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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
OF YEARS.
I entered the beautiful Garden of Year*
In a springtime of long ago,
Through heaven the breezes, like chariot-
eers,
Trove in pageants of cloud white mDOw.
The mnlight fell soft as the moonlight at
eve,
And the night was as fair as the day.
And I thought there was nothing earth
on
that could grieve,
But that all the sweet world must be
1 g*y.
was orily a child in the Garden of Years,
And my hopes were in bloom with the rose.
And the music of life rang in chimes in
ears my
From the dawn of each day to the close;
tio I played with thc butterflies, earrolled
with bird®,
And dreamed of the stars while I slept.
The language of life was mother’s kind
words.
And into God’s bosom I crept.
But I learned, as I grew in the Garden of
Y ears,
A lesson of mournful surprise—
I learned with the hopes of the world there
were fears,
And I found there were sorrowful eves;
1 found the heart weary in many breast,
a
And t saw that to many a home
Where love had invited some radiant guest
The Angel of Sorrow had come.
1 found, in the beautiful Garden of Years,
I, too, had a cross I must bear
Tut whenever I looked, for God’s smile
through my tear r,
I found my life’s rainbow was there.
And oua day I chance l the Wise Gardener
to meet,
Who taught me what love should have
known,
That be who from sorrow leads others’ worn
ieet
Shall fiud paths of peace for his own.
And now grander still is the Garden of Years
Than in that old springtime sublime,
Whose memories fall like a curfew that
cheers
From the far away tow'ers of Time;
For blessed is he who life’s sorrow abates,
Forgiving as he is forgiven;
For him shall life’s angel, through death ope’
the gates
Of that Garden Eternal called Heaven.
'—Ernest IF, Shvirtleff, in Congregationalist
i “MY WIFE.”
“She's a very nice woman, my dear
deed!” Mickleberry, a very nice woman, in¬
said Air. Partanbridge, sagely;
“but you allow her to dictate too muchl
For instance, my wife should never- tell
me not to smoko in the pallor on account
of the curtains!”
“It does turn ’em yellow,” observed
Mr. Mickleberry, thoughtfully.
“Granted—but what becomes of your
conjugal superiority? And then you
didn't buy that corner lot because she
advised you not to! What is a woman's
judgment worth in a matter of business
like that, Mickleberry 1”
“Mary knows more than half the men
going,” parenthetically asserted Mr.
Mickleberry.
“Excuse me, Mickleberry, but you
don’t keep her in her place! Don’t the
Scriptures expressly say that woman is
the weaker vessel? I should like to see
Mrs. Fartanbridge venturing to oppose
me!”
his Mr. Mickleberry looked admiringly at
big friend.
“How do you manage it, Partan¬
bridge?” he questioned, a little timidly.
“Tact, my dear fellow—tact, dignity,
supremacy! 1 wouldn’t have mentioned
D if circumstances hadn’t pointed di¬
rectly to the fact, but you are getting
hen-pecked, Mickleberry. Everybody
notices it. You must gather up the reius
of domestic management —you must as-
’
6ert youiself!’’
Mr. Mickleberry laughed.
“But what is the use of asserting my-
self?” he apked, jocosely. “Everything
goes on like clock-work at home—Mary
always meets me with a smile—she spends
the money sensibly, and never asks me
for an unnecessary cent!”
“Does she tell you how she spends it?”
“Not always, but-”
Mr. Partanbridge interrupted his
friend with a groan.
“Oh, these women, these women! I
fhould like to sec mv wife buving a silk
dress, as Mary did'last week, without
'
first consulting me.”
“But she has saved the monev out of
*
her housekeeping funds.”
“Then, my dear fellow, it’s a sign
that you give her too much money for
housekeeping. Cut her down—draw
the purse-strings a little tighter.”
Mr. Mickleberry looked uncomfort.
able.
“I- 1 should hardly like to do that,
Par anoridge.
“Youl never be master m your own
house until you do.
Mr. Moses Mickleberry went home and
told his wife all about what Partanbridge
had said. Mary laughed and colored,
but she was a little angry withal.
“I wish Mr. Partanbridge would mind
his own business,” said she. “I’m tired
of hearing about ‘mv wife.’ She must
bea poor, spiritless concern.”
“Partanbridge is a man of great abil-
itv,” ’“Fiddlesticks’,”said said Moses, gravely.
Mrs. Mickleberry.
“A regular hen hussv—a * thorough-going “
MissNaDy!”
“I’m sorry you feel so about him, my
dear,” said Moses; “for he doesn't
the place where he is boarding now% and
I told him he might occupy our spare
room for a few days.”
