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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1834, I By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. | VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Bkmi-Weekly, One Year - - -?4 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 ETPaYABLE IN ADVANCE.^! All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - -JI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .5 LBTkn Lines of Minion, typo solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying die length of time for which they are to be Inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places wit be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Change of Firm. THE FORMER FIRM OF CROCKER & TULLIS, ON COTTON AVENUE, lias been dissolved by the purchase of Mr. C. E. CROCKER’S interest by Mr. 15. H. JOSSEY, and the new firm of TULLIS & JOSSEY, will assume the responsibilities of the for mer firm, and will be pleased to have their friends call and examine their new and low priced stock of goods. TULLIS & JOSSEY, decistf Americus, Ga. .A. CAR ID. Buena Vista High School will open its spring term, January Bth 1883. This'announcement is made in the hope that the patrons will take knowledge of the fact that is highly important to each pupil to be gin at tlie opening of the exercises. A bill is now before the Legislature to fur nish guns, and it is hoped this fact will still add to the attractive features of the institu tion. Calesthenics taught by a competent teacher will afford a proper and graceful exercise for the girls, while the military drill will substantially furnish exercise for the boys. TERMS. Preparatory Department ?2 00 Intermediate 2 50 Academic, 3 00 Music, 3 00 Painting i 00 These departments furnish an attiaction. Drawing 2 50 Incidental fee lOcts. per month 1 00 Payments required monthly. decstf J. E. MATHIS, Principal. DISSOLUTION. The public is hereby notified that we have this day dissolved co-partnership. The notes and accounts due us are in the hands of G. W, GLOVER with full power and authority to collect and receipt for the same. The in terest of R. J. PERRY having been assigned to the said G. W. GLOVER for a valuable consideration. This, November 27th, 1882. G. W. GLOVER, R. J. PERRY. To the many friends and patrons that in Sast have favored the late firm of GLOVER i PERRY with their patronage, 1, in re tiring from said co-partnership, tender my thanks, and take great pleasure in saying for Mr. GLOVER, my former partner, that he is a gentleman of strict integrity, and in every way worthy of your confidence. I most respectfully solicit for him a continu ance of your patronage. Respectfully, R. J. PERRY. nov29tf THE CELEBRATED SEXTUPLE SPRING BED. To breathe, eat and sleep well is the first requirement of physical organization. s. FLEISCHMAN’S SEXTUPLE BED SPRING. [Patented Aug. 22, 1882. L Is the first and foremost to accomplish this end, as it facilitates the first, accelerates the second, and perfects the last of these grand purposes. It is a “thingof beauty and a [oy forever.” Last with life, perfect in its adaptation for comlort, being disconnect ed in the center prevents sagging. Made by 8. M- LESTER, who will put them on, and is from long experience able to guarantee satisfaction. AGENTS WANTED to sell these Springs. Territory and Spring outfit furnished and large commissions paid. S. FLEISCHMAN, Patentee and Manufacturer, l octll-6ra Cotton Ave., Americas. Ga. For L/yspepsia, Sick Headache, Chronic Diar -0 rhooa, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases caused by De rangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. SYMFTOM3 OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the Eain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Lheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complain* of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try k—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred wnen but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should he used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator /* in the Ilouse! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never dc out of place. The remedy is harmless and does not Interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. ‘‘The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.** — l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. ©ST’Take only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the rod Z Trade-Mark and Signature of ,T. If. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TUTT’S EXPECTORANT Is composed of Herbal and Mucilaginous prod ucts, which permeate the substance of the Lungs, expectorates the acrid matter that collects in the Bronchial Tubes, and forms a soothing coating, winch relieves the ir ritation that causes the congh. It cleanses the lungs of all impurities, strengthens them when enfeebled by disease, invigor ates the circulation of the blood, and braces the nervous system. Slight colds often end in consumption. It is dangerous to neglect them. Apply the remedy promptly. A test of twenty years warrants the assertior that no remedy has ever been found that Is as prompt in its effects ns TUTT’S EXPECTORANT. A single dose raises the phlegm, subdues inflammation, and its use speedily cures the most obstinate cough. A pleasant cordial, chil dren