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VOLUME V.
Fl-XTOYS FACTS.
A RtFLY TO THE CONSTITUTION’S
CHARGE OF SLANDER.
The Docter Ibnterato* His Charge*
Againat Ojn. Gordon and Forc
ibly States that Telling
“Truth i* not Slander. *'
Near CiitTEUsvibiiK, G.v., June 7.
Editors CoJstitution: I wn* surprised
< n reading yesterday’s Oonslitutiou to
find you had resolved to attack me be
fore you even allowed yonr readers to
exa* line into my statements, wliich you
denominate slander. Y m make an un
qualified charge, and if you are correct
I should be punishable under the law.
If you are not correct you have slander
ed me. I demanded a hearing in the
same columns in wliich the attack ap
peared. Tiie issue is now between you
and myself. Gen. G-ivdou his deliber
ale'y iguored the plain, unvarnished
charges against his politic and character.
He endeavors to silence criticism by call
ing them slanders, although ho knows
lie cannot answer and confess guilt
by siloncs. But it is different with you.
You and I are responsible to the public,
and if you have spoken the truth I de
serve condemnation. If I have spoken
the truth you owe me proper amends. I
have no fear of the result, and you can
not deprive me of a hearing in your
columns without placing yourself in the
attitude of a malicious and unjust parti
san, upon whose head such injustice
must recoil.
I would first remind you that Mr. Hill
is dead. You aud Go leral Gordon have
dragged his name into this canvass
when he is not alive to reply for himself.
My newspaper controversy with Mr.
Hill was settled up in his lifetime; I
suppose satisfactorily to himself, as he
made no reply to my last letter on the
subject. You are incorrect in saying I
assaulted him when he was sick. I have
Mr. Grady’s interview with Mr. Hill be
fore me, in which he is authorized to
say for Mr. Hill that he was in the finest
heulte aud spirits, anil determined to at
tack me all over Georgia as endeavoring
to “Africanize.the State." I defended
myself promptly from the assault which
Hon. A. H. Stephens denominated as a
most unwise aud unjust charge. These
are facts , and it is late in the day for
you to rise up and defend Mr. Hill,
where he decliud to dtf j id himself eith
er in persou or by proxy.
You are iucorrect in s.tyiug I pursued
bis good name with hatred or revenge.
When his son, Ch irlei Hill, was a candi
date before the Legislature for his pres
ent office, my vote and influence would
h ivo defeated him, yet I cut it for him.
His brother thanked me on the spot, and
gave expression to some kind feelings
unnecessary to mention.
Remend e Mr. Hill is deid. General
Gordon used bis monument and the ex
orcises at which Mr. Davis was peseut
fir an unholy purpose, and I am well
enough acquainted with Mr. Hill’s
opinion of General Gordon, in years gone
by, to say lie would have been as indig
nant at the effort of General Gordon as
was Mr. Davis when he came fully
acquainted with the methods employed
by General Gordon’s friends in this cam
paign, when he was informed of their
extent imd the purpose for which his
visit to Georgia was used by them. Noth
ing escapes General Gordon, however.
He appeared as chief mourner at Mr.
Stephens’s funeral, when the latter
wrote as late as September, 188), that
General Gordon was “hollow bear ted,
deceitful, unprincipled, dishonorable
a al unreliable in every way." I have the
letter.
Hu appeared at General Grant’s fu
neral as chief mourner, with the infa
mous Belmont coal mine swindle still
hanging over him and a matter of open
discussion iu the courts of New York
City. You cannot wonder, then, that
he is now ready to ride mtu some office
on Mr. Hill’s fame, although Mr. Hill
himself informed me of the slanderous
letters on his private character written
by General Gordon to members of the
Legislature to defeat Mr. Hill f>r the
Semite. Mr. Grady has not forgotten
hia own denunciation of General Gordon
up>u this matter, which occurred iu
Washington directly after Mr. Hill's
election, and which wolds were noted,
at the time, by other persons as well as
myself.
When you go behind dead men to at
tack me, 1 can give you a Boland for
every Oliver, but you shall always be the
first to inaugurate such a tight, and I
charge you again to remember, that Mr.
Hill is dead.
NOW FOB GENERAL GORDON.
