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Three Months for 10 Cents. SENT BY ; I*. 0. iNAMK. PATRICK HENRY. Present Situation Like That \At hich Aroused His Pat i otisin 100 Years Ago. Patrick Henry of Virginia, at a time when King George of England was en gaged in massing tho resources of liis kingdom to subjugate his American colonies and reduce the American people to slavery, immortalized his name by exclaiming, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry'was not by birth or education one of Virginia's aristocracy. He had 110 landed estate. He was emi nently a poor man. He was one of the “plain people. ’’ He was not in a uni versity sense an educated man. Unsuc -cessful in various business ventures, he was a reader of books and a student of affairs and finally became an advocate, -a lawyer, aud in that profession found his rightful place in the list of patriots of his time, and, with the stride of a giant, became the peer of Washington, Hancock, Adams, Quincy and Lee, and by his fearless courage and nnequaled eloquence called the American nation to arms in the defense of liberty and independence. On one occasion, when tho perils of his counrry were being discussed, wheu ffie shadows of coming events spread out dark and appalling from Massachu setts to Georgia, when the choice was between fight or flight, liberty or slav ery, British subjugation or American independence, Patrick Henry grasped, with prescient genius, cause and effect, the perils and the sacrifices involved, aud, accepting them all with a courage £& dauntless as ever inspired a patriot and with hope and faith aflame, uttered *ho imperishable words, “Give mo lib erty or give me death 1” ■What did he mean and what do men now mean who so often quote the words of the illustrious patriot? Around him, far and near, from the j north to the south, there was African chattel slavery. Is it to bo supposed that the great Virginian meant —give me death rather than chattel slavery? No one imagines such to have been Pat rick Henry’s idea, but rather than sub mit to a foreign potentate, aided and abetted by American Tories and traitors, rattier than be the vassal of an English king and an English nobility and aris t^Viy, his choice was death. history is repeating itself. True, England is not sending over her armies under her Brr. ;;( yuos and Cornwalliscs. Her fleet of warships is uot hovering upon our coasts. She is uot taking armed possession of our cities; but, nevertheless, sho is plotting to over POST OFFICE throw the liberties or American citizens. In the days of the Revolution, days that “tried men’s souls,” England bought 30,000 Hessians, “dumb driven cattle,” armed and equipped to subju gate the American colonies. She does not now use her gold to buy Hessians, but sho docs use it to transform Ameri icans into Hessians, and where there was one Benedict Arnold to betray his conn try in the dark days of the Revolution there are now a thousand in alliance with England’s money lenders, ready, for gold, to betray their country and es tablish in the United States English domination in financial affairs. Who are these Benedict Arnulds, these Tories, these Hessian cattle? The answer is on every American patriot’s tongue. It is borne on every breeze. It glows inevery patriot’s eye. It is voiced from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf. It is that they are those who manage trusts and syndicates, banks and factories, railroads and mort gages, those who employ workingmen and working women and ceaselessly strive to reduce wages that they may grow rich and still richer by their pi racies; the millionaires, the men who constitute the money power, who specu late in bonds and gamble in stocks, who contract the currency and create panics at their will. Those whom I have referred to as be ing in alliance to secure English domi nation in American financos have been in alliance also with English capitalists to take possession of vast areas of American land and to control numerous American industries, especially Ameri can railroads, many of which are oper ated in the