take it rcadilv. For Croup it is invaluable and should be in every family. TUTT’S PILLS ACT DIRECTLY L ON°T><^!TvEb! Cures Chills and Eover, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Bilious Colic,Constipa tion, Rheumatism, Piles, Palpitation of the Heart, Dizziness, Torpid Liver, and Female Irregularities. If you do not “feel very well,” a siuulopill stimulates the stomach, restores the appetite, imparts vigor to the system. A NOTED ME SAYS: Da. Tutt:— Dear Sirt For ten years I have been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation and Piles. Last spring your pills were recommended to me; I used them (but with little faith). lam now a well man, have good appetite, digestion perfect, regular stools, piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid flesh. They are worth their weight in gold. REV. R. L. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky . Office, S5 Murray St., New York, f DR. TUTT’S MANUAL of Uaeful\ 'Receipts FREE on application. ) flOSEOtllfc fcIfTERS Remember that stamina, vital energy, the life principal or whatever you may choose to call the resistant power which battles against the causes of disease and death, is the grand safeguard of health. It is the garrison of the human fortress, and when it waxes weak, the true policy is to throw in reinforcements. In other words, when such an emergency occurs, commence a course of Hostetter’s Bitters. For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom apply for Hosttetter’s Almanacs for 1883. Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americus. ... Georgia Treatssuocessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. HFOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt BRICK. BRICK. BRICK 1 have - ,THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND good new brick, which I will sell cheap. Apply at once. decfilm E. E. COBB. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1882. YOOTS.Y. Written for the Republican. THE POETS LAY. On a bright and lovely morning, When no lowering sky gave warning, Of a rain or tempest wild, All things round seemed full of pleasure, And the very brook had leisure, Gurgling soft in accents mild. It was in the flush of spring-tide, When the valley and the hillside, Each was decked with flowers wild, When the wood-bine and the peach-bloom, Shed abroad their sweetest perfume, Each upon the other piled. The woodland rang both far and near, With voices trilling loud and clear, Their sweet melodious song, Which as they rose and kissed the breeze Were wafted back beneath the trees, In sweet cadence—loud and long. The hillside caught up the refrain, As if in voice it now would fain Join in the happy throng; And echoed back the rythmic chime, As brook and bird—in perfect time— In accent, firm and strong. Naught disturbed that woodland lonely, Save the crushing leaves which only Crushed beneath the tiny feet Of a brigl:„ and beautifui boy, Who wandering far without employ, Chanced to come in that retreat. A beaming smile lit up his face, As wandering ’bout from place to place, He watched the songsters singing; And ever and anon his soul Was filled, and songs he knew of old, Still in his ears were ringing. There perched above an oreole, Whose ceaseless song burned in his soul, And ’roused it from its slumbers; Hesitating there no longer, His little voice rose firm and stronger, Poured forth in “measured numbers.” Scarce had the first note died away, ’Neath the distant gum and bay, When a croaking, harsh voice said; “Cease that fuss, you noisy prate, Your tone is just the tone I hate;” Then ’twas silent—still as dead. The startled boy was dumb, half scared, And turned about and round him peered, But no form there met his sight; Then upward sprang lie to his feet Which bore him swift from that retreat, Far away in hasty flight. His little heart beat loud and fast, And kept beating until at last, He stopped ’neath the widespread sky; Then he listened, again to hear That sound that filled his heart witii fear, But in vain— no sound passed by. ****# * * A mocking bird just lit on high, ’Mid holly berries, lifts his eye, And hearing all the birds tune, Their cherry song, pours forth his own, In all its richness like the zone, Of Tropics, nor quits he soon. The boy forgetful of his fear, Now watched the bird, whose careless air Like sweet music thrilled his soul, Then poured he forth the song that lay Within his soul—that old, old lay— The lay that never grows old. T. E. D. [As Dr. Talmage did not preach in the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday we pub lish this week his sermon delivered last Thanksgiving Day, Ed.] THE AMERICAN SHEAF. Dr. Talmage’s Sermon on Tanks giving Day, Nov. 30th, 1883. “We were binding sheaves in the field, and 10, my sheaf arose, and also sto id up right: and, behold, your slieavesstood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.”