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VOLUME XX.
THE MODEL HUSBAND,
Most wives will en l their story withi
“Ah, well, men are but human.’*
I long to tell the secret of
A truly happy woman.
Through all the sunshine-lighted years,
Lived now in retrospection,
My husbanu’s word brought never tears,
Nor came I a sa 1 reflection.
hate’er the hardens of the day.
Unflinching, calm an 1 steady.
To bear his part—the larger half—
I always find him ready.
House cleaning season brings no frown,
No sarcasm, pointed keenly;
Through carpets up, and tacks heal dow.i
He makes his way serenely.
Our evenings pass in converse sweet,
Or quiet contemplation,
We never disagree except
lo‘‘keep up conversation ."
And dewy morn of radiant June,
Fair moonlight of September,
April with bird and brook atuuo,
Stern, pitiless December—
Eacli seems to my adoring eyes
Home new grace to discover,
For he unchanging through the years,
Is still my tender lover.
Ho life no shadows hold, though we
Have reached the side that’s shady;
My husband? Oh! a dream is he,
And I’m a maiden lady.
—Ladies’ Home Journal.
PARSON PLADLEY.
11Y MANLEY II. PIKE.
T w r as “meeting-
/J time” in lludder-
V ficld, Massachusetts
^ 1 Bay Colony, on a
Sunday morning in
... 5 June, 1676. The
mm? l k icy fifty or sixty log
buildings which
made up the settle-
nient stood silent
__ jj as so many tombs
— nmong the black
—stumps of the half-
cleared fields, :or every soul in the pi ace
from the old man of ninety to the young-
est child, was in the meeting-house on
the hill—every soul, that is, except
Abner True.
Abner True, whoso father was a
deacon and tithing-man, aud counted
second only to the minister himself in
rigid piety, was actually playing truant
from meeting; and this in a village
which looked upon Plymouth and Wey¬
mouth as dangerously worldly towns,
relaxed in morals and manners by over¬
much prosperity.
But Abner had worked from sun to
sun every day-of the last week, and
knew he must do the same every day of
tho next week and the week after that;
for the corn was to be hoed, tho grass
crops got in, and a score of other tasks
to be done.
It seemed to him too hard that, on
this oue day of rest, he should be obliged
to sit upon a backless jilank bench all
the forenoon, if, indeed, he did not find
himself forced to sit there longer; since
Parson Pladley, who rarely preached less
than three hours, sometimes preached
four, and once or twice had been known
to exceed five hours.
Abner felt sure that the sermon would
not be a short one this day, even accord¬
ing to the preacher’s ideas of brevity;
and the more he thought of it the more
he dreaded it, until he became willing
to incur any punishment for the sake of
escaping that discourse.
So when Deacon Amos, with his wife
and younger children, were ” cre ready readv
forra.et.og, , no Abner , could be found,
Hidden in the little ha,-mow of the
rough barn, he saw the family depart-
his father marching ahead, equipped
With musket, bandoleer aud powder-
horn; for King l>hihp and his Indians
were at war against the whites, and no
man throughout the colony weut to field
or church without his arms.
Similar groups, similarly accoutred,
paced solemnly along toward the rude
sanctuary upon the hill, until Abner,
seeing that all Huddersfield had passed,
telt that he was safe for the present—
and lay down upon the soft hay to pro-
pare for the souud nap he had so longed
lor *
Below old Fly, the farm horse, stamped
and munched; without, the hens crowed
in the sunshine, with a drowsy note that
should have been favorable enough for
slumber. But between his guilty cou-
sciousness of what he had done aud his
dread of Deacon Amos would do, Abner
cou.d not manage to go to sleep.
lie began to wish himself upon that
backless plank bench, even if the sermon
were to last all day; yet a tardy arrival
would be nearly as great offence as not to
come at all; and he had not the courage
to meet the pubiic reproof which Parson
Pladley might administer, or to hasten
the private cnastisement that Deacon
Amos would surely inflict.
1 he time went on. The old house
was still now; the hens uttered only au
occasional croak. From the far distance
the preacher's voice came down on the
warm breeze in a sottened murmur,
Abner was dozing.
A\ hat was that? He heard a sound
that wakened him quite, and he sprang
up to listen.
Nothing but a slight swishing sound
in the tall grass behind the barn—noth-
ing but that. It was probably some fox
or polecat on the watch to snatch a
chicken. Abner peered out through a
crack to see if he could discover the
auimal, for the swishing sound seemed
drawing near.
-
In the meeting-house Parson Pladley
Lad turned his big hour-glass twice, and
now the sands of the third hour were
almost spent. Before him rows of serious
men, women and children in reverent
attention, not once removing their earn-
est eyes lroui the minister.
The heavy door was flung open and
Bhut again with a loud bang that startled
every member of the congregation. A
.boy, staggering and streaming with per-
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spiration ran up the broad aisle
fed exhausted at the foot of the pulpit,
very man stretched out his hand
the musket that stood beside him;
no one rose, no one said a word or
tered an exclamation.