interest of English, Holland and German capitalists so that now multiplied thousands of American toil ers are the vassals of European capital ists and aristocrats and arc being plun dered in their interests. What moro do these English lords and American Tories want? What fur ther humiliation and degradation of workingmen do they contemplate? The answer is easy. They expect to rob them of tlioir ballots, or, what is the same thing, by bulldozing, intimidating and ; blacklisting methods compel them to i make their ballots not only record a lie, but that, under the lash of their mas j tors, their ballots shall record the fact ; that American workingmen are like i Benedict Arnold and his associate Tory J apostates, traitors to truth, to manhood, I to liberty and independence, and trai ' tors to their families, their follow men 1 and their country. The issue is squarely made. It is up : for debate. Britisli emissaries aro here. The alliance between American Tories ; and English enemies of America is to 1 bo perpetuated and workingmen arc to be enslaved. In view of such things what will La bor day orators say? I do not know, but this I do know— if they are (rue to themselves and to their country, true to liberty and inde pendence, true to their fellow working men and free institutions, free speech and undebuuched judiciary and to the great body of the people, they will rise and expand with their theme and ex claifii, as did Patrick Henry 100 years ago, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Eugene V. Debs. Terre Haute, lud., Sept. 2. YOUTHS’ DEPARTMENT. A Little Italian Who Became a Famous Painter —That Yellow Jacket —A Home Without a Cooky Jar. Leonardo da Vinci was very beauti ful all his life, and even when quite small never found his lessons any trou ble to him. He liked drawing and mod eling best, however. Verrocchio was the name of his master, and he saiil when he first saw Leonardo’s drawings, “He will be a great artist some day. ” One day Leonardo’s father brought a roughly made wooden shield to him and asked him to paint something on it. Leonardo had heard the story of Per seus and the wonderful Medusa’s head which he gave to Athena to wear on her shield, so that when her enemies saw it they were turned to stone. Hi’ therefore determined to paint something oil the shield that would horrify ene mies at least, if it did not exactly turn them into stone. He gathered together serpents, locusts, bats and all the queer est little animals he could think of and shut himself up in a room alone with them. As he watched them squ’vming about, id< as came to him of a Jo rrible monster, which he painted on tin- -field, wriggling cut of a dark cavern. When he had finished, he placed the x icture on an ease 1 and called bis futh in to see it. His father, not expecting any thing of tiie kind, rushed out ei the room quite, frightened. Leonardo called him back, saving: “That is.just the effect I wanted my picture to have. This is tiie shit id you asked me to paint.” Ser Piero was greatly astonished at his sen’s genius and sold the painting for a largo sum of money. It is in-w lost, though there is a fine picture of a monster i:i Flor ence which some people think must be Leonardo’s. . Leonardo was a! ways fcad of a;,:rials, especially horses, which he often drew and painted. He once Loot quite a men agerie of animals, whi-.-n vo a: • t i l he cared for with irthiit lev 'mess and consideration. He was fond of vi y out of tho way pets, sia h us glow. orms, hedgehogs, etc. Often ;.s ho passed places where little bin -; v.