“Ob, I've no objections to that,” said
Mrs. Mickleberry, composedly. “I’m
always glad to entertain your friends, my
dear, even if they are not the moat
agreeable people in the world, and
dare say I can get along with Mr. Par-
tanbridge for a few days.”
“Y’ou’re a little jewel, my dear,” said
Moses, and he forgot all Partanbridge's
insinuations at once.
Mr. Partanbridge came, bag and bag-
gage, and took possession of the “spare
room” in the Mickleberry mansion as ii*-
portantly as if she had beeu the Grand
Turk. And thenceforward “my wife” be-
ean, figuratively speaking, to trample
?Iary Mickleberry into dust.
“My ‘wlfte" spent no money; “my
wife” went nowhere; “my wife” would
sooner cut off her hand than g6 to a
woman's rights convention; “my wife”
was housework, not literary, but spent her days doing
and her evenings mending
stockings. She held her husband in
salutary awe, never spoke when she
wasn’t spoken to—in short, knew her
place.
“And how did you manage it, Par¬
tanbridge?” asked Mr. Mickleberry Once
again, in the admiration Of his soul.
Mr. Partanbridge waved his hand
loftily.
“Mickleberry!” said he, “there are
some things that can’t be. expressed ill
words.”
berry, “Fottuhatcly 1” put in Mrs. Mickle¬
who was sewing away as vigor¬
ously as if every stitch were an unuttered
protest.
“And,” went on Mr. Partanbridge, as
if he had not heard the interruption, “it
is a woman’s duty to listen—to submit—
to keep silence!”
“There goes the door-bell,” observed
Mrs. Ylickleberry; “will you go, Moses?
it is Bridget’s evening out,”
“My wife,” commenced Mr. Part&n-
bridge, “would never ha?C asked me to
perform so menial an office as-”
He stopped short as a loud, masculine
voice was heard in the ent.y below stairs.
“Does Joe Partanbridge board here?
Yes? Oh, all right—-tell ’em to bring thfe
trunks, and you, haekman> a dollar’s
enough fare, You’ll get no more out of
me. Clear out and let’s hear no more of
your grumbling. So he’s here, is he? A
pretty chase I’ve had after him.”
Mrs. Mickleberry looked up at the
blanching countenance of Mr, Job Paf-
tanbridge in surprise and bewilderment,
“Who can that loud-voiced woman
possibly be?” she asked. “Surely there
is some mistake.”
“N—no!” quoth Mr. Partanbridge,
with chattering teeth, “it is—-my wife.”
“Mrs. Partanbridge? Can it be possi¬
ble?” and hospitable little Mary Mickle¬
berry dropped her work and hastened to
greet and welcome her new guest, the
paragon among women, the meek and
lowly, and well-trained wife of the
doughty Job.
Mrs. Partanbridge eftme into the room
with the tread of a giantess and the as¬
pect of an Amazon. She was a tall,
large woman, red-faced and resolute,
with the faint shade of a mustache on
her upper lip, and a deep voice like that
of a greuadier, and she wore her cloak
as if it had been a man’s overcoat, tho
two sleeves tied round her neck, while
her sailor hat would have been a snug fit
for her husband.
She sat down, at Mrs. Mickleberry's
invitation, with a force that made the
chair crack and tremble in its every
joint, and thrust out her feet.
“Pull off those rubbers,” she said to
Job, and the husband promptly went
down on his knees to perform the be¬
hest. “Not so rough—you’re as clumsy
as ever, I see; and now tell me why you
didn't send the money for me to join
you before?”
“1—I couldn’t spare it from my busi¬
ness, Drusilla, my dear,” stammered Job,
growing scarlet.
“Hang up my cloak to dry—ami get
me a footstool for my feet,” commanded
Mrs. Partanbridge. “Look sharp about
it, too! Well, I borrowed fifty dollars
from Deacon Underhill, and I’ve come
on on my own hook. I’m tired of being
poked away in the backwoods while
you’re playing the fine city gent, and I’ll
not stand it any longer ; besides,! wanted
to attend the Woman's Suffrage Associa¬
tion, and I’m a member of the Seleyville
Branch of Female Rights Advocates.
You’ve got a nice house here, ma’am,”
turu * n » to Mrs. Mickleberry. “I might
have had a house of my own if Job Par-
tanbridge had used comrnou sense in his
busiues 3 affai rs, and listened to my ad-
v * ce a little.” .
“Drusilla, my dear--” interposed
Mr. Partanbridge, but his wife darted a
leonine glance at him.