— Genesis 37: 7. The Josephic Dream— A Thanksgiv ing Day Vision—The Golden Sheaf —The Best Place on Earth—Why 800,000 Immigrants Arrived—l. Fair Wages—Eight Cents a Day in Ireland—ll. Political Advan tages—The Expenses of Royalty— -111. Less Monopolistic Oppression —Ecclesiastical Monopoly—Land Monopoly—TnE Estates op the No bles—American Millionaires— Fathers Toiling for Their Chil dren — IV. Undistdrbed Peace— Frequency of European Wars— —Canada’s Blushing Reply—Gun powder Out of Fashion—Nothing so hard to Split as a Cradle— V. A Disappearing National Debt— VI. A Better Climate—Room for All—The Golden Sheaf Bowing in its Turn. A Josephic dream! At seventeen years of age, and when life is most rose ate, Joseph in vision saw a great har vest field, himself and his brethren at work in it, and after a while the sheaf that he was binding rose up with an imperial air and the sheaves of the other harvesters fell flat on their faces as the overawed subjects of an empire might fall down on their faces before a king The dream was fulfilled when there was famine in Egypt and Joseph had the ears of all the corn cribs, and his brethren came and implored food from him. Sure enough all their sheaves bowed to his sheaf. a thanksgiving day vision! I am away oilt in the centre of a field where the harvests of all nations are being reaped, Here is the great Amer ican sheaf. Sheaf of wheat, sheaf of rice, sheaf of corn, sheaf floral, agricul tural, homological, mincralogical, lit erary and moral prosperities—all bound in one great sheaf. It is kingly, and on its brow is the golden coronal of all the year’s sunshine, and its presence all the sheaves of European and Asi atic harvests bend and fall down, feel ing their littleness. Oh, the sheaf, the golden Bheaf, the overtopping sheaf of American pros perity. Other nations far surpass ours in antiquities, in cathedrals, in titled pomp, in art galleries; bnt in most things their sheaves must bow to our sheaf. I have an idea that the most favored constellation of immensity is the one of which the earth is a star, and of the hemispheres the western is the most favored, and that of the zones the temperate is the more desirable, and that of the United States are the best part ot the American tontinent- THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH < to live is here. Had it not been so, there would have been 800,000 Ameri cans last year moving into Europe in stead of 800,000 Europeans moving into America. Human nature has a strong tenden cy to fault-finding. Where there is one man who sings and whistles and laughs, there are ten men who sigh and groan and complain. We are more apt to compare our condition with those who are better off than with those who are worse off. I propose this Thanksgiving morn ing, for the purpose of stirring your gratitude, to show you how much pre ferable is the condition of this nation to all other nations, and how the Ital ian sheaf and the British sheaf and the Spanish sheaf and the French sheaf and all the other sheaves must bow down to our American sheaf. I. There is not a land where WAGES AND SALARIES are so large for the great masses of the people as here. In Ireland, in some parts, eight cents a day for wages. In England, a dollar a day good wages— vast populations not getting as much as that. In other lands fifty cents a day and twenty-five cents a day clear on down to starvation and squalor. An editor in England told me that his sal ary was $750 a year, and he seemed satisfied! Look at the great popula tions coming out of the factories of other lands, and accompany them to their homes, and see what privation the hard working classes on the other side of the sea suffer. The laboring classes here are ten per cent better off than in any other country under the sun—twenty per cent, forty per cent, fifty per cent, seventy-five per cent. The toilers with hand and foot have better homes and better furnished. Ido not talk an ab straction. I know what I have seen. The stone masons and carpenters and plumbers and mechanics and artisans of all style in America have finer resi dences than the majority of the profess ional men in Great Britain. You en ter the laborer’s house on this side the sea and yon find upholstery and pic tures and instruments of music. His children are educated at the best schools. His life is insured so that in case of his sudden demise the family shall not be homeless. Let all American work men know that while their wages may not be as high as they would like to have them, America is the paradise of industry. 11. Again: there is no land on the earth where THE POLITICAL CONDITION is so satisfactory as here Every three years in the state and every four years in the nation we clean house. After a vehement expression of the people at the ballot box in the autumnal election, they all seem satisfied, and if they are not satisfied, at any rate they smile. An Englishman asked me in an English railtrain this question: “How do you people stand it in America with allegiance across the sea, will say: “ASK MOTHER.” Peace all over the continent, and noth ing to fight about. What a pity that slavery is gone! While that lasted we had something over which the orators could develope their muscles of vituper ation and calumny. We are so hardly put to it for mili tary demonstration that guns and sword and cannon were called out last month to celebrate the bicennial of William Penn, the peaceful Quaker for whom a gun would never have been of any use except to hang his broad brim hat on. Oh, what shall wo do for a fight. Will not somebody strike us? We cannot draw swords on the subject of civil service reform or free trade or •‘corners” in wheat. Our ships of war are cruising around the ocean hoping for something interesting to turn up. General Hancock on Governor’s Island spending the winter