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THE TOCCOA NEWS
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AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
VICTORY OF THE-VABQUISHEU
Graated the odds are against us; granted ire
enter the field.
When Fate has fought and conquered,
broken our sword anc i shield.
What then? 8ha*l '«vo ask for quarter, or
say that v'sx work is done?
Bay, rather, 1 greater glory is ours if the
field be won!
’Tis war with the wrong of years—wjth
I rejudice, pride and hate;
Agai- ^st the world’s decree, and the frown
° ” n *; vii fat< \
•
A crown to the one who wins: and the worst
is only a grave,
And somewhere, somewhere still, a reward
awaits the brave.
A broken shield without, but a hero’s heart
And held with a hand of steel, the broken
sword may win!
— Boston Transcript.
The Ducking: of Mr. Dick.
DV J. L. HARBOUR,
A stranger, looking on from the back¬
ground, would have been greatly amused
to see the expressions on the faces of the
boys and girls of the Rose Lane school
when they saw for the first time the new
teacher, Mr. Timothy Dick,approaching.
It was almost nine o’clock before he
came, and some of the larger ones had
been saying that they “guessed lie had
been scared out.”
“Mebbe he won’t be so slow going
away as he is getting here,” said Nat
Brace, a surly-looking, untidy boy about
seventeen years old.
It was a neat little new country school-
house in the first freshness and spotless-
nesa of snowy white paint. The blinds
were painted grass green, and there
were green paper shades to the windows
—an unusual thing iu a country school-
house in that neighborhood.
The luxury of blinds in the windows
of a schoolhouse was sharply ridiculed
by several slow-going people iu the dis¬
trict.
“Next, thing you kuow they’ll be
puttin’ down flowered carpets and so-
ties for them to lop down on that gits
too lazy to set up,” said old Mr. Joyce.
“Laws-a-ruassy!” said Mrs. Jasper,
who had visited the new schoolhouse
with Mrs. Joyce to see how the tax
money was being squandered. “Aint
you lieerd what all this style is being put
on for?”
“Of course I’ve heerd, Sally Jasper,
and it's all nonsense, as you'll see ’fore
you’re six months older. Now, the idear,
Sally Jasper, the very idear, that the
scholars air goin’ to behave any better iu
a schoolhouse all fiuished up like that than
they would in the old house! Just as if
white paint and green shetters and fancy
school furniture, and all that, had any¬
thing to do with a boy’s moral nature!”
“It’s all Wesley Redding's doings,”
replied Mrs. Jasper. “He sticks up for
it that the scholars air goin’ to act ac¬
cordin’ to their surrouudin's, and if they
have to set in a dirty, tumble-down old
schoolhouse, with the plasterin’ half off’n
the walls, the stove all rusted out, and
with old benches for scats and no place
to put a cap or a shawl, exceptin’ to set
on ’em—he says, Wesley Redding does,
that boys and girls air bound to be slip¬
shod ami even sassy theirselves! From
the day he was ’lceted d’rector of the
deestrict he fit for a new house: and now
we’ll see how his theory works.”
The new house stood on a gentle rise
at one end of the long Rose Lane, a
grassy rural thoroughfare, sweet with the
scent and bright with the delicate pink
of wild roses blooming in almost every
fence corner in their season.
But the roses had fallen, and the yel¬
low leaves of the bushes betokeued frost
nnd snow when young Mr. Timothy Dick
walked up Rose Lane for the first time,
one bright but slightly chilly October
day.
When the teacher left the Lane and
walked up the well-worn path toward
the schoolhouse, the curious eyes of the
forty or more boys and girls, of all size-3
aud ages, beheld for the. first time a
slightly built, smooth-faced and very
trim young man, who came walking up
the path, and greeted them cordially.
“Good-morning,” he said,with a smile,
“I have almost set you a bad example
by being late myself on the first day of
school, but I have walked all the way
from my home in Wayne, which you
know is nearly six miles from heic, and
Mr. Redding detained me tor several
minutes when I was passing his house.
But there are still three or four minutes
before nine o'clock; so no one can really
say that I am late. Can he, my little
man?”
He put his hand lightly on the tangled
red curls of little Sammy Pike's head as
he spoke. Sammy, quite overcome by
this unexpected attention, blushed sear-
let and lisped out:
“No, t-hir.”
, am here , just ...... m tune to open the
school,” the teacher went on, “and we
will go right in and get to work.”
He stepped to the door of the school-
room, as he spoke, and said, in a pleas¬
ant tone:
“Well, well! What a bright, pretty
schoolroom! Wc ought to make famous
progress in such a room as this. And
we must keep it just as tidy as it is
now -
Mr. Dick was a marked exception to
many of the former teaehersof the school
in the exceeding tidiness of his
ance.
Nat Brace glanced contemptuously
toward some of his companions and whis-
pered, “He’s areg’iar dude!”
M hen Mr. Dick toon out his handker-
chief, and lightly brushed the dust from
his polished boots aud from the bottom
of his trousers before entering the house,
Nat whispered behind his hand to Biyan
Thayer, “Just look at Miss Nancy!