As to General Gordon, I have made uo
statement without the proof. That you
may he aide to defend him if you call,
since lie tads to defend himself, I will r~
•tate the charges here, and unless you can
successfully refute them, you will stand
convicted before the people of the offense
charged by you upon myself.
I have charged, and shall continue to
charge, that General Gordon introduced a
bill into the Forty-fourth Congress on the
13th of January, 1877, to antagonize the
Thurman funding bill, which bill ho ad
vocated in a speech before the Senate.
I charge that C. P. Huntington, presi
dent of the Central Pacific railroad, called
that bill introduced by Gordon *‘onr bfl 1 ,”
and wrote to Colton, hi* California part
ner, that he could pass that bill with
$200,000. He did not pass it, thank God •
He wrote to Colton two days after the
Forty-fifth Congress convened, on March
7th, 1877, that his bill W’as in better shape
to pass than ever before, as he stayed two
ilays in Washington fining up the Senate
committee on railroads. On the 10th of
March he wrote to Colton that “Ton*
Scott had succeeded in putting one of his
men off and in putting one of Scott’s men
on.’’ “Gordon, of Georgia, was put off
and Bogy, of Missouri, was put on."
I charge General Gordon with being
ITnutington’s “man," because lie intro
duced Huntington’s bill, and because
Huntington calls him “his man”—and
General Gordon does not deny it.
The truth is not slander, Mr. Editor,'
aud the liuth has been told if the Con
gressional Record nd C. P. Huntington
are to be be lie veil.
I charge General Gordon with endeav
oring to decoy t irty Southern Congress
men into the toils of Huntington, who
said that trip would cost the railroad
SIO,OOO.
1 charge General Gordon with voting
against the Thurman funding bill, when
every member ol the House of Repre
sentatives voted for it, but Ben Butler
and Mr. Lynde, of Wisconsin, S. S. Cox
in a speech that day said the railroad
kings boasted “our best Senators have
their price."
Colonel Printup and Judge Underwood
told me General Gordon was denounced
in a hotel dining room as a man wko had
been bought by the railroads, for the
price stated, while they were visiting
Washington in the spring of 1878. Ask
them if these things were not so discussed
in their hearing at that time.
I charge General Gordon with endeav
oring to trade with Stanley Mathews and
Charles Foster after il-tye* and Tilden’s
canvass for the Presidency was closed. I
The letters written by those gentlemen to
General Gordon and John Young Brown
were published in the Constitution by
authority of Senator Joseph E. Brown in
the year 1877. Governor Brown derided |
General Gordon; he held him up to pub
lic scorn, and he proved as true what
General Gordon then called a slander,
just as l have proved to be true, what you
now call slanders.
I charge General Gordon with beiug a
convict lessee, on the original contract !
bond, responsible now to the State, and as
the man who signed a contract witli Ed
ward Cox, Gordon to furnish sixty con
victs for eight years, for which he was to |
receive fifty bales of cotton as rental. I
refer to the Supreme Court records for
the proof. Ilis statement to the Working
World that his name was “never men
tioned in the partnership,” I prove to be
unqualifiedly false, by the same authority.
Truth is not slander, Mr. Editor.
I Charge Gen. Gordon with leaving left
the United Status Senate, us he has said,
to accept $14,000 annually, as general
counsel for Victor Newcomb, who, at that
time, was ordering Governor Brown to
charpe every man who received goods that
were transported by the Western A Atlan
tic railroad three eeuts per hundred
pounds extra, if those goods were shipped
from Cincinnati, I charge General Gor
j don with beiug in the employ of Victor
j Newcomb, whose effort was to control
the lease shares of the State road, iu liis
ow n interest, in opea defiance of the lease
law—and while Victor Newcomb was
thus seeking to defeat the wall of the
people of Georgia, and to control the
State road, John B. Gordon was doing
some work for Victor Newcomb, for
which Gordon was to receive twice the
salary that the lessees of the State road
pay to Governor Brown. Now I demaud
1 proof iu refutation of these charges, from
the Constitution, which has entered the
right, ami denounced me as a slanderer.
Respectfully, W. H. Felton.
srcc ESSII L ECONOMY.
It is really worth while for the wage
worker to save, although tile process
lias become so unfashionable among men
of fixed incomes that to follow it is re
garded almost as a mark of eccentricity.
