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U.I.VEI.AM) VS. DEMOCRACY.
It is a faci liiat the administration
is engaged in a hopeless, self imposed
by ndeavoring to administer the
final)' ial a flairs in a government ot
law, without regard to or in violation
ol law. It is a fact that the B'and Alli
son act ot 18/8 restored I lie h gal ten
der functions ot silver, which had been
surreptitious!v denied, and with all
the jugglery, corruption and misrep
resentation on the silver subject, no
one will pretend that the standard
silver dollar is not a legal tender to
da\, a dollar in every respect <qual
with the gold dollar hy law.
I here are millions of silver dollars
belonging to the gove unieut lying
idle in the treasury, which rouldbe
used in defraying the current expen
ses of'the government, instead of sad
dling one hundred millions of interest
hearing bonds upon the country, seal
ing said bonds for gold to redeem
treasury notes, said notes under the
law redeemable in silver. No sooner
had the syndicate bought the bo ids
and paid their gold foi them, than
they drew about half of it in thirty
days with the same notes that had
been redeemed—and this process can
he repeated ad libitum ad infinitum—
and all because of a wrnton disregard
and wilful repudiation of law on the
part of the administration, when lie
could have maintained the reserve by
paying in both gold and silver, and
nobody would have bad a right to
complain. By thus obeying ihe law,
tin* foreign banks would be prevented
from blinking Uuc’c Sam out of bis
gold coin, anil lie would place the
country on an equal footing with all
the great European countries in the
matter of specie payment. Why this
disregard of law? Ii will not do to
hide behind the stump speech placed
on Ihe tail end of the Sherman act,
to wit: that it is the policy of this
government to maintain the parity of
th two metals, and therefore gif—
tion to redeem in eit 1 1 er. o esUl
ha\ im!ream uption reserved bv
44f<fgo vein men t for its own advantage
and interest would lie perverted by
ihe administration to our detriment
and disadvantage. He lias made un
tiring efforts to maintain the parity
by boycotting the silver dollar adver
tising it as a fraudulent 50 cent dollar,
treating the congress of the United
Spates as though it was a banditti, and
its enactments were no more than the
empty resolutions ot an anarchist
mob, unworthy to be recognized as
laws by his imperial majesty.
But to cap the climax, this would be
czar of America, in his recent message
to congress, recommends the sale of
$5<X),000,000 gold bonds. Oh, how 1
am astounded! This is not to meet
the current expenses of the govern
ment, for he states in the same mes
sage that there is a comfortable sur
plus of sixty-three millions in the
treasury. Then the ostensible object
is io place this country exclusively on
a gold bash, and to do this he would
fund or retire live hundred millions of
treasury note?, now performing ihe
functions ot money among the people
without interest.
.Jetlerson said Binding of money was
robbing the people upon a grand scale.
The bonds sold last February and
November bad printed upon them the
warning words, imparting notice to
the buyer that they were pat able in
coin—gol lor silver. This is the law.
W hy does Mr. Cleveland want author
ity from congress to change it ? Be
cause he has been notified by the
money power that they would buy no
more bonds unless thev were payable
in gold coin; and he is willing to
gratify their avaricious gieed, though
it brings devastation, wreck and ruin
upon the country, lie lias divided
the democratic party ; he stands today
an insurmountable obstacle in the
way of carrying out the Chicago plat
form. He ignored the silver denuo
crats iu making up his cabinet, he ig
nored them in the distribution of pat
ronage, he refuses to council with or
consider those democrats who adhere
to the principles and traditions of the
party. He joined with the republicans
to defeat the segnoirage bill, passed by
democrats. So I must conclude that
if he is a democrat, Jefferson was a
lunatic, Jackson a crank, and Calhoun
an imbecile. But yet democracy is
not dead.
Alex. Atkinson.
Cured of Eczema.
Julia E. Johnson, Stafford's P. 0.,
South Carolina, writes: “I had suf
fered for thirteen years with eczema,
and was at times confined to my bed.
The itching was terrible. My son in
law got me one-lxtlf dozen bottles of
Blood Balm, which entirely cured
me, and I ask you to publish this for
the benefit ot others suffering in like
manner.” See advertisement.
REI.ItIOUS DEPARTMENT,
Take Time.
At what breakneck speed many
business men are going! They do’nol
lake time to do anything, save to at
tend to busiue s matters. Their own
families see hut very lit vie of* 2 hem,
and they do not have time to give at
tention to the common amenities of
life. What will it all amount to in
the end? Some few who are rushing
a ong this way may ac< urmdale money,
but it will not prove a very great
blessing to your family, with whom
\ou scarcely got acquainted, when
you are gone. We believe thal the
purest and best ileaMircs are not
found in this hot liaste to g.-l money,
nor iu the enjoyment of it after one
has gotten if, but more real happiness
is toilnd iu the bosom of one’s family,
and iu ihe cultivation of the friend
ship of the purest and best people.