“Miss Nancy s sense of hearing was
acute. He heard Nats whisper, but did
not show iu any sign that he had heard
it.
Mr. Dick surprised the school by mak-
ing no threats, and laving down no law
to the school in his opening talk. ThU
was an unheard of thing in the Rose
Laue school, The surly, ignorant man
who had taught the school during the
previous winter had brought with"’ him
on the first day a long, keen rod cut
from a hickory sapling. Marching defi¬
antly into the old schoolhouse, this
teacher had given the desk several re¬
sounding whacks with the rod, and had
said:
“Now that’s what you'll all get if you
d° n * mind your books aad be good! No
whispering, no sticking pins into each
other, nothing but to study and behave
yourselves! Mind that, or you’ll get this
r0f l on your backs!”
A new order of things seemed to be
coming in with tho new schoolhouse and
this trim, gentle voiced young teacher.
“I know his game,’’ said Bryan Thayer
to several of the large boys during the
first recess. “He’s going to try the soft
soldering game on us.”
“His nice little meachin’, cityfied
ways may work with the girls and the
small boys, but they won’t go down with
me,” said Nat Brace. “It takes muscle
to fetch me to terms.”
“Muscle!” said Phineas Joyce, deri¬
sively. “All the muscle he's got wouldn’t
hurt a fly.”
“Well, he'd better get some up before
the first snow comes, or some of the ten-
year-old boys will wash his face lor him,”
said Nat.
“Yes, and you might get vour own
face washed about that time,Nat Brace,”
said Sally Redding. “You boys will see
what you’ll get yet. He isn’t afraid of
you, and I know it. Anyway, you ought
to be ashamed of yourself if you go to
making trouble after the gentlemanly
way he’s treated us, and when we have
such a lovely new schoolhouse.”
A shout of derision greeted this
speech.
“I’ll tell you what I’m going to do,
boys,” said Nat Brace; “I’m going to
find out what he’s good for. I’ll haul
out my jackknife and go to whittlin’ the
new desk right in school, and see what
he does!”
Ten minutes after the school was
called to order, Mr. Dick, who was sit¬
ting at his desk with a first reader class
before him, tapped the floor lightly with
his foot and said, pleasantly:
“This won’t do, this won’t do at. all!”
Whittling these new desks! That can¬
not be permitted. What’s your name,
sir?”
His hand was extended toward Nat
Brace. There was no anger in his tones.
“Nat Brace!” the boy called out dog¬
gedly.
The teacher stopped at Nat’s desk,and
held out his hand.
“Well, Nat,” he 3aid, “you may give
me your knife for the present, and you
may pay the school committee for the
damage you have done to the property
of the district.”
Never in all his unruly, rebellious
career had Nat Brace been approached in
this cool manner. Never had a teacher
taken up one of Nat’s gauntlets with a
smile, and no trace of furious anger; and
Mr. Dick’s smile won from Nat a half-
dazed, half-ashamed sort of an obedience
before the boy really knew that he was
obeying.
The large boys attended school irreg¬
ularly at first. Farm duties kept them
at home; but by the first of December
all had begun to come every day.
By this time Mr. Dick had won the
respect and even the affection of the
other pupils. It had also been proved
that Mr. Redding’s theory was not
groundless. Visitors to the school not
only remarked the neat appearance of
the room, the desks and pupils, but per¬
ceived a decided improvement in the
children’s manners.
There was hardly a sign of rebe&lion
on the part of the pupils until Pliineas
Joyce, Nat Brace, Bryan Thayer and
Hiram Beal began to attend regularly.
These four large boys had had the unen¬
viable honor of barring out, ducking and
in other ways defying and maltreating
half of the teachers who had tried to
teach the Rose Laue school during the
past four years.
These four boys walked to school to¬
gether one frosty morning in November.
They intended to go to school regularly
now, and it was the first day they had
all been in attendance,
They felt that it was a fitting time to
“let little Miss Nancy kuow who was
boss.”
Various methods of imparting this in-
formation to Mr. Dick were discussed,
Just as they came to Lowrie's Pond, Nat
Brace struck the palms of his hands to-
gether, and said, gleefully.
“I have it, boys; let’s give him a
ducking! The water’s ice-cold now,
and I tell you it would take the starch
right out of him to souse him under a
few times.”
“Yes, and it’d stop all this talk about
their having got a- teacher at last who
could keep us iu tow,” said Hiram Beal,
“I'm in for the ducking.’’
“Well, I guess I am, too.” said Pbin
Joyce; “only I thought we’d kind o’ cut
up a ie*v ot our little uidos first, - and , sort
o’ rasp him up 'fore we barred him out
or ducked him, or tried anything like
that.”
“Oh, let’s do it to-day!” cried Nat
Brace. “Strike while the iron's hot,says
I.”
“While the water s cold, you’d better
say,” said Phineas. “He 11 want some-
thing hot later on. ’
“Let’s grab him at recess time this
morning, and walk him over here to the
pond and pitch him in.”
