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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
CONCERNIN’ SOME FOLKS.
Some folks is allers grumblin’, no
what they’ve got.
-A Amlin’ fault with what they have, an’
wantin’ what they’ve not.
An’ you’d think, to hear ’em kickin’ an’
cussin’ of their luck,
That the world’s a bad investment an’
Lord’s a gettin ’ stuck;
An’ it riles me up to hear ’em a-complainin’
all the time,
IfV ith their measly misconception of the
works o’ the Sublime.
An* it sets me to reflectin’ on the merits of
the case,
An’ a drawln’ of conclusions appertainin' to
the race.
Till I’ve sorter got to thinkin’ that it’s sinful
to complain,
That there’s jest as much of pleasure as there
ever was o’pain,
That there ain’t no more to cuss about than
what there is to bless.
An’ things air pratty ekally divided up, I
guess;
For when you strike a balance ’twixt the
shadder an’ the sun, -
The two will alters ekallize when all is said
an’ done;
An’ the world is balanced even, er it
wouldn’t spin aroun’.
For the hills’ll HU the hollers when the thing
is leveled down.
There’s another old time doctrine, an’ I’ve
found it mighty true,
That you never get a thing without a-losin’
somethin’ too;
That there never was a gain without a cor¬
respondin’ loss;
That you’re not ago in’ to wear a crown un¬
less you bear the cross.
An’ when you see a pint in life, the where
you’d like to get,
You may make it soon er Jnter, but you’ll
pay fut it, I bet.
A man may get the lamin’ of the sciences an’
sicb,
An’ another deal in futures an’ may strike
it sudden rich,
Hut the first has lost the peace of mind that
once ho used to feel,
An’ the last has lost the relish of the hard-
earned honest uieal. *
An' when you see a feller’s got tilings extra
nice,
You can gamble that fur all he’s got he’s
paid the market price.
An’ if your life was figured out, I’ll tell you
what, my friend,
You’d find it balanced just the same as his’n
at the end.
Then quit, your fool complainin' an’a studyiu’
how to shirk,
For the time you spend in cussin’ you can
spend in work.
Things do take on a billious look, at times, I
must admit,
But a kickin’ an’ complainin’ won’t help the
thing a bit.
An* the clouds that come a driftin’ by ’ll
vanish one by one,
An' a-peoriu’ from behind ’em is the glory
of the sun.
There’s as much of sun as shadder in every
drap o’ dew,
There’s as much of day as darkness when
you take the year all through;
There’s as much of sun as shadder in every
human heart,
An’of day an’night in every life you’ll find
an ekalpart.
An’ should there be a residue stan’in’ either
way,
The Lord’ll make it ekal on t’other side,
some da}'.
—Albert B. Paine, in the Epoch.
NOT FOR THREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND.
BY OriE P. READ.
At a watering placo in Virginia there
arrived one evening a puffy mau of mid¬
dle age, aud his daughter, a rather at¬
tractive girl, although there was a self-
conscious air about her—an air of sud¬
denly-acquired wealth. Her father’s ob¬
jectionable air was not merely self con¬
sciousness; it was a vulgar inclination to
brag, llis introduction . . society .
into at
the hotel was not. sought by society; it
was a clear break on his own part. A
number of gentlemen and ladies were
aeated near the end ol a shaded veranda,
discussing a book that had achieved an
almost instant popularity, wheu the puffy
new-comer brusquely shoved his way
forward, and iu a loud voice blurted out
his opinion
“1 ain t read th? boOk, said he, “but
I'll bet that it don’t amount to much.
There is more liumbuggery in this here
book business thau in most any other I
know of. Books’ll do putty well for
women, but in my opinion a man is
throwing away his time with ’em. I had
a twin brother that took to books along
back when he was a boy, and although
he was a bright feller—as bright as I
was—he never amounted to much, I
had to take up a mortgage on his place
for him not more'n six months ago.
That’s about what I think of books.” He
leaned back against the railing of the
“banisters” and surveyed the party with
the satisfaction of a man who has carried
his point and who is thoroughly pre¬
pared for any subsequent attack, The
ladies, especially the better natured ones,
smiled; the men, with one exception,
laughed. The exception was a young
lawyer from Nashville. He looked with
the inquiry ol disapproval at the in¬
truder, and then quietly remarked.
“I thought of writing a book, a
charming romance, but through fear that
I might possibly compel you to take up
another mortgage, I will forgo the pleas-
urc of self enjoyable composition.’