Again, and above all tilings, take
time to pray ami to read God’s word,
and to give atten'ioii to your religious
duties. The cause of Christ is suffer
ing today iu almost every community,
because there aie so few who are wil
ling to take time enough to attend to
the business matters of their churches.
\> lutre are the business men who can
he persuaded to give an hour oi two
for one day in the month to such a
work. To give a whole day at a lime
would run many of them almost fran
tic. They will give money—pay out
of working; but what is needed iu
many instances, is time, individual
effort, the putting of one’s hands to
the plow, and never letting go until
the work is done. Be sure thal what
soever we sow thal shall we a'so reap,
and many of these busy, rushing
Christians, who hate no time to serve
the soul, are going to reap by and by
a harvest, but it will ,i e the fumes' ot
those who have sown to the flesh.
Stop friend, take time, not four time,
but God's time, and give it unto whom
it belongs. You will never regret
having done so.
Attend < luiroll Regularly.
One of the worst things that any
one (ran do is to neglect attending
church. If you stay away one time
it makes it easier for you to slay away
another, and before you knew it ion
will find yourself a very irregular at
tendant upon divine services, and you
will begin to drift away and neglect
other duties. In our opinion no
Christian man should eve*' slay away
from a single service of his church,
unless providential ly
there arejt o^jifPTices"j 17 11ie church of
dV'hufrThe is a member, lie should at
tend services at some other church.
We know a deacon who said he couid
not afford to stay at home on Sunday
night when there was no service in
his own church, tor the reason that he
did not care to ever run the risk of
becoming indifferent with reference
to going to church. But still more we
are of the opinion that no man, even
if not a Christian, should let a Lord’s
day pass over his head without going
to God’s house. He owes it to his own
soul to go and hear the gospel preach
en, and then if he cares not for him
self, he has no regard for the bad ex
ample which he sets before his child
ren and the younS people of the com
munity.
Go to church men, and busy women
too. It is a very po' r excuse indeed,
fora man who can go to any pldce he
pleases during the week to say, “I
have to stay at home ou Sunday and
help my wife,” and it is a poor wife
who will allow him to lounge around
home when he should be in the house
of God. Surely he would help her
more by spending one hogr at church
and coming back and telling her what
the preacher said ; or if he can not go
and he means what he says, let him
stay home and help his wife by doiug
her work and let her go to church.
Coutiibuted.]
The Boy and His Father.
Many men do not discover the true
relation of father and son until it is
too late to save the boy. But some
wlio have been neglectful take warn
ing in tiin, and appiy 'bat “iove that
covereth a multitude of sins” —in the
boy. Not h>ng ago a gentleman re
lated his experience to me as follows:
“Once a friend said to me, “Do you
know that your boy is reading bad
books?’ I said, ‘No, I don't believe
any such thing.’ My friend said, ‘Per
haps you would better investigate.’ I
was inclined to treat the whole matter
with contempt, for I did not think it
possible for my boy to be reading bad
books without my knowing it. Finally
however, I decided that common
sense is better than price, and I will
investigate. So I went to my boy’s
room, looked over bis belongings, and
at last, under the mattress, found the
bo >ks. I put them back where I
found them, and hunted up the boy.
I said to him, ‘My boy, what kind of
books are those you have been read
ing lately?’ He was taken by surprise
and did not know just what to say.
So 1 said to him, ‘I would like to see
the books; I’ve made up my mind to
read the same books as you do.’ Fin
ally he stammered out, ‘Papa, I don’t
think you would like those books very
welt.’ I said, ‘I would like to look ai
them. I want your opinion of them.’
“That threw him into a very pecu
liar state of mind, but we went up to
the room and .he brought out the
books. We sat down aide by side: I
t
put my arm around him, and as we
turned the pages of the books I said to
liim: ‘Weil, what (to you think of
that?’ as we looked at the picture*'
and I read here and there a sentence.
LI is only reply was, ‘Well, papa, I
guess it isn’t very good.’ Then I said
to 1 im, ‘Lay the books asid**, and this
evening lei us come up and read to
gether; I have something I want to
read to you.’
“My boy was delighted. The even
ing catne, and we went to his room.
I placed the lamp beside the bed and
lad down where he had lain to read
his lmok. I lead a story from the
Youth’s Compaihion. Before I bad
finished i.e had crawled up abd was
leaning on my side. Then I read him
a story with illustrations from Science.