“All right—say we do!”
The pond, which was a large one, was
no t more than three or four hundred
Yar< i s from the school house. The water
was six feet deep at the very bank of a
point nearest the house, aud this was the
p i ace chosen by the boys for the ducking
0 f the poor, unsuspecting Mr. Dick.
H e was standing on the platform
watching seme of the small boys playing
leap-fi’os, when Bryan Thayer stepped
up an( j said, with <x leer.
“We want you, Mister.”
“You want me?”
“Yes, we do. You come along with
us.”
Mr. Dick’s face flushed at the boy’s
insolent tone and manner, but his voice
was steady as Ue asked, “What do you
w& nt of me?”
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 26, 1891
♦‘You eome along and you’ll find out,™
said Bryan, and Nat Brace cabled out,
jeeringly:
“We might as well tell you Tight now
that we’re going to duck you I”
“Duck me?”
“Yes, sir; we’re going to pitch you
into Lowrie’s Pond, yonder.’*
“Oh, you are?” said Mr. Dick. He
was pale instead of crimson now, and
his eves shone, but he voioe was steady,
“Yes, we air!” said Kiineas Joyce, pe'ace-
“And if you don’t come along
ablv, we’ll fetch you. We meau busi-
ness!”
Mr. Dick glanced at the boys in si¬
lence for a moment. The other pupils
had gathered around, breathless with ex¬
citement. Some of the girls began to
cry. Little Sammy Pike, who had just
been saying that he “j*tht loved Mithter
Dick,” ran and hid In the woodshed,
weeping.
Sally Redding was aflame with indig¬
nation.
“Shame on you!” she cried, pointing
her finger scornfully at the four boys.
“You’re a pack of great cowardly bullies
—that’s what you arel You’re four to
one, and you’ve waited until there were
four of you, because you didn’t dare
touch the teacher single-handed. Don’t
you go a step, Mr. Dick. "We girls will
fight for you!”
She interposed her small, slender self
between the teacher and his assailants,
and stood there with clenched fists and
flashing eyes.
The boys sneered and jeered,although
some of them had the graee to wince
and flush at Salty's truthful words.
But Mr. Dick laid his hand lightly
on Sally’s shoulder and said, with a
smile:
“You are a real little Trojan maiden,
but I cannot have you waging war for
me. I think it best to yield gracefully,
if I must yield. Now I will go with
you, boys, but don’t you lay a hand on
me to force me into going. I will go
quietly along without giving you that
trouble.”
He started forward.
“Don’t ye try. to run away,” said
Phineas Joyce, “for we can outrun ye
any day.”
“I run away from you!” said the
teacher, in a voice and with a look that
made Phineas turn scarlet and hang back
to escape that strange, contemptuous,
searching look in the teacher’s eyes.
The cowardly boy would have fled had
he been alone.
With the exception of Sammy Pike
who, peeping from between the cracks
in the woodshed, wept aloud, tne whole
school followed the teacher and the boys
to the pond, many of the smaller chil¬
dren trembling and sobbing.
“You will kindly allow me to takeoff
my coat, that I may have at least one
dry garment to put on when I come
out?” said Mr. Dick, when they
stood on the very edge of the bank of the
pond.
“Off with it, then,” said Hiram
Beal.
The other pupils had fallen back, and
the teacher and the four boys stood alone
on the bank.
“Thank you,” said Mr. Dick, gently,
as he threw off the coat, took a long
breath, stood erect, and added:
“Now I am ready.”
A strange thing happened then. The
children saw it with staring, wondering
eyes and speechless lips.
Brayan Thayer and Nat Brace had
been standing directly in front of Mr.
Dick. Now, with the word “ready,”
came two dull, strikiug sounds, and Nat
and Bryan went reeling and yelling
backward into the Water!
Hiram Beal stood at the teacher's right.
Mr. Dick turned suddenly; his right
arm shot out swiftly in his white shirt
sleeve, and the admiring small boys saw
the muscle swell and rise as Hiram fell
to the ground and was dragged to the
pond and rolled in by the teacher.
Phineas Joyce turned to run away, but
Sally Redding clung to his coat tail as he
passed her and held him back.
He would have struck her, but Mr.
Dick had him by the collar and dragged
him back, while he cried:
“Oh, please don’t, teacher! It’s all
Nat Brace’s fault! He put us up to it.
I—i—o-o-h!”
In went Phineas with a mighty splash,
Nat and Bryan were climbing up the
steep bank, six feet high here, with
chattering teeth, but Mr. Dick sent
them both back into the water. Then
he said: “I sincerely hope that this is
the last exhibition I shall have to make
of my muscular ability in any way. You
boys may come out of the water and go
home aad get some dry clothes.”
The memory of this lesson, coupled
with something Phineas Joyce read a
day or two afterward in a Wayne paper
and told to his comrades, greatly in-
creased their respect and admiration for
Mr. Dick.
Phineas had read that at a oertain
athletic exhibition recently given in
Wavne M r. Timothv Dick had carried
off all of the honors, aad that he had
won the victory in a hotly contested
boat race.