The interloper, no wise abashed,
plied “It’s a good step you're takin', I
reckin, as the writin' of the book might
be more interestin' to you than the read-
in* of it would be to anybody else.”
“Doubtless,” retorted the young law-
yer, “you are right. Some dull trade-
plodder might attempt to spill it out and
bruise his alleged mind on unlooked-for,
sharp corners.”
“Young fellow, what is your name?”
the intruder asked; and the young fel-
low, never atraid to make himself known,
answered:
“I am fleorge Miles, sir.”
“Ah, hah! George Milea, ^herc do
you liver*
•‘Nashville, sir.”
hah! I known that town putty
we d- I went along with the army some
^ttle durin’ the war, and bought Up the
hides of the cattle that were killed for
^Idlers, and made a pretty good
thing oat of it in the Nashville market.
* U9e( * to know an old soap boiler there
named Josh Miles. Any kin to him?”
The ladies tittered, and the old fel¬
low looked at them in astonishment,
knowing that he had not uttered a witti-
c ’ 8m *
“I never heard of your friend
said the lawyer, “although he might
have made a fair article of soap.”
“Pity for you then, I reckon, as all
men were cleaner for havin’ knowed old
Josh.” The men laughed, the ladies
tittered again, and the old fellow, con-
scious this time that he must have said
something to the point, bowed his ac¬
knowledgements. Just then his daugh¬
ter appeared, standing in a door.
“Father,” she called, “I am ready.”
“I am ready, too,” he answered, and
withdrew with clumsy haste.
That evening, while Miles and several
other men sat under a tree, smoking,
the old fellow came out with an vm>r-
mous cigar in his mouth and “squashed”
himself down on a bench.
“Boys,” said he, breaking into the
conversation, “I’m gittin’ so I ruther
like this here one-hoss place. I did
think that it would be a little too much
for me to stay out here, and I wa’n’t
keen to come nuther, but Minnie set
her heart on it and away we come. My
name is Beck.”
No one said anything, and Mr. Beck
continued: “I reckon I’ve done about
as much hus’lin’ in my time as the most
of men. I was a pore boy, but instead
of foolin’ away my time with books I
went to work aud ain’t sorry for it. I
have noticed, in my knockin’ round,
that mouey is putty nigh the boss. It
may not be happiness in itself, but
without it there ain’t very much enjoy¬
ment. Lamin’ may command the re-
spect of the few, but money employs the
services of the many, and to challenge
the complete respect of men you must
make ’em serve you.”
“I don’t know but you are right,"said
one of the men.
“Of course I’m right, and what is the
use of people shuttin’ their eyes against
the fact, or ruther pretenuin’ that they
do? I know that there’s a sort of re¬
spectability, or I mout say aristocracy
that money sometimes ain’t got, but just
wait awhile and money’ll git it all right.”
“What business are you in?” some one
asked.
“Well, I ain’t in any business now—
have retired you might say. I made my
mouey in different sorts of speculation
and have got it well invested, drawin’ a
fust-rate interest. I live in Georgia and
am putty much at home when I’m there,
I can tell you. My wife has been dead
a good while, and about all I’ve got to
look after is the enjoyment of my daugh
ter. Her will is law with me and I au>
straightforward enough to say right here,
or right anywhere, for that matter, tha*i
the man who wins her love will be for*
tunate. There’s about two hundred
thousand dollars waitin’ for him.”
George Miles looked up quickly and.
with a sneer, said: “I wouldn’t marr*
her three hundred thousand.”
The old man seized his cane, which hr
had leaned against the bench and, spring¬
ing to his feet glared at Miles, who,
without changing his position, sa*
placidly smoking.
“Do you mean to insult me, sir?”
Beck roared.
“Not in the least,” Miles answered,
“Wheu I want to insult a man I hit hitii
and then insult him afterward. You
had, without interruption, expressed
your opinion, and I merely expressed
mine. You introduced your daughter**
name in a way not only unnecessary to
the force of your former statemeufc con¬
cerning the power of money, but with e
narrow-minded vulgarism that was dis-
gustiug. If you want to strike me, d<3
S0- j have said nothing iu belittlemeut
0 f the young lady—I said that I wouldn’t
ruarr y her for three hundred thousand,
aad t wou idu’t; not that she is not
wor thy of me, morally, but because our
tastes arCi doubtless, dissimilar. Now,
if you waut t0 hit me with that stick,
all right ”
“I won’t bit you,” Beck replied,
“What you say may be right from youf
staudp’int, but no matter what yoai
thought about my daughter you ought
to have kept it to yourself. It look9 to
me like I would have thought a long
time before I would have made any such
remark, and I would have thought that
any true gentleman would have done the
same. I am a rough-and-ready sort of
a man, and admit I don’t always do the
proper thing, and if my room is worth
more to you than my company, why, I
wish you good-evenin’.”