\ro i Id be would pay the price asked for them, open the cage doors and let ti, m fly away. His favorite flower.! were the cy clamen and columbine, b< :h exes ding- Jy graceful. These ho has drawn with his fine, delicate touch more than dice. When Leonardo da Vinci was GO years old he went to Milan, where he lived for 20 years. He charmed the Duke of Milan with the beautiful way he played upon and sang to the lute. When here, he painted his splendid picture, “The Last Supper, ” on the walls of a convent refectory. This painting took ten years to do and is rightly considered one of the most famous pictures in tho world. The Wooden Lesr. A captain had lost a leg in a tattle. The general held him to be incapable to serve any longer aud sent him his dis charge. After four weeks the captain recovered, aud ho immediately had a wooden leg made. Then be went to the general and said: “I cau still serve. I walk with the wooden leg as well as with the natural one. Besides I go to battle to fight and not to run away. ” The general at length took back the discharge. Soon afterward another bat tle occurred, and the captain was one of the first to attack tho enemy. A cannon ball took away his wooden leg, and he foil down. The officers near by called to the si ldiers: “Go aud fetch a surgeon!” “That is not necessary, ” said the cap tain; “fetch a carpenter.” The City of Columns. Palmyra, onco named City of Palms, stauds in ruined beauty in the Syrian desert and might perhaps be called tiie city of columns. The polished pillars in its famous templo of the sun would, laid end to end, form a lino six miles long, while there are as many statues i:-. the building as would make a whole regimentof graven images. In the main street there are 110 fewer than 1,500 col umns, raised seemingly nt the cost of private citizens, who appear to have had an eye to the gratifying of their vanity as much ns to tho beautifying of their now desolate town. That Yellow Jacket. Tho yellow- jacket about which you have all heard so much in connection with the visit of tho great Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, is more of a vest than a jacket. It is described in tho New York Times as being made of yellow satin, without sleeves, aud fit ting the wearer closely. It roaches a lit tle below tho waist, and ou tho front is embroidered the royal dragon of China. Only five men in ail tho emuiro of Chi- na are entitled to wear it, and you may guess our recent guest, the wise and kindly Li Hung Chang, enjoys his high privilege. Travels cf a Life Buoy. On the Sth of August, 1895, a vessel was shipwrecked in the Pacific ocean, and on the 2d of January, 1896, there was picked up in perfect condition ou the eastern coast of Norfolk island a life buoy, bearing in plain letters the name of the lost steamer. For nearly five months the buoy had been drifting in the waves until it was cast ashore ou the beach, some 900 miles from the scene of the disaster. A Home Without a Cooky Jar. A Lome without a cooky jar “I- not the home for me.” A home without a cooky jar I hope to never see. A home without- a cooky jar It l t at all my taste. A home without a cocky jar I turn from in much haste. A home without a cooky jar, Since days of Adam’s full, Is a home without a cooky jar, And just no home at all. A home with a big cooky jar, “Oh, that’s the home for me!” A home with a big cooky jar I always hope to see. —Good Housekeeping. Tlxe Supreme Court.. Another matter to which the money power is now paving great attention is the influence controlling the supreme court of the United States. They take it for granted that this tribunal will id ways be on their side and the incom* tux decision fully justify them in thor opinion. It is a striking fact that thr statement made by Justice H; !an ii. his income tax decision has ber:i fnliy sustained by events. He said that tii court’s verdict would occasion gi . at bit term ss of feeling among the p< pie am. precipitate a contest with aggregated wealth on one hand and the m. vcs o:. the ether. The wealth cf the country, 'gSTlßlU,£jj LIMITED * >OUTE OF THE FAMOUS fIOEI-P “ATLA NTT A. ~ SPECIAL” TO New York, Washington-, Norfolk, Richmond NORTH AND EAST. Also the A. L- EXPRESS'.” No. 402 N- 38 SCHEDULE IN EFFECT APR 5,’96. -Ail an;i SneciaL” “S. A.L Exp.” Dai.v. Daily. Lv. Macon, via Centra! of Ga R’v - 80a m. *8 30a. m Ai. Athens, “ “ “ - 12 oop. m. 12 55p. m Lv. New Orleans, via L. &N.R. R. - *7 50. “ *7 50 *' “ Mobile, “ •* - 12 20 night 12 20 night. Montgomery, via West’n. R’y of Ala. 6 20 a, m. 10 10a. m Ar. Atlanta, via Atlanta & W. P. R. R 11 40 “ 6 lop m Lv. Atlanta, via S. A. L. Cen. Time) li 