie orders him to move on,
lie moves on, and the luckless driver
who by accident or design brushes an
officer with his wheel, finds himself
deprived of a license the following
day. In America it would he impossi¬
ble to establish such a respect for au¬
thority, but it is a good thing in its
way. I have seen more scrapping on
Hie streets of Cincinnati in two days
than I saw in three months in the
European cities.”
The Burk Most Popular on the Hea.
On the Californian coast (he barken-
tine is a favorite rig aud many of
them cross a sky-sail yard. There is
no rig which combines so many ad¬
vantages ns that of tiie barkentinc for
oll-sliore vessels of from four to seven
hundred tons register. Of course, on
Hie easlern side of these United States
the fore-and-aft schooner witli a va¬
rying number of masts floats pre¬
eminent.
It is said that Jersevmon can be dis¬
tinguished from Downeasters by the
number of different colored bondings
ou tiie sides of their schooners. Ital¬
ian*, Austrians and Scandinavians ad¬
here to the batk rig, and four out of
five of their foreign-going vessels are
barks. Their smaller craft are gener¬
ally hermaphrodite-brig rigged. Take
the sea-faring community Hie world
over and the bark is still (lie predomin¬
ating rig.—[New York Post.
ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
Matters ot Moment Which Concern the
Order and Its Mentors.
Those who undertake to use the Kami
ers’Alliance ns n stepping-stone to offi¬
cial endorsement will have s rocky road
to tiavel.
***
Now is the time to revive the interest
in the Alliance. Every mem In r should
see to it that the met tings niv held regu¬
larly something and much interesting. than See regular to it
that more tho
routine, ff'.'tent work is accomplished. and Dismiss others,
tho d issues, local
that is of interest to nil alike. Secure a
few books as a circulating fiiends library, and neigh¬ and
above nil induce your
bors to j in iu with you.-Progressive
Farmer.
„**
No candid person cau deuy that through of
Alliance schools nearly the last vestige
sectionalism has been obliterated ana live
questions of vit d interest to all ihc peo¬
ple pushed to the. frout over the united
efforts of all the demagogues iu every po¬
litic d parly. The principles taught by
the Farmers’ Alliance will yet serve the
nation and restore the prosperity of the
masses if the order font lines to allow no
political party t.i in the least influence its
policy.—Exchange.
To permit any political Alliance party to destroy domi¬
nate the Farmers’ will
the usefulness of the organization. The
organization in the outset notified every
one that it would not interfere with his
or her political or religious that the opinions object of to
become a member, but
Hie order was to teach its members the
true principles non-partisan of political standpoint, economy from be¬
n strictly tiiat
lieving this school would, in time,
obliterate Sectional lines and partisan
prejudice diuued that iuto had the so people’s long been success¬ by de¬
fully demagogues, and through ears which
signing people made the instrument of
the were
their own destruction.—National Econo¬
mist.
+ *
TRIBUTE TO COL. FOLK.
At the national meeting of the Alii
ance at Memphis, during the Polk Memo¬
rial meeting, Dr. O. W. Macuaemadean
address in which lie said:
“I feel deeply the solemnity of this
occasion. If any one can tell me how to
framo words that will describe a Chris¬
tian gentleman, a mode) husband and
father, a true patriot, a martyr to a glo¬
rious cause, an orator, a statesman, a
'friend, a brother and a man who possess
ed every other tribute that commands
respect and honor, I will apply the deg
cription to our dead chieftain and it will
tit.
“He was a typical Alliancemau; he
conceived something abnve and beyond
co-operation for personal gain. He saw
in the Alliance a power for the such. good He of
the Alliance, and he used it »s
is H e man to whom is due the concep¬
tion of tho id a of spanning the river of
sectional hate, uu<i m n large accomplished degree car¬
rying it out. Col. Polk
tho grandest life work of any man I ever
knew, and as such a man he should be
honored. From his mighty brain and
generous heart emanated the mankind. principles
which payi> arc tribute to emancipate to him martyr to the In
g u as a
cause of reform, we give him no more
than lie deserves,”
THIS INCOME TAX.