“Oh, no,” several of the men cried,
but hcb.usquely hastened away.
“George, you ought not to have #aid
that,” a friend remarked. “You can*!
blame him for thinking so much of his
daughter, nor for his determination to
give her future husband two hundred
thousand dollars.”
“My dear fellow,” Mile3 answered,
“I don't blame him for thinking so much
of her, aud I commend his determina¬
tion to reward her future husband, bat I
do despise his vulgar show. He is an
old bear, and I want none of him.”
*ij wouldn’t namd marrying the gwl,”
a young fellow named Hicks; “I
C0ll ld put up with the girl’s possible tad
taste and with the old man’s vulgarity.
Yonder go the old man and the girl. He
j s looking this way, and I warrant ha. is
telling her about if* you, George.”
»»y don’t care he is,” Miles replied.
“His ill-will and her prejudice can’t hurt
aie.”
-—
Jr .
Several days later Miles, whose friends
u a d left the place, was strolling along
the mountain’s side, when suddenly, up-
on turning a sharp point of rock that
j u tted out over the path, he met Miss
Beck. The path was too narrow to ad-
mit of his passing the girl, and he was
about to turn back, when she pleasantly
remarked;
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, AUGUST 15, 1891
‘•Ob, don’t turn back on my account.
I trill climb down, I am used to climb¬
ing.”
“I will climb down,” said he, bowing.
“Oh, no,” she interposed. “I am
afraid you might hurt yourself, and
then—”
“And then what?” he asked.
“Nothing, only you might be disfig¬
ured if you should chance to fall, and
you might afterward consent to marry a
girl for less than three hundred thou¬
sand dollars.”
“Ah, your father repeated my re¬
mark,” he said, slightly coloring.
“Yes, or I shouldn’t have known of
it, as I wasn’t eavesdropping.”
He would have gladly climbed down,
but she detained him with this ques-
tiouing remark:
“You place a pretty high estimate
upon yourself, don’t you?”
“Yes, rather,” he answered, now de¬
termined to be bold.
“It is strange that I never heard ot
you,” she said. “I was looking over a
sort of encyclopedia of great men just
before I came here, and it is singular
that your picture was not in it.”
“The compiler of the book called on
me,” he replied, “but I refused to be¬
come the victim of a cheap print. He
wanted my picture, and had intended
that it should fill one page and run over
on the second, but I refused.”
“And I suppose,” said the girl, “that
if he had contemplated putting in your
self-importance, he would have counted
on filling the entire book.”
“I don’t know, but had he done so,
his volume would have been more re¬
spectable.”
“Oh, it must be delightful to be so
respectable," she exclaimed, with well
played enthusiasm. “By the way, who
was your father?”
“His name is Andrew Miles.”
“What does he do?”
4 ‘He is a lawyer.”
“Ah? A strauge country this, where
the aristocracy is mainly composed of
lawyers. What was your grandfather,
or did you ever'hear of him?”
Miles blushed, He had heard in a
more or less vague way, of one of his
,
grandfathers—had heard that he was a
cobbler aud that lie had deserted from
the army during the war of 1812.
“Oh, don’t tax your memory with
trying to recall his name. I am so glad
to have met you,” she suddenly ex¬
claimed. “I like to sec gentleness aud
consideration joined with greatness.
Now, sir, if you feel disposed to climb
down you would oblige me by doing
so.”
Miles climbed down, and the young
lady serenly passed on.
♦ * * * *
The season waq growing late, and
there were but few visitors remaining.
Miles continued to linger, partly because
it made but little difference where he
was, and partly because he didn’t want
that Miss Beck to think that she had.
driven him of!. He met her every day,
and spoke, in reply to her, his little
piece of sarcasm. One day •while the
girl was playing on the piano he strode
iuto the parlor. She ceased playing
upon seeing him, and turning, said:
“I dofl’t object to mild punishment,
but I will not torture you with my
music.”
“You are becoming considerate as the
days pass by.”
“Yes, and I am tired of playing, any¬
way. Isn’t it a great pity that father
isn’t worth four hundred thousand dol¬
lars.”
“Why so?”
“Because he might then be able to
marry me off.”
“Possibly. Some men are not very
particular.”
