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THE SUNNY SOUTH
SEA-BEST.
Ry A. I. Ryan.
Far from "where the rosea rest,”
Round the altar and the aisle,
Which I loved, of all, the best—
I have come to rest awhile
By the ever-restless sea—
Will its waves give rest to me?
But it is so hard to part
With my Roses. Do they know
(Who knows but each has a heart ?)
How it grieves my heart to go?
Roses ! will the restless sea
Bring, as ye, a rest tome ?
Ye were sweet and still and calm,
Roses red and roses white;
And ye sang a sound I ess psalm
For me in the day and night.
Roses! will the restless sea
Sing as sweet as ye for me?
Just a hundred feet away
Seaward, Sows and ebbs the tide.
And the wavelets blue and gray
Moan, and white sails windward glide
O'er the ever restless sea
From me,—far and peacefully.
And as many feet away
Landward rise the moss-veiled trees,
And they wail, the while they sway
In the sad November breeze,
Echoes in the sighing sea
To me, near and mournfully.
And beside me sleep the dead
In the consecrated ground ;
Blessed crosses o'er each head,
O’er them all the requiem sound
Chaunted by the moaning sea,
Echoed by each moss-veiled tree.
Roses! will you miss my face?
Do you know that I have gone
From your fair and restful place,
Far away where moveth on
Night and day the restless sea?
But I saw Eternity.
In your faces, Roses sweet!
Ye were but the Virgin-veils,
Hiding Him whose holy feet
Walked the waves, whose very wails
Bring to me from Galilee
Rest across the restless sea.
And who knows ?—mayhap some wave,
From his footstep long ago,
With the blessing which he gave
After ages' ebb and flow,
Cometh in from yonder sea
With a blessing sweet for me.
Just last night I watched the Deep,
And it shone as shinesa shrine—
(Vigils such I often keep)
And the stars did sweetly shine
O'er the Altar of the sea;
So they shone in Galilee.
Roses! round the shrine and aisle!
Which of all I loved the best,
I have gone to rest awhile
Where the wavelets never rest;—
Ye are dearer far to me
Than the ever restless sea.
I will come to yon in dreams,
In the day and in the night,
When the sun’s or starlight's gleams
Robe you in your red or white;
Roses will you dream of me
By the ever restless sea?
Biloxi, Miss.
CORPORATE MONOPOLIES.
Their Origin and Development.
The Rank of the the United States Pat
terned after the Bank of England.
NUMBER 6.
Editors Sunny South:
The bank of England had obtained the su
premacy over the finances of England by the
mere force of capitalistic power. I shall
now proceed to show how it exercised the
power it had thus acquired. Its exclu
sive privileges gave it, with the immense in
fluence its holding, and to a large extent
management of the national debt, a nearly
arbitrary force in the public councils relating
to all financial' problems. This was by no
means limited to public necessities. It ex
tended to most of the large manufacturing
and commercial enterprises of the realm. A
Mr. Hume declared, it had become the duty
of his majesty’s ministers to take immediate
steps to free the government from the tram
mels in which it had long been held by the
bank. This was said When it was applying
for a renewal of its character. He insisted
that it was true policy of the government to
pay off every shilling of its indebtedness,
that it was not only ruling public finances
but that it was acting as the pawnbroker on
a large scale and lending money on estates in
all parts of the realf. Mr. Edward Elice
designated it as a great monopolizing body,
enjoying privileges which no other corpora
tion and no other class of citizens could claim
or enjoy.
Its long habitude of being considered as a
supporting pillar which nothing could shake,
made it arrogant and dictatorial. It had
been and was supported by the fear and ter
ror which its monopolizing power inspired.
There was hardly an extensive trader or
manufacturer, or banker in London, or
through England, whom the bank could not
seriously injure if its policy was not sustained
and supported. Mr. .Putney declared that
its monopolistic power over pnbiic interests
was in a nature despotic, corrupt and cor
ruptive, holding as it did a dominion as
grievous as it was disastrous to independent
action. It skeltered irseif in all its demands,
and in all of its arrogance of dictation behind
that never failing plea of the vested rights of
individuals. Its direct power was prodig
ious. Its capitalists seemed to regard its
rights as boundless and uncontrollable. Its
mna« of privileges, ramified through all pub
lie and private interests, made it the absolute
monopolist of credit in business and in poli
tics, and its prolonged existence, reaping
double and compound interests on the one
hand, while it was free from all taxation on
the other, made it the autocrat of parliament
of business and of all monetary power. In
>795. when all Europe was trembling cn the
vortex of revolutionary energy, when the
French Directory was sanguinary with pow
er and elated by success, when Napoleon was
ip.. CT ,in«ting and frightening Europe with the
H.rinp. and brilliancy of his incomparable
genius, when every element of consideration
was portentous with fear, the bank assuming
the miserly cunning of capital and wrapping
its franchisee about it, as a shield to protect
it without the shadow of care for the inter
ests of the nation and people through whose
legislative and financial favors it had grown
into enormous wealth, and more enormous
influence, its governor and board of directors
announced to the Chancellor of the Excheq
uer “that the government must arrange its
finances 'n a manner not to depend upon any
further assistance from the bank.