Whatever the danger wa 3 —and
knew well what it might be—this
God’s house, and in it none but
servant should raise a voice or
upon any action unless he permitted.
The minister descended from
piace, leaned over the panting Abner
and caught the few words the boy had
strength to whisper: “Savages—full
score—stealing up—to take us unaware !”
The minister returned to the pulpit.
“Kindle your matches, brethren,”
sai<] he, in a voice of perfect tranquility.
The ring of flint and steel sounded all
over the house.
“Make ready your guns,”
the minister, taking up a heavy musket,
and blowing the match, or fuse, by
which it was discharged. “Musketeers,
to your stations. Ye that hava but swords
or pikes, sit fast.”
The congregation obeyed these orders
as calmly as they had been given.
I wenty-five men, headed by Deacon
True, silently ranged themselves the
loopholes which were pierced in the
door and along the walls. Each knew
his position, and took it without delay
or hesitation; while the fifteen men w'ho
had no firearms sat stiffly on the benches
with the women and children, most of
whom had not looked behind them since
Abner rushed in.
Parson Pladley looked at the hour¬
glass, which still continued to run, and
quietly resumed his sermon. Around
tho sides of the room the musketeers
stooped at the loopholes amid the light
vapor from their smouldering matches.
On tho benches the body of listeners
kept their composed countenances turned
upon the preacher. Save his voice,
there was no sound but an infrequent
metallic rattle, as some musketeer ex¬
amined his gun or loosen his iron-hilted
broadsword in the scabbard, The
words of the preacher sang throughout
the house:
“And even as aforetime the heathen
did furiously rage, aud did compass the
children of the covenant with spear and
javelin round about—”
A high-pitched, thrilling screech filled
the air without, and now rose above the
minister’s voice. It was sustained and
prolonged in many savage throats.
There came quick, sharp pattenng 3 on
the roof and walls, like hailstones/
Enoch Brett fell backward from his
loophole with an arrow through the
brain. Another man rose from his seat,
picked up the gun which Brett had
dropped, and took the vacant station.
A dozen muskets answered the storm
of missels. Their fire seemed to check
the advance of the Indians, inasmuch as
the war cry grew fainter, and the pat¬
tering of the arrows diminished.
Parson Pladley had not interrupted his
sermon, although his voice had been
temporarily drowned by the noise of the
assault aud defence, except for the in¬
stant that he cast oue glance at the mus-
ket beside him, and another at the hour¬
glass.
All the men who could act were at
their posts; why should he not continue
to the end, while waiting for the des¬
perate struggle which must come? His
seuse of duty told him that he ought not
to cease his holy office before the ap¬
pointed time, except under compulsion
in whioh he must recognize the hand of
God.
His hearers understood this as well as
if he had declared his determination in
so many words j ri-L. They did j-j their • part by ,
.s oning wi i s ea y a eutiou.
arrow " flights if thicker. ^ re '^p, Tue OU guns er aa< re-
Jepulsed. pl.ed, but tins time tho attack: was not
A ponderous thumping balding, on foe
door, which shook the whole
told that some kind of battering-ram wa
being employed suih to break it down. A
few more shock, and the door must
f a u.
o a / l y a pinch P or two more of sand re-
mnin d ia the hour gl „ ss . StUl ,, „
not quite empty and Parson Pladley
preached on.
Crash! The door was half off its
hinges. The firearm men crowded be-
hind it and deliverd a volley that ap-
peared for a minute to clear the passage,
There was yet some sand in the hour-
glass. The parson's lips could be seen
to move, though his voice was not
heard.
A renewed yell and the crashing blows
once more beat upon the door. No shots
anowered this time, for the muskets were
empty.
An arrow whistled across the church
and stuck quivering iu the front of the
pulpit. Around the edges of the shat-
tered door hatchets and clubs were
brandished in the faces of the defend-
ers, who dashed them aside with the
butts of their guns. The women began
to scream.
Tfie last sand ran out of the hour-glass,
Parson Pladley bo wed his head and said,
“Amen!” And all the congregation
answered together, “Amen!”
Up sprang tho hitherto motionless
listeners—women to the rear, men to
the front—and from the pulpit the old
minister, with sword aud gun, led the
wa y to the aid of the others, who were
beginning to give ground before the of
hideously-painted figures who were forc-
ing their way through the entrance.
l'hen came out another side of the
Puritan character. The tierce energy—
almost joy—with which the colonists
fought wasassusprisingas the stony self-
control they had shown but a moment
before. Ahead of them all, Parson
Pladley swung his mighty sword with
cries which betrayed the old horse-
soldier of Cromwell aud Harrison, foi
such he had been aud of those who fol-
lowed him, more than one had stood in
the ranks of th8 pikemen who met the
charges of Prince Rupert’s Cavaliers,
and repelled them. too.