“And,” said she, “I am convinced
that the majority of women are not par¬
ticular at all.”
The old man appeared in the door.
His face was haggard and a wild look
was m his eyes.
“Minnie,” he falteringly called,
“Minnie, come here.”
She ran to him and Miles heard him
say, “I am ruined. That iron company
has busted up and I am ruined.”
A newspaper which came that evening
gave an account of the sudden failure of
a large iron concern at Birmingham; and
old man Beck was mentioned, as not
only a heavy loser, but as totally bank¬
rupted by ' the failure.
* * * * * *
It was rather late at night. The Becks
were arranging their departure. Miles
was sitting in the parlor when Miss Beck
enterjd. Seeing him, she drew back,
and was about to withdraw, when he
bade her stay a moment.
“You must excuse me,” she said. “I
do not care to hear any sarcasm to-night;
I don’t believe I could stand it. I am
very wretched on my father’s aocount.
He has been victimized and is now a
pauper.”
“And are you not wretched on your
own account?” he asked.
“Please don’t gibe me now,” she
pleaded.
He arose, and, advancing toward her,
said: “One of my grandfathers was shot
for desertion and I am no better than he,
but I love you—love you—”
He caught her in his arms, and she,
weepiDg on his shoulder, sobbed: “This
will make that poor, old mau happy
again, for he knows that I love you.”—•
Arkansas Traveler.
The Eyes of the Chinese Junks.
Those of our readers who go down to
the river in ships and boats have no
doubt often speculated as to the meaning
of the eyes which Chinese junks and
boats have carved on the bows. Many
suppose them to be a mere fanciful form
of ornamentation. But they have a real
meaning, as we recently found. In go-
ing up the river a few days ago we w’&re
startled by seeing a Celestial sailor on an
outward-bound craft seize his broad hat
aad clap it over the “eyes” of his junk,
The explanation of all this was that a
dead carcass was floating past which,
had the boat been allowed to “see,” wc
are told, some disaster would surely have
happened, either to the passengers o;
crew ,—Bangkok {Siam) Times.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
DON’T GO FARMER.
Under the above caption The Alliance
Advocate, “Like Indianapolis, Indiana sajs:
the dropping of the leaves on a
doleful day, falls the plaint of old party
bosses agaiust the people going into poli¬
tics. From the first it has been: ‘ ‘Don’t
undertake to regulate these troubles your¬
selves. If the farmer will only tiust us
lawyers and baukers and educated gen-
tlemen we will make just the laws you
need.” And we did trust them and have
in never got two per cent on the investment
return. There never was a more pa¬
tient, trusting people in the world than
the farmers and laborers of America have
been. They have had all power at their
control, but have backed down and sub¬
mitted till politics havs become a science
in the hands of a few, and common men
have almost felt it a gracious privilege to
walk up in a line and vote a straight
party ticket just as directed. They have
been told that this would bring relief,
but relief has not come. The plain man
knows that he is not getting along as
well as he ought to. He sees that the
speculator, the banker and the manufac¬
turer have the benefit of law to help them
along, but when he asks for laws it is
‘unconstitutional’ and he is called a
patient ‘wild-eyed anarchist.’ He is the most
man in the world, and if he could
only get relief he would stay inside party
line till doomsday. But he is tired of
broken promises from both republican
and democrat alike. And now he wants
several things and he wants them bad.
His very long suffering will make him
terrible when he does reach out after
what he wants. And the plantive wail
goes on: “Don’t go, farmer, don’t go.
We will give you what you want.” A
page of history is worth a volume of
than prophecy*. An ounce of fact is better
is a pound of promise. The situation
easily stated. So far as the Farmers,
Alliance is concerned it has c ear and
empnthic demands which can be accom¬
plished only through legislation. The
Alliance is not a distant political p.rty.
Its members can cansider all party
organizations and act with the one most
likely to do the work they want to have
done. But they are in no mood to be
fooled with. The Alliance is a compact
and powerful organization for political
purposes. If it cannot control existing
parties it can make one that agrees with
its demands.”
*
* *
selection of senators by the pkofle.
In the opinion of tlie Germantown,
Penn., Telegraph, an able and venerable
farmers’ newspaper, the selection of
United States senators by the popular
vote is an inuovati on which would be
adopted if presented to the people. The
public may be safely counted on to sup
port am thing which may enlarge its
power in the work of government.