“Job Partanbridge, will you hold your
tongue, and speak when you're spoken
to?” she demanded, tartly.
“Certainly, my dear, certainly!”
“Then let’s have a specimen of it. As
I was saying, Mrs. Mickleberry—Job, go
down stairs, and look in the big-handled
basket on top of the trunk in the hall
and get me my handkerchief and the
camphor bottle with the little wicker-
case round it-as I was saving, that sort
of thing is just about played out, so far
as I am concerned. Job hasn’t no more
wit than a yellow dog when he's left to
himself-you know you haven’t, Job, so
;^u may just as well leave off opening
and shutting your mouth like a newly
landed fish-aud I mean to be boss my-
8 ’ ’
Yes, dear „
“Bring me the rocking-chair-now
move the screen so the fire won t shine m
my eyes. And get a hack early to-
morrow morning, and see that I am
furnisned money; I want to do a little
shopping.’
“Yes, my dear, ’ said Job Partan-
bridge.
“And be ready to go with me at(11
to the Suffrage Rooms* I most render
tbe report ol the Sedleyville Branch.
“Y r es, dear,” assented the husband.
At this stage Airs. Mickleberry inter-
rupted the orders of the commanding
General of the Partanbridge Division b\
tray containing tea, toast and other
feminine refreshments. .Irs. Partan-
bridge received them with a contemptu-
cus sniff.
“Aly good lady, said she, “I dare say
Y ou mean well, but I don t feed off such
slops! Job! ’
“Yes, Drusilla. .
“Go round to the nearest restaurant
and get me a bottle of Dublin stout and
a dish of stewed tripe. You 11 excuse
me, ma am, 1 to Mrs. Mickleberry, “but
we all have our little ways, and this is
mine.”
Away went Job Partanbridge, like an
arrow fleeing fiom the bow, aod soon re-
turned with the required dainties, off
which my wife supped sumptuously.
“Take my tbiugs upstairs, Job!* said
Mrs. Partanbridge, when she bad satis-
fled the cravings of nature; “I’ve had a
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, JUNE 27, 1891
If ever mortal man looked
wretehed, and dismal, Job Partanbridge
did the next rooming, wfcm he made his
appearance at the breakfast table. Mrs.
Mickleberry could not resist one little
mischievous hit.
“I congratulate you, Mr. Partan*
bridge,’'' fit she said, “upon the excellent
manner which you have developed
your theories as to conjugal discipline.”
Mr. Partanbridge choked convulsively
over his coffee.
“Hush!” he cried. “Hushi she is
coming!”
“Who is coming?”
“My wife!”-
“But, ah! how differently he pro¬
nounced the low, magic words from that
in which he had spoken them twenty-
four hours ago.
Mr, and Mrs. Job Partanbridge left
the Mickleberry rodf that very day fdr a
hotel handier to the “Woman’s Suffrage
Bureau,’’andthat was the last Mary and
her husband ever heard of “my wife” or
her humble slave, the devoted job.—;
New York Weekly.
Tanning Hides.
A leather manufacturer, who has been
on bis travels, has sent a trade journal
some interesting notes on the methods of
tanning adopted in. various *'ountries.
While walking out one day in Antigua
he came upon a hut about eleven feet
square, thatched with sugar cane, and on
entering he found himself in a very
unique and primitive tannery. A big
brawny colored woman was hard at work
taking the hair off skins. Her method
was of the simplest. The skins had beeri
put in lime for about a week* and were
being unhaired by means of a board,
after which they were steeped in various
tan liquors in a series of tubs, and the
product was ready for market, the leather
was crude but serviceable, and sold
readily in the island.
John Chinaman was found to have d
rtlde and primitive process; After steep¬
ing in a solution of lime* the hides are
cleansed and beaten* then tanned with
extract backward of gall; The hides are afterward
passed and forward through
the smoke of straw* which issues from a
circular furnace built underground, and
gives the latter a yellow-brown color.
The process is then complete. Some¬
times the leather is blacked with a solu¬
tion of galls and copperas, or simply with
lamp-black. India lias forty-eight large
tanneries.