At that moment, said an emiuent states
man, the war with the French republic was
in its full tide, Spain had just declareu war
against Great Britain, Ireland was glowing
with the ardor of rebellion, the fleet in the
Norse was in open mutiny, and. the cry for ( ,
eform in abusee, and the reduction of taxes holders.
resounded through the land. It was a time
of consternation and of imminent, actual
danger. It was in the fever of these exciting
and threatening national calamities, when
every resource was demanded as essential to
the maintenance of public and private rights,
that the Bank of England displayed 'the
venom of its calculating power and the inso
lence of its financial strength. From that
day Mr. Pitt, then in the splendor of his un-
rivaled will and full of the matchless power
of his political influence, became the minis
ter of the bank, and to meet the necessities of
the government was forced to bring all the
departments which ruled its destinies—king,
lords, commons and privy council—to yield
to its commands. The bank demanded to be
released from its obligation to pay its bills in
specie, and specie payments were stopped.
It demanded that its bills should be made the
lawful currency of the land and the decree
was made. More than this, it demanded
that its charter should be extended on its
own conditions, aDd parliament was forced
to yield to the demand. The bank reigned
and from this period it was the dominant and
dominating power of England. Commenc
ing with the declaration that it bad not a
shilling to lend, the debt of the government
was increased 20,000,000,000 of dollars by
paper loans which it manipulated to suit its
own profit and to enhance its overwhelming
power. The result was that lords multiplied
into the aristocracy of wealth, and beggars,
into millions to demoralize society. The gov
ernment was the servant of the bank, and
the people became slaves to its financial pow
er, to that extent that nnder its 3 per cent,
nominal loans the treasury for every fifty
dollars realized on its loan became liable to
pay one . hundred dollars. Thus under the
huge arrogance of dead capital the people of
England have been loaded down into an end
less captivity to that dead weight called the
national debt, which is forever eating out
the life blood of the working, producing and
industrious classes to furnish nutriment for
the idle extravagance of an aristocratic no
bility reared in privileges, cradled in luxury,
and overpowering in that influx which has
culminated in mountains of wealth for the
monopolistic few surrounded by vast seas of
improverished, dependent, ignorant and
widely debased population.
Volumes have been written and statistics
of endless minuteness have been arranged
and spread broadcast to show the squalor,
misery and degradation, morally, socially
and politically in which the great bulk of
English operatives exist, not alone in the
manufacturing districts, the mineral regions,
in the great cities of the realm, but in the
rural and agricultural districts of England.
The monopoly of the currency in England
by the Bank of England, chartered and fos
tered through the power of dead capital by
the Parliament of England, has been the
primal cause which has concentrated the cap
ital of Great Britain in the hands of less than
7o,ooo of the 38,000,000 of people, its lands
under the monopoly of its lordly aristocrats
less than 3o,000, and built up that empire on
which the sun never sets, the drum beat of
whose call to arms never eeases, to sustain a
mere handful of privileged supporters of a
crown, which rests on the shoulders of a peo
ple crushed into servility by wealth, into en
durance by ignorance, and alone kept en
slaved by the power of an army, a navy and
a police which force complaint into dungeons,
revolution into extermination and liberty in
to the silence of despair.
Such is the character of an institution the
aspiring capitalists of the United Slates took
as their model. They clearly foresaw that if
they could once succeeded in committing the
Government to delegating the manage
ment of its finances to a corporation of indi
viduals similar to that of the Bank of Eng
land, and its loans and future dependence for
monetary aid to its management that they
would secure the monopoly of privileges and
powers which could not fail to make the
Government their footstool, aristocracy of
power a certainty, and wealth and political
influence an endless inheritance for their en
joyment.
That there were great men, good men, pa
triots, men who had given their lives, their
honor, their property and all that human
grandeur of soul combines to work out our
independence, and to found in perpetuity the
endless blessings of liberty .justice and equal
ity of right8,wbo supported the constitution
ality and who believed in snch a bank as the
most direct, certain and practical means of
creating a currency and of controlling the
fiscal affairs of the Government, no fair man
can deny. It is equally true that the policy
was urged, promoted and consummated into
trial by a body of men from whom the pur
est and best administration of delegated
power might fairly be expected. After pro
tracted debate Mr. Eemilton’s policy pre
vailed, By his transcendent reasoning be
convinced Washington and half of his Cabi
net of the constitutional power, and by the
clear brilliancy of his logic, the genius of his
own unquestioned purity, and the urgency of
the financial wants of the Government he so
captivated Congressional judgment as to se
cure the passage of the first charter for the
United States Bank. It would mutilate his
great paper,in which he urged and undertook
to demonstrate every debatable question in
volved in the policy and constitutional pow
er of the Government, to quote it by half-
complete passages. Every scholar wiil read
it, and every one desirous of studying into
the profound discussions of the founders of
the Government to learn the reason on which
the policy of action was based will examine
it.