There is evidence in .our constitu¬
tion, if we did not know it from hist¬
ory and the speeches of the early pa¬
triots, that the National Govern¬
ment is not a pure democracy,
that it is very largely a representative
democracy. In the case of the United
States senate, the body is once more re¬
moved from the people. They vote for
state representatives and these latter se¬
lect the United States senators. While
free government here was experimental,
and the people had not learned to trust
themselves, this body, so remote from
the people, gave, it was supposed, a cer¬
tain stability to the new order of things.
The public feeling on this point, this
distrust of the people by
the people, has now almost passed
away. This is seen in the selection
of judges in many states by popular vote,
officials that were once selected by the
appointment of the governors of the
states with the consent of the legisla¬
tures. Ihe elective judicial system has
given to Pennsylvania as able a body of
jurists as may be found in states where
they are still chosen by appointment.
The argument has resolved itself into
this: If the public can be trusted and is
trusted, to select good judges, why can
it not be relied on to elect capable Uni¬
ted States senators?
***
A SIGNIFICANT RESOLUTION.
At a meeting of the Elk County, Kan¬
sas, Farmers’ Alliance a few days ago
the following extraordinary resolution
was adopted:
Whereas, It has been shown that four-
fifths of the homes through the entire
country are under mortgages, and that
the same are falling due iu large lota
every six months; and
Whereas, '1 he loan companies and
bauks have all refused to loan more
money in Kansas; and,
Wbereas, An unprecedented number
of crop failures have occurred during
the last decade; that where we have
made a good crop the unjust hand of
mouopoly has been so well played as to
make it impossible for us to tell the sur¬
plus for more than the cost of produc¬
tion, so that we are still left unable to
pay out the mortgages. Now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That we ask the president „
of the Farmers Alliance aud Industrial
Union of Kansas to immediately call a
couvention of the people for the purpose
of I uited petitioning the president of the
States to issue legal tender treas-
ury notes to the extent needed, and loan
to the people above mentioned at a low
rate of interest, with the privilege of
paying principal small until annual the installments on the
whole is paid, and
that tne government shall be secured by
the land above mentioned, thus relieving
them from the iron grasp of the money
power of the world, and giving them a
chance to save their homes.
‘ ‘
The Arkansas Farmer, speaking . of the
sub-treasury bill, has this to say: “Two
objections are contantiy raised by the
mi guided men who oppose everything
that has not g <t a party label to it.
ubjectiAi It is impracticable,
Objection 2:' It is unconstitutional.
As to the firs’, it is no argttmeut, be¬
cause it has never been tried. Sixty
ye,rs ago railroads were thought “im-
pr. clieab.e.” Fifty years ago telegragh?
were considered “impracticable.” Forty
years ago the na'ioual baukiug system
which was proven very practical was
consid red ‘•impracticable,” Thirty
years ago the telephone would have been
thought an absurdity, and go on. Dc-
velopmmt means change, and that means
the that men changed must conditions. adjust their systems to
'1 he Bub-
Treasury cannot be charged with imprac¬
ticability until it has been tried and
proved a fa lure.
The second objee'ion is Worse than
idle, it is criminal. Statutory lawa and
written constitutions in a republic are
but the concreted expressions of the will
of the people. It is the people who mako
the constitutions and laws, and when
these conlitutions and laws no longer fit
the times, they must be made to fit by
be altering, amending, patching, or if need
by discarding altogether and making
anew, All this wicked nonsense about
who unconstitutionality” comes from men
take the ipse dixit of a few legal
office holders or office seekers who could
not fall off a log uuless they had prece-
ccdent for it.”
NOT TO BE FEARED.
The New York World asserts that “the
democratic victory in Kentucky demon¬
strates that the democratic party in the
south has nothing to fear from the Farm¬
ers’ alliance.” The Atlanta (Ga.) Con¬
stitution, commenting on the above says:
“We are veiy glad, indeed, that our
contemporary has made this discovery at
last, and we should be gladder if other
esteemed contemporaries nearer homo
were to make the same discovery. It
would save a great deal of unnecessary
wo rrying and wrangling. The fact that
the democratic party has nothing to fear
from the aliiancetnen was demonstrated
long before the Kentucky elec¬
tion. The only danger, bo far as
known, has been that the arrogance of
small politicians aud unsympathetic news¬
paper editors would operate in other
parts of the south i s it has operated in
South Carolina. Fortunately, the con¬
servatism aud common sense of the farm¬
ers giug are proof against the continual nag-
of the editorial brethren who are
convinced that they carry the democratic
party in their pockets. We have had a
good deal of this nagging in Georgia, but
it has amounted to nothii g, and the
spirit of intolerance behind it seems to be
subsiding.”