Hides are tanned there by softening in
water for a few days, after which the
hair is scraped off. The hide is then
treated with quicklime* and after remain¬
ing in this condition for two or four days
is placed in the tart, which is made from
the bark of the babul or anv other tree
yielding a good tanning solution; There
it remains for a fortnight or three weeks,
after which it is removed, and when
soaked in clean water for a short time
and dried is ready for use;
When intended for the manufacture of
shoes the leather is usually steeped in a
solution of red dye for a day or two be¬
fore being worked. From the undyed
leather buckets for wells and water bags
for the water carriers are made. Some
leather water skins of a superior descrip¬
tion, called chagals, are also made, which
are used by travelers to carry chunking
water. Besides the manufacture of dif¬
ferent and characteristic forms of shoes
used in various provinces, European boot¬
making has also been learned in the
bazars of the larger towns. In some of
these hides of animals are beautifully
tanned with the hair intact, and a fine
soft skin of greenish buff color is made
into trousers, coats, leggins and gloves,
the skin used being that of the deer.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Silk Tkreadsin Bank Notes.
The paper upon which bank notes are
printed is called “distinctive paper,”
because used exclusively by the Govern¬
ment for the printing of bonds and notes.
The mills where it is manufactured are
at Glea Falls, Westchester County, Penn.
An agent of the Treasury Department
receives the paper direct from the hands
of the manufacturer, and every precau¬
tion is taken to keep any of it from being
lost.
When ,, ru this ... “distinctive ...... .. paper” is . being . .
m ? de i °* Te * 81 * ^reads are
^ it * the pu p in a big tank. The
fi n, s J led 15 c0 ? ducted to a we
^o'h . f without . f passing through any screen
^ 0 !' an arrangenaen re am e a S ! ove , e rea wire s -
’i ^th scatters shower of blue silk
a
which faU upon the paper as it
f °, r raed ’ Ta .« s ! de u P°n which
e ^f'notes, l Tch "thread being'
ba cks so
deeply embedded as to remain perma-
neatly / fixed. The smooth side of the
^ tbat in which thc red threads
are seen? 1S used for the front of
the note< Each of these sheets is
jstcred as soon M fished.-Sr. Louis
Republic.
Pigeons Which Fly Backward.
Captain Malogoll, fi the head of the Ital-
iaa m iii tary car er pigeon depots, ha?,
after j ram ense and unwearying trouble,
succeeded in getting his pigeons to fly
backward and forward between Rome and
Civita Vecchia, seventy-two kilometers,
says thc Cornhill Magazine. This practi-
ca j c UCCe ss has shattered the theories of
various ornithologists, such as Russ, who
bflve affirmed that pigeons cannot be
made fly j n t wo flLections. The chief
points to be observed in the rearing of
pigeons are: Roomy, warm houses, fac-
j n g toward the sun, scrupulous cleanli*
ness, light food and abundance ot clean,
freshwater. The smaller the bird and
the quieter its color t&e better chat ce it
3 t ttnds Q f safety from human and other
Among the latter the falcon is
t jj e mos t dangerous. The military pigeon
p OS j. j s organized in Germany, Italy
and France. In the last French budget
a sum of 6S,000 francs was devoted to
that branch of the service, and there are
at present in France thirty-two sub-
depots besides the chief pigeon station.
In Italy there are twelve sub-depots and
five in the Italian possessions in Africa.
—Boston Transcript,
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N£WS Q? THE ORDER FROM
________!__ SECTIONS
It6mS 01 * t Interest , to Alliance- ....
men Everywhere.
PRESIDENT riOLk ANSWERS A FEW QUES¬
TIONS.
We clip the following from the Pro¬
gressive. Reform Farmer (Raleigbj N. C.), credited
to the Pres9 Bureaii:
Colonel L. L. Polk, President of the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Indus¬
trial Union, was interviewed by the
Reform Press Bureau this week on the
People’s of party. When asked for his
opinion “Of the in movement,jhe remarked :
coufse I, coinnion with every in¬
telligent Citizeta of this country; have my
views as to that conference and its action ;
but if t give any expression to them at
all it must be understood that I speak in
my do capacity ns an individud, and that I
member not of speak for thfe Alliance or any
it.”
liut it was published and it is now re¬
ported in the partisan press ibat you did
wiite a letter to the Cincinnati confer¬
ence in your official capacity, in which
you third express strong opposition to the
“Yes,’’ party movement.
said the fcolonel, “I am aware
that such a statement is being industri¬
ously circulated by interested parties, but
the truth is I wrote no letter to the Cin
cinnati conference. Several prominent
members of our order throughout tbe
country letters very inquiry naturally addressed to me
of as to my views ns to
what wotild be a proper course of actio i
by the conference. Repaying to these,
always in my individual rapacity, I
neither advocated nor opposed a third
party movement. One of these letters, I
learn, was read before the conference.
Of this I make no complaint whatever,
and would not have objected if a 1 my
feSpouSfes had been l't-ad there* for I en¬
affecting tertain no the views on great public questions
afraid people that I am ashamed or
for the world to know.”