It was not long before the boys came
to admire and respect Mr. Dick for
other reasons than his unexpected and
superior muscular powers. His coming
to Rose Lane marked the beginning of a
new and vastly better epoch in the his-
tory of that school.— Youth's Companion.
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Flexible Sandstone,
Flexible sandstone is one of the curb
i osities found in North Carolina. The
quarries are in the mountains of the
southwestern corner of the State, and
the stone is takeu out more as a curiosity
than for any other purpose, though it is
sometimes employed in buildin" & When
cut in a thin piece, say the size and
shape of a common whetstone, you can
bend it into a considerable arc without
jts breaking, and it will resume its formez
straightness on the pressure bein' 3, re-
moved. Of course, if you bend it toe
f ar it will break, but the fact that it will
bend at ail i 3 most remarkable. — Globe'
Democrat.
The Imperial, the largest diamond, it
I ivonn $1,000,000.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
An exchange says: We are waiting for
an over production o' money to move the
over production of crops to pay off the
overproduction and of debts, and to feed
clothe the over production of people.
The ***
Bev'cr (Mo ) Appeal says: ‘‘Farrn-
ers and laboring men in general go to
work and elect the idlers and enemies of
labor into power, who, in turn, go to
work and enact laws to rob and fleece
t he very ones who gave them power to
do so, and for years the farmer wage¬
workers have meekly and uncomplain¬
ing! v submitted to them.”
***
The Arkansas (Searcy) Economist says:
“Why there should not be pet feet una¬
nimity of sentiment between the mer¬
chant and farmer with regard to financial
reform we fail to see. What benefits the
latter must benefit the former. The
prejudice which has arisen should be put
aside, and they should stand together in
the great battle for an increase of the
currency.”
***
The Alliance Echo (Kansas City, Mo.)
says: “The farmer pays the taxes. If he
lies his neighbors will tell the assessor,
and he is caught up with, but his bro her
in the city is sent a blank to fill out, and
he writes as much or as little as he
pleases and swears to it and returns it.
If he has a palace home with costly
furniture and rooms elegantly furnished
from cellar to garret, worth $25,000, he
gives it in at fr m $3,000 to $5,000. If
he has caffi and bonds to the amount of
$10,000 he he will not return a cent. Should
have a large sum. of money deposited
in the bankB he draws it out, takes a
certificate check and has the cashier hide
it away in his vaults till the assessment
is taken. Hence the burden of taxation
falls upon the farmer who can’t well
evade the law, if he is so disposed, or
upon tho poorer classes in the city who
have houses and lots that can’t be cov¬
ered up."
***
The Alliance Sentinel (Rogers, Ark.)
fays. There is one glaring, monstrous
fact, that the people will not fail to fully
realize, and that is, 4hat in all the
assaults that the opposition make against
the sub-treasuiy plan, scheme or proposi¬
tion, it has not presented one single line
for the relief of the people. They con¬
demn the sub-treasury but offer nothing
in its stead. The Alliance asks for the
adoption of the sub treasury plan or some
other proposition that is as good, for the
people must have relief, and that speedily;
this is a fact that will be realized by all
the people. The power of contraction
has done its terrible work, and the people
nre groaning under its oppression, and
they must have relief. Therefore, if the
subtr-easury plan will not meet the
emergency, gentlemen of the opposition,
present some other plan that will be
equally the as good in meeting the necessities
of people. Be assured the Alliance
will hold on to the sub-treasury plan
until some other plan as good or better
is presented.”
***
FROM LOUISIANA.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The
call of the dissatisfied members of the
Farmers’ Alliance for a third party con¬
vention, to meet at Alexandria, October
2nd, has proved a political surpr'se to
all. A large element in the alliance were
dissatisfied with the LaFayette combina¬
tion made by the state alliance with the
anti-lottery democrats some weeks ago.
sided Thev appealed with to President backed Polk, who
them, and, by this
decision, they have determined to hold
a convention next month and place an
entire independent state ticket in the
field. This will complicate matters a
great deal, and will prove a severe blow
to the anti-lottery cause. It will place
three tickets in the field—democratic,
alliance and republican, and possibly
four. It will probably hurt the anti¬
lottery people, siuce it will lose them a
great many farmers, who will go off in
this third party m >vement.
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A NOVEL SUBTITUTE.
The Laurens Advertiser , which has
been fighting the sub-treasruv bill, has
been asked to fuggest a subtitute, and
the following is given as its plan w’hich
is claimed to be at least “better than the
sub-treasury:” “Fallowing out the de¬
mand of the Ocala pfatform, let the gov¬
ernment issue bonds at" a reasonable rate
of interest to the extent of $1)00,000 000,
and buy the railroad and telegraph lines.
Then let the government i-sue a paper
currency redeemnb'e in railroad pas¬
sage or freight, or tele.raph toll
limited to the estimated amount ol
travel, hauling and me-sag-sending
likely to accommodate the population.