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*
A SUCCESS.
We clip the following from the Southern
Mercury , the ^tate organ of Texas: ‘‘Af¬
ter partisan advertising for over a month in every
politcal paper in the State, and
obtaining excursion rates on ail railroads,
and after repeated and earnest appeal by
its steereis, only thirty-seven could be
raked and scraped together iu all Texas
who are, or have been members of the
Alliance, at the Fort Worth scab con¬
vention. These thirty-seven have eveiy
one been repudiated by their county Al¬
liances as political demagogues aid
blaihersktes. Brethren outside of Texas
may rest assured that the Alliance all
over Texi s is nearer a unit now than it
ever was before, and is gaining members
very rapidly, having nearly doubled its
membership liance in the last year. 'I he Alli-
in Texas 1 as gone through the cru¬
cial test, and has come out solid to the
core, with a growth that means death to
the demagogues, and life, liberty and
prosperity to the whole people.”
¥
*
WANTS THE OCA I A PLATFORM.
The Colored Farmers’ Alliance of Vir¬
ginia held a three days’ session at Rich¬
mond, which was very successful and in¬
and teresting. State officers were re-elected
various commitiees appointed. The
committee on legis ation made a plausible
report, which was adopted. The paper
asserts that the alliance is now beginning
to realize that the salvation of the col¬
ored man rests not in ei’her of the old
political parties, and that he is no longer
a slave to them. The report continues in
this vein: “We are uniting to protect
ourselves and wives and children, and to
build up enterprises among ourselves, and
thus fn e the toiling masses of our race
from the deadly fangs of monopolies,
rings and trust companies.
•‘Furthermore, we cannot, as an or¬
ganization, act with any party that will
not accord to us the rights and privileges
guaranteed by the articles of agreement
drawn up and adopted by the Ocala con¬
vention.”
***
The State Alliance in session at Fay¬
etteville, North Carolina, in 1889 and at
Asheville in 1890 passed resolutions urg¬
ing Aliiancemen to patronize Alliance en¬
terprises. The Granville County Alli¬
ance Tobacco Manufacturing Company
was organized and run by Aliiancemen,
every dollar of the capital being subscrib¬
ed bv Aliiancemen. This fact ry is sit¬
uated at Oxford, in the midst of the
finest tobacco growing section in the
United States. The company has $50-
000 capital invested in a warehouse and
factory. The warehouse is one of the
largest and best in the State. It is well
managed tion. and gives universal satisfac¬
*
President Polk’s Progressive Farmer,
discussing how to treat (he partisan
gard pre^s, suggests stringent mea ures in re¬
to the worst of them, and closes
its editorial with a thrust at some of the
alliance journals. We know, it says, of
R so-called alliance paoers that are
not what they should be. They are fiiend-
jy enough io keep up appearances, hut
-when any test comes they show the white
feather. They are traitors in the camp,
anf ] should be treated as such without
delay. Beware of giving aid to traitors
or out of the alliance,
^
Belleview sub-Alliance, of Richmond
county, Ga., at a recent meeting passed a
resolution imploring the state Farmers’
Alliance convention to pass a resolution
requesting the fanners of Georgia not to
plant more than ten acres of cotton to
the plow next year; requesting the state
convention also to advise tbc farmers
not to buy or use any guano or commer-
c ; a j fertilizers in 1892.
fn ***
T p e Alliances Emp ria, Kansas,
have dec ided to help the trades by not
patronizing the g ods sold or made by
non-union establishments Convict
E. S». SIMPSON 9
TOCCOA; GEORGIA
iMiifnit ill ill ftiiitfli?.
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds ot Machinery.
PB1BL188 ENGINES f
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Geiser Senarators & ShiiHe Mills
Farmers and others in want ol either Engines or separators, wnf
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. I am also prepared ,
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
®<ESTEY 0RGANS.I>
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup of
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock
White Sewing Machines.
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be*
ore you buy. Duplicate parts of nmcliinery constantly on hand.
made goods are put equally under ihe
ban.
The Warren County, Ky., Alliance
proposes to boycott every merchant in
Bow.intr Green . nd Warren county who
trade with the wholesale houses which
refuse io sell goods to the State Alliance
business agent.
The politicians are undoubtedly run¬
ning tlie Alliance, but it is in the way
that the fellow was running the
policeman—he policeman was in front and the
was after him.— Advocate.
Alliance ***
The in California is said to be
iu tiue condition. California will soon
be one of the very best organized states.