In giving his private view of tbe con-
Ventioh the cblonel* among other things
said: “The friends of reform throughout
the Country have no quarrel with the
Cincinnati Conference. Its action was a
surprise to the public generally. There
was a general apprehension in the public
mind that a body so heterogeneous in its
character and reprtsenting so many
phases of political thought could not be
harmonious or homogeneous in its action.
The partisan press especially was profuse
in its dire prediction in this direction;
but the result Was a disappointment and,
as I said, a surprise to the public, for
never in a deliberative body of its magni¬
tude in this country did more thorough
hartnonv and accord prevail.
What in your judgment are some of
the most prominent considerations that
will commend the conference to the
friends of reform?
“First, the frank, manly and unequiv¬
ocal expression of its princ pics and pur¬
poses. There is no dodging or evasion
in its platform. There is no political
twaddle, sentimentalism or sectionalism.
It is pointed, clear and unmistakable.
It does not mean one thing for the South
and another for the North. It deals only
with great, vital issues—issues evolved
by systematic injustice and oppiession—
not such as are manufactured by expert
politicians for the temporary purposes <ff
a political campaign, but issues which
involve equality of rights, and those
great principles is of justice on which our
government founded. These issues
thus formulated and promulgated are
near and dear to the hearts of the great
masses of the American people, and they
will regard with fraternal feeling any
man, or men, who stands by these ques¬
tions as their friends anrl allies.
To what extent will the farmers of the
South support this movement?
The farmers of the South, in common
with the farmers of tbe Norih, East and
YVest, are common sufferers from a com-
mon discriminating evil, to wit: vicious, partial nnd
legis'atioD, which robs the
many to enrich the few, and which has
dwarfed unjustly the rights of the citi-
zen and magnified unduly the rights ol
the dollar. All thinking men must see
that a readjustment of political elements
along new lines is inevitable, and on
which will be arrayed on the one side the
corporate and money power of the East,
ami. on the other the people of thc great
agricultural sections of the Northwest
and South. The thinking men of the South
see and realize this. They h ive suffered
and lost enough through sectional agita-
tion and division. r l hey feel and believe
that the only hope of the American
farmer is in a cordial, earnest, honest,
determined, consolidated effoit against
the forces which have conspired against
him. They feel that the hour has come
to strike hands with their brethren in
one grand effort to fraternize and re-
unite the people of. the North and South,
and thus create a new and mighty power
that will rescue the country from im¬
pending peril. THey believe that a con¬
flict between the money power and the
people is inevitable—that it will be the
most misjudge gigantic struggle of all history, and
I them if they shall falter when
the issue is made up.”
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pushing ahead.
A , l7 ian< . f (Tallahasseee, Fla.) „
There will be says:
no pause in the rapid
and progressive 'work of the Alliance on
account of this being an eff political
year. The camp fares of the grand army
of the yeomanry are to >e kept burning
all along the line until tbe ba lot boxes
are closed in November, 1892.
r t Ve , .
a la
™ In Ybfc corps of T “^“sh - Yro^'rto
ranks of the people the has field been organized,
and they are now m to enlighten
the plain people on the vital issuesi of the
day. The days of indifference and leUh-
argy belong to he dead past The
people are to be told the They reason why they
are not prospering. are to be told
of their oppression, and they are to be
told who are the oppressors. The people
are to be woke up.
And when they are made to realize
their true condition their indignation
will know no bounds
upon When them, arou^ they will to the rise , injustice in the majesty heaped .
jSlu s,sy ** h “ nd 01
Thatthe money power of this country
.
amoi.rn to‘nothing The combination whilP
the Floridapaatiwn press are now making
to train all their artillery on the Alliance
platform f>r the overthrow of the irder
w m vanish like mist before the morning
sun, in the when hearts light and truth find lodgliicflt
of the people. Education
i3 Alliance the powerful figlititig leverage with battles. which the
is its The
cafnp’aign 6’f the AllitPfce is one of educa¬
tion and enlightenment. It is dot ap¬
pealing to a sentiment nor inflaming the
passions, it is appealing to the cool ar.d
sober judgement of the people for a
verdict and a verdict It is.go*np to have.
The Alliance is poor, has no t?:rfk ac¬
count but it is full of men of pure patriot¬
ism and genuine philanthrophv.men who
have consecrated their all for the al'evia-
tion of their countn men and p sterity.
The fight is faotf fairly on and the cam¬
grfessivfeness paign Will be pushed with vigor ftnd ag
Until the people’s verdict
has heed recorded.