It will be sufficient to present the charter
as it passed that a parallel may be traced be
tween its provisions and those of the Bank
of England, and to show the exact mode in
which the highest functions of governmental
sovreignty were delegated to corporate in
dividuals wholly independent of the govern
ment, and the power to contract the currency
of the nation by contraction or expansion as
individual corporated interest or wisdom
might dictate.
The abject deference as the fundamental
basis of the charter was “the management of
the national finances by giving facility to
the obtaining loans for the use of the govern
ment, and as productive of considerable ad
vantage to trade and industry in general.”
Its capital stock was $10,000,000, divided
into shares of $100. Its stock was open for
general subscription, under commissioners
appointed by tne President of the United
States. Its stockholders were to become a
body politic under the name and style of
“The President, Directqjs, and Company of
the United States,” with corporate power
and privileges, to continue until March 4,
1881.
Its powers were to have, purchase, receive,
possess, enjoy, and retain to them and to
tbeir successors, lands, rents, tenements,
hereditaments, goods, chattels, and effects of
what kind soever, to an amount not exceed-
ing $15,000,000; to sell, grant, demise, alien,
or dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead ana
be impleaded; to have a common seal; to or
dain, establish, and put in execution such by
laws, ordinances and regulations as shall
seem necessary and convenient for the gov
ernment of the corporation. Its business
was to be under the management of twenty-
five directors, to be elected on the first Mon
day in January each year by the stockholders
or proprietors of the capital stock.
As soon as f 4oo,ooc in gold and silver was
paid in a meeting was to be called for the
organization and election of the board of
directors.
The directors bad power to select one of
their number as president, and to appoint all
officers and agents, clerks and servants.
Each stockholder was entitled to vote upon a
fixed ratio, according to the amount of stock
be held.
Not to exceed two-thirds of the directors
were to be eligible for re-election, except the
President, who could be re-elected indi-
finitely.
No one but a stockholder and a citizen of
the United States could be a director. No
director was entitled to any compensation
but such as was settled and approved at a
general meeting of the stockholders.
Not lees than seven directors could form a
quorum for business, of whom the president
was always to be one, excepting when pre
vented by absence or sickness.
Any number of stockholders not less than
sixty, could call a general meeting of stock-
The amount of the debts of the bank should
at no time exceed $10,000,000, whether by
bonds, bills, notes, or other contracts over
and above the money, and money deposited
for safe keeping, unless specially authorized
by Congress.
It was authorized to receive three-fourths
of its subscription in any stock, bonds or in
debtedness of the United States bearing six
per cent interest.
It could negotiate and sell any of its pub
lic stock, bonds, &c., but could not purchase
any public stocks.
No loan could be made to the Government
exceeding $100,000 or to any State exceed
ing $50,000 without a law of the United States
authorizing the same.
It could issue bills, notes, drafts, letters
of credit, &c., &c., was authorized to declare
semi-annual dividends, and once in three
years the directors should lay before the
stockholders, at a general meeting, an exact
statement of its affairs.
It was authorized to establish offices wher
ever its directors thought fit in the United
States, for discount and deposit.
It was required to furnish the Trea ury of
the United States, from time to time, as often
as required, not to exceed once a week, with
statement of capital, debts due, moneys de
posited, notes in circulation and cash on
hand, and to allow an inspection of them.
It was prohibited from trading or traffick
ing in goods, wares, merchandise or com
modities.
It was to lend to the United States. Its
nates and bills were receivable for all dues to
the government. The United States was au
thorized to subscribe at any time, till eighteen
months after April 1, 1792, $2,000,000 to its
capital stock, to be paid out of the money
loaned to the government by the bank.
The government was prohibited from
establishing by any future law of the United
States during the continuance of the charter
of 179I any other bank.
Such were the provisions under which the
first Bank of the United States went into ope
ration. There is slight statistical iufoi mation
to show what it did or how it was done. The
Secretary of the Treasury paid little or no
attention to its management, standing or
business. Our people were in the halcyon
days of our primitive progress. There were
no great enterprises; no vast speculations;
nothing of that spirit of baste to get rich,
that reckless longing for excitement, or of
that Saturnalia of delirium at the stock board
our more recent history has so fully devel
oped. The bank—like our government under
Washington, John Adams and Jefferson—
was laying the foundation by care and by
careful management into the strength of
maturity. Not a single report of its proceed
ings appear to have been called for from 1791
to 1809 by the Secretary of the Treasury, or
by the stockholders at large. It paid divi
dends from 8 to 10 percent.; it was careful to
win confidence; indeedit was on trial and
good behavior before the American people.