As if he remembered this, the minis-
ter lifted up his strong voice in a stern
Psalm whieh had thundered over the bat-
tlefields of Naseby and Marston
the war song of David the King,
joicing over hie victory; ,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1892.
“I have pursued mine enemies
overtaken them; neither did I
again till they were consumed,
“I have Vounded them that
not able to rise; they are fallen un
<fi er m y f eet>
“For Thou hast girded me
strength unto the battle; Thou has
dyed under me those that rose
against me.”
The Indians were like wolves
ing lions. They shrank, wavered
were pressed back to the door,
it, and outside of it. Then, by one last
rush, they were broken, scattered
dispersed. They ran in every
for the shelter of the woods; many
them fell by the way under the
and swords of their pursuers. Hudders-
field was saved.
Within the mseting-house, now
ruined, dim with powder-smoke and
heaped with broken benches, arrows
dead bodies, the congregation
around its minister, who, blackened
bloody, with gown torn to shreds and
great slash across his forehead, J
more raised up his voice—this time in
the glorious strain of one of their tri-
umphant hymns.
All joined in it—even the wounded,
who could scarcely lift their heads from
the ground, and the dying, who sang
their own breaths away in the grateful
chorus.
When the injured had been cared for,
and there was once more time for or¬
dinary matters, Parson Pladley called
Abner True to him.
“Son Abner, thou didst well so cun¬
ningly to avoid those ruthless savages,
and privily warn us betimes. For this
thou meritest reward.”
Abaci looked up, astonished.
“And this shall be thy reward—thal
for thy wilful tarrying away from the
sanctuary thou sbalt receive no discipline
—from the church.”
“But my father will—” stammered
the boy.
“Of a surety he will,” placidly replied
the minister, “and I trust it may do
thee good.”
“Come with me, Abner,” said Deacon
Amos.—Youth’s Companion.
The World’s Consumption of Coal.
A statistician has lately been engaged
in estimating the world’s consumption ol
coal. He divides his figures into four
groups, embracing respectively the quan¬
tity of coal used in heating steam-boil¬
ers, in the production of gas, in the ex-
traction of metals from their ore 3 , and
for household purposes. It may be
taken, he says, that the total steam en¬
gine capacity of the globe is equivalent
to 10,000,000 horse-power, and that,
having regard to the utilization of other
fuels, the quantity of coal burned with
the object of producing steam averages
4.4 pounds per horse power per hour, or
all hourly aggregate of 12,000 tons, In
all probability, however, this is an under
estimate, as the efficiency of the world’s
steam engines i9 calculated by some to
be 20,000,COO horse-power. With re¬
spect to the manufacture of gas, the
hourly consumption of the illuminating
aeriform fluid is given as 5,000,000 cubic
metres, which would necessitate the dis¬
tillation of at least 10,000 tous of coal
per hour. More difficult to calculate is
the consumption of coal for the produc¬
tion of power and heating gas; it may
be estimated, our authority thinks, at
4500 tons per hour. A large quantity
of coal is used in the reduction of metals
from their ores. It i3 calculated that iu
this way some 9000 tons of the mineral
are consumed every hour. A special es-
timate * gives the quantity Vtories burnt hourlv
by wo ks and at 5000 tons'.
The most difficult calculation is that of
the domestic consumption ? of coal. It is
?$“**?*’ . ■, . : ’ 1 ’’ nnA 0(,0 P Cr , h< ”‘ r “
J-330,000 tons per da, of twentj-four , ’r
ho ^' 1 ,?“ <*??>. ‘“""ft W ea "
rather smai considering that m Groat
B "‘“ D »“' i Germany alone the daily
OUt|) aged , l, 600,000 L°' tons, rec<, and °Hf that r , 3 the ,, ha8 extrac-
tloa ia a11 othe ^ co “ ntn ! 9 may ,l >e reck '
»»ed as one and a half times this quan.
" nf ° n ron *
Few Round-top Trunks, Now.
There are comparatively few round-
top trunks made now. The idea was
that greater resisting power could bo
obtained with least weight, but, unfor¬
tunately, there was no guarantee that
tho baggage-smasher would always
stand the trunk the right way up. His
failure to do this gave numberless re¬
minders of the fact that no box is
stronger than at its weakest point, and
the damaged sides became very common.
Now most trunks are made with flat
tops, and are so strong all over that it
is very difficult, eveu for an expert
trunk-smasher, to break one.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Pure Nickel Currency.
It is probable that the Austro-Hun-
garian Government will adopt pure
nickel for its currency. The alloyed
coin generally used, containing only
twenty-five percent, of nickel, combined
with seventy-five per cent, of copper,
possesses, it i3 considered, numerous dis¬
advantages, while the favorable points
of the pure nickel piece are that, not¬
withstanding its hardness, it can easily
be coined, that it has the quality of ex¬
traordinary durability, loss by wear and
tear being reduced to a minimum; that
it is preserved clean in circulation and
that no oxidization worth mentioning
sets in.—Iron Age.