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POINTERS.
, The National Economist gives the fol¬
lowing as ah “important Pointer;” The
sub-treasury both North plan is be ng hotly contested
and South, not because it is
th ! only demand of the Alliance that is
objected to, but for the reason that by
making be made it that prominent balance an impression can
the of the demands
are unobjectionable. Stfahgfe to Say,
many led good members of the Alliance are
to believe that the politicians as a
mle would be willing to consent to all tho
demands of the Alliance < xcepting the
sub-treasury plan. This is an error. There
ta but one demand at the outside that
they dre in favor of in the whole list.
The Economist suggests that the breth¬
ren cut out the following lifet of questions
to be sent their congressmen, senators or
other official aspirants for thHr answer—
the same to be either a plain yes or no:
1. Do you favor the abolition of
national banks? Yes or no.
2. Do you favor government loans di¬
rect to the people at 2 per cent on land
security? Yes dr do.
8. Do you favor government IdanS di¬
rect plan? to Yes the people on the stib-tre isury
or no.
4. Do you favor an increase of cur-
tency to $50 per capita? Yes or no.
5. Dd you faVor the suppression of
gambling in futures by act of Congress?
Yes or no.
6. Do you favor the free and Unlimited
coinage of silver? Y"cs or do.
7. Do you favor laws proliib ting alien
ownership of land? Yes or no.
8. Do you favor laws that will take
from tailroadsj and other corporations
all lands now held in excess Of their a(P
tUal wants* and under some equitable
provision place them Again in possession
of the government; there to be for actual
settlers only? Yes or no.
8. Do you favor the removal Of the
present tariff from the necessaries of life?
Yes or no.
10. Do you favor a graduated income
tax? Yes or nd.
11. Do you favor government control
or ownership of railroads? Yes or no.
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TOE THE MARK.
The Recorder I Madison, Fla.) says:
The hour is at hand when the Alliance of
Florida should set its house In order.
The country has been sufficiently enter¬
tained with professions. The tiling now
demanded is sincerity. It will not
answer the needs of the time that a man
* s simply on the inside of the Alliance,
f°i’ R s worst enernhs have managed to
get in there. Resort must be had to ek-
perience meetings; there will have to he
n general shaking* up of the affairs. The
sheep cannot thrive tn Xed up with the
goats; that's all Wr< ug and ought hot to
be so. To be an Alliance man one must
entertain a faith, he must believe in its
teaching, not through compulsion by any
means, but of his own free and untram-
melled volition. He should be an ortho-
dox Alliancuuan or none at all. The
order does not admit of half breeds. It
wants none other than full bloods. How
will you get at this? V- hat shall be the
standard of measurement? Ihe truest
and only tist is the Ocala platform,
Let every man toe the mark and
be sized up. YVe must get together on
this line or not at all. We may diff r
on non-essential matters, but when it
comes to the Ocala platform, that is
strictly essential and upon it we must be
a unit. But how are we to manage as to
our Democratic allegiances? And just
here is the present stumbling block,
which has been placed in our pathway by
our enemies, by imposing upon our ig-
norance and appealing to our passions,
Take the Oca a platform and study it
closely, and you will find that it is the
most complete system for the protection
of the interests of the masses of the peo-
pie that has been submitted to the couu-
try since the days of Jefferson,
'
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wtatch the press.
Following President are some extracts from a
letter of Loucks, of the South
Dakota Alliance:
“The w ord has gone out from Wall
street that the Alliance must be destroyed
by whatever means possible. We should
rejoice that tho’ we occasionally find a
Judas the great mass of the membership
are loyal to our principles and loyal to
our ) eader3 s0 ) on g as they lead in those
principles. One of the dangers we must
jr Uard against is the admission of the sel-
political schemers who want to use
the Alliance for their own advancement,
p* e tjall aud when men have
proven untrue to the i obligations expel
them. They will scarcely attack your
Officers, as every such attempt V in the past
““X™ J tteii durfTtok wilTbe
t( ; tb k that on
our ^ tQ jt that sustaia
lhe l iber that advocate our principle 3 .
liem er that their best advertising
£ patronage is cut off when they espouse our
au?e . The opposition ^ will not support F ‘
a paper that not J t t h em
Why business;' &hould you? It h a ,, t wke; it is
not it is not even good common
sense tQ for aod uke into your hou5e
for f V our family reading the subsidized
]>!u ocratic organ when for the same
money you can have a healthy, intelli-
t , progressive, loyal, reform press,
To sum up my special warning is: ‘Look
“* fOT ot p— -
E. I*. SIMPSON 9
TOCCOA, GEORGIA
Arid Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds cd Machinery.