The path to influence uud independence
for the toiler Logins aud steadily follows
mi the Hue of small economies applied
in daily life. Ten years ago, ia a Penn
sylvania manufacturing town, a machin
ist went home one evening and said to
his wife: “I am tired of this work for
others, a:ul we’ll turn over anew,
I get three dollars a day. Now we will
put away ten dollars a week, aud live
on the rest. If we can’t live on it, we’ll
staryo ou it.” He carried out his deter
mination. In lwo years he had one
thousand dollars iu the bank. With this
he began business for himself iu u small
way. Capital was attracted by his energy
and now he is at the head of oue of the
largest mauuf cturiug concerns in h
section, rich, prosperous aud respected.
What Ibis man did was nothing of su- |
preine difficulty. A strong, resolute will
aid a fixed purpose were all that were
needed after his determination became
fixed. Why should not such an example
attract the attention of other wag -
Workers, equally able Hi.d of like meu- i
tal qualities? It is only tbe beginning
that cost ; after that the task of aelf-efeva
tion becomes easier with each day.— !
Philadelphia Rect >rd.
♦ ♦ < ■
A phenomenal base ball pitcher, who
struck out twenty-seven men in a recent
game, says the secret of curve pitching
c in b.‘ learned by watching a woman try
ing to hh a hen with a at me.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 188(5.
M i 11-I*4*l uN|h ISM..
Rain, rain. Once more have our good
tr ends been disappointed m tbe way of
picnics. But do not be dfecouraged. The
! Sabbath school cause is a glorious one.
IlilMioroagh has no telephone but its
good jieople certainly understand uiug
the halloophone. It seems to answer tbe
purpose as well.
Oh, my good triends, don't deprive,
yourselves of hearing a good sermon or
lecture because you cannot huv anew
hat to wear. Better have something in
the head worth having than *ll oi. top of
it.
The Ire atboo) terms to be a great
prop with some people. They send to
school only every nine months, when
there is a general stampede for four or
live w.eks, tea. hers getting the money,
pupils not much benefit ted.
The difference betweeu tweedlelum
and tweedledee is this: Tweedledum i*
prosperity when fawning sycophants ls>w
be tore you. Tweed ledee is adversity
when old friends and relatives never
know you.
We Hillsborougbites are always glad
to see a letter from the Tattler. His let
ters are sound. No insipid nousema
about the Tattler.
That hump on the camel’* back geta no
better fast. Vic.
Pine Lug S|linDr.
More hydrophobia.
Mr. A. C. Shelton, of the firm cf Shel
ton & Adair, killed under their storehouse
one day last week a supposed-to-ba mail
dog.
Two of our merchant* complaining
of being over cropped. They hav* but
one garden each over which to exercise
their physical abilities.
Our merchant* don’t complain of being
overrun with trade; neither do our black
smith* murmur because they have too
much work to do.
We hear much said about Sunday
schoals and their improvement, Tbe Pine
Log school has already takan step iu the
direction of attending the Bartow grand
rally in July next. Hope all the schools
iu the county will take an interest iu this
great work.
There is being much said about our
camp-meeting w hich will perhaps embrace
tbe third Sunday in August next. We bear
of families from many quarters who say
they are coming. We think we utter the
sentiment of this community when we
say come one, come all. Coir.e in the
spirit of Elijah’s God. It has been a long
time tince the camp fires have been
raised around old Pine Log, so let every
body read the eighteenth chapter ol First
Kings. Read and then come. Adio*.
9|M*rkt trout tl lark C'urui‘,
MB. Editor : As nothing has appeared
iu tbe Amriicax from the “Dark Corner,”
1 propose to let the good people of the
county know that we are coming up to
the light.
A few months since Mr. M. B. Tuggle
organized a Sunday school at Ligon’s
Chapel, now called Iron Hill, in which
he uses the Story of the Bible a* a text
book. It has awakened considerable in
terest. There are now about 70 or 80
name* on tbe roll w ith an average attend
ance of 35 to 50
The farmers are quite busy with plow'
and hoe trying to kill Gen. Green, who
seems to advance with an energy charac
teristic of an invading foe.
A flue rain fell Monday. It gave the
railroaders a chance to get hand* to move
in the tracks on Tuesday.
Mr. R. L. Griffin has put up a corn
mill at his gin. It doe* good work, and
makes excellent meal. He grind* ou
Saturday*. It i* a much needed enter
prise.