Yet smooth and prosperous as the country
was, and fraternal and well disposed as the
great body of the people were, the natural
and inevitable tendencies of capitalistic
power displayed themselves in the expanding
and contracting of the currency one day to
meet the general demand for money, the next
to extend the discounts and profits of the
stockholders; atone time to aid in building
up manufacturing, then beginning to spring
into active operations, at another time to
control the markets for cotton, our great
article for export, again to effect exchanges;
while under other impulses as feverish as
they were foolish, and as fiiful and despotic
as they were ruinous to the welfare of the
people, the bank would suddenly contract its
discounts, call in its currency, and thus keep
business men in any wise dependent upon bank
aid and every enterprise on the 1 agged edge
of doubt and fear. The one never-failing
excuse or reason was the scarcity of coin.
The truth of the excuse was well known, but
the necessity for appealing to it was often
questioned.
The fact is that all power grows by acces
sions of strengh, influence and age into dic
tation, and the power to dictate as certainly
rounds into the spirit of monopoly, as nature
s true to itself. The bank created opposition
by arrogance and criticism by success. Men
questioned not only the constitutional right
to delegate privileges so powerful in their
power, but they questioned the policy of
building into perpetuity so huge an engine to
reign over the liberties of the land, and Con
gress refused to grant a new charter.
The failure to secure a charter to keep the
Bank of the United States in existence gave
rise to a multitude of State banks. These
supplied the currency withdrawn by the clos
ing of the Bank of the United States. Tne
country was prosperous; it had not pro
gressed with the rapidity which marked the
great movement from the Atlantic coast to
the Weet from 1835 to 1850, nor in any com
parable degree with the transcendent devel
opment which followed the discovery of gold
in California from 1846 to I860. Yet its
growth was vigorous, healthy and continu
ous. The constant influx of capital for in
vestment, and the every year increasing tide
of immigration brought to our shores a con
tinuous flow of coin to render the people and
the government free from all financial trou
bles. We imported more than we exported,
but this excess against us was more than met
by the incoming tide of coin brought here for
investment in our lands, our cities, and the
great enterprises which our country so grand
ly prefigured.
In the midst of our prosperity, and just as
the Bank of the United States was expiring,
we were called upon to resist the arrogant
claims and insulting bravado of England in
impressing our seamen, searching oar ships
and assuming that superiority which power
so often attempts to enforce. We united like
freemen, as we are. War was the re
sult. The United States Bank was for a time
forgotten. War and its activities, war and
its absorbing demands, and war and the im
pulses to manufacturing, prepared the way
for an inevitable demand for a renewal of
the bank charter.
The history of the new life of the bank will
form the subject of my next chapter.
Stephen D. Dit.t.a aye
Premiums to Women.
A New Orleans Picayune correspondent
who has been attending the Annual State
Fair at Meridian, Miss., writes that the di
rectors of this fair have been more than usu
ally liberal to women in awarding them pre
miums for the products of their labor. He
sounds a note of reform in this matter. He
says;
The ladies of the South have acted nobly
since the war. They are industrious, and
have skill and energy to do much more than
they have done, but a wet blanket is thrown
upon their enterprise, and their skill is but
poorly rewarded. They would engage ex
tensively in the silk and silk-worm business,
OFF-HAND TALES.
ICY SI, III .jin.
Science and Farming
We hear much these days about scientific
farming, and I have given the matter much
thought myself.
But the more I think about it the less I
know.
And so do all other one-horse farmers like
myself.
But mine is a one-ox farm.
My horse died because the “shavins” give
out.
But I am poor only from the necessities 1 f
the case.
I inherited poverty from my ancestors.
It came along down in regular line to all
the descendents and none of them have ever
had any right to change the inheritance.
And never wanted any.
The taxes are just the same as when my
great-grandfather paid them.
One dollar a head.
And it was always promptly paid.
0:1 a fi. fa.
But I am convinced of one thing, and that
is that science and farming are two different
things.
Farming is raising cotton.
But science is buying cotton.
Two different things altogether as my
neighbor Poke-Easy said when he got 10 cts
per pound for his cotton and found that it
cast him 12 cents.
But that was extraordinarily stupid.
No sharp farmer will let his cotton cost
more than 11 cents when he knows he can
only get 10 cents.
He cannot afford to lose more than one
cent per pound for the first ten years.
After that it will not hurt him to lose more.
If he loses his w hole crop he can see his
way out.
Through the cross-bars of the jail.
The farmer raises corn, wheat, oats. etc.
The scientific man corners on them in Cin
cinnati, Chicago and other small towns.
They attempted to corner on me once when
I raised an unusually large crop of wheat in
my ox pen.
But I went into the market and bought
eighteen hundred millions of bushels and
busted them completely.
It was thought the transaction would bust
me.
But it did not effect me in the least.
It was science and borrowed capital.
The thrifty farmer raises produce and the
staple products of all kinds and puts the pro
ceeds in his purse.
The scientific man raises his pocket-book
the first chance and proceeds at once to in
vest the contents in corn juice and bank
stock.
Faro Bank.
The scientific man can raise more money
in two minutes from the side pocket of an
innocent overcoat than a half dozen farmers
can raise from their farms in twelve months.
But my neighbor Jones, whose lands are
covered with stones, is really a scientific
farmer and bis success is marvellous.