Pbeblbos Engines,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Geiser Senarators & ShiHe Mills
Farmers anff others in want of either Engines or separators, wm
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 3 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
°<1ESTEY 0RGANS.I>
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills,. Syrup
Mills and EvaporatofS. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me bw-
ofe ton htiA- Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
pare for war,’ by Weeding out yoUf !
enemies and enthroning your friends.”
* pointed'editorial.
The National Economist under tho
head of “Political” says; Never before
has the national house been put la order
for such an early campaign. The ricent
Cincinnati conference is, by many of the
partisan papers, legarded as This the is signal
gun of an active campaign. im¬
portant from an Alliance standpoint, be¬
cause both parti, s give as a reason for
their early ac ivity that they “are con¬
ducting a campaign of education,” and
that it will take time and money properly
\ud legitimately us»cL The reason this
is of great interest to Alliancerrieii; and
-hould receive more than a pissing notice
from them, is that the education
proposed by of these both active sides is parti¬
san in papers antagonism and opposi¬ one
direct
tion to the principles of the Farmers’
AJlinnce. \\i h a few exceptions, tbe is
great metropolitan press of the country
ictive’.y opposed to the sub-treasury plan,
the land loan b 11, the free coinage of sil¬
ver, ihe government control of railroads
to the ektent election of ownership United if necessary,
and the of States senators
by dirict vote of the pcopl", and consider
ihem all subjects to be “educated”
gainst. In fact* the “machines” of both
paities now pretend, and will continue
•o pretend, to love the farmer While the
ubject of their fight will be centered on
bis declared principles. *
* £
TWO IMFORTANT MEASUft»f*.
The Progressive Farmer says: It sefefils
certain th it the Alliance can get two of
its measures—the the free coinage of silver
aod reform of the tariff—through the
next congress. It seems also certain that
the Securing of these two measun s would
give the order stlch pnstige with the
country by relieving the Situation that it
could demand any other just measure of
reform with the certainty of success.
The vital question just now wise is, will our
brethren have enough of eonaerva-
ti.-tn to undertake, with might and tiiain,
the things that are possible, or will they
fake the unwritten and unspoken risks
of attempting the doubtful? In a
few words, these are the questions and
that press for answering now,
they must be, they will be,
answered, oneway or the other, within
ihe next few months. Do we need the
Union of all oUr forces? Do the needs of
the country demand the union of all our
forces? Can we win with disunited and
contending factions? Shall the conserv-
atUm that has always J been the boast of
the farming classes make , itself . ,, dominant , .
in the pre-ent crisis? We assure our
readers that these are immensely import-
ant questions. As these questions shall
be answered, so snail it be well or ill with
the alliance movement.
cheering Words from Mississippi.
Messrs. A dispatch from Durant, Miss., Willet says: and
Polk, L virgston, days’
McDowell have just closed a two
alliance rally at this place. Never in the
history of the order in Mississippi has such
enthusiasm been create] as Livingston,
Polk and others are now producing. Law¬
yers,merchants aud politicians Alliance. are The coming sub¬
over to the help of the
treasury plan is clearly and forcibly set
forth, and its advocates believe it is gain-
ing ground. Resolutions were adopted
endorsing the sub-treasury plan, with
but one dissenting voice. This vote in-
eluded the entire i.udieDce.
The Kentucky Farmer says: “When
the old parlies tell you yon arc for
paternalism refer them to the law allow¬
ing the banker to take his millions of
dollars in gold to the mint and have it
pressed in bars at the expense of the
government to make it convenient to
ship to Europe. Now, why should the
government press the bankers’ gold into
bars for shipment and make the farmer
compress his own cotton when he wants
to ship it to Europe, W c want t e s loe
P ut ?“ «he other foot for awhile, now-
...
The Itural II,me OVilson, N. C.) says:
“The question :s asked frequently oflate
^ bat are V™ g oin 2 l .° do ab ' u t the third
P a *v? Our answer is just what , it has
bcen forthepastsixinonths. ‘ We
stand squarely by our demands.” From
Ocla every a banceman who is true to
his order, to himself and his country re¬
c f ived hs P’atform of principles, and by
these alone he should stand Jt is life or
deatli ' there can be no half way ground
» this matter. If you love the order and
- v » ur obligations, you will stand by them
through weal or woe. No compromising
of principles will be made by any true
NUMBER 25 .
RICHMOND & DANVlLLt R- R.