Rev. Mr. Mcßride preached an excellent
sermon at Macedonia ou tbe filth Sunday.
Mr. Dallas Genie* ha* movod Irwin Mr.
Dodd’s over to Mr. Marion Martiu’a, oi
near there, in order to be nearer hi* larm
work. Prior.
Kingston Data.
Mr. W. H. Golilwire, Jr., since hi* re
turn from North Carolina ha* been quite
sick, but i* now convalescing.
Mr*. R. S. Pope ha* returned from
Atlanta.
Thus. H. Cobb, of Atlanta, is visiting
friends and relative* in Kingston.
Several ol our citizens went to Carter*-
ville to the Preachers’ and Deacons’
Meeting.
Considerable excitement prevail* in our
couvmuuity over Gordon and Bacon, who
projHjee to come before the State conven
tion with the understanding that one of
them will receive the nomination lor
Governor. Jackik.
I ruui Altr*vill.
Misa’Mary E. Bibb i* visiting relative*
in South Carolina. She will spend *iue
time iu the Palmetto State.
The children were greatly disappointed
because the rain prevented the picnic a
week or two ago.
Plenty of snap bean* are on the market.
Wheat is thriving. It continues to
grow, therefore we keep in good spirit*.
Mr. Jake Sherman’s sou, Edd, was
killed last Saturday morning by a mule.
He had unhitched the inula from the
plow and started to the house when it
commenced to rain. The mule attempted
to throw him. In attempting to get off
the mule, his foot wa caught in the gear,
and he w&* bruised and kicked to death.
He was aliout 14 year* old.
Our city council has erected a itreet
lamp on church street. We would like to
see them place about six more just like A
ou Broad street.
THI S THE WOlll.il PASSES AWAY.
Like snowy lillu-s fleet and fine,
Whose fragrant course is run;
Like dew drops on tbe elegsntine,
Like frost work in the sun;
So vanish youth’s delightful dreams,
So beauty’* charms deesy;
Like blossoms strewn on sparkling streams;
Thus run* tbe world away!
Like loam upon the billows bright,
Like sunset’* gorgeous dyes,
Like moonbeams shedding silver light,
Over the jeweled ski***:
So swiftly from our vision glide
Hopes, plaus and projects gay.
Alone we roam at eventide;
Thu* runs the world away !
Of friends whom ruthless Time destroys,
We’re day by day bared ;
The speetr-a of our perished joys,
Are all the comrades left.
Love’* chain 1- broken link by link,
We sing the mournful 1 ay.
Forlorn upon life’s river brink,
Thus runs t!.e world away !
* O .
KEY. MAM OONEV.
A Pen Portrait of tie Noletl Southern
KevivalWt.
The Rev. Sam has Jones at himd wide
f i-ue as an evangelist. He Was bom iu
Chambers C unty, Ala., Oct. 15, 1847.
8 oii after, hi* parent* r moved to his
f iture home, iu Cartersville, Ga. Mr.
Jones is of eminently piou* parentage.
He adopted his father’s pi ( tension < f
law, after receiving a good education.
An accuse of animal spirits caused the
Litifre preacher to bee >uio dissipated,
aud lie sunk lower acd lower. When
he now pieuclies against intoxication,
gambling, and other dissipations lie
knows what he is talking al out.
Mr. Jones’ father, ou his dying bed,
mode a last appeal to the better man
hood of his son. His finer nature
was touched aid lie ref >rme 1. He
realized the horrors of the pit from
which he had escaped, uml therefore all
the more besought others to right. He
was intaleraiit of the >ie m of society aid
the inconsistencies of Christiana. H i
plain speaking made him many euemiev,
yet his evident sincerity gained him
high respect.
In October, 1872, Mr. Jones joined
the North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church H mill. He
remained for two or three years on
several circuits. Gradually it dawned
upon him and his friends that he could
do the most effective work as an evange
list. In 1880 Mr. Jones was api*ointed
agent of the orphans’ home of his con
ference. He soon placed it in a pros
perous condition. Ttmre ia a ruiuiudt-r
here of over a century ago, when George
Whitfield went up and down the land
preaching and raising funds for his
orphan home in Georgia.
Mr. Jones then extended his field.