He has abandoned cotton and now raises
sardines, salt mackerel and dried fruits of all
kinds.
In the spring he plants his tin boxes in
rows like Irish potatoes, with only one or
two sardines and a castor beau for oil, in
each box, and during the summer irrigates
the patch with salt water.
In the fall he gathers a fine crop of sardines
ready canned.
He pursues the same plan with mackerel.
His small kegs or barrels are placed in hills
with one or two mackerel and a handful of
salt in each, and he irrigates as before with
salt water.
His kits of mackerel fresh from the patch
are in great demand by grocery merchants.
He is now experimenting on oysters, and
will doubtless succeed in raising the finest
ever known and ready stewed in the shell.
His orchards are wonderful.
He has a large number of beautiful young
trees just beginning to bear excellent dried
peaches and apples.
This is scientific fanning, and Jones says
it pays better than raising cotton.
This kind of science is almost equal to the
best guano.
Nothing, however, is superior to good
guano.
If it is pure it will make cotton grow six
teen feet high on a flat rock.
Jones is going to try an experiment soon
with guano.
He thinks he can raise two crops on the
same stalk.
He proposes to plant his seed near the cen
ter of the earth and by nsing a double quan
tity of the best guano thinks they wiil grow
both ways.
He will then gather crops in China and the
United States at the same time and from the
same stalks.
It is possible therefore to combine science
and farming if the thing is well managed.
THE BACKWOODS.
FA.H1L.IAR LETTERS.
Betsy II ami I tom to Her ComsIi
Saleny—Before and After
Starting; to the Exposi.
tiom.
LETTER NO. 26.
Hillabee, Talladega Co., Ala.,
Dear Saleny:—Well, I reckin we’ll all
git off on a Monday. Right smart more of
’em from about here is talkin er gwine. Hits
like sheep, if one of ’em goes any wharf,
t’others all thinks they must go too. Some
of ’em hearn we’uns was gwine, and they’d
go now, if hit taken every cent they could
scrape. Hit skeers me putty nigh into a
trimbleever time I think about ridin on them
kars, but I reckin thar’ll be a plenty in the
gang besides me, that never has saw ’em nor
rid on ’em neither. I have saw ’em a heap
er times, but never is rid cn 'em yit. Cala-
dony say8 they don’t skeer you so bad airier
you’ve rid a piece on ’em. I don’t low to let
on like I keer, but I know hit’ll be funny to
watch some er that gang, if they’re skeerd.
Some er the Robersons is gwine. The Turn-
tine gals and Lize Monroe is gwine, and Jim
Haste’s wife is gwine—and I know thar haint
nair one of ’em ever rid on the kars. Cala-
dony’s rid on ’em twicet. She’s been to
Childersburg onc’t and to Oxford onc’t.
L'za Monroe’s uncle lives in Atlanty, and we
are gwiue thar—Lze haint never been thar.
They live at West Eend, and if none of ’em
don’t meet us, we’ll jist have to notice the
way the sun sets, and go that way and ax
tel we find the house. But I reckin ever body
thar knows uncle Jesse Monroe and his folks
fur they are rich; he had five hundred dollars
clean cash, when he left this settlement,
shorely he haint spent it all by now. Lize
haint axed none of ’em but me and Caladony
to go thar with her. Pap’s turned in and
made a white oak split baskit with a handle
and a kiver to tote our vittles in—and hit
looks like maw’s a tryin to cook ever thing
on the place fur us to put in it. She’s made
putnkin and tater custards tel I don’t want to
see no more, and she’s hard biled ever aig on
tbe place, and baked salt riz light bread
enough to feed the whole gang on fur a week,
but I’d ruther have a plenty, as to have not
6i.ough.
Ma w had a bran new scrop er store-bought
bed-ticken’, and she taken it and turned in
and made me a riticule out’n it to hang on
my arm to put my bankercher Flurridy gin
me and gloves Aunt Nancy knit me, and sich
like in. I’m a-gwine to tote hit, and my
baskit, and George Washington Higgins is
gwine to tote my hand-satchel for me. I’m
not agwine to be bothered takin my chist.—
That t’other gang is takin along all the
clothes they’ve got.
I ’lowed to wear my yaller buff muslin arter
I got thar, but I’ve put off gwine tel hit’ll be
too cold, but my new worsted frock will take
the shine off’n anything they’ve got in At
lanty. Caladony says she knows the Turn-
tine gals is jist a gwine bekase we’uns is, and
she baint a gwine to have nothing to do with
em, bekase they made ther selves so med
dlesome about her and Ike Roberson. Miss
Gooden’s agwine; she’s gwine to leave the
chillun with thar grandmaw, all but little
Anonymous, and she’s a talkin er takin him
along. If she does, I hope they’ll put her in
t’other cabin er the cars, for hits the cut-
squawlinest young ’un ever I seed. I don’t
think shows is any place fur young ’uns, no
how.
5
and George ’lowd if we’d a knowd it we’d er
walked shore.