It's the “State of Maiue.”
Why do the people of our most North-
western States always talk of the State
of Maine instead of simply using the one
word““Maine?” The explanation is as
follows: Up to the year 1820 this por-
tion of the country was politically at-
tached to the State of Alassachusetts and
was known as the “District of Maine.”
After it was incorporated into a State
and admitted into the Union the people
from long habit continued to place the
preposition “of” be lore the
“Maine,” aud the custom has been
tinued to the present
Glob*.
FOR CLEVELAND.
i
WAYNE MACVEAGH, GARFIF.LD*S ATTOR¬
NEY-GENERAL will vote for the
DEMOCRATIC TICKET—HE SAYS THE
TRUE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY
WOULD BE PROMOTED BY CLEVE¬
LAND'S ELECTION.
Following close upon the announce-
' meat that Judge Gresham, four years ago
a prominent candidate for the Presideu-
j tial nomination in the Republican Na-
j tional Convention, Cleveland had determined to
i vote for an l Stevenson, an-
other bombshell has been thrown into the
Republican camp. The following letter
from Wayne MacVeagh, Attorney-Gen-
eral under Garfield, announcing that he
will vote for Grover Cleveland, has beea
given out for publication:
Philadelphia, Oct. 4, 1S92.
John W. Cat ter, Esq., Secretary of tho
Massachusetts Reform Club:
Your cordial invitation to a ldress the
cit zeas of Boston on the issues of tuo
canvass happens to reach me just when
professional engagements prevent my
naming a time when I can do so, but you
are quite right in concluding that I in-
tend to vote for Mr. Cleveland,
Entertaining the convictions I do,
no other course is open to me, and 1
cheerfully accord to the supporters of
President Harrison the same sense of
public duty by which I claim to be act¬
uated. As both parties have presented
unexceptionable candidates, there is no
reason why the differences which exist
upon questions of public policy should
be discussed otherwise than in good
humor, and with entire respect for each
other's opinions.
In the present campaign what may
fairly be called the false alarms of the
canvass will prove of little value, because
of the general confidence in the safe and
conservative character of both candi¬
dates. The aveiage voter knows that
free trade is impossible in this country,
for the conclusive reason that the vast
revenues now required to meet the ex¬
penses of the Government will necessar-
ily afford a far higher degree of protec¬
tion to our established and prosperous
manufacturers than either Alexander
Hamilton or Henry Clay thought desir¬
able in the infancy of our weak and
struggling industries. The average voter
also knows that the irredeemable paper
! currency in use before the war can never
reappear. On the other hand, he knows
as well that no system of duties on im¬
ports, however inequitable, can prevent
our continued growth in wealth, in man¬
ufactures, and in population, a growth
due to the incomparable gifts of Provi¬
dence, the intelligence and energy of the
people, and the blessings of free institu-
tions.
While I am more than ever resolved
to hold duty to country far above any
ties of party, I find myself at present in
general accord with the Democratic
Party, and willing to trust its course in
the futuie. The insight, the courage
and the patriotism the masses of the
party exhibited in compelling the nomi-
nation of Mr. Cleveland when be was
without a single office holder to support
his candidacy seem to me to demand
that I - should meet them in the same
spirit and act with them as long as they
maintain that high standard of policy
and of administration. It is the more
easy to do so because the Republican
Party, securing its return to power four
years ago by promising to preserve mat-
ters as they were, at once embarked upon
what I regard as a reckless and revo-
lutionary policy, even overturning all
the safeguards of legislation in the House
of Representatives in their haste to pass
the Force bill and the McKinley bill,
both, to my mind, unnecessary and un-
wise measures.
The opposition to the Force bill, as
not only sure to create far greater evils
than it could cure, but as also subversive
of the rights of the States, has become
so earnest and widespread that it is said
to have been abandoned; but it is must
not be forgotten that only two years ago
such a measure wa 3 warmly advocated by
the Republican Party, and very narrowly
escaped becoming a law.
There is no pretense, however, that
the McKinley bill is abandoned. On the
contrary, our express approval of it is
demanded. No doubt that bill, which I
cannot but think was an uncalled for
disturbance of the then-existing tariff,
greatly benefited a few interests, but cer¬
tainly it greatly oppressed many others.
Of^the protected industries themselves,
many were then* as now, in far more
urgent need of free raw materials than »f
higher protection, but with raw mater¬
ials on the free list the bill could not
have passed, for those having such mater¬
ials for sale controlled enough votes to
defeat it, and they were very likely to do
so if their bounties were discontinued.
The manufacturers needing free raw
materials were therefore, obliged to join
in the objectionable processes of increas-
ing prices by restricting production,thus
adding to the number of trusts by which
the price of the necessaries of life is
placed at the mercy of unlawful com-
binations of capital.