The order all along the Pacific Coast is
flourishing.
*
* *
Within the last month there have been
thirteen new counties organized in Ohio,
with 170 Sub-Alliances, and the net in¬
crease of membership is over 10,000.
***
New Jersey State Alliance will be or¬
ganized fall in this month and Dcleware
will into line in September.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Ex-Senator Thurman’s health is failing
fa t.
Governor Hill, of New York, is getting
stout.
Senator Brice, of Ohio, is sight-seeing
in London.
Justice Field is the scholar of the Su¬
preme bench.
Emile Zola, the French novelist, is ris¬
ing one-and-fifty.
Chief Justice Lucas, of West Virginia,
is only four feet high.
Ex-Senator Ingalls is about to make a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is
reported to be worth $6,000,000.
Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is said
to be much broken in body and spirit.
Queen Victoria has conferred the order
of the garter upon the Prince of Naples.
The Duke of Edinburgh is the most pen¬
urious member of the British royal family.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is said to be
dying tobacco. from the effects of over-indulgence in
It is said that stenographers pronounce
in Bishop the Phillips Brooks the fastest speaker
world.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a sufferer from
heart disease and has made preparations for
a sudden death.
Gladstone has a fondness for having
Longfellow read aloud to him, now that he
can’t read Homer.
Parnell has been deserted by all but a
few insignificant followers, but he declares
himself still in the field.
of A°. Sir H Walter wr B ? LL ’ Scott, , wh0 died , an at intimate Melrose, friend Scot-
land, the other day, aged ninety-two years.
Robert Bonner has been such a lover of
speedy trotters in gratifying that he has spent more than
5600,000 his tastes in that di-
rectiou.
President Harrison has invested
$20,000 of his surplus cash in a block at the
corner of Pennsylvania and Georgia streets,
Indianapolis.
Le T Caro.v, the .. notorious , spy whose , career
was brought to an London abrupt Timts, ending by Parnell s
suit against the is dying of a
mortal disease.
Ex-Secretary Bayard, of Delaware, is
growing fleshy as he advances in years, and
his fine height is now balanced by a fair
breadth of body.
The youngest member of the next Na-
tional Bouse of Representatives will be Bai-
ley of Texas. He is not yet thirty years of
age, and is an orator o: unusual quality.
The Countess Lewenhaupt, Secretary
Bayard’s daughter, who was lately widowed
under the most distressing circumstances,
is spending the summer in Sweden with the
family of her husband.
Ensign Dashnell, who has charge of the
important Indian Head, naval ordnance-proving the station
at on of $1200 Potomac, receives
the munificent sum a year from the
Government. For this salary he furnishes
expert knowledge on the subjects of naviga¬
tion, naval ordnance, civil engineering,
architecture, electricity, machinery aad in¬
ventions.
The first drops of blood that were shed
io the civil war are in the possession ol
Col. B. F. Hawkes, of the Pension
Office, at W ashington. They came from
the veins of Col. B. F. Kellev, who corn-
manded the Federal troops at the battle
of Philippi, the first battle of the war,
and stained his vest. A bullet from the
opening fire of the Confederates passed
through Col. Kelley’s lungs, and the
surgeons pronounced the wound mortal,
but the officer recovered, became a gen-
era! and is now living at the age of 84.
Col. Hawkes was Kelley’s Adjutant at
Philippi, and preserved the vest as a
interesting relic of the great conflict.
NUMBER 32
RICHMOND & DAftVILLt K- R.
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Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Diiistoi.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect MaylOth, 1891.
NORIHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
EASTERN TIKE. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 00 pm 8 10 am
Charnblee..... 7 33 pm 8 48 ant
Norcrosn....... 7 45 pmi 8 55 ana
Duluth........ 7 57 pm 9 00 am
Suwanee....... 8 08 pin 9 17 am
Buford........ 8 22 pm 9 33 am
Flow, ry Branch 8 38 pm 9 48 <m
Gainesville..... 8 01 pm 8 55 pm 10 11 am
Lula.......... 3 23 pm 9 28 pm 10 40 am
Bellton........ 9 26 pm 10 43 am
Cornelia....... 9 52 pm 11 09 am
Mt. Airy....... 9 50 pm 11 14 am
7W*> a 10 26 pm 11 45 am
Westminster ... 10 07 pm 12 35 pm
Seneca ........ 11 30 pm 12 55 pm
Central........ 12 10 am 1 45 pm
Easleys........ 12 39 am 2 15 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 04 am 2 40 pm
Greers......... 1 30 am 3 11 pm
Wellford....... 1 46 am 3 28 pm
Clifton........ Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 1 07 am 3 50 pm
2 20 am 4 08 pm
Gaffneys....... Cowpeus ...... 2 80 am 4 13 pm
3 00 am 4 89 pm
Blacksburg..... Grover......... 3 20 »m 4 57 pm
3 32 >m 5 08 pm
King’s Mount’ll 3 Si ua 5 26 pm
Gastonia....... 5 51 pm
Lowell........ 4 38 am 6 04 pm
Bellemont..... 4 44 am 6 14 pm
Ar. Char!otto...... 9 20 pm 5 1C m 6 40 pm
SOUTHWARD. No. 37. No. a. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Dally.