We hain’t been to the show yit. I’ll write
you all about it airter we see all that’s to be
seed. I tell yer thar is a heap er houses here
and the most folks I ever hive seen, and
they all ’pear to be m a hurry.
(So ter see maw and write to me, fur I am
plum home-sick. Your cousin,
Betsy Hamilton.
BILL ARP
YOLK CHILDREN’S LOVE.
How to Gain the Aflectio
Your Children.
n oi
Filial love does not spring into being, like
the fungus, in a single night. The bond of
blood is more poetic than real. The af
fection of children is gained by being merit
ed; it is a consequence, not a cause, and
gratitude is the commencement of it. There
fore your baby must be grateful, cost what
it may. Do not deceive yourself with the
thought that he will be thankful to you for
your solicitude, for your dreams of his fu
ture, for the expenses of his infancy which
ypu have paid, or for the superb inheritance
you are preparing for him; such gratitude
requires a calculation altogether too compli
cated for his little mind, and is moreover
based upon social ideas as yet altogether
foi eign to him. He will not be thankful to
you for the supreme affection you entertain
ed for him, but do not be surprised and call
this ingratitude! You must, first of all, lead
him to comprehend your affection, to appre
ciate and judge it, before responding to it;
he must know his notes before he can charm
your ears with delicious harmonies.
The little fellow’s gratitude will be at first
but an egotistic, natural and plain calcula
tion. If you have made him laugh or amused
him, he will wish to recommence and will
hold out his little arms to you, crying:—
“Again!” The recollection of the pleasures
you have afforded him will impress itself
deeply upon his little mind, and he wiil very
in making preserves und canning fruits and I so “ n think:—"No one amuses me as much as
vegetables for market, in making butter | P a P a ! it is he who throws me into theai*,
from grass fed cows for the Northern and
Western winter markets, in teaching, in nu
merous useful and honorable callings, but
how much encouragement do they get from
the fairs or from men who ought to fa
vor their laudible ambition. Let the fairs
offer such premiums to the ladies as
they offer for pigeon-shooters and fast
horses, and those fairs would be deluged
with proofs of their enterprise and ingenui
ty, and the benefits to the South resulting
from such a policy could in a reasonable
time be reckoned in millions of dollars—or bo
we believe.
We will add that a special premium list,
partly for tbe benefit of the ladies, has been
prepared, chiefly by the business men and
citizens of Meridian and vicinity, (S.B. Watts,
superintendent,) much to the credit of those
who are connected with it. These gentlemen
offer ladies premiums as high as $10 for spe
cimens of their skill and ingenuity.
It is hoped that before another fair at Me
ridian the S. B. Association will materially
revise their list, and the next time give more
encouragement to female skill and enterprise,
even if they have to cut down tbe rations of
pigeon-shooters and other sfiorcsmen.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is a really remark
able and time-honored medicine. It is the
best known remedy for all diseases of the
throat.
plays l ide-and-seek w.th me and tells me
pretty stories!” And little by little gratitude
will be born in him, as thanks rise to the
lips of one whom we have mad9 happy.
Therefore learn tbe art of amusing your
baby; imitate the crowing of the cock; roll
with him upon the floor; reply as best you
can to his thousand questions that are but
the echoes of his endless dreams; let him
pull your beard and do not be afraid to play
cuckoo in the corners. There is affection in
ail this, but also cunning; and good King
Henry did not give the lie to his subtile poli
cy wnen he crawled on all-fours upon his
carpet.
Your paternal authority will doubtless
thereby lose its austere prestige, but you will
gain by it that deep and lasting influence
yielded by affection. Your baby will fear
you less, but ne will love you more. Where
then is the harm?”
Eminent Physicians
are prescribing that tried and true remedy,
Kidney-Wort, for the worst cases of biil>ous-
uess and constipation, as well as for kidney
complaints. Tuere is scarcely a person to be
found tbat will not be greatly beuefitted by
a thorough course of Kidney-Wort every
spriDg, If you feel out of sorts, and don'
know why, try a package of Kidney-Wort
and you will feel like a new creature.—Indi-
enapolis Sentinel. |
When we got to the depot hit was crowd
ed. Thar was a gang thar from Possum Val
ley—the hardest lookin set I ever seed—but
they didn’t git on the kars—they was settin
down on the flatform dippin snuff and chaw
in’ terbaccer. They jist come to see and be
seed. To be seed is the last thing they ought
to a come fur, for they was plum sights.
The kars come a whistlin, and stopt long
enuff fur us all ter git in. Miss Gooden had
no notion er gwine in t’other cabin; she taken
a seat right close to ourn. Me and George
taken a seat together. Lize and Caladony
sot right over fernent- us whar they could
look at us and laugh, Lize’s hat makes her
look like she was a fixin to fly.