To illustrate, a b 11 ot a certain denomi¬
nation presented to a government train
conductor would call for pas-age ten,
thirty x>r 100 miles, or for carrying a bale
of cotton a -pecified distance, say from
Laurens to Richmond. The governor nt
should, of course, make such bills legal
tender, and receive them in pa' ment of
all taxes and import duti s. Gold, sil
ver and greenbacks might be kept in cir¬
culation ju t as they are now, a fixed
standard of value of each to each other
and to the new currency having been
ascertained.”
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Dakota Sein (Wess ngton Springs, S.
D.)says: “A d.stiller deposi's a barrel
of whisky in a government warehouse,
and receiver a certificate which is nego
liable at a bank as a government bond.
The distiller- borrows what money he
needs upon it at a low rate of intcrc-t,
and the government takes care of the
whisky for three years, during which
time it substantially increases in value.
Meanwhile the government at public
expense looks out tharply for the suppo
sition of illegal distilleries, so that the
tax when paid is a burdin which fal s
solely on the consumer. Is this class
legislation, or no; ? Now is it not better
that the farmer's wheat is in a govern¬
ment warehouse awaiting a rise in the
market, where in case of forfeiture it
goes to the government, which is the
people, than that it lies in the elevator at
Duluth or Chicago, awaiting a ‘corner’
in the market to be the prey of the spec¬
ulators? Yi u n.i^t expect these people
to howl like the 'drinkers of crime’
mentioned by the Prophet Joel, or like
Demetrimis at Ephesus and th- ‘work¬
men of like occupatiuj,’ meuimed in
tha XIX chapter of Acts All the misery
of the world has been enured by di obe¬
dience of the divine injunction ‘in the
sweat of thy face shalt thou cat bread.’
The robber, the usurer, the slave holder,
the gambler and the speculator have
striven to eat their bread in the sw»at of
•other men’s faces. At every movement
in favor of th>» toiling masses they cry
‘paternalism.’ The first and best gov¬
ernment the world ever saw was the most
paternal. It was the patriarchial states
of Abraham and Job.”
OFFICIAL RULING,
To Washington, D. C., Sept. 12, 1891.
whem it may concern:
and Owing to the fact that there has bee i
is yet a misunderstanding among a
great many of our State officers in re ai d
.
to the payment of “per capita dues” by
the State Alliances to the national, I have
ri quested the national president to m ike
tions a ruliog on the subject in answer to ques¬
asked him, covering the whole mat¬
ter, which ruling you will find below. I
: kch.s method O giv ng each , state
y bat the delegates from no
^ s ate n Alliance v i- wid be seated at the next
uce ing of the buy .me Council of the
S Union, m iirr unless the State T* secretary att V ndu makes T“
“ annUal “ n 5 P a /» the P Br ca P ltit
dues according, to the followmg . ruling.
H. Iuuner,
Secretary c . National x- Farmers Alliance and
nc usi rail Lmon
Mr. De ir Sir and Brother: Replying to
your letter of "eprom <er 1, requesting
rulings on two quesao,,s concerning the
an e» of the Alliance, I make the de-
cisioos which follow:
Your fi st question is: “Will the p r
Capua dues of the several state alliances
foi the year 18J* be du* ana payable on
tie fir-t day ot N vein her, 1891? On
hisque'-ti m I rule yes. My ruling is
n-ised on section tvvo o. article seven ol
constitution 1 constitution,
w ich reads as f Rows: A p r cipi a tax
five cents suall be p id for each male
member into the nutioual treasury by
each state organization on or before the
first day of each year.” The dues sue
payable in advance under the provisions
of section twenty eight a! of the statutory p/r
laws, which reads follows: “ihe
capita dues shall be five cents, due an-
nually lu advance on the first day of
November with the last day of grace,
February 1 following.”
Your second question is : “If yourule
in the affirmative, will the delegates to
the next meeting of the Supremo Council
be seated, if the State secretaries do nofc
make their reports and pay said per cap¬
ita dues for the year 1892?” I decide
they can not. I base this decision on sec¬
tion 2 of the statutory laws, which reads
as follows: “Delegates to the Supreme
Council will not be entitled to sears in
the body unless settlement of the national
per capita dues of 5 cents for each male
member has been made by the State sec¬
retary, of accompanied by the proper
amount money to the national secre¬
tary and State secretaries shall make such
remittance and report promptly on or bo
fore the 1st day of November.”
Yours truly and fraternally,
L. L. Polk,
President N. F. A. and I. U.
Attest: J. H. Turner, Secretary.
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DELAWARE STATE ALLIANCE.
The Delaware State Alliance was or¬
ganized last week. Officers were elected
and the Ocala platform was indorsed
in the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
“Resolved, by the Alliance of the State
of Delaware, in convention assembled,
that they accept and indorse the demands
ma de by the National Alliance in session
at Ocala, Fla., in Dtcember, 1890.”
The following resolutions were passe 1
amid much enthusiasm:
1. The principles of our Order are
founded in the divine wisdom and justice
of God as set forth and exemplified in
His word, which we acknowledge as the
only infallible rule of faith and practice.