with his wife. Sumpter and Moultrie and Pulaski and Fort Lafayette and Fortress Monroe and all the other shaggy lions of war sound asleep on their iron paws. GUNPOWDEn OUT OF FASHION, and not even allowed the juvenile pop ulation on 4tli of July. Fire-crackers a sin. The land is struck through and through with peace. The warmest eulogies ot Garfield uttered at the South and the heartiest appreciation of the deceased Senator Hill, of Georgia, ut tered at the North, and Wendell Phil lips and Robert Toombs, if'they hap pened to meet, would shake hands with each other, and the former could lecture to an applauding audience in Savannah and the latter could call the roll of national mercies at the foot of Bunker Hill. Governar Colquitt’s last signa ture before leaving the Executive Man sion in Georgia secured $5,000,000 of Northern capital to that State. There is hardly a Northern city where there are not Confederate gen erals in its law offices or commercial establishments or insurance companies. There you sit or stand to-day, side by side—you who wore the blue and you who wore the gray—you who kindled fires on the opposite side of the Potomac in the winter of 1802—you who follow ed Stonewall Jackson toward the North and you who followed Sherman toward the South. Why are you not breaking each other’s heads? Ah!, yon have irreparably mixed up your politics. The northern man mar ried a southern wife, and the Southern mini married a northern wife, and your children are half Mississippian and half New Englander, and to make another division between the North and the South possible you would have to do with your children as Solomon propos ed with the child brought before him in judgment: divide it with the sword, giving half to the North and half to the South. No, sir; there is NOTHING SO HARD TO SPLIT AS A CRADLE. Intermarriage will go on and consan gninal ties will be multiplied, and the questions for generations to come will be, how we people in this generation got into such an awful wrangle and went to digging such an awful grave trench. But there is now—look! no blood on the cotton, no mark of cavalry hoof on the wheat. Twenty years ago, could the wheat sheaf and the palmetto have stood on the same platform? No. Every grain of this wheat would have been a bullet, and every leaf of the palmetto a sword. “Peace on earth, good will to men.” Apple and orange— how the colors blend. In the great harvest field of the world’s tranquility all sheaves bowing to our sheaf. V. Again: we a-e better off than other nations in matters of NATIONAL DEBT, Our debt less than one half of that of England, and not more than a third of that of Frauce. We have for 10 years, every day, paid $142,000 toward the liquidation of the national debt. It is going to melt away like a snowbank under an April sun. VI. Again: we have A BETTER CLIMATE than in any nation. We do not sufier from anything like the Scotch mist or the English fogs or from anything like the Russian ice blast or from the awful typhus of Southern Europe or the Asiatic choleras. Epidemics here are exceptional—very exceptional. Plenty of wood and coal to make a loaring fire in winter time. Easy access to sea beach or mountain top when the ardors of snmmsr come down. Michigan wheat for the bread, Long Island corn for the meal, New Jersey punkins for the pies, Carolina rice for the queen of puddings, prairie fowl from Illinois, fish from the Hudson and the James, hickory and hazel and walnuts from all our woods, Louisiana sugar to sweeten our bever ages, Georgia cotton to keep us warm, oats for the horses, carrots for the cat tle, and oleomargarine for the hogs! In our land all products and all cli mates that you may desire. Are your nerves weak and in need of bracing up? Go North. Is your throat delicate and ill need of balmy airs? Go South. Do you feel crowded and want more room? Go West. Are you tempted to become office seekers? Go to jail! Almost anything yon want you can have. Plenty to eat, plenty to wear, plenty to read. “It has been well the past year,” says the loom. “It has been well,” say the type. “It has been well,” say pen and cliise and hammer and plough and fishing-net. “It has been well,” answer the groves and orchards and studios and factories and workship and harvest fields of America. OUR NATIONAL SHEAF is larger this year and more, golden a revolution every four years? Wouldn’t it be better for you, like us, to have a Queen for a lifetime and everything settled?” Englend changes govern ments just as certainly as we do. At some adverse vote in Parliament out goes Disraeli and in comes Gladstone, and after a while there will be another admonitory vote in Parliament, and out will go Gladstone, and in will come someone else. Administrations change there, hut not as advantageously as here, for there they mav change almost any day, while here a party in power continues in power four years. It is said that in this country we have more political dishonesty than in any other lands. The difference is that in this country almost every offi cial has a chance to steal, while in other lands a few people absorb so much the others have no chance’ at ap propriation! The reason they do not steal is, they cannot get their hands on it! The governments of Europe are so expensive that after the SALARIES OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES are paid there is not much left to mis appropriate. The Emperor of Russia has a nice little salary of $8,210,000. The Em periorof Austria has a yearly salary of $4,000,000. Victoria, the Queen, has a salary of $2,200,000. The royal plate at St. Jame’s palace is wortli $lO,- 000,000. The Queen’s hairdresser gets SIO,OOO a year for combing the royal locks, while the most of us have to comb our hair at less than half that ex pense, if we have any to comb! Over there, there is a host of attend ants, all on salaries, some of them SSOOO and S6OOO a year. Master of Buck Hounds, SBSOO a year. Grand Falconer, S6OOO a year. (I translate pounds into dollars.) Gentlemen of the Wine and Beer Cellars, Controller of the Household, Groom of the Robes, Misstress of the Robes, Captain of Gold Stick, Lieutenant of Gold Stick, Lieu tenant of Silver stick. Clerk of the Powder Closet, Pages of the Back Stairs, Maids of Honor, Master of Horse Chief Equerries in Ordinary, Crown Equerry, Hereditary Grand Falconer, Vice Chamberlain, Clerk of the Kitch en. Master of Forks, Grooms in Wait ing, Lords in Waiting, Grooms of the Great Chamber, Sergeaut at Arms, Barge Master and Waterman, Eight Bedchamber Women, Eight Ladies of the Bedchamber, Ten Grooms of the Great Chain, and so on, and so on, ad in finitum , ad nauseam, until it is said that the Queen sometimes actually suffers from thirst because it takes so much machinery to get a glass of wa ter. All this is only a type of the fabu lous expense of foreign governments. All this pa,d out of the sweat and the blood of the people. ARE THE rEOrLE SATISFIED? However much the Germans like Wil liam and the Spaniards like their young King and England likes her splendid Queen, these stupendous gevernmental expenses are built on a groan of dissat isfaction as wide as Europe. If it were left to the people of England, of Ger many, of Austria, of Spain, of Russia, whether these expensive establishments should be kept up, do you doubt what the vote would be? Now, is it not hotter that we be over taxed and the surplus be distributed all over the land among the lobby men, and that it go into the hands of hun dreds and thousands of people—is there not a better chance of its finally get ting down into the hands of honest peo ple, than if it were all built up, piled up inside a garden or palace? 111. Again: the MONOPOLISTIC OPPRESSION. is less here than anywhere else. The air here is full of protest because great houses, great companies, great individ uals are building such overtowering fortunes. Stephen Girard and John Jacob Astor stared at in their time for their august fortunes, would not now be pointed at in the streets of Philadel phia or New York as anything remark able. These vast fortunes for some imply pinchedness of want for others. A great protuberance on a man’s head implies the illness of the whole body. These estates of disproportioned size iveiken all the body politic. But the evil is nothing here com pared with the monopolistic oppress ion abroad. Just look at their eccle siastical establishments. Look at those vast cathedrals built at fabulous ex pense and supported by great ecclesias tical machinery at vast expense, and sometimes in an audience room that would hold a thousand people, twenty or thirty people gather for worship. The pope’s income is $8,000,000. Ca thedrals of statuary and braided arch and walls covered with masterpieces of Rubens aud Raphael and Michael An gelo, against all the walls dashingseas of poverty and crime and filth and abomination. Ireland to-day one vast monopolistic devastaion. About thirty-five mill ions of people in Great Britain and yet all the soil owned by abont thirty-two thousand. STATISTICS ENOUGH TO SHAKE THE EARTH. Duke of Devonshire owning 90,000 acres in Derby. Duke of Richmond owning 800,000 acres at Gordon Castle. Marguis of Breadalbane going on a journey of 100 miles in a straight line, all on his own property. Duke of Suth erland has an estate as wide as Scot land, which dips into the sea on both sides. Bad as we have it here, it is a thousand times worse there. Beside that, if here a tew fortunes overshadow all others, we must remem ber there is a vast throng of other people being enriched, and this tact shows the thriftness of the couutry. It is estimat ed that there are over five thousand millionaires in the United States, In addition to this, you must remember that there are successes on less extend ed scale. Tens of thousands of people worth $500,000; scores of thousands worth SIOO,OOO each. Yea, the major ity of the people of the United States are on their way to fortunes. They will either be rich themselves or their children will be rich. If I should leave to some men the question: “Will you have a fortune and YOUR CHILDREN struggle on through their lives in the struggle you have had to make—will you have the fortune, or would you rather that they should have the for tune?” Scores of men would say: “I am willing to fight the battle all the way through and give my children a chance; I don’t care so much about myself; its only for ten or twenty years, anyhow; give my children a chance.” If anything stirs my admiration it is to see a man without any education him self sending his sons to college, and without any opportunity for luxury himself, resolved that though he shall have it hard all the days of his life, his children shall