1 stopt a writin and lowd I’d piece out my
letter airier I got here. I told you we was
gwine to start on a Monday. Well, we riz
tore day and got in the waggin, and come to
Talladega; we walked up the biggest hills. It
is a slow way er gittin along, ridin in er ox
waggin beats walkin if a body is tired, and
critter-back beats a waggin, and ridin in a
buggy is better’n air one, but nothin can’t
nigh come up to the railroad kars fur gittin
over ground fast. They go so fast they make
your head swim,and if you didn’t know whar
you was, you’d think yon was a fly in. Miss
Gooden lowd hit put her iu mind of a dream,
I was afeard she was a gwiue to turn in and
tell the dream, but she never. I am a gittin
so I despise dreams anyhow.
I wasn’t skeered nigh as bad as I lowd I’d
be. I jist sot and watched the trees go by.
Hit looked like the trees was running one
way, and we was gwine t’other. The kars
was plum full of folks. I don’t see how that
thiDg does to pull sich a load, and not break
down. When we went through the fust
bridge I dodged, but nobody never seed me,
and Jim Hasle’s wife sot up sich a yell that
old Miss Gooden had to hold her, and that
started little Anonymouse to frettin and he
let in to cryin, then he sot in to screamin at
the top er his voice and hit looked like he
never was a gwine to hush* Hit made me an
Caladony wish we had er put off gwine tel
some other day.
Ever time the kars stopt, somebody’d git
off, and some would git on, but most ever
body ’peared to be gwme to the Exposition.
Some of ’em was dressed monstrous fine and
nice, but some of ’em was fixed up so shabby
I’d er hated to er looked like they did to be a
gwine any whars. George lowd I was the
best fixed up of any one of ’em. If I’d erhad
to er went thar fixt like Miss Gooden, I
wouldn’t er went at all, but she ’peared to be
plum well satisfied.
We taken out our vittles and fed the whole
gang and when they got done eat in hit was
the ^easiest set I ever seed. We rid so fast
bit never tired me so much as gwine to Aunt
Nancy’s on Lou-i-zy, and she’s a good ridin
critter.
W ben we got to Atlanty the kars run right
spang through a house. Hits left open at
both eends, made so on purpose. Thar's
whar we stopt and I wisht you could a hearn
the noise. Everhody ’peared to be a talkin
at once’t and all tryin to see which could
talk the loudest. Jim Hasle’s wife was
skeered so bad she sot in to cryin and lowd
she wisht she had er stayed atliome; but she
didn’t wish it no more’n Miss Gooden did. I
was mighty glad she didn’t belong to our
gang.
Niggers and white folks, grown men and
triflin little white boys, was all a bollerin at
us; some one thing and some t’other. “Here’s
your hack I” “Here’s your nice carriage!’
“Take you any whars, wharever yer wan ter
go! Step this way—here’s yer hack!”—
•‘Whar’s your trunk? Take you and your
trnnk any whar in the city yer want ter go.”
“I jist fetched my hand-satchel,” says I;
“I never fetched no chist nor nothin.”
“Gin me yer satchel and git right in here
and ride,” says a fine dressed man, and he
’peared so friendly we jist got right in and
rid, and he taken us to Mr. Monroe’s, and
let us out.
George Washington Higgins sot in to
thaukiu of bim, ana told him if he ever come
down our way he’d do as much fur him or
more. But be’lowed:
“You ’uns owe twenty five cents a piece.”
• Owe you fur what?” says George.
“Fur feichm’ you here in this here hack,”
ssys he.
•*1 thought you axed us to ride,” says
George; aud I wisht you could er hearn
George teliin’ him what he thought of him;
Or General Prime iples.
Tbe millenium is coming. I know it must
be coming. Our folks are getting so loving
and kind—so humble and so forgiving. Who
would have thought Atlanta would ever have
fixed up an ovation for General Sherman ?
I see that the exposition has appointed a
committee to receive him with an address of
welcome. 1 suppose this is to show our grow
ing piety and sanctification, onr love for our
enemies, which are all Christian virtues of a
high character. It’s all right, I reckon, but
Bill Fori asked me if Jeff Davis had ever
been invited to the show, and I told him he
had, and that he would be ovated as soon as
he returned from Europe.
Now, there is not such a great difference
between great men, so-called, and common
men, nohow. The older I grow the less fear
and reverence I have for great men. They
have all got their weaknesses and the greater
the man the greater the weakness. A great
man’s sin is a shiniDg light and can be seen
all over the country, aud has a bad iufluence
on the rising generation. A great man can
make swearing or drinking or gambling or
libertinism or swindling the government re
spectable. An humble citizen, who sets a
good example to his own children and other
people’s children, is about as great as any
body in this day and generation. 1 asked
Jim Jones to go with me to the hotel to call
on Alek Stephens, and says he, “If I was to
go to Crawfordville, Alek wouldn’t call on
me, and I’ll be dog’d if I’m going to call on
him. Honors are easy.” Let's quit running
after big folks and big things. 1 went into
Billy RussalU's store one day for some tobac
co and he advised me not to pay too much for
a brand, “for,” says he, “there is just as good
tobacco that hasn’t got any name or notoriety
and I can sell it for half the money.” My
friend Cobe went down to Atlanta the other
day and wouldn’t go to the exposition. He
said it wasn’tjnothing but a durned old cattle
show, for he seed the picters of the man-
cows all over the houses and fences and ev
erywhere else. Well they can’t pay for all
this printing and painting and gassing and
blowing and hollering around without put
ting up the price or adulterating tbe article,
and to my opinion they are doing both. But
then there are some folks who love to be fool
ed and they rather pay for the brand than
not Some folks rather go to Saratoga and
keep sick than to go to Cohu'tah springs and
get well. Some girls wouldn’t get married
in a dress that wasn’t made in New York,
just as though the feller that married her ex
pected to sleep with the dress. Lord have
mercy on us all. These modern weddings are
humbugs* They are conspiracies against
their friends, and the public, and the old
man's money purse. It takes about all that
a young man makes now a days to keep np
with the nuptial presents he his got to make.