It is not surprising that labor, believ-
in<T itself to be oppressed, soon rose in
revolt, and civil war has actually sections' raged
this summer in four different of
the country. And, of course, the farm-
getting ers, paying more for what they buy and
less for what they sell, grow
poorer day by day; and excellent farms
in some of the most fertile sections of
this most highly protected State buildings will
hardly brine* C the cost of the
od then)
* economic evils, however great,
But the
of the McKinley bill and the unreasonable
system of protection it represents are of
far less importance to my mind than the
moral evils which follow In their wake,
In deciding for what purposes the masses
j of the people may properly be taxed, it
must not be forgotten that taxes have a
wonderful capacity for filtering through
all intervening obstacles till they reach
the bowed back of toil and resting there,
and therefore the giving of bounties
under any form of taxation is mainly the
giving away of the wages of labor. The
sad truth that the curse of the poor is
their poverty is illustrated in nothiug
more clearly than in the undue share
they suffer of the burdens of taxation.
But, apart from this consideration,
ought not taxes only be imposed as re¬
quired for public purposes, or may they
also be imposed for the pecuniary ad¬
vantage of such persons or classes as are
able to control Congressional action in
their favor? It seems to me like a
travesty on taxation to require, as t ie
McKinley bill does, the farmer who
grows corn in Indiana to pay a bounty
to the farmer who produces cane sugar
in Louisiana, or to require the farmer
who grows wheat in Pennsylvania to pay
a bounty to the farmer who produces
maple sugar hi Vermont; but it is nearer
tiagedv than travesty to tax the masses
of the people to increase the wealth of
the very wealthy owners of most of our
protected industries.
But even such inequality and injustice
are the least of its evils, for while such
a system endures political corruption is
absolutely sure to increase, as such a
system uot only invites, but it requires,
the corrupt use of money both at the
polls and in Congress. It is of its very
essence that “fat” shall be “fried” out
of its beneficiaries. Who shall happen
to do the “frying” or who shall happen
to distribute the “fat” u«on any partic¬
ular occasion is mere matter of detail,
but while that system lasts both will con¬
tinue to be done by somebody.
And the evils of a system of legislative
bounties, so far from stopping, only be¬
gins with those bounties secured to the
industries protected by the tariff. The
disastrous course of the Republican Party
on the silver question is an apt illustra¬
tion of this truth. It ought to be an
houest-mouey party, and it would be if
it could; but while it demanded increased
bounties for its favorite manufacturers, il
could not refuse increased bounties to
the silver producers, as the votes they
control were probably necessary to the
passage of the McKinley bill. So situated,
the Republican Party had no alternative
but to pass the silver law of 1S90, dou¬
bling the put chase of silver and requiring
the building of more warehouses in which
to store the useless metal.
The total purchases made by the Gov¬
ernment amount to hundreds of millions
of dollars, and would not realize, if re¬
sold, one-half their cost, while the poi-
son of debased currency, whose work,
however slow, is sure, is making itself
daily more aud more felt in every chan¬
nel of business and finance, and is in¬
evitably driving gold out of the country
aud leading us to all the evils of a fluc-
tuating and therefore dishonest currency
based upon silver alone. The Republi¬
can Party cannot take any effective steps
toward repealing the bill, for the silver
men are very likely if their bouuty is
stopped to so vote that the bounties of
the McKinley bill will stop also,
The abuses of the pension system fur-
nish another apt illustration of the evils
sure to follow such a system of legisla-
tioQ - If Congress was to levy taxes upon
the people to confer bouties upon certain
classes of manufacturers, it was very na-
tural that the pension agents should also
3 oiQ haaJa to increase their fees by an
indiscriminate granting of pensions. The
result is that nearly a generation after
the close of the war there is a steady in-
crease of the vast sums passing through
the pension agents’ hands, until now the
totaUamount staggers belief, and has be-
come of itself a very serious burden upon
the Treasury. From the day of Lee’s
surrender until now no single voice has
ever beea raised against the most gen-
erous provision for every person who had
aa Y just claim upon the gratitude of the
country; but surely there is neither rea-
son nor justice in legislation which de-
stroys all distinction between the dis-
charge of duty and the shirking of it,
between loyal service and desertion of
the colors, between wounds received in
battle and diseases contracted in the pur-
suits of peace.
There is still another great and in¬
creasing evil chiefly traceable, in my
opinion, to the maintenance of an exces-
si ve tariff since the war, and the con-
stant meddling with it to make it higher,
and that is the bringing to our shores of
those vast swarms of undesirable lmmi-
grants who degrade American labor by
their competition and threaten the sta¬
bility of institutions based upon an in¬
telligent love of country. Just as th«
duties upon imported merchandise have
been increased, so has the grade of im¬
ported labor been lowered, until now,
under the McKinley bill, there are com¬
ing here every month many thousands of
more ignorant, and therefore less de¬
sirable, laborers than ever before. It is
uot easy to exaggerate the moral evils
they are likely to inflict upon our social
order and our National life.