have a good start. And I tell you, although some of you may have great commercial struggle, there is going to be a great opening for your sons and your daughters as they come on to take tlieir places in society. Beside that the domains of Europe and Asia are already full. Every place occupied unless it be a desert or volca no or condemned barrens, while here we have plenty of room and the resour ces are only just opening. In other lands, if fortunes fatten they must fat ten on others; but here they can fatten out of illimitable prairies and out of in exhaustible mines. We have only just begun to set the thanksgiving table in this country. We have just put on one silver fork and one salt cellar and one loaf of bread and one smoking platter. Wait until the fruits come in from all the orchards and the meats from all the markets and the vegetables from all the gardens and the silver from all the mines and the dinner bell rings raying: “Thanksgiving table spread. Comeall the people from between the oceans. Come from between the thousand Isles and the Gulf of Mexico. Come and | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 28. dine\” The prospects are so magnifi cent that for centuries to come all the sheaves will have to bow to our sheaf. IV. Again: the nation is MORE FULLY AT TEACE than any other. At least 15,000,000 men belonging to the standing armies of Europe to-day. Since we had onr conflict on the other side the sea they have had Zulu war, Afghan war, Egyptian war, Russo-Turkish war, German-French war. No certainty about the future. All the governments of Europe watching each other lest one of them get too much advantage. Di plomacy all the time nervously at work. Four nations watching the Suez Canal as carefully as four cats could watch one rat. In order to keep peace, intermarriages of royal families; some bright princess compelled to marry some disagreeable foreign dignitary in order to keep the balance of political power in Europe, the illy-matched pair fighting out on a small scale that which would have been international contest, some times the husband holding the balance ol power, sometimes the wife holding the balance of power. One unwise stroke of Glad stone’s pen after Garnet Wolseley had captured Tel-el-Ivebir and all Europe woald have been one battle-field. Crowded cities, crowded governments, crowded learned institutions, CROWDED GREAT CITIES close by each other. You get in the cars here and you ride 100 or 150 miles; then you come to a great city, as from here to Philadelphia, as from here to Albany, as from here to Boston. I got on the cars at Manchester and closed my eyes for a long sleep before I got to Liverpool. In forty minutes I was aroused out of sleep by someone saying: “We are here; this is Liver pool. The cities crowded. The pop ulations crowded, packed in between the Pyrenees and the Alps, packed in between the English Channel and the Adriatic so closely they cannot move without treading either on each other’s heels or toes. Sceptres clashing, char iot wheels colliding. The nations of Asia and Europe this moment wonder ing what next. But on this continent we have PLENTY OF ROOM and nobody to fight. Eight million square miles in North America and all but one seventh capable of rich culti vation, implying what fertility and what commerce! Four great basins pouring, their waters into the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Gulf of Mexico. Shore line of 29,909 miles. The one State of Texas with more square miles than all France, than all Germany. Thatourcontinent might have plenty of elbow room and not be jostled by the effete governments of Europe, God sank to the depths of the tea a whole conti nent that once ran from off the coast of Europe to the coast of America— the continent of Atlantis —which allowed the human race to pass from Europe to America on foot, with little or no shipping; that conti nent dimly described in history, bnt the existence of which has been proved by geographical evidences innumerable; that whole continent sunken so that a fleet of German, British and American vessels had to take deep sea soundings to touch the top of it; that highway from Europe to America entirely re moved so that for the most part only the earnest and the persevering and the brave could reach America and that through long sea voyage. Did I say the whole continent of ours, this North American continent? Gov ernments on the southern tip of this continent are gradually coming to the time when they will beg for annexation. On the other hand, BEAUTIFUL AND HOSPITABLE CANADA, the vast majority of the people there are more republican than monarchical in their feelings, and the chief differ ence between them and us is that they live on one side of the St. Lawrence and we qp the other. The day will come when Canada will be found wait ing for our government to propose mar riage, and when we do so, she will look down and blush, and thiuking of her and more regal and riper more richly grained than at any time since the Pil grim Fathers settled New England or the Hollanders founded New York or the Huguenots took possession of the Carolinas, Sheaf of sheaves. While all others bow before it. LET IT BOW IN TURN before the good Lord of the unparalleled American harvest. Before Him come down all the corn shocks. 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