Representative Scott Wike, of Illhoii,
who was defeated for reoomiuaUoo,
when questioned as Congress, to tho possibility made of
an extra session of some
remarks about an income tax worthy ol
consideration. He said: know what
I would doTf I had full power. I would
puss an income tax bill. I had such a
bill in the last House, but am not sure
that I will call it up again this seision.
In 1800 this Government raised $72,900,-
000 of revenue from an income tax,
and over one-half of that amount
from incomes of over $5,000. My idea of
an income tax would practically exempt
the masses, a* I
not tax incomes below $5,000.
The great object to au income tax is
it is inquisitors). But to me it
not more so than the ordinary state England, tax.
I like the income tax system of
which has been in vogue for
years, and successfully, too. Iu
the manner of levying this tax on corpo¬
rations is to first collect it from the
earnings of the company before any divi¬
dends are declared and let the company
in turn apportion the tax among
stockholders. Under an income
law, such as I would levy, there
bo no multi-millionaires in this
Under a graduated income tax J would
raise the levy so high on large
that it would acquire practically than be
for a mau to more a
dollars’ worth of wealth at the outside.’
—Exchange.
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THE ALLIANCE AND POLITIOS.
Many people innocentiy get a
idea of the mission of the
That its principles are political it is
but that its aims are partisan is not
The mission of the Alliance is educe
tion. It believes in the divine
ion to go out into all the world
preach the gospel unto all men and
all nations and then shall the end
The Alliance does not worry about
the end will be when the people the
become educated. It furnishes
portunity for free and full
It builds from the bottom, teaching
to be honest, independent thtir mutual citizens, interests,
together for givers instead of boodle
and vote for just
dispensers. Alliance is drees parade
'1‘he no
in politics. It does not stop with
solves, nor with demands made on
per. It educates the voter that to
principles and demands into the law,
true to them must be elected. Any
can vote for a millionaire if
chooses and not forfeit his
bership, but no true Allianceraan
shout reform and vote for
The reason why the Alliofcce has
been confounded with the’new paity
because the new party has received
mpport of Alliancernen generally
OFFICIAL ORGAN
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—or Tan—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR .
having endorsed its principles uluiost
literally.
No political party is tbe Alliance uor
can take its place. The Alliauce is non-
partisan, business circle a school, in which a lilernry society ntul noil
men women
learn to know themselves, each other and
matters relating to the general welfare.
Its organization should he pushed into
every nisliea township in the investigation uation. It fur-
opportunity found for Every that
cannot be elsewhere. far¬
mer should join it. The advantages are
too numerous to enumerate at this time.
A candid investigation will convince the
most skeptical that the Order is both
socially and financially a wonderfully
beneficial organizatMhi. — DesMoiues
Tribune,
PLAIN FACTS.
The following interesting facts and fig¬
ures are said to have been collected by
John Bright, Prof. Allen ami other co-
workers. Farmers should study them:
In France there are ‘.100,000 thatched
cabins without a window, 1,500,000 with
two windows. Out of 7,500,000 houses,
mote than 4,000,000 have less than five
openings, including which doors, and two-thirds thatched
cottages, in live nearly
of the population. In England and
Wales 100 persons own 4,000,000 acres.
In England, in 1807, one-thirteenth of
the people owned two-thirds of the na¬
tional wealth. Seventy persons own one-
Ualf of Scotland; 1,700 own nine-tenths;
and twelve persons own 4,040,000 acres.
In Irelaud less than eight hundred per¬
sons own one half the land; 402 mem¬
bers of the House of Lords own 14,540,-
012 acres, which rent for $57,875,000.