4.5 noon 810 “ “ Winder, “ - - 2 7p. m 11 02p m “ Athens, “ - - 2 55”. m. 11 40 “ “ Elberti n, “ - - 400 " I 12 45a. m “Abbevihe, “ j- - 455 •• 130 “ “Greenwood, “ - - 500 “ 147 “ “ Clinton, “ 530 • 215 “ “ Chester, “ - - 625 “ 313 “ Lv. Charliv “ . . *8 20 “ *5 25 “ Ar. Monroe, “ (Dining Station) 855 “ 608 “ “ Hamlett, “ 10 35 “ j 715 “ j . Ar. Wilmington, “ . B4sa m— *l2 50p. m Ar. Southern Pines, “ - - 11 21 p:n 912 “ “Raleigh, “ - - *1 21a. m. *1126 Lv. Durham. “ - i5 20p. in. Til 00 “ Ar. Weldon. “ - - *4 05a in. *3 00p. m “Petersburg, via Atlantic Coast L ite. 6 02v. m. 543 “ ‘Richmond, “ - 6 40 6 40 '• “ Washington, via Peun. R R • 10 45 “ 11 10 “ ‘ Baltimor-, “ 12 00 noo u 12 48 night. “ Philadelphia, “ 2 20p. m 3 45a. m “ New York, “ - *4 53 •* *6 53 “ Lv. Weldon, via beaboard Air Li-it - *4 30a. in. Slip, in Ar. Franklin, “ • 603 433 “ “Suffolk, “ 646 “ 510 “ “ Portsmouth, “ - 73 • •• 550 “ “Norfolk, “ - ! *7 50 “ 600 “ “01? h it 0 >m'art st- m-r) t"-40 “ 7 10 “ l’O 'k)LU dtiL LN J Cil IRLES ON No. 04. 770. 38 Sieepsrsonn gat trams n-w eu t-ianta an l Columnis. v caches, be. ween Atiaata and 0:i ireston on lie nauis. *D i e, D 1 y •xc ■:>: "unday No !•- A a 1 a S> ■ - ii ” S it Pu nut- V- itiboled Limited Train with rar -u -h Bu T-t i).- 1 v • o ir.i 8! _-ep •-s a-i t DayCoaon-s 10 extra tare. At! vn all Wi-ii 1 ,-ri 1. Palm • ~ '-’.irs Chari. :te to Portsm uth. Pallia uS. ••:> -rs -i C • 1 -Nnv O -u> ms t j Atlanta, and Pullman Parlor Cars W is mi : o 1 re. New York No. s ‘1 S. AI, Ex ores I. ' Solid team with Pullman bleepers aud .' y C-i '1 -s Ant .1 h\V ‘iun, Wei hi afa N w Y k. Atlanta to Portsmouth, Cape Charles to X-w Y->rk, IVun-i bl.-p-*rs N>w Qf leans to Atlanta IM M EDI ATE CON N ECTION S. At. Atlanta—With through Drams t'rotu Moiuto n ry, Mobile, New Orleans Texas. Mexico, Califo-nia, Macon, Pensacola, Silmaand Florida. At Portsmouth—With Bay Line, coastwise steamers, Washington ste inters and “Cane Charles Route,” to all Points North a id East. ARRlVE—Winder from the North and East, No 493. 5 53 p m. daily. No. 38, 4 21 a. 111. daily. NO EXTRA FARE ON ANY TRAIN, for Tickets. S’eeners and information, apply to Ticket Agents, or to; B A. NEWLAND General Agent. 6 Kinhali House | Wm. 11. CLEMENTS. Tray. Pass. Agent,, j Atlanta. Ga. E ST. JOHN, H W. B. GLOVER, Vice-President Gon’l M'gr. Traffic Manage). V E. Me BEE, • T. J. ANDERSON. Gou'l Superiudeut, Geu’l Passenger Agent General Offices- PORTSMOUTH, \A. through its mouthpieces, now ooiaiy as serts that any attempt to establish bi metallism would be unconstitutional and that a law to such an effect would be pronounced null anti void precisely as was the income tax. Nor do they stop here. It is declared that nearly every reform proposed by Mr. Bryan and the Chicago platform would be null and void as well and so declared by the su preme court of the United States.— Twentieth Century. The lianks* Contraction. The truth is that tl.e Now York banks, by manipulating thi ir . lances to suit the infamous schemes < t the gold syn dicate, have brought ...‘ .at the most portentous contraction of the currency that has been known since the republic bad a financial system of its own.—At lanta Constitution. Peach v?aima.’. ade. Peel and cut into si ices rip;-, round peaches, weigh tbe.:n and to each pound allow one-half pound of granulated sug ar aud one half pint of cold water. Put the sugar and water over the fire and allow them to come to a boil. Then skim, add the peaches, cook 15 minutes, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Take from the fire, add for each pound four almonds, shelled, blanch- ’ . ..d cut into halves. Turn into : ders and when cool cover. This marmalade will not keep as long as jam, but is very nice while fresh, says The Hoosehcl i News. .1 GrainJ Object Lesson. Once the government cf any country allows big syndicates and corporations to develop the resources of the nation it is a very serious and difficult matter to curtail their privileges, ana the fact of private monopoly running every,uing in this country is a grand object lesson. -Pitchfork.