_
M»t» and CUarlotte lir-Lim Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect May 10th, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 88. jyo, 10. No. 12-
FASTERX TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily-
LV. Clifimblce..... Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm am
Noreross
Duluth........
Suwanee....... • * * f •
Buford........
Flowary Gainesville..... Branch 3 01
pm am
I.nla.......... 3 23 pm
Bellton am
Cornelia.......
Sit, Any....... 11
Toccoa.........
Westminster...
Seneca ........
Central........
EasleyB........
Greenville..... 6 05 pm
Greers.........
Wellford
Spartanburg... Clifton........ 6 57 pm
Cowpens ......
Gaffnoys....... Blacksburg.....
Grover.........
King’s Mount’ji
Gastonia.......
L< well........
Bellemont..... I
Ar. Clmriotte...... 9 20 pm
SOUTHWARD. No. 37, No. 11, No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
L v. Charlotte...... 7 55 am 1 40 pm 2 30 am
Helh-mont..... ....... 2 02 pm 2 57 am
% w ' ........ ....... 2 il pm 3 08 am
King^s^Sount’n ....... 2 22 pm 3 22 am
....... 2 44 pm 3 53 am
Grov.r......... ....... 2 59 pm 4 13 am
Blacksburg.... ....... 3 08 pm 4 2» am
Gaffneys....... ....... 3 25 pm 4 43 a T n
rn'frV^.' 18 ...... ....... 3 48 pm 5 10 am
Spartanburg!., ....... 3 51pm 515 am
9 55 am 4 12 pro 5 32 am
Vo Ilford... . 4 39 pm 6 57 am
Greers......... 5 00 pm 6 16 am
Greenville...... 10 5C am 5 33 pm 6 47 an*
Central' ..!!!” 6 07 pm 7 16 am
Seneca..*!.'!!!., 6 .55 pm 8 10 am
7 22 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... 7 42 pm 8 58 am
........ 8 20 pm 9 3-5 am
...... 8 55 pm 10 10 am
Bellton.!!!!!!! 9 OOpmllO pm! 10 43 15 am
..!...!... 9 26 am
Lula I 32 pm 9 30 pm 10 46 an*
Gainesville..... 1.50 pm 952 pm 11 11 am
liranch 10 15 pm 11 31 am
10 30 pm U 46 am
Suwanee!!!!!!! ..!!..!! 10 44pm If 12 59 i M am
Duluth ......10 56 pm pm
Norcross...... .. 11 08 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... !......11 22 pm 12 37 pul
At A1 !—J£:—J! 3 25 pm'11 59 pm 1 15 pm
_ :
Additionalfra ns Noa. 111 and 18—Lola ac-
ecmmudation’ daily eXi^pt Lvlla» Mindu, 1^5 rvetnin- ~
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives p m.
< leavoa Lnia 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 55
Between Lula and Athens—D
“ P «)am,‘arrive 113-5 aiN
a nd 10 Atb«» pm No. 10
]2 50 pm. Returning leave Athen 3 ,
daiiv. except Sunday, and No. 72daily. 7 10 30
and 8 30 am, air.re Lula 9 00 pm and
a m. Elbe on—Nov 61 and
Between Toccoa and ft 11 45
68 daiiv; except Sundav, leave T.wcoa a m
and 120 am, arrive Elberton 3 35 p m and 915
rid. Returning, Nos. 60 and 62 daily, except
Sunday, leave Elberton 2 45 p m and 5 45 a m,
arrive Toccoa 7 10 pmanl 915 am.
Nos. 11 an l 12 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Atlanta, and Nos. 9 and
10 Pullman Sleeper between Atlanta and New
York. day coache* from
On No. 11 no change in
New York to A’lanta. Southwest¬
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged on first-class tickets only. local aod
For detailed information as to Sleep¬
through time table-, rates and Pullman
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, TAYLOR, L. L. BIcCLE>KEY,
JAS. L.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, C. P. HAMMOND,
Gen’l Manager. Superintendent.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at la w
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the countie* of H ib»*r-
«ham and Rabun of thc Northwes era
Circuit, and Frankbn and Banks of thc
Western Circuit. Prompt attention w ill
be given to all bu^ess entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have pp< c-
ial attention.
Down an Embankment.
An excursion train of fifteen cars which
left Cleveland, O., Sunday afternoon on
the Nickel Plate railway jumped the
track near Dover, O., and seven cars were
wrecked. The trdn was loade t w tU
street railway employes and their families,
who were going to Oak Point, a pleasure
icsort on the lake shore. Bat one man is
reported as killed, but thirty or more
people were more or less iniured.