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dream of two days. Thomas E. W atson’s Clear Vision ol Tcday and To morrow. 1 was very tired, for tho work 1 bad been doing was toilsome, and now that the room grew warm and the long tank was finished I foil asleep. No one in tho house had been awako but mo, while I had for many hours <goue over tho dreary record of the pa tient and suffering millions—God’s un provided poor. The hours had stolen by iike slippered monks, and now it was far into the night when heaviness fell upon my eyes and I was asleep. Many a whirling fiction passed through my heated head before there was order in my dream, but after a while all was clear—cruelly, shockingly clear. I dreamed that the world lay before me like a map and that I could see it all at once, like a map; that every grade and class and qonditifcn of human iifejf'- ’ % - nie at hijre, with no before my eyes and no distance to *tort the outline. I saw was this—a magnificent ■world of land and sea, of river and lake ami forest and fertile field, mountains Reamed with mineral, valleys rieh with ftrain. This world was called by its Maker "a home for the human family. ” This human family had grown large. Sts footprints were thick upon every Htrvlch of land, and the vessels they had built darkened tho waters of all the sous. But the earth was no longer a home and joen wore no longer brothers. They tinted each other. They worshiped God, bat none of them regarded bis law. Churches flourished—so did crime. Schools flourished— ho did ignorance. Charities flourished—and paupers died fa the streets. I wondered what it all meant. There wns land enough for all. They said God made it for all. But a had taken possession of it, and the ■many had no homes. I There wns food enough for all. But w few strong men seized it all, and one | 7 bird of the people had not enough to I rat. I tried to see what kept the human , family alive. 1 found it was labor. There were many kinds of labor. Home labored to produce food f< r the work! {■some labored to produce clothing. Sc mo labored to make houses because caves and hollow trees hud become un satisfactory. Homo labored to teach tho people tho Saw of God. to lgvs, by whiith pr..*rs cSKtR, in the affairs men. In my dream I saw dearly a most csingult.r thing—those whose work was most important to the world were paid loss for their labor than anybcxly else. Those who merely amused the world igc i, higher wage's than those who fed mud clothed it. Those who played and ■danced got higher pay than the man who built tho house they played and •lanced in. The; laborers who produced tho food nd tho clothing were so badly paid that, although they fed and clothed their masters, they (the laborers) had not enough to eat or to wear. lu my dream it seemed that the cause |of this cruel thing became clear. Those who had made the laws hail so cunningly made them that the strong man was master of the weak. The strong man became the taskmaster of the weak, amd in return for the weak man’s labor gave him whatsoever pay he chose. This made the strong man stronger and the weak man weaker. I thought I heard u great heartbreak ing cry go up from those poor laborers but their taskmasters hoard it uot —so deaf ure they who will not hear. I thought that now and then these laboring men grew furious with their oppressors and rose up against them. Hut they were jmt down again—some shot and some imprisoned. I thought, that now and then leaderti ro6e up among those suffering people and promised to go to the gn at house of iioiiwi] where the laws were made ,itv i to change these laws i!ito good ones. But either such loaders were too few or the strong men would take those leaders aside into some safe and secret place and by unknown charms and per suasions entice those leaders into forget fulness of the miseries of the people. So passed the first part of my dream —~the dream of today. As in a vanish ing landscape I could see the gn at pal s of the rich and the wretched huts ~i :ho ].xK)r; the fine raiment of the one i. , i the rags of the other; the well isj • ad tables of the one and the cold dearth and empty dish of the other. The factories went whirling into space—but through the'windows 1 could see the pale, thin features of the slaves who toiled there. The mine openedoue brief moment and I could see the pitiful serf <of the coal king. The garret sped by, and it> made the tears come to see the shiv ering needlewoman sewirg there. The streets swain by, filled with their squalor, their hunger, their ceaseless suffering, and Christianity spoke in ate street* throng*, the month of the ceman and what she said to the tot ng tramp was “Move on;” what she mid to the ragged widow was "Move on;" what she said to the starving child was "Move on!" And it strangely got into my dream somehow that tiie cause of all the sor row was that the order of tho world was based on a mistake —a dreadful mistake; that the unnatural was the rule; that a feverish haste had taken possession of mankind and that the race was madly run for things he really did not want; that one man pushed be cause another pushed, cheated because others cheated, hoarded because others hoarded, was cruel because be thought the same measures would be meted out to him were situations reversed. ) But the troubled nightmare passed, and I fell into the dream of tomorrow —a gorgeous dream—a spirit lifting dream. I seemed to be looking upon the same world, hut it was