When I stopped lie laid IPs head on
my shoulder, put bis arms around me,
and said : ‘Papa, why can’t I have
such reading as that ?’ As soon as I
could control myself—for he had
shown me that I was the sinner— 1
said : *My boy, you shall have all you
want; let us go down stairs.’ lied
flie way rightdown to the stock I had
laid in, and put out my books and
papers before him. lie looked at them
a moment; then picked them up and
tairly hugged them. We soon decided
what to do with the bad books; we
look them out into the bask yard and
burned them.
“Then and there my boy and 1
started out on anew career. When I
can I spend the evening with him,
on a reads and ‘.he other listens,
Henc forth my hov and 1 are goinu to
be confidential friends, even if it takes
a little time from business.”
That father discovered some very
important and valuable secrets.
Would that, others would set about
the same work! Usually, when the
Christian teacher approaches the way
ward boy or young man, he finds the
boy’s father—by his neglect or wrong
example, or both—standing between
him and the boy. Quite frequently
the father is a professing chr slian,
and his ittfiiicnce decides the hoy’s
case against religious influence. The
question is often asked, Why does not
the church reach the boys? and it
usually suggests the still more per
plexing question, How can we reach
the fathers, ami throng them the
bo vs ?
The gentleman referred to above
said: '‘l believe God has foi given my
si ii t(i 1 neglec l of rny boy ; henceforth
mv service of God will include a lov
ing and watchful care o'verprecP
ioU3J>OUl t() me.”—
TTevT W. S. Phil pot t, in Michigan
Christian advoctate.
MORAL.
The leison of the above is that fath
ers had better invest some of their
money in good books and leligious
papers for their children, and give
them sometlrug to read. In many a
professedly religious home, there is
not a religious paper taken, and good
books, suitable for sons and daughters
are notably absent. Here is one way
to keep boys at home at nights and to
save them from reading trashy and
wicked novels.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
St. John’s Lougf. No. 45, F. & A. M.
It having been according to the pur
poses of our Grand Master above, to take
from our fellowship on earth, our broth
er James 11. Pettigrew, we can but feel
a deep sorrow while submitting to the
will of him “who does all things well.”
Our brother was in war a brave soldier,
in peace a quiet, unoffending citizen.
His whole aim iu life was to do to others
as he would have them do to him. He
was a model husband, a kind and oblig
ing neighbor, a meek and humble Christ
ian; therefore, be it
Resolved Ist, In the death of Brother
Pettigrew our Lodge has lost one of its
most faithful and useful members.
Resolyed 2nd, That a blank page be
left to his memory on the minutes of the
Lodge, and that the members wear the
usual badge for 30 days.
Resolved 3rd, That the sympathies of
the Lodge be tendered his bereaved fam
ily, to whom the secretary is requested
to furnish a copy of these resolutions.
Resolved 4tb, That the Jackson
Argus be requested to publish these
resolutions.
M. Y. McKibben,
Y. A. Wright,
E. E. Pounds,
J, H. McCallum,
Committee.
“O.U¥ A BRAKEUA3 KILLED.”
The above words are the head lines of
a railroad accident at Woodell, in Satur
day’s Atlanta Journal:
Only a brakeman killed !
Great God! a father dead,
A wifely heart is chilled,
As the sad words are said.
Only a mother’s boy,
A sister’s manly brother,
A father’s pride and joy,
The hope of aged mother.
Only an orphan girl,
And a little manly babe,
Left helpless in the world
To walk a life of shade.
Only a human heart
Is forever stilled;
A soul has gone to God-
Only a brakeman killed!
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Articles or agiieemejit
Of the American f’otson /.rowers.’
Protective Association.
Article 1. The object and purposes of
this organization are to combine the
American cetton growers for their mu
tual bent tit and protection, aud to gather
and disseminate statistics and informa
tion useful to its members.
Art. 2. No one shall be a member of
this association unless he is an active
grower of cotton, a lessor of land or a
furnisher of supplies for that purpose.
/vrt. 3. This association is formed for
one jear, and every member thereof is
bound by the terms thereof until Jan
uary 1, 1896.
Art. 4. This agreem nt is not to De
binding upon the signers thereof until it
is signed l>y the planters of at least
three-fourths of the cotton acreage in 80
percent of the cotton growing counties
in each of the cotton gtowing states,
which fact is to be determined upon by
the nati nal committee hereinafter pro
vided for.
Art. 5. Each member hereof binds
himself to subscribe, and to pay the
same in cash to his county president, 50
cents; one half of the fund produced by
these subscriptions to be retained by
each county president for local purposes,
and the othei half shall be transmitted
to the state president f >r general pur
poses.
Art. 6. Every member of this organ
ization solely contracts and binds him
self to plant and cultivate iu the year
1895 not more than three-quarters of the
number iut acres of cotton t hat lie plant
ed and cultivated during tlie year 1894,
anil hereby authorizes and empowers
the county committee of his county and
their authorized agent to enforce tnis !
agreement as they may elect. This ob
ligation shall be construed to extend to
all lauds controlled by any member
hereof directly or indirectly.