2. In this word we are taught to love
our neighbors as ourselves, to do justice
and love mercy. Wc therefore ask noth¬
ing from any man or class that we would
not willingly' grant. We seek no selfi-h
advantage and ask uo special favor.
3. But we do demand fair play and
equal while rights for ourselves, as fatmers,
and, we are williug and ready to
bear our full share of the public burden,
we are not willing and will no longer sub¬
mit to pay nine-tenths of all the taxes
levied for county and municipal purposes;
demand that invested capital, such as
bonds,mortgages and stocks,which yield
a larger and more certain return, with
It ss labor and care than our farms, be
taxed exactly as they are,at its real value.
4. We further demand that the latter,
when collected shall be wisely and tco-
nomically spent for he benefit ot the ct i-
zens at large ana not to reward favorite*
or professional politicians for political
8 % Vi W.Tre n.iih.x i”Slv
а. We ore neither a par y or or partisans, , -rtisan,
but are political to this extent: i hat we
demand the selection of good, honest and
true men for office, and we will support
no others; and especially do we demand
the selection of honest and courage mis
men lor senators and representatives m
onr State legislature, principles and men "who are
imbued with the we advocate
and who will unhesitatingly pledge them-
selves to carry them out if clewed.
б. We further declare that, while w;
have our party preferences respectively,
we are yet freemen, and not the s.av .s
of any party or factious, and we will
therefore suppo t only such men as be-
lieve in our principles and are willing t >
support them, no matter to what par y
th b 0
L That under the head of farmers we
include aud recognize all who draw their
support directly from the laud.
8. Wo also declare our deep and sin¬
cere sympathy with workingmen of all
classes, and we will aid them on every
proper occa-ion to secure their rights and
the just reward of their labor; and we
ask of them to unite with us in the sup¬
port of these principles and the attain¬
ment of these ends.
*%
A GREAT MISTAKE.
Following is the comment of the Pro¬
gressive Farmer % (Phesiflefit Polk’s paperj
With cotton selling at 7 and 8
conts there is absolutely no profit in it.
to even 50 nv. per b,.ndr,d i> a big
price, fully equal to iha price of the
cotton. An additional 50 cents pel
cumrea means $i.5H aa feel to the con
of rais’ng the cotton after it is ginned.
If lint cotton wa3 selling at 10 ceuts our
farmers would just be where th y now
are after adding the extra $15) to ihe
cost of ra’s ng and picking. The white
fanners of ‘he South are ihe best friends
the colored people have. borne of t em
have nut treated them as they sh >uld,
but gcneiallv speaking die negroes have
on the recent threatened strike by the
colored cotton pickers of the south. The
article is headed “A Great Mistake” aud
is as follows: “ We see from the National
Alliance, organ of the colored Farmers’
Alliance of the United States, that R M.
Humphries, General Superintendent, has
perfected arrangements for a general
strike of the colored cotton-pickers
throughout the South, to go into effect
ou the 12th of this month, which was last
Saturday. He advises them to go about
it peacefully and stand firm until their
demand is granted. They want $1 per
hundred for all cotton they pick. We
think this a great mistake on the part
of our colored friends at this time.
p ospered where the whites hivepr .s-
|)cre d. The uegro farmer and ilie white
f.rmerare H ,th on the same fUmtlt, platform
today. Thev are gufferi lg
same cans: and the movement now ou
foot U Q ,t ealcua.ed to remedy the
i vi | 8 . It is tho duty of our white Alli-
ance have people to see that our oolo.cd farm-
tr8 taking antquvl chance in ii e. B -t in
this step the colored Alltancemen
attempt to belter their con lit ion
at th.- expen e of their white brethren.
Refonu , shou d nofc l)e in the intercst of
one ,f portiou of our fariuors atthe expense
( mother. If both white aud colored
farm rs can b tter their condition nt the
same time, then the conn rv for wdi be bet-
tcr for a ;l c W se s. B it ei-lier color
to benefit themselves at the expense of
the other, is simply a family th<oat-cut
ting busine s. If ou win e and colored
farmers can, b a united effort, r medy
our financial system, ue. better prices foj
^ pro ducts we raise, rti-e the price of
farm labor, then all will have an eq nil
chance to succeed. But as we see t s
cotton pickers’strike, it is a direct low
at farm owner- which will cost a gnat
£ eal , JJ1* , mount . to . 2, nothing ... Our farmers in . tho em, can-
“o "ff^dto pay H P« hundred for
^ “ rfc ^ ? ,n : Uni ^ ss both ^ white and b ack l*
HOrk to t ^ ether t( 8 cure ^ eneril1 aud
equal renet, notning go id will come out
We think that alter proper co i-
sideration the colored nlliancemea will
see that they nre taking an improper aud
suicidal step in demanding a thing im¬
possible, and that they will reconsider
the plan for a general strike. We pro¬
fess to know ns much ab >ut the situation
and ab »ut cotton as Superintendent
Humphries, and we do not hesitate to
advi-e our farm ;rs to leave their cofton
in the fields ra her thin pay more than
50 e. nts per hundred to h ive it pick d.