As the Republican Party is now defi¬
nitely committed to the policy of taxing
the people for the purpose of giving
bounties to >uch persons or interests as
can secure the necessary votes in Con¬
gtess, so the Democratic Party is now
as definitely committed to the policy of
restricting taxation to the needs of the
Government for public purposes alone,
The gulf fixed between these two poli-
cies of taxation is as wide an l deep as
can well exist between political parties,
and I ata al3 ° convince 1 that tae old
causes iu whica I am interested cannot
hope for success until the avowed policy
pf the Republican Party on this subject
overthrown,
Until then the right of each State to
control elections within its borders will
not be secure. Until then there is no
prospect of our enjoying the single and
standard ol vaitis wbicti otiicr civ -
itized and commercial Nations possess.
Until then there is no hope of placing
. , ae re, j.i .
el t ner p-nsion sys m or
Tl ja °‘ imni.gra.,on. a P oa a aa
proper oasts. a u en ae p n c: -
tl iridescent ?° ° 0 “ r .P 01 !f 3 wnicn . v? ig n , iD p e epuo hr i-
ream
can au.aority as ec are. i mus a-
^ays remaiC. a 1 -eu any pre en< e
reiorm of tne civil service mus prove,
asuhasprove r 13 ia ^ lour yeats* a
de usion an a snare.
And until then even ba'lot reform, the
best help yet di-overel to lioaes; ele:-
lioas, and Arj.idy threatens i wit i over-
to row by tie Republican managers in
-Maine, Vermont, and Indiana, must
snare the s i ne fate oi betrayal ia tae
house of its pretended friends. AH these
causes are, hi the very nature of things,
the relentless foes of a system of govern¬
ment by bounties to favored interests,
aud such a system is their relentless foe.
As I believe, for the reasons I have
given, that the true welfare of the coun¬
try would be promoted by Mr. Cleve¬
land's election, it is my duty to vote for
him, and as I recall the capacity, the
fidelity, aud the courage with which he
has heretofore discharged every public
trust committed to him, the duty be¬
comes a pleasure. Sincerely yours,
Wayne MacVeaqh.
What Shall the Answers Be? ”
Here are some questions that Demo¬
crats can ask their protectionists friends
when discussing the tariff question
during this campaign:
Are not the wages m free trade
England higher than in any of the pro*
tectefi countries of Europe?
Have not wages in this country always
been higher than in England since the
Mayflower landed.
Were not American wages in ISfiU,
when we had a revenue tariff, higher in
proportion to those of England than
they are now.
Are uot wages as a rule lowest in the
countries with the highest tariff, liko
Russia, Mexico and China, where foreign
trade is restricted as far as possible.
Di 1 not the farmers own a good deal
bigger share of the wealth of the coun¬
try m 1810 than they do now?
Why have wheat and wool been
dropping in pries since the adoption of
his bill?
Wnat good do the duties on wheat
and wool do the farmer?
Why has the price of cotton declined
.one-half in the last year or two?
Why were our exports of tinware to
Canada reduced from $75,111) in 1890
to $10 671 in 1S91?
1; t iero are 285,000 men in New
York State woo have had their wages
raised by the McKinley bill, why is it
that none of them can be found to
acknowledge it?
Just notice how your protectionist
friend will wiggle to evade the ques¬
tion.— Utica Observer.
Whicli Horn?
Every protection paradox presents a
sharp horned dilemma.
If the tariff is not a tax how can it
produce revenue?
If taxing an article tends to make it
cheaper ho w does it enable the manufac¬
turer to pay higher wages?
If the tariff has raised wages, thu3
adding to the co3t of production, how
can prices be lower?
Wnea the price of farm produce went
up under .McKiuleyism, how could the
cost of living go down? Now that th»>
price of foodstuffs is going down is the
cost of living rising again?
If our imports have increased, as the
protectionists now boast, how has the
tariff secured the home market co our
manufacturers or protected wage earners
against the competition of pauper labor
abroad?
If our manufactures can, as the sta¬
tistics show, produce many staple ar¬
ticles more cheaply than they can bo
made abroad why do they need a high
tariff?
If high tariffs make high wages why
are wages in Germany and in France so
much lower than in England?
Finally, as we have often asked with¬
out an answer, if the foreigner pays the
duty why did McKinley leave the Treas¬
ury so short of money?
These questions present several inter-
ssting dilemmas. Which horn of them
will the protectionists choose?—New
York World.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Developments for the
Past Week.
The iron market is in a more favorable con
edition, with increased demand for the output’
An advance of 50 cents per ton is reported in
the pr oe of pig iron, and 8finks in hand are
being drawn upon. All tho southern foundries
are running with four exceptions, and ar¬
rangements are being made to put several new
ones into blast. The textile mills through¬
out the south are busy with orders at satisfac¬
tory- prices. The cotton mill burned at Atheus,
Ga-, is to be at once rebuilt on a larger scale.