They owe money they can’t pay, but the sil
ver butter-dish must come. The girls ought
to break up the custom and print on their
wedding cards, “no presents.” Too much sil
verware at the start is a dangerous thing for
a young couple, for it calls for other things to
correspond, and will keep the young man on
a strain to keep up appearances. I knew a
pair of brass 'andirons to ruin a man thirty
years ago, and be never has recovered from
it, for they called for a fender and the fender
called for a fine rug, and the rug for a carpet
and a carpet for curtains and cornice, and so
on and so fourth and fifth and sixth, until he
got in debt and tried to sell his house to pay
out and he couldn’t sell it, but the sheriff
came along and sold it just as easy.
Extravagance and trying to keep np with
the nabors is the great domestic trouble in
this country. It brings on financial distress
and that causes speculation and embezzlement
and bamboozlement and ends in whiskey and
suicide. There is no security in this life but
honest industry and living within one’s
means. Folks who do that don’t kill them-
That sort of a man is happy and that
sort of a woman basent got time to be hank
ering after another feller. Children read too
much trash now a-days. There are too many
books and sensational newspapers—too much
fashion and esthetics. I don’t know what
that last thing is, but I know there is too
much of it. But go ahead with your exposi
tion ; that’s all right, only I wouldn’t ovate
any more th»n is decent and dignified and in
good taste. Take those man-cows off the
palings, for our people don’t want to be bull
dozed. Avoid toadyism and esthetics and
come square down to the facts and all will be
well. Don’t pay too much for the brand. I
went into the cotton exchange the other day
to see how the thing was done. I had an idea
of betting a little just to find out how capital
was exchanged for experience, but the feller
wanted to charge me $25 for the privilege of
betting at all, and I wouldn’t pay it, for two
reasons: It was giving him too much advan
tage, and I dident have the money. I was
willing to risk four dollars on an even bet
There was an old gentleman sitting there who
had a mournful expression of countenance,
and I asked a friend if he hadn’t lost some
member of his family, and he pointed to the
blackboard and said something about cotton
and points. Another fellow came in and
looked at the board with his off eye and took
a drink of water and went out without speak
ing to me, though he was an old triend. I
reckon the water was better than Chat he had
over to his store.
On the whole I believe that spots are the
best. Deal in spots if yon deal at all, and
pay as you go. Spot cotton, spot wheat and
corn, especially for an old man. My children
are all spots now, and I am glad of it.
THE IHISH REALTY.
The Coming Belle of Washing
ton City For This Season.
Washington, November 3—Mrs, Corn
wallis West, who accompanies her kinsman,
the Hon. Lionel Sackville, to Washington, is
a beautiful and brilliant Irish woman—a
niece of the Marquis Headfort, her maiden
name Fitzpatrick She is lively and spirit-
uelle, like Erin’s bright daughters in general,
and became by those qualities alone one of
the leaders of London society Opinions were
divided as to the place she was entitled to hold
i 1 resptc: of beauty, for her rival was pow
erful and found her claims to the first place
as “professional,” supported by tbe taste ex
pressed by royalty ; but concerning the su
periority of intellect there was not the
slightest difference of opinion. Ruthin cas
tle, the seat of Cornwallis West, always
been enlivened with all sorts of dramatic en
tertainments, in which tbe lady of the castle
takes the leading part with tbe greatest tal
ent and ease, while her low-browed classical
rival could never sustain a conversation with
any degree ot interest. She is still young
enough to justify pretension to witch tile
world with her loveliness, having been born
daring the Crimean war, and christened by
the odd name of Eupatoria. Her style of
beauty is in direct contrast with that of her
rival—laughing, sparkling. hlnnHn and pi
quant. Her arrival at Washington will be
an event at that city, and serve not only to
waken np the diplomatic corps from the
droning ennui ot its common-place routine,
but will serve to protect her honorable kins
man during tbe seige which he will surely
have tosustain against the American “gurills’
always on tbe watch ana ready to pounce
upon a diplomatic bachelor.
The last grand jury found an indictment
for larceny against one of our prominent
citizens on a queer charge. It is claimed that
he hooked his wife’s dress. He denies it. bnt
-ays he is open to conviction. Of corset it is
true.—Divorce Court Record.