bathed in light and filled with harmony. The great rush and hurry had passed away. The fevi r and the pain \Veregone. Its vast machinery moved like the stars “never hasting, but never lasting.” j There was room for all and foal for all. The earth was dedicated am;w as a home for God’s children—its/products I (ln ir food. Religion burst ou4from the 'cold churches and abode in tl*lives of men —that high religion which loves mercy, does good and seeks the right Law was no longer frittered away among wrangling advocates and stupid judges. She took her broad principles into the walks of life and did justice between man and man. The rulers of the people no longer scorned them nor defrauded them with sunning laws and sharp practices. The people themselvess now ruled, and the laborer was no longer a serf. There were no outcasts, for they all had homes. There were no beggars, for there was work for all and fair wages for all. Thero was little crime, for its cause bad been removed. There was brotherhood among men, for the source of their rivalry and hatred had been taken away. Wars had ceased. Tho killing of men had become horrible, whether singly or by thousands. A murderer was detested whether ho was named (luiteau or Napoleon. The hum of peaceful industry wns in the air. The music of youthful laughter was in the streets. The song of the con tented reaper was in every field. Why was tomorrow so much brighter and better than today? This question seemed to come tome i ven in my dream. And from somewhere this reply seemed to come: ' "Because the mistake of yesterday was found and corrected; because in justice was driven out of the laws; be cause favoritism in legislation ceased; because the fyborerslst (pired tkir ment; because the Running laws of the taskmaster are all dead; because there were a few bntive men all over the world who swore solemnly before God that the old false order of things must perish." So it seems those hold men triumphed. How much they suffered was not told me. How often they were despitefully used is not known. How often they failed before they finally succeeded, how cruelly they were tortured how much battle and bloodshed there was are not known. Like all reformers they doubtless suf fered most grievously. No doubt their very souls sank within them sometimes when tbo times wont most against them. But it seems they hewed their way for ward from year to year through serried ranks of enemies till at last they could claim the victory. Theirs was the victory which can wear the white roses of peace—its trophies being the bright homo circles of happy families. Out of the dim past seemed to come many voices. One said: “I gave my life to pleas ure. Wines were good and women were good and mirth was good. But youth passed, age came, and my heart was empty and sad. ’ ’ Another voice said: “I gave my life to war. Cities 1 have sacked, enemies I have crushed, laurels have I worn. But ! the sword rusted in my hand. The spi ders weave twixt me and the sun. And in my ears as 1 grow old is the cry of the widow and her children." * Another, voice said: “I gnvt omy life to my brother man. I pitied his misfor tune. I championed liis grievance. I loved the friendless. I hated injustice everywhere and fought tyranny wher ever 1 found it. The work has been hard, the way thorny. But now as the evening comes I fold my arms and fear not the coming shades. 1 have fought a good light. The Master’s touch is on my head and I hear him say, ‘lnasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these ye did it unto me. ’ ” Thus passed my dream. And I awoke heavy of heart, for I knew that today was ns 1 had dreamed and that the to morrow might never come. —Thomas II Watson. The McKinley Syndicate. Who nominated the St. Louis ticket and held the Republican party by the throat while the platform was rammed down its gullet? Mark Hanna, a Cleveland banker, a labor crusher, employer of the brute Rumsey, hired to crush the heads of per day sailors. J. B. Foraker, fresh from ravishmeut | of a scoundrelly Ohio legislature that gave Mark Hanna and other railway magnates the half century franchise. Vest Everett of Cleveland, 'banker, hasn’t been out of his political bole to face the people for years. Myron Herrick of Cleveland, banker. (Jhauncey Depew, corporation* attor ney of the Foraker stripe only bigger stripes. ‘ And every Wall street sharper who dared to temporarily let go bis bold of the gold reserve cow’a udder. These corporation representatives, legal and otherwise, were all at St. Louis howling unitedly for iMo-Kinley, whose private-ddbti they bad pmid jin order to have hifii under obligation/ to them, and shrieking for a financial pol icy under which they had all got rich. United they are today, and to tbern are flocking all the Democrats -who have filled their pockets by methods such as theirs. —Sound Money. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. An average size Woenut produces a pint of milk. . t All fees of the [ * lx. office must he paid in advance. Iml J The expense of K>ing a paten*- in Switzerland is f Certain parts of the hippopotamus’ hide attain a thickness of 2 inches In proportion to its size a fly walks 85 times as fast as a human being. Fifty-two per cent of tho United States’ population are engaged in farm ing. An infant weighing 7 pounds at birth will weigh 1% on the tenth day and 1J on the thirtieth. Li Hung Chang has never been out of China before, and the only language he knows is Chinese. During the Franco-Prussian war the cost to the French nation of each Prus sian killed was $ 100,000. A Burlington (Vt5J man gives his baby an airing by towing the child’s carriage behind his bicycle. The standard dollar was authorized by act of congress, Peb. 28, 1878, and coinage was begun in the same year. Three crematories are in operation in England—one in Manchester, another in Woking and the third in Liverpool. It takes the moon exactly -12, 524 min utes (29 days, 12 hours anti -4-1 minutes) to mako its revolution round tire earth. Jefforsou is said to have been the first American statesman to suggest the dol lar as the financial unit of our currency. 8. McCaughey of the Coonon g station, Jerilderie, New South Wales, lias 8,000,000 acres of land and 1,000,000 sheep. A Now ZeahuAjp Ifcl otdy nicai lohei now than at 'liW o’tiF'r period, Lmt ' it is also one of the mosl sober countries in the world. In 1780 congress provided for the is suing of four corns—a $lO gsoldpiece, a dollar of silver, alO cent piece and a copper cent. Sir Henry Bessemer has paid upward of #50,000 in patent stamp duties alone on his various inventions, according to an English exchange. The fern is indicative of fascination. In Saxony the present by a lover to his sweetheart of a handful of ferns is equivalent to a proposal. A recently opened guano cave in Georgia was found to be inhabited by great swarms of white flies, with yel low legs and palo pink eyes. Alice Bradley Haven, once editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, chose the name of Alice G. Lee. It is said she once had an acquaintance of that name. Besancou, Victor Hugo’s native town, will forestall Paris in erecting a statue to tho poet. The municipality has head ed a subscription with 5,000 francs. The X rays have shown that the tibia and femur in Justice Stephen JT. Field’s knee have almost grown together, and that the hinge has partially solidified. The secretaries of state, if of the de gree of baron, follow the Hn glish and Irish bishops. If these secretaries are of the degree of baron they take precedence of all barons. Tho bank statistics of Ireland for 1895 art* the inert* nVt- recorded and show that Ireland has but to be let alone to attain a thoroughly sound eco nomic condition. The village of Vienholz, near Brienz, in the Bernese Oberland, bas beeu part ly destroyed by subsidenoe and land slips, caused by natural springs. The inhabitants have been compelled to de sert the place entirely The Eskimos have a queer custom in regard to doctors. At each visit the doc tor is paid. If tlie patient recovers, the physician keeps the money ; if the pa tient dies, the money is returned to the family of the deceased. The statistics of life insurance show that in the last £5 years the average woman’s life has increased, from nearly 42 to neatly 4G, or more than 8 per cent, while man’s life average lias in creased from nearly 42 to 44, which is 5 per cent. The camel’s foot is a soft cushion, pe culiarly well adapted to the stones :uid gravel over which it is constantly walk ing. During a single journey through the Sahara horses haw worn out three sets of shoes, while the came 1 ! s feet are uot even sore. LABGfi iN POLITICS. Tho American Railway Union To In the Fight For Bryan and Watson. The American Railway union is in politics. It proposes to take a hand in this campaign. Committed by a unani mous vote of its delegates to the Peo ple’s Party, it pledges its support to Bryan and Watson and all other candi dates of that party. In these stirring days a labor organization that takes no part in politics can hardly be said to have a mission. With all that organ ized labor has done and attempted to do for American labor, the haggard fact remains that workingmen were never so oppressed, so degraded, so utterly wretched as they are today. Who dare deny it? Millions are working for nig gardly wages and cower like peons at the approach of their bosses, and mil lions of others have no work at all and are trembling on the ragged edge of starvation. If this is the best that or ganized labor can do for the victims of corporate greed and capitalistic rapac ity, we have no hesitancy in saying that its mission is a total failure and that it were better to disband. But such is not our conclusion. Labor has been cheated and robbed by a gang of brigands be cause it has “kept out of politics. ” The testimony is overwhelming. The members of the American Rail way union know by bitter experience what it is to keep out of politics. What ever other organizations m.-.y or may not do, they propose to go into this po litical fight in a solid body. They are after the gang of corporation managers and political hirelings who used the powers of government to overwhelm them two years ago. That was all done by “corporation politics.” A little “or ganization politics” for a change will be in order. The members of the Amer ican Railway union have been enjoined by corporation courts from doing almost anything beneath the sun, but they can’t be enjoined from going to the polls, shoulder to shoulder, and voting for Bryan and Watson, whom the rail road corporations and all the capitalistic influence will turn earth and hell to defeat. It is only by “going into politics” that organized labor can prevent the election of presidents of the Cleveland stripe and place such men as Bryan in the White House. And with the election of such a man as Bryan, a Caldwell will find his way to the supreme bench, and in due time labor will cease to crawl in the dirt and stand erect.