The condition of business is fairly good, and
trade is inerea-dng as the cotton crop is brought
to market. The week has been favorable for
cotton previous picking, but no the change is made from
of reports as to quantity and qua itv
the crop.
Thirty-six new industries were established or
incorp six rated during the week, together with
enlargements of manufactories, and eight¬
een important new buildings- Among the new
industries repor ed are brick works at Went
End, Va., a §490,000 car malting Greensboro, plant at
Houston. Texa-, and o heri at N.
C., aud Lexington, Ky,, a cigar factory at
Thomasville, Ga., and an electrical company
at Hc- .rne, Texas. FI uring mills are to be
built at Paris, Ark., Burlington, N. O., Hutch¬
ins and Q teeu Citv, Texa-. and a $50,000 mill
and elevato a Quanah, Texas. A $50,000 ice
and cold .-toragfe c unpany has been chartered
at ( ovington, Ky., a ioiling mil is to built at
Greensboro, N. C., a safe and lock factory at
Birmingham, Ala., and a mill aud gin factory
at Fort Smith, Ark. A moss factory is repor¬
ted at Brunswick. Ga., a $100,000 cotton mill
at Sandersvi le, Ga., a kniuing m il at New
Berne, N. C., and a woolen mill at Bloomfield,
La.
A tobacco factory, is rep -rted at Louisville,
Ky., and one at Reidsville, N. C., birrell fac-
fi ri-s at Bc-irue, Ark., and Gainesville, Ga.,
raw and planiDg mills a: Man.esvillc, Ala-,
Greenfield Term., Bmkeville, Va., and Addi-
8.>n. W. Va.,and a £100.000 varieiy w.rks at
Camden, Ark.
The enla: gmc-nts for the week include elec-
:r.< al vr rksat Parkersburg,W. Va , paper mills
at Oik Cliff, Texas saw m l s at Florence, Ala
and Gienwood, N. C.. and quarrying plants at
Algood, 8. C., and Philadelphia, Tenn.,
Among the new bu Wing- reporter are business-
hou-es ot Oeda. F:a., LomsvilD, Ky., Wil¬
mington, N. C., Chattanooga. Tenu., Lynch
burg, Va., and Tyler Tt xas, churches at Shelby-
viile, Kv., and Culpepper, Va.. a factory at
Tyler, Texan, a flouting mill at Culpepper,
Va., a jail at 8:ar City, Ark., and an office
In; tiding at TiiomasviLle, Ga.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The pension agency in Topeka is the
largest in the country. It pays out an¬
nually $15,000,000 to the veterans of
j Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado. ,
NUMBER 42.
RICHMOND X DfiNVlLLE R R I*
!•’. IV. IIuitlefeoprr and lit-iiliin I'o.tor
ltocHVcr-.
Atldcti and Charlotte Air-Lhe DivUon,
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
_Trains, in Effect Oct. 16, (892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 33. i No, 10. No. 12
1 AS THUS TIMM. Daily, j Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E. i.) 1 W i>m S‘5SS8ir.SSSS§iS£S5g^£SSglagSSS2S|g«S£g lliilliilliitifliliiiliSillIII *
(.’haniblee . ... ' -iOain
Norcross. ... • *
Duluth...... _ j .... 10 -- Olain
Hmvanee...... 1 » 1 ikun
Buford........ tr. •-8bu>
Flow ry Brandi 3-. 1 .’am
GauiC'Ville.....I 2 22 pin ill 10 ( 3.uii
Lula........ i 2 4 ij>ni;i: 10 27am
Belli.-n........ 10 30am
Cornelia...... ! 10 51a:u
Mt. Ai y......j 10 55am
Toecoa.. ......j j i i 10am
Westmin-ier ... 1« 56am
Seneca ........ 12 15pm
Easleys........j Central....... 1 20pm
Greenville..... v-%
5 24 pm tv, ? >pm
Greers.........| Wellford.......i tc •ir.p.-'i
Spartanburcr... W O') i 'in
Clifton........ 0 17 pm 4 Oi 20pm
Cowpens......j j 53pm
Gaffney....... 4 u
Blacksburg..... j 20pm
Grover.........I, 7 06 pm ig 37 pm
Iving’-i Mount’n 4. 46pm
Gastona..... . »i
Lowell........ • • pm
Bellemout..... ^ 3 < | ill
Ar. Charlotte..... i ... 6 m
6’ 20 pin Mil r. 10pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. :i, No. 9,
Daily. Daily. ; Daily.