After many successful meetings in va
rious Southern States, he attracted the
attention of the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
who had him to conduct a revival at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle. After the labor in
the South, Mr. Jones spent a mouth in
St. Louis recently. He is engaged for
mouths ahead.
Mr. Jones ia tall and rather good
looking. He is delicate in speech,
and is something of an orator. Although
he sometimes indulges in slang to drive
home truth, he is the muster of the
speech of the common people. He is
witty, Rare, is tic, humorous, pathetic,
whenever he desirwa to lie. To ciowu
all, he is for ever iif earnest, always
persuasive and never looses the ohjici
of his discourse to save souls.
Mr. Jones has met with great success.
Hi* meetings produce intense interests
He is everywhere indorsed by leading
orthodox ministers. In the South he
has been provided with an immense tent,
iu which thousand* osn be seated.
About 1872 Mr. Joiies’ was married to
Mi**. Laura McElwait), of Emiuei.ee,
Ky.
Many of Mr. Jouea’ sayings are of
tbe kind to remain iu the memory, aud
not a few are clear-cut gems of counsel.
He may l>e reck lean of speech, but he in
some way manages to make a good mai y
center shots. Here is some of Sam’s
sayings:
There is just as much re ligion in laugh
ing us in crying.
I have never heard of n man getting
up in meeting anywhere and confes
sing that he was selfish ii avaricious.
An obedience that dares to go, that
dares to antler, and dares to do. That
is what we want.
Real liquor and Christianity won’t stay
in the same hide at the same time.
I like aoiue folks that have got some
laugh in them. There is nothing to be
don* with a dead crowd.
Oue preacher told me that lie got
down ou his knees oue evening and
prayed to heaven, to God Almighty, to j
straighten out Brother Jones aud change
him iu a few things, and that he Would
ba good preacher if that could be dom ,
He pruytd until about sundown, and got
off b knees, and the Lord seemed t
•ay to him: “Well, I heard your pray, r i
for Joues, and if I waa to take all these
things away from him he would be i o
more aoc >unt than you are." He said it
liked to have scared him to death, and
he has never prayed ou that Hue since.—
8t Louis Globe-Democrat
We observe an article in an exchange
headed “Money in Chickens. There may
be uvuey m chickens, too, but we always
understood it was the goose that laid tL*
goldcu egg.—Somerville Journal. j
TIIH HEAYKNLY ROAD.
A LIT ILE GIRLS TRIP ON THE
GOSPEL rrt MN.
Quotation*,from ll#r Dead A other Fay
Her Fare—The Effect Her Btc r/
Had Upon the Conductor.
In traveling we often meet w ith persons
of different nationalities and languages.
We also meet with incidents ot various
character, some sorrow fill, ami otheis
joytttl and instructive. One < f the latter,
1 witnessed recently, while traveling upon
i the curs. The train was going West, and
the time was evening. At a station, a
li'tle girl came aboard with a little budget
under her arm. Bhe came into the car
and deliberately took a seat. She then
began an eager scrutiny of laces; but all
were strange to her. She appeared
weary, and setting her budget fora pillow
she prepared to try to procure a little
sleep. Soon tbe conductor came along
gathering tickets and fares. Observing
him, she asked if she might lie there.
I The gentlemanly conductor replied that
she might, and then kindly asked for her
tiekit. She informed him she had none,
when Ik** following convention ensued.
| Said the conductor, “Where are you
going?” She answered, “1 am going to
heaven.’’ He asked again, “Who pays
your fare?" She then said, “Mister does
this railroad lead to heaven, aud does
Jesus travel on it?” He answered, “I
think not. Why do you think so?" “Why,
sir, liefore my mamma died she used to
sing to of a heavenly railroad, and
that He paid the fare for everybody, and
the train stopped at every station to take
| people on board ; but my mamma jion’t
sing to me any more. Nobody sings to
me now, aud 1 thought 1 would take the
cars and go to mamma. Mister, do you
sing to your little girl about heaven? You
have a little girl, haven’t you?"
He replied, “No, my little dear, I have
no little girl now. 1 had one once, but
she died some time ago, and w r ent to
heaven.” Again she asked, “Did *he go
over this railroad, aud are y >u going to
see her now?”