Art. 7. Every member hereof binds
and obligates himself to deliver to his
county committee, between the 15th and
25tli of June, in the year of 1895, a state
ment of tlie number of acres of cotton
then under cultivation on tlie premises,
planted or controlled by him, and the
condition thereof.
** rt. 8. The signers of this agreement
in each county shall meet at the county
seat, on the first Monday iu March, 1895,
and elect a county committee of seyen
cotton planters to serve for one year.
The signers shall also, at the same time
and place, elect the county delegates to
the state, convention, to be held on the
third Monday iu March, 1895, for the
purpose of electing the state delegates
to the national executive committee.
Each county committee shjffLkfrve power
to make for its
goverkSteirt* conforming to this instru
ment or to the regulations of the national
committee. None of its members shall
receive any compensation, except trav
eling expenses, and it shall pay the trav
eling expenses of the delegates to the
state convention. They shall be author
ized to employ a secretary and to tlx his
salary. Every county committee is ab
solutely prohibited from contracting any
debt in excess of its cash on hand, or to
execute any note, bond or other promise
to pay money.
Art. 9. 'Each county shall have in the
state convention one; delegate for every
1,000 bales sf cotton and fraction thereof
produced therein during the census year
1890. This representation to be based
upon the best attainable statistics of the
crop of that year.
Art. 10. The natioual executive com
mittee shall be composed ot the national
president,- who shall be ex-officio chair
man of the presidents of the state asso
ciations, and of members elected by each
state convention, Leld at the capitol of
each state on the third Monday iu March
1895. Each cotton-growing state shall
be entitled to one member iu the national
executive committee for every 200,000
bales of cotton and fraction thereof pro
duced in it during the year IS9O, as
shown by the figures of the United States
census report, and, to avoid con froversy,
the representation of the cotton-gowing
states in the said convention is hereby
fixed as follows: North Carolina 3,
South Carolina 4, Georgia 6, Florida 1,
Alabama 4, Mississippi 6, Tennessee 2,
Arkansas 4, Louisiana 3, Texas 10, In
dian Territory 1. A representation from
seven states shall constitute a quorum.
Art. 11. The national committee shall
meet in the city of New Orleans on the
first Monday in April, 1895, and shall im
mediately proceed to examine and in
quire whether this agreement is signed
l>y such a portion of American cotton
gi’owers as to make it binding, as pro
vided in article 4. It shall make procla
mation of its conclusion and its decision
on this question shall be final and con
clusive.
Art. 12. The national committee shall
have power and authority to make by
laws, rules and regulations for its own
government, and for the government and
regulation of this organization, and for
the conduct of its busiuess; to employ
clerks and agents and to fix a permanent
location for the establishment of its
office; to pay a salary to its secretary and
treasurer, and to fix the amount thereof,
and t 6 pay the traveling expenses of its
members.
Art. 13. No member of the national
committee, except its secretary aud
treasurer, shall receive any compensa
tion except traveling expenses; said com
mittee shall have no power to create any
debts in excess of the cash actually in
its treasury at the time the debt is cre
ated, aud shall be absolutely prohibited
from issuing any note, bond or other
promise to pay.
Art. 14. The national committee shall
have power during the month of Decem
ber, 1895, to set on foot some plan for
continuing this organization for the fu
ture aud to take the sense of its members
as to whether the organization shall be
so continued. The said committee shall
also have power to cause this association
to be regularly incorporated, under the
laws of such state as they select.
Art. 15. The president of this asso
ciation and the state presidents are
hereby charged with the duty of circu
lating these articles of the association
for signatures in every county in the
states uamed in at tide 10, and of making
the efforts necessary to make this plan a
success, and are authorized aud request
ed to solicit voluntary subscriptions for
this purpose.
miui is sum.* |
II takes bnt Little to Buy tram Me Now! j
I mean what I say when I tell you that I am
selling everything in Dry Goods, Notions, Shirts
Pants, Hats and Shoes, at cost and some below
cost. Remember that I beep my Drug Store full
up. A big stock of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Glass
always on hand.
PLOW LINES AT 12 CENTS PER POUND.
Good Envelopes at 5c per package.
Swamp Angel, the great cure-all, 30c per bottle.
School Books, Bibles and Stationery of all kirds.
| Lamp Chimneys, all sizes, 5c each. Will keep con
stantly on hand Fruits, Vegetables, Can goods,
and confectionaries, if they can be had.
Sweet Potatoes wanted. 22 pounds sugar SI.OO.
5)4 pounds coffee sl. And many other bargains I
can’t get in this time.
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