The spcruiators are mainly responsible
for the low price of cotton and ao is our
financial system. Strike at the root of
the di-ease rather than at the top, for
this movement is simply a blow at the
tOD.
BALMACEDA SUICIDES.
The Quondam Chilean Leader
Ends His Life.
The New York Herald, of Sunday,
prints a spec'al from Valparaiso, Chile,
stating that Balmaceda committed sui¬
cide Saiurday at the Argentine legation,
in Santiago, by shooting himself in the
head with a revolver. The dispatch says
Balmaceda left Santiago August 29th in
hope of making his escape from Chile,
but seeing every avenue of re¬
treat cut off, returned Septem¬
ber 2d and went direct to the Ar¬
gentine legation his intention being to
go aboard the vessel Condell, which he
expected to find in San Antonio bay.
Upon arriving there he f und the vessel
had sailed. Since his return to the Ar-
gentin legation, in Santiago, Balmaceda
had been in an extremely nervous condi¬
tion. No one, with the exception of the
Argentine minister and one other man,
who was devoted to the ex-presidei.t,
were permitted to talk with or even see
him. Smor Umburia had a long talk
with Balmaceda Friday night relative to
the latter’s ideas about the advisability of
giving himself up to the junta. Balma¬
ceda went to bed about md ight. About
8 o'clock a. m , a pbtol shot was litard
in the bedroom assigned to Bi r m<ccda.
Breaking open the door of Balm ceda’s
room, it was found that he ha l shot
h mself. The body was still warm.
There was a gaping wound in the temple.
cad/iuhV _____
vAKULINA ruTTmi LUIIUN
Damaged 0ne-FOUPth by the
Heavy Rains.
A Columbia ui-patch of Buuday says:
Reports from all over the state, received
weather bureau, show that the
da , liaae to the cottoa crop by the recent
ing the past wreek the rainfall has b en
below the normal; temperature about
the average; amount of sunshine about
the average . The heavy rains which
comp i et eiy saturated the soil, and in
many places ponded, together with tho
hot sunshine f- r the past week, scalded
„ nr i ril afp,i m0 st of the ro»ton cron and
opeD> and thereby greatly decreased the
vield. Fr »m reports received from cor-
respondents and from other relia.de in-
formation the last report of 25 per cent
decrease is fu'ly sustained, and at several
p ' aC es the decrease in the production is
p i ace d at a much higher estimate.
"
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A CRAZY MOTHER
Hurls HeP Children and
Herself Into the River,
A Sioux Falls, South Dakota, dispatch
says: Workingmen on the railroad saw a
woman walk to the Great Northern
bridge, throw an eight-year-old boy into
the river, hurl an eighteen months old
baby after him and plunge into the water
herself, Sund >y. Boat! reached the
feene and dragged the three 1»< •
ashore, but too latetosive the ma. .or
and babe. The woman is the wife <f a
contractor named epro-icb, and had
b'.come craz d ou account of her hue-
band’s busin- §*> rever-e-.
NUMBER 38
A RAiN MAKER. •tai
_ i
wh0 Backs His Assertions hi
Plenty Ot Boodle. sSgB
A Topeka, Kau., dispatch of Satur
sa\s: Melbourne, the Australian ra
wizard, has agreed, for $500, to Hr
torrents of rain fall at Goodland re-
Saturday. Goodland is the county s^,.^
of Sherman county, bordering on Coltv %y
ratio. He contracts to make it rain fifi ifc
111 dej in all directions from Goodlnnc-*.
His method is different from Drcycoa,.
forth’s. He takes his chemicals into
small budding, makes the room dark anoj
runs a small pipe out of the roof. No
one can see what pro luces the rain, but
iiis brothers go about on the outside
nmoug the crowd and offer to bet any
amount that rain will fall in torrents iu
forty-eight hours. inside Melbourne building takes to^J
several revolvers the
prevent any.one from getting in while lj
operates. A heavy rain was never kr^
to tall at this season of the year at Qo fc j ng j
laud. ughly
KINDNESS AT A PREMIUM^ 6 ”*
A Man Gets Courteous. $100,000 for Beim^
RaleLh, N. C dispatch of Wedm>j oal
A . e
day Siy8: A wealthy northern man, and
iast year visited Rocky Mount, vy.*. he,
shown many courtesies by O. W. Harr M
a well-known citizen, fell dead on Mo
day. His «il h s been opened, an t i' ejjl
.
found that lie bequeathed Ham- $100,i Qg
for courtesies shown, the sum to be pm
iu United States currency i
An Ex-Congressman Dies.
Ex-Com/res man A’. L Scott, of I’c n-
syivania, died suddenly at Newport,11 l ,
Sunday night- His death was due to iv-
peated” improved, he nt failures, and there liis gastric being trouble-
being disease of the stomach, bowels no or-
ganm or
kidneys.
RICHMOND & DANViLLE R R.