— -
Lv. Belli Charlotte...... mont..... 9 45 am | 2 1 50 10 pm 2 2 20 43 am
....... pm am
Lowell......... .......I 2 19 pm 2 53 am
Gastonia....... .......[ 2 30 pm 3 Of am
Gtovi King’s Mouiit’n ■" 2 53 pm 3 28 a til
r......... 3 07 pm 3 44 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg ... 10 56 am | 3 16 pm pm! 3 -‘>4 12 am
Cowpens ........j 3 33 4 am
...... ........j 3 58pm! 4 40am
Clifton........ ........ 1 4 01 pm i 4 45 a m
Spartanburg... W Ilford........ 11 43 am I is pm 5 00 »m
Greers......... ........ 1 1 38 pin! i 5 23 42 am
........ i 54 pm 5 am
Grenville...... 12 36 pm 5 24 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... Central........ j i 5 6 45 53 pm 6 7 38 :0 am
pm m
Seucea......... ........I 711 pm 7 58 am
Westminster.... .......; .......! 7 30 pm 8 1 7 am
Toccoa........ .......j 8 06 pm I 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... 8 37 pm 9 30 am
Cornelia....... Bellton........ .......■’ .......j 8 41 07 pm! 9 33 am
9 pm 9 58 am
Lula.......... Gainesville..... 3 3 22 41 pm pni| 9 09 pmllO 1C 00 am
9 35 pm 28 am
Flowery Buford........ Branch .......| 9 55 07 pm!10 1 48 02 am
......j 10 23pmjil pm: i am
Smvanee....... .......!10 .......j 15aut
Duluth........ 10 34 pm; 11 25 pm
Norcross...... ....... 1 10 45 pm 11 37 am
Chamblee...... .......110 57 pu pm! II 49 am
Ar. Atlinta (E. T.) 5 05pmlll 30 12 25pm
Additional trains N<>s. 17 aril 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Snnrtav, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 ]> in, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. I’eturn-
ing. leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 .A>
a m.
Between Lula and Ath us—No. 11 daily, ex-*
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 9 15 p
m, and 10 35a m, arrive Athens 11 00 p in and
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. It)
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daisy, 7 15 pm
and 8 07 a m, arrive Lula 8 55 p in and 9 50
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elherton—Nos. 63 and 9
daily, except Sundav, leave Toccoa 7 00am
and 11 25am arrive Elherton 10 5<> a in and
220jp m. Returning,No. 62 and 12 daily < xcept
Sunday, leaver Elherton 4 00 p m and 6 00 a m.
and arrives Toccoa 7 35 p m and 8 45 a m.
Nos. 9and 10Pullman sleeper between Atlan¬
ta and New York. Nos. 37 and •’•8 Washington
and Southwestern Vestibnled I.i i it» d, between
Atlanta and Washington. Through Pu Iman
sleepers between New York and New Orle n-,
also between Washington and Memphis, vi a As¬
lant i and Birmingham. Sleeper 1
Nos. 11 and 12—Pullman Buffet e-
tween Washington and Atlanta.uni'ing between
D.inv lie and Greensboro with Pullman sleeper
to and from Portsmouth and Norfolk.
For dcadc-d infornia'km as t> local and
thiougli timetables, rates and Pullman sleeping
ear reservations, confer with local agems or ad¬
dress
W. A. TURK. S. H. HARDWICK.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’f. Ass’t.G nl.Pass. Ag’t.
Wa-h ngt -n. D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent Atlanta, Ga.
W. II. GREEN. t-OL. H ASS,
Gen’l Manag- r. Tr flic Manager, C.
Washington, D. C. Washington, D.
LEWIS DAVIS,
\T fOPNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber-
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit. and Frank! n and Bunks of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all busii ess entrusted*to h’in
The collection of debts will hav - sp* e
ia! Htte jUon.
TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER.
A Fearful Wreck in Which Five Men
and Fvle Race Horses are Killed.
A Boston express freight, which left
New London, Conn., Friday morning at
5:40 o'clock collided with a Brattlcboro
freight bound south, at Harrison’s land¬
ing on the New London Northern rail¬
road. The engines came t -gether head¬
long and a frightful wreck was the result.
The first car of the south-bound train
contained five horses bound for races at
Groton. Four of the five men in charge
of the horses were killed outright and
one was so fearfully injured that he died
in a few minutes. The five race horses were
also killed. None of the train bands suf¬
fered injury other than that sustained in
jumping from the trains. Both engineers
and firemen saw a collision coul 1 not be
averted and after shutting off the steam
they leaped irons their machines, The
scene at the point where the * reck oc¬
curred is one of fearful destruction. I he
dispatcher at Norwich is declared to bo
the person at fault and he has been
placed under arrest by the coroner.
WORK OF BAD BOYS.
They Secure Giant Powder and Blow
Up a House.
At Leadviile, Col., Monday the thir-
teen year-old son of Herman Trueman
and his chum, named Davis, dug a hole
in Trueman’s yard and from the bottom
ran two small tunnels under the house.
They called it their mine. Young True¬
man purloined between two and three
hundred dollars from his father, purchas¬ his
ed some giant powder and blew fa¬
ther’s house up. The father and mother
were badly injured. The town was badly
shaken up for a radius of several blocks
and many minor casualties occurred.
The boys cannot be found and indica¬
tions are that they were blown to atoms.