By this lime every person in the coach
wa upon his feet, and most of them were
weeping. To attempt to de.-cribe what I
witnessed is almost futile. Some said (
“God bias* the little girl." Hearing some
sty that she was an angel, the little girl
earnestly replied, “Yi s, my mamma used
to say that I would be an angel some
time.”
Addressing herself once more to the
conductor, vhe asked him, “I)o yon love
Jesus? I do; and if you love Him, lie
will let you ride to heaven on this rail
road. lam going there, and I wish you
would go with me. I know Jesus w ill
let me into heaven when I get there, and
He will lit you in too, and everybody
who will ride on Ilis railroad —yes, all
these people. Wouldn’t you like to see
heaven and Jesus and your little girl?”
These words so innocently and pathet
ically uttered, brought a great gush of
tears from all eyes, but most profusely
from the eyes of the conductor. Borne
who were traveling on the heavenly rail
road shouted aloud for joy. She now
asked the conductor, “Mister, may 1 He
here till we get to heaven?” He an
swered, “yes, dear, yes.” She then asked
“Will you wake me up then, so that I
can see my mamma, your little girl and
Jesu?? for I want to see ’em all.” The
answer came in broken accents, but in
i words very tenderly spoken. “Yes, dear
angel, yes, God bless you.” “Amen!”
was sobbed by more than a score of
voices.
Turning her eyes upon the conductor,
she interiogated him again, “What shall
I tell your little girl when I see tier?
Shall 1?” This brought a fresh tlood ot
tears from alt present, and the conductor
kneeled by her side, embraced her, and
wept the reply he could not utter. At
this juncture the brakeuian called out,
“II a.” The conductor arose and re
quested him to attend to his (the con
ductor’s) duty at the station, for he was
engaged. That was a precious place. I
thank God that I was a witness to this
scene; but I was sorry that at thin point I
was obliged to leave the train .
Hl* FIRST CASE.
A Justice of the Peace of Missaukee
county, Michigan, delivered the following
charge to the jury iu the trial of his first
case: “Gentlemen of th jury, charging a
jury is anew business to me, as this is my
first Case. You have heard all the ev
idence* as well as myself, and you have
also heard what the counsel for the plaint
iff hs Void you. If you believe it your
verdict will be for the plaintiff", but if, on
the other hand, you believe what the
counsel for the defendant has told you,
your verdict will be for the defendant.
But, if you are lika me, and don’t believe
what either of them bus said, then 1 11 be
d—dill know what you’ll do. Consta
ble, take charge of the jury.” The jury
Win soon hung.
“Do you know of any mitigating cir
cumstances in your case?” said a Texas
justice to Sam Jolmsing, accused of steal
ing.
“Lemme off dis time.”
“Is it your first offense V
“Fust offense, sah.”
“How did you manage to get the chick
en* *o cleverly without disturbing the
dog that was iu the yard ?”
“Dat come* from practice, boss," said
Bam, who felt flatter and by the remarks of
the court.
ONLY A TItAMP
The newspaper sad:
“The m wiling train stir.ee an un
known trump near the creek, killing him
instantly. The man had on a striped
shirt, faded tiousem, heavy l>oo!s, blue
overalls, brown I>l- use, and a gray ves\
In liis hand lie carried it red hanker
chief, iu which was seme bread and a
bunch of grapes. Tn liis pixikrt was a
letter addressed, 'Dear Father,’ and
signed ‘Y inrson,’ but with neither name
nor address.”
Only a hump. Out in this wide work!
alone. All his earthly jmssefsions tied
up in a liunkercliief. Who was he? No
one knows. But perhaps liis h-> ut was
warm—a kind ui.iniv heart that beat
within his ragged vest. II nv those
harsh words must pierce the heart < f the
poor old mother, il' she rend* tbeiu.
Doubtless, when lie was a tiny babe, u itli
liis chubby htlie legs and liis dimpled
toes, and his small laughing m< nth. and
all the physical charms < f babyhood, no
one would have looked into the future
and said: “He isn’t worth raw-ine-, he’Jl
be ‘only a tramp.’ ” No, not (me. At and
the proud young mother, as she gazed
on her darling baby boy, w uld she
think for a moment that when lie grew
up into a great, strong man that he
would be “only a tramp?” Surely not.