Lt. Charlotte...... 7 55 am 1 46 pm 2 30 ant
Lowi-ll......... Belli-mont..... ........ ........ 2 2 02 11 pm pm « 08 47 am am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 22 pm 3 22 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 2 44 pm 3 53 am
Grov, r......... ........ 2 59 pm 4 13 am
Gaffneys....... Blacksburg.... ........ 3 08 pm 4 24 am
........ 3 25 pm 4 43 am
Clifton........ Cowpeus...... ........ 3 48 pm 5 10 ant
........ 8 51pm 5 15 am
W. Spartanburg... Ilford........ 9 55 am 4 12 pm 5 5 32 aut
........ 4 39 pm 57 am
Greers......... ........ 5 00 pm 6 16 am
Greenville...... 10 5C am 5 33 pm 6 47 am
Easleys......... 6 07 pm 7 16 am
Central........ 6 55 pm 8 10 am
Seneca......... 7 22 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... 7 42 pm 8 53 am
Toccoa........ 8 20 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 55 pm 10 10 am
Cornelia....... 9 00 pm 10 15 am
Bellton........ Lula.......... 1 32 9 9 30 26 pm pm 10 10 ^3 am am
Gainesville..... 50 pm 9 52 11 11
1 pm pm am
Flowery Branch 10 15 pm 11 31 am
Boford........ 10 30 pm 11 46 ara
Suwanee....... 10 44 pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ 10 56 pm 12 12 pm
Norcross...... 11 08 pm 12 24 pm
Chamblee...... 11 22 pm 12 37 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 3 25 pm 11 59 pm 1 15 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac-
oommodation, daily except Lu.a
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives 8 P • ‘
“S- ^ves Lula 0 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 o6
*
Between Lnla and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex-
oept s un d ft y and No 9 daily, leave Ln’a 9 35 p
m , and 1050 a m, arrive Athens 11 35 p m and
12 50 pm. Returning leave AtLen*, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily ,“00 pm
and 8 30 a m, arrive Lnla 9 00 pra and 10 30
am. '
Toc f^ a *11
idlin’ exco P t 8 un<3 £,T{ T<*ceoa i*
* nd * ^ » m , arrive . Elbcrton 3 3a p m and •
^etnrma^cm.SO and 62 daily except
Sunday, leave Elberton 2 45 p m and 545 am,
arr j V e Toccoa 7 10 p m »n>1 915 a m.
Noe n aa q p u ll m an and Sleeps Nos. and bo-
tween Washington and Atlanta, 9 New
jq p „ liman Bleeper between Atlanta and
York,
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to Atlanta.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwcat-
®J' Washington. n Veatibuled. On Dimi:ed, this J™ between_ 111 an ex Atlanta. ra and
ehargeaon ftret-cla^s ticket a i°Hy*
t ).^ r gh tiSeUb'ri^ L“Pullman with local agents, 81*-p-
in „ ^ reservations, confer
or address
JA8 L TAYLOR, L. L. McCLE^KEY, Ag’t
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass.
Washington, D. 0. Atlanti, Ga.
W. H. GREEN, C. P. HAMMOND,
Gen’l Manager. Superintendent,
LEWIS DAVIS,
iTTOPNEY AT LA W.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practiee in the counties of Haber-'
•ham and Rabun of the Northwe* ern
Circuit, and Frankl n and Banka of the
Western Cirouit. Prompt attention will
be given to all buaii.es* entrusted**.© him.
The collection of debts will have ep* o-
ial attention.
It is said that the five leading hotels at
Saratoga, N. Y., take in an aggregate of $2,-
000,000 a month during the busy season.
A popular do?, of Warsaw, Ind., en»
joyed r f : .a- • >■ taded by fifty people.