— Railway Times. In an inventory of the effects of Sir John Fastolfe, drawn up in 1459, is mentioned “one hat of beaver, lined with damask gilt, and also two ‘straw en’ hats.” The plume of feathers, however, ivas the chief mark of Henry VIII had one plume, consisting of eight Indian feathers, which he con sidered almost invaluable. The Hebrews originally made their shoes of roughly prepared skins and afterward of papyrus and cloth. Later on they were made in many styles and more elegant. The chief styles men tioned by the ancient books are the mil itary (ornamented with brass and iron) and the religious (covering the whole foot, and thus distinguished from the sandal worn by the common people). The ancient Celtic population of Eu rope and that in the British islands very probably wore either no head cov erings at all or such only as were of a very simple kind. “If their heads were covered at all,” says Mr. Planche, in his work on British costumes, “it was by the ‘cappan’ or cap, from the Brit ish ‘cab, ’ a hut, which it resembled in its conical shape, the houses of the Britons being made with wattles stuck in the ground and fastened together at top.” A Foul Slander. We don’t think the democrats of Thom aston and Upson county have very much feelnsr towards their Pop ulist neighbors. If they do, we must confess they artful lv and successfully conceal it. We don’t believe they they look upon ? J Populist as being any less honorable or any less intelligent than themselves. When Gov. Atkinson was speaking in Thomaston he made use of these blas phemous words: ’’Any mau who will join the People’s party, his heart is as black as hell, and his face ought to be as black as a negro’s. We know that no Populist will vote for him after knowing this, aud we’sin cerely believe our Democratic friends, appreciating the infamy, and knowing that the tirade was wholly unprovoked, will resent the insnlt to their neigh bors and repudiate the demagogue who offered it.—Upson Pilot. Still the Atlanta Constitution says ’’thousands are coming back to the old party.” We challange the Constitution to produce anv of their names. If you see it in the Constitution its a lie.” When men vote as they pray re sults will be accomplished that will astonish even the confiding. The democrats will have their headquarters at Chicago and the fight will come from the west. EDITORIAL COMMENT. The south don’t like Sue-all. Jim McGaritywill make things warm in the 7th. He is a hustler and is bound to win in his district. Almost without an exception the reform press is supporting Bryan and Watson. It must make Bulloch green with envy to see the democrats claim to be the fathers of the free school system of Georgia. In Illinois the democrats will have too state tickets in the field. The national democrats and the Altgeld democrats. This campaign is to be a repeti tion of that eft 1860. Things are about as bauly split now as then and the result is in about as much doubt. Mr. Bryan did not go to Maine to rest with Mr. Sewall. Was he afraid to show partiality between his two vices? The wire is being used’ instead of the cotton tie and we trust it may become general. It has been tried in the compress and has prov en satisfactory. Let us down the trust. The populist are still “in the middle of the road.” They will keep their part of the St. Louis compact, but don’t propose to do all the “coming.” The banner state will have a populist for its next governor, and don’t you forget that. The state agricultural societ.v met in Rome this week. Mr Brown was elected president and Hon. James Barrett, vice-presi dent. The cotton tie trust offered a fine opportunity fer this body to do some service £o farmers of taking the initial step to secure its defeat. Senator Gray, of Delaware, de clares his intention to support the national democratic ticket to be nominated at Indianapolis on September 2d. Is it possible that all the prominent, democrats are to bolt the Bryan ticket, save Hoke Smith? The national democratic party will on September 2d nominate its candidates for president and vice-president. This organization truthfully claims to be the only democratic party—the silver wing having been captured at Chicago and St. Louis by the populist. Dr. W F. Goldin, of Draketown, was nominated last week by the Populist of Haralson county for the Senate from the 38th district. Dr. Goldin has represented the dis trict in the Senate before and makps an efficient, representative. Capt. Craven of Tallapoosa is his Democratic opponent.—Herald, Dallas, Ga. Peortle won’t settle in a state where the criminal laws are not enforced, and where they can’t have a free ballot and a fair count. Bryan and Watson and free silver would Dot help Texas much with the present gang in control at Austin. The business element in Texas will join the nonnlists and republicans to save the state from further depression in business. In every locality the pop u’ists shonl 1 talk to the business men. —Texas Mercury. The encampment which closed last Friday at Alpharetta, was a Treat success from everv standpoint. A creatproportion of those who attended were demo crats and in this way they were enabled to hear the gospel of pop ulism preached It was a good indication in the campaign to have so many of our democratic friends attend the encampment and will, in the end. increase our vote large ly.