“In his lKieket was a letter.” “Dear
Father,” it begun. What a wealth of
love iu those two simple words, “Dear
Fatliei!” Ah, but lie loved the old
father, the dear father. With liis lot in
life but that of a wanderer upon the face
of the earth, lie remenioei id Hie “dear
father." How, perhaps, he pictured
home iu liis mind. How lie saw his
mother and father seated at the table in
the cottage where he left them years be
fore. How the poor fellow' looked out
into the darkness, over miles and miles
of green, fertile fields, and saw in the
fur away home, oue mail in all the world
whom he could call friend. Hi father,
nay, more, his dear father. Ob, if tbe
poor tramp’s heart could but express the
love and reverence concealed in those
words.
And the letter was signed, “Your
8 ui.’’ I think 1 can read the meauiu.*
of those words. They spoke to the dear
father as a child of God crying aloud to
the heavenly parent. “Your Sou!” Yes,
I your son, not ashamed to lift up liis f ce
and proclaim to the world that; notwith
siandiii.: his rags and tatters, he wasr
“yourson,” Ah, but there are othe
fathers who look out over the wide world
iu the twilight of peace and hapiuess.
They Have, perhaps, a son somewhere
iu an unknown part of the world. “Your
son.” Yes, “dear futhei,” perhaps
even now lie is hungry and thirsty.
Nay, more; even now yonr son may lie
lying still iu death, will) the words
“Dear Father', clinging to bis closed
lips. May be “yonr son” H “only n
trump,” God knows. Cdl back yur
wayward boy, “Dear Father.” Your
son has u manly heart. He loves his
father, you love your sou. May the
sweet love of heaven hold you closer.
“Dear Father,” “YAur sou,, is “o ily
a tramp,” but you love vour darling boy,
and he loves your gray hair and wrink
led brow. “Dear Fitber,”. keep
“Youi Sou” by yonr side, cling to him;
and son, stay by your father. Leave
the wide world to itself. There i*
enough vice and misery there. Even if
you are “only a tramp,” remain at
home—home, the garden spot of your
lifetime. Stay by your “Dear Father,’
and bring sunshine ami gladness to him
in his declining years. Your life will ne
the better for it. Your bread aid
cheese will taste all the sweeter. Yonr
heart will be softer, your hands cleaner,
your soul purer. You are “only a
tramp,” but God bless you.
DON’T DIVE IT 11*.
L 9 ■is a hard buttle. From the e
; die to the grave, it is a struggle. Mail
j was net created, it seems, for a bed of
roses; roses bloom by seasons; hnee
them and they loose that -charm which
! the open air giyes them. 85 > \iith our
I lives. We cannot bear too many strains,
it handicaps onr energies und gives us a
feeling of lassitude. Be bold, earnest,
\
j Hopeful—fearless iu doing the right.
The weakness of man shows itself iu
giving way to dis ipp li itm *d. Don’t
do that. Live f>r someth! ig higher,
Holder than wagging by the w tyside.
Teal* never won u victor' ; il you weep,
let it be fr joy when you h ive Won tlie
tight. There is no trial too great f>r
human endurance. (1 l luh made mm
so high, so strong, so peii'oC , that his
strength is as terrible at tile whirlwind.
Keep yourself high and strong und per
fect; live ever ou tile buoyant things of
life; look disappointment iu the face und
smile. Life is too sWeet to be fretted
away over the embers of despair. The
h -pelcr-.s man is contemptible,
Horses are not filly matured until
six years of age, nor do tliey arrive ,at
their full strength until eight years
old. I mature animals are often over
taxed and their future usefulness
injured. Young horses should be care
fully worked if they are expected to give
long years of usefulness.
It costs S2B a week to feed a circus
tiger. At th it r.ite wli it would the
monthly bouivt of u cata-mouut to,
NUMBER (i
KLA INK, LOG AN A Nil CL KVKLAN 11.
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‘lt is significant that Northern Repub
lican papers be.iu to be filled with inter
views and speculation and opinions of
leading citizens directed to whither Blaine
| would be a popular candidate tor the re
publicans to nominate in 1888. The ques
tion contains matter of supreme interest
to Gen. John A. Logan.
“t-o far as the Democrats are concerned
with Mr. C leveland as the logical and
inevitable caudidatejhe Democratic party
. will not object to a renewal of the mu fight
with the August speech as an addition.
What it did by a scratch in 1884 it will
do by an overwhelming vote in ISBB.