Atlanti and Charlotte Air-Liae Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 2nd, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 08. No. 10. No. 12.
I-ASTEHN TIME. Daily. Daily. Dally.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm 7 20 pm 9 10 am
(Jhamblee . ... 7 59 pm 9 43 am
Norcroes....... 8 11 pm 9 55 am
Duluth........ 8 24 pm 10 00 am
Suwaneo....... 8 37 pm 10 17 cm
Buford........ 8 52 pm 10 33 am
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch 9 07 pm 10 48 mii
2 52 pm 9 24 pm 11 11 cm
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 9 50 pm 11 36 «m
Bellton........ 9 56 pm 11 40 am
Cornelia....... 10 25 pm 12 04 pm
Mt. Aiiy....... 10 28 pm 12 09 ]> n
Toccoa. *....... 4 02 pm 10 58 pm 12 39 pm
Westminster ... 11 39 pm 1 20 pm
Seneca ........ 12 01 am 1 42 pm
Central........ 12 40 am 2 85 pm
Easleys........ 1 03 am 3 05 p n
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 1 33 am 3 30 pm
Greers......... 1 59 art 4 01 )<ni
Wellford....... 2 16 ub 4 J9pni
Spartanburg... 6 57 pm 2 36 am 4 48 pm
Clifton........ 2 55 am 4 57 pin
Cowpens ...... 3 00 am 5 01 pm
Blacksburg,..... Gaffney....... 3 28 am 5 21 pm Jim
3 46 am 5 42
Grover......... 3 56 am 5 51 pm
King’i Motint’n 4 17 am 6 08 pm
Gastonia....... 4 50 am 6 82 pm
Lowell........ 590 am 6 48 pm
Bellemont..... 5 11 am 6 54 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 5 40 am 7 20 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, No. II. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 35 am 1 55 pm 2 50 am
Bellemont..... ........ 2 18 pm 3 15 am
Lowell......... ........ 2 28 pm 3 26 am
Gastonia....... ........ 2 41pm 3 43 am
King’s Mount’n ........ 3 06 pm 4 17 am
Grover......... ........ 3 20 pm 4 33 am
Blacksburg____ ........ 3 30 pm 4 43 am
Gaffney....... Cowpens ........ 3 49 pm 5 02 am
...... ........ 4 11pm 6 27 am
Clifton........ ........ 4 15 pm 5 31 am
Spartauburg... Wellford........ 11 39 am 4 32 pm 5 48 am
........ 5 11 pm 6 10 am
Greers......... ........ 5 31 pm S 28 am
Greenville....... 12 3C pm 6 05 pm 7 00 am
Easleys......... ........ 6 33 pm 7 25 am
Central........ ........ 7 25 pm 8 10
Seneca......... ........ 7 53 pm 8 38 am
Westminster.... ........ 8 12 pm 8 58 am
Toccoa........ 2 25 pm 8 50 pm 9 35 am
Mt. Airy....... ........ 9 25 pm 10 10 am
■ Cornelia....... ........ 9 30 pm 10 15 am
ISellton........ ........ 9 56 pm 10 88 am
Lula.......... 3 14 pm 10 02 pm 10 41 am
Gainesville..... 3 86 pm| 10 28 pm 11 11 am
Flowery Branch ........110 49 pm 11 31 am
Buford........ ........; 11 03 pm 11 46 am
Suwanco....... ...r.... 1117pm 11 59 am
Duluth........ .......11 29 pm 12 12 ) R»
Norcross,...... ........Ill 42 pm 12 24 pi:i
Chamblee...... ........: 11 54 pm 12 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 00 pm 12 30 am 1 10 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing. leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 dailv, ex-
oept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 10 05p
{">f a(1 J 1a Z °
dallyfexcept 12daiiy,’7Wy. m
and‘8 -Sundayfaml No. n.
30 a m, a:rive Lula 9 20 pm and 10 3)
a ^
ween Toccoa and Elberton _ Na 61 da5 .
h ; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 12 55 p m
arrive Elberton 4 4‘> p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Miuday, leave »E1. erton 5 45 a m
>».
twoen Washington and Knoxvi le via. Salisbury,
and No*. 9 an t lOPullman Sleeper between At-
lanta and New York.
On No. 11 no change in day coaches from
^Js^nd38 wishing on and Sonthwest-
enVestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged in connection with first-class tickets,
^ delafie^ mfomal'ion
For as to local and
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep-
ing ear reservations, confer with local agents,
«
Pa^ T r
Qen’l Ai’t. Div PsasTAi’t Atlanta,’
Washington, D, O. Ga.
W. II. GREEN, FOL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Wa ,'‘ h p°?; OI i’ D xS' Richmond, Va.
n
Supjrintendeat, Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
VTfOPNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA..
Will practice in the counties o' Haber¬
sham and Rtbun of the N'-rthwes ero
Circuit, and Frank!m and Banka of the
Western Circuit. Prompt, afenti >n will
0e given to all hush ess entrusted>o him.
The collection of iebis wsll hav* »p o
‘.a! nttejtion.