The total number of tenant farmers in
England. Scotland and Wales is 1,009,-
187, and of these Ireland furnishes 574,-
252 and England 014,814. England's
war debt js $0,000,000,000, and the Lag
lish bondholders fatten on an interest of
$812,004,300, annually drawg ift un the
industrial Iu London population relief of give#" 8&-
was to
104 paupers in one «pF*?' l|| s telt
don’s takes population. 14.000 policemen to Uni gajfi} States
In the leu
seventy persons are worth $2,700,000,-
000; and le>s than fifty of these control
the currency and commerce of the coun¬
try at a day’s notice. One hundred are
worth 13.000,000.000, and 25,000 own
half the total wealth. The census cot^gfliijMjY sl,;qws.<
that the railroads of the
281,000,000 and domestic acres syndicates of land, own undxJB| m; SRr-
000 acres making n total of 305,000,000.
The total number of farms in the
United States is 4,225,955, and of these
1,924,701 are rented ; of this number 702,-
284 are compelled to share thir crops
with their landlords, whi’e the greatest
share asked of the British farmers is one-
fourth. Iu New Yolk City 10,000 of
the 2,000,000 inhabitants own nearly the
whole city, and only 13,000 own any real
estate. In Chicago—population 1,200,-
000—less than 2J per cent, own all the
real estate. The total number of mort¬
gages iu this country, according 9,000,000; to Cen¬
sus Superintendent Porter, inhabitants. is To¬
or one to every seventy
tal number of Millionaires, 30,000. To¬
tal number of people out of work, over a
million. Tramps number nearly 500,-
000 .
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Ol' It Oil FAT DANUBK.
On Sunday preceding the national
election, Rev. DeWitt lalmage preached of
a powerful sermon on the danger vote
buying and sectional animosity. Among
other things he said :
“You see my friends, it is no unusual
thing for a government to perish, and iu
the same necrology of dead nations and
In the same graveyard of expired Amerca govern¬ ' ‘
ments will go the United States of
unless there be some potent voice to call
a halt, and unless God iu his mercy inter¬
feres, and widespread ami through public a purified Christian ballot senti- box -
a
meut the catastrophe be averted. This
uation is about to go the ballot box to
exercise the light of suffrage, and I
propose to sit before you the ivils that
threaten to destroy the American govern¬
ment, and to annihilate Am-ricau inttitu-
and God help I will _
lious, if will me
show you before I get thiough the
mode in whicli each and every one may
do something to arrest that appalling whole
calamity. And 1 shall plow up the
Held.
“The first evil that threatens the anni¬
hilation of our American institutions is
the fad that political bribery, which
once was considered a crime, has by
many come to be considered a tolerable
viitue. There is a legitimate use of
money in elections, in tbe printing of
political tracts, and in the hiring of pub¬
lic hall.-, and iu the obtaining of cam¬
paign oratory, but is there any homuncu¬
lus who iuppose* that this vast amount
of money dow being raised by the politi¬
cal parties is going in a legitimate direc¬
tion! Tho vast majority of it will go to
buy votes. purchase and silo of suf¬
“Unless this
frage shall cease, the American govern¬
ment will expire, and you might as well
be getting ready the monument for an-
other dead nation and let my text in¬
scribe upon it these words: ‘Alas, alas,
for Babylon, that great city, that mighty
citv, for iu one hour is thy judgment
come!’ My friends, if you have not no¬
ticed that nolitical bribery is one of the
ghastly crimes of this day, ypu have not
kept “Another your eves evil open. threatening the destruc¬
tion of American institutions is the so¬
lidifying of the sections against each
other. A solid North. A solid South.
If this got: on we shall, after awhile,
have a solid T.ast against u solid West;
we shall have solid middle
States against solid Northern States;
we shall have a solid New York against Ohio
a s,did Pennsylvania, and a solid
against a soli I Kentucky. It is twenty-
seven years since the war-cloud, and yet
at every presidential election the antago¬
nism is aroused. When Garfield died,
and all the states gathered around hia
casket in sympathy imd tears, and as
hearty telegrams of condolence came
from New Orleans and from Charleston
as from Boston and Chicago, I said to
myself, “I think sectionalism is dead.”
But, ala*, no! The difficulty wi l never
be ended until each st. itc of the nation
is split up into two or three great polit¬
ical p irties.”
The Mai Moliool enrollment for the United
SuUi Uat yo*j* wa* li.'iOo.OOU.