“Wo know that there are many Demo
crats who regard Mr. Cleveland as the
lust Democrat tlu-ir party is likely to
nominate. They will be surprised to
find, ten days before the meeting of the
next convention, with what ease they
will be able to *ay, ‘ Well, after all, per
haps it is best as il is.’
‘‘With Cleveland against the field, the
| field will enter the convention with
defeat acknowledged. This is sologi ally
; inevitable that riot even possible trickery
j in New York will prevent.
“ 1 here are Republicans who think
that their cause has grown since the last
election. They have erred in supposing
that the many differences within the
Democratic paity will nsult in a loss of
votes and in believing that the many
new issues and looseniug of old party ties
will result in benefit to them. To the
personal objections which destroyed
Blaine, and to the fatal blunder of his
LaFuyette, Indiana, speech, will be added
d.lie fact that, four years further away from
sectional and race issues, Blaine's nomi
nation will mean an inevitable recurrence
to these dead issues.
“But there is an obstacle in Blaine’s
way which lie will find it hard to sur
mount in seeking the nomination. Logan
has not only offered himself as the soldier
candidate and exponent besides of alt
bourbonism, but he has secured a suffi
cient standing fo enable him almost
certainly to defeat Blaine, although bis
own nomination may be an impossibility.
We would be glad to know that either Lo
gan or Blaine could recieve the nomina
tion. Either would make Cleveland’s re
dec tion a certainty.”
A TALK or I,ovr.
One quiet day in leafy June, when bees
and buds were all in tune, two lovers
walked beneath the moon. The night
was fair, so was the maid ; they walked
and talked beneath the shade, with none
to harm or make afraid.
Her name was Sal and his was Jim,
and he was fat and she was slim, he took
to her and she to him.
Says Jim to Sal, “By all the snakes that
squirm among the bush and brakes, I love
you better’ll buckwheat cakes.”
Says she to Jim, “Since you’ye begun it,
1 love you next to anew bonnet.”
Says Jim to Sal, “My heart y®u’ve
busted, but I have always’gals mistrusted.’’
Says Sal to Jim, “I will be true, if you
loyo me as I love you, no knife can cut
our love iu two.”
Says Jim to Sal, “Through thick and
tliin, for your true lover count me in, I’ll
court no other gal again.”
Jim leaned to Sal, Sal leaned to Jim;
his nose just touched above her chin;
four lips met—went —ahem—ahem ! An and
then —and then—and then. O, gals ! be
ware of men in June, and underneath the
silvery moon, when frogs and Junebugs
are in tune, lest you get your names in
the paper soon.
NOT ALL OOXE."
Many a picture of moving pathos ap
pears in the dark gallery of drunkenness.
We have seen but few more touching
ones than this, from the pen of Mrs. M.
A. Kidder. She describes little Benny,
the son ot a drunken father, sitting in a
room with his mother and little sister.
By looking at this sail and thoughtful
face one would have taken him to be ten
years of age, yet he was but six.
No wonder. For four years this almost
baby had been used to seeing a drunken
father go in and out of the cottage. Ha
scarcely remembers anything from him
but cruelty and abuse. But now be is
dead. The green sue! had laid on his
grave a week or so, but the effects of his
conduct had not gone w ith him.
The poor children would start with a
shudder at every uncertain step on the
walk outside, and at every hesitating
hind ujiou the latch. On tne day men
tioned Benny’s im ther was getting din
ner. “ Will my li’tlc sou go to the wood
shod, and get moth* r a few sticks to lin
i ;u boiling the kettle ?”
“I don't like to got) the woodshed,
minim*.”
“ Vliy, my son?”
“R cause there is a ptir of father’s old
boots out there, and l don’t like to see
them.”
“Why do you miud the old boots, Ben
ny, any more than the old coat and hat
upstairs?”
“Because,” said Benny, tears filling his
blue eyes, “they look as if they wanted to
kick me.”
Governor Abbott, of New r Jersey, has
signed the new Arbitration bill. It pro
vides that all disputes between employers
and employes shall be submitted to five
arbitrators —two selected by the employes
from tli; labor inspectors, two by the em
ployer, and the fifth man by the four ar
trators, the decision of this board to be
final. —Newark Register.
The best of all ways to prevent tlis
bad effects < f drouth ia persistent cul
tivation.